LINGUIST List 6.1298

Fri Sep 22 1995

Confs: Comparative Ling, Atlantic Provinces Ling Assoc

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1. REX E WALLACE, 4th Workshop on Comparative Linguistics
2. , Conference: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association

Colleagues,

The Department of Classics, UMASS, Amherst announces the 4TH WORKSHOP
ON COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS. The WORKSHOP will take place on the campus
of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA on the weekend of November
10-12, 1995. This year's topic is TYPOLOGY AND DIACHRONY (program
provided below). For more information please contact Rex Wallace at
rwallacetitan.oit.umass.edu or Department of Classics, 520 Herter
Hall, UMASS, Amherst, MA 01003.
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4TH WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS
UMASS, Amherst, Nov. 10-12, 1995

TYPOLOGY AND DIACHRONY

Preliminary Schedule, 9/22/95

Friday evening, Nov. 10.

7:00 - 9:30, Informal Reception [site to be announced]

Saturday, Nov. 11.

9:00 - 9:30, Coffee

9:30 - 12:00, Session 1, ISSUES IN SAMPLING PROCEDURE

Bill Pagliuca, Univ. of Illinois
Revere Perkins, Independent Consultant

Discussant: Gerda Kamberova, UPenn

12:00-2:00, Lunch break

2:00-5:00, Session 2, TYPOLOGY AND PHONOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION

Alice Faber, Haskins Labs
Ives Goddard, Smithsonian Institution
Fred Schwink, Universitat Eichstatt

Discussant: Jay Jasanoff, Cornell Univ.

6:00-7:30, Reception at Lord Jeffery Inn, Amherst Center

Sunday, Nov. 12

9:00-9:30, Coffee

9:30-12:00, Session 3, TOWARDS A TYPOLOGY OF CHANGE

Mary Niepokuj, Purdue Univ.
Eve Sweetser, UC Berkeley
Ellen Woolford, UMASS, Amherst

Discussant: Brian Joseph, The Ohio State University

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					Rex Wallace
					Department of Classics
					520 Herter Hall
					UMASS, Amherst
					Amherst, MA 01003
					(413)-545-5779
					rwallacetitan.oit.umass.edu
					

The annual conference of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic
Association will be held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island,
Canada, on November 10 and 11, 1995, co-sponsored by the University
of Prince Edward Island.

For program, abstracs, and registration details, contact Dr. Terry
Pratt, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, P.E.I. C1A
4P3. E-mail "tprattupei.ca." Telephone (902) 566-0677.

Some program highlights:

THEME: MAKING LINGUISTICS ACCESSIBLE

FEATURED SPEAKER: Katherine Barber, Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Oxford
Dictionary: "SIN and Jambusters: What makes a Canadian dictionary
Canadian?"

OTHER PAPERS directly on this theme include "On Making
Linguistics Useful for Teachers," "Making Saussure Accessible,"
"Drawing Connections between Language and Film Music," "The Case of
Yiddish: Preservation or Revival."

YET OTHER papers are of the kind traditionally found at this
conference, which will visit the theme indirectly: "Historical
Evidence and the Verb System of Newfoundland Vernacular English,"
"Script Switching in Written Japanese," "The Control Parameter:
Evidence from Slavic and Romance."

AND SOME NEED NO EXPLANATION: "Stall Wars: A Gendered Comparison of
Latrinalia at York University," "Ms. Revisited: She's still a bitch,
only now she's older!", "Is McLuhan a Linguist?"

SOME SPEAKERS are from the region; others are 'from away': Toronto,
Ottawa, Quebec, Boston, Miami, Honolulu, Tokyo, and the Ukraine
(Valentina Skibina, "On Nucleus Vocabulary of English").

OTHER ASPECTS INCLUDE a round table on linguistics applied to
language teaching, a publishers' display, a BYOBAA table (bring your
own book, abstract, article), a banquet in the beautiful
Charlottetown Prince Edward Hotel, where the whole
conference takes place (includes terrific three-mustard sauce).