ALT News No. 21
Johan van der Auwera
auwera at uia.ua.ac.be
Wed Jan 20 13:16:31 UTC 1999
ALT News No. 21
January 1999
Contents:
1. ALT III, Reminder and Update
2. The Third Symposium on Malay / Indonesian Linguistics
3. Linguistic Typology
4. Recently Published
1. ALT III, Reminder and Update
1.1. Call for papers:
The third meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT
III) will be held at the University of Amsterdam, from August 26
to August 29, 1999. The local organizer for ALT III will be Dr.
Casper de Groot.
Members and non-members wishing to present a paper at ALT III are
asked to send SIX copies of a one-page abstract to the chair of
the program committee, Prof. Scott DeLancey (address below), to
reach him no later than March 1, 1999. A second page (six copies)
may be attached to the abstract listing data. The program
committee will, by May 1, 1999, convey its decision on acceptance
of papers to those submitting abstracts. The committee will
consist of Casper de Groot, Scott DeLancey (chairman), Zlatka
Guentcheva, Martin Haspelmath, Johanna Nichols, and Masayoshi
Shibatani.
Each abstract should include the author's name (or authors'
names) and mailing address (please, just one mailing address for
multiple authors), including telephone, fax, and e-mail address
as available. Each abstract should specify the amount of time
requested for the presentation, including discussion, which may
be 30, 45, or 60 minutes. Members may also submit abstracts for
symposia, including the names of participants and the amount of
time requested (which may, of course, exceed 60 minutes).
Address for mailing abstracts:
Professor Scott DeLancey
Department of Linguistics
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1290
USA
Further details of the meeting will appear in subsequent issues
of ALT News. We look forward to seeing you all in Amsterdam next
August.
1.2. Accommodation
Accommodation will be taken care by Carlson Wagonlit Travel (see
information below). Anybody desiring alternatives (i.e. cheaper)
accommodation should contact
Dr. Casper de Groot
Leerstoelgroep Theoretische Taalwetenschap
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
Spuistraat 210
NL-1012 VT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
voice: +31-20-525.2578
fax: +31-20-525.3052
email casper.de.groot at hum.uva.nl
HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM
______________________________________________________________
Please complete and return this form before June 15, 1999 to:
Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Dam 19 Phone: +31 20 6241361
NL 1012 JS Amsterdam Fax: +31 20 6235107
The Netherlands Email: agm at keytours.nl
or abl at keytours.nl
Family name : First name:
Address :
Postal code : Fax :
City : Email:
Country :
______________________________________________________________
Please reserve on my behalf for _____ nights
_____ single room(s) _____ double room(s)
date of arrival: ______ date of departure _____
at category: A B C D
(please encircle your choice)
Hotel category singles: doubles:
A 280,--/320,-- 300,--/350,--
B 220,--/280,-- 250,--/300,--
C 170,--/220,-- 210,--/250,--
D 125,--/170,-- 175,--/210,--
The stated prices are in Dutch Guilders (DFL), per room,
per day, including breakfast and tourist tax.
All rooms have private facilities.
______________________________________________________________
DEPOSIT
A deposit of DFL 300,-- per room is required and has to be
remitted in advance. After the receipt of this amount, the hotel
reservation will be confirmed and a hotel deposit voucher will
be sent, less DFL 30,-- for reservation- and bank charges. The
value of the voucher will be deducted from the total of your
hotel bill. For written cancellations received before August 18,
1999,
refunds will be made less DFL 50,-- administration charges.
PAYMENT
-) I authorise withdrawal of DFL 300,-- from my credit card:
master / euro / visa / american express
number:____________ (please encircle your choice)
Expiry date:_______
-) Remitted by enclosed cheque, payable to Carlson Wagonlit
Travel
-) Remitted to Carlson Wagonlit Travel, account number
41.11.55.210 with ABN-AMRO Amsterdam, indicating ALT III.
Date: Signature:
_________________ _________________
1.3. The Workshop on Creoles and Typology
August 26, 1999 (ALT III)
Organizers: Jacques Arends & Casper de Groot (University of
Amsterdam)
On the 26th of August 1999, the first day of the Third Conference
of the Association for Linguistic Typology (University of
Amsterdam, August 27-29, 1999), there will be a workshop on the
theme of Creoles and Typology. The aim of the workshop is to
present research on Creoles to an audience of typologists, in
order to stimulate an exchange of data and ideas with a view of
learning from each others' expertise. Apart from four invited
talks (two on Creoles, two on typology), there is room for eight
papers on Creoles, addressing one of the two themes of the
workshop (see below). Length of the papers is 20 minutes (plus
10 minutes discussion); descriptive papers are also welcome.
Anyone wishing to present a paper at this workshop is invited to
send an abstract (max 400 words) before March 1, 1999 to the
address given below. Those sending their abstract by email should
include it as part of their message (i.e. not append it as an
attachment).
Themes of the workshop:
(1) Internal structure of adpositions and adpositional phrases
(invited speakers: Christian Lehmann, Adrienne Bruyn)
(2) Structure and development of Tense, Mood, Aspect
(invited speakers: Östen Dahl, Donald Winford)
Send your abstract to:
Jacques Arends
Theoretical Linguistics
University of Amsterdam
Spuistraat 210
NL-1012 VT Amsterdam NL
The Netherlands
email: j.arends at hum.uva.nl
fax: (31) 20 525 3021
Deadline: March 1, 1999
1.4. Junior Award 1999
The Association for Linguistic Typology proposes to make a Junior
Award for the best piece of typological research embodied in a
dissertation or thesis or equivalent submitted between 1 January
1997 and 31 December 1998 for an MA or PhD or equivalent degree.
The award will consist of payment of travel and per diem expenses
and registration fee to attend ALT-3, to be held in Amsterdam at
the end of August 1999, and presentation of the awardee's work
as a plenary lecture at that meeting.
Those wishing to be considered for this award are asked to submit
FIVE copies of their thesis or dissertation to the President of
ALT at the address given below, to arrive no later than Monday,
1 March 1999. Work submitted will not be returned. Applicants who
encounter financial difficulties in preparing and mailing five
copies of their thesis, etc., may contact the President of ALT
for a subvention. If their application is approved, they will be
asked to mail one copy of their thesis, etc., and ALT will cover
the costs of preparing the other copies.
Work submitted will be evaluated by a jury consisting of the
following:
Matthew Dryer
Gilbert Lazard
Edith Moravcsik
Frans Plank
Masayoshi Shibatani
The jury may seek expert advice from other scholars, e.g. if a
piece of work is written in a language that members of the jury
cannot read.
Please address all queries, and send work for submission, to the
ALT President.
2. The Third Symposium on Malay / Indonesian Linguistics
24-25 August 1999
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(right before the ALT meeting)
Short Reminder:
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 addresses below.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 May 1999
Early submission of abstracts is encouraged.
For additional information, including the full text of the
call for abstracts, plus occasional updates,
visit the symposium web page:
http://www.ling.udel.edu/pcole/MalayIndonesian3/index.htm
David Gil
Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
Telephone: 44-341-9952310
Fax: 44-341-9952119
Email: gil at eva.mpg.de
3. Linguistic Typology
On the occasion of the second volume of LT out, the editors would, first
of all, like to thank those whose submissions over the past years gave
them something to edit and kept a fledgling journal in business when it
could easily have been nipped in the bud. The editors take the blame
for the difference between what LT was and what it could have been,
under the circumstances.
The full picture of what LT could have been could only be gleaned from
its archives. Since for obvious reasons they cannot yet be opened to
the general public, here are some bare figures that at least reveal the
proportions of editorial interference, for better or worse.
1995 96 97 98 total
ARTICLES SUBMITTED 13 10 16 24 63
ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION 4 5 6 6 21
(not necessarily the same year,
and there is some revising
going on right now)
Perhaps even more telling than the moderately fierce rejection
rate--overall precisely two thirds, tendency rising with the rising
number of submissions--is a breakdown by verdicts, of which there are
essentially three.
1995 96 97 98* total
REJECT 6 3 4 5 18
REVISE & RESUBMIT 5 4 8 11 28
ACCEPT (normally after 2 3 4 5 14
revisions)
*Some of the 1998 submissions are still under review.
That is, the most common decision by the editorial board was the
didactic one that papers be revised and resubmitted. More than half of
such submissions have not (so far) been resubmitted (at least not to
LT); of those eventually resubmitted, the majority got accepted the
second or third time round.
Typologists are mobile (upwardly, one hopes) and, like languages, not
always easy to pin down to a country. Still, to go by correspondence
addresses, this is where submissions to LT came from, with multiply
authored papers from multiple countries counted multiply:
SUBMITTED ACCEPTED
as of 31 Dec 98)
US 16 6
Germany 9 4
Great Britain 6 4
Russia 6 2
Australia 5 1
Netherlands 4 2
Spain 3 0
Austria 2 0
France 2 1
India 2 0
Italy 2 1
Singapore 2 0
Switzerland 2 1
Belgium 1 1
Canada 1 1
Denmark 1 0
Estonia 1 0
Japan 1 0
Sweden 1 1
Lots of, inter alia, Australians, Austrians, and Dutchpersons are still
busy revising, and, since (as reported above) resubmissions are accepted
with significantly more than chance frequency, they will no doubt ere
long dramatically increase the hit rates of their countries, emulating
the likes of Sweden, Canada, and Belgium, who almost got more papers
accepted than were submitted.
On a melancholy note, on only the evidence of the ALT membership
directory, there are far more individuals and also a few more countries
where submissions to LT could have come from. The editors are bracing
themselves for the inflow steeply rising, as the awareness grows that LT
is in the market for quality products.
For yet a further set of telling figures here is a rough breakdown of
papers submitted and accepted by subject matter.
syntax and lexicon and phonology methodology
morphology semantics and phonetics etc.
SUBMITTED 48 9 5 4
ACCEPTED 16 3 2 1
percentage
of accepted 33.3% 33.3% 40.0% 25.0%
Some submissions counted for more than one category, in true systemic
spirit. Three were shared by syntax/morphology and phonology/phonetics,
and of these only one got accepted. Thus, of the two pure
phonology/phonetics submissions, as many as one (50.0%) made it--which
clearly points intending future contributors to that structural domain
where typology shows (statistically significant) unrivalled promise.
As to editorial procedure, when a paper is submitted to LT, one of its
editors takes responsibility for the reviewing, which includes asking at
least one outside reviewer for a recommendation and preparing a report
her/himself. On this basis, and sometimes with other editors also
involved in the reviewing, the editorial board takes its decision, on
average some three months after submission. A further potentially
instructive figure is that in only some 17% of all submissions was there
disagreement among the recommendations of the reviewers, requiring
another editor to arbitrate. Whether so much consensus gives cause for
contentment or concern, the editors of LT would like to extend profuse
unanimous thanks to the outside reviewers who over the last four years
agreed or rarely disagreed with them and among each other, but in either
case gave authors and editors the benefit of their constructive and
often prompt critical judgment--namely:
Jan Anward
Peter Bakker
Pier Marco Bertinetto
Jürgen Broschart
Wallace Chafe
Bernard Comrie
Greville Corbett
Bill Croft
Videa P. DeGuzman
Scott DeLancey
Alan Dench
R. M. W. Dixon
Pamela Downing
Matthew Dryer
Ad Foolen
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
David Gil
Colette Grinevald
Ferdinand de Haan
John Hajek
Martin Haspelmath
Kees Hengeveld
Kaoru Horie
Jim Hurford
Alana Johns
Francis Katamba
Paul Kay
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Aditi Lahiri
Christian Lehmann
Jim McCawley
William McGregor
Brigitte Nerlich
Maria Polinsky
Vladimir Plungian
Jan Rijkhoff
Malcolm Ross
Hans-Jürgen Sasse
Hansjakob Seiler
Pieter Seuren
Norval Smith
Jae Jung Song
Andrew Spencer
Sandy Thompson
Graham Thurgood
John Verhaar
To turn to the other major category of what gets published in LT (and in
this journal it is emphatically not minor), book reviews or review
articles are commissioned by the editors, and upon submission they are
vetted by (at least) the commissioning editor. Although this is a
touchy issue, occasionally revisions have been suggested in the interest
of accuracy and fairness of reviewing.
So much for the input to the journal. As to what is gotten out of it,
it would be interesting to know how visible LT is, how widely it is read
even beyond the by now pretty substantial (410+) membership of ALT, and
how much it is quoted (or put to good use without quotation). We expect
that some such figures will become available from our publishers
shortly. Lest these turn out too discouraging, any assistance is
appreciated in furthering the world at large's (including university
libraries') awareness of LT.
This editorial report should not end without a plea for suggestions of
all kinds from the readership apt to narrow the gap between what LT is
and what it could be. Perhaps even better, submit good papers, and
trust that they will get accepted, after revisions.
The Editors
4. Recently Published
... and awaiting to be reviewed in LT
Alexiadou, Artemis & Chris Wilder (eds.) (1998). Possessors,
Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase. (Linguistik
Aktuell, 22.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Alieva, Natal'ja F. (1998). Tipologiceskie aspekty indonezijskoj
grammatiki: Analitizm i sintetizm, posessivnost'. Moskva: Fond
"Novoe tysjaceletie".
Bertinetto, Pier Marco (1997). Il dominio tempo-aspettuale:
Demarcazioni,intersezioni, contrasti. Torino: Rosenberg &
Sellier.
Darnell, Michael et al. (eds.) (1998). Functionalism and
Formalism in Linguistics. (Studies in Language Companion Series,
41.) 2 volumes. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Fabri, Ray, Albert Ortmann, & Teresa Parodi (eds.) (1998). Models
of Inflection. (Linguistische Arbeiten, 388.) Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Faltz, Leonard M. (1998). The Navajo Verb: A Grammar for Students
and Scholars. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Giacalone Ramat, Anna & Paul J. Hopper (eds.) (1998). The Limits
of Grammaticalization. (Typological Studies in Language, 37.)
Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Giacalone, Anna & Paolo Ramat (eds.) (1997). The Indo-European
Languages. (Routledge Language Family Descriptions.) London:
Routledge.
Hacking, Jane L. (1998). Coding the Hypothetical: A Comparative
Typology of Russian and Macedonian Conditionals. (Studies in
Language Companion Series, 38.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Hajek, John (1997) Universals of Sound Change in Nasalization.
Oxford: Blackwell.
Heath, Jeffrey (1998). A Grammar of Koyra Chiini: The Songhay
of Timbuktu. (MGL, 19.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Heeschen, Volker (1998). An Ethnographic Grammar of the Eipo
Language Spoken in the Central Mountains of Irian Jaya (West New
Guinea), Indonesia. Berlin: Diedrich Reimer.
Hetzron, Robert (ed.) (1998). The Semitic Languages. (Routledge
Language Family Descriptions.) London: Routledge.
Hewson, John & Vit Bubenik (1997). Tense and Aspect in
Indo-European Languages: Theory, Typology, Diachrony. (Current
Issues in Linguistic Theory, 145.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Hirst, Daniel & Albert Di Cristo (eds.) (1998). Intonation
Systems: A Survey of Twenty Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Hsu, Kylie (1998). A Discourse Analysis of Temporal Markers in
Written and Spoken Mandarin: The Interaction of Semantics, Syntax
and Pragmatics. New York: Edwin Mellen.
Johanson, Lars et al. (eds.) (1998). The Mainz Meeting:
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Turkish
Linguistics. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Johanson, Lars, & Éva gnes Csató (eds.) (1998). The Turkic
Languages. (Routledge Language Family Descriptions.) London:
Routledge.
Khokhlova, L. V. & Atul Sawani (eds.) (1998). Proceedings of the
International Conference on South Asian Languages (July 1-4,
1997). Moskva: Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow
State University.
Klamer, Marian (1998). A Grammar of Kambera. (MGL, 18.) Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter.
Lazard, Gilbert (1998). Actancy. (EALT, 19.) Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter.
Lindvall, Ann (1998). Transitivity in Discourse: A Comparison of
Greek, Polish and Swedish. (Travaux de l'Institut de Linguistique
de Lund, 37.) Lund: Lund University Press.
Olbertz, Hella, Kees Hengeveld, & Jesús Sánchez García (eds.)
(1998). The Structure of the Lexicon in Functional Grammar.
(Studies in Language Companion Series, 43.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Reh, Mechthild (1996). Anywa Language: Description and Internal
Reconstructions. (Nilo-Saharan, 11.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
Rousseau, André (ed.) (1998). La transitivité. (Collection UL3.)
Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
Schulze, Wolfgang (1997). Tsakhur. (Languages of the
World/Materials, 133.) München: LINCOM.
Schulze, Wolfgang (1998). Person, Klasse, Kongruenz: Fragmente
einer Kategorialtypologie des einfachen Satzes in den
ostkaukasischen Sprachen. Band 1: Die Grundlagen. München:
LINCOM.
Slobin, Dan Isaac (ed.) (1997). The Crosslinguistic Study of
Language Acquisition. Volume 5: Expanding the Contexts. Mahwah,
N.J.: Erlbaum.
Smith, Carlota S. (1997). The Parameter of Aspect. (Second
Edition.)(Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 43.) Dordrecht:
Kluwer.
Squartini, Mario (1998). Verbal Periphrases in Romance: Aspect,
Actionality, and Grammaticalization. (EALT, 21.) Berlin: Mouton
de Gruyter.
Stassen, Leon (1997). Intransitive Predication. (Oxford Studies
in Typology and Linguistic Theory.) Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Tuite, Kevin (1998). Kartvelian Morphosyntax: Number Agreement
and Morphosyntactic Orientation in the South Caucasian Languages.
(LINCOM Studies in Caucasian Linguistics, 12.) München: LINCOM
Europa.
Van der Auwera, Johan (ed.) (1998). Adverbial Constructions in
the Languages of Europe. (Empirical Approaches to Language
Typology, EUROTYP,20-4.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Van Langendonck, Willy & William van Belle (eds.) (1998). The
Dative, vol. 2: Theoretical and Contrastive Studies. (Case and
Grammatical Relations across Languages, 3.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Wegener, Heide (ed.) (1998). Deutsch kontrastiv: Typologisch
vergleichende Untersuchungen zur deutschen Grammatik. (Studien
zur deutschen Grammatik, 59.) Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Wegmüller, Ursula (1998). Sentence Structure and Ergativity in
Tagalog. (Arbeitspapiere, 36.) Bern: Universität Bern, Institut
für Sprachwissenschaft.
***PS: Send relevant further references, of your own recent
books and others, to frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de. Items
inadvertentl y omitted this time will be included in the next
listing.***
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Bernard Comrie [President]
Director, Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Inselstrasse 22 tel +49 341 99 52 301
D-04103 Leipzig tel secretary +49 341 99 52 300
Germany fax +49 341 99 52 119
E-mail: comrie at eva.mpg.de
Secretary's e-mail (Ms. Julia Cissewski): cissewsk at eva.mpg.de
Frans Plank [Editor-in-chief, Linguistic Typology]
Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Konstanz
D-78457 Konstanz tel + 49 7531 88 26 56
Germany fax + 49 7531 88 27 41
E-mail: frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de
Johan van der Auwera [Secretary-Treasurer]
Linguistiek (GER)
Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA)
B-2610 Antwerpen tel + 32 3 820 27 76
Belgium fax + 32 3 820 27 62
E-mail: auwera at uia.ua.ac.be
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