From amnfn at WELL.COM  Wed Nov  1 07:12:48 2000
From: amnfn at WELL.COM (A. Katz)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:12:48 -0800
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <TUE.31.OCT.2000.231248.0800.AMNFN@WELL.COM>

The Department of English Language, Literature and Linguistics at
Providence University in Shalu, Taiwan, invites applications for the
position of Assistant Professor of Linguistics.  We are looking for a
generalist, able to teach a wide range of graduate and undergraduate
courses in linguistics. Particular research and teaching interests are
open, but we especially invite applications from candidates able to
teach formal approaches to phonology and syntax.  The department's
orientation is functional, so the ideal candidate would adequately
represent the formal approach, but would feel comfortable with the
functionalist outlook as well. Interest in the Chinese language would
be an asset but is not essential; English is the medium of instruction
for many courses in the department.  Applicants should have the Ph.D.
in hand or expected by spring 2001.

Duties of the position will include teaching a wide range of
undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics and some English
language skills courses. Professors are expected to maintain active
research programs, including publishing and attending  conferences.
Additional funding to support such activities is available from a
variety of agencies, such as the National Science Council and the
Ministry of Education.  Faculty  members are also expected to serve
on committees and assist with department-sponsored activities.

Providence University is a private, coeducational, Catholic
institution. It is located in western Taichung County in central
Taiwan.  The Department of English Language, Literature and
Linguistics is the largest department in the University, with over one
thousand undergraduates and several dozen graduate students.  The
department awards the degrees of B.A in English, M.A. in English
literature, and M.A. in linguistics.  At present, there are six
full-time members of the linguistics faculty in the department, of
whom four hold the Ph.D.  The department sponsors a regular colloquium
series in linguistics to promote professional interchange among the
faculty, students, and other linguists in central Taiwan.

Both citizens and non-citizens of the Republic of China are welcome
to apply. Contracts are issued on a year-by-year basis, but this is
a permanent position, and contracts are renewed regularly upon
satisfactory performance.

Applications should include the following:  a letter of application;
graduate school transcript; photocopy of the Ph.D. diploma (if in
hand); a sample of the applicant's research; and three letters of
recommendation. Please send completed application materials to the
following address by December 1, 2000:

Dr. Victoria Rau, Chair
Department of English Language, Literature and Linguistics
Providence University
Shalu, Taichung Hsien
Taiwan 433 R.O.C.

For further information about the position, the department, the
school, or life in the Taichung area, interested parties are welcome
to contact Aya Katz (Asst. Prof. of Linguistics) by e-mail at
katz at ms24.hinet.net.


From kosam at LIBR.UG.EDU.GH  Wed Nov  1 18:34:22 2000
From: kosam at LIBR.UG.EDU.GH (Kweku Osam)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:34:22 GMT
Subject: Acquisition of Phonology
Message-ID: <WED.1.NOV.2000.183422.GMT.KOSAM@LIBR.UG.EDU.GH>

Dear Colleagues,

We have a graduate student in our Department (University of Ghana) who is
examining the acquisition of phonology in children whose parents speak Ewe
as L1.

She'd appreciate leads to relevant studies, especially those that deal with
the acquisition of the phonology of African languages. Of course, leads to
very important theoretical (especially Functional) studies are also very
welcome.

Send all responses to me at: <kosam at libr.ug.edu.gh>

Thanks for your help.


Kweku Osam
Linguistics Department
University of Ghana


From kemmer at RUF.RICE.EDU  Thu Nov  2 15:43:50 2000
From: kemmer at RUF.RICE.EDU (Suzanne E Kemmer)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:43:50 -0600
Subject: ICLC 2001 Final Call
Message-ID: <THU.2.NOV.2000.094350.0600.KEMMER@RUF.RICE.EDU>

                 ** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS **

  7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2001
                  Santa Barbara, California

                 held in conjunction with the
                  2001 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE,
         sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America

                       JULY 22-27, 2001


PLENARY SPEAKERS

    SANDRA THOMPSON, U.C. Santa Barbara

    ARIE VERHAGEN, University of Leiden

    LAURA JANDA, University of North Carolina

    YOSHIHIKO IKEGAMI, University of Tokyo

    SHERMAN WILCOX, University of New Mexico


FEATURED SPEAKERS

    LEONARD TALMY, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo
    GEORGE LAKOFF, U.C. Berkeley
    RONALD LANGACKER, U.C. San Diego
    GILLES FAUCONNIER, U.C. San Diego
    EVE SWEETSER, U.C. Berkeley
    KNUD LAMBRECHT, University of Texas, Austin
    DAVID TUGGY, Summer Institute of Linguistics
    ADELE GOLDBERG, University of Illinois


This is the final call for abstracts for the GENERAL and
POSTER sessions. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics
are welcome.

 GENERAL SESSIONS - July  23-27
 POSTER SESSION -  July 25
 THEME SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS - July 26 (proposals already
   under review)

TO SUBMIT
 For abstract specifications and reviewing criteria see
 http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/abstracts.html
 All abstracts following the abstract specifications will be
 considered.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 15, 2000

Further Information on ICLC 2001:
 See the ICLC Homepage at http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/

Further information on the International Cognitive
 Linguistics Association (ICLA):
 See the ICLA homepage at http://www.siu.edu/~icla/


From swellsj at BGNET.BGSU.EDU  Fri Nov  3 20:43:59 2000
From: swellsj at BGNET.BGSU.EDU (Sheri Wells Jensen)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:43:59 -0500
Subject: Extraterrestrial linguistics
Message-ID: <FRI.3.NOV.2000.154359.0500.SWELLSJ@BGNET.BGSU.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

This summer, I have the wonderful opportunity to teach a graduate seminar
called "Extraterrestrial Language'.  My plan is to provide a survey of what
linguistics, literature and the natural sciences have to tell us about the
possible structure of a truly alien language.  As you may imagine, I'm
having a wonderful time collecting material from everywhere (science
fiction, the SETI folks, phonetics...)

I don't want to miss  anything important here.  I'd be grateful for any
suggestions for readings anyone might care to pass along.  In particular,
I'm looking for:

1.  An accessible reading in typology  for nonlinguists (we must know
what's terrestrial before thinking about what is extraterrestrial...)

2.  Philosophy of language or cognition readings on what concept that
underly language might be present across species.

3. An intro to what we know about complex animal communication systems on
earth (something about dolphin communication perhaps).

4.  Musings on whether a non-human language would even be learnable by humans.

5. Anything else?  Imaginative suggestions appreciated!

Thanks much, and I'll post a summary.

Best,
Sheri
--------------------
Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen
423 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
(419) 372-8935
swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu


From nrude at UCINET.COM  Sat Nov  4 00:11:43 2000
From: nrude at UCINET.COM (Noel Rude)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:11:43 -0800
Subject: Extraterrestrial linguistics
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.1.20001103152224.00abf700@pops.bgsu.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.3.NOV.2000.161143.0800.NRUDE@UCINET.COM>

Greetings,

    Your request brought to mind -- maverick that I am -- the writings of
today's "Design Theorists".  What they're trying to do is define the
fingerprint (one might say) of a mind, be it human, extraterrestrial, or
God.  Though we may dislike the implications of their efforts (i.e.
demolishing Darwin), their work is significant and -- I believe -- worth
noting in such a class as you are about to teach.  Of particular interest
would be William Dembski's recent, "The Design Inference" (or some such
title), published in the Cambridge Mathematical Series.

    Noel


on 11/3/00 12:43 PM, Sheri Wells Jensen at swellsj at BGNET.BGSU.EDU wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This summer, I have the wonderful opportunity to teach a graduate seminar
> called "Extraterrestrial Language'.  My plan is to provide a survey of what
> linguistics, literature and the natural sciences have to tell us about the
> possible structure of a truly alien language.  As you may imagine, I'm
> having a wonderful time collecting material from everywhere (science
> fiction, the SETI folks, phonetics...)
>
> I don't want to miss  anything important here.  I'd be grateful for any
> suggestions for readings anyone might care to pass along.  In particular,
> I'm looking for:
>
> 1.  An accessible reading in typology  for nonlinguists (we must know
> what's terrestrial before thinking about what is extraterrestrial...)
>
> 2.  Philosophy of language or cognition readings on what concept that
> underly language might be present across species.
>
> 3. An intro to what we know about complex animal communication systems on
> earth (something about dolphin communication perhaps).
>
> 4.  Musings on whether a non-human language would even be learnable by humans.
>
> 5. Anything else?  Imaginative suggestions appreciated!
>
> Thanks much, and I'll post a summary.
>
> Best,
> Sheri
> --------------------
> Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen
> 423 East Hall
> Bowling Green State University
> Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
> (419) 372-8935
> swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu
>
>


From ram at eskimo.com  Sun Nov  5 16:06:08 2000
From: ram at eskimo.com (Rick Morneau)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 09:06:08 -0700
Subject: Extraterrestrial linguistics
Message-ID: <SUN.5.NOV.2000.090608.0700.>

Sheri Wells Jensen <swellsj at BGNET.BGSU.EDU> writes:
>
> This summer, I have the wonderful opportunity to teach a graduate
> seminar called "Extraterrestrial Language' ...[snipped]... I don't
> want to miss anything important here.  I'd be grateful for any
> suggestions for readings anyone might care to pass along.
>

I suggest that you subscribe to the conlang discussion list.  Conlang is
a list for people who enjoy constructing artificial languages, and
several people who subscribe to the list have worked on alien languages.
Many of them also have strong backgrounds in linguistics.

You can subscribe to the list by sending the following one-line message:

  subscribe conlang your-name

to:

  LISTSERV at brownvm.brown.edu


Best regards,

Rick Morneau
http://www.srv.net/~ram


From clayke at DELPHI.COM  Sun Nov  5 22:55:30 2000
From: clayke at DELPHI.COM (Clayton)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:55:30 -0800
Subject: Extraterrestrial linguistics
Message-ID: <SUN.5.NOV.2000.145530.0800.CLAYKE@DELPHI.COM>

> This summer, I have the wonderful opportunity to teach a graduate seminar
> called "Extraterrestrial Language'.  My plan is to provide a survey of
what
> linguistics, literature and the natural sciences have to tell us about the
> possible structure of a truly alien language.  As you may imagine, I'm
> having a wonderful time collecting material from everywhere (science
> fiction, the SETI folks, phonetics...)

I'd like to suggest taking some readings from "Linguistic Semantics" by
William Frawley.  While probably not as fun as some other readings might be,
it has good coverage of the progressive distinctions that people make with
language.  If you could narrow this down into brief readings I think it
would provide a good foundation for discussing the pragmatics of language.

   - Clayton Gillespie
     e-lectra


From brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM  Mon Nov  6 19:59:57 2000
From: brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM (bruce richman)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:59:57 GMT
Subject: Beyond Chomsky web page
Message-ID: <MON.6.NOV.2000.195957.GMT.BRUCERICHMAN@HOTMAIL.COM>

I would like to announce the opening of a new web page, which we are calling
"Beyond Chomsky" at the following URL:
        http://elvis.rowan.edu/~bps/beyondChomsky/home.html
   Please tell us what you think of it.  Everyone is invited to submit
material.   Best wishes,   Bruce Richman
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From eitkonen at UTU.FI  Tue Nov  7 14:01:48 2000
From: eitkonen at UTU.FI (Esa Itkonen)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:01:48 +0200
Subject: extraterrestrial ...
Message-ID: <TUE.7.NOV.2000.160148.0200.EITKONEN@UTU.FI>

In his book 'LINCOS. Design of a language for cosmic intercourse'
(Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1960), Hans Freudenthal constructs in a stepwise
fashion a language that might be understood in a zero context. Starting
from the (outdated?) assumption that pictures cannot be sent through space,
he is confined to a strongly ICONIC notion of language: one beep means
'one', two beeps mean 'two' etc. Pauses play the role that parentheses and
brackets play in formal logic: shortness of pauses correlates with
conceptual closeness. Then there are sounds whose meaning just has to be
LEARNED, on the basis of repeated and varied examples. First, 'equality'
and 'plus', thus: 1 § 1   *    11  . OK, what does mean? Of course, it
means 1 + 1 = 2. Starting from these humble beginnings, Freudenthal arrives
at Relativity Theory. Maybe this is implausible, but (in the absense of
pictures), nothing else works.
Esa     Itkonen


From delancey at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU  Tue Nov  7 19:54:22 2000
From: delancey at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Scott Delancey)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:54:22 -0800
Subject: Functional/Cognitive Job at Oregon
Message-ID: <TUE.7.NOV.2000.115422.0800.DELANCEY@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>

Linguistics Department
University of Oregon
Assistant Professor Position #7891

The Department of linguistics at the University of Oregon seeks
applicants for an Assistant Professor position in
functional/cognitive linguistics, beginning September 15, 2001.  The
successful candidate will have an established commitment to research
in functional/cognitive/typological linguistics, involving work with
primary/empirical data.  Evidence of excellence in teaching will
weigh heavily in consideration of applicants for the position.  We
are especially interested in applicants with research and/or teaching
strengths in one or more of the following:  phonology,
psycholinguistics, discourse and cognition, sociolinguistics, or
anthropological linguistics.

Completed applications will be reviewed beginning December 15, 2000.
Preliminary interviews will be held at the LSA meeting in January.  A
complete application requires a letter of application, Curriculum
Vitae, sample publications, evidence of teaching, and three letters
of recommendation.  Materials should be sent to:

Spike Gildea, Chair
Department of Linguistics
1290 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR  97403-1290
USA

The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action
institution, committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the
American Disabilities Act.

From akg at ALUMNI.INDIANA.EDU  Wed Nov  8 11:19:15 2000
From: akg at ALUMNI.INDIANA.EDU (Andrew J. Koontz-Garboden)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:19:15 0100
Subject: adpositions and typological generalizations
Message-ID: <WED.8.NOV.2000.121915.0100.AKG@ALUMNI.INDIANA.EDU>

Is anyone aware of work that has been done on typological
generalizations regarding the overt expression of semantic categories by
way of adpositions?  Specifically, I'm wondering if it's the case that
if you have an overt lexical item for adpositional category x (i.e.
locative), then you will always have one for category y (i.e.
directional), z (i.e. comitative), etc.  I am led to this question by
the observation that many creole languages are said to have
"all-purpose" adpositions.  So, in short, I wonder if there is some sort
of implicational hierarchy that might be at work, or has been claimed to
be at work.

In a similar, although slightly different way of looking at the
question, Clancy Clements has suggested that maybe the use of overt
adpositions may simply have to do with what info. is recoverable from
the verb itself.

e.g.    (1)  We go 0 home.
        (2)  We drive to home. (?-perhaps there is something with the noun
'home'          too; you can get We go TO the store, We drive TO the store, but
these           are strange with home)
        (3)  We are 0 home.
        (4)  We eat at home.

In these cases (where info is recoverable as in 1 and 3), there might be
a preponderance of zero marking.  From this perspective, what I would be
asking is in which cases is the PP NEVER zero, sometimes zero, most
always zero, always zero.

Andrew Koontz-Garboden

************************************
Andrew J. Koontz-Garboden
Department of Linguistics and
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University / BH848
Bloomington, IN 47405   U.S.A.

agarbode at indiana.edu
http://php.indiana.edu/~agarbode/
************************************


From spike at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU  Tue Nov 14 17:54:19 2000
From: spike at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU (Spike Gildea)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:54:19 -0700
Subject: October LSA Bulletin
Message-ID: <TUE.14.NOV.2000.105419.0700.SPIKE@DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU>

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:20:23 -0500
From: LSA <lsa at lsadc.org>

The October LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA web site:

        http://www.lsadc.org


From himmelma at LINGUISTICS.RUHR-UNI-BOCHUM.DE  Wed Nov 15 10:59:05 2000
From: himmelma at LINGUISTICS.RUHR-UNI-BOCHUM.DE (Nikolaus Himmelmann)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:59:05 +0100
Subject: Semantics & Pragmatics: Prof (C3) at
 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ruhr-Universität?= Bochum, Germany
Message-ID: <WED.15.NOV.2000.115905.0100.HIMMELMA@LINGUISTICS.RUHRUNIBOCHUM.DE>

Areas Required: Semantics and Pragmatics
Other Desired Areas: Text Technology, Computational Lexicography
University or Organization: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Department: Linguistics
State or Province: Germany
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: 15.12.2000
Contact: Prof. Dr. Tibor Kiss tibor at linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Address for Applications:
Dekan der Fakultät für Philologie,
Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
D-44780 Bochum
Germany

Ruhr-Universität Bochum - Fakultät fuer Philologie -
Im Sprachwissenschaftlichen Institut ist eine C3-Professur für
Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft unter besonderer
Berücksichtigung der Semantik und Pragmatik zu besetzen.

Schwerpunkt der Professur ist die sprachvergleichende Behandlung von
Semantik und Pragmatik in Lexikon und Text. Von Bewerberinnen und
Bewerbern wird erwartet, dass sie neben hervorragenden Leistungen in
Forschung und Lehre auf diesen Gebieten auch über die Fähigkeit
verfügen, Grundkurse in allen Bereichen der Allgemeinen und
Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft zu unterrichten. Sie sollten bereit
sein, aktiv bei der Ausgestaltung der neuen gestuften Studiengänge
(BA/MA) mitzuwirken. Bevorzugt berücksichtigt werden solche
Bewerberinnen und Bewerber, die darüber hinaus noch besondere
Qualifikationen bezüglich sprach- bzw. informationstechnologischer
Arbeitsgebiete (z. B. Texttechnologie, computergestützte Lexikographie)
mitbringen.

Habilitation oder gleichwertige wissenschaftliche Leistungen werden
vorausgesetzt. Die Ruhr-Universität Bochum strebt die Erhöhung des
Anteils von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre an und fordert geeignete
Wissenschaftlerinnen ausdrücklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Die Bewerbungen
geeigneter Schwerbehinderter sind erwünscht.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen und einem Verzeichnis aller
bisher abgehaltenen Lehrveranstaltungen werden bis spätestens 6 Wochen
nach Erscheinen dieser Anzeige (=15.12.00) erbeten an den Dekan der
Fakultät fuer
Philologie, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum.

Adresse: Dekan der Fakultät für Philologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
D-44780 Bochum


From bill_mann at SIL.ORG  Thu Nov 16 01:02:02 2000
From: bill_mann at SIL.ORG (William Mann)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:02:02 -0500
Subject: Assumptions about Communication
Message-ID: <WED.15.NOV.2000.200202.0500.BILLMANN@SIL.ORG>

Dear Funknetters:

I am compiling a collection of the various sorts of assumptions that have
been used in linguistics and other communication sciences concerning the
nature of Communication.

To illustrate, the well known Code Model provides one option.  One version
of the model says that Communication is exchange of ideas, and that those
ideas can be represented as propositions.

Further, exchange of an idea from one person to another takes place by
encoding the proposition(s) in language, transmitting that encoded
linguistic product to another person, and that person decoding the given
language and thus recovering (a copy of) the proposition(s).

Leaving aside the process part, I am trying to identify distinct versions of
the first part, what Communication is.

I am not particularly confining my search to modern ideas alone.

If you know of other foundational assumptions about what Communication is, I
would like to hear from you, either through the list or directly.

Many thanks in advance,

Bill Mann


From v.ferreira at GMX.DE  Sat Nov 18 14:51:12 2000
From: v.ferreira at GMX.DE (Vera Ferreira)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:51:12 -0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mirand=EAs?=
Message-ID: <SAT.18.NOV.2000.145112.0000.V.FERREIRA@GMX.DE>


Hi,

I'm doing my doctorate at the University of Munich, in Germany, on the
Portuguese language and its dialects.
Now I'm looking for information about the second offial language in
Portugal, namely Mirandês (its origins, development, and actual state). Does
any of you know where I can find such information?
(Maybe you can send me some by email!! - I would be very pleased.)


Vera Ferreira
Institut für Allgemeine und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Email: v.ferreira at gmx.de
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From bfk0 at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU  Mon Nov 20 20:33:50 2000
From: bfk0 at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU (Barbara F Kelly)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:33:50 -0800
Subject: Call: Workshop on Tibeto-Burman Languages and Linguistics
Message-ID: <MON.20.NOV.2000.123350.0800.BFK0@UMAIL.UCSB.EDU>

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

Workshop on Tibeto-Burman Languages and Linguistics

To be held Friday July 27 & Saturday July 28, 2001
During the Linguistic Society of America 2001 Summer Institute
At the University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

This Workshop will bring together scholars working on all aspects of
Tibeto-Burman languages and linguistics.

The Keynote Speaker for the General Session will be James A. Matisoff,
University of California, Berkeley.  For the General Session, we are seeking
abstracts on all aspects of T-B linguistics.  Field reports and graduate
work are also encouraged.

The Keynote Speaker for the Parasession will be Michael Noonan, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  For the Parasession, we encourage abstracts which
address the use of grammar and connected speech in T-B languages.

Abstracts for both the General and Parasession should be no longer than one
page with one-inch margins using at least an 11-point font. Along with the
abstract, please enclose a separate page specifying the affiliation,
address, and e-mail address of the
author(s). Abstracts may be submitted electronically (as an attached file in
RTF, postscript, PDF or MS Word format).

Abstracts are due by February 1, 2001

For more information and for updates on the Tibeto-Burman Workshop, you can
access the Web Page at:

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/events/tburman

You can also access the LSA Institute Web Page at:

http://www.summer.ucsb.edu

Additionally, you may contact:

Carol Genetti
Department of Linguistics
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-3776
cgenetti at humanitas.ucsb.edu

or

Ellen Bartee at ellenb at umail.ucsb.edu
Kristine Hildebrandt at kahilde at umail.ucsb.edu
Barbara Kelly at bfk0 at umail.ucsb.edu


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From paul at BENJAMINS.COM  Mon Nov 27 20:23:13 2000
From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:23:13 -0500
Subject: New Books: Dressler, Coleman
Message-ID: <MON.27.NOV.2000.152313.0500.PAUL@BENJAMINS.COM>

John Benjamins Publishing announces these new works which touch on
functional linguistics:

Morphological Analysis in Comparison.
Wolfgang U. DRESSLER, Oskar E. PFEIFFER, Markus A. PÖCHTRAGER and John R.
RENNISON (eds.)
University of Vienna
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 201
US & Canada: 1 55619 979 1 / USD 65.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3708 5 / NLG 130.00 (Hardcover)

This volume consists of selected and revised papers from the Seventh
International Morphology Meeting, held in 1996 in Vienna. It presents
advances in morphological theorizing, such as the foundations of
sign-based morphology, the morphology-syntax interface, the boundaries
between compounding and derivation, derivation and inflection, and the
emergence of morphology from premorphological precursors in early
first-language acquisition. The contributions deal with morphological
analyses in various fields of the ever-widening domain of morphology and
its relevance to the lexicon.

The comparative aspect is reflected in the above-mentioned areas, and
through the variety of languages investigated: Indo-European and
non-Indo-European languages of Europe, and Asian, African and American
languages. This breadth allows valuable insights into current problems of
morphological research in America, Western and Eastern Europe.

Contributions by: Pablo Albizu & Luis Eguren; Henry Davis, Lluïsa Gràcia &
Miren Azkarate; Lluïsa Gràcia & Olga Fullana; Marianne Kilani-Schoch &
Wolfgang U. Dressler; Mária Ladányi; Adrienne Lehrer; Joyce McDonough;
Vladimir A. Plungian; Andrew Spencer; Edwin Williams.

Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography.
Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998.
Julie COLEMAN and Christian J. KAY (eds.) University of Leicester /
University of Glasgow
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 194
US & Canada: 1 55619 972 4 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3701 8 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover)

The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in
historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout
on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a
sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on
the remarkable range of electronic resources now available to historical
linguists, notably corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies and thesauruses,
and show the effects that these have had in stimulating new lines of
research or the re-interpretation of previous conclusions. Cognitive
semantics, and especially prototype theory, emerges as a challenging
theoretical framework for much current research. The volume contains a
selection from papers presented at the 10th International Conference on
English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL). They include work on historical
lexicography and an account of the workshop on electronic dictionary
resources, such as the Revised Oxford English Dictionary, which formed the
centrepiece of the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium.

Contributions by:Alan Shelston; Andreas Fischer; Gabriella Rundblad and
David B. Kronenfeld; Päivi Koivisto-Alanko; Christian J. Kay; Julie
Coleman; Maurizio Gotti; Carole P. Biggam; Heli Tissari; Louise Sylvester;
Claire Cowie; R.W. McConchie; Christian Kay.



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From gary.holton at UAF.EDU  Wed Nov 29 02:39:14 2000
From: gary.holton at UAF.EDU (Gary Holton)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:39:14 -0900
Subject: Jobs: Asst Prof at Alaska Native Language Center
Message-ID: <TUE.28.NOV.2000.173914.0900.GARY.HOLTON@UAF.EDU>

ALASKA NATIVE LANGUAGE CENTER
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, tenure-track
PCN NUMBER: 216215

The Alaska Native Language Center seeks applicants for a
tenure-track Assistant Professor of Linguistics specializing
in Alaska Native langauges, to begin Fall 2001.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in Linguistics or a related
field preferred, ABD considered with expectation of
completion within the first year of employment.
Demonstrated field experience with an Alaskan or related
language.

TYPICAL DUTIES:  Fieldwork in an Alaskan language for
purposes of documentation and support of local language
efforts.  The person hired will write grammars, compile
dictionaries and collections of texts in Native language(s);
perform outreach to Native communities and organizations;
and teach in the field of Alaska Native languages in the
classroom or through distance delivery.  Duties will include
coordinating language efforts with statewide and local
institutions such as museums, libraries and cultural
heritage centers; establishing and overseeing contacts with
national and international organizations dealing with Native
languages; writing grant proposals; and assisting with
collecting, archiving, and disseminating written materials
and tapes in and on Alaska Native languages.

APPLICATION:  Please submit a signed University of Alaska
employment application, cover letter addressing interest and
qualifications, photocopies of transcripts of all graduate
coursework, current resume or curriculum vitae, and names,
mailing and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three
professional references to:

        Search Committee
        Alaska Native Language Center
        University of Alaska
        P. O. Box 757680
        Fairbanks, AK 99775-7680
        Phone:  (907) 474-7874
        FAX:  (907) 474-6586
        E-mail:  ffldk at uaf.edu

All materials must be postmarked by the January 15, 2001.

A copy of the UA Employment Application Form can be obtained
from any of the UA Human Resources offices or downloaded
from
http://www.uaf.edu/uafhr/pdf_files/employment_app_0998.pdf.

Person(s) hired by the University of Alaska Fairbanks must
comply with the provisions of the Federal Immigration
Reporting and Control Act of 1986 and are expected to
possess a valid social security card.  The University of
Alaska Fairbanks is an equal employment
opportunity/affirmative action employer and educational
institution.  Your application for employment with the
University of Alaska is subject to public disclosure under
the Alaska Public Records Act.  Women and minorities are
encouraged to apply.  Applicants needing reasonable
accommodation to participate in the application and
screening process should contact the Assistant Director of
(907) 474-6259.


From paul at BENJAMINS.COM  Thu Nov 30 16:03:16 2000
From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:03:16 -0500
Subject: New Books (2) Functional Linguistics: Torres Cacoullos; Fawcett
Message-ID: <THU.30.NOV.2000.110316.0500.PAUL@BENJAMINS.COM>

John Benjamins Publishing announces these two new works:

A Theory of Syntax for Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Robin FAWCETT (Cardiff University)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 206
US & Canada: 1 55619 732 2 / USD 85.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3713 1 / NLG 170.00 (Hardcover)

This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic
Functional Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at
the level of form. It assumes no prior knowledge of SFL, and can therefore
be read as an introduction to current issues within the theory. It will
interest any linguist who takes a functional approach to understanding
language.

Part 1 summarizes the major developments in the forty years of SFL's
history, including alternative approaches within Halliday's own writings
and the emergence of the "Cardiff Grammar" as an alternative to the
"Sydney Grammar". It questions the theoretical status of the 'multiple
structure' representations in Halliday's influential Introduction to
Functional Grammar (1994), demonstrating that Halliday's model
additionally needs an integrating syntax such as that described in Part 2.

Part 2 specifies and discusses the set of 'categories' and 'relationships'
that are needed in a theory of syntax for a modern, computer-implementable
systemic functional grammar. The theoretical concepts are exemplified at
every point, usually from English but occasionally from other languages.
The book is both a critique of Halliday's current theory of syntax and the
presentation of an alternative version of SFL that is equally systemic and
equally functional.

********

Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact.
A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions.
Rena TORRES CACOULLOS (University of Florida)
Studies in Language Companion Series 52
US & Canada:1 55619 938 4 / USD 79.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3055 2 / NLG 158.00 (Hardcover)

This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data
develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive
constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that
grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases.

Formal reduction results in the emergence of auxilliary-plus-gerund
sequences as fused units. Semantically, the constructions originate as
spatial expressions; their grammaticization involves gradual loss of
locative features of meaning. Semantic generalization among parallel
evolutionary paths results in the competition among different
constructions in the domain of progressive aspect. Patterns of synchronic
variation follow from both the retention of meaning differences and the
routinization of frequent collocations, as well as sociolinguistic
factors. Register considerations turn out to be crucial in evaluating the
effects of language contact. Purported changes in Spanish - English
bilingual varieties are largely a feature of oral, informal language
rather than a manifestation of convergence.


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From amnfn at WELL.COM  Wed Nov  1 07:12:48 2000
From: amnfn at WELL.COM (A. Katz)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:12:48 -0800
Subject: No subject
Message-ID: <TUE.31.OCT.2000.231248.0800.AMNFN@WELL.COM>

The Department of English Language, Literature and Linguistics at
Providence University in Shalu, Taiwan, invites applications for the
position of Assistant Professor of Linguistics.  We are looking for a
generalist, able to teach a wide range of graduate and undergraduate
courses in linguistics. Particular research and teaching interests are
open, but we especially invite applications from candidates able to
teach formal approaches to phonology and syntax.  The department's
orientation is functional, so the ideal candidate would adequately
represent the formal approach, but would feel comfortable with the
functionalist outlook as well. Interest in the Chinese language would
be an asset but is not essential; English is the medium of instruction
for many courses in the department.  Applicants should have the Ph.D.
in hand or expected by spring 2001.

Duties of the position will include teaching a wide range of
undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics and some English
language skills courses. Professors are expected to maintain active
research programs, including publishing and attending  conferences.
Additional funding to support such activities is available from a
variety of agencies, such as the National Science Council and the
Ministry of Education.  Faculty  members are also expected to serve
on committees and assist with department-sponsored activities.

Providence University is a private, coeducational, Catholic
institution. It is located in western Taichung County in central
Taiwan.  The Department of English Language, Literature and
Linguistics is the largest department in the University, with over one
thousand undergraduates and several dozen graduate students.  The
department awards the degrees of B.A in English, M.A. in English
literature, and M.A. in linguistics.  At present, there are six
full-time members of the linguistics faculty in the department, of
whom four hold the Ph.D.  The department sponsors a regular colloquium
series in linguistics to promote professional interchange among the
faculty, students, and other linguists in central Taiwan.

Both citizens and non-citizens of the Republic of China are welcome
to apply. Contracts are issued on a year-by-year basis, but this is
a permanent position, and contracts are renewed regularly upon
satisfactory performance.

Applications should include the following:  a letter of application;
graduate school transcript; photocopy of the Ph.D. diploma (if in
hand); a sample of the applicant's research; and three letters of
recommendation. Please send completed application materials to the
following address by December 1, 2000:

Dr. Victoria Rau, Chair
Department of English Language, Literature and Linguistics
Providence University
Shalu, Taichung Hsien
Taiwan 433 R.O.C.

For further information about the position, the department, the
school, or life in the Taichung area, interested parties are welcome
to contact Aya Katz (Asst. Prof. of Linguistics) by e-mail at
katz at ms24.hinet.net.


From kosam at LIBR.UG.EDU.GH  Wed Nov  1 18:34:22 2000
From: kosam at LIBR.UG.EDU.GH (Kweku Osam)
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 18:34:22 GMT
Subject: Acquisition of Phonology
Message-ID: <WED.1.NOV.2000.183422.GMT.KOSAM@LIBR.UG.EDU.GH>

Dear Colleagues,

We have a graduate student in our Department (University of Ghana) who is
examining the acquisition of phonology in children whose parents speak Ewe
as L1.

She'd appreciate leads to relevant studies, especially those that deal with
the acquisition of the phonology of African languages. Of course, leads to
very important theoretical (especially Functional) studies are also very
welcome.

Send all responses to me at: <kosam at libr.ug.edu.gh>

Thanks for your help.


Kweku Osam
Linguistics Department
University of Ghana


From kemmer at RUF.RICE.EDU  Thu Nov  2 15:43:50 2000
From: kemmer at RUF.RICE.EDU (Suzanne E Kemmer)
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:43:50 -0600
Subject: ICLC 2001 Final Call
Message-ID: <THU.2.NOV.2000.094350.0600.KEMMER@RUF.RICE.EDU>

                 ** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS **

  7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2001
                  Santa Barbara, California

                 held in conjunction with the
                  2001 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE,
         sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America

                       JULY 22-27, 2001


PLENARY SPEAKERS

    SANDRA THOMPSON, U.C. Santa Barbara

    ARIE VERHAGEN, University of Leiden

    LAURA JANDA, University of North Carolina

    YOSHIHIKO IKEGAMI, University of Tokyo

    SHERMAN WILCOX, University of New Mexico


FEATURED SPEAKERS

    LEONARD TALMY, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo
    GEORGE LAKOFF, U.C. Berkeley
    RONALD LANGACKER, U.C. San Diego
    GILLES FAUCONNIER, U.C. San Diego
    EVE SWEETSER, U.C. Berkeley
    KNUD LAMBRECHT, University of Texas, Austin
    DAVID TUGGY, Summer Institute of Linguistics
    ADELE GOLDBERG, University of Illinois


This is the final call for abstracts for the GENERAL and
POSTER sessions. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics
are welcome.

 GENERAL SESSIONS - July  23-27
 POSTER SESSION -  July 25
 THEME SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS - July 26 (proposals already
   under review)

TO SUBMIT
 For abstract specifications and reviewing criteria see
 http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/abstracts.html
 All abstracts following the abstract specifications will be
 considered.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 15, 2000

Further Information on ICLC 2001:
 See the ICLC Homepage at http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/

Further information on the International Cognitive
 Linguistics Association (ICLA):
 See the ICLA homepage at http://www.siu.edu/~icla/


From swellsj at BGNET.BGSU.EDU  Fri Nov  3 20:43:59 2000
From: swellsj at BGNET.BGSU.EDU (Sheri Wells Jensen)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:43:59 -0500
Subject: Extraterrestrial linguistics
Message-ID: <FRI.3.NOV.2000.154359.0500.SWELLSJ@BGNET.BGSU.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

This summer, I have the wonderful opportunity to teach a graduate seminar
called "Extraterrestrial Language'.  My plan is to provide a survey of what
linguistics, literature and the natural sciences have to tell us about the
possible structure of a truly alien language.  As you may imagine, I'm
having a wonderful time collecting material from everywhere (science
fiction, the SETI folks, phonetics...)

I don't want to miss  anything important here.  I'd be grateful for any
suggestions for readings anyone might care to pass along.  In particular,
I'm looking for:

1.  An accessible reading in typology  for nonlinguists (we must know
what's terrestrial before thinking about what is extraterrestrial...)

2.  Philosophy of language or cognition readings on what concept that
underly language might be present across species.

3. An intro to what we know about complex animal communication systems on
earth (something about dolphin communication perhaps).

4.  Musings on whether a non-human language would even be learnable by humans.

5. Anything else?  Imaginative suggestions appreciated!

Thanks much, and I'll post a summary.

Best,
Sheri
--------------------
Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen
423 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
(419) 372-8935
swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu


From nrude at UCINET.COM  Sat Nov  4 00:11:43 2000
From: nrude at UCINET.COM (Noel Rude)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:11:43 -0800
Subject: Extraterrestrial linguistics
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.1.20001103152224.00abf700@pops.bgsu.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.3.NOV.2000.161143.0800.NRUDE@UCINET.COM>

Greetings,

    Your request brought to mind -- maverick that I am -- the writings of
today's "Design Theorists".  What they're trying to do is define the
fingerprint (one might say) of a mind, be it human, extraterrestrial, or
God.  Though we may dislike the implications of their efforts (i.e.
demolishing Darwin), their work is significant and -- I believe -- worth
noting in such a class as you are about to teach.  Of particular interest
would be William Dembski's recent, "The Design Inference" (or some such
title), published in the Cambridge Mathematical Series.

    Noel


on 11/3/00 12:43 PM, Sheri Wells Jensen at swellsj at BGNET.BGSU.EDU wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This summer, I have the wonderful opportunity to teach a graduate seminar
> called "Extraterrestrial Language'.  My plan is to provide a survey of what
> linguistics, literature and the natural sciences have to tell us about the
> possible structure of a truly alien language.  As you may imagine, I'm
> having a wonderful time collecting material from everywhere (science
> fiction, the SETI folks, phonetics...)
>
> I don't want to miss  anything important here.  I'd be grateful for any
> suggestions for readings anyone might care to pass along.  In particular,
> I'm looking for:
>
> 1.  An accessible reading in typology  for nonlinguists (we must know
> what's terrestrial before thinking about what is extraterrestrial...)
>
> 2.  Philosophy of language or cognition readings on what concept that
> underly language might be present across species.
>
> 3. An intro to what we know about complex animal communication systems on
> earth (something about dolphin communication perhaps).
>
> 4.  Musings on whether a non-human language would even be learnable by humans.
>
> 5. Anything else?  Imaginative suggestions appreciated!
>
> Thanks much, and I'll post a summary.
>
> Best,
> Sheri
> --------------------
> Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen
> 423 East Hall
> Bowling Green State University
> Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
> (419) 372-8935
> swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu
>
>


From ram at eskimo.com  Sun Nov  5 16:06:08 2000
From: ram at eskimo.com (Rick Morneau)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 09:06:08 -0700
Subject: Extraterrestrial linguistics
Message-ID: <SUN.5.NOV.2000.090608.0700.>

Sheri Wells Jensen <swellsj at BGNET.BGSU.EDU> writes:
>
> This summer, I have the wonderful opportunity to teach a graduate
> seminar called "Extraterrestrial Language' ...[snipped]... I don't
> want to miss anything important here.  I'd be grateful for any
> suggestions for readings anyone might care to pass along.
>

I suggest that you subscribe to the conlang discussion list.  Conlang is
a list for people who enjoy constructing artificial languages, and
several people who subscribe to the list have worked on alien languages.
Many of them also have strong backgrounds in linguistics.

You can subscribe to the list by sending the following one-line message:

  subscribe conlang your-name

to:

  LISTSERV at brownvm.brown.edu


Best regards,

Rick Morneau
http://www.srv.net/~ram


From clayke at DELPHI.COM  Sun Nov  5 22:55:30 2000
From: clayke at DELPHI.COM (Clayton)
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:55:30 -0800
Subject: Extraterrestrial linguistics
Message-ID: <SUN.5.NOV.2000.145530.0800.CLAYKE@DELPHI.COM>

> This summer, I have the wonderful opportunity to teach a graduate seminar
> called "Extraterrestrial Language'.  My plan is to provide a survey of
what
> linguistics, literature and the natural sciences have to tell us about the
> possible structure of a truly alien language.  As you may imagine, I'm
> having a wonderful time collecting material from everywhere (science
> fiction, the SETI folks, phonetics...)

I'd like to suggest taking some readings from "Linguistic Semantics" by
William Frawley.  While probably not as fun as some other readings might be,
it has good coverage of the progressive distinctions that people make with
language.  If you could narrow this down into brief readings I think it
would provide a good foundation for discussing the pragmatics of language.

   - Clayton Gillespie
     e-lectra


From brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM  Mon Nov  6 19:59:57 2000
From: brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM (bruce richman)
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:59:57 GMT
Subject: Beyond Chomsky web page
Message-ID: <MON.6.NOV.2000.195957.GMT.BRUCERICHMAN@HOTMAIL.COM>

I would like to announce the opening of a new web page, which we are calling
"Beyond Chomsky" at the following URL:
        http://elvis.rowan.edu/~bps/beyondChomsky/home.html
   Please tell us what you think of it.  Everyone is invited to submit
material.   Best wishes,   Bruce Richman
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From eitkonen at UTU.FI  Tue Nov  7 14:01:48 2000
From: eitkonen at UTU.FI (Esa Itkonen)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:01:48 +0200
Subject: extraterrestrial ...
Message-ID: <TUE.7.NOV.2000.160148.0200.EITKONEN@UTU.FI>

In his book 'LINCOS. Design of a language for cosmic intercourse'
(Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1960), Hans Freudenthal constructs in a stepwise
fashion a language that might be understood in a zero context. Starting
from the (outdated?) assumption that pictures cannot be sent through space,
he is confined to a strongly ICONIC notion of language: one beep means
'one', two beeps mean 'two' etc. Pauses play the role that parentheses and
brackets play in formal logic: shortness of pauses correlates with
conceptual closeness. Then there are sounds whose meaning just has to be
LEARNED, on the basis of repeated and varied examples. First, 'equality'
and 'plus', thus: 1 ? 1   *    11  . OK, what does mean? Of course, it
means 1 + 1 = 2. Starting from these humble beginnings, Freudenthal arrives
at Relativity Theory. Maybe this is implausible, but (in the absense of
pictures), nothing else works.
Esa     Itkonen


From delancey at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU  Tue Nov  7 19:54:22 2000
From: delancey at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU (Scott Delancey)
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:54:22 -0800
Subject: Functional/Cognitive Job at Oregon
Message-ID: <TUE.7.NOV.2000.115422.0800.DELANCEY@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>

Linguistics Department
University of Oregon
Assistant Professor Position #7891

The Department of linguistics at the University of Oregon seeks
applicants for an Assistant Professor position in
functional/cognitive linguistics, beginning September 15, 2001.  The
successful candidate will have an established commitment to research
in functional/cognitive/typological linguistics, involving work with
primary/empirical data.  Evidence of excellence in teaching will
weigh heavily in consideration of applicants for the position.  We
are especially interested in applicants with research and/or teaching
strengths in one or more of the following:  phonology,
psycholinguistics, discourse and cognition, sociolinguistics, or
anthropological linguistics.

Completed applications will be reviewed beginning December 15, 2000.
Preliminary interviews will be held at the LSA meeting in January.  A
complete application requires a letter of application, Curriculum
Vitae, sample publications, evidence of teaching, and three letters
of recommendation.  Materials should be sent to:

Spike Gildea, Chair
Department of Linguistics
1290 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR  97403-1290
USA

The University of Oregon is an equal opportunity, affirmative action
institution, committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the
American Disabilities Act.

From akg at ALUMNI.INDIANA.EDU  Wed Nov  8 11:19:15 2000
From: akg at ALUMNI.INDIANA.EDU (Andrew J. Koontz-Garboden)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:19:15 0100
Subject: adpositions and typological generalizations
Message-ID: <WED.8.NOV.2000.121915.0100.AKG@ALUMNI.INDIANA.EDU>

Is anyone aware of work that has been done on typological
generalizations regarding the overt expression of semantic categories by
way of adpositions?  Specifically, I'm wondering if it's the case that
if you have an overt lexical item for adpositional category x (i.e.
locative), then you will always have one for category y (i.e.
directional), z (i.e. comitative), etc.  I am led to this question by
the observation that many creole languages are said to have
"all-purpose" adpositions.  So, in short, I wonder if there is some sort
of implicational hierarchy that might be at work, or has been claimed to
be at work.

In a similar, although slightly different way of looking at the
question, Clancy Clements has suggested that maybe the use of overt
adpositions may simply have to do with what info. is recoverable from
the verb itself.

e.g.    (1)  We go 0 home.
        (2)  We drive to home. (?-perhaps there is something with the noun
'home'          too; you can get We go TO the store, We drive TO the store, but
these           are strange with home)
        (3)  We are 0 home.
        (4)  We eat at home.

In these cases (where info is recoverable as in 1 and 3), there might be
a preponderance of zero marking.  From this perspective, what I would be
asking is in which cases is the PP NEVER zero, sometimes zero, most
always zero, always zero.

Andrew Koontz-Garboden

************************************
Andrew J. Koontz-Garboden
Department of Linguistics and
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University / BH848
Bloomington, IN 47405   U.S.A.

agarbode at indiana.edu
http://php.indiana.edu/~agarbode/
************************************


From spike at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU  Tue Nov 14 17:54:19 2000
From: spike at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU (Spike Gildea)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:54:19 -0700
Subject: October LSA Bulletin
Message-ID: <TUE.14.NOV.2000.105419.0700.SPIKE@DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU>

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:20:23 -0500
From: LSA <lsa at lsadc.org>

The October LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA web site:

        http://www.lsadc.org


From himmelma at LINGUISTICS.RUHR-UNI-BOCHUM.DE  Wed Nov 15 10:59:05 2000
From: himmelma at LINGUISTICS.RUHR-UNI-BOCHUM.DE (Nikolaus Himmelmann)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:59:05 +0100
Subject: Semantics & Pragmatics: Prof (C3) at
 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ruhr-Universität?= Bochum, Germany
Message-ID: <WED.15.NOV.2000.115905.0100.HIMMELMA@LINGUISTICS.RUHRUNIBOCHUM.DE>

Areas Required: Semantics and Pragmatics
Other Desired Areas: Text Technology, Computational Lexicography
University or Organization: Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum
Department: Linguistics
State or Province: Germany
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: 15.12.2000
Contact: Prof. Dr. Tibor Kiss tibor at linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Address for Applications:
Dekan der Fakult?t f?r Philologie,
Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum,
D-44780 Bochum
Germany

Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum - Fakult?t fuer Philologie -
Im Sprachwissenschaftlichen Institut ist eine C3-Professur f?r
Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft unter besonderer
Ber?cksichtigung der Semantik und Pragmatik zu besetzen.

Schwerpunkt der Professur ist die sprachvergleichende Behandlung von
Semantik und Pragmatik in Lexikon und Text. Von Bewerberinnen und
Bewerbern wird erwartet, dass sie neben hervorragenden Leistungen in
Forschung und Lehre auf diesen Gebieten auch ?ber die F?higkeit
verf?gen, Grundkurse in allen Bereichen der Allgemeinen und
Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft zu unterrichten. Sie sollten bereit
sein, aktiv bei der Ausgestaltung der neuen gestuften Studieng?nge
(BA/MA) mitzuwirken. Bevorzugt ber?cksichtigt werden solche
Bewerberinnen und Bewerber, die dar?ber hinaus noch besondere
Qualifikationen bez?glich sprach- bzw. informationstechnologischer
Arbeitsgebiete (z. B. Texttechnologie, computergest?tzte Lexikographie)
mitbringen.

Habilitation oder gleichwertige wissenschaftliche Leistungen werden
vorausgesetzt. Die Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum strebt die Erh?hung des
Anteils von Frauen in Forschung und Lehre an und fordert geeignete
Wissenschaftlerinnen ausdr?cklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Die Bewerbungen
geeigneter Schwerbehinderter sind erw?nscht.

Bewerbungen mit den ?blichen Unterlagen und einem Verzeichnis aller
bisher abgehaltenen Lehrveranstaltungen werden bis sp?testens 6 Wochen
nach Erscheinen dieser Anzeige (=15.12.00) erbeten an den Dekan der
Fakult?t fuer
Philologie, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum.

Adresse: Dekan der Fakult?t f?r Philologie, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum,
D-44780 Bochum


From bill_mann at SIL.ORG  Thu Nov 16 01:02:02 2000
From: bill_mann at SIL.ORG (William Mann)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:02:02 -0500
Subject: Assumptions about Communication
Message-ID: <WED.15.NOV.2000.200202.0500.BILLMANN@SIL.ORG>

Dear Funknetters:

I am compiling a collection of the various sorts of assumptions that have
been used in linguistics and other communication sciences concerning the
nature of Communication.

To illustrate, the well known Code Model provides one option.  One version
of the model says that Communication is exchange of ideas, and that those
ideas can be represented as propositions.

Further, exchange of an idea from one person to another takes place by
encoding the proposition(s) in language, transmitting that encoded
linguistic product to another person, and that person decoding the given
language and thus recovering (a copy of) the proposition(s).

Leaving aside the process part, I am trying to identify distinct versions of
the first part, what Communication is.

I am not particularly confining my search to modern ideas alone.

If you know of other foundational assumptions about what Communication is, I
would like to hear from you, either through the list or directly.

Many thanks in advance,

Bill Mann


From v.ferreira at GMX.DE  Sat Nov 18 14:51:12 2000
From: v.ferreira at GMX.DE (Vera Ferreira)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:51:12 -0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mirand=EAs?=
Message-ID: <SAT.18.NOV.2000.145112.0000.V.FERREIRA@GMX.DE>


Hi,

I'm doing my doctorate at the University of Munich, in Germany, on the
Portuguese language and its dialects.
Now I'm looking for information about the second offial language in
Portugal, namely Mirand?s (its origins, development, and actual state). Does
any of you know where I can find such information?
(Maybe you can send me some by email!! - I would be very pleased.)


Vera Ferreira
Institut f?r Allgemeine und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen
Email: v.ferreira at gmx.de
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From bfk0 at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU  Mon Nov 20 20:33:50 2000
From: bfk0 at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU (Barbara F Kelly)
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:33:50 -0800
Subject: Call: Workshop on Tibeto-Burman Languages and Linguistics
Message-ID: <MON.20.NOV.2000.123350.0800.BFK0@UMAIL.UCSB.EDU>

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

Workshop on Tibeto-Burman Languages and Linguistics

To be held Friday July 27 & Saturday July 28, 2001
During the Linguistic Society of America 2001 Summer Institute
At the University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

This Workshop will bring together scholars working on all aspects of
Tibeto-Burman languages and linguistics.

The Keynote Speaker for the General Session will be James A. Matisoff,
University of California, Berkeley.  For the General Session, we are seeking
abstracts on all aspects of T-B linguistics.  Field reports and graduate
work are also encouraged.

The Keynote Speaker for the Parasession will be Michael Noonan, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  For the Parasession, we encourage abstracts which
address the use of grammar and connected speech in T-B languages.

Abstracts for both the General and Parasession should be no longer than one
page with one-inch margins using at least an 11-point font. Along with the
abstract, please enclose a separate page specifying the affiliation,
address, and e-mail address of the
author(s). Abstracts may be submitted electronically (as an attached file in
RTF, postscript, PDF or MS Word format).

Abstracts are due by February 1, 2001

For more information and for updates on the Tibeto-Burman Workshop, you can
access the Web Page at:

http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/events/tburman

You can also access the LSA Institute Web Page at:

http://www.summer.ucsb.edu

Additionally, you may contact:

Carol Genetti
Department of Linguistics
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-3776
cgenetti at humanitas.ucsb.edu

or

Ellen Bartee at ellenb at umail.ucsb.edu
Kristine Hildebrandt at kahilde at umail.ucsb.edu
Barbara Kelly at bfk0 at umail.ucsb.edu


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From paul at BENJAMINS.COM  Mon Nov 27 20:23:13 2000
From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau)
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:23:13 -0500
Subject: New Books: Dressler, Coleman
Message-ID: <MON.27.NOV.2000.152313.0500.PAUL@BENJAMINS.COM>

John Benjamins Publishing announces these new works which touch on
functional linguistics:

Morphological Analysis in Comparison.
Wolfgang U. DRESSLER, Oskar E. PFEIFFER, Markus A. P?CHTRAGER and John R.
RENNISON (eds.)
University of Vienna
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 201
US & Canada: 1 55619 979 1 / USD 65.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3708 5 / NLG 130.00 (Hardcover)

This volume consists of selected and revised papers from the Seventh
International Morphology Meeting, held in 1996 in Vienna. It presents
advances in morphological theorizing, such as the foundations of
sign-based morphology, the morphology-syntax interface, the boundaries
between compounding and derivation, derivation and inflection, and the
emergence of morphology from premorphological precursors in early
first-language acquisition. The contributions deal with morphological
analyses in various fields of the ever-widening domain of morphology and
its relevance to the lexicon.

The comparative aspect is reflected in the above-mentioned areas, and
through the variety of languages investigated: Indo-European and
non-Indo-European languages of Europe, and Asian, African and American
languages. This breadth allows valuable insights into current problems of
morphological research in America, Western and Eastern Europe.

Contributions by: Pablo Albizu & Luis Eguren; Henry Davis, Llu?sa Gr?cia &
Miren Azkarate; Llu?sa Gr?cia & Olga Fullana; Marianne Kilani-Schoch &
Wolfgang U. Dressler; M?ria Lad?nyi; Adrienne Lehrer; Joyce McDonough;
Vladimir A. Plungian; Andrew Spencer; Edwin Williams.

Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography.
Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998.
Julie COLEMAN and Christian J. KAY (eds.) University of Leicester /
University of Glasgow
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 194
US & Canada: 1 55619 972 4 / USD 75.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3701 8 / NLG 150.00 (Hardcover)

The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in
historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout
on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a
sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on
the remarkable range of electronic resources now available to historical
linguists, notably corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies and thesauruses,
and show the effects that these have had in stimulating new lines of
research or the re-interpretation of previous conclusions. Cognitive
semantics, and especially prototype theory, emerges as a challenging
theoretical framework for much current research. The volume contains a
selection from papers presented at the 10th International Conference on
English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL). They include work on historical
lexicography and an account of the workshop on electronic dictionary
resources, such as the Revised Oxford English Dictionary, which formed the
centrepiece of the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium.

Contributions by:Alan Shelston; Andreas Fischer; Gabriella Rundblad and
David B. Kronenfeld; P?ivi Koivisto-Alanko; Christian J. Kay; Julie
Coleman; Maurizio Gotti; Carole P. Biggam; Heli Tissari; Louise Sylvester;
Claire Cowie; R.W. McConchie; Christian Kay.



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From gary.holton at UAF.EDU  Wed Nov 29 02:39:14 2000
From: gary.holton at UAF.EDU (Gary Holton)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:39:14 -0900
Subject: Jobs: Asst Prof at Alaska Native Language Center
Message-ID: <TUE.28.NOV.2000.173914.0900.GARY.HOLTON@UAF.EDU>

ALASKA NATIVE LANGUAGE CENTER
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, tenure-track
PCN NUMBER: 216215

The Alaska Native Language Center seeks applicants for a
tenure-track Assistant Professor of Linguistics specializing
in Alaska Native langauges, to begin Fall 2001.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Ph.D. in Linguistics or a related
field preferred, ABD considered with expectation of
completion within the first year of employment.
Demonstrated field experience with an Alaskan or related
language.

TYPICAL DUTIES:  Fieldwork in an Alaskan language for
purposes of documentation and support of local language
efforts.  The person hired will write grammars, compile
dictionaries and collections of texts in Native language(s);
perform outreach to Native communities and organizations;
and teach in the field of Alaska Native languages in the
classroom or through distance delivery.  Duties will include
coordinating language efforts with statewide and local
institutions such as museums, libraries and cultural
heritage centers; establishing and overseeing contacts with
national and international organizations dealing with Native
languages; writing grant proposals; and assisting with
collecting, archiving, and disseminating written materials
and tapes in and on Alaska Native languages.

APPLICATION:  Please submit a signed University of Alaska
employment application, cover letter addressing interest and
qualifications, photocopies of transcripts of all graduate
coursework, current resume or curriculum vitae, and names,
mailing and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three
professional references to:

        Search Committee
        Alaska Native Language Center
        University of Alaska
        P. O. Box 757680
        Fairbanks, AK 99775-7680
        Phone:  (907) 474-7874
        FAX:  (907) 474-6586
        E-mail:  ffldk at uaf.edu

All materials must be postmarked by the January 15, 2001.

A copy of the UA Employment Application Form can be obtained
from any of the UA Human Resources offices or downloaded
from
http://www.uaf.edu/uafhr/pdf_files/employment_app_0998.pdf.

Person(s) hired by the University of Alaska Fairbanks must
comply with the provisions of the Federal Immigration
Reporting and Control Act of 1986 and are expected to
possess a valid social security card.  The University of
Alaska Fairbanks is an equal employment
opportunity/affirmative action employer and educational
institution.  Your application for employment with the
University of Alaska is subject to public disclosure under
the Alaska Public Records Act.  Women and minorities are
encouraged to apply.  Applicants needing reasonable
accommodation to participate in the application and
screening process should contact the Assistant Director of
(907) 474-6259.


From paul at BENJAMINS.COM  Thu Nov 30 16:03:16 2000
From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:03:16 -0500
Subject: New Books (2) Functional Linguistics: Torres Cacoullos; Fawcett
Message-ID: <THU.30.NOV.2000.110316.0500.PAUL@BENJAMINS.COM>

John Benjamins Publishing announces these two new works:

A Theory of Syntax for Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Robin FAWCETT (Cardiff University)
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 206
US & Canada: 1 55619 732 2 / USD 85.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3713 1 / NLG 170.00 (Hardcover)

This book describes and evaluates alternative approaches within Systemic
Functional Linguistics (SFL) to representing the structure of language at
the level of form. It assumes no prior knowledge of SFL, and can therefore
be read as an introduction to current issues within the theory. It will
interest any linguist who takes a functional approach to understanding
language.

Part 1 summarizes the major developments in the forty years of SFL's
history, including alternative approaches within Halliday's own writings
and the emergence of the "Cardiff Grammar" as an alternative to the
"Sydney Grammar". It questions the theoretical status of the 'multiple
structure' representations in Halliday's influential Introduction to
Functional Grammar (1994), demonstrating that Halliday's model
additionally needs an integrating syntax such as that described in Part 2.

Part 2 specifies and discusses the set of 'categories' and 'relationships'
that are needed in a theory of syntax for a modern, computer-implementable
systemic functional grammar. The theoretical concepts are exemplified at
every point, usually from English but occasionally from other languages.
The book is both a critique of Halliday's current theory of syntax and the
presentation of an alternative version of SFL that is equally systemic and
equally functional.

********

Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact.
A study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions.
Rena TORRES CACOULLOS (University of Florida)
Studies in Language Companion Series 52
US & Canada:1 55619 938 4 / USD 79.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3055 2 / NLG 158.00 (Hardcover)

This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data
develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive
constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that
grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases.

Formal reduction results in the emergence of auxilliary-plus-gerund
sequences as fused units. Semantically, the constructions originate as
spatial expressions; their grammaticization involves gradual loss of
locative features of meaning. Semantic generalization among parallel
evolutionary paths results in the competition among different
constructions in the domain of progressive aspect. Patterns of synchronic
variation follow from both the retention of meaning differences and the
routinization of frequent collocations, as well as sociolinguistic
factors. Register considerations turn out to be crucial in evaluating the
effects of language contact. Purported changes in Spanish - English
bilingual varieties are largely a feature of oral, informal language
rather than a manifestation of convergence.


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