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Congratulations to Dylan Herrick, whose paper "Vowel reduction in four dialects of Catalan: variation and location?" has been accepted for presentation at the 15th International Conference of Phonetic Sciences, held next summer in Barcelona. ICPhS is the premiere phonetics conference venue worldwide.
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Jaye Padgett is currently visiting the Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft in Berlin, where he is giving two talks, and initiating a collaboration with Marzena Rochon-Zygis.
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This is a preliminary announcement of a workshop which will be held at UC Berkeley on March 7-8, 2003. It's entitled, "Explaining Linguistic Universals: Historical Convergence and Universal Grammar" and the speakers are:
Juliette Blevins, University of California, Berkeley
Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico
Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley
Alice Harris, Vanderbilt University/SUNY at Stony Brook
Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Larry Hyman, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University
Anthony Kroch, University of Pennsylvania
John Whitman, Cornell University
More information can be found on the workshop website:
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~jcgood/Universals
Please e-mail Jeff Good (jcgood@socrates.berkeley.edu) if you have any questions.
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The publication of the monograph series "Eurasian Ancient History" has been announced. The series is published by the South Ural Department of the Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. It is the first project in Russia, within which framework the books on ancient history will be published in English. The main purpose of the series is to interpret historical and ethnic processes in Eurasia, which may be reconstructed basing on archaeological and linguistic evidence.
The first volume in the series -"Ancient Indo-Europeans" is written by Dr. Stanislav A. Grigoriev. The book is addressed to archaeologists, linguists, historians and specialists in ancient mythology. It discusses the problems of the origins of people speaking Indo-European languages. The book is based on archaeological evidence. The author believes that it is impossible to correlate directly archaeological and linguistic evidence, and suggests comparing extremely broad models of historical processes reconstructed by both these disciplines. This has required the bringing together of archaeological material from a vast area (England to China and India) into one general scheme with the purpose of showing the connections between such material. The main attention is paid to material from Northern Eurasia, an area covered by Russian-language archaeological literature. This is probably the first book to be published in English which describes the problems of the Bronze Age archaeology of this area in detail. He shows similarities between the cultures of this area and those in the Near East, Transcaucasia and Central Europe. On this broad background a picture of a number of long migrations from the Near East crossing the continent in different directions is presented. The book covers the period from the eighth millennium BC to the seventh century BC. A theory suggested by the book corresponds to that of linguists T. Gamkrelidze and V. Ivanov.
For more information about the book (prices, ordering, content, etc.), please, visit their WEB site, or contact them.
<http://www.eah.uu.ru/>www.eah.uu.ru
<mailto:eah@chel.surnet.ru>eah@chel.surnet.ru
Administrator of the series Eurasian Ancient History is Mrs. Elena Langans
454000, Kommuni 68, Institute of History and Archaeology, Chelyabinsk, Russia***************************************
New in the LRC Library:
Language Research, vol. 38 No.3 Sept. 2002. Language Education Institute. Seoul National University
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This will be the last WHASC for this quarter. Remember that Winter Quarter, 2003 begins on Thursday, January 2, 2003 and instruction begins on Friday, January 3, 2003. Narrative Evaluations for fall quarter are due from instructors on Monday, January 6, 2003.
Best Wishes for a safe, happy and relaxing winter break!