From nstern at ccny.cuny.edu Tue Aug 5 18:06:45 2003 From: nstern at ccny.cuny.edu (Nancy Stern) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:06:45 -0400 Subject: Call for Papers: 8th International Columbia School Conference Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior Special session: Functional linguistics in language education February 14-16, 2004 New York City Papers are invited on any aspect of linguistic analysis in which the postulation of meaningful signals plays a central role in explaining the distribution of linguistic forms. A special session will be devoted to functional linguistics in language education. The Columbia School is a group of linguists developing the theoretical framework originally established by the late William Diver. Language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its human users. Grammatical analyses account for the distribution of linguistic forms as an interaction between linguistic meaning and pragmatic and functional factors such as inference, ease of processing, and iconicity. Phonological analyses explain the syntagmatic and paradigmatic distribution of phonological units within signals, also drawing on both communicative function and human physiological and psychological characteristics. Please submit: • 3 copies of a one-page anonymous abstract (optional second page for references, examples, tables, etc.) to the address below. • A 3x5 inch index card with the following information: - Title of paper - Author’s name and affiliation - Address, phone, e-mail, for notification E-mailed abstracts should include all the above information, which will be deleted before the abstracts are reviewed. Address for abstracts and other correspondence: Joseph Davis, Asst. Professor School of Education, R 6/207 City College New York, NY 10031 E-mail jdavis at ccny.cuny.edu DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 30 SEPTEMBER 2003 The language of the conference is English. Papers delivered in languages other than English will be considered. * * * * * * * * The support of The Columbia School Linguistic Society is gratefully acknowledged www.csling.org * * * * * * * * Selected Columbia School bibliography: Contini-Morava, Ellen, and Barbara Sussman Goldberg. 1995. Meaning as Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Selections.) Huffman, Alan. 1997. The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Huffman, Alan. 2001. “The Linguistics of William Diver and the Columbia School.” WORD 52:1, 29-68. Reid, Wallis. 1991. Verb and Noun Number in English: A Functional Explanation. London: Longman. Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy, and Nancy Stern (eds.). 2002. Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on Sign-Based Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Tobin, Yishai. 1997. Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications. Durham: Duke U Press. From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Aug 6 17:08:06 2003 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:08:06 -0700 Subject: Announcing: A CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TO RESULTATIVES Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of: A CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TO RESULTATIVES, Hans C. Boas (the University of Texas at Austin) ;paper ISBN: 1-57586-408-8, $35.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-407-X, $70.00, 415 pages, copyright 2003 by CSLI Publications. 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: Providing a unified solution within the frameworks of Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, Hans C. Boas develops a corpus-based account of resultative constructions in English by grouping them in two classes: conventionalized and non-conventionalized. The usage-based model used here proposes that each particular sense of a verb constitutes a conventionalized mini-construction, which is crucial information for the licensing of arguments. In contrast, verbs in non-conventionalized resultative constructions can acquire a novel meaning and thereby a new syntactic frame. This associative process is based on a semantic overlap with a conventionalized resultative in combination with contextual background information. English and German resultatives are compared to illustrate the distinct lexical polysemy networks of English and German verbs. In particular, it is demonstrated that etymologically related verbs exhibit different distributions of resultative constructions because of the differences in conventionalized usage patterns. ------------------------------ From matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI Tue Aug 12 11:15:30 2003 From: matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI (Matti Miestamo) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:15:30 +0300 Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics In-Reply-To: <200302271144.h1RBiHfd025340@venus.ling.helsinki.fi> Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Helsinki, 7-9 January, 2004 On behalf of the Nordic Association of Linguistics (NAL), the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, will host the 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. The conference will be held January 7-9, 2004 (three full days), on the downtown premises of the University of Helsinki. The program will contain plenary sessions, workshops, and general sessions. Submissions on all aspects of general linguistics are invited. CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS Östen Dahl, Stockholm John McWhorter, Berkeley Geoffrey Sampson, Sussex SUBMISSION DEADLINE Abstracts for the general sessions should be submitted no later than August 31, 2003. They will be reviewed anonymously. Notification of acceptance will be announced by September 30, 2003. HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT Send your abstract of maximally 400 words in plain text format (no tables or charts) in the body (not as an attachment) of an email message to the conference email address <20scl at ling.helsinki.fi>. REGISTRATION The second announcement including a list of speakers and workshops will be dispatched by September 30, 2003. Please indicate your interest in obtaining this announcement by sending an email message to the conference email address. Conference registration starts on October 1, 2003. FINAL PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS OF ACCEPTED PAPERS Downloadable by October 30, 2003. CONFERENCE EMAIL <20scl at ling.helsinki.fi> CONFERENCE WEBSITE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Fred Karlsson, Chair Antti Arppe Pia Brandt Orvokki Heinämäki Matti Miestamo Urho Määttä Kari Pitkänen From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Aug 20 20:36:21 2003 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:36:21 -0700 Subject: Announcing: OPTIMALITY-THEORETIC SYNTAX-A DECLARATIVE APPROACH Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of: OPTIMALITY-THEORETIC SYNTAX-A DECLARATIVE APPROACH, Jonas Kuhn (the University of Texas at Austin) ;paper ISBN: 1-57586-426-6, $25.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-425-8, $70.00, 252 pages, copyright 2003 by CSLI Publications. 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: Optimality Theory (OT) has become a widely used grammatical framework for stating generalizations and exploring their empirical predictions across languages. OT has been applied in many subfields of the study of grammar, but the level of detail to which the architecture has been used differs from area to area. This book explores important choices in the design of a formally precise OT approach to syntax. The author proposes an architecture that meets the requirements of linguistic expressiveness while also being computationally well-behaved. Building on OT work that uses the representation structures of Lexical Functional Grammar (OT-LFG), this book defines the notion of an OT-syntactic grammar in a declarative, non-derivational way. Along with the standard OT architecture, which is based on a generation metaphor, the author also formalizes parsing-based OT and goes on to discuss possible combinations of these two architectures. This is followed by an examination of assumptions under which the computational tasks of generation and parsing are decidable for an OT-syntactic grammar. "This is an unusually clearly written and exceptionally important book, which demonstrates both the computational problems of OT syntax and outlines solutions." -- Joan Bresnan, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities and Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University ------------------------------ From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Aug 20 23:05:56 2003 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:05:56 -0700 Subject: Announcing: CLAUSAL SYNTAX OF GERMAN Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of: CLAUSAL SYNTAX OF GERMAN, Judither Berman (University of Bochum); paper ISBN: 1-57586-362-6, $25.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-361-8, $70.00, 200 pages, copyright 2003 by CSLI Publications. 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: Clausal Syntax of German is the first large-scale treatment of German syntax in the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). Addressing both empirical and theoretical concerns, this book examines well-known yet still controversial phenomena that pose specific challenges for LFG. In LFG, syntactic functions can be identified by morphology instead of being derived from phrase structure configurations. This makes LFG well-suited for analyzing German, a language with relatively free word order and a relatively rich morphology. The author applies LFG principles to three main areas of theoretical interest: subjects, traces, and complement clauses. In doing so, the author analyzes central topics of German syntax including phrase structure, "subjectless" clauses, expletives, agreement, weak crossover, long-distance dependencies, the distribution of subordinated clauses, correlative pronouns, and embedded clauses. ------------------------------ From jaejung.song at STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ Fri Aug 22 23:54:05 2003 From: jaejung.song at STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ (Jae Jung Song) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:54:05 +1200 Subject: Book announcement Message-ID: Title: Korean grammatical constructions: Their form and meaning Series Title: Saffron Korean Linguistics Series Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Saffron Books (an imprint of Eastern Art Publishing, UK) Publisher URL: http://www.eapgroup.com Author: Jaehoon Yeon, SOAS, University of London Softback ISBN 1 872843 26 3, Pages: 231, Price: UK Pounds 21.90 Outside UK Pounds 26.90 / US$40.50; Hardback ISBN 1 872843 36 0, Pages: 231, Price: UK Pounds 32.90 Outside UK Pounds 37.90 / US$49.50 (Prices include surface mail postage and packing.) Abstract: This is the inaugural volume in the Saffron Korean Linguistics Series, published by Eastern Art Publishing in conjunction with the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London. "Korean Grammatical Constructions" is a functional-typological analysis of Korean grammatical constructions in which the grammatical relation, or the case-marking, alternates. Although there is a great deal of correspondence between grammatical relations and the morphological marking, the latter sometimes fail to give a clear indication of grammatical relations, or give inconsistent indications. The grammatical relations (GR) can be changed by the operation of GR-changing processes such as causative, passive, anticausative and possessor-ascension, but the semantic roles remain unchanged in some constructions. The author has taken into account semantic (and pragmatic) factors in explaining the morpho-syntactic behaviour of Korean grammatical constructions. It was shown that differences in morphological coding features may indicate differences in semantic implication. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Grammatical roles and relations; 3. Double-Nominative and Dative-Subject Constructions; 4. Causatives, 5. Passives; 6. Causative-Passive Correlations; 7. Transitivity Alternation and Neutral-Verbs in Korean; 8. Possessor-Ascension Constructions; 9. Locative Alternation; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Ordering Information: Please visit www.eapgroup.com to download and print a pdf version of the order form. Alternatively, use any of the following options to order single or multiple copies of Korean Grammatical Constructions. For airmail delivery contact saffron at eapgroup.com Post or fax: Saffron Books Eastern Art Publishing P O Box 13666 London SW14 8WF, UK T +44 - [0]20 - 8392 1122 F +44 - [0]20 - 8392 1422 About the Series: Series Editors: Jaehoon Yeon and Jae Jung Song The Saffron Korean Linguistics Series is devoted particularly to functionally and/or typologically orientated research on Korean language and linguistics. Volumes in the series, while dealing with specific topics in Korean language and linguistics, will address broadly defined functional and/or typological issues and concerns, rather than matters of abstract theoretical polemics. Theoretical or applied work related to Korean language will also be considered. The series aims to offer an international academic forum for the dissemination of the latest research into Korean linguistics as well as Korean language studies. The Series Editors welcome manuscripts on any aspect of Korean linguistics and language study, including Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Typology, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics, and Korean Language Teaching. Submission enquiries should initially be addressed to Jaehoon Yeon. Manuscripts or abstracts for book proposals must be submitted simultaneously to both the Series Editors. Contributors whose native language is not English are strongly advised to have their manuscripts read, and revised where warranted, by native speakers. Jaehoon Yeon Centre of Korean Studies University of London, SOAS, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom Email: jy1 at soas.ac.uk Jae Jung Song Linguistics Programme, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand From suzie.bartsch at T-ONLINE.DE Sun Aug 24 18:53:51 2003 From: suzie.bartsch at T-ONLINE.DE (Suzie Bartsch) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:53:51 +0200 Subject: Origin of genitive and possessive constructions Message-ID: Dear all, For a paper on overextension and grammaticalization in the emergence of genitive constructions in ontogeny, compared to diachrony, I'm searching for functional-cognitive accounts on the historical emergence and grammaticalization of possessive and genitive constructions in German, English and Portuguese (and other languages as well), in following idioms (for practical reasons I simplify here the Engl. correspondance to the Port. and Germ. examples and sorry for possible English ungrammaticalities): (1a) Engl. It's my turn. (1b) Engl. It's Gabriel's turn. (2a) Port. É a minha vez. [Is the my turn (vez < Lat. vici 'change, rotation, turn')] (2b) Port. É a vez do Gabriel. [Is the turn of-the Gabriel.] in contrast to (3a) Germ. Ich bin dran [I am there-at.] or Ich bin an der Reihe. [I am at the row.] (3b) Germ. Gabriel ist dran. [Gabriel is there-at.] or Gabriel ist an der Reihe. [Gabriel is at the row.] That is, the main referent of such idioms appears in modern German in nominative, as a subject, whereas in mod. English and mod. Port., it's realized with a possessive pronoun or with a genitive construction (declination in Engl., preposition in Port.). Other - idiomatic and non-idiomatic - functions of genitive constructions, as the genuine possessive genitive and also in the context of which is called in the traditional latin grammar as genitivus subjectivus, genitivus objectivus etc. interest me as well. The following example from English (historical subject-object shift due to functional reanalyses and analogy in the context of serialization patterns) gives an idea of the sort of accounts which I'm searching for: (4a) O. Engl. Pam kynge licoden peran. To the king-[dative] were-pleasing pears. (pears = plural subject) (4b) M. Engl. The king licenden peares. The king were-pleasing pears. (no dative marking) (4c) Mod. Engl. The king liked pears. (S-->O and O-->S) Example from Tomasello, Michael (2003): Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard Univ. Press. (p.15-16) Thanks in advance. Suzie Bartsch From dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK Mon Aug 25 13:38:19 2003 From: dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK (Dan Everett) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:38:19 +0100 Subject: Jesuits and linguistics Message-ID: Does anyone know of a general history/summary of the Jesuits and linguistics? Thanks, Dan Everett ******************** Daniel L. Everett Department of Linguistics University of Manchester Manchester, UK M13 9PL Phone: 44-161-275-3158 Department Fax: 44-161-275-3187 http://ling.man.ac.uk/info/staff/de/ From jmacfarl at UNM.EDU Mon Aug 25 18:20:48 2003 From: jmacfarl at UNM.EDU (James MacFarlane) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:20:48 -0400 Subject: origin of genitive and possessive constructions Message-ID: Have you checked Bernd Heine's book "Possession: Cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization" 1997. This book deals mainly with predicative possession, but I believe that there is some discussion of the genitive in there as well. ---------------------------------- James MacFarlane Gallaudet University Department of Linguistics 800 Florida Ave, NE Washington, DC 2002-3695 office phone (202) 651-5683 e-mail james.macfarlane at gallaudet.edu From kemmer at RICE.EDU Wed Aug 27 05:39:06 2003 From: kemmer at RICE.EDU (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:39:06 -0500 Subject: Cognitive Linguistics journal expanded Message-ID: COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Starting in January 2004, the journal Cognitive Linguistics will expand to contain 600 pages per year instead of 400. The journal comes with membership in the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. New and continuing members of the ICLA can get the newly expanded journal for the same 2004 ICLA membership fees announced earlier: 56 Euros regular members, 32.95 Euros student members, plus postage. To join the ICLA and receive 50% more Cognitive Linguistics, go to www.cogling.org/member.shtml or the main ICLA webpage at www.cogling.org If you're not a member, you can join the ICLA using the web subscription form and following the payment instructions given. If you are already a member, watch for your expanded journal issues in 2004. A list of upcoming articles for the remaining 2003 and newly expanded 2004 issues will be publicized soon. From mliu at CC.NCTU.EDU.TW Wed Aug 27 13:28:16 2003 From: mliu at CC.NCTU.EDU.TW (mliu at CC.NCTU.EDU.TW) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:28:16 +0800 Subject: Details Message-ID: See the attached file for details From nstern at ccny.cuny.edu Tue Aug 5 18:06:45 2003 From: nstern at ccny.cuny.edu (Nancy Stern) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:06:45 -0400 Subject: Call for Papers: 8th International Columbia School Conference Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 8th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior Special session: Functional linguistics in language education February 14-16, 2004 New York City Papers are invited on any aspect of linguistic analysis in which the postulation of meaningful signals plays a central role in explaining the distribution of linguistic forms. A special session will be devoted to functional linguistics in language education. The Columbia School is a group of linguists developing the theoretical framework originally established by the late William Diver. Language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its human users. Grammatical analyses account for the distribution of linguistic forms as an interaction between linguistic meaning and pragmatic and functional factors such as inference, ease of processing, and iconicity. Phonological analyses explain the syntagmatic and paradigmatic distribution of phonological units within signals, also drawing on both communicative function and human physiological and psychological characteristics. Please submit: ? 3 copies of a one-page anonymous abstract (optional second page for references, examples, tables, etc.) to the address below. ? A 3x5 inch index card with the following information: - Title of paper - Author?s name and affiliation - Address, phone, e-mail, for notification E-mailed abstracts should include all the above information, which will be deleted before the abstracts are reviewed. Address for abstracts and other correspondence: Joseph Davis, Asst. Professor School of Education, R 6/207 City College New York, NY 10031 E-mail jdavis at ccny.cuny.edu DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 30 SEPTEMBER 2003 The language of the conference is English. Papers delivered in languages other than English will be considered. * * * * * * * * The support of The Columbia School Linguistic Society is gratefully acknowledged www.csling.org * * * * * * * * Selected Columbia School bibliography: Contini-Morava, Ellen, and Barbara Sussman Goldberg. 1995. Meaning as Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. (Selections.) Huffman, Alan. 1997. The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Huffman, Alan. 2001. ?The Linguistics of William Diver and the Columbia School.? WORD 52:1, 29-68. Reid, Wallis. 1991. Verb and Noun Number in English: A Functional Explanation. London: Longman. Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy, and Nancy Stern (eds.). 2002. Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on Sign-Based Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Tobin, Yishai. 1997. Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications. Durham: Duke U Press. From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Aug 6 17:08:06 2003 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:08:06 -0700 Subject: Announcing: A CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TO RESULTATIVES Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of: A CONSTRUCTIONAL APPROACH TO RESULTATIVES, Hans C. Boas (the University of Texas at Austin) ;paper ISBN: 1-57586-408-8, $35.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-407-X, $70.00, 415 pages, copyright 2003 by CSLI Publications. 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: Providing a unified solution within the frameworks of Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, Hans C. Boas develops a corpus-based account of resultative constructions in English by grouping them in two classes: conventionalized and non-conventionalized. The usage-based model used here proposes that each particular sense of a verb constitutes a conventionalized mini-construction, which is crucial information for the licensing of arguments. In contrast, verbs in non-conventionalized resultative constructions can acquire a novel meaning and thereby a new syntactic frame. This associative process is based on a semantic overlap with a conventionalized resultative in combination with contextual background information. English and German resultatives are compared to illustrate the distinct lexical polysemy networks of English and German verbs. In particular, it is demonstrated that etymologically related verbs exhibit different distributions of resultative constructions because of the differences in conventionalized usage patterns. ------------------------------ From matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI Tue Aug 12 11:15:30 2003 From: matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI (Matti Miestamo) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 14:15:30 +0300 Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics In-Reply-To: <200302271144.h1RBiHfd025340@venus.ling.helsinki.fi> Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Helsinki, 7-9 January, 2004 On behalf of the Nordic Association of Linguistics (NAL), the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, will host the 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. The conference will be held January 7-9, 2004 (three full days), on the downtown premises of the University of Helsinki. The program will contain plenary sessions, workshops, and general sessions. Submissions on all aspects of general linguistics are invited. CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS ?sten Dahl, Stockholm John McWhorter, Berkeley Geoffrey Sampson, Sussex SUBMISSION DEADLINE Abstracts for the general sessions should be submitted no later than August 31, 2003. They will be reviewed anonymously. Notification of acceptance will be announced by September 30, 2003. HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT Send your abstract of maximally 400 words in plain text format (no tables or charts) in the body (not as an attachment) of an email message to the conference email address <20scl at ling.helsinki.fi>. REGISTRATION The second announcement including a list of speakers and workshops will be dispatched by September 30, 2003. Please indicate your interest in obtaining this announcement by sending an email message to the conference email address. Conference registration starts on October 1, 2003. FINAL PROGRAM AND ABSTRACTS OF ACCEPTED PAPERS Downloadable by October 30, 2003. CONFERENCE EMAIL <20scl at ling.helsinki.fi> CONFERENCE WEBSITE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Fred Karlsson, Chair Antti Arppe Pia Brandt Orvokki Hein?m?ki Matti Miestamo Urho M??tt? Kari Pitk?nen From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Aug 20 20:36:21 2003 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:36:21 -0700 Subject: Announcing: OPTIMALITY-THEORETIC SYNTAX-A DECLARATIVE APPROACH Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of: OPTIMALITY-THEORETIC SYNTAX-A DECLARATIVE APPROACH, Jonas Kuhn (the University of Texas at Austin) ;paper ISBN: 1-57586-426-6, $25.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-425-8, $70.00, 252 pages, copyright 2003 by CSLI Publications. 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: Optimality Theory (OT) has become a widely used grammatical framework for stating generalizations and exploring their empirical predictions across languages. OT has been applied in many subfields of the study of grammar, but the level of detail to which the architecture has been used differs from area to area. This book explores important choices in the design of a formally precise OT approach to syntax. The author proposes an architecture that meets the requirements of linguistic expressiveness while also being computationally well-behaved. Building on OT work that uses the representation structures of Lexical Functional Grammar (OT-LFG), this book defines the notion of an OT-syntactic grammar in a declarative, non-derivational way. Along with the standard OT architecture, which is based on a generation metaphor, the author also formalizes parsing-based OT and goes on to discuss possible combinations of these two architectures. This is followed by an examination of assumptions under which the computational tasks of generation and parsing are decidable for an OT-syntactic grammar. "This is an unusually clearly written and exceptionally important book, which demonstrates both the computational problems of OT syntax and outlines solutions." -- Joan Bresnan, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities and Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University ------------------------------ From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Aug 20 23:05:56 2003 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:05:56 -0700 Subject: Announcing: CLAUSAL SYNTAX OF GERMAN Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of: CLAUSAL SYNTAX OF GERMAN, Judither Berman (University of Bochum); paper ISBN: 1-57586-362-6, $25.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-361-8, $70.00, 200 pages, copyright 2003 by CSLI Publications. 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: Clausal Syntax of German is the first large-scale treatment of German syntax in the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG). Addressing both empirical and theoretical concerns, this book examines well-known yet still controversial phenomena that pose specific challenges for LFG. In LFG, syntactic functions can be identified by morphology instead of being derived from phrase structure configurations. This makes LFG well-suited for analyzing German, a language with relatively free word order and a relatively rich morphology. The author applies LFG principles to three main areas of theoretical interest: subjects, traces, and complement clauses. In doing so, the author analyzes central topics of German syntax including phrase structure, "subjectless" clauses, expletives, agreement, weak crossover, long-distance dependencies, the distribution of subordinated clauses, correlative pronouns, and embedded clauses. ------------------------------ From jaejung.song at STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ Fri Aug 22 23:54:05 2003 From: jaejung.song at STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ (Jae Jung Song) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:54:05 +1200 Subject: Book announcement Message-ID: Title: Korean grammatical constructions: Their form and meaning Series Title: Saffron Korean Linguistics Series Publication Year: 2003 Publisher: Saffron Books (an imprint of Eastern Art Publishing, UK) Publisher URL: http://www.eapgroup.com Author: Jaehoon Yeon, SOAS, University of London Softback ISBN 1 872843 26 3, Pages: 231, Price: UK Pounds 21.90 Outside UK Pounds 26.90 / US$40.50; Hardback ISBN 1 872843 36 0, Pages: 231, Price: UK Pounds 32.90 Outside UK Pounds 37.90 / US$49.50 (Prices include surface mail postage and packing.) Abstract: This is the inaugural volume in the Saffron Korean Linguistics Series, published by Eastern Art Publishing in conjunction with the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London. "Korean Grammatical Constructions" is a functional-typological analysis of Korean grammatical constructions in which the grammatical relation, or the case-marking, alternates. Although there is a great deal of correspondence between grammatical relations and the morphological marking, the latter sometimes fail to give a clear indication of grammatical relations, or give inconsistent indications. The grammatical relations (GR) can be changed by the operation of GR-changing processes such as causative, passive, anticausative and possessor-ascension, but the semantic roles remain unchanged in some constructions. The author has taken into account semantic (and pragmatic) factors in explaining the morpho-syntactic behaviour of Korean grammatical constructions. It was shown that differences in morphological coding features may indicate differences in semantic implication. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Grammatical roles and relations; 3. Double-Nominative and Dative-Subject Constructions; 4. Causatives, 5. Passives; 6. Causative-Passive Correlations; 7. Transitivity Alternation and Neutral-Verbs in Korean; 8. Possessor-Ascension Constructions; 9. Locative Alternation; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Ordering Information: Please visit www.eapgroup.com to download and print a pdf version of the order form. Alternatively, use any of the following options to order single or multiple copies of Korean Grammatical Constructions. For airmail delivery contact saffron at eapgroup.com Post or fax: Saffron Books Eastern Art Publishing P O Box 13666 London SW14 8WF, UK T +44 - [0]20 - 8392 1122 F +44 - [0]20 - 8392 1422 About the Series: Series Editors: Jaehoon Yeon and Jae Jung Song The Saffron Korean Linguistics Series is devoted particularly to functionally and/or typologically orientated research on Korean language and linguistics. Volumes in the series, while dealing with specific topics in Korean language and linguistics, will address broadly defined functional and/or typological issues and concerns, rather than matters of abstract theoretical polemics. Theoretical or applied work related to Korean language will also be considered. The series aims to offer an international academic forum for the dissemination of the latest research into Korean linguistics as well as Korean language studies. The Series Editors welcome manuscripts on any aspect of Korean linguistics and language study, including Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Typology, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics, and Korean Language Teaching. Submission enquiries should initially be addressed to Jaehoon Yeon. Manuscripts or abstracts for book proposals must be submitted simultaneously to both the Series Editors. Contributors whose native language is not English are strongly advised to have their manuscripts read, and revised where warranted, by native speakers. Jaehoon Yeon Centre of Korean Studies University of London, SOAS, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom Email: jy1 at soas.ac.uk Jae Jung Song Linguistics Programme, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand From suzie.bartsch at T-ONLINE.DE Sun Aug 24 18:53:51 2003 From: suzie.bartsch at T-ONLINE.DE (Suzie Bartsch) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:53:51 +0200 Subject: Origin of genitive and possessive constructions Message-ID: Dear all, For a paper on overextension and grammaticalization in the emergence of genitive constructions in ontogeny, compared to diachrony, I'm searching for functional-cognitive accounts on the historical emergence and grammaticalization of possessive and genitive constructions in German, English and Portuguese (and other languages as well), in following idioms (for practical reasons I simplify here the Engl. correspondance to the Port. and Germ. examples and sorry for possible English ungrammaticalities): (1a) Engl. It's my turn. (1b) Engl. It's Gabriel's turn. (2a) Port. ? a minha vez. [Is the my turn (vez < Lat. vici 'change, rotation, turn')] (2b) Port. ? a vez do Gabriel. [Is the turn of-the Gabriel.] in contrast to (3a) Germ. Ich bin dran [I am there-at.] or Ich bin an der Reihe. [I am at the row.] (3b) Germ. Gabriel ist dran. [Gabriel is there-at.] or Gabriel ist an der Reihe. [Gabriel is at the row.] That is, the main referent of such idioms appears in modern German in nominative, as a subject, whereas in mod. English and mod. Port., it's realized with a possessive pronoun or with a genitive construction (declination in Engl., preposition in Port.). Other - idiomatic and non-idiomatic - functions of genitive constructions, as the genuine possessive genitive and also in the context of which is called in the traditional latin grammar as genitivus subjectivus, genitivus objectivus etc. interest me as well. The following example from English (historical subject-object shift due to functional reanalyses and analogy in the context of serialization patterns) gives an idea of the sort of accounts which I'm searching for: (4a) O. Engl. Pam kynge licoden peran. To the king-[dative] were-pleasing pears. (pears = plural subject) (4b) M. Engl. The king licenden peares. The king were-pleasing pears. (no dative marking) (4c) Mod. Engl. The king liked pears. (S-->O and O-->S) Example from Tomasello, Michael (2003): Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard Univ. Press. (p.15-16) Thanks in advance. Suzie Bartsch From dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK Mon Aug 25 13:38:19 2003 From: dan.everett at MAN.AC.UK (Dan Everett) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:38:19 +0100 Subject: Jesuits and linguistics Message-ID: Does anyone know of a general history/summary of the Jesuits and linguistics? Thanks, Dan Everett ******************** Daniel L. Everett Department of Linguistics University of Manchester Manchester, UK M13 9PL Phone: 44-161-275-3158 Department Fax: 44-161-275-3187 http://ling.man.ac.uk/info/staff/de/ From jmacfarl at UNM.EDU Mon Aug 25 18:20:48 2003 From: jmacfarl at UNM.EDU (James MacFarlane) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:20:48 -0400 Subject: origin of genitive and possessive constructions Message-ID: Have you checked Bernd Heine's book "Possession: Cognitive sources, forces, and grammaticalization" 1997. This book deals mainly with predicative possession, but I believe that there is some discussion of the genitive in there as well. ---------------------------------- James MacFarlane Gallaudet University Department of Linguistics 800 Florida Ave, NE Washington, DC 2002-3695 office phone (202) 651-5683 e-mail james.macfarlane at gallaudet.edu From kemmer at RICE.EDU Wed Aug 27 05:39:06 2003 From: kemmer at RICE.EDU (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:39:06 -0500 Subject: Cognitive Linguistics journal expanded Message-ID: COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Starting in January 2004, the journal Cognitive Linguistics will expand to contain 600 pages per year instead of 400. The journal comes with membership in the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. New and continuing members of the ICLA can get the newly expanded journal for the same 2004 ICLA membership fees announced earlier: 56 Euros regular members, 32.95 Euros student members, plus postage. 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