From edith at CSD.UWM.EDU Tue Sep 5 15:21:08 2000 From: edith at CSD.UWM.EDU (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:21:08 -0500 Subject: "exceptional adjectival phrases" Message-ID: This is an update on the discussion regarding adjectival phrases such as "this good", "so good" etc., which turned out to be exceptional both in their selectional constraints and their ordering relative to the noun they pertain to. Following my last summary of August 14, there were three responses. The one from Bingfu Lu came directly to FUNKNET. A response by Jason Merchant came to my own address and, with Jason's permission, I subsequently posted it on FUNKNET. The third response was from Ad Foolen of Nijmegen and he asked me to summarize it for FUNKNET rather than posting it. Ad made two points. One had to do with the Brabant data that Jason Merchant had provided. Ad Foolen is a native speaker of this dialect of Dutch and he confirms Jason's point that "hoe" 'how' can stand before the indefinite article, with the latter cliticized to the former. This, he says, is similar to the standard Dutch expression "zo'n" 'such a'. He points out that the possibilities of this construction in Brabant are a little broader than in standard Dutch and German but less broad than English, which is, he suggests, a nice case of micro-variation. The second point has to do with the function of this construction. Ad does not think that it has to do with referentiality. Instead, he tentatively proposes that the markedness of the construction makes it appropriate for expressivity and questioning. However, he says more research needs to be done on this point. Edith M. ************************************************************************ Edith A. Moravcsik Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 USA E-mail: edith at uwm.edu Telephone: (414) 229-6794 /office/ (414) 332-0141 /home/ Fax: (414) 229-2741 From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Tue Sep 12 17:57:28 2000 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:57:28 -0700 Subject: 10th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Message-ID: 10TH JAPANESE/KOREAN LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE OCTOBER 13-15, 2000 UCLA Registration form and Information regarding transportation and hotels can be found at: . Send all inquiries to <10thj_k at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU> << PROGRAM >> ==================================================== FRIDAY MORNING 8:45 Registration 9:45 Welcome and Announcements by Noriko Akatsuka, UCLA 10:00 Ken Hiraiwa, MIT "Nominative-genitive conversion revisited" 10:30 Yuki Matsuda, U of Washington/U of Memphis "Event sensitivity of head-internal relatives in Japanese" 11:00 Break 11:10 Kyoko Ohara, Keio University, Japan "From relativization to clause-linkage: a case of Japanese internally headed relativization" 11:40 Kimiko Nakanishi, University of Pennsylvania "Prosody and Information Structure in Japanese: a Case Study of Topic Marker wa " 12:10 TIMOTHY VANCE, University of Arizona (TBA) 12:40 LUNCH BREAK FRIDAY AFTERNOON 1:40 Jongsup Jun, Brandeis University "Semantic co-composition and coercion of the Korean Substantival Nouns- ha(ta) construction: Evidence for the generative lexicon" 2:10 Thomas Gammerschlag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany "Deriving argument structure in Japanese verb-verb compounds" 2:40 KATSUHIKO MOMOI, Netscape, USA "Communications Software Internationalization and National Character Sets: supporting Japanese and Korean on the Internet" 3:10 BREAK 3:20 Byung-jin Lim, Indiana University "Local and Global Patterns of Temporal Compensations in Korean" 3:50 Sang-cheol Ahn, Kyung Hee University, Korea "A dispersion account on Middle Korean vowel shifts" 4:20 Sung-Ock Sohn & Mee-Jeong Park, UCLA "Discourse, grammaticalization, and intonation: An analysis of -ketun in Korean" 4:50 BREAK 5:00 SUK JIN CHANG, Seoul National University, Korea "Information Unpackaging: A Constraint-based Unified Grammar Approach" 5:30 Kaoru Ohta, University of Washington "Kakari-musubi and focus structure" 6:00 Wolfram Schaffar, Tuebingen University and The National Language Research Institute, Japan "Kakari-musubi, no-da constructions and how grammaticalization theory meets formal syntax" 6:30 WILLIAM O'GRADY, U of Hawaii TBA ===================================================== SATURDAY MORNING 8:30 Registration 9:00 Yu Hirata, The Ohio State University "Genitive tu in Old Japanese and Grammaticalization of Genitive Particles" 9:30 Minju Kim, UCLA "On the Emergence of Korean Concessive myense: Focusing on the Grammaticalization of se 10:00 NAOMI MCGLOIN, University of Wisconsin at Madison "Markers of Epistemic vs. Affective Stances: Desyoo vs. Zyanai" 10:30 BREAK 10:40 Soohee Kim & Emily Curtis, University of Washington "Phonetic duration of English /s/ and its borrowing in Korean" 11:10 Stuart Davis & Isao Ueda, Indiana University & Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan "Mora augmentation in Shizuoka Japanese" 11:40 Emily Curtis, University of Washington "Moreic structure and segment duration in Korean" 12:10 BREAK 12:15 S. -Y. KURODA, University of California, San Diego "Rendaku and some related issues in Japanese phonology" 1:15 LUNCH BREAK SATURDAY AFTERNOON 2:15 SUSUMU KUNO, Harvard University "Ga/O Alternation, Verb Raising and Scrambling" 2:45 BREAK ===================================================== PARALLEL SESSIONS (SESSION A) 2:55 Shin sook Kim, "Intervention effects are focus effects" 3:25 Kisuk Lee & Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware "Intervention effects are topic effects: Wh- questions in Japanese and Korean" 3:55 BREAK 4:05 Sae-yeon Cho & Han-gyu Lee, Honam University & Kyung Hee University, Korea "Syntactic and pragmatic properties of the NPI yegan in Korean" 4:35 Aeryong Kim, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan "Two positions of Korean negation" 6:05 Jieun Jo & Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea "A removal type of negative predicates in Korean and Japanese" ===================================================== (SESSION B) 2:55 Edson T. Miyamoto & Takahasi, University of Tokyo, Japan "The processing of wh-phrases and interrogative complementizers in Japanese" 3:25 Mitsuaki Shimojo, SUNY at Buffalo "A cognitive account of extraction asymmetry in Japanese relative clauses" 3:55 BREAK 4:05 Haruko Cook, University of Hawaii "The Social Meanings of the Japanese Plain Form" 4:35 Hiroko Furo, Illinois Wesleyan University "Aizuchi and Listener Responses in Japanese" 6:05 Emi Morita, UCLA "Authorship of Collaborative Completion of Sentences in Japanese" ===================================================== 6:35 BREAK 6:40 Masayoshi Shibatani, Kobe University, Japan & Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, USA "Japanese and Korean causatives revisited" 7:10 BREAK 7:30-9:30 BANQUET HAIRINE DIFFLOTH, Cornell U, USA ===================================================== SUNDAY MORNING 8:30 Registration 9:00 Kyu-hyun Kim & Kyung-Hee Suh, Kyung Hee University & Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea "Referential practice in Korean conversation: Prospective indexicals as resources for organizing interaction" 9:30 Sungchool Im, SUNY at Buffalo "Characteristic Lexicalization Patterns of Motion Events in Korean" 10:00 YOKO SUGIOKA, Keio University, Japan "Incorporation vs. modification in Japanese deverbal compounds" 10:30 BREAK 10:40 J.R. Hayashishita, University of Southern California "The scope interaction between a QP and negation" 11:10 Ai Kawazoe, Kyushu University, Japan "On the nature of distributive readings in Japanese" 11:40 WESLEY JOCOBSEN, Harvard U, USA On the interaction of temporal and modal meaning in Japanese conditionals 12:10 LUNCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON 1:10 Reijirou Shibasaki, University of California at Santa Barbara "On Sound symbolism in Japanese and Korean" 1:40 Kaoru Horie & Kaori Taira, Tohoku University, Japan "Where Korean and Japanese Differ: Modality vs. Discourse Modality" 2:10 BREAK 2:20 CHUNGMIN LEE, Seoul National University "Negative Polarity in Korean and Japanese" 2:50 Sunggeun Cho & Xuan Zhou, SUNY at Stony Brook "The interpretations of Wh- elements in conjoined Wh- question" 3:20 Ae-ryung Kim & Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Kanda University of International Studies & Yokohama National University, Japan "Opacity in Japanese and Korean" 3:50 BREAK 4:00 Susan Strauss, Hanae Katayama & Jong-oh Eun, Pennsylvania State University "Grammar, Cognition, and Procedure as Reflected in Route Directions in Japanese, Korean, and American English" 4:30 Maeri Megumi, The University of Iowa (until July 2000) "The switching between desu/masu form and plain form: from the perspective of turn construction" 5:00 SEIICHI MAKINO, Princeton University "When does communication turn mentally inward? -- a case study of Japanese fomal-to-infomral switching" 5:30 Closing remarks From kemmer at RUF.RICE.EDU Tue Sep 12 19:33:22 2000 From: kemmer at RUF.RICE.EDU (Suzanne E Kemmer) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:33:22 -0500 Subject: Call for Papers: Int. Cognitive Linguistics 2001 Message-ID: ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** The 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2001 Santa Barbara, California To be held in conjunction with the 2001 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America July 22-27, 2001 Abstracts are solicited for papers to be presented at the ICLC 2001 in Santa Barbara. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. General Sessions Papers on all cognitive topics will be scheduled in parallel conference sessions July 23-27. Poster Session The Poster Session will take place on July 25. Theme Sessions Theme sessions (a.k.a. workshops) on particular topics will take place on July 26. For proposals see http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/sessions.html For abstract specifications and reviewing criteria see http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/abstracts.html Submission Deadlines General and Poster Sessions: November 15, 2000 Theme Session Proposals (with accompanying abstracts): October 1, 2000 Further Information on ICLC 2001 See the Conference Homepage at http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/ Further information on the International Cognitive Linguistics Association See the ICLA homepage at http://www.siu.edu/~icla/ From Ted.Sanders at LET.UU.NL Fri Sep 15 13:19:10 2000 From: Ted.Sanders at LET.UU.NL (Ted Sanders) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:19:10 +0200 Subject: graduate positions and postdoc position Utrecht Message-ID: Job Announcement: 12 positions in Linguistics Dear All, The Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS has the following open positions: 3 graduate positions in different areas of linguistics (among which several projects on 'Language in use') 1 postdoctoral researcher (Sentence and discourse processing) 3 graduate positions in psycholinguistics (Comparative Psycholinguistics) 2 postdoctoral researchers in psycholinguistics (Comparative Psycholinguistics) 1 graduate position in psycholinguistics ("Temporal processing and the production of phonological contrasts) 1 graduate student in phonology ("The Phonology of Dutch /r/") 1 graduate student in pragmatics ("The Spoken Questionnaire") For further information, please visit our web-site: http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/general/vacpos.htm ------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Sanders Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS / Opleidingsinstituut Nederlands Universiteit Utrecht Trans 10 NL - 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands e-mail: Ted.Sanders at let.uu.nl Tel. +31 30 253 60 80 / 80 00 Fax + 31 30 253 60 00. =========================================================== From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Mon Sep 25 08:00:41 2000 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 01:00:41 -0700 Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conf (final program) Message-ID: 10th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Program October 13 - 15, 2000 UCLA - Send all messages to: <10thj_k at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU.>. - Please pre-registration by October 2, 2000. All information can be found at: *************** PROGRAM *********************** * Names in upper case are the 13 invited speakers FRIDAY, October 13: Morning Session 8:00-8:30 BREAKFAST (coffee & pastry) 8:45 Registration 9:45 Welcome and Announcements by Noriko Akatsuka, UCLA 10:00 Ken Hiraiwa, MIT "Nominative-genitive conversion revisited" 10:30 Yuki Matsuda, U of Washington/U of Memphis "Event sensitivity of head-internal relatives in Japanese" 11:00 Break 11:10 Kyoko Ohara, Keio University, Japan "From relativization to clause-linkage: a case of Japanese internally headed relativization" 11:40 Kimiko Nakanishi, University of Pennsylvania "Prosody and Information Structure in Japanese: a Case Study of Topic Marker wa " 12:10 TIMOTHY VANCE, University of Arizona "Semantic Bifurcation in Japanese Compound Verbs" 12:40 LUNCH BREAK FRIDAY, October 13: Afternoon Session 1:40 Jongsup Jun, Brandeis University "Semantic co-composition and coercion of the Korean Substantival Nouns- ha(ta) construction: Evidence for the generative lexicon" 2:10 Thomas Gammerschlag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany "Deriving argument structure in Japanese verb-verb compounds" 2:40 WESLEY JACOBSEN, Harvard University "On the interaction of temporal and modal meaning in Japanese conditionals" 3:10 BREAK 3:20 Byung-jin Lim, Indiana University "Local and Global Patterns of Temporal Compensations in Korean" 3:50 Reijirou Shibasaki, University of California at Santa Barbara "On Sound symbolism in Japanese and Korean" 4:20 Sung-Ock Sohn & Mee-Jeong Park, UCLA "Discourse, grammaticalization, and intonation: An analysis of -ketun in Korean" 4:50 BREAK 5:00 SUK JIN CHANG, Seoul National University, Korea "Information Unpackaging: A Constraint-based Unified Grammar Approach" 5:30 Kaoru Ohta, University of Washington "Kakari-musubi and focus structure" 6:00 Wolfram Schaffar, Tuebingen University and The National Language Research Institute, Japan "Kakari-musubi, no-da constructions and how grammaticalization theory meets formal syntax" 6:30 WILLIAM O'GRADY, University of Hawaii "The Processing of Relative Clauses in Korean, Japanese and English" ====================================================== SATURDAY, October 14: Morning Session 8:00-8:30 BREAKFAST (coffee & pastry) 8:30 Registration 9:00 Yu Hirata, The Ohio State University "Genitive tu in Old Japanese and Grammaticalization of Genitive Particles" 9:30 Minju Kim, UCLA "On the Emergence of Korean Concessive myense: Focusing on the Grammaticalization of se" 10:00 NAOMI MCGLOIN, University of Wisconsin at Madison "Markers of Epistemic vs. Affective Stances: Desyoo vs. Zyanai" 10:30 BREAK 10:40 Soohee Kim & Emily Curtis, University of Washington "Phonetic duration of English /s/ and its borrowing in Korean" 11:10 Stuart Davis & Isao Ueda, Indiana University & Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan "Mora augmentation in Shizuoka Japanese" 11:40 Emily Curtis, University of Washington "Moreic structure and segment duration in Korean" 12:10 BREAK 12:15 S. -Y. KURODA, University of California at San Diego "Rendaku and some related issues in Japanese phonology" 12:45 LUNCH BREAK SATURDAY, October 14: Afternoon Session 2:15 SUSUMU KUNO, Harvard University "Ga/O Alternation, Verb Raising and Scrambling" 2:45 BREAK ====================================================== PARALLEL SESSIONS (SESSION A) 2:55 Shin sook Kim, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany "Intervention effects are focus effects" 3:25 Kisuk Lee & Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware "Intervention effects are topic effects: Wh- questions in Japanese and Korean" 3:55 BREAK 4:05 Sunggeun Cho & Xuan Zhou, MIT & SUNY at Stony Brook "The interpretations of Wh- elements in conjoined Wh- question" 4:35 Aeryong Kim, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan "Two positions of Korean negation" 6:05 Jieun Jo & Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea "A removal type of negative predicates in Korean and Japanese" ====================================================== (SESSION B) 2:55 Edson T. Miyamoto & Shoici Takahashi, University of Tokyo & Kanda University of International Studies, Japan "The processing of wh-phrases and interrogative complementizers in Japanese" 3:25 Mitsuaki Shimojo, SUNY at Buffalo "A cognitive account of extraction asymmetry in Japanese relative clauses" 3:55 BREAK 4:05 Haruko Cook, University of Hawaii "The Social Meanings of the Japanese Plain Form" 4:35 Hiroko Furo, Illinois Wesleyan University "Aizuchi and Listener Responses in Japanese" 6:05 Emi Morita, UCLA "Authorship of Collaborative Completion of Sentences in Japanese" ====================================================== 6:35 BREAK 6:40 MASAYOSHI SHIBATANI, Kobe University, Japan & Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, USA "Japanese and Korean causatives revisited" 7:10 BREAK 7:30-9:30 BANQUET HAIRINE DIFFLOTH, Cornell University TBA ====================================================== SUNDAY, October 15: Morning Session 8:00-8:30 BREAKFAST (coffee & pastry) 8:30 Registration 9:00 Kyu-hyun Kim & Kyung-Hee Suh, Kyung Hee University & Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea "Referential practice in Korean conversation: Prospective indexicals as resources for organizing interaction" 9:30 Sungchool Im, SUNY at Buffalo "Characteristic Lexicalization Patterns of Motion Events in Korean" 10:00 YOKO SUGIOKA, Keio University, Japan "Incorporation vs. modification in Japanese deverbal compounds" 10:30 BREAK 10:40 J.R. Hayashishita, University of Southern California "The scope interaction between a QP and negation" 11:10 Ai Kawazoe, Kyushu University, Japan "On the nature of distributive readings in Japanese" 11:40 KATSUHIKO MOMOI, Netscape, USA "Communications Software Internationalization and National Character Sets: supporting Japanese and Korean on the Internet" 12:10 LUNCH SUNDAY, October 15: Afternoon Session 1:10 Sang-cheol Ahn, Kyung Hee University, Korea "A dispersion account on Middle Korean vowel shifts" 1:40 Kaoru Horie & Kaori Taira, Tohoku University, Japan "Where Korean and Japanese Differ: Modality vs. Discourse Modality" 2:10 BREAK 2:20 CHUNGMIN LEE, Seoul National University, Korea "Negative Polarity in Korean and Japanese" 2:50 Sae-yeon Cho & Han-gyu Lee, Honam University & Kyung Hee University, Korea "Syntactic and pragmatic properties of the NPI yegan in Korean" 3:20 Ae-ryung Kim & Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Kanda University of International Studies & Indiana U/ Yokohama National U, Japan "Opacity in Japanese and Korean" 3:50 BREAK 4:00 Susan Strauss, Hanae Katayama & Jong-oh Eun, Pennsylvania State University "Grammar, Cognition, and Procedure as Reflected in Route Directions in Japanese, Korean, and American English" 4:30 Maeri Megumi, University of Southern California "The switching between desu/masu form and plain form: from the perspective of turn construction" 5:00 SEIICHI MAKINO, Princeton University "When does communication turn mentally inward? -- a case study of Japanese formal-to-informal switching" 5:30 Closing remarks From Bert.Peeters at UTAS.EDU.AU Tue Sep 26 01:11:19 2000 From: Bert.Peeters at UTAS.EDU.AU (Bert Peeters) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:11:19 +1000 Subject: The Lexicon-Encyclopedia Interface Message-ID: Now available in print... a topic that has a lot of cognitive linguists talking. THE LEXICON - ENCYCLOPEDIA INTERFACE Edited by B. Peeters, University of Tasmania Volume 5 in the Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface Book Series ISBN: 0-08-043591-2 * Hardbound * 508 pages * NLG 201.00 (euro 91.21) USD 102.00 Questions about the exact nature of linguistic as opposed to non-linguistic knowledge have been asked for as long as humans have studied language, be it as linguists, philosophers, psychologists, language teachers, semioticians or cognitive scientists. This distinction has been maintained and defended by some, attacked and abandoned by others. Through specially commissioned papers for this, the fifth volume in the CRiSPI series, contributors argue both for and against the distinction between lexical knowledge and encyclopedic knowledge and debate how it should be drawn. AUDIENCE: Interdisciplinary, but particularly recommended for linguists involved in lexical semantics. CONTENTS: Bert Peeters (pp. 1-52) Setting the scene: Some recent milestones in the lexicon-encyclopedia debate I. ASSESSMENTS Anne Reboul (pp. 55-95) Words, concepts, mental representations and other biological categories Carlos Inchaurralde (pp. 97-114) Lexicopedia John Taylor (pp. 115-141) Approaches to word meaning: The network model (Langacker) and the two-level model (Bierwisch) in comparison II. UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING Pierre Larrivée (pp. 145-167) Linguistic meaning, knowledge, and utterance interpretation Keith Allan (pp. 169-217) Quantity implicatures and the lexicon William Croft (pp. 219-256) The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies III. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS Richard Hudson & Jasper Holmes (pp. 259-290) Re-cycling in the encyclopedia Eva Born-Rauchenecker (pp. 291-316) Towards an operationalisation of the lexicon-encyclopedia distinction: A case study in the description of verbal meanings in Russian M. Lynne Murphy (pp. 317-348) Knowledge of words versus knowledge about words: The conceptual basis of lexical relations Heidi Harley & Rolf Noyer (pp. 349-374) Formal versus encyclopedic properties of vocabulary: Evidence from nominalisations IV. GRAMMAR Joseph Hilferty (pp. 377-392) Grammar, the lexicon, and encyclopedic knowledge: Is there such a thing as informational encapsulation? Rob Pensalfini (pp. 393-431) Encyclopedia-lexicon distinctions in Jingulu grammar V. FURTHER AFIELD Susanne Feigenbaum (pp. 435-461) Lexical and encyclopedic knowledge in an ab initio German reading course Victor Raskin, Salvatore Attardo & Donalee H. Attardo (pp. 463-486) Augmenting linguistic semantics descriptions for NLP: Lexical knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, event structure Author index (pp. 487-491) Subject index (pp. 493-498) Language index (p. 499) REVIEW: 'A trenchant discussion of what is now felt as one of the most exciting problems of natural language semantics and pragmatics, namely the possibility of separating questions of meaning from questions of factual knowledge.' Jaroslav Peregrin, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic For further information and full contents listings for all volumes in the series visit the website at: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/series/crispi ************************ ELSEVIER SCIENCE Further details and ordering information for all Elsevier Science's Linguistics titles are available via our website at: http://www.elsevier.com or by contacting your nearest Elsevier Science Office (numbers below): Customers in the US and Canada: Tel: (+1) 212 6333730; E-mail: usinfo-f at elsevier.com Customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa: Tel: (+31) 20485 3757; E-mail: nlinfo-f at elsevier.nl Customers in Japan: Tel: (+81) 3 5561 5033; E-mail: info at elsevier.co.jp Customers in Asia and Australasia: Tel: (+65) 434 3727; E-mail: asiainfo at elsevier.com.sg Customers in Latin America: Tel: (+55) 21 509 5340; E-mail: elsevier at campus.com.br Alternatively contact: c.dewhurst at elsevier.co.uk -- Dr Bert Peeters School of English & European Languages and Literatures University of Tasmania GPO Box 252-82 Hobart TAS 7001 Australia Tel.: +61 (0)3 6226 2344 Fax.: +61 (0)3 6226 7631 E-mail: Bert.Peeters at utas.edu.au http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/efgj/french/index.htm http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/efgj/french/staff/peeters/peeters.htm From Degand at EXCO.UCL.AC.BE Fri Sep 29 12:08:26 2000 From: Degand at EXCO.UCL.AC.BE (Liesbeth Degand) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:08:26 +0200 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2001 Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** MAD'01: 4th International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse Improving text: From text structure to text type 5-8 August 2001, Ittre (Belgium) **************************************************************************** The organisers of "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2001" (MAD'01) invite submissions for this workshop on (psycho)linguistic research of text quality. GOAL AND TOPICS: The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines, in particular theoretical and applied linguists, computational linguists, and psycholinguists, to exchange information and learn from each other on a common topic of investigation: text and discourse. More specifically, the question to be addressed is "What makes a good text good?" Text quality depends upon many factors and can in itself be considered a complex concept (what is good for one aspect of the text need not benefit other aspects). In order to make real advances in the domains of text quality and document design, it is necessary to combine results from both theoretical (linguistics) and experimental (psychology) research. We encourage submissions related to but not limited to the following topics: READER PROPERTIES - How does the reader's background knowledge interact with the structure and wording of the document? - What is the impact of the age, socio-cultural background, educational level of the reader on the use of textual properties? TEXT TYPE/GENRE PROPERTIES - Which text types come with which textual properties? - What is the impact of genre on text processing? - Do similar text types have similar properties in different languages? - What is the role of the text type on acquiring writing proficiency? MACROSTRUCTURE - How can a document's macrostructure be put to use in areas like text summarisation and in predicting memory for a text? - How is the macrostructure signalled linguistically? - What is the relation between a text's macrostructure and the flow of information in a document? MICROSTRUCTURE - How is the microstructure of a text signalled linguistically? - What kind of coherence relations are there? - How can they be grouped? - How are they acquired, in first language and in second language learning? PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS - What is the impact of poorly written documents on such topics as the ability of users to install or operate their VCR or on the ability to fill in their tax form? - What is the influence of badly designed documents on a company's image? - How can one strike a balance between the organisation's objectives and the client's needs? PRESENTATIONS In order to keep a small-scale intensive workshop, only 20 presentations will be accepted at the workshop. The presentation slots will be 30 minutes long with 15 minutes discussion. The conference language is English. All accepted papers will appear in the form of proceedings before the Workshop. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS In addition to the 20 presentations, there will be four keynote lectures. Keynote speakers are: Francis Cornish, Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique, Université de Toulouse le Mirail Donia Scott, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton Patricia Wright, School of Psychology, Cardiff University Rolf Zwaan, Psychology Department, Florida State University SUBMISSIONS, ACCOMMODATION, REGISTRATION, PROGRAMME, ... For up-to-date information on all matters concerning the workshop, please check the MAD website: http://www.exco.ucl.ac.be/ld/MAD/mad-presentation.htm If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organisers. Liesbeth Degand, coordinator (degand at exco.ucl.ac.be) Yves Bestgen (bestgen at exco.ucl.ac.be) Véronique De Keyser (dekeyser at ulg.ac.be) Jon Oberlander (jon at cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Wilbert Spooren (w.spooren at let.vu.nl) Luuk Van Waes (Luuk.VanWaes at ufsia.ac.be) ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE MAD'01 Att. of Liesbeth Degand Université catholique de Louvain PSP/EXPE/EXCO Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium IMPORTANT DATES 15 January 2001: Abstract submission 30 March 2001: Notification of acceptance 31 May 2001: Deadline submission of revised papers From edith at CSD.UWM.EDU Tue Sep 5 15:21:08 2000 From: edith at CSD.UWM.EDU (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:21:08 -0500 Subject: "exceptional adjectival phrases" Message-ID: This is an update on the discussion regarding adjectival phrases such as "this good", "so good" etc., which turned out to be exceptional both in their selectional constraints and their ordering relative to the noun they pertain to. Following my last summary of August 14, there were three responses. The one from Bingfu Lu came directly to FUNKNET. A response by Jason Merchant came to my own address and, with Jason's permission, I subsequently posted it on FUNKNET. The third response was from Ad Foolen of Nijmegen and he asked me to summarize it for FUNKNET rather than posting it. Ad made two points. One had to do with the Brabant data that Jason Merchant had provided. Ad Foolen is a native speaker of this dialect of Dutch and he confirms Jason's point that "hoe" 'how' can stand before the indefinite article, with the latter cliticized to the former. This, he says, is similar to the standard Dutch expression "zo'n" 'such a'. He points out that the possibilities of this construction in Brabant are a little broader than in standard Dutch and German but less broad than English, which is, he suggests, a nice case of micro-variation. The second point has to do with the function of this construction. Ad does not think that it has to do with referentiality. Instead, he tentatively proposes that the markedness of the construction makes it appropriate for expressivity and questioning. However, he says more research needs to be done on this point. Edith M. ************************************************************************ Edith A. Moravcsik Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 USA E-mail: edith at uwm.edu Telephone: (414) 229-6794 /office/ (414) 332-0141 /home/ Fax: (414) 229-2741 From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Tue Sep 12 17:57:28 2000 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:57:28 -0700 Subject: 10th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Message-ID: 10TH JAPANESE/KOREAN LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE OCTOBER 13-15, 2000 UCLA Registration form and Information regarding transportation and hotels can be found at: . Send all inquiries to <10thj_k at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU> << PROGRAM >> ==================================================== FRIDAY MORNING 8:45 Registration 9:45 Welcome and Announcements by Noriko Akatsuka, UCLA 10:00 Ken Hiraiwa, MIT "Nominative-genitive conversion revisited" 10:30 Yuki Matsuda, U of Washington/U of Memphis "Event sensitivity of head-internal relatives in Japanese" 11:00 Break 11:10 Kyoko Ohara, Keio University, Japan "From relativization to clause-linkage: a case of Japanese internally headed relativization" 11:40 Kimiko Nakanishi, University of Pennsylvania "Prosody and Information Structure in Japanese: a Case Study of Topic Marker wa " 12:10 TIMOTHY VANCE, University of Arizona (TBA) 12:40 LUNCH BREAK FRIDAY AFTERNOON 1:40 Jongsup Jun, Brandeis University "Semantic co-composition and coercion of the Korean Substantival Nouns- ha(ta) construction: Evidence for the generative lexicon" 2:10 Thomas Gammerschlag, Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t, Germany "Deriving argument structure in Japanese verb-verb compounds" 2:40 KATSUHIKO MOMOI, Netscape, USA "Communications Software Internationalization and National Character Sets: supporting Japanese and Korean on the Internet" 3:10 BREAK 3:20 Byung-jin Lim, Indiana University "Local and Global Patterns of Temporal Compensations in Korean" 3:50 Sang-cheol Ahn, Kyung Hee University, Korea "A dispersion account on Middle Korean vowel shifts" 4:20 Sung-Ock Sohn & Mee-Jeong Park, UCLA "Discourse, grammaticalization, and intonation: An analysis of -ketun in Korean" 4:50 BREAK 5:00 SUK JIN CHANG, Seoul National University, Korea "Information Unpackaging: A Constraint-based Unified Grammar Approach" 5:30 Kaoru Ohta, University of Washington "Kakari-musubi and focus structure" 6:00 Wolfram Schaffar, Tuebingen University and The National Language Research Institute, Japan "Kakari-musubi, no-da constructions and how grammaticalization theory meets formal syntax" 6:30 WILLIAM O'GRADY, U of Hawaii TBA ===================================================== SATURDAY MORNING 8:30 Registration 9:00 Yu Hirata, The Ohio State University "Genitive tu in Old Japanese and Grammaticalization of Genitive Particles" 9:30 Minju Kim, UCLA "On the Emergence of Korean Concessive myense: Focusing on the Grammaticalization of se 10:00 NAOMI MCGLOIN, University of Wisconsin at Madison "Markers of Epistemic vs. Affective Stances: Desyoo vs. Zyanai" 10:30 BREAK 10:40 Soohee Kim & Emily Curtis, University of Washington "Phonetic duration of English /s/ and its borrowing in Korean" 11:10 Stuart Davis & Isao Ueda, Indiana University & Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan "Mora augmentation in Shizuoka Japanese" 11:40 Emily Curtis, University of Washington "Moreic structure and segment duration in Korean" 12:10 BREAK 12:15 S. -Y. KURODA, University of California, San Diego "Rendaku and some related issues in Japanese phonology" 1:15 LUNCH BREAK SATURDAY AFTERNOON 2:15 SUSUMU KUNO, Harvard University "Ga/O Alternation, Verb Raising and Scrambling" 2:45 BREAK ===================================================== PARALLEL SESSIONS (SESSION A) 2:55 Shin sook Kim, "Intervention effects are focus effects" 3:25 Kisuk Lee & Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware "Intervention effects are topic effects: Wh- questions in Japanese and Korean" 3:55 BREAK 4:05 Sae-yeon Cho & Han-gyu Lee, Honam University & Kyung Hee University, Korea "Syntactic and pragmatic properties of the NPI yegan in Korean" 4:35 Aeryong Kim, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan "Two positions of Korean negation" 6:05 Jieun Jo & Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea "A removal type of negative predicates in Korean and Japanese" ===================================================== (SESSION B) 2:55 Edson T. Miyamoto & Takahasi, University of Tokyo, Japan "The processing of wh-phrases and interrogative complementizers in Japanese" 3:25 Mitsuaki Shimojo, SUNY at Buffalo "A cognitive account of extraction asymmetry in Japanese relative clauses" 3:55 BREAK 4:05 Haruko Cook, University of Hawaii "The Social Meanings of the Japanese Plain Form" 4:35 Hiroko Furo, Illinois Wesleyan University "Aizuchi and Listener Responses in Japanese" 6:05 Emi Morita, UCLA "Authorship of Collaborative Completion of Sentences in Japanese" ===================================================== 6:35 BREAK 6:40 Masayoshi Shibatani, Kobe University, Japan & Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, USA "Japanese and Korean causatives revisited" 7:10 BREAK 7:30-9:30 BANQUET HAIRINE DIFFLOTH, Cornell U, USA ===================================================== SUNDAY MORNING 8:30 Registration 9:00 Kyu-hyun Kim & Kyung-Hee Suh, Kyung Hee University & Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea "Referential practice in Korean conversation: Prospective indexicals as resources for organizing interaction" 9:30 Sungchool Im, SUNY at Buffalo "Characteristic Lexicalization Patterns of Motion Events in Korean" 10:00 YOKO SUGIOKA, Keio University, Japan "Incorporation vs. modification in Japanese deverbal compounds" 10:30 BREAK 10:40 J.R. Hayashishita, University of Southern California "The scope interaction between a QP and negation" 11:10 Ai Kawazoe, Kyushu University, Japan "On the nature of distributive readings in Japanese" 11:40 WESLEY JOCOBSEN, Harvard U, USA On the interaction of temporal and modal meaning in Japanese conditionals 12:10 LUNCH SUNDAY AFTERNOON 1:10 Reijirou Shibasaki, University of California at Santa Barbara "On Sound symbolism in Japanese and Korean" 1:40 Kaoru Horie & Kaori Taira, Tohoku University, Japan "Where Korean and Japanese Differ: Modality vs. Discourse Modality" 2:10 BREAK 2:20 CHUNGMIN LEE, Seoul National University "Negative Polarity in Korean and Japanese" 2:50 Sunggeun Cho & Xuan Zhou, SUNY at Stony Brook "The interpretations of Wh- elements in conjoined Wh- question" 3:20 Ae-ryung Kim & Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Kanda University of International Studies & Yokohama National University, Japan "Opacity in Japanese and Korean" 3:50 BREAK 4:00 Susan Strauss, Hanae Katayama & Jong-oh Eun, Pennsylvania State University "Grammar, Cognition, and Procedure as Reflected in Route Directions in Japanese, Korean, and American English" 4:30 Maeri Megumi, The University of Iowa (until July 2000) "The switching between desu/masu form and plain form: from the perspective of turn construction" 5:00 SEIICHI MAKINO, Princeton University "When does communication turn mentally inward? -- a case study of Japanese fomal-to-infomral switching" 5:30 Closing remarks From kemmer at RUF.RICE.EDU Tue Sep 12 19:33:22 2000 From: kemmer at RUF.RICE.EDU (Suzanne E Kemmer) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:33:22 -0500 Subject: Call for Papers: Int. Cognitive Linguistics 2001 Message-ID: ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** The 7th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 2001 Santa Barbara, California To be held in conjunction with the 2001 LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America July 22-27, 2001 Abstracts are solicited for papers to be presented at the ICLC 2001 in Santa Barbara. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. General Sessions Papers on all cognitive topics will be scheduled in parallel conference sessions July 23-27. Poster Session The Poster Session will take place on July 25. Theme Sessions Theme sessions (a.k.a. workshops) on particular topics will take place on July 26. For proposals see http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/sessions.html For abstract specifications and reviewing criteria see http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/abstracts.html Submission Deadlines General and Poster Sessions: November 15, 2000 Theme Session Proposals (with accompanying abstracts): October 1, 2000 Further Information on ICLC 2001 See the Conference Homepage at http://www.unm.edu/~iclc/ Further information on the International Cognitive Linguistics Association See the ICLA homepage at http://www.siu.edu/~icla/ From Ted.Sanders at LET.UU.NL Fri Sep 15 13:19:10 2000 From: Ted.Sanders at LET.UU.NL (Ted Sanders) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:19:10 +0200 Subject: graduate positions and postdoc position Utrecht Message-ID: Job Announcement: 12 positions in Linguistics Dear All, The Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS has the following open positions: 3 graduate positions in different areas of linguistics (among which several projects on 'Language in use') 1 postdoctoral researcher (Sentence and discourse processing) 3 graduate positions in psycholinguistics (Comparative Psycholinguistics) 2 postdoctoral researchers in psycholinguistics (Comparative Psycholinguistics) 1 graduate position in psycholinguistics ("Temporal processing and the production of phonological contrasts) 1 graduate student in phonology ("The Phonology of Dutch /r/") 1 graduate student in pragmatics ("The Spoken Questionnaire") For further information, please visit our web-site: http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/general/vacpos.htm ------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Sanders Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS / Opleidingsinstituut Nederlands Universiteit Utrecht Trans 10 NL - 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands e-mail: Ted.Sanders at let.uu.nl Tel. +31 30 253 60 80 / 80 00 Fax + 31 30 253 60 00. =========================================================== From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Mon Sep 25 08:00:41 2000 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 01:00:41 -0700 Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conf (final program) Message-ID: 10th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Program October 13 - 15, 2000 UCLA - Send all messages to: <10thj_k at HUMnet.UCLA.EDU.>. - Please pre-registration by October 2, 2000. All information can be found at: *************** PROGRAM *********************** * Names in upper case are the 13 invited speakers FRIDAY, October 13: Morning Session 8:00-8:30 BREAKFAST (coffee & pastry) 8:45 Registration 9:45 Welcome and Announcements by Noriko Akatsuka, UCLA 10:00 Ken Hiraiwa, MIT "Nominative-genitive conversion revisited" 10:30 Yuki Matsuda, U of Washington/U of Memphis "Event sensitivity of head-internal relatives in Japanese" 11:00 Break 11:10 Kyoko Ohara, Keio University, Japan "From relativization to clause-linkage: a case of Japanese internally headed relativization" 11:40 Kimiko Nakanishi, University of Pennsylvania "Prosody and Information Structure in Japanese: a Case Study of Topic Marker wa " 12:10 TIMOTHY VANCE, University of Arizona "Semantic Bifurcation in Japanese Compound Verbs" 12:40 LUNCH BREAK FRIDAY, October 13: Afternoon Session 1:40 Jongsup Jun, Brandeis University "Semantic co-composition and coercion of the Korean Substantival Nouns- ha(ta) construction: Evidence for the generative lexicon" 2:10 Thomas Gammerschlag, Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t, Germany "Deriving argument structure in Japanese verb-verb compounds" 2:40 WESLEY JACOBSEN, Harvard University "On the interaction of temporal and modal meaning in Japanese conditionals" 3:10 BREAK 3:20 Byung-jin Lim, Indiana University "Local and Global Patterns of Temporal Compensations in Korean" 3:50 Reijirou Shibasaki, University of California at Santa Barbara "On Sound symbolism in Japanese and Korean" 4:20 Sung-Ock Sohn & Mee-Jeong Park, UCLA "Discourse, grammaticalization, and intonation: An analysis of -ketun in Korean" 4:50 BREAK 5:00 SUK JIN CHANG, Seoul National University, Korea "Information Unpackaging: A Constraint-based Unified Grammar Approach" 5:30 Kaoru Ohta, University of Washington "Kakari-musubi and focus structure" 6:00 Wolfram Schaffar, Tuebingen University and The National Language Research Institute, Japan "Kakari-musubi, no-da constructions and how grammaticalization theory meets formal syntax" 6:30 WILLIAM O'GRADY, University of Hawaii "The Processing of Relative Clauses in Korean, Japanese and English" ====================================================== SATURDAY, October 14: Morning Session 8:00-8:30 BREAKFAST (coffee & pastry) 8:30 Registration 9:00 Yu Hirata, The Ohio State University "Genitive tu in Old Japanese and Grammaticalization of Genitive Particles" 9:30 Minju Kim, UCLA "On the Emergence of Korean Concessive myense: Focusing on the Grammaticalization of se" 10:00 NAOMI MCGLOIN, University of Wisconsin at Madison "Markers of Epistemic vs. Affective Stances: Desyoo vs. Zyanai" 10:30 BREAK 10:40 Soohee Kim & Emily Curtis, University of Washington "Phonetic duration of English /s/ and its borrowing in Korean" 11:10 Stuart Davis & Isao Ueda, Indiana University & Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan "Mora augmentation in Shizuoka Japanese" 11:40 Emily Curtis, University of Washington "Moreic structure and segment duration in Korean" 12:10 BREAK 12:15 S. -Y. KURODA, University of California at San Diego "Rendaku and some related issues in Japanese phonology" 12:45 LUNCH BREAK SATURDAY, October 14: Afternoon Session 2:15 SUSUMU KUNO, Harvard University "Ga/O Alternation, Verb Raising and Scrambling" 2:45 BREAK ====================================================== PARALLEL SESSIONS (SESSION A) 2:55 Shin sook Kim, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany "Intervention effects are focus effects" 3:25 Kisuk Lee & Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware "Intervention effects are topic effects: Wh- questions in Japanese and Korean" 3:55 BREAK 4:05 Sunggeun Cho & Xuan Zhou, MIT & SUNY at Stony Brook "The interpretations of Wh- elements in conjoined Wh- question" 4:35 Aeryong Kim, Kanda University of International Studies, Japan "Two positions of Korean negation" 6:05 Jieun Jo & Chungmin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea "A removal type of negative predicates in Korean and Japanese" ====================================================== (SESSION B) 2:55 Edson T. Miyamoto & Shoici Takahashi, University of Tokyo & Kanda University of International Studies, Japan "The processing of wh-phrases and interrogative complementizers in Japanese" 3:25 Mitsuaki Shimojo, SUNY at Buffalo "A cognitive account of extraction asymmetry in Japanese relative clauses" 3:55 BREAK 4:05 Haruko Cook, University of Hawaii "The Social Meanings of the Japanese Plain Form" 4:35 Hiroko Furo, Illinois Wesleyan University "Aizuchi and Listener Responses in Japanese" 6:05 Emi Morita, UCLA "Authorship of Collaborative Completion of Sentences in Japanese" ====================================================== 6:35 BREAK 6:40 MASAYOSHI SHIBATANI, Kobe University, Japan & Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, USA "Japanese and Korean causatives revisited" 7:10 BREAK 7:30-9:30 BANQUET HAIRINE DIFFLOTH, Cornell University TBA ====================================================== SUNDAY, October 15: Morning Session 8:00-8:30 BREAKFAST (coffee & pastry) 8:30 Registration 9:00 Kyu-hyun Kim & Kyung-Hee Suh, Kyung Hee University & Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea "Referential practice in Korean conversation: Prospective indexicals as resources for organizing interaction" 9:30 Sungchool Im, SUNY at Buffalo "Characteristic Lexicalization Patterns of Motion Events in Korean" 10:00 YOKO SUGIOKA, Keio University, Japan "Incorporation vs. modification in Japanese deverbal compounds" 10:30 BREAK 10:40 J.R. Hayashishita, University of Southern California "The scope interaction between a QP and negation" 11:10 Ai Kawazoe, Kyushu University, Japan "On the nature of distributive readings in Japanese" 11:40 KATSUHIKO MOMOI, Netscape, USA "Communications Software Internationalization and National Character Sets: supporting Japanese and Korean on the Internet" 12:10 LUNCH SUNDAY, October 15: Afternoon Session 1:10 Sang-cheol Ahn, Kyung Hee University, Korea "A dispersion account on Middle Korean vowel shifts" 1:40 Kaoru Horie & Kaori Taira, Tohoku University, Japan "Where Korean and Japanese Differ: Modality vs. Discourse Modality" 2:10 BREAK 2:20 CHUNGMIN LEE, Seoul National University, Korea "Negative Polarity in Korean and Japanese" 2:50 Sae-yeon Cho & Han-gyu Lee, Honam University & Kyung Hee University, Korea "Syntactic and pragmatic properties of the NPI yegan in Korean" 3:20 Ae-ryung Kim & Yoshihisa Kitagawa, Kanda University of International Studies & Indiana U/ Yokohama National U, Japan "Opacity in Japanese and Korean" 3:50 BREAK 4:00 Susan Strauss, Hanae Katayama & Jong-oh Eun, Pennsylvania State University "Grammar, Cognition, and Procedure as Reflected in Route Directions in Japanese, Korean, and American English" 4:30 Maeri Megumi, University of Southern California "The switching between desu/masu form and plain form: from the perspective of turn construction" 5:00 SEIICHI MAKINO, Princeton University "When does communication turn mentally inward? -- a case study of Japanese formal-to-informal switching" 5:30 Closing remarks From Bert.Peeters at UTAS.EDU.AU Tue Sep 26 01:11:19 2000 From: Bert.Peeters at UTAS.EDU.AU (Bert Peeters) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:11:19 +1000 Subject: The Lexicon-Encyclopedia Interface Message-ID: Now available in print... a topic that has a lot of cognitive linguists talking. THE LEXICON - ENCYCLOPEDIA INTERFACE Edited by B. Peeters, University of Tasmania Volume 5 in the Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface Book Series ISBN: 0-08-043591-2 * Hardbound * 508 pages * NLG 201.00 (euro 91.21) USD 102.00 Questions about the exact nature of linguistic as opposed to non-linguistic knowledge have been asked for as long as humans have studied language, be it as linguists, philosophers, psychologists, language teachers, semioticians or cognitive scientists. This distinction has been maintained and defended by some, attacked and abandoned by others. Through specially commissioned papers for this, the fifth volume in the CRiSPI series, contributors argue both for and against the distinction between lexical knowledge and encyclopedic knowledge and debate how it should be drawn. AUDIENCE: Interdisciplinary, but particularly recommended for linguists involved in lexical semantics. CONTENTS: Bert Peeters (pp. 1-52) Setting the scene: Some recent milestones in the lexicon-encyclopedia debate I. ASSESSMENTS Anne Reboul (pp. 55-95) Words, concepts, mental representations and other biological categories Carlos Inchaurralde (pp. 97-114) Lexicopedia John Taylor (pp. 115-141) Approaches to word meaning: The network model (Langacker) and the two-level model (Bierwisch) in comparison II. UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING Pierre Larriv?e (pp. 145-167) Linguistic meaning, knowledge, and utterance interpretation Keith Allan (pp. 169-217) Quantity implicatures and the lexicon William Croft (pp. 219-256) The role of domains in the interpretation of metaphors and metonymies III. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS Richard Hudson & Jasper Holmes (pp. 259-290) Re-cycling in the encyclopedia Eva Born-Rauchenecker (pp. 291-316) Towards an operationalisation of the lexicon-encyclopedia distinction: A case study in the description of verbal meanings in Russian M. Lynne Murphy (pp. 317-348) Knowledge of words versus knowledge about words: The conceptual basis of lexical relations Heidi Harley & Rolf Noyer (pp. 349-374) Formal versus encyclopedic properties of vocabulary: Evidence from nominalisations IV. GRAMMAR Joseph Hilferty (pp. 377-392) Grammar, the lexicon, and encyclopedic knowledge: Is there such a thing as informational encapsulation? Rob Pensalfini (pp. 393-431) Encyclopedia-lexicon distinctions in Jingulu grammar V. FURTHER AFIELD Susanne Feigenbaum (pp. 435-461) Lexical and encyclopedic knowledge in an ab initio German reading course Victor Raskin, Salvatore Attardo & Donalee H. Attardo (pp. 463-486) Augmenting linguistic semantics descriptions for NLP: Lexical knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, event structure Author index (pp. 487-491) Subject index (pp. 493-498) Language index (p. 499) REVIEW: 'A trenchant discussion of what is now felt as one of the most exciting problems of natural language semantics and pragmatics, namely the possibility of separating questions of meaning from questions of factual knowledge.' Jaroslav Peregrin, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic For further information and full contents listings for all volumes in the series visit the website at: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/series/crispi ************************ ELSEVIER SCIENCE Further details and ordering information for all Elsevier Science's Linguistics titles are available via our website at: http://www.elsevier.com or by contacting your nearest Elsevier Science Office (numbers below): Customers in the US and Canada: Tel: (+1) 212 6333730; E-mail: usinfo-f at elsevier.com Customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa: Tel: (+31) 20485 3757; E-mail: nlinfo-f at elsevier.nl Customers in Japan: Tel: (+81) 3 5561 5033; E-mail: info at elsevier.co.jp Customers in Asia and Australasia: Tel: (+65) 434 3727; E-mail: asiainfo at elsevier.com.sg Customers in Latin America: Tel: (+55) 21 509 5340; E-mail: elsevier at campus.com.br Alternatively contact: c.dewhurst at elsevier.co.uk -- Dr Bert Peeters School of English & European Languages and Literatures University of Tasmania GPO Box 252-82 Hobart TAS 7001 Australia Tel.: +61 (0)3 6226 2344 Fax.: +61 (0)3 6226 7631 E-mail: Bert.Peeters at utas.edu.au http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/efgj/french/index.htm http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/efgj/french/staff/peeters/peeters.htm From Degand at EXCO.UCL.AC.BE Fri Sep 29 12:08:26 2000 From: Degand at EXCO.UCL.AC.BE (Liesbeth Degand) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:08:26 +0200 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2001 Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** MAD'01: 4th International Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse Improving text: From text structure to text type 5-8 August 2001, Ittre (Belgium) **************************************************************************** The organisers of "Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2001" (MAD'01) invite submissions for this workshop on (psycho)linguistic research of text quality. GOAL AND TOPICS: The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different disciplines, in particular theoretical and applied linguists, computational linguists, and psycholinguists, to exchange information and learn from each other on a common topic of investigation: text and discourse. More specifically, the question to be addressed is "What makes a good text good?" Text quality depends upon many factors and can in itself be considered a complex concept (what is good for one aspect of the text need not benefit other aspects). In order to make real advances in the domains of text quality and document design, it is necessary to combine results from both theoretical (linguistics) and experimental (psychology) research. We encourage submissions related to but not limited to the following topics: READER PROPERTIES - How does the reader's background knowledge interact with the structure and wording of the document? - What is the impact of the age, socio-cultural background, educational level of the reader on the use of textual properties? TEXT TYPE/GENRE PROPERTIES - Which text types come with which textual properties? - What is the impact of genre on text processing? - Do similar text types have similar properties in different languages? - What is the role of the text type on acquiring writing proficiency? MACROSTRUCTURE - How can a document's macrostructure be put to use in areas like text summarisation and in predicting memory for a text? - How is the macrostructure signalled linguistically? - What is the relation between a text's macrostructure and the flow of information in a document? MICROSTRUCTURE - How is the microstructure of a text signalled linguistically? - What kind of coherence relations are there? - How can they be grouped? - How are they acquired, in first language and in second language learning? PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS - What is the impact of poorly written documents on such topics as the ability of users to install or operate their VCR or on the ability to fill in their tax form? - What is the influence of badly designed documents on a company's image? - How can one strike a balance between the organisation's objectives and the client's needs? PRESENTATIONS In order to keep a small-scale intensive workshop, only 20 presentations will be accepted at the workshop. The presentation slots will be 30 minutes long with 15 minutes discussion. The conference language is English. All accepted papers will appear in the form of proceedings before the Workshop. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS In addition to the 20 presentations, there will be four keynote lectures. Keynote speakers are: Francis Cornish, Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et S?mantique, Universit? de Toulouse le Mirail Donia Scott, Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton Patricia Wright, School of Psychology, Cardiff University Rolf Zwaan, Psychology Department, Florida State University SUBMISSIONS, ACCOMMODATION, REGISTRATION, PROGRAMME, ... For up-to-date information on all matters concerning the workshop, please check the MAD website: http://www.exco.ucl.ac.be/ld/MAD/mad-presentation.htm If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organisers. Liesbeth Degand, coordinator (degand at exco.ucl.ac.be) Yves Bestgen (bestgen at exco.ucl.ac.be) V?ronique De Keyser (dekeyser at ulg.ac.be) Jon Oberlander (jon at cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Wilbert Spooren (w.spooren at let.vu.nl) Luuk Van Waes (Luuk.VanWaes at ufsia.ac.be) ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE MAD'01 Att. of Liesbeth Degand Universit? catholique de Louvain PSP/EXPE/EXCO Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium IMPORTANT DATES 15 January 2001: Abstract submission 30 March 2001: Notification of acceptance 31 May 2001: Deadline submission of revised papers