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Best regards, Nori From Jiansheng.Guo at VUW.AC.NZ Thu Jun 5 05:53:12 1997 From: Jiansheng.Guo at VUW.AC.NZ (Jiansheng Guo) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:53:12 +1200 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, A couple of weeks ago, I was inquring about the references and insights on the discourse functions of using personal names in face-to-face interactions. I got a lot of enthusiastic and very helpful feedbacks and comments. I would like to particularly thank the following person for their kindness in helping me. A summary of the comments follows. --------- Nancy Budwig Department of Psychology Phone: 508-793-7250 Clark University FAX: 508-793-7780 Worcester, MA 01610 Time: GMT - 5:00 USA Email: nbudwig at vax.clarku.edu --------- Kevin Durkin Department of Psychology The University of Western Australia --------- Gina Conti-Ramsden --------- Patricia Clancy Linguistics Dept. University of California, Santa Barbara --------- Keiko Nakamura Psychology Dept. University of California, Berkeley --------- Sandy Thompson Linguistics Dept. Univerisity of California, Santa Barbara --------- Susan Ervin-Tripp Psychology Dept. University of California, Berkeley --------- Richard (=Dick) Hudson Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, --------- Lise Menn Linguistics Dept. CU Boulder --------- Anat Ninio --------- Rebecca.Sun University of CIncinnati Cincinnati, Ohio --------- Michelina P. Bonanno, Ph.D. Georgetown University phone: (202) 687-5998 Washington, D.C. 20057, USA --------- Pamela Downing Office: (414) 229-4533 Dept. of English & Comp Lit Message: (414) 229-4511 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Home: (414) 453-4480 --------- Jonathan Evans University of California, Berkeley --------- Jean Berko Gleason Psychology Department Boston University --------- Emanuel A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles --------- Shoshana Blum-Kulka --------- I. Guo's brief summary: =============================== The following comments or references seem to come from three directions of research on use of personal names. 1. Study of personal names as vocatives addressing the addressee, carrying interactive-interpersonal messages: softening or strenthen the tone, indicating the speaker's stance in relation to the addressee, etc. Within this direction, studies also have tried to find out who are more likely to use voocatives and in what situations and contexts. 2. Study of personal names as address terms, focusing on the sociolinguistic variations of address terms, and the related practices in different cultures. 3. Study of personal names as third person referents, examining the cognitive and informational motivations for using proper names vs. pronouns (or other ways of referrring) in conversations. Before, I was thinking about Direction (1) in working on my data from 5 year old children's talk in play. But now it seems that several things may be happening and I may have to tease out the different types of uses of names. When children's attention is not there, then names can be used as an attention getter, which is similar to (3) (though this is second person reference). If children use names as an expression of frustration, anger, or excitement, then it is (1). But when they use names as a personalizer (e.g., in appeals), it is somewhere in between (1) and (2) (similar to the sociolinguistic use of different address terms to express interpersonal stance, e.g., first name vs. title + last name). So even though there is little variation in form (they basically use first names), (2) comes into the picture with respect to my interest. I'm still trying to get a good handle over this and also try to find a good way to operationalize the definitions and classifications. So you have any further insights, I would be very interested in hearing them. But anyway, the following is the summary of all the comments I received so far. Many thanks. All my best, Guo ==================================================================== II. Summary of the original comments =========================================== Nancy Budwig Department of Psychology Phone: 508-793-7250 Clark University FAX: 508-793-7780 Worcester, MA 01610 Time: GMT - 5:00 USA Email: nbudwig at vax.clarku.edu ================================================= I analyzd use of names by the children studied in my book *A developmental-functionalist approach to child language* and have also worked with my colleague Nandita Chaudhary a bit on them in Hindi-speaking mother+s discourse. The short hindi data paper appeared in the BU conference proceedings a few years ago. One Chinese person just finished his ph.d. at Boston University in Educational linguistics. He also collected data in Beijing and studied the children's use of names and pronouns following my own work and found some neat things about politeness with the names. ================================================= Kevin Durkin Department of Psychology The University of Western Australia ================================================= I got interested in related issues some years ago, as part of a longitudinal study of (British) mother-infant interaction. I was particularly interested in the syntactic consequences of parental speech modifications involving names: that is, if the mother says "Jilly want one?" or "Does Jilly want one?" rather than "Do you want one?" what are the consequences for the child's model of pronouns? My colleagues and I completed a couple of studies, and I'll be pleased to send you copies. Among other things, we coded for use of names as attention getting devices. ================================================= Gina Conti-Ramsden ================================================= One reference that may be helful from my early work is Conti-Ramsden, G. (1989). Proper name usage: mother-child interactions with language-impaired and non-language-impaired children. First Language, 9, 271-284. ================================================= Patricia Clancy Linguistics Dept. University of California, Santa Barbara ================================================= Do you mean names as referring expressions or names used in direct address? In my Korean data, it is very common for the mothers to use the children's names instead of "you". I haven't pulled out names. vs. other types of lexical reference, but have looked at lexical vs. pronominal vs. elliptical reference. I could send you a paper on that if you'd be interested. ================================================= Keiko Nakamura Psychology Dept. University of California, Berkeley ================================================= I've been looking at the use of personal names in children's discourse (mainly in the context of gender differences). In Japanese, girls often use personal names to refer to themselves or to others (far more often than using pronouns). Boys also do so, but use pronouns to refer to themselves in certain contexts (e.g., masculine first-person pronouns during rough-and-tumble play and when boasting), and second-person pronouns to refer to others (e.g., when fighting with same-sex peers). Boys use their own names to refer to themselves (alone or with diminutives) when speaking in certain contexts (e.g., when talking with mother, or father- people whom they depend on). Girls do so, too, but also use their own names (alone or with diminutives) when talking with same-sex peers. One reference on Japanese kids is: Ide, Sachiko (1979), Person References of Japanese and American Children, Language Sciences, 1, 273-293. She uses a flowchart to determine the contexts in which children use different forms of self-reference and second-person reference. ================================================= Sandy Thompson Linguistics Dept. Univerisity of California, Santa Barbara ================================================= The best paper I know on proper names (adult, English) is the one by Pamela Downing in the B. Fox book, Studies in Anaphora, just announced in a very recent Funknet message. STUDIES IN ANAPHORA, Barbara Fox (ed.), 1996 xii, 518 pp. Typological Studies in Language, 33 US/Canada: Cloth: 1 55619 641 5 Price: US$115.00 Paper: 1 55619 642 3 Price: $34.95 Rest of the world: Cloth: 90 272 2927 9 Price: Hfl. 200,-- Paper: 90 272 2928 7 Price: Hfl. 70,-- ================================================= Susan Ervin-Tripp Psychology Dept. University of California, Berkeley ================================================= 1. I have found children use names (a) to get attention, and (b) to allude to relationship, as a persuasive device. Example, while interacting with attentive mother: Can I have some more ice cream mommy mommy mommy? 2. In adult speech, indications are that naming is used in somewhat tense situations. There was a study in France of doctor-patient talk that indicated naming increased during disagreements. There is also a tradition there of using polite titles during disputes, e.g. "I think, madam, that you are wrong about that." This appears also in 18th century British novels, sir, in case you have read some. Naming appears to me to be more common in French social conversations than here. The puzzle, Guo, is how naming could be both a mitigator and a marker of challenging. 3. Guo, I think adults sometimes use naming as a mitigator, as children may do. For example, I heard two moving men bringing in my refrigerator and giving each other directions, move it left, more back, etc.and they used LOTS of naming even though they clearly were being attentive, and there was no possible ambiguity of addressee. 4. In letters, some people use naming as a personalizer, interspersed in the letter, having the effect of making the letter writer appear more present, or more attentive to you as an individual. I know some people who do this a lot, but it seems to have some cultural variation too, have you noticed, Guo? ------------------------- How to think about whether the name is an attention-getter, mitigator, or challenge marker: attention getters depend on being ignored (boys are busier, not looking, less often already collaborating??) mitigator more likely on second tries for requests? Actually could be used for different functions by boys and girls? ================================================= Richard (=Dick) Hudson Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT work phone: +171 419 3152; work fax: +171 383 4108 email: dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk home page = http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/home.htm ================================================= Interesting question. I have a brief discussion of the use of names in the second edition of my book "Sociolinguistics" (Cambridge Univ Press 1996), on p. 126-7 plus a few other mentions listed in the index. Fascinating variation and equally fascinating constants across societies. ================================================= Lise Menn Linguistics Dept. CU Boulder ================================================= I haven't done any work on this, but I have been thinking about it. It's clear that names serve an emotional purpose of claiming and even specifying the relationship between speaker and hearer, much more than an informational one; they can be like a touch or a tug on one's clothing. Cultural differences are clear; at least in japanese, which I've been able to observe a little, titles (sensei) are used much more often than either names or titles in English at the same intra-collegial level. Overuse of names in English can be rebuked with "That's my name, don't wear it out!"...I'll be interested in your findings. ================================================= Anat Ninio ================================================= I have a large corpus of Hebrew-speaking children in natural interaction with their mothers, videotaped and analyzed for communicative intent of each utterance. There is much and varied use of proper names, but the question is, what are you interested in in particular? I don't mind doing some statistics for you, but as my codes are very detailed, it'd help to focus on what you're really interested in. What kind of distinctions were you thinking of? I wasn't looking especially for proper-name use, but for ways of expressing various communicative intents. If you want to get a feel for the type and details of the coding system I used, as well as the kind of results one gets, you could glance at the book we've recently published (Ninio, A, and Snow, C., Pragmatic development, Westview Press, 1996). ================================================= Rebecca Sun University of CIncinnati Cincinnati, Ohio ================================================= Hello. I am a 28-year-old female Chinese-American who speaks Mandarin and English. If needed, I can give you some answers about using personal names, but I'm not sure what you need. If you would like to email me back some questions, perhaps we can handle it that way. ================================================= Michelina P. Bonanno, Ph.D. Georgetown University phone: (202) 687-5998 Washington, D.C. 20057, USA ================================================= I am just wondering what ages you are referring to when you use the term children. Also, something that has evolved here in the last 5 or 10 years or so is interesting - sometimes, children (between the ages of 3 and 7) are now starting to be taught to call women by the title "Miss" and the woman's first name. So for example, my neighbor's 4 year old son calls me "Miss Michelina" instead of the usual title last name (notice that this is unusual because I am married, and I also am a Ph.D. so more appropriate titles might be MS or Mrs or even Dr). Children this age very seldom are allowed to call an adult by their first name alone. Anyway, I thought it might be something to look at because it appears to be an emerging trend. Also, note that in the case of males, I don't think any children have started to call men by the title Mr. + first name. This is a trend that I think has been perpetuated by the daycare systems. In some day care settings the children call their teachers Title + First Name, so if the teachers name is Susan Jones, she would be called Miss Susan in a day care or preschool setting, but in an elementary school setting she would be called Miss or Ms Jones. Also, note that in the Southern states, it has been the custom for women at times to be called Miss + first name - so President Carter's (from Georgia) mother used to be called "Miss Lillian", by people of all ages. So, there might be regional variation in what people call each other in terms of names. President Carter is a good example because, in the U.S. in the south, people accept the use of diminuitives for men's names so President Carter was "Jimmy Carter" not James or Jim Carter - but note that President Clinton (also from the South - Arkansas) is Bill not Billy! So individual variation and preference also comes into play! This might be evidenced by children's speech. Long ago, I attended a conference and listened to a talk about the importance of names". You might look to see if the American Name Society still exists and if they have any information that is relevant to your work. ================================================= Pamela Downing Office: (414) 229-4533 Dept. of English & Comp Lit Message: (414) 229-4511 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Home: (414) 453-4480 Milwaukee, Wi. 53201 Fax: (414) 453-4481 downing at csd.uwm.edu ================================================= Dear Guo - I've sent my chapter off to you today. Unfortunately, I don't have any immediate suggestions on how to interpret the gender-related patterns you've observed, although they are very interesting. You might be interested in looking at Mira Ariel's book, Accessing Noun Phrase Antecedents, where she talks about patterns of proper name usage differentiated by the gender of the referent. I would certainly be interested in seeing anything you might write on this topic - ================================================= Jonathan Evans University of California, Berkeley ================================================= Will you also look at differences (if any) between using a name and a title like "lao-san."? I am sure you have thought of this, but you might check the journal _onomastica_. ================================================= Jean Berko Gleason Psychology Department Boston University ================================================= Some years ago we found, but probably did not report formally, that grade school boys (5th & 6th grades) used last names in talking to one another "Ok, Johnson, it's your turn." Girls in this group didn't do this. The function of boys' use of last names seemed to be stylistic--it made them sound sort of tough and guy-like. In a small study on men's speech to children we also found that male preschool teachers used children's names (first names) much more frequently than female teachers did. They used them as softeners along with prohibitives, etc. This study was small and probably 20 years ago--I can find the ref if it is of any interest, but it was adult, not child speech. ================================================= Emanuel A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles ================================================= You may find the following reference relevant: Harvey Sacks and Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Two Preferences in the Organization of Reference to Persons in Conversation and Their Interaction," in George Psathas (ed.), Everyday Language: Studies in Ethnomethodology. (New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc., 1979) 15-21. Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Some Practices for Referring to Persons in Talk-in-Interaction: A Partial Sketch of a Systematics," in Barbara Fox (ed.), Studies in Anaphora. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996), 437-85. ================================================= Shoshana Blum-Kulka ================================================= We have looked at the use of personal names and nicknames at the dinner table of Jewish American and Israeli families. The reference is: Blum-Kulka,S & Katriel, T. 1991. Nicknaming practices in families. In: S. Ting-Toomey & F. Korzenny, eds. Cross-Cultural Interpersonal Communication. London: Sage, p. 58-78 I'll be happy to hear more, I am fascinated by issues of naming in general, ================================================= From a9320929 at ALUMNOS.USON.MX Thu Jun 5 15:04:04 1997 From: a9320929 at ALUMNOS.USON.MX (Medina M. Aurora) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:04:04 -0600 Subject: No subject Message-ID: sign off funknet From C.J.Arthur at UEL.AC.UK Tue Jun 17 15:59:48 1997 From: C.J.Arthur at UEL.AC.UK (C. Arthur) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:59:48 GMT Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Message-ID: **********Apologies for any multiple postings********** CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE: THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE LONDON APRIL 6-9 1998 ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Professor Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh) and Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London). This will be the second conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with those of modern Darwinism. FOCUSED THEMES: - From Proto-Language to Language - Modelling Language Evolution SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE: Derek Bickerton (Hawaii), Paul Bloom (Arizona), Luigi Cavalli- Sforza (Stanford), Robin Dunbar (Liverpool), Dean Falk (New York), Philip Lieberman (Brown), Bjorn Lindblom (Stockholm), John Maynard-Smith (Sussex), Frederick Newmeyer (Washington), Johanna Nichols (Berkeley), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Labs). PLEASE SEND YOUR 500-WORD ABSTRACT (DEADLINE OCTOBER 1ST, 1997) TO: Dr. Chris Knight, Department of Sociology, University of East London, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS, UK, OR BY EMAIL TO: C.Knight at uel.ac.uk From dlpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu Jun 19 00:25:47 1997 From: dlpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Doris Payne) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:25:47 -0700 Subject: Conference on External Possession Message-ID: Conference on External Possession and Related Noun Incorporation Eugene, Oregon September 7-10, 1997 Conference Organizers: Doris Payne, University of Oregon (dlpayne at oregon.uoregon.edu) Immanuel Barshi, University of Colorado (ebarshi at clipr.colorado.edu) Gwen Frishkoff, University of Oregon (gwenf at darkwing.uoregon.edu) ***************************** SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sunday, September 7 6:00 Registration 6:30 Welcoming and Opening Remarks 7:15 Reception Monday, September 8 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 1: The functional bases for EP constructions 9:00 Maura Velz-Castillo (U. of Wisconsin) EP constructions in Spanish and in Guaran 9:40 Bernard Comrie (U. of Southern California) & Maria Polinsky (UC at San Diego) Possessor raising in a language that does not have any 10:20 Break 10:40 Zygmunt Frajzyngier (U. of Colorado) External possessor: A system-interactional approach 11:20 Mirjam Fried (U. of Oregon) From interest to ownership: A constructional view of External Possessors" 12:00 Discussant: Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) 12:30 Lunch Session 2: EP constructions in languages of Europe 2:00 Martin Haspelmath (U. of Bamberg) External possession in a European areal perspective 2:40 Silvia Luraghi (Terza U. di Roma) Possessor Raising in Indo-European 3:20 Break 3:35 Melissa Bowerman & Ursula Brinkmann (Max Planck Inst.) The structure and acquisition of external possessor in German, Dutch, and English 4:15 Vera Podlesskaya & Ekaterina Rakhilina External Possession, reflexivization & body parts in Russian 4:55 Discussant: Bill Croft (U. of Manchester) 5:25 Break Session 3: Typological Studies I 5:50 William McGregor (U. of Melbourne) NP-External possession constructions in the Nyulnyulan languages 6:30 Hilary Chappell (La Trobe U.) External possession constructions in Sinitic languages: Double unaccusative in Taiwanese Southern Min, Cantonese Yue, and Mandarin 7:10 Wataru Nakamura (U. of Electro-Communication, Tokyo) On the argument structure of inalienable possession constructions 7:50 Discussant: Marianne Mithun (UC at Santa Barbara) Tuesday, September 9 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 4: Psycholinguistic/Experimental panel 9:00 Keiko Uehara (CUNY at Buffalo) External possessors in Japanese from a psycholinguistic viewpoint: Some sentence completion data 9:15 Immanuel Barshi (U. of Colorado) & Doris Payne (U. of Oregon) Experimental design in processing of argument structures: Maasai external possession 9:30 Panel Discussion Discussants: Melissa Bowerman (Max Planck Inst.) Murray Singer (U. of Manitoba) Russell Tomlin (U. of Oregon) 10:00 Break Session 5: Typological Studies II 10:20 Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser Univ.) Mapping possessors: Parameterizing the EP construction 11:00 Jack Martin (C. of William and Mary) External Possession in Muskogean 11:40 Lunch 1:00 Noel Rude (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation) EP in Sahaptian 1:40 Ronald Schaefer (U. of Illinois) On the properties of Emai possessor promotion 2:20 Discussant: T.B.A. Session 6: Incorporation and EP 3:00 Mark Baker (McGill Univ.) Conditions on external possession in Mohawk: Incorporation, argument structure, and aspect 3:40 Paulette Levy "Where" rather than "what": Incorporation of "parts" in Totonac 4:20 Veerle van Geenhoven (Max Planck Inst.) A semantic analysis of external possessors in West Greenlandic noun incorporating constructions 5:00 Discussant: Marianne Mithun (UC at Santa Barbara) 5:30 Dinner Session 7: Incorporation vs. EP 7:00 Roberto Zavala (Max Planck Inst.) Possessor raising and incorporation of body parts in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean) 7:40 Mark Donahue (U. of Manchester) Syntactic roles vs. semantic roles: External possession in Tukang Besi 8:20 Discussant: Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) Wednesday, September 10 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 8: EP, subjects, and "Subjects" 9:00 Toshihide Nakayama (UC at Santa Barbara) Two ways of marking possession of arguments in Nootka 9:40 Judith Aissen (UC at Santa Cruz) Possessor and logical subject in Tz'utujil 10:20 Pamela Munro (UCLA) Possession of non-canonical subjecthood 11:00 Discussant: T.B.A. 11:20 Break 11:40 Panel discussion: Towards an adequate theory of syntax Discussants: Judith Aissen (UCSC) Mark Baker (McGill U.) Bill Croft (U. of Manchester) Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) Marianne Mithun (UCSB) Doris Payne (U. of Oregon) 6:30 BBQ dinner at the home of Tom and Doris Payne (Please register at the desk; see map for address and directions.) From dlpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu Jun 19 00:42:01 1997 From: dlpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Doris Payne) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:42:01 -0700 Subject: EP/NI Conference announcement Message-ID: Conference on External Possession and Related Noun Incorporation Eugene, Oregon September 7-10, 1997 Conference Organizers: Doris Payne, University of Oregon (dlpayne at oregon.uoregon.edu) Immanuel Barshi, University of Colorado (ebarshi at clipr.colorado.edu) Gwen Frishkoff, University of Oregon (gwenf at darkwing.uoregon.edu) ***************************** CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION: DEFINITION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF EP CONSTRUCTIONS "External possession" (EP) refers to any construction in which a semantic possessor-possessed relation is expressed by coding the possessor as a core grammatical relation of the verb, and in a constituent separate from that which contains the possessed item, regardless of whether the possessor is expressed as subject, direct object, indirect object or dative, and regardless of whether one wishes to argue that syntactic "raising" or "ascension" is involved. The possessor could simultaneously be expressed by a pronoun or pronominal affix internal to the NP containing the possessed item, as in a Genitive-NP construction. But in the EP construction, this NP-internal coding cannot be the ony expression of the possessor. Additionally, a lexical predicate, such as 'have', 'own' or 'be located at' cannot be the only expression of the possessor-possessed relationship. This conference brings together core issues in sytnax, including verbal valence, cognitive event construal, voice, and issues in language processing. EP constructions are a limiting case in terms of argument structure, and thus hold some fundamental keys for understanding the connection between verbal argument structure and syntactic clause structure. In particular, these constructions frequently appear to "break the rules" with respect to how many arguments a verb of a given valence can have. Given that most current theories of language processing assume verb-centered theories of syntax, these constructions are important for psycholinguistic language processing research. ***************************** SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sunday, September 7 6:00 Registration 6:30 Welcoming and Opening Remarks 7:15 Reception Monday, September 8 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 1: The functional bases for EP constructions 9:00 Maura Velz-Castillo (U. of Wisconsin) EP constructions in Spanish and in Guaran 9:40 Bernard Comrie (U. of Southern California) & Maria Polinsky (UC at San Diego) Possessor raising in a language that does not have any 10:20 Break 10:40 Zygmunt Frajzyngier (U. of Colorado) External possessor: A system-interactional approach 11:20 Mirjam Fried (U. of Oregon) From interest to ownership: A constructional view of External Possessors" 12:00 Discussant: Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) 12:30 Lunch Session 2: EP constructions in languages of Europe 2:00 Martin Haspelmath (U. of Bamberg) External possession in a European areal perspective 2:40 Silvia Luraghi (Terza U. di Roma) Possessor Raising in Indo-European 3:20 Break 3:35 Melissa Bowerman & Ursula Brinkmann (Max Planck Inst.) The structure and acquisition of external possessor in German, Dutch, and English 4:15 Vera Podlesskaya & Ekaterina Rakhilina External Possession, reflexivization & body parts in Russian 4:55 Discussant: Bill Croft (U. of Manchester) 5:25 Break Session 3: Typological Studies I 5:50 William McGregor (U. of Melbourne) NP-External possession constructions in the Nyulnyulan languages 6:30 Hilary Chappell (La Trobe U.) External possession constructions in Sinitic languages: Double unaccusative in Taiwanese Southern Min, Cantonese Yue, and Mandarin 7:10 Wataru Nakamura (U. of Electro-Communication, Tokyo) On the argument structure of inalienable possession constructions 7:50 Discussant: Marianne Mithun (UC at Santa Barbara) Tuesday, September 9 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 4: Psycholinguistic/Experimental panel 9:00 Keiko Uehara (CUNY at Buffalo) External possessors in Japanese from a psycholinguistic viewpoint: Some sentence completion data 9:15 Immanuel Barshi (U. of Colorado) & Doris Payne (U. of Oregon) Experimental design in processing of argument structures: Maasai external possession 9:30 Panel Discussion Discussants: Melissa Bowerman (Max Planck Inst.) Murray Singer (U. of Manitoba) Russell Tomlin (U. of Oregon) 10:00 Break Session 5: Typological Studies II 10:20 Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser Univ.) Mapping possessors: Parameterizing the EP construction 11:00 Jack Martin (C. of William and Mary) External Possession in Muskogean 11:40 Lunch 1:00 Noel Rude (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation) EP in Sahaptian 1:40 Ronald Schaefer (U. of Illinois) On the properties of Emai possessor promotion 2:20 Discussant: T.B.A. Session 6: Incorporation and EP 3:00 Mark Baker (McGill Univ.) Conditions on external possession in Mohawk: Incorporation, argument structure, and aspect 3:40 Paulette Levy "Where" rather than "what": Incorporation of "parts" in Totonac 4:20 Veerle van Geenhoven (Max Planck Inst.) A semantic analysis of external possessors in West Greenlandic noun incorporating constructions 5:00 Discussant: Marianne Mithun (UC at Santa Barbara) 5:30 Dinner Session 7: Incorporation vs. EP 7:00 Roberto Zavala (Max Planck Inst.) Possessor raising and incorporation of body parts in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean) 7:40 Mark Donahue (U. of Manchester) Syntactic roles vs. semantic roles: External possession in Tukang Besi 8:20 Discussant: Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) Wednesday, September 10 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 8: EP, subjects, and "Subjects" 9:00 Toshihide Nakayama (UC at Santa Barbara) Two ways of marking possession of arguments in Nootka 9:40 Judith Aissen (UC at Santa Cruz) Possessor and logical subject in Tz'utujil 10:20 Pamela Munro (UCLA) Possession of non-canonical subjecthood 11:00 Discussant: T.B.A. 11:20 Break 11:40 Panel discussion: Towards an adequate theory of syntax Discussants: Judith Aissen (UCSC) Mark Baker (McGill U.) Bill Croft (U. of Manchester) Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) Marianne Mithun (UCSB) Doris Payne (U. of Oregon) 6:30 BBQ dinner at the home of Tom and Doris Payne (Please register at the desk; see map for address and directions.) From john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL Thu Jun 19 08:09:52 1997 From: john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL (John Myhill) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:09:52 +0300 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I am looking for sociolinguistic information regarding a number of languages and language situations. I'm looking for people (preferably linguists) who could tell me something about the sociolinguistic situation regarding these languages: Tamil (and other Dravidian languages), Tibetan, Greek, Icelandic, Swiss German, Armenian, Shona, Igbo, Ewe, Norweigian, Ge'ez, Coptic (liturgical Egyptian), Haitian Creole, Balinese, Classical Mayan (the hieroglyphs), Classical Persian (as used among Zoroastrians), Pali, Panjabi, Latin References to people who would know about these languages would also be very much appreciated. Thanks. John Myhill From ph1u+ at ANDREW.CMU.EDU Fri Jun 20 15:54:10 1997 From: ph1u+ at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul J Hopper) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:54:10 -0400 Subject: Per Linell, "Written Language Bias" Message-ID: Per Linell's classic and virtually unobtainable monograph 'The Written Language Bias in Linguistics' is now available on line at the following URL: http://eng.hss.cmu.edu/home/Linel/Linel.htm The text was scanned in by Chris Werry, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon. We owe our thanks to Per, the copyright holder, for giving permission to the CMU English Server to reproduce his text, and to Chris for taking the time and trouble to edit and upload it and design the pages. 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Thanks, Mira Ariel Linguistics Tel-Aviv University From jrubba at POLYMAIL.CPUNIX.CALPOLY.EDU Thu Jun 26 20:54:35 1997 From: jrubba at POLYMAIL.CPUNIX.CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:54:35 -0700 Subject: Query: grammar on the web Message-ID: Hello, all. I am looking for websites about English grammar. I am interested in sites that include the traditional approach, but also in sites that incorporate functionalist or more linguistically-based descriptions. I would also be interested in anything available on CD-ROM. My purpose is to find supplementary materials for a course I will be teaching this Fall for future teachers of elementary and high school language arts. It is intended to be a review of basic English grammar, mechanics, and usage. I need good exercises that students can access, self-correct, and perhaps find explanations for why the right answer is the right answer (and perhaps why the most logical wrong answer is the wrong answer). I will be explaining traditional grammar as it is found in currently-used school texts, but I want to frame this in functionalism to the greatest extent possible, and also want to find in-context exercises if any are available. Please note that this course will be for students who have had little to no linguistics, so sites that rely heavily on advanced linguistic theory will not be of use to me. I will post a summary of responses. I am familiar with the U. of Ottowa's Hypergrammar site already. I may use it and/or another site that I find as a result of this search. Thanks for any help! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics ~ English Department, California Polytechnic State University ~ San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ~ Tel. (805)-756-2184 E-mail: jrubba at oboe.aix.calpoly.edu ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From annes at HTDC.ORG Mon Jun 30 22:01:50 1997 From: annes at HTDC.ORG (Anne Sing) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:01:50 -1000 Subject: Semantics Software Message-ID: We would like to increase accuracy of our parser by adding more semantic information similar to what is available in Word Net. Could anyone give us information about other products of that nature. Thanks much Phil Bralich Ergo Linguistic Technologies bralich at htdc.org From nori at DIRCON.CO.UK Mon Jun 2 00:31:10 1997 From: nori at DIRCON.CO.UK (nori akiho) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 01:31:10 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Please be advised that my new mail address is as follows, which is already effective since 25 May. n-m-akiho at msn.com The current address of "nori at dircon.co.uk" will be expired on the day of 30 June 1997. I apologize for any inconvenience should it caused by this change but the thing is it might be changed again. Please wait for the further notice. aakiho at students.bbk.ac.uk is also active but please note it accepts English only. In addition to that let me tell my friends that I will be away from UK from 5 June till 21 June. Best regards, Nori From Jiansheng.Guo at VUW.AC.NZ Thu Jun 5 05:53:12 1997 From: Jiansheng.Guo at VUW.AC.NZ (Jiansheng Guo) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 17:53:12 +1200 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, A couple of weeks ago, I was inquring about the references and insights on the discourse functions of using personal names in face-to-face interactions. I got a lot of enthusiastic and very helpful feedbacks and comments. I would like to particularly thank the following person for their kindness in helping me. A summary of the comments follows. --------- Nancy Budwig Department of Psychology Phone: 508-793-7250 Clark University FAX: 508-793-7780 Worcester, MA 01610 Time: GMT - 5:00 USA Email: nbudwig at vax.clarku.edu --------- Kevin Durkin Department of Psychology The University of Western Australia --------- Gina Conti-Ramsden --------- Patricia Clancy Linguistics Dept. University of California, Santa Barbara --------- Keiko Nakamura Psychology Dept. University of California, Berkeley --------- Sandy Thompson Linguistics Dept. Univerisity of California, Santa Barbara --------- Susan Ervin-Tripp Psychology Dept. University of California, Berkeley --------- Richard (=Dick) Hudson Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, --------- Lise Menn Linguistics Dept. CU Boulder --------- Anat Ninio --------- Rebecca.Sun University of CIncinnati Cincinnati, Ohio --------- Michelina P. Bonanno, Ph.D. Georgetown University phone: (202) 687-5998 Washington, D.C. 20057, USA --------- Pamela Downing Office: (414) 229-4533 Dept. of English & Comp Lit Message: (414) 229-4511 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Home: (414) 453-4480 --------- Jonathan Evans University of California, Berkeley --------- Jean Berko Gleason Psychology Department Boston University --------- Emanuel A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles --------- Shoshana Blum-Kulka --------- I. Guo's brief summary: =============================== The following comments or references seem to come from three directions of research on use of personal names. 1. Study of personal names as vocatives addressing the addressee, carrying interactive-interpersonal messages: softening or strenthen the tone, indicating the speaker's stance in relation to the addressee, etc. Within this direction, studies also have tried to find out who are more likely to use voocatives and in what situations and contexts. 2. Study of personal names as address terms, focusing on the sociolinguistic variations of address terms, and the related practices in different cultures. 3. Study of personal names as third person referents, examining the cognitive and informational motivations for using proper names vs. pronouns (or other ways of referrring) in conversations. Before, I was thinking about Direction (1) in working on my data from 5 year old children's talk in play. But now it seems that several things may be happening and I may have to tease out the different types of uses of names. When children's attention is not there, then names can be used as an attention getter, which is similar to (3) (though this is second person reference). If children use names as an expression of frustration, anger, or excitement, then it is (1). But when they use names as a personalizer (e.g., in appeals), it is somewhere in between (1) and (2) (similar to the sociolinguistic use of different address terms to express interpersonal stance, e.g., first name vs. title + last name). So even though there is little variation in form (they basically use first names), (2) comes into the picture with respect to my interest. I'm still trying to get a good handle over this and also try to find a good way to operationalize the definitions and classifications. So you have any further insights, I would be very interested in hearing them. But anyway, the following is the summary of all the comments I received so far. Many thanks. All my best, Guo ==================================================================== II. Summary of the original comments =========================================== Nancy Budwig Department of Psychology Phone: 508-793-7250 Clark University FAX: 508-793-7780 Worcester, MA 01610 Time: GMT - 5:00 USA Email: nbudwig at vax.clarku.edu ================================================= I analyzd use of names by the children studied in my book *A developmental-functionalist approach to child language* and have also worked with my colleague Nandita Chaudhary a bit on them in Hindi-speaking mother+s discourse. The short hindi data paper appeared in the BU conference proceedings a few years ago. One Chinese person just finished his ph.d. at Boston University in Educational linguistics. He also collected data in Beijing and studied the children's use of names and pronouns following my own work and found some neat things about politeness with the names. ================================================= Kevin Durkin Department of Psychology The University of Western Australia ================================================= I got interested in related issues some years ago, as part of a longitudinal study of (British) mother-infant interaction. I was particularly interested in the syntactic consequences of parental speech modifications involving names: that is, if the mother says "Jilly want one?" or "Does Jilly want one?" rather than "Do you want one?" what are the consequences for the child's model of pronouns? My colleagues and I completed a couple of studies, and I'll be pleased to send you copies. Among other things, we coded for use of names as attention getting devices. ================================================= Gina Conti-Ramsden ================================================= One reference that may be helful from my early work is Conti-Ramsden, G. (1989). Proper name usage: mother-child interactions with language-impaired and non-language-impaired children. First Language, 9, 271-284. ================================================= Patricia Clancy Linguistics Dept. University of California, Santa Barbara ================================================= Do you mean names as referring expressions or names used in direct address? In my Korean data, it is very common for the mothers to use the children's names instead of "you". I haven't pulled out names. vs. other types of lexical reference, but have looked at lexical vs. pronominal vs. elliptical reference. I could send you a paper on that if you'd be interested. ================================================= Keiko Nakamura Psychology Dept. University of California, Berkeley ================================================= I've been looking at the use of personal names in children's discourse (mainly in the context of gender differences). In Japanese, girls often use personal names to refer to themselves or to others (far more often than using pronouns). Boys also do so, but use pronouns to refer to themselves in certain contexts (e.g., masculine first-person pronouns during rough-and-tumble play and when boasting), and second-person pronouns to refer to others (e.g., when fighting with same-sex peers). Boys use their own names to refer to themselves (alone or with diminutives) when speaking in certain contexts (e.g., when talking with mother, or father- people whom they depend on). Girls do so, too, but also use their own names (alone or with diminutives) when talking with same-sex peers. One reference on Japanese kids is: Ide, Sachiko (1979), Person References of Japanese and American Children, Language Sciences, 1, 273-293. She uses a flowchart to determine the contexts in which children use different forms of self-reference and second-person reference. ================================================= Sandy Thompson Linguistics Dept. Univerisity of California, Santa Barbara ================================================= The best paper I know on proper names (adult, English) is the one by Pamela Downing in the B. Fox book, Studies in Anaphora, just announced in a very recent Funknet message. STUDIES IN ANAPHORA, Barbara Fox (ed.), 1996 xii, 518 pp. Typological Studies in Language, 33 US/Canada: Cloth: 1 55619 641 5 Price: US$115.00 Paper: 1 55619 642 3 Price: $34.95 Rest of the world: Cloth: 90 272 2927 9 Price: Hfl. 200,-- Paper: 90 272 2928 7 Price: Hfl. 70,-- ================================================= Susan Ervin-Tripp Psychology Dept. University of California, Berkeley ================================================= 1. I have found children use names (a) to get attention, and (b) to allude to relationship, as a persuasive device. Example, while interacting with attentive mother: Can I have some more ice cream mommy mommy mommy? 2. In adult speech, indications are that naming is used in somewhat tense situations. There was a study in France of doctor-patient talk that indicated naming increased during disagreements. There is also a tradition there of using polite titles during disputes, e.g. "I think, madam, that you are wrong about that." This appears also in 18th century British novels, sir, in case you have read some. Naming appears to me to be more common in French social conversations than here. The puzzle, Guo, is how naming could be both a mitigator and a marker of challenging. 3. Guo, I think adults sometimes use naming as a mitigator, as children may do. For example, I heard two moving men bringing in my refrigerator and giving each other directions, move it left, more back, etc.and they used LOTS of naming even though they clearly were being attentive, and there was no possible ambiguity of addressee. 4. In letters, some people use naming as a personalizer, interspersed in the letter, having the effect of making the letter writer appear more present, or more attentive to you as an individual. I know some people who do this a lot, but it seems to have some cultural variation too, have you noticed, Guo? ------------------------- How to think about whether the name is an attention-getter, mitigator, or challenge marker: attention getters depend on being ignored (boys are busier, not looking, less often already collaborating??) mitigator more likely on second tries for requests? Actually could be used for different functions by boys and girls? ================================================= Richard (=Dick) Hudson Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT work phone: +171 419 3152; work fax: +171 383 4108 email: dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk home page = http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/home.htm ================================================= Interesting question. I have a brief discussion of the use of names in the second edition of my book "Sociolinguistics" (Cambridge Univ Press 1996), on p. 126-7 plus a few other mentions listed in the index. Fascinating variation and equally fascinating constants across societies. ================================================= Lise Menn Linguistics Dept. CU Boulder ================================================= I haven't done any work on this, but I have been thinking about it. It's clear that names serve an emotional purpose of claiming and even specifying the relationship between speaker and hearer, much more than an informational one; they can be like a touch or a tug on one's clothing. Cultural differences are clear; at least in japanese, which I've been able to observe a little, titles (sensei) are used much more often than either names or titles in English at the same intra-collegial level. Overuse of names in English can be rebuked with "That's my name, don't wear it out!"...I'll be interested in your findings. ================================================= Anat Ninio ================================================= I have a large corpus of Hebrew-speaking children in natural interaction with their mothers, videotaped and analyzed for communicative intent of each utterance. There is much and varied use of proper names, but the question is, what are you interested in in particular? I don't mind doing some statistics for you, but as my codes are very detailed, it'd help to focus on what you're really interested in. What kind of distinctions were you thinking of? I wasn't looking especially for proper-name use, but for ways of expressing various communicative intents. If you want to get a feel for the type and details of the coding system I used, as well as the kind of results one gets, you could glance at the book we've recently published (Ninio, A, and Snow, C., Pragmatic development, Westview Press, 1996). ================================================= Rebecca Sun University of CIncinnati Cincinnati, Ohio ================================================= Hello. I am a 28-year-old female Chinese-American who speaks Mandarin and English. If needed, I can give you some answers about using personal names, but I'm not sure what you need. If you would like to email me back some questions, perhaps we can handle it that way. ================================================= Michelina P. Bonanno, Ph.D. Georgetown University phone: (202) 687-5998 Washington, D.C. 20057, USA ================================================= I am just wondering what ages you are referring to when you use the term children. Also, something that has evolved here in the last 5 or 10 years or so is interesting - sometimes, children (between the ages of 3 and 7) are now starting to be taught to call women by the title "Miss" and the woman's first name. So for example, my neighbor's 4 year old son calls me "Miss Michelina" instead of the usual title last name (notice that this is unusual because I am married, and I also am a Ph.D. so more appropriate titles might be MS or Mrs or even Dr). Children this age very seldom are allowed to call an adult by their first name alone. Anyway, I thought it might be something to look at because it appears to be an emerging trend. Also, note that in the case of males, I don't think any children have started to call men by the title Mr. + first name. This is a trend that I think has been perpetuated by the daycare systems. In some day care settings the children call their teachers Title + First Name, so if the teachers name is Susan Jones, she would be called Miss Susan in a day care or preschool setting, but in an elementary school setting she would be called Miss or Ms Jones. Also, note that in the Southern states, it has been the custom for women at times to be called Miss + first name - so President Carter's (from Georgia) mother used to be called "Miss Lillian", by people of all ages. So, there might be regional variation in what people call each other in terms of names. President Carter is a good example because, in the U.S. in the south, people accept the use of diminuitives for men's names so President Carter was "Jimmy Carter" not James or Jim Carter - but note that President Clinton (also from the South - Arkansas) is Bill not Billy! So individual variation and preference also comes into play! This might be evidenced by children's speech. Long ago, I attended a conference and listened to a talk about the importance of names". You might look to see if the American Name Society still exists and if they have any information that is relevant to your work. ================================================= Pamela Downing Office: (414) 229-4533 Dept. of English & Comp Lit Message: (414) 229-4511 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Home: (414) 453-4480 Milwaukee, Wi. 53201 Fax: (414) 453-4481 downing at csd.uwm.edu ================================================= Dear Guo - I've sent my chapter off to you today. Unfortunately, I don't have any immediate suggestions on how to interpret the gender-related patterns you've observed, although they are very interesting. You might be interested in looking at Mira Ariel's book, Accessing Noun Phrase Antecedents, where she talks about patterns of proper name usage differentiated by the gender of the referent. I would certainly be interested in seeing anything you might write on this topic - ================================================= Jonathan Evans University of California, Berkeley ================================================= Will you also look at differences (if any) between using a name and a title like "lao-san."? I am sure you have thought of this, but you might check the journal _onomastica_. ================================================= Jean Berko Gleason Psychology Department Boston University ================================================= Some years ago we found, but probably did not report formally, that grade school boys (5th & 6th grades) used last names in talking to one another "Ok, Johnson, it's your turn." Girls in this group didn't do this. The function of boys' use of last names seemed to be stylistic--it made them sound sort of tough and guy-like. In a small study on men's speech to children we also found that male preschool teachers used children's names (first names) much more frequently than female teachers did. They used them as softeners along with prohibitives, etc. This study was small and probably 20 years ago--I can find the ref if it is of any interest, but it was adult, not child speech. ================================================= Emanuel A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles ================================================= You may find the following reference relevant: Harvey Sacks and Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Two Preferences in the Organization of Reference to Persons in Conversation and Their Interaction," in George Psathas (ed.), Everyday Language: Studies in Ethnomethodology. (New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc., 1979) 15-21. Emanuel A. Schegloff: "Some Practices for Referring to Persons in Talk-in-Interaction: A Partial Sketch of a Systematics," in Barbara Fox (ed.), Studies in Anaphora. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996), 437-85. ================================================= Shoshana Blum-Kulka ================================================= We have looked at the use of personal names and nicknames at the dinner table of Jewish American and Israeli families. The reference is: Blum-Kulka,S & Katriel, T. 1991. Nicknaming practices in families. In: S. Ting-Toomey & F. Korzenny, eds. Cross-Cultural Interpersonal Communication. London: Sage, p. 58-78 I'll be happy to hear more, I am fascinated by issues of naming in general, ================================================= From a9320929 at ALUMNOS.USON.MX Thu Jun 5 15:04:04 1997 From: a9320929 at ALUMNOS.USON.MX (Medina M. Aurora) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 09:04:04 -0600 Subject: No subject Message-ID: sign off funknet From C.J.Arthur at UEL.AC.UK Tue Jun 17 15:59:48 1997 From: C.J.Arthur at UEL.AC.UK (C. Arthur) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:59:48 GMT Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Message-ID: **********Apologies for any multiple postings********** CALL FOR PAPERS CONFERENCE: THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE LONDON APRIL 6-9 1998 ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Professor Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh) and Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London). This will be the second conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with those of modern Darwinism. FOCUSED THEMES: - From Proto-Language to Language - Modelling Language Evolution SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE: Derek Bickerton (Hawaii), Paul Bloom (Arizona), Luigi Cavalli- Sforza (Stanford), Robin Dunbar (Liverpool), Dean Falk (New York), Philip Lieberman (Brown), Bjorn Lindblom (Stockholm), John Maynard-Smith (Sussex), Frederick Newmeyer (Washington), Johanna Nichols (Berkeley), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Labs). PLEASE SEND YOUR 500-WORD ABSTRACT (DEADLINE OCTOBER 1ST, 1997) TO: Dr. Chris Knight, Department of Sociology, University of East London, Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex RM8 2AS, UK, OR BY EMAIL TO: C.Knight at uel.ac.uk From dlpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu Jun 19 00:25:47 1997 From: dlpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Doris Payne) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:25:47 -0700 Subject: Conference on External Possession Message-ID: Conference on External Possession and Related Noun Incorporation Eugene, Oregon September 7-10, 1997 Conference Organizers: Doris Payne, University of Oregon (dlpayne at oregon.uoregon.edu) Immanuel Barshi, University of Colorado (ebarshi at clipr.colorado.edu) Gwen Frishkoff, University of Oregon (gwenf at darkwing.uoregon.edu) ***************************** SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sunday, September 7 6:00 Registration 6:30 Welcoming and Opening Remarks 7:15 Reception Monday, September 8 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 1: The functional bases for EP constructions 9:00 Maura Velz-Castillo (U. of Wisconsin) EP constructions in Spanish and in Guaran 9:40 Bernard Comrie (U. of Southern California) & Maria Polinsky (UC at San Diego) Possessor raising in a language that does not have any 10:20 Break 10:40 Zygmunt Frajzyngier (U. of Colorado) External possessor: A system-interactional approach 11:20 Mirjam Fried (U. of Oregon) From interest to ownership: A constructional view of External Possessors" 12:00 Discussant: Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) 12:30 Lunch Session 2: EP constructions in languages of Europe 2:00 Martin Haspelmath (U. of Bamberg) External possession in a European areal perspective 2:40 Silvia Luraghi (Terza U. di Roma) Possessor Raising in Indo-European 3:20 Break 3:35 Melissa Bowerman & Ursula Brinkmann (Max Planck Inst.) The structure and acquisition of external possessor in German, Dutch, and English 4:15 Vera Podlesskaya & Ekaterina Rakhilina External Possession, reflexivization & body parts in Russian 4:55 Discussant: Bill Croft (U. of Manchester) 5:25 Break Session 3: Typological Studies I 5:50 William McGregor (U. of Melbourne) NP-External possession constructions in the Nyulnyulan languages 6:30 Hilary Chappell (La Trobe U.) External possession constructions in Sinitic languages: Double unaccusative in Taiwanese Southern Min, Cantonese Yue, and Mandarin 7:10 Wataru Nakamura (U. of Electro-Communication, Tokyo) On the argument structure of inalienable possession constructions 7:50 Discussant: Marianne Mithun (UC at Santa Barbara) Tuesday, September 9 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 4: Psycholinguistic/Experimental panel 9:00 Keiko Uehara (CUNY at Buffalo) External possessors in Japanese from a psycholinguistic viewpoint: Some sentence completion data 9:15 Immanuel Barshi (U. of Colorado) & Doris Payne (U. of Oregon) Experimental design in processing of argument structures: Maasai external possession 9:30 Panel Discussion Discussants: Melissa Bowerman (Max Planck Inst.) Murray Singer (U. of Manitoba) Russell Tomlin (U. of Oregon) 10:00 Break Session 5: Typological Studies II 10:20 Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser Univ.) Mapping possessors: Parameterizing the EP construction 11:00 Jack Martin (C. of William and Mary) External Possession in Muskogean 11:40 Lunch 1:00 Noel Rude (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation) EP in Sahaptian 1:40 Ronald Schaefer (U. of Illinois) On the properties of Emai possessor promotion 2:20 Discussant: T.B.A. Session 6: Incorporation and EP 3:00 Mark Baker (McGill Univ.) Conditions on external possession in Mohawk: Incorporation, argument structure, and aspect 3:40 Paulette Levy "Where" rather than "what": Incorporation of "parts" in Totonac 4:20 Veerle van Geenhoven (Max Planck Inst.) A semantic analysis of external possessors in West Greenlandic noun incorporating constructions 5:00 Discussant: Marianne Mithun (UC at Santa Barbara) 5:30 Dinner Session 7: Incorporation vs. EP 7:00 Roberto Zavala (Max Planck Inst.) Possessor raising and incorporation of body parts in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean) 7:40 Mark Donahue (U. of Manchester) Syntactic roles vs. semantic roles: External possession in Tukang Besi 8:20 Discussant: Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) Wednesday, September 10 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 8: EP, subjects, and "Subjects" 9:00 Toshihide Nakayama (UC at Santa Barbara) Two ways of marking possession of arguments in Nootka 9:40 Judith Aissen (UC at Santa Cruz) Possessor and logical subject in Tz'utujil 10:20 Pamela Munro (UCLA) Possession of non-canonical subjecthood 11:00 Discussant: T.B.A. 11:20 Break 11:40 Panel discussion: Towards an adequate theory of syntax Discussants: Judith Aissen (UCSC) Mark Baker (McGill U.) Bill Croft (U. of Manchester) Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) Marianne Mithun (UCSB) Doris Payne (U. of Oregon) 6:30 BBQ dinner at the home of Tom and Doris Payne (Please register at the desk; see map for address and directions.) From dlpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu Jun 19 00:42:01 1997 From: dlpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Doris Payne) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:42:01 -0700 Subject: EP/NI Conference announcement Message-ID: Conference on External Possession and Related Noun Incorporation Eugene, Oregon September 7-10, 1997 Conference Organizers: Doris Payne, University of Oregon (dlpayne at oregon.uoregon.edu) Immanuel Barshi, University of Colorado (ebarshi at clipr.colorado.edu) Gwen Frishkoff, University of Oregon (gwenf at darkwing.uoregon.edu) ***************************** CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION: DEFINITION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF EP CONSTRUCTIONS "External possession" (EP) refers to any construction in which a semantic possessor-possessed relation is expressed by coding the possessor as a core grammatical relation of the verb, and in a constituent separate from that which contains the possessed item, regardless of whether the possessor is expressed as subject, direct object, indirect object or dative, and regardless of whether one wishes to argue that syntactic "raising" or "ascension" is involved. The possessor could simultaneously be expressed by a pronoun or pronominal affix internal to the NP containing the possessed item, as in a Genitive-NP construction. But in the EP construction, this NP-internal coding cannot be the ony expression of the possessor. Additionally, a lexical predicate, such as 'have', 'own' or 'be located at' cannot be the only expression of the possessor-possessed relationship. This conference brings together core issues in sytnax, including verbal valence, cognitive event construal, voice, and issues in language processing. EP constructions are a limiting case in terms of argument structure, and thus hold some fundamental keys for understanding the connection between verbal argument structure and syntactic clause structure. In particular, these constructions frequently appear to "break the rules" with respect to how many arguments a verb of a given valence can have. Given that most current theories of language processing assume verb-centered theories of syntax, these constructions are important for psycholinguistic language processing research. ***************************** SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Sunday, September 7 6:00 Registration 6:30 Welcoming and Opening Remarks 7:15 Reception Monday, September 8 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 1: The functional bases for EP constructions 9:00 Maura Velz-Castillo (U. of Wisconsin) EP constructions in Spanish and in Guaran 9:40 Bernard Comrie (U. of Southern California) & Maria Polinsky (UC at San Diego) Possessor raising in a language that does not have any 10:20 Break 10:40 Zygmunt Frajzyngier (U. of Colorado) External possessor: A system-interactional approach 11:20 Mirjam Fried (U. of Oregon) From interest to ownership: A constructional view of External Possessors" 12:00 Discussant: Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) 12:30 Lunch Session 2: EP constructions in languages of Europe 2:00 Martin Haspelmath (U. of Bamberg) External possession in a European areal perspective 2:40 Silvia Luraghi (Terza U. di Roma) Possessor Raising in Indo-European 3:20 Break 3:35 Melissa Bowerman & Ursula Brinkmann (Max Planck Inst.) The structure and acquisition of external possessor in German, Dutch, and English 4:15 Vera Podlesskaya & Ekaterina Rakhilina External Possession, reflexivization & body parts in Russian 4:55 Discussant: Bill Croft (U. of Manchester) 5:25 Break Session 3: Typological Studies I 5:50 William McGregor (U. of Melbourne) NP-External possession constructions in the Nyulnyulan languages 6:30 Hilary Chappell (La Trobe U.) External possession constructions in Sinitic languages: Double unaccusative in Taiwanese Southern Min, Cantonese Yue, and Mandarin 7:10 Wataru Nakamura (U. of Electro-Communication, Tokyo) On the argument structure of inalienable possession constructions 7:50 Discussant: Marianne Mithun (UC at Santa Barbara) Tuesday, September 9 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 4: Psycholinguistic/Experimental panel 9:00 Keiko Uehara (CUNY at Buffalo) External possessors in Japanese from a psycholinguistic viewpoint: Some sentence completion data 9:15 Immanuel Barshi (U. of Colorado) & Doris Payne (U. of Oregon) Experimental design in processing of argument structures: Maasai external possession 9:30 Panel Discussion Discussants: Melissa Bowerman (Max Planck Inst.) Murray Singer (U. of Manitoba) Russell Tomlin (U. of Oregon) 10:00 Break Session 5: Typological Studies II 10:20 Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser Univ.) Mapping possessors: Parameterizing the EP construction 11:00 Jack Martin (C. of William and Mary) External Possession in Muskogean 11:40 Lunch 1:00 Noel Rude (Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation) EP in Sahaptian 1:40 Ronald Schaefer (U. of Illinois) On the properties of Emai possessor promotion 2:20 Discussant: T.B.A. Session 6: Incorporation and EP 3:00 Mark Baker (McGill Univ.) Conditions on external possession in Mohawk: Incorporation, argument structure, and aspect 3:40 Paulette Levy "Where" rather than "what": Incorporation of "parts" in Totonac 4:20 Veerle van Geenhoven (Max Planck Inst.) A semantic analysis of external possessors in West Greenlandic noun incorporating constructions 5:00 Discussant: Marianne Mithun (UC at Santa Barbara) 5:30 Dinner Session 7: Incorporation vs. EP 7:00 Roberto Zavala (Max Planck Inst.) Possessor raising and incorporation of body parts in Oluta Popoluca (Mixean) 7:40 Mark Donahue (U. of Manchester) Syntactic roles vs. semantic roles: External possession in Tukang Besi 8:20 Discussant: Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) Wednesday, September 10 8:15 Registration and Continental breakfast Session 8: EP, subjects, and "Subjects" 9:00 Toshihide Nakayama (UC at Santa Barbara) Two ways of marking possession of arguments in Nootka 9:40 Judith Aissen (UC at Santa Cruz) Possessor and logical subject in Tz'utujil 10:20 Pamela Munro (UCLA) Possession of non-canonical subjecthood 11:00 Discussant: T.B.A. 11:20 Break 11:40 Panel discussion: Towards an adequate theory of syntax Discussants: Judith Aissen (UCSC) Mark Baker (McGill U.) Bill Croft (U. of Manchester) Suzanne Kemmer (Rice U.) Marianne Mithun (UCSB) Doris Payne (U. of Oregon) 6:30 BBQ dinner at the home of Tom and Doris Payne (Please register at the desk; see map for address and directions.) From john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL Thu Jun 19 08:09:52 1997 From: john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL (John Myhill) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 11:09:52 +0300 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I am looking for sociolinguistic information regarding a number of languages and language situations. I'm looking for people (preferably linguists) who could tell me something about the sociolinguistic situation regarding these languages: Tamil (and other Dravidian languages), Tibetan, Greek, Icelandic, Swiss German, Armenian, Shona, Igbo, Ewe, Norweigian, Ge'ez, Coptic (liturgical Egyptian), Haitian Creole, Balinese, Classical Mayan (the hieroglyphs), Classical Persian (as used among Zoroastrians), Pali, Panjabi, Latin References to people who would know about these languages would also be very much appreciated. Thanks. John Myhill From ph1u+ at ANDREW.CMU.EDU Fri Jun 20 15:54:10 1997 From: ph1u+ at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul J Hopper) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:54:10 -0400 Subject: Per Linell, "Written Language Bias" Message-ID: Per Linell's classic and virtually unobtainable monograph 'The Written Language Bias in Linguistics' is now available on line at the following URL: http://eng.hss.cmu.edu/home/Linel/Linel.htm The text was scanned in by Chris Werry, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon. We owe our thanks to Per, the copyright holder, for giving permission to the CMU English Server to reproduce his text, and to Chris for taking the time and trouble to edit and upload it and design the pages. 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Box 3289 New York, NY 10163-3289 From eng_shh at SHSU.EDU Tue Jun 24 21:38:03 1997 From: eng_shh at SHSU.EDU (Helena Halmari) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 16:38:03 EST Subject: 1998 AAAL Graduate Student Travel Grant Message-ID: 1998 AAAL Graduate Student Travel Grant Purpose: To help support travel (and some expenses) of a graduate student member of AAAL to the 1998 annual meeting. Eligibility: Applicants must be current members of AAAL (at time of application) who are in a university Master's or Ph.D. program in applied linguistics or related field. Amount: One award of $500.00 (US) will be made for the 1998 conference. Selection Criteria: (a) Present scholarship and future promise (b) Demonstrated need (c) Involvement in applied linguistics and commitment to the field Application procedure: 1. Send four copies of a letter of introduction in which you state: (a) institution and program of study (b) current contributions to the field of applied linguistics (c) career plans after completion of degree program (d) current financial situation, including your university's contribution to conference travel (e) how conference attendance will benefit you and others (f) a biographical statement of no longer than 50 words, suitable for publication (g) contact information (address, telephone, fax, and e-mail)* 2. Send a sealed letter of recommendation from a professor in your graduate program who is familiar with your work. The letter should state your professor's estimation of: (a) your academic work and promise in the field of applied linguistics (b) personal attributes relevant to a career in applied linguistics (c) your level of need for financial assistance as provided for by this grant.* *Each of the categories listed must be addressed since evaluation is keyed to individual categories (not including 1(a), (f), (g)). Deadline for receipt of application: December 1, 1997 Send all materials to: 1998 AAAL Graduate Student Travel Grant AAAL Business Office 7630 West 145th St, Suite 202 Apple Valley, MN 55124 Any questions about this grant may be addressed to the Co-chair of the Awards Committee: Helena Halmari, Dept. of English, Sam Houston State University Huntsville, Texas 77341 e-mail: eng_shh at shsu.edu tel: 409-294-1990 From mariel at POST.TAU.AC.IL Wed Jun 25 08:12:02 1997 From: mariel at POST.TAU.AC.IL (ariel mira) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:12:02 +0300 Subject: Looking for Schremp Message-ID: Hi, Sorry to use the net this way, but does anyone know the whereabouts of Mary Schremp, who looked at relative clauses in the Oklahoma data base? Thanks, Mira Ariel Linguistics Tel-Aviv University From jrubba at POLYMAIL.CPUNIX.CALPOLY.EDU Thu Jun 26 20:54:35 1997 From: jrubba at POLYMAIL.CPUNIX.CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 13:54:35 -0700 Subject: Query: grammar on the web Message-ID: Hello, all. I am looking for websites about English grammar. I am interested in sites that include the traditional approach, but also in sites that incorporate functionalist or more linguistically-based descriptions. I would also be interested in anything available on CD-ROM. My purpose is to find supplementary materials for a course I will be teaching this Fall for future teachers of elementary and high school language arts. It is intended to be a review of basic English grammar, mechanics, and usage. I need good exercises that students can access, self-correct, and perhaps find explanations for why the right answer is the right answer (and perhaps why the most logical wrong answer is the wrong answer). I will be explaining traditional grammar as it is found in currently-used school texts, but I want to frame this in functionalism to the greatest extent possible, and also want to find in-context exercises if any are available. Please note that this course will be for students who have had little to no linguistics, so sites that rely heavily on advanced linguistic theory will not be of use to me. I will post a summary of responses. I am familiar with the U. of Ottowa's Hypergrammar site already. I may use it and/or another site that I find as a result of this search. Thanks for any help! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics ~ English Department, California Polytechnic State University ~ San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ~ Tel. (805)-756-2184 E-mail: jrubba at oboe.aix.calpoly.edu ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From annes at HTDC.ORG Mon Jun 30 22:01:50 1997 From: annes at HTDC.ORG (Anne Sing) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:01:50 -1000 Subject: Semantics Software Message-ID: We would like to increase accuracy of our parser by adding more semantic information similar to what is available in Word Net. Could anyone give us information about other products of that nature. Thanks much Phil Bralich Ergo Linguistic Technologies bralich at htdc.org