From fujiin at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Mon Oct 4 23:42:24 1999 From: fujiin at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Noriko Fujii) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:42:24 -0800 Subject: position announcement Message-ID: University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403 The Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures seeks applicants for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the areas of Japanese linguistics, language pedagogy, and/or second language acquisition. Candidates should be prepared to offer graduate courses in such areas and intermediate or advanced language courses. The position begins September 16, 2000. Required are a Ph.D. in (Japanese) linguistics, general or applied, and native or near-native fluency in Japanese and English. Desired are excellence in teaching and originality of research. To apply, please send a statement of research and teaching interests, CV, and three letters of recommendation to: Japanese Linguistics Search Committee, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Applications will be reviewed from November 15, 1999. AA/EO/ADA Employer Noriko Fujii Dept. of East Asian Langs. & Lits. University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 TEL:(541) 346-4004 FAX:(541) 346-0260 From kiyoshi at I.HOSEI.AC.JP Tue Oct 5 10:38:24 1999 From: kiyoshi at I.HOSEI.AC.JP (ISHIKAWA Kiyoshi) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:38:24 +0900 Subject: PACLIC 14 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION February 15-17, 2000 The Logico-Linguistic Society of Japan is pleased to announce that the 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 14) will be held at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, on February 15-17, 2000. The Conference is an annual meeting of scholars with a wide range of interest in theoretical and computational linguistics from the Pacific Asia region. PACLIC 14 solicits papers treating any field in theoretical and computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, typology, corpus linguistics, formal grammar theory, natural language processing, and computer applications. Submission may be made either for a long paper or a short paper. The long paper should not exceed 20 letter- or A4-sized pages, with font size 11 point, double spaced throughout. The maximum length for the short paper is 2000 words. The first page of the submitted paper should bear the following information: the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), affiliations, mailing address, and Email address for correspondence. E-mail submission is also acceptable (but no fax submissions). The e-mail submission should be in such popular formats as ASCII plain text, PDF, PostScript, MS Word, and LaTeX. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. The submission should be sent to either of the following addresses. MAILING ADDRESSES: * For Hard-Copy Submission: PACLIC14 c/o Akira Ikeya, Chiyogaoka 4-7-4, Asao-ku, Kawasaki 215-0005 JAPAN * For Electronic Submission: kawamori at atom.brl.ntt.co.jp ***************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: Preliminary paper submission due: November 10, 1999 (Extended) Notification of acceptance: December 10, 1999 (Extended) Camera-ready copy due: January 15, 2000 ***************************************************** *************************************************** Invited Speaker: Commemorating the last PACLIC conference of the 20th century, Professor Masayoshi SHIBATANI of Kobe University will give a lecture entitled: The Grammar of Internal States: A Cognitive-Typological Study *************************************************** CONFERENCE CHAIR: Akira Ikeya, Toyo Gakuen University, Japan ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (co-chair) Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea (co-chair) Lin-Shan Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (co-chair) Young-Hern Lee, Chosun University, Korea (co-chair) Kim Teng Lua, National University of Singapore (co-chair) Byung-Soo PARK, Kyung Hee University, Korea (co-chair) Benjamin K. T'sou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (co-chair) Jhing-fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (co-chair) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Masahito Kawamori, NTT Research Labs., Japan. Jaewoong Choe, Korea University, Korea Yasunari Harada, Waseda University, Japan Kaoru Horie, Tohoku University, Japan Kiyoshi Ishikawa, Hosei University, Japan Chiharu Uda Kakuta, Dohshisha University, Japan Beom-mo Kang, Korea University, Korea Kazuhiko Ozeki, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Suk-Jin Chang, Seoul National Univeristy, Korea Samuel W. K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Zhao-Ming Gao, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan Jin Guo, Motorola, Singapore One-Soon Her, National Chenchi University, Taiwan Hsue-hueh Hsu, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Akira Ishikawa, Sophia University, Japan Makoto Kanazawa, Chiba University, Japan Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Korea Ik-Hwan Lee, Yonsei University, Korea Kiyong Lee, Korea University, Korea Charles C. Lee, National Chiao Tun University, Taiwan Hai Zhou Li, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Yoshihiko Nitta, Nihon University, Japan Toshiyuki Ogihara, U of Washington, USA Hsiao-Chuan Wang, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan Jie Xu, Singapore National University, Singapore Kei Yoshimoto, Tohoku University, Japan For further information, please visit our website: http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/paclic14/ or you can contact: Dr. Masahito KAWAMORI, NTT Research Laboratories. 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198 JAPAN e-mail:kawamori at atom.brl.ntt.co.jp Phone : +81-462-40-3624 Fax : +81-462-40-4705 From lamb at rice.edu Tue Oct 5 19:04:32 1999 From: lamb at rice.edu (Sydney Lamb) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:04:32 -0500 Subject: LACUS 2000 Message-ID: This notice is being sent to several lists -- our apologies if you have already seen it. -------------- next part -------------- LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES (LACUS) ASSOCIATION DE LINGUISTIQUE DU CANADA ET DES ETAS-UNIS (ALCEU) THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LACUS FORUM To Be Held at RICE UNIVERSITY, Houston, Texas July 25-29, 2000 CONFERENCE THEME: SPEAKING AND COMPREHENDING Featured Speakers: David McNeill, University of Chicago Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara Michel Paradis, McGill University (presidential address) Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico Tutorial: Automated Production and Recognition of Speech: Problems and Solutions Tuesday, July 25, 1:30 - 5:00 To be presented by Dr. Nancy Niedzielski, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Rice University Consultant, Panasonic Technologies, Inc. CALL FOR PAPERS While papers relating to the conference theme are especially invited, abstracts are welcomed on all subjects in linguistics and interdisciplinary areas involving language. Papers accepted for the program will be scheduled for either 15 minutes or 25 minutes, with 5 minutes allowed for discussion. This list of topics relating to the theme is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive: Sequence Management The Mental Lexicon in Action Parallel vis-à-vis Serial Processing Factors Governing Choice of Lexeme Factors Governing Choice of Syntactic Construction The Linguistic Encoding of Complex Processes (e.g., of motion) Testing Grammatical/Phonological Descriptions for Operational Plausibility Phonological Information in Speaking and Comprehending: One System or Two? Grammatical Information in Speaking and Comprehending: One System or Two? Experimental Phonetic Evidence for the Process of Speech Production Experimental Evidence for the Process of Speech Recognition The Role of Speaking/Comprehending in Linguistic Change Conceptual Categories and Lexical Categories in Action Computer Simulation of Production/Comprehension Pragmatic Factors in Speaking and Understanding The Role of World Knowledge in Comprehending Individual Variation in Interpretation of Discourse Slips of Tongue and Mind in Speech Production Formulation Processes in Language Production Production/Comprehension of Sign Language Production/Interpretation of Poetic Discourse Slips in Comprehending: Misunderstanding Speech Production of the Developing Child Producing and Interpreting Metaphors The Use of Gestures in Speaking Automated Speech Recognition Automated Speech Synthesis Negotiating Discourse Topics The Process of Translating Lexicalization Conversation GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS Maximum length: 450 words (not including references). The abstract should fit on one 8 1/2"x11" page. (If references do not fit on the page, they may be put on a separate page, but in that case they will not appear in the meeting handbook.) Anonymity: The abstract should not identify the author(s). Topic Designation: At top of page (at upper left, above the title), name a topic (or two topics) to identify the area(s) in which your paper lies. Choose a topic name from the list above if appropriate, or feel free to name Another topic if none of those on the list fits properly, or if you are submitting an abstract that does not fit the conference theme. What to Submit: Submit abstracts via e-mail. Send also 3 camera- ready copies via snail mail (entire abstract on a single page, with wide margins - see above), for reproduction in the meeting handbook, along with information card (see below). Those without access to e-mail should send16 hard copies via snail mail. Where to Submit: Lois Stanford, Chair, LACUS Conference Committee Linguistics Department, 4-36A Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7, Canada lois.stanford at ualberta.ca Due Date: 15 January 2000 DESIRABLE PROPERTIES OF ABSTRACTS Evaluators of abstracts will appreciate your attention to these desiderata: Informative but brief title Clear statement of the problem or questions addressed Clear statement of the main point(s) or argument(s) Informative examples Clear indication of relevance to related work Avoidance of jargon References to literature (not included in 400-word limit) INFORMATION CARD Also send by snail mail (with the 3 hard copies) a 3x5" card with the following information: Name(s) E-mail and snail-mail addresses (primary author only) Affiliation Telephone number (primary author) Title of paper Audio-visual equipment required (beyond overhead projector) Eligibility for prize (if applicable - see below) Time desired -- 15 or 25 minutes (plus discussion time) SYMPOSIA Proposals for panels or special sessions are also welcome. Please contact Lois Stanford or Syd Lamb right away with your ideas (see addresses below). PRESIDENTS' PRIZES Continuing a tradition started by former president Kenneth Pike, a committee consisting of the President, the President-Elect, and former Presidents of LACUS will select the winner of the annual Presidents' Prize, with an award of $500, for 'the best paper' by a junior scholar. For purposes of this prize, 'junior scholar' is defined as one who has had a doctoral degree for less than ten years and has not yet attained a tenured position. The Presidents' Predoctoral prize, with an award of $100, will be given for 'the best paper' by a student who has not yet received a doctor's degree. For purposes of these prizes, 'best paper' is defined as that which in the judgement of the committee makes the most important contribution to knowledge. Organization and presentation may also be considered. The prizes will be awarded at the annual banquet, to be held at the end of the meeting, Saturday, July 29th. Only single-authored presentations will be considered. Junior scholars and predoctoral scholars should identify their status on the information card sent in with the hard-copy abstracts, to indicate their eligibility for one of the prizes. FINANCIAL AID Limited funds to assist scholars coming from countries with weak currencies may be available. For information contact the Conference Committee Chair. PUBLICATION Selected papers presented at the meeting will be published, with appropriate revisions, in LACUS Forum XXVII. VENUE Rice University is located in the heart of Houston, Texas, bounded on the north and south by attractive residential areas, on the west by the Rice Village, which contains a wide variety of stores and restaurants, and on the east by Hermann Park (with a large zoo) and the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center, which includes two leading medical schools. Located nearby are the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and a museum of science and medicine. A short distance away is the renowned Menil Collection. For information on the University, see http://riceinfo.rice.edu For information on the Linguistics Department, see http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ling/. Houston is served by two airports, Bush Intercontinental Airport and Hobby Airport. The latter is closer to the Rice campus, but the former has more flights coming in and departing. The largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States, Houston boasts many fine restaurants, which offer ethnically diverse cuisines at reasonable prices. Several good ones are located in the Rice Village, close to the university. Near Houston is NASA, which provides many fine exhibits related to the American space program. Temperatures in July are usually hot in the afternoons (mid- nineties Farenheit, mid-thirties Celcius), but all buildings on campus and all hotels and restaurants are well air-conditioned. ACCOMMODATIONS Hotel accommodations will be available at the edge of campus, within easy walking distance to the conference rooms. Accommodations will also be available on campus. FURTHER INFORMATION The LACUS website will be updated frequently as further details become available. See http://fricka.glendon.yorku.ca.8008/mcummings.nsf/. Detailed information will be sent to all LACUS members and to nonmember authors of accepted abstracts in March. ADDRESS QUESTIONS about the conference to: Lois Stanford Syd Lamb CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: Lois Stanford, University of Alberta, Chair Ruth Brend, Ann Arbor, Michigan Angela Della Volpe, California State University, Fullerton Sydney Lamb, Rice University (local arrangements chair) Michel Paradis, McGill University William Sullivan, University of Florida From kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il Thu Oct 7 11:58:26 1999 From: kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il (Ron Kuzar) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:58:26 +0200 Subject: In Memoriam Haiim B. Rose'n Message-ID: On Saturday, October 2, Professor Haiim B. Rose'n passed away in Paris, and the funeral took place today in Jerusalem. Rose'n was the most important expounder of structuralism in Israel. He was a charismatic teacher, and hundreds of graduates of the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University remember his ongoing three-part introductory course spanning all the years of the BA, entitled "Foundations of Language Analysis", covering synchronic linguistics, diachronic linguistics, and comparative and typological linguistics. As graduate students we always came back to this course, to better understand what we might have missed before. In all his other teachings we always experience love and intimate knowledge of the themes and languages discussed. Early in the 1950s, Rose'n declared that there was a new language in Israel, Israeli Hebrew, which has its own e'tat de langue, deserving synchronic investigation. This language, said Rose'n, was not an immature mixture of its historical components to be corrected an shaped by prescriptivists, but rather it showed clear signs of normal behavior through regular internal language processes. A decade of linguistic and cultural debates followed this declaration, which paved the way for all the research conducted on Israeli Hebrew since then. Rose'n was both a structuralist linguist and a philologist, and I have no doubts that his many contributions to Indo-European linguistics, Semitics, and to Greek philology, as well as many other domains, will remain an asset to the linguistic community for many years to come. From ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU Sun Oct 10 03:35:18 1999 From: ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU (Tsuyoshi Ono) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:35:18 -0700 Subject: job Message-ID: The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona invites applications for the following positions: PROFESSOR & DEPARTMENT HEAD to begin 7/1/00. A senior scholar with a strong record of scholarship and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, a demonstrated record of successful administration that values consultative management and an open decision-making process and a specialization in a field of Chinese or Japanese studies. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN EARLY CHINESE THOUGHT to begin fall 2000. Teaching responsibilities at graduate and undergraduate levels. PhD and academic training in Early Chinese Thought with a strong Chinese language background required. Submit cover letter, vita and three letters of recommendation to East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, P. O. Box 210080, Tucson, AZ 85721 From noonan at CSD.UWM.EDU Mon Oct 18 18:26:12 1999 From: noonan at CSD.UWM.EDU (Michael Noonan) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:26:12 -0500 Subject: 6th Himalayan Languages Symposium Message-ID: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: 6th HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee June 15-17, 2000 Papers at the 6th Himalayan Languages Symposium may report the results of scholarly research on any subject pertaining to the Himalayan languages and Himalayan language communities. Possible topics include: + descriptions of previously undescribed languages + linguistic analyses of phonetic, phono-logical and grammatical phenomena + comparative studies & historical reconstruction + Himalayan languages in typological perspective + language planning + the economic and cultural aspects of language preservation and language death + sociocultural aspect of borrowing + 'secret' languages + grammar & pragmatics of honorific speech + sociolinguistic & ethnolinguistic analyses + historical and archaeological findings relating to the prehistory of Himalayan language communities Workshops to promote dialog between Himalayanists and typologists will be organized by: Matthew Dryer, SUNY-Buffalo David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Ian Maddieson, UCLA SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The deadline for submission of abstracts is Feb. 1, 2000. Notifications of acceptance will sent out by March 1, 2000. Abstracts should be no longer than one page and should be of camera-ready quality. The author's name and affiliation should appear below the title of the paper. On a separate piece of paper, include mailing and email addresses. REGISTRATION Preregistration: $40 for faculty, $20 for students and non-academics; registration at the conference: $45 for faculty, $25 for students and non-academics. ADDRESS AND CONTACT INFORMATION Address abstracts, registration fees, and inquiries to: Michael Noonan Himalayan Languages Symposium Dept. of English University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA noonan at uwm.edu fax: 414-229-2643 phone: 414-229-4511 ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM The Himalayan Languages Symposium is an open international forum where scholars can exchange the results of their research with others working on related issues in the same geographical area. The term 'Himalayan' is used in its broad sense to include north-western and north-eastern India, where languages of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Austro-Asiatic linguistic stocks are spoken; the languages of Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau; the languages of northern Burma and Sichuan; and the languages of Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski speaking area in the west. The term 'Languages' is used instead of 'Linguistics' to broaden the scope of the Symposium beyond linguistics proper so as to allow scholars working on language issues in the related disciplines of anthropology, philology, and archaeology to present their research wherever this is directly relevant to our understanding of Himalayan languages and language communities. The Permanent Secretariat for this annual Symposium is maintained at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Previously, the Himalayan Languages Symposium has been convened in Leiden, Noordwijkerhout [the Netherlands], Santa Barbara [California], Pune [India], and Kathmandu. 6th HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM The 6th Himalayan Languages Symposium will be held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, situated near Lake Michigan in Milwaukee's Upper East Side. Milwaukee is pleasantly warm in June. More details regarding the venue, accommodations, and travel will be sent out to those who respond to this circular. From nuyts at UIA.UA.AC.BE Thu Oct 21 07:33:06 1999 From: nuyts at UIA.UA.AC.BE (Jan.Nuyts) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:33:06 +0200 Subject: International Cognitive Typology Conference Message-ID: Second (and final) call for papers INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 'COGNITIVE TYPOLOGY' April 12-14, 2000 University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium Main Organisers: Jan Nuyts and Johan van der Auwera The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from the field of linguistic typology and from the domain of cognitive approaches to language (broadly defined) to reflect on how the typological and the cognitive enterprises in language research interrelate, what they have to offer each other, and/or how they can join forces in view of their shared goal of achieving an explanatory account of language. Invited plenary speakers include Bill Croft (University of Manchester & Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Suzanne Kemmer (Rice University) Stephen Levinson (Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion time) on any topic contributing to this overall purpose. (Extended) deadline for receiving abstracts: ** November 15, 1999 ** Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words. Please add a full correspondence address and an indication of any special equipment you may need. Send your submission (in plain ASCII format or in RTF format) either (preferentially) via email or (both in hard copy and on an IBM-readable floppy) via regular mail, to the following address: 'Cognitive Typology Conference' p/a Jan Nuyts University of Antwerp Linguistics (GER) Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Wilrijk Belgium fax: 0032/3/820.27.62 email: nuyts at uia.ua.ac.be You will be notified of whether your submission has been accepted by December 15, 1999. A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published by the organizers. Information regarding the venue of the conference, accommodation, and social events (conference dinner on Thursday evening, April 13), will be provided later via our website (currently under construction). Conference fee: regular participant 1500 BEF/40EURO/40USD students/unemployed 750BEF/20EURO/20USD The fee is payable in one of the following ways: (i) By means of a (barred) Eurocheque, made payable to 'Cognitive Typology Conference'. (ii) By means of a bank transfer into account number 413-6196681-87 (KBC-Bank Belgium) of the 'Cognitive Typology Conference'. If the transfer is international (i.e. from outside of Belgium), you should add 300BEF/8EURO/8USD to the amount due, to cover the costs charged by the bank for handling the transfer. (iii) Payment on site (only in Belgian Francs). If you wish to pay by means of (i) or (ii), your payment should reach us no later than April 1, 2000. If you are intending to participate or are interested in receiving further information, please return the pre-registration form below asap (unless you have already done so in reaction to the first call for papers). ************************************* Pre-registration form INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 'COGNITIVE TYPOLOGY' April 12-14, 2000 - University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium Name: Address: Phone/Fax: Email: I intend to participate: yes/no I intend to present a paper: yes/no ***** Jan Nuyts phone: 32/3/820.27.73 University of Antwerp fax: 32/3/820.27.62 Linguistics email: nuyts at uia.ua.ac.be Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Wilrijk - Belgium From ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Oct 28 09:09:18 1999 From: ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU (Tsuyoshi Ono) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 02:09:18 -0700 Subject: JPN linguistics/teaching graduate programs Message-ID: The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona offers an M.A. program in Japanese linguistics/pedagogy and a Ph.D. program in Japanese linguistics with specialization in discourse and grammar or sociolinguistics. Financial aid is available. For program and application information, visit http://w3.arizona.edu/~eas/ or contact: Yoshi Ono, (520-621-5474; ono at u.arizona.edu) or Kimberly Jones (520-621-4417; jonesk at u.arizona.edu). From spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU Thu Oct 28 14:33:04 1999 From: spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:33:04 -0500 Subject: GET as a past marker (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:57:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tania Kouteva To: funknet at rice.edu Subject: GET as a past marker Dear FUNKNET subscribers, We are currently finalizing a reference book on grammaticalization developments in the languages of the world ("A short lexicon of grammaticalization") which includes cases of grammaticalization that have occurred in more than one language family. In selecting the data, we have set absolutely no restriction in the kind of linguistic transmission: it could be grammaticalization that has to do with continuous transmission within a given language as well as grammaticalization that can be shown to be due to borrowing or pidginization or creolization. We would be very grateful if the subscribers to this list could help us out with the following. In Khmer the verb BAAN 'to get, to receive, to obtain' has developed into a past tense/'already' marker, as has been shown by Haiman (1999: 156-157), cf.: Khmer (Haiman 1999: 156) ...haaj baan haw Thombaal mook kuap and past call T. come meet '...and summoned Thombaal to a meeting.' In addition to Khmer, Bisang (1996: 569) demonstrates that in Hmong the verb TAU 'to get, to receive' has also taken on the function of a past tense marker. Likewise, in Thai, DAJ 'to get, to receive' has come to mark past tense (Bisang 1996: 570). /We apologize for not being able to mark the diacritics here/ Do you know of other languages where a similar development can be observed? Thanking you in advance, Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva REFERENCES Bisang, Walter 1996. Areal typology and grammaticalization: Processes of grammaticalization based on nouns and verbs in East and Mainland South East Asian Languages. STUDIES in LANGUAGE 20: 3. 519-597. Haiman, John 1999. Auxiliation in Khmer. The case of BAAN. STUDIES in LANGUAGE 23:1. 149-172. From john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL Fri Oct 29 06:40:54 1999 From: john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL (John Myhill) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:40:54 +0200 Subject: who can you 'love'? Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I'm working on a paper on the meanings of emotion words and I'd appreciate any thoughts those of you who are native English speakers might have about possible usages of the word 'love'. I'm in Israel and I have the feeling that even native English speakers here have their ideas confused by the fact that the closest word to 'love' in Hebrew has a clearly different range of usages. I would like to set aside 'love' with the romantic meaning, and usages of 'love' like 'I just love those shoes!' or 'I just love Frank Sinatra/Robert Deniro, etc.!', etc., where the object is inanimate or a celebrity the subject doesn't know and the subject is expressing enthusiastic liking. The remaining usages, it seems to me, are restricted to close family members --parent-to-child, child-to-parent, husband-to-wife (which gets mixed up with the romantic meaning), grandchild-to-grandparent and vice versa, and between siblings. Beyond that, it would be difficult for me to imagine using 'love' maybe to uncles, aunts, or cousins? I myself don't have any. To in-laws? Not me but maybe other people? I have the vague idea that some English speakers sometimes use 'love' to refer to their (entirely non-romantic) feelings for particularly close friends, but this seems very strange to me and I cannot recall any specific examples of it (I have some recollection of someone saying something like 'I love you like a brother', but this in itself shows that 'love' is not normally used outwise the family). I also have the feeling that 'love' for family members is to a large extent involuntary and not even an evaluation of that person (the way 'like' is) but rather just a response to the nature of the relationship--one practically HAS to love one's mother, father, brother, or sister, unless one has basically severed relations with them. In Hebrew ''ahav' is freely used for friends--in fact it's the normal translation of 'like' for friends, so people here I think are likely to be confused about English 'love' as well. Any opinions on this? Thanks. John From clements at INDIANA.EDU Fri Oct 29 15:11:01 1999 From: clements at INDIANA.EDU (J. Clancy Clements) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:11:01 -0500 Subject: who can you 'love'? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, This is an observation in response to John Myhill's inquiry about who can say 'love'. Just yesterday, after I'd read his posting, my wife and I were talking about her thesis adviser, and she said, with much emotion, that she loved him. She added that he's like a father away from home. "love" in the familial sense constitutes, if you will, one of the prototypical contexts in which love is felt. I think this type of love can be felt for anyone, but the declaration of it may be qualifed or compared to a love felt for a family member because that is one of the prototypical contexts, others being the love felt for a lover or for the divine (cf. Greek agape, philios, eros). So, maybe the notion of prototypes is useful in studying the usage of 'love'. Clancy Clements J. Clancy Clements Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Ballantine Hall 844 / IU Bloomington, IN 47405 USA Tel. (812) 855-6141 Fax: (812) 855-4526 From brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM Fri Oct 29 16:20:33 1999 From: brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM (bruce richman) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:20:33 PDT Subject: conference on alternatives to Chomsky Message-ID: Hello: This is an invitation for anyone interested in information about attending a conference on Alternatives to Chomsky that will be held at Rutgers University in July, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Language Origins Society. Bruce Richman ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From david_tuggy at SIL.ORG Sat Oct 30 13:44:38 1999 From: david_tuggy at SIL.ORG (david_tuggy at SIL.ORG) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 09:44:38 -0400 Subject: conference on alternatives to Chomsky Message-ID: I'd be interested in that info. (I don't expect I can attend, however.) --David Tuggy ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: conference on alternatives to Chomsky Author: at Internet Date: 10/29/1999 11:20 AM Hello: This is an invitation for anyone interested in information about attending a conference on Alternatives to Chomsky that will be held at Rutgers University in July, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Language Origins Society. Bruce Richman ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From fujiin at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Mon Oct 4 23:42:24 1999 From: fujiin at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Noriko Fujii) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:42:24 -0800 Subject: position announcement Message-ID: University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403 The Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures seeks applicants for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in the areas of Japanese linguistics, language pedagogy, and/or second language acquisition. Candidates should be prepared to offer graduate courses in such areas and intermediate or advanced language courses. The position begins September 16, 2000. Required are a Ph.D. in (Japanese) linguistics, general or applied, and native or near-native fluency in Japanese and English. Desired are excellence in teaching and originality of research. To apply, please send a statement of research and teaching interests, CV, and three letters of recommendation to: Japanese Linguistics Search Committee, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Applications will be reviewed from November 15, 1999. AA/EO/ADA Employer Noriko Fujii Dept. of East Asian Langs. & Lits. University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 TEL:(541) 346-4004 FAX:(541) 346-0260 From kiyoshi at I.HOSEI.AC.JP Tue Oct 5 10:38:24 1999 From: kiyoshi at I.HOSEI.AC.JP (ISHIKAWA Kiyoshi) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:38:24 +0900 Subject: PACLIC 14 2nd Call for Papers Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 14th PACIFIC ASIA CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION February 15-17, 2000 The Logico-Linguistic Society of Japan is pleased to announce that the 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 14) will be held at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, on February 15-17, 2000. The Conference is an annual meeting of scholars with a wide range of interest in theoretical and computational linguistics from the Pacific Asia region. PACLIC 14 solicits papers treating any field in theoretical and computational linguistics, including, but not limited to, syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, typology, corpus linguistics, formal grammar theory, natural language processing, and computer applications. Submission may be made either for a long paper or a short paper. The long paper should not exceed 20 letter- or A4-sized pages, with font size 11 point, double spaced throughout. The maximum length for the short paper is 2000 words. The first page of the submitted paper should bear the following information: the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), affiliations, mailing address, and Email address for correspondence. E-mail submission is also acceptable (but no fax submissions). The e-mail submission should be in such popular formats as ASCII plain text, PDF, PostScript, MS Word, and LaTeX. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. The submission should be sent to either of the following addresses. MAILING ADDRESSES: * For Hard-Copy Submission: PACLIC14 c/o Akira Ikeya, Chiyogaoka 4-7-4, Asao-ku, Kawasaki 215-0005 JAPAN * For Electronic Submission: kawamori at atom.brl.ntt.co.jp ***************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: Preliminary paper submission due: November 10, 1999 (Extended) Notification of acceptance: December 10, 1999 (Extended) Camera-ready copy due: January 15, 2000 ***************************************************** *************************************************** Invited Speaker: Commemorating the last PACLIC conference of the 20th century, Professor Masayoshi SHIBATANI of Kobe University will give a lecture entitled: The Grammar of Internal States: A Cognitive-Typological Study *************************************************** CONFERENCE CHAIR: Akira Ikeya, Toyo Gakuen University, Japan ADVISORY COMMITTEE: Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (co-chair) Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea (co-chair) Lin-Shan Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (co-chair) Young-Hern Lee, Chosun University, Korea (co-chair) Kim Teng Lua, National University of Singapore (co-chair) Byung-Soo PARK, Kyung Hee University, Korea (co-chair) Benjamin K. T'sou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (co-chair) Jhing-fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (co-chair) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Masahito Kawamori, NTT Research Labs., Japan. Jaewoong Choe, Korea University, Korea Yasunari Harada, Waseda University, Japan Kaoru Horie, Tohoku University, Japan Kiyoshi Ishikawa, Hosei University, Japan Chiharu Uda Kakuta, Dohshisha University, Japan Beom-mo Kang, Korea University, Korea Kazuhiko Ozeki, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Suk-Jin Chang, Seoul National Univeristy, Korea Samuel W. K. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Zhao-Ming Gao, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan Jin Guo, Motorola, Singapore One-Soon Her, National Chenchi University, Taiwan Hsue-hueh Hsu, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Akira Ishikawa, Sophia University, Japan Makoto Kanazawa, Chiba University, Japan Jong-Bok Kim, Kyung Hee University, Korea Ik-Hwan Lee, Yonsei University, Korea Kiyong Lee, Korea University, Korea Charles C. Lee, National Chiao Tun University, Taiwan Hai Zhou Li, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Yoshihiko Nitta, Nihon University, Japan Toshiyuki Ogihara, U of Washington, USA Hsiao-Chuan Wang, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan Jie Xu, Singapore National University, Singapore Kei Yoshimoto, Tohoku University, Japan For further information, please visit our website: http://www.brl.ntt.co.jp/paclic14/ or you can contact: Dr. Masahito KAWAMORI, NTT Research Laboratories. 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198 JAPAN e-mail:kawamori at atom.brl.ntt.co.jp Phone : +81-462-40-3624 Fax : +81-462-40-4705 From lamb at rice.edu Tue Oct 5 19:04:32 1999 From: lamb at rice.edu (Sydney Lamb) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:04:32 -0500 Subject: LACUS 2000 Message-ID: This notice is being sent to several lists -- our apologies if you have already seen it. -------------- next part -------------- LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES (LACUS) ASSOCIATION DE LINGUISTIQUE DU CANADA ET DES ETAS-UNIS (ALCEU) THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LACUS FORUM To Be Held at RICE UNIVERSITY, Houston, Texas July 25-29, 2000 CONFERENCE THEME: SPEAKING AND COMPREHENDING Featured Speakers: David McNeill, University of Chicago Marianne Mithun, University of California, Santa Barbara Michel Paradis, McGill University (presidential address) Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico Tutorial: Automated Production and Recognition of Speech: Problems and Solutions Tuesday, July 25, 1:30 - 5:00 To be presented by Dr. Nancy Niedzielski, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Rice University Consultant, Panasonic Technologies, Inc. CALL FOR PAPERS While papers relating to the conference theme are especially invited, abstracts are welcomed on all subjects in linguistics and interdisciplinary areas involving language. Papers accepted for the program will be scheduled for either 15 minutes or 25 minutes, with 5 minutes allowed for discussion. This list of topics relating to the theme is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive: Sequence Management The Mental Lexicon in Action Parallel vis-?-vis Serial Processing Factors Governing Choice of Lexeme Factors Governing Choice of Syntactic Construction The Linguistic Encoding of Complex Processes (e.g., of motion) Testing Grammatical/Phonological Descriptions for Operational Plausibility Phonological Information in Speaking and Comprehending: One System or Two? Grammatical Information in Speaking and Comprehending: One System or Two? Experimental Phonetic Evidence for the Process of Speech Production Experimental Evidence for the Process of Speech Recognition The Role of Speaking/Comprehending in Linguistic Change Conceptual Categories and Lexical Categories in Action Computer Simulation of Production/Comprehension Pragmatic Factors in Speaking and Understanding The Role of World Knowledge in Comprehending Individual Variation in Interpretation of Discourse Slips of Tongue and Mind in Speech Production Formulation Processes in Language Production Production/Comprehension of Sign Language Production/Interpretation of Poetic Discourse Slips in Comprehending: Misunderstanding Speech Production of the Developing Child Producing and Interpreting Metaphors The Use of Gestures in Speaking Automated Speech Recognition Automated Speech Synthesis Negotiating Discourse Topics The Process of Translating Lexicalization Conversation GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS Maximum length: 450 words (not including references). The abstract should fit on one 8 1/2"x11" page. (If references do not fit on the page, they may be put on a separate page, but in that case they will not appear in the meeting handbook.) Anonymity: The abstract should not identify the author(s). Topic Designation: At top of page (at upper left, above the title), name a topic (or two topics) to identify the area(s) in which your paper lies. Choose a topic name from the list above if appropriate, or feel free to name Another topic if none of those on the list fits properly, or if you are submitting an abstract that does not fit the conference theme. What to Submit: Submit abstracts via e-mail. Send also 3 camera- ready copies via snail mail (entire abstract on a single page, with wide margins - see above), for reproduction in the meeting handbook, along with information card (see below). Those without access to e-mail should send16 hard copies via snail mail. Where to Submit: Lois Stanford, Chair, LACUS Conference Committee Linguistics Department, 4-36A Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7, Canada lois.stanford at ualberta.ca Due Date: 15 January 2000 DESIRABLE PROPERTIES OF ABSTRACTS Evaluators of abstracts will appreciate your attention to these desiderata: Informative but brief title Clear statement of the problem or questions addressed Clear statement of the main point(s) or argument(s) Informative examples Clear indication of relevance to related work Avoidance of jargon References to literature (not included in 400-word limit) INFORMATION CARD Also send by snail mail (with the 3 hard copies) a 3x5" card with the following information: Name(s) E-mail and snail-mail addresses (primary author only) Affiliation Telephone number (primary author) Title of paper Audio-visual equipment required (beyond overhead projector) Eligibility for prize (if applicable - see below) Time desired -- 15 or 25 minutes (plus discussion time) SYMPOSIA Proposals for panels or special sessions are also welcome. Please contact Lois Stanford or Syd Lamb right away with your ideas (see addresses below). PRESIDENTS' PRIZES Continuing a tradition started by former president Kenneth Pike, a committee consisting of the President, the President-Elect, and former Presidents of LACUS will select the winner of the annual Presidents' Prize, with an award of $500, for 'the best paper' by a junior scholar. For purposes of this prize, 'junior scholar' is defined as one who has had a doctoral degree for less than ten years and has not yet attained a tenured position. The Presidents' Predoctoral prize, with an award of $100, will be given for 'the best paper' by a student who has not yet received a doctor's degree. For purposes of these prizes, 'best paper' is defined as that which in the judgement of the committee makes the most important contribution to knowledge. Organization and presentation may also be considered. The prizes will be awarded at the annual banquet, to be held at the end of the meeting, Saturday, July 29th. Only single-authored presentations will be considered. Junior scholars and predoctoral scholars should identify their status on the information card sent in with the hard-copy abstracts, to indicate their eligibility for one of the prizes. FINANCIAL AID Limited funds to assist scholars coming from countries with weak currencies may be available. For information contact the Conference Committee Chair. PUBLICATION Selected papers presented at the meeting will be published, with appropriate revisions, in LACUS Forum XXVII. VENUE Rice University is located in the heart of Houston, Texas, bounded on the north and south by attractive residential areas, on the west by the Rice Village, which contains a wide variety of stores and restaurants, and on the east by Hermann Park (with a large zoo) and the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center, which includes two leading medical schools. Located nearby are the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and a museum of science and medicine. A short distance away is the renowned Menil Collection. For information on the University, see http://riceinfo.rice.edu For information on the Linguistics Department, see http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ling/. Houston is served by two airports, Bush Intercontinental Airport and Hobby Airport. The latter is closer to the Rice campus, but the former has more flights coming in and departing. The largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States, Houston boasts many fine restaurants, which offer ethnically diverse cuisines at reasonable prices. Several good ones are located in the Rice Village, close to the university. Near Houston is NASA, which provides many fine exhibits related to the American space program. Temperatures in July are usually hot in the afternoons (mid- nineties Farenheit, mid-thirties Celcius), but all buildings on campus and all hotels and restaurants are well air-conditioned. ACCOMMODATIONS Hotel accommodations will be available at the edge of campus, within easy walking distance to the conference rooms. Accommodations will also be available on campus. FURTHER INFORMATION The LACUS website will be updated frequently as further details become available. See http://fricka.glendon.yorku.ca.8008/mcummings.nsf/. Detailed information will be sent to all LACUS members and to nonmember authors of accepted abstracts in March. ADDRESS QUESTIONS about the conference to: Lois Stanford Syd Lamb CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: Lois Stanford, University of Alberta, Chair Ruth Brend, Ann Arbor, Michigan Angela Della Volpe, California State University, Fullerton Sydney Lamb, Rice University (local arrangements chair) Michel Paradis, McGill University William Sullivan, University of Florida From kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il Thu Oct 7 11:58:26 1999 From: kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il (Ron Kuzar) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:58:26 +0200 Subject: In Memoriam Haiim B. Rose'n Message-ID: On Saturday, October 2, Professor Haiim B. Rose'n passed away in Paris, and the funeral took place today in Jerusalem. Rose'n was the most important expounder of structuralism in Israel. He was a charismatic teacher, and hundreds of graduates of the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University remember his ongoing three-part introductory course spanning all the years of the BA, entitled "Foundations of Language Analysis", covering synchronic linguistics, diachronic linguistics, and comparative and typological linguistics. As graduate students we always came back to this course, to better understand what we might have missed before. In all his other teachings we always experience love and intimate knowledge of the themes and languages discussed. Early in the 1950s, Rose'n declared that there was a new language in Israel, Israeli Hebrew, which has its own e'tat de langue, deserving synchronic investigation. This language, said Rose'n, was not an immature mixture of its historical components to be corrected an shaped by prescriptivists, but rather it showed clear signs of normal behavior through regular internal language processes. A decade of linguistic and cultural debates followed this declaration, which paved the way for all the research conducted on Israeli Hebrew since then. Rose'n was both a structuralist linguist and a philologist, and I have no doubts that his many contributions to Indo-European linguistics, Semitics, and to Greek philology, as well as many other domains, will remain an asset to the linguistic community for many years to come. From ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU Sun Oct 10 03:35:18 1999 From: ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU (Tsuyoshi Ono) Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 20:35:18 -0700 Subject: job Message-ID: The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona invites applications for the following positions: PROFESSOR & DEPARTMENT HEAD to begin 7/1/00. A senior scholar with a strong record of scholarship and teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels, a demonstrated record of successful administration that values consultative management and an open decision-making process and a specialization in a field of Chinese or Japanese studies. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN EARLY CHINESE THOUGHT to begin fall 2000. Teaching responsibilities at graduate and undergraduate levels. PhD and academic training in Early Chinese Thought with a strong Chinese language background required. Submit cover letter, vita and three letters of recommendation to East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, P. O. Box 210080, Tucson, AZ 85721 From noonan at CSD.UWM.EDU Mon Oct 18 18:26:12 1999 From: noonan at CSD.UWM.EDU (Michael Noonan) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 13:26:12 -0500 Subject: 6th Himalayan Languages Symposium Message-ID: CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: 6th HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee June 15-17, 2000 Papers at the 6th Himalayan Languages Symposium may report the results of scholarly research on any subject pertaining to the Himalayan languages and Himalayan language communities. Possible topics include: + descriptions of previously undescribed languages + linguistic analyses of phonetic, phono-logical and grammatical phenomena + comparative studies & historical reconstruction + Himalayan languages in typological perspective + language planning + the economic and cultural aspects of language preservation and language death + sociocultural aspect of borrowing + 'secret' languages + grammar & pragmatics of honorific speech + sociolinguistic & ethnolinguistic analyses + historical and archaeological findings relating to the prehistory of Himalayan language communities Workshops to promote dialog between Himalayanists and typologists will be organized by: Matthew Dryer, SUNY-Buffalo David Gil, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Ian Maddieson, UCLA SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The deadline for submission of abstracts is Feb. 1, 2000. Notifications of acceptance will sent out by March 1, 2000. Abstracts should be no longer than one page and should be of camera-ready quality. The author's name and affiliation should appear below the title of the paper. On a separate piece of paper, include mailing and email addresses. REGISTRATION Preregistration: $40 for faculty, $20 for students and non-academics; registration at the conference: $45 for faculty, $25 for students and non-academics. ADDRESS AND CONTACT INFORMATION Address abstracts, registration fees, and inquiries to: Michael Noonan Himalayan Languages Symposium Dept. of English University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA noonan at uwm.edu fax: 414-229-2643 phone: 414-229-4511 ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM The Himalayan Languages Symposium is an open international forum where scholars can exchange the results of their research with others working on related issues in the same geographical area. The term 'Himalayan' is used in its broad sense to include north-western and north-eastern India, where languages of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Austro-Asiatic linguistic stocks are spoken; the languages of Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau; the languages of northern Burma and Sichuan; and the languages of Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski speaking area in the west. The term 'Languages' is used instead of 'Linguistics' to broaden the scope of the Symposium beyond linguistics proper so as to allow scholars working on language issues in the related disciplines of anthropology, philology, and archaeology to present their research wherever this is directly relevant to our understanding of Himalayan languages and language communities. The Permanent Secretariat for this annual Symposium is maintained at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Previously, the Himalayan Languages Symposium has been convened in Leiden, Noordwijkerhout [the Netherlands], Santa Barbara [California], Pune [India], and Kathmandu. 6th HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM The 6th Himalayan Languages Symposium will be held on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, situated near Lake Michigan in Milwaukee's Upper East Side. Milwaukee is pleasantly warm in June. More details regarding the venue, accommodations, and travel will be sent out to those who respond to this circular. From nuyts at UIA.UA.AC.BE Thu Oct 21 07:33:06 1999 From: nuyts at UIA.UA.AC.BE (Jan.Nuyts) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:33:06 +0200 Subject: International Cognitive Typology Conference Message-ID: Second (and final) call for papers INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 'COGNITIVE TYPOLOGY' April 12-14, 2000 University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium Main Organisers: Jan Nuyts and Johan van der Auwera The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers from the field of linguistic typology and from the domain of cognitive approaches to language (broadly defined) to reflect on how the typological and the cognitive enterprises in language research interrelate, what they have to offer each other, and/or how they can join forces in view of their shared goal of achieving an explanatory account of language. Invited plenary speakers include Bill Croft (University of Manchester & Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Suzanne Kemmer (Rice University) Stephen Levinson (Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion time) on any topic contributing to this overall purpose. (Extended) deadline for receiving abstracts: ** November 15, 1999 ** Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words. Please add a full correspondence address and an indication of any special equipment you may need. Send your submission (in plain ASCII format or in RTF format) either (preferentially) via email or (both in hard copy and on an IBM-readable floppy) via regular mail, to the following address: 'Cognitive Typology Conference' p/a Jan Nuyts University of Antwerp Linguistics (GER) Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Wilrijk Belgium fax: 0032/3/820.27.62 email: nuyts at uia.ua.ac.be You will be notified of whether your submission has been accepted by December 15, 1999. A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published by the organizers. Information regarding the venue of the conference, accommodation, and social events (conference dinner on Thursday evening, April 13), will be provided later via our website (currently under construction). Conference fee: regular participant 1500 BEF/40EURO/40USD students/unemployed 750BEF/20EURO/20USD The fee is payable in one of the following ways: (i) By means of a (barred) Eurocheque, made payable to 'Cognitive Typology Conference'. (ii) By means of a bank transfer into account number 413-6196681-87 (KBC-Bank Belgium) of the 'Cognitive Typology Conference'. If the transfer is international (i.e. from outside of Belgium), you should add 300BEF/8EURO/8USD to the amount due, to cover the costs charged by the bank for handling the transfer. (iii) Payment on site (only in Belgian Francs). If you wish to pay by means of (i) or (ii), your payment should reach us no later than April 1, 2000. If you are intending to participate or are interested in receiving further information, please return the pre-registration form below asap (unless you have already done so in reaction to the first call for papers). ************************************* Pre-registration form INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 'COGNITIVE TYPOLOGY' April 12-14, 2000 - University of Antwerp (UIA), Belgium Name: Address: Phone/Fax: Email: I intend to participate: yes/no I intend to present a paper: yes/no ***** Jan Nuyts phone: 32/3/820.27.73 University of Antwerp fax: 32/3/820.27.62 Linguistics email: nuyts at uia.ua.ac.be Universiteitsplein 1 B-2610 Wilrijk - Belgium From ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU Thu Oct 28 09:09:18 1999 From: ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU (Tsuyoshi Ono) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 02:09:18 -0700 Subject: JPN linguistics/teaching graduate programs Message-ID: The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona offers an M.A. program in Japanese linguistics/pedagogy and a Ph.D. program in Japanese linguistics with specialization in discourse and grammar or sociolinguistics. Financial aid is available. For program and application information, visit http://w3.arizona.edu/~eas/ or contact: Yoshi Ono, (520-621-5474; ono at u.arizona.edu) or Kimberly Jones (520-621-4417; jonesk at u.arizona.edu). From spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU Thu Oct 28 14:33:04 1999 From: spikeg at OWLNET.RICE.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:33:04 -0500 Subject: GET as a past marker (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:57:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tania Kouteva To: funknet at rice.edu Subject: GET as a past marker Dear FUNKNET subscribers, We are currently finalizing a reference book on grammaticalization developments in the languages of the world ("A short lexicon of grammaticalization") which includes cases of grammaticalization that have occurred in more than one language family. In selecting the data, we have set absolutely no restriction in the kind of linguistic transmission: it could be grammaticalization that has to do with continuous transmission within a given language as well as grammaticalization that can be shown to be due to borrowing or pidginization or creolization. We would be very grateful if the subscribers to this list could help us out with the following. In Khmer the verb BAAN 'to get, to receive, to obtain' has developed into a past tense/'already' marker, as has been shown by Haiman (1999: 156-157), cf.: Khmer (Haiman 1999: 156) ...haaj baan haw Thombaal mook kuap and past call T. come meet '...and summoned Thombaal to a meeting.' In addition to Khmer, Bisang (1996: 569) demonstrates that in Hmong the verb TAU 'to get, to receive' has also taken on the function of a past tense marker. Likewise, in Thai, DAJ 'to get, to receive' has come to mark past tense (Bisang 1996: 570). /We apologize for not being able to mark the diacritics here/ Do you know of other languages where a similar development can be observed? Thanking you in advance, Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva REFERENCES Bisang, Walter 1996. Areal typology and grammaticalization: Processes of grammaticalization based on nouns and verbs in East and Mainland South East Asian Languages. STUDIES in LANGUAGE 20: 3. 519-597. Haiman, John 1999. Auxiliation in Khmer. The case of BAAN. STUDIES in LANGUAGE 23:1. 149-172. From john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL Fri Oct 29 06:40:54 1999 From: john at RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL (John Myhill) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:40:54 +0200 Subject: who can you 'love'? Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I'm working on a paper on the meanings of emotion words and I'd appreciate any thoughts those of you who are native English speakers might have about possible usages of the word 'love'. I'm in Israel and I have the feeling that even native English speakers here have their ideas confused by the fact that the closest word to 'love' in Hebrew has a clearly different range of usages. I would like to set aside 'love' with the romantic meaning, and usages of 'love' like 'I just love those shoes!' or 'I just love Frank Sinatra/Robert Deniro, etc.!', etc., where the object is inanimate or a celebrity the subject doesn't know and the subject is expressing enthusiastic liking. The remaining usages, it seems to me, are restricted to close family members --parent-to-child, child-to-parent, husband-to-wife (which gets mixed up with the romantic meaning), grandchild-to-grandparent and vice versa, and between siblings. Beyond that, it would be difficult for me to imagine using 'love' maybe to uncles, aunts, or cousins? I myself don't have any. To in-laws? Not me but maybe other people? I have the vague idea that some English speakers sometimes use 'love' to refer to their (entirely non-romantic) feelings for particularly close friends, but this seems very strange to me and I cannot recall any specific examples of it (I have some recollection of someone saying something like 'I love you like a brother', but this in itself shows that 'love' is not normally used outwise the family). I also have the feeling that 'love' for family members is to a large extent involuntary and not even an evaluation of that person (the way 'like' is) but rather just a response to the nature of the relationship--one practically HAS to love one's mother, father, brother, or sister, unless one has basically severed relations with them. In Hebrew ''ahav' is freely used for friends--in fact it's the normal translation of 'like' for friends, so people here I think are likely to be confused about English 'love' as well. Any opinions on this? Thanks. John From clements at INDIANA.EDU Fri Oct 29 15:11:01 1999 From: clements at INDIANA.EDU (J. Clancy Clements) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:11:01 -0500 Subject: who can you 'love'? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, This is an observation in response to John Myhill's inquiry about who can say 'love'. Just yesterday, after I'd read his posting, my wife and I were talking about her thesis adviser, and she said, with much emotion, that she loved him. She added that he's like a father away from home. "love" in the familial sense constitutes, if you will, one of the prototypical contexts in which love is felt. I think this type of love can be felt for anyone, but the declaration of it may be qualifed or compared to a love felt for a family member because that is one of the prototypical contexts, others being the love felt for a lover or for the divine (cf. Greek agape, philios, eros). So, maybe the notion of prototypes is useful in studying the usage of 'love'. Clancy Clements J. Clancy Clements Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Ballantine Hall 844 / IU Bloomington, IN 47405 USA Tel. (812) 855-6141 Fax: (812) 855-4526 From brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM Fri Oct 29 16:20:33 1999 From: brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM (bruce richman) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:20:33 PDT Subject: conference on alternatives to Chomsky Message-ID: Hello: This is an invitation for anyone interested in information about attending a conference on Alternatives to Chomsky that will be held at Rutgers University in July, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Language Origins Society. Bruce Richman ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com From david_tuggy at SIL.ORG Sat Oct 30 13:44:38 1999 From: david_tuggy at SIL.ORG (david_tuggy at SIL.ORG) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 09:44:38 -0400 Subject: conference on alternatives to Chomsky Message-ID: I'd be interested in that info. (I don't expect I can attend, however.) --David Tuggy ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: conference on alternatives to Chomsky Author: at Internet Date: 10/29/1999 11:20 AM Hello: This is an invitation for anyone interested in information about attending a conference on Alternatives to Chomsky that will be held at Rutgers University in July, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Language Origins Society. Bruce Richman ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com