Uddrag fra Program, [Oslo1957] 045-0400

The program has been subject to only minor changes since our first letter. As of today, it is as follows. General time table; 9.15a.m. - 10.00 a.m. : Individual communications, 10.15 a.m. - 1.00 p'.m. : Plenary session"; 3.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. : Sections. Sunday August 4: Informal get-together. Monday August 5: 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. : Opening session. 11.00 ^.,m. -1.00 p.m. : What can typological studies contribute to? historical comparative linguistics? (Rapporteur: Roman Jakobson, Harvard.) 3.00 p.m.-'- 5.30 p.m, : The Indo-European laryngeal theory. (Rapporteur: ) Pri ciples of unilingual dictionary definitions, (Rapporteurs: T ygve Knudsen and Alf Sommerfelt, Oslo.) Mathematical linguistics. (Rapporteur: Joshua Whatmough, Harvard,) Tuesday August 6: 9.15 a.m. - 10.00 a.m. : Individual communications. 10,15_ a.m. - 1.00 p.m. : The importance of distribution versus other.criteria in linguistic analysis. (Rapporteurs: Paul Diderichsen, Copenhagen, and, as regards the statistical, code, and information theory aspects, H. Spang-Hanssen, Copenhagen,) 3.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. : New- discoveries in Indo-European studies: Hittite (Rapporteur: Jerzy Kurylbwicz', Cracow), Mycenean Greek (Rapporteurs: J* Chadwick, Cambridge, amd J. Arne G. Furumark, Uppsala), Tocharian (Rapporteur: George Sherman Lane, University of North Carolina,* pro,tern. Oslo).