FYI: Indo-European

Author:

Fco. Javier Martinez Garcia

FYI Body:

TITUS has the new Indo-European Course Register (Sommer Semester 1997) We have now incorporated it into the TITUS Project web pages under following URL: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/idg-ss97.html Best Regards J. Martinez A set of 200-item lexicostatistical lists for 95 Indoeuropean varieties is now available from the Linguistic Data Consortium in the US (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/), currently at page: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/service/comp-ie/HEADPAGE.html and in Australia from: http://www.ntu.edu.au/education/langs/ielex/HEADPAGE.html This data has provided the basis for several publications, including: Dyen, Isidore, Joseph B. Kruskal & Paul Black. 1992. An Indoeuropean classification: A lexicostatistical experiment. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society Vol. 82, Part 5.) American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. The data is accompanied by an annotated bibilography of lexicostatistics and by quantitative findings based on the data, including lexicostatistical percentages and estimates of relative time depths and replacement rates for meanings. The data may be useful not only in reference the above monograph, but also as a basis for comparing the results of other approaches to lexicostatistics, such as the GLOTTO program of Jacques Guy discussed in LINGUIST Vol-5-630 at: http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/archives/Linguist/Vol-5-0600-0699/0022.html ___________________________________________________________________ Paul Black <> Faculty of Education <> Northern Territory University Darwin NT 0909 Australia <> ph (08) 8946 6133 <> fax (08) 8946 6151