From funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU Thu Jul 9 18:19:03 1998 From: funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU (Funknet Administration) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:19:03 -0500 Subject: LAGB Autumn Meeting (fwd) Message-ID: From: M.Groefsema at HERTS.AC.UK (M.Groefsema) Marjolein Groefsema Meetings Secretary LAGB > LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN > > Autumn Meeting 1998: University of Luton > > Second Circular > > >The 1998 Autumn Meeting will be held from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 >September at the University of Luton, at its Park Square Campus, where the >Association will be the guests of the Department of Linguistics. The Local >Organiser is Vlad Zegarac (vladimir.zegarac at luton.ac.uk). Enquiries about >the meeting should be addressed to: >Vlad Zegarac, LAGB 1998, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Luton, 75 >Castle Street, Luton , Bedfordshire, LU1 3AJ. > >The conference immediately follows the Relevance Theory Workshop, which takes >place at the University of Luton from 8th to 10th of September (for further >information contact: S.Nicolle at mdx.ac.uk). > >Accommodation: will be in the University Halls of Residence, within 5-7 >minutes >walking distance from the Park Square building where the talks will take >place. All bedrooms are single. Each bedroom is part of a flat, which >consists of a bathroom, kitchen and five bedrooms. Rooms will be allocated >strictly on a "first-come first-served" basis. > >Registration: will begin at 12 noon on Thursday the 10th of September in >the Park Square Building. > >Bar: a bar will be available every day during the conference. > >Food: please indicate vegetarian and any other dietary requirements on the >booking form below. > >Childcare: If you require childcare during the conference, please contact >the Local Organiser for further details. > >Travel by train: There are direct trains to Luton from London Kings Cross >Station and from Gatwick Airport. It takes five minutes to walk from the >rail station to Park Square Campus (a map will be sent with your booking >receipt). > >Travel by car: If driving, take junction 10 off the M1; initially follow >the sign for the A1081; from the next roundabout follow signs for town >centre; once you are near the town centre follow signs for Park >Square/university of Luton. > >Parking: free parking will be available for all delegates. > >Events: The Henry Sweet Lecture 1998 on the Thursday evening will be delivered >by Dan Sperber (CNRS, and CREA, Ecole Polytechnique >Paris) and is entitled Relevance in an Evolutionary Perspective. > >Dan Sperber will also be participating in a Workshop on Experimental >pragmatics on Thursday afternoon and evening. The workshop is organised by >Billy Clark (Middlesex University). Other contributors are Anne >Bezuidenhout (South Carolina), Stephen Newstead (Plymouth),Steve Nicolle >(Middlesex), and Ira Noveck (Ecole Polytechnique Paris). > >There will be a Language Tutorial on Roshani, a Pamir language of the Eastern >Iranian group of Indo-European, given by John Payne (University of >Manchester). > >There will be a Wine Party on the Thursday evening, following Dan Sperber's >lecture. > >Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organiser, address above. There is a 10% >discount on bookings received by Friday 21 August. Cheques should be made >payable to "University of Luton". > > > PROGRAMME > > Thursday 10 September 1998 > >1.00 LUNCH > >2.00 Workshop on Experimental Pragmatics >Organiser: Billy Clark (Middlesex University) >With Anne Bezuidenhout (South Carolina), Stephen Newstead (Plymouth), >Steve Nicolle (Middlesex), Ira Noveck (Ecole Polytechnique Paris), >Dan Sperber (CNRS, and CREA, Ecole Polytechnique Paris) > >3.30 TEA > >4.00 Workshop continues > >6.30 DINNER > >7.45 Henry Sweet Lecture 1998 >Dan Sperber (CNRS, and CREA, Ecole Polytechnique Paris) >Relevance in an Evolutionary Perspective > > > Friday 11 September 1998 > >Session A >9.00 Masako Ohara (Essex) "Mixed characteristics of verbal nouns in >Japanese" >9.40 Kensei Sugayama (Kobe City) "Japanese NQs and unaccusativity: From a > WG point of view" >10.20 Jasper Holmes (UCL) "Causing, changing and acting" > >Session B >9.00 A. Sophia S. Marmaridou (Athens) "Conceptual metaphor and the > relativity issue: The case of M. Greek financial discourse" >9.40 Nathalie Franken (ULB) "Towards a new definition of the act of > communication" >10.20 Isao Higashimori (Kobe College) "Metaphor and metonymy in loanwords: > Relevance Theory vs. Lakovian Cognitive Semantics" > >Session C >9.00 Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin and UCL) "Prenasalisation as a case > of lenition" >9.40 Cecile De Cat and Bernadette Plunkett (York) "On the status of >peripheral > strong pronouns in early French" >10.20 Harald Clahsen and Sam Featherston (Essex) "Four accounts of `trace > reactivation': evidence from German scrambling" > >11.00 COFFEE > >11.30 Language Tutorial: Roshani > John Payne (University of Manchester) > >1.00 LUNCH > >Session A >2.00 Norio Nasu (UCL) "Attract F and the status of Spec-IP in infinitival > clauses" >2.40 Seiki Ayano (Durham) "Multiple feature-checking and a double object > construction in Japanese" >3.20 Laura Rupp (Essex) "`Inverted' negative imperatives in English" > >Session B >2.00 Christoph Unger (SLI) "Causality and relevance" >2.40 Anne Furlong (Newfoundland) "The Soul of Wit: a relevance-theoretic > approach" >3.20 Anna Papafragou (UCL) "Possibility and concession" > >Session C >2.00 Dick Hudson (UCL) "Syncretism and the X-form" >2.40 Chet Creider (Western Ontario) "Swahili verbal inflectional morphology > in theoretical perspective" >3.20 Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris-8) "Number specification and referentiality: a > contrast between French and Malagasy" > >4.00 TEA > >4.30 LAGB Business Meeting > >5.30 Language Tutorial continues > >6.30 DINNER > >7.45 Language Tutorial continues > > > > Saturday 12 September 1998 > >Session A >9.00 Shen Yuan (Hong Kong) "Sentences with indefinite subjects and their > information structures" >9.40 Mayumi Masuko (Waseda) "Valence reduction and lexical meaning" >10.20 Valia Kordoni (Tübingen) "Agentivity, causation, cliticization and >psych > verb constructions: at the syntax-lexical semantics interface" > >Session B >9.00 S J Hannahs & Maggie Tallerman (Durham) "On getting `the' right in > Welsh" >9.40 Nedzad Leko (Oslo) "Syntactic versus semantic agreement in the Oslo > Corpus of Bosnian texts" >10.20 John Payne and Erika Chisarik (Manchester) "Case-markers and > postpositions: the Hungarian problem" > >Session C >9.40 Sam Featherston, Harald Clahsen, Thomas Muente and Matthias Grosz > (Essex) "Raising and equi structures in HPSG and PPT: psycholinguistic > evidence" >10.20 Chieko Kuribara (Reading) "Resetting or tactics?: Acquisition of > Functional Category C by Japanese Learners of English" > >11.00 COFFEE > >Session A >11.30 Delia Bentley and Thórhallur Eythórsson (Manchester) "`Have' is not BE" >12.10 Bernadette Plunkett (York) "Locutionary inversion in modern French" > >Session B >11.30 S J Hannahs (Durham) "Unexceptional exceptions and French glides" > >1.00 LUNCH > >Session A >2.00 Roger Maylor (Durham) "The German be- prefix: a case of incorporation" >2.40 Jim Miller (Edinburgh) "What is a non-configurational language?" > >Session B >2.00 April McMahon (Cambridge) "Expecting the unexpected: predictability and > contingency in Optimality Theory" >2.40 Guy Deutscher (Trinity) "The different faces of uniformitarianism" > >3.20 TEA AND CLOSE > > > BOOKING FORM > >Please return this form, with your remittance, to: Vlad Zegarac, Dept. of >Linguistics, University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton , Bedfordshire, >LU1 3AJ. Please make cheques payable to "University of Luton". (All prices >are in pounds sterling ("stlg")). >_____________________________________________________________________ >NAME: INSTITUTION: > >ADDRESS FOR THIS MAILING: > >E-MAIL ADDRESS: > >I enclose remittance as indicated (select appropriate package): > >1. Complete conference package: >(a) including Thursday lunch preceding workshop > (i) if sent to arrive before 21 August 96.10 stlg >..... > (ii) if sent to arrive after 21 August 104.00 stlg >..... > >(b) excluding Thursday lunch > (i) if sent to arrive before 21 August 87.10 stlg >..... > (ii) if sent to arrive after 21 August 95.00 stlg >..... > >(c) Surcharge for non-members, 5.00 stlg >..... > > > TOTAL: >........ > >2. Selected items: > (a) conference fee (OBLIGATORY) to cover cost of > abstracts, tea and coffee, room bookings, > speakers' expenses etc. 15.00 stlg .......... > (b) Thursday lunch 9.00 stlg .......... > (c) Thursday dinner 9.00 stlg .......... > (d) B&B Thursday/Friday 22.00 stlg .......... > (e) Friday lunch 9.00 stlg .......... > (f) Friday dinner 9.00 stlg .......... > (g) B&B Friday/Saturday 22.00 stlg .......... > (h) Saturday lunch 9.00 stlg .......... > > SUB-TOTAL: .......... > > Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 15 August .......... > (i) Surcharge for non-members, 5-00 stlg .......... > > TOTAL: .......... > >4. Abstracts only, for those not attending: >5-00 stlg UK.................... 6-00 stlg >overseas..................... > >TICK TO RECEIVE ABSTRACTS WITH YOUR BOOKING RECEIPT: ............... > >TICK IF YOU WOULD LIKE VEGETARIAN FOOD: ...................... > >OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. DIET, ACCOMMODATION): ............. >............................................................................ >........................... > >PLEASE INDICATE WHETHER YOU ARE TRAVELLING >BY TRAIN ..... BY CAR ...... OTHER ........ > From laser at COGSCI.UIUC.EDU Mon Jul 13 20:57:44 1998 From: laser at COGSCI.UIUC.EDU (Peter Lasersohn) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 15:57:44 -0500 Subject: Workshops and Conferences at the 1999 Linguistic Institute Message-ID: WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES AT THE 1999 LSA LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE Linguistics for the 21st Century: Form and Function from Western and Nonwestern Perspectives The LSA Linguistic Institute has traditionally been a popular venue for workshops and conferences. The upcoming 1999 Institute will be held at the University of Illinois, June 21-July 30, 1999. If you are interested in organizing a WORKSHOP or CONFERENCE at the 1999 Linguistic Institute, please contact us as soon as possible: Peter Lasersohn, Internal Associate Director Department of Linguistics, MC 168 4088 Foreign Languages Building 707 South Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 USA laser at cogsci.uiuc.edu (217) 244-3054 The infrastructure will be in place to host events that range from 10-500 participants. We expect dozens of events to be held here during the Institute, and popular dates and rooms will fill up fast, so please do not delay. Information on the web: About the Institute: http://www.cogsci.uiuc.edu/~lingi nst/1999 About the Linguistics Department at the University of Illinois: http://www.cogsci.uiuc.edu/linguistics About the University of Illinois and surrounding community: http://www.uiuc.edu From gvk at CIACCESS.COM Fri Jul 17 01:56:33 1998 From: gvk at CIACCESS.COM (Gerald Vankoeverden) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:56:33 -0400 Subject: infinite novelty vs. strict uniformity Message-ID: On the one hand, we have infinite novelty in the meaning what we are saying. Just as we can never put our foot into the same water of a river twice, we can never 'mean' exactly the same the same thing twice. The kalaidescope of our emotions and the constant modifications of our ideas through new experiences every day, prevent us from being able to repeat ourselves exactly as we did before. (No wonder the computer scientists have failed at artificial intelligence!) But on the other hand, I am fascinated by the apparent similarity in how speakers of all languages learn their native language. Here is a quote from Larry Trask's linguistic primer: "Now consider how children learn negation. All children do this in exactly the same way. First, they stick a negative word (usually 'no') at the front of the sentence: 'No I want a juice.' After a while, that negative word is moved to the front of the verb: 'I no want juice.' Finally, the rather complicated English negative auxiliaries appear: 'I don't want juice.' And here's the crunch: parents, if they like, can correct the child until they're blue in the face, but she will continue to use her current pattern for making negatives until she's ready for the next stage. Even if they don't correct her (and most parents don't), she will still move through the same stages until she settles on the adult form. ' What is she doing? Once again, she is clearly formulating rules for making negatives, and she's trying different rules until she finds one that gives her the adult forms. But look: she's not just trying out any old rules. Every child tries the same rules in the same order! Moreover, children learning other languages do exactly the same thing-though a child learning, say Spanish can stop at the second stage, because the 'I no want juice' pattern is exactly the way negative sentences are constructed in Spanish. .....In other words, language acquisition is an 'active' process: the child is not just passively soaking up bits of language which come her way: instead she is 'constructing' the language as she goes." end of quote.(Trask, p.144-5) I understand that Chomsky says this process is the same for all because it's rooted in 'genetics.' But that explanation doesn't tell me much. It has no more explanatory 'punch' then that of the Greeks' "deos ex machina", where at the end of a play, a god comes swinging out on a vine to solve all the problems..."Its' in the genes!" Not that I think that he is wrong...what else could it be if its so similar? But lets suppose that language learning patterns are derived from a basic functioning of how we learn anything, a process which in itself has been set up from genetic code...then we could go deeper into this thing of how we learn our first language. What do you think? Do you know of anybody who has taken this approach??? gvk thorn in the side unfurling petals dazzling From alicia.vega at VIRGIN.NET Wed Jul 22 15:27:15 1998 From: alicia.vega at VIRGIN.NET (Alicia Vega) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:27:15 +0100 Subject: HELP Message-ID: I am conducting an experiment on the interpretation of novel metaphors. I need speakers whose mother tongue is English to help me, and finding them is proving quite difficult at the moment, so I would really appreciate if you could take a few minutes to have a look at the following sentences and provide an interpretation as if they were said of someone to you; e.g. "he's a car"= fast, reliable, reckless, safe, whatever you can think of would be of invaluable help. Thank you. -------- 1.He is a car 2.He is a phone-box 3.He is a zebra-cross 4.He is a pillow 5.He is a rucksack 6.He is a magazine 7.He is an octopus 8.He is a snake 9.He is a cat 10.He is a computer 11.He is a grill 12.He is a book 13.He is a cheese sandwich 14.He is a lighter 15.He is a cheque-book 16.He is a snail 17.He is a football 18.He is a dustbin 19.He is a salad 20.He is an ashtray 21.He is a compass 22.He is a mirror 23.He is a pair of scissors 24.He is a hat 25.He is a whip -------------- 1.She is a car 2.She is a phone box 3.She is a zebra-cross 4.She is a pillow 5.She is a rucksack 6.She is a magazine 7.She is an octopus 8.She is a snake 9.She is a cat 10.She is a computer 11.She is a grill 12.She is a book 13.She is a cheese sandwich 14.She is a lighter 15.She is a cheque-book 16.She is a snail 17.She is a football 18.She is a dustbin 19.She is a salad 20.She is an ashtray 21.She is a compass 22.She is a mirror 23.She is a pair of scissors 24.She is a hat 25.She is a whip From alicia.vega at VIRGIN.NET Fri Jul 24 14:39:45 1998 From: alicia.vega at VIRGIN.NET (Alicia Vega) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:39:45 +0100 Subject: HELP Message-ID: I am conducting an experiment on the interpretation of novel metaphors. I need speakers whose mother tongue is English to help me, and finding them is proving quite difficult at the moment, so I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to have a look at the following sentences and provide an interpretation as if they were said of someone to you; e.g. "he's a car"= fast, reliable, reckless, safe, whatever you can think of would be of invaluable help. Thank you. -------- 1.He is a car 2.He is a phone-box 3.He is a zebra-cross 4.He is a pillow 5.He is a rucksack 6.He is a magazine 7.He is an octopus 8.He is a snake 9.He is a cat 10.He is a computer 11.He is a grill 12.He is a book 13.He is a cheese sandwich 14.He is a lighter 15.He is a cheque-book 16.He is a snail 17.He is a football 18.He is a dustbin 19.He is a salad 20.He is an ashtray 21.He is a compass 22.He is a mirror 23.He is a pair of scissors 24.He is a hat 25.He is a whip -------------- 1.She is a car 2.She is a phone box 3.She is a zebra-cross 4.She is a pillow 5.She is a rucksack 6.She is a magazine 7.She is an octopus 8.She is a snake 9.She is a cat 10.She is a computer 11.She is a grill 12.She is a book 13.She is a cheese sandwich 14.She is a lighter 15.She is a cheque-book 16.She is a snail 17.She is a football 18.She is a dustbin 19.She is a salad 20.She is an ashtray 21.She is a compass 22.She is a mirror 23.She is a pair of scissors 24.She is a hat 25.She is a whip From funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU Fri Jul 24 19:48:36 1998 From: funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU (Funknet Administration) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:48:36 -0500 Subject: Change in your subscription options for the FUNKNET list In-Reply-To: <199807221858.LAA01594@ling.ucsd.edu> Message-ID: I have received a number of queries as to the "change of setting" notice which everyone just received. 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If you *don't* want this, it is now necessary for you to send the command SET FUNKNET NOREPRO to the address listserv at rice.edu So you can take back control of your own account settings... Spike From morris at LING.UCSD.EDU Sat Jul 25 03:22:57 1998 From: morris at LING.UCSD.EDU (William Morris) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:22:57 -0700 Subject: Change in your subscription options for the FUNKNET list Message-ID: Ah, I understand. And I appreciate your action. Thank you. -- Bill Morris From edith at CSD.UWM.EDU Thu Jul 30 19:03:37 1998 From: edith at CSD.UWM.EDU (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:03:37 -0500 Subject: stop mail Message-ID: set funknet nomail -- ************************************************************************ Edith A. Moravcsik Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 USA E-mail: edith at uwm.edu Telephone: (414) 229-6794 /office/ (414) 332-0141 /home/ Fax: (414) 229-2741 From funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU Thu Jul 9 18:19:03 1998 From: funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU (Funknet Administration) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 13:19:03 -0500 Subject: LAGB Autumn Meeting (fwd) Message-ID: From: M.Groefsema at HERTS.AC.UK (M.Groefsema) Marjolein Groefsema Meetings Secretary LAGB > LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN > > Autumn Meeting 1998: University of Luton > > Second Circular > > >The 1998 Autumn Meeting will be held from Thursday 10 to Saturday 12 >September at the University of Luton, at its Park Square Campus, where the >Association will be the guests of the Department of Linguistics. The Local >Organiser is Vlad Zegarac (vladimir.zegarac at luton.ac.uk). Enquiries about >the meeting should be addressed to: >Vlad Zegarac, LAGB 1998, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Luton, 75 >Castle Street, Luton , Bedfordshire, LU1 3AJ. > >The conference immediately follows the Relevance Theory Workshop, which takes >place at the University of Luton from 8th to 10th of September (for further >information contact: S.Nicolle at mdx.ac.uk). > >Accommodation: will be in the University Halls of Residence, within 5-7 >minutes >walking distance from the Park Square building where the talks will take >place. All bedrooms are single. Each bedroom is part of a flat, which >consists of a bathroom, kitchen and five bedrooms. Rooms will be allocated >strictly on a "first-come first-served" basis. > >Registration: will begin at 12 noon on Thursday the 10th of September in >the Park Square Building. > >Bar: a bar will be available every day during the conference. > >Food: please indicate vegetarian and any other dietary requirements on the >booking form below. > >Childcare: If you require childcare during the conference, please contact >the Local Organiser for further details. > >Travel by train: There are direct trains to Luton from London Kings Cross >Station and from Gatwick Airport. It takes five minutes to walk from the >rail station to Park Square Campus (a map will be sent with your booking >receipt). > >Travel by car: If driving, take junction 10 off the M1; initially follow >the sign for the A1081; from the next roundabout follow signs for town >centre; once you are near the town centre follow signs for Park >Square/university of Luton. > >Parking: free parking will be available for all delegates. > >Events: The Henry Sweet Lecture 1998 on the Thursday evening will be delivered >by Dan Sperber (CNRS, and CREA, Ecole Polytechnique >Paris) and is entitled Relevance in an Evolutionary Perspective. > >Dan Sperber will also be participating in a Workshop on Experimental >pragmatics on Thursday afternoon and evening. The workshop is organised by >Billy Clark (Middlesex University). Other contributors are Anne >Bezuidenhout (South Carolina), Stephen Newstead (Plymouth),Steve Nicolle >(Middlesex), and Ira Noveck (Ecole Polytechnique Paris). > >There will be a Language Tutorial on Roshani, a Pamir language of the Eastern >Iranian group of Indo-European, given by John Payne (University of >Manchester). > >There will be a Wine Party on the Thursday evening, following Dan Sperber's >lecture. > >Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organiser, address above. There is a 10% >discount on bookings received by Friday 21 August. Cheques should be made >payable to "University of Luton". > > > PROGRAMME > > Thursday 10 September 1998 > >1.00 LUNCH > >2.00 Workshop on Experimental Pragmatics >Organiser: Billy Clark (Middlesex University) >With Anne Bezuidenhout (South Carolina), Stephen Newstead (Plymouth), >Steve Nicolle (Middlesex), Ira Noveck (Ecole Polytechnique Paris), >Dan Sperber (CNRS, and CREA, Ecole Polytechnique Paris) > >3.30 TEA > >4.00 Workshop continues > >6.30 DINNER > >7.45 Henry Sweet Lecture 1998 >Dan Sperber (CNRS, and CREA, Ecole Polytechnique Paris) >Relevance in an Evolutionary Perspective > > > Friday 11 September 1998 > >Session A >9.00 Masako Ohara (Essex) "Mixed characteristics of verbal nouns in >Japanese" >9.40 Kensei Sugayama (Kobe City) "Japanese NQs and unaccusativity: From a > WG point of view" >10.20 Jasper Holmes (UCL) "Causing, changing and acting" > >Session B >9.00 A. Sophia S. Marmaridou (Athens) "Conceptual metaphor and the > relativity issue: The case of M. Greek financial discourse" >9.40 Nathalie Franken (ULB) "Towards a new definition of the act of > communication" >10.20 Isao Higashimori (Kobe College) "Metaphor and metonymy in loanwords: > Relevance Theory vs. Lakovian Cognitive Semantics" > >Session C >9.00 Kuniya Nasukawa (Tohoku Gakuin and UCL) "Prenasalisation as a case > of lenition" >9.40 Cecile De Cat and Bernadette Plunkett (York) "On the status of >peripheral > strong pronouns in early French" >10.20 Harald Clahsen and Sam Featherston (Essex) "Four accounts of `trace > reactivation': evidence from German scrambling" > >11.00 COFFEE > >11.30 Language Tutorial: Roshani > John Payne (University of Manchester) > >1.00 LUNCH > >Session A >2.00 Norio Nasu (UCL) "Attract F and the status of Spec-IP in infinitival > clauses" >2.40 Seiki Ayano (Durham) "Multiple feature-checking and a double object > construction in Japanese" >3.20 Laura Rupp (Essex) "`Inverted' negative imperatives in English" > >Session B >2.00 Christoph Unger (SLI) "Causality and relevance" >2.40 Anne Furlong (Newfoundland) "The Soul of Wit: a relevance-theoretic > approach" >3.20 Anna Papafragou (UCL) "Possibility and concession" > >Session C >2.00 Dick Hudson (UCL) "Syncretism and the X-form" >2.40 Chet Creider (Western Ontario) "Swahili verbal inflectional morphology > in theoretical perspective" >3.20 Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris-8) "Number specification and referentiality: a > contrast between French and Malagasy" > >4.00 TEA > >4.30 LAGB Business Meeting > >5.30 Language Tutorial continues > >6.30 DINNER > >7.45 Language Tutorial continues > > > > Saturday 12 September 1998 > >Session A >9.00 Shen Yuan (Hong Kong) "Sentences with indefinite subjects and their > information structures" >9.40 Mayumi Masuko (Waseda) "Valence reduction and lexical meaning" >10.20 Valia Kordoni (T?bingen) "Agentivity, causation, cliticization and >psych > verb constructions: at the syntax-lexical semantics interface" > >Session B >9.00 S J Hannahs & Maggie Tallerman (Durham) "On getting `the' right in > Welsh" >9.40 Nedzad Leko (Oslo) "Syntactic versus semantic agreement in the Oslo > Corpus of Bosnian texts" >10.20 John Payne and Erika Chisarik (Manchester) "Case-markers and > postpositions: the Hungarian problem" > >Session C >9.40 Sam Featherston, Harald Clahsen, Thomas Muente and Matthias Grosz > (Essex) "Raising and equi structures in HPSG and PPT: psycholinguistic > evidence" >10.20 Chieko Kuribara (Reading) "Resetting or tactics?: Acquisition of > Functional Category C by Japanese Learners of English" > >11.00 COFFEE > >Session A >11.30 Delia Bentley and Th?rhallur Eyth?rsson (Manchester) "`Have' is not BE" >12.10 Bernadette Plunkett (York) "Locutionary inversion in modern French" > >Session B >11.30 S J Hannahs (Durham) "Unexceptional exceptions and French glides" > >1.00 LUNCH > >Session A >2.00 Roger Maylor (Durham) "The German be- prefix: a case of incorporation" >2.40 Jim Miller (Edinburgh) "What is a non-configurational language?" > >Session B >2.00 April McMahon (Cambridge) "Expecting the unexpected: predictability and > contingency in Optimality Theory" >2.40 Guy Deutscher (Trinity) "The different faces of uniformitarianism" > >3.20 TEA AND CLOSE > > > BOOKING FORM > >Please return this form, with your remittance, to: Vlad Zegarac, Dept. of >Linguistics, University of Luton, 75 Castle Street, Luton , Bedfordshire, >LU1 3AJ. 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OTHER ........ > From laser at COGSCI.UIUC.EDU Mon Jul 13 20:57:44 1998 From: laser at COGSCI.UIUC.EDU (Peter Lasersohn) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 15:57:44 -0500 Subject: Workshops and Conferences at the 1999 Linguistic Institute Message-ID: WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES AT THE 1999 LSA LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE Linguistics for the 21st Century: Form and Function from Western and Nonwestern Perspectives The LSA Linguistic Institute has traditionally been a popular venue for workshops and conferences. The upcoming 1999 Institute will be held at the University of Illinois, June 21-July 30, 1999. If you are interested in organizing a WORKSHOP or CONFERENCE at the 1999 Linguistic Institute, please contact us as soon as possible: Peter Lasersohn, Internal Associate Director Department of Linguistics, MC 168 4088 Foreign Languages Building 707 South Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 USA laser at cogsci.uiuc.edu (217) 244-3054 The infrastructure will be in place to host events that range from 10-500 participants. We expect dozens of events to be held here during the Institute, and popular dates and rooms will fill up fast, so please do not delay. Information on the web: About the Institute: http://www.cogsci.uiuc.edu/~lingi nst/1999 About the Linguistics Department at the University of Illinois: http://www.cogsci.uiuc.edu/linguistics About the University of Illinois and surrounding community: http://www.uiuc.edu From gvk at CIACCESS.COM Fri Jul 17 01:56:33 1998 From: gvk at CIACCESS.COM (Gerald Vankoeverden) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 21:56:33 -0400 Subject: infinite novelty vs. strict uniformity Message-ID: On the one hand, we have infinite novelty in the meaning what we are saying. Just as we can never put our foot into the same water of a river twice, we can never 'mean' exactly the same the same thing twice. The kalaidescope of our emotions and the constant modifications of our ideas through new experiences every day, prevent us from being able to repeat ourselves exactly as we did before. (No wonder the computer scientists have failed at artificial intelligence!) But on the other hand, I am fascinated by the apparent similarity in how speakers of all languages learn their native language. Here is a quote from Larry Trask's linguistic primer: "Now consider how children learn negation. All children do this in exactly the same way. First, they stick a negative word (usually 'no') at the front of the sentence: 'No I want a juice.' After a while, that negative word is moved to the front of the verb: 'I no want juice.' Finally, the rather complicated English negative auxiliaries appear: 'I don't want juice.' And here's the crunch: parents, if they like, can correct the child until they're blue in the face, but she will continue to use her current pattern for making negatives until she's ready for the next stage. Even if they don't correct her (and most parents don't), she will still move through the same stages until she settles on the adult form. ' What is she doing? Once again, she is clearly formulating rules for making negatives, and she's trying different rules until she finds one that gives her the adult forms. But look: she's not just trying out any old rules. Every child tries the same rules in the same order! Moreover, children learning other languages do exactly the same thing-though a child learning, say Spanish can stop at the second stage, because the 'I no want juice' pattern is exactly the way negative sentences are constructed in Spanish. .....In other words, language acquisition is an 'active' process: the child is not just passively soaking up bits of language which come her way: instead she is 'constructing' the language as she goes." end of quote.(Trask, p.144-5) I understand that Chomsky says this process is the same for all because it's rooted in 'genetics.' But that explanation doesn't tell me much. It has no more explanatory 'punch' then that of the Greeks' "deos ex machina", where at the end of a play, a god comes swinging out on a vine to solve all the problems..."Its' in the genes!" Not that I think that he is wrong...what else could it be if its so similar? But lets suppose that language learning patterns are derived from a basic functioning of how we learn anything, a process which in itself has been set up from genetic code...then we could go deeper into this thing of how we learn our first language. What do you think? Do you know of anybody who has taken this approach??? gvk thorn in the side unfurling petals dazzling From alicia.vega at VIRGIN.NET Wed Jul 22 15:27:15 1998 From: alicia.vega at VIRGIN.NET (Alicia Vega) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:27:15 +0100 Subject: HELP Message-ID: I am conducting an experiment on the interpretation of novel metaphors. I need speakers whose mother tongue is English to help me, and finding them is proving quite difficult at the moment, so I would really appreciate if you could take a few minutes to have a look at the following sentences and provide an interpretation as if they were said of someone to you; e.g. "he's a car"= fast, reliable, reckless, safe, whatever you can think of would be of invaluable help. Thank you. -------- 1.He is a car 2.He is a phone-box 3.He is a zebra-cross 4.He is a pillow 5.He is a rucksack 6.He is a magazine 7.He is an octopus 8.He is a snake 9.He is a cat 10.He is a computer 11.He is a grill 12.He is a book 13.He is a cheese sandwich 14.He is a lighter 15.He is a cheque-book 16.He is a snail 17.He is a football 18.He is a dustbin 19.He is a salad 20.He is an ashtray 21.He is a compass 22.He is a mirror 23.He is a pair of scissors 24.He is a hat 25.He is a whip -------------- 1.She is a car 2.She is a phone box 3.She is a zebra-cross 4.She is a pillow 5.She is a rucksack 6.She is a magazine 7.She is an octopus 8.She is a snake 9.She is a cat 10.She is a computer 11.She is a grill 12.She is a book 13.She is a cheese sandwich 14.She is a lighter 15.She is a cheque-book 16.She is a snail 17.She is a football 18.She is a dustbin 19.She is a salad 20.She is an ashtray 21.She is a compass 22.She is a mirror 23.She is a pair of scissors 24.She is a hat 25.She is a whip From alicia.vega at VIRGIN.NET Fri Jul 24 14:39:45 1998 From: alicia.vega at VIRGIN.NET (Alicia Vega) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:39:45 +0100 Subject: HELP Message-ID: I am conducting an experiment on the interpretation of novel metaphors. I need speakers whose mother tongue is English to help me, and finding them is proving quite difficult at the moment, so I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to have a look at the following sentences and provide an interpretation as if they were said of someone to you; e.g. "he's a car"= fast, reliable, reckless, safe, whatever you can think of would be of invaluable help. Thank you. -------- 1.He is a car 2.He is a phone-box 3.He is a zebra-cross 4.He is a pillow 5.He is a rucksack 6.He is a magazine 7.He is an octopus 8.He is a snake 9.He is a cat 10.He is a computer 11.He is a grill 12.He is a book 13.He is a cheese sandwich 14.He is a lighter 15.He is a cheque-book 16.He is a snail 17.He is a football 18.He is a dustbin 19.He is a salad 20.He is an ashtray 21.He is a compass 22.He is a mirror 23.He is a pair of scissors 24.He is a hat 25.He is a whip -------------- 1.She is a car 2.She is a phone box 3.She is a zebra-cross 4.She is a pillow 5.She is a rucksack 6.She is a magazine 7.She is an octopus 8.She is a snake 9.She is a cat 10.She is a computer 11.She is a grill 12.She is a book 13.She is a cheese sandwich 14.She is a lighter 15.She is a cheque-book 16.She is a snail 17.She is a football 18.She is a dustbin 19.She is a salad 20.She is an ashtray 21.She is a compass 22.She is a mirror 23.She is a pair of scissors 24.She is a hat 25.She is a whip From funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU Fri Jul 24 19:48:36 1998 From: funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU (Funknet Administration) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:48:36 -0500 Subject: Change in your subscription options for the FUNKNET list In-Reply-To: <199807221858.LAA01594@ling.ucsd.edu> Message-ID: I have received a number of queries as to the "change of setting" notice which everyone just received. 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If you *don't* want this, it is now necessary for you to send the command SET FUNKNET NOREPRO to the address listserv at rice.edu So you can take back control of your own account settings... Spike From morris at LING.UCSD.EDU Sat Jul 25 03:22:57 1998 From: morris at LING.UCSD.EDU (William Morris) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 20:22:57 -0700 Subject: Change in your subscription options for the FUNKNET list Message-ID: Ah, I understand. And I appreciate your action. Thank you. -- Bill Morris From edith at CSD.UWM.EDU Thu Jul 30 19:03:37 1998 From: edith at CSD.UWM.EDU (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:03:37 -0500 Subject: stop mail Message-ID: set funknet nomail -- ************************************************************************ Edith A. Moravcsik Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 USA E-mail: edith at uwm.edu Telephone: (414) 229-6794 /office/ (414) 332-0141 /home/ Fax: (414) 229-2741