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lenny.haskins.yale.edu>In the original posting, the rather important information of the day of our annual meeting was omitted. Here is the complete information: The Endangered Language Fund is a US nonprofit organization dedicated to helping maintain endangered languages, documenting endangered languages for linguistic science, and disseminating the results of both efforts to the scholarly community and the native language community. Our annual meeting will take place in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America on Friday, January 8th, 1999, in Los Angeles. It will begin at 8 a.m. in the LaBrea room of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel (404 S. Figueroa St.). If you will be at the LSA,please come join us. The Endangered Language Fund Dept. of Linguistics Yale University P. O. Box 208236 New Haven, CT 06520-8236 USA Tel: 203-432-2450 FAX: 203-432-4087 http://www.ling.yale.edu/~elfMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
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post.tau.ac.il>Semitic Linguistics: The State of the Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Israel Oriental Studies (IOS) is an annual devoted to the study of the Near East in various disciplines. Appearing under the auspices of the Faculty of Humanities at Tel Aviv University, it began publication in 1971, and quickly earned a reputation for its contribution to scholarship, with major concentrations in the study of Near Eastern languages, philology, history and religions. For the year 2000, the editorial board of IOS have planned an ambitious project, and volume 20 of this annual will be devoted to the state of the art of Semitic linguistics at the turn of the 21st century. What we would like to convey are the achievements, the drawbacks and the desiderata in the wide and diverse field of Semitic linguistics, i.e., to emphasize progress, conservatism and current gaps in research. While languages and language families are the main concern of Semitic linguistics in general, we thought it would be preferable to adopt a different point of view, and to present our interest in the various languages in this family from a variety of angles. Thus, aside from commonly studied issues such as comparative linguistics, typology and genetics, or scripts, we should like to shed light from the point of view of Semitic linguistics on more general topics like dialectology, the study of rare or extinct languages, geographical linguistics, languages in contact, the relationship between linguistics and other disciplines, child language and first language acquisition, and others. Some topics may be dealt with by more than a single author, and be combined later into a set of articles in a single category. Special attention will be paid to the impact of the advances in general linguistics on the study of Semitic languages and on Semitic linguistics, as well as to the actual and potential impact of Semitic linguistics on the general study of language. As a first step towards the publication of this volume, we are planning a preparatory symposium. This will provide an opportunity for contributors to the volume, many of whom are involved in large research projects, to offer oral presentations in the investigated areas and to discuss matters of mutual interest. Special emphasis will be drawn on pinpointing desiderata and on raising suggestions for future research and possible international cooperation. The planned symposium will be the basis upon which the written contributions and the setup of the IOS volume will emerge. The symposium will take place on January 11-13, 1999, at 496 Gilman Hall, Tel Aviv University. Following is the schedule for the Symposium: Sunday, January 10, 1999 ======================== 19.00 Reception for participants Address: Prof. Nili Cohen, Rector, Tel Aviv University Monday, January 11, 1999 ======================== 9.30-10.00 Opening Addresses: Prof. Marcelo Dascal, Dean, The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities Dr. Moshe Florentin, Chair, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages Prof. Shlomo Izre'el, Editor, Israel Oriental Studies, and Coordinator, Section of Semitic Languages Morning session (Chair: Stephen A. Kaufman) 10.00-10.40 Gideon Goldenberg (Jerusalem) Semitic Linguistics and the General Study of Language 10.40-11.20 Jo Ann Hackett (Cambridge, MA) The Study of Partially Documented Languages 11.20-11.50 Coffee break 11.50-12.30 Michael Patrick O'Connor (Washington, DC) The Study of Extinct Languages 12.30-13.10 Baruch Podolsky (Tel Aviv) The Study of Rare, Dying Out and Extinct Semitic Dialects in the Modern World 13.10-14.40 Lunch break Afternoon session (Chair: Geoffrey Khan) 14.40-15.20 Peter T. Daniels (New York) Writing and Scripts in the Semitic World 15.20-16.00 John Huehnergard (Cambridge, MA) Comparative Semitic Linguistics 16.00-16.30 Coffee break 16.30-17.10 Helmut Satzinger (Vienna) The Egyptian Connection: Egyptian and the Semitic Languages 17.10-17.50 Rainer M. Voigt (Berlin) The Hamitic Connection: Semitic and Hamito-Semitic Tuesday, January 12, 1999 ========================= Morning session (Chair: Rainer M. Voigt) 9.30-10.10 Anna G. Belova and Victor Ja. Porkhomovsky (Moscow) 10.10-10.50 Joseph L. Malone (New York) in absentia The Chomskian School and Semitic Linguistics 10.50-11.20 Coffee break 11.20-12.00 Geoffrey Khan (Cambridge, UK) Syntax 12.00-12.40 Uri Horesh (Tel Aviv) TMA (Tense-Mood-Aspect) 12.40-13.20 Baruch Podolsky (Tel Aviv) Lexicography 13.20-14.50 Lunch break Afternoon session (Chair: David L. Appleyard) 14.50-15.30 Shlomo Raz (Tel Aviv) Dialectology: The Ethiopian Languages 15.30-16.10 Otto Jastrow (Erlangen) Dialectology: Arabic 16.10-16.40 Coffee break 16.40-17.20 Otto Jastrow (Erlangen) Dialectology: Aramaic 17.20-18.00 Olga Kapeliuk (Jerusalem) Languages in Contact: The Contemporary Semitic World Wednesday, January 13, 1999 =========================== Morning session (Chair: Jo Ann Hackett) 9.30-10.10 Stephen A. Kaufman (Cincinnati) Languages in Contact: The Ancient Near East 10.10-10.50 Bruce Zuckerman (Rolling Hills Estates, CA) New Finds in the 20th Century: The Semitic Languages of the Ancient World 10.50-11.20 Coffee break 11.20-12.00 David L. Appleyard (London) New Finds in the 20th Century: The South Semitic Languages 12.00-12.40 Edward L. Greenstein (Tel Aviv) Advances in Linguistic Study as an Aid for Other Disciplines: The Ancient World 12.40-13.20 Victor Ja. Porkhomovsky (Moscow) Advances in Linguistic Study as an Aid for Other Disciplines: The Ethiopian and South Arabian Languages and Cultures 13.20-14.50 Lunch break Afternoon session (Chair: Michael Patrick O'Connor) 14.50-15.30 Ruth A. Berman and Dorit D. Ravid (Tel Aviv) Insights into Semitics from Research on the Acquisition of Israeli Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic 15.30-16.30 Yaacov Choueka (Ramat Gan, Israel) Computational Linguistics and Semitic Languages: Achievements and Desiderata 16.30-17:00 Coffee break 17:00-18:00 Semitic Linguistics: Looking into the 21st Century General Discussion Concluding remarks and business meeting * The volume of _Israel Oriental Studies_ will further include a paper not presented at this Symposium: New Finds in the 20th Century: The Modern South Arabian Languages, by Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle (Meudon, France). Information on the Symposium can also be found on the web: http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/hci/dep/semitic/symposium.htmlMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue