About an IE database

[Dr. John E. McLaughlin]

[ Moderator's note:
  Direct replies to Prof. Herzenberg may be sent to his e-mail address,
  herzenbg at lgg.usr.pu.ru .
  --rma ]


I-E List,

I received the request at the bottom of this post and Prof. Herzenberg asked
me to forward it to the list.  Immediately below is my response to him.

John McLaughlin

Prof. Herzenberg,

I'm sorry to be responding so late.  The first part of February has been
very, very busy for me.  I'll forward your message to the list as a whole.
US funding is probably best sought through either the National Science
Foundation (www.nsf.gov) or the National Endowment for the Humanities
(www.neh.gov).  You will need an academic tie in the United States, but with
all the Indo-Europeanists on the list, perhaps someone who specializes in
Indo-European would be interested in serving in that capacity.  (My own
interests are only peripherally Indo-European, but if all else fails, I'd be
willing to entertain the possibility.)  I would think that some U.S.
Indo-Europeanist would be happy to help you since you have student
assistants ready to hand (a situation we don't always enjoy in the United
States).  I may occasionally be a little late in responding, but I'd be
happy to offer any experience and/or advice on developing the proposal.

John E. McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
mclasutt at brigham.net

Program Director
Utah State University On-Line Linguistics
http://english.usu.edu/lingnet

English Department
3200 Old Main Hill
Utah State University
Logan, UT  84322-3200

(435) 797-2738 (voice)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leonard G. Herzenberg [mailto:herzenbg at lgg.usr.pu.ru]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 1:39 PM
> To: mclasutt at brigham.net
> Subject: About an IE database

> Dear colleague,

>      I am Leonhard Herzenberg (Guertsenberg in my Russian passport),
>      Professor at the Department for Linguistics, University of Saint-
>      Petersburg, Russia. My narrow field of research and teaching
>      is Iranian and Indoeuropean Comparative Linguistics; I am also
>      greatly interested in compiling an etymological database of Indo-
>      European, its supposed base being Pokorny and reviews of it; the
>      ideal issue would be an Internet database to which permanent con-
>      tributions would keep it up-to-date.
>      To arrange that funding is needed, as well as connection to
>      some foreign institution. There is a special point: I envisage
>      that my students would happily introduce data for a reward
>      which would be considerably lower than abroad. Strangely
>      enough I have about thirty students here, who are engaged
>      in IE studies, and at least half a dozen are very knowledgeable
>      and ripe for a work of this kind. Of course, I am ready to
>      supply everybody who is interested with details.

>      Could you also help me to post this message on the general
>      list?

>                 Thank you so very much for attention,
>                                        ever truly yours
>                                                   Leonhard Herzenberg
>
>                                                   phone +7 812 233 27 62