final announcement: Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8

[Joseph C. Salmons]

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Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8:
Variation & Reconstruction

October 29-31, 1999
Pyle Center (formerly "Wisconsin Center"), 702 Langdon Street
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Friday , Oct. 29, 7:00 p.m.  Informal gathering, Max Kade Institute, 901 Univ.
 Bay Dr. 262-7546. (Transportation is available from Lowell Hall at 7:00 or on
 request by calling the MKI.)

Saturday. Oct. 30
Reconstructing Social Variation
9:30    Robert Howell (UW) Reconstructing social variation in Early Modern Europe
10:15   Ray Harris (UW) Reduction of variation in the standardization of Castilian
 Spanish around 1500

11:00:  Coffee break

11:30:  Paul T. Roberge (UNC) "Reconstructing a Creole Continuum in early
 Afrikaans"

12:30   Lunch

Reconstructing morphological variation
2:00    Frederick Schwink (Illinois)  Reconstructing Variation in Proto-Germanic
 Gender
2:45    Sergio Meira (Rice/Nijmegen) Reconstructing Irregularity from Regularity:
 The Case of Competing First-Person Prefixes In Taranoan

3:30:   Break

4:00:   James Milroy (Michigan)  "Some comments on the role of speakers in
 language change"

7:00:   Dinner

Sunday, Oct. 31
9:00    Cynthia Miller (UW) Variation in the Use of a Grammaticalized
Complementizer in Ancient Northwest Semitic


Identifying (pre-)historic variation
9:30    Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State) Projecting variation back onto the proto
 language
10:00   Thomas Cravens (UW) Approaching orthographic "confusion":  stable
 allophony, change in progress, and lexicalized restucturing in early texts

11:00:  Coffee break

11:30   Concluding Discussion, Mary Niepokuj (Purdue University)

Rooms are available at Lowell Hall (610 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706) for
 Friday and Saturday night, single $52, double $62. Reservations should be made
 immediately: phone 608.256.2621, fax 256.5445. Please mention the WCL.

WCL 8 is co-sponsored by the Depts of German, Hebrew & Semitic, Linguistics,
 French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, and the Max Kade Institute. The
 Workshop is made possible by generous support from the Anonymous Fund of the
 College of Letters & Science, UW.