LINGUIST List 10.1154

Mon Aug 2 1999

Confs: Comparative Linguistics

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1. Joseph C. Salmons, Workshop on Comparative Linguistics

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First announcement:

	Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8: 
	Variation & Reconstruction

	October 28-30, 1999
	Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
	University of Wisconsin, Madison

Invited speakers are: 

	James Milroy (Univ. of Michigan)
	Some Comments on the Role of Speakers in Language Change

	Paul T. Roberge (Univ. of North Carolina)
	Reconstructing a Creole Continuum in Early Afrikaans

Other speakers include Thomas Cravens, Robert Howell, Ray Harris,
Brian D. Joseph, Sergio Meira, Cynthia Miller, Frederick Schwink. A
full schedule and subsequent updates will very soon be available on
the web at http://www.wisc.edu/mki.

Rooms are available at Lowell Hall (610 Langdon St., Madison, WI
53706) for Friday and Saturday night, single $52, double
$62. Reservations must be made by September 30: phone (608)262-2621,
fax 262-5445. Please mention the WCL.

WCL 8 is co-sponsored by the Departments of German, Hebrew & Semitic,
Linguistics, French & Italian, Spanish, and the Max Kade
Institute. The Workshop is made possible by generous support from the
Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters & Science, UW.