13.2176, FYI: NEH Education Grants, Benediktsson Papers

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Subject: 13.2176, FYI: NEH Education Grants, Benediktsson Papers

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1)
Date:  Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:44:15 +0000
From:  Jennifer Serventi <jserventi at neh.gov>
Subject:  NEH Exemplary Education Projects Grants

2)
Date:  Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:29:51 -0000
From:  "Hoskuldur Thrainsson" <hoski at hi.is>
Subject:  Old Icelandic/Norse/Germanic/Indo-European

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:44:15 +0000
From:  Jennifer Serventi <jserventi at neh.gov>
Subject:  NEH Exemplary Education Projects Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and
college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the
teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and
cultures, philosophy, religion, and other areas of the humanities. The
Division of Education Programs announces the next deadline for the
Exemplary Education Projects grant program.

The Exemplary Education Projects grant program provides support for
projects to improve the teaching and learning of all disciplines in
the humanities. Projects may include faculty and curriculum
development, materials development, and dissemination efforts. The NEH
staff encourages consultation with program staff prior to submitting
an application.

Application Receipt deadline: October 15, 2002 Funding available: up
to $250,000 for projects lasting up to three years Guidelines and
application forms are available at the NEH website:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/grants.html

For more information about this grant opportunity or if you have ideas
about developing a project, please contact us.

Division of Education Programs		
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. , Room 302			
Washington, D.C. 20506
Phone:  202/606-8380
FAX: 202/606-8394
e-mail: education at neh.gov
TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282

Please see notice about delivery of US mail on the Endowment's
homepage http://www.neh.gov

-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:29:51 -0000
From:  "Hoskuldur Thrainsson" <hoski at hi.is>
Subject:  Old Icelandic/Norse/Germanic/Indo-European

The Linguistic Institute of the University of Iceland is publishing a
collection of papers by Professor Hreinn Benediktsson.  The title of
the book is "Linguistic Studies, Historical and Comparative, by Hreinn
Benediktsson" and the editors are Gudrun Thorhallsdottir, Hoskuldur
Thrainsson, Jon G. Fridjonsson and Kjartan Ottosson. The collection
contains 27 papers, all in English, an Introduction (by Kjartan
Ottosson), a bibliography (some 1000 titles), index, etc. It is being
published as a Festschrift for Professor Benediktsson, who retired in
1997. It is a hardbound volume of some 630 pages and the price will
presumably be around USD 130. The book will be printed in September
but there is still room on the Tabula Gratulatoria (contact Birgitta
Bragadottir, Institute of Linguistics (malvis at hi.is) by August 28 -
the subscription price is USD 110). The table of contents is as
follows (except for the (Old) Icelandic letters which may get lost in
this e-mail version):

    Tabula gratulatoria
    Preface
    Introduction (Kjartan Ottosson)

1. History of Linguistics
    The First Grammatical Treatise: The Fundamentals of Its Theory of
    Orthography

2. Phonology: Historical and Synchronic
    The Proto-Germanic Vowel System
    The Common Nordic Vowel System
    The Vowel System of Icelandic: A Survey of Its History
    The Unstressed and the Non-Syllabic Vowels of Old Icelandic
    Phonemic Neutralization and Inaccurate Rhymes
    Phonemic Merger and Phonemic Indeterminacy: Old Icelandic /o,/
    Old Norse Short e: One Phoneme or Two?
    Some Aspects of Nordic Umlaut and Breaking
    Indirect Changes of Phonological Structure: Nordic Vowel Quantity
    Aspects of Historical Phonology
    An Extinct Icelandic Dialect Feature: y vs. i
    Relational Sound Change: vá > vo in Icelandic
    The Non-Uniqueness of Phonemic Solutions: Quantity and Stress in
    Icelandic

3. Historical Morphology and Syntax
    On the Inflection of the n-Stems in Indo-European
    The Germanic Subjunctive: a Morphological Review
    The 1st Singular Preterite Subjunctive in Germanic
    The 1st Singular Present Indicative of Strong Verbs in Old Norwegian
    The Old Icelandic Enclitic 2nd Pers. Pronoun -þo
    On the Inflection of the Masculine ia-Stems in Icelandic
    OIcel. oxe, uxe: Morphology and Phonology
    The Old Icelandic Adjective mikill : mykill
    The Icelandic Adjective lypur
    Icel. ýmiss
    The Old Icelandic Verbs kjósa and frjósa
    Icelandic vera að + Infinitive: Age and Origin
    The Modern Icelandic Indefinite Pronouns nokkur, nokkuð

References
Index

The book will be available to non-subscribers in October - and you can, of
course, order it then - or have your library order it (contact the Institute
of Linguistics, University of Iceland, 101 Reykjavik, ICELAND
e-mail:malvis at hi.is).

Hoskuldur Thrainsson

Höskuldur Þráinsson, prófessor        Professor Hoskuldur Thrainsson
Íslenskuskor Háskóla Íslands           Department of Icelandic
Árnagarði v. Suðurgötu                    Arnagardi v. Sudurgotu
101 Reykjavík                                 IS-101 Reykjavik, ICELAND
netfang: hoski at hi.is                          e-mail: hoski at hi.is
heimasíða: www.hi.is/~hoski             web site: www.hi.is/~hoski

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