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AN  INVITATION

The Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory (ASLIP)
is an international society of scholars interested in linguistic
reconstruction at depths greater than those at which most
Indo-Europeanists and Semitists cease probing. Its members,
formally known as paleolinguists and informally as "Long Rangers,"
question the linguistic isolationism that insists on treating
Sumerian and Basque as permanent linguistic islands and
attributing all correspondences between language families to
borrowing or to coincidence.

Paleolinguistics is a key component of the emerging synthesis between
linguistics, archaeology, paleo-anthropology and genetics, which seeks to
trace the origins and development of Modern Man.  ASLIP, while emphasizing the
linguistic side, has many members from other disciplines, who are working
together to understand the larger picture of Pre-history.

     ASLIP publishes an annual journal, Mother Tongue, as well as a
quarterly newsletter and invites subscriptions and contributions from
linguists, archeologists, anthropologists, biologists, and
generalists who believe that a sense of intellectual adventure
is not incompatible with scholarly rigor. Annual membership is
$25, which entitles each member to our Journal and newsletter and provides
voting rights in the Association.


     For further information, contact ASLIP's president,
John D. Bengtson, 156 15th Avenue NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413
(612-782-9009 or 612-348-5910, e-mail: john.bengtson@co.hennepin.mn.us),

or Alice Faber, 835 Mix Ave, T4;  Hamden , CT 06414-2113; e-mail
faber@haskins.yale.edu

Send dues to: Peter Norquest  <norquesp@U.ARIZONA.EDU>
              1632 Santa Rita Avenue
              Tucson, AZ 85719


     Mother Tongue  III ( 243 pp -- December 1997) is the most recent issue.

The main feature is the Hardware Symposium, discussing the origin of language,
with articles by Terrence Deacon, Philip Lieberman, Stephen Zegura, W.
Tecumseh Fitch and Merlin Donald.  This explores in breadth and depth the
variant theories that have made Language Evolution such a lively subject both
in popular books and in academics.

There is also a special section on Nihali and Kusunda (continued from MT II),
two language isolates in India.  Included are essays by Paul Whitehouse, Roger
Williams Wescott and Harold Fleming, analyzing the languages and their
possible relationships to Austric or other language macro-families,

Another section explores the theories of the  relationships of Sumerian,
another language isolate and a famously controversial topic, presenting
possible connections to Austroasiatic (Igor Diakonoff), Dene-Caucasian (John
Bengston) and Nostratic (Allan Bomhard).


There are several other articles on topics of interest to Long Rangers and
Language Evolutionists, including book reviews by Ken Hale (on Lyle Campbell),
Vaclav Blazhek (on Merritt Ruhlen) and Sergei Starotsin (on Viacheslav
Chirikba), as well as recommendations for Long Rangers by the late "elder
statesman" Paul K. Benedict.