(1) Typology in the US; (2) XTone database

[Larry M. Hyman]

Dear Typologists,

I wanted to let you know about two things of interest.

* First, there will be a special organized session at the Linguistic
Society of America Annual Meeting in San Francisco, as follows:

Typology in American Linguistics: An Appraisal of the Field
Sunday, January 9, 2005, 1-6 p.m.

Co-Sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley

Organizers:
Larry Hyman, Linguistics Department, UCB
Johanna Nichols, Slavic Department, UCB
Lynn Nichols, Linguistics Department, UCB

Other Participants:
Mark Baker (Rutgers), Balthasar Bickel (U Leipzig), Joan Bresnan (Stanford),
Brian Joseph (OSU), Joan Maling (Brandeis & NSF), James McCloskey (UC
Santa Cruz), Frans Plank (U Konstanz), Maria Polinsky (UC San Diego),
Robert VanValin (SUNY Buffalo)

The full statement and rationale for the session can be downloaded at:

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/events/LSA_Typology_Workshop_Jan_9.pdf

We hope that it will be well-attended and welcome any reactions or other input.

* Second, we at Berkeley have just established a Cross-Linguistic
Tonal Database (XTone), which is now "open for business":

http://xtone.linguistics.berkeley.edu/

Feel free to let people know/enter languages etc. (give us feedback, etc.)
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