From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Mon May 1 07:49:19 2000 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 00:49:19 -0700 Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS The 10th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference UCLA, October 13-15, 2000 Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 26, 2000. Note: This year, BOTH e-mail AND snail-mail abstracts submission will be REQUIRED. June 26, 2000 is the deadline for e-mail application. Snail mail must arrive by June 30, 2000. ================================ INVITED SPEAKERS Suk-Jin Chang (Seoul National U, Korea) Hairine Diffloth (Cornell U, USA) Wesley M. Jacobsen (Harvard U, USA) Susumu Kuno (Harvard U, USA) S. -Y. Kuroda (UCSD, USA) Chungmin Lee (Seoul National U, Korea) Seiichi Makino (Princeton U, USA) Naomi H. McGloin (U of Wisconsin at Madison, USA) Katsuhiko Momoi (Netscape, USA) William O'Grady (U of Hawaii, USA) Masayoshi Shibatani (Kobe U. Japan/Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, USA) Yoko Sugioka (Keio U, Japan) Tim Vance (Connecticut College, USA) This year, the Japanese/Korean Conference will celebrate its 10th anniversary during the weekend following Hangul (Korean Alphabet) Day (Oct. 9). With affection and appreciation, we would like to dedicate the conference and the proceedings to the memory of Jim McCawley (1938- 1999), who was one of the founding fathers of Japanese and Korean Linguistics in this country. To mark this very special occasion, we have invited Jim's former students, long-time friends, and colleagues. This conference aims to provide a forum for presenting research in Japanese and Korean linguistics, thereby facilitating efforts to deepen our understanding of these two languages which have striking typological similarities. We especially encourage presentations which investigate both languages. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, typology, grammaticalization, historical linguistics, phonology, morphology, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. All the presentations, including those by invited speakers, will be 20 minutes long, and will be followed by a 10 minute question-answer period. ----------------------------------------------------------- Submitted items should include: By snail mail: 1) One copy of a ONE-PAGE abstract (500 words maximum). First line should indicate the category, Formal or Functional, followed by the sub- field. For example, Formal/Syntax, Formal/Morphology, or Functional/Discousre, Functional/Grammaticalization, Functinal/Cognitive linguistics etc.). Second line should be the paper title: Omit your name and affiliation from the abstract. A second page may be used ONLY for examples and citing references. 2) A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), and the address, phone number and e-mail address of the primary author. If your address, phone number and e-mail address will be different during the summer, be sure to include that information. 3) EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: By e-mail: In addition to (1) and (2) above, submit via e-mail the same abstract and the author information described in (1) and (2) to protect the loss of information as well as to facilitate the abstract selection process. The 10th J/K e-mail address is : <10th J_K at humnet.ucla.edu >. Please use the subject header "JK10, (your last name and first name initial), (category, i.e., "Formal/Syntax" or "Functional/Grammaticalization" etc.)". See the next example. JK10, Nagashima, S., Formal/Phonology Include all the author information in the body of the e-mail. Abstracts should be sent as an attachment, and should be also pasted in the body of the e-mail. Please include any non-standard fonts that you use. If you send your abstract in any format other than plain text, please allow for time to solve any technical difficulties that may arise. Acceptable formats are: 1. Plain text 2. Microsoft Word (Important! Please send two versions: TEXT ONLY and RTF files.) 4) Note that only one abstract from each individual can be considered for acceptance. One individual abstract and one jointly authored abstract may also be submitted. 5) All the necessary information about the conference will appear on our JK Conference Website shortly (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/ealc/jklc.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailing Address for snail mail abstracts: Formal (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, and Morphology): Prof. Hajime Hoji USC Linguistics Los Angeles, CA 90089 Functional (Other topics than above) Prof. Noriko Akatsuka UCLA East Asian Languages & Cultures 290 Royce Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The proceedings of this conference will be published as Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10 by CSLI and distributed by Cambridge University Press: From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Tue May 2 17:59:09 2000 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:59:09 -0400 Subject: 3 Functional Books: Hajicova, Lockwood, Manney Message-ID: John Benjamins Publishing would like to bring to your attention these three recently published books: Prague Linguistic Circle Papers. Volume 3. Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Eva HAJICOVÁ, TomᚠHOSKOVEC, Oldrich LE KA, Petr SGALL and Zdena SKOUMALOVÁ (Charles University, Prague) (eds.) Prague Linguistic Circle Papers 3 US & Canada: 1 55619 672 5 / USD 84.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 5443 5 / NLG 168.00 (Hardcover) Contents: O.Leška (†): Prague School Linguistics: Units in Diversity; P.Sériot: The Impact of Czech and Russian Biology on the Linguistic Thoughts of the Prague Linguistic Circle; P.Sgall: Types of Languages and Probabilistic Implication Laws; C.H.van Schoonveld: Are the Phonological Distinctive Features Ordered?; Y.Tobin: Developmental and Clinical Phonology: The Prague School and Beyond; E.Stankiewicz: Grammatical Categories and Their Formal Patterns; B.H.Partee: Nominal and Temporal Semantic Structure; Aspect and Quantification; H.Kucera: In the Beginning Was the Verb: Markedness in Grammatical Categories; J.Sabršula: Aspect, Contexte, Distribution; W.U.Dressler: What is Natural in Natural Morphology (NM)?; A.Steube and A.Späth: Determination in German and Russian; T.Hoskovec: Sur la paradigmatisation du verbe indo-européen (première partie); M.Komárek: Autosemantic Parts of Speech in Czech; A.Boguslawski: Inherently Thematic or Rhematic Units of Language; E.Hajicová and I.Kruijff-Korbayová: On the Notion of Topic; J.Firbas: The Theory of Functional Sentence Perspective as a Reflection of an Effort Towards a Means-Ends Model of Language; L.Dušková: Basic Distribution of Communicative Dynamism vs. Nonlinear Indication of Functional Sentence Perspective; M.Jelínek: Anregungen des Prager linguistischen Zirkels zur Verwissenschaftlichung der Stilistik; J.V.Neustupny: Sociolinguistics and the Prague School; L.R.Waugh: Roman Jakobson's Intellectual Influence in America; H.Schnelle: Dichotomies in the Brain - Jakobsonian and Modern. Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition. Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb. David G. LOCKWOOD (Michigan State University), Peter H. FRIES (Central Michigan University) and James E. COPELAND (Rice University) (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 163 US & Canada: 1 55619 879 5 / USD 135.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3668 2 / NLG 270.00 (Hardcover) This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics. The volume is organized into two sections. The first section 'Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice' starts with contributions developing a Stratificational model; these are followed by contributions focusing on some related functional model of language; and by articles describing some particular set of language phenomena. In the second section 'Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics' general studies of language change are addressed first; a second group of contributions examines language change, lexicon and culture; and the last cluster of contributions treats the history of linguistics and culture. Contributions by: James E. Copeland; David G. Lockwood; Sydney M. Lamb; Ernst-August Müller; William M. Christie; Earl M. Herrick; Tim Pulju; Adam Makkai; William J. Sullivan; Toby D. Griffen; Winfred P. Lehmann; Chang In Lee; Jonathan J. Webster; Robert E. Longacre; Yoshihiko Ikegami; Roger W. Wescott; M.A.K. Halliday; Katharina Barbe; Cynthia Ford Meyer; Peter H. 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Major semantic groupings of middle structures treated include emotional response in particular and psycho-emotive experience in general, spontaneous change of state and/or the resulting state, agent-induced events in which an agent subject is (emotionally) involved with or affected by some aspect of the designated situation, passive-like events in which a patient subject is affected by a nonfocal agent, implicit or specified, and reflexive-like events in which a patient subject and an unspecified agent may overlap to varying degrees. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From dlaatila at SUPER.FURG.BR Wed May 3 22:52:45 2000 From: dlaatila at SUPER.FURG.BR (Attila Louzada) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 19:52:45 -0300 Subject: Flip-flop Message-ID: Let me offer an example in Brazilian Portuguese: the verb caber. Observe the pair - in English, both would sound something like The room can hold 40 people: a) Cabem 40 pessoas na sala. subject [contents] locative [container] hold 40 people in the room b) A sala cabe 40 pessoas. subject [container] object [contents] the room holds 40 people Example a is the standard unmarked conservative variant. The verb is intransitive and has, say, passive meaning: a certain amount of people may be held in the room. The subject might precede the verb without changing mych of the meaning. Example b is a contemporary coloquial innovation, in which the subject becomes the container - with a, say, active meaning: the room is big enough to hold that amount of people. Whay is that so? I suggest it may have something to do with a tendency we observe in BP to make the topic subject. Another similar example is the pair c) O cara estava tremendo as mcos (coloquial innovation) the guy was trembling his hands d) As mcos do cara estavam tremendo (conservative variant) the guy's hands were trembling Why/how such innovative forms arise, survive and prevail (or even coexist with the conservative form) is a sociolinguistic fact. I stand with Labov, when he says language variation and change occur as a result of the action of social factors. Internal factors, such as syntactic constraints, make them possible, but it is the social identity of the users that will finally favor one form or another to prevail. Attila Louzada Departamento de Letras e Artes Fundagco Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Brasil E-mail: dlaatila at super.furg.br Phone: 55 - 53 - 233-6614 From david_tuggy at SIL.ORG Wed May 3 23:17:04 2000 From: david_tuggy at SIL.ORG (David Tuggy) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 19:17:04 -0400 Subject: Flip-flop Message-ID: Nice examples, Attila. But note, in a) > b) you have (ignoring constituent order) S V-intrns Loc > O V-trns S . This is movement in a chain, not a flip-flop. Then in c) < d) (where you indicate the historical progression was the other direction) you have S V-intrns Possr > 0 V-trns S . Again, not Role-1 V Role-2 > Role-2 V Role-1. So these innovations are not as likely as full flip-flops to (anti-functionally) generate confusion as to who's doing what; the disparity between animate/inanimate in both examples further reduces the chances of confusion. --David Tuggy ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Flip-flop Author: at Internet Date: 5/3/2000 7:52 PM Let me offer an example in Brazilian Portuguese: the verb caber. Observe the pair - in English, both would sound something like The room can hold 40 people: a) Cabem 40 pessoas na sala. subject [contents] locative [container] hold 40 people in the room b) A sala cabe 40 pessoas. subject [container] object [contents] the room holds 40 people Example a is the standard unmarked conservative variant. The verb is intransitive and has, say, passive meaning: a certain amount of people may be held in the room. The subject might precede the verb without changing mych of the meaning. Example b is a contemporary coloquial innovation, in which the subject becomes the container - with a, say, active meaning: the room is big enough to hold that amount of people. Whay is that so? I suggest it may have something to do with a tendency we observe in BP to make the topic subject. Another similar example is the pair c) O cara estava tremendo as mcos (coloquial innovation) the guy was trembling his hands d) As mcos do cara estavam tremendo (conservative variant) the guy's hands were trembling Why/how such innovative forms arise, survive and prevail (or even coexist with the conservative form) is a sociolinguistic fact. I stand with Labov, when he says language variation and change occur as a result of the action of social factors. Internal factors, such as syntactic constraints, make them possible, but it is the social identity of the users that will finally favor one form or another to prevail. Attila Louzada Departamento de Letras e Artes Fundagco Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Brasil E-mail: dlaatila at super.furg.br Phone: 55 - 53 - 233-6614 From dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu Sun May 7 18:27:07 2000 From: dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu (John W. Du Bois) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 11:27:07 -0700 Subject: Reminder: CSDL Registration Message-ID: REGISTRATION for the fifth conference on "Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language" Registration for the CSDL 2000 conference (May 11-14, 2000 at UC Santa Barbara) is at at the following rates. Please note that the reduced "Advance Registration" rate applies for payments received by the CSDL organizers up until 5 PM on Wednesday, May 10, 2000. After this, the on-site registration rate applies. Note also that for individuals who can only attend one day of the conference, we have a corresponding one-day rate. General registration, advance: $60 General registration, on-site: $70 General registration, one-day: $40 Student registration, advance: $40 Student registration, on-site: $50 Student registration, one-day: $25 CSDL 2000 Banquet, at UCSB Faculty Club: $25 The banquet is open to all, including guests of CSDL conference participants. It will take place in a beautiful location overlooking the UCSB lagoon and the Pacific Ocean. See our web site under "Banquet" for additional information. Payment must be made by a check made out in the appropriate amount (as listed above) in US dollars, drawn on a US bank. Make the check payable to "UC Regents". Please include the following registration information: Your name Affiliation Email address Telephone number Permanent mailing address Lodging while at the conference Will you have a car at the conference? Do you wish to be placed on the list for participation in: Workshop 1 (Thursday May 11)? Workshop 2 (Thursday May 11)? Will you attend the CSDL Banquet? Send your check and your registration information to the following address: CSDL Conference Registration Linguistics Department 3607 South Hall UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA For full conference information, see our WEB SITE at: http://linguistics.ucsb.edu/events/csdl/csdl.htm From dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu Sun May 7 23:18:36 2000 From: dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu (John W. Du Bois) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 16:18:36 -0700 Subject: Final Program for CSDL Conference May 11-14 Message-ID: Final Program: CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE, AND LANGUAGE 2000 [Revised May 7, 2000] Corwin Pavilion, UCen, UC Santa Barbara Note: All CSDL events (except the banquet) take place in the University Center (UCen, pronounced U-Cen) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. All plenary sessions are in Corwin Pavilion (excluding the two Thursday afternoon workshops, which are in the Santa Barbara Harbor Room). Rooms for other sessions are as listed below. On-Site Registration is in the lobby of Corwin Pavilion (UCen), except for Thursday afternoon, when it is in the Santa Barbara Harbor Room (UCen). Web Site for full conference information: http://linguistics.ucsb.edu/events/CSDL/CSDL.htm THURSDAY MAY 11 (AFTERNOON) Location: Santa Barbara Harbor Room 1-5:00 PM Registration Location: Santa Barbara Harbor Room 1:30-3:00 Workshop: Topics in Blending Theory Gilles FAUCONNIER (San Diego), Mark TURNER (Maryland) and Eve SWEETSER (Berkeley) 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break Location: Santa Barbara Harbor Room 3:30-5:00 Workshop: Topics in Discourse, Grammar, and Interaction John DU BOIS, Patricia CLANCY, Carol GENETTI, John GUMPERZ (Santa Barbara) Sandra THOMPSON and Amy KYRATZIS, Discussants (Santa Barbara) 5:00-7:00 Dinner Break Location: Corwin Pavilion 5:30-9 PM Registration Location: Corwin Pavilion 7:00-9:30 Pre-Conference Session: Language and Spatial Information Dan MONTELLO (Santa Barbara), Organizer 7:00-7:30 Barbara TVERSKY (Stanford) "Lines, Crosses, T's, Blobs, and Arrows: Semantics of Diagrams" 7:30-8:00 Gary ALLEN (South Carolina) "Environmental Influences on Route Descriptions: A Component Analysis" 8:00-8:30 Helen COUCLELIS (Santa Barbara) "Natural Language in a Geographic Information System" 8:30-9:00 David M. MARK (SUNY Buffalo) "Where Do Basic (Geo) Spatial Relations Between Lines and Regions Come From?" 9:00-9:30 Andrew FRANK (Technical University, Vienna) "A Formalism of Metaphorical Transfer: From Spatial to Non-Spatial" FRIDAY MAY 12 (MORNING) Location: Corwin Pavilion 8 AM-8 PM Registration 8:30-8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Charles LI, Graduate Dean 8:45-9:45 George LAKOFF (Berkeley) The Neural Theory of Language: Where It's Been and Where It's Going (Plenary Lecture) 9:45-10:15 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 10:15-12:15 Acquisition of Grammar 10:15-10:45 Patricia CLANCY "Exceptional Casemarking in Korean Acquisition: A Discourse-Functional Account" 10:45-11:15 Nancy BUDWIG & Bhuvana NARASIMHAN "Transitive and Intransitive Constructions in Hindi-Speaking Caregiver-Child Discourse" 11:15-11:45 Holger DIESSEL & Michael TOMASELLO "The Emergence of Relative Constructions in Early Child Language" 11:45-12:15 Michael ISRAEL "How Children Get Constructions" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 10:15-12:15 Grammar of Adpositions & Particles 10:15-10:45 Nancy CHANG & Benjamin BERGEN "Spatial Schematicity of Prepositions in Neural Grammar" 10:45-11:15 Stefan GRIES "Particle Placement in English: A Cognitive and Multifactorial Investigation" 11:15-11:45 David ZUBIN & Klaus-Michael KOEPCKE "Experiencer in the Landscape: Gender in the Geographic Lexicon of German" 11:45-12:15 Kyoko MASUDA "The Evidence from Conversation for a Usage-Based Model: The Occurrence and Non-Occurrence of Japanese Locative Particles in Conversation" Location: Flying 'A' Room 10:15-12:15 Metaphor 10:15-10:45 Eleni KOUTSOMITOPOULOS "The Role of Conceptual Metaphor in Knowledge Engineering: Metaphor-Based Ontologies" 10:45-11:15 Mary Helen IMMORDINO "Metaphor Use in a Seventh-Grade Science Lesson: Implications for Students' Understandings" 11:15-11:45 Mari TAKADA, Kazuko SHINOHARA & Fumi MORIZUMI "Socio-Cultural Values as Motivation of Mapping: An Analysis of Daughter-as-Commodity Metaphor in Japanese" 11:45-12:15 Kevin MOORE "Potentially Universal vs. Fundamentally Different Temporal Concepts in Wolof and Enlish" 12:15-1:30 Lunch Break FRIDAY MAY 12 (AFTERNOON) Location: Corwin Pavilion 1:30-2:30 Rachel GIORA (Tel Aviv) False Positives: Salience and Context Effects in Understanding Non-Literal Language (Plenary Lecture) Location: Corwin Pavilion West 2:30-3:30 Literal & Nonliteral Meaning 2:30-3:00 Mira ARIEL "Salient, Linguistic, and Interactional Meanings: The Demise of a Unique Literal Meaning" 3:00-3:30 Christine MICHAUX "The Levels of Proverbial Interpretation" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 2:30-3:30 Argument Structure + 2:30-3:00 Ki-Sun HONG "Thematic Roles and Cognition: A Case of Korean Idioms" 3:00-3:30 Tsuyoshi ONO and Sandra THOMPSON "Japanese (W)Atashi 'I': It's Not Just a Pronoun" Location: Flying 'A' Room 2:30-3:30 Constructions in Use 2:30-3:00 Scott LIDDELL "Suprasegmentals at the Core of an English Construction" 3:00-3:30 Victor BALABAN "I Was Blessed by the Virgin Mary: Use of Passive Constructions to Reduce Agency in Naturally Occurring Religious Discourse" 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 4:00-5:00 Literal & Nonliteral Meaning 4:00-4:30 Paula LIMA, Raymond GIBBS, & E. FRANCOZO "DESIRE IS HUNGER: New Ideas About Old Conceptual Metaphors" 4:30-5:00 Barbara HOLDER &Seana COULSON "Hints on How to Drink from a Fire Hose: Conceptual Blending in the Wild Blue Yonder" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 4:00-5:00 Argument Structure 4:00-4:30 Jean-Pierre KOENIG, Gail MAUNER, and Breton BIENVENUE "Class Selectivity and the Participant/Setting Distinction" 4:30-5:00 Patrick FARRELL "The Conceptual Structure of "Agentive" -er" Location: Flying 'A' Room 4:00-5:00 Interactionally Distributed Cognition 4:00-4:30 Gene LERNER "Finding 'Interactionally Distributed' and 'Shared' Cognition in Searching for a Word" 4:30-5:00 Monica TURK "Discontinuity and Conversational Uses of 'and'" 5:00-7:00 Dinner Break 7:00-8:00 Ron LANGACKER (San Diego) Viewing Arrangements and Experiential Reporting (Plenary Lecture) 8:00-9:00 Wallace CHAFE (Santa Barbara) Discourse Appreciation (Plenary Lecture) SATURDAY MAY 13 (MORNING) Location: Corwin Pavilion 8:30-6 PM Registration 9:00-10:00 Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern) Analogy in Language Learning and Use (Plenary Lecture) 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 10:30-12:30 Analogy 10:30-11:00 Jeffrey LOEWENSTEIN & Dedre GENTNER "Spatial Relational Language Facilitates Preschoolers' Understanding of Relations" 11:00-11:30 Esther KIM "Analogy as Discourse Process" 11:30-12:00 David UTTAL & Jeffrey LOEWENSTEIN "On the Relation Between Maps and Analogies" 12:00-12:30 Lindsey ENGLE "Analogy in US Classrooms: Pedagogical Processes Structuring the Acquisition of Abstract Mathematical Concepts" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 10:30-12:30 Form, Meaning, and Mapping 10:30-11:00 Mark LEE & John BARNDEN "Metaphor, Pretence and Counterfactuals" 11:00-11:30 Michael HANSON "The Importance of Being Ironic: Uses of Irony in a Group Discussion about Race, Gender and Adulthood" 11:30-12:00 Haldur OIM "STRAIGHT in Estonian" 12:00-12:30 Misumi SADLER "Iconically Motivated Use of the Japanese Discourse Markers sorede, nde, and de in Conversation" Location: Flying 'A' Room 10:30-12:30 Syntax Across Clauses 10:30-11:00 Beaumont BRUSH "Force, Time, and Predicate Structure in Interclausal Relations" 11:00-11:30 Cristiano BROCCIAS "A Cognitive Account of English Resultative Constructions" 11:30-12:00 Joseph PARK "The Intonation Unit as a Cognitive Unit: Evidence from Korean Complex Sentences" 12:00-12:30 Mirna PIT "Subjectivity in Causal Coherence Relations" 12:30-1:30 Lunch Break SATURDAY MAY 13 (AFTERNOON) Location: Corwin Pavilion 1:30-2:30 Kathryn BOCK (Illinois) The Persistence of Structural Priming in Language Production (Plenary Lecture) Location: Corwin Pavilion West 2:30-3:30 Priming in Discourse 2:30-3:00 John DU BOIS "Reusable Syntax: Socially Distributed Cognition in Dialogic Interaction" 3:00-3:30 Michele EMANATIAN "Metaphor Clustering in Discourse" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 2:30-3:30 Sound and Meaning 2:30-3:00 Tim ROHRER "Conceptual Integration Networks in Political Thought: Visual and Phonemic Blends" 3:00-3:30 Benjamin BERGEN "Probabilistic Associations Between Sound and Meaning: Belief Networks for Modeling Phonaesthemes" Location: Flying 'A' Room 2:30-3:30 Meaning Across Languages 2:30-3:00 Heather BORTFELD "Comprehending Idioms Cross-Linguistically" 3:00-3:30 Ashlee BAILEY "On the Non-Existence of Blue-Yellow and Red-Green Color Terms: The Case of Semantic Extension" 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 4:00-5:30 Phonology: Sound and Use 4:00-4:30 Joan BYBEE "Phonological Clues to the Size of Storage and Processing Units" 4:30-5:00 Liang TAO "Transnumerality and Classifier: Do They Come as a Package Deal?" 5:00-5:30 Marilyn VIHMANN "The Role of Vocal Production in the Ontogeny of Language: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 4:00-5:30 Grammaticization and Use 4:00-4:30 Shoichi IWASAKI "Structural Reanalysis in Discourse" 4:30-5:00 Kaoru HORIE & Debra OCCHI "Borrowing for 'Thinking For Speaking': A Case Study from Japanese" 5:00-5:30 Ritva LAURY "The Definite Article in Interlanguage and Grammaticization: A Comparison" Location: Flying 'A' Room 4:00-5:30 Metaphor, Blending, and Change 4:00-4:30 Hilary YOUNG & Anatol STEFANOWITSCH "Domain Blending in English: The adj-and-adj Construction" 4:30-5:00 Mei-Chun LIU "Categorical Structure and Semantic Representation of Mandarin Verbs of Communication" 5:00-5:30 Josef RUPPENHOFER & Esther J. WOOD "Pragmatic Inferencing and Metaphor in Semantic Change" 5:30-5:40 Break 5:40-6:40 Charles LI (Santa Barbara) The Evolutionary Origin of Language (Plenary Lecture) Location: Faculty Club 6:40-7:30 CSDL 2000 Cash Bar 7:30-9:30 CSDL 2000 Banquet SUNDAY MAY 14 (MORNING) Location: Corwin Pavilion 9-11:00 AM Registration 9:30-10:30 Mark TURNER (Maryland) Compression in Thought and Language (Plenary Lecture) 10:30-45 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 10:45-12:15 Cognition in Gesture & Sign 10:45-11:15 Alan CIENKI "Gesture, Metaphor, and Thinking for Speaking" 11:15-11:45 Paul DUDIS "Visible Tokens in Signed Languages" 11:45-12:15 Sarah TAUB "Description of Motion in ASL: Cognitive Strategies Rather Than Arbitrary Rules" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 10:45-12:15 Syntax Within the Clause 10:45-11:15 Terry KLAHFEN "Cognitive Processing of Japanese Inflectional Morphology" 11:15-11:45 Kaori KABATA "Evaluating a Cognitive Network Empirically" 11:45-12:15 Todd McDANIELS "Deictic Shift as a Function of Preposing in Comanche Narrative" Location: Flying 'A' Room 10:45-12:15 Acquisition of Narrative 10:45-11:15 Molly LOSH "Affective and Social-Cognitive Underpinnings of Narrative: Insights from Autism" 11:15-11:45 Anita ZAMORA, Sarah KRIZ & Judy REILLEY "The Linguistic Encoding of Stance in Written and Spoken Texts: A Developmental Study" 11:45-12:15 Ravid ABRAMSON "The Distribution of Non-Imageable Predicates: A Developmental Perspective" 12:15-1:15 Lunch Break SUNDAY MAY 14 (AFTERNOON) Location: Corwin Pavilion West 1:15-2:15 Metaphor & Personification/ Objectification 1:15-1:45 Joe GRADY "Personification and the Typology of Conceptual Metaphors" 1:45-2:15 Melinda CHEN "A Cognitive-Linguistic View of Linguistic (Human) Objectification" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 1:15-2:15 Origins of Relational Meaning: Cognitive Influences 1:15-1:45 Lorraine McCUNE "Relational Meaning: Sources in Infant Perception, Motion and Cognition" 1:45-2:15 Marilyn VIHMANN & Lorraine McCUNE "Relational Words: Cross-Linguistic Evidence" Soonja Choi [Discussant] Location: Flying 'A' Room 1:15-2:15 Meaning in Discourse 1:15-1:45 Kingkarn THEPKANJANA "Semantic Variations of the Verb in Context: A Case Study in Thai" 1:45-2:15 Masahiko MINAMI "Establishing Viewpoint: Wrapping-up Devices in Japanese Oral Narrative Discourse" 2:15-3:15 Sandra THOMPSON (Santa Barbara) Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Object Complements (Plenary Lecture) 3:15-3:30 Closing: John DU BOIS, Patricia CLANCY, Dan MONTELLO From dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu Mon May 8 00:57:47 2000 From: dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu (John W. Du Bois) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 17:57:47 -0700 Subject: Limited space workshops at CSDL Message-ID: Re: Limited space workshops at CSDL - sign up NOW We would like to call your attention to two special workshops, described below, which will be held on Thursday, May 11 in conjunction with the fifth conference on "Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Grammar" (CSDL 2000, May 11-14, 2000), at UC Santa Barbara. The workshops are free to those who are REGISTERED for the full CSDL conference (not the one-day registration option), but you must sign up for them in advance. Priority will be given to those already registered, on a first-come, first-serve basis. Those who intend to register for the full CSDL conference may ask to be put on a list for the workshops, but admission will be contingent on receipt of registration fees. Space in these workshops is limited, so if you want to participate, please send us an email stating your intention immediately. Please include the following information: Your name Your registration status for the CSDL conference Email address Telephone number Do you wish to be placed on the list for participation in: Workshop 1 (Thursday, May 11, 1:30-3:00)? Workshop 2 (Thursday, May 11, 3:30-5:00)? Please send the above information via email to Ellen Bartee at: ellenb at umail.ucsb.edu For information on the full CSDL 2000 conference, including registration information, please consult our WEB SITE at: http://linguistics.ucsb.edu/events/CSDL/CSDL.htm We hope to see you soon in Santa Barbara! Sincerely, John Du Bois for The Local Organizing Committee Workshop 1: TOPICS IN BLENDING THEORY Thursday, May 11, 1:30-3:00 Santa Barbara Harbor Room, UCen Gilles FAUCONNIER (San Diego) Mark TURNER (Maryland) Discussant: Eve SWEETSER (Berkeley) This workshop will focus on the latest research developments in Blending Theory as developed by Fauconnier and Turner, now emerging from their year of work together at the Center for Advanced Studies, Stanford. Sweetser will provide an additional perspective and commentary. Workshop 2: TOPICS IN DISCOURSE, GRAMMAR, AND INTERACTION Thursday, May 11, 3:30-5:00 Santa Barbara Harbor Room, UCen John DU BOIS (Santa Barbara) Patricia CLANCY (Santa Barbara) Carol GENETTI (Santa Barbara) John GUMPERZ (Santa Barbara) Discussants: Sandra THOMPSON (Santa Barbara) Amy KYRATZIS (Santa Barbara) With all its participants from Santa Barbara, this workshop aims to present the "Santa Barbara School" approach (if one exists!) to discourse, with a focus on connections between discourse and grammar. Du Bois and Clancy will focus on argument structure (in adults and children), Genetti will focus on grammaticization, and Gumperz will focus on interactionally distributed cognition. The intention is to motivate the research agenda through consideration of both the theoretical assumptions that underlie it, and the kinds of questions, data, and methods that lead to results. Discussion will be led by Thompson and Kyratzis. From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Mon May 8 15:35:11 2000 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:35:11 -0400 Subject: 3 Functional works from John Benjamins Message-ID: These three books which are functionally oriented are now available: Between Grammar and Lexicon Ellen CONTINI-MORAVA (University of Virginia) and Yishai TOBIN (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 183 US & Canada: 1 55619 960 0 / USD 95.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world:90 272 3689 5 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover) This volume has its origins in a theme session entitled: "Lexical and Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?" from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. It includes theme session presentations, additional papers from that conference, and several invited contributions. All the articles explore the relationship between lexical and grammatical categories, both illustrating the close interaction, as well as questioning the strict dichotomy, between them. This volume promotes a holistic view of classification reflecting functional, cognitive, communication, and sign-oriented approaches to language which have been applied to both the grammar and the lexicon. The volume is divided into two parts. Part I, Number and Gender Systems Across Languages, is further subdivided into three sections: (1) Noun Classification; (2) Number Systems; and (3) Gender Systems. Part II, Verb Systems and Parts of Speech Across Languages, is divided into two sections: (1) Tense and Aspect and (2) Parts of Speech. The analyses represent a diverse range of languages and language families: Bantu (Swahili), Guaykuruan (Pilagá), Indo-European (English, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Spanish) and Semitic (Hebrew). Contributions by: Edna Andrews; Ellen Contini-Morava; Marina Gorlach; Walter Hirtle; Laura Janda; Bob de Jonge; Pablo Isaac Kirtchuck; Flora Klein-Andreu; Lori Morris; Ricardo Otheguy; Dorit Ravid; Mary Ellen Ryder; Yitzhak Shlesinger; Nancy Stern; Yishai Tobin. Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity. Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov. Werner ABRAHAM (University of Groningen) and Leonid KULIKOV (University of Leiden) (eds.) Studies in Language Companion Series 50 US & Canada: 1 55619 936 8 / USD 95.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3053 6 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover) This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov. The volume honors this reputed scholar for his life work. It is in mainly this spirit (and the EUROTYPE spirit) that the following scholars have contributed to the volume: T.Tsunoda on Warrungu (Australian indigeneous language), L. Kulikov on Vedic, K. Kiryu on Japanese, Korean and Newari, N. Sumbatova on Svan (from the Kartvelian group), T.Bulygina & A. Shmelev on Russian, W. Boeder on Georgian, R. Thieroff on aorist and imperfect in European languages, Y. Poupynin on Russian, L. Johanson on Kipchak Turkic, I. Dolinina on Russian, N. Kozintseva on Old and Modern Eastern Armenian, Ch. Lee on Korean, W. Abraham on split ergative languages and German, G. Silnitsky on Russian, V. Plungian on Russian, E. Rakhilina on Russian, and K. Ebert on Kalmyk. Demonstratives. Form, function and grammaticalization. Holger DIESSEL (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) Typological Studies in Language 42 US & Canada: 1 55619 656 3 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover) 1 55619 657 1 / USD 29.95 (Paperback) Rest of world: 90 272 2942 2 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover) 90 272 2943 0 / NLG 60.00 (Paperback) All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From bender at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed May 10 18:55:48 2000 From: bender at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Emily Bender) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:55:48 -0700 Subject: Request for references/ideas Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I am looking for ideas, pointers to the literature, etc. regarding the following problem: Production studies of African American Vernacular English (since Labov 1969) have turned up a remarkably stable set of constraints on the appearance of overt vs. "empty" or "deleted" forms of the verb 'be', as in (1): (1) a. Kim a doctor. b. Kim is a doctor. Both (1a) and (1b) are grammatical in AAVE. However, one finds that the distribution of the two forms is conditioned in part by the part of speech of the predicate, as follows: (2) NP < PP(loc)/AP < V+ing < gonna That is, the ratio of forms like (1a) to forms like (1b) is much lower than the ratio forms like (3a) to forms like (3b): (3) a. Kim gonna leave. b. Kim is gonna leave. The PP(loc) and AP categories are usually tabulated separately, but their ordering is not very consistent across different studies. What I am looking for are some possible functional (pragmatic, processing, etc.) constraints that could explain this pattern. One consideration in formulating such constraints is that copulaless sentences with NP predicates do not seem to be particularly dispreferred crosslinguistically, at least from the typological evidence that I have to hand. Any ideas and/or references would be appreciated, and I'll post a summary to this list. Many thanks, Emily Bender From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Wed May 10 00:47:16 2000 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Tom Payne) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:47:16 -0700 Subject: Linguistic Olympics -- call for submissions Message-ID: The Linguistic Olympics is an entertaining and educational activity for secondary school students (ages 11 to 18). The students compete by solving linguistic problems in real languages they have never learned. This activity has been a regular part of educational life in Russia for over 30 years, and has now been implemented three times in Eugene, Oregon, USA, as an outreach of the University of Oregon Department of Linguistics. I would like to announce that the US Linguistic Olympics Website has been updated. The site has a new look, and there are now over 25 problems geared to students who are native speakers of English. These problems may be downloaded for personal or classroom use. I would encourage all linguists to look at the site and try some of the problems. Although they are geared to secondary school students, many of them are challenging even to professional linguists. You may find some of these useful in your classes. Another reason I would like to ask FunkNet members to look at the site is that I would like you to consider submitting a problem in a language you know well. Our Russian colleagues have been most gracious in allowing us to adapt problems from their archives. However, they are also constantly in need of more problems for their on-going Linguistic Olympics program. We would like to reciprocate by offering them some original problems. The Linguistic Olympics homepage is http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym. There is also an unlinked page that contains my report to the LSA on the 1998 US Linguistic Olympics. It is at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/LOreport.htm. This document also gives guidelines for problem preparation. Thank you very much for your help in making our discipline known among secondary school students. Tom Payne Department of Linguistics University of Oregon From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu May 11 01:42:44 2000 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Tom Payne) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:42:44 -0700 Subject: Linguistic Olympics update Message-ID: Thank you very much to those who have looked at the Linguistic Olympics website and given me suggestions on how to improve it. I neglected to mention in my posting yesterday that I very much appreciate comments on the individual problems from those who are familiar with the languages involved. I cannot do all the background research on these languages myself, and so I rely on the support of the community of linguists to check on the accuracy of the information presented in the problems. This is an educational outreach that represents the whole field of linguistics and so I want the information to be absolutely accurate. Just as a reminder, the site is found at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym. Some systems may require you to type http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/index.htm. Thank you again for your comments and suggestions. And I do look forward to receiving many more linguistic problems. Tom Payne From wilcox at UNM.EDU Mon May 15 15:18:04 2000 From: wilcox at UNM.EDU (Sherman Wilcox) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:18:04 -0600 Subject: ICLC 2001 Message-ID: 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference July 22-27, 2001 University of California, Santa Barbara The ICLC is the biannual meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. The 2001 ICLC will be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in conjunction with the Linguistic Institute sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America. Plenary Speakers Sandra Thompson (University of California, Santa Barbara) Arie Verhagen (University of Leiden) Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico) Laura Janda (University of North Carolina) Yoshihiko Ikegami (University of Tokyo) General Information Besides regular papers and posters, applications will be accepted for a small number of theme sessions. Detailed proposals will be required for theme sessions, with preference given to those lasting a half day or less. Specific requirements for submitting abstracts and proposals will be posted on the ICLC website. Some Important Dates October 1, 2000 Proposals for theme sessions due. November 15, 2000 Abstracts for papers and posters due. Contact Information For up-to-date information on all matters, check the ICLC website: http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/. If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organizers. Organizing Committee Ronald Langacker, University of California, San Diego (rlangacker at ucsd.edu) Michel Achard, Rice University (achard at rice.edu) Suzanne Kemmer, Rice University (kemmer at rice.edu) Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley (sweetser at cogsci.berkeley.edu) Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico (wilcox at unm.edu) Advisory Committee Wallace Chafe, University of California, Santa Barbara (chafe at humanitas.ucsb.edu) Jack DuBois, University of California, Santa Barbara (dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu) Robert Kirsner, University of California, Los Angeles (kirsner at humnet.ucla.edu) Johanna Rubba, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (jrubba at calpoly.edu) Ronald W. Langacker Linguistics, 0108 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093 858-534-1153 From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Tue May 16 23:00:02 2000 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Tom Payne) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:00:02 -0700 Subject: Grammar Book for School teachers? Message-ID: Dear Funknet People I believe this request is relevant to Funknet because it has to do with publicizing linguistics, particularly functionalism, among primary and secondary school teachers and students. A friend of mine is looking for two kinds of texts. If there is one book that fills both needs, that would be great, but I have a feeling he is looking for two different books. One is a book for school teachers, not necessarily teachers of English, that can be used as a reference on English Grammar. One that *explains* things, rather than just gives arbitrary prescriptive rules would be most appreciated. The other is a book on English Grammar that is suitable as a textbook for use by secondary school students, i.e., ages 12 through 18. Again, what is needed is something that explains, and describes, rather than prescribes. Quirk and Greenbaum's various offerings seem a bit advanced for what we are looking for. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you might have. Tom Payne From ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU Wed May 17 06:22:09 2000 From: ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU (Tsuyoshi Ono) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:22:09 -0700 Subject: Japanese lecturer position Message-ID: The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona seeks a one-year, full-time instructor to teach Japanese language. Candidates must have native or near-native fluency in Japanese, good English speaking and reading skills, college-level language teaching experience (preferably in the U.S.), an M.A. (preferably in Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, JSL/JFL, or TESL/TEFL), and be able to provide documentation of the ability to work in the United States. Appointment begins with the Fall 2000 semester (August, 2000). Submit letter of application, c.v., and the names and contact information of 3 references to Kimberly Jones, Interim Head, Department of East Asian Studies, Franklin 404, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. Review of materials will begin June 1 and will continue until position is filled. From simon at LING.ED.AC.UK Wed May 17 10:17:19 2000 From: simon at LING.ED.AC.UK (Simon Kirby) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:17:19 +0100 Subject: Grammar Book for School teachers? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, I can recommend the book by a colleague of mine, Jim Hurford, (so I might be biased!) called "Grammar: a student's guide". It is published by CUP. I think it might be just what you are looking for... All the best, Simon -- Simon Kirby Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit simon at ling.ed.ac.uk Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~simon/ University of Edinburgh From jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU Wed May 17 19:16:20 2000 From: jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:16:20 -0800 Subject: Grammar Book for School teachers? Message-ID: What an interesting request! I have been working on grammar for a few years now. Your friend may have a lot of trouble finding a book, if the one recommended by Simon Kirby doesn't work out. Books that are not prescriptive and yet are still accessible to nonlinguists or those not interested in college-level texts are very hard to find. From all of my experience so far, publishers are not terribly interested in grammar books that innovate or question the prescriptive tradition, at least as far as books for 'lower schools' are concerned. I have examined most of the major language-arts teaching packages for California schools (by major publishers), and only one has anything like a linguistic approach. I'll get the title on that one for you, though. I don't know if these would be appropriate to fill the reference-book role, but you might send the titles along for your friend to check out: Max Morenberg, Doing Grammar, Oxford U P Anne Lobeck, Discovering English Grammar, also Oxford U P Ronald Wardhaugh, Understanding English Grammar, Blackwell Martha Kolln, Understanding English Grammar, 5th ed., Macmillan THomas P. Klammer & Muriel R. Schulz, Analyzing English Grammar, Allyn & Bacon There is one more title I will send later. Don't have it right now. These are all intended as college-level textbooks for 'structure of English'-type courses, often required of future teachers or of English majors. A schoolteacher committed to serious study could make use of them. I am writing a book and will be working on adaptations of it for grades 6-12, but, alas, it is not ready yet. I'd be interested in seeing a summary of recommendations you get. I collect grammar books. Jo Rubba ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics English Department, California Polytechnic State University One Grand Avenue • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Tel. (805)-756-2184 • Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone. 756-259 • E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu • Home page: http://www.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ** "Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally" - Frank Oppenheimer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Thu May 18 21:16:46 2000 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:16:46 -0400 Subject: 3 New books of functional interest Message-ID: John Benjamins Publishing has just introduced these three new works related to the functional paradigm. Reflexives. Forms and functions. Zygmunt FRAJZYNGIER and Traci S. CURL (University of Colorado) (eds.) Typological Studies in Language 40 US & Canada: 1 55619 653 9 / USD 85.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 2939 2 / NLG 170.00 (Hardcover) The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding of aspect; in the coding of point of view; and in the Coding of the information structure of a clause. The present volume offers an approach to reflexive forms and functions from several perspectives: a formal approach where reflexives are discussed within a well-defined model of language representation; a typological approach; a historical approach concentrating on grammaticalization of reflexives and on the changes that pronouns and anaphors undergo; and a functionalist approach where functions of reflexive forms are described. The languages from which data were drawn represent a wide variety of language families and language types: English, Old English, Dutch, German, Tsakhur (Nakh-Dagestanian), Spanish, French, Bantu and Chadic languages. The variety of languages discussed and the different approaches taken complement each other in that each contributes an important piece to the understanding of reflexives in a cross-linguistic perspective. Contributions by: E. Reuland; E. König and P. Siemund; W. Abraham; M. Schladt; Z. Frajzyngier; R. Maldonado; E. van Gelderen; E.A. Lyutikova; R. Waltereit. Reciprocals. Forms and functions. Zygmunt FRAJZYNGIER and Traci S. CURL (University of Colorado) (eds) Typological Studies in Language 41 US & Canada: 1 55619 654 7 / USD 79.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 2940 6 / NLG 158.00 (Hardcover) The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories. Several papers discuss the history of reciprocal constructions, offering alternative hypotheses regarding the grammaticalization of reciprocals. The formal, functional, typological and historical approaches in the present volume complement each other, contributing together to the understanding of forms, and syntactic and semantic properties of reciprocal markers. Several papers in the present volume make a double contribution to the problems of reciprocal constructions: they provide new descriptive data and they address theoretical issues at the same time. The languages discussed include: English, Dutch, German, Greek, Polish, Nyulnyulan (Australia), Amharic (Ethio-Semitic), Bilin (Cushitic), Chadic languages, Bantu, Halkomelem (Salishan), Mandarin, Yukaghir and a number of Oceanic languages. The volume also includes a study of grammaticalization of reciprocals and reflexives in African languages. Contributions by: Bernd Heine; Martin Everaert; Frank Lichtenberk; Meichun Liu; William McGregor; Donna Gerdts; Elena Maslova; and Zygmunt Frajzyngier. Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics. Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997. Ad FOOLEN (University of Nijmegen) and Frederike van der LEEK (University of Amsterdam) (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 178 US & Canada: 1 55619 955 4 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3684 4 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover) This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety of languages (English, German, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Thai, Fijian). Besides analyses of 'objective construal', the volume reflects the increasing interest in subjectivity (grounding and speaker involvement). It also includes, lastly, contributions on the acquisition and agrammatic loss of constructions. Contributions by: Angeliki Athanasiadou & René Dirven; Barbara Dancygier; Robert Dewell; Ad Foolen; Patrick Griffiths; Beate Hampe; Liesbet Heyvaert; Hiroko Ihara & Ikuyo Fujita; Agata Kochanska; Frederike van der Leek; Nili Mandelbit & Gilles Fauconnier; Tanja Mortelmans; Kiki Nikiforidou & Demetra Katis; Hidemitsu Takahashi; Kingkarn Thepkanjana; Eijiro Tsuboi. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Mon May 1 07:49:19 2000 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 00:49:19 -0700 Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS The 10th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference UCLA, October 13-15, 2000 Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 26, 2000. Note: This year, BOTH e-mail AND snail-mail abstracts submission will be REQUIRED. June 26, 2000 is the deadline for e-mail application. Snail mail must arrive by June 30, 2000. ================================ INVITED SPEAKERS Suk-Jin Chang (Seoul National U, Korea) Hairine Diffloth (Cornell U, USA) Wesley M. Jacobsen (Harvard U, USA) Susumu Kuno (Harvard U, USA) S. -Y. Kuroda (UCSD, USA) Chungmin Lee (Seoul National U, Korea) Seiichi Makino (Princeton U, USA) Naomi H. McGloin (U of Wisconsin at Madison, USA) Katsuhiko Momoi (Netscape, USA) William O'Grady (U of Hawaii, USA) Masayoshi Shibatani (Kobe U. Japan/Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, USA) Yoko Sugioka (Keio U, Japan) Tim Vance (Connecticut College, USA) This year, the Japanese/Korean Conference will celebrate its 10th anniversary during the weekend following Hangul (Korean Alphabet) Day (Oct. 9). With affection and appreciation, we would like to dedicate the conference and the proceedings to the memory of Jim McCawley (1938- 1999), who was one of the founding fathers of Japanese and Korean Linguistics in this country. To mark this very special occasion, we have invited Jim's former students, long-time friends, and colleagues. This conference aims to provide a forum for presenting research in Japanese and Korean linguistics, thereby facilitating efforts to deepen our understanding of these two languages which have striking typological similarities. We especially encourage presentations which investigate both languages. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, typology, grammaticalization, historical linguistics, phonology, morphology, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. All the presentations, including those by invited speakers, will be 20 minutes long, and will be followed by a 10 minute question-answer period. ----------------------------------------------------------- Submitted items should include: By snail mail: 1) One copy of a ONE-PAGE abstract (500 words maximum). First line should indicate the category, Formal or Functional, followed by the sub- field. For example, Formal/Syntax, Formal/Morphology, or Functional/Discousre, Functional/Grammaticalization, Functinal/Cognitive linguistics etc.). Second line should be the paper title: Omit your name and affiliation from the abstract. A second page may be used ONLY for examples and citing references. 2) A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper, the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), and the address, phone number and e-mail address of the primary author. If your address, phone number and e-mail address will be different during the summer, be sure to include that information. 3) EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: By e-mail: In addition to (1) and (2) above, submit via e-mail the same abstract and the author information described in (1) and (2) to protect the loss of information as well as to facilitate the abstract selection process. The 10th J/K e-mail address is : <10th J_K at humnet.ucla.edu >. Please use the subject header "JK10, (your last name and first name initial), (category, i.e., "Formal/Syntax" or "Functional/Grammaticalization" etc.)". See the next example. JK10, Nagashima, S., Formal/Phonology Include all the author information in the body of the e-mail. Abstracts should be sent as an attachment, and should be also pasted in the body of the e-mail. Please include any non-standard fonts that you use. If you send your abstract in any format other than plain text, please allow for time to solve any technical difficulties that may arise. Acceptable formats are: 1. Plain text 2. Microsoft Word (Important! Please send two versions: TEXT ONLY and RTF files.) 4) Note that only one abstract from each individual can be considered for acceptance. One individual abstract and one jointly authored abstract may also be submitted. 5) All the necessary information about the conference will appear on our JK Conference Website shortly (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/ealc/jklc.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mailing Address for snail mail abstracts: Formal (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, and Morphology): Prof. Hajime Hoji USC Linguistics Los Angeles, CA 90089 Functional (Other topics than above) Prof. Noriko Akatsuka UCLA East Asian Languages & Cultures 290 Royce Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The proceedings of this conference will be published as Japanese/Korean Linguistics 10 by CSLI and distributed by Cambridge University Press: From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Tue May 2 17:59:09 2000 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 13:59:09 -0400 Subject: 3 Functional Books: Hajicova, Lockwood, Manney Message-ID: John Benjamins Publishing would like to bring to your attention these three recently published books: Prague Linguistic Circle Papers. Volume 3. Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle s?rie. Eva HAJICOV?, Tom?? HOSKOVEC, Oldrich LE KA, Petr SGALL and Zdena SKOUMALOV? (Charles University, Prague) (eds.) Prague Linguistic Circle Papers 3 US & Canada: 1 55619 672 5 / USD 84.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 5443 5 / NLG 168.00 (Hardcover) Contents: O.Le?ka (?): Prague School Linguistics: Units in Diversity; P.S?riot: The Impact of Czech and Russian Biology on the Linguistic Thoughts of the Prague Linguistic Circle; P.Sgall: Types of Languages and Probabilistic Implication Laws; C.H.van Schoonveld: Are the Phonological Distinctive Features Ordered?; Y.Tobin: Developmental and Clinical Phonology: The Prague School and Beyond; E.Stankiewicz: Grammatical Categories and Their Formal Patterns; B.H.Partee: Nominal and Temporal Semantic Structure; Aspect and Quantification; H.Kucera: In the Beginning Was the Verb: Markedness in Grammatical Categories; J.Sabr?ula: Aspect, Contexte, Distribution; W.U.Dressler: What is Natural in Natural Morphology (NM)?; A.Steube and A.Sp?th: Determination in German and Russian; T.Hoskovec: Sur la paradigmatisation du verbe indo-europ?en (premi?re partie); M.Kom?rek: Autosemantic Parts of Speech in Czech; A.Boguslawski: Inherently Thematic or Rhematic Units of Language; E.Hajicov? and I.Kruijff-Korbayov?: On the Notion of Topic; J.Firbas: The Theory of Functional Sentence Perspective as a Reflection of an Effort Towards a Means-Ends Model of Language; L.Du?kov?: Basic Distribution of Communicative Dynamism vs. Nonlinear Indication of Functional Sentence Perspective; M.Jel?nek: Anregungen des Prager linguistischen Zirkels zur Verwissenschaftlichung der Stilistik; J.V.Neustupny: Sociolinguistics and the Prague School; L.R.Waugh: Roman Jakobson's Intellectual Influence in America; H.Schnelle: Dichotomies in the Brain - Jakobsonian and Modern. Functional Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition. Papers in honor of Sydney M. Lamb. David G. LOCKWOOD (Michigan State University), Peter H. FRIES (Central Michigan University) and James E. COPELAND (Rice University) (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 163 US & Canada: 1 55619 879 5 / USD 135.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3668 2 / NLG 270.00 (Hardcover) This volume contains functional approaches to the description of language and culture, and language and cultural change. The approaches taken by the authors range from cognitive approaches including Stratificational grammar to more socially oriented ones including Systemic Functional linguistics. The volume is organized into two sections. The first section 'Functional Approaches to the Structure of Language: Theory and Practice' starts with contributions developing a Stratificational model; these are followed by contributions focusing on some related functional model of language; and by articles describing some particular set of language phenomena. In the second section 'Functional Approaches to the History of Language and Linguistics' general studies of language change are addressed first; a second group of contributions examines language change, lexicon and culture; and the last cluster of contributions treats the history of linguistics and culture. Contributions by: James E. Copeland; David G. Lockwood; Sydney M. Lamb; Ernst-August M?ller; William M. Christie; Earl M. Herrick; Tim Pulju; Adam Makkai; William J. Sullivan; Toby D. Griffen; Winfred P. Lehmann; Chang In Lee; Jonathan J. Webster; Robert E. Longacre; Yoshihiko Ikegami; Roger W. Wescott; M.A.K. Halliday; Katharina Barbe; Cynthia Ford Meyer; Peter H. Fries; Heather K. Hardy; Philip W. Davis; John Regan; Nancy Pine; Joe Stephenson; Dell Hymes; Henry Rogers; Robert Austerlitz; Joseph H. Greenberg; James E. Copeland; David C. Bennett; Carleton T. Hodge; William Bright; Connie Eble; F.W. Householder; Merritt Ruhlen; Edgar C. Polom?; M.B. Emeneau; Thomas A. Sebeok; Saul Levin; Victor H. Yngve. Middle Voice in Modern Greek. Meaning and function of an inflectional category. Linda Joyce MANNEY (United States International University) Studies in Language Companion Series 48 US & Canada: 1 55619 934 1 / USD 94.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3051 X / NLG 188.00 (Hardcover) This book provides an in-depth analysis of the inflectional middle category in Modern Greek. Against the theoretical backdrop of cognitive linguistics, it is argued that a wide range of seemingly disparate middle structures in Modern Greek comprise a complex semantic network, and that this network is organized around two prototypical middle event types, which are noninitiative emotional response and spontaneous change of state. In those cases where middle structures have active counterparts, middle and active variants of the same verb stem are compared in order to demonstrate more clearly the semantic distinctions and pragmatic functions encoded by inflectional middle voice in Modern Greek. Major semantic groupings of middle structures treated include emotional response in particular and psycho-emotive experience in general, spontaneous change of state and/or the resulting state, agent-induced events in which an agent subject is (emotionally) involved with or affected by some aspect of the designated situation, passive-like events in which a patient subject is affected by a nonfocal agent, implicit or specified, and reflexive-like events in which a patient subject and an unspecified agent may overlap to varying degrees. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From dlaatila at SUPER.FURG.BR Wed May 3 22:52:45 2000 From: dlaatila at SUPER.FURG.BR (Attila Louzada) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 19:52:45 -0300 Subject: Flip-flop Message-ID: Let me offer an example in Brazilian Portuguese: the verb caber. Observe the pair - in English, both would sound something like The room can hold 40 people: a) Cabem 40 pessoas na sala. subject [contents] locative [container] hold 40 people in the room b) A sala cabe 40 pessoas. subject [container] object [contents] the room holds 40 people Example a is the standard unmarked conservative variant. The verb is intransitive and has, say, passive meaning: a certain amount of people may be held in the room. The subject might precede the verb without changing mych of the meaning. Example b is a contemporary coloquial innovation, in which the subject becomes the container - with a, say, active meaning: the room is big enough to hold that amount of people. Whay is that so? I suggest it may have something to do with a tendency we observe in BP to make the topic subject. Another similar example is the pair c) O cara estava tremendo as mcos (coloquial innovation) the guy was trembling his hands d) As mcos do cara estavam tremendo (conservative variant) the guy's hands were trembling Why/how such innovative forms arise, survive and prevail (or even coexist with the conservative form) is a sociolinguistic fact. I stand with Labov, when he says language variation and change occur as a result of the action of social factors. Internal factors, such as syntactic constraints, make them possible, but it is the social identity of the users that will finally favor one form or another to prevail. Attila Louzada Departamento de Letras e Artes Fundagco Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Brasil E-mail: dlaatila at super.furg.br Phone: 55 - 53 - 233-6614 From david_tuggy at SIL.ORG Wed May 3 23:17:04 2000 From: david_tuggy at SIL.ORG (David Tuggy) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 19:17:04 -0400 Subject: Flip-flop Message-ID: Nice examples, Attila. But note, in a) > b) you have (ignoring constituent order) S V-intrns Loc > O V-trns S . This is movement in a chain, not a flip-flop. Then in c) < d) (where you indicate the historical progression was the other direction) you have S V-intrns Possr > 0 V-trns S . Again, not Role-1 V Role-2 > Role-2 V Role-1. So these innovations are not as likely as full flip-flops to (anti-functionally) generate confusion as to who's doing what; the disparity between animate/inanimate in both examples further reduces the chances of confusion. --David Tuggy ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Flip-flop Author: at Internet Date: 5/3/2000 7:52 PM Let me offer an example in Brazilian Portuguese: the verb caber. Observe the pair - in English, both would sound something like The room can hold 40 people: a) Cabem 40 pessoas na sala. subject [contents] locative [container] hold 40 people in the room b) A sala cabe 40 pessoas. subject [container] object [contents] the room holds 40 people Example a is the standard unmarked conservative variant. The verb is intransitive and has, say, passive meaning: a certain amount of people may be held in the room. The subject might precede the verb without changing mych of the meaning. Example b is a contemporary coloquial innovation, in which the subject becomes the container - with a, say, active meaning: the room is big enough to hold that amount of people. Whay is that so? I suggest it may have something to do with a tendency we observe in BP to make the topic subject. Another similar example is the pair c) O cara estava tremendo as mcos (coloquial innovation) the guy was trembling his hands d) As mcos do cara estavam tremendo (conservative variant) the guy's hands were trembling Why/how such innovative forms arise, survive and prevail (or even coexist with the conservative form) is a sociolinguistic fact. I stand with Labov, when he says language variation and change occur as a result of the action of social factors. Internal factors, such as syntactic constraints, make them possible, but it is the social identity of the users that will finally favor one form or another to prevail. Attila Louzada Departamento de Letras e Artes Fundagco Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Brasil E-mail: dlaatila at super.furg.br Phone: 55 - 53 - 233-6614 From dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu Sun May 7 18:27:07 2000 From: dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu (John W. Du Bois) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 11:27:07 -0700 Subject: Reminder: CSDL Registration Message-ID: REGISTRATION for the fifth conference on "Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language" Registration for the CSDL 2000 conference (May 11-14, 2000 at UC Santa Barbara) is at at the following rates. Please note that the reduced "Advance Registration" rate applies for payments received by the CSDL organizers up until 5 PM on Wednesday, May 10, 2000. After this, the on-site registration rate applies. Note also that for individuals who can only attend one day of the conference, we have a corresponding one-day rate. General registration, advance: $60 General registration, on-site: $70 General registration, one-day: $40 Student registration, advance: $40 Student registration, on-site: $50 Student registration, one-day: $25 CSDL 2000 Banquet, at UCSB Faculty Club: $25 The banquet is open to all, including guests of CSDL conference participants. It will take place in a beautiful location overlooking the UCSB lagoon and the Pacific Ocean. See our web site under "Banquet" for additional information. Payment must be made by a check made out in the appropriate amount (as listed above) in US dollars, drawn on a US bank. Make the check payable to "UC Regents". Please include the following registration information: Your name Affiliation Email address Telephone number Permanent mailing address Lodging while at the conference Will you have a car at the conference? Do you wish to be placed on the list for participation in: Workshop 1 (Thursday May 11)? Workshop 2 (Thursday May 11)? Will you attend the CSDL Banquet? Send your check and your registration information to the following address: CSDL Conference Registration Linguistics Department 3607 South Hall UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA For full conference information, see our WEB SITE at: http://linguistics.ucsb.edu/events/csdl/csdl.htm From dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu Sun May 7 23:18:36 2000 From: dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu (John W. Du Bois) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 16:18:36 -0700 Subject: Final Program for CSDL Conference May 11-14 Message-ID: Final Program: CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE, AND LANGUAGE 2000 [Revised May 7, 2000] Corwin Pavilion, UCen, UC Santa Barbara Note: All CSDL events (except the banquet) take place in the University Center (UCen, pronounced U-Cen) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. All plenary sessions are in Corwin Pavilion (excluding the two Thursday afternoon workshops, which are in the Santa Barbara Harbor Room). Rooms for other sessions are as listed below. On-Site Registration is in the lobby of Corwin Pavilion (UCen), except for Thursday afternoon, when it is in the Santa Barbara Harbor Room (UCen). Web Site for full conference information: http://linguistics.ucsb.edu/events/CSDL/CSDL.htm THURSDAY MAY 11 (AFTERNOON) Location: Santa Barbara Harbor Room 1-5:00 PM Registration Location: Santa Barbara Harbor Room 1:30-3:00 Workshop: Topics in Blending Theory Gilles FAUCONNIER (San Diego), Mark TURNER (Maryland) and Eve SWEETSER (Berkeley) 3:00-3:30 Coffee Break Location: Santa Barbara Harbor Room 3:30-5:00 Workshop: Topics in Discourse, Grammar, and Interaction John DU BOIS, Patricia CLANCY, Carol GENETTI, John GUMPERZ (Santa Barbara) Sandra THOMPSON and Amy KYRATZIS, Discussants (Santa Barbara) 5:00-7:00 Dinner Break Location: Corwin Pavilion 5:30-9 PM Registration Location: Corwin Pavilion 7:00-9:30 Pre-Conference Session: Language and Spatial Information Dan MONTELLO (Santa Barbara), Organizer 7:00-7:30 Barbara TVERSKY (Stanford) "Lines, Crosses, T's, Blobs, and Arrows: Semantics of Diagrams" 7:30-8:00 Gary ALLEN (South Carolina) "Environmental Influences on Route Descriptions: A Component Analysis" 8:00-8:30 Helen COUCLELIS (Santa Barbara) "Natural Language in a Geographic Information System" 8:30-9:00 David M. MARK (SUNY Buffalo) "Where Do Basic (Geo) Spatial Relations Between Lines and Regions Come From?" 9:00-9:30 Andrew FRANK (Technical University, Vienna) "A Formalism of Metaphorical Transfer: From Spatial to Non-Spatial" FRIDAY MAY 12 (MORNING) Location: Corwin Pavilion 8 AM-8 PM Registration 8:30-8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Charles LI, Graduate Dean 8:45-9:45 George LAKOFF (Berkeley) The Neural Theory of Language: Where It's Been and Where It's Going (Plenary Lecture) 9:45-10:15 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 10:15-12:15 Acquisition of Grammar 10:15-10:45 Patricia CLANCY "Exceptional Casemarking in Korean Acquisition: A Discourse-Functional Account" 10:45-11:15 Nancy BUDWIG & Bhuvana NARASIMHAN "Transitive and Intransitive Constructions in Hindi-Speaking Caregiver-Child Discourse" 11:15-11:45 Holger DIESSEL & Michael TOMASELLO "The Emergence of Relative Constructions in Early Child Language" 11:45-12:15 Michael ISRAEL "How Children Get Constructions" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 10:15-12:15 Grammar of Adpositions & Particles 10:15-10:45 Nancy CHANG & Benjamin BERGEN "Spatial Schematicity of Prepositions in Neural Grammar" 10:45-11:15 Stefan GRIES "Particle Placement in English: A Cognitive and Multifactorial Investigation" 11:15-11:45 David ZUBIN & Klaus-Michael KOEPCKE "Experiencer in the Landscape: Gender in the Geographic Lexicon of German" 11:45-12:15 Kyoko MASUDA "The Evidence from Conversation for a Usage-Based Model: The Occurrence and Non-Occurrence of Japanese Locative Particles in Conversation" Location: Flying 'A' Room 10:15-12:15 Metaphor 10:15-10:45 Eleni KOUTSOMITOPOULOS "The Role of Conceptual Metaphor in Knowledge Engineering: Metaphor-Based Ontologies" 10:45-11:15 Mary Helen IMMORDINO "Metaphor Use in a Seventh-Grade Science Lesson: Implications for Students' Understandings" 11:15-11:45 Mari TAKADA, Kazuko SHINOHARA & Fumi MORIZUMI "Socio-Cultural Values as Motivation of Mapping: An Analysis of Daughter-as-Commodity Metaphor in Japanese" 11:45-12:15 Kevin MOORE "Potentially Universal vs. Fundamentally Different Temporal Concepts in Wolof and Enlish" 12:15-1:30 Lunch Break FRIDAY MAY 12 (AFTERNOON) Location: Corwin Pavilion 1:30-2:30 Rachel GIORA (Tel Aviv) False Positives: Salience and Context Effects in Understanding Non-Literal Language (Plenary Lecture) Location: Corwin Pavilion West 2:30-3:30 Literal & Nonliteral Meaning 2:30-3:00 Mira ARIEL "Salient, Linguistic, and Interactional Meanings: The Demise of a Unique Literal Meaning" 3:00-3:30 Christine MICHAUX "The Levels of Proverbial Interpretation" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 2:30-3:30 Argument Structure + 2:30-3:00 Ki-Sun HONG "Thematic Roles and Cognition: A Case of Korean Idioms" 3:00-3:30 Tsuyoshi ONO and Sandra THOMPSON "Japanese (W)Atashi 'I': It's Not Just a Pronoun" Location: Flying 'A' Room 2:30-3:30 Constructions in Use 2:30-3:00 Scott LIDDELL "Suprasegmentals at the Core of an English Construction" 3:00-3:30 Victor BALABAN "I Was Blessed by the Virgin Mary: Use of Passive Constructions to Reduce Agency in Naturally Occurring Religious Discourse" 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 4:00-5:00 Literal & Nonliteral Meaning 4:00-4:30 Paula LIMA, Raymond GIBBS, & E. FRANCOZO "DESIRE IS HUNGER: New Ideas About Old Conceptual Metaphors" 4:30-5:00 Barbara HOLDER &Seana COULSON "Hints on How to Drink from a Fire Hose: Conceptual Blending in the Wild Blue Yonder" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 4:00-5:00 Argument Structure 4:00-4:30 Jean-Pierre KOENIG, Gail MAUNER, and Breton BIENVENUE "Class Selectivity and the Participant/Setting Distinction" 4:30-5:00 Patrick FARRELL "The Conceptual Structure of "Agentive" -er" Location: Flying 'A' Room 4:00-5:00 Interactionally Distributed Cognition 4:00-4:30 Gene LERNER "Finding 'Interactionally Distributed' and 'Shared' Cognition in Searching for a Word" 4:30-5:00 Monica TURK "Discontinuity and Conversational Uses of 'and'" 5:00-7:00 Dinner Break 7:00-8:00 Ron LANGACKER (San Diego) Viewing Arrangements and Experiential Reporting (Plenary Lecture) 8:00-9:00 Wallace CHAFE (Santa Barbara) Discourse Appreciation (Plenary Lecture) SATURDAY MAY 13 (MORNING) Location: Corwin Pavilion 8:30-6 PM Registration 9:00-10:00 Dedre GENTNER (Northwestern) Analogy in Language Learning and Use (Plenary Lecture) 10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 10:30-12:30 Analogy 10:30-11:00 Jeffrey LOEWENSTEIN & Dedre GENTNER "Spatial Relational Language Facilitates Preschoolers' Understanding of Relations" 11:00-11:30 Esther KIM "Analogy as Discourse Process" 11:30-12:00 David UTTAL & Jeffrey LOEWENSTEIN "On the Relation Between Maps and Analogies" 12:00-12:30 Lindsey ENGLE "Analogy in US Classrooms: Pedagogical Processes Structuring the Acquisition of Abstract Mathematical Concepts" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 10:30-12:30 Form, Meaning, and Mapping 10:30-11:00 Mark LEE & John BARNDEN "Metaphor, Pretence and Counterfactuals" 11:00-11:30 Michael HANSON "The Importance of Being Ironic: Uses of Irony in a Group Discussion about Race, Gender and Adulthood" 11:30-12:00 Haldur OIM "STRAIGHT in Estonian" 12:00-12:30 Misumi SADLER "Iconically Motivated Use of the Japanese Discourse Markers sorede, nde, and de in Conversation" Location: Flying 'A' Room 10:30-12:30 Syntax Across Clauses 10:30-11:00 Beaumont BRUSH "Force, Time, and Predicate Structure in Interclausal Relations" 11:00-11:30 Cristiano BROCCIAS "A Cognitive Account of English Resultative Constructions" 11:30-12:00 Joseph PARK "The Intonation Unit as a Cognitive Unit: Evidence from Korean Complex Sentences" 12:00-12:30 Mirna PIT "Subjectivity in Causal Coherence Relations" 12:30-1:30 Lunch Break SATURDAY MAY 13 (AFTERNOON) Location: Corwin Pavilion 1:30-2:30 Kathryn BOCK (Illinois) The Persistence of Structural Priming in Language Production (Plenary Lecture) Location: Corwin Pavilion West 2:30-3:30 Priming in Discourse 2:30-3:00 John DU BOIS "Reusable Syntax: Socially Distributed Cognition in Dialogic Interaction" 3:00-3:30 Michele EMANATIAN "Metaphor Clustering in Discourse" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 2:30-3:30 Sound and Meaning 2:30-3:00 Tim ROHRER "Conceptual Integration Networks in Political Thought: Visual and Phonemic Blends" 3:00-3:30 Benjamin BERGEN "Probabilistic Associations Between Sound and Meaning: Belief Networks for Modeling Phonaesthemes" Location: Flying 'A' Room 2:30-3:30 Meaning Across Languages 2:30-3:00 Heather BORTFELD "Comprehending Idioms Cross-Linguistically" 3:00-3:30 Ashlee BAILEY "On the Non-Existence of Blue-Yellow and Red-Green Color Terms: The Case of Semantic Extension" 3:30-4:00 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 4:00-5:30 Phonology: Sound and Use 4:00-4:30 Joan BYBEE "Phonological Clues to the Size of Storage and Processing Units" 4:30-5:00 Liang TAO "Transnumerality and Classifier: Do They Come as a Package Deal?" 5:00-5:30 Marilyn VIHMANN "The Role of Vocal Production in the Ontogeny of Language: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 4:00-5:30 Grammaticization and Use 4:00-4:30 Shoichi IWASAKI "Structural Reanalysis in Discourse" 4:30-5:00 Kaoru HORIE & Debra OCCHI "Borrowing for 'Thinking For Speaking': A Case Study from Japanese" 5:00-5:30 Ritva LAURY "The Definite Article in Interlanguage and Grammaticization: A Comparison" Location: Flying 'A' Room 4:00-5:30 Metaphor, Blending, and Change 4:00-4:30 Hilary YOUNG & Anatol STEFANOWITSCH "Domain Blending in English: The adj-and-adj Construction" 4:30-5:00 Mei-Chun LIU "Categorical Structure and Semantic Representation of Mandarin Verbs of Communication" 5:00-5:30 Josef RUPPENHOFER & Esther J. WOOD "Pragmatic Inferencing and Metaphor in Semantic Change" 5:30-5:40 Break 5:40-6:40 Charles LI (Santa Barbara) The Evolutionary Origin of Language (Plenary Lecture) Location: Faculty Club 6:40-7:30 CSDL 2000 Cash Bar 7:30-9:30 CSDL 2000 Banquet SUNDAY MAY 14 (MORNING) Location: Corwin Pavilion 9-11:00 AM Registration 9:30-10:30 Mark TURNER (Maryland) Compression in Thought and Language (Plenary Lecture) 10:30-45 Coffee Break Location: Corwin Pavilion West 10:45-12:15 Cognition in Gesture & Sign 10:45-11:15 Alan CIENKI "Gesture, Metaphor, and Thinking for Speaking" 11:15-11:45 Paul DUDIS "Visible Tokens in Signed Languages" 11:45-12:15 Sarah TAUB "Description of Motion in ASL: Cognitive Strategies Rather Than Arbitrary Rules" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 10:45-12:15 Syntax Within the Clause 10:45-11:15 Terry KLAHFEN "Cognitive Processing of Japanese Inflectional Morphology" 11:15-11:45 Kaori KABATA "Evaluating a Cognitive Network Empirically" 11:45-12:15 Todd McDANIELS "Deictic Shift as a Function of Preposing in Comanche Narrative" Location: Flying 'A' Room 10:45-12:15 Acquisition of Narrative 10:45-11:15 Molly LOSH "Affective and Social-Cognitive Underpinnings of Narrative: Insights from Autism" 11:15-11:45 Anita ZAMORA, Sarah KRIZ & Judy REILLEY "The Linguistic Encoding of Stance in Written and Spoken Texts: A Developmental Study" 11:45-12:15 Ravid ABRAMSON "The Distribution of Non-Imageable Predicates: A Developmental Perspective" 12:15-1:15 Lunch Break SUNDAY MAY 14 (AFTERNOON) Location: Corwin Pavilion West 1:15-2:15 Metaphor & Personification/ Objectification 1:15-1:45 Joe GRADY "Personification and the Typology of Conceptual Metaphors" 1:45-2:15 Melinda CHEN "A Cognitive-Linguistic View of Linguistic (Human) Objectification" Location: Corwin Pavilion East 1:15-2:15 Origins of Relational Meaning: Cognitive Influences 1:15-1:45 Lorraine McCUNE "Relational Meaning: Sources in Infant Perception, Motion and Cognition" 1:45-2:15 Marilyn VIHMANN & Lorraine McCUNE "Relational Words: Cross-Linguistic Evidence" Soonja Choi [Discussant] Location: Flying 'A' Room 1:15-2:15 Meaning in Discourse 1:15-1:45 Kingkarn THEPKANJANA "Semantic Variations of the Verb in Context: A Case Study in Thai" 1:45-2:15 Masahiko MINAMI "Establishing Viewpoint: Wrapping-up Devices in Japanese Oral Narrative Discourse" 2:15-3:15 Sandra THOMPSON (Santa Barbara) Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Object Complements (Plenary Lecture) 3:15-3:30 Closing: John DU BOIS, Patricia CLANCY, Dan MONTELLO From dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu Mon May 8 00:57:47 2000 From: dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu (John W. Du Bois) Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 17:57:47 -0700 Subject: Limited space workshops at CSDL Message-ID: Re: Limited space workshops at CSDL - sign up NOW We would like to call your attention to two special workshops, described below, which will be held on Thursday, May 11 in conjunction with the fifth conference on "Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Grammar" (CSDL 2000, May 11-14, 2000), at UC Santa Barbara. The workshops are free to those who are REGISTERED for the full CSDL conference (not the one-day registration option), but you must sign up for them in advance. Priority will be given to those already registered, on a first-come, first-serve basis. Those who intend to register for the full CSDL conference may ask to be put on a list for the workshops, but admission will be contingent on receipt of registration fees. Space in these workshops is limited, so if you want to participate, please send us an email stating your intention immediately. Please include the following information: Your name Your registration status for the CSDL conference Email address Telephone number Do you wish to be placed on the list for participation in: Workshop 1 (Thursday, May 11, 1:30-3:00)? Workshop 2 (Thursday, May 11, 3:30-5:00)? Please send the above information via email to Ellen Bartee at: ellenb at umail.ucsb.edu For information on the full CSDL 2000 conference, including registration information, please consult our WEB SITE at: http://linguistics.ucsb.edu/events/CSDL/CSDL.htm We hope to see you soon in Santa Barbara! Sincerely, John Du Bois for The Local Organizing Committee Workshop 1: TOPICS IN BLENDING THEORY Thursday, May 11, 1:30-3:00 Santa Barbara Harbor Room, UCen Gilles FAUCONNIER (San Diego) Mark TURNER (Maryland) Discussant: Eve SWEETSER (Berkeley) This workshop will focus on the latest research developments in Blending Theory as developed by Fauconnier and Turner, now emerging from their year of work together at the Center for Advanced Studies, Stanford. Sweetser will provide an additional perspective and commentary. Workshop 2: TOPICS IN DISCOURSE, GRAMMAR, AND INTERACTION Thursday, May 11, 3:30-5:00 Santa Barbara Harbor Room, UCen John DU BOIS (Santa Barbara) Patricia CLANCY (Santa Barbara) Carol GENETTI (Santa Barbara) John GUMPERZ (Santa Barbara) Discussants: Sandra THOMPSON (Santa Barbara) Amy KYRATZIS (Santa Barbara) With all its participants from Santa Barbara, this workshop aims to present the "Santa Barbara School" approach (if one exists!) to discourse, with a focus on connections between discourse and grammar. Du Bois and Clancy will focus on argument structure (in adults and children), Genetti will focus on grammaticization, and Gumperz will focus on interactionally distributed cognition. The intention is to motivate the research agenda through consideration of both the theoretical assumptions that underlie it, and the kinds of questions, data, and methods that lead to results. Discussion will be led by Thompson and Kyratzis. From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Mon May 8 15:35:11 2000 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:35:11 -0400 Subject: 3 Functional works from John Benjamins Message-ID: These three books which are functionally oriented are now available: Between Grammar and Lexicon Ellen CONTINI-MORAVA (University of Virginia) and Yishai TOBIN (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 183 US & Canada: 1 55619 960 0 / USD 95.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world:90 272 3689 5 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover) This volume has its origins in a theme session entitled: "Lexical and Grammatical Classification: Same or Different?" from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. It includes theme session presentations, additional papers from that conference, and several invited contributions. All the articles explore the relationship between lexical and grammatical categories, both illustrating the close interaction, as well as questioning the strict dichotomy, between them. This volume promotes a holistic view of classification reflecting functional, cognitive, communication, and sign-oriented approaches to language which have been applied to both the grammar and the lexicon. The volume is divided into two parts. Part I, Number and Gender Systems Across Languages, is further subdivided into three sections: (1) Noun Classification; (2) Number Systems; and (3) Gender Systems. Part II, Verb Systems and Parts of Speech Across Languages, is divided into two sections: (1) Tense and Aspect and (2) Parts of Speech. The analyses represent a diverse range of languages and language families: Bantu (Swahili), Guaykuruan (Pilag?), Indo-European (English, Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Spanish) and Semitic (Hebrew). Contributions by: Edna Andrews; Ellen Contini-Morava; Marina Gorlach; Walter Hirtle; Laura Janda; Bob de Jonge; Pablo Isaac Kirtchuck; Flora Klein-Andreu; Lori Morris; Ricardo Otheguy; Dorit Ravid; Mary Ellen Ryder; Yitzhak Shlesinger; Nancy Stern; Yishai Tobin. Tense-Aspect, Transitivity and Causativity. Essays in honour of Vladimir Nedjalkov. Werner ABRAHAM (University of Groningen) and Leonid KULIKOV (University of Leiden) (eds.) Studies in Language Companion Series 50 US & Canada: 1 55619 936 8 / USD 95.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3053 6 / NLG 190.00 (Hardcover) This collection presents typological work on tense, aspect, and epistemic modality in a variety of languages and against the background of different schools of thinking, among which the St. Petersburg Typological School developed and so masterfully implemented by the Petersburg linguist, Vladimir Petrovich Nedjalkov. The volume honors this reputed scholar for his life work. It is in mainly this spirit (and the EUROTYPE spirit) that the following scholars have contributed to the volume: T.Tsunoda on Warrungu (Australian indigeneous language), L. Kulikov on Vedic, K. Kiryu on Japanese, Korean and Newari, N. Sumbatova on Svan (from the Kartvelian group), T.Bulygina & A. Shmelev on Russian, W. Boeder on Georgian, R. Thieroff on aorist and imperfect in European languages, Y. Poupynin on Russian, L. Johanson on Kipchak Turkic, I. Dolinina on Russian, N. Kozintseva on Old and Modern Eastern Armenian, Ch. Lee on Korean, W. Abraham on split ergative languages and German, G. Silnitsky on Russian, V. Plungian on Russian, E. Rakhilina on Russian, and K. Ebert on Kalmyk. Demonstratives. Form, function and grammaticalization. Holger DIESSEL (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig) Typological Studies in Language 42 US & Canada: 1 55619 656 3 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover) 1 55619 657 1 / USD 29.95 (Paperback) Rest of world: 90 272 2942 2 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover) 90 272 2943 0 / NLG 60.00 (Paperback) All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From bender at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed May 10 18:55:48 2000 From: bender at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Emily Bender) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:55:48 -0700 Subject: Request for references/ideas Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I am looking for ideas, pointers to the literature, etc. regarding the following problem: Production studies of African American Vernacular English (since Labov 1969) have turned up a remarkably stable set of constraints on the appearance of overt vs. "empty" or "deleted" forms of the verb 'be', as in (1): (1) a. Kim a doctor. b. Kim is a doctor. Both (1a) and (1b) are grammatical in AAVE. However, one finds that the distribution of the two forms is conditioned in part by the part of speech of the predicate, as follows: (2) NP < PP(loc)/AP < V+ing < gonna That is, the ratio of forms like (1a) to forms like (1b) is much lower than the ratio forms like (3a) to forms like (3b): (3) a. Kim gonna leave. b. Kim is gonna leave. The PP(loc) and AP categories are usually tabulated separately, but their ordering is not very consistent across different studies. What I am looking for are some possible functional (pragmatic, processing, etc.) constraints that could explain this pattern. One consideration in formulating such constraints is that copulaless sentences with NP predicates do not seem to be particularly dispreferred crosslinguistically, at least from the typological evidence that I have to hand. Any ideas and/or references would be appreciated, and I'll post a summary to this list. Many thanks, Emily Bender From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Wed May 10 00:47:16 2000 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Tom Payne) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:47:16 -0700 Subject: Linguistic Olympics -- call for submissions Message-ID: The Linguistic Olympics is an entertaining and educational activity for secondary school students (ages 11 to 18). The students compete by solving linguistic problems in real languages they have never learned. This activity has been a regular part of educational life in Russia for over 30 years, and has now been implemented three times in Eugene, Oregon, USA, as an outreach of the University of Oregon Department of Linguistics. I would like to announce that the US Linguistic Olympics Website has been updated. The site has a new look, and there are now over 25 problems geared to students who are native speakers of English. These problems may be downloaded for personal or classroom use. I would encourage all linguists to look at the site and try some of the problems. Although they are geared to secondary school students, many of them are challenging even to professional linguists. You may find some of these useful in your classes. Another reason I would like to ask FunkNet members to look at the site is that I would like you to consider submitting a problem in a language you know well. Our Russian colleagues have been most gracious in allowing us to adapt problems from their archives. However, they are also constantly in need of more problems for their on-going Linguistic Olympics program. We would like to reciprocate by offering them some original problems. The Linguistic Olympics homepage is http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym. There is also an unlinked page that contains my report to the LSA on the 1998 US Linguistic Olympics. It is at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/LOreport.htm. This document also gives guidelines for problem preparation. Thank you very much for your help in making our discipline known among secondary school students. Tom Payne Department of Linguistics University of Oregon From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Thu May 11 01:42:44 2000 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Tom Payne) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:42:44 -0700 Subject: Linguistic Olympics update Message-ID: Thank you very much to those who have looked at the Linguistic Olympics website and given me suggestions on how to improve it. I neglected to mention in my posting yesterday that I very much appreciate comments on the individual problems from those who are familiar with the languages involved. I cannot do all the background research on these languages myself, and so I rely on the support of the community of linguists to check on the accuracy of the information presented in the problems. This is an educational outreach that represents the whole field of linguistics and so I want the information to be absolutely accurate. Just as a reminder, the site is found at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym. Some systems may require you to type http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/lingolym/index.htm. Thank you again for your comments and suggestions. And I do look forward to receiving many more linguistic problems. Tom Payne From wilcox at UNM.EDU Mon May 15 15:18:04 2000 From: wilcox at UNM.EDU (Sherman Wilcox) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:18:04 -0600 Subject: ICLC 2001 Message-ID: 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference July 22-27, 2001 University of California, Santa Barbara The ICLC is the biannual meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. The 2001 ICLC will be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in conjunction with the Linguistic Institute sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America. Plenary Speakers Sandra Thompson (University of California, Santa Barbara) Arie Verhagen (University of Leiden) Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico) Laura Janda (University of North Carolina) Yoshihiko Ikegami (University of Tokyo) General Information Besides regular papers and posters, applications will be accepted for a small number of theme sessions. Detailed proposals will be required for theme sessions, with preference given to those lasting a half day or less. Specific requirements for submitting abstracts and proposals will be posted on the ICLC website. Some Important Dates October 1, 2000 Proposals for theme sessions due. November 15, 2000 Abstracts for papers and posters due. Contact Information For up-to-date information on all matters, check the ICLC website: http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/. If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organizers. Organizing Committee Ronald Langacker, University of California, San Diego (rlangacker at ucsd.edu) Michel Achard, Rice University (achard at rice.edu) Suzanne Kemmer, Rice University (kemmer at rice.edu) Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley (sweetser at cogsci.berkeley.edu) Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico (wilcox at unm.edu) Advisory Committee Wallace Chafe, University of California, Santa Barbara (chafe at humanitas.ucsb.edu) Jack DuBois, University of California, Santa Barbara (dubois at humanitas.ucsb.edu) Robert Kirsner, University of California, Los Angeles (kirsner at humnet.ucla.edu) Johanna Rubba, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (jrubba at calpoly.edu) Ronald W. Langacker Linguistics, 0108 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093 858-534-1153 From tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU Tue May 16 23:00:02 2000 From: tpayne at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Tom Payne) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:00:02 -0700 Subject: Grammar Book for School teachers? Message-ID: Dear Funknet People I believe this request is relevant to Funknet because it has to do with publicizing linguistics, particularly functionalism, among primary and secondary school teachers and students. A friend of mine is looking for two kinds of texts. If there is one book that fills both needs, that would be great, but I have a feeling he is looking for two different books. One is a book for school teachers, not necessarily teachers of English, that can be used as a reference on English Grammar. One that *explains* things, rather than just gives arbitrary prescriptive rules would be most appreciated. The other is a book on English Grammar that is suitable as a textbook for use by secondary school students, i.e., ages 12 through 18. Again, what is needed is something that explains, and describes, rather than prescribes. Quirk and Greenbaum's various offerings seem a bit advanced for what we are looking for. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you might have. Tom Payne From ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU Wed May 17 06:22:09 2000 From: ono at U.ARIZONA.EDU (Tsuyoshi Ono) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:22:09 -0700 Subject: Japanese lecturer position Message-ID: The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona seeks a one-year, full-time instructor to teach Japanese language. Candidates must have native or near-native fluency in Japanese, good English speaking and reading skills, college-level language teaching experience (preferably in the U.S.), an M.A. (preferably in Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, JSL/JFL, or TESL/TEFL), and be able to provide documentation of the ability to work in the United States. Appointment begins with the Fall 2000 semester (August, 2000). Submit letter of application, c.v., and the names and contact information of 3 references to Kimberly Jones, Interim Head, Department of East Asian Studies, Franklin 404, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. Review of materials will begin June 1 and will continue until position is filled. From simon at LING.ED.AC.UK Wed May 17 10:17:19 2000 From: simon at LING.ED.AC.UK (Simon Kirby) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:17:19 +0100 Subject: Grammar Book for School teachers? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, I can recommend the book by a colleague of mine, Jim Hurford, (so I might be biased!) called "Grammar: a student's guide". It is published by CUP. I think it might be just what you are looking for... All the best, Simon -- Simon Kirby Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit simon at ling.ed.ac.uk Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~simon/ University of Edinburgh From jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU Wed May 17 19:16:20 2000 From: jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:16:20 -0800 Subject: Grammar Book for School teachers? Message-ID: What an interesting request! I have been working on grammar for a few years now. Your friend may have a lot of trouble finding a book, if the one recommended by Simon Kirby doesn't work out. Books that are not prescriptive and yet are still accessible to nonlinguists or those not interested in college-level texts are very hard to find. From all of my experience so far, publishers are not terribly interested in grammar books that innovate or question the prescriptive tradition, at least as far as books for 'lower schools' are concerned. I have examined most of the major language-arts teaching packages for California schools (by major publishers), and only one has anything like a linguistic approach. I'll get the title on that one for you, though. I don't know if these would be appropriate to fill the reference-book role, but you might send the titles along for your friend to check out: Max Morenberg, Doing Grammar, Oxford U P Anne Lobeck, Discovering English Grammar, also Oxford U P Ronald Wardhaugh, Understanding English Grammar, Blackwell Martha Kolln, Understanding English Grammar, 5th ed., Macmillan THomas P. Klammer & Muriel R. Schulz, Analyzing English Grammar, Allyn & Bacon There is one more title I will send later. Don't have it right now. These are all intended as college-level textbooks for 'structure of English'-type courses, often required of future teachers or of English majors. A schoolteacher committed to serious study could make use of them. I am writing a book and will be working on adaptations of it for grades 6-12, but, alas, it is not ready yet. I'd be interested in seeing a summary of recommendations you get. I collect grammar books. Jo Rubba ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics English Department, California Polytechnic State University One Grand Avenue ? San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Tel. (805)-756-2184 ? Fax: (805)-756-6374 ? Dept. Phone. 756-259 ? E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu ? Home page: http://www.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ** "Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally" - Frank Oppenheimer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Thu May 18 21:16:46 2000 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 17:16:46 -0400 Subject: 3 New books of functional interest Message-ID: John Benjamins Publishing has just introduced these three new works related to the functional paradigm. Reflexives. Forms and functions. Zygmunt FRAJZYNGIER and Traci S. CURL (University of Colorado) (eds.) Typological Studies in Language 40 US & Canada: 1 55619 653 9 / USD 85.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 2939 2 / NLG 170.00 (Hardcover) The importance of reflexive markers in the study of language structure cannot be underestimated: they participate in the coding of the argument structure of a clause; in the coding of semantic relations between arguments and verbs; in the coding of the relationship between arguments; in the coding of aspect; in the coding of point of view; and in the Coding of the information structure of a clause. The present volume offers an approach to reflexive forms and functions from several perspectives: a formal approach where reflexives are discussed within a well-defined model of language representation; a typological approach; a historical approach concentrating on grammaticalization of reflexives and on the changes that pronouns and anaphors undergo; and a functionalist approach where functions of reflexive forms are described. The languages from which data were drawn represent a wide variety of language families and language types: English, Old English, Dutch, German, Tsakhur (Nakh-Dagestanian), Spanish, French, Bantu and Chadic languages. The variety of languages discussed and the different approaches taken complement each other in that each contributes an important piece to the understanding of reflexives in a cross-linguistic perspective. Contributions by: E. Reuland; E. K?nig and P. Siemund; W. Abraham; M. Schladt; Z. Frajzyngier; R. Maldonado; E. van Gelderen; E.A. Lyutikova; R. Waltereit. Reciprocals. Forms and functions. Zygmunt FRAJZYNGIER and Traci S. CURL (University of Colorado) (eds) Typological Studies in Language 41 US & Canada: 1 55619 654 7 / USD 79.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 2940 6 / NLG 158.00 (Hardcover) The theoretical issues addressed in the present volume are semantic and cognitive properties of reciprocal events, syntactic properties of reciprocals, and the relationship of reciprocals to other grammatical categories. Several papers discuss the history of reciprocal constructions, offering alternative hypotheses regarding the grammaticalization of reciprocals. The formal, functional, typological and historical approaches in the present volume complement each other, contributing together to the understanding of forms, and syntactic and semantic properties of reciprocal markers. Several papers in the present volume make a double contribution to the problems of reciprocal constructions: they provide new descriptive data and they address theoretical issues at the same time. The languages discussed include: English, Dutch, German, Greek, Polish, Nyulnyulan (Australia), Amharic (Ethio-Semitic), Bilin (Cushitic), Chadic languages, Bantu, Halkomelem (Salishan), Mandarin, Yukaghir and a number of Oceanic languages. The volume also includes a study of grammaticalization of reciprocals and reflexives in African languages. Contributions by: Bernd Heine; Martin Everaert; Frank Lichtenberk; Meichun Liu; William McGregor; Donna Gerdts; Elena Maslova; and Zygmunt Frajzyngier. Constructions in Cognitive Linguistics. Selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997. Ad FOOLEN (University of Nijmegen) and Frederike van der LEEK (University of Amsterdam) (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 178 US & Canada: 1 55619 955 4 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3684 4 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover) This volume contains selected papers from the 5th ICLC, Amsterdam 1997. The papers present cognitive analyses of a variety of constructions (phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases, transitivity, accusative versus dative objects, possessives, gerunds, passives, causatives, conditionals), in a variety of languages (English, German, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Thai, Fijian). Besides analyses of 'objective construal', the volume reflects the increasing interest in subjectivity (grounding and speaker involvement). It also includes, lastly, contributions on the acquisition and agrammatic loss of constructions. Contributions by: Angeliki Athanasiadou & Ren? Dirven; Barbara Dancygier; Robert Dewell; Ad Foolen; Patrick Griffiths; Beate Hampe; Liesbet Heyvaert; Hiroko Ihara & Ikuyo Fujita; Agata Kochanska; Frederike van der Leek; Nili Mandelbit & Gilles Fauconnier; Tanja Mortelmans; Kiki Nikiforidou & Demetra Katis; Hidemitsu Takahashi; Kingkarn Thepkanjana; Eijiro Tsuboi. John Benjamins Publishing Co. 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