LINGUIST List 6.440

Sun 26 Mar 1995

FYI: WWW server, Spanish, African ling, Panel on Borrowing

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1. "Fco. Javier Martinez Garcia", WWW Server
2. , Corpus of frequencies (Spanish)
3. "Caroline Smith", 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics
4. Mark Hansell-Mai Hansheng, MCAA Panel on borrowing

 The Comparative Linguistics Department at the University of Frankfurt
now has a www server.
 The URL is
 http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/home/ftp/pub/titus/public_html
 Information is available about the IE Chronik and the Project TITUS.

The corpus of frequencies of Spanish vocabulary has been made available
again through California State University at Fullerton as well as the
computational linguistic study of Spanish for medical pru urposes. Please
ftp to the server at :
ftp titan.fullerton.edu/pub/research/chandler/S92
ftp titan.fullerton.edu/pub/research/chandler/e92
Use ana onymous login and your email address for password.
Prof. R. M. Chandler-Burns
Autnomous onomous University of Nuevo Leon
Monterrey, MEXICO

An announcement has recently been circulated from the University
of Leipzig concerning plans for the Second World Congress of
African Linguistics. While Leipzig would undoubtedly be a fine
place for this conference to take place and the committee which has
sent out this announcement would do an excelleant organizational
job, the announcement is premature. The Standing Committee for
World Congresses of African Linguistics has not yet decided where
the next congress will be held, and Leipzig is only one of a number
of sites being considered.
Ian Maddieson, UCLA
Standing Committee for World Congresses of African Linguistics
Caroline Smith
Division of Head & Neck Surgery and Phonetics Lab
UCLA Dept. of Linguistics
31-24 Rehab Center UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1794 Los Angeles, CA 90024-1543
(310) 825-1190 (310) 206-2808

 I've been asked by the conference organizers to get together a
linguistics panel for the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, to be held
in St. Louis on Oct. 13-15, 1995. I'm trying to organize one on linguistic
borrowing in East Asia. So far I have two strong possibilities, both on
lexical borrowing in Chinese, but there is certainly room for other topics
and other languages. If you are interested, please contact me by e-mail
with your proposal, soon (the deadline for panel proposals is April 15, I'd
like to beat that deadline.)
 In case you're not familiar with it, the MCAA is a genereal Asian
Studies conference, one of the regional affiliates of the Association for
Asian Studies. Traditionally linguistics offerings have been skimpy,
that's one of the reasons that I'm pushing this now. Since people aren't
used to seeing much linguistics at MCAA, the panels are often not extremely
well attendended, and become more like workshops (which can be productive
too), but I'm hoping we can change that this year.
Mark Hansell
Asian Languages Department
Carleton College
Northfield, MN 55057 USA
(507) 663-5425