ALT News No. 19
Johan.VanDerAuwera
auwera at uia.ua.ac.be
Wed Dec 3 07:47:32 UTC 1997
ALT News No. 19
November 1997
Contents:
1. ALT-II
2. ALT-II - Business Meeting
3. Ballot on Charter, Statutes and Interim Arrangements
4. The Membership Fee
5. LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
6. Typology Syllabi
7. The Grammar Bibliography and Review
8. Recently Published
9. Symposium on Malay / Indonesian linguistics
10. Coming Conferences
11. Request for Proposals, Endangered Lg. Fund
1. ALT-II
ALT-II, with some sixty papers and some hundred attendants, its
Workshop on Native Languages of Oregon and another on Parts of
Speech, took place at the University of Oregon, Eugene, from 11
to 14 September, 1997. The Association would like to thank our
hosts for the conference, the University of Oregon and especially
the Department of Linguistics; the local organizers for the
conference, especially Scott DeLancey; the ALT-II Program
Committee, especially Matt Shibatani, who chaired the committee;
and Michael Cysouw, who graciously took minutes at the Business
Meeting. Quite apart from the scientific interest, we learned
much from ALT-II that will enable us to make ALT-III even more
successful. In particular, we will ensure that a booklet of
abstracts will be made available to registered participants.
Those wishing to receive abstracts for ALT-II are asked to
contact the authors of individual papers.
2. ALT-II- Business meeting, Friday September 12
Minutes by Michael Cysouw
a. Opening
Comrie welcomes everybody to the business meeting.
b. Membership report
There are three different figures on the number of members at the
moment. One is from the membership list kept by van der Auwera,
one is from the list kept by Peter Kahrel on the net, and the
last derives from the list kept by Mouton and is based on the
payment of the membership fee. The first two are near-identical.
A: Figure from the van der Auwera and Kahrel lists:
"Members" that should be in good standing (Sept 8,
1997): 355
B: Figure based on the Mouton list:
Members in good standing (August 13, 1997):
Regular: 179 (EUR 131, USA 25, AUS 7, JAP 7, ...)
Student: 14 (EUR 8, ...)
Associate: 40 (Moscow 40, ...)
Total: 233
The difference between A and B has a double explanation: (i) the
time lapse between August 13 and September 8, (ii) some amount
of confusion as to how and how much is to be paid, with the
possibility of some 'members' dropping out.
Some other figures:
Snailmail members (Sept 8, 1997): 61
Linguists receiving the News by e-mail (August 19,
1997) (= members + potential members) : 380
c. Finances
Report given by van der Auwera
(BEF = Belgian Francs, DM = estimated amount of German Marks to
be transferred by Mouton at the end of 1997)
IN OUT TOTALS
BEF BEF BEF US$ DM
1995
Sept 15 1995 - see News 9 56.465 541
News - xeroxing + mailing 7.251 49.214
Membership fees 1995 4.968 54.182
Interest 1995 1.055 55.237
1996
News - xeroxing + mailing 1.000 54.237
Transfer $ + Memb. fees 1996 54.141 108.378 0
Interest 1996 2.530 110.908
1997
Membership fees 1.800 112.708 2.815
News - xeroxing + mailing 10.402 102.306
ALT-II - xeroxing + mailing 3.906 98.400
Totals in US $ ca.2.624 ca.1.633
d. Journal
Plank reports that
- up to now 30% of the submitted papers have been accepted.
Papers are most of the time not accepted because they are not
relevant to the aim of the journal.
- library subscriptions are not numerous. This could become a
problem as it will raise the prices for the regular subscribers
in the long run.
- the stylesheet does not have to be followed when the paper is
submitted, only at the stage where it is to be sent to the
printer.
e. ALT-news
The ALT-news will continue to be distributed mainly by e-mail.
ALT will initiate an e-mail list on Linguistic Typology.
f. Website
The Website is managed by Peter Kahrel, functions very
satisfactorily and is frequently visited.
g. Statutes
Comrie reports that the final version of the statutes is ready
and is submitted to the membership for approval. The polls will
remain open until October 26 1997. Statutes are important for the
Association's acquiring legal status. Probably the association
will be based legally in Europe.
h. Publicity
Edith Moravcsik reports that there are leaflets about ALT, kindly
designed and printed for ALT by Mouton, to be distributed to
students and colleagues, in professional correspondence and to
be distributed at conferences.
i. Funding
Comrie will initiate a database consisting of organizations that
fund typology and/or fieldwork on endangered languages.
Everybody that has recieved funding is asked to submit the
relevant information.
j. ALT-III
There is a clear offer from Amsterdam to organise ALT-III in
1999. Moskow, Pavia and Lancaster have also shown an interest.
The Executive Commitee will investigate this matter and make a
decision.
It is difficult to find an ideal time for the conference, because
of holidays and teaching schedules. Another issue is whether the
conference should be annual or biennial. Some comments from the
members:
- It should not be annual, because not many people will be able
to attend annually. However, there were enough submissions this
year to make an annual conference feasible.
- There is a kind of overlap problem with the ICHL (International
Conference on Historical Linguistics) and ICCL (International
Conference on Cognitive Linguistics), which follow the
same pattern as ALT. Maybe ALT should shift to the other
year-cycle because of funding problems: a lot of people can't get
funding for more than one conference. However, if ALT continues
to be held in early September some people can use budgets from
the new academic year.
- The word 'international' should be used in the name of the
conference to make it easier to get funding.
- It is a good idea to try to plan the ALT conference adjacent
to other conferences, for instance conferences dealing with
specific language families.
- Large airports near the venue would reduce the time problem.
k. Regional meetings
David Gil reports on a regional meeting on Malay-Indonesian
Linguistics held in Penang. There were 18 papers presented, and
the initiative was a success. Next year there will be a
second meeting.
Comrie explains that there is no official connection between ALT
and regional meetings, and that no money will be available from
ALT for the organization. Regional meetings can profit from the
reputation and publicity channels of ALT. ALT on the other hand
is promoted through regional meetings.
l. Prizes
Plank comments that prizes, as established in the charter of the
association, will be on the basis of merit only. At this moment
only the junior prize will be rewarded for dissertations. Works
should be sent to the association, following guidelines to be set
up.
Probably the prize will be an invitation to give an invited talk
at the ALT conference (and a travel subsidy). No other kinds of
invited lectures are envisaged at future ALT conferences.
Comments from the members:
- there should be some criteria. The criteria for publication in
LT could be used, or maybe descriptive work should also be
rewarded.
- One could consider making the reward consist of a fixed amount
of money. This money could also be used to help people from 'soft
currency' countries.
m. Any other business
- Walter Bisang presents the programm of the DGfS Summerschool
on Language Typology to be held in Mainz, Germany (August 31
-September 11 1998) (DGfS= German Linguistics Association)
- Walter Bisang presents a new monograph series on Asian
Linguistics (Curzon Press)
- Matt Shibatani reports on the selection of papers for the
conference. Due to the large amount of high quality papers some
of the guidelines for ALT conferences had to be disregarded. The
program committee decided to introduce a few parallel sessions,
and to limit all talks to 30 minutes. One of the reasons for
accepting so many of the papers was that ALT is a young
association and people have to be encouraged to come to the
conference. Some comments from the members:
- The idea to hold poster sessions should be considered.
- Double readings by the same person should be reduced.
- There should be a collection of abstracts next time.
- Abstracts could also be published on the Web.
- There is a comment that at this moment no typology is taught
in Canada at all. Maybe it would be a good idea to make a list
of syllabi on typology in different universities. The Executive
Committee promised to initiate such a list.
3. Ballot on Charter, Statutes and Interim Arrangements
126 ballots reached the secretary by October 26, 125 positive and
one negative. The Executive Committee thereby considers the
Charter, Statutes and Interim Arrangements accepted. Four of the
125 that approved nevertheless formulated suggestions for
improvements. These suggestions as well as the remarks of the one
member that disapproved will be discussed in due course in the
Executive Committee and possibly offered as amendments at the
1999 vote.
4. The Membership Fee
If you are a new member, you will receive an invoice. The
universally easiest (?and cheapest) way to pay is to use a credit
card. Write down the credit card details (type, number, and
expiry date) on the invoice, sign it and send the invoice back
to Mouton (alias Walter de Gruyter). The invoice can also be paid
by cheque or the sum can be transferred to a bank account at the
Postbank in Berlin or at the Berliner Bank. The account numbers
are printed at the bottom of the invoice. You can also send
Mouton a Eurocheque.
You will be sent the invoice even if you have signed and filled
in the credit card details on the Membership Form printed by
Mouton. In this case, however, the invoice is for your personal
use and information, as well as for Mouton's bookkeeping. In any
case, you do not have to send it back.
If you have been sent a reminder, you can - again - pay by credit
card by writing down the credit card details (type, number and
expiration date) on the reminder, sign it and send it back to
Mouton, or send a check. The reminders Mouton standardly sends
out do not have the name of the publication unpaid for. So you
may not have identified your reminder as one for ALT. It is
Mouton's hope that the invoice number, the invoice date and the
amount unpaid allow everyone to deduce what the reminders are
for.
5. LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
The issue that completes LT's first volume is on its way to you.
LT 2-1 is to follow in February. Here is a preview of the
contents:
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LT 1 - 3 (1997)
ARTICLES
Aleksandr E. Kibrik
Beyond subjects and objects: Towards a comprehensive relational
typology
Mark Donohue
Tone systems in New Guinea
REVIEWS
Jan Rijkhoff
Linguistic typology, edited by Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm
Yaron Matras
A Handbook of Vlax Romani, by Ian Hancock
Yaron Matras
Das Romanes: Grammatik und Diskursanalyse der Sprache der Sinte,
by Daniel
Holzinger
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LT 2 - 1 (1998)
ARTICLES
Anna Siewierska
On nominal and verbal person marking
Peter Cole and Gabriella Hermon
Long distance reflexives in Singapore Malay: An apparent
typological anomaly
Johan van der Auwera and Vladimir A. Plungian
Modality's semantic map
BOOK REVIEWS
Ferdinand de Haan
Modality in Grammar and Discourse, edited by Joan Bybee and
Suzanne Fleischman
Martin Haspelmath
Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, by Alice C.
Harris and
Lyle Campbell
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To look back statistically on LT's brief history, since the
spring of 1995, 35 papers were submitted to LT, of which 11 have
been accepted for publication, mostly after revisions; 4 are
still in the process of reviewing. Submissions are evaluated in
terms of (i) their quality and (ii) their suitability for a
journal as specialized as LT; this is being done by at least one
Editor and at least one outside Referee (and/or sometimes another
Editor), and it takes 2-3 months on average. Referees for LT
know who they are refereeing, but not vice versa (unless a
referee wants to get in touch with an author for continued
discussion).
The Editorial Board of LT would like to thank the following
outside referees for their thorough and (normally) prompt
assistance:
Jan Anward
Wallace Chafe
Bernard Comrie
Greville Corbett
Scott DeLancey
Alan Dench
R.M.W. Dixon
Pamela Downing
Ad Foolen
David Gil
Ferdinand de Haan
Martin Haspelmath
Kees Hengeveld
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
James McCawley
Malcolm Ross
Hansjakob Seiler
Pieter Seuren
Jae Jung Song
Andrew Spencer
Sandra Thompson
Graham Thurgood
Typology takes time, and the Editorial Board of LT certainly does
not advise rushing into print prematurely. (LT isn't a conveyor
of perishables.) Nonetheless, now that the journal is firmly on
the market, the editors and prospective referees look forward to
the rate of submissions increasing and to the competition for LT
space intensifying even further. It's high time to put the
finishing touches to your ALT 1 or 2 papers, or whatever else you
wanted out of the way before the turn of the year (and, soon,
millennium)--like your contribution to the debates of how words
fall into classes (remember LT 1-2 (1997) 167-192?) or of how
sounds, words, and sentences fall into joint patterns (coming
soon, perhaps), your demonstration that one or the other
published implication is not quite universal, or your typological
profile or family portrait of your favourite language(s).
Reviewers will find something to suit their tastes (or otherwise)
in the regular listing of recent publications in the ALT News;
contact the Editor-in-Chief if you'd like to get a review copy,
or also if a relevant title has inadvertently remained unlisted.
And see below on a new feature of LT, The Grammar Review.
When you get published in LT, your work is destined to reach a
comparatively wide audience, comprising the entire ALT
membership, which is not a quantite negligeable by any standards.
Also, the library subscriptions of LT are rising (as of last
week, even the Universitaetsbibliothek Konstanz is now
subscribing )--though all of us should intensify their efforts
to get LT to libraries where it is still lacking. Moderately
priced though library subscriptions are, they are vital to keep
the price of individual subscriptions as low as it is now.
The Editorial Board welcomes comments and suggestions on all LT
matters.
Note LT's new, old editorial address:
Frans Plank
Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Konstanz
D-78457 Konstanz
Germany
E-mail: frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de
Tel: +49-(0)7531-88 2656, 88 2465, home +49-(0)7531-57450
Fax: +49-(0)7531-88 4190
6. Typology Syllabi
At ALT-II, it was agreed that the Association should maintain a
data-bank of syllabi of typology courses. The data-bank is now
up and operating, thanks to Peter Kahrel.
Please consult the data-bank via the home page of ALT:
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/alt. And please submit the syllabus
of your own current/most recent typology course(s). The following
instructions can also be found on the ALT home
page.(Incidentally, work will now begin on the data-bank of
funding possibilities for typological research.)
All who have taught typology courses are encouraged to post their
syllabi. Please send an electronic copy of your syllabus,
preferably using only standard ASCII characters, by e-mail to
both Bernard Comrie (comrie at bcf.usc.edu) and Peter Kahrel
(p.kahrel at lancaster.ac.uk). Please include a heading that gives
1.your name and e-mail address, with the same information for
others who have cooperated substantially in devising or teaching
the course,
2.the institution at which the course is taught,
3.the level of the course (e.g. advanced undergraduate, beginning
graduate), and
4.the number of hours of the course.
You may, of course, omit information that is unlikely to be of
interest to other readers (e.g. USC now requires instructors to
include the date on which teaching evaluations will be
conducted). Please address any questions to Bernard Comrie
(comrie at bcf.usc.edu).
7. The Grammar Bibliography and Review
One of the new initiatives stemming from ALT-II is the plan to
build up a (preferably annotated) data base on grammatical
descriptions of languages from all over the world. Obviously,
this is a "mer a boire" if there ever was one, so let's start
modestly.
The most urgent and useful information concerns newly appearing
grammars or grammatical sketches; at a later stage, we can
gradually integrate existing bibliographies and card files.
Therefore, we call on all ALT-members to inform us of grammatical
descriptions (including more or less unpublished ones, such as
Ph.D. dissertations) they have seen or heard of, from, say, 1996
onwards (but let's not be too dogmatic about this). Furthermore,
we welcome all information on existing bibliographies, especially
if this information can easily be made available in electronic
form. We will regularly include a list of new grammars in future
ALT News, and document any other progress in what should
ultimately result in the ALT Good Grammar Guide (see ALT News
Nos. 6 and 11, May 1995 and March 1996).
In LT we intend to introduce a new section, The Grammar Review,
carrying book notices of new grammars, highlighting the
typological significance of the language concerned. Again, we
call on the ALT community to contribute such notices. Whenever
possible we try to provide review copies.
Send information on new grammars to Leon Stassen and book notices
to the Editor-in-Chief of LT.
Leon Stassen
Dept. of Linguistics (ATD), KU Nijmegen
Erasmusplein 1
6525 GG Nijmegen
The Netherlands
fax: +31-24-3615939
e-mail: l.stassen at let.kun.nl
8. Recently Published
Alexiadou, Artemis & T. Alan Hall (eds.) (1997). Studies on
Universal Grammar and Typological Variation. (Linguistik Aktuell,
13.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Bertinetto, Pier Marco (1997). Il dominio tempo-aspettuale:
Demarcazioni, intersezioni, contrasti. Torino: Rosenberg &
Sellier.
Bybee, Joan, John Haiman, & Sandra A. Thompson (eds.) (1997).
Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T.
Givsn. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Comrie, Bernard, Stephen Matthews, & Maria Polinsky (eds.)
(1997). The Atlas of Languages. Bloomsbury.
Erelt, Mati (ed.) (1996). Estonian: Typological Studies I. (Tartu
Uelikooli Eesti Keele Oeppetooli Toimetised, 4.) Tartu: Tartu
Uelikooli Kirjastuse troekikoda. (With contributions by Mati
Erelt, Matti Punttila, Birute Klaas, Kazuto Matsumura, Helle
Metslang, Renate Pajusalu, Helena Sulkala.)
Francis, Jacques (ed.) (1996). La seantique des relations
actancielles a travers les langues. (Scolia, 7.) Strasbourg:
Universite des Sciences Humaines. (With contributions by Jacques
Francois & Frangoise Cordier, Juergen Broschart, Bernard
Combettes, Zlatka Guentcheva, Christian Lehmann, Alain
Lemarechal, Annie Montaut, Waldfried Premper, Nicolas Tournadre,
Werner Drossard.)
Freidin, Robert (ed.) (1996). Current Issues in Comparative
Grammar. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Fuchs, Catherine & Stephane Robert (eds.) (1997). Diversite des
langues et representations cognitives. (L'homme dans la langue.)
Paris: Ophrys.
Givon, T. (ed.) (1997). Grammatical Relations: A Functionalist
Perspective. (Typological Studies in Language, 35.) Amsterdam:
Benjamins.
Hardin, C. L. & Luisa Maffi (eds.) (1997). Color Categories in
Thought and Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Pess.
Hewson, John & Vit Bubenik (1997). Tense and Aspect in
Indo-European Languages: Theory, Typology, Diachrony. (Current
Issues in Linguistic Theory, 145.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Lemarechal, Alain (1997). Zero(s). Paris: Presses Universitaires
de France.
McGregor, William B. (1997). Semiotic Grammar. Oxford: Clarendon
Press.
Manning, Christopher D. (1996). Ergativity: Argument Structure
and Grammatical Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker, & Hristo Kyuchukov (eds.) (1997).
The Typology and Dialectology of Romani. (Current Issues in
Linguistic Theory, 156.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Newman, John (1996). Give: A Cognitive Linguistic Study.
(Cognitive Linguistics Research, 7.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Newman, John (ed.) (1997). The Linguistics of Giving.
(Typological Studies in Language, 36.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Payne, Thomas A. (1997). Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide for
Field Linguists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Van Valin, Robert D. & Randy J. LaPolla (1997). Syntax:
Structure, Meaning and Function. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
6. Symposium on Malay / Indonesian Linguistics
INSTITUT KEGURUAN DAN ILMU PENDIDIKAN UJUNG PANDANG
THE ASSOCIATION FOR LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
Call for Abstracts:
The Second
SYMPOSIUM ON MALAY / INDONESIAN LINGUISTICS
11-12 July 1998
Ujung Pandang, Indonesia
***
Persons wishing to present a paper at the symposium are invited
to submit a one-page abstract, by regular mail, email, or fax,
to
David Gil, at any of the following addresses:
Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences,
Fakulti Sains Kesihatan Bersekutu,
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia,
Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz,
50300 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
email: dgil at strauss.udel.edu
tel/fax: 60-3-291-4230
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 April 1998
Early submission procedure:
Abstracts may be submitted right away, or at any time before the
15 April deadline. Persons submitting their abstracts early
will be notified immediately whether their paper has been
accepted for presentation at the symposium, and, in case of
acceptance, will immediately be sent an official letter of
invitation. (The early submission procedure is designed to make
it easier for some participants to apply for funding and leave.)
***
Papers to be presented at the symposium should be concerned with
the Malay / Indonesian language in all of its varieties. In
addition to the standardized versions of Bahasa Melayu and
Bahasa Indonesia, papers are particularly welcome dealing with
non-canonical varieties such as Peranakan Malay, Bazaar Malay,
and regional dialects of Malay and Indonesian. Papers may be in
any of the subfields of linguistics, and may represent variegated
approaches and diverse theoretical persuasions. Presentations at
the symposium will be delivered in English.
***
For further information, and occasional updates, visit the
symposium webpage:
http://www.udel.edu/pcole/malay_indon/symp2.html
***
Co-organizers:
Peter Cole,
University of Delaware
David Gil,
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia & University of Delaware
Uri Tadmor,
University of Hawaii
***
Additional Announcement:
The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics
Society is scheduled to take place on 20-22 July 1998 in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia. Persons wishing to attend both conferences
should note that there are scheduled direct flights between
Kuala Lumpur and Ujung Pandang, in addition to frequent
connections via Jakarta.
10. Coming conferences
At BLS 24, Feb 14-16 1998, there will be a parasession on
Phonetics and Phonological Universals. Addresses:
bls at socrates.berkeley.edu,
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/lingdept/research/BLS.html
The 1998 Spring Meeting of the Linguistics Association Of Great
Britain will be held from Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 April at
Lancaster University. There will be a Workshop entitled
'Formalism, Functionalism and Typology', organised by Bill Croft
(University of Manchester); other contributors are Anna
Siewierska (University of Lancaster) and Simon Kirby (University
of Edinburgh). There will also be a Language Tutorial on Quechua,
given by Pieter Muysken (University of Amsterdam). Further
particulars from:
Marjolein Groefsema
Dept. of Linguistics
University of Hertfordshire,
Watford Campus
Aldenham, Herts. WD2 8AT
UK
m.groefsema at herts.ac.uk
The 9th Caucasian Colloquium of the Societas Caucasologica
Europaea will be held at Makhachkala, Republic of Daghestan, June
15-19 1998. Further particulars from:
Magomed Magomedov
Gamzat Tsadassa Institute of Language, Literature and Art
RAS Daghestan Scientific Centre
ul. M. Yaragsky, 75
367030 Makhachkala
Republic of Daghestan
Russian Federation
The XXXIst Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
will take place at St. Andrews (Scotland), Aug 26-30 1998. The
conference theme is not particularly particular; further
particulars from Dr Christopher Beedham at cb1 at st-andrews.ac.uk
The Fourth International Conference on Romani Linguistics will
be held at Manchester on Sep 2-5 1998; conference theme: Romani
in the Context of General Linguistics; deadline for abstracts:
Feb 15 1998. Particulars from Yaron Matras at y.matras at man.ac.uk,
or: Romani Linguistics Conference
Dept of Linguistics
University of Manchester Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
England
11.Request for Proposals, Endangered Lg. Fund
The Endangered Language Fund, a US nonprofit corporation, invites
native communities and linguists to submit proposals for grants
to work with endangered languages. These grants are made
possible by the generosity of our members.
The instructions are self-contained, but if there are any further
questions, please write: elf at haskins.yale.edu.
Request for Proposals, Endangered Language Fund
The Endangered Language Fund provides grants for language
maintenance and linguistic field work. The work most likely to
be funded is that which serves the native community and the field
of linguistics immediately. Work which has immediate
applicability to one group and more distant application to the
other will also be considered. Publishing subventions are a low
priority, although they will be considered. The language
involved must be in danger of disappearing within a generation
or two. Endangerment is a continuum, and the location on the
continuum is one factor in our funding decisions. Eligible
expenses include travel, tapes, films, consultant fees, etc.
Grants are normally for one year periods, though extensions may
be applied for. We expect grants in this round to be less than
$2,000 in size.
HOW TO APPLY
There is no form, but the information requested below should be
printed (on one side only) and four copies sent to:
Endangered Language Fund, Inc.
Department of Linguistics
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520
Applications must be mailed in. No e-mail or fax applications
will be accepted.
If you have any questions, please write to the same address or
email to:
elf at haskins.yale.edu
REQUIRED INFORMATION:
Please provide the following information for the primary
researcher (and other researchers, if any): Name, address,
telephone numbers, email address (if any), Social Security number
(if U.S. citizen), place and date of birth, present position,
education, and native language. State previous experience and/or
publications that are relevant.
Beginning on a separate page, please provide a description of the
project. This should normally take less than two pages, single
spaced. Be detailed about the type of material that is to be
collected and/or produced, and the value it will have to the
native community (including relatives and descendants who do not
speak the language) and to linguistic science. Give a brief
description of the state of endangerment of the language in
question.
On a separate page, prepare an itemized budget that lists
expected costs for the project. Estimates are acceptable, but
they must be realistic. Please translate the amounts into US
dollars. List other sources of support you are currently
receiving or expect to receive and other applications that relate
to the current one.
Two letters of support are recommended, but not required. Note
that these letters must arrive on or before the deadline in order
to be considered. If more than two letters are sent, only the
first two received will be read.
LIMIT TO ONE PROPOSAL
A researcher can be primary investigator on only one proposal.
DEADLINE
Applications must be received by APRIL 20th, 1998. Decisions
will be delivered by the end of May, 1998.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPT
Receipt of application will be made by email if an email address
is given. Otherwise, the applicant must include a self-addressed
post-card in order to receive the acknowledgment.
IF A GRANT IS AWARDED
Before receiving any funds, university-based applicants must show
that they have met with their university's human subjects'
committee requirements. Tribal- or other-based applicants must
provide equivalent assurance that proper protocols are being
used.
If a grant is made and accepted, the recipient is required to
provide the Endangered Language Fund with a short formal report
of the project and to provide the Fund with copies of all
publications resulting from materials obtained with the
assistance of the grant.
-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-
Bernard Comrie [President]
Linguistics, GFS-301
University of Southern California
Los Angeles,
CA 90089-1693
USA
comrie at bcf.usc.edu
fax: +1-213-740-9306
Frans Plank [Editor-in-chief, Linguistic Typology]
Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Konstanz
D-78457 Konstanz
Germany
frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de
fax: +49-7531-88 2741
Johan van der Auwera [Secretary-Treasurer]
Linguistiek (GER)
Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA)
B-2610 Antwerpen
Belgium
auwera at uia.ua.ac.be
fax: +32-3-8202762
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