Indo-European Studies Bulletin

ISSN: 1533-9769
formerly UCLA Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies Newsletter

The Indo-European Studies Bulletin is a publication affiliated with the UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies and published by the Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies. All issues are hardcopy and include news, book reviews, listings of new books and journals, upcoming conferences and summer schools, new electronic resources for IE, and articles. Note: From vol. 7, no. 2 onwards, the IES Bulletin appeared in a printed format. Earlier issues, under the name FAIES Indo-European Studies Newsletter (ISSN: 1534-7052), were xeroxed and stapled.

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Submissions

Authors wishing to submit articles and reviews for consideration for publication in the IES Bulletin should consult the style sheet.  Note to publishers: Unsolicited books that are sent to the IES Bulletin editors are not guaranteed to be reviewed. It is recommended that publishers first write to the Book Review editor, Brent Vine at <vine(at)humnet(dot)ucla(dot)edu>.

Issue Contents

|| top ||Vol. 11, No. 1, September 2005

Articles:

• Tremblay, Xavier. “Iranian Historical Linguistics in the Twentieth Century.”
• García Ramón, José Luis. “Update on Die historischen Personennamen des Mykenischen.”

Notes and Brief Communications

Conference Reports

Book Reviews:

• Fortson, Benjamin W., IV. Indo-European Language and Culture: An introduction. (L. Oliver)
• Heizmann, Wilhelm, and Astrid van Nahl, eds. Runica – Germanica – Mediaevalia. (A. Vijūnas)
• Cheung, Johnny. Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism. (R. Kim)
• Olender, Maurice. The Languages of Paradise: Aryans and Semites, a match made in heaven. (P. Park)
• Das, Rahul Peter, and Gerhard Meiser, eds. Geregeltes Ungestüm. Bruderschaften und Jugendbünde bei indogermanischen Völkern. (R. Matasović)
• Colarusso, John. Nart Sagas from the Caucasus. (E. and P. Barber)
• Baldi, Philip. The Foundations of Latin. (C. Wilhelm)

Electronic Resources for IE

Upcoming Conferences

New Books

New Journal

IE Dissertations

|| top ||Vol. 10, No. 2, June/July 2003 (appeared August 2003)

Article:

• Friedman, Jay. “Notes on IE *ĝʰii̯ém ‘winter.’”

Notes and Brief Communications

Conference Reports:

• Ninth Germanic Linguistics Conference, April 25–27, 2003 (M. Pierce)
• Fifth Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies, May 1–4, 2003 (B. Joseph)
• Global Perspectives on Human Language: Scientific Studies in Honor of Joseph H. Greenberg, April 26–27, 2002 (C. Justus)

Book Reviews:

• Puhvel, Jaan. Epilecta Indoeuropaea. (C. Melchert)
• Olmsted, Garrett. A Definitive Reconstructed Text of the Coligny Calendar. (J. Eska)

Electronic Resources

Upcoming Conferences and Summer Schools

New Books

New Journals

IE Dissertations

|| top ||Vol. 10, No. 1, February/March 2002

Review Article:

• Ivanov, Vyacheslav. “Notes on the New Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian (Review article of Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions by J. D. Hawkins [vol. 1] and Halet Çambel [vol. 2]).”

Notes and Brief Communications:

• Short Necrologies: Paul Thieme (Scharfe) and Joseph Greenberg (Justus)

Conference Report:

• Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC-7), April 21–23, 2001 (Pierce)

Book Reviews:

• Mallory, J. P., and Victor Mair. The Tarim Mummies. (Martin Huld)
• Rastorgujeva, Vera S., and Dzhoj I. Edelman. Etimologicheskij slovar’ iranskikh jazykov (Iranian Etymological Dictionary), Vol. 1. (Ilya Yakubovich)
• Esterhill, Frank. Interlingua Institute: A History. (Aurelijus Vijūnas)

Electronic Resources

Upcoming Conferences and Summer Schools

New Books

New Journals

Books for Review (for Language)

|| top ||Vol. 9, No. 2, January/February 2001 (appeared April 2001); 60 pp.

Articles:

• Koch, John. “Celtoscepticism: Some Intellectual Sources and Ideological Implications.”
• Rozwadowski, Andrzej. “The Petroglyphs of Central Asia from the Viewpoint of the Indo-Iranian Hypothesis.”

Notes and Brief Communications:

• Short Necrologies: Edgar Polomé (Drinka) and Erich Neu (Melchert)

Conference Reports:

• Late Prehistoric Exploitation of the Eurasian Steppe, McDonald Inst., Cambridge, England, January 12–16, 2000 (Jones-Bley and Hanks)
• Colloquium: Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family, Univ. of Richmond, March 17–19, 2000 (C. Melchert)
• Sixth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Univ. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, April 28–30, 2000 (M. Pierce)
• Eleventh International Mycenological Colloquium, Univ. of Texas at Austin, May 7–13, 2000 (J. L. García-Ramón)
• Long-Range Linguistic Comparison: Prospects on the Eve of the Third Millennium, Moscow, May 28–June 2, 2000 (Yakubovich)
• Horses and Humans: The evolution of human/equine relations symposium, Powdermill Nature Reserve, Penn., Oct. 17–21 (Jones-Bley)

Book Reviews:

• Demiraj, Bardhyl. Albanische Etymologien. (Martin Huld)
• Orel, Vladimir. Albanian Etymological Dictionary. (Martin Huld)
• Meiser, Gerhard. Historische Laut- und Formenlehre der lateinischen Sprache. (Joshua Katz)
• Schmitt, Rüdiger. Beiträge zu altpersischen Inschriften. (Hanns-Peter Schmidt)
• Sims-Williams, Nicholas, ed. Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies, Part 1: Old and Middle Iranian Studies. (Hanns-Peter Schmidt)

Electronic Resources

Upcoming Conferences and Summer Schools

New Books

New Journals

Books for Review (for Language)

|| top ||Vol. 9, No. 1, March/April 2000 (48 pp.)

Article:

• Derksen, Rick. “A Review of Recent Research in Slavic Studies.”

Review Articles:

• Katz, Joshua. “Notes on Indo-European Reduplication.”
• Davis-Kimball, J. “New Information on Bronze Age Cultures of the Eurasian Steppe: A Summary Review.”

Notes and Brief Communications

Conference Reports:

• Eleventh International Congress of Celtic Studies, Univ. College, Cork, July 25–31, 1999 (Eska)
• Complex Societies of Central Eurasia in III–I Millennia B.C., Ekaterinburg, August 25–Sept. 2, 1999 (Hanks and Jones-Bley)
• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts, Univ. of Chicago, Oct. 8–9, 1999 (Anderson)
• Hamp Lectures on the Albanian Language, Ohio State University, Nov. 29–Dec. 4, 1999 (Joseph and Maynard)

Book Reviews:

• García-Hernández, Benjamín, et al., eds. Estudios de Lingüística Latina. (Brent Vine)
• Campbell, Lyle. Historical Linguistics. (Brent Vine)
• Lyovin, Anatole. An Introduction to the Languages of the World. (Jay Friedman)

Electronic Resources

Upcoming Conferences and Summer Schools

New Books

New Journals

Books for Review (for Language)

|| top ||Vol. 8, No. 2, August/September 1999 (44 pp.)

Articles:

• Derksen, Rick. “A Review of Recent Baltological Research.”
• Martínez, Javier, and James Bisso. “The Use of Computers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics.”
• Pydyn, Andrzej. “The Cimmerians—Their Origin and Expansion.”

Reviews:

• Ryan, William  and Walter Pitman. Noah’s Flood: The new scientific discoveries about the event that changed history. (J. P. Mallory)
• Salomon, Richard. Indian Epigraphy, A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages. (H. Scharfe)
• Barber, Elizabeth W. The Mummies of Ürümchi. (K. Jones-Bley)

Conference Reports

• Dumézil Centenary Session, American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 2–5, 1998 (D. Miller)
• Contacts between Indo-European and Uralic Speakers, Tvärminne Research Station, Finland, January 8–10, 1999 (J. P. Mallory)
• Segundas Jornadas de Micenología de la Universidad de Alicante, Orihuela-Alicante, Spain, February 17–19, 1999 (E. Lujan)

IE Dissertations

|| top ||Vol. 8, No. 1, November/December 1998 (32 pp.)

Article:

• Wallace, Rex. “Recent Research on Sabellian Inscriptions.”

News and Brief Communications:

• Short report on Arkaim (K. Jones-Bley)
• Necrology on Yakov Malkiel (C. Justus)

Conference Reports:

• Colloque International: “Gaulois et celtique continental,” Université Blaise-Pascal, May 13–16,1998. (J. Eska)
• Seventeenth East Coast IE Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 29–31, 1998 (Andrew Garrett)
• Aspects of Bilingualism in the Ancient World, University of Reading, April 2–4, 1998 (Mark Janse)

Book Reviews:

• Lubotsky, A., ed. Sound Law and Analogy. (Brent Vine)
• Bammesberger, A., ed.Baltistik: Aufgaben und Methoden. (Henning Andersen)
• Newmark, L., ed. Albanian-English Dictionary. (Martin Huld)
• Mair, V., ed. The Bronze Age and Iron Age Peoples of Eastern Central Asia. (Karlene Jones-Bley)

|| top ||Vol. 7, No. 2, May/June 1998 (32 pp.)

Articles:

• Wallace, Rex. “Recent Developments in Venetic.”
• Vaux, Bert. “A Review of Recent Armenological Research.”
• Davis-Kimball, Jeannine. “The Kangjiashimenzi Petroglyphs in Western China.”

Conference Reports:

• Twenty-fourth Berkeley Linguistics Society Meeting, Special Session on Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations, Feb. 14, 1998 (Andrew Garrett)
• Tagung on the Carian-Greek Bilingual from Kaunos, October 31–November 1, 1997, Feusisberg, Switzerland (H. Craig Melchert)

Book  Review:

• Mallory, J. P., and D. Q. Adams, eds. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. (Alfred Bammesberger)