The renovated web pages of the JLR at http://journal.nostratic.ru/db/index.php?en substantially expanded instruments of online search, preview and purchase of all articles of the Journal issues of 2009-2010. Online subscription service is to follow in the nearest future.

The Niger-Congo International Congress (NigerCongress) is gathering scholars in comparative studies of the largest African language macrofamily. Issues of comparative analysis, reconstruction, language convergence and history will be discussed on September 19-21, 2012 in the Center for African Linguistics, Languages and Cultures (LLACAN) in Paris. Speakers and participants are invited to register and submit their abstracts.

Congress' Website

We continue uploading some well known papers by Joseph Greenberg on the methods of comparative linguistics. New articles show up in the E-Library, "Theory" section.

The file is attached in PDF format below.

The Center for Comparative Studies of the Institute of the Oriental Cultures and Antiquities invites all colleagues to participate in the annual conference "Problems of Distant Language Relationship Studies (in memoriam Sergey Starostin)" which will take place in the Russian State University for the Humanities on 3-4 April 2010. The programme for the event will be announced in the nearest days.