From Sally.Rice at UALBERTA.CA Tue Jun 1 18:40:42 1999 From: Sally.Rice at UALBERTA.CA (Sally Rice) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:40:42 -0600 Subject: Syntax Position at the University of Alberta Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the junior Assistant Professor level in theoretical syntax, effective 1 July 2000. An active research program in one or more of the following areas is sought: sentence processing, computational linguistics, or another area that interfaces with the continuing research strengths of the department. The candidate should hold the PhD and have demonstrated teaching and research ability. The 1999/2000 salary floor for Assistant Professors is $42,054 Cdn; the figure for 1 July 2000 will be adjusted on the basis of negotiations between the Faculty Association and the University. The Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta is engaged in an extensive process of renewal, and is committed to ensuring that the substantial number of hirings projected over the next several years will ensure for the future the lively and productive intellectual environment on which the Faculty prides itself. The Department of Linguistics has a strong commitment to empirical and experimental approaches to linguistic research. Department members are engaged in ongoing research projects, many grant-funded, in experimental phonetics, discourse processing, and the study of the phonological, morphological, and semantic aspects of the mental lexicon. The Department offers both graduate (PhD and MSc) and undergraduate degrees, and values its reputation for excellence in teaching and graduate training. We seek a colleague who wishes to engage in leading-edge research in a collegial and supportive research environment, to recruit and train promising graduate students, and to participate in innovative teaching/learning at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. If suitable Canadian citizens and permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. The University of Alberta is committed to the principle of equity in employment. As an employer we welcome diversity in the workplace and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities. A letter of application, curriculum vitae, all university transcripts, and three letters of reference should be received by 15 October 1999, by: Lois M Stanford, Chair Department of Linguistics University of Alberta Edmonton T6G 2E7 Canada phone: (780) 492 3459 fax: (780) 492 0806 e-mail: lois.stanford at ualberta.ca From ljuba at LING.SU.SE Fri Jun 4 13:26:36 1999 From: ljuba at LING.SU.SE (Ljuba Veselinova) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:26:36 +0200 Subject: ICLC'99 program and practical matters Message-ID: Dear All, the program of the 6th ICLA conference is now posted at http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/ Here come some practical issues: Early registration ends on June 10, that is a week from now. Please register as soon as you can, preferably online: http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/registerform.html As some of you already know, the World Police and Fire Games will take place in Stockholm in the last two weeks of July, that is right after our conference. This means that all hotel rooms, hostels and such are taken at least from July 9 and onwards. There are a number of rooms reserved for the conference participants however we can hold them only until June 10. Please try to make your reservations as soon as possible. Instructions about hotel reservtions can be found at http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/hotel.html Finally, we have applied for a discount subway and bus card for the conference participants. In order to approve our application the local traffic company requires 50 people to sign up now. Please do that at http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/transportation.html Apologies to those of you who have already registered and made arrangements for their accomodation. A similar message will appear on a couple of other lists as well. Please excuse us for cross-posting. Welcome to the ICLC99 and Stockholm! Best wishes, ICLC99 Organizing Committee ***************************************************************** 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference web: http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/ email: humfak at iclc99.su.se ICLC'99 (Erling Wande) phone: +46-8-16 2912 Stockholm University fax: +46-8-15 8871 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden ****************************************************************** From meira at RUF.RICE.EDU Tue Jun 8 08:00:37 1999 From: meira at RUF.RICE.EDU (Sergio Meira S.C.O.) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 03:00:37 -0500 Subject: Essive case In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear FUNKNETters, does anyone know if there is a study of the meaning and uses of the essive case in Finnish or other Finno-Ugric languages (especially from a functional or cognitive perspective)? I am especially interested in the uses in which the essive is apparently synonymous with the nominative (e.g. Finnish 'tuo mies on opittaja' vs. 'tuo mies on opittaja-na', both meaning 'that man is a teacher'). Thanks, Sergio Meira meira at ruf.rice.edu From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu Jun 10 15:34:00 1999 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Tom Payne) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:34:00 -0700 Subject: Problems needed! Message-ID: Dear Funknet I am currently putting together a "workbook" of exercises for a beginning morphology and syntax course. This will be a categorized and annotated collection of problems, with a "teacher's edition" that contains the solutions. There are still a few gaps in the table of contents, and I would like to request your help in filling them. Here is what is still needed: 1) A problem that requires students to identify an antipassive construction. This should not be in Inuit, Dyirbal or any Polynesian language. 2) A problem that demonstrates object incorporation. Any language but Chukchee or Panare. 3) A problem that illustrates an "inverse" system of the Algonquian type, but not an Algonquian language (!) if possible. 4) A problem that illustrates "heavy" vs. "lite" reflexives, but not Russian, Spanish or any related language. One that illustrates reflexive vs. middle constructions would also be nice. Thanks for any and all help. So far there are about 80 problems in the manuscript. As an incentive to participate, I will promise a free pre-publication copy of the work to anyone whose contribution is adopted. I have lots of data and references on these issues, but am hoping to not have to "reinvent the wheel" if someone out there already has problems prepared. Regards, Tom Payne From spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU Fri Jun 11 14:21:42 1999 From: spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:21:42 -0500 Subject: LSA Bulletin (fwd) Message-ID: >Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:40:45 -0500 >From: LSA > >The June 1999 LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA website: > > http://www.lsadc.org > From bernd.heine at UNI-KOELN.DE Mon Jun 14 08:00:17 1999 From: bernd.heine at UNI-KOELN.DE (Bernd Heine) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:00:17 +0200 Subject: Third World Congress of African Linguistics, 2000 Message-ID: Anouncement WORLD CONGRESS OF AFRICAN LINGUISTICS, 2000 Organized by the Department of Language Sciences and Communication of the Université du Bénin, Lomé General themes: African languages for culture, peace, and socio-economic development in Africa in the third millennium Venue : Campus of the Université du Bénin, Lomé Date : August 21 – 26, 2000 Subjects : All aspects of the analysis of African languages: phonetics & phonology, tonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and lexicography, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, typology, etc. Registration fees : 40 000 F CFA (80 $ US) These fees cover organization and conference costs including coffee-breaks, etc., with the exception of accommodation, restauration and excursions. Please send the title of your paper and an abstract (approx. 200 words) to: LE COMITE D'ORGANISATION DU 3EME CONGRES MONDIAL DE LINGUISTIQUE AFRICAINE C/O MR. Kézié K. LEBIKAZA DEPARTEMENT DES SCIENCES DU LANGAGE ET DE LA COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITE DU BENIN BP. 1515 LOME TOGO Fax: 0028-218595, or 0028-258784 Email: lebikaza at syfed.tg.refer.org ___________________________________________________ Bernd Heine Institut für Afrikanistik Universität zu Köln D-50923 Köln, GERMANY Phone: (0049) 221 470 2708 Fax: (0049) 221 470 5158 From kai_ruth at YAHOO.CO.UK Wed Jun 23 08:51:50 1999 From: kai_ruth at YAHOO.CO.UK (=?iso-8859-1?q?kai=20ruth?=) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:51:50 +0100 Subject: Jakobson and Nasals Message-ID: Greetings Ladefoged in his "Preliminaries to Linguistics Phonetics" (1971) implies that Roman Jakobson considered NASALS as CONTINUANTS in his later works.I would appreciate very much if any member of this mailing list informs me that in which book/article Jakobson introduces such an idea. Please if possible write also the page number. Morover, is there any other linguist who considers nasals as continuants? I am aware of Trubetzkoy and O'conner With regards and most sincere thanks Kai Ruth kai_ruth at yahoo.co.uk _____________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk From dkp at U.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Jun 23 15:59:50 1999 From: dkp at U.ARIZONA.EDU (Dianne K. Patterson) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:59:50 -0700 Subject: Jakobson and Nasals In-Reply-To: <19990623085150.11288.rocketmail@web601.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: I can't claim to know of any books, but I have always felt that nasals should be classed as continuants...this captures an important aspect of their character. I didn't know that anyone else had thought of them this way. I look forward to hearing more. Dianne Patterson U of A On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, [iso-8859-1] kai ruth wrote: > Greetings > > > Ladefoged in his "Preliminaries to Linguistics > Phonetics" (1971) implies that Roman > Jakobson considered NASALS as CONTINUANTS in his later > works.I would appreciate very > much if any member of this mailing list informs me > that in which book/article Jakobson > introduces such an idea. Please if possible write also > the page number. Morover, is there any other linguist > who considers nasals as continuants? I am aware of > Trubetzkoy and O'conner > > With regards and most sincere thanks > Kai Ruth > kai_ruth at yahoo.co.uk > > > _____________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > From dryer at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Fri Jun 25 00:18:26 1999 From: dryer at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Matthew S Dryer) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:18:26 -0400 Subject: discourse functions of property words Message-ID: Sandy Thompson (1988) argues that property words tend to involve the discourse function of "predication" in natural speech. Is anybody aware of any attempt to develop a finer taxonomy of discourse functions associated with property words (or other types of words) that would distinguish different subtypes of "predication"? Thanks, Matthew Dryer From Sally.Rice at UALBERTA.CA Tue Jun 1 18:40:42 1999 From: Sally.Rice at UALBERTA.CA (Sally Rice) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:40:42 -0600 Subject: Syntax Position at the University of Alberta Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, invites applications for a tenure-track position at the junior Assistant Professor level in theoretical syntax, effective 1 July 2000. An active research program in one or more of the following areas is sought: sentence processing, computational linguistics, or another area that interfaces with the continuing research strengths of the department. The candidate should hold the PhD and have demonstrated teaching and research ability. The 1999/2000 salary floor for Assistant Professors is $42,054 Cdn; the figure for 1 July 2000 will be adjusted on the basis of negotiations between the Faculty Association and the University. The Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta is engaged in an extensive process of renewal, and is committed to ensuring that the substantial number of hirings projected over the next several years will ensure for the future the lively and productive intellectual environment on which the Faculty prides itself. The Department of Linguistics has a strong commitment to empirical and experimental approaches to linguistic research. Department members are engaged in ongoing research projects, many grant-funded, in experimental phonetics, discourse processing, and the study of the phonological, morphological, and semantic aspects of the mental lexicon. The Department offers both graduate (PhD and MSc) and undergraduate degrees, and values its reputation for excellence in teaching and graduate training. We seek a colleague who wishes to engage in leading-edge research in a collegial and supportive research environment, to recruit and train promising graduate students, and to participate in innovative teaching/learning at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. If suitable Canadian citizens and permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. The University of Alberta is committed to the principle of equity in employment. As an employer we welcome diversity in the workplace and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities. A letter of application, curriculum vitae, all university transcripts, and three letters of reference should be received by 15 October 1999, by: Lois M Stanford, Chair Department of Linguistics University of Alberta Edmonton T6G 2E7 Canada phone: (780) 492 3459 fax: (780) 492 0806 e-mail: lois.stanford at ualberta.ca From ljuba at LING.SU.SE Fri Jun 4 13:26:36 1999 From: ljuba at LING.SU.SE (Ljuba Veselinova) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:26:36 +0200 Subject: ICLC'99 program and practical matters Message-ID: Dear All, the program of the 6th ICLA conference is now posted at http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/ Here come some practical issues: Early registration ends on June 10, that is a week from now. Please register as soon as you can, preferably online: http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/registerform.html As some of you already know, the World Police and Fire Games will take place in Stockholm in the last two weeks of July, that is right after our conference. This means that all hotel rooms, hostels and such are taken at least from July 9 and onwards. There are a number of rooms reserved for the conference participants however we can hold them only until June 10. Please try to make your reservations as soon as possible. Instructions about hotel reservtions can be found at http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/hotel.html Finally, we have applied for a discount subway and bus card for the conference participants. In order to approve our application the local traffic company requires 50 people to sign up now. Please do that at http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/transportation.html Apologies to those of you who have already registered and made arrangements for their accomodation. A similar message will appear on a couple of other lists as well. Please excuse us for cross-posting. Welcome to the ICLC99 and Stockholm! Best wishes, ICLC99 Organizing Committee ***************************************************************** 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference web: http://www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/ email: humfak at iclc99.su.se ICLC'99 (Erling Wande) phone: +46-8-16 2912 Stockholm University fax: +46-8-15 8871 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden ****************************************************************** From meira at RUF.RICE.EDU Tue Jun 8 08:00:37 1999 From: meira at RUF.RICE.EDU (Sergio Meira S.C.O.) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 03:00:37 -0500 Subject: Essive case In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear FUNKNETters, does anyone know if there is a study of the meaning and uses of the essive case in Finnish or other Finno-Ugric languages (especially from a functional or cognitive perspective)? I am especially interested in the uses in which the essive is apparently synonymous with the nominative (e.g. Finnish 'tuo mies on opittaja' vs. 'tuo mies on opittaja-na', both meaning 'that man is a teacher'). Thanks, Sergio Meira meira at ruf.rice.edu From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu Jun 10 15:34:00 1999 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Tom Payne) Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:34:00 -0700 Subject: Problems needed! Message-ID: Dear Funknet I am currently putting together a "workbook" of exercises for a beginning morphology and syntax course. This will be a categorized and annotated collection of problems, with a "teacher's edition" that contains the solutions. There are still a few gaps in the table of contents, and I would like to request your help in filling them. Here is what is still needed: 1) A problem that requires students to identify an antipassive construction. This should not be in Inuit, Dyirbal or any Polynesian language. 2) A problem that demonstrates object incorporation. Any language but Chukchee or Panare. 3) A problem that illustrates an "inverse" system of the Algonquian type, but not an Algonquian language (!) if possible. 4) A problem that illustrates "heavy" vs. "lite" reflexives, but not Russian, Spanish or any related language. One that illustrates reflexive vs. middle constructions would also be nice. Thanks for any and all help. So far there are about 80 problems in the manuscript. As an incentive to participate, I will promise a free pre-publication copy of the work to anyone whose contribution is adopted. I have lots of data and references on these issues, but am hoping to not have to "reinvent the wheel" if someone out there already has problems prepared. Regards, Tom Payne From spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU Fri Jun 11 14:21:42 1999 From: spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:21:42 -0500 Subject: LSA Bulletin (fwd) Message-ID: >Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:40:45 -0500 >From: LSA > >The June 1999 LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA website: > > http://www.lsadc.org > From bernd.heine at UNI-KOELN.DE Mon Jun 14 08:00:17 1999 From: bernd.heine at UNI-KOELN.DE (Bernd Heine) Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:00:17 +0200 Subject: Third World Congress of African Linguistics, 2000 Message-ID: Anouncement WORLD CONGRESS OF AFRICAN LINGUISTICS, 2000 Organized by the Department of Language Sciences and Communication of the Universit? du B?nin, Lom? General themes: African languages for culture, peace, and socio-economic development in Africa in the third millennium Venue : Campus of the Universit? du B?nin, Lom? Date : August 21 ? 26, 2000 Subjects : All aspects of the analysis of African languages: phonetics & phonology, tonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and lexicography, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, typology, etc. Registration fees : 40 000 F CFA (80 $ US) These fees cover organization and conference costs including coffee-breaks, etc., with the exception of accommodation, restauration and excursions. Please send the title of your paper and an abstract (approx. 200 words) to: LE COMITE D'ORGANISATION DU 3EME CONGRES MONDIAL DE LINGUISTIQUE AFRICAINE C/O MR. K?zi? K. LEBIKAZA DEPARTEMENT DES SCIENCES DU LANGAGE ET DE LA COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITE DU BENIN BP. 1515 LOME TOGO Fax: 0028-218595, or 0028-258784 Email: lebikaza at syfed.tg.refer.org ___________________________________________________ Bernd Heine Institut f?r Afrikanistik Universit?t zu K?ln D-50923 K?ln, GERMANY Phone: (0049) 221 470 2708 Fax: (0049) 221 470 5158 From kai_ruth at YAHOO.CO.UK Wed Jun 23 08:51:50 1999 From: kai_ruth at YAHOO.CO.UK (=?iso-8859-1?q?kai=20ruth?=) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:51:50 +0100 Subject: Jakobson and Nasals Message-ID: Greetings Ladefoged in his "Preliminaries to Linguistics Phonetics" (1971) implies that Roman Jakobson considered NASALS as CONTINUANTS in his later works.I would appreciate very much if any member of this mailing list informs me that in which book/article Jakobson introduces such an idea. Please if possible write also the page number. Morover, is there any other linguist who considers nasals as continuants? I am aware of Trubetzkoy and O'conner With regards and most sincere thanks Kai Ruth kai_ruth at yahoo.co.uk _____________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk From dkp at U.ARIZONA.EDU Wed Jun 23 15:59:50 1999 From: dkp at U.ARIZONA.EDU (Dianne K. Patterson) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:59:50 -0700 Subject: Jakobson and Nasals In-Reply-To: <19990623085150.11288.rocketmail@web601.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: I can't claim to know of any books, but I have always felt that nasals should be classed as continuants...this captures an important aspect of their character. I didn't know that anyone else had thought of them this way. I look forward to hearing more. Dianne Patterson U of A On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, [iso-8859-1] kai ruth wrote: > Greetings > > > Ladefoged in his "Preliminaries to Linguistics > Phonetics" (1971) implies that Roman > Jakobson considered NASALS as CONTINUANTS in his later > works.I would appreciate very > much if any member of this mailing list informs me > that in which book/article Jakobson > introduces such an idea. Please if possible write also > the page number. Morover, is there any other linguist > who considers nasals as continuants? I am aware of > Trubetzkoy and O'conner > > With regards and most sincere thanks > Kai Ruth > kai_ruth at yahoo.co.uk > > > _____________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > From dryer at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Fri Jun 25 00:18:26 1999 From: dryer at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (Matthew S Dryer) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:18:26 -0400 Subject: discourse functions of property words Message-ID: Sandy Thompson (1988) argues that property words tend to involve the discourse function of "predication" in natural speech. Is anybody aware of any attempt to develop a finer taxonomy of discourse functions associated with property words (or other types of words) that would distinguish different subtypes of "predication"? Thanks, Matthew Dryer