From hstahlke at bsu.edu Mon Nov 3 17:46:15 2003 From: hstahlke at bsu.edu (Stahlke, Herbert F.W.) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:46:15 -0500 Subject: "which" as object of an infinitival relative clause Message-ID: There's been some discussion of infinitival relatives on the Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar list, an offshoot of NCTE. The question that has arisen is whether infinitival relatives can have "which" as a direct object, as in 1. ?*I bought a new Jeep which to drive. which I find pretty awful. It works fine if "which" is the object of a preposition 2. I bought a new Jeep with which to drive to Alaska. But with a stranded preposition, 2 goes sour. 2a. *I bought a new Jeep which to drive to Alaska with. I can get something pretty awkward like 3. I bought that new Jeep, which to drive has turned out to be expensive. but that's as a non-restrictive. With "that" I can get, using a resumptive pronoun, 4. I bought a new Jeep that to drive it is turning out to be expensive. But I can't get "that" in 5. *I bought a new Jeep that to drive to Alaska with. although 6 is fine. 6. I bought a new Jeep to drive to Alaska with. The difference in between 4 and 5 is probably that 4 contains a finite clause and 5 doesn't, hence the dropping of "that". is fine. "Which" works best as the object of a preposition (2). 3 and 4 are pretty bad, (5) is out, but 6 is fine. I've checked Quirk and Biber on this without much success, and one of my GAs is currently using my Huddleston&Pullum, so I don't know what they have to offer on it. Is "that" disallowed because the clause is non-finite? Why would "which" be okay then, since it too has a subordinating conjunction role in relatives? Why no prep-stranding with "which"? Herb Stahlke From swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu Thu Nov 6 18:57:16 2003 From: swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu (Sheri Wells Jensen) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:57:16 -0500 Subject: Ranking of Languages by learning difficulty? Message-ID: Hello, Funknetters, I'm hoping one of you can help me: I remember once seeing a list of frequently-taught languages ordered by the amount of time it took an English speaking student to learn them (or at least reach a certain specified level). The list went from Kiswahili and Spanish on the 'easy' end to Arabic and Japanese on the 'hard' end. I also recall hearing mention of class one/two/three/four languages which may or may not refer to the same ordering. Can anyone help me track this down? Thanks in Advance, Sheri Wells-Jensen * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen Bowling Green State University MA TESL Program http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/tesl/ Office: 423 East Hall (419) 372-8935 Homepage: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From dryer at buffalo.edu Mon Nov 10 18:16:57 2003 From: dryer at buffalo.edu (Matthew Dryer) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:16:57 -0500 Subject: grammaticalization of 'say' as complementizer Message-ID: Last winter I put a query on Funknet regarding the grammaticalization of verbs meaning 'say' as complementizers. Below, very belatedly, is a summary of sources I was referred to, for those who are interested. My thanks to all those who responded to my query. Matthew Dryer Botne, Robert D. 1998. "Evolution of future tenses from serial 'SAY' constructions in central eastern Bantu." Diachronica 15 (2). 207-30. Buck, Carl D. 1915. Words of speaking and saying in the Indo-European languages: First Paper. American Journal of Philology 36:1-18 ----------------. 1915. Words of Speaking and Saying in the Indo-European languages: Second Paper. American Journal of Philology 36:2:125-154 Coulmas, Florian. Ed. 1986. Direct and Indirect Speech.Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton, 1986. Guy Deutscher. 2000. Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Ebert, Karen H., 1991. "Vom Verbum dicendi zur Konjunktion. Ein Kapitel universaler Grammatikentwicklung". In: P. Rinderknecht & W. Bisang (Hrsg.), Von Europa bis Ozeanien - von der Antonymie zum Relativsatz. Gedenkschrift für Meinrad Scheller. Zürich: Seminar für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. 77-95.  Fournier, Henri. 1946. Les Verbes "DIRE" en Grec Ancien. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck. Frajzyngier, Zygmunt. 1996. Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence: A case study in Chadic. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. Complementary Series to the Study in Language. ---------------------------. 1995a . Two complementizers of Lele. Studia Chadica et Hamitosemitica, Akten des Internationalen Symposions zur Tschadsprachenforschung, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, 6.-8. Mai 1991, Ed. by Dymitr Ibriszimow and Rudolf Leger, with Gerald Schmitt. Cologne: Rüdiger Koeppe. 163-170. ---------------------------. 1991b The de dicto domain in language. Approaches to Grammaticalization. Ed. by Elizabeth C. Traugott and Bernd Heine. Volume I Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. 219-251. François, Alexandre. 2002 Araki : A disappearing language of Vanuatu. Pacific Linguistics, 522. Canberra: Australian National University. Givón, Talmy (1982). Evidentiality and epistemic space. Studies in Language 6:23-49. Givón, Talmy, and Alexandre Kimenyi (1974). Truth, Belief and Doubt in Kinyarwanda. Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 5, 95-113. Gouffé, Claude. 1970. Sur les emplois grammaticalisés du verbe 'dire' en haoussa. Comptes rendus du Groupe Linguistique d'Etudes Chamito-Sémitiques, 15, pp 77- 90. Güldemann, Tom. 2002. When "say" is not say: the functional universatility of the Bantu quotative marker ti with special reference to Shona. In: Reported discourse: a meeting ground for different linguistic domains (Typological studies in language, vol 52), pp 253-288. Edited by Tom Güldemann & Manfred von Roncador. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. Harris, Alice C. and Campbell, Lyle. 1995. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Heine, Bernd; Güldemann, Tom; Kilian-Hatz, Christa; Lessau, Donald A.; Roberg, Heinz; Schladt, Mathias; Stolz, Thomas. 1993. Conceptual shift: a lexicon of grammaticalization processes in African languages. In Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, special issue, vol 34/35. University of Cologne. pp 322-. Klamer, M. 2000. How report verbs become quote markers and complementisers. Lingua 110. pp 69-98. Lord, Carol. 1993. Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Miller, Catherine. 2001. Grammaticalisation du verbe dire et subordination en Juba Arabic. In Leçons d'Afrique filiation, rupture et reconstitution des langues: un jommage à G. Manessy (Afrique et langage), pp 455-482. Louvain: Editions Peeters. Miller, Cynthia L. 1996. The representation of speech in biblical Hebrew narrative : a linguistic analysis. Harvard Semitic Museum publications. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press. Noonan, Michael. ms. ?Direct speech as a rhetorical style in Chantyal.? http://www.uwm.edu/People/noonan/Papers.html. Lynch, John, Ross, Malcolm and Crowley, Terry. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond: Curzon Press. Serzisko, Fritz. 1987. The verb 'to say' in Ik (Kuliak). Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, 11, pp 67-92. Su, Lily I-wen. 2002. I say what I mean: Between speech and thought. Papers presented at the 3rd symposium on Chinese lexical semantics. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. From jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu Thu Nov 13 23:12:56 2003 From: jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu (Jeanie Castillo) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:12:56 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers - Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 30 - May 2, 2004 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its seventh annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive linguistic studies of indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single and one co-authored paper. Abstracts should be 500 words or less and can be submitted by hard copy or email. For hard copy submissions, please send five copies of your abstract and a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email submissions are encouraged. Include the information from the 3x5 card (above) in the body of the email message with the abstract as an attachment. Please limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft Word document. Send email submissions to: wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance will be by email by February 15, 2004. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Ynez mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also choose to fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles which is approximately 90 miles south of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on the web. For further information contact the conference coordinator at wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776 or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ -- Jeanie Castillo jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu From haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Fri Nov 14 12:32:49 2003 From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:32:49 +0100 Subject: call for papers: Syntax of the World's Languages Message-ID: Call for Abstracts: SYNTAX OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES (SWL 1) Leipzig (Germany), 5-8 August 2004 Invited speakers: Peter Austin (SOAS London) Maria Polinsky (UC San Diego) Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara) This conference will bring together researchers working on the syntactic structure of less widely studied languages from a variety of perspectives. Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. All major theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, as is work done in analytical frameworks developed in typology or field linguistics. Papers that adopt a diachronic/historical-comparative perspective or that discuss language-contact effects are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role. Authors should not presuppose detailed knowledge of their theoretical framework,and the papers should focus on widely relevant theoretical issues, minimizing theory-internal argumentation. We recognize that questions raised by theoretical frameworks often lead to the discovery of interesting phenomena in lesser studied languages. However, the goal of applying a theoretical framework should be seen as subsidiary to the main purpose of the conference, that of enlarging our knowledge and understanding of the syntactic phenomena of the world's languages. Local organizers: Balthasar Bickel (University of Leipzig, bickel at uni-leipzig.de) Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) Further members of the Abstract-reading Committee: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (La Trobe U, Melbourne) Bernard Comrie (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser U, Vancouver) Stéphane Robert (LLACAN, Paris) Jane Simpson (University of Sydney) Send your one-page abstract to Martin Haspelmath at the address below, either as a PDF-file by e-mail or as a hard copy, to arrive no later than December 15th, 2003. A second page may be attached to the abstract listing data. The abstract itself should contain no identification of the author. A separate sheet or the cover e-mail should contain the title of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one mailing address, with telephone, fax, and email address as available: Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Fax +49-341-3550 333 The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 40 minutes. Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. English is the preferred language at the conference. The local organizers will, by January 31, 2004, convey their decision on acceptance of papers to those submitting abstracts. From sally.rice at ualberta.ca Mon Nov 17 01:43:02 2003 From: sally.rice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:43:02 -0800 Subject: CSDL-2004 Call for Papers Message-ID: **apologies for multiple postings** First Call for Papers CSDL-2004 7th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA 8-10 October 2004 (Friday-Sunday) http://www.ualberta.ca/csdl2004/ Now in its 10th year as an international conference, CSDL features papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition. Conference Theme: CSDL-2004 has been organized around the theme of empirical and experimental methods in CSDL-related research. Invited Speakers: Larry Barsalou (Psychology, Emory University) Russ Tomlin (Linguistics, University of Oregon) Nick Evans (Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne There will be 50 general session papers in two parallel sessions as well as 30 poster presentations in two poster sessions, for a total of 83 presentations. Information for Authors: Please submit 500-word (maximum) abstracts for 25-minute papers or poster presentations to csdl2004 at ualberta.ca by 1 May 2004. Only electronic submissions will be accepted (please use PDF format if you must preserve fonts or other images, otherwise Word is the preferred attachment format). The abstracts in your electronic attachments should include title only as they will be blind-reviewed. Please include your name, affiliation, title of the paper, and contact information including address, phone/fax, and email in the body of your email message. 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SATELLITE EVENTS There will be an opportunity to organize workshops, seminars and other satellite events on themes related to that of the conference. Prospective organizers should contact joerg.zinken at port.ac.uk From P.C.Hengeveld at uva.nl Wed Nov 26 17:35:12 2003 From: P.C.Hengeveld at uva.nl (Hengeveld, P.C.) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:35:12 +0100 Subject: MA Programmes in Linguistics University of Amsterdam Message-ID: > The University of Amsterdam offers a two-year Research MA in Linguistics and a one-year MA in General Linguistics. Both programmes are taught in English or, in the case of language-specific courses, in the target language. 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The programme lasts one year. > > Further information about the MA programmes may be found at http://www.hum.uva.nl/graduateschool or requested from mailto:graduateschool at hum.uva.nl. > From g.redeker at let.rug.nl Sun Nov 30 22:43:06 2003 From: g.redeker at let.rug.nl (Gisela Redeker) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:43:06 +0100 Subject: Associate Professor Position in Communication Studies at U Groningen Message-ID: The Department of Communication and Information Sciences and the research group on Discourse and Communication at the Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, invite applications for an associate professor position (in Dutch: UHD). We are looking for an experienced teacher with an outstanding research record, whose expertise lies in a linguistic approach to communication that can be applied to organizational communication, media and computer communication and/or intercultural communication. For details see http://213.159.10.120/rug/Vacatures. Deadline for applications: January 7, 2004 (electronic application possible). Links: - University of Groningen (English pages): http://www.rug.nl/corporate/?lang=en - Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG): http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/clcg/ - Faculty of Arts: http://www.rug.nl/let/ The English version of this site is under construction; if you don't read Dutch, please contact me for information on the BA and MA programs in Communication and Information Sciences (Dutch 'CIW'). | Gisela Redeker, Professor of Communication | Department of Communication and Information Sciences | University of Groningen | P.O. Box 716, NL-9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands | g.redeker at let.rug.nl tel: +31-50-3635973 fax: +31-50-3636855 | http://www.let.rug.nl/~redeker From hstahlke at bsu.edu Mon Nov 3 17:46:15 2003 From: hstahlke at bsu.edu (Stahlke, Herbert F.W.) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 12:46:15 -0500 Subject: "which" as object of an infinitival relative clause Message-ID: There's been some discussion of infinitival relatives on the Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar list, an offshoot of NCTE. The question that has arisen is whether infinitival relatives can have "which" as a direct object, as in 1. ?*I bought a new Jeep which to drive. which I find pretty awful. It works fine if "which" is the object of a preposition 2. I bought a new Jeep with which to drive to Alaska. But with a stranded preposition, 2 goes sour. 2a. *I bought a new Jeep which to drive to Alaska with. I can get something pretty awkward like 3. I bought that new Jeep, which to drive has turned out to be expensive. but that's as a non-restrictive. With "that" I can get, using a resumptive pronoun, 4. I bought a new Jeep that to drive it is turning out to be expensive. But I can't get "that" in 5. *I bought a new Jeep that to drive to Alaska with. although 6 is fine. 6. I bought a new Jeep to drive to Alaska with. The difference in between 4 and 5 is probably that 4 contains a finite clause and 5 doesn't, hence the dropping of "that". is fine. "Which" works best as the object of a preposition (2). 3 and 4 are pretty bad, (5) is out, but 6 is fine. I've checked Quirk and Biber on this without much success, and one of my GAs is currently using my Huddleston&Pullum, so I don't know what they have to offer on it. Is "that" disallowed because the clause is non-finite? Why would "which" be okay then, since it too has a subordinating conjunction role in relatives? Why no prep-stranding with "which"? Herb Stahlke From swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu Thu Nov 6 18:57:16 2003 From: swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu (Sheri Wells Jensen) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:57:16 -0500 Subject: Ranking of Languages by learning difficulty? Message-ID: Hello, Funknetters, I'm hoping one of you can help me: I remember once seeing a list of frequently-taught languages ordered by the amount of time it took an English speaking student to learn them (or at least reach a certain specified level). The list went from Kiswahili and Spanish on the 'easy' end to Arabic and Japanese on the 'hard' end. I also recall hearing mention of class one/two/three/four languages which may or may not refer to the same ordering. Can anyone help me track this down? Thanks in Advance, Sheri Wells-Jensen * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dr. Sheri Wells-Jensen Bowling Green State University MA TESL Program http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/tesl/ Office: 423 East Hall (419) 372-8935 Homepage: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~swellsj/ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From dryer at buffalo.edu Mon Nov 10 18:16:57 2003 From: dryer at buffalo.edu (Matthew Dryer) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:16:57 -0500 Subject: grammaticalization of 'say' as complementizer Message-ID: Last winter I put a query on Funknet regarding the grammaticalization of verbs meaning 'say' as complementizers. Below, very belatedly, is a summary of sources I was referred to, for those who are interested. My thanks to all those who responded to my query. Matthew Dryer Botne, Robert D. 1998. "Evolution of future tenses from serial 'SAY' constructions in central eastern Bantu." Diachronica 15 (2). 207-30. Buck, Carl D. 1915. Words of speaking and saying in the Indo-European languages: First Paper. American Journal of Philology 36:1-18 ----------------. 1915. Words of Speaking and Saying in the Indo-European languages: Second Paper. American Journal of Philology 36:2:125-154 Coulmas, Florian. Ed. 1986. Direct and Indirect Speech.Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton, 1986. Guy Deutscher. 2000. Syntactic Change in Akkadian: The Evolution of Sentential Complementation. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Ebert, Karen H., 1991. "Vom Verbum dicendi zur Konjunktion. Ein Kapitel universaler Grammatikentwicklung". In: P. Rinderknecht & W. Bisang (Hrsg.), Von Europa bis Ozeanien - von der Antonymie zum Relativsatz. Gedenkschrift f?r Meinrad Scheller. Z?rich: Seminar f?r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. 77-95.? Fournier, Henri. 1946. Les Verbes "DIRE" en Grec Ancien. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck. Frajzyngier, Zygmunt. 1996. Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence: A case study in Chadic. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. Complementary Series to the Study in Language. ---------------------------. 1995a . Two complementizers of Lele. Studia Chadica et Hamitosemitica, Akten des Internationalen Symposions zur Tschadsprachenforschung, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, 6.-8. Mai 1991, Ed. by Dymitr Ibriszimow and Rudolf Leger, with Gerald Schmitt. Cologne: R?diger Koeppe. 163-170. ---------------------------. 1991b The de dicto domain in language. Approaches to Grammaticalization. Ed. by Elizabeth C. Traugott and Bernd Heine. Volume I Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins. 219-251. Fran?ois, Alexandre. 2002 Araki : A disappearing language of Vanuatu. Pacific Linguistics, 522. Canberra: Australian National University. Giv?n, Talmy (1982). Evidentiality and epistemic space. Studies in Language 6:23-49. Giv?n, Talmy, and Alexandre Kimenyi (1974). Truth, Belief and Doubt in Kinyarwanda. Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 5, 95-113. Gouff?, Claude. 1970. Sur les emplois grammaticalis?s du verbe 'dire' en haoussa. Comptes rendus du Groupe Linguistique d'Etudes Chamito-S?mitiques, 15, pp 77- 90. G?ldemann, Tom. 2002. When "say" is not say: the functional universatility of the Bantu quotative marker ti with special reference to Shona. In: Reported discourse: a meeting ground for different linguistic domains (Typological studies in language, vol 52), pp 253-288. Edited by Tom G?ldemann & Manfred von Roncador. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co. Harris, Alice C. and Campbell, Lyle. 1995. Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Heine, Bernd; G?ldemann, Tom; Kilian-Hatz, Christa; Lessau, Donald A.; Roberg, Heinz; Schladt, Mathias; Stolz, Thomas. 1993. Conceptual shift: a lexicon of grammaticalization processes in African languages. In Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, special issue, vol 34/35. University of Cologne. pp 322-. Klamer, M. 2000. How report verbs become quote markers and complementisers. Lingua 110. pp 69-98. Lord, Carol. 1993. Historical Change in Serial Verb Constructions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Miller, Catherine. 2001. Grammaticalisation du verbe dire et subordination en Juba Arabic. In Le?ons d'Afrique filiation, rupture et reconstitution des langues: un jommage ? G. Manessy (Afrique et langage), pp 455-482. Louvain: Editions Peeters. Miller, Cynthia L. 1996. The representation of speech in biblical Hebrew narrative : a linguistic analysis. Harvard Semitic Museum publications. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press. Noonan, Michael. ms. ?Direct speech as a rhetorical style in Chantyal.? http://www.uwm.edu/People/noonan/Papers.html. Lynch, John, Ross, Malcolm and Crowley, Terry. 2002. The Oceanic languages. Richmond: Curzon Press. Serzisko, Fritz. 1987. The verb 'to say' in Ik (Kuliak). Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, 11, pp 67-92. Su, Lily I-wen. 2002. I say what I mean: Between speech and thought. Papers presented at the 3rd symposium on Chinese lexical semantics. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. From jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu Thu Nov 13 23:12:56 2003 From: jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu (Jeanie Castillo) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:12:56 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers - Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 30 - May 2, 2004 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its seventh annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive linguistic studies of indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single and one co-authored paper. Abstracts should be 500 words or less and can be submitted by hard copy or email. For hard copy submissions, please send five copies of your abstract and a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email submissions are encouraged. Include the information from the 3x5 card (above) in the body of the email message with the abstract as an attachment. Please limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft Word document. Send email submissions to: wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2004 Notification of acceptance will be by email by February 15, 2004. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Ynez mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also choose to fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles which is approximately 90 miles south of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on the web. For further information contact the conference coordinator at wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776 or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ -- Jeanie Castillo jeaniec at umail.ucsb.edu From haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Fri Nov 14 12:32:49 2003 From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:32:49 +0100 Subject: call for papers: Syntax of the World's Languages Message-ID: Call for Abstracts: SYNTAX OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES (SWL 1) Leipzig (Germany), 5-8 August 2004 Invited speakers: Peter Austin (SOAS London) Maria Polinsky (UC San Diego) Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara) This conference will bring together researchers working on the syntactic structure of less widely studied languages from a variety of perspectives. Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. All major theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, as is work done in analytical frameworks developed in typology or field linguistics. Papers that adopt a diachronic/historical-comparative perspective or that discuss language-contact effects are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role. Authors should not presuppose detailed knowledge of their theoretical framework,and the papers should focus on widely relevant theoretical issues, minimizing theory-internal argumentation. We recognize that questions raised by theoretical frameworks often lead to the discovery of interesting phenomena in lesser studied languages. However, the goal of applying a theoretical framework should be seen as subsidiary to the main purpose of the conference, that of enlarging our knowledge and understanding of the syntactic phenomena of the world's languages. Local organizers: Balthasar Bickel (University of Leipzig, bickel at uni-leipzig.de) Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) Further members of the Abstract-reading Committee: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (La Trobe U, Melbourne) Bernard Comrie (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser U, Vancouver) St?phane Robert (LLACAN, Paris) Jane Simpson (University of Sydney) Send your one-page abstract to Martin Haspelmath at the address below, either as a PDF-file by e-mail or as a hard copy, to arrive no later than December 15th, 2003. A second page may be attached to the abstract listing data. The abstract itself should contain no identification of the author. A separate sheet or the cover e-mail should contain the title of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one mailing address, with telephone, fax, and email address as available: Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Fax +49-341-3550 333 The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 40 minutes. Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. English is the preferred language at the conference. The local organizers will, by January 31, 2004, convey their decision on acceptance of papers to those submitting abstracts. From sally.rice at ualberta.ca Mon Nov 17 01:43:02 2003 From: sally.rice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:43:02 -0800 Subject: CSDL-2004 Call for Papers Message-ID: **apologies for multiple postings** First Call for Papers CSDL-2004 7th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA 8-10 October 2004 (Friday-Sunday) http://www.ualberta.ca/csdl2004/ Now in its 10th year as an international conference, CSDL features papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition. Conference Theme: CSDL-2004 has been organized around the theme of empirical and experimental methods in CSDL-related research. Invited Speakers: Larry Barsalou (Psychology, Emory University) Russ Tomlin (Linguistics, University of Oregon) Nick Evans (Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne There will be 50 general session papers in two parallel sessions as well as 30 poster presentations in two poster sessions, for a total of 83 presentations. Information for Authors: Please submit 500-word (maximum) abstracts for 25-minute papers or poster presentations to csdl2004 at ualberta.ca by 1 May 2004. Only electronic submissions will be accepted (please use PDF format if you must preserve fonts or other images, otherwise Word is the preferred attachment format). The abstracts in your electronic attachments should include title only as they will be blind-reviewed. Please include your name, affiliation, title of the paper, and contact information including address, phone/fax, and email in the body of your email message. Successful abstracts will seek to address the theme of the conference (empirical and experimental methods in research on conceptual structure, discourse, and language) and will feature a well-defined research question, clear delineation of the phenomenon of study, precise methodology, sample data, and actual or anticipated results. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by at least three referees. Notification of acceptance will be made by 15 June 2004. We expect that the proceedings of CSDL-2004 will be published by the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Both paper and poster presentations will be eligible for submission. Proceedings of previous CSDL conferences are currently available through CSLI Publications (see http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/CSDL.html for information). Information for Students: A small number of travel subsidies (worth approximately $150 Cdn) are available by application (see website for details) to graduate students residing outside of Alberta. Information about crash space will be available at a later date. Registration: The early registration fee is $70 Cdn (approx. $50 US) for non-students and $10 Cdn for students. An additional $30 fee will help defray costs of the Conference banquet on Saturday night (9 October 2004). After 1 September, the registration fee for non-students will rise to $100 Cdn. Site: CSDL-2004 will be held at the University of Alberta Conference Centre (Lister Hall) at 87th Avenue and 116th Street in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Centre features a limited number of guest rooms. Other travel, hotel, and ground transportation to follow. Contact Information: csdl2004 at ualberta.ca http://www.ualberta.ca/csdl2004/ Department of Linguistics 4-34 Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7 CANADA tel: +780-492-3434 fax: +780-492-0806 Organizers: Sally Rice, Linguistics, University of Alberta, sally.rice at ualberta.ca John Newman, Linguistics, University of Alberta, john.newman at ualberta.ca From matmies at ling.helsinki.fi Fri Nov 21 12:06:24 2003 From: matmies at ling.helsinki.fi (Matti Miestamo) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:06:24 +0200 Subject: 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics Message-ID: [apologies for cross-postings] 20th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics Helsinki, January 7-9, 2004 The conference programme includes plenary lectures by ?sten Dahl (Stockholm), John McWhorter (Berkeley), and Geoffrey Sampson (Sussex), 50 section papers, and five workshops. The scholarly programme, abstracts, and other information are accessible at: . You can register by sending your (1) name, (2) affiliation and (3) contact information to <20scl at ling.helsinki.fi>. The conference fee (20 Euros for students, 50 Euros for others) will be collected on spot upon registration on January 7, 2004. Registration is required for all participants including those of the workshops. Welcome to Helsinki! From bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU Sat Nov 22 00:41:57 2003 From: bls at socrates.Berkeley.EDU (Berkeley Linguistics Society) Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:41:57 -0800 Subject: reminder -- BLS 30, Call for Papers Message-ID: Deadline for receipt of abstracts: December 3, 2003. ------------------------------------------------------ The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its 30th Annual Meeting, to be held February 13-16, 2004. The conference will consist of a General Session, a Parasession and a Special Session. GENERAL SESSION The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and also welcome papers on language-related topics from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Literature, Neuroscience and Psychology. Invited Speakers: Alice Harris, SUNY Stony Brook Bruce Hayes, University of California, Los Angeles Elizabeth Hume, Ohio State University Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado, Boulder & Stanford University PARASESSION: "Conceptual Structure and Cognition in Grammatical Theory" The Parasession invites submissions addressing the following question: to what extent and in what ways can findings from cognitive science and psychology be integrated into formalisms for linguistic analysis? Papers representing all views and approaches are sought. Those that address both experimental data and formal theoretical models are particularly welcomed. Invited Speakers: Melissa Bowerman, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Adele Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Alec Marantz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology SPECIAL SESSION: "Morphology of Native American Languages" The Special Session covers the morphology of native languages of the Americas. Papers in all areas of morphological inquiry, from all approaches, are welcomed. Invited Speakers: Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley Monica Macaulay, University of Wisconsin, Madison Anthony Woodbury, University of Texas, Austin ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Abstracts must be received in our office (not postmarked) by *** 5:00 pm, December 3, 2003 *** An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Abstracts should be as specific as possible, with a statement of topic, approach and conclusions, and may be at most 400 words (not including data and references, which may be placed on the reverse side). 10 copies of an anonymous, one-page (8.5"x11") abstract should be sent, along with a 3"x5" card listing: (1) paper title (2) session (General/Para/Special) (3) name(s) of author(s) (4) affiliation(s) of author(s) (5) address where notification of acceptance should be sent (6) phone number for each author (7) email address for each author (8) subfield (syntax, phonology, etc.) SEND ABSTRACTS TO BLS 30 Abstracts Committee 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 Abstracts may also be submitted via e-mail. Only those abstracts formatted as ASCII text, PDF, or Microsoft Word (Mac version preferred) can be accepted. Electronically submitted abstracts should have the author's name as filename, followed by the appropriate file extension. The text of the message must contain the information requested in (1)-(8) above. We cannot accept faxed abstracts. Send electronic submissions to . PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION Presentations are allotted 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Presented papers are published in the BLS Proceedings. Authors agree to provide camera-ready copy (up to 12 pages) by May 15, 2004. REGISTRATION INFORMATION All attendees, including presenters, must register for the conference. For advance registration, we can accept only checks or money orders drawn on US banks in US dollars, made payable to the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Received in our office by February 1, 2004: Students $20 Non-students $40 On-site, or received after February 1, 2004: Students $25 Non-students $55 SEND ADVANCE REGISTRATION TO BLS 30 Registration 1203 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 BLS will arrange ASL interpretation if requested before Dec. 1, 2003. We may be contacted: Email: bls at socrates.berkeley.edu Phone/Fax: 510-642-5808 Website: www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/ Updates will be posted to our website. The conference schedule will be posted in January. From Henrik.Rosenkvist at nordlund.lu.se Mon Nov 24 13:04:00 2003 From: Henrik.Rosenkvist at nordlund.lu.se (Henrik Rosenkvist) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:04:00 +0100 Subject: unless Message-ID: >Dear Funknetters, > >there seems to be a semantic relation between the meanings 'except' >and 'unless'. OE but, OSw utan and (possibly) Latin nisi convey both >of these meanings. Are there more examples of this meaning >correlation in other languages? > >Henrik R. -- Henrik Rosenkvist Dep. of Scandinavian Languages Helgonabacken 14 223 62 Lund SWEDEN tel: 046-222 87 13 fax: 046-222 42 41 From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Mon Nov 24 16:30:41 2003 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:30:41 +0100 Subject: Second CFP: Language, Culture and Mind Message-ID: *************** Apologies from cross-posting **************** Second call for papers International Conference on LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND Integrating perspectives and methodologies in the study of language 17-20 July 2004 University of Portsmouth, England www.unifr.ch/gefi/GP2/Portsmouth/ THEME Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity of human cultural life. As has long been recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human. The goal of this conference is to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue. Many of the relevant disciplines have made highly significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advances during the last decade. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, cognitive and neurosciences, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences. TOPICS Topics include but are not limited to: ? Biological and cultural co-evolution ? Comparative study of communication systems ? Cognitive and cultural schematization in language ? Emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny ? Language in multi-modal communication ? Language and normativity ? Language and thought, emotion and consciousness COMMITTEES Local Organizing Committee (Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, England) * Mike Fluck * Karl Nunkoosing * Vasu Reddy * Chris Sinha * Vera da Silva * Joerg Zinken International Organizing Committee * Carmen Guarddon Anelo, Departamento de Filologias Extranjeras y sus Lingisticas, Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Spain * Raphael Berthele, Departement f?r Germanistik, Universit? de Fribourg, Switzerland * Maria Crist?bal, Department of English Philology I. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain * Iraide Ibarretxe, Department of English Philology, University of Deusto / Department of Basque Philology, University of the Basque Country, Spain * Jordan Zlatev, Department of Linguistics Lund University / Department of Philosophy and Linguistics, Ume? University; Sweden International Scientific Committee * Enrique Bern?rdez, Department of English Philology I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid * Gisela Bruche-Schultz, Department of English Language and Literature, Free University of Berlin * Seana Coulson, Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD * Vyv Evans, Department of Linguistics and English, University of Sussex * Roslyn Frank, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Iowa * Peter G?rdenfors, Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS) * Dirk Geeraerts, Department of Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven * Tom Giv?n, Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon * Pier Paolo Giglioli, DSC, Universit? di Bologna * Colette Grinevald, PR1, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon2 * Gisela H?kansson, Department of Linguistics, Lund University * Peter Harder, Department of English, University of Copenhagen * Esa Itkonen, Department of Linguistics, Turku University * Sotaro Kita, Department of Psychology, University of Bristol * Sydney Lamb, Department of Linguistics, Rice University * Jean Lassegue, Laboratoire LaTTICe-CNRS, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure * Brian MacWhinney, Department of Psychology, CMU * Rukmini Nair, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi * Gary Palmer, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada * Gunter Senft, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen * Augusto Soares da Silva, Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa * Dan Slobin, Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley * G?ran Sonesson, Department of Semiotics, Lund University * Victor Rosenthal, INSERM, Paris * Yves-Marie Visetti, Laboratoire LaTTICe-CNRS, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure SUBMISSION Abstracts for 30-minute presentations should be submitted by January 15, 2004. Notification of acceptance by March 15, 2004. All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the International Scientific Committee. Each abstract should conform to the following specifications: Length: a single page of A4, single-spaced, font size 12pt or larger, with 2.5cm margins on all sides. Any diagrams must fit on this single page. Head material (at the top of the single A4 page): - Title of the paper, - Author name(s), - Author affiliation(s) in brief (1 line), - Email address of principal author Method: Abstracts should be emailed to jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se as an ATTACHMENT (i.e. not included in the message) preferably as a MS Word document, but in PDF or postscript format if it is necessary to include a diagram or figure. REGISTRATION The homesite of the conference www.unifr.ch/gefi/GP2/Portsmouth/ will shortly be updated to carry registration and accommodation information and instructions. SATELLITE EVENTS There will be an opportunity to organize workshops, seminars and other satellite events on themes related to that of the conference. Prospective organizers should contact joerg.zinken at port.ac.uk From P.C.Hengeveld at uva.nl Wed Nov 26 17:35:12 2003 From: P.C.Hengeveld at uva.nl (Hengeveld, P.C.) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:35:12 +0100 Subject: MA Programmes in Linguistics University of Amsterdam Message-ID: > The University of Amsterdam offers a two-year Research MA in Linguistics and a one-year MA in General Linguistics. Both programmes are taught in English or, in the case of language-specific courses, in the target language. Since the University of Amsterdam is interested in attracting talented students, the tuition rates are competitive. > > The Research MA in Linguistics is directed towards students of proven ability who are interested in conducting research in one of the many areas of linguistics that are studied in the research institutes of the University of Amsterdam. The programmes offer students the opportunity of specializing in a wide range of linguistic subdisciplines studied from various theoretical perspectives. The programme lasts two years for selected students with a relevant BA or equivalent, and one year for selected students with a relevant MA or equivalent. > > The MA in General Linguistics also offers a wide range of specializations, and is aimed at students with a BA in Linguistics or an equivalent programme, involving at least three years of full-time study at university level. The programme lasts one year. > > Further information about the MA programmes may be found at http://www.hum.uva.nl/graduateschool or requested from mailto:graduateschool at hum.uva.nl. > From g.redeker at let.rug.nl Sun Nov 30 22:43:06 2003 From: g.redeker at let.rug.nl (Gisela Redeker) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 23:43:06 +0100 Subject: Associate Professor Position in Communication Studies at U Groningen Message-ID: The Department of Communication and Information Sciences and the research group on Discourse and Communication at the Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, invite applications for an associate professor position (in Dutch: UHD). We are looking for an experienced teacher with an outstanding research record, whose expertise lies in a linguistic approach to communication that can be applied to organizational communication, media and computer communication and/or intercultural communication. For details see http://213.159.10.120/rug/Vacatures. Deadline for applications: January 7, 2004 (electronic application possible). Links: - University of Groningen (English pages): http://www.rug.nl/corporate/?lang=en - Centre for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG): http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/clcg/ - Faculty of Arts: http://www.rug.nl/let/ The English version of this site is under construction; if you don't read Dutch, please contact me for information on the BA and MA programs in Communication and Information Sciences (Dutch 'CIW'). | Gisela Redeker, Professor of Communication | Department of Communication and Information Sciences | University of Groningen | P.O. Box 716, NL-9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands | g.redeker at let.rug.nl tel: +31-50-3635973 fax: +31-50-3636855 | http://www.let.rug.nl/~redeker