On April 4-6, the Department hosted the Twelfth Spring Workshop on Theory and Method in Linguistic Reconstruction, a long-running biennial series that began in 1986.  The talks were on Indo-European (Ben Fortson, Eric Hamp, Jay Jasanoff, Brian Joseph); Tibeto-Burman (Jim Matisoff, David Kamholz); Native American languages (Terry Kaufman, Ives Goddard, Bob Rankin); Australian languages (Claire Bowern); Caucasian languages (Alice Harris); Austronesian languages (Mark Hale); and general topics (Andrew Garrett, Lyle Campbell).  The best title (and certainly one of the best talks) was Bob Rankin’s: “The mystery of the Vice President’s Chair”.

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