From clements at indiana.edu Mon Mar 1 21:25:49 2004 From: clements at indiana.edu (clements at indiana.edu) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:25:49 -0500 Subject: ^_^ mew-mew (-: Message-ID: Fell free to chat with me I accept all ages. Don''''t worry I don''''t bite........hope to hear from you soon! password: 42641 From jlecaval at ROCLER.QC.CA Mon Mar 1 21:32:10 2004 From: jlecaval at ROCLER.QC.CA (jlecaval at ROCLER.QC.CA) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:32:10 -0500 Subject: Bad girl Message-ID: When The Trust is Gone So Is The Love That Fades Like the Rain Washing Away All The Sorrows Of Yesterday Why I Ask Myself Must It End Like This Tomorrow, I Tell Myself, I'll Be Okay For Now, I'll Just Live In The Memories Of Our Life Together password: 42641 From bls at socrates.berkeley.edu Mon Mar 1 21:45:35 2004 From: bls at socrates.berkeley.edu (Berkeley Linguistics Society) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:45:35 -0500 Subject: Mary-Anne Message-ID: I'm a social butterfly and a natural flirt. Very hard to get my complete attention. Very open and will answer almost anything. But please don't piss me off. I can be sweet and cuddly or a whatever mood I am in that day so everyday password: 42641 From funkadmn at ruf.rice.edu Mon Mar 1 22:42:24 2004 From: funkadmn at ruf.rice.edu (Funknet List Admin) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:42:24 -0600 Subject: temporary list moderation (re recent spam) Message-ID: Dear Funknet Subscribers, Due to an increase in spam postings to Funknet today, I have just enabled emergency list moderation. What this means is, for the next several days, any posting to Funknet will need to first be verified by the list administrator (AKA me). If you post a message to Funknet, I will receive an e-mail notification, and will approve the post as soon as possible. This may mean that your posting will take several hours to be sent out, but for the time being I believe this is preferable to being inundated with bogus messages. 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From reng at ruf.rice.edu Mon Mar 15 19:48:41 2004 From: reng at ruf.rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:48:41 -0600 Subject: (Final Reminder) Rice Linguistics Symposium on Stancetaking Message-ID: FINAL REMINDER!!! "Stancetaking in Discourse: subjectivity in interaction" the 10th biennial Rice Linguistics Symposium March 31-April 3, 2004, Rice University, Houston, TX. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/symposium_2004.html The Department of Linguistics at Rice University is pleased to announce the 10th Biennial Rice Linguistics symposium: "Stancetaking in Discourse: subjectivity in interaction". Presenters have been invited from linguistics and related disciplines to address stancetaking in naturally-occurring spoken and/or written discourse. Stance--broadly construed as the expression of emotion, attitude, subjectivity, and perspective--permeates language use at all levels. The symposium seeks to explore the interrelationship of stancetaking with language form and function, cultural construction, and social interaction. Invited speakers will address these issues from a range of approaches, including quantitative methodologies of discourse/corpus linguistics and qualitative methodologies of ethnography and Conversation Analysis. There is no registration fee to attend the symposium, but you will need to pre-register by e-mailing Robert Englebretson at reng at rice.edu. The schedule of speakers and abstracts is posted on the symposium web page: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/symposium_2004.html From ccdlku at yahoo.com Thu Mar 18 00:27:49 2004 From: ccdlku at yahoo.com (Seungwan Ha) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:27:49 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers - 29th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Message-ID: ****************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 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 only must be made before the review process is complete (i.e. at the time of submission). 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. 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Cutillas-Espinosa Departamento Filología Inglesa Facultad de Letras Universidad de Murcia 30071 MURCIA (SPAIN) E-mail: jacuti at um.es From sally.rice at ualberta.ca Tue Mar 23 20:39:15 2004 From: sally.rice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:39:15 -0800 Subject: CSDL-2004 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: **apologies for multiple postings** Second Call for Papers CSDL-2004 7th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA 8-10 October 2004 (Friday-Sunday) http://www.ualberta.ca/csdl2004/ Now in its 10th year as an international conference, CSDL features papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition. Conference Theme CSDL-2004 has been organized around the theme of empirical and experimental methods in CSDL-related research. Invited Speakers Larry Barsalou (Psychology, Emory University) Russ Tomlin (Linguistics, University of Oregon) Nick Evans (Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne There will be 50 general session papers in two parallel sessions as well as 30 poster presentations in two poster sessions, for a total of 83 presentations. Information for Authors Please submit 500-word (maximum) abstracts for 25-minute papers or poster presentations to csdl2004 at ualberta.ca by 1 May 2004. This 500-word limit includes data. You may include a second sheet for references. Only electronic submissions will be accepted (please use PDF format if you must preserve fonts or other images, otherwise MS Word is the preferred attachment format). The abstracts in your electronic attachments should include title only as they will be blind-reviewed. Please include your name, affiliation, title of the paper, up to 5 key words describing the research, and contact information including mailing address, phone/fax, and email in the body of your email message. Because of the prevalence of spam and viruses hidden in attachments, please put "CSDL-7 abstract" in the subject line of your email message. Successful abstracts will seek to address the theme of the conference (empirical and experimental methods in research on conceptual structure, discourse, and language) and will feature: (a) a well-defined research question, (b) clear delineation of the phenomenon of study, (c) precise methodology, (d) sample data, and (e) actual or anticipated results. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by at least three referees. Notification of acceptance will be made by 15 June 2004. We expect that the proceedings of CSDL-2004 will be published by the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Both paper and poster presentations will be eligible for submission. Proceedings of previous CSDL conferences are currently available through CSLI Publications (see http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/CSDL.html for information). Information for Students A small number of travel subsidies (worth approximately $150 CAD) are available by application (see website for details) to graduate student presenters residing outside of Alberta. Information about crash space will be available at a later date. Registration The early registration fee is $70 CAD (approx. $50 US) for non-students and $10 CAD for students. An additional $30 fee will help defray costs of the Conference banquet on Saturday night (9 October 2004). After 1 September, the registration fee for non-students will rise to $100 CAD. The registration fee for students and unemployed academics is $10 CAD (the cost of the banquet remains $30 CAD). Site CSDL-2004 will be held at the University of Alberta Conference Centre (Lister Hall) at 87th Avenue and 116th Street in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Centre features a limited number of guest rooms. Other travel, hotel, and ground transportation to follow. Contact Information csdl2004 at ualberta.ca http://www.ualberta.ca/csdl2004/ Department of Linguistics 4-34 Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7 CANADA tel: +780-492-3434 fax: +780-492-0806 http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/linguistics Organizers Please send comments and questions regarding CSDL-2004 to: Sally Rice, Linguistics, University of Alberta, sally.rice at ualberta.ca John Newman, Linguistics, University of Alberta, john.newman at ualberta.ca From robert at vjf.cnrs.fr Thu Mar 25 17:20:50 2004 From: robert at vjf.cnrs.fr (Stephane Robert) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:20:50 +0100 Subject: Lyon Summer school Models for Complex Systems (first announcement) Message-ID: Summer School : Models for Complex Systems in Human and Social Sciences Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines , Lyon FRANCE July 19-31 2004 Web site : http://www.lps.ens.fr/%7Eweisbuch/scshs/eng.html http://www.lps.ens.fr/%7Eweisbuch/scshs/lyon.html Important dates Deadline for application : May 7 2004 Acceptation : May 28 2004 School : July 19-31 2004 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines Goals Although complex systems based methods are more and more used to model social phenomena, there is no place in Europe where there are thought as a whole. The aim of the school will be to develop the technical abilities of the participants to build a simple model and to use it at its maximal potential. The following aspects will be studied: Description of the problem, modelling process, scaling aspects. Choice of experimental protocols and of the best "measures" in order to highlight observable phenomena via simulations. Presentation of the main methods and their practical application, without hoping exhaustivity during the 12 days of the school. Topics As we have just said, there is no place in Europe where are taught in a systematic way the methods that can be used to model complex systems in human and social sciences. Since these methods usually come from other fields (mathematics, physics, computer science...), they are often unknown. The school we propose to organize will have the role to fill this gap by proposing lectures given by world specialists of the domain and directed to an audience of researchers (including graduate students) working on modeling problems in human and social sciences. The contents of the courses will relate more to the methods rather on the application fields. Of course, the presented methods will be illustrated on examples coming from human and social sciences, but our wish is to focus on the methods rather than on specific particular case. Computer simulations and experimentations will be studied under the format of mini-projects. Speakers Lectures will be given in english, following the format of 4 sessions of 3 hours for each course, by Robert Axtell, Brooking Institution, USA, Agent-Based Computational Modeling in the Social Sciences with Applications to Economics Rama Cont, Ecole Polytechnique, France, Agent-based models of financial markets Sorin Solomon, Jérusalem University, Israël, Multi-agent theory, simulation and phenomena in Human and Social systems Alessandro Vespignani, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Orsay, France, Structure and function of complex networks Sara Franceschelli (ENS LSH), Michel Morvan (ENS Lyon) and Gérard Weisbuch (ENS Ulm) will also teach and will ensure the scientific animation of the school. Organisation The summer school will be organized by Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and hosted by the Ecole Normale de Lettres et Sciences Humaines. It will take place from July 19 to 31 2004 (22 half days) in the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, in Lyon, France. It will be one of the major event organized in 2004 by the Institut des Systèmes Complexes (Complex Systems Institute) of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. The two Ecoles Normales Supérieures in Lyon are two of the most prestigious places for higher education in France. One is specialized in sciences and the other in literature and human sciences. The summer school will be one of the first steps in the creation of long term collaborations between them. They are installed on two campuses in the south of Lyon (close one to the other) and own residences allowing to propose good quality accomodations to the participants. The organisation committee is composed by Sara Franceschelli (ENS LSH), Michel Morvan (ENS Lyon) and Gérard Weisbuch (ENS Paris). Participants The participants will mainly be modelers having reasonable mathematical skills (graduate education in Mathematics, or Computer Science or Physics). Researchers from human or social sciences already having collaboration experiences with modelers and so having some basic mathematical culture can also apply. The school will be organized for both junior and senior researchers. The number of participants is limited to 50, mainly coming from european countries. Applications Please send your short CV (no more than 2 pages) and a half page of motivations to scshs at freesurf.fr before Mai 7 2004. Financial support Partial financial support (travel and/or accomodation) will be available for participants on request. The school is supported by the ACI from the French CNRS and Ministère de la Recherche "Systèmes Complexes en Sciences Humaines et Sociales" and (tentative) by the European network Exystence. Fees A low financial participation will be requested from participants. More specific information will be given in the next call for participation. Gérard Weisbuch Laboratoire de Physique Statistique ENS weisbuch at lps.ens.fr 24 rue Lhomond 75005 Paris France phone 331 44 32 34 75 Fax 44 32 34 33 http://www.lps.ens.fr/~weisbuch _______________ Stéphane ROBERT Directrice Fédération "Typologie et Universaux linguistiques" CNRS - FR 2559 44, rue de l’Amiral Mouchez 75014 Paris - FRANCE Tel. : + 33 1 43 13 56 47 fax : + 33 1 43 13 56 59 e-mail : secretariat.tul at ivry.cnrs.fr http://www.typologie.cnrs.fr From sanso at humnet.unipi.it Fri Mar 26 14:51:13 2004 From: sanso at humnet.unipi.it (sanso at humnet.unipi.it) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:51:13 +0100 Subject: "vague you" and "vague they" constructions Message-ID: Hi everyone, I'm currently investigating "vague you" and "vague they" constructions in some European languages from a typological point of view, and I was wondering if anyone could supply some references (particularly welcome are studies devoted to a single language, as well as studies concerned with the semantics/pragmatics of such constructions in real texts). Please write directly to me and I will share results if there are interesting responses. Thanks in advance Andrea Sanso' Dipartimento di Linguistica Universita' di Pavia, Italy sanso at humnet.unipi.it From clements at indiana.edu Mon Mar 1 21:25:49 2004 From: clements at indiana.edu (clements at indiana.edu) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:25:49 -0500 Subject: ^_^ mew-mew (-: Message-ID: Fell free to chat with me I accept all ages. Don''''t worry I don''''t bite........hope to hear from you soon! password: 42641 From jlecaval at ROCLER.QC.CA Mon Mar 1 21:32:10 2004 From: jlecaval at ROCLER.QC.CA (jlecaval at ROCLER.QC.CA) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:32:10 -0500 Subject: Bad girl Message-ID: When The Trust is Gone So Is The Love That Fades Like the Rain Washing Away All The Sorrows Of Yesterday Why I Ask Myself Must It End Like This Tomorrow, I Tell Myself, I'll Be Okay For Now, I'll Just Live In The Memories Of Our Life Together password: 42641 From bls at socrates.berkeley.edu Mon Mar 1 21:45:35 2004 From: bls at socrates.berkeley.edu (Berkeley Linguistics Society) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:45:35 -0500 Subject: Mary-Anne Message-ID: I'm a social butterfly and a natural flirt. Very hard to get my complete attention. Very open and will answer almost anything. But please don't piss me off. I can be sweet and cuddly or a whatever mood I am in that day so everyday password: 42641 From funkadmn at ruf.rice.edu Mon Mar 1 22:42:24 2004 From: funkadmn at ruf.rice.edu (Funknet List Admin) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:42:24 -0600 Subject: temporary list moderation (re recent spam) Message-ID: Dear Funknet Subscribers, Due to an increase in spam postings to Funknet today, I have just enabled emergency list moderation. What this means is, for the next several days, any posting to Funknet will need to first be verified by the list administrator (AKA me). If you post a message to Funknet, I will receive an e-mail notification, and will approve the post as soon as possible. This may mean that your posting will take several hours to be sent out, but for the time being I believe this is preferable to being inundated with bogus messages. Please note that I am not filtering or censoring legitimate posts--I will only reject posts containing spam like the three from earlier this afternoon. 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The deadline for initial submissions is the end of May each year. Provided that a manuscript is accepted for publication without major revisions, it will in the normal course of events appear in January the next year. For further information, visit our web pages at http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky or contact one of the editors: Pentti Haddington Dept. of English P.O. Box 1000 FIN-90014 University of Oulu FINLAND pentti.haddington at oulu.fi Jouni Rostila Dept. of German Language and Culture Studies FIN-33014 University of Tampere FINLAND jouni.rostila at uta.fi Ulla Tuomarla Dept. of Romance Languages P.O. Box 24 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki FINLAND tuomarla at mappi.helsinki.fi Please note that all the editors deal with submissions in English besides the language of their special expertise indicated by their affiliations. From reng at ruf.rice.edu Mon Mar 15 19:48:41 2004 From: reng at ruf.rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:48:41 -0600 Subject: (Final Reminder) Rice Linguistics Symposium on Stancetaking Message-ID: FINAL REMINDER!!! "Stancetaking in Discourse: subjectivity in interaction" the 10th biennial Rice Linguistics Symposium March 31-April 3, 2004, Rice University, Houston, TX. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/symposium_2004.html The Department of Linguistics at Rice University is pleased to announce the 10th Biennial Rice Linguistics symposium: "Stancetaking in Discourse: subjectivity in interaction". Presenters have been invited from linguistics and related disciplines to address stancetaking in naturally-occurring spoken and/or written discourse. Stance--broadly construed as the expression of emotion, attitude, subjectivity, and perspective--permeates language use at all levels. The symposium seeks to explore the interrelationship of stancetaking with language form and function, cultural construction, and social interaction. Invited speakers will address these issues from a range of approaches, including quantitative methodologies of discourse/corpus linguistics and qualitative methodologies of ethnography and Conversation Analysis. There is no registration fee to attend the symposium, but you will need to pre-register by e-mailing Robert Englebretson at reng at rice.edu. The schedule of speakers and abstracts is posted on the symposium web page: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/symposium_2004.html From ccdlku at yahoo.com Thu Mar 18 00:27:49 2004 From: ccdlku at yahoo.com (Seungwan Ha) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:27:49 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers - 29th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Message-ID: ****************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS 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 only must be made before the review process is complete (i.e. at the time of submission). 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 ****************************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com From jvalen at um.es Thu Mar 18 10:17:28 2004 From: jvalen at um.es (Javier Valenzuela) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:17:28 +0100 Subject: New International Journal of English Studies (IJES) issue Message-ID: (With apologies for cross-posting) We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of IJES (International Journal of English Studies) /Contrastive Cognitive Linguistics /Vol 3.2 (Issue editors Javier Valenzuela & Ana Rojo), is already available. Ordering information below. Contents: RONALD LANGACKER Strategies of Clausal Possession DAVID TUGGY Abrelatas and Scarecrows: Exocentric Verb-Noun Compounds as Illustrations of Basic Principles of Cognitive Grammar AINTZANE DOIZ An Analysis of English, Spanish and Basque Demonstrastives in Narrative: a Matter of Viewpoint RITA BRDAR-SZABO & MARIO BRDAR Referential Metonymy across Languages: What Can Cognitive Linguistics and Contrastive Linguistics Learn from Each Other? CRISTINA SORIANO Some Anger Metaphors in Spanish and English: A Contrastive Review ANA ROJO & JAVIER VALENZUELA Fictive Motion in English and Spanish IRAIDE IBARRETXE What Translation Tells us about Motion: A Contrastive Study of Typologically Different Languages Purchasing: IJES Single Issue: 10? (14$) individuals; 20? (28$) institutions Please send the Order Form that you will find at http://www.um.es/engphil/ijes, together with a cheque payable to universidad de murcia, either in Euros of in US Dollars to J.A. Cutillas-Espinosa Departamento Filolog?a Inglesa Facultad de Letras Universidad de Murcia 30071 MURCIA (SPAIN) E-mail: jacuti at um.es From sally.rice at ualberta.ca Tue Mar 23 20:39:15 2004 From: sally.rice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:39:15 -0800 Subject: CSDL-2004 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: **apologies for multiple postings** Second Call for Papers CSDL-2004 7th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA 8-10 October 2004 (Friday-Sunday) http://www.ualberta.ca/csdl2004/ Now in its 10th year as an international conference, CSDL features papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech & language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition. Conference Theme CSDL-2004 has been organized around the theme of empirical and experimental methods in CSDL-related research. Invited Speakers Larry Barsalou (Psychology, Emory University) Russ Tomlin (Linguistics, University of Oregon) Nick Evans (Linguistics & Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne There will be 50 general session papers in two parallel sessions as well as 30 poster presentations in two poster sessions, for a total of 83 presentations. Information for Authors Please submit 500-word (maximum) abstracts for 25-minute papers or poster presentations to csdl2004 at ualberta.ca by 1 May 2004. This 500-word limit includes data. You may include a second sheet for references. Only electronic submissions will be accepted (please use PDF format if you must preserve fonts or other images, otherwise MS Word is the preferred attachment format). The abstracts in your electronic attachments should include title only as they will be blind-reviewed. Please include your name, affiliation, title of the paper, up to 5 key words describing the research, and contact information including mailing address, phone/fax, and email in the body of your email message. Because of the prevalence of spam and viruses hidden in attachments, please put "CSDL-7 abstract" in the subject line of your email message. Successful abstracts will seek to address the theme of the conference (empirical and experimental methods in research on conceptual structure, discourse, and language) and will feature: (a) a well-defined research question, (b) clear delineation of the phenomenon of study, (c) precise methodology, (d) sample data, and (e) actual or anticipated results. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by at least three referees. Notification of acceptance will be made by 15 June 2004. We expect that the proceedings of CSDL-2004 will be published by the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI). Both paper and poster presentations will be eligible for submission. Proceedings of previous CSDL conferences are currently available through CSLI Publications (see http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/site/CSDL.html for information). Information for Students A small number of travel subsidies (worth approximately $150 CAD) are available by application (see website for details) to graduate student presenters residing outside of Alberta. Information about crash space will be available at a later date. Registration The early registration fee is $70 CAD (approx. $50 US) for non-students and $10 CAD for students. An additional $30 fee will help defray costs of the Conference banquet on Saturday night (9 October 2004). After 1 September, the registration fee for non-students will rise to $100 CAD. The registration fee for students and unemployed academics is $10 CAD (the cost of the banquet remains $30 CAD). Site CSDL-2004 will be held at the University of Alberta Conference Centre (Lister Hall) at 87th Avenue and 116th Street in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The Centre features a limited number of guest rooms. Other travel, hotel, and ground transportation to follow. Contact Information csdl2004 at ualberta.ca http://www.ualberta.ca/csdl2004/ Department of Linguistics 4-34 Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2E7 CANADA tel: +780-492-3434 fax: +780-492-0806 http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/linguistics Organizers Please send comments and questions regarding CSDL-2004 to: Sally Rice, Linguistics, University of Alberta, sally.rice at ualberta.ca John Newman, Linguistics, University of Alberta, john.newman at ualberta.ca From robert at vjf.cnrs.fr Thu Mar 25 17:20:50 2004 From: robert at vjf.cnrs.fr (Stephane Robert) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:20:50 +0100 Subject: Lyon Summer school Models for Complex Systems (first announcement) Message-ID: Summer School : Models for Complex Systems in Human and Social Sciences Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines , Lyon FRANCE July 19-31 2004 Web site : http://www.lps.ens.fr/%7Eweisbuch/scshs/eng.html http://www.lps.ens.fr/%7Eweisbuch/scshs/lyon.html Important dates Deadline for application : May 7 2004 Acceptation : May 28 2004 School : July 19-31 2004 at the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines Goals Although complex systems based methods are more and more used to model social phenomena, there is no place in Europe where there are thought as a whole. The aim of the school will be to develop the technical abilities of the participants to build a simple model and to use it at its maximal potential. The following aspects will be studied: Description of the problem, modelling process, scaling aspects. Choice of experimental protocols and of the best "measures" in order to highlight observable phenomena via simulations. Presentation of the main methods and their practical application, without hoping exhaustivity during the 12 days of the school. Topics As we have just said, there is no place in Europe where are taught in a systematic way the methods that can be used to model complex systems in human and social sciences. Since these methods usually come from other fields (mathematics, physics, computer science...), they are often unknown. The school we propose to organize will have the role to fill this gap by proposing lectures given by world specialists of the domain and directed to an audience of researchers (including graduate students) working on modeling problems in human and social sciences. The contents of the courses will relate more to the methods rather on the application fields. Of course, the presented methods will be illustrated on examples coming from human and social sciences, but our wish is to focus on the methods rather than on specific particular case. Computer simulations and experimentations will be studied under the format of mini-projects. Speakers Lectures will be given in english, following the format of 4 sessions of 3 hours for each course, by Robert Axtell, Brooking Institution, USA, Agent-Based Computational Modeling in the Social Sciences with Applications to Economics Rama Cont, Ecole Polytechnique, France, Agent-based models of financial markets Sorin Solomon, J?rusalem University, Isra?l, Multi-agent theory, simulation and phenomena in Human and Social systems Alessandro Vespignani, Laboratoire de Physique Th?orique, Orsay, France, Structure and function of complex networks Sara Franceschelli (ENS LSH), Michel Morvan (ENS Lyon) and G?rard Weisbuch (ENS Ulm) will also teach and will ensure the scientific animation of the school. Organisation The summer school will be organized by Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon and hosted by the Ecole Normale de Lettres et Sciences Humaines. It will take place from July 19 to 31 2004 (22 half days) in the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lettres et Sciences Humaines, in Lyon, France. It will be one of the major event organized in 2004 by the Institut des Syst?mes Complexes (Complex Systems Institute) of Ecole Normale Sup?rieure de Lyon. The two Ecoles Normales Sup?rieures in Lyon are two of the most prestigious places for higher education in France. One is specialized in sciences and the other in literature and human sciences. The summer school will be one of the first steps in the creation of long term collaborations between them. They are installed on two campuses in the south of Lyon (close one to the other) and own residences allowing to propose good quality accomodations to the participants. The organisation committee is composed by Sara Franceschelli (ENS LSH), Michel Morvan (ENS Lyon) and G?rard Weisbuch (ENS Paris). Participants The participants will mainly be modelers having reasonable mathematical skills (graduate education in Mathematics, or Computer Science or Physics). Researchers from human or social sciences already having collaboration experiences with modelers and so having some basic mathematical culture can also apply. The school will be organized for both junior and senior researchers. The number of participants is limited to 50, mainly coming from european countries. Applications Please send your short CV (no more than 2 pages) and a half page of motivations to scshs at freesurf.fr before Mai 7 2004. Financial support Partial financial support (travel and/or accomodation) will be available for participants on request. The school is supported by the ACI from the French CNRS and Minist?re de la Recherche "Syst?mes Complexes en Sciences Humaines et Sociales" and (tentative) by the European network Exystence. Fees A low financial participation will be requested from participants. More specific information will be given in the next call for participation. G?rard Weisbuch Laboratoire de Physique Statistique ENS weisbuch at lps.ens.fr 24 rue Lhomond 75005 Paris France phone 331 44 32 34 75 Fax 44 32 34 33 http://www.lps.ens.fr/~weisbuch _______________ St?phane ROBERT Directrice F?d?ration "Typologie et Universaux linguistiques" CNRS - FR 2559 44, rue de l?Amiral Mouchez 75014 Paris - FRANCE Tel. : + 33 1 43 13 56 47 fax : + 33 1 43 13 56 59 e-mail : secretariat.tul at ivry.cnrs.fr http://www.typologie.cnrs.fr From sanso at humnet.unipi.it Fri Mar 26 14:51:13 2004 From: sanso at humnet.unipi.it (sanso at humnet.unipi.it) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:51:13 +0100 Subject: "vague you" and "vague they" constructions Message-ID: Hi everyone, I'm currently investigating "vague you" and "vague they" constructions in some European languages from a typological point of view, and I was wondering if anyone could supply some references (particularly welcome are studies devoted to a single language, as well as studies concerned with the semantics/pragmatics of such constructions in real texts). Please write directly to me and I will share results if there are interesting responses. Thanks in advance Andrea Sanso' Dipartimento di Linguistica Universita' di Pavia, Italy sanso at humnet.unipi.it