From kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL Sun Feb 2 00:27:35 2003 From: kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL (Kees Hengeveld) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 01:27:35 +0100 Subject: Research MA in Linguistics U Amsterdam Message-ID: The Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam offers a new MA programme for talented students who are interested in conducting research in one of the many areas of linguistics that are studied in its research institutes. This Research MA in Linguistics offers the opportunity to specialize in a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines and pays serious attention to methodological issues. All courses are taught in English or, in the case of language-specific courses, in the target language. The programme takes two years for selected students with a relevant BA or equivalent, and one year for selected students with a relevant MA or equivalent. Since the University of Amsterdam is interested in attracting talented researchers, tuition rates are competitive. Further information about the programmes may be found at http://www.hum.uva.nl/graduateschool or requested from graduateschool at hum.uva.nl. From lieven at EVA.MPG.DE Mon Feb 3 10:09:38 2003 From: lieven at EVA.MPG.DE (Elena Lieven) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:09:38 +0100 Subject: Ph.D studentship, Max Planck Centre, Manchester Message-ID: Ph.D. studentship for the study of language development Applications are invited for a funded Ph.D. studentship. The student will be attached to the Max Planck Child Study Centre and registered for a Ph.D. in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manchester. The Centre is run by Professor Elena Lieven and is funded by the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology (Director: Professor Michael Tomasello) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Dr. Anna Theakston of the Manchester Psychology Department will be a co-supervisor. Research in the Centre focuses on the development of language (especially grammar) and consists in the collection and analysis of naturalistic and experimental data for both English and German-speaking children. You must have or expect to attain this summer, a good honours degree in Psychology, Linguistics or an associated discipline. Funding will consist of approximately 11,700 Euros per annum plus support for travel and equipment. The Home/EC rate for fees will be paid by the MPI. Applications must be made on University of Manchester postgraduate application forms, which can be obtained from Julie Hampson, Department of Psychology, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK (email: Julie at psy.man.ac.uk; tel: 0161-275-8581) and completed applications must reach her by February 21st 2003 at the latest. Interviews are expected to take place in Manchester on Friday March 7th 2003. Enquiries can be made by email to Professor Lieven at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany. (lieven at eva.mpg.de) From eitkonen at UTU.FI Mon Feb 3 10:48:29 2003 From: eitkonen at UTU.FI (Esa Itkonen) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:48:29 +0200 Subject: 'function' Message-ID: What follows, has a connection with a FUNKNET discussion, some time ago, about the use of evolutionary vocabulary in linguistics. If there is a discrepancy between programmatic statements about methodology and the actual descriptive-cum-explanatory practice, it is always such as to make the methodology seem more hard-nosed than it is in fact, never the opposite. This is the topic of my forthcoming article 'Einfuehlung (= re-enactment) as the basic method of typological linguistics', where I analyze selected passages from such illustrious representatives of the functional-typological school as Mithun, Heine, Givon, and Comrie (in this order). The result of my analysis (also bolstered by reference to Darwin, but - N.B. - Darwin qua cross-species psychologist rather than Darwin qua evolutionary biologist) turns out to justify the quaint-looking title of my article: In practice, we are - and, most probably, will remain - more 'soft-nosed' than some members of the field would like to think, and in a way that can be shown to have historical antecedents. (Off-prints will be distributed in due course.) 'Function' is a word with many faces. Iconicity, where it can be found, is functionally motivated. This reminds me of something that happened a long time ago. And, now that the spring-flood of memory has awakened, it is all coming back to me. What is? Well, 'it': THE LAST TIME I SPOKE TO CHOMSKY. It was after his class, in November 1968. I was convinced that iconicity (or 'isomorphism', as I called it at the time) holds good not only in a Tractatus-type ideal language, but also in natural language. (An English-language version of the paper where I expound this idea was published in the yearbook of the Philosophical Society of Finland, in 1970.) I explained this to Chomsky in a few sentences. He made a dismissive wave of hand and mumbled something dismissive. "You don't even TRY to understand!", I indignantly snapped at him, turned on my heels, and walked away. Will I ever get a second chance? Sometimes I wonder... Esa Itkonen From robert at VJF.CNRS.FR Mon Feb 3 21:58:45 2003 From: robert at VJF.CNRS.FR (Stephane Robert) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:58:45 +0100 Subject: conference on SPACE: abstracts Message-ID: We apologize for multiple mailing of this message Space in languages: linguistic systems and cognitive categories 7-8 February 2003 Ecole Normale Supérieure (salle Dussane) 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris The abstacts are now available on the Web site: http://llacan.cnrs-bellevue.fr/Pages/SpaceLang.htm __________________ Stephane ROBERT CNRS - LLACAN "Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique noire" (UMR 8135) GDR 1955 "Diversité et évolution des langues: enjeux cognitifs" Centre Georges Haudricourt, B.P. 8 7, rue Guy Môquet - 94801 Villejuif Cedex FRANCE Tel: 33 1 49 58 38 46 - Fax: 33 1 49 58 38 00 robert at vjf.cnrs.fr http://llacan.cnrs-bellevue.fr/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL Tue Feb 4 20:49:58 2003 From: kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL (Kees Hengeveld) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:49:58 +0100 Subject: Assistant professorschips at U Amsterdam In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam is currently looking for two talented assistant professors (tenure track) in the field of linguistics: one in the area of linguistic typology and language universals, and one in the area of language and speech technology. Information on these two positions may be found at http://www.english.uva.nl/actueel/uva_vacancies.cfm. Best, Kees Hengeveld From w.croft at MAN.AC.UK Wed Feb 5 10:41:58 2003 From: w.croft at MAN.AC.UK (Bill Croft) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:41:58 +0000 Subject: Draft chapters of Croft & Cruse, "Cognitive Linguistics" Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting) Draft chapters of W Croft & D A Cruse, "Cognitive Linguistics" (Cambridge U Press, to appear), including revised versions of chapters 9-11 on construction grammar, can be found at http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/WAC/ (click on "Publications" and scroll down to "Under contract"). We expect to submit the manuscript to the Press at the end of February, and it should be published around the end of 2003. From fjn at U.WASHINGTON.EDU Mon Feb 10 23:20:03 2003 From: fjn at U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Frederick J Newmeyer) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:20:03 -0800 Subject: Topic and focus particles Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, Could somebody please point me to the most extensive cross-linguistic typological study of topic and focus particles, one that details in particular their most common (and least common) positioning within the clause? Thanks! --fritz newmeyer From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Feb 12 17:56:42 2003 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:56:42 -0800 Subject: Announcing: Algebras, Diagrams and Decisions in Language, Logic and Computation Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of: ALGEBRAS, DIAGRAMS AND DECISIONS IN LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION, Kees Vermeulen (CWI, the National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science ) and Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory), eds. .;paper ISBN: 1-57586-372-3, $25.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-371-5, $65.00, 183 pages. 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: This volume is exemplary in showing how the shared interests of three different areas of research can lead to significant cooperation and fruitful exchanges of techniques. Six papers each present in an accessible way an exciting contribution to the study and use of algebras, diagrams and decisions. These themes are of interest to researchers in the areas of language, logic and computation. The types of contributions range from indispensable overview papers about shared formal methods to inspirational applications of formal tools to specific problems. Contributors to this volume are Pieter Adriaans, Sergei Artemov, Steven Givant, Edward Keenan, Almerindo Ojeda, Patrick Scotto di Luzio, and Edward Stabler. ------------------------------ From l.lagerwerf at scw.vu.nl Thu Feb 13 16:01:54 2003 From: l.lagerwerf at scw.vu.nl (Luuk Lagerwerf) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:01:54 +0100 Subject: 2nd call for papers: Workshop Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse, Netherlands Message-ID: Please note the second call for papers for MAD03 below. Apologies for cross-postings. Luuk Lagerwerf 5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE October 22th-25th, 2003, Driebergen, Netherlands MAD03 THEME: DETERMINATION OF INFORMATION AND TENOR IN TEXTS KEYWORDS Content analysis, information extraction, text analysis, discourse representation, linguistics of argumentation, text typology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Klaus Schönbach, Universiteit van Amsterdam (NL) Peter Foltz, New Mexico State University (NM) Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK) Paul Deane, Educational Testing Service (NJ) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submission of full papers addressing one of the questions of the workshop is May 1st, 2003. On the website of MAD03, http://home.scw.vu.nl/~lagerwerf/Mad03Web/index.htm, updated guidelines for submission are given. SCHEDULE 2nd call for papers: February 13rd, 2003 Deadline (full papers): May 1st, 2003 Notice of acceptance: July 1st, 2003 Deliverance final papers: August 1st, 2003 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2003 (MAD'03) is the fifth in a series of small-scale, high-quality workshops that have been organised every second year since 1995 (Egmond-aan-zee (NL), 1995; Utrecht (NL), 1997; Edinburgh (GB), 1999; Ittre (BE), 2001). Its aim is to bring together researchers from different disciplines, in particular theoretical and applied linguists, computational linguists, and psycholinguists, to exchange information and learn from each other on a common topic of investigation: text and discourse. WORKSHOP THEME In this edition of the workshop, MAD’03 aims at bringing together social scientists and linguists by pursuing the following theme: Determination of Information and Tenor in Texts. Topics of the workshop are exemplified by, but not limited to, questions like: * How is content (or information) extracted from text? * How does one systematically infer stances from texts? * What determines differences in interpretation between readers? * How do (automated) discourse representations come about? * How can linguistic properties be put to use for analysis of large text collections? * What do co-occurrences of words tell about discourses? * How does text type or genre change the interpretation of text variables? * How do new media change the use of text variables and genres? WORKSHOP LOCATION The workshop and lodging will be in conference centre De Bergse Bossen, located in the forests of Driebergen, a village near Utrecht (Netherlands). Travelling by train to Schiphol Airport or the city of Amsterdam takes less than an hour. WORKSHOP DESIGN In the workshop, about 20 people will be presenting an accepted paper in plenary sessions. The total number of participants will be limited to 40. Anonymous review of full papers will be carried out in order to guarantee high quality of papers. The organisers also strive to publish all accepted papers in workshop proceedings at the start of the workshop. After the workshop, a selection of papers are likely to be published in a special issue of an appropriate journal (see the references). WORKSHOP ORGANISERS Luuk Lagerwerf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Wilbert Spooren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Liesbeth Degand, Université catholique de Louvain (BE) MAD’03 is hosted by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Netherlands School of Communication Research (NESCoR; in the persons of Prof. Dr. J. Kleinnijenhuis, Vrije Universiteit; Prof. Dr. P.J. Schellens, Universiteit Twente). The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands organisation for scientific research (NWO) support this workshop financially. WORKSHOP THEME DESCRIPTION In many approaches to discourse analysis in linguistics, and content or media analysis in social sciences, methods have been developed to extract information from texts systematically. Apart from extracting information, many different approaches have also been aiming to determine the tenor of texts. In this small-scale intensive workshop, we want to encourage discussion between researchers from different backgrounds. The workshop will have significance for document design as well as content analysis. In both cases, it is important to analyse processes of recognition and evaluation of information in text. Also, linguistic properties of texts may serve as cues for systematising these processes. Other related areas are the fields of persuasion and argumentation, and discourse psychology, discourse analysis, and computational modelling of discourse processes. By using statistical approaches based on co-occurrences, judgments of diverse aspects of texts may be delivered automatically. Together, these approaches make it possible to build information structures of texts, make abstracts automatically, or disclose tendencies in the content of multiple texts. In each of these approaches, it is important to realize that text type (or genre) is perhaps one of the most determining factors in extracting information, evaluating information or examining linguistic aspects of text. Regarding the workshop topics, this factor will be controlled by either taking news texts as the default text type, or taking text type itself as a topic to determine its influence on information, tenor or linguistic aspects. The application of any of these approaches to the design or analysis of new media provides a very interesting extension of the topics of the workshop. REFERENCES A short impression of the previous workshop MAD’01 can be obtained at: http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/lingne/Degand/MAD/mad-presentation.htm Previous workshops resulted in the following publications: - Degand, L., Y. Bestgen & W. Spooren & L. v. Waes (eds.; 2001). Multidisciplinary approaches to discourse (pp. 183-194). Münster: Nodus Publikationen. - Knott, A., J. Oberlander & T. Sanders (eds.; 2001). Special Issue: Levels of Representation in Discourse Relations, Cognitive Linguistics 12 (3). - Risselada, R. & W. Spooren (eds.; 1998). Special issue: Discourse markers and coherence relations. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (2). - Sanders, T., J. Schilperoord & W. Spooren (eds.; 2001). Text Representation: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects. Amsterdam: Benjamins. - Spooren, W. & R. Risselada (eds.; 1997). Special issue: Discourse markers. Discourse Processes 24 (1). Luuk Lagerwerf Communicatiewetenschap Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1081c (bezoekadres nr. 859) 1081 HV Amsterdam +31 20 444 6915 l.lagerwerf at scw.vu.nl From jaejung.song at STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ Fri Feb 14 21:54:20 2003 From: jaejung.song at STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ (Jae Jung Song) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:54:20 +1300 Subject: New Korean Linguistics Series Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the launching of the Saffron Korean Linguistics Series. Volumes in this series will be published by Eastern Art Publishing (London, UK) (http://www.eapgroup.com) in conjunction with the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London. The inaugural volume, due to come out in early 2003, is "Korean Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning" by Jaehoon Yeon (SOAS, University of London). This series is devoted primarily to functionally and/or typologically oriented 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 the Korean language will also be considered. The series aims to offer an international academic forum for Korean linguistics and language study. The Series Editors are: Jaehoon Yeon, Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London, London WC1H 0XG, UK. E-mail: jy1 at soas.ac.uk Jae Jung Song, Linguistics Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. E-mail: jaejung.song at stonebow.otago.ac.nz We welcome manuscripts or book proposals on any aspect of Korean linguistics and language study, including Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics, and Korean Language Teaching. Submission enquiries should initially be addressed to Jaehoon Yeon. Manuscripts or book proposals must be submitted to both the Series Editors. Contributors whose native language is not English should have their manuscripts read (and corrected) by a native speaker before submission. From dryer at BUFFALO.EDU Mon Feb 17 20:21:28 2003 From: dryer at BUFFALO.EDU (Matthew S. Dryer) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:21:28 -0500 Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Grammaticalization_of_=3Fsay=3F_as_a_complementizer?= Message-ID: Dear Funknet, I am looking for references bearing on the grammaticalization of verbs meaning 'say' as a complementizer. If you know of references other than the following, please let me know. The only references I am aware of are Cohen, D., Simeone-Senelle, M.-C., and Vanhove, M. 2002. The grammaticalization of 'say' and 'do': An areal phenomenon in East Africa. In Guldemann, T. & M. von Ronacdor, eds. Reported speech: a meeting ground for different linguistic domains. [Typological Studies in Language]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Heine, Bernard, and Tania Kuteva. 2002. World lexicon of grammaticalization. New York: Cambridge University Press. Hopper, Paul J. and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 1993. Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lord, Carol. 1976. Evidence for syntactic reanalysis: From verb to complementizer in Kwa. In Papers from the parasession on diachronic syntax. Sanford B. Steever, Carol A. Walker, and Salikkoko S. Mufweene, eds. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. Saxena, A. 1988. On the grammaticalization of the verb 'say': A typological and diachronic study. In S. Delancey and R. Tomlin, eds. Papers from the Third Pacific Linguistics Conference. Eugene: University of Oregon. Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, and Richard Dasher. 2002. Regularity in semantic change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Thanks for any further references Matthew Dryer dryer at buffalo.edu From ansteyfamily at optusnet.com.au Mon Feb 17 23:30:52 2003 From: ansteyfamily at optusnet.com.au (Matthew Anstey) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:30:52 +1100 Subject: Grammaticalization of ?say? as a complementizer In-Reply-To: <974694.1045495288@dryer.ss.buffalo.edu> Message-ID: Hi Matthew, There has been a phd on this in Biblical Hebrew: Miller, Cynthia L. 1996 The representation of speech in biblical Hebrew narrative : a linguistic analysis. (Harvard Semitic Museum publications.) Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press. It includes a (small) section of cross-linguistic evidence from these languages: ChiBemba (Bantu), Uzbek (Turkic), Urartian, Hausa, Ewe, Amharic, and Aramaic. I'm not sure if Coulmas, F. (ed) 1986. Direct and indirect speech. Berlin: Mouton has anything on this. I haven't seen it myself. Cheers, Matthew Matthew Anstey Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid Residence: Kambah, ACT, Australia ansteyfamily at optusnet.com.au +61 (0)2 6296 4044 > -----Original Message----- > From: FUNKNET -- Discussion of issues in Functional > Linguistics [mailto:FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu] On Behalf Of > Matthew S. Dryer > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:21 AM > To: FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu > Subject: Grammaticalization of ?say? as a complementizer > > > Dear Funknet, > > I am looking for references bearing on the grammaticalization > of verbs meaning 'say' as a complementizer. If you know of > references other than the following, please let me know. > > The only references I am aware of are > > Cohen, D., Simeone-Senelle, M.-C., and Vanhove, M. 2002. The > grammaticalization of 'say' and 'do': An areal phenomenon in > East Africa. In Guldemann, T. & M. von Ronacdor, eds. > Reported speech: a meeting ground for different linguistic > domains. [Typological Studies in Language]. > Amsterdam: John Benjamins. > > Heine, Bernard, and Tania Kuteva. 2002. World lexicon of > grammaticalization. New York: Cambridge University Press. > > Hopper, Paul J. and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 1993. > Grammaticalization. > Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. > > Lord, Carol. 1976. Evidence for syntactic reanalysis: From > verb to complementizer in Kwa. In Papers from the > parasession on diachronic syntax. Sanford B. Steever, Carol > A. Walker, and Salikkoko S. Mufweene, eds. Chicago: Chicago > Linguistic Society. > > Saxena, A. 1988. On the grammaticalization of the verb 'say': > A typological and diachronic study. In S. Delancey and R. > Tomlin, eds. Papers from the Third Pacific Linguistics > Conference. Eugene: University of Oregon. > > Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, and Richard Dasher. 2002. > Regularity in semantic change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. > > Thanks for any further references > > Matthew Dryer > dryer at buffalo.edu > From sepkit at UTU.FI Tue Feb 18 05:54:17 2003 From: sepkit at UTU.FI (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Seppo_Kittil=E4?=) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:54:17 +0200 Subject: Syntactic functions: Call for papers Message-ID: (Apologies for any cross-postings) CALL FOR PAPERS The Linguistic Association of Finland is organizing a symposium on Syntactic Functions - Focus on the Periphery to be held in Helsinki, Finland, November 14 - 15, 2003. The symposium will bring together linguists interested in questions dealing with syntactic functions. We invite papers addressing theoretical questions as well as papers taking a specific (empirical) viewpoint of one (or more) particular language(s). We especially encourage papers that concentrate on the syntactic status and description of "peripheral" constituents - such as adnominal and adverbial modifiers, adpositional phrases, converbs, adjuncts, discourse particles, various clause-size constituents etc. Possible themes include: - language specific problems in determining the syntactic function of (a) specific constituent(s) - the critical examination of principles used to define syntactic functions - the borderlines between "the core" and "the periphery" or between obligatory and optional constituents - the status of syntactic functions - are they primitives or derived? Furthermore, we warmly welcome scholars working on spoken language: What kind of syntactic functions are there in spoken language? Does the evidence from spoken language challenge the traditionally assumed syntactic functions? Other topics relating to syntactic functions are equally welcome. Invited speakers: · Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt) · Maria Vilkuna (Research Institute for the Languages of Finland) Activities: · lectures by invited speakers · presentations by other participants (20 min + 10 min for discussion) · posters Symposium venue: House of Sciences (administered by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and situated in the heart of Helsinki city centre), Address: Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland. Homepage of the symposium: Abstracts: The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max 500 words) is July 31, 2003. Please submit your abstract by e-mail to the following address: . The abstract should be included in the body of the message. Please indicate clearly whether your abstract is intended as a poster or a section paper. E-mail submissions are strongly recommended. If, however, you send your abstract by ordinary mail, please provide an e-mail address as a contact address. Participants will be notified about acceptance by September 1, 2003. The abstracts will be published on the web pages of the symposium: . Registration: The deadline for registration is October 1, 2003. Register by e-mail to the address above. Registration fees: · general: EUR 50 · members of the association: EUR 25 · undergraduate students free Participants from abroad are requested to pay in cash upon arrival. Participants from Finland may send the registration fee by giro account no 800013-1424850 to The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) / Symposium or pay in cash upon arrival. Accommodation: Please visit the web pages of the symposium at . The organizing committee (synfunct-organizers at ling.helsinki.fi): · Chair: Juhani Klemola, Department of English, University of Vaasa, P.O. Box 700, FIN-65101 Vaasa, · Other members: Marja Etelämäki, Department of Finnish, P.O. Box 4, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Seppo Kittilä, Department of General Linguistics, Hämeenkatu 2 A 8, FIN-20014 University of Turku, Leena Kolehmainen, Department of German, P.O. Box 24, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Matti Miestamo, Department of General Linguistics, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Jussi Ylikoski, Finno-Ugrian Languages, Fennicum, FIN-20014 University of Turku, From sevigny at MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA Wed Feb 19 23:02:32 2003 From: sevigny at MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA (Alexandre Sevigny) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:02:32 -0500 Subject: Job: Chair in Communication Studies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > Please excuse multiple postings of this job ad. We are trying to reach as > many candidates interested in Communication Studies as possible. > > McMaster University invites applications for the Global Television Network > Chair In Communications to be located in the Faculty of Humanities. > > The Faculty of Humanities comprises seven core academic units, with 125 > full-time faculty members in a School of the Arts (Art, Art History, > Theatre and Film, Multimedia and Music), and Departments of Classics, > English, French, History, Modern Languages and Linguistics, and Philosophy > and Programmes in Communication Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies > (Comparative Literature, Peace Studies, and Women's Studies). The Faculty > is a leader in the application of computing to the humanities. For more > information on either the Faculty or the Programme, please consult either > www.humanities.mcmaster.ca or www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~cmst/. > > The successful candidate will have outstanding credentials in the field of > Communication Studies and will bring research and teaching experience both > to the Chair and to the associated new, interdisciplinary and dynamic B.A. > Honours and Combined Honours programmes in Communication Studies. > > The successful candidate will be recognised nationally and internationally > as an expert within one of the areas of Communication Studies. The > candidate will have extensive knowledge of, and experience with, the major > modes of communication through various media as well as with critical and > theoretical approaches to Communication Studies. Candidates specialising > in any one or more of the four components of McMaster's Communication > Studies Programme (Language & Discourse, Mass Communication, Performance > Studies and Cultural Studies) are encouraged to apply. Preference may be > given to candidates with special interest in the area of mass media, new > media, journalism, or radio/ television. The successful candidate will be > appointed at the rank of Full or Associate Professor to a Department > within the Faculty of Humanities with a cross-appointment to the Programme > in Communication Studies. He/she will work with the Programme Director and > be prepared to take his/her turn in the Programme's administration, > including a term as Director. > > Complementing the communications focus within the Faculty, the Chair will > pursue leading edge research into the nature, function or evolution of > communication. The Faculty has committed significant resources to the use > of multimedia and audio-visual resources in teaching and research > including the recent establishment of the Lyons Instructional Media > Centre. It is hoped that the successful candidate will strengthen the > strategic commitment to applied information technology and new media. > Drawing upon existing resources within the Faculty of Humanities and the > wider university (including the Faculty of Social Sciences, where related > work is being done in the departments of Sociology and Political Science), > the Global Television Network Chair in Communications will provide core > leadership in communication teaching and research at McMaster, possibly > leading towards the establishment of a graduate programme in that field. > > Applicants should send a letter of application, with a curriculum vitae > and a sample of peer-reviewed work, to: > Dr. Magda Stroinska, Director > Communication Studies Programme > Faculty of Humanities > McMaster University > TSH-512, 1280 Main Street West > Hamilton, ON L8S 4M2 > Canada > cmstdir at mcmaster.ca > > Applications must be received by Tuesday 28 March 2003 and applicants > should arrange for three letters of reference to be received by the same > date. > > All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and > Permanent Residents will be given priority. McMaster University is > strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to > recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages > applications from all qualified candidates, including women, members of > visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities and > persons with disabilities. > > > ***************************************************** > Alexandre Sevigny > Communication Studies and French > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario > ***************************************************** > > From vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Fri Feb 21 23:15:32 2003 From: vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (vanvalin) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:15:32 -0500 Subject: 2003 Intl. Role and Reference Grammar Conf: Second announcement Message-ID: Second Announcement The 2003 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar: Exploring the interfaces among meaning, function and morphosyntactic form São Paulo State University at São José do Rio Preto, Brazil 14-20th July 2003 Organization The organizing committee for RRG2003 consists of Robert Van Valin (University at Buffalo), Dan Everett (University of Manchester), Roberto Gomes Camacho (São Paulo State University), Marize M. Dall'Aglio Hattnher. (São Paulo State University), Ricardo Mairal (UNED, Madrid) and Toshio Ohori (Tokyo University). Event Programme A four-day international course will be followed by a three-day international conference. The course will include lecture sessions at three levels: introductory, post-graduate and specialized. Introductory sessions will present the basics of the main topic of the day; post-graduate sessions will provide a detailed account of functional models, including RRG and Functional Grammar; and specialized sessions will deal with advanced topics in RRG. The conference will stage papers, workshops and plenary sessions. There will also be a workshop on Amazonian languages headed by Daniel Everett on July 18-20 as part of the conference. The title is 'Autochthonous languages in Brazil and syntactic theory: functional and formal considerations'. Contact Daniel Everett (Dan.Everett at man.ac.uk) for more details. Teaching and Discussion Topics RRG2003 will deal with issues in linguistic theory related to the theory of RRG as presented in Van Valin and LaPolla 1997: Syntax: structure, meaning & function, Cambridge University Press. Special attention will be paid to the further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology, information structure, and lexical semantics. Parallel Session on FG During the conference, there will be a parallel session on FG. Papers should be devoted to the elaboration of the theory of FG as set out in Dik 1997: The Theory of Functional Grammar. 2 Vols. Edited by Kees Hengeveld. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Workshops may bear on points of convergence and divergence between the two functional models. Invited Speakers Speakers invited to the course and conference include Anna Siewierska (Lancaster University), Balthasar Bickel (University of Leipzig), Dan Everett (University of Manchester), Robert Van Valin (University at Buffalo). Abstracts The deadline for the submission of abstracts of papers and workshops is March 31, 2003. Abstracts should be no longer than three hundred words, including references. The language of the conference will be English. Papers will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes of discussion. Workshops will last forty-five minutes, followed by another fifteen minutes of discussion. The selection of papers for presentation will be communicated by April 30, 2003. Conference/Course Fee: Registration fee is US$50.00 for the course and $50.00 for the conference. Non-Brazilian participants will pay the registration fee in the first day of the event. For Brazilian participants, the registration fee is R$50,00 for the course and R$50,00 for the conference, before April 30, 2003. After April 30, an additional R$10,00 will be charged: R$60,00 for the course and R$60,00 for the conference. The difference of fees is due to a partial grant by the Government for all Brazilian participants. The fee will include conference facilities and materials, as well as coffee, refreshments and snacks. Further information UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista) is one of the three public universities in the State of Sao Paulo. It is a multi campus university spread all over the State of Sao Paulo. Sao Jose do Rio Preto is a 350,000 inhabitant city, located 450km from the city of Sao Paulo. International flights from all over the world arrive at Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo and passengers usually take another 45 minute flight to Sao Jose do Rio Preto. It is also possible to take a bus (4 and a half hour trip). Although July and even August are winter months in Brazil, average temperatures easily reach the 80s at noon. Nights are nicely cool. We are far from the seashore, but tours to Rio de Janeiro and Bahia can be easily (and cheaply) arranged for either before or after the RRG Conference. HOTELS Discover Tours (discover at riopreto.com.br) is the Official Congress Agency, responsible for hotel reservation, national and international flights, as well as suggestion and selling of tourism programs in Brazil for Congress members. Below we present accommodation options suggested by the Congress Organization, with special prices. Other options will be offered in the web page of the RRG2003. Reservation should be done through Discover Tours. Plaza Inn Nacional: Standard: single (R$42.00), double (R$55.00) De Luxe: single (R$66.00), double (R$72.00) Suite: double (R$120,00) (US$1 = approx. R$3.60) WEB PAGE A web page is under construction at the moment. Further information on RRG2003, including a detailed programme, accommodation information, payment, social events, etc., will be enclosed in subsequent announcements. Anyone interested in receiving further information should send a message to the e-mail address for RRG2003: RRG2003 at ibilce.unesp.br Pre-registration A pre-registration form is enclosed. Please, send it by e-mail if you intend to participate in the course, the conference or both. Pre-registration form Last name: First name: Title: University: Department: Address: E-mail address: Do you intend to attend the course? Do you intend to participate in the conference? Do you intend to present a paper? Do you intend to present a workshop? *************** Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Tel 716 645-2177, ext. 713 Professor & Chair Fax 716 645-3825 Department of Linguistics 609 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo The State University of New York Buffalo, NY 14260-1030 USA VANVALIN at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/vanvalin/vanvalin.html From ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU Mon Feb 24 23:48:17 2003 From: ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul Hopper) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:48:17 -0500 Subject: Summer Fellowship Opportunity Message-ID: Dear Funknet Colleagues, Could you please direct the attention of Ph.D. students and junior faculty to the following opportunity. It is a funded two-summer program on "The Concept of Language in the Academic Disciplines" for Ph.D. students and recent Ph.D.s., directed by Talbot Taylor and John Joseph. Awardees attend two two-week seminars, the first in the US in 2003, the second at a location in Europe in 2004. Awardees are given all expenses plus $600 stipends for each of the two summers. Linguistics is among the fields from which applications are especially invited. Details on how and where to apply are contained in the body of the announcement. - Paul Hopper --------------------------- Paul J. Hopper Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities College of Humanities and Social Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Telephone (412) 268-7174 Fax (412) 268-7989 --------------------------- Fellowships for the European-American Young Scholars' Summer Institute on "The Concept of Language in the Academic Disciplines" 2003-2004 Dates: August 3-16, 2003, at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; August 3-13, 2004, European location to be announced Conveners: John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) and Talbot J. Taylor (Williamsburg) The program will cover the cost of travel, meals, lodging, and texts for both the U.S. and European meetings. Participants will receive a stipend of $600 per summer. Application deadline: April 15, 2003 Full details and application are available at the following websites: http://www.wiko-berlin.de/kolleg/projekte/eayssi/ausschreibsecrel/?hpl=2 http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/yssi/index.htm The European-American Young Scholars' Summer Institutes are sponsored by - the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, - the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, - the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, - the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, - the Social Science Research Council, New York, - the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, and - the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. This program is made possible by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The European and-American Young Scholars' Summer Institutes are open to Ph.D. candidates and scholars who havereceived a Ph.D. since 1997. They are designed to support the development of scholarly networks and collaborative projects among young scholars from academic institutions in the United States and Europe. Led by distinguished senior scholars, each institute will accommodate twenty participants and will be built around two summer seminars, one held in the United States and another in Europe in consecutive years. Participants will present their research and collaborate on new projects at the seminars and between the two meetings. The program seeks to explore theoretical, methodological and empirical issues; promote the integration of approaches and interpretations from various disciplines into the participants' research; review the state of research in an institute's field; and identify promising areas for further research. The Institute on "The Concept of Language in the Academic Disciplines" This institute will approach the concept of language in the academic disciplines from both an historical and a contemporary point of view. In the first summer, it will investigate the origins and historical development of concepts of language in Western thought and in certain non-Western modes of thought. It will also examine how concepts of language and other closely related concepts such as those of knowledge, society, and nation have shaped the theoretical and methodological assumptions and practices that underlie a range of disciplines spanning humanistic and scientific inquiry. Participants will consider language from a variety of perspectives, including: · its integration with and influence on educational practices, its transformation by the development of printing and the practices of print culture, · its integration with and influence on the development of the new sciences in the European Renaissance, · its integration with and influence on the development of the European nation-states beginning in the modern period, and · its co-opting by the emerging discipline of linguistics and the repercussions of this development for the discourses of academic disciplinarity from the 19th to the 21st century. In the second summer the institute will focus on the current discourse of the academic disciplines represented by the institute participants and the concepts of language that underlie those fields of study. The agenda for the second summer will be set by the research questions established in the first summer and pursued by the participants throughout the intervening year. The institute's second meeting will have as its specific aim the completion of a publishable study by each participant. The precise set of disciplines addressed in the second summer will depend in part on which applicants are selected. Since every academic discipline rests fundamentally on one or more concepts of language, the institute will not restrict the possible list. The program hopes to receive applications from people working in at least the following areas: Anthropology, Biological Sciences, History, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Theory, Medicine, Philosophy (including Aesthetics), the Physical Sciences, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Rhetoric, Law, Sociology, Translation. The institute will (1) identify and discuss the key theoretical, methodological and empirical issues; (2) integrate approaches and interpretations from various disciplines; (3) review the state of the research field; (4) produce papers for publication; and (5) identify promising areas for further research. Faculty: John E. Joseph, Professor of Applied Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh Talbot J. Taylor, L.G.T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics, College of William & Mary Application Procedure Applications are invited from Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s (degree received after May 1997) studying or teaching in the United States or in Europe whose research relates to the topics of the institutes. Candidates should note that in the case of both institutes they are applying for two summer workshops: one at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC, and another in Europe. Successful applicants will be expected to attend both workshops of their institute. The working language of the institutes is English. To apply, send the following, in English, to the appropriate address below: 1. A completed application (forms available online) 2. A curriculum vitae 3. A statement of up to 1,000 words (not counting cited references) detailing current research interests and past research and writing related to the institute topic 4. A list of not more than five background readings potentially relevant to all participants of the summer institute 5. One letter of recommendation Applications should be received by April 15, 2003. Contacts: EUROPEAN CANDIDATES SHOULD ADDRESS QUERIES AND APPLICATIONS TO:European-American Young Scholars' Summer Institutes c/o Mr. Michael Becker, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wallotstrasse 19D-14193Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49 30 / 89001 - 267Fax: +49 30 / 89001 - 200 E-mail: becker at wiko-berlin.de U.S. CANDIDATES SHOULD ADDRESS QUERIES AND APPLICATIONS TO: European-American Young Scholars' Summer Institutes, c/o Richard R. Schramm, Vice President for Education Programs, National Humanities Center, P.O. Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2256 USA Tel.: 919-549-0661, Fax: 919-990-8535 E-mail: rschramm at ga.unc.edu From matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI Thu Feb 27 15:02:39 2003 From: matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI (Matti Miestamo) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:02:39 +0200 Subject: 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics Message-ID: Preliminary announcement 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 should be submitted no later than August 31, 2003, and they will be reviewed anonymously. Notification of acceptance will be announced by September 30, 2003. Proposals for workshops should be submitted no later than May 31, 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. SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND 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 www.ling.helsinki.fi/kielitiede/20scl.html ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Fred Karlsson, Chair Antti Arppe Pia Brandt Orvokki Heinämäki Matti Miestamo Urho Määttä Kari Pitkänen From kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL Sun Feb 2 00:27:35 2003 From: kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL (Kees Hengeveld) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 01:27:35 +0100 Subject: Research MA in Linguistics U Amsterdam Message-ID: The Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam offers a new MA programme for talented students who are interested in conducting research in one of the many areas of linguistics that are studied in its research institutes. This Research MA in Linguistics offers the opportunity to specialize in a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines and pays serious attention to methodological issues. All courses are taught in English or, in the case of language-specific courses, in the target language. The programme takes two years for selected students with a relevant BA or equivalent, and one year for selected students with a relevant MA or equivalent. Since the University of Amsterdam is interested in attracting talented researchers, tuition rates are competitive. Further information about the programmes may be found at http://www.hum.uva.nl/graduateschool or requested from graduateschool at hum.uva.nl. From lieven at EVA.MPG.DE Mon Feb 3 10:09:38 2003 From: lieven at EVA.MPG.DE (Elena Lieven) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:09:38 +0100 Subject: Ph.D studentship, Max Planck Centre, Manchester Message-ID: Ph.D. studentship for the study of language development Applications are invited for a funded Ph.D. studentship. The student will be attached to the Max Planck Child Study Centre and registered for a Ph.D. in the Department of Psychology at the University of Manchester. The Centre is run by Professor Elena Lieven and is funded by the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology (Director: Professor Michael Tomasello) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. Dr. Anna Theakston of the Manchester Psychology Department will be a co-supervisor. Research in the Centre focuses on the development of language (especially grammar) and consists in the collection and analysis of naturalistic and experimental data for both English and German-speaking children. You must have or expect to attain this summer, a good honours degree in Psychology, Linguistics or an associated discipline. Funding will consist of approximately 11,700 Euros per annum plus support for travel and equipment. The Home/EC rate for fees will be paid by the MPI. Applications must be made on University of Manchester postgraduate application forms, which can be obtained from Julie Hampson, Department of Psychology, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK (email: Julie at psy.man.ac.uk; tel: 0161-275-8581) and completed applications must reach her by February 21st 2003 at the latest. Interviews are expected to take place in Manchester on Friday March 7th 2003. Enquiries can be made by email to Professor Lieven at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103, Leipzig, Germany. (lieven at eva.mpg.de) From eitkonen at UTU.FI Mon Feb 3 10:48:29 2003 From: eitkonen at UTU.FI (Esa Itkonen) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:48:29 +0200 Subject: 'function' Message-ID: What follows, has a connection with a FUNKNET discussion, some time ago, about the use of evolutionary vocabulary in linguistics. If there is a discrepancy between programmatic statements about methodology and the actual descriptive-cum-explanatory practice, it is always such as to make the methodology seem more hard-nosed than it is in fact, never the opposite. This is the topic of my forthcoming article 'Einfuehlung (= re-enactment) as the basic method of typological linguistics', where I analyze selected passages from such illustrious representatives of the functional-typological school as Mithun, Heine, Givon, and Comrie (in this order). The result of my analysis (also bolstered by reference to Darwin, but - N.B. - Darwin qua cross-species psychologist rather than Darwin qua evolutionary biologist) turns out to justify the quaint-looking title of my article: In practice, we are - and, most probably, will remain - more 'soft-nosed' than some members of the field would like to think, and in a way that can be shown to have historical antecedents. (Off-prints will be distributed in due course.) 'Function' is a word with many faces. Iconicity, where it can be found, is functionally motivated. This reminds me of something that happened a long time ago. And, now that the spring-flood of memory has awakened, it is all coming back to me. What is? Well, 'it': THE LAST TIME I SPOKE TO CHOMSKY. It was after his class, in November 1968. I was convinced that iconicity (or 'isomorphism', as I called it at the time) holds good not only in a Tractatus-type ideal language, but also in natural language. (An English-language version of the paper where I expound this idea was published in the yearbook of the Philosophical Society of Finland, in 1970.) I explained this to Chomsky in a few sentences. He made a dismissive wave of hand and mumbled something dismissive. "You don't even TRY to understand!", I indignantly snapped at him, turned on my heels, and walked away. Will I ever get a second chance? Sometimes I wonder... Esa Itkonen From robert at VJF.CNRS.FR Mon Feb 3 21:58:45 2003 From: robert at VJF.CNRS.FR (Stephane Robert) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:58:45 +0100 Subject: conference on SPACE: abstracts Message-ID: We apologize for multiple mailing of this message Space in languages: linguistic systems and cognitive categories 7-8 February 2003 Ecole Normale Sup?rieure (salle Dussane) 45 rue d?Ulm, 75005 Paris The abstacts are now available on the Web site: http://llacan.cnrs-bellevue.fr/Pages/SpaceLang.htm __________________ Stephane ROBERT CNRS - LLACAN "Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique noire" (UMR 8135) GDR 1955 "Diversit? et ?volution des langues: enjeux cognitifs" Centre Georges Haudricourt, B.P. 8 7, rue Guy M?quet - 94801 Villejuif Cedex FRANCE Tel: 33 1 49 58 38 46 - Fax: 33 1 49 58 38 00 robert at vjf.cnrs.fr http://llacan.cnrs-bellevue.fr/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL Tue Feb 4 20:49:58 2003 From: kees.hengeveld at HUM.UVA.NL (Kees Hengeveld) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:49:58 +0100 Subject: Assistant professorschips at U Amsterdam In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam is currently looking for two talented assistant professors (tenure track) in the field of linguistics: one in the area of linguistic typology and language universals, and one in the area of language and speech technology. Information on these two positions may be found at http://www.english.uva.nl/actueel/uva_vacancies.cfm. Best, Kees Hengeveld From w.croft at MAN.AC.UK Wed Feb 5 10:41:58 2003 From: w.croft at MAN.AC.UK (Bill Croft) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:41:58 +0000 Subject: Draft chapters of Croft & Cruse, "Cognitive Linguistics" Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting) Draft chapters of W Croft & D A Cruse, "Cognitive Linguistics" (Cambridge U Press, to appear), including revised versions of chapters 9-11 on construction grammar, can be found at http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Info/staff/WAC/ (click on "Publications" and scroll down to "Under contract"). We expect to submit the manuscript to the Press at the end of February, and it should be published around the end of 2003. From fjn at U.WASHINGTON.EDU Mon Feb 10 23:20:03 2003 From: fjn at U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Frederick J Newmeyer) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:20:03 -0800 Subject: Topic and focus particles Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, Could somebody please point me to the most extensive cross-linguistic typological study of topic and focus particles, one that details in particular their most common (and least common) positioning within the clause? Thanks! --fritz newmeyer From sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU Wed Feb 12 17:56:42 2003 From: sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU (Christine Sosa) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:56:42 -0800 Subject: Announcing: Algebras, Diagrams and Decisions in Language, Logic and Computation Message-ID: CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of: ALGEBRAS, DIAGRAMS AND DECISIONS IN LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION, Kees Vermeulen (CWI, the National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science ) and Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory), eds. .;paper ISBN: 1-57586-372-3, $25.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-371-5, $65.00, 183 pages. 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: This volume is exemplary in showing how the shared interests of three different areas of research can lead to significant cooperation and fruitful exchanges of techniques. Six papers each present in an accessible way an exciting contribution to the study and use of algebras, diagrams and decisions. These themes are of interest to researchers in the areas of language, logic and computation. The types of contributions range from indispensable overview papers about shared formal methods to inspirational applications of formal tools to specific problems. Contributors to this volume are Pieter Adriaans, Sergei Artemov, Steven Givant, Edward Keenan, Almerindo Ojeda, Patrick Scotto di Luzio, and Edward Stabler. ------------------------------ From l.lagerwerf at scw.vu.nl Thu Feb 13 16:01:54 2003 From: l.lagerwerf at scw.vu.nl (Luuk Lagerwerf) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:01:54 +0100 Subject: 2nd call for papers: Workshop Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse, Netherlands Message-ID: Please note the second call for papers for MAD03 below. Apologies for cross-postings. Luuk Lagerwerf 5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO DISCOURSE October 22th-25th, 2003, Driebergen, Netherlands MAD03 THEME: DETERMINATION OF INFORMATION AND TENOR IN TEXTS KEYWORDS Content analysis, information extraction, text analysis, discourse representation, linguistics of argumentation, text typology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Klaus Sch?nbach, Universiteit van Amsterdam (NL) Peter Foltz, New Mexico State University (NM) Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh (UK) Paul Deane, Educational Testing Service (NJ) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submission of full papers addressing one of the questions of the workshop is May 1st, 2003. On the website of MAD03, http://home.scw.vu.nl/~lagerwerf/Mad03Web/index.htm, updated guidelines for submission are given. SCHEDULE 2nd call for papers: February 13rd, 2003 Deadline (full papers): May 1st, 2003 Notice of acceptance: July 1st, 2003 Deliverance final papers: August 1st, 2003 Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2003 (MAD'03) is the fifth in a series of small-scale, high-quality workshops that have been organised every second year since 1995 (Egmond-aan-zee (NL), 1995; Utrecht (NL), 1997; Edinburgh (GB), 1999; Ittre (BE), 2001). Its aim is to bring together researchers from different disciplines, in particular theoretical and applied linguists, computational linguists, and psycholinguists, to exchange information and learn from each other on a common topic of investigation: text and discourse. WORKSHOP THEME In this edition of the workshop, MAD?03 aims at bringing together social scientists and linguists by pursuing the following theme: Determination of Information and Tenor in Texts. Topics of the workshop are exemplified by, but not limited to, questions like: * How is content (or information) extracted from text? * How does one systematically infer stances from texts? * What determines differences in interpretation between readers? * How do (automated) discourse representations come about? * How can linguistic properties be put to use for analysis of large text collections? * What do co-occurrences of words tell about discourses? * How does text type or genre change the interpretation of text variables? * How do new media change the use of text variables and genres? WORKSHOP LOCATION The workshop and lodging will be in conference centre De Bergse Bossen, located in the forests of Driebergen, a village near Utrecht (Netherlands). Travelling by train to Schiphol Airport or the city of Amsterdam takes less than an hour. WORKSHOP DESIGN In the workshop, about 20 people will be presenting an accepted paper in plenary sessions. The total number of participants will be limited to 40. Anonymous review of full papers will be carried out in order to guarantee high quality of papers. The organisers also strive to publish all accepted papers in workshop proceedings at the start of the workshop. After the workshop, a selection of papers are likely to be published in a special issue of an appropriate journal (see the references). WORKSHOP ORGANISERS Luuk Lagerwerf, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Wilbert Spooren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) Liesbeth Degand, Universit? catholique de Louvain (BE) MAD?03 is hosted by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Netherlands School of Communication Research (NESCoR; in the persons of Prof. Dr. J. Kleinnijenhuis, Vrije Universiteit; Prof. Dr. P.J. Schellens, Universiteit Twente). The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Netherlands organisation for scientific research (NWO) support this workshop financially. WORKSHOP THEME DESCRIPTION In many approaches to discourse analysis in linguistics, and content or media analysis in social sciences, methods have been developed to extract information from texts systematically. Apart from extracting information, many different approaches have also been aiming to determine the tenor of texts. In this small-scale intensive workshop, we want to encourage discussion between researchers from different backgrounds. The workshop will have significance for document design as well as content analysis. In both cases, it is important to analyse processes of recognition and evaluation of information in text. Also, linguistic properties of texts may serve as cues for systematising these processes. Other related areas are the fields of persuasion and argumentation, and discourse psychology, discourse analysis, and computational modelling of discourse processes. By using statistical approaches based on co-occurrences, judgments of diverse aspects of texts may be delivered automatically. Together, these approaches make it possible to build information structures of texts, make abstracts automatically, or disclose tendencies in the content of multiple texts. In each of these approaches, it is important to realize that text type (or genre) is perhaps one of the most determining factors in extracting information, evaluating information or examining linguistic aspects of text. Regarding the workshop topics, this factor will be controlled by either taking news texts as the default text type, or taking text type itself as a topic to determine its influence on information, tenor or linguistic aspects. The application of any of these approaches to the design or analysis of new media provides a very interesting extension of the topics of the workshop. REFERENCES A short impression of the previous workshop MAD?01 can be obtained at: http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/lingne/Degand/MAD/mad-presentation.htm Previous workshops resulted in the following publications: - Degand, L., Y. Bestgen & W. Spooren & L. v. Waes (eds.; 2001). Multidisciplinary approaches to discourse (pp. 183-194). M?nster: Nodus Publikationen. - Knott, A., J. Oberlander & T. Sanders (eds.; 2001). Special Issue: Levels of Representation in Discourse Relations, Cognitive Linguistics 12 (3). - Risselada, R. & W. Spooren (eds.; 1998). Special issue: Discourse markers and coherence relations. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (2). - Sanders, T., J. Schilperoord & W. Spooren (eds.; 2001). Text Representation: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects. Amsterdam: Benjamins. - Spooren, W. & R. Risselada (eds.; 1997). Special issue: Discourse markers. Discourse Processes 24 (1). Luuk Lagerwerf Communicatiewetenschap Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1081c (bezoekadres nr. 859) 1081 HV Amsterdam +31 20 444 6915 l.lagerwerf at scw.vu.nl From jaejung.song at STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ Fri Feb 14 21:54:20 2003 From: jaejung.song at STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ (Jae Jung Song) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:54:20 +1300 Subject: New Korean Linguistics Series Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the launching of the Saffron Korean Linguistics Series. Volumes in this series will be published by Eastern Art Publishing (London, UK) (http://www.eapgroup.com) in conjunction with the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London. The inaugural volume, due to come out in early 2003, is "Korean Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning" by Jaehoon Yeon (SOAS, University of London). This series is devoted primarily to functionally and/or typologically oriented 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 the Korean language will also be considered. The series aims to offer an international academic forum for Korean linguistics and language study. The Series Editors are: Jaehoon Yeon, Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London, London WC1H 0XG, UK. E-mail: jy1 at soas.ac.uk Jae Jung Song, Linguistics Programme, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. E-mail: jaejung.song at stonebow.otago.ac.nz We welcome manuscripts or book proposals on any aspect of Korean linguistics and language study, including Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Historical Linguistics, and Korean Language Teaching. Submission enquiries should initially be addressed to Jaehoon Yeon. Manuscripts or book proposals must be submitted to both the Series Editors. Contributors whose native language is not English should have their manuscripts read (and corrected) by a native speaker before submission. From dryer at BUFFALO.EDU Mon Feb 17 20:21:28 2003 From: dryer at BUFFALO.EDU (Matthew S. Dryer) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:21:28 -0500 Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Grammaticalization_of_=3Fsay=3F_as_a_complementizer?= Message-ID: Dear Funknet, I am looking for references bearing on the grammaticalization of verbs meaning 'say' as a complementizer. If you know of references other than the following, please let me know. The only references I am aware of are Cohen, D., Simeone-Senelle, M.-C., and Vanhove, M. 2002. The grammaticalization of 'say' and 'do': An areal phenomenon in East Africa. In Guldemann, T. & M. von Ronacdor, eds. Reported speech: a meeting ground for different linguistic domains. [Typological Studies in Language]. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Heine, Bernard, and Tania Kuteva. 2002. World lexicon of grammaticalization. New York: Cambridge University Press. Hopper, Paul J. and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 1993. Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lord, Carol. 1976. Evidence for syntactic reanalysis: From verb to complementizer in Kwa. In Papers from the parasession on diachronic syntax. Sanford B. Steever, Carol A. Walker, and Salikkoko S. Mufweene, eds. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. Saxena, A. 1988. On the grammaticalization of the verb 'say': A typological and diachronic study. In S. Delancey and R. Tomlin, eds. Papers from the Third Pacific Linguistics Conference. Eugene: University of Oregon. Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, and Richard Dasher. 2002. Regularity in semantic change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Thanks for any further references Matthew Dryer dryer at buffalo.edu From ansteyfamily at optusnet.com.au Mon Feb 17 23:30:52 2003 From: ansteyfamily at optusnet.com.au (Matthew Anstey) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:30:52 +1100 Subject: Grammaticalization of ?say? as a complementizer In-Reply-To: <974694.1045495288@dryer.ss.buffalo.edu> Message-ID: Hi Matthew, There has been a phd on this in Biblical Hebrew: Miller, Cynthia L. 1996 The representation of speech in biblical Hebrew narrative : a linguistic analysis. (Harvard Semitic Museum publications.) Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press. It includes a (small) section of cross-linguistic evidence from these languages: ChiBemba (Bantu), Uzbek (Turkic), Urartian, Hausa, Ewe, Amharic, and Aramaic. I'm not sure if Coulmas, F. (ed) 1986. Direct and indirect speech. Berlin: Mouton has anything on this. I haven't seen it myself. Cheers, Matthew Matthew Anstey Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid Residence: Kambah, ACT, Australia ansteyfamily at optusnet.com.au +61 (0)2 6296 4044 > -----Original Message----- > From: FUNKNET -- Discussion of issues in Functional > Linguistics [mailto:FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu] On Behalf Of > Matthew S. Dryer > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:21 AM > To: FUNKNET at listserv.rice.edu > Subject: Grammaticalization of ?say? as a complementizer > > > Dear Funknet, > > I am looking for references bearing on the grammaticalization > of verbs meaning 'say' as a complementizer. If you know of > references other than the following, please let me know. > > The only references I am aware of are > > Cohen, D., Simeone-Senelle, M.-C., and Vanhove, M. 2002. The > grammaticalization of 'say' and 'do': An areal phenomenon in > East Africa. In Guldemann, T. & M. von Ronacdor, eds. > Reported speech: a meeting ground for different linguistic > domains. [Typological Studies in Language]. > Amsterdam: John Benjamins. > > Heine, Bernard, and Tania Kuteva. 2002. World lexicon of > grammaticalization. New York: Cambridge University Press. > > Hopper, Paul J. and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 1993. > Grammaticalization. > Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. > > Lord, Carol. 1976. Evidence for syntactic reanalysis: From > verb to complementizer in Kwa. In Papers from the > parasession on diachronic syntax. Sanford B. Steever, Carol > A. Walker, and Salikkoko S. Mufweene, eds. Chicago: Chicago > Linguistic Society. > > Saxena, A. 1988. On the grammaticalization of the verb 'say': > A typological and diachronic study. In S. Delancey and R. > Tomlin, eds. Papers from the Third Pacific Linguistics > Conference. Eugene: University of Oregon. > > Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, and Richard Dasher. 2002. > Regularity in semantic change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. > > Thanks for any further references > > Matthew Dryer > dryer at buffalo.edu > From sepkit at UTU.FI Tue Feb 18 05:54:17 2003 From: sepkit at UTU.FI (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Seppo_Kittil=E4?=) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 07:54:17 +0200 Subject: Syntactic functions: Call for papers Message-ID: (Apologies for any cross-postings) CALL FOR PAPERS The Linguistic Association of Finland is organizing a symposium on Syntactic Functions - Focus on the Periphery to be held in Helsinki, Finland, November 14 - 15, 2003. The symposium will bring together linguists interested in questions dealing with syntactic functions. We invite papers addressing theoretical questions as well as papers taking a specific (empirical) viewpoint of one (or more) particular language(s). We especially encourage papers that concentrate on the syntactic status and description of "peripheral" constituents - such as adnominal and adverbial modifiers, adpositional phrases, converbs, adjuncts, discourse particles, various clause-size constituents etc. Possible themes include: - language specific problems in determining the syntactic function of (a) specific constituent(s) - the critical examination of principles used to define syntactic functions - the borderlines between "the core" and "the periphery" or between obligatory and optional constituents - the status of syntactic functions - are they primitives or derived? Furthermore, we warmly welcome scholars working on spoken language: What kind of syntactic functions are there in spoken language? Does the evidence from spoken language challenge the traditionally assumed syntactic functions? Other topics relating to syntactic functions are equally welcome. Invited speakers: ? Christian Lehmann (University of Erfurt) ? Maria Vilkuna (Research Institute for the Languages of Finland) Activities: ? lectures by invited speakers ? presentations by other participants (20 min + 10 min for discussion) ? posters Symposium venue: House of Sciences (administered by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and situated in the heart of Helsinki city centre), Address: Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, Finland. Homepage of the symposium: Abstracts: The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max 500 words) is July 31, 2003. Please submit your abstract by e-mail to the following address: . The abstract should be included in the body of the message. Please indicate clearly whether your abstract is intended as a poster or a section paper. E-mail submissions are strongly recommended. If, however, you send your abstract by ordinary mail, please provide an e-mail address as a contact address. Participants will be notified about acceptance by September 1, 2003. The abstracts will be published on the web pages of the symposium: . Registration: The deadline for registration is October 1, 2003. Register by e-mail to the address above. Registration fees: ? general: EUR 50 ? members of the association: EUR 25 ? undergraduate students free Participants from abroad are requested to pay in cash upon arrival. Participants from Finland may send the registration fee by giro account no 800013-1424850 to The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) / Symposium or pay in cash upon arrival. Accommodation: Please visit the web pages of the symposium at . The organizing committee (synfunct-organizers at ling.helsinki.fi): ? Chair: Juhani Klemola, Department of English, University of Vaasa, P.O. Box 700, FIN-65101 Vaasa, ? Other members: Marja Etel?m?ki, Department of Finnish, P.O. Box 4, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Seppo Kittil?, Department of General Linguistics, H?meenkatu 2 A 8, FIN-20014 University of Turku, Leena Kolehmainen, Department of German, P.O. Box 24, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Matti Miestamo, Department of General Linguistics, P.O. Box 9, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Jussi Ylikoski, Finno-Ugrian Languages, Fennicum, FIN-20014 University of Turku, From sevigny at MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA Wed Feb 19 23:02:32 2003 From: sevigny at MCMAIL.CIS.MCMASTER.CA (Alexandre Sevigny) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:02:32 -0500 Subject: Job: Chair in Communication Studies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > Please excuse multiple postings of this job ad. We are trying to reach as > many candidates interested in Communication Studies as possible. > > McMaster University invites applications for the Global Television Network > Chair In Communications to be located in the Faculty of Humanities. > > The Faculty of Humanities comprises seven core academic units, with 125 > full-time faculty members in a School of the Arts (Art, Art History, > Theatre and Film, Multimedia and Music), and Departments of Classics, > English, French, History, Modern Languages and Linguistics, and Philosophy > and Programmes in Communication Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies > (Comparative Literature, Peace Studies, and Women's Studies). The Faculty > is a leader in the application of computing to the humanities. For more > information on either the Faculty or the Programme, please consult either > www.humanities.mcmaster.ca or www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~cmst/. > > The successful candidate will have outstanding credentials in the field of > Communication Studies and will bring research and teaching experience both > to the Chair and to the associated new, interdisciplinary and dynamic B.A. > Honours and Combined Honours programmes in Communication Studies. > > The successful candidate will be recognised nationally and internationally > as an expert within one of the areas of Communication Studies. The > candidate will have extensive knowledge of, and experience with, the major > modes of communication through various media as well as with critical and > theoretical approaches to Communication Studies. Candidates specialising > in any one or more of the four components of McMaster's Communication > Studies Programme (Language & Discourse, Mass Communication, Performance > Studies and Cultural Studies) are encouraged to apply. Preference may be > given to candidates with special interest in the area of mass media, new > media, journalism, or radio/ television. The successful candidate will be > appointed at the rank of Full or Associate Professor to a Department > within the Faculty of Humanities with a cross-appointment to the Programme > in Communication Studies. He/she will work with the Programme Director and > be prepared to take his/her turn in the Programme's administration, > including a term as Director. > > Complementing the communications focus within the Faculty, the Chair will > pursue leading edge research into the nature, function or evolution of > communication. The Faculty has committed significant resources to the use > of multimedia and audio-visual resources in teaching and research > including the recent establishment of the Lyons Instructional Media > Centre. It is hoped that the successful candidate will strengthen the > strategic commitment to applied information technology and new media. > Drawing upon existing resources within the Faculty of Humanities and the > wider university (including the Faculty of Social Sciences, where related > work is being done in the departments of Sociology and Political Science), > the Global Television Network Chair in Communications will provide core > leadership in communication teaching and research at McMaster, possibly > leading towards the establishment of a graduate programme in that field. > > Applicants should send a letter of application, with a curriculum vitae > and a sample of peer-reviewed work, to: > Dr. Magda Stroinska, Director > Communication Studies Programme > Faculty of Humanities > McMaster University > TSH-512, 1280 Main Street West > Hamilton, ON L8S 4M2 > Canada > cmstdir at mcmaster.ca > > Applications must be received by Tuesday 28 March 2003 and applicants > should arrange for three letters of reference to be received by the same > date. > > All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and > Permanent Residents will be given priority. McMaster University is > strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to > recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages > applications from all qualified candidates, including women, members of > visible minorities, Aboriginal persons, members of sexual minorities and > persons with disabilities. > > > ***************************************************** > Alexandre Sevigny > Communication Studies and French > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario > ***************************************************** > > From vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU Fri Feb 21 23:15:32 2003 From: vanvalin at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU (vanvalin) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:15:32 -0500 Subject: 2003 Intl. Role and Reference Grammar Conf: Second announcement Message-ID: Second Announcement The 2003 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar: Exploring the interfaces among meaning, function and morphosyntactic form S?o Paulo State University at S?o Jos? do Rio Preto, Brazil 14-20th July 2003 Organization The organizing committee for RRG2003 consists of Robert Van Valin (University at Buffalo), Dan Everett (University of Manchester), Roberto Gomes Camacho (S?o Paulo State University), Marize M. Dall'Aglio Hattnher. (S?o Paulo State University), Ricardo Mairal (UNED, Madrid) and Toshio Ohori (Tokyo University). Event Programme A four-day international course will be followed by a three-day international conference. The course will include lecture sessions at three levels: introductory, post-graduate and specialized. Introductory sessions will present the basics of the main topic of the day; post-graduate sessions will provide a detailed account of functional models, including RRG and Functional Grammar; and specialized sessions will deal with advanced topics in RRG. The conference will stage papers, workshops and plenary sessions. There will also be a workshop on Amazonian languages headed by Daniel Everett on July 18-20 as part of the conference. The title is 'Autochthonous languages in Brazil and syntactic theory: functional and formal considerations'. Contact Daniel Everett (Dan.Everett at man.ac.uk) for more details. Teaching and Discussion Topics RRG2003 will deal with issues in linguistic theory related to the theory of RRG as presented in Van Valin and LaPolla 1997: Syntax: structure, meaning & function, Cambridge University Press. Special attention will be paid to the further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology, information structure, and lexical semantics. Parallel Session on FG During the conference, there will be a parallel session on FG. Papers should be devoted to the elaboration of the theory of FG as set out in Dik 1997: The Theory of Functional Grammar. 2 Vols. Edited by Kees Hengeveld. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Workshops may bear on points of convergence and divergence between the two functional models. Invited Speakers Speakers invited to the course and conference include Anna Siewierska (Lancaster University), Balthasar Bickel (University of Leipzig), Dan Everett (University of Manchester), Robert Van Valin (University at Buffalo). Abstracts The deadline for the submission of abstracts of papers and workshops is March 31, 2003. Abstracts should be no longer than three hundred words, including references. The language of the conference will be English. Papers will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes of discussion. Workshops will last forty-five minutes, followed by another fifteen minutes of discussion. The selection of papers for presentation will be communicated by April 30, 2003. Conference/Course Fee: Registration fee is US$50.00 for the course and $50.00 for the conference. Non-Brazilian participants will pay the registration fee in the first day of the event. For Brazilian participants, the registration fee is R$50,00 for the course and R$50,00 for the conference, before April 30, 2003. After April 30, an additional R$10,00 will be charged: R$60,00 for the course and R$60,00 for the conference. The difference of fees is due to a partial grant by the Government for all Brazilian participants. The fee will include conference facilities and materials, as well as coffee, refreshments and snacks. Further information UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista) is one of the three public universities in the State of Sao Paulo. It is a multi campus university spread all over the State of Sao Paulo. Sao Jose do Rio Preto is a 350,000 inhabitant city, located 450km from the city of Sao Paulo. International flights from all over the world arrive at Guarulhos International Airport in Sao Paulo and passengers usually take another 45 minute flight to Sao Jose do Rio Preto. It is also possible to take a bus (4 and a half hour trip). Although July and even August are winter months in Brazil, average temperatures easily reach the 80s at noon. Nights are nicely cool. We are far from the seashore, but tours to Rio de Janeiro and Bahia can be easily (and cheaply) arranged for either before or after the RRG Conference. HOTELS Discover Tours (discover at riopreto.com.br) is the Official Congress Agency, responsible for hotel reservation, national and international flights, as well as suggestion and selling of tourism programs in Brazil for Congress members. Below we present accommodation options suggested by the Congress Organization, with special prices. Other options will be offered in the web page of the RRG2003. Reservation should be done through Discover Tours. Plaza Inn Nacional: Standard: single (R$42.00), double (R$55.00) De Luxe: single (R$66.00), double (R$72.00) Suite: double (R$120,00) (US$1 = approx. R$3.60) WEB PAGE A web page is under construction at the moment. Further information on RRG2003, including a detailed programme, accommodation information, payment, social events, etc., will be enclosed in subsequent announcements. Anyone interested in receiving further information should send a message to the e-mail address for RRG2003: RRG2003 at ibilce.unesp.br Pre-registration A pre-registration form is enclosed. Please, send it by e-mail if you intend to participate in the course, the conference or both. Pre-registration form Last name: First name: Title: University: Department: Address: E-mail address: Do you intend to attend the course? Do you intend to participate in the conference? Do you intend to present a paper? Do you intend to present a workshop? *************** Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Tel 716 645-2177, ext. 713 Professor & Chair Fax 716 645-3825 Department of Linguistics 609 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo The State University of New York Buffalo, NY 14260-1030 USA VANVALIN at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/vanvalin/vanvalin.html From ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU Mon Feb 24 23:48:17 2003 From: ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Paul Hopper) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:48:17 -0500 Subject: Summer Fellowship Opportunity Message-ID: Dear Funknet Colleagues, Could you please direct the attention of Ph.D. students and junior faculty to the following opportunity. It is a funded two-summer program on "The Concept of Language in the Academic Disciplines" for Ph.D. students and recent Ph.D.s., directed by Talbot Taylor and John Joseph. Awardees attend two two-week seminars, the first in the US in 2003, the second at a location in Europe in 2004. Awardees are given all expenses plus $600 stipends for each of the two summers. Linguistics is among the fields from which applications are especially invited. Details on how and where to apply are contained in the body of the announcement. - Paul Hopper --------------------------- Paul J. Hopper Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities College of Humanities and Social Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Telephone (412) 268-7174 Fax (412) 268-7989 --------------------------- Fellowships for the European-American Young Scholars' Summer Institute on "The Concept of Language in the Academic Disciplines" 2003-2004 Dates: August 3-16, 2003, at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; August 3-13, 2004, European location to be announced Conveners: John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) and Talbot J. Taylor (Williamsburg) The program will cover the cost of travel, meals, lodging, and texts for both the U.S. and European meetings. Participants will receive a stipend of $600 per summer. Application deadline: April 15, 2003 Full details and application are available at the following websites: http://www.wiko-berlin.de/kolleg/projekte/eayssi/ausschreibsecrel/?hpl=2 http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/yssi/index.htm The European-American Young Scholars' Summer Institutes are sponsored by - the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, - the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, - the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, - the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, - the Social Science Research Council, New York, - the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Uppsala, and - the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany. This program is made possible by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The European and-American Young Scholars' Summer Institutes are open to Ph.D. candidates and scholars who havereceived a Ph.D. since 1997. They are designed to support the development of scholarly networks and collaborative projects among young scholars from academic institutions in the United States and Europe. Led by distinguished senior scholars, each institute will accommodate twenty participants and will be built around two summer seminars, one held in the United States and another in Europe in consecutive years. Participants will present their research and collaborate on new projects at the seminars and between the two meetings. The program seeks to explore theoretical, methodological and empirical issues; promote the integration of approaches and interpretations from various disciplines into the participants' research; review the state of research in an institute's field; and identify promising areas for further research. The Institute on "The Concept of Language in the Academic Disciplines" This institute will approach the concept of language in the academic disciplines from both an historical and a contemporary point of view. In the first summer, it will investigate the origins and historical development of concepts of language in Western thought and in certain non-Western modes of thought. It will also examine how concepts of language and other closely related concepts such as those of knowledge, society, and nation have shaped the theoretical and methodological assumptions and practices that underlie a range of disciplines spanning humanistic and scientific inquiry. Participants will consider language from a variety of perspectives, including: ? its integration with and influence on educational practices, its transformation by the development of printing and the practices of print culture, ? its integration with and influence on the development of the new sciences in the European Renaissance, ? its integration with and influence on the development of the European nation-states beginning in the modern period, and ? its co-opting by the emerging discipline of linguistics and the repercussions of this development for the discourses of academic disciplinarity from the 19th to the 21st century. In the second summer the institute will focus on the current discourse of the academic disciplines represented by the institute participants and the concepts of language that underlie those fields of study. The agenda for the second summer will be set by the research questions established in the first summer and pursued by the participants throughout the intervening year. The institute's second meeting will have as its specific aim the completion of a publishable study by each participant. The precise set of disciplines addressed in the second summer will depend in part on which applicants are selected. Since every academic discipline rests fundamentally on one or more concepts of language, the institute will not restrict the possible list. The program hopes to receive applications from people working in at least the following areas: Anthropology, Biological Sciences, History, Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Theory, Medicine, Philosophy (including Aesthetics), the Physical Sciences, Psychology & Cognitive Science, Rhetoric, Law, Sociology, Translation. The institute will (1) identify and discuss the key theoretical, methodological and empirical issues; (2) integrate approaches and interpretations from various disciplines; (3) review the state of the research field; (4) produce papers for publication; and (5) identify promising areas for further research. Faculty: John E. Joseph, Professor of Applied Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh Talbot J. Taylor, L.G.T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics, College of William & Mary Application Procedure Applications are invited from Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s (degree received after May 1997) studying or teaching in the United States or in Europe whose research relates to the topics of the institutes. Candidates should note that in the case of both institutes they are applying for two summer workshops: one at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, NC, and another in Europe. Successful applicants will be expected to attend both workshops of their institute. The working language of the institutes is English. To apply, send the following, in English, to the appropriate address below: 1. A completed application (forms available online) 2. A curriculum vitae 3. A statement of up to 1,000 words (not counting cited references) detailing current research interests and past research and writing related to the institute topic 4. A list of not more than five background readings potentially relevant to all participants of the summer institute 5. One letter of recommendation Applications should be received by April 15, 2003. Contacts: EUROPEAN CANDIDATES SHOULD ADDRESS QUERIES AND APPLICATIONS TO:European-American Young Scholars' Summer Institutes c/o Mr. Michael Becker, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wallotstrasse 19D-14193Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49 30 / 89001 - 267Fax: +49 30 / 89001 - 200 E-mail: becker at wiko-berlin.de U.S. CANDIDATES SHOULD ADDRESS QUERIES AND APPLICATIONS TO: European-American Young Scholars' Summer Institutes, c/o Richard R. Schramm, Vice President for Education Programs, National Humanities Center, P.O. Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2256 USA Tel.: 919-549-0661, Fax: 919-990-8535 E-mail: rschramm at ga.unc.edu From matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI Thu Feb 27 15:02:39 2003 From: matmies at LING.HELSINKI.FI (Matti Miestamo) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:02:39 +0200 Subject: 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics Message-ID: Preliminary announcement 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 should be submitted no later than August 31, 2003, and they will be reviewed anonymously. Notification of acceptance will be announced by September 30, 2003. Proposals for workshops should be submitted no later than May 31, 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. SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND 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 www.ling.helsinki.fi/kielitiede/20scl.html ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Fred Karlsson, Chair Antti Arppe Pia Brandt Orvokki Hein?m?ki Matti Miestamo Urho M??tt? Kari Pitk?nen