Histling discussion group

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Discussion group for historical linguistics.

Organizer: Sally Thomason

All meetings are from 2:10 to 3:00 in room 403 Lorch Hall

Current Semester

WINTER 2011 HistLing Discussion Group Schedule:

• Jan. 14: Cameron Rule
• Jan. 28: TBA
• Feb. 11: TBA
• Feb. 25: TBA
• Mar. 11: TBA
• Mar. 25: TBA
• Apr. 8: TBA

Past Semesters

FALL 2010 HistLing Discussion Group Schedule:

• Oct. 1: Rob Burling on the evolution of lg.
• Oct. 15: Terry Szymanski: Computational Linguistics & Ancient Writing ?Scripts?
  • (Additional materials are also posted on the CTools site)
  • Andrew Lawler. The Indus Script--Write or Wrong? (17 December 2004). Science 306 (5704), 2026.
  • Rao et al. 2009. Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script. Science 324(5931). 1165.
  • LanguageLog - "Sproat asks the question" -- with links to various other discussions on this topic.
• Oct. 29: Ben Fortson, The rise of new grammatical categories
• Nov. 12: Bill Baxter & Mike Opper, Language contact & change in China
• Dec. 3: Steve Dworkin, Historical Romance linguistics