LINGUIST List 22.4746 Tue Nov 29 2011 Confs: Semitic, Historical Ling/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Na'ama Pat-El , Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistics Message 1: Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistics Date: 28-Nov-2011 From: Na'ama Pat-El <npatelaustin.utexas.edu> Subject: Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Historical and Comparative Semitic Linguistics Date: 13-Oct-2012 - 14-Oct-2012 Location: Austin, Texas, USA Contact: Na'ama Pat-El Contact Email: < click here to access email > 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) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 29-Nov-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.