conference announcement

[Ellen L. Contini-Morava]

[Apologies for cross-postings]

CALL FOR PAPERS

6th International Columbia School Conference
on the Interaction between
Linguistic Form, Meaning, and Human Behavior

                       October 9-11, 1999
                       Rutgers University
                    New Brunswick, New Jersey

                        Invited speakers:


Ronald Langacker
University of California, La Jolla

Melissa Bowerman
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Wallis Reid
Rutgers University


Papers invited on any aspect of linguistic analysis in which the postulation
of meaningful signals plays a central role in explaining the distribution of
linguistic forms.

The Columbia School is a group of linguists developing the
theoretical framework established by the late William Diver.  In this
framework language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both
by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its human users.
Grammatical analyses seek to explain the distribution of linguistic forms as
an interaction between meaningful signals and pragmatic and functional factors
such as inference, ease of processing, iconicity, and the like.
Phonological analyses seek to explain the syntagmatic and
paradigmatic distributions of phonological units within signals, also drawing
on both communicative function and human physiological and psychological
characteristics.

Please submit:

· 3 copies of a one-page anonymous abstract (optional second page for
references and/or examples), to the address below.
· 1 3x5 index card with the following information:

          Title of paper
          Author's name and affiliation
          Address, phone number, and e-mail address for
          notification

E-mail abstracts should include the above information, which will be deleted
before the abstracts are reviewed.

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:  15 April 1999

Address for e-mail abstracts:

<grc8b at virginia.edu>

Address for hard-copy abstracts and other correspondence:

Ellen Contini-Morava
Department of Anthropology
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA 22903
<elc9j at virginia.edu>


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The support of the conference by
The Columbia School Linguistics Society
is gratefully acknowledged

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Selected Columbia School bibliography:

Contini-Morava, Ellen. 1995. "Introduction: On linguistic sign theory", in
Ellen Contini-Morava and Barbara S. Goldberg (eds.), Meaning as Explanation:
Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Huffman, Alan. 1997. The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le. Amsterdam:
John Benjamins.

Reid, Wallis. 1991. Verb and Noun Number in English:  a
Functional Explanation. London: Longman.

Tobin, Yishai. 1997. Phonology as Human Behavior:  Theoretical Implications
and Clinical Applications. Duke University Press.