comparative linguistics university illinois 7th annual workshop comparative linguistics november 2122 1998 university illinois urbana champaign room 210 illini union reconstruction culture speakers topics include hans henrich hock use misuse linguistic prehistory india beyond frederick schwink reconstruction ie gender reflection culture mary niepokuj ie poetics rex wallace sabellian martha ratliff vocabulary environment subsistence proto hmong mien william baxter evidence early austronesian chinese contact china colleen reilly gender sexuality anglo saxon graham thurgood proto chamic reconstructions tells us early chamic culture craig hilts vocabulary flora fauna mixe zoquean co sponsored english program south asian middle eastern studies germanic languages literatures linguistics classics program comparative literature information contact frederick schwink schwink uiuc edu dept germanic languages university illinois urbana champaign 3072 flb 707 south mathews ave urbana il 61801