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To: Historical Linguistics List, Prof Dorothy Disterheft
 
Dear Professor Disterheft,
 
Prof Johanna Nichols suggested that I send the announcement below
for distribution on the Historical Linguistics List.
 
Sincerely, Joseph B Kruskal
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Paul Black and I wish to announce that the Comparative Indoeuropean Data
Corpus, collected by Isidore Dyen with contributions by Black and me, is now
available from two sources.  It includes
 
     --200-item lexicostatistical lists for 95 Indoeuropean speech varieties,
     --cognation judgments between the lists,
     --lexicostatistical percentages,
     --individual replacement rates for 200 meanings, and
     --time separations based on these rates.
 
It also includes an annotated bibliography of lexicostatistics by Paul
Black.
 
For those of you who have seen parts of this before, the form has been
improved, so it is much easier to use than before, and contains full and
careful explanations of many aspects of the data.
 
One source is the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) in the United States,
 
        http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
 
where it is currently located at
 
        http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/service/comp-ie/HEADPAGE.html
 
We thank Mark Liberman for permitting us to put this in LDC, and Sarah Parnum
for her efforts in actually entering it.
 
The other source is the Northern Territory University, Australia, where it is
at
 
   http://www.ntu.edu.au/education/langs/ielex/HEADPAGE.html
 
These data have provided the basis for several publications, including this
monograph:
 
   Isidore Dyen, Joseph B. Kruskal & Paul Black. 1992.
   "An Indoeuropean classification: A lexicostatistical experiment"
   (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 82, Part 5)
   American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
 
Sent to:
Phipps Arabie, Luca Cavalli-Sforza, James Corter, Osamu Fujimura, John Gower,
Richard Harshman, Donald Hindle, Leanne Hinton, Eric Holman, Robert Hsu,
Arthur Kendall, Henk Kiers, Peter Kroonenberg, Mitchell Marcus, Jim Mayberry,
Jacqueline Meulman, Eric Minch, Johanna Nichols, P A Piazza, William Poser,
Donld Ringe, James Rohlf, Pascale Rousseau, David Sankoff, Gillian Sankoff,
Margaret Sharpe, Robert Sokal, William S-Y Wang, Joe Ward, Tandy Warnow
 
Copies to:
Paul Black, Mark Liberman, Sarah Parnum