Indo-European Studies Bulletin

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

(Updated 18 October  2005)

The Indo-European Studies Bulletin is a publication affiliated with the UCLA Indo-European Studies Program 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, IE books available for review in Language as well as 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.

Directions on how to obtain the Bulletin are found on the bottom of this page.

Vol. 11, No. 1, September 2005 (84 pp.)

  • Article: Iranian Historical Linguistics in the Twentieth Century [Part 1] (Xavier Tremblay)    
  • Article: Update on Die historischen Personennamen des Mykenischen (José Luis García Ramón)
  • Notes and Brief Communications
  • Conference Reports:

38th Annual UCLA IE Conference (Vijūnas)

Langue poétique indo-européenne, Colloque de travail de la Société des Études Indo-Européennes, Paris, 2003 (Mercado)

  • Book Reviews:

Indo-European Language and Culture: An introduction by Benjamin W. Fortson IV. (reviewed by L. Oliver)

Runica – Germanica – Mediaevalia., edited by Wilhelm Heizmann and Astrid van Nahl. (reviewed A. Vijūnas)

Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism, by Johnny Cheung (reviewed by R. Kim)

The Languages of Paradise: Aryans and Semites, a match made in heaven, by Maurice Olender (reviewed by P. Park)

Geregeltes Ungestüm: Bruderschaften und Jugendbünde bei indogermanischen Völkern, edited by Rahul Peter Das and Gerhard Meiser (reviewed by R. Matasović)

Nart Sagas from the Caucasus  by John Colarusso (reviewed by E. and P. Barber)

The Foundations of Latin by Philip Baldi (reviewed by C. Wilhelm)

  • Electronic Resources
  • Upcoming Conferences
  • New Books
  • New Journals
  • IE Dissertations

 

Vol. 10, No. 2, June/July 2003 (appeared August 2003; 64 pp.)

  • Article: “Notes on IE *ĝʰii ̯ém- ‘winter’” by Jay Friedman
  • Notes and Brief Communications
  • Conference Reports:

      Ninth Germanic Linguistics Conference, April 25–27, 2003 (Pierce)

      Fifth Macedonian-North American Conference on Macedonian Studies, May 1–4, 2003 (Joseph)

      "Global Perspectives on Human Language: Scientific Studies in Honor of Joseph H. Greenberg," April 26– 27, 2002 (Justus)

  • Book Reviews:

      Epilecta Indoeuropaea by Jaan Puhvel (reviewed by H. Craig Melchert);

      A Definitive Reconstructed Text of the Coligny Calendar by Garrett Olmsted (reviewed by Joseph Eska)

  • Electronic Resources
  • Upcoming Conferences and Summer Schools
  • New Books
  • New Journals
  • IE Dissertations

 

Vol. 10, No. 1, February/March 2002 (60 pp.)

  • Review Article:

“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]) by Vyacheslav Ivanov

  • Notes and Brief Communications:

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

  • Conference Reports:

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

  • Book Reviews:

The Tarim Mummies by J.P. Mallory and Victor Mair (reviewed by Martin Huld)

Etimologicheskij slovar’ iranskikh jazykov (Iranian Etymological Dictionary), v. 1.  Vera S. Rastorgujeva and Dzhoj I. Edelman (reviewed by Ilya Yakubovich)

Interlingua Institute: A History by Frank Esterhill (reviewed by Aurelijus Vijūnas)

  • Electronic Resources
  • Upcoming Conferences and Summer Schools
  • New Books
  • New Journals
  • Books for Review (for Language)

 

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

  • Articles:

"Celtoscepticism: Some Intellectual Sources and Ideological Implications " by John Koch

"The Petroglyphs of Central Asia from the Viewpoint of the Indo-Iranian Hypothesis”’ by Andrzej Rozwadowski

  • 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/Hanks)

Colloquium: Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite Language Family, Univ. of Richmond, March 17–19, 2000 (Melchert)

Sixth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Univ. of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, April 28–30, 2000 (Pierce)

Eleventh International Mycenological Colloquium, Univ. of Texas at Austin, May 7–13, 2000 (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:

Albanische Etymologien by Bardhyl Demiraj (reviewed by Martin Huld)

Albanian Etymological Dictionary by Vladimir Orel (reviewed by Martin Huld)

Historische Laut- und Formenlehre der lateinischen Sprache by Gerhard Meiser (reviewed by Joshua Katz)

Beiträge zu altpersischen Inschriften by Rüdiger Schmitt (reviewed by Hanns-Peter Schmidt)

Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies. Part 1: Old and Middle Iranian Studies edited by Nicholas Sims-Williams (reviewed by Hanns-Peter Schmidt)

  • Electronic Resources
  • Upcoming Conferences and Summer Schools
  • New Books
  • New Journals
  • Books for Review (for Language)

 

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

  • Article:

“A Review of Recent Research in Slavic Studies” by Rick Derksen

  • Review Articles:

“Notes on Indo-European Reduplication” by Joshua Katz

“New Information on Bronze Age Cultures of the Eurasian Steppe: A Summary Review” by J. Davis-Kimball

  • 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:

Estudios de Linguistica Latina edited by Benjamin Garcia-Hernandez et al. (Brent Vine)       

Historical Linguistics by Lyle Campbell (Brent Vine)   

An Introduction to the Languages of the World by Anatole Lyovin (Jay Friedman)

  • Electronic Resources
  • Upcoming Conferences and Summer Schools
  • New Books
  • New Journals
  • Books for Review (for Language)

 

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

  • Articles:

“A Review of Recent Baltological Research” by Rick Derksen

“The Use of Computers in Historical and Comparative Linguistics” by Javier Martínez and James Bisso

 “The Cimmerians – Their Origin and Expansion” by Andrzej Pydyn

  • Reviews:

Noah’s Flood: The new scientific discoveries about the event that changed history by William  Ryan and Walter Pitman (J. P. Mallory)

Indian Epigraphy, A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages by Richard Salomon (H. Scharfe)

The Mummies of Ürümchi by Elizabeth W. Barber (K. Jones-Bley)

  • Conference Reports

Dumézil Centenary Session, American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA Dec. 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

     

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

  • Article:

“Recent Research on Sabellian Inscriptions” by Rex Wallace

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

 

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

  • Articles:

“Recent Developments in Venetic” by Rex Wallace

“A Review of Recent Armenological Research” by Bert Vaux

“The Kangjiashimenzi Petroglyphs in Western China” by Jeannine Davis-Kimball

  • 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:

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

 

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