Call for papers/AATSEEL panel/Non-Slavic languages

[George Fowler]

Katarzyna Dziwirek would like to clearly delimit my proposed AATSEEL panel on
"Non-Slavic Languages" from a panel on the teaching of the languages of Central
& E. Europe, of which she is secretary. By all means; I certainly don't want to
detract from any pre-existing panels. So let it be noted, that anyone with a
good paper touching on pedagogical aspects should approach Plakiewicz and/or
Dziwirek first, while I am interested in "hard-core" linguistics papers.
     I might mention that I tentatively have two papers arranged to date: one
firm paper on the inventory of cases in Hungarian, and one more tentative one
on some technical issues in Georgian morphosyntax.
     Since I issued my call for papers this weekend, two people have corrected/
challenged the inventory of languages proposed as the scope of the panel. One
correspondent noted that Greek has full rights in Eastern Europe. True. Another
suggested adding Finnish, which I don't agree with, since it seems to me to it
belongs more to Scandinavia than to Eastern Europe. However, it was pointed out
that there are widespread contact phenomena, and I suppose a case could be made
for that. Come to think of it, German would fit into either the pedagogical
panel OR mine! Let's try to avoid that one, what do you say?
     George Fowler
     gfowler at indiana.edu