UCLA Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies Newsletter

ISSN: 1534-7052

With volume 7, no. 2, the UCLA Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies Newsletter became the IES Bulletin (ISSN: 1533-9769).

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Issue Contents

|| top ||Vol. 7, No. 1, September/October 1997 (24 pp.)

Articles:

• Vine, Brent. “The Archaic Latin ‘Garigliano Bowl’ Inscription: A preliminary report.”
• Jamison, Stephanie. “Recent Work in Vedic Studies.”
• Wells, R. Spencer. “Do Genes and Languages Always Move Together? A Geneticist's View of Indo-European Expansions.”

Conference Reviews:

• Ninth Annual Indo-European Conference at UCLA (Martin Huld)
• Third Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, UCLA, April 25–27, 1997 (Fred Schwink)
• Thirteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 10–17, 1997 (Bridget Drinka)

Brief Book Review:

• Register zur Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung: Band 1–100 (1851–1987) (A. Bammesberger)

|| top ||Vol. 6, No. 2 April 1997 (29 pp.)

Articles:

• Hajnal, Ivo (Indogermanisches Seminar der Universität Zürich). “Update on Mycenaean Language and Texts.”
• Schachner, Andreas (Vorgeschichtliches Seminar der Philipps-Universität, Marburg). “Review of Recent Research on the Archaeology of Western Anatolia.”
• Hall, Mark (Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley). “Recent Developments in Radiocarbon Dating.”
• Tkachuk, Mark, and Igor Manzura. “A First Century A.D. Town on the Middle Dniester: A Lost Capital of a Forgotten Kingdom.”

Notes and Brief Communications:

• Short necrology on Oswald Szemerényi 1913–1996 (A. Bammesberger)

Conference Report:

• Indogermanische Gesellschaft meeting, September 1996 (K. Wöbking, Universität Innsbruck)

Brief Book Review:

• Birkhan, Helmut. Kelten: Versuch einer Gesamtdarstellung. (A. Bammesberger)

Synopsis by Henning Andersen of his new book, Reconstructing Prehistorical Dialects: Initial vowels in Slavic and Baltic

|| top ||Vol. 6, No. 1 April 1996 (24 pp.)

Articles:

• Two Essays on Recent Developments in Insular Celtic (1. “Syntax and Other Matters” by Joseph Eska and 2. “Phonology and Morphology” by Kim McCone)
• Melchert, Craig. “Recent Developments in Anatolian Studies.”

Conference Reports:

• Tarim Basin Conference, Philadelphia, Apr. 19–21, 1996 (James P. Mallory)
• Second Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Madison, Apr. 26–28, 1996 (Christopher Stevens)

Notes and Brief Communications:

• Note by Natalia Shishlina on her work in the Kalmykia Autonomous Region

|| top ||Vol. 5, No. 2 January/February 1996 (20 pp.)

Articles:

• Commentary on the terms Old, Middle, and Late Indo-European by A. Bammesberger
• Eska, Joseph. “Recent Developments in Continental Celtic: Addendum.”
• Looijenga, Tineke. “Report on Recent Runic Finds.”
• Eichner, Heiner. “Additional Remarks.”
• Stevens, Chris. “On the Consonants of Proto-Germanic and the Second Consonant Shift in German.”
• Bammesberger, A. “New Publications: Recent Work on Proto-Germanic and Northwest Germanic.”

Conference report:

• Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester (Carol Justus)

Notes and Brief Communications:

• Report by E. J. W. Barber on her trip to China
• Note by Fredrik Hiebert on his work on the desert oases of western Central Asia and its relation to Xinjiang (as well as a summary of his recent archaeological work on the Indo-Iranians)
• Report on the recent Hittite finds in Kusakli, Turkey.

|| top ||Vol. 5, No. 1 June/July 1995 (16 pp.)

Articles:

• Francalacci, Paolo. “The Genetic Approach to the Xinjiang Mummies.”
• Two essays on the linguistic position of Tocharian (one by Douglas Q. Adams, the other by Martin Huld)
• Eska, Joseph. “Recent Developments in Continental Celtic.”
• Greenberg, Joseph. “Indo-European eĝ(h)om/n Suppletion in the Context of Eurasiatic.”

Conference Report:

• Mathematical Modelling of Linguistic Relationships Conference, University of Philadelphia, April 17–18, 1995 (Donald Ringe, Jr.)

A memorial to the Hungarian archaeozoologist Sándor Bökönyi by László Bartosiewicz

|| top ||Vol. 4, No. 2, Feb. 1995 (11 pp.)

Article:

• Sarich, Vincent. “One Anthropologist’s View on the Genetic Evidence.”

An appreciation of Einar Haugen by Martin Huld

A memorial to Jochem Schindler by Andrew Garrett

|| top ||Vol. 4, No. 1, Aug. 1994 (11 pp.)

Articles:

• Barber, Elizabeth. “Twill and the Recent Finds in China.”
• A response by Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza to Martin Huld’s essay “Indo-European, the Genetics of DNA and Distant Affinities among Human Languages” (contained in Vol. 3, No. 1)

Necrology: Marija Gimbutas (K. Jones-Bley)

A list of electronic discussion lists and usenet groups of interest to Indo-Europeanists

|| top ||Vol. 3, No. 2, Feb. 1994 (7 pp.)

Article:

• Jones-Bley, Karlene. “Report from the Field: The Tocharians?” (a report on the work being done by Sergei Grigorievich Skobelev, an archaeologist at Novosibirsk State University, on the Tashchtik culture on the southern border of Western Siberia and neighboring Northern Kazakhstan, which Skobelev identifies with the Tocharians)

A list of electronic versions of IE texts (part 2)

|| top ||Vol. 3, No. 1, May 1993 (9 pp.)

Article:

• Huld, Martin. “Indo-European, the Genetics of DNA and Distant Affinities among Human Languages.”

A list of electronic versions of IE texts (part 1)

|| top ||Vol. 2, No. 2, Nov. 1992 (7 pp.)

Article:

• Ivanov, Vyacheslav. “Towards the Typology of Nostratic” (a response to Bomhard’s and Huld’s essays contained in Vol. 2, No. 1)

|| top ||Vol. 2, No. 1, Feb. 1992 (19 pp.)

Articles:

• Bomhard, Allan. “Distant Linguistic Comparison and the Nostratic Hypothesis.”
• Huld, Martin. “Why Nostratic?”

|| top ||Vol. 1

(Note: Volume 1 is no longer available.)