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Vol. 7, No. 1 September/October 1997 of the UCLA Friends and Alumni of IES Newsletter (24 pp.)

Articles:

“The Archaic Latin ‘Garigliano Bowl’ Inscription: A preliminary report” by Brent Vine

“Recent Work in Vedic Studies” by Stephanie Jamison

“Do Genes and Languages Always Move Together? A Geneticist's View of Indo-European Expansions” by R. Spencer Wells

Conference Reviews:

Ninth Annual Indo-European Conference at UCLA (Martin Huld)

Third Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 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)

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

Articles:

“Update on Mycenaean Language and Texts” by Ivo Hajnal, Indogermanisches Seminar der Universität Zürich

“Review of Recent Research on the Archaeology of Western Anatolia” by Andreas Schachner, Vorgeschichtliches Seminar der Philipps-Universität, Marburg

“Recent Developments in Radiocarbon Dating” by Mark Hall, Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

“A First Century A.D. Town on the Middle Dniester: A Lost Capital of a Forgotten Kingdom” by Mark Tkachuk and Igor Manzura

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:

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

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

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)

“Recent Developments in Anatolian Studies” by Craig Melchert

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

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

Articles:

Commentary on the terms Old, Middle, and Late Indo-European by A. Bammesberger

“Recent Developments in Continental Celtic: Addendum” by Joseph Eska.

“Report on Recent Runic Finds” by Tineke Looijenga.

“Additional Remarks” by Heiner Eichner.

“On the Consonants of Proto-Germanic and the Second Consonant Shift in German” by Chris Stevens.

“New Publications: Recent Work on Proto-Germanic and Northwest Germanic” by A. Bammesberger. .

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.

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

Articles:

“The Genetic Approach to the Xinjiang Mummies” by Paolo Francalacci

Two essays on the linguistic position of Tocharian (one by Douglas Q. Adams, the other by Martin Huld)

“Recent Developments in Continental Celtic” by Joseph Eska

“Indo-European eĝ(h)om/n Suppletion in the Context of Eurasiatic” by Joseph Greenberg

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

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

Article:

“One Anthropologist’s View on the Genetic Evidence” by Vincent Sarich

An appreciation of Einar Haugen by Martin Huld
A memorial to Jochem Schindler by Andrew Garrett

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

Articles:

“Twill and the Recent Finds in China” by Elizabeth Barber

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

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

Article:

“Report from the Field: The Tocharians?” by Karlene Jones Bley (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)

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

Article:

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

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

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

Article:

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

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

Article:

“Distant Linguistic Comparison and the Nostratic Hypothesis” by Allan Bomhard

“Why Nostratic?” by Martin Huld

(Note: Volume 1 is no longer available.)

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