From matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI Mon Mar 2 14:23:53 1998 From: matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI (Matti Miestamo) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:23:53 +0200 Subject: Calls: New Trends in Variationist Linguistics: From Attitudes to Grammar Message-ID: (Apologies for the cross-posting) *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** The Linguistic Association of Finland is organizing a summer course/workshop on NEW TRENDS IN VARIATIONIST LINGUISTICS: FROM ATTITUDES TO GRAMMAR to be held at the University of Oulu, the Perämeri Research Station by the unique nature reserves on the Hailuoto island August 14-16, 1998 The workshop will bring together researchers and PhD students working in the field of language variation, ranging from morpho-syntactic variation to dialectology, sociolinguistic variation, code-switching, language attitudes and beliefs, and variation in interactional practices. The aim of the workshop is to explore new issues in the study of variation, such as the use of new methodologies and types of data. Participants are strongly encouraged to give a paper on any aspect of language variation, as this is an excellent opportunity to get feedback from others working in this area and from some of the leading scholars in variationist studies. Invited speakers: Peter Auer (University of Hamburg) Juhani Klemola (University of Leeds) Dennis Preston (Michigan State University) Activities: * lectures by invited speakers * presentations by other participants (20 min + 10 min for discussion) * recommended readings before the workshop (the reading list will be distri- buted to registered participants) Registration fees: * general: FIM 200 * members of the association: FIM 100 * undergraduate and MA students free * payment upon registration * send by giro account no 800013-1424850 to The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY)/Variation, or payment at the beginning of the workshop in cash Other costs: * Accommodation and food FIM 170 x 3. Accommodation primarily in 4-8 person rooms. * Bus from Oulu to Hailuoto on the morning of 14 August and back on the afternoon of 16 August (fare between FIM 50-100) The deadline for submission of abstracts (one page; preferably in English) and registration is April 30, 1998. Please register and submit an abstract by e-mail to the following address: variation at ling.helsinki.fi If you send this information by snail mail, please provide an e-mail address as a contact address (if possible). Participants will be notified about acceptance by May 31. For further information, please contact one of the following organizers: Marja Leinonen Marja-Leena Sorjonen Filologia II Department of Finnish University of Tampere P.O. Box 33 P.O. Box 67 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki 33101 Tampere Finland Finland e-mail: sorjonen at helsinki.fi e-mail: f2male at uta.fi Elise Kärkkäinen Matti Miestamo Department of English Department of Linguistics University of Oulu P.O. Box 4 P.O. Box 111 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki FIN-90571 Oulu Finland Finland e-mail: matmies at ling.helsinki.fi e-mail: elise.karkkainen at oulu.fi Information can also be found at: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/variation.html From efiguero at CAPOMO.USON.MX Tue Mar 3 04:35:27 1998 From: efiguero at CAPOMO.USON.MX (Max Enrique Figueroa Esteva) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 21:35:27 -0700 Subject: RV: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste Message-ID: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:21:13 -0700 > > > From: Gerardo Lopez C. > > > To: LATAMLIN at MITVMA.MIT.EDU > > > Subject: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el > > Noroeste > > > > > > Version sin acentos ni enies para difusion en internet > > > > > > V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste > > > > > > Primera convocatoria > > > > > > La Licenciatura en Linguistica de la Universidad de Sonora invita a > > > especialistas nacionales y extranjeros interesados en los diversos > > > aspectos del lenguaje al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el > > > Noroeste. Este evento tendra lugar los dias 18, 19 y 20 de noviembre de > > > l998 en las instalaciones del Departamento de Letras y Linguistica de > la > > > Universidad de Sonora, en la ciudad de Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. > > > > > > CONFERENCISTAS ESPECIALES > > > > > > Joan Bresnan, Universidad de Stanford > > > Frederick J. Newmeyer, Universidad de Washington > > > Margarita Suner, Universidad de Cornell > > > Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Buffalo > > > > > > En el Encuentro se incluiran mesas sobre temas de linguistica > descriptiva > > > y teorica, asi como sobre las diversas areas de las interdisciplinas > > > linguisticas y de la linguistica aplicada. Se podran organizar mesas > > > sobre temas especificos, previo acuerdo con los organizadores del > > > Encuentro dentro del periodo de recepcion de resumenes. > > > > > > Los interesados deberan enviar un resumen de su participacion a la > > > siguiente direccion: > > > > > > V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste > > > Departamento de Letras y Linguistica > > > Universidad de Sonora > > > Apartado postal 793, C.P. 83000 > > > Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico > > > > > > Fecha limite para recepcion de resumenes: 31 de mayo de 1998 > > > > > > Los resumenes podran ser en espanol o en ingles, con una extension > maxima > > > de 250 palabras y su contenido debe incluir los puntos principales del > > > tema, explicando los aspectos relevantes de los datos, la metodologia y > > > la argumentacion empleada, asi como la bibliografia fundamental. El > > > comite organizador enviara a los participantes un comunicado escrito de > > > aceptacion del trabajo el 15 de julio de 1998. El tiempo de exposicion > > > sera de 20 minutos, con un espacio de 10 para preguntas. > > > > > > Una seleccion arbitrada de ponencias sera publicada en la Memoria del V > > > Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste. Las ponencias > > > deberan tener una extension maxima de 20 cuartillas a doble espacio con > > > letra de 12 puntos; y deberan entregarse al comite organizador a mas > > > tardar el 15 de enero de 1999 en un diskette de 3.5", utilizando los > > > procesadores MSWord (cualquier versiOn) o Word Perfect 6.0 (o > anterior) > > > y una copia impresa del trabajo. > > > > > > La cuota de inscripcion para ponentes y asistentes sera de: > > > > > > $350.00 (US $50.00) antes del 15 de septiembre > > > $450.00 (US $60.00) despues del 15 de septiembre > > > > > > La asistencia y participacion de estudiantes de licenciatura sera > > > gratuita. El pago de inscripcion podra depositarse en las siguientes > > > cuentas bancarias: > > > > > > En Mexico: 88484-4 Banamex, Sucursal 363 a nombre de UNIVERSIDAD DE > > SONORA > > > > > > En los Estados Unidos: 09395985 Bank One, Nogales, Arizona, a nombre de > > > UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA, DEPARTAMENTO DE TESORERIA > > > > > > Fuera de Mixico y Estados Unidos, efectuese una transferencia bancaria > a > > > cualquiera de las dos cuentas arriba mencionadas. > > > > > > Los ponentes y participantes deberan enviar la ficha de depssito por > fax, > > > asi como presentar el original a su llegada al Encuentro. > > > > > > A t e n t a m e n t e > > > > > > COMITE ORGANIZADOR INTERINSTITUCIONAL > > > > > > Sergio Bogard > > > Maestria en Linguistica > > > Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia > > > > > > Heles Contreras > > > Universidad de Washington > > > > > > Thomas Givon > > > Universidad de Oregon > > > > > > Ken Hale > > > Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts > > > > > > James Harris > > > Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts > > > > > > Jane H. Hill > > > Universidad de Arizona > > > > > > > > > Luis Fernando Lara > > > Centro de Estudios Linguisticos y Literarios > > > El Colegio de Mexico > > > > > > Ricardo Maldonado > > > Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas > > > Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico > > > > > > COMITE ORGANIZADOR LOCAL > > > Departamento de Letras y Linguistica > > > Amalia Hoyos Arvizu > > > Jefa de Departamento > > > > > > Para cualquier informacion favor de comunicarse con Zarina Estrada > > > Fernandez o Gerardo Lopez Cruz, al telefono (62) 59-21-87, por fax al > > > (62) 12-55-29 o por correo electronico a 5encuen at capomo.uson.mx > > > From s100597 at STUD-MAIL.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE Wed Mar 4 11:16:01 1998 From: s100597 at STUD-MAIL.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE (Katharina Kupfer) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:16:01 +0200 Subject: FG & Frege Message-ID: Is there any literature concerning FG as a realization of Frege's theory about predicates and terms? As far as I know it is one, but I got this impression only from my reading of Frege's writings. Thanks, Katja =========================================================== Katharina Kupfer, Petrinistr. 30a, 97080 Wuerzburg, Germany Tel.: +49/931/23 618 e-mail: s100597 at stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de From efiguero at CAPOMO.USON.MX Fri Mar 6 01:05:12 1998 From: efiguero at CAPOMO.USON.MX (Max Enrique Figueroa Esteva) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:05:12 -0700 Subject: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:56:47 -0700 (MST) From: Max Enrique Figueroa Esteva To: Luis Roberto Choy Lopez , Alpizar Castillo Rodolfo , Martinez Felino , Ruiz Miyares Leonel , Savinainen Pekka Juhani , Itkonen Esa , Ly Nadine , Benedetti Carla , Mira Mateus Maria Helena , Riiho Timo Cc: "Figueroa Esteva Max E." Subject: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:21:13 -0700 From: Gerardo Lopez C. To: LATAMLIN at MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste Version sin acentos ni enies para difusion en internet V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste Primera convocatoria La Licenciatura en Linguistica de la Universidad de Sonora invita a especialistas nacionales y extranjeros interesados en los diversos aspectos del lenguaje al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste. Este evento tendra lugar los dias 18, 19 y 20 de noviembre de l998 en las instalaciones del Departamento de Letras y Linguistica de la Universidad de Sonora, en la ciudad de Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. CONFERENCISTAS ESPECIALES Joan Bresnan, Universidad de Stanford Frederick J. Newmeyer, Universidad de Washington Margarita Suner, Universidad de Cornell Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Buffalo En el Encuentro se incluiran mesas sobre temas de linguistica descriptiva y teorica, asi como sobre las diversas areas de las interdisciplinas linguisticas y de la linguistica aplicada. Se podran organizar mesas sobre temas especificos, previo acuerdo con los organizadores del Encuentro dentro del periodo de recepcion de resumenes. Los interesados deberan enviar un resumen de su participacion a la siguiente direccion: V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste Departamento de Letras y Linguistica Universidad de Sonora Apartado postal 793, C.P. 83000 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Fecha limite para recepcion de resumenes: 31 de mayo de 1998 Los resumenes podran ser en espanol o en ingles, con una extension maxima de 250 palabras y su contenido debe incluir los puntos principales del tema, explicando los aspectos relevantes de los datos, la metodologia y la argumentacion empleada, asi como la bibliografia fundamental. El comite organizador enviara a los participantes un comunicado escrito de aceptacion del trabajo el 15 de julio de 1998. El tiempo de exposicion sera de 20 minutos, con un espacio de 10 para preguntas. Una seleccion arbitrada de ponencias sera publicada en la Memoria del V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste. Las ponencias deberan tener una extension maxima de 20 cuartillas a doble espacio con letra de 12 puntos; y deberan entregarse al comite organizador a mas tardar el 15 de enero de 1999 en un diskette de 3.5", utilizando los procesadores MSWord (cualquier versiOn) o Word Perfect 6.0 (o anterior) y una copia impresa del trabajo. La cuota de inscripcion para ponentes y asistentes sera de: $350.00 (US $50.00) antes del 15 de septiembre $450.00 (US $60.00) despues del 15 de septiembre La asistencia y participacion de estudiantes de licenciatura sera gratuita. El pago de inscripcion podra depositarse en las siguientes cuentas bancarias: En Mexico: 88484-4 Banamex, Sucursal 363 a nombre de UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA En los Estados Unidos: 09395985 Bank One, Nogales, Arizona, a nombre de UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA, DEPARTAMENTO DE TESORERIA Fuera de Mixico y Estados Unidos, efectuese una transferencia bancaria a cualquiera de las dos cuentas arriba mencionadas. Los ponentes y participantes deberan enviar la ficha de depssito por fax, asi como presentar el original a su llegada al Encuentro. A t e n t a m e n t e COMITE ORGANIZADOR INTERINSTITUCIONAL Sergio Bogard Maestria en Linguistica Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Heles Contreras Universidad de Washington Thomas Givon Universidad de Oregon Ken Hale Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts James Harris Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts Jane H. Hill Universidad de Arizona Luis Fernando Lara Centro de Estudios Linguisticos y Literarios El Colegio de Mexico Ricardo Maldonado Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico COMITE ORGANIZADOR LOCAL Departamento de Letras y Linguistica Amalia Hoyos Arvizu Jefa de Departamento Para cualquier informacion favor de comunicarse con Zarina Estrada Fernandez o Gerardo Lopez Cruz, al telefono (62) 59-21-87, por fax al (62) 12-55-29 o por correo electronico a 5encuen at capomo.uson.mx From C.J.Arthur at UEL.AC.UK Fri Mar 6 13:29:18 1998 From: C.J.Arthur at UEL.AC.UK (Evolution of Language '98) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:29:18 GMT0BST Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) ********THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE******** 2nd International Conference Date: Monday 6th - Thursday 9th April, 1998 Venue: City University, London Organised by: Prof. JEAN AITCHISON (Oxford University), Prof. JAMES HURFORD (University of Edinburgh) and Dr. CHRIS KNIGHT (University of East London) A preliminary programme for this conference is now available. Further details and a registration form can be obtained from: Joan Tremble UEL Business Services Duncan House High Street London E15 2JB Tel. 0181 2150705 Fax: 0181 849 3619 Email: J.Tremble at uel.ac.uk or from our website at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/faculties/socsci/anthro/confreg.htm PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Monday 6th April 2pm-6pm - Plenary Session 2pm OPENING REMARKS 2.10 JEAN AITCHISON 'Language origins and (psycho-) linguistic theories' 2.40 COLIN RENFREW 'Small talk, or why was the `Human Revolution' so impressive' 3.10 MARK PAGEL 'The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution' 3.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 4.10 TERRENCE DEACON 'Constraints on brain-language co-evolution' 4.40 DEREK BICKERTON 'Protolanguage to language: the rest of the story' 5.10 ROBERT BERWICK 'Evolution and language acquisition: from `classical' to `modern' models of evolutionary innovation' 5.40 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 9am HEIDI LYN SAFFER & E. SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH 'Observational word learning in Bonobos (Pan paniscus)' 9.25 MICHAEL BERAN, E. SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH & KAREN BRAKKE 'Language comprehension in three chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): effect of rearing on level of comprehension' 9.50 ROBERT WORDEN 'Words, memes and language evolution' 10.15 PAUL BLOOM 'The evolution of words' 10.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.05 WILLIAM ABLER 'Algebraic Syntax' 11.30 EZEQUIEL DI PAOLO 'Spatio-temporal and structural constraints in the evolution of communication' 11.55 ANGELO CANGELOSI & STEVAN HARNAD 'Adaptive advantages of `hearsay' over direct sensorimotor experiences' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 9am PETER MACNEILAGE & BARBARA DAVIS 'Evolution of speech: the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny' 9.25 MARILYN MAY VIHMAN & RORY DE PAOLIS 'The role of mimesis in infant language development: evidence for phylogeny?' 9.50 LUC STEELS 'The origins of linguistic categories' 10.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 10.40 JOHN BATALI 'The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars' 11.05 SIMON KIRBY 'How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners' 11.30 JAMES HURFORD 'Syntax creation from randomness' 11.55 TED BRISCOE 'How natural is natural language? Human languages as complex adaptive systems' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 2pm DEAN FALK 'Proto-music and proto-language in Australopithecines and beyond' 2.25 JAMES STEELE 'Right-shifted handedness frequencies: a marker of selection for proto-language abilities?' 2.50 TIM CROW 'Did Homo sapiens speciate (and language originate) on the Y chromosome?' 3.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.40 MYRNA GOPNIK 'Language evolution = rules and representations' 4.05 HEATHER K. J. VAN DER LELY 'Evidence for a grammar specific deficit in children: implications for the biological evolution of language' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Tuesday 7th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 2pm PETER GARDENFORS & SIMON WINTER 'Evolving social constraints on individual conceptual relations' 2.25 ALISON WRAY 'Holistic utterances: the common link from primates to humans' 2.50 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.15 JASON NOBLE 'The evolution of communication with and without conflicts of interest; an argument for modelling proto-proto-language' 3.40 EDWARD KAKO 'Reconstructing proto-language from the capacities of language-trained animals' 4.05 GWEN HEWITT & ANN MACLARNON 'Respiratory adaptations: protolanguage and fission-fusion groups' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Wednesday 8th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 9am STEVEN MITHEN 'Thought, language and the manufacture of hand-axes' 9.25 ALEXANDER MARSHACK 'Coevolution of the language and visual capacities: the archaeological and cognitive evidence' 9.50 DANIEL DOR, EVA JABLONKA, SHIMONA GINZBERG & GEVA RECHAV 'Linguistic meaning, linguistic sound, and the mechanism of genetic assimilation: towards an explicit model of the evolution of language' 10.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 10.40 PAUL VOGT 'The evolution of a lexicon and meaning in robotic agents through self-organizing adaptation' 11.05 MIKE OLIPHANT 'Rethinking the language bottleneck: why don't animals learn to communicate?' 11.30 GEOFFREY MILLER & PETER TODD 'Evolution of vocabulary size through runaway sexual selection: theory, data and simulations' 11.55 JOHN LOCKE 'Rank, reciprocity and relationships in the evolution of language' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Wednesday 8th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 9am JEFFREY LAITMAN, SAMUEL MARQUEZ & JOY REIDENBERG 'New insights from Neanderthal craniofacial biology and implications for understanding their vocal abilities and speech' 9.25 PHILIP LIEBERMAN 'On the functional language system of the human brain' 9.50 LYNNE SCHEPARTZ 'The evolution of complex language from a Darwinian perspective' 10.15 IAN MADDIESON 'Vowel systems and language origin' 10.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.05 MICHAEL STUDDERT-KENNEDY 'Implications of the particulate principle for the evolution of language' 11.30 TECUMSEH FITCH 'Vocal tract anatomy, formants and the evolution of speech' 11.55 RENE CARRE 'The origin of speech gestures' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Wednesday 8th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 2pm JEAN LOUIS DESSALLES 'Linguistic relevance in hominidae politics 2.25 ROBERT KLUENDER 'Getting from there to here: the intermediating role of ritual in the evolution of language' 2.50 CHRIS KNIGHT 'Ritual and the evolution of syntactical speech' 3.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.40 ROBIN DUNBAR 'The freerider problem and the evolution of language' 4.05 CAMILLA POWER 'Secret language in contexts of female initiation ritual' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Wednesday 8th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 2pm APRIL MCMAHON 'The evolution of phonological constraints' 2.25 JAN ANWARD & BJORN LINDBLOM 'Morphogenesis: the systemic growth of linguistic form' 2.50 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.15 ANDREW CARSTAIRS-MCCARTHY 'The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: an impediment to language evolution?' 3.40 BART DE BOER 'Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation' 4.05 DANIEL LIVINGSTONE & COLIN FYFE 'A computational model of language-physiology coevolution' 4.30 ANN MACLARNON & GWEN HEWITT 'Protolanguage to language: evidence from the evolution of breathing control' 5.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION Thursday 9th April 9am-1pm - Plenary Session 9am FREDERICK NEWMEYER 'On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order' 9.30 DAVID LIGHTFOOT 'The maladaptiveness of Universal Grammar' 10.00 MICHAEL FORTESCUE 'Linguistic bottlenecks and early population movements' 10.30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.00 ROBBINS BURLING 'Comprehension and production in early language' 11.30 LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA 'A view of the relationships between genetics and linguistics' 12.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION 12.30 CONCLUDING REMARKS (The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the programme at any time) From b.clark at MDX.AC.UK Tue Mar 10 20:03:28 1998 From: b.clark at MDX.AC.UK (Billy Clark) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 20:03:28 +0000 Subject: CONFS: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Message-ID: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Spring Meeting 1998, Lancaster University PROGRAMME: Tuesday 14 April 1998 1.00 LUNCH 2.00 Linguistics Association Lecture 1998 Professor Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Seattle) 'Formal linguistics and functional explanations: bridging the gap' 3.30 TEA 4.00 Workshop on Formalism, Functionalism and Typology Convenor: Dr. William Croft (University of Manchester), with Professor Frederick J. Newmeyer, Professor Anna Siewierska and Dr. Simon Kirby 6.30 DINNER 7.45 Workshop continues 9.00 WINE PARTY Wednesday 15 April 1998 Session A 9.00 Anna Papafragou (UCL) "Another look at short-circuited implicatures" 9.40 Richard Breheny (UCL) "Strongest meaning observations" 10.20 Corinne Iten (UCL) "Concessive conjunction: a procedural account of although" Session B 9.00 James Hurford (Edinburgh) "Why linguists should study the evolution of language" 9.40 Marisa Lohr (Cambridge) "Genetic classification and biological methodology" 10.20 Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano (Edinburgh) "Is metaphor the only explanation for semantic change?" Session C 9.00 Adam Przepiorkowski (Tübingen) "Do so and lexical theories of passivisation" 9.40 Peter Sells (Stanford) "Japanese postposing involves no movement" 10.20 Kook-Hee Gill (Edinburgh) "Long-distance binding in Korean: a lexicalist perspective" 11.00 COFFEE 11.30 Language Tutorial: Quechua Professor Pieter Muysken (University of Amsterdam) 1.00 LUNCH Session A 2.00 David Adger & George Tsoulas (York) "Choice sets in syntactic theory" 2.40 Elizabeth McCoy (York) "Word order in Irish non-finite clauses and the visibility of functional heads" 3.20 Nick Sobin (UALR) "The Comp-trace effect, the adverb effect, and minimal structure" Session B 2.00 Ludovica Serratrice (Edinburgh) "Access to functional categories: evidence from bilingual to first language acquisition" 2.40 Janig Stephens (Cardiff) "The language development of a child with a cochlear implant" 3.20 Eva Eppler (Lancaster & UCL) "Mixed and scrambled subordinations" Session C 2.00 Nikolas Gisborne (Hong Kong) "Force dynamics and the modality of SOUND-class verbs" 2.40 Seiko Ayano (Durham & MIE) "The [+state]/[-state] ambiguity of the desiderative complex in Japanese" 3.20 William McGregor & Xiaokang Zhou (Leuven & Melbourne) "Verbal classification in Mandarin Chinese" 4.00 TEA 4.30 Annual General Meeting 5.30 Language Tutorial continues 6.30 DINNER 7.45 Language Tutorial continues Thursday 16 April 1998 Session A 9.00 Joan Rafel (Girona) "Clausal small clauses" 9.40 Odile E. Cyrille (Salford) "Inversion in French interrogatives and que questions" 10.20 Masayoshi Amano (Nagoya) "On the licensing condition of pro in nominal adjectives" Session B 9.00 Jasper Holmes (UCL) "Resultatives: a semantic analysis" 9.40 Richard Hudson (UCL) "English subject-verb agreement" 10.20 And Rosta (Central Lancashire) "The syntactic characteristics of interrogative clauses" Session C 9.00 Dunstan Brown (Surrey) and Tore Nesset (Tromso) "Structuring grammatical categories: the place of `sub-case'" 9.40 Diane Nelson (Leeds) "Universal constraints on inflectional morphology: the importance of nonsyntactic features in the Mongolian past tense" 10.20 Patrick Honeybone (Newcastle) "Constraint creation and Gothic reduplication" 11.00 COFFEE Session A 11.30 Robert D. Borsley (Bangor) "Weak auxiliaries, compound verbs and inflected complementizers in Polish" Session B 11.30 Shu-Ming Chen (Essex) "An OT analysis of Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi" 12.10 Raising public awareness of language: `The World of Language' Project Roger Bowers 1.00 LUNCH Session A 2.00 Stella Markantonatou (NTUA & Cyprus) and Bjarne Oersnes (Copenhagen) "Group adjectives are not disguised arguments; they are plain adjectives!" 2.40 Noel Burton-Roberts (Newcastle) "Phonology in UG?" [55-minute slot - ends 3.35] Session B 2.00 Alastair Butler (York) "Comparatives and Kratzer's predicate distinction" Session C 2.00 Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) "From pronoun to agreement marker: why objects don't make it" 3.40 TEA AND CLOSE BOOKING FORM: (all amounts are in UK pounds) Please return, with payment, by Friday 27 March to: Melanie Sharratt, LAGB 1998, Linguistics Dept, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT. 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Selected items (standard room): (a) conference fee (OBLIGATORY) ukp 15-00 ukp 15-00 (b) Tuesday lunch ukp 9-54 (c) Tuesday dinner ukp 14-81 (d) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday ukp 30-27 (e) Wednesday lunch ukp 9-54 (f) Wednesday dinner ukp 14-81 (g) B&B Wednesday/Thursrday ukp 30-27 (h) Thursday lunch ukp 9-54 SUB-TOTAL: ukp____ Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 27 March (i) Surcharge for non-members, ukp 5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp____ 5. Abstracts only, for those not attending: ukp 5-00 UK...... ukp 6-00 overseas....... PLEASE TICK TO RECEIVE ABSTRACTS WITH YOUR BOOKING RECEIPT ............ PLEASE TICK IF YOU WOULD LIKE VEGETARIAN FOOD............................................ OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. DIET, ACCOMMODATION).......................... From b.clark at MDX.AC.UK Tue Mar 10 20:05:50 1998 From: b.clark at MDX.AC.UK (Billy Clark) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 20:05:50 +0000 Subject: CONFS: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Message-ID: LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN Spring Meeting 1998: Lancaster University The 1998 Spring Meeting will be held from Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 April at Lancaster University. The Local Organisers are Melanie Sharratt and Julia Glass (m.sharratt at lancaster.ac.uk and j.a.glass at lancaster.ac.uk). Enquiries about the meeting should be addressed to: Melanie Sharratt, LAGB 1998, Linguistics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT. Accommodation: En suite and standard rooms available. Standard rooms have wash basins. Rooms are in John Creed-Cartmel and Lonsdale buildings, a short walk from the George Fox building where the talks will be given. Rooms will be allocated strictly on a "first-come first-served" basis. Registration: begins at 12 noon on Tues. 14th April at Lonsdale porters lodge. Bar: will be open at lunchtimes and evenings (until 23.00) every day. Food: please indicate vegetarian/other dietary requirements on booking form. Childcare: If you require childcare, please contact the Local Organiser for further details. Travel: Lancaster is easily accessible by train (trains from London can be caught at Euston station). By car, the university is easily accessible from junction 33 of the M6 when travelling from the north or the south. Car parking vouchers will be available free of charge on request. Further travel details will be sent out with booking receipts Events: The Linguistics Association 1998 Lecture on Tuesday afternoon will be delivered by Professor Frederick Newmeyer of the University of Washington, and is entitled 'Formal Linguistics and Functional Explanation: Bridging the Gap'. Professor Newmeyer will also be participating in a Workshop entitled 'Formalism, Functionalism and Typology' on Tuesday afternoon and evening. The workshop is organised by Bill Croft (University of Manchester); other contributors are Anna Siewierska (University of Lancaster) and Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh). There will be a Language Tutorial on Quechua, given by Pieter Muysken (University of Amsterdam). There will be a Wine Party on Tuesday evening, sponsored by the Dept of Linguistics. Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organisers, address above, to arrive by Friday 27 March. Cheques should be made payable to "Lancaster University". Guests: members may invite any number of guests to meetings of the association, upon payment of a £5 guest invitation fee. Members wishing to invite guests should photocopy the booking form. Abstracts: are available to members who are unable to attend the meeting. Please order using the booking form below. Annual General Meeting: This is to be held on the afternoon of Wednesday 15 April. Items for the agenda should be sent to the Honorary Secretary. Nominations for speakers: Nominations are requested for future guest speakers; all suggestions should be sent to the Honorary Secretary. Changes of address: Members are reminded to notify the Membership Secretary (address below) of changes of address. Committee members: President: Prof. Richard Hudson, University College London (dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk) Honorary Secretary: Dr. David Adger, University of York (da4 at tower.york.ac.uk) Membership Secretary: Dr. Kersti Borjars, University of Manchester (k.e.borjars at manchester.ac.uk) Meetings Secretary: Dr. Marjolein Groefsema, University of Hertfordshire (m.groefsema at herts.ac.uk) Treasurer: Dr. Paul Rowlett, University of Salford (p.a.rowlett at mod-lang.salford.ac.uk) Assistant Secretary: Dr. April McMahon, University of Cambridge (AMM11 at hermes.cam.ac.uk) Internet home page: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB. Electronic network: the LAGB electronic network is used for disseminating LAGB information and for consulting members quickly. To subscribe send the message "add lagb" to: listserv at postman.essex.ac.uk. Future Meetings: 10-12 September 1998 University of Luton. 8-10 April 1999 University of Manchester. Autumn 1999 (provisional) University of York. Spring 2000 (provisional) University College London. Autumn 2000 (provisional) University of Wales Bangor. Other Dates: Genes, Languages and Peoples. 1-day workshop on the interfaces between genetics, linguistics and archaeology, to be held at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Saturday 5 September 1998. Sponsored by the LAGB and the Genetical Society. Speakers include Don Ringe, Roger Lass, Merritt Ruhlen, Svante Paabo, Antonio Torroni, Rob Foley. Contact April McMahon at Selwyn College, Cambridge, CB3 9DQ; phone 01223 335830; e-mail amm11 at hermes.cam.ac.uk. International conference: Negation: syntax, semantics and pragmatics Friday 30 October - Sunday 1 November 1998, University of Salford. Invited speakers: Liliane Haegeman, William Ladusaw, Jean-Yves Pollock Conference organiser: Paul Rowlett Abstract submission: max. 300 words by 30 April 1998 to Wendy Pickles, Negation Conference Administrator, European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT. E-mail: w.pickles at esri.salford.ac.uk 5th Conference on Diachronic Generative Syntax, May 30-June 1 1998. Contacts: Susan Pintzuk, George Tsoulas, Anthony Warner, The Organising Committee, DIGS 5, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, York YO1 5DD. UK. Tel: +44 1904 432661 / 432664 / 432667. Fax: +44 1904 432673. Email: digs at york.ac.uk. WWW: http://www.york.ac.uk/~lang13 The Meetings Secretary would very much like to receive offers of future venues, particularly from institutions which the LAGB has not previously visited or from places with newly established linguistics programmes. BOOKING FORM (all amounts are in UK pounds): Please return, with payment, by Friday 27 March to: Melanie Sharratt, LAGB 1998, Linguistics Dept, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT. Cheques payable to "Lancaster University". NAME......................................INSTITUTION................. ADDRESS FOR THIS MAILING............ E-MAIL ADDRESS................................ I enclose remittance as indicated (select appropriate package): 1. Complete conference package (en suite room): (a) including Tuesday lunch preceding workshop (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 134-60 ukp___ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 149-56 ukp___ (b) excluding Tuesday lunch (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 126-02 ukp____ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 140-02 ukp____ (c) Surcharge for non-members, ukp 5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp____ 2. Selected items (en suite room): (a) conference fee (OBLIGATORY) ukp 15-00 ukp 15-00 (b) Tuesday lunch ukp 9-54 (c) Tuesday dinner ukp 14-81 (d) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday ukp 38-16 (e) Wednesday lunch ukp 9-54 (f) Wednesday dinner ukp 14-81 (g) B&B Wednesday/Thursrday ukp 38-16 (h) Thursday lunch ukp 9-54 SUB-TOTAL: ukp ____ Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 27 March (i) Surcharge for non-members, ukp 5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp ___ 3. Complete conference package (standard room): (a) including Tuesday lunch preceding workshop (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 120-40 ukp____ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 133-78 ukp____ (b) excluding Tuesday lunch (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 111-82 ukp____ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 124-24 ukp____ (c) Surcharge for non-members, £5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp____ 4. Selected items (standard room): (a) conference fee (OBLIGATORY) ukp 15-00 ukp 15-00 (b) Tuesday lunch ukp 9-54 (c) Tuesday dinner ukp 14-81 (d) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday ukp 30-27 (e) Wednesday lunch ukp 9-54 (f) Wednesday dinner ukp 14-81 (g) B&B Wednesday/Thursrday ukp 30-27 (h) Thursday lunch ukp 9-54 SUB-TOTAL: ukp____ Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 27 March (i) Surcharge for non-members, ukp 5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp____ 5. Abstracts only: ukp 5-00 UK...... ukp 6-00 overseas....... TICK TO RECEIVE ABSTRACTS WITH YOUR BOOKING RECEIPT ..... TICK IF YOU WOULD LIKE VEGETARIAN FOOD...... OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. DIET, ACCOMMODATION).... From spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU Mon Mar 16 16:49:10 1998 From: spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:49:10 -0600 Subject: LSA March Bulletin (fwd) Message-ID: >From: LSA >Subject: LSA March Bulletin > >The March 1998 LSA Bulletin (#159) is now available at > > http://www.lsadc.org/marbull.html > >Members are encouraged to consult Nota Bene (p. 9) for upcoming >award deadlines. > From ylva at LING.GU.SE Fri Mar 27 08:32:13 1998 From: ylva at LING.GU.SE (Ylva Hard af Segerstad) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:32:13 +0100 Subject: Do you know anything about emoticons?! Message-ID: A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 450 bytes Desc: not available URL: From edith at CSD.UWM.EDU Fri Mar 27 23:21:23 1998 From: edith at CSD.UWM.EDU (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:21:23 -0600 Subject: collective and perfect Message-ID: My colleague Garry Davis has asked me to post this query on his behalf. ********************* In languages that have preverbs, is anyone familiar with cases where a preverb having a COLLECTIVE or ASSOCIATIVE meaning developed a RESULTATIVE or PERFECTIVE function in the verbal system? Is anyone familiar with any cases where a preverb having RESULTATIVE or PERFECTIVE meaning gradually bleached to a general meaning of +INTENSIFICATION? I am interested in this because these pathways of development are sometimes postulated for the historical development of the prefix ga- in Germanic. You can respond to me directly at gdavis at csd.uwm.edu or to the whole list as you choose. Thanks in advance. Garry Davis ********************* From bingfu at USC.EDU Sat Mar 28 04:40:06 1998 From: bingfu at USC.EDU (bingfu) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:40:06 -0800 Subject: query: inventory of unaccusative verbs Message-ID: Dear netter, I have the following question. The semantic scope of unaccusative verbs varies from language to language. In Chinese, it contains tree types of verbs: presence verbs ('to be' 'exist'), appearance verbs ('come' 'arrive') and disapearance verbs ('disappear', 'vanish', 'die'). If there-construction is taken as one criterion for unaccusative verbs, then, dissapearance verbs are not unaccusative verbs, as shown below: There appeared a man in the hill. But * There disappeared a man in the hill. Now, my question is: How about in other languages? Does your native language patterns with Chinese or English? Any information will be most welcome and I will make a summary after I get sufficient corresponses. Thanks! Bingfu Lu USC From lakoff at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU Sat Mar 28 06:30:27 1998 From: lakoff at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (George Lakoff) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:30:27 -0800 Subject: query: inventory of unaccusative verbs Message-ID: Hi, If you take a look at my case study of there-constructions (Case study 3 in Women, Fire and Dangerous Things) you will discover that the analysis of Engliush there-constructions as taking unaccusative verbs in incorrect. There is a semantic condition and it rules our disappear. Enjoy the case study! George From barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU Sat Mar 28 23:43:51 1998 From: barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU (Michael Barlow) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:43:51 -0600 Subject: Announcement - Spoken America Message-ID: Announcement The Corpus of Professional, Spoken American-English (CPSA) is available from Athelstan. The corpus of 2 million words is based on a variety of transcripts of (i) faculty meetings and committee meetings (1 million words) and (ii) White House press conferences (1 million words). To obtain information about the corpus or to view/download a 50,000 word sample, visit the CPSA webpage at http://www.athel.com/cpsa.html Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Barlow, Department of Linguistics, Rice University barlow at rice.edu www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow Athelstan barlow at athel.com www.athel.com (U.S.) www.athelstan.com (UK) From eitkonen at UTU.FI Tue Mar 31 11:13:04 1998 From: eitkonen at UTU.FI (Esa Itkonen) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:13:04 +0300 Subject: language & music Message-ID: Some time ago, in a light-hearted moment, I promised to give a (popular) talk on 'origin of speech & music' at a forthcoming music festival, although - literally - I should have known better. Now that the time to deliver is approaching, I am getting cold feet. Can anyone suggest some relevant (and hopefully not-too-technical) literature? (I know that Dean Falk is going to addres this topic next week at Edinborough, and I have already contacted him. I also seem to remember that Bjorn Lindblom has sometimes written something on this topic.) - Thank you in advance, Esa Itkonen From matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI Mon Mar 2 14:23:53 1998 From: matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI (Matti Miestamo) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:23:53 +0200 Subject: Calls: New Trends in Variationist Linguistics: From Attitudes to Grammar Message-ID: (Apologies for the cross-posting) *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** The Linguistic Association of Finland is organizing a summer course/workshop on NEW TRENDS IN VARIATIONIST LINGUISTICS: FROM ATTITUDES TO GRAMMAR to be held at the University of Oulu, the Per?meri Research Station by the unique nature reserves on the Hailuoto island August 14-16, 1998 The workshop will bring together researchers and PhD students working in the field of language variation, ranging from morpho-syntactic variation to dialectology, sociolinguistic variation, code-switching, language attitudes and beliefs, and variation in interactional practices. The aim of the workshop is to explore new issues in the study of variation, such as the use of new methodologies and types of data. Participants are strongly encouraged to give a paper on any aspect of language variation, as this is an excellent opportunity to get feedback from others working in this area and from some of the leading scholars in variationist studies. Invited speakers: Peter Auer (University of Hamburg) Juhani Klemola (University of Leeds) Dennis Preston (Michigan State University) Activities: * lectures by invited speakers * presentations by other participants (20 min + 10 min for discussion) * recommended readings before the workshop (the reading list will be distri- buted to registered participants) Registration fees: * general: FIM 200 * members of the association: FIM 100 * undergraduate and MA students free * payment upon registration * send by giro account no 800013-1424850 to The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY)/Variation, or payment at the beginning of the workshop in cash Other costs: * Accommodation and food FIM 170 x 3. Accommodation primarily in 4-8 person rooms. * Bus from Oulu to Hailuoto on the morning of 14 August and back on the afternoon of 16 August (fare between FIM 50-100) The deadline for submission of abstracts (one page; preferably in English) and registration is April 30, 1998. Please register and submit an abstract by e-mail to the following address: variation at ling.helsinki.fi If you send this information by snail mail, please provide an e-mail address as a contact address (if possible). Participants will be notified about acceptance by May 31. For further information, please contact one of the following organizers: Marja Leinonen Marja-Leena Sorjonen Filologia II Department of Finnish University of Tampere P.O. Box 33 P.O. Box 67 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki 33101 Tampere Finland Finland e-mail: sorjonen at helsinki.fi e-mail: f2male at uta.fi Elise K?rkk?inen Matti Miestamo Department of English Department of Linguistics University of Oulu P.O. Box 4 P.O. Box 111 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki FIN-90571 Oulu Finland Finland e-mail: matmies at ling.helsinki.fi e-mail: elise.karkkainen at oulu.fi Information can also be found at: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/variation.html From efiguero at CAPOMO.USON.MX Tue Mar 3 04:35:27 1998 From: efiguero at CAPOMO.USON.MX (Max Enrique Figueroa Esteva) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 21:35:27 -0700 Subject: RV: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste Message-ID: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:21:13 -0700 > > > From: Gerardo Lopez C. > > > To: LATAMLIN at MITVMA.MIT.EDU > > > Subject: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el > > Noroeste > > > > > > Version sin acentos ni enies para difusion en internet > > > > > > V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste > > > > > > Primera convocatoria > > > > > > La Licenciatura en Linguistica de la Universidad de Sonora invita a > > > especialistas nacionales y extranjeros interesados en los diversos > > > aspectos del lenguaje al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el > > > Noroeste. Este evento tendra lugar los dias 18, 19 y 20 de noviembre de > > > l998 en las instalaciones del Departamento de Letras y Linguistica de > la > > > Universidad de Sonora, en la ciudad de Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. > > > > > > CONFERENCISTAS ESPECIALES > > > > > > Joan Bresnan, Universidad de Stanford > > > Frederick J. Newmeyer, Universidad de Washington > > > Margarita Suner, Universidad de Cornell > > > Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Buffalo > > > > > > En el Encuentro se incluiran mesas sobre temas de linguistica > descriptiva > > > y teorica, asi como sobre las diversas areas de las interdisciplinas > > > linguisticas y de la linguistica aplicada. Se podran organizar mesas > > > sobre temas especificos, previo acuerdo con los organizadores del > > > Encuentro dentro del periodo de recepcion de resumenes. > > > > > > Los interesados deberan enviar un resumen de su participacion a la > > > siguiente direccion: > > > > > > V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste > > > Departamento de Letras y Linguistica > > > Universidad de Sonora > > > Apartado postal 793, C.P. 83000 > > > Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico > > > > > > Fecha limite para recepcion de resumenes: 31 de mayo de 1998 > > > > > > Los resumenes podran ser en espanol o en ingles, con una extension > maxima > > > de 250 palabras y su contenido debe incluir los puntos principales del > > > tema, explicando los aspectos relevantes de los datos, la metodologia y > > > la argumentacion empleada, asi como la bibliografia fundamental. El > > > comite organizador enviara a los participantes un comunicado escrito de > > > aceptacion del trabajo el 15 de julio de 1998. El tiempo de exposicion > > > sera de 20 minutos, con un espacio de 10 para preguntas. > > > > > > Una seleccion arbitrada de ponencias sera publicada en la Memoria del V > > > Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste. Las ponencias > > > deberan tener una extension maxima de 20 cuartillas a doble espacio con > > > letra de 12 puntos; y deberan entregarse al comite organizador a mas > > > tardar el 15 de enero de 1999 en un diskette de 3.5", utilizando los > > > procesadores MSWord (cualquier versiOn) o Word Perfect 6.0 (o > anterior) > > > y una copia impresa del trabajo. > > > > > > La cuota de inscripcion para ponentes y asistentes sera de: > > > > > > $350.00 (US $50.00) antes del 15 de septiembre > > > $450.00 (US $60.00) despues del 15 de septiembre > > > > > > La asistencia y participacion de estudiantes de licenciatura sera > > > gratuita. El pago de inscripcion podra depositarse en las siguientes > > > cuentas bancarias: > > > > > > En Mexico: 88484-4 Banamex, Sucursal 363 a nombre de UNIVERSIDAD DE > > SONORA > > > > > > En los Estados Unidos: 09395985 Bank One, Nogales, Arizona, a nombre de > > > UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA, DEPARTAMENTO DE TESORERIA > > > > > > Fuera de Mixico y Estados Unidos, efectuese una transferencia bancaria > a > > > cualquiera de las dos cuentas arriba mencionadas. > > > > > > Los ponentes y participantes deberan enviar la ficha de depssito por > fax, > > > asi como presentar el original a su llegada al Encuentro. > > > > > > A t e n t a m e n t e > > > > > > COMITE ORGANIZADOR INTERINSTITUCIONAL > > > > > > Sergio Bogard > > > Maestria en Linguistica > > > Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia > > > > > > Heles Contreras > > > Universidad de Washington > > > > > > Thomas Givon > > > Universidad de Oregon > > > > > > Ken Hale > > > Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts > > > > > > James Harris > > > Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts > > > > > > Jane H. Hill > > > Universidad de Arizona > > > > > > > > > Luis Fernando Lara > > > Centro de Estudios Linguisticos y Literarios > > > El Colegio de Mexico > > > > > > Ricardo Maldonado > > > Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas > > > Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico > > > > > > COMITE ORGANIZADOR LOCAL > > > Departamento de Letras y Linguistica > > > Amalia Hoyos Arvizu > > > Jefa de Departamento > > > > > > Para cualquier informacion favor de comunicarse con Zarina Estrada > > > Fernandez o Gerardo Lopez Cruz, al telefono (62) 59-21-87, por fax al > > > (62) 12-55-29 o por correo electronico a 5encuen at capomo.uson.mx > > > From s100597 at STUD-MAIL.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE Wed Mar 4 11:16:01 1998 From: s100597 at STUD-MAIL.UNI-WUERZBURG.DE (Katharina Kupfer) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:16:01 +0200 Subject: FG & Frege Message-ID: Is there any literature concerning FG as a realization of Frege's theory about predicates and terms? As far as I know it is one, but I got this impression only from my reading of Frege's writings. Thanks, Katja =========================================================== Katharina Kupfer, Petrinistr. 30a, 97080 Wuerzburg, Germany Tel.: +49/931/23 618 e-mail: s100597 at stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de From efiguero at CAPOMO.USON.MX Fri Mar 6 01:05:12 1998 From: efiguero at CAPOMO.USON.MX (Max Enrique Figueroa Esteva) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 18:05:12 -0700 Subject: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:56:47 -0700 (MST) From: Max Enrique Figueroa Esteva To: Luis Roberto Choy Lopez , Alpizar Castillo Rodolfo , Martinez Felino , Ruiz Miyares Leonel , Savinainen Pekka Juhani , Itkonen Esa , Ly Nadine , Benedetti Carla , Mira Mateus Maria Helena , Riiho Timo Cc: "Figueroa Esteva Max E." Subject: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 18:21:13 -0700 From: Gerardo Lopez C. To: LATAMLIN at MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Convocatoria al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste Version sin acentos ni enies para difusion en internet V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste Primera convocatoria La Licenciatura en Linguistica de la Universidad de Sonora invita a especialistas nacionales y extranjeros interesados en los diversos aspectos del lenguaje al V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste. Este evento tendra lugar los dias 18, 19 y 20 de noviembre de l998 en las instalaciones del Departamento de Letras y Linguistica de la Universidad de Sonora, en la ciudad de Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. CONFERENCISTAS ESPECIALES Joan Bresnan, Universidad de Stanford Frederick J. Newmeyer, Universidad de Washington Margarita Suner, Universidad de Cornell Robert D. Van Valin, Jr., Universidad Estatal de Nueva York en Buffalo En el Encuentro se incluiran mesas sobre temas de linguistica descriptiva y teorica, asi como sobre las diversas areas de las interdisciplinas linguisticas y de la linguistica aplicada. Se podran organizar mesas sobre temas especificos, previo acuerdo con los organizadores del Encuentro dentro del periodo de recepcion de resumenes. Los interesados deberan enviar un resumen de su participacion a la siguiente direccion: V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste Departamento de Letras y Linguistica Universidad de Sonora Apartado postal 793, C.P. 83000 Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Fecha limite para recepcion de resumenes: 31 de mayo de 1998 Los resumenes podran ser en espanol o en ingles, con una extension maxima de 250 palabras y su contenido debe incluir los puntos principales del tema, explicando los aspectos relevantes de los datos, la metodologia y la argumentacion empleada, asi como la bibliografia fundamental. El comite organizador enviara a los participantes un comunicado escrito de aceptacion del trabajo el 15 de julio de 1998. El tiempo de exposicion sera de 20 minutos, con un espacio de 10 para preguntas. Una seleccion arbitrada de ponencias sera publicada en la Memoria del V Encuentro Internacional de Linguistica en el Noroeste. Las ponencias deberan tener una extension maxima de 20 cuartillas a doble espacio con letra de 12 puntos; y deberan entregarse al comite organizador a mas tardar el 15 de enero de 1999 en un diskette de 3.5", utilizando los procesadores MSWord (cualquier versiOn) o Word Perfect 6.0 (o anterior) y una copia impresa del trabajo. La cuota de inscripcion para ponentes y asistentes sera de: $350.00 (US $50.00) antes del 15 de septiembre $450.00 (US $60.00) despues del 15 de septiembre La asistencia y participacion de estudiantes de licenciatura sera gratuita. El pago de inscripcion podra depositarse en las siguientes cuentas bancarias: En Mexico: 88484-4 Banamex, Sucursal 363 a nombre de UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA En los Estados Unidos: 09395985 Bank One, Nogales, Arizona, a nombre de UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA, DEPARTAMENTO DE TESORERIA Fuera de Mixico y Estados Unidos, efectuese una transferencia bancaria a cualquiera de las dos cuentas arriba mencionadas. Los ponentes y participantes deberan enviar la ficha de depssito por fax, asi como presentar el original a su llegada al Encuentro. A t e n t a m e n t e COMITE ORGANIZADOR INTERINSTITUCIONAL Sergio Bogard Maestria en Linguistica Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia Heles Contreras Universidad de Washington Thomas Givon Universidad de Oregon Ken Hale Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts James Harris Instituto Tecnologico de Massachusetts Jane H. Hill Universidad de Arizona Luis Fernando Lara Centro de Estudios Linguisticos y Literarios El Colegio de Mexico Ricardo Maldonado Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico COMITE ORGANIZADOR LOCAL Departamento de Letras y Linguistica Amalia Hoyos Arvizu Jefa de Departamento Para cualquier informacion favor de comunicarse con Zarina Estrada Fernandez o Gerardo Lopez Cruz, al telefono (62) 59-21-87, por fax al (62) 12-55-29 o por correo electronico a 5encuen at capomo.uson.mx From C.J.Arthur at UEL.AC.UK Fri Mar 6 13:29:18 1998 From: C.J.Arthur at UEL.AC.UK (Evolution of Language '98) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:29:18 GMT0BST Subject: Evolution of Language Conference Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) ********THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE******** 2nd International Conference Date: Monday 6th - Thursday 9th April, 1998 Venue: City University, London Organised by: Prof. JEAN AITCHISON (Oxford University), Prof. JAMES HURFORD (University of Edinburgh) and Dr. CHRIS KNIGHT (University of East London) A preliminary programme for this conference is now available. Further details and a registration form can be obtained from: Joan Tremble UEL Business Services Duncan House High Street London E15 2JB Tel. 0181 2150705 Fax: 0181 849 3619 Email: J.Tremble at uel.ac.uk or from our website at: http://www.uel.ac.uk/faculties/socsci/anthro/confreg.htm PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME Monday 6th April 2pm-6pm - Plenary Session 2pm OPENING REMARKS 2.10 JEAN AITCHISON 'Language origins and (psycho-) linguistic theories' 2.40 COLIN RENFREW 'Small talk, or why was the `Human Revolution' so impressive' 3.10 MARK PAGEL 'The history, rate and pattern of world linguistic evolution' 3.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 4.10 TERRENCE DEACON 'Constraints on brain-language co-evolution' 4.40 DEREK BICKERTON 'Protolanguage to language: the rest of the story' 5.10 ROBERT BERWICK 'Evolution and language acquisition: from `classical' to `modern' models of evolutionary innovation' 5.40 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 9am HEIDI LYN SAFFER & E. SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH 'Observational word learning in Bonobos (Pan paniscus)' 9.25 MICHAEL BERAN, E. SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH & KAREN BRAKKE 'Language comprehension in three chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): effect of rearing on level of comprehension' 9.50 ROBERT WORDEN 'Words, memes and language evolution' 10.15 PAUL BLOOM 'The evolution of words' 10.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.05 WILLIAM ABLER 'Algebraic Syntax' 11.30 EZEQUIEL DI PAOLO 'Spatio-temporal and structural constraints in the evolution of communication' 11.55 ANGELO CANGELOSI & STEVAN HARNAD 'Adaptive advantages of `hearsay' over direct sensorimotor experiences' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 9am PETER MACNEILAGE & BARBARA DAVIS 'Evolution of speech: the relation between ontogeny and phylogeny' 9.25 MARILYN MAY VIHMAN & RORY DE PAOLIS 'The role of mimesis in infant language development: evidence for phylogeny?' 9.50 LUC STEELS 'The origins of linguistic categories' 10.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 10.40 JOHN BATALI 'The negotiation and acquisition of recursive grammars as a result of competition among exemplars' 11.05 SIMON KIRBY 'How compositionality emerges from vocabulary in a population of learners' 11.30 JAMES HURFORD 'Syntax creation from randomness' 11.55 TED BRISCOE 'How natural is natural language? Human languages as complex adaptive systems' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Tuesday 7th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 2pm DEAN FALK 'Proto-music and proto-language in Australopithecines and beyond' 2.25 JAMES STEELE 'Right-shifted handedness frequencies: a marker of selection for proto-language abilities?' 2.50 TIM CROW 'Did Homo sapiens speciate (and language originate) on the Y chromosome?' 3.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.40 MYRNA GOPNIK 'Language evolution = rules and representations' 4.05 HEATHER K. J. VAN DER LELY 'Evidence for a grammar specific deficit in children: implications for the biological evolution of language' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Tuesday 7th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 2pm PETER GARDENFORS & SIMON WINTER 'Evolving social constraints on individual conceptual relations' 2.25 ALISON WRAY 'Holistic utterances: the common link from primates to humans' 2.50 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.15 JASON NOBLE 'The evolution of communication with and without conflicts of interest; an argument for modelling proto-proto-language' 3.40 EDWARD KAKO 'Reconstructing proto-language from the capacities of language-trained animals' 4.05 GWEN HEWITT & ANN MACLARNON 'Respiratory adaptations: protolanguage and fission-fusion groups' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Wednesday 8th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 9am STEVEN MITHEN 'Thought, language and the manufacture of hand-axes' 9.25 ALEXANDER MARSHACK 'Coevolution of the language and visual capacities: the archaeological and cognitive evidence' 9.50 DANIEL DOR, EVA JABLONKA, SHIMONA GINZBERG & GEVA RECHAV 'Linguistic meaning, linguistic sound, and the mechanism of genetic assimilation: towards an explicit model of the evolution of language' 10.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 10.40 PAUL VOGT 'The evolution of a lexicon and meaning in robotic agents through self-organizing adaptation' 11.05 MIKE OLIPHANT 'Rethinking the language bottleneck: why don't animals learn to communicate?' 11.30 GEOFFREY MILLER & PETER TODD 'Evolution of vocabulary size through runaway sexual selection: theory, data and simulations' 11.55 JOHN LOCKE 'Rank, reciprocity and relationships in the evolution of language' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Wednesday 8th April 9am-1pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 9am JEFFREY LAITMAN, SAMUEL MARQUEZ & JOY REIDENBERG 'New insights from Neanderthal craniofacial biology and implications for understanding their vocal abilities and speech' 9.25 PHILIP LIEBERMAN 'On the functional language system of the human brain' 9.50 LYNNE SCHEPARTZ 'The evolution of complex language from a Darwinian perspective' 10.15 IAN MADDIESON 'Vowel systems and language origin' 10.40 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.05 MICHAEL STUDDERT-KENNEDY 'Implications of the particulate principle for the evolution of language' 11.30 TECUMSEH FITCH 'Vocal tract anatomy, formants and the evolution of speech' 11.55 RENE CARRE 'The origin of speech gestures' 12.20 GENERAL DISCUSSION Wednesday 8th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM ONE 2pm JEAN LOUIS DESSALLES 'Linguistic relevance in hominidae politics 2.25 ROBERT KLUENDER 'Getting from there to here: the intermediating role of ritual in the evolution of language' 2.50 CHRIS KNIGHT 'Ritual and the evolution of syntactical speech' 3.15 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.40 ROBIN DUNBAR 'The freerider problem and the evolution of language' 4.05 CAMILLA POWER 'Secret language in contexts of female initiation ritual' 4.30 GENERAL DISCUSSION 5.00 POSTER PRESENTATIONS Wednesday 8th April 2pm-5pm - Parallel Session ROOM TWO 2pm APRIL MCMAHON 'The evolution of phonological constraints' 2.25 JAN ANWARD & BJORN LINDBLOM 'Morphogenesis: the systemic growth of linguistic form' 2.50 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 3.15 ANDREW CARSTAIRS-MCCARTHY 'The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: an impediment to language evolution?' 3.40 BART DE BOER 'Emergence of sound systems through self-organisation' 4.05 DANIEL LIVINGSTONE & COLIN FYFE 'A computational model of language-physiology coevolution' 4.30 ANN MACLARNON & GWEN HEWITT 'Protolanguage to language: evidence from the evolution of breathing control' 5.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION Thursday 9th April 9am-1pm - Plenary Session 9am FREDERICK NEWMEYER 'On the reconstruction of 'proto-world' word order' 9.30 DAVID LIGHTFOOT 'The maladaptiveness of Universal Grammar' 10.00 MICHAEL FORTESCUE 'Linguistic bottlenecks and early population movements' 10.30 TEA/COFFEE BREAK 11.00 ROBBINS BURLING 'Comprehension and production in early language' 11.30 LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA 'A view of the relationships between genetics and linguistics' 12.00 GENERAL DISCUSSION 12.30 CONCLUDING REMARKS (The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the programme at any time) From b.clark at MDX.AC.UK Tue Mar 10 20:03:28 1998 From: b.clark at MDX.AC.UK (Billy Clark) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 20:03:28 +0000 Subject: CONFS: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Message-ID: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Spring Meeting 1998, Lancaster University PROGRAMME: Tuesday 14 April 1998 1.00 LUNCH 2.00 Linguistics Association Lecture 1998 Professor Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Seattle) 'Formal linguistics and functional explanations: bridging the gap' 3.30 TEA 4.00 Workshop on Formalism, Functionalism and Typology Convenor: Dr. William Croft (University of Manchester), with Professor Frederick J. Newmeyer, Professor Anna Siewierska and Dr. Simon Kirby 6.30 DINNER 7.45 Workshop continues 9.00 WINE PARTY Wednesday 15 April 1998 Session A 9.00 Anna Papafragou (UCL) "Another look at short-circuited implicatures" 9.40 Richard Breheny (UCL) "Strongest meaning observations" 10.20 Corinne Iten (UCL) "Concessive conjunction: a procedural account of although" Session B 9.00 James Hurford (Edinburgh) "Why linguists should study the evolution of language" 9.40 Marisa Lohr (Cambridge) "Genetic classification and biological methodology" 10.20 Iraide Ibarretxe-Antunano (Edinburgh) "Is metaphor the only explanation for semantic change?" Session C 9.00 Adam Przepiorkowski (T?bingen) "Do so and lexical theories of passivisation" 9.40 Peter Sells (Stanford) "Japanese postposing involves no movement" 10.20 Kook-Hee Gill (Edinburgh) "Long-distance binding in Korean: a lexicalist perspective" 11.00 COFFEE 11.30 Language Tutorial: Quechua Professor Pieter Muysken (University of Amsterdam) 1.00 LUNCH Session A 2.00 David Adger & George Tsoulas (York) "Choice sets in syntactic theory" 2.40 Elizabeth McCoy (York) "Word order in Irish non-finite clauses and the visibility of functional heads" 3.20 Nick Sobin (UALR) "The Comp-trace effect, the adverb effect, and minimal structure" Session B 2.00 Ludovica Serratrice (Edinburgh) "Access to functional categories: evidence from bilingual to first language acquisition" 2.40 Janig Stephens (Cardiff) "The language development of a child with a cochlear implant" 3.20 Eva Eppler (Lancaster & UCL) "Mixed and scrambled subordinations" Session C 2.00 Nikolas Gisborne (Hong Kong) "Force dynamics and the modality of SOUND-class verbs" 2.40 Seiko Ayano (Durham & MIE) "The [+state]/[-state] ambiguity of the desiderative complex in Japanese" 3.20 William McGregor & Xiaokang Zhou (Leuven & Melbourne) "Verbal classification in Mandarin Chinese" 4.00 TEA 4.30 Annual General Meeting 5.30 Language Tutorial continues 6.30 DINNER 7.45 Language Tutorial continues Thursday 16 April 1998 Session A 9.00 Joan Rafel (Girona) "Clausal small clauses" 9.40 Odile E. Cyrille (Salford) "Inversion in French interrogatives and que questions" 10.20 Masayoshi Amano (Nagoya) "On the licensing condition of pro in nominal adjectives" Session B 9.00 Jasper Holmes (UCL) "Resultatives: a semantic analysis" 9.40 Richard Hudson (UCL) "English subject-verb agreement" 10.20 And Rosta (Central Lancashire) "The syntactic characteristics of interrogative clauses" Session C 9.00 Dunstan Brown (Surrey) and Tore Nesset (Tromso) "Structuring grammatical categories: the place of `sub-case'" 9.40 Diane Nelson (Leeds) "Universal constraints on inflectional morphology: the importance of nonsyntactic features in the Mongolian past tense" 10.20 Patrick Honeybone (Newcastle) "Constraint creation and Gothic reduplication" 11.00 COFFEE Session A 11.30 Robert D. Borsley (Bangor) "Weak auxiliaries, compound verbs and inflected complementizers in Polish" Session B 11.30 Shu-Ming Chen (Essex) "An OT analysis of Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi" 12.10 Raising public awareness of language: `The World of Language' Project Roger Bowers 1.00 LUNCH Session A 2.00 Stella Markantonatou (NTUA & Cyprus) and Bjarne Oersnes (Copenhagen) "Group adjectives are not disguised arguments; they are plain adjectives!" 2.40 Noel Burton-Roberts (Newcastle) "Phonology in UG?" [55-minute slot - ends 3.35] Session B 2.00 Alastair Butler (York) "Comparatives and Kratzer's predicate distinction" Session C 2.00 Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) "From pronoun to agreement marker: why objects don't make it" 3.40 TEA AND CLOSE BOOKING FORM: (all amounts are in UK pounds) Please return, with payment, by Friday 27 March to: Melanie Sharratt, LAGB 1998, Linguistics Dept, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT. Cheques payable to "Lancaster University". ___________________________________________________________ NAME................................INSTITUTION................. ADDRESS FOR THIS MAILING............................. E-MAIL ADDRESS............................................... I enclose remittance as indicated (select appropriate package): 1. Complete conference package (en suite room): (a) including Tuesday lunch preceding workshop (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 134-60 ukp___ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 149-56 ukp___ (b) excluding Tuesday lunch (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 126-02 ukp____ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 140-02 ukp____ (c) Surcharge for non-members, ukp 5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp____ 2. 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Selected items (standard room): (a) conference fee (OBLIGATORY) ukp 15-00 ukp 15-00 (b) Tuesday lunch ukp 9-54 (c) Tuesday dinner ukp 14-81 (d) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday ukp 30-27 (e) Wednesday lunch ukp 9-54 (f) Wednesday dinner ukp 14-81 (g) B&B Wednesday/Thursrday ukp 30-27 (h) Thursday lunch ukp 9-54 SUB-TOTAL: ukp____ Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 27 March (i) Surcharge for non-members, ukp 5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp____ 5. Abstracts only, for those not attending: ukp 5-00 UK...... ukp 6-00 overseas....... PLEASE TICK TO RECEIVE ABSTRACTS WITH YOUR BOOKING RECEIPT ............ PLEASE TICK IF YOU WOULD LIKE VEGETARIAN FOOD............................................ OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. DIET, ACCOMMODATION).......................... From b.clark at MDX.AC.UK Tue Mar 10 20:05:50 1998 From: b.clark at MDX.AC.UK (Billy Clark) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 20:05:50 +0000 Subject: CONFS: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Message-ID: LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN Spring Meeting 1998: Lancaster University The 1998 Spring Meeting will be held from Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 April at Lancaster University. The Local Organisers are Melanie Sharratt and Julia Glass (m.sharratt at lancaster.ac.uk and j.a.glass at lancaster.ac.uk). Enquiries about the meeting should be addressed to: Melanie Sharratt, LAGB 1998, Linguistics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT. Accommodation: En suite and standard rooms available. Standard rooms have wash basins. Rooms are in John Creed-Cartmel and Lonsdale buildings, a short walk from the George Fox building where the talks will be given. Rooms will be allocated strictly on a "first-come first-served" basis. Registration: begins at 12 noon on Tues. 14th April at Lonsdale porters lodge. Bar: will be open at lunchtimes and evenings (until 23.00) every day. Food: please indicate vegetarian/other dietary requirements on booking form. Childcare: If you require childcare, please contact the Local Organiser for further details. Travel: Lancaster is easily accessible by train (trains from London can be caught at Euston station). By car, the university is easily accessible from junction 33 of the M6 when travelling from the north or the south. Car parking vouchers will be available free of charge on request. Further travel details will be sent out with booking receipts Events: The Linguistics Association 1998 Lecture on Tuesday afternoon will be delivered by Professor Frederick Newmeyer of the University of Washington, and is entitled 'Formal Linguistics and Functional Explanation: Bridging the Gap'. Professor Newmeyer will also be participating in a Workshop entitled 'Formalism, Functionalism and Typology' on Tuesday afternoon and evening. The workshop is organised by Bill Croft (University of Manchester); other contributors are Anna Siewierska (University of Lancaster) and Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh). There will be a Language Tutorial on Quechua, given by Pieter Muysken (University of Amsterdam). There will be a Wine Party on Tuesday evening, sponsored by the Dept of Linguistics. Bookings: should be sent to the Local Organisers, address above, to arrive by Friday 27 March. Cheques should be made payable to "Lancaster University". Guests: members may invite any number of guests to meetings of the association, upon payment of a ?5 guest invitation fee. Members wishing to invite guests should photocopy the booking form. Abstracts: are available to members who are unable to attend the meeting. Please order using the booking form below. Annual General Meeting: This is to be held on the afternoon of Wednesday 15 April. Items for the agenda should be sent to the Honorary Secretary. Nominations for speakers: Nominations are requested for future guest speakers; all suggestions should be sent to the Honorary Secretary. Changes of address: Members are reminded to notify the Membership Secretary (address below) of changes of address. Committee members: President: Prof. Richard Hudson, University College London (dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk) Honorary Secretary: Dr. David Adger, University of York (da4 at tower.york.ac.uk) Membership Secretary: Dr. Kersti Borjars, University of Manchester (k.e.borjars at manchester.ac.uk) Meetings Secretary: Dr. Marjolein Groefsema, University of Hertfordshire (m.groefsema at herts.ac.uk) Treasurer: Dr. Paul Rowlett, University of Salford (p.a.rowlett at mod-lang.salford.ac.uk) Assistant Secretary: Dr. April McMahon, University of Cambridge (AMM11 at hermes.cam.ac.uk) Internet home page: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB. Electronic network: the LAGB electronic network is used for disseminating LAGB information and for consulting members quickly. To subscribe send the message "add lagb" to: listserv at postman.essex.ac.uk. Future Meetings: 10-12 September 1998 University of Luton. 8-10 April 1999 University of Manchester. Autumn 1999 (provisional) University of York. Spring 2000 (provisional) University College London. Autumn 2000 (provisional) University of Wales Bangor. Other Dates: Genes, Languages and Peoples. 1-day workshop on the interfaces between genetics, linguistics and archaeology, to be held at Selwyn College, Cambridge, Saturday 5 September 1998. Sponsored by the LAGB and the Genetical Society. Speakers include Don Ringe, Roger Lass, Merritt Ruhlen, Svante Paabo, Antonio Torroni, Rob Foley. Contact April McMahon at Selwyn College, Cambridge, CB3 9DQ; phone 01223 335830; e-mail amm11 at hermes.cam.ac.uk. International conference: Negation: syntax, semantics and pragmatics Friday 30 October - Sunday 1 November 1998, University of Salford. Invited speakers: Liliane Haegeman, William Ladusaw, Jean-Yves Pollock Conference organiser: Paul Rowlett Abstract submission: max. 300 words by 30 April 1998 to Wendy Pickles, Negation Conference Administrator, European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT. E-mail: w.pickles at esri.salford.ac.uk 5th Conference on Diachronic Generative Syntax, May 30-June 1 1998. Contacts: Susan Pintzuk, George Tsoulas, Anthony Warner, The Organising Committee, DIGS 5, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, York YO1 5DD. UK. Tel: +44 1904 432661 / 432664 / 432667. Fax: +44 1904 432673. Email: digs at york.ac.uk. WWW: http://www.york.ac.uk/~lang13 The Meetings Secretary would very much like to receive offers of future venues, particularly from institutions which the LAGB has not previously visited or from places with newly established linguistics programmes. BOOKING FORM (all amounts are in UK pounds): Please return, with payment, by Friday 27 March to: Melanie Sharratt, LAGB 1998, Linguistics Dept, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YT. Cheques payable to "Lancaster University". NAME......................................INSTITUTION................. ADDRESS FOR THIS MAILING............ E-MAIL ADDRESS................................ I enclose remittance as indicated (select appropriate package): 1. Complete conference package (en suite room): (a) including Tuesday lunch preceding workshop (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 134-60 ukp___ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 149-56 ukp___ (b) excluding Tuesday lunch (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 126-02 ukp____ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 140-02 ukp____ (c) Surcharge for non-members, ukp 5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp____ 2. Selected items (en suite room): (a) conference fee (OBLIGATORY) ukp 15-00 ukp 15-00 (b) Tuesday lunch ukp 9-54 (c) Tuesday dinner ukp 14-81 (d) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday ukp 38-16 (e) Wednesday lunch ukp 9-54 (f) Wednesday dinner ukp 14-81 (g) B&B Wednesday/Thursrday ukp 38-16 (h) Thursday lunch ukp 9-54 SUB-TOTAL: ukp ____ Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 27 March (i) Surcharge for non-members, ukp 5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp ___ 3. Complete conference package (standard room): (a) including Tuesday lunch preceding workshop (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 120-40 ukp____ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 133-78 ukp____ (b) excluding Tuesday lunch (i) if sent to arrive before 27 March ukp 111-82 ukp____ (ii) if sent to arrive after 27 March ukp 124-24 ukp____ (c) Surcharge for non-members, ?5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp____ 4. Selected items (standard room): (a) conference fee (OBLIGATORY) ukp 15-00 ukp 15-00 (b) Tuesday lunch ukp 9-54 (c) Tuesday dinner ukp 14-81 (d) B&B Tuesday/Wednesday ukp 30-27 (e) Wednesday lunch ukp 9-54 (f) Wednesday dinner ukp 14-81 (g) B&B Wednesday/Thursrday ukp 30-27 (h) Thursday lunch ukp 9-54 SUB-TOTAL: ukp____ Deduct 10% if sent to arrive before 27 March (i) Surcharge for non-members, ukp 5-00 ukp____ TOTAL: ukp____ 5. Abstracts only: ukp 5-00 UK...... ukp 6-00 overseas....... TICK TO RECEIVE ABSTRACTS WITH YOUR BOOKING RECEIPT ..... TICK IF YOU WOULD LIKE VEGETARIAN FOOD...... OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (e.g. DIET, ACCOMMODATION).... From spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU Mon Mar 16 16:49:10 1998 From: spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:49:10 -0600 Subject: LSA March Bulletin (fwd) Message-ID: >From: LSA >Subject: LSA March Bulletin > >The March 1998 LSA Bulletin (#159) is now available at > > http://www.lsadc.org/marbull.html > >Members are encouraged to consult Nota Bene (p. 9) for upcoming >award deadlines. > From ylva at LING.GU.SE Fri Mar 27 08:32:13 1998 From: ylva at LING.GU.SE (Ylva Hard af Segerstad) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:32:13 +0100 Subject: Do you know anything about emoticons?! Message-ID: A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 450 bytes Desc: not available URL: From edith at CSD.UWM.EDU Fri Mar 27 23:21:23 1998 From: edith at CSD.UWM.EDU (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:21:23 -0600 Subject: collective and perfect Message-ID: My colleague Garry Davis has asked me to post this query on his behalf. ********************* In languages that have preverbs, is anyone familiar with cases where a preverb having a COLLECTIVE or ASSOCIATIVE meaning developed a RESULTATIVE or PERFECTIVE function in the verbal system? Is anyone familiar with any cases where a preverb having RESULTATIVE or PERFECTIVE meaning gradually bleached to a general meaning of +INTENSIFICATION? I am interested in this because these pathways of development are sometimes postulated for the historical development of the prefix ga- in Germanic. You can respond to me directly at gdavis at csd.uwm.edu or to the whole list as you choose. Thanks in advance. Garry Davis ********************* From bingfu at USC.EDU Sat Mar 28 04:40:06 1998 From: bingfu at USC.EDU (bingfu) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:40:06 -0800 Subject: query: inventory of unaccusative verbs Message-ID: Dear netter, I have the following question. The semantic scope of unaccusative verbs varies from language to language. In Chinese, it contains tree types of verbs: presence verbs ('to be' 'exist'), appearance verbs ('come' 'arrive') and disapearance verbs ('disappear', 'vanish', 'die'). If there-construction is taken as one criterion for unaccusative verbs, then, dissapearance verbs are not unaccusative verbs, as shown below: There appeared a man in the hill. But * There disappeared a man in the hill. Now, my question is: How about in other languages? Does your native language patterns with Chinese or English? Any information will be most welcome and I will make a summary after I get sufficient corresponses. Thanks! Bingfu Lu USC From lakoff at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU Sat Mar 28 06:30:27 1998 From: lakoff at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (George Lakoff) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:30:27 -0800 Subject: query: inventory of unaccusative verbs Message-ID: Hi, If you take a look at my case study of there-constructions (Case study 3 in Women, Fire and Dangerous Things) you will discover that the analysis of Engliush there-constructions as taking unaccusative verbs in incorrect. There is a semantic condition and it rules our disappear. Enjoy the case study! George From barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU Sat Mar 28 23:43:51 1998 From: barlow at RUF.RICE.EDU (Michael Barlow) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 17:43:51 -0600 Subject: Announcement - Spoken America Message-ID: Announcement The Corpus of Professional, Spoken American-English (CPSA) is available from Athelstan. The corpus of 2 million words is based on a variety of transcripts of (i) faculty meetings and committee meetings (1 million words) and (ii) White House press conferences (1 million words). To obtain information about the corpus or to view/download a 50,000 word sample, visit the CPSA webpage at http://www.athel.com/cpsa.html Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Barlow, Department of Linguistics, Rice University barlow at rice.edu www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow Athelstan barlow at athel.com www.athel.com (U.S.) www.athelstan.com (UK) From eitkonen at UTU.FI Tue Mar 31 11:13:04 1998 From: eitkonen at UTU.FI (Esa Itkonen) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 14:13:04 +0300 Subject: language & music Message-ID: Some time ago, in a light-hearted moment, I promised to give a (popular) talk on 'origin of speech & music' at a forthcoming music festival, although - literally - I should have known better. Now that the time to deliver is approaching, I am getting cold feet. Can anyone suggest some relevant (and hopefully not-too-technical) literature? (I know that Dean Falk is going to addres this topic next week at Edinborough, and I have already contacted him. I also seem to remember that Bjorn Lindblom has sometimes written something on this topic.) - Thank you in advance, Esa Itkonen