From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Mon Jul 1 18:47:19 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:47:19 -0700 Subject: New Book: The Construction of Meaning Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING; David I. Beaver (Stanford University), Luis D. Casillas Martinez (Stanford University), Brady Z. Clark (Stanford University) and Stefan Kaufmann (Kyoto University and Northwestern University);paper ISBN: 1-57586-376-6, $25.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-375-8, $67.50, 264 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: "The Construction of Meaning" collects leading-edge work on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language conducted at Stanford University. Contributors include Eve Clark, Paul Kiparsky, Stanley Peters, Dag Westerstahl and Arnold Zwicky. The volume includes research on a number of languages (English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and Quechua) and phenomena, including adverbial modification, classifiers, constructional meaning, control phenomena, evidentiality, event semantics, focus, presupposition and quantification. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the latest developments in the study of meaning. --------------- From strechter at CSUCHICO.EDU Mon Jul 8 19:34:39 2002 From: strechter at CSUCHICO.EDU (Trechter, Sara) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:34:39 -0700 Subject: Ken Hale Prize Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Nominations solicited for the Ken Hale Prize ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SSILA's Ken Hale Prize, being inaugurated this year, is presented annually in recognition of outstanding community language work and a deep commitment to the documentation, preservation and reclamation of indigenous languages in the Americas. The Prize (which carries a small monetary stipend and is not to be confused with the LSA's Kenneth Hale Book Award) will honor those who strive to link the academic and community spheres in the spirit of Ken Hale, and recipients will range from native speakers and community-based linguists to academic specialists, and may include groups or organizations. No academic affiliation is necessary. Nominations for the award may be made by anyone, and should include a letter of nomination stating the current position and affiliation (tribal, organizational, or academic) of the nominee or nominated group, and a summary of the nominee's background and contributions to specific language communities. The nominator should also submit a brief port- folio of supporting materials, such as the nominee's curriculum vitae, a description of completed or on-going activities of the nominee, letters from those who are most familiar with the work of the nominee (e.g. language program staff, community people, academic associates), and any other material that would support the nomination. Submission of manuscript-length work is discouraged. The nomination packet should be sent to the chair of the Committee: Sara Trechter Linguistics Program/English Department California State University, Chico Chico, CA 95929-0830 Inquiries can be e-mailed to Sara Trechter at (strechter at csuchico.edu). The deadline for receipt of nominations has been extended to October 15, 2002. The 2002 Ken Hale Prize will be announced at the next annual meeting of SSILA, in Atlanta, in January 2003. The other members of this year's selection committee are Randolph Graczyk and Nora England. From francisco.santibanez at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES Mon Jul 15 14:59:40 2002 From: francisco.santibanez at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Francisco_Santib=E1=F1ez_S=E1enz?=) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:59:40 -2300 Subject: 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) Message-ID: [Please, circulate. We apologize for multiple postings] 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) "Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common Ground and New Directions" July 20-25, 2003 University of La Rioja, Spain ===================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== The ICLC is the biannual meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. This is the first call for abstracts for the GENERAL, POSTER, and THEME sessions. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES A) GENERAL SESSIONS: ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. B) THEME SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS Organizers of theme sessions should be prepared to submit the following information: a) A short description of their session topic (300-500 words) b) An indication of the structure proposed for the whole session: order of presentations, discussant contributions, breaks, and general discussion by the audience. c) The abstracts from all of their speakers, accompanied by all the information requested in the abstract specifications below. d) The names of discussants plus an indication of their discussion assignments. e) The length of each of the oral presentations. These should not exceed 20 minutes. f) The time assigned to discussants (it should range between 15 and 20 minutes). g) The amount of time for general discussion by the audience. ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS FOR GENERAL AND THEME SESSIONS: All abstracts should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including references, and they should specify research question(s), approach/ method/data, and (expected) results. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by three members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 2003. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. The body of your email message should contain the following information: - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - full mailing address - telephone number - fax number - email address - title of presentation - (three or four) keywords - presenter(s) name (person/s who will be making the presentation) - preferred format: a) oral presentation b) poster c) preference for oral presentation but willing to do a poster (time slots for spoken presentations may be limited) The abstract should be anonymous. Please, send title and abstract in an attached file (MS Word, RTF). Submit your proposal to the following email address: francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send 3 high-quality anonymous copies of your abstract and the keywords, accompanied by 1 high-quality copy of the rest of the information (name, affiliation, address, etc.) to the following address: Francisco J. RUIZ DE MENDOZA Universidad de La Rioja Departamento de Filologías Modernas Edificio de Filología c/San José de Calasanz s/n Campus Universitario 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain Tel.: +34 (941) 299430 FAX.: +34 (941) 299419 Only those proposals following the abstract specifications will be considered. SUBMISSION DEADLINES -For GENERAL and POSTER sessions: November 15, 2002 -For THEME sessions: October 1, 2002 CONTACT INFORMATION For up-to-date information on all matters, check the ICLC website: http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dfm/sub/congresos/LingCog/ICLC_2003.html Further information on the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA): See the ICLA homepage at http://www.siu.edu/~icla/ If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organizers. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, University of La Rioja (francisco.ruiz@ dfm.unirioja.es) Javier Martín Arista, University of La Rioja. (javier.martin@ dfm.unirioja.es) Lorena Pérez Hernández, University of La Rioja (lorena.perez@ dfm.unirioja.es) Sandra Peña Cervel, UNED, Madrid (spena at flog.uned.es) Francisco Santibáñez Saénz, University of La Rioja (francisco.santibanez@ dfm.unirioja.es) Olga Díez Velasco, University of La Rioja (olgadiez at email.com) Nuria Alfaro, University of La Rioja (nuria.alfaro at dfm.unirioja.es) ADVISORY COMMITTEE Antonio Barcelona, University of Murcia (abs at um.es) René Dirven, Duisburg (rene.dirven at pandora.be) Carlos Inchaurralde, Zaragoza University (inchaur at posta.unizar.es) Juana Marín, Complutense University (juana at filol.ucm.es) Jan Nuyts, Antwerp University (Jan.Nuyts at ua.ac.be) Klaus-Uwe Panther, Hamburg University (panther at uni-hamburg.de) Jesús Sánchez, Córdoba University (ff1sagaj at lucano.uco.es) Gerard Steen, Vrije University (gj.steen at LET.VU.NL) From ajid at PKRISC.CC.UKM.MY Tue Jul 16 02:08:11 2002 From: ajid at PKRISC.CC.UKM.MY (ajid at PKRISC.CC.UKM.MY) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:08:11 +0800 Subject: Your password! 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Best, Damon -- Damon Davison http://allolex.freeshell.org/ http://www.ict.usc.edu From info at eldp.soas.ac.uk Tue Jul 16 12:40:14 2002 From: info at eldp.soas.ac.uk (Jacqueline Arrol-Barker) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:40:14 +0100 Subject: The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Message-ID: Please find below outline details of a new research programme for the documentation of Endangered Languages. Initial announcement The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme A. A new research programme for the documentation of endangered languages. There is a very strong prospect that a private foundation will initiate a programme of grants to support the documentation of endangered languages, and appoint the School of Oriental & African Studies, London University [SOAS] to administer the scheme. The prospective Invitation to Apply, which is likely to be disseminated in late August, will contain full guidelines and contact details for any further inquiries. In the interim, no further details will be made available and prospective applicants are requested to avoid contacting SOAS with inquiries. The purpose of this announcement is to indicate the rationale of the putative programme and enable potential applicants to begin considering the details of their possible proposals. B. Rationale. The rationale of such a programme will be familiar to potential applicants: the pace at which languages are becoming extinct is increasing throughout the world. Furthermore, since only about one-third of the world’s languages have literate traditions, the vast majority of languages which die will leave no substantial record of themselves, or the cultural traditions that they have sustained. Quite apart from the loss of individual cultural expressions, this process reflects a grave diminution in human and cultural diversity and a loss of the knowledge on which they are based and which they embody. The objective of the proposed programme would be twofold: to encourage the development of linguistic fieldwork in endangered languages, especially by younger scholars with a grounding in linguistic theory, who will thereby also be provided with support between basic graduate work and the assumption of university positions; and to support the documentation of as many threatened languages as possible, focused on where the danger of extinction is greatest, facilitating the preservation of culture and knowledge, and creating repositories of data for the linguistic and social sciences, and of course for indigenous communities. Such documentation should, therefore, have regard not only to the formal content and structure of languages, but also to the varied social and cultural contexts within which languages are used. In addition to the intellectual quality of applications, principal grounds for support will be the degree of endangerment and the urgency of the issues. C. Applications. Applications will be invited from researchers - who might include suitably qualified research students or postdoctoral candidate, as well as senior and established academics - with qualifications in and, ideally, experience of field linguistics. It is anticipated that all applicants will have, or will have developed in advance of funding, a formal link with (preferably an established position in) a university or comparable research institution. The core of the programme will probably be grants to support more or less elaborate projects for the documentation of individual or closely related endangered languages, involving one or more researchers and receiving support for up to three or, in exceptional circumstances four, years. However, individuals (including suitably qualified research students and postdoctoral fellows) may apply for grants. In the first instance applicants will be expected to submit a relatively brief Summary Proposal Form. These will be assessed and those, which appear to conform to the programme’s expectations as to importance and quality, will be invited to submit a more detailed application. It is anticipated that in this first ‘round’ the date for submission of Summary Proposals will be mid-October 2002; invitations to submit detailed applications will be despatched in late November 2002; and the closing date for detailed applications will be early January 2003. Detailed applications will have to conform to a variety of standards (including ethical and technical standards), which will be specified in the formal Invitation to Apply some time in late August. Meanwhile, potential applicants are requested not to contact SOAS. From gthomson at MAC.COM Thu Jul 18 19:51:48 2002 From: gthomson at MAC.COM (Greg Thomson) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:51:48 -0700 Subject: Psycho/Sociolinguistics Conf., Kazakhstan: 2nd Notice In-Reply-To: Message-ID: DEAR COLLEAGUES! THE AL-FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS KAZAKH LANGUAGE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH CONFERENCE IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF AL-FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS: CONDITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES Conference date: September, 18-19, 2003. THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARE OFFERED FOR DISCUSSION BY CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: SOCIOLINGUISTIC TOPICS Ј LANGUAGE SITUATIONS AND LANGUAGE POLICY Ј SOCIAL AND REGIONAL VARIATION Ј INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES Ј SOCIETAL BILINGUALISM Ј LANGUAGES IN CONTACT Ј SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS PSYCHOLINGUISTIC TOPICS Ј NATIVE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CHILD BILINGUALISM Ј SPEECH PERCEPTION AND COMPREHENSION Ј SPEECH PRODUCTION Ј MENTAL LEXICON Ј BILINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM Ј PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM . CONFERENCE WORKING LANGUAGES: KAZAKH, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH PLEASE, ADD YOUR THESIS (1-2 PAGES) TO YOUR APPLICATION FORM . THESIS TEXT SHOULD BE PRINTED AND IN ELECTRONIC FORM( IN RTF-FORMAT: FILES SHOULD BE NAMED AFTER AUTHORS' SURNAMES). DEADLINE: NOVEMBER, 30, 2002. E-MAIL: altyn at kaszu.kz PHONE NUMBERS (3272) 47-27-97 (13-29) THE CONFERENCE MATERIALS ARE PLANNED TO BE PUBLISHED. REGISTRATION COST: $50 BY ELECTRONIC TRANSFER TO ACCOUNT NUMBER 199117351, BENEFICIARY UMATOVA, ZHANNA, BANK: KAZKOMMERTZBANK, ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN. SWIFT: KZKOKZKX; CORR/ACC. NO. 890-0223-057. CORRESPONDING BANK: BANK OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA. SWIFT: IRVTUS3N. CHIPS: 0001. FINANCIAL CONDITIONS: ALL PAYMENTS CONNECTED WITH CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION ARE PAID BY THE PARTICIPANT. Place: 480078, Kazakhstan, Almaty -city, al-Farabi - avenue, 71, KazNU, philological faculty. WE WELCOME YOUR INVOLVEMENT! 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URL: From funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU Sat Jul 20 02:53:32 2002 From: funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU (Funknet List Admin) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:53:32 -0500 Subject: Call for Papers: Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition (fwd) Message-ID: The following announcement may be of interest to members of this list: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- *** Call for Proposals for *** *** the 2003 Annual Meeting of *** *** the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition *** Full details are available at the conference website (http://www.uic.edu/depts/psch/cog/wintertext or via the Conference listing on the Society for Text and Discourse website (http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/st&d)) The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition will be held in the usual location: The Inn at Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The meeting typically attracts cognitive scientists interested in various aspects of language and text and the roles they play in various types of cognitive activities, e.g., reading, conversation, and learning. The meeting will take place from Friday, January 24, through Monday, January 27, 2003. Sessions begin at 4:00pm and end at 8:00pm each night. We have the option of extending the conference to a fifth day (January 28th) if there are sufficient papers to warrant it. This will be determined at the end of October when we have an idea of the number of folks who would like to present. Proposals for symposia, individual paper presentations, or posters may be submitted. The submission deadline is September 10, 2002. Proposals will undergo review, with notification of acceptance to be provided by the end of 2002. (If you would like to review proposals please e-mail Susan Goldman). Posters will be presented in an organized poster session. Tim Koschmann has already indicated that he will organize a symposium on video interactions. If you are interested in organizing another symposium or inviting a special speaker, please get in touch with Susan Goldman (sgoldman at uic.edu). For further information and details on all of the above, please see http://www.uic.edu/depts/psch/cog/wintertext/ or access the conference information through the Society for Text and Discourse website, conferences (http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/st&d) ________________________________________ Society for Text and Discourse Department of Psychology University of Memphis Psychology Building Memphis TN 38152 USA fax: (901) 678-2579 email: st_d at mail.psyc.memphis.edu http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/st&d.htm ________________________________________ From thuumo at UTU.FI Tue Jul 23 08:38:15 2002 From: thuumo at UTU.FI (Tuomas Huumo) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:38:15 +0300 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Call for participants Cognitive Linguistics East of Eden A joint conference organized by the Finnish Cognitive Linguistics Association (FiCLA) and the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) will take place in Turku, Finland, on September 13 to 15, 2002. Plenary speakers: Mirjam Fried (Princeton University) Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (University of Turku) Laura Janda (University of North Carolina) Helena Leheckova (University of Helsinki) Ekaterina Rakhilina (Moscow State University) The aim of the conference is to bring together cognitive linguists from the East and the West, and to offer a forum for collaboration and discussion on current developments in Cognitive Linguistics. The preliminary program of the conference and information on accommodation etc. can now be found at www.helsinki.fi/jarja/ficla For registering as a participant please contact Emmi Hynönen at emkahy at utu.fi From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Jul 24 22:30:02 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:30:02 -0700 Subject: New Book: Discontinuous NPs in German Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: DISCONTINUOUS NPs IN GERMAN; Kordula De Kuthy (The Ohio State University);paper ISBN: 1-57586-398-7, $28.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-397-9, $70.00, 206 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: This book investigates the occurrence of discontinuous noun phrases, a word order phenomenon in German. De Kuthy explores the division of labor between the syntactic analysis, lexical constraints, and discourse constraints of this phenomenon. She argues that many of the factors that previous literature has tried to explain in terms of syntactic restrictions on movement are in fact derivable from discourse factors. A prepositional phrase in German can occur separately from the noun phrase it modifies. Working within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), De Kuthy examines the syntactic analysis of the NP--PP split construction and provides an explicit theory that licenses reanalysis-like structures for this split. She goes on to identify lexical-semantic and discourse restrictions on the occurrence of discontinuous noun phrases. De Kuthy presents an account of the lexical-semantic effects, based on the Generative Lexicon, and integrates it with her HPSG analysis. De Kuthy explores the possible focus-background structures of NP-PP split constructions. She shows that discourse restrictions can be deduced from information-structure requirements of the construction and she formalizes this insight by developing and integrating an information-structure component into her HPSG analysis. Interestingly, some of the restrictions on movement that have been traditionally viewed as being syntactic automatically fall out of this information-structure module. This book ultimately provides an exemplary argument for rethinking the division of labor between syntax theory and a theory of discourse. --------------- From info at eldp.soas.ac.uk Fri Jul 26 11:08:18 2002 From: info at eldp.soas.ac.uk (Jacqueline Arrol-Barker) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:08:18 +0100 Subject: Endangered Languages Project Message-ID: Press Release To help explore and record linguistic diversity across the globe, a British foundation has provided £20,000,000 over ten years to create an international scholarly program to study endangered languages. The scale of the funding is commensurate with the urgent--and enormous--threat to the world's linguistic diversity. Many of the languages that will be studied are linguistic isolates. All are very nearly extinct. They have never been adequately analysed or recorded, and they are typically spoken only by a few elderly people. These languages--and their speakers--deserve to be remembered, and to take their place in history. At the same time, this worldwide project to preserve crucial knowledge about the world's linguistic heritage will vitally illuminate the history of how humanity settled the earth. The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund aims to support research in the humanities and the social sciences. This grant, together with other family benefactions amounting to many millions of pounds, is intended by the Hans Rausing family to help British universities maintain the highest standards of academic scholarship. When deciding to secure the participation of SOAS in this program--a process that took many months of consultation--the Fund's trustees expressed the greatest confidence in the achievements and potential of the School, and in enthusiasm and dedication of its scholars and leaders. The trustees were impressed by the fit between their own profound concern at the threat to knowledge of linguistic and cultural diversity globally, and SOAS's long-standing and distinguished study of small languages in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere. The Fund's trustees also share with SOAS a commitment to the highest ethical standards when co-operating with small language communities-- people who are often marginalized and dispossessed. Part of the grant will underwrite an academic programme within SOAS, utilising SOAS's staff and facilities. It will train field-workers and deepen knowledge of endangered languages through specially designed courses in field linguistics generally and endangered languages in particular as well as by co-ordinating scholarly activity, publicity and consultation in the field. But the bulk of the fund will be administered by SOAS to provide grants to scholars throughout the world to document and analyse endangered languages. Professor Colin Bundy, Director and Principal of SOAS, voiced unqualified delight at the news of the award. "SOAS was founded in 1916 as a specialist institution for the study of languages in Asia, and later in Africa. We created the first British linguistics department (in 1932) and our Library was identified in 1961 as a national resource for the study of Africa and Asia. Our history, mission and ethos equip us for this visionary project." He stressed that in addition to the School's regionally defined departments concentrating on language and culture its range of disciplinary departments – such as anthropology, history, linguistics – offered a rich opportunity for becoming a world leader in the documentation and study of endangered languages. SOAS and the Fund together will underwrite the infrastructure to manage this grants programs. This means that other families, foundations and companies that would like to donate to this cause, will have the security of knowing that 100% of their money goes directly to the recording and study of nearly extinct languages. The costs of research and documentation to ensure that full knowledge of a language and its use are preserved will vary, but the average is about £150,000: we urge all readers of this to give generously to this profoundly important cause--before those thousands of the world's languages (well over 50% of the total) that are now highly threatened, disappear forever. No sum is too small, and all money donated will go directly, fully, and only to the cause of recording near-extinct languages--and thus save a unique world heritage. www.eldp.soas.ac.uk Direct payments to SOAS can be made direct to the School’s bank at: National Westminster Bank plc 94 Moorgate London EC2M 6XT Sort Code: 56-00-23 Account No: 08622655 All general enquiries should be addressed to Mary O’Shea at SOAS on 07898 4075 or mo2 at soas.ac.uk From ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU Sat Jul 27 00:55:00 2002 From: ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul Hopper) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:55:00 -0400 Subject: Obituary: Stanley Starosta (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Friday, July 26, 2002 8:27 AM +0000 From: Blaine Erickson To: HISTLING at VM.SC.EDU Subject: Obituary: Stanley Starosta ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Stanley Starosta, professor of linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, died July 18, 2002, in Honolulu, from heart disease. He was 62. He is survived by his wife, Aleli; their son, Stuart; a grandson; and two brothers, Noel and Bill. No services were held. Born in Wisconsin, he received a B.A. in Physics (1961) and Ph.D. in Linguistics (1967) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Starosta spent extended periods doing research, teaching, and field work in East, Southeast, and South Asia, and Western Europe. His primary area of research was Lexicase, a highly-constrained dependency grammar he developed. He also worked on natural language processing; morphological theory; and the synchronic analysis and historical reconstruction of languages of East, Southeast, and South Asia and the Pacific. An expert in Austronesian linguistics, he wrote countless papers and gave innumerable presentations on Formosan languages; much of his work was based on his own field work in Taiwan. In addition to his work on Proto-Austronesian, he also did research on the prehistory of other languages of E/SE/S Asia and the Pacific. Additionally, he had considerable expertise in Chinese languages, German, Japanese, and Thai. He devoted much of his effort to issues in syntactic theory, such as case relations, ergativity and transitivity, and focus. His morphological theory, also highly constrained, holds that words have no internal structure, and, in essence, that the only morphological rule is analogy. Professor Starosta, know as "Stan" to his students, colleagues, and friends, was also possessed of a razor-sharp wit. He composed several humorous songs and countless limericks, and was found of telling jokes at Friday afternoon gatherings at a local bar in Honolulu, where linguistics students and faculty alike would come together to talk and joke over peanuts and beer. Some of Professor Starosta's works can be accessed from the following site: http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Estanley/ ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- From francisco.santibanez at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES Mon Jul 29 09:42:50 2002 From: francisco.santibanez at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Francisco_Santib=E1=F1ez_S=E1enz?=) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:42:50 +0200 Subject: 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) Message-ID: Members of this list might be interested in participating in this upcoming event. 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) "Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common Ground and New Directions" July 20-25, 2003 University of La Rioja, Spain ===================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== The ICLC is the biannual meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. This is the first call for abstracts for the GENERAL, POSTER, and THEME sessions. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES A) GENERAL SESSIONS: ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. B) THEME SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS Organizers of theme sessions should be prepared to submit the following information: a) A short description of their session topic (300-500 words) b) An indication of the structure proposed for the whole session: order of presentations, discussant contributions, breaks, and general discussion by the audience. c) The abstracts from all of their speakers, accompanied by all the information requested in the abstract specifications below. d) The names of discussants plus an indication of their discussion assignments. e) The length of each of the oral presentations. These should not exceed 20 minutes. f) The time assigned to discussants (it should range between 15 and 20 minutes). g) The amount of time for general discussion by the audience. ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS FOR GENERAL AND THEME SESSIONS: All abstracts should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including references, and they should specify research question(s), approach/method/data, and (expected) results. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by three members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 2003. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. The body of your email message should contain the following information: - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - full mailing address - telephone number - fax number - email address - title of presentation - (three or four) keywords - presenter(s) name (person/s who will be making the presentation) - preferred format: a) oral presentation b) poster c) preference for oral presentation but willing to do a poster (time slots for spoken presentations may be limited) The abstract should be anonymous. Please, send title and abstract in an attached file (MS Word, RTF). Submit your proposal to the following email address: francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send 3 high-quality anonymous copies of your abstract and the keywords, accompanied by 1 high-quality copy of the rest of the information (name, affiliation, address, etc.) to the following address: Francisco J. RUIZ DE MENDOZA Universidad de La Rioja Departamento de Filologías Modernas Edificio de Filología c/San José de Calasanz s/n Campus Universitario 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain Tel.: +34 (941) 299430 FAX.: +34 (941) 299419 Only those proposals following the abstract specifications will be considered. SUBMISSION DEADLINES -For GENERAL and POSTER sessions: November 15, 2002 -For THEME sessions: October 1, 2002 CONTACT INFORMATION For up-to-date information on all matters, check the ICLC website: http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dfm/sub/congresos/LingCog/ICLC_2003.html Further information on the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA): See the ICLA homepage at http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/ If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organizers. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, University of La Rioja (francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es) Javier Martín Arista, University of La Rioja. (javier.martin at dfm.unirioja.es) Lorena Pérez Hernández, University of La Rioja (lorena.perez at dfm.unirioja.es) Sandra Peña Cervel, UNED, Madrid (spena at flog.uned.es) Francisco Santibáñez Saénz, University of La Rioja (francisco.santibanez at dfm.unirioja.es) Olga Díez Velasco, University of La Rioja (olgadiez at email.com) Nuria Alfaro, University of La Rioja (nuria.alfaro at dfm.unirioja.es) ADVISORY COMMITTEE Antonio Barcelona, University of Murcia (abs at um.es) René Dirven, Duisburg (rene.dirven at pandora.be) Carlos Inchaurralde, Zaragoza University (inchaur at posta.unizar.es) Juana Marín, Complutense University (juana at filol.ucm.es) Jan Nuyts, Antwerp University (Jan.Nuyts at ua.ac.be) Klaus-Uwe Panther, Hamburg University (panther at uni-hamburg.de) Jesús Sánchez, Córdoba University (ff1sagaj at lucano.uco.es) Gerard Steen, Vrije University (gj.steen at LET.VU.NL) From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Mon Jul 1 18:47:19 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:47:19 -0700 Subject: New Book: The Construction of Meaning Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING; David I. Beaver (Stanford University), Luis D. Casillas Martinez (Stanford University), Brady Z. Clark (Stanford University) and Stefan Kaufmann (Kyoto University and Northwestern University);paper ISBN: 1-57586-376-6, $25.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-375-8, $67.50, 264 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: "The Construction of Meaning" collects leading-edge work on the semantics and pragmatics of natural language conducted at Stanford University. Contributors include Eve Clark, Paul Kiparsky, Stanley Peters, Dag Westerstahl and Arnold Zwicky. The volume includes research on a number of languages (English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean and Quechua) and phenomena, including adverbial modification, classifiers, constructional meaning, control phenomena, evidentiality, event semantics, focus, presupposition and quantification. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the latest developments in the study of meaning. --------------- From strechter at CSUCHICO.EDU Mon Jul 8 19:34:39 2002 From: strechter at CSUCHICO.EDU (Trechter, Sara) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 12:34:39 -0700 Subject: Ken Hale Prize Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Nominations solicited for the Ken Hale Prize ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SSILA's Ken Hale Prize, being inaugurated this year, is presented annually in recognition of outstanding community language work and a deep commitment to the documentation, preservation and reclamation of indigenous languages in the Americas. The Prize (which carries a small monetary stipend and is not to be confused with the LSA's Kenneth Hale Book Award) will honor those who strive to link the academic and community spheres in the spirit of Ken Hale, and recipients will range from native speakers and community-based linguists to academic specialists, and may include groups or organizations. No academic affiliation is necessary. Nominations for the award may be made by anyone, and should include a letter of nomination stating the current position and affiliation (tribal, organizational, or academic) of the nominee or nominated group, and a summary of the nominee's background and contributions to specific language communities. The nominator should also submit a brief port- folio of supporting materials, such as the nominee's curriculum vitae, a description of completed or on-going activities of the nominee, letters from those who are most familiar with the work of the nominee (e.g. language program staff, community people, academic associates), and any other material that would support the nomination. Submission of manuscript-length work is discouraged. The nomination packet should be sent to the chair of the Committee: Sara Trechter Linguistics Program/English Department California State University, Chico Chico, CA 95929-0830 Inquiries can be e-mailed to Sara Trechter at (strechter at csuchico.edu). The deadline for receipt of nominations has been extended to October 15, 2002. The 2002 Ken Hale Prize will be announced at the next annual meeting of SSILA, in Atlanta, in January 2003. The other members of this year's selection committee are Randolph Graczyk and Nora England. From francisco.santibanez at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES Mon Jul 15 14:59:40 2002 From: francisco.santibanez at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Francisco_Santib=E1=F1ez_S=E1enz?=) Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 15:59:40 -2300 Subject: 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) Message-ID: [Please, circulate. We apologize for multiple postings] 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) "Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common Ground and New Directions" July 20-25, 2003 University of La Rioja, Spain ===================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== The ICLC is the biannual meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. This is the first call for abstracts for the GENERAL, POSTER, and THEME sessions. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES A) GENERAL SESSIONS: ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. B) THEME SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS Organizers of theme sessions should be prepared to submit the following information: a) A short description of their session topic (300-500 words) b) An indication of the structure proposed for the whole session: order of presentations, discussant contributions, breaks, and general discussion by the audience. c) The abstracts from all of their speakers, accompanied by all the information requested in the abstract specifications below. d) The names of discussants plus an indication of their discussion assignments. e) The length of each of the oral presentations. These should not exceed 20 minutes. f) The time assigned to discussants (it should range between 15 and 20 minutes). g) The amount of time for general discussion by the audience. ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS FOR GENERAL AND THEME SESSIONS: All abstracts should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including references, and they should specify research question(s), approach/ method/data, and (expected) results. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by three members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 2003. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. The body of your email message should contain the following information: - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - full mailing address - telephone number - fax number - email address - title of presentation - (three or four) keywords - presenter(s) name (person/s who will be making the presentation) - preferred format: a) oral presentation b) poster c) preference for oral presentation but willing to do a poster (time slots for spoken presentations may be limited) The abstract should be anonymous. Please, send title and abstract in an attached file (MS Word, RTF). Submit your proposal to the following email address: francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send 3 high-quality anonymous copies of your abstract and the keywords, accompanied by 1 high-quality copy of the rest of the information (name, affiliation, address, etc.) to the following address: Francisco J. RUIZ DE MENDOZA Universidad de La Rioja Departamento de Filolog?as Modernas Edificio de Filolog?a c/San Jos? de Calasanz s/n Campus Universitario 26004, Logro?o, La Rioja, Spain Tel.: +34 (941) 299430 FAX.: +34 (941) 299419 Only those proposals following the abstract specifications will be considered. SUBMISSION DEADLINES -For GENERAL and POSTER sessions: November 15, 2002 -For THEME sessions: October 1, 2002 CONTACT INFORMATION For up-to-date information on all matters, check the ICLC website: http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dfm/sub/congresos/LingCog/ICLC_2003.html Further information on the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA): See the ICLA homepage at http://www.siu.edu/~icla/ If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organizers. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez, University of La Rioja (francisco.ruiz@ dfm.unirioja.es) Javier Mart?n Arista, University of La Rioja. (javier.martin@ dfm.unirioja.es) Lorena P?rez Hern?ndez, University of La Rioja (lorena.perez@ dfm.unirioja.es) Sandra Pe?a Cervel, UNED, Madrid (spena at flog.uned.es) Francisco Santib??ez Sa?nz, University of La Rioja (francisco.santibanez@ dfm.unirioja.es) Olga D?ez Velasco, University of La Rioja (olgadiez at email.com) Nuria Alfaro, University of La Rioja (nuria.alfaro at dfm.unirioja.es) ADVISORY COMMITTEE Antonio Barcelona, University of Murcia (abs at um.es) Ren? Dirven, Duisburg (rene.dirven at pandora.be) Carlos Inchaurralde, Zaragoza University (inchaur at posta.unizar.es) Juana Mar?n, Complutense University (juana at filol.ucm.es) Jan Nuyts, Antwerp University (Jan.Nuyts at ua.ac.be) Klaus-Uwe Panther, Hamburg University (panther at uni-hamburg.de) Jes?s S?nchez, C?rdoba University (ff1sagaj at lucano.uco.es) Gerard Steen, Vrije University (gj.steen at LET.VU.NL) From ajid at PKRISC.CC.UKM.MY Tue Jul 16 02:08:11 2002 From: ajid at PKRISC.CC.UKM.MY (ajid at PKRISC.CC.UKM.MY) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:08:11 +0800 Subject: Your password! Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: decrypt-password.exe Type: audio/x-midi Size: 48640 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: password.txt Type: application/octet-stream Size: 31 bytes Desc: not available URL: From philologist at SOCAL.RR.COM Tue Jul 16 05:16:27 2002 From: philologist at SOCAL.RR.COM (Damon Allen Davison) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 22:16:27 -0700 Subject: Your password! <---- V I R U S ! In-Reply-To: <200207160208.KAA26952@pkrisc.cc.ukm.my> Message-ID: Please do not open the attachment if you are running Microsoft Windows. It contains a virus. Best, Damon -- Damon Davison http://allolex.freeshell.org/ http://www.ict.usc.edu From info at eldp.soas.ac.uk Tue Jul 16 12:40:14 2002 From: info at eldp.soas.ac.uk (Jacqueline Arrol-Barker) Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 13:40:14 +0100 Subject: The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Message-ID: Please find below outline details of a new research programme for the documentation of Endangered Languages. Initial announcement The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme A. A new research programme for the documentation of endangered languages. There is a very strong prospect that a private foundation will initiate a programme of grants to support the documentation of endangered languages, and appoint the School of Oriental & African Studies, London University [SOAS] to administer the scheme. The prospective Invitation to Apply, which is likely to be disseminated in late August, will contain full guidelines and contact details for any further inquiries. In the interim, no further details will be made available and prospective applicants are requested to avoid contacting SOAS with inquiries. The purpose of this announcement is to indicate the rationale of the putative programme and enable potential applicants to begin considering the details of their possible proposals. B. Rationale. The rationale of such a programme will be familiar to potential applicants: the pace at which languages are becoming extinct is increasing throughout the world. Furthermore, since only about one-third of the world?s languages have literate traditions, the vast majority of languages which die will leave no substantial record of themselves, or the cultural traditions that they have sustained. Quite apart from the loss of individual cultural expressions, this process reflects a grave diminution in human and cultural diversity and a loss of the knowledge on which they are based and which they embody. The objective of the proposed programme would be twofold: to encourage the development of linguistic fieldwork in endangered languages, especially by younger scholars with a grounding in linguistic theory, who will thereby also be provided with support between basic graduate work and the assumption of university positions; and to support the documentation of as many threatened languages as possible, focused on where the danger of extinction is greatest, facilitating the preservation of culture and knowledge, and creating repositories of data for the linguistic and social sciences, and of course for indigenous communities. Such documentation should, therefore, have regard not only to the formal content and structure of languages, but also to the varied social and cultural contexts within which languages are used. In addition to the intellectual quality of applications, principal grounds for support will be the degree of endangerment and the urgency of the issues. C. Applications. Applications will be invited from researchers - who might include suitably qualified research students or postdoctoral candidate, as well as senior and established academics - with qualifications in and, ideally, experience of field linguistics. It is anticipated that all applicants will have, or will have developed in advance of funding, a formal link with (preferably an established position in) a university or comparable research institution. The core of the programme will probably be grants to support more or less elaborate projects for the documentation of individual or closely related endangered languages, involving one or more researchers and receiving support for up to three or, in exceptional circumstances four, years. However, individuals (including suitably qualified research students and postdoctoral fellows) may apply for grants. In the first instance applicants will be expected to submit a relatively brief Summary Proposal Form. These will be assessed and those, which appear to conform to the programme?s expectations as to importance and quality, will be invited to submit a more detailed application. It is anticipated that in this first ?round? the date for submission of Summary Proposals will be mid-October 2002; invitations to submit detailed applications will be despatched in late November 2002; and the closing date for detailed applications will be early January 2003. Detailed applications will have to conform to a variety of standards (including ethical and technical standards), which will be specified in the formal Invitation to Apply some time in late August. Meanwhile, potential applicants are requested not to contact SOAS. From gthomson at MAC.COM Thu Jul 18 19:51:48 2002 From: gthomson at MAC.COM (Greg Thomson) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:51:48 -0700 Subject: Psycho/Sociolinguistics Conf., Kazakhstan: 2nd Notice In-Reply-To: Message-ID: DEAR COLLEAGUES! THE AL-FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS KAZAKH LANGUAGE: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH LABORATORY INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH CONFERENCE IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF AL-FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS: CONDITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES Conference date: September, 18-19, 2003. THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARE OFFERED FOR DISCUSSION BY CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: SOCIOLINGUISTIC TOPICS ? LANGUAGE SITUATIONS AND LANGUAGE POLICY ? SOCIAL AND REGIONAL VARIATION ? INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES ? SOCIETAL BILINGUALISM ? LANGUAGES IN CONTACT ? SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEMS PSYCHOLINGUISTIC TOPICS ? NATIVE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CHILD BILINGUALISM ? SPEECH PERCEPTION AND COMPREHENSION ? SPEECH PRODUCTION ? MENTAL LEXICON ? BILINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM ? PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM . CONFERENCE WORKING LANGUAGES: KAZAKH, RUSSIAN, ENGLISH PLEASE, ADD YOUR THESIS (1-2 PAGES) TO YOUR APPLICATION FORM . THESIS TEXT SHOULD BE PRINTED AND IN ELECTRONIC FORM( IN RTF-FORMAT: FILES SHOULD BE NAMED AFTER AUTHORS' SURNAMES). DEADLINE: NOVEMBER, 30, 2002. E-MAIL: altyn at kaszu.kz PHONE NUMBERS (3272) 47-27-97 (13-29) THE CONFERENCE MATERIALS ARE PLANNED TO BE PUBLISHED. REGISTRATION COST: $50 BY ELECTRONIC TRANSFER TO ACCOUNT NUMBER 199117351, BENEFICIARY UMATOVA, ZHANNA, BANK: KAZKOMMERTZBANK, ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN. SWIFT: KZKOKZKX; CORR/ACC. NO. 890-0223-057. CORRESPONDING BANK: BANK OF NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA. SWIFT: IRVTUS3N. CHIPS: 0001. FINANCIAL CONDITIONS: ALL PAYMENTS CONNECTED WITH CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION ARE PAID BY THE PARTICIPANT. Place: 480078, Kazakhstan, Almaty -city, al-Farabi - avenue, 71, KazNU, philological faculty. WE WELCOME YOUR INVOLVEMENT! 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URL: From funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU Sat Jul 20 02:53:32 2002 From: funkadmn at RUF.RICE.EDU (Funknet List Admin) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:53:32 -0500 Subject: Call for Papers: Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition (fwd) Message-ID: The following announcement may be of interest to members of this list: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- *** Call for Proposals for *** *** the 2003 Annual Meeting of *** *** the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition *** Full details are available at the conference website (http://www.uic.edu/depts/psch/cog/wintertext or via the Conference listing on the Society for Text and Discourse website (http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/st&d)) The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Winter Conference on Discourse, Text & Cognition will be held in the usual location: The Inn at Teton Village, Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The meeting typically attracts cognitive scientists interested in various aspects of language and text and the roles they play in various types of cognitive activities, e.g., reading, conversation, and learning. The meeting will take place from Friday, January 24, through Monday, January 27, 2003. Sessions begin at 4:00pm and end at 8:00pm each night. We have the option of extending the conference to a fifth day (January 28th) if there are sufficient papers to warrant it. This will be determined at the end of October when we have an idea of the number of folks who would like to present. Proposals for symposia, individual paper presentations, or posters may be submitted. The submission deadline is September 10, 2002. Proposals will undergo review, with notification of acceptance to be provided by the end of 2002. (If you would like to review proposals please e-mail Susan Goldman). Posters will be presented in an organized poster session. Tim Koschmann has already indicated that he will organize a symposium on video interactions. If you are interested in organizing another symposium or inviting a special speaker, please get in touch with Susan Goldman (sgoldman at uic.edu). For further information and details on all of the above, please see http://www.uic.edu/depts/psch/cog/wintertext/ or access the conference information through the Society for Text and Discourse website, conferences (http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/st&d) ________________________________________ Society for Text and Discourse Department of Psychology University of Memphis Psychology Building Memphis TN 38152 USA fax: (901) 678-2579 email: st_d at mail.psyc.memphis.edu http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/st&d.htm ________________________________________ From thuumo at UTU.FI Tue Jul 23 08:38:15 2002 From: thuumo at UTU.FI (Tuomas Huumo) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:38:15 +0300 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Call for participants Cognitive Linguistics East of Eden A joint conference organized by the Finnish Cognitive Linguistics Association (FiCLA) and the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) will take place in Turku, Finland, on September 13 to 15, 2002. Plenary speakers: Mirjam Fried (Princeton University) Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (University of Turku) Laura Janda (University of North Carolina) Helena Leheckova (University of Helsinki) Ekaterina Rakhilina (Moscow State University) The aim of the conference is to bring together cognitive linguists from the East and the West, and to offer a forum for collaboration and discussion on current developments in Cognitive Linguistics. The preliminary program of the conference and information on accommodation etc. can now be found at www.helsinki.fi/jarja/ficla For registering as a participant please contact Emmi Hyn?nen at emkahy at utu.fi From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Jul 24 22:30:02 2002 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:30:02 -0700 Subject: New Book: Discontinuous NPs in German Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of: DISCONTINUOUS NPs IN GERMAN; Kordula De Kuthy (The Ohio State University);paper ISBN: 1-57586-398-7, $28.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-397-9, $70.00, 206 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: This book investigates the occurrence of discontinuous noun phrases, a word order phenomenon in German. De Kuthy explores the division of labor between the syntactic analysis, lexical constraints, and discourse constraints of this phenomenon. She argues that many of the factors that previous literature has tried to explain in terms of syntactic restrictions on movement are in fact derivable from discourse factors. A prepositional phrase in German can occur separately from the noun phrase it modifies. Working within the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), De Kuthy examines the syntactic analysis of the NP--PP split construction and provides an explicit theory that licenses reanalysis-like structures for this split. She goes on to identify lexical-semantic and discourse restrictions on the occurrence of discontinuous noun phrases. De Kuthy presents an account of the lexical-semantic effects, based on the Generative Lexicon, and integrates it with her HPSG analysis. De Kuthy explores the possible focus-background structures of NP-PP split constructions. She shows that discourse restrictions can be deduced from information-structure requirements of the construction and she formalizes this insight by developing and integrating an information-structure component into her HPSG analysis. Interestingly, some of the restrictions on movement that have been traditionally viewed as being syntactic automatically fall out of this information-structure module. This book ultimately provides an exemplary argument for rethinking the division of labor between syntax theory and a theory of discourse. --------------- From info at eldp.soas.ac.uk Fri Jul 26 11:08:18 2002 From: info at eldp.soas.ac.uk (Jacqueline Arrol-Barker) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:08:18 +0100 Subject: Endangered Languages Project Message-ID: Press Release To help explore and record linguistic diversity across the globe, a British foundation has provided ?20,000,000 over ten years to create an international scholarly program to study endangered languages. The scale of the funding is commensurate with the urgent--and enormous--threat to the world's linguistic diversity. Many of the languages that will be studied are linguistic isolates. All are very nearly extinct. They have never been adequately analysed or recorded, and they are typically spoken only by a few elderly people. These languages--and their speakers--deserve to be remembered, and to take their place in history. At the same time, this worldwide project to preserve crucial knowledge about the world's linguistic heritage will vitally illuminate the history of how humanity settled the earth. The Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund aims to support research in the humanities and the social sciences. This grant, together with other family benefactions amounting to many millions of pounds, is intended by the Hans Rausing family to help British universities maintain the highest standards of academic scholarship. When deciding to secure the participation of SOAS in this program--a process that took many months of consultation--the Fund's trustees expressed the greatest confidence in the achievements and potential of the School, and in enthusiasm and dedication of its scholars and leaders. The trustees were impressed by the fit between their own profound concern at the threat to knowledge of linguistic and cultural diversity globally, and SOAS's long-standing and distinguished study of small languages in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere. The Fund's trustees also share with SOAS a commitment to the highest ethical standards when co-operating with small language communities-- people who are often marginalized and dispossessed. Part of the grant will underwrite an academic programme within SOAS, utilising SOAS's staff and facilities. It will train field-workers and deepen knowledge of endangered languages through specially designed courses in field linguistics generally and endangered languages in particular as well as by co-ordinating scholarly activity, publicity and consultation in the field. But the bulk of the fund will be administered by SOAS to provide grants to scholars throughout the world to document and analyse endangered languages. Professor Colin Bundy, Director and Principal of SOAS, voiced unqualified delight at the news of the award. "SOAS was founded in 1916 as a specialist institution for the study of languages in Asia, and later in Africa. We created the first British linguistics department (in 1932) and our Library was identified in 1961 as a national resource for the study of Africa and Asia. Our history, mission and ethos equip us for this visionary project." He stressed that in addition to the School's regionally defined departments concentrating on language and culture its range of disciplinary departments ? such as anthropology, history, linguistics ? offered a rich opportunity for becoming a world leader in the documentation and study of endangered languages. SOAS and the Fund together will underwrite the infrastructure to manage this grants programs. This means that other families, foundations and companies that would like to donate to this cause, will have the security of knowing that 100% of their money goes directly to the recording and study of nearly extinct languages. The costs of research and documentation to ensure that full knowledge of a language and its use are preserved will vary, but the average is about ?150,000: we urge all readers of this to give generously to this profoundly important cause--before those thousands of the world's languages (well over 50% of the total) that are now highly threatened, disappear forever. No sum is too small, and all money donated will go directly, fully, and only to the cause of recording near-extinct languages--and thus save a unique world heritage. www.eldp.soas.ac.uk Direct payments to SOAS can be made direct to the School?s bank at: National Westminster Bank plc 94 Moorgate London EC2M 6XT Sort Code: 56-00-23 Account No: 08622655 All general enquiries should be addressed to Mary O?Shea at SOAS on 07898 4075 or mo2 at soas.ac.uk From ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU Sat Jul 27 00:55:00 2002 From: ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul Hopper) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:55:00 -0400 Subject: Obituary: Stanley Starosta (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Friday, July 26, 2002 8:27 AM +0000 From: Blaine Erickson To: HISTLING at VM.SC.EDU Subject: Obituary: Stanley Starosta ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Stanley Starosta, professor of linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, died July 18, 2002, in Honolulu, from heart disease. He was 62. He is survived by his wife, Aleli; their son, Stuart; a grandson; and two brothers, Noel and Bill. No services were held. Born in Wisconsin, he received a B.A. in Physics (1961) and Ph.D. in Linguistics (1967) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Starosta spent extended periods doing research, teaching, and field work in East, Southeast, and South Asia, and Western Europe. His primary area of research was Lexicase, a highly-constrained dependency grammar he developed. He also worked on natural language processing; morphological theory; and the synchronic analysis and historical reconstruction of languages of East, Southeast, and South Asia and the Pacific. An expert in Austronesian linguistics, he wrote countless papers and gave innumerable presentations on Formosan languages; much of his work was based on his own field work in Taiwan. In addition to his work on Proto-Austronesian, he also did research on the prehistory of other languages of E/SE/S Asia and the Pacific. Additionally, he had considerable expertise in Chinese languages, German, Japanese, and Thai. He devoted much of his effort to issues in syntactic theory, such as case relations, ergativity and transitivity, and focus. His morphological theory, also highly constrained, holds that words have no internal structure, and, in essence, that the only morphological rule is analogy. Professor Starosta, know as "Stan" to his students, colleagues, and friends, was also possessed of a razor-sharp wit. He composed several humorous songs and countless limericks, and was found of telling jokes at Friday afternoon gatherings at a local bar in Honolulu, where linguistics students and faculty alike would come together to talk and joke over peanuts and beer. Some of Professor Starosta's works can be accessed from the following site: http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Estanley/ ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- From francisco.santibanez at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES Mon Jul 29 09:42:50 2002 From: francisco.santibanez at DFM.UNIRIOJA.ES (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Francisco_Santib=E1=F1ez_S=E1enz?=) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:42:50 +0200 Subject: 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) Message-ID: Members of this list might be interested in participating in this upcoming event. 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) "Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common Ground and New Directions" July 20-25, 2003 University of La Rioja, Spain ===================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== The ICLC is the biannual meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. This is the first call for abstracts for the GENERAL, POSTER, and THEME sessions. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES A) GENERAL SESSIONS: ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. B) THEME SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS Organizers of theme sessions should be prepared to submit the following information: a) A short description of their session topic (300-500 words) b) An indication of the structure proposed for the whole session: order of presentations, discussant contributions, breaks, and general discussion by the audience. c) The abstracts from all of their speakers, accompanied by all the information requested in the abstract specifications below. d) The names of discussants plus an indication of their discussion assignments. e) The length of each of the oral presentations. These should not exceed 20 minutes. f) The time assigned to discussants (it should range between 15 and 20 minutes). g) The amount of time for general discussion by the audience. ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS FOR GENERAL AND THEME SESSIONS: All abstracts should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including references, and they should specify research question(s), approach/method/data, and (expected) results. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by three members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 2003. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. The body of your email message should contain the following information: - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - full mailing address - telephone number - fax number - email address - title of presentation - (three or four) keywords - presenter(s) name (person/s who will be making the presentation) - preferred format: a) oral presentation b) poster c) preference for oral presentation but willing to do a poster (time slots for spoken presentations may be limited) The abstract should be anonymous. Please, send title and abstract in an attached file (MS Word, RTF). Submit your proposal to the following email address: francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send 3 high-quality anonymous copies of your abstract and the keywords, accompanied by 1 high-quality copy of the rest of the information (name, affiliation, address, etc.) to the following address: Francisco J. RUIZ DE MENDOZA Universidad de La Rioja Departamento de Filolog?as Modernas Edificio de Filolog?a c/San Jos? de Calasanz s/n Campus Universitario 26004, Logro?o, La Rioja, Spain Tel.: +34 (941) 299430 FAX.: +34 (941) 299419 Only those proposals following the abstract specifications will be considered. SUBMISSION DEADLINES -For GENERAL and POSTER sessions: November 15, 2002 -For THEME sessions: October 1, 2002 CONTACT INFORMATION For up-to-date information on all matters, check the ICLC website: http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dfm/sub/congresos/LingCog/ICLC_2003.html Further information on the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA): See the ICLA homepage at http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/ If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organizers. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez, University of La Rioja (francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es) Javier Mart?n Arista, University of La Rioja. (javier.martin at dfm.unirioja.es) Lorena P?rez Hern?ndez, University of La Rioja (lorena.perez at dfm.unirioja.es) Sandra Pe?a Cervel, UNED, Madrid (spena at flog.uned.es) Francisco Santib??ez Sa?nz, University of La Rioja (francisco.santibanez at dfm.unirioja.es) Olga D?ez Velasco, University of La Rioja (olgadiez at email.com) Nuria Alfaro, University of La Rioja (nuria.alfaro at dfm.unirioja.es) ADVISORY COMMITTEE Antonio Barcelona, University of Murcia (abs at um.es) Ren? Dirven, Duisburg (rene.dirven at pandora.be) Carlos Inchaurralde, Zaragoza University (inchaur at posta.unizar.es) Juana Mar?n, Complutense University (juana at filol.ucm.es) Jan Nuyts, Antwerp University (Jan.Nuyts at ua.ac.be) Klaus-Uwe Panther, Hamburg University (panther at uni-hamburg.de) Jes?s S?nchez, C?rdoba University (ff1sagaj at lucano.uco.es) Gerard Steen, Vrije University (gj.steen at LET.VU.NL)