6.1491, Qs: LI style on WWW, NACAL Mailing List, Binary Comparison

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-1491. Wed Oct 25 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  171
 
Subject: 6.1491, Qs: LI style on WWW, NACAL Mailing List, Binary Comparison
 
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1)
Date:  Mon, 23 Oct 1995 15:21:37
From:  simohata at kinjo-u.ac.jp ("Ms. Shimohata")
Subject: LI Style on WWW	
 
2)
Date:  Mon, 23 Oct 1995 21:11:51 CDT
From:  pdaniels at press-gopher.uchicago.edu (Peter Daniels)
Subject:  Re:  NACAL Mailing List
 
3)
Date:  Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:51:16 EDT
From:  amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis Manaster Ramer)
Subject:  Query: Binary Comparison
 
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1)
Date:  Mon, 23 Oct 1995 15:21:37
From:  simohata at kinjo-u.ac.jp ("Ms. Shimohata")
Subject: LI Stlye on WWW
 
I am teaching a class in writing research papers and would like to
obtain the latest information about the LI style of writing papers.
 
Do you know of any place on WWW that I could easily download this
information?
 
Thank you for your help.
 
NOTE: I am using someone else's computer to send this email,
so please do not respond to the above address.
 
Larry Davies
TE1L-DAVS at asahi-net.or.jp
Kinjo Gakuin University
Nagoya, Japan
 
 
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2)
Date:  Mon, 23 Oct 1995 21:11:51 CDT
From:  pdaniels at press-gopher.uchicago.edu (Peter Daniels)
Subject:  Re:  NACAL Mailing List
 
The 24th North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
will take place in Philadelphia, Pa., 15-17 March 1996.
 
For quite a while, I have maintained the NACAL mailing list and each
year printed a set of labels for the convener to use in sending out
the announcement. Since last year, however, the database file of that
mailing list has become unrecoverably corrupted, and (in the absence
of a paper copy) there is thus *no* NACAL mailing list.
 
Therefore, would EVERYONE who has always received the NACAL
announcement please e-mail me your street address
(even--especially--if we are personally acquainted and you are sure
that I do have your address; you are the most likely to be left out!);
would everyone who would LIKE to be on the list do so also; and would
everyone please send me the names and addresses of everyone you can
think of who OUGHT TO BE on the list, but who might not see this
announcement?
 
			Information for this year:
 
NACAL will meet, as usual, in conjunction with the American
Oriental Society.
 
Anyone who wishes to register for the meeting, and receive further
details, should send $20 US to this year's convener (NOT to me!!):
 
Prof. Leo Depuydt
Dept. of Egyptology
Box 1899
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
 
LDEPUYDT at BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
 
Checks should be made payable to him personally. Those who
additionally need a written invitation (e.g. to obtain funding) should
request one from him directly.
 
Anyone who wishes to present a talk at the meeting should send a
half-page abstract to Prof. Depuydt at the above address, by 1
February 1996.
 
As usual, there will be a joint NACAL-AOS session, on Sunday afternoon
the 17th. Abstracts intended for that session should be clearly
marked; in addition, the AOS section chair for the ancient Near East,
Prof. Martha Roth (Oriental Institute, Chicago), will likely assign
AOS papers on relevant topics--in practice this has usually meant
papers on Northwest Semitic languages--to the joint session. NB the
AOS abstract deadline is 1 November.  If an abstract already sent to
AOS is also sent to NACAL, it needs to be clearly so marked, lest it
be scheduled in two different sessions by the two schedulers.
 
For those unfamiliar with NACAL, these have been its distinctive
characteristics over the years:
 
Talks are welcome on all facets of the Afroasiatic ["Hamito-Semitic"]
languages (Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Chadic), their
comparison, relations with neighboring languages, etc. They tend to be
data- rather than theory-oriented.
 
The meetings are generally small and collegial; on the order of 20
talks are presented between Friday afternoon or evening and Sunday
afternoon. The small number of talks means that expanded time is
usually available (45 minutes rather than 20 or 30); but this does not
apply to the joint session, where 7 to 9 papers are given in a 3-hour
schedule.
 
There is no organized outlet for publication--NACAL talks may be
published anywhere.
 
On one of the evenings, a senior scholar is invited to reminisce about
his or her career, teachers of an earlier generation, etc. This
tradition began in 1984 when Wolf Leslau spoke of Marcel Cohen for the
centennial of his birth; we have also heard from Cyrus Gordon, Franz
Rosenthal, David Noel Freedman, Carleton Hodge, Georg Krotkoff, Neil
Skinner, Thorkild Jacobsen, and Alan Kaye. These reminiscences are
given after dinner at a restaurant featuring local or some
"Afroasiatic" cuisine.
 
Reservations are generally made at a hotel which is less expensive
than that chosen by the AOS, but not too far away from it so that
those who stay for both meetings have a more economical but not too
inconvenient visit.
 
- Peter T. Daniels    pdaniels at press-gopher.uchicago.edu
 
Please post this message to lists dealng with African languages, if
possible.
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3) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:51:16 EDT From: amr at CS.Wayne.EDU (Alexis
Manaster Ramer) Subject: Query: Binary Comparison
 
This is a question about the history of linguistics: Does anybody
know where the idea of comparing languages or language families
2 at a time, which was taught by Mary Haas and became quite
prevalent in the North American Indian field for a while, came
from and whether it was actually ever defended theoretically?
(I tried to find out not just by looking in the library but also
by asking some of Haas's students, but no luck so far).
 
Alexis MR
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