6.1178, FYI: U Iowa home page, CNN interview, Optimality volume

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1178. Wed Aug 30 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  95
 
Subject: 6.1178, FYI: U Iowa home page, CNN interview, Optimality volume
 
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Date:  Fri, 25 Aug 1995 15:11:40 CDT
From:  cculy at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (Chris Culy)
Subject:  New: U Iowa Linguistics home page
 
2)
Date:  Sat, 26 Aug 1995 10:18:23 EDT
From:  amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis Manaster Ramer)
Subject:  CNN Interview
 
3)
Date:  Mon, 28 Aug 1995 17:38:04 EDT
From:  glsa at linguist.umass.edu (GLSA - UMass)
Subject:  Optimality volume: PRICE CHANGE
 
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Date:  Fri, 25 Aug 1995 15:11:40 CDT
From:  cculy at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (Chris Culy)
Subject:  New: U Iowa Linguistics home page
 
Hi all,
 
The Linguistics Department at the University of Iowa is pleased to
announce that it now has a home page on the web. The URL is:
 
http://www.uiowa.edu/departments/linguist
 
Come take a look.
 
Chris Culy
chris-culy at uiowa.edu
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Date:  Sat, 26 Aug 1995 10:18:23 EDT
From:  amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis Manaster Ramer)
Subject:  CNN Interview
 
It has reached my attention that there are people spreading the
rumor that I asserted, during my brief appearance on CNN a few
weeks ago, that all languages are related.  This is a complete
fabrication.  Both in my remarks and in the narrative by the
reporter who interviewed me, Ed Garsten, the claim is specifically
that Indo-European and certain other language groups of Europe and
Western and South Asia are related (i.e., form the Nostratic family).
The segment aired many times and on two different channels, so I do
not know what the newsreaders INTRODUCING the story said each time.
I do know that on at least one occasion the newsreader did assert
monogenesis while introducing the story, and this of course is
very unfortunate, but I have no control over what goes on in Atlanta.
My own position was stated clearly, twice, in the segment itself, and
I would appreciate people not listening to any of the
gossip that has been going around.
 
If all the world's languages really are related, we may perhaps
one day find that out (or the opposite).  For the present I think
it is reasonable to explore such low-level theories as Nostratic
or even Altaic.  The job of deciding whether these theories are
right or not is hard enough.
 
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Date:  Mon, 28 Aug 1995 17:38:04 EDT
From:  glsa at linguist.umass.edu (GLSA - UMass)
Subject:  Optimality volume: PRICE CHANGE
 
University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (UMOP) 18:
        Papers in Optimality Theory. Ed. by Jill Beckman, Laura Walsh Dickey
        & Suzanne Urbanczyk.
 
Due to the high cost of materials and production, GLSA has raised the price
of UMOP 18 to $20 plus shipping and handling ($3 domestic, $4 foreign
surface.) The extreme size of the volume (705 pages!) makes this price
change a necessity. For table of contents and complete ordering information,
please contact glsa at linguist.umass.edu.
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