6.114 FYI: Language files, Arboreal, Nostratic, Films on human lang

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-114. Thu 26 Jan 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 152
 
Subject: 6.114 FYI: Language files, Arboreal, Nostratic, Films on human lang
 
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1)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 00:23:26 EST
From: Language Files (filess at ling.ohio-state.edu)
Subject: Language Files (6th edition)
 
2)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 01:36:20 -0500
From: meb3 at crux5.cit.cornell.edu
Subject: announcement: Arboreal for Windows
 
3)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 08:56:11 -0400 (EST)
From: Alex Eulenberg (aeulenbe at indiana.edu)
Subject: Details on Nostratic
 
4)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 09:42:05 EST
From: "George Miller" (geo at clarity.Princeton.EDU)
Subject: Films on Human Language
 
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1)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 00:23:26 EST
From: Language Files (filess at ling.ohio-state.edu)
Subject: Language Files (6th edition)
 
 
The  Department of  Linguistics  at the Ohio State University has made
available the table of  contents and sample pages of the sixth edition
of  the  _Language Files_, a  textbook  for  introductory  linguistics
written  and  edited  by  Ph.D.   students  in  this  department,  and
published by the Ohio State University Press (in 1994).
 
For more information please visit our
 
                     World Wide Web (WWW) Server
 
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              http://ling.ohio-state.edu/Files/Files.html
 
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please contact:
 
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2)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 01:36:20 -0500
From: meb3 at crux5.cit.cornell.edu
Subject: announcement: Arboreal for Windows
 
Cascadilla Press is happy to announce the release of ArborWin
(Arboreal for Windows), the tree-building font for Windows 3.1.
ArborWin is a TrueType font which works with any Windows
application and provides you with the pieces you need to create
syntactic trees quickly and easily.  The price is $20.00 ($24.00
outside the US including air mail shipping).  For more information
write to michael at cascadilla.com or call Cascadilla Press at
(617) 776-2370.
 
  --Michael Bernstein
    Cascadilla Press
 
There are two review copies available from Daniel Seely for list
members who would like to write a review for the list.  Please
contact ENG_SEELY at emunix.emich.edu if you're interested in one of
the copies.
 
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3)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 08:56:11 -0400 (EST)
From: Alex Eulenberg (aeulenbe at indiana.edu)
Subject: Details on Nostratic
 
Jacob Caflisch writes:
) Dear colleagues. I also wish to request at least a review of the work
) *Opyt sravnenija nostraticheskix jazykov* of the late V. M. Illich-Svitych.
) Right now there are folks very much interested in the idea of *Nostratic
) Hypothesis*. I am one of those.
 
Since I think a lot of Linguist readers would be interested in learning
more of the evidence for the Nostratic hypothesis (as well as some other
long-range hypotheses) I point you all to the following three books
edited by Vitaly Shevoroshkin, proceedings of the (first) International
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory, Ann Arbor, 8-12
November, 1988. The books were published by N. Brockmeyer, Bochum, and go
under the following titles:
 
1. Reconstructing languages and cultures  (1989)
2. Explorations in language macrofamilies (1989)
3. Proto-Languages and Proto-Cultures (1990)
 
The first volume contains a biography of Illich-Svitych as well as full,
complete translations of some entries of his dictionary. Other volumes
present reconstructions for Austronesian, Sino-Caucasian, and even
Proto-World.
 
 --Alex Eulenberg
 
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4)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 09:42:05 EST
From: "George Miller" (geo at clarity.Princeton.EDU)
Subject: Films on Human Language
 
 
            HUMAN LANGUAGE SERIES ON PBS
 
   Gene Searchinger, the master filmmaker, has made three
excellent 55-minute films on language, and is successfully
distributing them to universities as a teaching aid.  Now
they will appear on public television (PBS) in the U.S. on
February 10th, 17th, and 24th.  But check local listings--
PBS stations may put them on any time they choose.
 
   Part One is entitled "Discovering the Human Language";
Part Two is "Acquiring the Human Language"; Part Three is
"The Human Language Evolves."
 
   Brochures describing the films have been mailed.  If yours
has failed to arrive, you can request one by writing to:
 
        Ways of Knowing, Inc./Equinox Films
        200 West 72nd Street
        New York, NY 10023
 
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