Joseph C. Salmons <jsalmons@...>
<HISTLING@...>
Wednesday, September 29, 1999 10:33 AM
final announcement: Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8
>Workshop on Comparative Linguistics, 8:
>Variation & Reconstruction
>October 29-31, 1999
>Pyle Center (formerly "Wisconsin Center"), 702 Langdon Street
>University of Wisconsin, Madison
>
>Friday , Oct. 29, 7:00 p.m. Informal gathering, Max Kade Institute, 901
Univ.
> Bay Dr. 262-7546. (Transportation is available from Lowell Hall at 7:00 or
on
> request by calling the MKI.)
>
>Saturday. Oct. 30
>Reconstructing Social Variation
>9:30 Robert Howell (UW) Reconstructing social variation in Early Modern
Europe
>10:15 Ray Harris (UW) Reduction of variation in the standardization of
Castilian
> Spanish around 1500
>
>11:00: Coffee break
>
>11:30: Paul T. Roberge (UNC) "Reconstructing a Creole Continuum in early
> Afrikaans"
>
>12:30 Lunch
>
>Reconstructing morphological variation
>2:00 Frederick Schwink (Illinois) Reconstructing Variation in
Proto-Germanic
> Gender
>2:45 Sergio Meira (Rice/Nijmegen) Reconstructing Irregularity from
Regularity:
> The Case of Competing First-Person Prefixes In Taranoan
>
>3:30: Break
>
>4:00: James Milroy (Michigan) "Some comments on the role of speakers in
> language change"
>
>7:00: Dinner
>
>Sunday, Oct. 31
>9:00 Cynthia Miller (UW) Variation in the Use of a Grammaticalized
>Complementizer in Ancient Northwest Semitic
>
>
>Identifying (pre-)historic variation
>9:30 Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State) Projecting variation back onto the
proto
> language
>10:00 Thomas Cravens (UW) Approaching orthographic "confusion": stable
> allophony, change in progress, and lexicalized restucturing in early texts
>
>11:00: Coffee break
>
>11:30 Concluding Discussion, Mary Niepokuj (Purdue University)
>
>Rooms are available at Lowell Hall (610 Langdon St., Madison, WI 53706) for
> Friday and Saturday night, single $52, double $62. Reservations should be
made
> immediately: phone 608.256.2621, fax 256.5445. Please mention the WCL.
>
>WCL 8 is co-sponsored by the Depts of German, Hebrew & Semitic,
Linguistics,
> French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, and the Max Kade Institute. The
> Workshop is made possible by generous support from the Anonymous Fund of
the
> College of Letters & Science, UW.
>