From mliu at mail.nctu.edu.tw  Mon Apr  5 05:38:51 2004
From: mliu at mail.nctu.edu.tw (Mei-chun Liu)
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:38:51 +0800
Subject: Position in Linguistics
Message-ID: <MON.5.APR.2004.133851.0800.MLIU@MAIL.NCTU.EDU.TW>

  Tenure Track Position in LINGUISTICS



  Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures &

  Institute of Linguistics and Cultural Studies

  National Chiao Tung university

  Hsinchu, Taiwan



  The Institute of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung
University invite applications for a full-time tenure-track position in
LINGUISTICS at all possible levels, with a starting date of August 1st,
2004.



  We seek applications with a Ph. D degree and strong record of research in
the following areas:

  1)     Computational Linguistics (Speech-related research is preferred);

  2)     Cognitive Linguistics or neurolinguistics;

  3)     Interface between syntax, semantics and prosody.

  Strong consideration will be given to applicants whose research is
corpus-based and can be integrated with the existing strengths of the
Institute.



  Regular duties include graduate and undergraduate teaching, research,
graduate student advising, as well as Institute, Departmental, and College
service assignment as required for university faculty members.



  Applicants should send 1) curriculum vitae, 2) copies of representative
publications, 3) copy of diploma, 4) research summary and teaching
portfolio, 5) Names of three referees by April 20, 2004 to:

  Dr. Meichun Liu, Professor and Chair

  Department of Foreign languages and Literatures &

  Institute of Linguistics and Cultural Studies

  National Chiao Tung University

  1001 Ta Hsueh Rd.

  Hsinchu 300, Taiwan



  E-mail inquiries may be sent to : hclo at mail.nctu.edu.tw

  Tel: 886-3-5731660∼1

  Fax: 886-3-5726037


From ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu  Thu Apr  8 17:27:05 2004
From: ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Hopper)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:27:05 -0400
Subject: CLS 40
Message-ID: <THU.8.APR.2004.132705.0400.PH1U@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>

From: Fey Parrill <feyparr at uchicago.edu>
Date: April 8, 2004 12:17:00 AM CDT
To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu
Subject: CLS 40

Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
15-17 April, 2004
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/

Looking over and the overlooked:
In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Chicago Linguistic
Society, this year's conference will focus both on the progress which the
field of linguistics has made since the first meeting of our society, and
on the need for unification within the field. To that end, the Main Session
will highlight our past as an organization and a discipline, while our
Panel Sessions will address the multifaceted nature of the field, by
focusing on topics that are sometimes underrepresented: typology, practical
applications, alternate frameworks--or, in the case of our absence panel,
things which aren't even there! In addition, our post-conference banquet
will feature readings of classic CLS papers from the past four decades.
Main Session Invited Speakers:
Haj Ross, University of North Texas
Bill Darden, University of Chicago
Joan Bresnan, Stanford University

Panels:
Dispensing with Derivation: Monostratal Theories of Grammar
Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University

Afro-Asiatic: Its Implications for theory
Gene Gragg, University of Chicago

Linguistic Theory and Its Applications
John Goldsmith, University of Chicago

'What we talk about when we talk about nothing':  The experience of absence
in linguistics
Kyle Johnson, U. Mass Amherst & Andrew Barss, U. Arizona

Please visit our website for the program and to register:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/


From torgrim.solstad at hf.uio.no  Thu Apr  8 18:44:11 2004
From: torgrim.solstad at hf.uio.no (Torgrim Solstad)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 20:44:11 +0200
Subject: 2nd CfP: Demoting the Agent: Passive and other Voice-related
 phenomena
Message-ID: <THU.8.APR.2004.204411.0200.TORGRIM.SOLSTAD@HF.UIO.NO>

** Apologies for multiple postings **

Demoting the Agent: Passive and other Voice-related phenomena

2nd Call for Papers

Workshop at the University of Oslo
November 25-27, 2004


Invited Speakers

Elisabet Engdahl, Gothenburg University
Suzanne Kemmer, Rice University
Anneliese Pitz, University of Oslo
Sten Vikner, University of Aarhus

The passive has constituted an important area of research in modern
linguistics since the introduction of transformational grammar. Though
there is little controversy of what constitutes the relevant data,
several quite different perspectives on passive constructions have
been developed.  Whereas formal syntacticians and semanticist have
focused on the contrast in argument structure concerning the
active-passive diathesis, functionalist approaches have mostly dealt
with differences in discourse participant prominence and other
distinctions related to what one might term as information structure.

There has also been an increasing interest in more typologically
diverse data which has lead to research in other voice-related
phenomena such as medium constructions and antipassives. No general
agreement has been reached on the treatment of any of these phenomena,
either.

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers representing
different perspectives on passives and other voice-related
phenomena. Unifying theoretical approaches will be especially
appreciated. Some of the diversity in the research in the field can be
seen as related to, but not limited to the following:

- formal linguistic perspectives
- functional linguistic perspectives
- syntax-semantics: compositionality
- pragmatics: non-explicitness concerning agentivity
- information structure

We want to encourage multi-language perspectives, especially those
contrasting two or more languages. Papers dealing with data from
parallel corpora are welcome.

Partial reimbursement may be possible for those speakers who cannot
attend the workshop otherwise.


Submission Procedure

All authors should submit an anonymous abstract. The length of
abstracts for talks should be at most 2 single-column pages, including
examples and references. All submissions should also include a
separate cover page specifying the author's name, affiliation,
address, and e-mail address and title of the paper.

The abstracts should be submitted electronically in one of the
following formats: Word/RTF, ASCII, Postscript or PDF. They should be
sent to the following e-mail-address:

torgrim.solstad at german.uio.no

All submitted papers that are received in time will be refereed by the
programme committee and may be accepted for full presentation (45 min
+ 15 min for discussion) at the workshop and publication in the
pre-workshop proceedings, or for a poster presentation.


Important Dates

Abstracts due: May 15
Acceptance notice: June 15
Final versions due for proceedings: October 15
Workshop dates: November 25-27


Programme committee

Elisabet Engdahl, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Anneliese Pitz, Torgrim Solstad,
Kjell Johan Saeboe


Organisation

The workshop is organised by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Gothenburg University and
Torgrim Solstad, University of Oslo


Funding: Research project "Languages in contrast"

Torgrim Solstad,
Department of Germanic Studies,
University of Oslo,
PO Box 1004 Blindern,
NO-0315 OSLO,
NORWAY

Tel: +47 22 85 48 89
Fax: +47 22 85 68 87


From mg246 at cornell.edu  Thu Apr  8 17:39:34 2004
From: mg246 at cornell.edu (Monica Gonzalez-Marquez)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:39:34 -0400
Subject: Call for abstracts: EMCL: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and
 Linguistic Relativity
Message-ID: <THU.8.APR.2004.133934.0400.MG246@CORNELL.EDU>

Call for abstracts

EMCL*: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity

July 17, 2004

University of Portsmouth, UK
To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)

In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person speaks.
In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that language
influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two research
areas.

We invite submissions from researchers working in either or both areas,
and are especially interested in experimental approaches to the issues.
Please send a 500 word anonymous abstract as an attachment in text
format to Monica Gonzalez-Marquez at mg246 at cornell.edu

Deadline: May 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2004

Organising Committee:

Stanka Fitneva
Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
Stephanie Pourcel
Jˆrg Zinken

* Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics


From rjfreeman at email.com  Mon Apr 12 06:49:07 2004
From: rjfreeman at email.com (Rob Freeman)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:49:07 +0800
Subject: Call for abstracts: EMCL: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and
 Linguistic Relativity
In-Reply-To: <p0520000bbc9b3ce4602f@[192.168.0.2]>
Message-ID: <MON.12.APR.2004.144907.0800.RJFREEMAN@EMAIL.COM>

Hi Monica,

I won't be submitting any abstracts, but reading your CFP it just occurred to
me to ask _why_ Image-Schemas would need to be "the same for everybody", just
because they arise from "universal aspects of how the human body interacts
with its environment".

The wide variety of different cultures we see in the world, for example, also
arise from similar "universal aspects of how the human body interacts with
its environment", but we accept that different cultures address those
universal problems in different ways. Why couldn't image schemas show as much
variation as cultures, and indeed languages?

-Rob

On Friday 09 April 2004 01:39, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez wrote:
> Call for abstracts
>
> EMCL*: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity
>
> July 17, 2004
>
> University of Portsmouth, UK
> To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)
>
> In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
> structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
> interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
> largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
> are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person speaks.
> In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that language
> influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
> assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
> attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two research
> areas.
>
> We invite submissions from researchers working in either or both areas,
> and are especially interested in experimental approaches to the issues.
> Please send a 500 word anonymous abstract as an attachment in text
> format to Monica Gonzalez-Marquez at mg246 at cornell.edu
>
> Deadline: May 5, 2004
> Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2004
>
> Organising Committee:
>
> Stanka Fitneva
> Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
> Stephanie Pourcel
> Jˆrg Zinken
>
> * Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics


From john at research.haifa.ac.il  Tue Apr 13 09:11:46 2004
From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (John Myhill)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:11:46 +0200
Subject: HELP!
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.111146.0200.JOHN@RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL>

Dear Funknetters,
I have a problem I have never encountered before in teaching. I am teaching
introductory phonetics this semester, and one of my students is blind.
She says there is no Braille system for the phonetics symbols, and it
seems to me that this is likely to be true.
She has no idea of what the symbols look like and I don't even know how
to explain to her. The students normally do a lot of transcription. Do any
of you have any idea of how to deal with this problem? I'm completely
stumped. Thanks very very much for any help you can give.
John Myhill
--


From ocls at madisoncounty.net  Tue Apr 13 12:30:00 2004
From: ocls at madisoncounty.net (Suzette Haden Elgin)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:30:00 -0500
Subject: Help!
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.073000.0500.OCLS@MADISONCOUNTY.NET>

April 13, 2004

Learning aids for blind student when there's no Braille symbol -- no
problem. Get a sheet of sturdy paper and a bottle of white Elmer's Glue (or
any comparable product). Draw the symbol with the glue. Shake sand or salt
over the line of glue. Shazam -- a raised symbol. It takes a while, but
it's easy to do, and it works.

Suzette Haden Elgin
http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin


From reng at ruf.rice.edu  Tue Apr 13 14:14:13 2004
From: reng at ruf.rice.edu (Robert Englebretson)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:14:13 -0500
Subject: Braille IPA (was "HELP!")
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.091413.0500.RENG@RUF.RICE.EDU>

Dear John,

There is in fact a Braille version of the IPA, and a good source (for North
American Braille) where it is comprehensively listed is Rule XIX, Section 45
of "Code of Braille Textbook Formats and Techniques, 1977".  This is the
standard manual for Braille transcription of academic materials into U.S.
Braille, and this section of the manual specifically deals with linguistics
and lists all the IPA symbols that were current at that time.  BANA (the
Braille Authority of North America) is in the process of coming up with a
revision of the Braille IPA system, possibly bringing it more into line with
the British Braille system, but progress on that has been slow.  The
earliest source I know of for Braille IPA is:  "A Braille Notation of the
International Phonetic Alphabet", by W. Percy Merrick and W. Potthoff, Royal
National Institute for the Blind, London, 1932, revised 1945.  But I've
never actually gotten a chance to look at that one.

It is also crucial that the student know what the print IPA symbols look
like, so that she can communicate well with you and/or any readers that she
may be working with.  And there is an excellent Braille source for this too
(someone has already done it--no need to reinvent the wheel and resort to
glue and sand!).  The booklet is entitled "Phonetic-Phonemic Symbols in
Tactile Representation", and it gives a raised-line tactile drawing of each
IPA symbol, the corresponding Braille character(s), and a description of the
symbol (typographic description that is, not articulatory description).  IN
addition to  the IPA, it also illustrates most of the Americanist-based
phonetic symbols too.  This booklet is available from CTEVH (California
Transcribers and Educators of the Visually Handicapped).  I'm not sure what
the cost currently is, but probably less-than $10.  The person who you
should contact at CTEVH is Jane Corcoran, and her e-mail is
jmc400 at earthlink.net   Please tell her that I suggested you contact her, and
she'll know right away what booklet this is about.  I think this is an
especially nice source, since it can give the  student a feel for
(literally) the print IPA symbol, and words to describe them too.  It was
compiled by CTEVH in the late 80's, apparently in consultation with a blind
grad student at Stanford.

As far as doing transcription, the student can either do this on computer
(although most screen reader software has to be tweaked in order for it to
work well with IPA fonts), or by dictating the symbols to a human reader.

This topic occasionally comes up on the Linguist List too, and I've posted
responses there as well.  Feel free to contact me off list, or have the
student contact me, if I can be of further assistance.

--Robert Englebretson

******************************************************************
    Dr. Robert Englebretson
    Dept. of Linguistics, MS23
    Rice University
    6100 Main St.
    Houston, TX 77005-1892
     (713) 348-4776
    e-mail: reng at ruf.rice.edu
    http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng


From swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu  Tue Apr 13 14:45:53 2004
From: swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu (Sheri Wells Jensen)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:45:53 -0400
Subject: Help!
In-Reply-To: <002301c42161$9e1ab030$9eb22a80@Reng>
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.104553.0400.SWELLSJ@BGNET.BGSU.EDU>

Hi, John and All,

Here's my .02 as a linguist who is blind and had a grand time in my first
phonetics class. I'm sure you'll get input from several other folks as well:

There is a Braille IPA that you can get a copy of (free) from the Royal
National Institute for the Blind.  I lose mine every three or four years or
destroy it from over use  so I know you can get a copy in about a week or so.

Here's a website that can get you started:
http://clauchau.free.fr/L/phonalph.html

And contact info for RNIB:

Royal National Institute of the Blind
105 Judd Street
London
WC1H 9NE
Tel: 020 7388 1266
Fax: 020 7388 2034
http://rnib.org/

But, I didn't use this  for turning in classwork.  I'm glad I have it and
use it extensively for my own notes etc, but it's important if your student
ever plans to teach or interact with other professionals formally or
informally that she learn to transcribe standard IPA.  Not knowing the
standard will also put her at a great disadvantage in interacting with
other students in class.  Most blind folk know the shapes of print letters
and can write them with a pencil.  When I was in my first phonetics class,
we used pipe cleaners (and sometimes silly putty) to make the shapes of
some nonalphabetic characters.  (I also recall a most entertaining
afternoon I spent with friends eating pretzels into the shapes of schwas.)
Once I learned the shapes, I could write them.  There are higher tech
solutions as well, but sometimes the simple solution is best.   With a
little practice and feedback, it's not a problem.  I'm not sure how easy my
early transcriptions were to read, but I'm very glad I did them in the
usual way.

The only serious drawback to writing this way is that it's not possible to
go back and edit your transcriptions.  There are a wide variety of ways to
make raised or indented) characters with a pencil which can easily be felt
with fingertips.  The low-tech solution is to use  a piece of screen or
rubber pad under the paper.  Pressing lightly with a pencil produces lines
that can be felt.  You can't erase, but you can follow what you're doing
and certainly cross things out.  Your student is most likely able to use a
variety of computer equipment and could also get one of the SIL IPA fonts
and transcribe that way.   I wouldn't necessarily recommend this for an
intro class.  Although it's good to know how to do this, it isn't so
practical in a lab setting, and she would not necessarily have access to
the technology all the time.

My most important piece of advice for you is to make sure you keep your
standards for this student as high as you do for others.  I teach a
graduate applied phonology seminar regularly and I credit my speedy (if
sometimes rather sloppy) classroom chalk board transcription techniques to
my own phonetics professor who was absolutely honest with me about my
progress (or lack thereof!)


Best,

Sheri


At 11:11 AM 4/13/04 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear Funknetters,
>I have a problem I have never encountered before in teaching. I am teaching
>introductory phonetics this semester, and one of my students is blind.
>She says there is no Braille system for the phonetics symbols, and it
>seems to me that this is likely to be true.
>She has no idea of what the symbols look like and I don't even know how
>to explain to her. The students normally do a lot of transcription. Do any
>of you have any idea of how to deal with this problem? I'm completely
>stumped. Thanks very very much for any help you can give.
>John Myhill
>--


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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 lguerrer at acsu.buffalo.edu  Tue Apr 13 15:53:16 2004
From: lguerrer at acsu.buffalo.edu (Lilian Guerrero)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:53:16 -0400
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?VIII_Encuentro_Internacional_de_Ling=FC?=
 =?iso-8859-1?q?=EDstica_en_el_Noroeste_=282nd_call=29?=
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.115316.0400.LGUERRER@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>

**** Second call for papers (Submission Deadline: April 30, 2004) ****

The "VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste" will take 
place at the Universidad de Sonora, in Hermosillo, Sonora, México, November 
17, 18, and 19, 2004.

Papers in all the areas of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, 
syntax, semantics, discourse studies, language acquisition, etc.) will be 
considered. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 
minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected on the evaluation of an 
anonymous written abstract, which may not exceed 500 words.

Invited speakers

Judith Aissen
University of California

Nick Evans
Melbourne University

Thomas Smith Stark
El Colegio de México

Liliana Tolchinsky
Universidad de Barcelona

Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology-Leipzig

Submissions: The deadline for abstracts to be received is April 30, 2004.

Electronic submissions are encouraged. Abstracts may be submitted 
electronically either in the body of an e-mail message (if they include no 
special characters) or as an e-mail attachment in Word, PDF, or RTF format 
to:

encuentro at guaymas.uson.mx

If the abstract include any special fonts, please specify them or send a 
hard copy of your abstract to the Fax number: 00-52-(662)-212-55-29 or by 
snail mail to:

VIII ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE LINGÜÍSTICA EN EL NOROESTE, Dept. de Letras 
y Lingüística, Juan Ma. de Salvatierra # 33, Fracc. Los Arcos, Hermosillo, 
Sonora, 83250, México.

On a separate page from the abstract please provide the following 
information:

(1) name,
(2) address,
(3) affiliation,
(4) telephone and FAX number,
(5) e-mail address, and
(6) status (faculty/grad student/undergrad.student)

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by June 30, 2004.

REGISTRATION:
$85 dlls. Non-students
$50 dlls. PhD students
$10 dlls. Other students

CONTACTS:
Web page:  www.8encuentrolinguistica.uson.mx

Andrés Acosta Félix		aacosta at capomo.uson.mx	
Isabel Barreras		jbarrera at capomo.uson.mx
Zarina Estrada Fernández	zarina at guaymas.uson.mx 	
Gerardo López Cruz		glopez at correom.uson.mx
Ana Lidia Munguía Duarte	amunguia at rtn.uson.mx	
Rosa María Ortiz Ciscomani	ortizrm at capomo.uson.mx


From jeonglee12 at hotmail.com  Sat Apr 17 06:55:38 2004
From: jeonglee12 at hotmail.com (Jeong-Hwa Lee)
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 06:55:38 +0000
Subject: Call for Papers (9th International Cognitive Linguistics
 Conference)
Message-ID: <SAT.17.APR.2004.065538.0000.JEONGLEE12@HOTMAIL.COM>

Please circulate. I apologize for cross-postings.


	    9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

		Call for Papers

		Call Deadline: 15-Sept-2004 (Theme Session)
     		                   15-Nov-2004 (General/Poster Session)

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

ICLC-2005

9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Yonsei University Seoul KOREA
17-22 July 2005 (Sunday-Friday)
http://www.iclc2005.org (after 1 May 2004)

The International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) will be holding
its Ninth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) in Seoul,
Korea on 17-22 July 2005 (Conference Chair: Prof. Hyon-Sook Shin). This is
the first ICLC held in Asia. The conference will include several theme
sessions in addition to general and poster sessions.  For information about
the Association and previous conferences, visit the ICLA website:
http://www.cogling.org


SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

A. For General and Poster Sessions:

We solicit abstracts (for 25-minute presentations including discussion)
which address various aspects of cognitive approaches to human language.
Papers on cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse studies,
corpus linguistics, or language processing will be of particular interest.
However, papers concerning any issues relating cognition and language will
be welcome.

B. Theme Sessions:

Organizers of theme sessions are asked to submit the followings:

(a) A short description of the topic of the session (300-500 words)
(b) A detailed description of the structure of the session:  presentations,
discussions, breaks, etc. (with specific time allotment)
(c) The abstracts of all speakers following the abstract specifications
below
(d) The names of discussants with contact information

We ask that neither the presentation nor the discussion by a discussant
exceeds 20 minutes.


ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS

An abstract should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including examples
and references.  It should specify research questions, approach, method,
data and (expected) results. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by
three members of a large international panel. Notification of Theme Session
will be made on or before January 15, 2005. And notification of General and
Poster Sessions will be made on or before February 15, 2005


Electronic submissions as attachment (in MS word or PDF format) are strongly
encouraged. We ask each author to restrict their submission to one
single-authored abstract and one co-authored abstract maximum to give
opportunity to more authors within limited time.

The body of e-mail message should include

- author name(s)
- affiliation(s)
- telephone number
- e-mail address
- telephone number
- fax number
- title of paper
- specific area (e.g., subfields of cognitive linguistics, functional
linguistics, discourse studies, etc.)
- three to five keywords
- presenter��s name
- preferred session:

	(a) General Session
	(b) Poster Session
	(c) preferring General Session but willing to do a poster

The abstract should be anonymous. All abstracts should be sent to

park at iclc2005.org (Prof. Jeong-Woon Park, Program Committee Chair)

Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send three
high-quality copies of your abstract and a separate page containing the
required information to

Prof. Jeong-Woon Park
English Department, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
270 Imun-Dong Dongdaemun-Gu Seoul 130-791 KOREA

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for Theme Sessions: September 15, 2004
Submission deadline for General and Poster Sessions: November 15, 2004
Acceptance notification of Theme Session: January 15, 2005
Acceptance notification of General and Poster Sessions: February 15, 2005

For further information, visit http://www.iclc2005.org (after 1 May 2004).


Hyon-Sook Shin Ph.D.
Conference Chair
9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
chair at iclc2005.org

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From language at sprynet.com  Sat Apr 17 21:55:51 2004
From: language at sprynet.com (Alexander Gross)
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:55:51 -0400
Subject: Call for abstracts: EMCL: A Workshop on Image-Schemasand
 Linguistic Relativity
Message-ID: <SAT.17.APR.2004.175551.0400.LANGUAGE@SPRYNET.COM>

Hi, Monica, Rob and I agree on a few things and disagree on others.  But I
think he's come close to hitting the nail on the head when he points out
that there's not the slightest reason to suppose that so-called "image
schemas" would be the "same for everyone" regardless of language or culture.
If anything I don't think he's gone far enough.

I believe the crux of the problem lies in a preconception shared by many
would-be scientists today that ANYTHING could be the "same for everyone,"
that all or most phenomena can be reduced to a single set of explanations.
We see this preconception in the search for a Grand Unified Theory ("GUT")
by physicists, a genomic solution for all illness by biologists, a
data-perfect digital system of weather prediction by meteorologists, and of
course all the unprovable  universalist claims prevalent in modern
linguistics and so-called "cognitive research."

Somehow all of this gets called science, but is it?  Can we truly depend on
it that these various "everything theories" will work out in practice and
account for all (or even most) possible phenomena?  Or could this all turn
out to be nothing more than a latter-day hankering after a deity?  Could it
just be that many or perhaps most of these theories are in fact grounded in
local, transient, and often irreproducible causes?  And could it also be
that these local, transient, and irreproducible causes are responsible for
most of life as we know it, including language, cognitive functions,
illness, the weather, the maintenance of our planet in the universe, and
even the continued existence of that universe?  If so, instead of positing
the existence of universal, enduring, and scientifically replicable ideals,
might it not behoove us to study what these local, transient, and
irreproducible causes may be, and might we not come to understand more about
even the irreproducible ones by so doing?

Might these not be the questions we should really be asking if we were truly
practicing science, a field which was after all supposed to be  based on
skepticism and continually asking questions, and not the hit-or-miss,
wistful, wishful thinking we find in this claim  about image schemas (which
of course also conveniently ignores everything we know about images from
art, archaeology, Jungian psychology, and the study of other cultures)?

very best to all!

alex

BTW, Rob, I am simultaneously sending you privately my reply to your
thoughts about maths (aka math) becoming the next "everything theory" that
will sooner or later be able to handle most language problems.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Freeman" <rjfreeman at email.com>
To: "Monica Gonzalez-Marquez" <mg246 at cornell.edu>;
<funknet at mailman.rice.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] Call for abstracts: EMCL: A Workshop on
Image-Schemasand Linguistic Relativity


> Hi Monica,
>
> I won't be submitting any abstracts, but reading your CFP it just occurred
to
> me to ask _why_ Image-Schemas would need to be "the same for everybody",
just
> because they arise from "universal aspects of how the human body interacts
> with its environment".
>
> The wide variety of different cultures we see in the world, for example,
also
> arise from similar "universal aspects of how the human body interacts with
> its environment", but we accept that different cultures address those
> universal problems in different ways. Why couldn't image schemas show as
much
> variation as cultures, and indeed languages?
>
> -Rob
>
> On Friday 09 April 2004 01:39, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez wrote:
> > Call for abstracts
> >
> > EMCL*: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity
> >
> > July 17, 2004
> >
> > University of Portsmouth, UK
> > To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)
> >
> > In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
> > structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
> > interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
> > largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
> > are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person speaks.
> > In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that language
> > influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
> > assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
> > attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two research
> > areas.
> >
> > We invite submissions from researchers working in either or both areas,
> > and are especially interested in experimental approaches to the issues.
> > Please send a 500 word anonymous abstract as an attachment in text
> > format to Monica Gonzalez-Marquez at mg246 at cornell.edu
> >
> > Deadline: May 5, 2004
> > Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2004
> >
> > Organising Committee:
> >
> > Stanka Fitneva
> > Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
> > Stephanie Pourcel
> > J^rg Zinken
> >
> > * Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
>
>


From auwera at chello.be  Mon Apr 19 15:02:51 2004
From: auwera at chello.be (Johan van der Auwera)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:02:51 +0200
Subject: ALT VI - Call for papers
Message-ID: <MON.19.APR.2004.170251.0200.>

ALT VI - Call for papers

The sixth International Conference of the Association for Linguistic
Typology (ALT VI) will be held in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia from
Thursday July 21 to Monday July 25, 2005. The local organizers for ALT
VI will be David Gil and Uri Tadmor.

Members and non-members wishing to present a paper at ALT VI are asked
to e-mail a one-page abstract to the chair of the program committee,
Lindsay Whaley, to reach him no later than January 1, 2005. A second
page may be included with the abstract listing data.  The abstract
itself should contain no identification of the author.  A separate page
should indicate the title of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s),
and one mailing address, with telephone, fax, and e-mail address as
available.

The committee strongly encourages submissions by e-mail (preferably with
the abstract in pdf format and author information as part of the e-mail
text), but abstracts may also be sent by fax.  Authors are asked to
check their pdf files carefully to ensure that special characters are
embedded properly.

Submissions should be sent to: lindsay.whaley at dartmouth.edu
<mailto:lindsay.whaley at dartmouth.edu>
(fax number: 1-603-646-9288)

The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 30 minutes. Members
may also submit abstracts for symposia, including the names of
participants and the amount of time requested. 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.
Talks in other languages will be accepted only at the discretion of the
program committee.

By February 1, 2005 the program committee will convey its decision on
acceptance of papers to those submitting abstracts. The committee
consists of Balthasar Bickel, David Gil, Aditi Lahiri, Brian Migliazza,
Uri Tadmor and Lindsay Whaley (chair).

Further information about the conference is available at the conference
website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/alt/ <http://www.eva.mpg.de/%7Egil/alt/>

Further information about the Association for Linguistic Typology is
available at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt/


--

Johan van der Auwera



Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology
   http://pcger101.uia.ac.be/cgct/

University of Antwerp,  Universiteitsplein 1   B-2610 Wilrijk   Belgium

johan.vanderauwera at ua.ac.be    http://www.uia.ac.be/u/auwera <http://www.uia.ac.be/u/auwera/_sgg/f10000.htm>

phone:  32/3/820.27.76  &  fax:  32/3/820.27.62


From John.Newman at ualberta.ca  Tue Apr 20 14:26:56 2004
From: John.Newman at ualberta.ca (John Newman)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:26:56 -0600
Subject: Reviewers for CSDL 2004
Message-ID: <TUE.20.APR.2004.082656.0600.JOHN.NEWMAN@UALBERTA.CA>

The 7th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL
2004) will take place at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) on
8-10 October 2004. The theme of CSDL-2004 is experimental and empirical
methods in research on conceptual structure, discourse, and language.
Conference url is:

http://www.ualberta.ca/csdl2004/

The deadline for abstracts is 1 May 2004.

The organizers of CSDL 2004 are seeking linguists to act as reviewers of
abstracts for the conference. If you are interested in reviewing abstracts,
please contact me at

john.newman at ualberta.ca


John Newman PhD, Professor (Chair)
Department of Linguistics
4-36A Assiniboia Hall
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB, T6G 2E7 Canada
Fax: (780) 492 0806 Tel: (780) 492 5500
http://www.ualberta.ca/~johnnewm


From mg246 at cornell.edu  Fri Apr 23 05:15:21 2004
From: mg246 at cornell.edu (Monica Gonzalez-Marquez)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:15:21 -0400
Subject: 2nd Call:EMCL Workshop on Image Schemas and Linguistic Relativity
Message-ID: <FRI.23.APR.2004.011521.0400.MG246@CORNELL.EDU>

2nd Call for abstracts.

Deadline: May 5, 2004

EMCL*: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity

July 17, 2004

University of Portsmouth, UK
To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)

In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person speaks.
In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that language
influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two research
areas.

We invite submissions from researchers working in either or both areas,
and are especially interested in experimental approaches to the issues.
Please send a 500 word anonymous abstract as an attachment in text
format to Monica Gonzalez-Marquez at mg246 at cornell.edu

Deadline: May 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2004

Organising Committee:

Stanka Fitneva
Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
Stephanie Pourcel
Joerg Zinken

* Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics


From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl  Sun Apr 25 12:47:06 2004
From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino)
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:47:06 +0200
Subject: oblitive verbs
Message-ID: <SUN.25.APR.2004.144706.0200.NINO.AMIRIDZE@LET.UU.NL>

Dear colleagues,

I was wondering whether you could help me with finding out langauges
having pro-verbs, language data and/or references.

Under pro-verbs I mean proforms which serve as a substitute for verb forms.
I know in some sense also English "do" can be described as a pro-verb but I
need pro-forms which not simply appear in ellipsis but act as a filler.

The pro-verbs I am looking for are used in the case when the utterer
searches for a word (verb form) because (s)he forgot what to say or also for
intentional vagueness.

Modern Spoken Georgian has such pro-verbs which are used when one has
accidentally forgotten or avoids mentioning the exact lexical verb form for
some reason. The pro-verbs are based on the root -kn- (in fact suppletive
-ken- / -shvr- / -zam-) originally meaning "do" and conjugate in any
possible way within all the TMA Series.

In order for a pro-verb to be able to replace a lexical verb form in a
discourse the two have to have some features identical while lexical meaning
can vary. For instance, the pro-verb in aorist indicative (Example 1) with a
certain preverb (here, gada-) and the 1st person indirect object marker m-
can replace any of (2) with the same preverb, the same indirect object
marker and in Aorist but none of (3) which have other preverbs (3a), other
indirect object marker (3b) or are in a different TMA Paradigm (here future
indicative) (3c):

(1) gada-imas-m-i-kn-a
    Preverb-Distal.Demonstrative-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-do-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(S)he VERBed it for/to me"

(2) a. gada-m-e-xv-i-a
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-hug-TS-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(s)he hugged me"

    b. gada-m-i-q'ar-a
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-throw.away-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(S)he threw it to/for me"

    c. gada-m-a-chv-i-a
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-custom-TS-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(S)he made me change the custom"

(3) a. she-m-a-chv-i-a
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-custom-TS-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(S)he made me acquire the custom"

    b. gada-g-e-xv-i-a
    Preverb-IO2.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-hug-TS-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(s)he hugged you.SG"

    c. gada-m-i-q'r-i-s
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-throw.away-TS-S3.SG
    "(S)he will throw it to/for me"

According to Skorik's 1977 Grammar (volume 2) and Michael Dunn's 1999
dissertation Chukchi has pro-verbs. Colleagues from LINGTYP list have given
examples of Italian, Turkish, Hungarian, etc. pro-verbs. Thay also suggested
to call such forms oblitive verbs rather than pro-verbs. I have been given
English oblitive pronoun "thingamy" and the German ones "Dingsbums" or
"Dingens". Some languages, for instance, Italian, Turkish and Hungarian form
oblitive verbs out of oblitive pronouns via verbalizers, auxiliaries.

Could you let me know if you have ever come accross pro-verbs in your
research or does your mother language have such forms.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Nino Amiridze
Utrecht Institute for Linguistics
Utrecht University


From ccdlku at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 26 22:02:31 2004
From: ccdlku at yahoo.com (Seungwan Ha)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:02:31 -0700
Subject: 2nd CFP: THE 29th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE
 DEVELOPMENT
Message-ID: <MON.26.APR.2004.150231.0700.CCDLKU@YAHOO.COM>

******************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS (2nd Call)

THE 29th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

NOVEMBER 5, 6 & 7, 2004

Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth S. Spelke, Harvard
University
�Language and Core Knowledge�

Plenary Speaker: Ken Wexler, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
�Beauty and Awe: Language Acquisition as High Science�

Lunch Symposium
�Where does grammar come from? A debate on the nature
of child language acquisition�

Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology
Stephen Crain, University of Maryland � College Park

******************************************************
All topics in the fields of first and second language
acquisition from all theoretical perspectives will be
fully considered, including:

Bilingualism
Cognition & Language
Creoles & Pidgins
Discourse
Exceptional Language
Input & Interaction
Language Disorders
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology,
Morphology, Lexicon)
Literacy & Narrative
Neurolinguistics
Pragmatics
Pre-linguistic Development
Signed Languages
Sociolinguistics
Speech Perception & Production

Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10
minute question period. Posters will be on display for
a full day with two attended sessions during the day.
******************************************************
ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT

Abstracts submitted must represent original,
unpublished research.

Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no
more than 450 words in length. They should also fit on
one page, with an optional second page for references
or figures if required. Abstracts longer than 450
words will be rejected without being evaluated. Please
note the word count at the bottom of the abstract.
Note that words counts need not include the abstract
title or the list of references.

A suggested format and style for abstracts is
available at the conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/template.html

All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents.
Specific instructions for how to create PDF documents
are available at the website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/pdfinfo.html

Free services/software for creating PDF documents are
available from:

http://www.adobe.com
(free trial: five free documents)

If you encounter a problem creating a PDF file, please
contact us for further assistance.

Please use the first author�s last name as the file
name (eg. Smith.pdf). No author information should
appear anywhere in the contents of the PDF file
itself.

******************************************************
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Electronic submission: To facilitate the abstract
submission process, abstracts will be submitted using
the form available at the conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.html

Specific instructions for abstract submission are
available on this website.

Abstracts will be accepted between March 15 and May
15.

Contact information for each author must be submitted
via webform. No author information should appear
anywhere in the abstract PDF.

At the time of submission you will be asked whether
you would like your abstract to be considered for a
poster, a paper, or both.

Although each author may submit as many abstracts as
desired, we will accept for presentation by each
author: (a) a maximum of 1 first authored
paper/poster, and (b) a maximum of 2 papers/posters in
any authorship status. Note that no changes in
authorship (including deleting an author or changing
author order) will be possible after the review
process is completed.

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM
EST, May 15, 2004.

Late abstracts will not be considered, whatever the
reason for the delay.

We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions
by fax or email.

Submissions via surface mail will only be accepted in
special circumstances, on a case by case basis.

******************************************************
ABSTRACT SELECTION

Each abstract is blind reviewed by 5 reviewers from a
panel of approximately 80 international scholars.
Further information about the review process is
available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html

Acknowledgment of receipt of the abstract will be sent
by email as soon as possible after receipt. Notice of
acceptance or rejection will be sent to first authors
only, in early August, by email. Pre-registration
materials and preliminary schedule will be available
in late August, 2004.

If your abstract is accepted, you will need to submit
a 150-word abstract including title, author(s) and
affiliation(s) for inclusion in the conference
handbook. Guidelines will be provided along with
notification of acceptance.

Abstracts accepted as papers will be invited for
publication in the BUCLD Proceedings. Abstracts
accepted as posters will be invited for publication
online only, but not in the printed version.

All conference papers will be selected on the basis of
abstracts submitted. Although each abstract will be
evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor
requests to schedule accepted papers together in group
sessions. No schedule changes will be possible once
the schedule is set. Scheduling requests for religious
reasons can only be considered before the review
process is complete. A space is provided on the
abstract submission webform to specify such requests.

******************************************************
FURTHER INFORMATION

Information regarding the conference may be accessed
at
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.

Telephone: (617) 353-3085
Email: langconf at bu.edu
******************************************************



	
		
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From simon at ipfw.edu  Fri Apr 30 16:24:43 2004
From: simon at ipfw.edu (Beth Simon)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:24:43 -0500
Subject: linguistics major
Message-ID: <FRI.30.APR.2004.112443.0500.SIMON@IPFW.EDU>

with apologies for cross-posting and off-topicness

if you are in an english or humanities department of a north american
university which offers an undergraduate major in linguistics (or
English
linguistics, language studies, etc.), please back channel me

thanks!

beth lee

beth lee simon, ph.d.
associate professor, linguistics and english
indiana university purdue university
fort wayne, in 46805-1499
us
voice 011 260 481 6761; fax 011 260 481 6985
email simon at ipfw.edu


From mliu at mail.nctu.edu.tw  Mon Apr  5 05:38:51 2004
From: mliu at mail.nctu.edu.tw (Mei-chun Liu)
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:38:51 +0800
Subject: Position in Linguistics
Message-ID: <MON.5.APR.2004.133851.0800.MLIU@MAIL.NCTU.EDU.TW>

  Tenure Track Position in LINGUISTICS



  Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures &

  Institute of Linguistics and Cultural Studies

  National Chiao Tung university

  Hsinchu, Taiwan



  The Institute of Linguistics and Cultural Studies at National Chiao Tung
University invite applications for a full-time tenure-track position in
LINGUISTICS at all possible levels, with a starting date of August 1st,
2004.



  We seek applications with a Ph. D degree and strong record of research in
the following areas:

  1)     Computational Linguistics (Speech-related research is preferred);

  2)     Cognitive Linguistics or neurolinguistics;

  3)     Interface between syntax, semantics and prosody.

  Strong consideration will be given to applicants whose research is
corpus-based and can be integrated with the existing strengths of the
Institute.



  Regular duties include graduate and undergraduate teaching, research,
graduate student advising, as well as Institute, Departmental, and College
service assignment as required for university faculty members.



  Applicants should send 1) curriculum vitae, 2) copies of representative
publications, 3) copy of diploma, 4) research summary and teaching
portfolio, 5) Names of three referees by April 20, 2004 to:

  Dr. Meichun Liu, Professor and Chair

  Department of Foreign languages and Literatures &

  Institute of Linguistics and Cultural Studies

  National Chiao Tung University

  1001 Ta Hsueh Rd.

  Hsinchu 300, Taiwan



  E-mail inquiries may be sent to : hclo at mail.nctu.edu.tw

  Tel: 886-3-5731660?1

  Fax: 886-3-5726037


From ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu  Thu Apr  8 17:27:05 2004
From: ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Hopper)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:27:05 -0400
Subject: CLS 40
Message-ID: <THU.8.APR.2004.132705.0400.PH1U@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>

From: Fey Parrill <feyparr at uchicago.edu>
Date: April 8, 2004 12:17:00 AM CDT
To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu
Subject: CLS 40

Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
15-17 April, 2004
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/

Looking over and the overlooked:
In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Chicago Linguistic
Society, this year's conference will focus both on the progress which the
field of linguistics has made since the first meeting of our society, and
on the need for unification within the field. To that end, the Main Session
will highlight our past as an organization and a discipline, while our
Panel Sessions will address the multifaceted nature of the field, by
focusing on topics that are sometimes underrepresented: typology, practical
applications, alternate frameworks--or, in the case of our absence panel,
things which aren't even there! In addition, our post-conference banquet
will feature readings of classic CLS papers from the past four decades.
Main Session Invited Speakers:
Haj Ross, University of North Texas
Bill Darden, University of Chicago
Joan Bresnan, Stanford University

Panels:
Dispensing with Derivation: Monostratal Theories of Grammar
Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University

Afro-Asiatic: Its Implications for theory
Gene Gragg, University of Chicago

Linguistic Theory and Its Applications
John Goldsmith, University of Chicago

'What we talk about when we talk about nothing':  The experience of absence
in linguistics
Kyle Johnson, U. Mass Amherst & Andrew Barss, U. Arizona

Please visit our website for the program and to register:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/


From torgrim.solstad at hf.uio.no  Thu Apr  8 18:44:11 2004
From: torgrim.solstad at hf.uio.no (Torgrim Solstad)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 20:44:11 +0200
Subject: 2nd CfP: Demoting the Agent: Passive and other Voice-related
 phenomena
Message-ID: <THU.8.APR.2004.204411.0200.TORGRIM.SOLSTAD@HF.UIO.NO>

** Apologies for multiple postings **

Demoting the Agent: Passive and other Voice-related phenomena

2nd Call for Papers

Workshop at the University of Oslo
November 25-27, 2004


Invited Speakers

Elisabet Engdahl, Gothenburg University
Suzanne Kemmer, Rice University
Anneliese Pitz, University of Oslo
Sten Vikner, University of Aarhus

The passive has constituted an important area of research in modern
linguistics since the introduction of transformational grammar. Though
there is little controversy of what constitutes the relevant data,
several quite different perspectives on passive constructions have
been developed.  Whereas formal syntacticians and semanticist have
focused on the contrast in argument structure concerning the
active-passive diathesis, functionalist approaches have mostly dealt
with differences in discourse participant prominence and other
distinctions related to what one might term as information structure.

There has also been an increasing interest in more typologically
diverse data which has lead to research in other voice-related
phenomena such as medium constructions and antipassives. No general
agreement has been reached on the treatment of any of these phenomena,
either.

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers representing
different perspectives on passives and other voice-related
phenomena. Unifying theoretical approaches will be especially
appreciated. Some of the diversity in the research in the field can be
seen as related to, but not limited to the following:

- formal linguistic perspectives
- functional linguistic perspectives
- syntax-semantics: compositionality
- pragmatics: non-explicitness concerning agentivity
- information structure

We want to encourage multi-language perspectives, especially those
contrasting two or more languages. Papers dealing with data from
parallel corpora are welcome.

Partial reimbursement may be possible for those speakers who cannot
attend the workshop otherwise.


Submission Procedure

All authors should submit an anonymous abstract. The length of
abstracts for talks should be at most 2 single-column pages, including
examples and references. All submissions should also include a
separate cover page specifying the author's name, affiliation,
address, and e-mail address and title of the paper.

The abstracts should be submitted electronically in one of the
following formats: Word/RTF, ASCII, Postscript or PDF. They should be
sent to the following e-mail-address:

torgrim.solstad at german.uio.no

All submitted papers that are received in time will be refereed by the
programme committee and may be accepted for full presentation (45 min
+ 15 min for discussion) at the workshop and publication in the
pre-workshop proceedings, or for a poster presentation.


Important Dates

Abstracts due: May 15
Acceptance notice: June 15
Final versions due for proceedings: October 15
Workshop dates: November 25-27


Programme committee

Elisabet Engdahl, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Anneliese Pitz, Torgrim Solstad,
Kjell Johan Saeboe


Organisation

The workshop is organised by Benjamin Lyngfelt, Gothenburg University and
Torgrim Solstad, University of Oslo


Funding: Research project "Languages in contrast"

Torgrim Solstad,
Department of Germanic Studies,
University of Oslo,
PO Box 1004 Blindern,
NO-0315 OSLO,
NORWAY

Tel: +47 22 85 48 89
Fax: +47 22 85 68 87


From mg246 at cornell.edu  Thu Apr  8 17:39:34 2004
From: mg246 at cornell.edu (Monica Gonzalez-Marquez)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:39:34 -0400
Subject: Call for abstracts: EMCL: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and
 Linguistic Relativity
Message-ID: <THU.8.APR.2004.133934.0400.MG246@CORNELL.EDU>

Call for abstracts

EMCL*: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity

July 17, 2004

University of Portsmouth, UK
To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)

In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person speaks.
In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that language
influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two research
areas.

We invite submissions from researchers working in either or both areas,
and are especially interested in experimental approaches to the issues.
Please send a 500 word anonymous abstract as an attachment in text
format to Monica Gonzalez-Marquez at mg246 at cornell.edu

Deadline: May 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2004

Organising Committee:

Stanka Fitneva
Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
Stephanie Pourcel
J??rg Zinken

* Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics


From rjfreeman at email.com  Mon Apr 12 06:49:07 2004
From: rjfreeman at email.com (Rob Freeman)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:49:07 +0800
Subject: Call for abstracts: EMCL: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and
 Linguistic Relativity
In-Reply-To: <p0520000bbc9b3ce4602f@[192.168.0.2]>
Message-ID: <MON.12.APR.2004.144907.0800.RJFREEMAN@EMAIL.COM>

Hi Monica,

I won't be submitting any abstracts, but reading your CFP it just occurred to
me to ask _why_ Image-Schemas would need to be "the same for everybody", just
because they arise from "universal aspects of how the human body interacts
with its environment".

The wide variety of different cultures we see in the world, for example, also
arise from similar "universal aspects of how the human body interacts with
its environment", but we accept that different cultures address those
universal problems in different ways. Why couldn't image schemas show as much
variation as cultures, and indeed languages?

-Rob

On Friday 09 April 2004 01:39, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez wrote:
> Call for abstracts
>
> EMCL*: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity
>
> July 17, 2004
>
> University of Portsmouth, UK
> To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)
>
> In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
> structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
> interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
> largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
> are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person speaks.
> In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that language
> influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
> assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
> attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two research
> areas.
>
> We invite submissions from researchers working in either or both areas,
> and are especially interested in experimental approaches to the issues.
> Please send a 500 word anonymous abstract as an attachment in text
> format to Monica Gonzalez-Marquez at mg246 at cornell.edu
>
> Deadline: May 5, 2004
> Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2004
>
> Organising Committee:
>
> Stanka Fitneva
> Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
> Stephanie Pourcel
> J??rg Zinken
>
> * Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics


From john at research.haifa.ac.il  Tue Apr 13 09:11:46 2004
From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (John Myhill)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:11:46 +0200
Subject: HELP!
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.111146.0200.JOHN@RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL>

Dear Funknetters,
I have a problem I have never encountered before in teaching. I am teaching
introductory phonetics this semester, and one of my students is blind.
She says there is no Braille system for the phonetics symbols, and it
seems to me that this is likely to be true.
She has no idea of what the symbols look like and I don't even know how
to explain to her. The students normally do a lot of transcription. Do any
of you have any idea of how to deal with this problem? I'm completely
stumped. Thanks very very much for any help you can give.
John Myhill
--


From ocls at madisoncounty.net  Tue Apr 13 12:30:00 2004
From: ocls at madisoncounty.net (Suzette Haden Elgin)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:30:00 -0500
Subject: Help!
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.073000.0500.OCLS@MADISONCOUNTY.NET>

April 13, 2004

Learning aids for blind student when there's no Braille symbol -- no
problem. Get a sheet of sturdy paper and a bottle of white Elmer's Glue (or
any comparable product). Draw the symbol with the glue. Shake sand or salt
over the line of glue. Shazam -- a raised symbol. It takes a while, but
it's easy to do, and it works.

Suzette Haden Elgin
http://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin


From reng at ruf.rice.edu  Tue Apr 13 14:14:13 2004
From: reng at ruf.rice.edu (Robert Englebretson)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:14:13 -0500
Subject: Braille IPA (was "HELP!")
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.091413.0500.RENG@RUF.RICE.EDU>

Dear John,

There is in fact a Braille version of the IPA, and a good source (for North
American Braille) where it is comprehensively listed is Rule XIX, Section 45
of "Code of Braille Textbook Formats and Techniques, 1977".  This is the
standard manual for Braille transcription of academic materials into U.S.
Braille, and this section of the manual specifically deals with linguistics
and lists all the IPA symbols that were current at that time.  BANA (the
Braille Authority of North America) is in the process of coming up with a
revision of the Braille IPA system, possibly bringing it more into line with
the British Braille system, but progress on that has been slow.  The
earliest source I know of for Braille IPA is:  "A Braille Notation of the
International Phonetic Alphabet", by W. Percy Merrick and W. Potthoff, Royal
National Institute for the Blind, London, 1932, revised 1945.  But I've
never actually gotten a chance to look at that one.

It is also crucial that the student know what the print IPA symbols look
like, so that she can communicate well with you and/or any readers that she
may be working with.  And there is an excellent Braille source for this too
(someone has already done it--no need to reinvent the wheel and resort to
glue and sand!).  The booklet is entitled "Phonetic-Phonemic Symbols in
Tactile Representation", and it gives a raised-line tactile drawing of each
IPA symbol, the corresponding Braille character(s), and a description of the
symbol (typographic description that is, not articulatory description).  IN
addition to  the IPA, it also illustrates most of the Americanist-based
phonetic symbols too.  This booklet is available from CTEVH (California
Transcribers and Educators of the Visually Handicapped).  I'm not sure what
the cost currently is, but probably less-than $10.  The person who you
should contact at CTEVH is Jane Corcoran, and her e-mail is
jmc400 at earthlink.net   Please tell her that I suggested you contact her, and
she'll know right away what booklet this is about.  I think this is an
especially nice source, since it can give the  student a feel for
(literally) the print IPA symbol, and words to describe them too.  It was
compiled by CTEVH in the late 80's, apparently in consultation with a blind
grad student at Stanford.

As far as doing transcription, the student can either do this on computer
(although most screen reader software has to be tweaked in order for it to
work well with IPA fonts), or by dictating the symbols to a human reader.

This topic occasionally comes up on the Linguist List too, and I've posted
responses there as well.  Feel free to contact me off list, or have the
student contact me, if I can be of further assistance.

--Robert Englebretson

******************************************************************
    Dr. Robert Englebretson
    Dept. of Linguistics, MS23
    Rice University
    6100 Main St.
    Houston, TX 77005-1892
     (713) 348-4776
    e-mail: reng at ruf.rice.edu
    http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng


From swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu  Tue Apr 13 14:45:53 2004
From: swellsj at bgnet.bgsu.edu (Sheri Wells Jensen)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:45:53 -0400
Subject: Help!
In-Reply-To: <002301c42161$9e1ab030$9eb22a80@Reng>
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.104553.0400.SWELLSJ@BGNET.BGSU.EDU>

Hi, John and All,

Here's my .02 as a linguist who is blind and had a grand time in my first
phonetics class. I'm sure you'll get input from several other folks as well:

There is a Braille IPA that you can get a copy of (free) from the Royal
National Institute for the Blind.  I lose mine every three or four years or
destroy it from over use  so I know you can get a copy in about a week or so.

Here's a website that can get you started:
http://clauchau.free.fr/L/phonalph.html

And contact info for RNIB:

Royal National Institute of the Blind
105 Judd Street
London
WC1H 9NE
Tel: 020 7388 1266
Fax: 020 7388 2034
http://rnib.org/

But, I didn't use this  for turning in classwork.  I'm glad I have it and
use it extensively for my own notes etc, but it's important if your student
ever plans to teach or interact with other professionals formally or
informally that she learn to transcribe standard IPA.  Not knowing the
standard will also put her at a great disadvantage in interacting with
other students in class.  Most blind folk know the shapes of print letters
and can write them with a pencil.  When I was in my first phonetics class,
we used pipe cleaners (and sometimes silly putty) to make the shapes of
some nonalphabetic characters.  (I also recall a most entertaining
afternoon I spent with friends eating pretzels into the shapes of schwas.)
Once I learned the shapes, I could write them.  There are higher tech
solutions as well, but sometimes the simple solution is best.   With a
little practice and feedback, it's not a problem.  I'm not sure how easy my
early transcriptions were to read, but I'm very glad I did them in the
usual way.

The only serious drawback to writing this way is that it's not possible to
go back and edit your transcriptions.  There are a wide variety of ways to
make raised or indented) characters with a pencil which can easily be felt
with fingertips.  The low-tech solution is to use  a piece of screen or
rubber pad under the paper.  Pressing lightly with a pencil produces lines
that can be felt.  You can't erase, but you can follow what you're doing
and certainly cross things out.  Your student is most likely able to use a
variety of computer equipment and could also get one of the SIL IPA fonts
and transcribe that way.   I wouldn't necessarily recommend this for an
intro class.  Although it's good to know how to do this, it isn't so
practical in a lab setting, and she would not necessarily have access to
the technology all the time.

My most important piece of advice for you is to make sure you keep your
standards for this student as high as you do for others.  I teach a
graduate applied phonology seminar regularly and I credit my speedy (if
sometimes rather sloppy) classroom chalk board transcription techniques to
my own phonetics professor who was absolutely honest with me about my
progress (or lack thereof!)


Best,

Sheri


At 11:11 AM 4/13/04 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear Funknetters,
>I have a problem I have never encountered before in teaching. I am teaching
>introductory phonetics this semester, and one of my students is blind.
>She says there is no Braille system for the phonetics symbols, and it
>seems to me that this is likely to be true.
>She has no idea of what the symbols look like and I don't even know how
>to explain to her. The students normally do a lot of transcription. Do any
>of you have any idea of how to deal with this problem? I'm completely
>stumped. Thanks very very much for any help you can give.
>John Myhill
>--


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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 lguerrer at acsu.buffalo.edu  Tue Apr 13 15:53:16 2004
From: lguerrer at acsu.buffalo.edu (Lilian Guerrero)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 11:53:16 -0400
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?VIII_Encuentro_Internacional_de_Ling=FC?=
 =?iso-8859-1?q?=EDstica_en_el_Noroeste_=282nd_call=29?=
Message-ID: <TUE.13.APR.2004.115316.0400.LGUERRER@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>

**** Second call for papers (Submission Deadline: April 30, 2004) ****

The "VIII Encuentro Internacional de Ling??stica en el Noroeste" will take 
place at the Universidad de Sonora, in Hermosillo, Sonora, M?xico, November 
17, 18, and 19, 2004.

Papers in all the areas of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, 
syntax, semantics, discourse studies, language acquisition, etc.) will be 
considered. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 
minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected on the evaluation of an 
anonymous written abstract, which may not exceed 500 words.

Invited speakers

Judith Aissen
University of California

Nick Evans
Melbourne University

Thomas Smith Stark
El Colegio de M?xico

Liliana Tolchinsky
Universidad de Barcelona

Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology-Leipzig

Submissions: The deadline for abstracts to be received is April 30, 2004.

Electronic submissions are encouraged. Abstracts may be submitted 
electronically either in the body of an e-mail message (if they include no 
special characters) or as an e-mail attachment in Word, PDF, or RTF format 
to:

encuentro at guaymas.uson.mx

If the abstract include any special fonts, please specify them or send a 
hard copy of your abstract to the Fax number: 00-52-(662)-212-55-29 or by 
snail mail to:

VIII ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE LING??STICA EN EL NOROESTE, Dept. de Letras 
y Ling??stica, Juan Ma. de Salvatierra # 33, Fracc. Los Arcos, Hermosillo, 
Sonora, 83250, M?xico.

On a separate page from the abstract please provide the following 
information:

(1) name,
(2) address,
(3) affiliation,
(4) telephone and FAX number,
(5) e-mail address, and
(6) status (faculty/grad student/undergrad.student)

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by June 30, 2004.

REGISTRATION:
$85 dlls. Non-students
$50 dlls. PhD students
$10 dlls. Other students

CONTACTS:
Web page:  www.8encuentrolinguistica.uson.mx

Andr?s Acosta F?lix		aacosta at capomo.uson.mx	
Isabel Barreras		jbarrera at capomo.uson.mx
Zarina Estrada Fern?ndez	zarina at guaymas.uson.mx 	
Gerardo L?pez Cruz		glopez at correom.uson.mx
Ana Lidia Mungu?a Duarte	amunguia at rtn.uson.mx	
Rosa Mar?a Ortiz Ciscomani	ortizrm at capomo.uson.mx


From jeonglee12 at hotmail.com  Sat Apr 17 06:55:38 2004
From: jeonglee12 at hotmail.com (Jeong-Hwa Lee)
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 06:55:38 +0000
Subject: Call for Papers (9th International Cognitive Linguistics
 Conference)
Message-ID: <SAT.17.APR.2004.065538.0000.JEONGLEE12@HOTMAIL.COM>

Please circulate. I apologize for cross-postings.


	    9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference

		Call for Papers

		Call Deadline: 15-Sept-2004 (Theme Session)
     		                   15-Nov-2004 (General/Poster Session)

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

ICLC-2005

9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Yonsei University Seoul KOREA
17-22 July 2005 (Sunday-Friday)
http://www.iclc2005.org (after 1 May 2004)

The International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) will be holding
its Ninth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) in Seoul,
Korea on 17-22 July 2005 (Conference Chair: Prof. Hyon-Sook Shin). This is
the first ICLC held in Asia. The conference will include several theme
sessions in addition to general and poster sessions.  For information about
the Association and previous conferences, visit the ICLA website:
http://www.cogling.org


SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS

A. For General and Poster Sessions:

We solicit abstracts (for 25-minute presentations including discussion)
which address various aspects of cognitive approaches to human language.
Papers on cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse studies,
corpus linguistics, or language processing will be of particular interest.
However, papers concerning any issues relating cognition and language will
be welcome.

B. Theme Sessions:

Organizers of theme sessions are asked to submit the followings:

(a) A short description of the topic of the session (300-500 words)
(b) A detailed description of the structure of the session:  presentations,
discussions, breaks, etc. (with specific time allotment)
(c) The abstracts of all speakers following the abstract specifications
below
(d) The names of discussants with contact information

We ask that neither the presentation nor the discussion by a discussant
exceeds 20 minutes.


ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS

An abstract should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including examples
and references.  It should specify research questions, approach, method,
data and (expected) results. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by
three members of a large international panel. Notification of Theme Session
will be made on or before January 15, 2005. And notification of General and
Poster Sessions will be made on or before February 15, 2005


Electronic submissions as attachment (in MS word or PDF format) are strongly
encouraged. We ask each author to restrict their submission to one
single-authored abstract and one co-authored abstract maximum to give
opportunity to more authors within limited time.

The body of e-mail message should include

- author name(s)
- affiliation(s)
- telephone number
- e-mail address
- telephone number
- fax number
- title of paper
- specific area (e.g., subfields of cognitive linguistics, functional
linguistics, discourse studies, etc.)
- three to five keywords
- presenter??s name
- preferred session:

	(a) General Session
	(b) Poster Session
	(c) preferring General Session but willing to do a poster

The abstract should be anonymous. All abstracts should be sent to

park at iclc2005.org (Prof. Jeong-Woon Park, Program Committee Chair)

Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send three
high-quality copies of your abstract and a separate page containing the
required information to

Prof. Jeong-Woon Park
English Department, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
270 Imun-Dong Dongdaemun-Gu Seoul 130-791 KOREA

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline for Theme Sessions: September 15, 2004
Submission deadline for General and Poster Sessions: November 15, 2004
Acceptance notification of Theme Session: January 15, 2005
Acceptance notification of General and Poster Sessions: February 15, 2005

For further information, visit http://www.iclc2005.org (after 1 May 2004).


Hyon-Sook Shin Ph.D.
Conference Chair
9th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
chair at iclc2005.org

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From language at sprynet.com  Sat Apr 17 21:55:51 2004
From: language at sprynet.com (Alexander Gross)
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:55:51 -0400
Subject: Call for abstracts: EMCL: A Workshop on Image-Schemasand
 Linguistic Relativity
Message-ID: <SAT.17.APR.2004.175551.0400.LANGUAGE@SPRYNET.COM>

Hi, Monica, Rob and I agree on a few things and disagree on others.  But I
think he's come close to hitting the nail on the head when he points out
that there's not the slightest reason to suppose that so-called "image
schemas" would be the "same for everyone" regardless of language or culture.
If anything I don't think he's gone far enough.

I believe the crux of the problem lies in a preconception shared by many
would-be scientists today that ANYTHING could be the "same for everyone,"
that all or most phenomena can be reduced to a single set of explanations.
We see this preconception in the search for a Grand Unified Theory ("GUT")
by physicists, a genomic solution for all illness by biologists, a
data-perfect digital system of weather prediction by meteorologists, and of
course all the unprovable  universalist claims prevalent in modern
linguistics and so-called "cognitive research."

Somehow all of this gets called science, but is it?  Can we truly depend on
it that these various "everything theories" will work out in practice and
account for all (or even most) possible phenomena?  Or could this all turn
out to be nothing more than a latter-day hankering after a deity?  Could it
just be that many or perhaps most of these theories are in fact grounded in
local, transient, and often irreproducible causes?  And could it also be
that these local, transient, and irreproducible causes are responsible for
most of life as we know it, including language, cognitive functions,
illness, the weather, the maintenance of our planet in the universe, and
even the continued existence of that universe?  If so, instead of positing
the existence of universal, enduring, and scientifically replicable ideals,
might it not behoove us to study what these local, transient, and
irreproducible causes may be, and might we not come to understand more about
even the irreproducible ones by so doing?

Might these not be the questions we should really be asking if we were truly
practicing science, a field which was after all supposed to be  based on
skepticism and continually asking questions, and not the hit-or-miss,
wistful, wishful thinking we find in this claim  about image schemas (which
of course also conveniently ignores everything we know about images from
art, archaeology, Jungian psychology, and the study of other cultures)?

very best to all!

alex

BTW, Rob, I am simultaneously sending you privately my reply to your
thoughts about maths (aka math) becoming the next "everything theory" that
will sooner or later be able to handle most language problems.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Freeman" <rjfreeman at email.com>
To: "Monica Gonzalez-Marquez" <mg246 at cornell.edu>;
<funknet at mailman.rice.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] Call for abstracts: EMCL: A Workshop on
Image-Schemasand Linguistic Relativity


> Hi Monica,
>
> I won't be submitting any abstracts, but reading your CFP it just occurred
to
> me to ask _why_ Image-Schemas would need to be "the same for everybody",
just
> because they arise from "universal aspects of how the human body interacts
> with its environment".
>
> The wide variety of different cultures we see in the world, for example,
also
> arise from similar "universal aspects of how the human body interacts with
> its environment", but we accept that different cultures address those
> universal problems in different ways. Why couldn't image schemas show as
much
> variation as cultures, and indeed languages?
>
> -Rob
>
> On Friday 09 April 2004 01:39, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez wrote:
> > Call for abstracts
> >
> > EMCL*: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity
> >
> > July 17, 2004
> >
> > University of Portsmouth, UK
> > To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)
> >
> > In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
> > structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
> > interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
> > largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
> > are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person speaks.
> > In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that language
> > influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
> > assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
> > attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two research
> > areas.
> >
> > We invite submissions from researchers working in either or both areas,
> > and are especially interested in experimental approaches to the issues.
> > Please send a 500 word anonymous abstract as an attachment in text
> > format to Monica Gonzalez-Marquez at mg246 at cornell.edu
> >
> > Deadline: May 5, 2004
> > Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2004
> >
> > Organising Committee:
> >
> > Stanka Fitneva
> > Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
> > Stephanie Pourcel
> > J^?rg Zinken
> >
> > * Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
>
>


From auwera at chello.be  Mon Apr 19 15:02:51 2004
From: auwera at chello.be (Johan van der Auwera)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:02:51 +0200
Subject: ALT VI - Call for papers
Message-ID: <MON.19.APR.2004.170251.0200.>

ALT VI - Call for papers

The sixth International Conference of the Association for Linguistic
Typology (ALT VI) will be held in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia from
Thursday July 21 to Monday July 25, 2005. The local organizers for ALT
VI will be David Gil and Uri Tadmor.

Members and non-members wishing to present a paper at ALT VI are asked
to e-mail a one-page abstract to the chair of the program committee,
Lindsay Whaley, to reach him no later than January 1, 2005. A second
page may be included with the abstract listing data.  The abstract
itself should contain no identification of the author.  A separate page
should indicate the title of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s),
and one mailing address, with telephone, fax, and e-mail address as
available.

The committee strongly encourages submissions by e-mail (preferably with
the abstract in pdf format and author information as part of the e-mail
text), but abstracts may also be sent by fax.  Authors are asked to
check their pdf files carefully to ensure that special characters are
embedded properly.

Submissions should be sent to: lindsay.whaley at dartmouth.edu
<mailto:lindsay.whaley at dartmouth.edu>
(fax number: 1-603-646-9288)

The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 30 minutes. Members
may also submit abstracts for symposia, including the names of
participants and the amount of time requested. 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.
Talks in other languages will be accepted only at the discretion of the
program committee.

By February 1, 2005 the program committee will convey its decision on
acceptance of papers to those submitting abstracts. The committee
consists of Balthasar Bickel, David Gil, Aditi Lahiri, Brian Migliazza,
Uri Tadmor and Lindsay Whaley (chair).

Further information about the conference is available at the conference
website: http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/alt/ <http://www.eva.mpg.de/%7Egil/alt/>

Further information about the Association for Linguistic Typology is
available at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt/


--

Johan van der Auwera



Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology
   http://pcger101.uia.ac.be/cgct/

University of Antwerp,  Universiteitsplein 1   B-2610 Wilrijk   Belgium

johan.vanderauwera at ua.ac.be    http://www.uia.ac.be/u/auwera <http://www.uia.ac.be/u/auwera/_sgg/f10000.htm>

phone:  32/3/820.27.76  &  fax:  32/3/820.27.62


From John.Newman at ualberta.ca  Tue Apr 20 14:26:56 2004
From: John.Newman at ualberta.ca (John Newman)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:26:56 -0600
Subject: Reviewers for CSDL 2004
Message-ID: <TUE.20.APR.2004.082656.0600.JOHN.NEWMAN@UALBERTA.CA>

The 7th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL
2004) will take place at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) on
8-10 October 2004. The theme of CSDL-2004 is experimental and empirical
methods in research on conceptual structure, discourse, and language.
Conference url is:

http://www.ualberta.ca/csdl2004/

The deadline for abstracts is 1 May 2004.

The organizers of CSDL 2004 are seeking linguists to act as reviewers of
abstracts for the conference. If you are interested in reviewing abstracts,
please contact me at

john.newman at ualberta.ca


John Newman PhD, Professor (Chair)
Department of Linguistics
4-36A Assiniboia Hall
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB, T6G 2E7 Canada
Fax: (780) 492 0806 Tel: (780) 492 5500
http://www.ualberta.ca/~johnnewm


From mg246 at cornell.edu  Fri Apr 23 05:15:21 2004
From: mg246 at cornell.edu (Monica Gonzalez-Marquez)
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:15:21 -0400
Subject: 2nd Call:EMCL Workshop on Image Schemas and Linguistic Relativity
Message-ID: <FRI.23.APR.2004.011521.0400.MG246@CORNELL.EDU>

2nd Call for abstracts.

Deadline: May 5, 2004

EMCL*: A Workshop on Image-Schemas and Linguistic Relativity

July 17, 2004

University of Portsmouth, UK
To precede the Language, Culture, and Mind conference (July 18-20)

In cognitive linguistics, image schemas are pre-linguistic cognitive
structures, arising from universal aspects of how the human body
interacts with its environment, both physical and social, and existing
largely outside of conscious awareness. It follows that image schemas
are the same for everyone, regardless of the language a person speaks.
In contrast, the idea of linguistic relativity maintains that language
influences thought. The goal of the workshop is to scrutinize
assumptions surrounding image-schemas and linguistic relativity in an
attempt to elucidate (and resolve) the conflict between the two research
areas.

We invite submissions from researchers working in either or both areas,
and are especially interested in experimental approaches to the issues.
Please send a 500 word anonymous abstract as an attachment in text
format to Monica Gonzalez-Marquez at mg246 at cornell.edu

Deadline: May 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2004

Organising Committee:

Stanka Fitneva
Monica Gonzalez-Marquez
Stephanie Pourcel
Joerg Zinken

* Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics


From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl  Sun Apr 25 12:47:06 2004
From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino)
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:47:06 +0200
Subject: oblitive verbs
Message-ID: <SUN.25.APR.2004.144706.0200.NINO.AMIRIDZE@LET.UU.NL>

Dear colleagues,

I was wondering whether you could help me with finding out langauges
having pro-verbs, language data and/or references.

Under pro-verbs I mean proforms which serve as a substitute for verb forms.
I know in some sense also English "do" can be described as a pro-verb but I
need pro-forms which not simply appear in ellipsis but act as a filler.

The pro-verbs I am looking for are used in the case when the utterer
searches for a word (verb form) because (s)he forgot what to say or also for
intentional vagueness.

Modern Spoken Georgian has such pro-verbs which are used when one has
accidentally forgotten or avoids mentioning the exact lexical verb form for
some reason. The pro-verbs are based on the root -kn- (in fact suppletive
-ken- / -shvr- / -zam-) originally meaning "do" and conjugate in any
possible way within all the TMA Series.

In order for a pro-verb to be able to replace a lexical verb form in a
discourse the two have to have some features identical while lexical meaning
can vary. For instance, the pro-verb in aorist indicative (Example 1) with a
certain preverb (here, gada-) and the 1st person indirect object marker m-
can replace any of (2) with the same preverb, the same indirect object
marker and in Aorist but none of (3) which have other preverbs (3a), other
indirect object marker (3b) or are in a different TMA Paradigm (here future
indicative) (3c):

(1) gada-imas-m-i-kn-a
    Preverb-Distal.Demonstrative-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-do-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(S)he VERBed it for/to me"

(2) a. gada-m-e-xv-i-a
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-hug-TS-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(s)he hugged me"

    b. gada-m-i-q'ar-a
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-throw.away-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(S)he threw it to/for me"

    c. gada-m-a-chv-i-a
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-custom-TS-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(S)he made me change the custom"

(3) a. she-m-a-chv-i-a
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-custom-TS-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(S)he made me acquire the custom"

    b. gada-g-e-xv-i-a
    Preverb-IO2.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-hug-TS-S3.SG.Aorist
    "(s)he hugged you.SG"

    c. gada-m-i-q'r-i-s
    Preverb-IO1.SG-Pre.Radical.Vowel-throw.away-TS-S3.SG
    "(S)he will throw it to/for me"

According to Skorik's 1977 Grammar (volume 2) and Michael Dunn's 1999
dissertation Chukchi has pro-verbs. Colleagues from LINGTYP list have given
examples of Italian, Turkish, Hungarian, etc. pro-verbs. Thay also suggested
to call such forms oblitive verbs rather than pro-verbs. I have been given
English oblitive pronoun "thingamy" and the German ones "Dingsbums" or
"Dingens". Some languages, for instance, Italian, Turkish and Hungarian form
oblitive verbs out of oblitive pronouns via verbalizers, auxiliaries.

Could you let me know if you have ever come accross pro-verbs in your
research or does your mother language have such forms.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Nino Amiridze
Utrecht Institute for Linguistics
Utrecht University


From ccdlku at yahoo.com  Mon Apr 26 22:02:31 2004
From: ccdlku at yahoo.com (Seungwan Ha)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:02:31 -0700
Subject: 2nd CFP: THE 29th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE
 DEVELOPMENT
Message-ID: <MON.26.APR.2004.150231.0700.CCDLKU@YAHOO.COM>

******************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS (2nd Call)

THE 29th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

NOVEMBER 5, 6 & 7, 2004

Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth S. Spelke, Harvard
University
?Language and Core Knowledge?

Plenary Speaker: Ken Wexler, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
?Beauty and Awe: Language Acquisition as High Science?

Lunch Symposium
?Where does grammar come from? A debate on the nature
of child language acquisition?

Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology
Stephen Crain, University of Maryland ? College Park

******************************************************
All topics in the fields of first and second language
acquisition from all theoretical perspectives will be
fully considered, including:

Bilingualism
Cognition & Language
Creoles & Pidgins
Discourse
Exceptional Language
Input & Interaction
Language Disorders
Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology,
Morphology, Lexicon)
Literacy & Narrative
Neurolinguistics
Pragmatics
Pre-linguistic Development
Signed Languages
Sociolinguistics
Speech Perception & Production

Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10
minute question period. Posters will be on display for
a full day with two attended sessions during the day.
******************************************************
ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT

Abstracts submitted must represent original,
unpublished research.

Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no
more than 450 words in length. They should also fit on
one page, with an optional second page for references
or figures if required. Abstracts longer than 450
words will be rejected without being evaluated. Please
note the word count at the bottom of the abstract.
Note that words counts need not include the abstract
title or the list of references.

A suggested format and style for abstracts is
available at the conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/template.html

All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents.
Specific instructions for how to create PDF documents
are available at the website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/pdfinfo.html

Free services/software for creating PDF documents are
available from:

http://www.adobe.com
(free trial: five free documents)

If you encounter a problem creating a PDF file, please
contact us for further assistance.

Please use the first author?s last name as the file
name (eg. Smith.pdf). No author information should
appear anywhere in the contents of the PDF file
itself.

******************************************************
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Electronic submission: To facilitate the abstract
submission process, abstracts will be submitted using
the form available at the conference website:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.html

Specific instructions for abstract submission are
available on this website.

Abstracts will be accepted between March 15 and May
15.

Contact information for each author must be submitted
via webform. No author information should appear
anywhere in the abstract PDF.

At the time of submission you will be asked whether
you would like your abstract to be considered for a
poster, a paper, or both.

Although each author may submit as many abstracts as
desired, we will accept for presentation by each
author: (a) a maximum of 1 first authored
paper/poster, and (b) a maximum of 2 papers/posters in
any authorship status. Note that no changes in
authorship (including deleting an author or changing
author order) will be possible after the review
process is completed.

DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM
EST, May 15, 2004.

Late abstracts will not be considered, whatever the
reason for the delay.

We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions
by fax or email.

Submissions via surface mail will only be accepted in
special circumstances, on a case by case basis.

******************************************************
ABSTRACT SELECTION

Each abstract is blind reviewed by 5 reviewers from a
panel of approximately 80 international scholars.
Further information about the review process is
available at:
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html

Acknowledgment of receipt of the abstract will be sent
by email as soon as possible after receipt. Notice of
acceptance or rejection will be sent to first authors
only, in early August, by email. Pre-registration
materials and preliminary schedule will be available
in late August, 2004.

If your abstract is accepted, you will need to submit
a 150-word abstract including title, author(s) and
affiliation(s) for inclusion in the conference
handbook. Guidelines will be provided along with
notification of acceptance.

Abstracts accepted as papers will be invited for
publication in the BUCLD Proceedings. Abstracts
accepted as posters will be invited for publication
online only, but not in the printed version.

All conference papers will be selected on the basis of
abstracts submitted. Although each abstract will be
evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor
requests to schedule accepted papers together in group
sessions. No schedule changes will be possible once
the schedule is set. Scheduling requests for religious
reasons can only be considered before the review
process is complete. A space is provided on the
abstract submission webform to specify such requests.

******************************************************
FURTHER INFORMATION

Information regarding the conference may be accessed
at
http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.

Telephone: (617) 353-3085
Email: langconf at bu.edu
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From simon at ipfw.edu  Fri Apr 30 16:24:43 2004
From: simon at ipfw.edu (Beth Simon)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:24:43 -0500
Subject: linguistics major
Message-ID: <FRI.30.APR.2004.112443.0500.SIMON@IPFW.EDU>

with apologies for cross-posting and off-topicness

if you are in an english or humanities department of a north american
university which offers an undergraduate major in linguistics (or
English
linguistics, language studies, etc.), please back channel me

thanks!

beth lee

beth lee simon, ph.d.
associate professor, linguistics and english
indiana university purdue university
fort wayne, in 46805-1499
us
voice 011 260 481 6761; fax 011 260 481 6985
email simon at ipfw.edu