From degand at EXCO.UCL.AC.BE Thu Jan 4 13:56:52 2001 From: degand at EXCO.UCL.AC.BE (Liesbeth Degand) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:56:52 +0100 Subject: MAD'01: second call for papers Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ******************************************************** SECOND AND LAST CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2001 ******************************************************** 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 (vdekeyser 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timhatchus at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 10 17:01:35 2001 From: timhatchus at YAHOO.COM (Tim Hatch) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:01:35 -0800 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I greet all: I contact you to comment you an internet address that I have found and it has seemed me of great interest. I am a teacher of Spanish and often I look for webs that facilitate me information about Spanish culture and that they also have courses of Spanish. In short this course has surprised me since to be innovative and it is completely on-line. For the years that I take of experience I can tell you that the teaching method seems more than simple and practical for what it will facilitate in great measure the individual learning, as you already know, it is very complicated. I encourage you to visit the web ( http://www.spainsimoving.com ) and you can confirm what I�m telling you and also I ask you that you facilitate me addresses of other webs through which I could be carried out on-line courses.. Thank you ahead of time. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ From Anju.Saxena at LING.UU.SE Tue Jan 16 11:41:10 2001 From: Anju.Saxena at LING.UU.SE (Anju Saxena) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:41:10 +0100 Subject: Call for papers: Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium Message-ID: ***** Call for Papers ***** SEVENTH HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden September 7-9, 2001 Last date for submitting abstract: 1 February, 2001 The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region: north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau, northern Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski-speaking area in the west. We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to: - Descriptions of lesser-known languages - Language change and variation - Multilingualism and language contact - Historical-comparative studies - Typological studies - Field reports - Corpus-based analysis - Language death and language preservation - Language policy and language planning - Ethnology and folklore - Himalayan languages and new technologies Workshop 1: Language change in the Tibeto-Burman area Main speaker: James Matisoff (University of California, Berkeley) Workshop organizer: Jadranka Gvozdanovic (University of Mannheim, Germany) Workshop 2: Nominal juxtaposition as a morpho-syntactic phenomenon Workshop organizer: Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm (Stockholm University, Sweden) SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Abstracts 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 authors' affiliation, address, and e-mail address. Abstracts may be submitted electronically (as an attached file in RTF, postscript, PDF or MS Word format). IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract due: 1 February, 2001 * Acceptance notification: 1 March, 2001 * Symposium: 7-9 September, 2001 REGISTRATION Pre-registration (before June 30): $45 (faculty), $25 (students) Registration at conference site: $50 (faculty), $30 (students) LOCAL ORGANIZATION Östen Dahl, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University Gunilla Gren-Eklund, Dept. of African and Asian Languages, Uppsala University Anju Saxena, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University CONTACT INFORMATION For any information related to the HLS-7, please contact: Anju Saxena Department of Linguistics Uppsala University Box 527 SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden Tel. +46-18-471 14 57 Fax. +46-18-471 14 16 E-mail: anju.saxena at ling.uu.se Workshop 1 organization and contact information: Jadranka Gvozdanovic Faculty of Philosophy, Slavic Dept., University of Mannheim Schloss EW 327, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany E-mail: jadranka at rumms.uni-mannheim.de Fax: +49 621 181 2291 Workshop 2 organization and contact information: Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden E-mail: tamm at ling.su.se Fax: +46-8-155389 News about the symposium will also be posted on the symposium's Web page at http://www.afro.uu.se/HLS-7.html The Permanent Secretariat for this annual Symposium is maintained at Leiden University in the Netherlands. *************************************************************************** PRE-REGISTRATION FORM Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium Uppsala University 7-9 September, 2001 Name: Title: Affiliation: Mailing address: E-mail address: I intend to participate: Yes / No I intend to present a paper: Yes / No I prefer receiving information by: e-mail / surface mail Please send this form to: Anju Saxena Department of Linguistics Uppsala University Box 527 SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden e-mail: anju.saxena at ling.uu.se From vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Jan 16 18:47:16 2001 From: vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:47:16 -0500 Subject: Role and Reference Grammar Workshop & Conference at LSA Institutee: Call for Papers Message-ID: A workshop and conference on Role and Reference Grammar will be held at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, July 27-29, 2001. The workshop is for linguists already working in RRG as well as those wishing to become better acquainted with the theory. There will be two parts to the workshop. First, there will be a series of introductory lectures on the basics of RRG for those not yet acquainted with the theory. Second, there will be a series of working sessions for linguists already familiar with RRG; the preliminary list of workshop topics includes morphological theory, diachronic syntax, lexical representation, and language acquistion. There will be a one-day conference at which current work in RRG will be presented. Talks will be 30 minutes long (25 min. + 5 min. discussion). Please submit your abstract (2 pages maximum), which should include your name, e-mail address and regular address, by e-mail to VANVALIN at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU; the deadline for submission is March 15, 2001 The Organizing Committee: Dan Everett, Univ. of Manchester Ricardo Mairal Uson, UNED, Madrid Ranko Matasovic, Univ. of Zagreb Toshio Ohori, Univ. of Tokyo Robert Van Valin, Univ. at Buffalo Byong-seon Yang, Jeonju University From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Fri Jan 19 08:09:27 2001 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:09:27 -0700 Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The 11th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference University of California at Santa Barbara June 29-July 1, 2000 Deadline for Abstract Submission: March 12, 2001 Note: This year abstracts are to be submitted ONLY by e-mail. ======================================= INVITED SPEAKERS Soonja Choi (San Diego State University, USA) Taro Kageyama (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Satoshi Kinsui (Osaka University, Japan) James Yoon (University of Illinois, USA) ======================================= This year, the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held during the 2001 LSA Linguistic Institute at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The Institute, with its dual themes of linguistic diversity (how and why languages differ) and Pacific Rim languages (synchronic and diachronic aspects of major Pacific Rim languages), will be an especially appropriate site for the conference. This conference aims to provide a forum for presenting research in Japanese and Korean linguistics, thereby facilitating efforts to deepen our understanding of these two languages, which have striking typological similarities. We especially encourage presentations which investigate both languages. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, typology, grammaticalization, historical linguistics, phonology, morphology, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Presentations, except for those by invited speakers, will be 20 minutes long, and will be followed by a 10-minute question-answer period. =================================== The address for submission of your abstract for the 11th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference is: pclancy at humanitas.ucsb.edu. In submitting your abstract, it is essential that you follow the instructions below: E-MAIL SUBJECT HEADER: Decide whether your abstract is primarily formal or functional, and which area of linguistics is its main focus, e.g. phonology, historical, pragmatics. Then use the following subject header for your e-mail: "JK11, Last name, First initial, Formal or Functional/ Area. For example: "JK11, Nagashima, S., Formal/Phonology". Please be aware that without this header, your message may not receive proper handling. In the body of your e-mail message, include the following: TITLE: The first line of your e-mail message should be the title of your paper. ABSTRACT: Your abstract should be a maximum of 500 words long. Be sure to COUNT THE WORDS in your abstract, and indicate the number of words in parentheses following your title. Your abstract will be returned to you if the 500-word limit is exceeded. Additional words may be used ONLY for examples and citing references. In addition to pasting your abstract in the body of your e-mail message, send your abstract as an ATTACHMENT. This is necessary for further processing of your abstract. Please send your attached file as a Microsoft Word document in RTF format. Be sure to include any non-standard fonts that you use, and allow extra time for processing attachments not in Word format. (Please do not use webmail unless you are certain that you can send your abstract as an attachment.) You will be notified by e-mail when your abstract has been received and successfully opened. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Do not include any author information in the body of your abstract. Following your abstract , include the following information, which will be removed before your abstract is sent out for review. 1. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) 2. Address 3. Phone number 4. E-mail address of the primary author. 5. If your address, phone number or e-mail address will be different during the spring or summer, be sure to include this information. Please note that only one abstract from each individual can be considered for acceptance. One individual abstract and one jointly authored abstract may be submitted. ===================================== The proceedings of this conference will be published as Japanese/Korean Linguistics 11 by CSLI and distributed by Cambridge University Press. The conference website is being set up, and the address will be announced in the Second Call for Papers. From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Sat Jan 20 08:59:17 2001 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:59:17 -0700 Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (correction) Message-ID: There was a mistake in the FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS for the 11th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference at University of California at Santa Barbara. The correct dates for the conference are June 29-July 1, 2001 (not 2000). The deadline for Abstract Submission is March 12, 2001. From spike at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU Mon Jan 22 16:50:13 2001 From: spike at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:50:13 -0700 Subject: December 2000 LSA Bulletin Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:13:31 -0500 (EST) From: LSA Subject: December 2000 LSA Bulletin The December 2000 LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA web site: http://www.lsadc.org From W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE Mon Jan 22 19:08:56 2001 From: W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE (Wolfgang Schulze) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:08:56 +0100 Subject: Online Grammar of Udi Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, this is just to inform you that there is an 'online grammar' of Udi (Southeast Caucasian or 'Lezgian') now available under http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/udinhalt.htm It comprises a comprehensive description of the Udi grammar from a typological (in parts cognitive) perspective, offers additional (though limited) information on the sociolinguistic and historical background as well as a sample text with full interlinear glosses. The objectives of this grammar are to provide an interactive tool for the analysis of Udi which means that readers are invited to comment upon single sections or to ask for additional data etc. which would then be entered in this grammar. Please note (and pardon) that the author is a non-native speaker of English which means that you are in advance kindly asked to excuse deficiencies in the English text. Best wishes, Wolfgang -- ******************** Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulze Institut für Allgemeine und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft Universität München - Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 - D-80539 München Tel.: ++49-(0)89-2180 2486 (secretary) // ++49-(0)89-2180 5343 (office) Fax: ++49-(0)89-2180 5345 Email: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Web: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/ ******************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Anju.Saxena at LING.UU.SE Mon Jan 29 07:49:51 2001 From: Anju.Saxena at LING.UU.SE (Anju Saxena) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:49:51 +0100 Subject: Call for papers: Workshop on Nominal juxtaposition as a morpho-syntactic phenomenon Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP: Nominal juxtaposition as a morpho-syntactic phenomenon. As part of the Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium (Uppsala University, Sweden, 7-9 September 2001), I am organizing a workshop on nominal juxtaposition in Himalayan languages. Whereas the English NP "a cup of tea" involves an overt marker "of" to relate the two nominals, "cup" and "tea", its Swedish counterpart, "en kopp kaffe", lacks any such marker and may count as a construction involving nominal juxtaposition. We find prototypical instances of nominal juxtaposition when there are two nominals in contiguity with each other the whole combination is a syntactic construction there is no overt segmental marker for relating the two nominals to each other whereas intonation and word order are crucial A nominal here refers to a noun, a noun with various modifiers or a noun phrase. Juxtaposition on the whole has hardly received any attention in theoretical, primarily non-functional, linguistics. Significantly, it is not even mentioned in the index of the phenomena considered in Asher's (ed.) "The international encyclopaedia of languages in linguistics". A quick glance through the indices in a score of books on various syntactic and morphological theories gave no result either. For morphology, juxtaposition is not interesting simply because there is no overt marking involved, whereas the focus of most syntactical theories has been on various processes and the like, much more than on marking or the absence thereof. Absence of overt material for the expression of a certain content has otherwise been discussed in other connections. Thus, zero morphemes within larger paradigms constitute one of the traditional interests within various morphological theories; whereas syntactic theories abound with empty categories and syntactic zeroes and are pre-occupied with accounting for their distribution and various other properties. This lack of interest in nominal juxtaposition is, however, hardly justified. In particular, nominal juxtaposition seems to be universal and occurs in languages which otherwise are structurally very different. The aim of the workshop is to shed light on this phenomenon in the Himalayan languages, and cross-linguistically. The workshop is intended to focus on questions such as these: In what functions nominal juxtaposition can be used in one language and across languages? For instance, in possessive NPs (Peter's house), modificational NPs (a stone house), pseudopartitives (a cup of tea), coordination (mother and brother), nominal predication (Peter is my brother), apposition (my brother Peter) etc. What other means can be used for relating two nominals to each other in the same language? What factors motivate the choice of a juxtapositional construction as opposed to the other types of nominal constructions in the language? Can we find cross-linguistic generalizations on the use of juxtapositional constructions as opposed to constructions involving other morpho-syntactic means? How can nominal juxtaposition be delimited from other phenomena, such as compounding, on the one hand, or simple contiguity of two nominals which together do not build any constituent? What is the role of intonation in juxtapositional constructions? How does juxtaposition emerge? Juxtapositional constructions abound in child language, pidgins, foreigner talk and other language varieties which are characterized by morpho-syntactic simplicity; in these cases juxtaposition has not undergone any grammaticalization at all. On the other hand, there are clear instances of developments whereby overt morpho-syntactic markers gradually disappear and where juxtaposition is the final product of grammaticalization. What do we know about the history of juxtaposition in particular cases? Is there any way for distinguishing between the two different instances? We welcome all contributions taking juxtaposition seriously - detailed descriptions of the relevant phenomena in one particular Himalayan language, cross-linguistic studies, theoretical discussions, historical essays etc. Abstracts of one page, including author's name and affiliation, title of the paper, mailing address, and e-mail address, should be submitted to Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm by February 20, 2001 at the addresses below. Please indicate the desired length of your talk (15 min - 30 min - 45 min). Workshop organization and contact information: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden E-mail: tamm at ling.su.se Fax: +46-8-155389 Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2001. News about the Seventh Himalayan symposium (including the workshops) is posted on the symposium's Web page at http://www.afro.uu.se/HLS-7.html http://www.ling.uu.se/anjusaxena From bfk0 at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU Tue Jan 30 18:23:10 2001 From: bfk0 at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU (Barbara F Kelly) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:23:10 -0800 Subject: Call: Tibeto-Burman workshop Message-ID: SECOND CALL: revised abstract due date - February 15th 2001. 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 General Session We are seeking abstracts on all aspects of T-B linguistics Field reports and graduate work encouraged Keynote Speaker: James A. Matisoff University of California, Berkeley Parasession on Grammar and Spoken Discourse We are seeking abstracts on The use of grammar in connected speech Keynote Speaker: Michael Noonan University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Abstracts for both the General Session and the 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 February 15, 2001 For more information, you can access the LSA Institute Web Page at http://www.summer.ucsb.edu or contact: Carol Genetti Department of Linguistics University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (805) 893-3574 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 ---------------------------- Barbara Kelly Dept. Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA From degand at EXCO.UCL.AC.BE Thu Jan 4 13:56:52 2001 From: degand at EXCO.UCL.AC.BE (Liesbeth Degand) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:56:52 +0100 Subject: MAD'01: second call for papers Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings ******************************************************** SECOND AND LAST CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2001 ******************************************************** 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 (vdekeyser 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timhatchus at YAHOO.COM Wed Jan 10 17:01:35 2001 From: timhatchus at YAHOO.COM (Tim Hatch) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:01:35 -0800 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I greet all: I contact you to comment you an internet address that I have found and it has seemed me of great interest. I am a teacher of Spanish and often I look for webs that facilitate me information about Spanish culture and that they also have courses of Spanish. In short this course has surprised me since to be innovative and it is completely on-line. For the years that I take of experience I can tell you that the teaching method seems more than simple and practical for what it will facilitate in great measure the individual learning, as you already know, it is very complicated. I encourage you to visit the web ( http://www.spainsimoving.com ) and you can confirm what I?m telling you and also I ask you that you facilitate me addresses of other webs through which I could be carried out on-line courses.. Thank you ahead of time. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ From Anju.Saxena at LING.UU.SE Tue Jan 16 11:41:10 2001 From: Anju.Saxena at LING.UU.SE (Anju Saxena) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:41:10 +0100 Subject: Call for papers: Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium Message-ID: ***** Call for Papers ***** SEVENTH HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden September 7-9, 2001 Last date for submitting abstract: 1 February, 2001 The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region: north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau, northern Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski-speaking area in the west. We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to: - Descriptions of lesser-known languages - Language change and variation - Multilingualism and language contact - Historical-comparative studies - Typological studies - Field reports - Corpus-based analysis - Language death and language preservation - Language policy and language planning - Ethnology and folklore - Himalayan languages and new technologies Workshop 1: Language change in the Tibeto-Burman area Main speaker: James Matisoff (University of California, Berkeley) Workshop organizer: Jadranka Gvozdanovic (University of Mannheim, Germany) Workshop 2: Nominal juxtaposition as a morpho-syntactic phenomenon Workshop organizer: Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm (Stockholm University, Sweden) SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Abstracts 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 authors' affiliation, address, and e-mail address. Abstracts may be submitted electronically (as an attached file in RTF, postscript, PDF or MS Word format). IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract due: 1 February, 2001 * Acceptance notification: 1 March, 2001 * Symposium: 7-9 September, 2001 REGISTRATION Pre-registration (before June 30): $45 (faculty), $25 (students) Registration at conference site: $50 (faculty), $30 (students) LOCAL ORGANIZATION ?sten Dahl, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University Gunilla Gren-Eklund, Dept. of African and Asian Languages, Uppsala University Anju Saxena, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University CONTACT INFORMATION For any information related to the HLS-7, please contact: Anju Saxena Department of Linguistics Uppsala University Box 527 SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden Tel. +46-18-471 14 57 Fax. +46-18-471 14 16 E-mail: anju.saxena at ling.uu.se Workshop 1 organization and contact information: Jadranka Gvozdanovic Faculty of Philosophy, Slavic Dept., University of Mannheim Schloss EW 327, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany E-mail: jadranka at rumms.uni-mannheim.de Fax: +49 621 181 2291 Workshop 2 organization and contact information: Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden E-mail: tamm at ling.su.se Fax: +46-8-155389 News about the symposium will also be posted on the symposium's Web page at http://www.afro.uu.se/HLS-7.html The Permanent Secretariat for this annual Symposium is maintained at Leiden University in the Netherlands. *************************************************************************** PRE-REGISTRATION FORM Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium Uppsala University 7-9 September, 2001 Name: Title: Affiliation: Mailing address: E-mail address: I intend to participate: Yes / No I intend to present a paper: Yes / No I prefer receiving information by: e-mail / surface mail Please send this form to: Anju Saxena Department of Linguistics Uppsala University Box 527 SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden e-mail: anju.saxena at ling.uu.se From vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Jan 16 18:47:16 2001 From: vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:47:16 -0500 Subject: Role and Reference Grammar Workshop & Conference at LSA Institutee: Call for Papers Message-ID: A workshop and conference on Role and Reference Grammar will be held at the LSA Summer Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, July 27-29, 2001. The workshop is for linguists already working in RRG as well as those wishing to become better acquainted with the theory. There will be two parts to the workshop. First, there will be a series of introductory lectures on the basics of RRG for those not yet acquainted with the theory. Second, there will be a series of working sessions for linguists already familiar with RRG; the preliminary list of workshop topics includes morphological theory, diachronic syntax, lexical representation, and language acquistion. There will be a one-day conference at which current work in RRG will be presented. Talks will be 30 minutes long (25 min. + 5 min. discussion). Please submit your abstract (2 pages maximum), which should include your name, e-mail address and regular address, by e-mail to VANVALIN at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU; the deadline for submission is March 15, 2001 The Organizing Committee: Dan Everett, Univ. of Manchester Ricardo Mairal Uson, UNED, Madrid Ranko Matasovic, Univ. of Zagreb Toshio Ohori, Univ. of Tokyo Robert Van Valin, Univ. at Buffalo Byong-seon Yang, Jeonju University From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Fri Jan 19 08:09:27 2001 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:09:27 -0700 Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The 11th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference University of California at Santa Barbara June 29-July 1, 2000 Deadline for Abstract Submission: March 12, 2001 Note: This year abstracts are to be submitted ONLY by e-mail. ======================================= INVITED SPEAKERS Soonja Choi (San Diego State University, USA) Taro Kageyama (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Satoshi Kinsui (Osaka University, Japan) James Yoon (University of Illinois, USA) ======================================= This year, the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held during the 2001 LSA Linguistic Institute at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The Institute, with its dual themes of linguistic diversity (how and why languages differ) and Pacific Rim languages (synchronic and diachronic aspects of major Pacific Rim languages), will be an especially appropriate site for the conference. This conference aims to provide a forum for presenting research in Japanese and Korean linguistics, thereby facilitating efforts to deepen our understanding of these two languages, which have striking typological similarities. We especially encourage presentations which investigate both languages. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, typology, grammaticalization, historical linguistics, phonology, morphology, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. Presentations, except for those by invited speakers, will be 20 minutes long, and will be followed by a 10-minute question-answer period. =================================== The address for submission of your abstract for the 11th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference is: pclancy at humanitas.ucsb.edu. In submitting your abstract, it is essential that you follow the instructions below: E-MAIL SUBJECT HEADER: Decide whether your abstract is primarily formal or functional, and which area of linguistics is its main focus, e.g. phonology, historical, pragmatics. Then use the following subject header for your e-mail: "JK11, Last name, First initial, Formal or Functional/ Area. For example: "JK11, Nagashima, S., Formal/Phonology". Please be aware that without this header, your message may not receive proper handling. In the body of your e-mail message, include the following: TITLE: The first line of your e-mail message should be the title of your paper. ABSTRACT: Your abstract should be a maximum of 500 words long. Be sure to COUNT THE WORDS in your abstract, and indicate the number of words in parentheses following your title. Your abstract will be returned to you if the 500-word limit is exceeded. Additional words may be used ONLY for examples and citing references. In addition to pasting your abstract in the body of your e-mail message, send your abstract as an ATTACHMENT. This is necessary for further processing of your abstract. Please send your attached file as a Microsoft Word document in RTF format. Be sure to include any non-standard fonts that you use, and allow extra time for processing attachments not in Word format. (Please do not use webmail unless you are certain that you can send your abstract as an attachment.) You will be notified by e-mail when your abstract has been received and successfully opened. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Do not include any author information in the body of your abstract. Following your abstract , include the following information, which will be removed before your abstract is sent out for review. 1. Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) 2. Address 3. Phone number 4. E-mail address of the primary author. 5. If your address, phone number or e-mail address will be different during the spring or summer, be sure to include this information. Please note that only one abstract from each individual can be considered for acceptance. One individual abstract and one jointly authored abstract may be submitted. ===================================== The proceedings of this conference will be published as Japanese/Korean Linguistics 11 by CSLI and distributed by Cambridge University Press. The conference website is being set up, and the address will be announced in the Second Call for Papers. From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Sat Jan 20 08:59:17 2001 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:59:17 -0700 Subject: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (correction) Message-ID: There was a mistake in the FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS for the 11th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference at University of California at Santa Barbara. The correct dates for the conference are June 29-July 1, 2001 (not 2000). The deadline for Abstract Submission is March 12, 2001. From spike at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU Mon Jan 22 16:50:13 2001 From: spike at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU (Spike Gildea) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:50:13 -0700 Subject: December 2000 LSA Bulletin Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 08:13:31 -0500 (EST) From: LSA Subject: December 2000 LSA Bulletin The December 2000 LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA web site: http://www.lsadc.org From W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE Mon Jan 22 19:08:56 2001 From: W.Schulze at LRZ.UNI-MUENCHEN.DE (Wolfgang Schulze) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 20:08:56 +0100 Subject: Online Grammar of Udi Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, this is just to inform you that there is an 'online grammar' of Udi (Southeast Caucasian or 'Lezgian') now available under http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/udinhalt.htm It comprises a comprehensive description of the Udi grammar from a typological (in parts cognitive) perspective, offers additional (though limited) information on the sociolinguistic and historical background as well as a sample text with full interlinear glosses. The objectives of this grammar are to provide an interactive tool for the analysis of Udi which means that readers are invited to comment upon single sections or to ask for additional data etc. which would then be entered in this grammar. Please note (and pardon) that the author is a non-native speaker of English which means that you are in advance kindly asked to excuse deficiencies in the English text. Best wishes, Wolfgang -- ******************** Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulze Institut f?r Allgemeine und Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft Universit?t M?nchen - Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 - D-80539 M?nchen Tel.: ++49-(0)89-2180 2486 (secretary) // ++49-(0)89-2180 5343 (office) Fax: ++49-(0)89-2180 5345 Email: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Web: http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~wschulze/ ******************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Anju.Saxena at LING.UU.SE Mon Jan 29 07:49:51 2001 From: Anju.Saxena at LING.UU.SE (Anju Saxena) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:49:51 +0100 Subject: Call for papers: Workshop on Nominal juxtaposition as a morpho-syntactic phenomenon Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP: Nominal juxtaposition as a morpho-syntactic phenomenon. As part of the Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium (Uppsala University, Sweden, 7-9 September 2001), I am organizing a workshop on nominal juxtaposition in Himalayan languages. Whereas the English NP "a cup of tea" involves an overt marker "of" to relate the two nominals, "cup" and "tea", its Swedish counterpart, "en kopp kaffe", lacks any such marker and may count as a construction involving nominal juxtaposition. We find prototypical instances of nominal juxtaposition when there are two nominals in contiguity with each other the whole combination is a syntactic construction there is no overt segmental marker for relating the two nominals to each other whereas intonation and word order are crucial A nominal here refers to a noun, a noun with various modifiers or a noun phrase. Juxtaposition on the whole has hardly received any attention in theoretical, primarily non-functional, linguistics. Significantly, it is not even mentioned in the index of the phenomena considered in Asher's (ed.) "The international encyclopaedia of languages in linguistics". A quick glance through the indices in a score of books on various syntactic and morphological theories gave no result either. For morphology, juxtaposition is not interesting simply because there is no overt marking involved, whereas the focus of most syntactical theories has been on various processes and the like, much more than on marking or the absence thereof. Absence of overt material for the expression of a certain content has otherwise been discussed in other connections. Thus, zero morphemes within larger paradigms constitute one of the traditional interests within various morphological theories; whereas syntactic theories abound with empty categories and syntactic zeroes and are pre-occupied with accounting for their distribution and various other properties. This lack of interest in nominal juxtaposition is, however, hardly justified. In particular, nominal juxtaposition seems to be universal and occurs in languages which otherwise are structurally very different. The aim of the workshop is to shed light on this phenomenon in the Himalayan languages, and cross-linguistically. The workshop is intended to focus on questions such as these: In what functions nominal juxtaposition can be used in one language and across languages? For instance, in possessive NPs (Peter's house), modificational NPs (a stone house), pseudopartitives (a cup of tea), coordination (mother and brother), nominal predication (Peter is my brother), apposition (my brother Peter) etc. What other means can be used for relating two nominals to each other in the same language? What factors motivate the choice of a juxtapositional construction as opposed to the other types of nominal constructions in the language? Can we find cross-linguistic generalizations on the use of juxtapositional constructions as opposed to constructions involving other morpho-syntactic means? How can nominal juxtaposition be delimited from other phenomena, such as compounding, on the one hand, or simple contiguity of two nominals which together do not build any constituent? What is the role of intonation in juxtapositional constructions? How does juxtaposition emerge? Juxtapositional constructions abound in child language, pidgins, foreigner talk and other language varieties which are characterized by morpho-syntactic simplicity; in these cases juxtaposition has not undergone any grammaticalization at all. On the other hand, there are clear instances of developments whereby overt morpho-syntactic markers gradually disappear and where juxtaposition is the final product of grammaticalization. What do we know about the history of juxtaposition in particular cases? Is there any way for distinguishing between the two different instances? We welcome all contributions taking juxtaposition seriously - detailed descriptions of the relevant phenomena in one particular Himalayan language, cross-linguistic studies, theoretical discussions, historical essays etc. Abstracts of one page, including author's name and affiliation, title of the paper, mailing address, and e-mail address, should be submitted to Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm by February 20, 2001 at the addresses below. Please indicate the desired length of your talk (15 min - 30 min - 45 min). Workshop organization and contact information: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden E-mail: tamm at ling.su.se Fax: +46-8-155389 Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2001. News about the Seventh Himalayan symposium (including the workshops) is posted on the symposium's Web page at http://www.afro.uu.se/HLS-7.html http://www.ling.uu.se/anjusaxena From bfk0 at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU Tue Jan 30 18:23:10 2001 From: bfk0 at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU (Barbara F Kelly) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:23:10 -0800 Subject: Call: Tibeto-Burman workshop Message-ID: SECOND CALL: revised abstract due date - February 15th 2001. 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 General Session We are seeking abstracts on all aspects of T-B linguistics Field reports and graduate work encouraged Keynote Speaker: James A. Matisoff University of California, Berkeley Parasession on Grammar and Spoken Discourse We are seeking abstracts on The use of grammar in connected speech Keynote Speaker: Michael Noonan University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Abstracts for both the General Session and the 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 February 15, 2001 For more information, you can access the LSA Institute Web Page at http://www.summer.ucsb.edu or contact: Carol Genetti Department of Linguistics University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 (805) 893-3574 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 ---------------------------- Barbara Kelly Dept. Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA