From kimwh at GAYA.HANSEO.AC.KR Mon Sep 2 01:14:19 1996 From: kimwh at GAYA.HANSEO.AC.KR (Wonho Kim) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 18:14:19 -0700 Subject: CSDL III: Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (fwd) Message-ID: Fox Barbara wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:26:34 -0600 (MDT) > From: Dan Jurafsky > To: cogling at ucsd.ucsd.edu > Subject: CSDL III: Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language > > ************ CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE and LANGUAGE III *************** > > ***** PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ***** > > CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE and LANGUAGE III: > COGNITION AND FUNCTION IN LANGUAGE > > May 23-25, 1997 > > University of Colorado at Boulder > > Department of Linguistics > Institute of Cognitive Science > > The third conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language (CSDL III) > will be held from May 23-25, 1997 on the BOULDER campus of the UNIVERSITY of > COLORADO. This is a preliminary announcement so you can reserve the date; > look for the call for papers later in the summer. > > We will invite papers which provide cognitive or functional analysis of > linguistic phenomena, including discourse, conceptual structure, language > function, metaphor, lexical semantics, pragmatics, meaning change and > grammaticalization, and language processing. > > Organizing Committee: Laura Michaelis, Barbara Fox, Dan Jurafsky > (michaeli at spot.colorado.edu, bfox at spot.colorado.edu, jurafsky at colorado.edu) From barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU Tue Sep 3 15:34:54 1996 From: barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU (Michael Barlow) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:34:54 -0500 Subject: Job: Director, Rice Center for the Study of Languages Message-ID: Director of the Rice Center for the Study of Languages Rice University seeks a senior scholar in one of the disciplines of foreign language learning and teaching to be Director of the newly established Rice Center for the Study of Languages. Specialized knowledge of and research interest in at least one foreign language is required, as is a record of proven excellence in teaching. Fluency in a second foreign language is highly desirable. The Director of the Center will receive a tenured appointment in the appropriate language and literature department, with a joint appointment in Linguistics if applicable. The Director will be responsible for the overall operation of the Center for the Study of Languages, including enhancing introductory language instruction, creating a viable FLAC program, and, with the assistance of an assistant director to be hired later, developing electronic means of instruction. The Director will report directly to the Dean of Humanities. A detailed report of the Dean's Committee on Languages, which lays out the anticipated contours of the new center will be on the Web at the following address: http://ruf.rice.edu/~humadmin/plan2000.html. Candidate should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, brief writing sample and three letters of recommendation to: Chair, CSL Committee, Rice University, c/o Dean of Humanities (MS33), 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005-1892. Deadline for application: November 15, 1996. Rice University is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Barlow (barlow at ruf.rice.edu) Dept of Linguistics Home page: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/ Rice University Athelstan: http://www.nol.net/~athel/athel.html From iclc97 at WIM.LET.VU.NL Mon Sep 16 22:20:43 1996 From: iclc97 at WIM.LET.VU.NL (ICLC'97 Local Organizers) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 00:20:43 +0200 Subject: CALL: INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE (ICLC'97) Message-ID: ***************************************************************************** 5th INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, July 14 - 19, 1997 ***************************************************************************** The 1997 conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) will be hosted by the Faculteit der Letteren of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The deadline for abstracts is November 15, 1996 (address below). We are planning to provide up-to-date information about this conference at http://www.vu.nl/ICLC97/index.htm (after October 1, 1996). Conference topics include: - structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, metaphor, mental imagery, and cognitive models) - the functional principles of linguistic organization (such as iconicity and naturalness) - the interrelatedness syntax and semantics - the experiential and pragmatic background of language-in-use (including discourse analysis and conversation analysis) - the relationship between language and thought Invited Speakers: Melissa Bowerman (MPI Nijmegen) George Lakoff (UCB) William Croft (Manchester Univ.) Ron Langacker (UCSD) Gilles Fauconnier (UCSD) Stephen Levinson (MPI Nijmegen)(tbc) Dirk Geeraerts (Univ. of Leuven) Eve Sweetser (UCB) Peter Harder (Univ. of Copenhagen) Len Talmy (SUNY Buffalo) SPECIAL THEME SESSIONS Note: Theme session organizers' addresses are included only if there is still some room for additional presenters/discussants. Please contact those organizers directly for further information. FRIDAY, July 18 (afternoon): On the place of metaphors in cognitive and cultural models (organizer: Alan Cienki, Emory University) Lexical and grammatical classification: same or different? (organizers: Ellen Contini-Morava, University of Virginia, and Yishai Tobin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Complementation: Interface of Cognitive, Functional and Typological Perspectives (organizer: Kaoru Horie, Tohoku University; khorie at intcul.tohoku.ac.jp, fax: +81-22-217-7842) Computer Models in Cognitive Linguistics (organizer: David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia; David.Powers at flinders.edu.au) SATURDAY, July 19 (morning): "Cultural scripts" and "explications" as conceptual instruments in foreign language learning (organizer: Rene Dirven, Duisburg University; Rene.Dirven at ping.be; fax: +32-15-414455) Courting the Other: Cognitive Approaches to Literary texts (organizer: Margaret H. Freeman, Los Angeles Valley College; freemaMH at lccd.cc.ca.us; fax: +1-310-455-3686) Storage versus computation of polysemous meanings (organizers: David Tuggy, Summer Institute of Linguistics, and Theo Janssen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; contact: David_Tuggy at sil.org) Cognitive linguistic approaches to signed language research (organizer: Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico; wilcox at unm.edu, fax: +1-505-277-6355) SATURDAY, July 19 (afternoon): Metonymy as a conceptual motivation of metaphorical mappings (organizer: Antonio Barcelona Sanchez, University of Murcia; abs at fcu.um.es; on leave at Cambridge University 9/15/96-1/25/97: fax +44-1223-335062) Cognitive Linguistic Relativity: On the Centenary of Benjamin Whorf's Birth (organizer: Caitlin Hines, San Francisco State University; chines at sfsu.edu) The linguistic realization of causality (organizers: Ted Sanders and Arie Verhagen, Utrecht University; contact: Ted.Sanders at let.ruu.nl; fax: +31-30-253-6000) The psychological status of semantic networks (organizers: Dominiek Sandra and Hubert Cuyckens, University of Antwerp, and Sally Rice, University of Alberta at Edmonton; contact: Sandra at uia.ua.ac.be; fax: +32-3-220-4420) ** Special Interest Group Meeting ** (Monday, July 14) Pedagogy: Cognitive Linguistics in the Curriculum (organizer: Lewis Sego, Indiana State University, ejlpseg at root.indstate.edu; fax: +1-812-237-3156) CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS Abstracts are solicited for 20-min oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by two members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 1997. As this is the first time ICLC is admitting posters, some explanation may be in order: Poster sessions have been gaining increased popularity at a variety of conferences. They allow conference participants to choose how much time and attention they allocate to each presentation, varying from a short glance to thorough reading and intensive interaction with the presenters; more simultaneous presentations can be accommodated, allowing a larger number of high-quality abstracts to be accepted; finally, if posters are allowed to stay up for an extended period of time, even participants who miss the discussion period have a good chance of still seeing them (and picking up handouts the presenters may provide). The poster sessions will be located in a spacious transitional area near the book exhibit and cafeteria. A maximum of about 20 to 30 posters will stay up for at least one whole day (longer if very few posters are accepted), and authors will be expected to be available for discussion of their poster for a one-hour period during which no other sessions will be scheduled. Nota bene: The abstracts for posters will undergo the same reviewing procedure as those submitted for oral presentations. The abstracts of accepted posters will be included in the abstracts volume. Papers based on oral presentations or posters will be equally eligible for publication in the conference proceedings; all submissions for those volumes will undergo the same reviewing process. ABSTRACTS Please submit by November 15, 1996 an abstract containing the following information: - author name(s) and affiliation(s) - address information (incl. fax and email) - title of presentation - preferred format (oral presentation or poster) - three to five keywords - a 500-word summary (about one page) specifying research question(s), approach/method/data, and (expected) results Electronic submission (to iclc97 at let.vu.nl) instead of or in addition to hardcopy is strongly encouraged. Acceptable formats are: - plain ASCII text - ASCII text with minimal html coding + fax/hardcopy of formatted text - WordPerfect (any version between 4.2 and 6.1) - Word 6.0 The organizers reserve the right to reformat accepted abstracts for publication on the www and in the conference program. Any potentially distorting changes will be cleared with the authors. Submissions by hardcopy only: Send one high-quality print (definitely no more than one page; font no smaller than 11pt) including your name and affiliation, the title, and the abstract (do not center name or title; do not include a header "Abstract"), three copies of an anonymous abstract, and a separate sheet for the other requested information. Registration forms and hotel reservation forms will be available at our www-site and via ftp after November 1, 1996 and will be distributed to participants and mailing lists after February 15, 1997. Organizing Committee: Theo Janssen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, chair) Gisela Redeker (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, secretary) Ad Foolen (Nijmegen University) Ton Goeman (Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam) Frederike van der Leek (University of Amsterdam) Fons Moerdijk (Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, Leyden) Wilbert Spooren (Tilburg University) Arie Verhagen (Utrecht University) Marjolijn Verspoor (Groningen University) Address: ICLC'97 (Theo Janssen / Gisela Redeker) Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands fax: +31-20-4446500 iclc97 at let.vu.nl http://www.vu.nl/ICLC97/index.htm ftp.vu.nl/pub/ICLC97/ ***************************************************************************** From robert at CNRS-BELLEVUE.FR Thu Sep 19 20:02:04 1996 From: robert at CNRS-BELLEVUE.FR (Stephane Robert) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:02:04 +0200 Subject: announcing conf language diversity and cognitive representations Message-ID: International Conference "LANGUAGE DIVERSITY AND COGNITIVE REPRESENTATIONS" 8 - 9 November 1996 Ecole Normale Superieure (Salle Dussane) 45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE No registration fees Contacts: Catherine Fuchs (CNRS- ELSAP) Stephane Robert (CNRS-LLACAN) tel. : (1)-42-53-75-87 fax : (1)-42-53-75-86 email: Catherine.Fuchs at ens.fr robert at cnrs-bellevue.fr FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 96 Morning session : Language diversity and representations of space * 9.00-9.15 : Greeting message by Etienne GUYON (Directeur de l'Ecole Normale Superieure) and Monique TREDE (Directeur de la recherche et des etudes litteraires a l'Ecole Normale Superieure) and Key-note address by Catherine FUCHS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ELSAP, Paris) and Stephane ROBERT (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LLACAN, Paris) * 9.15-10.00 : Francoise OZANNE-RIVIERRE Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LACITO, Paris : "Systemes d'orientation : quelques exemples oceaniens" * 10.00-10.45 : Eve DANZIGER Max Planck Institut, Nymegen : "Cross-linguistic variation in semantic and cognitive encoding of relations in space : reflections on data from Mopan Maya" * 10.45-11.00 : Coffee break * 11.00-11.45 : Leonard TALMY State University of New-York, Buffalo : Fictive motion in language and "ception" * 11.45-12.30 : Hansjakob SEILER University of Cologne: "Localisation et predication" Afternoon session : Linguistic systems and semantic representations * 14.00-14.45 : Christian CUXAC Universite Paris-V : "Expression des relations spatiales et spatialisation des relations semantiques en Langue des Signes Francaise" * 14.45- 15.30 : Pascal VERNUS Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris : "Processus cognitifs mis en oeuvre dans l'ecriture hieroglyphique" * 15.30-16.15 : Gilles FAUCONNIER University of California, San Diego : "Linguistic correlates of conceptual integration" * 16.15-16.30 : Coffee break * 16.30-17.15 : France CLOAREC-HEISS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LLACAN, Paris : "Langue naturelle et langage tambourine : un encodage par reduction (l'exemple du banda de Centrafrique)" * 17.15-18.00 : Christiane MARCHELLO-NIZIA ENS Fontenay-St Cloud, ELI et Institut Universitaire de France : "Evolution de la langue et representations semantiques" SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 96 Morning session : Linguistic operations and cognitive representations * 9.00-9.45 : Antoine CULIOLI Universite Paris-VII et Ecole Normale Superieure : "La necessaire inscription du sujet dans les langues" * 9.45-10.30 : George LAKOFF University of California, Berkeley : "Universals of metaphorical thought : variations in linguistic expression" * 10.30-10.45 : Coffee break * 10.45-11.30 : Marie-Claude PARIS Universite Paris-VII : "Mais ou la triade est-elle passee ? Le cas du chinois standard" * 11.30-12.15 : Jean LASSEGUE Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ELSAP : "Que peut-on inferer du substrat cognitif a partir du rapport invariants du langage / diversite des langues ?" Afternoon session : Linguistic and cognitive processes * 14.00-14.45 : Michele KAIL Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, laboratoire "Cognition et Developpement", Paris : "Variations morpho-syntaxiques et contraintes dans le developpement du langage" * 14.45- 15.30 : Bernard PACHOUD Universite de Picardie : "Schizophasie et dysfonctionnements cognitifs" * 15.30-16;15 : Marta KUTAS University of California, San Diego : and Mireille BESSON Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire des neurosciences cognitives, Marseille : "Electrical signs of languages in the brain" * 16.15-16.30 : Coffee break * 16.30-18.00 : PANEL DISCUSSION : "Language diversity and linguistic representations : a challenge for cognition" Chair : Blanche-Noelle GRUNIG, Universite Paris-VIII Participants : Daniele Dubois, Jocelyne Fernandez, Catherine Fuchs, Blanche-Noelle Grunig, Anne Guyon, Jean-Luc Nespoulous, Jean-Marie Pierrel, Stephane Robert. Patron : Madame Michele Gendreau-Massaloux, Recteur-Chancelier des Universites de Paris. Honorary Committee : Pr Sylvain Auroux, Pr Antoine Culioli, Pr Claude Hagege, Pr Christiane Marchello-Nizia. Organizing Committee : Catherine Fuchs and Stephane Robert. Conference supported by la Delegation Generale a la Langue Francaise; le Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de l Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche; le Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres; le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; l Institut Universitaire de France (ENS-Fontenay); les equipes ELSAP et LLACAN du CNRS. From jkowal at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA Sun Sep 29 23:23:12 1996 From: jkowal at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA (Jerzy Kowal) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 19:23:12 -0400 Subject: FYI: New Web Site: Hispanic Linguistics at UofT Message-ID: New Web Site The Linguistics Section of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto (Canada) is pleased to announce that it has just launched its new Web Site. Its new URL is as follows: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/spanish_portuguese/hispling.html The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto is the only Canadian university to offer graduate studies (MA and PhD) in Hispanic Linguistics. The newly created web page for the linguistic section provides information about its academic activities, graduate programs and it is aiming to become a Canadian forum for Hispanic Linguistics. Though basically concerned with linguistic topics related to Spanish and other Iberic languages, this site also aims to broaden theoretical horizons comprising the functional nature of language, contact of Spanish with Amerindian languages, typological approaches to one-language studies, and more! The Hispanic Linguistics site offers an extensive set of links to other sites on the web, not only in Hispanic Linguistics, but in Language Typology, Spanish Applied Linguistics and Linguistics in General. Come and visit us. Let us know if you would like to be linked to our web page. Your feedback is welcome at hispling at chass.utoronto.ca We apologize if this announcement has been crossed-posted. Jerzy KOWAL Spanish & Portuguese University of Toronto Toronto, Canada From kimwh at GAYA.HANSEO.AC.KR Mon Sep 2 01:14:19 1996 From: kimwh at GAYA.HANSEO.AC.KR (Wonho Kim) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 18:14:19 -0700 Subject: CSDL III: Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (fwd) Message-ID: Fox Barbara wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:26:34 -0600 (MDT) > From: Dan Jurafsky > To: cogling at ucsd.ucsd.edu > Subject: CSDL III: Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language > > ************ CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE and LANGUAGE III *************** > > ***** PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ***** > > CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE and LANGUAGE III: > COGNITION AND FUNCTION IN LANGUAGE > > May 23-25, 1997 > > University of Colorado at Boulder > > Department of Linguistics > Institute of Cognitive Science > > The third conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language (CSDL III) > will be held from May 23-25, 1997 on the BOULDER campus of the UNIVERSITY of > COLORADO. This is a preliminary announcement so you can reserve the date; > look for the call for papers later in the summer. > > We will invite papers which provide cognitive or functional analysis of > linguistic phenomena, including discourse, conceptual structure, language > function, metaphor, lexical semantics, pragmatics, meaning change and > grammaticalization, and language processing. > > Organizing Committee: Laura Michaelis, Barbara Fox, Dan Jurafsky > (michaeli at spot.colorado.edu, bfox at spot.colorado.edu, jurafsky at colorado.edu) From barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU Tue Sep 3 15:34:54 1996 From: barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU (Michael Barlow) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 10:34:54 -0500 Subject: Job: Director, Rice Center for the Study of Languages Message-ID: Director of the Rice Center for the Study of Languages Rice University seeks a senior scholar in one of the disciplines of foreign language learning and teaching to be Director of the newly established Rice Center for the Study of Languages. Specialized knowledge of and research interest in at least one foreign language is required, as is a record of proven excellence in teaching. Fluency in a second foreign language is highly desirable. The Director of the Center will receive a tenured appointment in the appropriate language and literature department, with a joint appointment in Linguistics if applicable. The Director will be responsible for the overall operation of the Center for the Study of Languages, including enhancing introductory language instruction, creating a viable FLAC program, and, with the assistance of an assistant director to be hired later, developing electronic means of instruction. The Director will report directly to the Dean of Humanities. A detailed report of the Dean's Committee on Languages, which lays out the anticipated contours of the new center will be on the Web at the following address: http://ruf.rice.edu/~humadmin/plan2000.html. Candidate should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, brief writing sample and three letters of recommendation to: Chair, CSL Committee, Rice University, c/o Dean of Humanities (MS33), 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005-1892. Deadline for application: November 15, 1996. Rice University is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Barlow (barlow at ruf.rice.edu) Dept of Linguistics Home page: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/ Rice University Athelstan: http://www.nol.net/~athel/athel.html From iclc97 at WIM.LET.VU.NL Mon Sep 16 22:20:43 1996 From: iclc97 at WIM.LET.VU.NL (ICLC'97 Local Organizers) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 00:20:43 +0200 Subject: CALL: INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE (ICLC'97) Message-ID: ***************************************************************************** 5th INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, July 14 - 19, 1997 ***************************************************************************** The 1997 conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) will be hosted by the Faculteit der Letteren of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The deadline for abstracts is November 15, 1996 (address below). We are planning to provide up-to-date information about this conference at http://www.vu.nl/ICLC97/index.htm (after October 1, 1996). Conference topics include: - structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, metaphor, mental imagery, and cognitive models) - the functional principles of linguistic organization (such as iconicity and naturalness) - the interrelatedness syntax and semantics - the experiential and pragmatic background of language-in-use (including discourse analysis and conversation analysis) - the relationship between language and thought Invited Speakers: Melissa Bowerman (MPI Nijmegen) George Lakoff (UCB) William Croft (Manchester Univ.) Ron Langacker (UCSD) Gilles Fauconnier (UCSD) Stephen Levinson (MPI Nijmegen)(tbc) Dirk Geeraerts (Univ. of Leuven) Eve Sweetser (UCB) Peter Harder (Univ. of Copenhagen) Len Talmy (SUNY Buffalo) SPECIAL THEME SESSIONS Note: Theme session organizers' addresses are included only if there is still some room for additional presenters/discussants. Please contact those organizers directly for further information. FRIDAY, July 18 (afternoon): On the place of metaphors in cognitive and cultural models (organizer: Alan Cienki, Emory University) Lexical and grammatical classification: same or different? (organizers: Ellen Contini-Morava, University of Virginia, and Yishai Tobin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Complementation: Interface of Cognitive, Functional and Typological Perspectives (organizer: Kaoru Horie, Tohoku University; khorie at intcul.tohoku.ac.jp, fax: +81-22-217-7842) Computer Models in Cognitive Linguistics (organizer: David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia; David.Powers at flinders.edu.au) SATURDAY, July 19 (morning): "Cultural scripts" and "explications" as conceptual instruments in foreign language learning (organizer: Rene Dirven, Duisburg University; Rene.Dirven at ping.be; fax: +32-15-414455) Courting the Other: Cognitive Approaches to Literary texts (organizer: Margaret H. Freeman, Los Angeles Valley College; freemaMH at lccd.cc.ca.us; fax: +1-310-455-3686) Storage versus computation of polysemous meanings (organizers: David Tuggy, Summer Institute of Linguistics, and Theo Janssen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; contact: David_Tuggy at sil.org) Cognitive linguistic approaches to signed language research (organizer: Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico; wilcox at unm.edu, fax: +1-505-277-6355) SATURDAY, July 19 (afternoon): Metonymy as a conceptual motivation of metaphorical mappings (organizer: Antonio Barcelona Sanchez, University of Murcia; abs at fcu.um.es; on leave at Cambridge University 9/15/96-1/25/97: fax +44-1223-335062) Cognitive Linguistic Relativity: On the Centenary of Benjamin Whorf's Birth (organizer: Caitlin Hines, San Francisco State University; chines at sfsu.edu) The linguistic realization of causality (organizers: Ted Sanders and Arie Verhagen, Utrecht University; contact: Ted.Sanders at let.ruu.nl; fax: +31-30-253-6000) The psychological status of semantic networks (organizers: Dominiek Sandra and Hubert Cuyckens, University of Antwerp, and Sally Rice, University of Alberta at Edmonton; contact: Sandra at uia.ua.ac.be; fax: +32-3-220-4420) ** Special Interest Group Meeting ** (Monday, July 14) Pedagogy: Cognitive Linguistics in the Curriculum (organizer: Lewis Sego, Indiana State University, ejlpseg at root.indstate.edu; fax: +1-812-237-3156) CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS Abstracts are solicited for 20-min oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by two members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 1997. As this is the first time ICLC is admitting posters, some explanation may be in order: Poster sessions have been gaining increased popularity at a variety of conferences. They allow conference participants to choose how much time and attention they allocate to each presentation, varying from a short glance to thorough reading and intensive interaction with the presenters; more simultaneous presentations can be accommodated, allowing a larger number of high-quality abstracts to be accepted; finally, if posters are allowed to stay up for an extended period of time, even participants who miss the discussion period have a good chance of still seeing them (and picking up handouts the presenters may provide). The poster sessions will be located in a spacious transitional area near the book exhibit and cafeteria. A maximum of about 20 to 30 posters will stay up for at least one whole day (longer if very few posters are accepted), and authors will be expected to be available for discussion of their poster for a one-hour period during which no other sessions will be scheduled. Nota bene: The abstracts for posters will undergo the same reviewing procedure as those submitted for oral presentations. The abstracts of accepted posters will be included in the abstracts volume. Papers based on oral presentations or posters will be equally eligible for publication in the conference proceedings; all submissions for those volumes will undergo the same reviewing process. ABSTRACTS Please submit by November 15, 1996 an abstract containing the following information: - author name(s) and affiliation(s) - address information (incl. fax and email) - title of presentation - preferred format (oral presentation or poster) - three to five keywords - a 500-word summary (about one page) specifying research question(s), approach/method/data, and (expected) results Electronic submission (to iclc97 at let.vu.nl) instead of or in addition to hardcopy is strongly encouraged. Acceptable formats are: - plain ASCII text - ASCII text with minimal html coding + fax/hardcopy of formatted text - WordPerfect (any version between 4.2 and 6.1) - Word 6.0 The organizers reserve the right to reformat accepted abstracts for publication on the www and in the conference program. Any potentially distorting changes will be cleared with the authors. Submissions by hardcopy only: Send one high-quality print (definitely no more than one page; font no smaller than 11pt) including your name and affiliation, the title, and the abstract (do not center name or title; do not include a header "Abstract"), three copies of an anonymous abstract, and a separate sheet for the other requested information. Registration forms and hotel reservation forms will be available at our www-site and via ftp after November 1, 1996 and will be distributed to participants and mailing lists after February 15, 1997. Organizing Committee: Theo Janssen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, chair) Gisela Redeker (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, secretary) Ad Foolen (Nijmegen University) Ton Goeman (Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam) Frederike van der Leek (University of Amsterdam) Fons Moerdijk (Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, Leyden) Wilbert Spooren (Tilburg University) Arie Verhagen (Utrecht University) Marjolijn Verspoor (Groningen University) Address: ICLC'97 (Theo Janssen / Gisela Redeker) Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands fax: +31-20-4446500 iclc97 at let.vu.nl http://www.vu.nl/ICLC97/index.htm ftp.vu.nl/pub/ICLC97/ ***************************************************************************** From robert at CNRS-BELLEVUE.FR Thu Sep 19 20:02:04 1996 From: robert at CNRS-BELLEVUE.FR (Stephane Robert) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:02:04 +0200 Subject: announcing conf language diversity and cognitive representations Message-ID: International Conference "LANGUAGE DIVERSITY AND COGNITIVE REPRESENTATIONS" 8 - 9 November 1996 Ecole Normale Superieure (Salle Dussane) 45 rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris FRANCE No registration fees Contacts: Catherine Fuchs (CNRS- ELSAP) Stephane Robert (CNRS-LLACAN) tel. : (1)-42-53-75-87 fax : (1)-42-53-75-86 email: Catherine.Fuchs at ens.fr robert at cnrs-bellevue.fr FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER 96 Morning session : Language diversity and representations of space * 9.00-9.15 : Greeting message by Etienne GUYON (Directeur de l'Ecole Normale Superieure) and Monique TREDE (Directeur de la recherche et des etudes litteraires a l'Ecole Normale Superieure) and Key-note address by Catherine FUCHS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ELSAP, Paris) and Stephane ROBERT (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LLACAN, Paris) * 9.15-10.00 : Francoise OZANNE-RIVIERRE Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LACITO, Paris : "Systemes d'orientation : quelques exemples oceaniens" * 10.00-10.45 : Eve DANZIGER Max Planck Institut, Nymegen : "Cross-linguistic variation in semantic and cognitive encoding of relations in space : reflections on data from Mopan Maya" * 10.45-11.00 : Coffee break * 11.00-11.45 : Leonard TALMY State University of New-York, Buffalo : Fictive motion in language and "ception" * 11.45-12.30 : Hansjakob SEILER University of Cologne: "Localisation et predication" Afternoon session : Linguistic systems and semantic representations * 14.00-14.45 : Christian CUXAC Universite Paris-V : "Expression des relations spatiales et spatialisation des relations semantiques en Langue des Signes Francaise" * 14.45- 15.30 : Pascal VERNUS Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris : "Processus cognitifs mis en oeuvre dans l'ecriture hieroglyphique" * 15.30-16.15 : Gilles FAUCONNIER University of California, San Diego : "Linguistic correlates of conceptual integration" * 16.15-16.30 : Coffee break * 16.30-17.15 : France CLOAREC-HEISS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LLACAN, Paris : "Langue naturelle et langage tambourine : un encodage par reduction (l'exemple du banda de Centrafrique)" * 17.15-18.00 : Christiane MARCHELLO-NIZIA ENS Fontenay-St Cloud, ELI et Institut Universitaire de France : "Evolution de la langue et representations semantiques" SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 96 Morning session : Linguistic operations and cognitive representations * 9.00-9.45 : Antoine CULIOLI Universite Paris-VII et Ecole Normale Superieure : "La necessaire inscription du sujet dans les langues" * 9.45-10.30 : George LAKOFF University of California, Berkeley : "Universals of metaphorical thought : variations in linguistic expression" * 10.30-10.45 : Coffee break * 10.45-11.30 : Marie-Claude PARIS Universite Paris-VII : "Mais ou la triade est-elle passee ? Le cas du chinois standard" * 11.30-12.15 : Jean LASSEGUE Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ELSAP : "Que peut-on inferer du substrat cognitif a partir du rapport invariants du langage / diversite des langues ?" Afternoon session : Linguistic and cognitive processes * 14.00-14.45 : Michele KAIL Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, laboratoire "Cognition et Developpement", Paris : "Variations morpho-syntaxiques et contraintes dans le developpement du langage" * 14.45- 15.30 : Bernard PACHOUD Universite de Picardie : "Schizophasie et dysfonctionnements cognitifs" * 15.30-16;15 : Marta KUTAS University of California, San Diego : and Mireille BESSON Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire des neurosciences cognitives, Marseille : "Electrical signs of languages in the brain" * 16.15-16.30 : Coffee break * 16.30-18.00 : PANEL DISCUSSION : "Language diversity and linguistic representations : a challenge for cognition" Chair : Blanche-Noelle GRUNIG, Universite Paris-VIII Participants : Daniele Dubois, Jocelyne Fernandez, Catherine Fuchs, Blanche-Noelle Grunig, Anne Guyon, Jean-Luc Nespoulous, Jean-Marie Pierrel, Stephane Robert. Patron : Madame Michele Gendreau-Massaloux, Recteur-Chancelier des Universites de Paris. Honorary Committee : Pr Sylvain Auroux, Pr Antoine Culioli, Pr Claude Hagege, Pr Christiane Marchello-Nizia. Organizing Committee : Catherine Fuchs and Stephane Robert. Conference supported by la Delegation Generale a la Langue Francaise; le Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de l Enseignement Superieur et de la Recherche; le Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres; le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; l Institut Universitaire de France (ENS-Fontenay); les equipes ELSAP et LLACAN du CNRS. From jkowal at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA Sun Sep 29 23:23:12 1996 From: jkowal at CHASS.UTORONTO.CA (Jerzy Kowal) Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 19:23:12 -0400 Subject: FYI: New Web Site: Hispanic Linguistics at UofT Message-ID: New Web Site The Linguistics Section of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto (Canada) is pleased to announce that it has just launched its new Web Site. Its new URL is as follows: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/spanish_portuguese/hispling.html The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Toronto is the only Canadian university to offer graduate studies (MA and PhD) in Hispanic Linguistics. The newly created web page for the linguistic section provides information about its academic activities, graduate programs and it is aiming to become a Canadian forum for Hispanic Linguistics. Though basically concerned with linguistic topics related to Spanish and other Iberic languages, this site also aims to broaden theoretical horizons comprising the functional nature of language, contact of Spanish with Amerindian languages, typological approaches to one-language studies, and more! The Hispanic Linguistics site offers an extensive set of links to other sites on the web, not only in Hispanic Linguistics, but in Language Typology, Spanish Applied Linguistics and Linguistics in General. Come and visit us. Let us know if you would like to be linked to our web page. Your feedback is welcome at hispling at chass.utoronto.ca We apologize if this announcement has been crossed-posted. Jerzy KOWAL Spanish & Portuguese University of Toronto Toronto, Canada