LINGUIST List 9.1448

Fri Oct 16 1998

Confs: Comparative Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Martha Ratliff, Comparative Linguistics at University or Illinois

7TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS
November 21-22, 1998

at

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room 210, Illini Union


THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURE


Speakers and topics include:

Hans Henrich Hock: "Use and misuse of linguistic prehistory: India and
beyond"
Frederick Schwink: "The reconstruction of IE gender as a reflection of
culture"
Mary Niepokuj: "IE poetics"
Rex Wallace: "Sabellian"
Martha Ratliff: "Vocabulary of environment and subsistence in
Proto-Hmong-Mien"
William Baxter: "Evidence for early Austronesian-Chinese contact in
China"
Colleen Reilly: "Gender and sexuality in Anglo-Saxon"
Graham Thurgood "What proto-Chamic reconstructions tells us about early
Chamic culture"
Craig Hilts "Vocabulary for flora and fauna of Mixe-Zoquean"



Co-sponsored by: English, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Classics,
Program in Comparative Literature.

For information, contact

Frederick Schwink <schwinkuiuc.edu>
Dept. of Germanic Languages
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3072 FLB
707 South Mathews Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801