22.4746, Confs: Semitic, Historical Ling/USA

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Date: 28-Nov-2011
From: Na'ama Pat-El [npatel at austin.utexas.edu]
Subject: Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistics


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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:47:18
From: Na'ama Pat-El [npatel at austin.utexas.edu]
Subject: Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistics

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Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistics 

Date: 13-Oct-2012 - 14-Oct-2012 
Location: Austin, Texas, USA 
Contact: Na'ama Pat-El 
Contact Email: npatel at austin.utexas.edu 
Meeting URL: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/mes/events/conferences/comparative_semitics/comparative_semitics.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Semitic 
Meeting Description: 

The goals of this workshop are to encourage the historical and comparative study of the Semitic languages and to disseminate the results of Semitic linguistics outside the small community of Semitists. Unlike regular conferences, the workshop allows for the presentation of long and complex studies and fosters debates between the participants. Comparative historical Semitic linguistics was once one of the cornerstones of historical linguistics, of ancient Near East studies, and of biblical studies. Since the heydays of Nöldeke, Wright, Barth, and Brockelmann, however, it has become less central to those fields of study. Through this workshop and similar workshops in the future, we hope to rekindle interest in the study of Semitic linguistics and its relevance to general and historical linguistics and its contribution to the philological study of the ancient world. For these reasons, too, most of the participants have been from a younger generation of scholars. 

Participants:

Daniel Birnstiel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany)
Lutz Eberhard Edzard (the University of Oslo, Norway)
Rebecca Hasselbach (the University of Chicago, USA)
John Huehnergard (the University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Leonid Kogan (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia)
Na'ama Pat-El (the University of Texas at Austin, USA)
David Testen (independent, USA)
Michael Waltisberg (Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany)






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