Prof. Sergei Starostin, a linguist from Moscow, will speak
at the UCSD linguistics department Thursday December 5 at 5 p.m.
Dr. Starostin's work made a sensation in 70's when he established
a relation between North Caucasian language families (Dagestani, 
Chechen, Ingush, Abkhazo-Adygean) and Sino-Tibetan, including 
Chinese. Starostin also made a number of important contributions 
in the study of Altaic (including Turkic) languages, Hindoeuropean 
accentology, and Nostratic language families, the latter being
Hindoeuropean, Semitic, Hamitic, Uralic, Altaic, Tunguso-Mancurian
and Dravidian). Prof. Starostin's talk is titled:

Theory & Practice of Long-Range Comparison: The Case of Nostratic

The talk will be given at the TV studio of Linguistics Department,
2148 McGill Hall, the hall being a concrete 5-floor structure 
where Linguistics and Psychology Depts. are located. It is adjacent 
to Applied Physics and Math building and can be reached by car from
I-5 via La Jolla Village drive and North Torrey Pines Rd
from which one has to turn to Scholars Drive at the 6-th traffic light.
(counting from the freeway exit)

Prof. Starostin will also give three talks at UCLA, including one
on Nostratic languages for an undergraduate class of prof. Vyacheslav
Ivanov on Wednesday at 11, one on Caucasian languages on Friday morning
and another on Hindoeuropean family on Friday evening. For more info, 
please call UCLA Slavic Dept. (310) 825-2676

This events are free and public is welcome.