From slobin at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU  Tue Sep 10 00:09:29 2002
From: slobin at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Dan I. SLOBIN)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:09:29 -0700
Subject: perception verbs and paths
Message-ID: <MON.9.SEP.2002.170929.0700.SLOBIN@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU>

I would appreciate information about uses of perception verbs with path
expressions, such as "look across the river" and "peek into the hole"--or
equivalents in various languages.

Dan Slobin
Dept of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
slobin at cogsci.berkeley.edu


From Bert.Peeters at UTAS.EDU.AU  Tue Sep 10 02:11:34 2002
From: Bert.Peeters at UTAS.EDU.AU (Bert Peeters)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:11:34 +1000
Subject: New e-mail list: nsm-l
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From adam.kilgarriff at ITRI.BRIGHTON.AC.UK  Tue Sep 10 04:33:27 2002
From: adam.kilgarriff at ITRI.BRIGHTON.AC.UK (Adam Kilgarriff)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 05:33:27 +0100
Subject: perception verbs and paths
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209091707510.31985-100000@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.10.SEP.2002.053327.0100.ADAM.KILGARRIFF@ITRI.BRIGHTON.AC.UK>

Dan,

Dan I. SLOBIN writes:
 > I would appreciate information about uses of perception verbs with path
 > expressions, such as "look across the river" and "peek into the hole"--or
 > equivalents in various languages.
 >
        we've processed the British National Corpus in a way that makes
it easy to see how words behave - called 'word sketches'.  The word
sketches will be a good place to go to answer your questions, for
English.  I've put "peer" and "look" on the web for you, along with
some others (I didn't have "peek" to hand), see

http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/WORDSKETCHES/

For write-ups, see

@Inproceedings{toulouse-collos,
  author    =    {Adam Kilgarriff and David Tugwell},
  title     =    {WORD SKETCH: Extraction and Display of Significant
                 Collocations for Lexicography},
  booktitle =    {Proc. Collocations workshop, ACL 2001},
  address   =    {Toulouse, France},
  month     =    {July},
  pages     =    "32--38",
  year      =    2001
}

or others available from my web page (below) or

http://wasps.itri.brighton.ac.uk

We have a web demo (which compiles word sketches at run time)
available on the web for all words beginning with k.  We are currently
installing a licence server, and when that is in place - should be
within a month - the full resource will be available, on a free
licence, to all for research purposes.

         Regards,

                Adam Kilgarriff


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From bergen at HAWAII.EDU  Thu Sep 12 21:22:13 2002
From: bergen at HAWAII.EDU (Benjamin K Bergen)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:22:13 -1000
Subject: Topicalization and scrambling in German
Message-ID: <THU.12.SEP.2002.112213.1000.BERGEN@HAWAII.EDU>

My apologies for cross-posting.

I recently heard a talk in which it was argued that there is a universal
constraint (Unambiguous Domination - Mueller 1996) which states the
following: An element cannot be moved across another element that has
previously been extracted from it if the two movements are of the same
type (e.g. topicalization and topicalization or scrambling and
scrambling).

That is, you can perform two different types of movement, like
topicalization and scrambling to get the felicitous:

[t1 Zu lesen]2 hat keiner [das Buch]1 gestern  t2 versucht.
To read has no-one the book yesterday tried.
'No-one tried to read the book yesterday.'

But you can't perform scrambling twice:

*Ich glaube, dass [t1 zu lesen]2 keiner [das Buch]1 gestern t2 versucht
hat.
I think, that to read no-one the book yesterday tried has.
'No-one tried to read the book yesterday.'

My question is: can anyone point me to cognitive/functional/constructional
studies of topicalization and scrambling in German (or Dutch)? I'm
particularly interested in research that could start to explain this
generalization.

I'll post a summary if there are sufficient responses.

Thanks!

Ben Bergen

+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+
| Benjamin K. Bergen              |
| Assistant Professor             |
| Department of Linguistics       |
| University of Hawai`i, Manoa    |
|                                 |
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:09:04 -0400
Subject: Language in Social Worlds
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:56:01 -0500
Subject: Position in Spanish Linguistics --- Please post
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From jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU  Fri Sep 20 22:11:15 2002
From: jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:11:15 -0700
Subject: [Fwd: textbooks for discourse analysis]
Message-ID: <FRI.20.SEP.2002.151115.0700.JRUBBA@CALPOLY.EDU>

I'm forwarding this on behalf of a member of another listserv I subscribe to.
Please respond directly to Larry if you have suggestions.

lbeason at USOUTHAL.EDU wrote:

> Does anyone have suggestions for a textbook to use in an introductory
> course at the master's level on discourse analysis?
>
> This would be essentially the only course any of the students have
> taken on the subject; most would have almost exclusively a literature or
> creative writing background.   My goals for the course are broad and
> flexible: essentially, to provide useful ways of analyzing texts in a
> more-or-less technical, linguistic manner in order to understand the
> meaning or importance of these texts.
>
> For instance, I plan to cover some of speech-act theory and politeness
> theory as they apply to business letters, speech, and literature.
>
> In particular, if someone can recommend a book dealing with discourse
> analysis that draws on grammar (traditional or otherwise), I'd
> appreciate your suggestions.
>
> --Larry Beason
>
> -------------------------------
> Larry Beason
> Director of Composition
> Dept. of English, Univ. of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL 36688
> 251-460-7861
> -------------------------------
>
> To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
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>
> Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  •  Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone.  756-2596
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From language at SPRYNET.COM  Sat Sep 21 21:22:20 2002
From: language at SPRYNET.COM (Alexander Gross)
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:22:20 -0700
Subject: Pinker's latest...
Message-ID: <SAT.21.SEP.2002.142220.0700.LANGUAGE@SPRYNET.COM>

You'll find not really a review but a prepublication blurb for Pinker's 
latest book in Tuesday's NY Times at:
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/science/social/17PINK.html?pagewanted=all&position=top
 
and a related sidebar at:
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/science/17BPINK.html
 
So far as I can make out from this account, the book isn't truly about 
linguistics other than to broaden and justify the case for innatism 
by making it appear equally valid for many other fields.  Specious & 
obfuscative, I'd say.

very best!
 
alex gross

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From dparvaz at UNM.EDU  Sun Sep 22 17:13:13 2002
From: dparvaz at UNM.EDU (Dan Parvaz)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:13:13 -0600
Subject: Pinker's latest...
Message-ID: <SUN.22.SEP.2002.111313.0600.DPARVAZ@UNM.EDU>

Interesting. I'm not quite sure what to make of the articles. Bashing
Gould now that he is dead is all very easy, but I'm not sure how
sharing Wilson's theoretical leanings (which I do, inasmuch as I
understand them) necessarily leads one to linguistic innatism after the
manner of the East Coasters. Given the principle of charity, does
someone with more access to formalist thought have any insights on this?

Cheers,

Dan.


From simon at IPFW.EDU  Sat Sep 21 16:54:45 2002
From: simon at IPFW.EDU (Beth Simon)
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:54:45 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: textbooks for discourse analysis]
Message-ID: <SAT.21.SEP.2002.115445.0500.SIMON@IPFW.EDU>

I'd be interested in seeing/hearing the suggestions. Please either dupe to me, simon at ipfw.edu, or to the list if others don't mind.

thanks,

beth

>>> Johanna Rubba <jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU> 09/20/02 17:22 PM >>>
I'm forwarding this on behalf of a member of another listserv I subscribe to.
Please respond directly to Larry if you have suggestions.

lbeason at USOUTHAL.EDU wrote:

> Does anyone have suggestions for a textbook to use in an introductory
> course at the master's level on discourse analysis?
>
> This would be essentially the only course any of the students have
> taken on the subject; most would have almost exclusively a literature or
> creative writing background.   My goals for the course are broad and
> flexible: essentially, to provide useful ways of analyzing texts in a
> more-or-less technical, linguistic manner in order to understand the
> meaning or importance of these texts.
>
> For instance, I plan to cover some of speech-act theory and politeness
> theory as they apply to business letters, speech, and literature.
>
> In particular, if someone can recommend a book dealing with discourse
> analysis that draws on grammar (traditional or otherwise), I'd
> appreciate your suggestions.
>
> --Larry Beason
>
> -------------------------------
> Larry Beason
> Director of Composition
> Dept. of English, Univ. of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL 36688
> 251-460-7861
> -------------------------------
>
> To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
>      http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html
> and select "Join or leave the list"
>
> Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  � San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  �  Fax: (805)-756-6374 � Dept. Phone.  756-2596
� E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu �  Home page: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU  Mon Sep 23 01:56:30 2002
From: jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:56:30 -0700
Subject: Textbooks for discourse analysis]
Message-ID: <SUN.22.SEP.2002.185630.0700.JRUBBA@CALPOLY.EDU>

So far, the only suggested text has been Teun van Dijk's "Discourse as
structure and process", 1997, Sage.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  •  Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone.  756-2596
• E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu •  Home page:
http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
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From bill_mann at SIL.ORG  Mon Sep 23 11:58:57 2002
From: bill_mann at SIL.ORG (William Mann)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:58:57 -0400
Subject: Textbooks for discourse analysis]
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.075857.0400.BILLMANN@SIL.ORG>

A slightly older one might fit your audience:  Approaches to Discourse, by
Deborah Schiffrin, 1994.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Johanna Rubba" <jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU>
To: <FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: Textbooks for discourse analysis]


> So far, the only suggested text has been Teun van Dijk's "Discourse as
> structure and process", 1997, Sage.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
> English Department, California Polytechnic State University
> One Grand Avenue  . San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
> Tel. (805)-756-2184  .  Fax: (805)-756-6374 . Dept. Phone.  756-2596
> . E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu .  Home page:
> http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From Dan.Everett at MAN.AC.UK  Mon Sep 23 12:19:16 2002
From: Dan.Everett at MAN.AC.UK (Dan Everett)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:19:16 +0100
Subject: Textbooks for discourse analysis]
In-Reply-To: <000c01c262f8$9ab3eed0$d3cafea9@BillDell>
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.131916.0100.DAN.EVERETT@MAN.AC.UK>

I just saw a new book written by Bob Dooley and someone else, published
by SIL. Although a bit out of the mainstream perhaps, it looked like a
potentially useful text, though I only had a quick glance through it.

Dan Everett

**************************************************************

Daniel L. Everett
Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester, UK
M13 9PL
dan.everett at man.ac.uk

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, William Mann wrote:

> A slightly older one might fit your audience:  Approaches to Discourse, by
> Deborah Schiffrin, 1994.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johanna Rubba" <jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU>
> To: <FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 9:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Textbooks for discourse analysis]
>
>
> > So far, the only suggested text has been Teun van Dijk's "Discourse as
> > structure and process", 1997, Sage.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
> > English Department, California Polytechnic State University
> > One Grand Avenue  . San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
> > Tel. (805)-756-2184  .  Fax: (805)-756-6374 . Dept. Phone.  756-2596
> > . E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu .  Home page:
> > http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>


From paul at BENJAMINS.COM  Mon Sep 23 13:45:37 2002
From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:45:37 -0400
Subject: Discourse analysis text
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.094537.0400.PAUL@BENJAMINS.COM>

Re:  the discourse textbook question
John Benjamins has a textbook by Jan Renkema. It's described on the website
like this:

Discourse Studies
An introductory textbook
Jan Renkema
University of Tilburg
1993. x, 224 pp.

This book familiarizes the student with the key concepts and the major
issues in the field of discourse studies. It provides a scientific
'toolkit' for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping
stone to the independent study of the professional literature.
The book consists of four parts. In Part I the focus is on four essential
concepts in discourse studies as it is defined in this book: the
investigation of the relationship between form and function in verbal
communication. Part II is an introduction to basic phenomena: the building
blocks of discourse and the links between them. Two age-old problems are
also addressed: What are the differences between types of discourse? What
is style?
In Part III specific types of discourse are dealt with: interaction,
narration and argumentation. Part IV deals with the production and the
perception of discourse, for example, 'staging' in the presentation of
information and 'inferences' in the derivation of information. Special
attention is given to models of the writing and the reading process.
The material, organized in seventeen short chapters, is based on more than
fifteen years of experience gained in teaching introductory courses. The
book contains advice on further study, and background information about the
origins of the central concepts (philosophy, psychology sociology, etc.). A
number of classic studies are referred to from both the Anglo-American and
the European tradition. Each chapter ends with questions and assignments to
stimulate discussion about seemingly unproblematic distinctions.


"Renkema's textbook is a good survey of most aspects of the discourse
analysis field, which will be useful in a range of courses. It introduces
the German-Dutch tradition more fully than other widely available texts do."
Patrick McConvell in Linguist List Vol. 5

You can contact me to request an exam copy
Paul





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 ocls at MADISONCOUNTY.NET  Mon Sep 23 13:51:10 2002
From: ocls at MADISONCOUNTY.NET (Suzette Haden Elgin)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:51:10 -0500
Subject: the discourse textbook question
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.085110.0500.OCLS@MADISONCOUNTY.NET>

September 23, 2002

I'd like to second the suggestion of the John Benjamins text by Renkema; I
think it's very good. Much of my time goes into trying to make basic
concepts of linguistics clear to non-linguists, and the Renkema book is the
one I always recommend. It's clear, it's nontechnical,  and it's
interesting to read.

Suzette Haden Elgin

Discourse Studies
An introductory textbook
Jan Renkema
University of Tilburg
1993. x, 224 pp.


From dionysis at UCY.AC.CY  Mon Sep 23 17:39:15 2002
From: dionysis at UCY.AC.CY (Dionysis Goutsos)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:39:15 WET-2WET
Subject: Textbooks on Discourse Analysis
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.173915.WET2WET.>

May I indulge in some self-advertising, just because I
think _Discourse Analysis: An Introduction_ Edinburgh
University Press, 1997 [reprinted 1999] by Alexandra
Georgakopoulou and myself is one of the most appropriate
textbooks for the level in question. Renkema�s book would
be too easy for a Master�s course, whereas Schiffrin�c
classic one is rather too complicated.
Here�s the Amazon site for more details:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/0748608346/qid=1032792157/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7078848-
5106224?v=glance&s=books

********************************************
Dionysis Goutsos
Assistant Professor in Linguistics
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
P.O. Box 20537
1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS
Tel: +357 -22 - 892109
Fax: +357 -22 -750310
http://www.ucy.ac.cy/~dionysis
>From July 2002, you can also contact me at:
Zakynthou 8
113 61 Athens
GREECE
Tel./Fax: +30 -10- 8232022


From rmontes at SIU.BUAP.MX  Mon Sep 23 15:20:25 2002
From: rmontes at SIU.BUAP.MX (Rosa Graciela Montes)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:20:25 -0500
Subject: Textbooks on Discourse Analysis
In-Reply-To: <200209231439.RAA51384@zeus.cc.ucy.ac.cy>
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.102025.0500.RMONTES@SIU.BUAP.MX>

> May I indulge in some self-advertising, just because I
> think _Discourse Analysis: An Introduction_ Edinburgh
> University Press, 1997 [reprinted 1999] by Alexandra
> Georgakopoulou and myself is one of the most appropriate
> textbooks for the level in question.

I have used the Goutsos and Georgakopolou textbook with
incoming graduate students some of which had had previous
readings on discourse analysis and some for whom the course
was a total introduction.

I found the book excellent for providing a comprehensive
overview of the field, for being up to date and indexing
several of the current controversies and touchy points.
The materials provided allowed those already familiar to set
issues, authors and approaches in perspective and gave
sufficient information for newcomers to be able to engage
informedly in the classroom discussions.

Dr. Rosa Graciela Montes, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla,
MEXICO


From ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU  Mon Sep 23 16:42:50 2002
From: ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul Hopper)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:42:50 -0400
Subject: [Fwd: textbooks for discourse analysis]
In-Reply-To: <3D8B9D03.3C452E4B@calpoly.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.124250.0400.PH1U@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>

Johanna,

There is a recent book by Barbara Johnstone that is very good. It is called
simply "Discourse Analysis" (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), in the Blackwell
series Introducing Linguistics. It covers a wide range of issues from text
analysis to more anthropological aspects, and has numerous interesting
exercises and research projects for students.

- Paul

---------------------------
Paul Hopper
Thomas S. Baker Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Telephone (412) 268-7174
Fax (412) 268-7989


From jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU  Mon Sep 23 19:48:12 2002
From: jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:48:12 -0700
Subject: the discourse textbook question
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.124812.0700.JRUBBA@CALPOLY.EDU>

Folks,

I'm glad to see suggestions for discourse textbooks coming in, but
please don't send them to me. Please send them directly to the person
who asked for them, who is NOT a subscriber to Funknet so far as I know:
Larry Beason, e-mail <lbeason at USOUTHAL.EDU>. I can't manage forwarding
all your messages to him; we just started teaching today.

I could ask him for a summary that I could then post to Funknet.

So thanks again, but let's make sure the suggestions get to the guy who
needs them!

Jo
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  •  Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone.  756-2596
• E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu •  Home page:
http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU  Mon Sep 23 21:15:28 2002
From: ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul Hopper)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:15:28 -0400
Subject: the discourse textbook question
In-Reply-To: <3D8F6FFC.533FF79A@calpoly.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.171528.0400.PH1U@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>

Johanna,

I'm afraid this is what happens when you undertake to be the point person
for a general inquiry like this. Once a question reaches the group, it
becomes common property (in a lively exchange it is not uncommon for the
instigator of an inquiry to be completely forgotten). It turned out that a
number of us had something substantive to contribute (including, not
surprisingly, some publishers). My guess is that few of us would have
bothered to write in for the sole benefit of Mr Beason. I learned to my
great surprise just how many new books on discourse analysis were now on
the market, and I got some useful information, for which I am grateful to
FUNKNET colleagues, as well as to you.

Cheers,

Paul

---------------------------
Paul Hopper
Thomas S. Baker Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Telephone (412) 268-7174
Fax (412) 268-7989


--On Monday, September 23, 2002 12:48 PM -0700 Johanna Rubba
<jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU> wrote:

Folks,

I'm glad to see suggestions for discourse textbooks coming in, but
please don't send them to me. Please send them directly to the person
who asked for them, who is NOT a subscriber to Funknet so far as I know:
Larry Beason, e-mail <lbeason at USOUTHAL.EDU>. I can't manage forwarding
all your messages to him; we just started teaching today.

I could ask him for a summary that I could then post to Funknet.

So thanks again, but let's make sure the suggestions get to the guy who
needs them!

Jo
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  ? San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  ?  Fax: (805)-756-6374 ? Dept. Phone.  756-2596
? E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu ?  Home page:
http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From langconf at BU.EDU  Wed Sep 25 19:10:06 2002
From: langconf at BU.EDU (BU Conference on Language Development)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:10:06 -0400
Subject: Preliminary Schedule for Boston University Conference on Language
 Development
Message-ID: <WED.25.SEP.2002.151006.0400.LANGCONF@BU.EDU>

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27TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

November 1, 2 and 3, 2002
****************************************************************

Boston University is pleased to announce the preliminary schedule for the
27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.  Updates
to the schedule as well as registration materials and general and travel
information are available on our web page at:

http://web.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

Please feel free to contact the Conference Office at (617) 353-3085, or
e-mail at langconf at bu.edu if you have any questions.

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PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

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Friday, 9.00-12.30pm:  Session A
L. BLENN, A. SEIDL, B. HOEHLE: Recognition of phrases in early language
acquisition: The role of morphological markers
L. SANTELMANN: Infants' processing of relationships across languages:
Comparing English and German
D. SWINGLEY: On the phonological encoding of novel words by one-year-olds
J. TENENBAUM, F. XU: Bayesian inference in learning words with overlapping
extensions
J. HALBERDA: Young competence and the systematic breakdown of a
word-learning strategy
M. PREISSLER: Mutual exclusivity as a word learning constraint in children
with autism

Friday, 9.00-12.30pm:  Session B
C. HAMANN: What French normal and impaired children do with functional
categories - and the implications for approaches to language development
J. PARADIS, M. CRAGO, F. GENESEE: Object clitics as a clinical marker of SLI
in French: Evidence from French-English bilingual children
M. MC GUCKIAN, A. HENRY: Grammatical morpheme omission in children with
hearing impairment acquiring spoken English
S. FISH, B. MOREN, R. HOFFMEISTER, B. SCHICK: The acquisition of classifier
phonology in ASL by deaf children: Evidence from descriptions of objects in
specific spatial arrangements
A. WEINBERG: The development of visual attention through social interaction
in young deaf children
D. LILLO-MARTIN, S. BERK: Acquisition of constituent order under delayed
linguistic input

Friday, 9.00-12.30pm:  Session C
T. IONIN: The interpretation of 'the': A new look at articles in L2 English
H. MARSDEN: Inverse scope in L2 Japanese
C. BORGONOVO, P. PREVOST: Knowledge of polarity subjunctive in second
language Spanish
P. SCHULZ, A. WITTEK, Z. PENNER: Opening doors and sweeping floors: What
children with specific language impairment know about telic and atelic verbs
N. KAZANINA, C. PHILLIPS: Eventhood and comprehension of aspect in Russian
children
M. SMITH, L. NAIGLES, L. WAGNER: Comprehension and production of aspectual
morphology in 22 & 36 month olds

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Friday, 12.45pm:  Special Session
BUCLD Business Meeting
****************************************************************

Friday, 2.00-5.30pm: Session A
H. SONG, R. BAILLARGEON: Infants' ability to use verbal information when
reasoning about others' goals
J. LANTER-ZAPF: When children know what they do not know: The protracted
course of the acquisition of the plural
C. FISHER, J. SNEDEKER: Counting the nouns: Simple sentence-structure cues
guide verb learning in 21-month-olds
P. DE VILLIERS, F. BURNS: Language and false belief reasoning in specific
language impaired children: Complementing theories
S. RVACHEW: Factors related to the development of phonological awareness
skills
M. RISPOLI: Disassociation of sentence production components during the
development of grammar

Friday, 2.00-5.30pm:  Session B
T. KUPISCH: Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of articles by
bilingual German-Italian children
J. BERGER-MORALES, M. SALUSTRI: Root infinitives and participial
constructions: Novel evidence for the Separate Systems Hypothesis
L. SERRATRICE, A. SORACE: Overt and null subjects in monolingual and
bilingual Italian acquisition
S. CONRADIE: Parameter resetting in the second language acquisition of
Afrikaans: The Split Infl Parameter and the V2 parameter
T. MARINIS, C. FELSER, H. CLAHSEN: On-line processing of long-distance
filler-gap dependencies by Chinese L2 learners of English
P. BALCOM: The effects of the L1 on the L2 acquisition of unaccusativity by
francophone and sinophone learners of English

Friday, 2.00-5.30pm:  Session C
J. LIDZ, J. MUSOLINO: C-command really matters
L. MERONI, A. GUALMINI, S. CRAIN: Universal asymmetries in child language
M. LABELLE, D. VALOIS: Floated quantifiers, quantifiers at a distance, and
logical form constructions in the acquisition of L1 French
S. KAJIKAWA, S. AMANO, T. KONDO: Development of conversational style in
Japanese mother-child vocal interactions: Speech overlap, particle use and
backchannel
J. BAIRD, M. SAYLOR: Preschooler's narrative abilities: Links to knowledge
attribution skills and general language competence
V. AUKRUST: Talk about talk with young children: Pragmatic socialization in
two communities in Norway and the US

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Friday, 8.00pm:  Keynote Address
SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW: The Resilience of Language
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****************************************************************
Saturday, 8.00am:  Special Session
P. MCARDLE, M. HOPMANN; C. MCKEE: Federal Funding: What's hot and how to
apply
****************************************************************

Saturday 9.00-12.30pm:  Session A
S. ÖZÇALI KAN: When an idea runs through your mind, is it still in your
mind?  A crosslinguistic look at young children's understanding of metaphors
about the mind
K. OH: Manner and path in motion descriptions in English and Korean
L. LAKUSTA, R. LICONA, B. LANDAU: Interactions between spatial
representation and spatial language: The language of events
J. SNEDEKER, S. YUAN, I. MARTIN: A limited role for prosody in children's
online sentence processing
S. CRAIN, L. MERONI: Children's use of referential context
V. SHAFER, R. SCHWARTZ, K. KESSLER: ERP evidence of temporal aspects of
phonological and lexical processing in children

Saturday 9.00-12.30pm:  Session B
S. BERK: Why 'why' is different
B. HOLLEBRANDSE: Long distance WH-extraction revisited
M. ISOBE: Head-internal relative clauses in child Japanese
I. EIGSTI, L. BENNETTO: Syntactic delays in autism: Relationships between
language and neuropsychological factors
A. ERIKS-BROPHY, H. GOODLUCK, D. STOJANOVIC: Sensitivity to A- and A'-
dependencies in high-functioning individuals with Down syndrome
J. SCHAEFFER, A. HACOHEN, A. BERNSTEIN: On the acquisition of DP in
English-speaking children with SLI

Saturday 9.00-12.30pm:  Session C
P. TROFIMOVICH, W. BAKER, J. FLEGE, M. MACK: Second-language sound learning
in children and adults: Learning sounds, words, or both?
T. BURNS, J. WERKER, K. MCVIE: Development of phonetic categories in infants
raised in bilingual and monolingual environments
W. IDSARDI, P. IMSRI: The perception of English stops by Thai children and
adults
A. CARPENTER: Omission of function words vs. lexical syllables in child
speech
H. GOAD, L. WHITE, J. STEELE: Missing surface inflection in SLA: A prosodic
account
J. TITTERINGTON, A. HENRY, J. TONER: Some effects of the prosodic hierarchy
on the perception and production of spoken language in children with
profound hearing loss who use cochlear implants

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Saturday, 12.45pm: Lunch Symposium
R. MAYBERRY, E. PIZZUTO, B. WOLL: The role of input in the acquisition of
signed languages
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Saturday 2.15-5.15pm:  Session A
G. MORGAN, I. BARRIÈRE, B. WOLL: Grammatical relations in the acquisition of
BSL
S. UZIEL-KARL, N. BUDWIG: The development of nonagent subjects in Hebrew
child language
S. ALLEN, A. ÖZYÜREK, S. KITA, A. BROWN, R. TURANLI, T. ISHIZUKA: Early
speech about manner and path in Turkish and English: Universal or
language-specific?
F. HUREWITZ, L. GLEITMAN, R. GELMAN: On the acquisition of numbers and
quantifiers: some, all, two and four at three
M. LE CORRE, S. CAREY: On the role of analog magnitudes in number word
learning

Saturday 2.15-5.15pm:  Session B
I. KRAMER: Reference of indefinite and pronominal noun phrases in English
children's comprehension: Differential contributions of semantics and
pragmatics
A. GUALMINI: Some knowledge children don't lack
A. PAPAFRAGOU: Aspectuality and scalar structure
K. RATHBUN, H. BORTFELD, J. MORGAN, R. GOLINKOFF: What's in a name: Using
highly familiar items to aid segmentation
L. POLKA, M. SUNDARA: Is word segmentation in 7.5 month olds shaped by
native language rhythm?

Saturday 2.15-5.15pm:  Session C
Y. ROSE: ChildPhon: A database solution for the study of child phonology
M. KEHOE, C. LLEO: The acquisition of syllable types in monolingual and
bilingual German and Spanish children
C. KIRK, K. DEMUTH: Coda/onset asymmetries in the acquisition of clusters
Y. LAM: Subject-object asymmetry in child L2 acquisition of WH-movement:
Evidence of L1 transfer

****************************************************************
Saturday, 5.30pm:  Plenary Address
BONNIE SCHWARTZ: Child L2 Acquisition: Paving the Way
****************************************************************


Sunday, 9.00-1.00pm:  Session A
S. KLINGLER, C. FISHER: What does syntax say about space? Young children use
sentence structure in learning spatial terms
A. NADIG, J. SEDIVY, A. JOSHI: The development of discourse constraints on
the interpretation of adjectives
S. GELMAN, L. RAMAN: Pre-school children use linguistic form class and
pragmatic cues to interpret generics
L. GERKEN, R. WILSON: 17 month olds induce form categories based on
distributional information
R. GOMEZ, L. LAKUSTA: Language learning in probabilistic environments
T. MINTZ: On the distribution of frames in child-directed speech as a basis
for grammatical category learning
M. HADLER, WEYERTS, H. CLAHSEN: Frequency effects in children's production
of inflected word forms

Sunday, 9.00-1.00pm:  Session B
S. PEPERKAMP, M. PETTINATO, F. DUPOUX: Allophonic variation and the
acquisition of phoneme categories
J. MAYE, D. WEISS: Statistical cues facilitate infants' discrimination of
difficult phonetic contrasts
C. DIETRICH, D. SWINGLEY: Infants' processing of language-specific vowel
information in linguistic context
C. DE CAT: Syntactic manifestations of very early pragmatic knowledge
S. SIGURJONSDOTTIR: The different properties of root infinitives and finite
verbs in the acquisition of Icelandic
K. DEEN: Underspecified verb forms and subject omission in Nairobi Swahili
M. SALUSTRI, N. HYAMS: Is there an analogue to the RI stage in the null
subject languages?

Sunday, 9.00-1.00pm:  Session B
P. WOLFF, T. VASSILIEVA: When Russians learn English: How the perception of
CAUSE may change
S. MONTRUL: Bilingual unaccusativity
I. TSIMPLI, A. SORACE, C. HEYCOCK, F. FILIACI, M. BOUBA: Subjects in L1
attrition:  Evidence from Greek and Italian near-native speakers of English
M. OTA: Lexical vs. phrasal pitch contours in early production
M. VIGARIO, S. FROTA, M. FREITAS: From signal to grammar: Rhythm and the
acquisition of syllable structure
S. INKELAS, Y. ROSE: Velar fronting revisited
M. GUASTI, M. LLINAS-GRAU, A. GAVARRO: Catalan as a test for prosodic and
syntactic hypotheses on article omission
****************************************************************

Alternate Papers
In the event of a cancellation in the conference program, a substitute
selection will be made from the following alternate papers:
E. BAR-SHALOM: Understanding aspectual entailments in child Russian
J. BRUHN DE GARAVITO: Tense morphology in the acquisition of Spanish as a
second language
K. CASSIDY, A. PAPAFRAGOU, L. GLEITMAN: How to acquire mental state verbs
G. JIA, Y. SHIRAI, S. KHALSA: The acquisition of English tense-aspect
morphology by native Mandarin speakers: A longitudinal study
Y. KAYAMA: Acquisition of Japanese null objects and topic identification
J. KIM: L2 initial syntax: Wh-movement, null subjects, and the most
economical syntactic derivation
M. KIM: Children's sensitivity to adjunct islands in there-sentences
N. PAN, W. SNYDER: Setting the parameters of syllable structure in early
child Dutch
R. PULVERMAN, J. SOOTSMAN, R. GOLINKOFF: The role of lexical knowledge in
nonlinguistic event processing: English-speaking infants' attention to
manner and path                                                                                   M. SAYLOR, M. SABBAGH:  Mapping the action of
constraints, syntax, and pragmatics in children's part-time learning


From bergen at HAWAII.EDU  Thu Sep 26 01:19:53 2002
From: bergen at HAWAII.EDU (Benjamin K Bergen)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:19:53 -1000
Subject: Assistant or Associate Professor: Sociolinguistics
Message-ID: <WED.25.SEP.2002.151953.1000.BERGEN@HAWAII.EDU>

POSITION VACANCY
ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LINGUISTICS

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position (position no.
83008), to begin August 1, 2003 pending availability of position and
funding.

The Linguistics Department of the University of Hawai'i has a
long-standing commitment to the study of Pacific and Asian languages,
creoles and pidgins, typological and functional approaches to linguistics,
and language acquisition.  Typical teaching arrangements are two courses,
either graduate or undergraduate, per semester, with time for research.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:  PhD in linguistics or a related area (applicants
presently pursuing a PhD must offer evidence that all degree requirements
will have been completed before date of hire).  The successful applicant
will be expected to have conducted high quality research, including
empirical work, in sociolinguistics.  Applicants must be willing and able
to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the area(s) of
specialization.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:  experience with and an interest in languages of
Asia and/or the Pacific; a desire and ability to cultivate connections
with other departments and programs within the university (e.g.,
sociology, anthropology, gender studies, ethnic studies); an aptitude for
linking teaching and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

MINIMUM SALARY:  $48,312.00.

TO APPLY:  Send letter of application, copies of key publications, and
three letters of reference to:  Personnel Committee, Department of
Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1890 East-West Road, Moore
Hall 569, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.

CLOSING DATE:  We will begin to evaluate applications and supporting
materials by November 29, 2002.  Decision-making will begin shortly
thereafter.

INQUIRIES:  Same address as applications.  We regret that we cannot accept
applications via fax.  E-mailed applications must be followed by hard copy
postmarked (priority mail) by November 29, 2002.  (E-mail address:
linguist at hawaii.edu).  Please note that we cannot ensure that all e-mail
or fax communications in regard to this position will be answered. The
department website is http://www.ling.hawaii.edu.

The University of Hawai'i is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
institution. We welcome applications from qualified minorities and women.


From paul at BENJAMINS.COM  Thu Sep 26 14:45:10 2002
From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:45:10 -0400
Subject: New Book: Shibitani
Message-ID: <THU.26.SEP.2002.104510.0400.PAUL@BENJAMINS.COM>

John Benjamins Publishing announces a new work of interest to Functional
Linguistics

The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice University )
Typological Studies in Language 48
2002. xviii, 551 pp.
Hardbound: US & Canada: 1 58811 119 9 / USD 132.00/ Rest of world: 90 272
2952 X / EUR 145.00
Paperback: US & Canada: 1 58811 120 2 / USD 58.95/ Rest of world: 90 272
2953 8 / EUR 65.00

This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects
of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with
emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a
better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both
synchronically (e.g., on a semantic map) and diachronically (e.g., through
grammaticalization processes), the volume affords a comprehensive
up-to-date perspective on the perennial issues in the grammar of causation
such as the distribution of competing causative morphemes, the meaning
distinctions among them, and the overall form-meaning correlation.
Morphosyntactic interactions of causatives with other phenomena such as
incorporation and applicativization receive focused attention as such basic
issues as the semantic distinction between direct and indirect causation
and the typology of causative constructions.


Table of Contents
Preface ix
Appreciation
Philip W. Davis xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Some basic issues in the grammar of causation
Masayoshi Shibatani 1
Cooperation and interpersonal manipulation in the society of intimates
T. Givón and Phil Young 23
Verbs of interpersonal causality and the folk theory of mind and behavior
Bertram F. Malle 57
The causative continuum
Masayoshi Shibatani and Prashant Pardeshi 85
Causation, constructions, and language ecology: An example from French
Michel Achard 127
Tarascan causatives and event complexity
Ricardo Maldonado and E. Fernando Nava 157
Some constraints on Cora causative constructions
Verónica Vázquez Soto 197
Olutec causatives and applicatives
Roberto Zavala 245
On some causative doublets in Classical Nahuatl
Michel Launey 301
The notion of transfer in Sikuani causatives
Francisco Queixalós 319
Causative constructions in Akawaio
Anatol Stefanowitsch 341
Causation in Matses (Panoan, Amazonian Peru)
David W. Fleck 373
Causativization and transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo
Pilar M. Valenzuela 417
Causatives in Asheninka: The case for a sociative source
David Payne 485
Guaraní causative constructions
Maura Velázquez-Castillo 507
Index



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From kemmer at RICE.EDU  Fri Sep 27 03:17:31 2002
From: kemmer at RICE.EDU (Suzanne Kemmer)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:17:31 -0500
Subject: CSDL conference
Message-ID: <THU.26.SEP.2002.221731.0500.KEMMER@RICE.EDU>

The deadline for preregistration for the CSDL conference at Rice
University is fast approaching.

To receive the preregistration discount ($10 conference fee, which
includes two lunches),
participants must register via the web by Oct. 1.  U.S.-based
preregistrants must
also send their conference payment to reach our dept. by that time or
within a day or
two later.  (Preregistrants outside the country can bring cash for the
preregistration amount, provided they fill out and submit the web
preregistration form by the deadline).

Registration at the door is $20.

The conference party dinner is extra: $12.

See the CSDL website at www.rice.edu/csdl
for speakers, talk titles, registration and other information.

Suzanne Kemmer and Michel Achard,
Organizers, CSDL 6


From slobin at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU  Tue Sep 10 00:09:29 2002
From: slobin at COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Dan I. SLOBIN)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:09:29 -0700
Subject: perception verbs and paths
Message-ID: <MON.9.SEP.2002.170929.0700.SLOBIN@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU>

I would appreciate information about uses of perception verbs with path
expressions, such as "look across the river" and "peek into the hole"--or
equivalents in various languages.

Dan Slobin
Dept of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
slobin at cogsci.berkeley.edu


From Bert.Peeters at UTAS.EDU.AU  Tue Sep 10 02:11:34 2002
From: Bert.Peeters at UTAS.EDU.AU (Bert Peeters)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:11:34 +1000
Subject: New e-mail list: nsm-l
Message-ID: <TUE.10.SEP.2002.121134.1000.BERT.PEETERS@UTAS.EDU.AU>

The "Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach", associated with the work
of Anna Wierzbicka, Cliff Goddard and associates, now has its own e-mail
list! It's called "nsm-l" and it's based at the University of Tasmania,
Australia.

Never heard of NSM? In a nutshell,

"[t]he approach is based on evidence that there is a small core of
basic, universal meanings, known as semantic primes, which can be found
as words or other linguistic expressions in all languages. This common
core of meaning can be used as a tool for linguistic and cultural
analysis: to explicate complex and culture-specific words and
grammatical constructions, and to articulate culture-specific values and
attitudes (cultural scripts), in terms which are maximally clear and
translatable. The theory also provides a semantic foundation for
universal grammar and for linguistic typology. It has applications in
intercultural communication, lexicography (dictionary making), language
teaching, the study of child language acquisition, legal semantics, and
other areas".

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From adam.kilgarriff at ITRI.BRIGHTON.AC.UK  Tue Sep 10 04:33:27 2002
From: adam.kilgarriff at ITRI.BRIGHTON.AC.UK (Adam Kilgarriff)
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 05:33:27 +0100
Subject: perception verbs and paths
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0209091707510.31985-100000@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.10.SEP.2002.053327.0100.ADAM.KILGARRIFF@ITRI.BRIGHTON.AC.UK>

Dan,

Dan I. SLOBIN writes:
 > I would appreciate information about uses of perception verbs with path
 > expressions, such as "look across the river" and "peek into the hole"--or
 > equivalents in various languages.
 >
        we've processed the British National Corpus in a way that makes
it easy to see how words behave - called 'word sketches'.  The word
sketches will be a good place to go to answer your questions, for
English.  I've put "peer" and "look" on the web for you, along with
some others (I didn't have "peek" to hand), see

http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/~Adam.Kilgarriff/WORDSKETCHES/

For write-ups, see

@Inproceedings{toulouse-collos,
  author    =    {Adam Kilgarriff and David Tugwell},
  title     =    {WORD SKETCH: Extraction and Display of Significant
                 Collocations for Lexicography},
  booktitle =    {Proc. Collocations workshop, ACL 2001},
  address   =    {Toulouse, France},
  month     =    {July},
  pages     =    "32--38",
  year      =    2001
}

or others available from my web page (below) or

http://wasps.itri.brighton.ac.uk

We have a web demo (which compiles word sketches at run time)
available on the web for all words beginning with k.  We are currently
installing a licence server, and when that is in place - should be
within a month - the full resource will be available, on a free
licence, to all for research purposes.

         Regards,

                Adam Kilgarriff


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From bergen at HAWAII.EDU  Thu Sep 12 21:22:13 2002
From: bergen at HAWAII.EDU (Benjamin K Bergen)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:22:13 -1000
Subject: Topicalization and scrambling in German
Message-ID: <THU.12.SEP.2002.112213.1000.BERGEN@HAWAII.EDU>

My apologies for cross-posting.

I recently heard a talk in which it was argued that there is a universal
constraint (Unambiguous Domination - Mueller 1996) which states the
following: An element cannot be moved across another element that has
previously been extracted from it if the two movements are of the same
type (e.g. topicalization and topicalization or scrambling and
scrambling).

That is, you can perform two different types of movement, like
topicalization and scrambling to get the felicitous:

[t1 Zu lesen]2 hat keiner [das Buch]1 gestern  t2 versucht.
To read has no-one the book yesterday tried.
'No-one tried to read the book yesterday.'

But you can't perform scrambling twice:

*Ich glaube, dass [t1 zu lesen]2 keiner [das Buch]1 gestern t2 versucht
hat.
I think, that to read no-one the book yesterday tried has.
'No-one tried to read the book yesterday.'

My question is: can anyone point me to cognitive/functional/constructional
studies of topicalization and scrambling in German (or Dutch)? I'm
particularly interested in research that could start to explain this
generalization.

I'll post a summary if there are sufficient responses.

Thanks!

Ben Bergen

+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+
| Benjamin K. Bergen              |
| Assistant Professor             |
| Department of Linguistics       |
| University of Hawai`i, Manoa    |
|                                 |
| bergen at hawaii.edu               |
| http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen  |
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From kemmer at RICE.EDU  Tue Sep 17 18:04:34 2002
From: kemmer at RICE.EDU (Suzanne Kemmer)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:04:34 -0500
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From: tmac at BLACKWELLPUB.COM (Mac Thu Yen)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:09:04 -0400
Subject: Language in Social Worlds
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From: clements at INDIANA.EDU (Clancy Clements)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 14:56:01 -0500
Subject: Position in Spanish Linguistics --- Please post
Message-ID: <WED.18.SEP.2002.145601.0500.CLEMENTS@INDIANA.EDU>

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From jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU  Fri Sep 20 22:11:15 2002
From: jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba)
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:11:15 -0700
Subject: [Fwd: textbooks for discourse analysis]
Message-ID: <FRI.20.SEP.2002.151115.0700.JRUBBA@CALPOLY.EDU>

I'm forwarding this on behalf of a member of another listserv I subscribe to.
Please respond directly to Larry if you have suggestions.

lbeason at USOUTHAL.EDU wrote:

> Does anyone have suggestions for a textbook to use in an introductory
> course at the master's level on discourse analysis?
>
> This would be essentially the only course any of the students have
> taken on the subject; most would have almost exclusively a literature or
> creative writing background.   My goals for the course are broad and
> flexible: essentially, to provide useful ways of analyzing texts in a
> more-or-less technical, linguistic manner in order to understand the
> meaning or importance of these texts.
>
> For instance, I plan to cover some of speech-act theory and politeness
> theory as they apply to business letters, speech, and literature.
>
> In particular, if someone can recommend a book dealing with discourse
> analysis that draws on grammar (traditional or otherwise), I'd
> appreciate your suggestions.
>
> --Larry Beason
>
> -------------------------------
> Larry Beason
> Director of Composition
> Dept. of English, Univ. of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL 36688
> 251-460-7861
> -------------------------------
>
> To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
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> and select "Join or leave the list"
>
> Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  ? San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  ?  Fax: (805)-756-6374 ? Dept. Phone.  756-2596
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From language at SPRYNET.COM  Sat Sep 21 21:22:20 2002
From: language at SPRYNET.COM (Alexander Gross)
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:22:20 -0700
Subject: Pinker's latest...
Message-ID: <SAT.21.SEP.2002.142220.0700.LANGUAGE@SPRYNET.COM>

You'll find not really a review but a prepublication blurb for Pinker's 
latest book in Tuesday's NY Times at:
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/science/social/17PINK.html?pagewanted=all&position=top
 
and a related sidebar at:
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/17/science/17BPINK.html
 
So far as I can make out from this account, the book isn't truly about 
linguistics other than to broaden and justify the case for innatism 
by making it appear equally valid for many other fields.  Specious & 
obfuscative, I'd say.

very best!
 
alex gross

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From dparvaz at UNM.EDU  Sun Sep 22 17:13:13 2002
From: dparvaz at UNM.EDU (Dan Parvaz)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:13:13 -0600
Subject: Pinker's latest...
Message-ID: <SUN.22.SEP.2002.111313.0600.DPARVAZ@UNM.EDU>

Interesting. I'm not quite sure what to make of the articles. Bashing
Gould now that he is dead is all very easy, but I'm not sure how
sharing Wilson's theoretical leanings (which I do, inasmuch as I
understand them) necessarily leads one to linguistic innatism after the
manner of the East Coasters. Given the principle of charity, does
someone with more access to formalist thought have any insights on this?

Cheers,

Dan.


From simon at IPFW.EDU  Sat Sep 21 16:54:45 2002
From: simon at IPFW.EDU (Beth Simon)
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 11:54:45 -0500
Subject: [Fwd: textbooks for discourse analysis]
Message-ID: <SAT.21.SEP.2002.115445.0500.SIMON@IPFW.EDU>

I'd be interested in seeing/hearing the suggestions. Please either dupe to me, simon at ipfw.edu, or to the list if others don't mind.

thanks,

beth

>>> Johanna Rubba <jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU> 09/20/02 17:22 PM >>>
I'm forwarding this on behalf of a member of another listserv I subscribe to.
Please respond directly to Larry if you have suggestions.

lbeason at USOUTHAL.EDU wrote:

> Does anyone have suggestions for a textbook to use in an introductory
> course at the master's level on discourse analysis?
>
> This would be essentially the only course any of the students have
> taken on the subject; most would have almost exclusively a literature or
> creative writing background.   My goals for the course are broad and
> flexible: essentially, to provide useful ways of analyzing texts in a
> more-or-less technical, linguistic manner in order to understand the
> meaning or importance of these texts.
>
> For instance, I plan to cover some of speech-act theory and politeness
> theory as they apply to business letters, speech, and literature.
>
> In particular, if someone can recommend a book dealing with discourse
> analysis that draws on grammar (traditional or otherwise), I'd
> appreciate your suggestions.
>
> --Larry Beason
>
> -------------------------------
> Larry Beason
> Director of Composition
> Dept. of English, Univ. of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL 36688
> 251-460-7861
> -------------------------------
>
> To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
>      http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html
> and select "Join or leave the list"
>
> Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  ? San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  ?  Fax: (805)-756-6374 ? Dept. Phone.  756-2596
? E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu ?  Home page: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU  Mon Sep 23 01:56:30 2002
From: jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:56:30 -0700
Subject: Textbooks for discourse analysis]
Message-ID: <SUN.22.SEP.2002.185630.0700.JRUBBA@CALPOLY.EDU>

So far, the only suggested text has been Teun van Dijk's "Discourse as
structure and process", 1997, Sage.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  ? San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  ?  Fax: (805)-756-6374 ? Dept. Phone.  756-2596
? E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu ?  Home page:
http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From bill_mann at SIL.ORG  Mon Sep 23 11:58:57 2002
From: bill_mann at SIL.ORG (William Mann)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:58:57 -0400
Subject: Textbooks for discourse analysis]
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.075857.0400.BILLMANN@SIL.ORG>

A slightly older one might fit your audience:  Approaches to Discourse, by
Deborah Schiffrin, 1994.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Johanna Rubba" <jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU>
To: <FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: Textbooks for discourse analysis]


> So far, the only suggested text has been Teun van Dijk's "Discourse as
> structure and process", 1997, Sage.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
> English Department, California Polytechnic State University
> One Grand Avenue  . San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
> Tel. (805)-756-2184  .  Fax: (805)-756-6374 . Dept. Phone.  756-2596
> . E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu .  Home page:
> http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From Dan.Everett at MAN.AC.UK  Mon Sep 23 12:19:16 2002
From: Dan.Everett at MAN.AC.UK (Dan Everett)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:19:16 +0100
Subject: Textbooks for discourse analysis]
In-Reply-To: <000c01c262f8$9ab3eed0$d3cafea9@BillDell>
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.131916.0100.DAN.EVERETT@MAN.AC.UK>

I just saw a new book written by Bob Dooley and someone else, published
by SIL. Although a bit out of the mainstream perhaps, it looked like a
potentially useful text, though I only had a quick glance through it.

Dan Everett

**************************************************************

Daniel L. Everett
Professor of Phonetics and Phonology
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester, UK
M13 9PL
dan.everett at man.ac.uk

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, William Mann wrote:

> A slightly older one might fit your audience:  Approaches to Discourse, by
> Deborah Schiffrin, 1994.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johanna Rubba" <jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU>
> To: <FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 9:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Textbooks for discourse analysis]
>
>
> > So far, the only suggested text has been Teun van Dijk's "Discourse as
> > structure and process", 1997, Sage.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
> > English Department, California Polytechnic State University
> > One Grand Avenue  . San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
> > Tel. (805)-756-2184  .  Fax: (805)-756-6374 . Dept. Phone.  756-2596
> > . E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu .  Home page:
> > http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>


From paul at BENJAMINS.COM  Mon Sep 23 13:45:37 2002
From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:45:37 -0400
Subject: Discourse analysis text
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.094537.0400.PAUL@BENJAMINS.COM>

Re:  the discourse textbook question
John Benjamins has a textbook by Jan Renkema. It's described on the website
like this:

Discourse Studies
An introductory textbook
Jan Renkema
University of Tilburg
1993. x, 224 pp.

This book familiarizes the student with the key concepts and the major
issues in the field of discourse studies. It provides a scientific
'toolkit' for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping
stone to the independent study of the professional literature.
The book consists of four parts. In Part I the focus is on four essential
concepts in discourse studies as it is defined in this book: the
investigation of the relationship between form and function in verbal
communication. Part II is an introduction to basic phenomena: the building
blocks of discourse and the links between them. Two age-old problems are
also addressed: What are the differences between types of discourse? What
is style?
In Part III specific types of discourse are dealt with: interaction,
narration and argumentation. Part IV deals with the production and the
perception of discourse, for example, 'staging' in the presentation of
information and 'inferences' in the derivation of information. Special
attention is given to models of the writing and the reading process.
The material, organized in seventeen short chapters, is based on more than
fifteen years of experience gained in teaching introductory courses. The
book contains advice on further study, and background information about the
origins of the central concepts (philosophy, psychology sociology, etc.). A
number of classic studies are referred to from both the Anglo-American and
the European tradition. Each chapter ends with questions and assignments to
stimulate discussion about seemingly unproblematic distinctions.


"Renkema's textbook is a good survey of most aspects of the discourse
analysis field, which will be useful in a range of courses. It introduces
the German-Dutch tradition more fully than other widely available texts do."
Patrick McConvell in Linguist List Vol. 5

You can contact me to request an exam copy
Paul





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 ocls at MADISONCOUNTY.NET  Mon Sep 23 13:51:10 2002
From: ocls at MADISONCOUNTY.NET (Suzette Haden Elgin)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 08:51:10 -0500
Subject: the discourse textbook question
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.085110.0500.OCLS@MADISONCOUNTY.NET>

September 23, 2002

I'd like to second the suggestion of the John Benjamins text by Renkema; I
think it's very good. Much of my time goes into trying to make basic
concepts of linguistics clear to non-linguists, and the Renkema book is the
one I always recommend. It's clear, it's nontechnical,  and it's
interesting to read.

Suzette Haden Elgin

Discourse Studies
An introductory textbook
Jan Renkema
University of Tilburg
1993. x, 224 pp.


From dionysis at UCY.AC.CY  Mon Sep 23 17:39:15 2002
From: dionysis at UCY.AC.CY (Dionysis Goutsos)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:39:15 WET-2WET
Subject: Textbooks on Discourse Analysis
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.173915.WET2WET.>

May I indulge in some self-advertising, just because I
think _Discourse Analysis: An Introduction_ Edinburgh
University Press, 1997 [reprinted 1999] by Alexandra
Georgakopoulou and myself is one of the most appropriate
textbooks for the level in question. Renkema?s book would
be too easy for a Master?s course, whereas Schiffrin?c
classic one is rather too complicated.
Here?s the Amazon site for more details:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/0748608346/qid=1032792157/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7078848-
5106224?v=glance&s=books

********************************************
Dionysis Goutsos
Assistant Professor in Linguistics
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
P.O. Box 20537
1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS
Tel: +357 -22 - 892109
Fax: +357 -22 -750310
http://www.ucy.ac.cy/~dionysis
>From July 2002, you can also contact me at:
Zakynthou 8
113 61 Athens
GREECE
Tel./Fax: +30 -10- 8232022


From rmontes at SIU.BUAP.MX  Mon Sep 23 15:20:25 2002
From: rmontes at SIU.BUAP.MX (Rosa Graciela Montes)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 10:20:25 -0500
Subject: Textbooks on Discourse Analysis
In-Reply-To: <200209231439.RAA51384@zeus.cc.ucy.ac.cy>
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.102025.0500.RMONTES@SIU.BUAP.MX>

> May I indulge in some self-advertising, just because I
> think _Discourse Analysis: An Introduction_ Edinburgh
> University Press, 1997 [reprinted 1999] by Alexandra
> Georgakopoulou and myself is one of the most appropriate
> textbooks for the level in question.

I have used the Goutsos and Georgakopolou textbook with
incoming graduate students some of which had had previous
readings on discourse analysis and some for whom the course
was a total introduction.

I found the book excellent for providing a comprehensive
overview of the field, for being up to date and indexing
several of the current controversies and touchy points.
The materials provided allowed those already familiar to set
issues, authors and approaches in perspective and gave
sufficient information for newcomers to be able to engage
informedly in the classroom discussions.

Dr. Rosa Graciela Montes, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla,
MEXICO


From ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU  Mon Sep 23 16:42:50 2002
From: ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul Hopper)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:42:50 -0400
Subject: [Fwd: textbooks for discourse analysis]
In-Reply-To: <3D8B9D03.3C452E4B@calpoly.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.124250.0400.PH1U@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>

Johanna,

There is a recent book by Barbara Johnstone that is very good. It is called
simply "Discourse Analysis" (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), in the Blackwell
series Introducing Linguistics. It covers a wide range of issues from text
analysis to more anthropological aspects, and has numerous interesting
exercises and research projects for students.

- Paul

---------------------------
Paul Hopper
Thomas S. Baker Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Telephone (412) 268-7174
Fax (412) 268-7989


From jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU  Mon Sep 23 19:48:12 2002
From: jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU (Johanna Rubba)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:48:12 -0700
Subject: the discourse textbook question
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.124812.0700.JRUBBA@CALPOLY.EDU>

Folks,

I'm glad to see suggestions for discourse textbooks coming in, but
please don't send them to me. Please send them directly to the person
who asked for them, who is NOT a subscriber to Funknet so far as I know:
Larry Beason, e-mail <lbeason at USOUTHAL.EDU>. I can't manage forwarding
all your messages to him; we just started teaching today.

I could ask him for a summary that I could then post to Funknet.

So thanks again, but let's make sure the suggestions get to the guy who
needs them!

Jo
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  ? San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  ?  Fax: (805)-756-6374 ? Dept. Phone.  756-2596
? E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu ?  Home page:
http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU  Mon Sep 23 21:15:28 2002
From: ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul Hopper)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:15:28 -0400
Subject: the discourse textbook question
In-Reply-To: <3D8F6FFC.533FF79A@calpoly.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.23.SEP.2002.171528.0400.PH1U@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>

Johanna,

I'm afraid this is what happens when you undertake to be the point person
for a general inquiry like this. Once a question reaches the group, it
becomes common property (in a lively exchange it is not uncommon for the
instigator of an inquiry to be completely forgotten). It turned out that a
number of us had something substantive to contribute (including, not
surprisingly, some publishers). My guess is that few of us would have
bothered to write in for the sole benefit of Mr Beason. I learned to my
great surprise just how many new books on discourse analysis were now on
the market, and I got some useful information, for which I am grateful to
FUNKNET colleagues, as well as to you.

Cheers,

Paul

---------------------------
Paul Hopper
Thomas S. Baker Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Telephone (412) 268-7174
Fax (412) 268-7989


--On Monday, September 23, 2002 12:48 PM -0700 Johanna Rubba
<jrubba at CALPOLY.EDU> wrote:

Folks,

I'm glad to see suggestions for discourse textbooks coming in, but
please don't send them to me. Please send them directly to the person
who asked for them, who is NOT a subscriber to Funknet so far as I know:
Larry Beason, e-mail <lbeason at USOUTHAL.EDU>. I can't manage forwarding
all your messages to him; we just started teaching today.

I could ask him for a summary that I could then post to Funknet.

So thanks again, but let's make sure the suggestions get to the guy who
needs them!

Jo
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Johanna Rubba   Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  ? San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  ?  Fax: (805)-756-6374 ? Dept. Phone.  756-2596
? E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu ?  Home page:
http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


From langconf at BU.EDU  Wed Sep 25 19:10:06 2002
From: langconf at BU.EDU (BU Conference on Language Development)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:10:06 -0400
Subject: Preliminary Schedule for Boston University Conference on Language
 Development
Message-ID: <WED.25.SEP.2002.151006.0400.LANGCONF@BU.EDU>

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27TH ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

November 1, 2 and 3, 2002
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Boston University is pleased to announce the preliminary schedule for the
27th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.  Updates
to the schedule as well as registration materials and general and travel
information are available on our web page at:

http://web.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/

Please feel free to contact the Conference Office at (617) 353-3085, or
e-mail at langconf at bu.edu if you have any questions.

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PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

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Friday, 9.00-12.30pm:  Session A
L. BLENN, A. SEIDL, B. HOEHLE: Recognition of phrases in early language
acquisition: The role of morphological markers
L. SANTELMANN: Infants' processing of relationships across languages:
Comparing English and German
D. SWINGLEY: On the phonological encoding of novel words by one-year-olds
J. TENENBAUM, F. XU: Bayesian inference in learning words with overlapping
extensions
J. HALBERDA: Young competence and the systematic breakdown of a
word-learning strategy
M. PREISSLER: Mutual exclusivity as a word learning constraint in children
with autism

Friday, 9.00-12.30pm:  Session B
C. HAMANN: What French normal and impaired children do with functional
categories - and the implications for approaches to language development
J. PARADIS, M. CRAGO, F. GENESEE: Object clitics as a clinical marker of SLI
in French: Evidence from French-English bilingual children
M. MC GUCKIAN, A. HENRY: Grammatical morpheme omission in children with
hearing impairment acquiring spoken English
S. FISH, B. MOREN, R. HOFFMEISTER, B. SCHICK: The acquisition of classifier
phonology in ASL by deaf children: Evidence from descriptions of objects in
specific spatial arrangements
A. WEINBERG: The development of visual attention through social interaction
in young deaf children
D. LILLO-MARTIN, S. BERK: Acquisition of constituent order under delayed
linguistic input

Friday, 9.00-12.30pm:  Session C
T. IONIN: The interpretation of 'the': A new look at articles in L2 English
H. MARSDEN: Inverse scope in L2 Japanese
C. BORGONOVO, P. PREVOST: Knowledge of polarity subjunctive in second
language Spanish
P. SCHULZ, A. WITTEK, Z. PENNER: Opening doors and sweeping floors: What
children with specific language impairment know about telic and atelic verbs
N. KAZANINA, C. PHILLIPS: Eventhood and comprehension of aspect in Russian
children
M. SMITH, L. NAIGLES, L. WAGNER: Comprehension and production of aspectual
morphology in 22 & 36 month olds

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Friday, 12.45pm:  Special Session
BUCLD Business Meeting
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Friday, 2.00-5.30pm: Session A
H. SONG, R. BAILLARGEON: Infants' ability to use verbal information when
reasoning about others' goals
J. LANTER-ZAPF: When children know what they do not know: The protracted
course of the acquisition of the plural
C. FISHER, J. SNEDEKER: Counting the nouns: Simple sentence-structure cues
guide verb learning in 21-month-olds
P. DE VILLIERS, F. BURNS: Language and false belief reasoning in specific
language impaired children: Complementing theories
S. RVACHEW: Factors related to the development of phonological awareness
skills
M. RISPOLI: Disassociation of sentence production components during the
development of grammar

Friday, 2.00-5.30pm:  Session B
T. KUPISCH: Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of articles by
bilingual German-Italian children
J. BERGER-MORALES, M. SALUSTRI: Root infinitives and participial
constructions: Novel evidence for the Separate Systems Hypothesis
L. SERRATRICE, A. SORACE: Overt and null subjects in monolingual and
bilingual Italian acquisition
S. CONRADIE: Parameter resetting in the second language acquisition of
Afrikaans: The Split Infl Parameter and the V2 parameter
T. MARINIS, C. FELSER, H. CLAHSEN: On-line processing of long-distance
filler-gap dependencies by Chinese L2 learners of English
P. BALCOM: The effects of the L1 on the L2 acquisition of unaccusativity by
francophone and sinophone learners of English

Friday, 2.00-5.30pm:  Session C
J. LIDZ, J. MUSOLINO: C-command really matters
L. MERONI, A. GUALMINI, S. CRAIN: Universal asymmetries in child language
M. LABELLE, D. VALOIS: Floated quantifiers, quantifiers at a distance, and
logical form constructions in the acquisition of L1 French
S. KAJIKAWA, S. AMANO, T. KONDO: Development of conversational style in
Japanese mother-child vocal interactions: Speech overlap, particle use and
backchannel
J. BAIRD, M. SAYLOR: Preschooler's narrative abilities: Links to knowledge
attribution skills and general language competence
V. AUKRUST: Talk about talk with young children: Pragmatic socialization in
two communities in Norway and the US

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Friday, 8.00pm:  Keynote Address
SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW: The Resilience of Language
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Saturday, 8.00am:  Special Session
P. MCARDLE, M. HOPMANN; C. MCKEE: Federal Funding: What's hot and how to
apply
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Saturday 9.00-12.30pm:  Session A
S. ?Z?ALI KAN: When an idea runs through your mind, is it still in your
mind?  A crosslinguistic look at young children's understanding of metaphors
about the mind
K. OH: Manner and path in motion descriptions in English and Korean
L. LAKUSTA, R. LICONA, B. LANDAU: Interactions between spatial
representation and spatial language: The language of events
J. SNEDEKER, S. YUAN, I. MARTIN: A limited role for prosody in children's
online sentence processing
S. CRAIN, L. MERONI: Children's use of referential context
V. SHAFER, R. SCHWARTZ, K. KESSLER: ERP evidence of temporal aspects of
phonological and lexical processing in children

Saturday 9.00-12.30pm:  Session B
S. BERK: Why 'why' is different
B. HOLLEBRANDSE: Long distance WH-extraction revisited
M. ISOBE: Head-internal relative clauses in child Japanese
I. EIGSTI, L. BENNETTO: Syntactic delays in autism: Relationships between
language and neuropsychological factors
A. ERIKS-BROPHY, H. GOODLUCK, D. STOJANOVIC: Sensitivity to A- and A'-
dependencies in high-functioning individuals with Down syndrome
J. SCHAEFFER, A. HACOHEN, A. BERNSTEIN: On the acquisition of DP in
English-speaking children with SLI

Saturday 9.00-12.30pm:  Session C
P. TROFIMOVICH, W. BAKER, J. FLEGE, M. MACK: Second-language sound learning
in children and adults: Learning sounds, words, or both?
T. BURNS, J. WERKER, K. MCVIE: Development of phonetic categories in infants
raised in bilingual and monolingual environments
W. IDSARDI, P. IMSRI: The perception of English stops by Thai children and
adults
A. CARPENTER: Omission of function words vs. lexical syllables in child
speech
H. GOAD, L. WHITE, J. STEELE: Missing surface inflection in SLA: A prosodic
account
J. TITTERINGTON, A. HENRY, J. TONER: Some effects of the prosodic hierarchy
on the perception and production of spoken language in children with
profound hearing loss who use cochlear implants

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Saturday, 12.45pm: Lunch Symposium
R. MAYBERRY, E. PIZZUTO, B. WOLL: The role of input in the acquisition of
signed languages
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Saturday 2.15-5.15pm:  Session A
G. MORGAN, I. BARRI?RE, B. WOLL: Grammatical relations in the acquisition of
BSL
S. UZIEL-KARL, N. BUDWIG: The development of nonagent subjects in Hebrew
child language
S. ALLEN, A. ?ZY?REK, S. KITA, A. BROWN, R. TURANLI, T. ISHIZUKA: Early
speech about manner and path in Turkish and English: Universal or
language-specific?
F. HUREWITZ, L. GLEITMAN, R. GELMAN: On the acquisition of numbers and
quantifiers: some, all, two and four at three
M. LE CORRE, S. CAREY: On the role of analog magnitudes in number word
learning

Saturday 2.15-5.15pm:  Session B
I. KRAMER: Reference of indefinite and pronominal noun phrases in English
children's comprehension: Differential contributions of semantics and
pragmatics
A. GUALMINI: Some knowledge children don't lack
A. PAPAFRAGOU: Aspectuality and scalar structure
K. RATHBUN, H. BORTFELD, J. MORGAN, R. GOLINKOFF: What's in a name: Using
highly familiar items to aid segmentation
L. POLKA, M. SUNDARA: Is word segmentation in 7.5 month olds shaped by
native language rhythm?

Saturday 2.15-5.15pm:  Session C
Y. ROSE: ChildPhon: A database solution for the study of child phonology
M. KEHOE, C. LLEO: The acquisition of syllable types in monolingual and
bilingual German and Spanish children
C. KIRK, K. DEMUTH: Coda/onset asymmetries in the acquisition of clusters
Y. LAM: Subject-object asymmetry in child L2 acquisition of WH-movement:
Evidence of L1 transfer

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Saturday, 5.30pm:  Plenary Address
BONNIE SCHWARTZ: Child L2 Acquisition: Paving the Way
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Sunday, 9.00-1.00pm:  Session A
S. KLINGLER, C. FISHER: What does syntax say about space? Young children use
sentence structure in learning spatial terms
A. NADIG, J. SEDIVY, A. JOSHI: The development of discourse constraints on
the interpretation of adjectives
S. GELMAN, L. RAMAN: Pre-school children use linguistic form class and
pragmatic cues to interpret generics
L. GERKEN, R. WILSON: 17 month olds induce form categories based on
distributional information
R. GOMEZ, L. LAKUSTA: Language learning in probabilistic environments
T. MINTZ: On the distribution of frames in child-directed speech as a basis
for grammatical category learning
M. HADLER, WEYERTS, H. CLAHSEN: Frequency effects in children's production
of inflected word forms

Sunday, 9.00-1.00pm:  Session B
S. PEPERKAMP, M. PETTINATO, F. DUPOUX: Allophonic variation and the
acquisition of phoneme categories
J. MAYE, D. WEISS: Statistical cues facilitate infants' discrimination of
difficult phonetic contrasts
C. DIETRICH, D. SWINGLEY: Infants' processing of language-specific vowel
information in linguistic context
C. DE CAT: Syntactic manifestations of very early pragmatic knowledge
S. SIGURJONSDOTTIR: The different properties of root infinitives and finite
verbs in the acquisition of Icelandic
K. DEEN: Underspecified verb forms and subject omission in Nairobi Swahili
M. SALUSTRI, N. HYAMS: Is there an analogue to the RI stage in the null
subject languages?

Sunday, 9.00-1.00pm:  Session B
P. WOLFF, T. VASSILIEVA: When Russians learn English: How the perception of
CAUSE may change
S. MONTRUL: Bilingual unaccusativity
I. TSIMPLI, A. SORACE, C. HEYCOCK, F. FILIACI, M. BOUBA: Subjects in L1
attrition:  Evidence from Greek and Italian near-native speakers of English
M. OTA: Lexical vs. phrasal pitch contours in early production
M. VIGARIO, S. FROTA, M. FREITAS: From signal to grammar: Rhythm and the
acquisition of syllable structure
S. INKELAS, Y. ROSE: Velar fronting revisited
M. GUASTI, M. LLINAS-GRAU, A. GAVARRO: Catalan as a test for prosodic and
syntactic hypotheses on article omission
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Alternate Papers
In the event of a cancellation in the conference program, a substitute
selection will be made from the following alternate papers:
E. BAR-SHALOM: Understanding aspectual entailments in child Russian
J. BRUHN DE GARAVITO: Tense morphology in the acquisition of Spanish as a
second language
K. CASSIDY, A. PAPAFRAGOU, L. GLEITMAN: How to acquire mental state verbs
G. JIA, Y. SHIRAI, S. KHALSA: The acquisition of English tense-aspect
morphology by native Mandarin speakers: A longitudinal study
Y. KAYAMA: Acquisition of Japanese null objects and topic identification
J. KIM: L2 initial syntax: Wh-movement, null subjects, and the most
economical syntactic derivation
M. KIM: Children's sensitivity to adjunct islands in there-sentences
N. PAN, W. SNYDER: Setting the parameters of syllable structure in early
child Dutch
R. PULVERMAN, J. SOOTSMAN, R. GOLINKOFF: The role of lexical knowledge in
nonlinguistic event processing: English-speaking infants' attention to
manner and path                                                                                   M. SAYLOR, M. SABBAGH:  Mapping the action of
constraints, syntax, and pragmatics in children's part-time learning


From bergen at HAWAII.EDU  Thu Sep 26 01:19:53 2002
From: bergen at HAWAII.EDU (Benjamin K Bergen)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:19:53 -1000
Subject: Assistant or Associate Professor: Sociolinguistics
Message-ID: <WED.25.SEP.2002.151953.1000.BERGEN@HAWAII.EDU>

POSITION VACANCY
ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LINGUISTICS

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position (position no.
83008), to begin August 1, 2003 pending availability of position and
funding.

The Linguistics Department of the University of Hawai'i has a
long-standing commitment to the study of Pacific and Asian languages,
creoles and pidgins, typological and functional approaches to linguistics,
and language acquisition.  Typical teaching arrangements are two courses,
either graduate or undergraduate, per semester, with time for research.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:  PhD in linguistics or a related area (applicants
presently pursuing a PhD must offer evidence that all degree requirements
will have been completed before date of hire).  The successful applicant
will be expected to have conducted high quality research, including
empirical work, in sociolinguistics.  Applicants must be willing and able
to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the area(s) of
specialization.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:  experience with and an interest in languages of
Asia and/or the Pacific; a desire and ability to cultivate connections
with other departments and programs within the university (e.g.,
sociology, anthropology, gender studies, ethnic studies); an aptitude for
linking teaching and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

MINIMUM SALARY:  $48,312.00.

TO APPLY:  Send letter of application, copies of key publications, and
three letters of reference to:  Personnel Committee, Department of
Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1890 East-West Road, Moore
Hall 569, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.

CLOSING DATE:  We will begin to evaluate applications and supporting
materials by November 29, 2002.  Decision-making will begin shortly
thereafter.

INQUIRIES:  Same address as applications.  We regret that we cannot accept
applications via fax.  E-mailed applications must be followed by hard copy
postmarked (priority mail) by November 29, 2002.  (E-mail address:
linguist at hawaii.edu).  Please note that we cannot ensure that all e-mail
or fax communications in regard to this position will be answered. The
department website is http://www.ling.hawaii.edu.

The University of Hawai'i is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
institution. We welcome applications from qualified minorities and women.


From paul at BENJAMINS.COM  Thu Sep 26 14:45:10 2002
From: paul at BENJAMINS.COM (Paul Peranteau)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:45:10 -0400
Subject: New Book: Shibitani
Message-ID: <THU.26.SEP.2002.104510.0400.PAUL@BENJAMINS.COM>

John Benjamins Publishing announces a new work of interest to Functional
Linguistics

The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation
Edited by Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice University )
Typological Studies in Language 48
2002. xviii, 551 pp.
Hardbound: US & Canada: 1 58811 119 9 / USD 132.00/ Rest of world: 90 272
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Paperback: US & Canada: 1 58811 120 2 / USD 58.95/ Rest of world: 90 272
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This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects
of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with
emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a
better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both
synchronically (e.g., on a semantic map) and diachronically (e.g., through
grammaticalization processes), the volume affords a comprehensive
up-to-date perspective on the perennial issues in the grammar of causation
such as the distribution of competing causative morphemes, the meaning
distinctions among them, and the overall form-meaning correlation.
Morphosyntactic interactions of causatives with other phenomena such as
incorporation and applicativization receive focused attention as such basic
issues as the semantic distinction between direct and indirect causation
and the typology of causative constructions.


Table of Contents
Preface ix
Appreciation
Philip W. Davis xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Some basic issues in the grammar of causation
Masayoshi Shibatani 1
Cooperation and interpersonal manipulation in the society of intimates
T. Giv?n and Phil Young 23
Verbs of interpersonal causality and the folk theory of mind and behavior
Bertram F. Malle 57
The causative continuum
Masayoshi Shibatani and Prashant Pardeshi 85
Causation, constructions, and language ecology: An example from French
Michel Achard 127
Tarascan causatives and event complexity
Ricardo Maldonado and E. Fernando Nava 157
Some constraints on Cora causative constructions
Ver?nica V?zquez Soto 197
Olutec causatives and applicatives
Roberto Zavala 245
On some causative doublets in Classical Nahuatl
Michel Launey 301
The notion of transfer in Sikuani causatives
Francisco Queixal?s 319
Causative constructions in Akawaio
Anatol Stefanowitsch 341
Causation in Matses (Panoan, Amazonian Peru)
David W. Fleck 373
Causativization and transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo
Pilar M. Valenzuela 417
Causatives in Asheninka: The case for a sociative source
David Payne 485
Guaran? causative constructions
Maura Vel?zquez-Castillo 507
Index



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From kemmer at RICE.EDU  Fri Sep 27 03:17:31 2002
From: kemmer at RICE.EDU (Suzanne Kemmer)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:17:31 -0500
Subject: CSDL conference
Message-ID: <THU.26.SEP.2002.221731.0500.KEMMER@RICE.EDU>

The deadline for preregistration for the CSDL conference at Rice
University is fast approaching.

To receive the preregistration discount ($10 conference fee, which
includes two lunches),
participants must register via the web by Oct. 1.  U.S.-based
preregistrants must
also send their conference payment to reach our dept. by that time or
within a day or
two later.  (Preregistrants outside the country can bring cash for the
preregistration amount, provided they fill out and submit the web
preregistration form by the deadline).

Registration at the door is $20.

The conference party dinner is extra: $12.

See the CSDL website at www.rice.edu/csdl
for speakers, talk titles, registration and other information.

Suzanne Kemmer and Michel Achard,
Organizers, CSDL 6