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<font face="Courier New,Courier">ALT News No. 31</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">November 2002</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font> <font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">1. Reminder: ALT V - Call for papers</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">2. Reminder: Summer School</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">3. Junior Award 2003</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">4. Recently Published</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font> <font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">1. Reminder: ALT V - Call for papers</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">The fifth International Conference
of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT V) will be held at the
Universita di Cagliari, Sardinia, from Monday September 15 to Thursday
September 18, 2003. The conference will follow the Summer School in Linguistic
Typology, also at the Universita di Cagliari, from Monday September 1 to
Friday September 12 2003. The local organizer for ALT V will be Ines Loi
Corvetto.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Members and non-members wishing to
present a paper at ALT V are asked to send six copies of a one-page abstract
to the chair of the program committee, Walter Bisang, to reach him no later
than January 1, 2003. A second page (six copies) may be attached to the
abstract listing data. The abstract itself should contain no identification
of the author. A separate sheet should be included which contains the title
of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one mailing address,
with telephone, fax, and e-mail address as available.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">The committee accepts submission via
fax or e-mail (with the abstract as part of the message rather than by
attachment), but abstracts may be sent by regular mail as well.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">The time allotted for presentation
and discussion is 30 minutes. Members may also submit abstracts for symposia,
including the names of participants and the amount of time requested. Participants
may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may
be single-authored. English is the preferred language at the conference.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Address for mailing ALT abstracts:</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Walter Bisang</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Institut fuer Allgemeine und Vergleichende
Sprachwissenschaft</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Jakob-Welder-Weg 18</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">D-55099 Mainz</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Germany</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Fax: +49-6131-392-3836</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">wbisang@mail.uni-mainz.de</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font> <font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">By February 15, 2003 the program committee
will convey its decision on acceptance of papers to those submitting abstracts.
The committee consists of Balthasar Bickel, Walter Bisang (chair) Oesten
Dahl, Aditi Lahiri, Vera Podlesskaya, and Lindsay Whaley.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Details concerning registration and
accommodation for the conference will follow. There will also be a dedicated
website.</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier"> </font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">2. Reminder: Typology Summer School</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">A two-week Typology Summer School under
the auspices of ALT will take place in Cagliari (capital of Sardinia, Italy),
1-12 September 2003. The local organizer is Ines Loi Corvetto (head of
the Department of Linguistics and Stylistics, University of Cagliari),
and the scientific coordinator is Martin Haspelmath (MPI for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig). In September 2001, a Program Committee was constituted,
consisting of Paolo Ramat, Edith Moravcsik, Walter Bisang, the local organizer
and the scientific coordinator, as well as two members appointed by two
co-sponsoring Italian linguistics associations, Pier Marco Bertinetto and
Pierluigi Cuzzolin. The summer school will be supported financially by
the European Science Foundation, so that participation fees can be kept
reasonably low. Affordable on-campus accommodation for students will be
available.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Details concerning registration and
accommodation for the conference will follow. There will also be a dedicated
website.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">The following courses will be taught:</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">General introductory courses</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">1. Morphosyntactic typology</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Bernard Comrie (MPI for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">2. Phonological typology</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Larry M. Hyman (UC Berkeley)</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Overview courses of particular language
groups</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">3. Italian dialects and typology</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Michele Loporcaro (U Zurich)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">4. Typology of the classical languages
(Ancient Greek and Latin)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Paolo Ramat (U Pavia) and PIERLUIGI
CUZZOLIN (U Bergamo)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">5. The languages of Native North America</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">6. The languages of Australia</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Nicholas Evans (U Melbourne)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">7. Creole languages and typology</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">John Mcwhorter (UC Berkeley)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">8. Languages of South-East Asia</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">David Gil (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig)</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Language acquisition</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">9. Language acquisition and semantic
typology</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Melissa Bowerman (MPI for Psycholinguistics,
Nijmegen)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">10. Morphological typology and language
acquisition</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Wolfgang U. Dressler (U Vienna)</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">More specialized/advanced courses</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">11. The Syntax/semantic Interface</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Claude Hagege (Collège de France,
Paris)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">12. Typology of agreement constructions</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Greville Corbett (U Surrey)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">13. Typology of Sign Languages</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Urike Zeshan (University of Cologne)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">14. Typology and generative syntax</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Frederick Newmeyer (U Washington)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">15. Noun phrase typology in areal
perspective</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Maria Koptjevskaja-tamm (U Stockholm)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">16. Typology and language change</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Martin Haspelmath (MPI for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig)</font>
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<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">3. Junior Award 2003</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">The Association for Linguistic Typology
proposes to make a Junior Award for the best piece of typological research
embodied in a doctoral dissertation or equivalent submitted between 1 January
2001 and 31 December 2002. The award will consist of payment of travel
and per diem expenses and registration fee to attend ALT V, to be held
in Cagliari, Sardinia, 15-18 September 2003, and to present a synopsis
or element of the prize-winning work as a plenary lecture at that meeting.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Those wishing to be considered for
this award are asked to submit FIVE copies of their dissertation to the
Chair of the Jury, to arrive no later than Monday, 3 February 2003. 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.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">A jury, consisting of 5 ALT members,
will be appointed by ALT's President in function of the work submitted.
The chairman will be</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Bill McGregor</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Department of Linguistics</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">University of Aarhus</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Bygning 465, Nobelparken</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">DK-8000 Aarhus C</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Denmark</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">linwmg@hum.au.dk</font>
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<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">4. Recently Published</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Here is our regular listing of recent
publications (or also a few about to forthcome) which wear their typological
credentials on their sleeves. Don’t be misled, though: there
are few books in linguistics (titles supplied on request) which do NOT
bear, in one way or another, on the question of diversity and unity —
which is what typology is about. For purposes of book reviewing in
LT, what matters is that REVIEWS are done from a distinctively typological
angle. Reviewers so intentioned, whatever they’d like to take on,
please get in touch with me (frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de), and we’ll
obtain a review copy for you.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Thanks, everybody, for keeping Book
Reviews going, and going so strong, in LT!</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Drop me a line with bibliographical
particulars if you want to make sure your own relevant publications will
be included in the next listing. And remind your publishers to send
a review copy to: LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY, Sprachwissenschaft, Universität
Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">So far, to be considered worthy of
possible review in LT, in addition to being relevant to typology, you had
to be a book, in the old-fashioned sense of the term. This may seem
a somewhat conservative requirement, favouring the printed word over the
electronically disseminated. On the other hand, LT does not seem
to be on the mailing lists of many electronic publishers, nor has any offer
been received these last few years to review an electronic publication.
For the time being, the Editorial Board’s policy will be to deal with
such offers, should any be received, on a case by case basis.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">A New Grammars listing is to follow
with the next News. (Remember the ALT initiative about on-line grammars?
Are there any to be listed?)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier"> </font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Abraham, Werner & C. Jan-Wouter
Zwart (eds.) (2002). Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Amberber, Mengistu & Peter Collins
(eds.) (2002). Language Universals and Variation. (Perspectives on Cognitive
Science.) Westport, Conn.: Praeger.</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier"> </font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Bradshaw, Joel & Kenneth Rehg
(eds.) (2001). Issues in Austronesian Morphology: A Festschrift for Byron
W. Bender. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Chambers, Jack, Peter Trudgill, &
Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.) (2002). The Handbook of Language Variation
and Change. Oxford: Blackwell.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian
Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Dum-Tragut, Jasmine (2002). Word Order
Correlations and Word Order Change: An “Applied-Typological” Study
on Literary Armenian Varieties. München: Lincom Europa.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Ezawa, Kennosuke, Wilfried Kürschner,
Karl H. Rensch, & Manfred Ringmacher (eds.) (2002). Linguistik jenseits
des Strukturalismus: Akten des II. Ost-West-Kolloquiums Berlin 1998. Tübingen:
Narr.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Field, Frederic W. (2002). Linguistic
Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts. (Studies in Language Companion Series,
62.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Gerner, Matthias (2002). Predicate
Compounding in the Yi Group: The Continuum of Grammaticalization.
(studia typologica, 3.) Berlin: Akademie Verlag.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Goddard, Cliff & Anna Wierzbicka
(eds.) (2002). Meaning and Universal Grammar: Theory and Empirical Findings.
2 vols. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 60/61.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Güldemann, Tom & Manfred von Roncador
(eds.) (2002). Reported Discourse: A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic
Domains. (TSL, 52.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Harris, Alice C. (2002). Endoclitics
and the Origins of Udi Morphosyntax. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Lazard, Gilbert (2001). Etudes de linguistique
générale: Typologie grammaticale. (Collection linguistique publiée par
la Société de linguistique de Paris, 82.) Leuven & Paris: Peeters.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Lehmann, Christian (2002). Possession
in Yucatec Maya. Second edition. e-learning-academy AG (<A HREF="http://www.e-learning-academy.com/">http://www.e-learning-academy.com/</A>)
[electronic (re-)publication!]</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Miller, D. Gary (2002). Nonfinite Structures
in Theory and Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Moure, Teresa [no date (2002?)]. La
lingüistica en el conjunto del conocimiento: Una mirada crítica. (Linguas
e Lingüistica, 1.) Lugo: Tris Tram.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Myers-Scotton, Carol (2002). Contact
Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Newman, John (ed.) (2002). The Linguistics
of Sitting, Standing and Lying. (TSL, 51.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Ortmann, Albert (2002). Kategorien
des Nomens: Schnittstellen und Ökonomie. (Linguistische Arbeiten, 458.)
Tübingen: Niemeyer.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Palancar, Enrique L. (2002). The Origin
of Agent Markers. (studia typologica, 5.) Berlin: Akademie Verlag.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Plank, Frans (ed.) (2002). Noun Phrase
Structure in the Languages of Europe. (EALT / EUROTYP, 20-7.) Berlin: Mouton
de Gruyter.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Rijkhoff, Jan (2002). The Noun Phrase.
(Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory.) Oxford: Oxford University
Press.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Schwarz, Oxana, Cornelia Stroh, &
Ainda Urdze et al. (2001). Bib-Kom-Typ: Die Bibliographie zur Komitativ-Typologie.
(Linguistic Research Forum, 06.) München: Lincom Europa.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Simon, Horst J. & Heike Wiese (eds.)
(2002). Pronouns: Grammar and Representation. (Linguistik Aktuell, 52.)
Amsterdam: Benjamins.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Stiebels, Barbara (2002). Typologie
des Argumentlinkings: Ökonomie und Expressivität. (studia grammatica,
54.) Berlin: Akademie Verlag.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Woodward, Roger D. (ed.) (2002). The
Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Yip, Moira (2002). Tone. (Cambridge
Textbooks in Linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</font><font face="Courier New,Courier"></font>
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<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Marianne Mithun [President]</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Department of Linguistics UCSB</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">University of California
tel: + 1-805-893-4058</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Santa Barbara, California 93106
+ 1-805-563-1152</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">USA
fax: + 1-805-563-1948</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">E-mail:
mithun@linguistics.ucsb.edu</font>
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<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Frans Plank [Editor-in-chief, Linguistic
Typology]</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Sprachwissenschaft</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Universitaet Konstanz</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">D-78457 Konstanz
tel + 49 7531 88 26 56</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Germany
fax + 49 7531 88 27 41</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">E-mail:
frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de</font>
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<p><font face="Courier New,Courier">Johan van der Auwera [Secretary-Treasurer]</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Linguistiek (GER)</font>
<br><font face="Courier New,Courier">Universiteit Antwerpen (UIA)</font>
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tel + 32 3 820 27 76</font>
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fax + 32 3 820 27 62</font>
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