From kemmer at rice.edu Mon Nov 15 22:07:26 2004 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:07:26 -0600 Subject: Doctoral program and fellowships at Rice University Message-ID: DOCTORAL STUDY AT RICE UNIVERSITY On December 1, 2004, competition will open for academic year 2005-2006 admissions and fellowships for the Rice University Ph.D. program in Linguistics. The doctoral program at Rice focuses on the usage-based study of human language, with primary attention to the relation of form and function, and the cognitive, interactional, and sociocultural situation of language users. The overriding theoretical orientation is that of functional linguistics, with an eclectic application of theoretical models. The department has strengths in discourse linguistics, cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics, language typology and universals, field/descriptive linguistics (particularly of little-documented languages), sociolinguistics, and laboratory phonology and phonetics. Language areas particularly well represented in faculty expertise are Austronesian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, Germanic and Slavic languages, Japanese, and African languages. Other languages recently studied in field methods include languages of North and South America and of South Asia. ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS.  Candidates for admission must submit an application form and university transcripts before the deadline of February 1. Also required are scores from the Graduate Record Examination, and, for non-native speakers of English, scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). These examinations should be taken in time for the scores to be made available by early February 2005. In many countries the latest date for taking the GRE before our deadline is Dec. 11. Please see the GRE and TOEFL websites to find out the earliest possible date to take the test from your region (www.linguistics.rice.edu/programs.cfm?doc_id=923 contains links to the relevant testing sites). The candidate should also arrange for three letters of recommendation from relevant faculty who know the candidate's work, preferably in Linguistics, to be sent to the Linguistics Dept. at the address below. A course paper or publication (written in English) in linguistics or related subject should be supplied if possible. FINANCIAL AID.  Admission and financial awards are competitive. Graduate fellowship packages are awarded to outstanding candidates for admission to the doctoral program. Awards generally include Rice tuition and a cash stipend for living expenses. Fellowships are normally available for 4 or 5 years of support depending on prior background. In general, the department admits applicants whom it can offer a financial package. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS - LETTERS OF INTENT. Applications are welcome from both U.S.-based and international students. Because international qualifications sometimes require extra time to consider, foreign students who wish to be considered for a fellowship are strongly encouraged to write a letter of intention to apply, which briefly outlines their qualifications and indicates the linguists from whom they intend to request letters of recommendation. Letters of intention to apply should be sent as soon as possible in Fall 2004 for the current application cycle. Letters of intent received by December 15 will receive fullest consideration and will help us to identify the top candidates from outside the U.S. The letter should be addressed to the department at the address below. Students from countries with currency problems can request a waiver of the application fee and such requests will be considered on their merits. DEADLINE for applications for admission and financial aid: February 1, 2005. CURRENT STUDENTS, PROGRAM LENGTH. In 2004, four doctoral students were awarded full fellowships plus tuition waivers. Currently all students within the first five years of their progress to degree are financially supported. Current doctoral students come from the U.S., Germany, Israel, Korea, Russia,  Brazil, Taiwan R.O.C., Hungary, and Mexico. Normative time to degree is a 4 years with masters degree, 5 years without masters. Usual time of completion is about 5 years, but depends on the student's own progress and activities. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. Further information about the doctoral program, faculty interests, departmental activities, links to GRE and TOEFL web sites, etc., can be viewed at www.linguistics.rice.edu . APPLICATION AND CONTACT INFORMATION. Application can be made online from our website. Go to linguistics.rice.edu/programs.cfm?doc_id=131 . Scroll down to near the bottom of the page, where there is a link to the on-line application form. All supplementary application materials and correspondence should be sent to: Department of Linguistics, M.S. 23 Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston TX 77251-1892 U.S.A. Email correspondence: Rita Riley, rriley at rice.edu From jl.mackenzie at let.vu.nl Tue Nov 16 14:12:02 2004 From: jl.mackenzie at let.vu.nl (Lachlan Mackenzie) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:12:02 +0100 Subject: Functions of Language Message-ID: FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE Functions of Language seeks to be the major outlet for functionalist linguistics worldwide. Since the appearance of volume 10 of the journal in 2003, a new editorial team has been developing and making more explicit the strengths of the previous nine volumes. The aim is to encourage open and lively debate under the guidance of an editorial board that represents every major stream in current functionalism. Functions of Language encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from the full spectrum of human languages. Its scope is broad, covering such matters as prosodic phenomena in phonology, the clause in its communicative context, and regularities of pragmatics, conversation and discourse, as well as the interaction between the various levels of analysis. The overall purpose is to contribute to our understanding of how the use of languages in speech and writing has impacted, and continues to impact, upon the structure of those languages. Functions of Language promotes the constructive interaction between linguistics and such neighbouring disciplines as sociology, cultural studies, psychology, ethology, communication studies, translation theory and educational linguistics. This journal is anonymously peer-reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, INIST, Language Abstracts, Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique, LLBA, MLA Bibliography. An electronic edition is available at ingentaJournals (http://www.ingenta.com) FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE ISSN: 0929-998X E-ISSN: 1569-9765 Editors J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Lisbon Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Ghent University Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool Review Editor Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium), University of Leuven Managing Editor Miriam Taverniers, Ghent University Honorary Editor M.A.K. Halliday, Emeritus University of Sydney Editorial Board Christopher S. Butler, University of Wales Swansea Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, University of Konstanz John W. DuBois, University of California, Santa Barbara Robin P. Fawcett, University of Wales, Cardiff Eva Hajicová, Charles University Prague Mike Hannay, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ruqaiya Hasan, Macquarie University Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institut Leipzig Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham Ronald W. Langacker, UCSD Ricardo Mairal Usón, National University of Distance Learning, Madrid William C. Mann, University of Southern California/SIL International J.R. Martin, University of Sydney Jan Nuyts, University of Antwerp Anna Siewierska, University of Lancaster Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago Gerard J. Steen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Michael Stubbs, University of Trier John R. Taylor, University of Otago Robert D. Van Valin Jr., University at Buffalo Anna Wierzbicka, Australian National University Further information at , including a sample issue and guidelines for the submission of articles and reviews. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the Managing Editor at . ******************************** Lachlan Mackenzie Editor of Functions of Language Av. António Augusto de Aguiar 110 6B 1050-019 Lisboa Portugal From Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com Fri Nov 19 16:01:44 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com (Julia Ulrich) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:01:44 +0100 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?Studies_in_Linguistic_Motivation=2C_edi?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ted_by_G=FCnter_Radden_and_Klaus-Uwe_Panther_=28Mou?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ton_de_Gruyter=2C_2004=29?= Message-ID: NEW PUBLICATION FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER STUDIES IN LINGUISTIC MOTIVATION Edited by Günter Radden and Klaus-Uwe Panther 2004. ix, 395 pages. Cloth. EUR 118.00 [D] / sFr 189.00 / approx. US$ 142.00 ISBN 3-11-018245-9 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 28) Language of publication: English Date of publication: 11/2004 http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110182459-1&l=E How much of language is motivated? Recently, cognitive and functional linguists have proposed new solutions to this intriguing question. The thirteen articles collected in this volume cover various aspects of motivation in grammar and in the lexicon. The phenomena discussed in the contributions can be grouped into four types of motivation, which, along with other types, are explicated in the introductory chapter: ecological motivation, i.e. motivation of a linguistic unit due to its place, or "ecological niche," within a system; genetic motivation, i.e. motivation of present-day linguistic behavior or structure due to historical factors; experiential motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on embodied experience; and cognitive motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on human knowledge and cognitive operations such as metonymy and metaphor. The languages studied in some detail include Afrikaans, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hausa, and Hungarian. This volume makes a strong case for the pervasiveness of motivation in natural language. It will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of linguistics, especially of functional and cognitive linguistics. Günter Radden and Klaus-Uwe Panther are Professors of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. TO ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT SFG Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada, Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. PO Box 960 Herndon, VA 20172-0960 Tel.: +1 (703) 661 1589 Tel. Toll-free +1 (800) 208 8144 Fax: +1 (703) 661 1501 e-mail: degruytermail at presswarehouse.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich trotzdem erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf zum Pruefzeitpunkt bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From dcyr at yorku.ca Wed Nov 24 22:45:58 2004 From: dcyr at yorku.ca (Danielle E. Cyr) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:45:58 -0500 Subject: Conference in Santa Barbara ? Message-ID: An announcement for a conference on Aboriginal Languages issues circulated a while ago. Unfortunately I've lost this piece of information. all I can remeber is that it is planned for April 26-28, 2005, in Santa Barbara. Can someone help me with retrieving this info. Thanks, Danielle Cyr York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3 Tel. 1-416-736-2100 # 30180 email dcyr at yorku.ca Sabbatical address: 339, Boulevard Perron Ouest New Richmond, QC Canada G0C 2B0 Tel. 1-418-392-7271 email danielle.e.cyr at globetrotter.net From cjany at umail.ucsb.edu Wed Nov 24 23:16:26 2004 From: cjany at umail.ucsb.edu (Carmen Jany) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:16:26 -0800 Subject: Conference in Santa Barbara ? In-Reply-To: <1101336358.41a50f261e9e8@webmail.yorku.ca> Message-ID: Dear Danielle Cyr, below please find the call for papers for the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, to be held at UC Santa Barbara, April 21-23, 2005. Best wishes, Carmen Jany CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 21-23, 2005 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its eighth annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single and one co-authored paper. Abstracts should be 500 words or less and can be submitted by hard copy or email. Please indicate your source(s) of data in the abstract. For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance. For email submissions, include the abstract as an attachment. Please limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft Word document. Include the following information in the body of the email message: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper. Send email submissions to: wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu For hard copy submissions, please send five copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the information from the body of the email. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance will be by email by February 15, 2005. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Yñez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on the web. For further information contact the conference coordinator at wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776, or check out our website under 'events' at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu Quoting dcyr at yorku.ca: > An announcement for a conference on Aboriginal Languages issues circulated a > while ago. Unfortunately I've lost this piece of information. all I can > remeber is that it is planned for April 26-28, 2005, in Santa Barbara. Can > someone help me with retrieving this info. > > Thanks, > > > Danielle Cyr > > > York University > 4700 Keele Street > Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3 > Tel. 1-416-736-2100 # 30180 > email dcyr at yorku.ca > > Sabbatical address: > > 339, Boulevard Perron Ouest > New Richmond, QC > Canada G0C 2B0 > Tel. 1-418-392-7271 > email danielle.e.cyr at globetrotter.net > -- Carmen Jany cjany at umail.ucsb.edu From ksinnema at ling.helsinki.fi Fri Nov 26 08:40:23 2004 From: ksinnema at ling.helsinki.fi (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kaius_Sinnem=E4ki?=) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:40:23 +0200 Subject: Question on Grammatical complexity Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) Dear colleagues, I'm a graduate student at the University of Helsinki working on structural complexity and system economy of languages. It has long been claimed that structurally languages have equally "rich" / "complicated" / "complex" / "economical" grammars. My aim is to find results that would either verify or falsify the claim. For this purpose, I'm looking for correlations (or their absence) between the complexities of morphology, syntax and phonology. Some relevant correlations have been attested (e.g. Zipf 1968) that seem to support the claim. Yet, as far as I know, there's little relevant work available (e.g. Dahl 2004, McWhorter 2001 and the Commentary in Linguistic Typology 2001/5:2-3, Perkins 1992, Plank 1986). I would very much appreciate any help in finding the relevant literature (theoretical or empirical) and any results already available that have addresses this issue. You can respond directly to me (ksinnema at ling.helsinki.fi ) and I'll post a summary and list of references, if there's general interest. Thanks in advance, Kaius Sinnemäki Graduate student Department of General Linguistics University of Helsinki References: Dahl, Östen 2004. /The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity. /Amsterdam: Benjamins. McWhorter, John H. 2001. The World's Simplest Grammars are Creole Grammars. /Linguistic Typology/ 5 (2-3): 125-156. Plank, Frans 1986. Paradigm Size, Morphological Typology, and Universal Economy. /Folia Linguistica /20: 29-48. Perkins, Revere D. 1992. /Deixis, Grammar, and Culture./ Amsterdam: Benjamins. Zipf, George Kingsley 1968. /The psycho-biology of language: an introduction to dynamic philology/. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press. -- Kaius Sinnemäki, M.A., Researcher General Linguistics, University of Helsinki P.O Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 20A) 00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND Email: ksinnema at ling.helsinki.fi From jrubba at calpoly.edu Mon Nov 29 17:33:36 2004 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:33:36 -0800 Subject: query about research on folk theories of language Message-ID: Hi all, I am looking for sources on the role of such phenomena as basic-level cognition, prototype categorization, schemas and cognitive models, and such in folk theories about language -- "the people's metalinguistics". I'm concerned about structure more than function in this case (please don't accuse me of separating the two). Thanks in advance -- I'll compile a list if anyone is interested. Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Associate Professor, Linguistics English Department, California Polytechnic State University One Grand Avenue • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Tel. (805)-756-2184 • Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone. 756-2596 • E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu • Home page: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From kemmer at rice.edu Mon Nov 15 22:07:26 2004 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:07:26 -0600 Subject: Doctoral program and fellowships at Rice University Message-ID: DOCTORAL STUDY AT RICE UNIVERSITY On December 1, 2004, competition will open for academic year 2005-2006 admissions and fellowships for the Rice University Ph.D. program in Linguistics. The doctoral program at Rice focuses on the usage-based study of human language, with primary attention to the relation of form and function, and the cognitive, interactional, and sociocultural situation of language users. The overriding theoretical orientation is that of functional linguistics, with an eclectic application of theoretical models. The department has strengths in discourse linguistics, cognitive linguistics, neurolinguistics, language typology and universals, field/descriptive linguistics (particularly of little-documented languages), sociolinguistics, and laboratory phonology and phonetics. Language areas particularly well represented in faculty expertise are Austronesian languages, Australian Aboriginal languages, Germanic and Slavic languages, Japanese, and African languages. Other languages recently studied in field methods include languages of North and South America and of South Asia. ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS. ?Candidates for admission must submit an application form and university transcripts before the deadline of February 1. Also required are scores from the Graduate Record Examination, and, for non-native speakers of English, scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). These examinations should be taken in time for the scores to be made available by early February 2005. In many countries the latest date for taking the GRE before our deadline is Dec. 11. Please see the GRE and TOEFL websites to find out the earliest possible date to take the test from your region (www.linguistics.rice.edu/programs.cfm?doc_id=923 contains links to the relevant testing sites). The candidate should also arrange for three letters of recommendation from relevant faculty who know the candidate's work, preferably in Linguistics, to be sent to the Linguistics Dept. at the address below. A course paper or publication (written in English) in linguistics or related subject should be supplied if possible. FINANCIAL AID. ?Admission and financial awards are competitive. Graduate fellowship packages are awarded to outstanding candidates for admission to the doctoral program. Awards generally include Rice tuition and a cash stipend for living expenses. Fellowships are normally available for 4 or 5 years of support depending on prior background. In general, the department admits applicants whom it can offer a financial package. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS - LETTERS OF INTENT. Applications are welcome from both U.S.-based and international students. Because international qualifications sometimes require extra time to consider, foreign students who wish to be considered for a fellowship are strongly encouraged to write a letter of intention to apply, which briefly outlines their qualifications and indicates the linguists from whom they intend to request letters of recommendation. Letters of intention to apply should be sent as soon as possible in Fall 2004 for the current application cycle. Letters of intent received by December 15 will receive fullest consideration and will help us to identify the top candidates from outside the U.S. The letter should be addressed to the department at the address below. Students from countries with currency problems can request a waiver of the application fee and such requests will be considered on their merits. DEADLINE for applications for admission and financial aid: February 1, 2005. CURRENT STUDENTS, PROGRAM LENGTH. In 2004, four doctoral students were awarded full fellowships plus tuition waivers. Currently all students within the first five years of their progress to degree are financially supported. Current doctoral students come from the U.S.,?Germany, Israel, Korea, Russia,? Brazil, Taiwan R.O.C., Hungary,?and Mexico. Normative time to degree is a 4 years with masters degree, 5 years without masters. Usual time of completion is about 5 years, but depends on the student's own progress and activities. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. Further information about the doctoral program, faculty interests, departmental activities, links to GRE and TOEFL web sites, etc., can be viewed at www.linguistics.rice.edu . APPLICATION AND CONTACT INFORMATION. Application can be made online from our website. Go to linguistics.rice.edu/programs.cfm?doc_id=131 . Scroll down to near the bottom of the page, where there is a link to the on-line application form. All supplementary application materials and correspondence should be sent to: Department of Linguistics, M.S. 23 Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston TX 77251-1892 U.S.A. Email correspondence: Rita Riley, rriley at rice.edu From jl.mackenzie at let.vu.nl Tue Nov 16 14:12:02 2004 From: jl.mackenzie at let.vu.nl (Lachlan Mackenzie) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:12:02 +0100 Subject: Functions of Language Message-ID: FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE Functions of Language seeks to be the major outlet for functionalist linguistics worldwide. Since the appearance of volume 10 of the journal in 2003, a new editorial team has been developing and making more explicit the strengths of the previous nine volumes. The aim is to encourage open and lively debate under the guidance of an editorial board that represents every major stream in current functionalism. Functions of Language encourages the interplay of theory and description, and provides space for the detailed analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of linguistic data from the full spectrum of human languages. Its scope is broad, covering such matters as prosodic phenomena in phonology, the clause in its communicative context, and regularities of pragmatics, conversation and discourse, as well as the interaction between the various levels of analysis. The overall purpose is to contribute to our understanding of how the use of languages in speech and writing has impacted, and continues to impact, upon the structure of those languages. Functions of Language promotes the constructive interaction between linguistics and such neighbouring disciplines as sociology, cultural studies, psychology, ethology, communication studies, translation theory and educational linguistics. This journal is anonymously peer-reviewed and indexed in: IBR/IBZ, INIST, Language Abstracts, Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique, LLBA, MLA Bibliography. An electronic edition is available at ingentaJournals (http://www.ingenta.com) FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE ISSN: 0929-998X E-ISSN: 1569-9765 Editors J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Lisbon Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Ghent University Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool Review Editor Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders (Belgium), University of Leuven Managing Editor Miriam Taverniers, Ghent University Honorary Editor M.A.K. Halliday, Emeritus University of Sydney Editorial Board Christopher S. Butler, University of Wales Swansea Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, University of Konstanz John W. DuBois, University of California, Santa Barbara Robin P. Fawcett, University of Wales, Cardiff Eva Hajicov?, Charles University Prague Mike Hannay, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ruqaiya Hasan, Macquarie University Martin Haspelmath, Max Planck Institut Leipzig Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham Ronald W. Langacker, UCSD Ricardo Mairal Us?n, National University of Distance Learning, Madrid William C. Mann, University of Southern California/SIL International J.R. Martin, University of Sydney Jan Nuyts, University of Antwerp Anna Siewierska, University of Lancaster Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago Gerard J. Steen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Michael Stubbs, University of Trier John R. Taylor, University of Otago Robert D. Van Valin Jr., University at Buffalo Anna Wierzbicka, Australian National University Further information at , including a sample issue and guidelines for the submission of articles and reviews. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to the Managing Editor at . ******************************** Lachlan Mackenzie Editor of Functions of Language Av. Ant?nio Augusto de Aguiar 110 6B 1050-019 Lisboa Portugal From Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com Fri Nov 19 16:01:44 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com (Julia Ulrich) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:01:44 +0100 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?Studies_in_Linguistic_Motivation=2C_edi?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ted_by_G=FCnter_Radden_and_Klaus-Uwe_Panther_=28Mou?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ton_de_Gruyter=2C_2004=29?= Message-ID: NEW PUBLICATION FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER STUDIES IN LINGUISTIC MOTIVATION Edited by G?nter Radden and Klaus-Uwe Panther 2004. ix, 395 pages. Cloth. EUR 118.00 [D] / sFr 189.00 / approx. US$ 142.00 ISBN 3-11-018245-9 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 28) Language of publication: English Date of publication: 11/2004 http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110182459-1&l=E How much of language is motivated? Recently, cognitive and functional linguists have proposed new solutions to this intriguing question. The thirteen articles collected in this volume cover various aspects of motivation in grammar and in the lexicon. The phenomena discussed in the contributions can be grouped into four types of motivation, which, along with other types, are explicated in the introductory chapter: ecological motivation, i.e. motivation of a linguistic unit due to its place, or "ecological niche," within a system; genetic motivation, i.e. motivation of present-day linguistic behavior or structure due to historical factors; experiential motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on embodied experience; and cognitive motivation, i.e. motivation that is based on human knowledge and cognitive operations such as metonymy and metaphor. The languages studied in some detail include Afrikaans, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Hausa, and Hungarian. This volume makes a strong case for the pervasiveness of motivation in natural language. It will be of interest to teachers, researchers and students of linguistics, especially of functional and cognitive linguistics. G?nter Radden and Klaus-Uwe Panther are Professors of English Linguistics at the University of Hamburg, Germany. TO ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT SFG Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada, Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. PO Box 960 Herndon, VA 20172-0960 Tel.: +1 (703) 661 1589 Tel. Toll-free +1 (800) 208 8144 Fax: +1 (703) 661 1501 e-mail: degruytermail at presswarehouse.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich trotzdem erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf zum Pruefzeitpunkt bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From dcyr at yorku.ca Wed Nov 24 22:45:58 2004 From: dcyr at yorku.ca (Danielle E. Cyr) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:45:58 -0500 Subject: Conference in Santa Barbara ? Message-ID: An announcement for a conference on Aboriginal Languages issues circulated a while ago. Unfortunately I've lost this piece of information. all I can remeber is that it is planned for April 26-28, 2005, in Santa Barbara. Can someone help me with retrieving this info. Thanks, Danielle Cyr York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3 Tel. 1-416-736-2100 # 30180 email dcyr at yorku.ca Sabbatical address: 339, Boulevard Perron Ouest New Richmond, QC Canada G0C 2B0 Tel. 1-418-392-7271 email danielle.e.cyr at globetrotter.net From cjany at umail.ucsb.edu Wed Nov 24 23:16:26 2004 From: cjany at umail.ucsb.edu (Carmen Jany) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:16:26 -0800 Subject: Conference in Santa Barbara ? In-Reply-To: <1101336358.41a50f261e9e8@webmail.yorku.ca> Message-ID: Dear Danielle Cyr, below please find the call for papers for the Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, to be held at UC Santa Barbara, April 21-23, 2005. Best wishes, Carmen Jany CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 21-23, 2005 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its eighth annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single and one co-authored paper. Abstracts should be 500 words or less and can be submitted by hard copy or email. Please indicate your source(s) of data in the abstract. For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance. For email submissions, include the abstract as an attachment. Please limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft Word document. Include the following information in the body of the email message: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper. Send email submissions to: wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu For hard copy submissions, please send five copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the information from the body of the email. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance will be by email by February 15, 2005. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Y?ez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on the web. For further information contact the conference coordinator at wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776, or check out our website under 'events' at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu Quoting dcyr at yorku.ca: > An announcement for a conference on Aboriginal Languages issues circulated a > while ago. Unfortunately I've lost this piece of information. all I can > remeber is that it is planned for April 26-28, 2005, in Santa Barbara. Can > someone help me with retrieving this info. > > Thanks, > > > Danielle Cyr > > > York University > 4700 Keele Street > Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3 > Tel. 1-416-736-2100 # 30180 > email dcyr at yorku.ca > > Sabbatical address: > > 339, Boulevard Perron Ouest > New Richmond, QC > Canada G0C 2B0 > Tel. 1-418-392-7271 > email danielle.e.cyr at globetrotter.net > -- Carmen Jany cjany at umail.ucsb.edu From ksinnema at ling.helsinki.fi Fri Nov 26 08:40:23 2004 From: ksinnema at ling.helsinki.fi (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kaius_Sinnem=E4ki?=) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:40:23 +0200 Subject: Question on Grammatical complexity Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) Dear colleagues, I'm a graduate student at the University of Helsinki working on structural complexity and system economy of languages. It has long been claimed that structurally languages have equally "rich" / "complicated" / "complex" / "economical" grammars. My aim is to find results that would either verify or falsify the claim. For this purpose, I'm looking for correlations (or their absence) between the complexities of morphology, syntax and phonology. Some relevant correlations have been attested (e.g. Zipf 1968) that seem to support the claim. Yet, as far as I know, there's little relevant work available (e.g. Dahl 2004, McWhorter 2001 and the Commentary in Linguistic Typology 2001/5:2-3, Perkins 1992, Plank 1986). I would very much appreciate any help in finding the relevant literature (theoretical or empirical) and any results already available that have addresses this issue. You can respond directly to me (ksinnema at ling.helsinki.fi ) and I'll post a summary and list of references, if there's general interest. Thanks in advance, Kaius Sinnem?ki Graduate student Department of General Linguistics University of Helsinki References: Dahl, ?sten 2004. /The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity. /Amsterdam: Benjamins. McWhorter, John H. 2001. The World's Simplest Grammars are Creole Grammars. /Linguistic Typology/ 5 (2-3): 125-156. Plank, Frans 1986. Paradigm Size, Morphological Typology, and Universal Economy. /Folia Linguistica /20: 29-48. Perkins, Revere D. 1992. /Deixis, Grammar, and Culture./ Amsterdam: Benjamins. Zipf, George Kingsley 1968. /The psycho-biology of language: an introduction to dynamic philology/. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press. -- Kaius Sinnem?ki, M.A., Researcher General Linguistics, University of Helsinki P.O Box 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 20A) 00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND Email: ksinnema at ling.helsinki.fi From jrubba at calpoly.edu Mon Nov 29 17:33:36 2004 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 09:33:36 -0800 Subject: query about research on folk theories of language Message-ID: Hi all, I am looking for sources on the role of such phenomena as basic-level cognition, prototype categorization, schemas and cognitive models, and such in folk theories about language -- "the people's metalinguistics". I'm concerned about structure more than function in this case (please don't accuse me of separating the two). Thanks in advance -- I'll compile a list if anyone is interested. Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Associate Professor, Linguistics English Department, California Polytechnic State University One Grand Avenue ? San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 Tel. (805)-756-2184 ? Fax: (805)-756-6374 ? Dept. Phone. 756-2596 ? E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu ? Home page: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~