From mszivy at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL Wed Jan 2 17:38:23 2002 From: mszivy at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL (Yael Ziv) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:38:23 +0200 Subject: addressassistance Message-ID: Dear List members, A student of mine is trying to locate Nancy Stern with reference to her work on English self-forms (an abstract of which appeared in the Seventh International Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behaviour to take place in February in Columbia University) whose institutional affiliation is specified as Hofstra University. Any clues ? Thanks in advance Yael Ziv Dept of English Hebrew University Mt. Scopus Jerusalem, Israel 91905 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Mon Jan 7 07:26:46 2002 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:26:46 -0800 Subject: Japanese language lecturer positions at UCLA Message-ID: The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA seeks applicants for one full time lecturer (100%) and one part time lecturer position (66% appointment) in Intermediate/Advanced Japanese, starting Fall 2002. Appointment is for one year, but renewable. Position is subject to availability of funding. Candidates must have native or near-native fluency in Japanese and English, and previous experience in Japanese language teaching at college level is required. Familiarity with computer assisted language learning is essential. Previous experience of working as a coordinator of a large language program is highly valued for the fulltime lecturer position. MA in Japanese language pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, or Japanese linguistics is required. Responsibilities include coordination of Intermediate or Advanced Japanese (fulltime lecturer only) as well as class room teaching (both fulltime and part time lecturers). Review of candidates will begin January 31, 2002. Applications with a letter of interest, three letters of recommendation, and CV must be sent to the following address: Shoichi Iwasaki, Japanese Lecturer Search, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 290 Royce Hall, Box 951540, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM Tue Jan 8 22:48:03 2002 From: brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM (bruce richman) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:48:03 +0000 Subject: A possible site for a Beyond Chomsky meeting? Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Jan 9 00:26:55 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:26:55 -0800 Subject: New: ARISTOTE ET LE LEXIQUE DE L'ESPACE Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: ARISTOTE ET LE LEXIQUE DE L'ESPACE: RENCONTRES ENTRE LA PHYSIQUE GRECQUE ET LA LINGUISTIQUE COGNITIVE: Claude Vandeloise (Louisiana State University); paper ISBN: 1-57586-250-6, $30.00, 325 pages, text in French. CSLI Publications 2001. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu, email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu. To order this book, contact CSLI Publications at pubs at csli.stanford.edu or order online at http://cslipublications.stanford.edu. (click on Éditions CSLI or use the search feature to locate the book, then order). Book description (in English): With the present monograph, Aristote et le Lexique de l'Espace, Vandeloise both continues his exploration of this vital question and also initiates a broader, more basic investigation of thought and meaning in the spatial domain. This innovative work is novel in its conception and elegant in its execution. Three main concerns are productively brought together in a mutually revelatory fashion: besides French locatives, these include the tacit naive physics presupposed by the meanings of linguistic elements, as well as the building blocks and intrinsic organization of our conceptualizations in the physical realm. Perhaps surprisingly, and certainly provocatively, it is in the physics of Aristotle and his commentators that Vandeloise sees a correspondence between a representation of the physical world and the conceptual system underlying the linguistic description of space. Book description (in French): Ce livre étudie le vocabulaire spatial dans la Physique d'Aristote et dans les Commentaires qu'elle a suscités jusqu'au sixième siècle après J.C. chez Porphyre, Simplicius et Philopon. La physique naïve développée dans leur oeuvre éclaire l'étude des termes spatiaux dans les langues modernes. Aristote se révèle ainsi le premier lexicologue de l'espace. La première partie du livre est une longue expérience mentale qui conduit d'un monde aussi élémentaire que celui de Parménide à un monde suffisamment sophistiqué pour nécessiter l'usage de tout le vocabulaire spatial du français. A chaque étape, l'enrichissement du monde est mis en parallèle avec celui du vocabulaire. Dans la seconde partie, les résultats de cette expérience sont mis à profit dans trois analyses sémantiques détaillées consacrées au nom place, à la préposition dans et au verbe toucher. From vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Jan 15 18:46:20 2002 From: vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:46:20 -0500 Subject: Second announcement: 2002 Intl. Role and Reference Grammar Conference Message-ID: Second Announcement The 2002 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar: New Topics in Functional Linguistics: The Cognitive and Discoursive Dimension of Morphology, Syntax and Semantics University of La Rioja, Spain 22-28th July 2002 Organization The organizing committee for RRG2002 consists of Francisco Cortés (Universidad de La Laguna), Dan Everett (University of Manchester), Kees Hengeveld (University of Amsterdam), Ricardo Mairal (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Javier Martín Arista (Universidad de La Rioja), María Jesús Pérez Quintero (Universidad de La Laguna) and Robert Van Valin (University at Buffalo). Event Programme A five-day international course consisting of about fourty hours will be followed by a two-day international conference. The course will include lecture sessions at three levels: pre-graduate (about one hour and a half per day), post-graduate (about three hours per day) and specialized (about four hours per day). Pre-graduate sessions will introduce the basics of the main topic of the day; post-graduate sessions will provide a detailed account of functional models, including RRG and Functional Grammar; and specialized sessions will deal with advanced topics in RRG. The conference will stage papers, workshops and plenary sessions. Teaching and Discussion Topics RRG2002 will deal with functional linguistics (including semantics, syntax and morphology) in its wider discoursive and cognitive settings. Papers, workshops and plenary sessions are expected to contribute to the theory of RRG as rendered in Van Valin and LaPolla 1997: Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Special attention will be paid to the further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology, language acquisition, diachrony and lexical semantics. Parallel Session on FG The organizers would be very pleased to run a parallel session on FG during the conference, provided that there are enough proposals of contribution from the FG community. Papers should be devoted to the elaboration of the theory of FG as set out in Dik 1997: The Theory of Functional Grammar. 2 Vols. Edited by Kees Hengeveld. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Workshops may bear on points of convergence and divergence between the two functional models. Invited Speakers Speakers invited to the conference include Christopher Butler (University of Swansea), Dan Everett (University of Manchester), Kees Hengeveld (University of Amsterdam), Beth Levin (Stanford University), Ricardo Mairal (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp) and Robert Van Valin (University at Buffalo). The course lectures will be delivered by Dan Everett, Kees Hengeveld, Ricardo Mairal, Jan Nuyts and Robert Van Valin. Abstracts The deadline for the submission of abstracts of papers and workshops is February 1, 2002. They should be sent to rrg2002 at unirioja.es. Abstracts should be no longer than three hundred words, including references. The language of the conference will be English. Papers will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes of discussion. Workshops will be of two types: either presentations by one author lasting longer than the average paper or presentations by more than one author offering different perspectives on a single topic. Both types of workshop will last one hour. The selection of papers for presentation will have been communicated by March 15, 2002. Conference/course Fee Before April 15, 2002, the registration fee is ¤200 for the course and ¤200 for the conference. The fee for both events is ¤300. After April 15, 2002, an additional ¤50 will be charged: ¤250 for the course and the conference, and ¤350 for both events. The fee will include conference facilities and materials, as well as coffee, refreshments and lunches. Pre-registration A pre-registration form is enclosed. Please, send it by e-mail if you intend to participate in the course, the conference or both. Grant policy A maximum of ten grants will be given. Grants will be of two types, half and full (with reference to the events for which the applicant has registered). Applicants for full grants should be unemployed and certify their status. Applicants for half grants should have a gross annual income lower than ¤15,000, which should also be certified. Applications for grants can be sent to: Francisco Cortés Rodríguez Departamento de Filología Inglesa Facultad de Filología Universidad de La Laguna Campus de Guajara 38.071-Tenerife Spain All applicants for grants will be notified about the Organizing Committee´s decision by the end of May. Further information A web page is under construction at the moment. Further information on RRG2002, including a detailed programme, accomodation information, payment, social events, etc., will follow shortly. Such information will be sent to the RRG discussion list and to the FG discusion list. Anyone who has not suscribed and is interested in receiving further information should send a message to the e-mail address for RRG2002: rrg2002 at unirioja.es. Pre-registration form Last name: First name: Title: University: Department: Address: E-mail address: Do you intend to attend the course? Do you intend to participate in the conference? Do you intend to present a paper? Do you intend to present a workshop? From kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL Wed Jan 16 18:27:00 2002 From: kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL (kees hengeveld) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:27:00 +0100 Subject: conference and course on functional grammar Message-ID: The 10th International Conference on Functional Grammar (ICFG10) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 26-29 June, 2002. The Conference will be preceded by a one-week Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar, which will also be hosted by the University of Amsterdam. Full information on both events can now be found at From degand at LIGE.UCL.AC.BE Thu Jan 17 08:35:51 2002 From: degand at LIGE.UCL.AC.BE (Liesbeth Degand) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:35:51 +0100 Subject: German linguistics: Full time academic post at U/Louvain, Belgium Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Thu Jan 17 19:33:30 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:30 -0800 Subject: New Book: PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS, 2ND EDITION Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS, 2ND EDITION: Georgia M. Green and Jerry L. Morgan (University of Illinois) ;paper ISBN: 1-57586-348-0, $22.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-349-9, $62.00, 207 pages. CSLI Publications 2001. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu. To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature to locate the book, then order). Book description: The revised and expanded second edition of the Practical Guide to Syntactic Analysis is an indispensable resource for students and practitioners of syntax at all levels. The new edition adds a reference guide to over 60 grammatical phenomena that every syntactician should be familiar with. Although not a textbook, it complements any course in syntax by covering matters that textbooks and instructors do not normally explain: the seductive metaphors of generative grammar; the character of linguistic argumentation; theory-independent guidance for refining and presenting analyses; and a capsule sketch of the evolution of syntactic theory into its current directions. As a reference book, the sections are relatively independent, and may be consulted in any order. From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Thu Jan 24 01:16:01 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:16:01 -0800 Subject: New Book: COHERENCE, REFERENCE, AND THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: COHERENCE, REFERENCE, AND THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR: Andrew Kehler (UC San Diego) ;paper ISBN: 1-57586-216-6, $22.95, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-215-8, $64.95, 231 pages. CSLI Publications 2002. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu. To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature to locate the book, then order). Book description: A natural language discourse is not just an arbitrary sequence of utterances; a discourse must also exhibit coherence. Despite its centrality to discourse interpretation, coherence rarely plays a role in theories of linguistic phenomena that operate across clause boundaries. In this book, Kehler provides an analysis of coherence relationships rooted in three types of 'connection among ideas' first articulated by the philosopher David Hume: Resemblance, Cause-Effect, and Contiguity. Kehler then shows how these relationships affect the distribution of a diverse set of linguistic phenomena, including verb phrase ellipsis, gapping, extraction from coordinate structures, pronominal reference, and tense. In each of these areas, Kehler demonstrates how the constraints imposed by linguistic form interact with those imposed by the process of establishing coherence to explain data that have eluded previous analyses. This book will be of interest to researchers working in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy of language. Praise for "Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar": "Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar is one of the most original books on discourse phenomena to be published in the last twenty-five years. In this work, Andrew Kehler argues persuasively that an adequate account of what look to be intrasentential, even purely syntactic, phenomena cannot be obtained except from a trans-sentential and inferential perspective. A truly surprising and important work!" -David Israel, AI Center, SRI International "This book is an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of the interactions between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It will be a revelation for formal linguists who have overlooked the relevance of coherence relations among sentences in a discourse for a variety of syntactic and semantic patterns, for cognitive and functional linguists in search of a lucidly presented formal model for complex discourse patterns, and for computational linguists in search of a sensible and intuitive way of understanding discourse and coherence." -Mary Dalrymple, Xerox PARC From jeaniec at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU Sat Jan 26 00:32:21 2002 From: jeaniec at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU (Jeanie Castillo) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:32:21 -0800 Subject: Amended Call for Papers for the 2002 Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Message-ID: **IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING ABSTRACTS FOR THE 5TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON AMERICAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES** It has come to our attention that several people experienced problems submitting abstracts by email. Therefore, we are extending the deadline for abstract submission to Thursday, January 31, 2002. If you submitted an abstract and have not received email confirmation, please resubmit your abstract to Jeanie Castillo at jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu or fax it to (805) 893-7769. The call for papers has been repeated below. ---------------------------- Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 26-28, 2002 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its fifth annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive linguistic studies of indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single and one co-authored paper. Abstracts should be 500 words or less and can be submitted by hard copy or email. For hard copy submissions, please send five copies of your abstract and a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email submissions are encouraged. Include the information from the 3x5 card (above) in the body of the email message with the abstract as an attachment. Please limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft Word document. Send email submissions to: jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 31, 2002 Notification of acceptance will be by email by February 15, 2002. For further information contact the conference coordinator at wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776 or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.uc From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Tue Jan 29 15:50:50 2002 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:50:50 -0500 Subject: New Book - Voeltz: Ideophones Message-ID: A new book from John Benjamins Publishing: Ideophones F.K. Erhard VOELTZ and Christa KILLIAN-HATZ (Cologne University) (eds.) Typological Studies in Language 44 2001. x, 436 pp. Hardcover US & Canada: 1 58811 019 2 / USD 114.00 Rest of world: 90 272 2946 5 / EUR 125.00 The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language--the language register, where gestures are used--rather than written language. Contributions by: F. K. Erhard Voeltz & Christa Kilian-Hatz; Barry Alpher; Felix K. Ameka; Azeb Amha; G.Tucker Childs; Denis Creissels; Francis O. Egbokhare; Stefan Elders; Vesa Jarva; Nicky de Jong; N.S. Kabuta; Christa Kilian-Hatz; Marian Klamer; Daniel P. Kunene; Omen N. Maduka-Durunze; William McGregor; Eve Mikone; C.T. Msimang & G. Poulos; Paul Newman; Philip A. Noss; Janis B. Nuckolls; Paulette Roulon-Doko; Carl Rubino; William J. Samarin; Ronald P. Schaefer; Eva Schultze-Berndt; Okombe-Lukumbu Tassa. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6304747 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From hwilliams at IIE.ORG Tue Jan 29 19:51:50 2002 From: hwilliams at IIE.ORG (Williams, Holly) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:51:50 -0500 Subject: 2003-04 FULBRIGHT DISTINGUISHED CHAIRS IN LINGUISTICS: APPLY NOW Message-ID: > The following Fulbright awards are viewed as among the most prestigious > appointments in the Fulbright Program. Lecturing is usually in English. > Candidates must be U.S. citizens and have a prominent record of scholarly > accomplishment. Consult CIES Web site > for information about > application procedure and current updates. To apply, send a letter of > interest (up to 3 pages), c.v. 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One semester, beginning October 2003 or March > 2004. www.uibk.ac.at > > AUSTRIA: FULBRIGHT-UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN THE > HUMANITIES OR SOCIAL SCIENCES: Grantee will offer three courses at > advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. Course level and content are > to be arranged in consultation with the host institution. This chair > rotates between faculties and will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities > and Cultural Studies in 2003-04, which has departments in classical and > modern languages and literatures, comparative literature, linguistics and > translating, American studies, all fields of history from ancient to > contemporary, archaeology, art history, ethnology, musicology, and area > studies. Open to any specialization in humanities or area studies at the > Faculty. Lecturing in English. Some knowledge of German is desirable. > Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies in 2003-04 and Faculty of Human > and Social Sciences in 2004-05. 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Subject expertise desired is theoretical > linguistics, with specializations in syntax and semantics. Academic rank > open. Three months, beginning March or April 2004. www.unive.it From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Thu Jan 31 16:12:50 2002 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:12:50 -0500 Subject: New Book - Baron: Dimensions of Possession Message-ID: Hello. This is a new book from John Benjmains Publishing which should interest functionalists. Dimensions of Possession Irene BARON, Michael HERSLUND and Finn SØRENSEN (Copenhagen Business School) (eds.) Typological Studies in Language 47 2001. vi, 337 pp. Hardcover US & Canada: 1 58811 062 1 / USD 86.00 Rest of world: 90 272 2951 1 / EUR 95.00 Few linguistic concepts are more elusive than 'possession'. The present collection of articles, selected from an international workshop held in Copenhagen in May 1998, confronts the subject from several angles (lexicon; the semantics of possession and the verb HAVE; the syntax of genitives and other possessive structures; the interaction of verbal and nominal constructions; the semantic and textual implications of the alienable/inalienable distinction, etc.) and approaches (formal semantics; functional semantics; and syntax as diachronic and typological comparisons). The languages covered include both European languages such as Danish, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin, and several American, Australian, African and Asian languages. This volume in which the contributing scholars have sought to examine as many 'dimensions' as possible is of interest to all linguists, in particular those working in the field of typology and functional approaches to language. Contributions by: Michael Herslund & Irène Baron; Hansjakob Seiler; Ole Togeby; Finn Sørensen; William McGregor; Irène Baron & Michael Herslund; Per Durst-Andersen; Lars Heltoft; Inge Bartning; Henrik Høeg Müller; Martin Riegel Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) P O Box 27519 Ph: 215 836-1200 Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 Fax: 215 836-1204 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Jan 31 18:21:27 2002 From: vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:21:27 -0500 Subject: Web site for 2002 RRG Conference Message-ID: The address for the web site for 'The 2002 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (New Topics in Functional Linguistics: The Cognitive and Discoursive Dimension of Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)' is http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dfm/sub/congresos/RRG/RRG2002.html Robert Van Valin VANVALIN at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU *************** Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Tel 716 645-2177, ext. 713 Professor & Chair Fax 716 645-3825 Department of Linguistics 609 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo The State University of New York Buffalo, NY 14260-1030 USA VANVALIN at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/vanvalin/vanvalin.shtml From mszivy at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL Wed Jan 2 17:38:23 2002 From: mszivy at MSCC.HUJI.AC.IL (Yael Ziv) Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:38:23 +0200 Subject: addressassistance Message-ID: Dear List members, A student of mine is trying to locate Nancy Stern with reference to her work on English self-forms (an abstract of which appeared in the Seventh International Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behaviour to take place in February in Columbia University) whose institutional affiliation is specified as Hofstra University. Any clues ? Thanks in advance Yael Ziv Dept of English Hebrew University Mt. Scopus Jerusalem, Israel 91905 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU Mon Jan 7 07:26:46 2002 From: iwasaki at HUMNET.UCLA.EDU (Shoichi Iwasaki) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 23:26:46 -0800 Subject: Japanese language lecturer positions at UCLA Message-ID: The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA seeks applicants for one full time lecturer (100%) and one part time lecturer position (66% appointment) in Intermediate/Advanced Japanese, starting Fall 2002. Appointment is for one year, but renewable. Position is subject to availability of funding. Candidates must have native or near-native fluency in Japanese and English, and previous experience in Japanese language teaching at college level is required. Familiarity with computer assisted language learning is essential. Previous experience of working as a coordinator of a large language program is highly valued for the fulltime lecturer position. MA in Japanese language pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, or Japanese linguistics is required. Responsibilities include coordination of Intermediate or Advanced Japanese (fulltime lecturer only) as well as class room teaching (both fulltime and part time lecturers). Review of candidates will begin January 31, 2002. Applications with a letter of interest, three letters of recommendation, and CV must be sent to the following address: Shoichi Iwasaki, Japanese Lecturer Search, East Asian Languages and Cultures, 290 Royce Hall, Box 951540, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM Tue Jan 8 22:48:03 2002 From: brucerichman at HOTMAIL.COM (bruce richman) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:48:03 +0000 Subject: A possible site for a Beyond Chomsky meeting? Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Jan 9 00:26:55 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:26:55 -0800 Subject: New: ARISTOTE ET LE LEXIQUE DE L'ESPACE Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: ARISTOTE ET LE LEXIQUE DE L'ESPACE: RENCONTRES ENTRE LA PHYSIQUE GRECQUE ET LA LINGUISTIQUE COGNITIVE: Claude Vandeloise (Louisiana State University); paper ISBN: 1-57586-250-6, $30.00, 325 pages, text in French. CSLI Publications 2001. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu, email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu. To order this book, contact CSLI Publications at pubs at csli.stanford.edu or order online at http://cslipublications.stanford.edu. (click on ?ditions CSLI or use the search feature to locate the book, then order). Book description (in English): With the present monograph, Aristote et le Lexique de l'Espace, Vandeloise both continues his exploration of this vital question and also initiates a broader, more basic investigation of thought and meaning in the spatial domain. This innovative work is novel in its conception and elegant in its execution. Three main concerns are productively brought together in a mutually revelatory fashion: besides French locatives, these include the tacit naive physics presupposed by the meanings of linguistic elements, as well as the building blocks and intrinsic organization of our conceptualizations in the physical realm. Perhaps surprisingly, and certainly provocatively, it is in the physics of Aristotle and his commentators that Vandeloise sees a correspondence between a representation of the physical world and the conceptual system underlying the linguistic description of space. Book description (in French): Ce livre ?tudie le vocabulaire spatial dans la Physique d'Aristote et dans les Commentaires qu'elle a suscit?s jusqu'au sixi?me si?cle apr?s J.C. chez Porphyre, Simplicius et Philopon. La physique na?ve d?velopp?e dans leur oeuvre ?claire l'?tude des termes spatiaux dans les langues modernes. Aristote se r?v?le ainsi le premier lexicologue de l'espace. La premi?re partie du livre est une longue exp?rience mentale qui conduit d'un monde aussi ?l?mentaire que celui de Parm?nide ? un monde suffisamment sophistiqu? pour n?cessiter l'usage de tout le vocabulaire spatial du fran?ais. A chaque ?tape, l'enrichissement du monde est mis en parall?le avec celui du vocabulaire. Dans la seconde partie, les r?sultats de cette exp?rience sont mis ? profit dans trois analyses s?mantiques d?taill?es consacr?es au nom place, ? la pr?position dans et au verbe toucher. From vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Jan 15 18:46:20 2002 From: vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:46:20 -0500 Subject: Second announcement: 2002 Intl. Role and Reference Grammar Conference Message-ID: Second Announcement The 2002 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar: New Topics in Functional Linguistics: The Cognitive and Discoursive Dimension of Morphology, Syntax and Semantics University of La Rioja, Spain 22-28th July 2002 Organization The organizing committee for RRG2002 consists of Francisco Cort?s (Universidad de La Laguna), Dan Everett (University of Manchester), Kees Hengeveld (University of Amsterdam), Ricardo Mairal (Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia), Javier Mart?n Arista (Universidad de La Rioja), Mar?a Jes?s P?rez Quintero (Universidad de La Laguna) and Robert Van Valin (University at Buffalo). Event Programme A five-day international course consisting of about fourty hours will be followed by a two-day international conference. The course will include lecture sessions at three levels: pre-graduate (about one hour and a half per day), post-graduate (about three hours per day) and specialized (about four hours per day). Pre-graduate sessions will introduce the basics of the main topic of the day; post-graduate sessions will provide a detailed account of functional models, including RRG and Functional Grammar; and specialized sessions will deal with advanced topics in RRG. The conference will stage papers, workshops and plenary sessions. Teaching and Discussion Topics RRG2002 will deal with functional linguistics (including semantics, syntax and morphology) in its wider discoursive and cognitive settings. Papers, workshops and plenary sessions are expected to contribute to the theory of RRG as rendered in Van Valin and LaPolla 1997: Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Special attention will be paid to the further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology, language acquisition, diachrony and lexical semantics. Parallel Session on FG The organizers would be very pleased to run a parallel session on FG during the conference, provided that there are enough proposals of contribution from the FG community. Papers should be devoted to the elaboration of the theory of FG as set out in Dik 1997: The Theory of Functional Grammar. 2 Vols. Edited by Kees Hengeveld. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Workshops may bear on points of convergence and divergence between the two functional models. Invited Speakers Speakers invited to the conference include Christopher Butler (University of Swansea), Dan Everett (University of Manchester), Kees Hengeveld (University of Amsterdam), Beth Levin (Stanford University), Ricardo Mairal (Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia), Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp) and Robert Van Valin (University at Buffalo). The course lectures will be delivered by Dan Everett, Kees Hengeveld, Ricardo Mairal, Jan Nuyts and Robert Van Valin. Abstracts The deadline for the submission of abstracts of papers and workshops is February 1, 2002. They should be sent to rrg2002 at unirioja.es. Abstracts should be no longer than three hundred words, including references. The language of the conference will be English. Papers will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes of discussion. Workshops will be of two types: either presentations by one author lasting longer than the average paper or presentations by more than one author offering different perspectives on a single topic. Both types of workshop will last one hour. The selection of papers for presentation will have been communicated by March 15, 2002. Conference/course Fee Before April 15, 2002, the registration fee is ?200 for the course and ?200 for the conference. The fee for both events is ?300. After April 15, 2002, an additional ?50 will be charged: ?250 for the course and the conference, and ?350 for both events. The fee will include conference facilities and materials, as well as coffee, refreshments and lunches. Pre-registration A pre-registration form is enclosed. Please, send it by e-mail if you intend to participate in the course, the conference or both. Grant policy A maximum of ten grants will be given. Grants will be of two types, half and full (with reference to the events for which the applicant has registered). Applicants for full grants should be unemployed and certify their status. Applicants for half grants should have a gross annual income lower than ?15,000, which should also be certified. Applications for grants can be sent to: Francisco Cort?s Rodr?guez Departamento de Filolog?a Inglesa Facultad de Filolog?a Universidad de La Laguna Campus de Guajara 38.071-Tenerife Spain All applicants for grants will be notified about the Organizing Committee?s decision by the end of May. Further information A web page is under construction at the moment. Further information on RRG2002, including a detailed programme, accomodation information, payment, social events, etc., will follow shortly. Such information will be sent to the RRG discussion list and to the FG discusion list. Anyone who has not suscribed and is interested in receiving further information should send a message to the e-mail address for RRG2002: rrg2002 at unirioja.es. Pre-registration form Last name: First name: Title: University: Department: Address: E-mail address: Do you intend to attend the course? Do you intend to participate in the conference? Do you intend to present a paper? Do you intend to present a workshop? From kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL Wed Jan 16 18:27:00 2002 From: kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL (kees hengeveld) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:27:00 +0100 Subject: conference and course on functional grammar Message-ID: The 10th International Conference on Functional Grammar (ICFG10) will take place at the University of Amsterdam from 26-29 June, 2002. The Conference will be preceded by a one-week Postgraduate Course on Functional Grammar, which will also be hosted by the University of Amsterdam. Full information on both events can now be found at From degand at LIGE.UCL.AC.BE Thu Jan 17 08:35:51 2002 From: degand at LIGE.UCL.AC.BE (Liesbeth Degand) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:35:51 +0100 Subject: German linguistics: Full time academic post at U/Louvain, Belgium Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Thu Jan 17 19:33:30 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:33:30 -0800 Subject: New Book: PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS, 2ND EDITION Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS, 2ND EDITION: Georgia M. Green and Jerry L. Morgan (University of Illinois) ;paper ISBN: 1-57586-348-0, $22.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-349-9, $62.00, 207 pages. CSLI Publications 2001. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu. To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature to locate the book, then order). Book description: The revised and expanded second edition of the Practical Guide to Syntactic Analysis is an indispensable resource for students and practitioners of syntax at all levels. The new edition adds a reference guide to over 60 grammatical phenomena that every syntactician should be familiar with. Although not a textbook, it complements any course in syntax by covering matters that textbooks and instructors do not normally explain: the seductive metaphors of generative grammar; the character of linguistic argumentation; theory-independent guidance for refining and presenting analyses; and a capsule sketch of the evolution of syntactic theory into its current directions. As a reference book, the sections are relatively independent, and may be consulted in any order. From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Thu Jan 24 01:16:01 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:16:01 -0800 Subject: New Book: COHERENCE, REFERENCE, AND THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: COHERENCE, REFERENCE, AND THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR: Andrew Kehler (UC San Diego) ;paper ISBN: 1-57586-216-6, $22.95, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-215-8, $64.95, 231 pages. CSLI Publications 2002. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu. To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature to locate the book, then order). Book description: A natural language discourse is not just an arbitrary sequence of utterances; a discourse must also exhibit coherence. Despite its centrality to discourse interpretation, coherence rarely plays a role in theories of linguistic phenomena that operate across clause boundaries. In this book, Kehler provides an analysis of coherence relationships rooted in three types of 'connection among ideas' first articulated by the philosopher David Hume: Resemblance, Cause-Effect, and Contiguity. Kehler then shows how these relationships affect the distribution of a diverse set of linguistic phenomena, including verb phrase ellipsis, gapping, extraction from coordinate structures, pronominal reference, and tense. In each of these areas, Kehler demonstrates how the constraints imposed by linguistic form interact with those imposed by the process of establishing coherence to explain data that have eluded previous analyses. This book will be of interest to researchers working in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and philosophy of language. Praise for "Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar": "Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar is one of the most original books on discourse phenomena to be published in the last twenty-five years. In this work, Andrew Kehler argues persuasively that an adequate account of what look to be intrasentential, even purely syntactic, phenomena cannot be obtained except from a trans-sentential and inferential perspective. A truly surprising and important work!" -David Israel, AI Center, SRI International "This book is an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of the interactions between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It will be a revelation for formal linguists who have overlooked the relevance of coherence relations among sentences in a discourse for a variety of syntactic and semantic patterns, for cognitive and functional linguists in search of a lucidly presented formal model for complex discourse patterns, and for computational linguists in search of a sensible and intuitive way of understanding discourse and coherence." -Mary Dalrymple, Xerox PARC From jeaniec at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU Sat Jan 26 00:32:21 2002 From: jeaniec at UMAIL.UCSB.EDU (Jeanie Castillo) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:32:21 -0800 Subject: Amended Call for Papers for the 2002 Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Message-ID: **IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING ABSTRACTS FOR THE 5TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON AMERICAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES** It has come to our attention that several people experienced problems submitting abstracts by email. Therefore, we are extending the deadline for abstract submission to Thursday, January 31, 2002. If you submitted an abstract and have not received email confirmation, please resubmit your abstract to Jeanie Castillo at jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu or fax it to (805) 893-7769. The call for papers has been repeated below. ---------------------------- Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 26-28, 2002 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its fifth annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive linguistic studies of indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single and one co-authored paper. Abstracts should be 500 words or less and can be submitted by hard copy or email. For hard copy submissions, please send five copies of your abstract and a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email submissions are encouraged. Include the information from the 3x5 card (above) in the body of the email message with the abstract as an attachment. Please limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft Word document. Send email submissions to: jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 31, 2002 Notification of acceptance will be by email by February 15, 2002. For further information contact the conference coordinator at wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776 or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.uc From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Tue Jan 29 15:50:50 2002 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:50:50 -0500 Subject: New Book - Voeltz: Ideophones Message-ID: A new book from John Benjamins Publishing: Ideophones F.K. Erhard VOELTZ and Christa KILLIAN-HATZ (Cologne University) (eds.) Typological Studies in Language 44 2001. x, 436 pp. Hardcover US & Canada: 1 58811 019 2 / USD 114.00 Rest of world: 90 272 2946 5 / EUR 125.00 The present volume represents a selection of papers presented at the International Symposium on Ideophones held in January 1999 in St. Augustin, Germany. They center around the following hypotheses: Ideophones are universal; and constitute a grammatical category in all languages of the world; ideophones and similar words have a special dramaturgic function that differs from all other word classes: they simulate an event, an emotion, a perception through language. In addition to this unique function, a good number of formal parallels can be observed. The languages dealt with here display strikingly similar patterns of derivational processes involving ideophones. An equally widespread common feature is the introduction of ideophones via a verbum dicendi or complementizer. Another observation concerns the sound-symbolic behavior of ideophones. Thus the word formation of ideophones differs from other words in their tendency for iconicity and sound-symbolism. Finally it is made clear that ideophones are part of spoken language--the language register, where gestures are used--rather than written language. Contributions by: F. K. Erhard Voeltz & Christa Kilian-Hatz; Barry Alpher; Felix K. Ameka; Azeb Amha; G.Tucker Childs; Denis Creissels; Francis O. Egbokhare; Stefan Elders; Vesa Jarva; Nicky de Jong; N.S. Kabuta; Christa Kilian-Hatz; Marian Klamer; Daniel P. Kunene; Omen N. Maduka-Durunze; William McGregor; Eve Mikone; C.T. Msimang & G. Poulos; Paul Newman; Philip A. Noss; Janis B. Nuckolls; Paulette Roulon-Doko; Carl Rubino; William J. Samarin; Ronald P. Schaefer; Eva Schultze-Berndt; Okombe-Lukumbu Tassa. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6304747 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From hwilliams at IIE.ORG Tue Jan 29 19:51:50 2002 From: hwilliams at IIE.ORG (Williams, Holly) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:51:50 -0500 Subject: 2003-04 FULBRIGHT DISTINGUISHED CHAIRS IN LINGUISTICS: APPLY NOW Message-ID: > The following Fulbright awards are viewed as among the most prestigious > appointments in the Fulbright Program. Lecturing is usually in English. > Candidates must be U.S. citizens and have a prominent record of scholarly > accomplishment. Consult CIES Web site > for information about > application procedure and current updates. To apply, send a letter of > interest (up to 3 pages), c.v. 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One semester, beginning October 2003 or March > 2004. www.uibk.ac.at > > AUSTRIA: FULBRIGHT-UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN THE > HUMANITIES OR SOCIAL SCIENCES: Grantee will offer three courses at > advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. Course level and content are > to be arranged in consultation with the host institution. This chair > rotates between faculties and will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities > and Cultural Studies in 2003-04, which has departments in classical and > modern languages and literatures, comparative literature, linguistics and > translating, American studies, all fields of history from ancient to > contemporary, archaeology, art history, ethnology, musicology, and area > studies. Open to any specialization in humanities or area studies at the > Faculty. Lecturing in English. Some knowledge of German is desirable. > Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies in 2003-04 and Faculty of Human > and Social Sciences in 2004-05. 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Subject expertise desired is theoretical > linguistics, with specializations in syntax and semantics. Academic rank > open. Three months, beginning March or April 2004. www.unive.it From paul at BENJAMINS.COM Thu Jan 31 16:12:50 2002 From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:12:50 -0500 Subject: New Book - Baron: Dimensions of Possession Message-ID: Hello. This is a new book from John Benjmains Publishing which should interest functionalists. Dimensions of Possession Irene BARON, Michael HERSLUND and Finn S?RENSEN (Copenhagen Business School) (eds.) Typological Studies in Language 47 2001. vi, 337 pp. Hardcover US & Canada: 1 58811 062 1 / USD 86.00 Rest of world: 90 272 2951 1 / EUR 95.00 Few linguistic concepts are more elusive than 'possession'. The present collection of articles, selected from an international workshop held in Copenhagen in May 1998, confronts the subject from several angles (lexicon; the semantics of possession and the verb HAVE; the syntax of genitives and other possessive structures; the interaction of verbal and nominal constructions; the semantic and textual implications of the alienable/inalienable distinction, etc.) and approaches (formal semantics; functional semantics; and syntax as diachronic and typological comparisons). The languages covered include both European languages such as Danish, French, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin, and several American, Australian, African and Asian languages. This volume in which the contributing scholars have sought to examine as many 'dimensions' as possible is of interest to all linguists, in particular those working in the field of typology and functional approaches to language. Contributions by: Michael Herslund & Ir?ne Baron; Hansjakob Seiler; Ole Togeby; Finn S?rensen; William McGregor; Ir?ne Baron & Michael Herslund; Per Durst-Andersen; Lars Heltoft; Inge Bartning; Henrik H?eg M?ller; Martin Riegel Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) P O Box 27519 Ph: 215 836-1200 Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 Fax: 215 836-1204 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Thu Jan 31 18:21:27 2002 From: vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:21:27 -0500 Subject: Web site for 2002 RRG Conference Message-ID: The address for the web site for 'The 2002 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (New Topics in Functional Linguistics: The Cognitive and Discoursive Dimension of Morphology, Syntax and Semantics)' is http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dfm/sub/congresos/RRG/RRG2002.html Robert Van Valin VANVALIN at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU *************** Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Tel 716 645-2177, ext. 713 Professor & Chair Fax 716 645-3825 Department of Linguistics 609 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo The State University of New York Buffalo, NY 14260-1030 USA VANVALIN at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/vanvalin/vanvalin.shtml