From kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il Sat Apr 2 17:56:44 2005 From: kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il (Ron Kuzar) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:56:44 -0800 Subject: Frequency list Message-ID: Does anybody know where I can find frequency lists of personal proper names (first names such as Mary and John)? Of names of professions (teacher, carpenter)? Of tools (hammer, saw), of animals? and of other semantic groups, in (contemporary American) English. Ron Kuzar ================================================== Dr. Ron Kuzar Address: Department of English Language and Literature University of Haifa IL-31905 Haifa, Israel Office: +972-4-824-9826, Fax: +972-4-824-9711 Home: +972-2-641-4780, Mobile: +972-54-481-9676 Email: kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il Homepage: http://research.haifa.ac.il/~kuzar ================================================== From dcyr at yorku.ca Tue Apr 5 14:59:35 2005 From: dcyr at yorku.ca (Danielle Cyr) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:59:35 -0400 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: In spoken Québécois (i.e. Canadian French) we have one similar construction: Elle s' est manière d' excusée She REFLEXIVE be-AUX kind of excused 'She kind of excused herself' Among the younger generation of Quebecois speakers, we witness the rise of other forms of the same phenomena: Elle s'est excusée genre (genre/kind) Elle s'est excusée style (style) Elle s'est excusée comme (like) 'She kind of excused herself' Danielle E. Cyr, assoc. prof. Department of French Studies York University/Calumet College 207 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 Tel. 1-416-736-2100 ext. 30180 Fax 1-416-736-5734 From tgivon at uoregon.edu Tue Apr 5 23:08:50 2005 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:08:50 -0700 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? Message-ID: I think in considering all example of use of pre-/post-positions with verbs (or verbal constructions, really) we need to assess the degree of finiteness of the verbal construction in question. Since we can quantify finiteness (or, to use Haj Ross's old term, 'nouniness') on a sliding scale, we can perhaps make some general predictions: That pre/postpositions (or, to be more general, nominal case marking) on verbs or verbal constructions will tend to occur in less finite constructions, maybe ones that show other facets of nominality (articles, genitive subjects or object, nominalizing morphemes on the verb, adjectives modifying the nominalized verb, subject or object position inside another main clause). As a schematic illustration: To her great knowledge of-math (she now added...) PRE GEN/SUBJ ADJ V-NOM GEN-N/OBJ Best, TG ============================ Danielle Cyr wrote: > In spoken Québécois (i.e. Canadian French) we have one similar > construction: > > Elle s' est manière d' excusée > She REFLEXIVE be-AUX kind of excused > 'She kind of excused herself' > > Among the younger generation of Quebecois speakers, we witness the rise > of other forms of the same phenomena: > > Elle s'est excusée genre (genre/kind) > Elle s'est excusée style (style) > Elle s'est excusée comme (like) > 'She kind of excused herself' > > Danielle E. Cyr, assoc. prof. > Department of French Studies > York University/Calumet College 207 > 4700 Keele Street > Toronto, Ontario > Canada M3J 1P3 > Tel. 1-416-736-2100 ext. 30180 > Fax 1-416-736-5734 From ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Apr 6 14:03:56 2005 From: ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Hopper) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:03:56 -0400 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? Message-ID: Tom, I'm puzzled. Wasn't the whole point of Nino's observation about Georgian that started this thread precisely that the postposition occurred on a completely finite verb form? Paul > > I think in considering all example of use of pre-/post-positions with > verbs (or verbal constructions, really) we need to assess the degree of > finiteness of the verbal construction in question. Since we can quantify > finiteness (or, to use Haj Ross's old term, 'nouniness') on a sliding > scale, we can perhaps make some general predictions: That > pre/postpositions (or, to be more general, nominal case marking) on verbs > or verbal constructions will tend to occur in less finite constructions, > maybe ones that show other facets of nominality (articles, genitive > subjects or object, nominalizing morphemes on the verb, adjectives > modifying the nominalized verb, subject or object position inside another > main clause). As a schematic illustration: > > To her great knowledge of-math (she now added...) > PRE GEN/SUBJ ADJ V-NOM GEN-N/OBJ > > Best, TG > > ============================ > > Danielle Cyr wrote: > >> In spoken Québécois (i.e. Canadian French) we have one similar >> construction: >> >> Elle s' est manière >> d' excusée She REFLEXIVE be-AUX kind >> of excused 'She kind of excused herself' >> >> Among the younger generation of Quebecois speakers, we witness the rise >> of other forms of the same phenomena: >> >> Elle s'est excusée genre (genre/kind) Elle s'est excusée >> style (style) Elle s'est excusée comme (like) 'She >> kind of excused herself' >> >> Danielle E. Cyr, assoc. prof. Department of French Studies York >> University/Calumet College 207 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario Canada >> M3J 1P3 Tel. 1-416-736-2100 ext. 30180 Fax 1-416-736-5734 > > -- --------------------------- Paul Hopper Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Department of English Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Telephone (412) 268-7174 Fax (412) 268-7989 From bowern at rice.edu Wed Apr 6 16:19:11 2005 From: bowern at rice.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:19:11 -0500 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? In-Reply-To: <1036E7A984E8A046B31C23A9@roswell.hss.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Just to add to the pool of examples where "postpositions" occur on fully finite verbs. In the languages of the Nyulnyulan family (NW Australia) the applicative marker is historically the instrumental case marker (*-ngany). The applicative has either grammaticalised quite recently or is still closely associated with the instrumental, In Western Nyulnyulan there is a sound change -ny > zero / _# which affects the instrumental suffix. It also affects the applicative, even though the applicative has other morphology after it and so isn't (usually) word final. Some examples (note that there are two applicatives, which have different relative placement in the morphology, both of the form -nga). roowil innyana walk 3-tr(pst)-'catch'-remote past "he/she walked" roowil innyanang walk 3-tr(pst)-'catch'-rem past-applic "he/she walked with someone." (More examples and discussion than anyone would ever need are available in my dissertation on the history of Nyulnyulan verb morphology. Please email me offlist if you would like a copy.) Claire -------------- Dr Claire Bowern Linguistics, Rice University Houston TX From tgivon at uoregon.edu Wed Apr 6 17:17:17 2005 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:17:17 -0700 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? Message-ID: Thanks, Paul, Yes, that was the original data. But as typologists we need not only to catalogue the cross-linguistic distribution of facts, but also to try and understand how they come about, especially when they appear to go against the universal grain. So, even in a language where you have case-marking cropping up on the most finite verbal construction, we still need to ask ourselves--what is the mechanism/pathway leading to such a less-than-typical development? And my prediction would still be that the process starts with least-finite verbal constructions, then slides slowly up the finiteness gradient by small-step analogical steps (provided of course there is communicative motivation...) One could thus look for Greenberg-type of implicational hierarchies, (i) synchronic: "if in more finite, then also in less-finite (but not vice versa)"; and (ii) diachronic "earlier in less finite than in more finite". Best, TG ================== Paul Hopper wrote: > Tom, > > I'm puzzled. Wasn't the whole point of Nino's observation about Georgian > that started this thread precisely that the postposition occurred on a > completely finite verb form? > > Paul > > > > > I think in considering all example of use of pre-/post-positions with > > verbs (or verbal constructions, really) we need to assess the degree of > > finiteness of the verbal construction in question. Since we can quantify > > finiteness (or, to use Haj Ross's old term, 'nouniness') on a sliding > > scale, we can perhaps make some general predictions: That > > pre/postpositions (or, to be more general, nominal case marking) on verbs > > or verbal constructions will tend to occur in less finite constructions, > > maybe ones that show other facets of nominality (articles, genitive > > subjects or object, nominalizing morphemes on the verb, adjectives > > modifying the nominalized verb, subject or object position inside another > > main clause). As a schematic illustration: > > > > To her great knowledge of-math (she now added...) > > PRE GEN/SUBJ ADJ V-NOM GEN-N/OBJ > > > > Best, TG > > > > ============================ > > > > Danielle Cyr wrote: > > > >> In spoken Québécois (i.e. Canadian French) we have one similar > >> construction: > >> > >> Elle s' est manière > >> d' excusée She REFLEXIVE be-AUX kind > >> of excused 'She kind of excused herself' > >> > >> Among the younger generation of Quebecois speakers, we witness the rise > >> of other forms of the same phenomena: > >> > >> Elle s'est excusée genre (genre/kind) Elle s'est excusée > >> style (style) Elle s'est excusée comme (like) 'She > >> kind of excused herself' > >> > >> Danielle E. Cyr, assoc. prof. Department of French Studies York > >> University/Calumet College 207 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario Canada > >> M3J 1P3 Tel. 1-416-736-2100 ext. 30180 Fax 1-416-736-5734 > > > > > > -- > > --------------------------- > Paul Hopper > Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities > Department of English > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA > Telephone (412) 268-7174 > Fax (412) 268-7989 From tgivon at uoregon.edu Wed Apr 6 19:59:02 2005 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:59:02 -0700 Subject: prepositions on finite verbs Message-ID: I need to apologize to Paul Hopper & y'all about replying in a hurry before reading Claire's note on the Australian situation, which reminded me of something I should have taken into account earlier--that there are at least two well-known mechanisms for 'adsorbing' adpositions onto verbs that have nothing to do with non-finiteness or nominality. One of them is the grammaticalization of adpositions as "promotional" affixes on verbs (so-called "applicatives"). I haven't read Claire's dissertation, so I don't know if the mechanism she found is the same, but in many Bantu languages this starts in REL-clauses (and passives, at least in Bemba...), where the locative prepositions pa-/ku-/mu- become obligatory V-suffixes in constructions quite analoguous to the English: 'the woman I work for', 'the man I talled to', 'the house I live in' etc. In some Bantu languages (eg. KinyaRwanda) these become more general (optional) promotional suffix when the LOC-object is topicalized & becomes the DO of the clause (see Kimenyi's dissertation, UCLA, 1976). In Rwanda, this is optional in main clauses but obligatory for the relativization and passivization of obliques (non-patients). This suggests that the process started in REL and PASS clauses (more general in Bantu; Meeeusen reconstructed a V-suffix in Bantu relativization, I think), but later extended to main clauses in only KinyaRwanda and a few others. Of course, not all "applicative" affixes come from adpositions. Some come directly from (serial) verbs. The KinyaRwanda situation is rather hetrerogenous, but at least one other promotional suffix -- the -na used to promote associative objects, is also the associative preposition. Another mechanism that may or may not be partially related to the above is the profusion lexicalized PREP-V verbs in both Germanic & Romance. The English V-PREP lexicalized verbs ('break up', 'break-out', 'break-off' etc.) is probably a later example of the same or similar mechanism. The closest case I know where this has been described synchronically in a language where the process is in the midst of happening is in Colette Craig/Grinevald work on Rama. The mechanism there is not 100% clear, but an unpublished text-based paper on the Rama data (by Bonnie Tibbits) suggests some kind of zeroing of an erstwhile PP (postpositional phrase), with the adposition surviving and adsorbing on the adjacent verb. Bonnie's data suggested that this was not anaphoric zero (highly referential), but rather an "antipassive" zero (non-referential). One way or another, I should have remembered these. Best, TG ================= From dcyr at yorku.ca Thu Apr 7 16:46:45 2005 From: dcyr at yorku.ca (Danielle Cyr) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:46:45 -0400 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? In-Reply-To: <4254199D.4937371A@uoregon.edu> Message-ID: I see by the examples Claire and Talmy give that the thread of the discussion has moved to the lexical/Aktionzart dimension of verbs. My undertanding of Nino's examples was more in the sense of a modality dimension. In Canadian French the additon of the lexical items style, genre and the preposition comme are understood more as the rise of a new modality, through which the speaker expresses his subjectivity relatively to the truth guaranty he can give to his utterance. It should thus be understood as the rise of a subjective mode in spoken French. Isn't it the sense of Nino's examples where (1) can be understood as subjective in opposition to (2) which is barely indicative: (1) man mo-i-bodish-a-sa-vit (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST-DAT-like ``(S)he uttered something like an apology" (2) man mo-i-bodish-a (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST ``(S)he apologized" Cordialement, Danielle Cyr From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Fri Apr 8 08:22:33 2005 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:22:33 +0200 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? Message-ID: Dear colleagues, thank you for replying to my question about postpositions. David Palfreyman suggested the translation "She kind of apologized" for my example (1) which is a better translation than mine. I need to apology for glossing the case marker as DAT, in fact it is genitive. >(1) man mo-i-bodish-a-sa-vit > (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST-DAT-like > ``(S)he uttered something like an apology" > >(2) man mo-i-bodish-a > (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST > ``(S)he apologized" Do you think the Turkish 'gibi' in the example offered by David Palfreyman is a clitic? Can we place anything else in between the finite form and the very item? For Georgian the segment [-sa-vit] can further attach a quatation suffix as any other verb form (3 vs.4): (3) man mo-i-bodish-a-sa-vit-o (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST-GEN-like-QUOT ``(S)he kind of apologized, (s)he/they said" (4) man mo-i-bodish-a-o (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST-QUOT ``(S)he apologized, (s)he/they said" In a relative (to Georgian) Laz, spoken in Turkey, after Turkish influence it is possible to have a dative marker cliticized to a finite form (5 vs. 6). But unlike the Georgian case plus postposition marking (1), the Laz dative marker turns simple clauses into subordinate ones: (5) ali oxori-sha mo-xt-u-shi Ali house-in PREVERB-come-S3.SG.AOR-DAT "When Ali came home(...)" (6) ali oxori-sha mo-xt-u Ali house-in PREVERB-come-S3.SG.AOR "Ali came home" But the Turkish locative marker which has been the source for Laz development only attaches to non-finite items, as far as I know. Thus, the Laz case itself is not a simple borrowing from Turkish. I think the Georgian examples with the case plus postposition marking on fully inflected verb forms look like the Canadian French examples by Danielle Cyr. To be more precise, in Georgian such marking is used in two cases, when one estimates something either objectively (7) or subjectively (8): (8) ilia-m xel-i ga-i-pxac"n-a-sa-vit Ilia.ERG hand-NOM PREVERB-i-scratch-S3.SG.AORIST-GEN-like ``Ilia kind of scratched his hand" [context: It is not a cut] (9) ilia-m xel-i ga-i-pxac"n-a-sa-vit Ilia.ERG hand-NOM PREVERB-i-scratch-S3.SG.AORIST-GEN-like ``Ilia kind of scratched his hand" [context: It is a deep cut] By (8) the utterer simply states that it is not a cut but a scratch. One can even translate the sentence as "Ilia slightly scratched his hand". And by (9) the uterrer whats to say that even if it is a deep cut it is not a big deal and not important for him. Nino Amiridze From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Wed Apr 13 09:35:02 2005 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:35:02 +0200 Subject: PhD student position Message-ID: The Faculty of Humanities at Lund University, Sweden is announcing a Ph.D. student position in General Linguistics / Cognitive Science / Semiotics, within the project Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (SEDSU) Reference number: 2019 Beginning: September 1st, 2005 Information: Jordan Zlatev, Department of Linguistics, Center for Languages and Literature, Box 201, 22100 Lund, Sweden Telephone: +46-46-2228448 Email: Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se The candidates will be judged primarily on the basis of their capacity to complete the doctoral program, and must prior to sending in an application have a conversation (possibly by telephone) with the project leaders of the SEDSU project (Jordan Zlatev, Peter Gärdenfors and Göran Sonesson). The SEDSU project is financed by the EU-commission, and involves collaboration with research groups in London, Portsmouth, Leipzig, Rome and Marseille. The principal goal is to uncover the origins of human cognitive uniqueness, and for that purpose a number of cross-species comparative studies are to be performed involving human beings and great apes. The applicant having been assigned the position is expected to contribute actively to the SEDSU project, and in particular to a detailed study comparing the interaction within mother-child dyads among humans and apes. Documented interest in this area is therefore a requirement, and any background studies concerning human infants and/or apes is a plus, though not a prerequisite. Knowledge of Swedish is similarly not a requirement, but the holder of the position is expected to put efforts into developing a workable level of competence in the Swedish language as soon as possible. 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International Conference University of Franche-Comté LASELDI, UFR SLHS & CLA Besançon, 26-27-28 January 2006 VERB CONSTRUCTIONS AND PRODUCTION OF MEANING Organizing committe - Daniel Lebaud, Catherine Paulin, Katja Ploog (UFR SLHS, LASELDI-Idiomes) and Rémy Bôle-Richard (LASELDI) ; - Serge Borg (CLA, LASELDI-Idiomes) ; - Carole Cérignat, Scylia Achèche, Hiroko Noda, Vanessa Parisot-Moulay, Véronica Portillo, Emmanuel Sawadogo, Yoshiko Suto (LASELDI-Idiomes). The acquisition of natural languages cannot be dissociated from metalinguistic choices and activities which call for one's awareness of linguistic differences and for the elaboration of grammatical notions that need to be questioned. The comparison of equivalent structural schemata in different languages enables one to highlight differences between languages and to test the linguistic categories used to describe and explain the singular functioning of natural languages. The diversity of the data and the relevance of the categories determine the quality of the conceptualisation. The microsyntactic unit around the verb has been the object of many linguistic research studies, under different denominations: valence, actance, predicative schema, predicative structure or relationship, argument structure, theta theory. These research studies have been carried out using different objects of investigation and different theoretical approaches. The discursive use of verb units mobilizes syntactic, semantic and pragmatic mechanisms, the interdependence of which determines the interpretations that emerge as discourse unfolds. The papers will allow confrontation between different theoretical frameworks in the field of verb semantics and syntax and will aim at a better understanding of the relations between formal and semantic constraints and pragmatic requirements for the production of meaning. The question will be envisaged in different perspectives: - the variability of the syntactic functions of verb arguments (for example, subject vs. object vs. adjunt) ; - grammatical paradigms and semantic categories of verb units ; - the discursive use of arguments : theme, rheme, topicalisation, focalisation. ; - syntactic variability and syntactic constraints (government). Participants with different theoretical frameworks (theories of "enunciation", generativism, Guillaumian framework, Lexis-Grammar, etc.) will endeavour to make their papers intelligible to an audience prepared to welcome a variety of theoretical approaches. Anonymous abstracts (about 500 words) and a short bio-bibliography are to be sent by June, 15th 2005 at the latest to : Daniel Lebaud : daniel.lebaud at wanadoo.fr Catherine Paulin : catherinepaulin at wanadoo.fr Katja Ploog : katploog at wanadoo.fr Notification of acceptance to the participants : 1st week in September Scientific committee Saburo Aoki (Tsukuba University, Japan) Peter Blumenthal (Köln University, Germany) Jean-François Bonnot (UFC) Bernard Caron (LLACAN) Pierre Cotte (Paris IV) William Croft (Manchester University, United Kingdom) Claude Delmas (Paris III) Geneviève Girard (Paris III) Jacqueline Guéron (Paris III) Daniel Lebaud (UFC) Maarten Lemmens (Lille III) Philippe Miller (Lille III) Claudine Normand (Paris X-Nanterre) Kazuro Oguma (Seinan Daigaku University, Japan) Wulf Oesterreicher (Munich University, Germany) Sylvester Osu (Tours University) Denis Paillard (CNRS) Catherine Paulin (UFC) Katja Ploog (UFC) Claus Pusch (Friburg University, Germany) Nigel Quayle (Lille III, Ecole Centrale)igel Quayle Uli Reich (Köln University, Germany) Sylvain Vogel (URPP, Cambodia) Sarah de Voguë (Paris X-Nanterre) Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris VIII-Vincennes) Bibliography FAITS DE LANGUES n° 17 (2001) Coréen-japonais, sous la direction de Raoul Blin et Irène Tamba, Ophrys. 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GIRARD, Geneviève (2003a) Identification, localisation, attribution d'une propriété : analyse des structures there's an oddnessto the room et she had a timid side to her, Cycnos, 21-1 (http://revel-unice.fr/cycnos). GIRARD, Geneviève (2003b) la notion de sujet : une notion à définir, Faits de langue, Actes du colloque de l'Université de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). GROSS, Maurice (1975) Méthode en syntaxe, Paris, Hermann. GROSS, Maurice (1986) Grammaire transformationnelle du français : 1. le verbe. 2. le nom. 3. l'adverbe, (1ère édition Larousse, 1968), Paris, Cantilène. GUERON, Jacqueline & Jacqueline LECARME (éd.) (2004) The Syntax of Time, MIT Press. HARRIS, Zellig S. (1988) Language and Information, New York, Columbia University Press. HASPELMATH, Martin, KÖNIG, Ekkehard et OESTERREICHER, Wulf (éds.) (2001) Language typology and language universals, Berlin, New York, W. de Gruyter. JACOB, Daniel (1990) Markierung von Aktantenfunktionen und «Prädetermination» im Französischen. Ein Beitrag zur Neuinterpretation morphosyntaktischer Strukturen in der französischen Umgangssprache, Tübingen, Niemeyer (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 231). LAMBRECHT, Knud (1994) Information structure and sentence form. Topic, focus and the mental reprensentations of discourse referents, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (coll. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics n°71). LAZARD, Gilbert (1994) L'actance, Paris, PUF. LAZARD, Gilbert (2001) Etudes de linguistique générale. Typologie grammaticale, Leuven-Paris, Peeters. LEMMENS, Maarten (1998) Lexical perspectives on transitivity and ergativity : causative constructions in English, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, J. Benjamins. LI, Charles (ed.) (1976) Subject and Topic, New York, Academic Press. LOUGHRAIEB, Mounira (coord.) (1997) Structures prédicatives : approches syntaxiques et sémantiques, Verbum 19/4, Nancy, Presses Universitaires. LYONS, John (1978) Semantics II, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. MILLER, Philip et ZRIBI-HERTZ, Anne (2003) Essais sur la grammaire comparée du français et de l'anglais, PU de Vincennes. MULLER, Claude (2002) Les bases de la syntaxe. Syntaxe contrastive français - langues voisines, Bordeaux, PU de Bordeaux. NORMAND, Claudine (dir.) (1990) La Quadrature du sens : questions de linguistes, Paris, PUF. OGUMA, Kazuro (2001) Particules énonciatives en japonais : le cas de bakari, Faits de Langues, 17, Ophrys, pp.263-272. OSU, Sylvester Nhneanotnu (1998) Opérations énonciatives et problématique du repérage : cinq particules verbales ìkwéré, Paris, Montréal, L'Harmattan. PAILLARD, Denis (1984) Énonciation et détermination en russe contemporain, Paris, Institut d'études slaves. PAULIN, Catherine (2003) Polysémie et complémentation verbale : le verbe feel dans tous ses états, Correct, incorrect en linguistique anglaise, CIEREC Travaux n°113, St Etienne. PLOOG, Katja (2002) Le français à Abidjan : pour une approche syntaxique du non-standard, Paris, CNRS. QUAYLE, Nigel (2003) Sujet et support dans les phrases existentielles en anglais : essai d'analyse psychomécanique, Faits de langue, Actes du colloque de l'Université de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). QUAYLE, Nigel (1994) "Up" et le verbe à particule en anglais contemporain, Lille, Presses universitaires de Lille. TESNIERE, Lucien (1969) Eléments de linguistique structurale, 2ème éd., Paris, Klincksieck. ULI, Reich (2002) Freie Pronomina, Verbalklitika und Nullobjekte im Spielraum diskursiver Variation des Portugiesischen in Sao Paulo, m. C, Romanica Monacensia Bd.62, erschienen bei Narr. VICTORRI, Bernard, FUCHS, Catherine (1996) La polysémie, construction dynamique du sens, Paris, Hermes. VOGEL, Sylvain (2003) Noms en emploi syncatégorématique en khmer et en francique, Bulletin de la Société de linguistique de Paris, 98-I, pp. 435-453. VOGUË, Sarah De (À paraître) L'article un, la position sujet, et la relation avec le prédicat, in Corblin F., S. Ferrando, L. Kupferman (éds), Indéfinis et prédications, Paris, PU de Paris-Sorbonne (http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Vogue/article_un_sdv.pdf). From ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Apr 18 18:50:35 2005 From: ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Hopper) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:50:35 -0400 Subject: Call for papers In-Reply-To: <016b01c5426e$62290b60$0770c253@nomy6g795skgf6> Message-ID: Isn't the "bibliography" for this "international conference" just a little skewed? Seems to me I have read many things on these topics that aren't mentioned. Paul Hopper --On Saturday, April 16, 2005 12:23 PM +0200 "sylvester.osu" wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Below is a call for papers for a conference taking place in Besançon, a > very beautiful city in northeastern France. > > Apologies for multiple postings. > > Sylvester. > > > > > > > > > International Conference > University of Franche-Comté > LASELDI, UFR SLHS & CLA > Besançon, 26-27-28 January 2006 > > VERB CONSTRUCTIONS > AND PRODUCTION OF MEANING > > > > > Organizing committe > - Daniel Lebaud, Catherine Paulin, Katja Ploog (UFR SLHS, > LASELDI-Idiomes) and Rémy Bôle-Richard (LASELDI) ; > > - Serge Borg (CLA, LASELDI-Idiomes) ; > > - Carole Cérignat, Scylia Achèche, Hiroko Noda, Vanessa Parisot-Moulay, > Véronica Portillo, Emmanuel Sawadogo, Yoshiko Suto (LASELDI-Idiomes). > > > > > > The acquisition of natural languages cannot be dissociated from > metalinguistic choices and activities which call for one's awareness of > linguistic differences and for the elaboration of grammatical notions > that need to be questioned. The comparison of equivalent structural > schemata in different languages enables one to highlight differences > between languages and to test the linguistic categories used to describe > and explain the singular functioning of natural languages. The diversity > of the data and the relevance of the categories determine the quality of > the conceptualisation. > > > > The microsyntactic unit around the verb has been the object of many > linguistic research studies, under different denominations: valence, > actance, predicative schema, predicative structure or relationship, > argument structure, theta theory. These research studies have been > carried out using different objects of investigation and different > theoretical approaches. > > The discursive use of verb units mobilizes syntactic, semantic and > pragmatic mechanisms, the interdependence of which determines the > interpretations that emerge as discourse unfolds. > > > > The papers will allow confrontation between different theoretical > frameworks in the field of verb semantics and syntax and will aim at a > better understanding of the relations between formal and semantic > constraints and pragmatic requirements for the production of meaning. > > > > The question will be envisaged in different perspectives: > > - the variability of the syntactic functions of verb arguments (for > example, subject vs. object vs. adjunt) ; > > - grammatical paradigms and semantic categories of verb units ; > > - the discursive use of arguments : theme, rheme, topicalisation, > focalisation. ; > > - syntactic variability and syntactic constraints (government). > > > > Participants with different theoretical frameworks (theories of > "enunciation", generativism, Guillaumian framework, Lexis-Grammar, etc.) > will endeavour to make their papers intelligible to an audience prepared > to welcome a variety of theoretical approaches. > > > > Anonymous abstracts (about 500 words) and a short bio-bibliography are to > be sent by June, 15th 2005 at the latest to : > > Daniel Lebaud : daniel.lebaud at wanadoo.fr > > Catherine Paulin : catherinepaulin at wanadoo.fr > > Katja Ploog : katploog at wanadoo.fr > > Notification of acceptance to the participants : 1st week in September > > > > Scientific committee > Saburo Aoki (Tsukuba University, Japan) > > Peter Blumenthal (Köln University, Germany) > > Jean-François Bonnot (UFC) > > Bernard Caron (LLACAN) > > Pierre Cotte (Paris IV) > > William Croft (Manchester University, United Kingdom) > > Claude Delmas (Paris III) > > Geneviève Girard (Paris III) > > Jacqueline Guéron (Paris III) > > Daniel Lebaud (UFC) > > Maarten Lemmens (Lille III) > > Philippe Miller (Lille III) > > Claudine Normand (Paris X-Nanterre) > > Kazuro Oguma (Seinan Daigaku University, Japan) > > Wulf Oesterreicher (Munich University, Germany) > > Sylvester Osu (Tours University) > > Denis Paillard (CNRS) > > Catherine Paulin (UFC) > > Katja Ploog (UFC) > > Claus Pusch (Friburg University, Germany) > > Nigel Quayle (Lille III, Ecole Centrale)igel Quayle > > Uli Reich (Köln University, Germany) > > Sylvain Vogel (URPP, Cambodia) > > Sarah de Voguë (Paris X-Nanterre) > > Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris VIII-Vincennes) > > > > > > Bibliography > FAITS DE LANGUES n° 17 (2001) Coréen-japonais, sous la direction de Raoul > Blin et Irène Tamba, Ophrys. > > FAITS DE LANGUES n° 23-24 (2004) Les langues austronésiennes, sous la > direction d'Elizabeth Zeitoun, Ophrys. > > LANGAGES n° 129 (1998) Diversité de la (des) science(s) du langage > aujourd'hui, sous la direction de Simon Bouquet, Larousse. > > Linguistische Arbeiten 392 (1998) Transitivität und Diathese in > romanischen Sprachen, Tübingen, Niemeyer, Hans Geisler & Daniel Jacob. > > LINX (1999) Typologie des langues, Universaux linguistiques, sous la > direction d'Anne Sörés et Christianne Marchello-Nizia, Université de > Paris X-Nanterre. > > LINX n°48 (2003) Approches syntaxiques contemporaines, sous la direction > de Danielle Leeman, Université de Paris X-Nanterre. > > LINX n°50 (2004) Variation sémantique et syntaxique des unités lexicales > : études de six verbes français, sous la direction de Rémi Camus et Sarah > de Vogüe, Université de Paris X-Nanterre. > > TRAVAUX DE LINGUISTIQUE n° 44, Colloque Prep'2000, Bruxelles, Duculot. > > > AOKI, Saburo (2001) La catégorie de la déférence en japonais, Faits de > Langues, 17, Ophrys, pp.131-136. > > BLUMENTHAL, Peter et KOCH, Peter (éd.) (2003) Valence : perspectives > allemandes, Caen, PU de Caen. > > BLANCHE-BENVENISTE, Claire & DEULOFEU, José & van der EYNDE Karel & > STEFANINI, Jean (1987) Pronom et syntaxe. L'approche pronominale au > français. Paris, SELAF (1e éd. 1984). > > BONNOT, Jean-François (dir.) (1995) Paroles régionales : normes, variétés > linguistiques et contexte social, Strasbourg, PU de Strasbourg. > > BOSSONG, Georg (1998) Le marquage différentiel de l'objet dans les > langues d'Europe ; actancielle des langues romanes, in: Jack Feuillet > (ed.), Actance et valence, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter [EALT EUROTYP 20-2], > 193-258 ; 259-294 ; 769-788. > > CARON, Bernard (éd.) (2000) Topicalisation et focalisation dans les > langues africaines, Paris, Louvain, Peeters. > > COTTE, Pierre (éd.) (1999) Langage et linéarité, Villeneuve d'Ascq, > Septentrion. > > CROFT, William (2001) Radical Construction Grammar, Oxford. Oxford > University Press. > > DELMAS, Claude (2004) Incomplétude, complétude et impératif, Cercles 9 > (www.cercles.com). > > DELMAS, Claude (1998) Lexique et grammaire du « manque » en anglais, > Recherches en Linguistique Etrangère XIX, Annales littéraires de > l'Université de Franche-Comté. > > DELMAS, Claude et ROUX, Louis (éd.) (2002) Construire et reconstruire en > linguistique anglaise, Saint-Etienne, Publications de l'Université de > Saint-Etienne. > > DIK, Simon Cornelis (1997) The Theory of Functional Grammar, Berlin , de > Gruyter (2e édition révisée). > > FRIES, P.H. & HASAN, R. (eds.) (1999) On Subject and Theme. A discourse > functional perspective, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins. > > FRANCKEL, Jean-Jacques et LEBAUD, Daniel (1990) Les figures du sujet, > Gap, Ophrys. > > GIRARD, Geneviève (2004) La notion de sujet et > la notion de complément, Cercles 9 (www.cercles.com). > > GIRARD, Geneviève (2003a) Identification, > localisation, attribution d'une propriété : analyse des structures > there's an oddnessto the room et she had a timid side to her, Cycnos, > 21-1 (http://revel-unice.fr/cycnos). > > GIRARD, Geneviève (2003b) la notion de sujet : > une notion à définir, Faits de langue, Actes du colloque de l'Université > de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). > > GROSS, Maurice (1975) Méthode en syntaxe, Paris, Hermann. > > GROSS, Maurice (1986) Grammaire transformationnelle du français : 1. le > verbe. 2. le nom. 3. l'adverbe, (1ère édition Larousse, 1968), Paris, > Cantilène. > > GUERON, Jacqueline & Jacqueline LECARME (éd.) (2004) The Syntax of Time, > MIT Press. > > HARRIS, Zellig S. (1988) Language and Information, New York, Columbia > University Press. > > HASPELMATH, Martin, KÖNIG, Ekkehard et OESTERREICHER, Wulf (éds.) (2001) > Language typology and language universals, Berlin, New York, W. de > Gruyter. > > JACOB, Daniel (1990) Markierung von Aktantenfunktionen und > «Prädetermination» im Französischen. Ein Beitrag zur Neuinterpretation > morphosyntaktischer Strukturen in der französischen Umgangssprache, > Tübingen, Niemeyer (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, > 231). > > LAMBRECHT, Knud (1994) Information structure and sentence form. Topic, > focus and the mental reprensentations of discourse referents, Cambridge, > Cambridge University Press (coll. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics n°71). > > LAZARD, Gilbert (1994) L'actance, Paris, PUF. > > LAZARD, Gilbert (2001) Etudes de linguistique générale. Typologie > grammaticale, Leuven-Paris, Peeters. > > LEMMENS, Maarten (1998) Lexical perspectives on transitivity and > ergativity : causative constructions in English, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, > J. Benjamins. > > LI, Charles (ed.) (1976) Subject and Topic, New York, Academic Press. > > LOUGHRAIEB, Mounira (coord.) (1997) Structures prédicatives : approches > syntaxiques et sémantiques, Verbum 19/4, Nancy, Presses Universitaires. > > LYONS, John (1978) Semantics II, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. > > MILLER, Philip et ZRIBI-HERTZ, Anne (2003) Essais sur la grammaire > comparée du français et de l'anglais, PU de Vincennes. > > MULLER, Claude (2002) Les bases de la syntaxe. Syntaxe contrastive > français - langues voisines, Bordeaux, PU de Bordeaux. > > NORMAND, Claudine (dir.) (1990) La Quadrature du sens : questions de > linguistes, Paris, PUF. > > OGUMA, Kazuro (2001) Particules énonciatives en japonais : le cas de > bakari, Faits de Langues, 17, Ophrys, pp.263-272. > > OSU, Sylvester Nhneanotnu (1998) Opérations énonciatives et problématique > du repérage : cinq particules verbales ìkwéré, Paris, Montréal, > L'Harmattan. > > PAILLARD, Denis (1984) Énonciation et détermination en russe > contemporain, Paris, Institut d'études slaves. > > PAULIN, Catherine (2003) Polysémie et complémentation verbale : le verbe > feel dans tous ses états, Correct, incorrect en linguistique anglaise, > CIEREC Travaux n°113, St Etienne. > > PLOOG, Katja (2002) Le français à Abidjan : pour une approche syntaxique > du non-standard, Paris, CNRS. > > QUAYLE, Nigel (2003) Sujet et support dans les phrases existentielles en > anglais : essai d'analyse psychomécanique, Faits de langue, Actes du > colloque de l'Université de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, > Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). > > QUAYLE, Nigel (1994) "Up" et le verbe à particule en anglais > contemporain, Lille, Presses universitaires de Lille. > > TESNIERE, Lucien (1969) Eléments de linguistique structurale, 2ème éd., > Paris, Klincksieck. > > ULI, Reich (2002) Freie Pronomina, Verbalklitika und Nullobjekte im > Spielraum diskursiver Variation des Portugiesischen in Sao Paulo, m. C, > Romanica Monacensia Bd.62, erschienen bei Narr. > > VICTORRI, Bernard, FUCHS, Catherine (1996) La polysémie, construction > dynamique du sens, Paris, Hermes. > > VOGEL, Sylvain (2003) Noms en emploi syncatégorématique en khmer et en > francique, Bulletin de la Société de linguistique de Paris, 98-I, pp. > 435-453. > > VOGUË, Sarah De (À paraître) L'article un, la position sujet, et la > relation avec le prédicat, in Corblin F., S. Ferrando, L. Kupferman > (éds), Indéfinis et prédications, Paris, PU de Paris-Sorbonne > (http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Vogue/article_un_sdv.pdf). > > > --------------------------- Paul Hopper Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Department of English College of Humanities and Social Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Telephone (412) 268-7174 Fax (412) 268-7989 From sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr Tue Apr 19 08:02:48 2005 From: sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr (sylvester.osu) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:02:48 +0200 Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: Dear Paul Hopper, I guess you are right. I'm wondering whether the organizers really meant to give an exhaustive list. For further information, please contact the organizers whose names are given below as follows: Daniel Lebaud : daniel.lebaud at wanadoo.fr > > Catherine Paulin : catherinepaulin at wanadoo.fr > > Katja Ploog : katploog at wanadoo.fr Thanking you for your interest in this forthcoming conference. My regards, Sylvester Osu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hopper" To: Cc: "sylvester.osu" ; Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] Call for papers Isn't the "bibliography" for this "international conference" just a little skewed? Seems to me I have read many things on these topics that aren't mentioned. Paul Hopper --On Saturday, April 16, 2005 12:23 PM +0200 "sylvester.osu" wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Below is a call for papers for a conference taking place in Besançon, a > very beautiful city in northeastern France. > > Apologies for multiple postings. > > Sylvester. > > > > > > > > > International Conference > University of Franche-Comté > LASELDI, UFR SLHS & CLA > Besançon, 26-27-28 January 2006 > > VERB CONSTRUCTIONS > AND PRODUCTION OF MEANING > > > > > Organizing committe > - Daniel Lebaud, Catherine Paulin, Katja Ploog (UFR SLHS, > LASELDI-Idiomes) and Rémy Bôle-Richard (LASELDI) ; > > - Serge Borg (CLA, LASELDI-Idiomes) ; > > - Carole Cérignat, Scylia Achèche, Hiroko Noda, Vanessa Parisot-Moulay, > Véronica Portillo, Emmanuel Sawadogo, Yoshiko Suto (LASELDI-Idiomes). > > > > > > The acquisition of natural languages cannot be dissociated from > metalinguistic choices and activities which call for one's awareness of > linguistic differences and for the elaboration of grammatical notions > that need to be questioned. The comparison of equivalent structural > schemata in different languages enables one to highlight differences > between languages and to test the linguistic categories used to describe > and explain the singular functioning of natural languages. The diversity > of the data and the relevance of the categories determine the quality of > the conceptualisation. > > > > The microsyntactic unit around the verb has been the object of many > linguistic research studies, under different denominations: valence, > actance, predicative schema, predicative structure or relationship, > argument structure, theta theory. These research studies have been > carried out using different objects of investigation and different > theoretical approaches. > > The discursive use of verb units mobilizes syntactic, semantic and > pragmatic mechanisms, the interdependence of which determines the > interpretations that emerge as discourse unfolds. > > > > The papers will allow confrontation between different theoretical > frameworks in the field of verb semantics and syntax and will aim at a > better understanding of the relations between formal and semantic > constraints and pragmatic requirements for the production of meaning. > > > > The question will be envisaged in different perspectives: > > - the variability of the syntactic functions of verb arguments (for > example, subject vs. object vs. adjunt) ; > > - grammatical paradigms and semantic categories of verb units ; > > - the discursive use of arguments : theme, rheme, topicalisation, > focalisation. ; > > - syntactic variability and syntactic constraints (government). > > > > Participants with different theoretical frameworks (theories of > "enunciation", generativism, Guillaumian framework, Lexis-Grammar, etc.) > will endeavour to make their papers intelligible to an audience prepared > to welcome a variety of theoretical approaches. > > > > Anonymous abstracts (about 500 words) and a short bio-bibliography are to > be sent by June, 15th 2005 at the latest to : > > Daniel Lebaud : daniel.lebaud at wanadoo.fr > > Catherine Paulin : catherinepaulin at wanadoo.fr > > Katja Ploog : katploog at wanadoo.fr > > Notification of acceptance to the participants : 1st week in September > > > > Scientific committee > Saburo Aoki (Tsukuba University, Japan) > > Peter Blumenthal (Köln University, Germany) > > Jean-François Bonnot (UFC) > > Bernard Caron (LLACAN) > > Pierre Cotte (Paris IV) > > William Croft (Manchester University, United Kingdom) > > Claude Delmas (Paris III) > > Geneviève Girard (Paris III) > > Jacqueline Guéron (Paris III) > > Daniel Lebaud (UFC) > > Maarten Lemmens (Lille III) > > Philippe Miller (Lille III) > > Claudine Normand (Paris X-Nanterre) > > Kazuro Oguma (Seinan Daigaku University, Japan) > > Wulf Oesterreicher (Munich University, Germany) > > Sylvester Osu (Tours University) > > Denis Paillard (CNRS) > > Catherine Paulin (UFC) > > Katja Ploog (UFC) > > Claus Pusch (Friburg University, Germany) > > Nigel Quayle (Lille III, Ecole Centrale)igel Quayle > > Uli Reich (Köln University, Germany) > > Sylvain Vogel (URPP, Cambodia) > > Sarah de Voguë (Paris X-Nanterre) > > Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris VIII-Vincennes) > > > > > > Bibliography > FAITS DE LANGUES n° 17 (2001) Coréen-japonais, sous la direction de Raoul > Blin et Irène Tamba, Ophrys. > > FAITS DE LANGUES n° 23-24 (2004) Les langues austronésiennes, sous la > direction d'Elizabeth Zeitoun, Ophrys. > > LANGAGES n° 129 (1998) Diversité de la (des) science(s) du langage > aujourd'hui, sous la direction de Simon Bouquet, Larousse. > > Linguistische Arbeiten 392 (1998) Transitivität und Diathese in > romanischen Sprachen, Tübingen, Niemeyer, Hans Geisler & Daniel Jacob. > > LINX (1999) Typologie des langues, Universaux linguistiques, sous la > direction d'Anne Sörés et Christianne Marchello-Nizia, Université de > Paris X-Nanterre. > > LINX n°48 (2003) Approches syntaxiques contemporaines, sous la direction > de Danielle Leeman, Université de Paris X-Nanterre. > > LINX n°50 (2004) Variation sémantique et syntaxique des unités lexicales > : études de six verbes français, sous la direction de Rémi Camus et Sarah > de Vogüe, Université de Paris X-Nanterre. > > TRAVAUX DE LINGUISTIQUE n° 44, Colloque Prep'2000, Bruxelles, Duculot. > > > AOKI, Saburo (2001) La catégorie de la déférence en japonais, Faits de > Langues, 17, Ophrys, pp.131-136. > > BLUMENTHAL, Peter et KOCH, Peter (éd.) (2003) Valence : perspectives > allemandes, Caen, PU de Caen. > > BLANCHE-BENVENISTE, Claire & DEULOFEU, José & van der EYNDE Karel & > STEFANINI, Jean (1987) Pronom et syntaxe. L'approche pronominale au > français. Paris, SELAF (1e éd. 1984). > > BONNOT, Jean-François (dir.) (1995) Paroles régionales : normes, variétés > linguistiques et contexte social, Strasbourg, PU de Strasbourg. > > BOSSONG, Georg (1998) Le marquage différentiel de l'objet dans les > langues d'Europe ; actancielle des langues romanes, in: Jack Feuillet > (ed.), Actance et valence, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter [EALT EUROTYP 20-2], > 193-258 ; 259-294 ; 769-788. > > CARON, Bernard (éd.) (2000) Topicalisation et focalisation dans les > langues africaines, Paris, Louvain, Peeters. > > COTTE, Pierre (éd.) (1999) Langage et linéarité, Villeneuve d'Ascq, > Septentrion. > > CROFT, William (2001) Radical Construction Grammar, Oxford. Oxford > University Press. > > DELMAS, Claude (2004) Incomplétude, complétude et impératif, Cercles 9 > (www.cercles.com). > > DELMAS, Claude (1998) Lexique et grammaire du « manque » en anglais, > Recherches en Linguistique Etrangère XIX, Annales littéraires de > l'Université de Franche-Comté. > > DELMAS, Claude et ROUX, Louis (éd.) (2002) Construire et reconstruire en > linguistique anglaise, Saint-Etienne, Publications de l'Université de > Saint-Etienne. > > DIK, Simon Cornelis (1997) The Theory of Functional Grammar, Berlin , de > Gruyter (2e édition révisée). > > FRIES, P.H. & HASAN, R. (eds.) (1999) On Subject and Theme. A discourse > functional perspective, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins. > > FRANCKEL, Jean-Jacques et LEBAUD, Daniel (1990) Les figures du sujet, > Gap, Ophrys. > > GIRARD, Geneviève (2004) La notion de sujet et > la notion de complément, Cercles 9 (www.cercles.com). > > GIRARD, Geneviève (2003a) Identification, > localisation, attribution d'une propriété : analyse des structures > there's an oddnessto the room et she had a timid side to her, Cycnos, > 21-1 (http://revel-unice.fr/cycnos). > > GIRARD, Geneviève (2003b) la notion de sujet : > une notion à définir, Faits de langue, Actes du colloque de l'Université > de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). > > GROSS, Maurice (1975) Méthode en syntaxe, Paris, Hermann. > > GROSS, Maurice (1986) Grammaire transformationnelle du français : 1. le > verbe. 2. le nom. 3. l'adverbe, (1ère édition Larousse, 1968), Paris, > Cantilène. > > GUERON, Jacqueline & Jacqueline LECARME (éd.) (2004) The Syntax of Time, > MIT Press. > > HARRIS, Zellig S. (1988) Language and Information, New York, Columbia > University Press. > > HASPELMATH, Martin, KÖNIG, Ekkehard et OESTERREICHER, Wulf (éds.) (2001) > Language typology and language universals, Berlin, New York, W. de > Gruyter. > > JACOB, Daniel (1990) Markierung von Aktantenfunktionen und > «Prädetermination» im Französischen. Ein Beitrag zur Neuinterpretation > morphosyntaktischer Strukturen in der französischen Umgangssprache, > Tübingen, Niemeyer (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, > 231). > > LAMBRECHT, Knud (1994) Information structure and sentence form. Topic, > focus and the mental reprensentations of discourse referents, Cambridge, > Cambridge University Press (coll. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics n°71). > > LAZARD, Gilbert (1994) L'actance, Paris, PUF. > > LAZARD, Gilbert (2001) Etudes de linguistique générale. 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C, > Romanica Monacensia Bd.62, erschienen bei Narr. > > VICTORRI, Bernard, FUCHS, Catherine (1996) La polysémie, construction > dynamique du sens, Paris, Hermes. > > VOGEL, Sylvain (2003) Noms en emploi syncatégorématique en khmer et en > francique, Bulletin de la Société de linguistique de Paris, 98-I, pp. > 435-453. > > VOGUË, Sarah De (À paraître) L'article un, la position sujet, et la > relation avec le prédicat, in Corblin F., S. Ferrando, L. Kupferman > (éds), Indéfinis et prédications, Paris, PU de Paris-Sorbonne > (http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Vogue/article_un_sdv.pdf). > > > --------------------------- Paul Hopper Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Department of English College of Humanities and Social Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Telephone (412) 268-7174 Fax (412) 268-7989 From langconf at acs.bu.edu Tue Apr 19 21:34:58 2005 From: langconf at acs.bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:34:58 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 30 Lunch Symposium Message-ID: The Boston University Conference on Language Development is pleased to announce the topic of the lunch symposium for BUCLD 30 (November 4-6 at Boston University): "Statistical Learning in Language Development: What is it, What is its Potential, and What are its Limitations?" The symposium speakers will be Jeff Elman (University of California at San Diego), LouAnn Gerken (University of Arizona) and Mark Johnson (Brown University). The conference will also include a keynote address by Janet Werker ("Speech Perception and Language Acquisition: Comparing Monolingual and Bilingual Infants") and a plenary talk by Harald Clahsen ("Grammatical Processing in First and Second Language Learners"). Further information is available on the BUCLD website ( http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD ). The call for papers (deadline May 15) can be found at < http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/callforpapers.htm >. From vyv.evans at sussex.ac.uk Wed Apr 20 10:13:41 2005 From: vyv.evans at sussex.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:13:41 +0100 Subject: NDCL Conference: Registration now open Message-ID: Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings, registration for the 'New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics' Conference being hosted at the University of Sussex in October is now open. An updated list of plenary speakers is below. For full conference details, including how to register/attend, please see the conference website: www.cogling.org.uk Updated list of plenary speakers: Paul Chilton, University East Anglia, UK 'Dimensions of Discourse' William Croft (Keynote speaker), University of Manchester, UK Talk title tbc Ronald Langacker, University of California, San Diego, USA 'Constructions and constructional meaning' Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham, UK 'Cognitive linguistics: A tale of two cultures?' Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, UK 'Mind, brain, society: Language as vehicle and language as window' Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University, USA 'Blending and compression' Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden 'Intersubjectivity, bodily mimesis and the grounding of language' Best regards, Vyv Dr. Vyv Evans Arts B-161 Department of Linguistics and English Language University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QN United Kingdom Tel. +44-(0)1273-872527 Web. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/vyv/ From gdesagulier at univ-paris8.fr Thu Apr 28 12:49:41 2005 From: gdesagulier at univ-paris8.fr (Guillaume Desagulier) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:49:41 +0200 Subject: program update : "From Gram to Mind" - Bordeaux (France) 19-21 May 2005 Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings / Toutes nos excuses pour les envois multiples. ************************************************** International Conference / Colloque international Bordeaux, 19-21 May 2005 From Gram to Mind : Grammar as Cognition Du fait grammatical au fait cognitif. ************************************************** Registration is now open. Nous vous invitons à vous inscrire dès maintenant. For more conference details (hotel reservations, registration form, etc.), please visit the conference website: http://www.u-bordeaux3.fr/Actu/colloques/2004/25-22052005.htm ******************* Program / Programme ******************* --------------------------------------------- Thursday May 19th / Jeudi 19 mai 2005 --------------------------------------------- 8 : 00 - 9 : 00 Registration / Accueil des participants. 9 : 00 - 9 :30 Opening address / Ouverture officielle du colloque 9 :30 - 10 :00 Plenary session 1 / Seance pleniere 1 Michel Achard, Rice University Local Versus Global Accounts of Intransitivity 10 :00 - 10 :45 Plenary session 2 / Seance pleniere 2 Eve Sweetser, U.C. Berkeley Mental spaces and viewpoint in gesture - and in text 11 :00 - 12 :30 Thematic sessions 1-5 / Sessions thematiques paralleles 1 à 5 12 :30 - 14 :30 Lunch / Dejeuner 14 :30 - 16 :00 Thematic sessions 6-11 / Sessions thematiques paralleles 6-11 16 :30 - 17 : 00 Coffee break / Pause cafe 17 :00 - 17 : 45 Plenary session 3 / Seance pleniere 3 Jean-Pierre Descles, Paris IV-Sorbonne / CNRS Topological and cognitive representations of grammatical relations: relations between prepositions, adverbs and preverbs in natural languages 17 :45 - 18 : 30 Plenary session 4 / Seance pleniere 4 Bernard Laks, Paris X- Nanterre / CNRS Approche cognitive de la phonologie 19 :00 Cocktail reception at Palais Rohan (Town Hall) / Cocktail au Palais Rohan (Mairie) --------------------------------------------- Friday May 20th / Vendredi 20 mai 2005 --------------------------------------------- 8 : 30 - 9 : 00 Registration / Accueil 9 :00 - 10 :30 Thematic Sessions 12-17 / Sessions thematiques paralleles 12-17 10 :30 - 11 : 00 Coffe break / Pause cafe 11 :00 - 12 : 00 Plenary Session 5 / Conference pleniere 5 R. Langacker, Prof. U.C. San Diego Enunciating the Parallelism between Nominal and Clausal Grounding 12 :00 - 14 :00 Lunch / Repas 14 :00 - 15 :30 Thematic sessions 18-23 / Sessions thematiques paralleles 18-23 15 :30 - 16 : 00 Coffee break / Pause cafe 16 :00 - 17 :00 Thematic sessions (short and standard presentations) 24-29 Sessions thematiques breves 24-29 17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break / Pause cafe 17 :30 - 18 :00 Plenary session 6/ Session pleniere 6 G. Radden, University of Hambourg A cognitive grammar of English : Qualification of things: modifiers" 18 :00 - 18 :30 Plenary session 7 / Conference pleniere 7 B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz Language and cognitivism today 20 :30 - 23 :00 Conference dinner / Banquet --------------------------------------------- Saturday May 21st / Samedi 21 mai 2005 --------------------------------------------- 9 :00 - 9 :45 Plenary session 8 / Session pleniere 8 Paulo de Carvalho, Universite de Bordeaux 3 Le nom et le nombre. [Nouns and number] 9 :45 - 10 :30 Plenary session 9 / Session pleniere 9 Bernd Heine, University of Cologne Cognitive and pragmatic factors in the emergence of functional categories 10 :30 - 11 :00 Coffee break / Pause cafe 11 :00 - 11 :45 Plenary session 10 / Session pleniere 10 Suzanne Kemmer, Rice University Passive and usage. 11 :45 - 12 :30 Plenary session 11 / Seance pleniere 11 Arie Verhagen, University of Leiden Argumentativity in grammar, communication, and cognition 12 :30 - 13 :00 Closing session / Cloture du colloque 14 :00 - 15 :30 Free wine tasting and buffet / Degustation de vins et buffet Salons des 4 Soeurs (in the heart of Bordeaux's Golden Triangle) Salon des 4 Soeurs (au coeur du triangle d'or de Bordeaux) 16 :00- 17 :30 Free guided tour of Bordeaux's historic districts / Visite guidee du centre historique de Bordeaux From dryer at buffalo.edu Fri Apr 29 13:41:28 2005 From: dryer at buffalo.edu (Matthew Dryer) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:41:28 -0400 Subject: reversative morphemes Message-ID: A student of mine, Scott Paauw, is interested in identifying references to reversative morphemes in various languages, grammatical morphemes that sometimes translate into English as ?back? and sometimes as ?again? (so that when combining with ?He went?, the resulting meaning might be either ?He went back? or ?He went again?). In some languages, such as Kutenai, the reversative has a use that goes beyond this, that occurs in clauses containing a morpheme that is semantically negative, illustrated by the following (using to represent the voiceless lateral fricative: taxa-s la lit-uk-s-i. then-obv revers without-water-obv.subj-indic ?Then there was no more water.? An English translation with ?again? doesn?t work, like ?Then they were without water again?, since that implies that they are returning to a state without water, when the original sentence appears not to have any such implication. Another Kutenai example: qapi-l la lu?-s-i all-prvb revers not.exist-obv.subj-indic ?All of them were gone ? Scott tells me that there is a reversative morpheme in Indonesian that shares this property with Kutenai. So he is interested in any other information about reversatives, especially any other instances where they interact with negative morphemes in this way. You can reply either to me or to Scott (shpaauw at buffalo.edu). Thanks, Matthew Dryer From jmori at wisc.edu Fri Apr 29 15:38:34 2005 From: jmori at wisc.edu (Junko Mori) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:38:34 -0500 Subject: Call for Papers: 15th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference -- Deadline May1st! Message-ID: The 15th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held October 7-9, 2005, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This conference aims to provide a forum for presenting research in Japanese and Korean linguistics, thereby facilitating efforts to deepen our understanding of these two languages, which have striking typological similarities. The invited speakers include Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice University), Patricia Clancy (University of California, Santa Barbara), Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University), and Chung-hey Han (Simon Fraser University). Papers in all sub areas of Japanese and Korean linguistics are invited. Presentations, except for those by the keynote speakers, will be 20 minutes long and will be followed by a 10-minute question and answer period. Please submit abstracts (one page, 500 words maximum) as a PDF file attached to an email message to eall at mailplus.wisc.edu by May 1, 2005. You may use a second page for references and/or example sentences. The first line of your abstract should indicate the category (Formal or Functional), followed by the sub-field (e.g., Formal/Syntax, Functional/Discourse, etc.). The second line should be the paper title. Omit your name and affiliation from the abstract. In the body of your email message, include name(s) and affiliation(s), address, phone number, and email address. Use the following subject header for your email: “JK15, Last name, First Initial.” Please note that only one abstract from each individual can be considered for acceptance. One individual abstract and one jointly authored abstract may be submitted. All the necessary information about the conference will appear on our conference website in the coming weeks. Go to http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/easian/ for a link. Please direct any inquiries to Naomi McGloin (nmcgloin at facstaff.wisc.edu). From yutamb at mail.ru Tue Apr 12 19:49:24 2005 From: yutamb at mail.ru (Yuri Tambovtsev) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:49:24 +0700 Subject: Is Cognitive Typology possible? Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Is Cognitive Typology possible? If yes, is it a branch of Cognitive Linguistics? What is the difference between Cognitive Linguistics and Incognitive Linguistics? Is not Linguistics (as it is) not cognitive? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb at mail.ru Remain yours most thankfully Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk From kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il Sat Apr 2 17:56:44 2005 From: kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il (Ron Kuzar) Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:56:44 -0800 Subject: Frequency list Message-ID: Does anybody know where I can find frequency lists of personal proper names (first names such as Mary and John)? Of names of professions (teacher, carpenter)? Of tools (hammer, saw), of animals? and of other semantic groups, in (contemporary American) English. Ron Kuzar ================================================== Dr. Ron Kuzar Address: Department of English Language and Literature University of Haifa IL-31905 Haifa, Israel Office: +972-4-824-9826, Fax: +972-4-824-9711 Home: +972-2-641-4780, Mobile: +972-54-481-9676 Email: kuzar at research.haifa.ac.il Homepage: http://research.haifa.ac.il/~kuzar ================================================== From dcyr at yorku.ca Tue Apr 5 14:59:35 2005 From: dcyr at yorku.ca (Danielle Cyr) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:59:35 -0400 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: In spoken Qu?b?cois (i.e. Canadian French) we have one similar construction: Elle s' est mani?re d' excus?e She REFLEXIVE be-AUX kind of excused 'She kind of excused herself' Among the younger generation of Quebecois speakers, we witness the rise of other forms of the same phenomena: Elle s'est excus?e genre (genre/kind) Elle s'est excus?e style (style) Elle s'est excus?e comme (like) 'She kind of excused herself' Danielle E. Cyr, assoc. prof. Department of French Studies York University/Calumet College 207 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 Tel. 1-416-736-2100 ext. 30180 Fax 1-416-736-5734 From tgivon at uoregon.edu Tue Apr 5 23:08:50 2005 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:08:50 -0700 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? Message-ID: I think in considering all example of use of pre-/post-positions with verbs (or verbal constructions, really) we need to assess the degree of finiteness of the verbal construction in question. Since we can quantify finiteness (or, to use Haj Ross's old term, 'nouniness') on a sliding scale, we can perhaps make some general predictions: That pre/postpositions (or, to be more general, nominal case marking) on verbs or verbal constructions will tend to occur in less finite constructions, maybe ones that show other facets of nominality (articles, genitive subjects or object, nominalizing morphemes on the verb, adjectives modifying the nominalized verb, subject or object position inside another main clause). As a schematic illustration: To her great knowledge of-math (she now added...) PRE GEN/SUBJ ADJ V-NOM GEN-N/OBJ Best, TG ============================ Danielle Cyr wrote: > In spoken Qu?b?cois (i.e. Canadian French) we have one similar > construction: > > Elle s' est mani?re d' excus?e > She REFLEXIVE be-AUX kind of excused > 'She kind of excused herself' > > Among the younger generation of Quebecois speakers, we witness the rise > of other forms of the same phenomena: > > Elle s'est excus?e genre (genre/kind) > Elle s'est excus?e style (style) > Elle s'est excus?e comme (like) > 'She kind of excused herself' > > Danielle E. Cyr, assoc. prof. > Department of French Studies > York University/Calumet College 207 > 4700 Keele Street > Toronto, Ontario > Canada M3J 1P3 > Tel. 1-416-736-2100 ext. 30180 > Fax 1-416-736-5734 From ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu Wed Apr 6 14:03:56 2005 From: ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Hopper) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:03:56 -0400 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? Message-ID: Tom, I'm puzzled. Wasn't the whole point of Nino's observation about Georgian that started this thread precisely that the postposition occurred on a completely finite verb form? Paul > > I think in considering all example of use of pre-/post-positions with > verbs (or verbal constructions, really) we need to assess the degree of > finiteness of the verbal construction in question. Since we can quantify > finiteness (or, to use Haj Ross's old term, 'nouniness') on a sliding > scale, we can perhaps make some general predictions: That > pre/postpositions (or, to be more general, nominal case marking) on verbs > or verbal constructions will tend to occur in less finite constructions, > maybe ones that show other facets of nominality (articles, genitive > subjects or object, nominalizing morphemes on the verb, adjectives > modifying the nominalized verb, subject or object position inside another > main clause). As a schematic illustration: > > To her great knowledge of-math (she now added...) > PRE GEN/SUBJ ADJ V-NOM GEN-N/OBJ > > Best, TG > > ============================ > > Danielle Cyr wrote: > >> In spoken Qu?b?cois (i.e. Canadian French) we have one similar >> construction: >> >> Elle s' est mani?re >> d' excus?e She REFLEXIVE be-AUX kind >> of excused 'She kind of excused herself' >> >> Among the younger generation of Quebecois speakers, we witness the rise >> of other forms of the same phenomena: >> >> Elle s'est excus?e genre (genre/kind) Elle s'est excus?e >> style (style) Elle s'est excus?e comme (like) 'She >> kind of excused herself' >> >> Danielle E. Cyr, assoc. prof. Department of French Studies York >> University/Calumet College 207 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario Canada >> M3J 1P3 Tel. 1-416-736-2100 ext. 30180 Fax 1-416-736-5734 > > -- --------------------------- Paul Hopper Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Department of English Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Telephone (412) 268-7174 Fax (412) 268-7989 From bowern at rice.edu Wed Apr 6 16:19:11 2005 From: bowern at rice.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 11:19:11 -0500 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? In-Reply-To: <1036E7A984E8A046B31C23A9@roswell.hss.cmu.edu> Message-ID: Just to add to the pool of examples where "postpositions" occur on fully finite verbs. In the languages of the Nyulnyulan family (NW Australia) the applicative marker is historically the instrumental case marker (*-ngany). The applicative has either grammaticalised quite recently or is still closely associated with the instrumental, In Western Nyulnyulan there is a sound change -ny > zero / _# which affects the instrumental suffix. It also affects the applicative, even though the applicative has other morphology after it and so isn't (usually) word final. Some examples (note that there are two applicatives, which have different relative placement in the morphology, both of the form -nga). roowil innyana walk 3-tr(pst)-'catch'-remote past "he/she walked" roowil innyanang walk 3-tr(pst)-'catch'-rem past-applic "he/she walked with someone." (More examples and discussion than anyone would ever need are available in my dissertation on the history of Nyulnyulan verb morphology. Please email me offlist if you would like a copy.) Claire -------------- Dr Claire Bowern Linguistics, Rice University Houston TX From tgivon at uoregon.edu Wed Apr 6 17:17:17 2005 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:17:17 -0700 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? Message-ID: Thanks, Paul, Yes, that was the original data. But as typologists we need not only to catalogue the cross-linguistic distribution of facts, but also to try and understand how they come about, especially when they appear to go against the universal grain. So, even in a language where you have case-marking cropping up on the most finite verbal construction, we still need to ask ourselves--what is the mechanism/pathway leading to such a less-than-typical development? And my prediction would still be that the process starts with least-finite verbal constructions, then slides slowly up the finiteness gradient by small-step analogical steps (provided of course there is communicative motivation...) One could thus look for Greenberg-type of implicational hierarchies, (i) synchronic: "if in more finite, then also in less-finite (but not vice versa)"; and (ii) diachronic "earlier in less finite than in more finite". Best, TG ================== Paul Hopper wrote: > Tom, > > I'm puzzled. Wasn't the whole point of Nino's observation about Georgian > that started this thread precisely that the postposition occurred on a > completely finite verb form? > > Paul > > > > > I think in considering all example of use of pre-/post-positions with > > verbs (or verbal constructions, really) we need to assess the degree of > > finiteness of the verbal construction in question. Since we can quantify > > finiteness (or, to use Haj Ross's old term, 'nouniness') on a sliding > > scale, we can perhaps make some general predictions: That > > pre/postpositions (or, to be more general, nominal case marking) on verbs > > or verbal constructions will tend to occur in less finite constructions, > > maybe ones that show other facets of nominality (articles, genitive > > subjects or object, nominalizing morphemes on the verb, adjectives > > modifying the nominalized verb, subject or object position inside another > > main clause). As a schematic illustration: > > > > To her great knowledge of-math (she now added...) > > PRE GEN/SUBJ ADJ V-NOM GEN-N/OBJ > > > > Best, TG > > > > ============================ > > > > Danielle Cyr wrote: > > > >> In spoken Qu?b?cois (i.e. Canadian French) we have one similar > >> construction: > >> > >> Elle s' est mani?re > >> d' excus?e She REFLEXIVE be-AUX kind > >> of excused 'She kind of excused herself' > >> > >> Among the younger generation of Quebecois speakers, we witness the rise > >> of other forms of the same phenomena: > >> > >> Elle s'est excus?e genre (genre/kind) Elle s'est excus?e > >> style (style) Elle s'est excus?e comme (like) 'She > >> kind of excused herself' > >> > >> Danielle E. Cyr, assoc. prof. Department of French Studies York > >> University/Calumet College 207 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario Canada > >> M3J 1P3 Tel. 1-416-736-2100 ext. 30180 Fax 1-416-736-5734 > > > > > > -- > > --------------------------- > Paul Hopper > Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities > Department of English > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA > Telephone (412) 268-7174 > Fax (412) 268-7989 From tgivon at uoregon.edu Wed Apr 6 19:59:02 2005 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:59:02 -0700 Subject: prepositions on finite verbs Message-ID: I need to apologize to Paul Hopper & y'all about replying in a hurry before reading Claire's note on the Australian situation, which reminded me of something I should have taken into account earlier--that there are at least two well-known mechanisms for 'adsorbing' adpositions onto verbs that have nothing to do with non-finiteness or nominality. One of them is the grammaticalization of adpositions as "promotional" affixes on verbs (so-called "applicatives"). I haven't read Claire's dissertation, so I don't know if the mechanism she found is the same, but in many Bantu languages this starts in REL-clauses (and passives, at least in Bemba...), where the locative prepositions pa-/ku-/mu- become obligatory V-suffixes in constructions quite analoguous to the English: 'the woman I work for', 'the man I talled to', 'the house I live in' etc. In some Bantu languages (eg. KinyaRwanda) these become more general (optional) promotional suffix when the LOC-object is topicalized & becomes the DO of the clause (see Kimenyi's dissertation, UCLA, 1976). In Rwanda, this is optional in main clauses but obligatory for the relativization and passivization of obliques (non-patients). This suggests that the process started in REL and PASS clauses (more general in Bantu; Meeeusen reconstructed a V-suffix in Bantu relativization, I think), but later extended to main clauses in only KinyaRwanda and a few others. Of course, not all "applicative" affixes come from adpositions. Some come directly from (serial) verbs. The KinyaRwanda situation is rather hetrerogenous, but at least one other promotional suffix -- the -na used to promote associative objects, is also the associative preposition. Another mechanism that may or may not be partially related to the above is the profusion lexicalized PREP-V verbs in both Germanic & Romance. The English V-PREP lexicalized verbs ('break up', 'break-out', 'break-off' etc.) is probably a later example of the same or similar mechanism. The closest case I know where this has been described synchronically in a language where the process is in the midst of happening is in Colette Craig/Grinevald work on Rama. The mechanism there is not 100% clear, but an unpublished text-based paper on the Rama data (by Bonnie Tibbits) suggests some kind of zeroing of an erstwhile PP (postpositional phrase), with the adposition surviving and adsorbing on the adjacent verb. Bonnie's data suggested that this was not anaphoric zero (highly referential), but rather an "antipassive" zero (non-referential). One way or another, I should have remembered these. Best, TG ================= From dcyr at yorku.ca Thu Apr 7 16:46:45 2005 From: dcyr at yorku.ca (Danielle Cyr) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:46:45 -0400 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? In-Reply-To: <4254199D.4937371A@uoregon.edu> Message-ID: I see by the examples Claire and Talmy give that the thread of the discussion has moved to the lexical/Aktionzart dimension of verbs. My undertanding of Nino's examples was more in the sense of a modality dimension. In Canadian French the additon of the lexical items style, genre and the preposition comme are understood more as the rise of a new modality, through which the speaker expresses his subjectivity relatively to the truth guaranty he can give to his utterance. It should thus be understood as the rise of a subjective mode in spoken French. Isn't it the sense of Nino's examples where (1) can be understood as subjective in opposition to (2) which is barely indicative: (1) man mo-i-bodish-a-sa-vit (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST-DAT-like ``(S)he uttered something like an apology" (2) man mo-i-bodish-a (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST ``(S)he apologized" Cordialement, Danielle Cyr From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Fri Apr 8 08:22:33 2005 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:22:33 +0200 Subject: postposition on finite verb forms? Message-ID: Dear colleagues, thank you for replying to my question about postpositions. David Palfreyman suggested the translation "She kind of apologized" for my example (1) which is a better translation than mine. I need to apology for glossing the case marker as DAT, in fact it is genitive. >(1) man mo-i-bodish-a-sa-vit > (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST-DAT-like > ``(S)he uttered something like an apology" > >(2) man mo-i-bodish-a > (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST > ``(S)he apologized" Do you think the Turkish 'gibi' in the example offered by David Palfreyman is a clitic? Can we place anything else in between the finite form and the very item? For Georgian the segment [-sa-vit] can further attach a quatation suffix as any other verb form (3 vs.4): (3) man mo-i-bodish-a-sa-vit-o (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST-GEN-like-QUOT ``(S)he kind of apologized, (s)he/they said" (4) man mo-i-bodish-a-o (s)he.ERG PREVERB-i-apologize-S3.SG.AORIST-QUOT ``(S)he apologized, (s)he/they said" In a relative (to Georgian) Laz, spoken in Turkey, after Turkish influence it is possible to have a dative marker cliticized to a finite form (5 vs. 6). But unlike the Georgian case plus postposition marking (1), the Laz dative marker turns simple clauses into subordinate ones: (5) ali oxori-sha mo-xt-u-shi Ali house-in PREVERB-come-S3.SG.AOR-DAT "When Ali came home(...)" (6) ali oxori-sha mo-xt-u Ali house-in PREVERB-come-S3.SG.AOR "Ali came home" But the Turkish locative marker which has been the source for Laz development only attaches to non-finite items, as far as I know. Thus, the Laz case itself is not a simple borrowing from Turkish. I think the Georgian examples with the case plus postposition marking on fully inflected verb forms look like the Canadian French examples by Danielle Cyr. To be more precise, in Georgian such marking is used in two cases, when one estimates something either objectively (7) or subjectively (8): (8) ilia-m xel-i ga-i-pxac"n-a-sa-vit Ilia.ERG hand-NOM PREVERB-i-scratch-S3.SG.AORIST-GEN-like ``Ilia kind of scratched his hand" [context: It is not a cut] (9) ilia-m xel-i ga-i-pxac"n-a-sa-vit Ilia.ERG hand-NOM PREVERB-i-scratch-S3.SG.AORIST-GEN-like ``Ilia kind of scratched his hand" [context: It is a deep cut] By (8) the utterer simply states that it is not a cut but a scratch. One can even translate the sentence as "Ilia slightly scratched his hand". And by (9) the uterrer whats to say that even if it is a deep cut it is not a big deal and not important for him. Nino Amiridze From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Wed Apr 13 09:35:02 2005 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:35:02 +0200 Subject: PhD student position Message-ID: The Faculty of Humanities at Lund University, Sweden is announcing a Ph.D. student position in General Linguistics / Cognitive Science / Semiotics, within the project Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (SEDSU) Reference number: 2019 Beginning: September 1st, 2005 Information: Jordan Zlatev, Department of Linguistics, Center for Languages and Literature, Box 201, 22100 Lund, Sweden Telephone: +46-46-2228448 Email: Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se The candidates will be judged primarily on the basis of their capacity to complete the doctoral program, and must prior to sending in an application have a conversation (possibly by telephone) with the project leaders of the SEDSU project (Jordan Zlatev, Peter G?rdenfors and G?ran Sonesson). The SEDSU project is financed by the EU-commission, and involves collaboration with research groups in London, Portsmouth, Leipzig, Rome and Marseille. The principal goal is to uncover the origins of human cognitive uniqueness, and for that purpose a number of cross-species comparative studies are to be performed involving human beings and great apes. The applicant having been assigned the position is expected to contribute actively to the SEDSU project, and in particular to a detailed study comparing the interaction within mother-child dyads among humans and apes. Documented interest in this area is therefore a requirement, and any background studies concerning human infants and/or apes is a plus, though not a prerequisite. Knowledge of Swedish is similarly not a requirement, but the holder of the position is expected to put efforts into developing a workable level of competence in the Swedish language as soon as possible. The announced Ph.D. student position involves 4 years, ?netto? (i.e. without counting any time for parental leave or long-time illness), with a progressively increasing salary. The holder of the position is expected to contribute to the research environment within the project through his or her presence at the Departments involved (Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics) and through active participation in Ph.D. courses and seminars. Applications are to be sent in 2 parts, one to ?Registrator, Lunds universist, Box 117, 221 00 Lund, Sweden? and one to the Department of Linguistics (for address, see above). To ?Registrator? should be sent: -Application form -CV -Ph.D plan (i.e. a very short description of the planned Ph.D. work) -Grades and Diplomas -Any other certificates that the candidate wishes to appeal to To the Department of Linguistics should be sent: -all the above -Bachelors and Masters theses The application should arrive no later that May 4, 2005. Specify clearly the reference number. All grades, diplomas and any other certificates should be certified ? if you are sending photocopies, you must ask a person who knows you write his or her name, address, telephone number and signature on the copy. Application forms in Swedish can be downloaded from the following site: http://www.ht.lu.se/intranet/Blank_ans_nyant_FU2.pdf (If you need help in translating the application form, contact Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se). *************************************************** Jordan Zlatev, Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Center for Languages and Literature Lund University Box 201 221 00 Lund, Sweden email: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/JordanZlatev.html *************************************************** From sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr Sat Apr 16 10:23:50 2005 From: sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr (sylvester.osu) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:23:50 +0200 Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Below is a call for papers for a conference taking place in Besan?on, a very beautiful city in northeastern France. Apologies for multiple postings. Sylvester. International Conference University of Franche-Comt? LASELDI, UFR SLHS & CLA Besan?on, 26-27-28 January 2006 VERB CONSTRUCTIONS AND PRODUCTION OF MEANING Organizing committe - Daniel Lebaud, Catherine Paulin, Katja Ploog (UFR SLHS, LASELDI-Idiomes) and R?my B?le-Richard (LASELDI) ; - Serge Borg (CLA, LASELDI-Idiomes) ; - Carole C?rignat, Scylia Ach?che, Hiroko Noda, Vanessa Parisot-Moulay, V?ronica Portillo, Emmanuel Sawadogo, Yoshiko Suto (LASELDI-Idiomes). The acquisition of natural languages cannot be dissociated from metalinguistic choices and activities which call for one's awareness of linguistic differences and for the elaboration of grammatical notions that need to be questioned. The comparison of equivalent structural schemata in different languages enables one to highlight differences between languages and to test the linguistic categories used to describe and explain the singular functioning of natural languages. The diversity of the data and the relevance of the categories determine the quality of the conceptualisation. The microsyntactic unit around the verb has been the object of many linguistic research studies, under different denominations: valence, actance, predicative schema, predicative structure or relationship, argument structure, theta theory. These research studies have been carried out using different objects of investigation and different theoretical approaches. The discursive use of verb units mobilizes syntactic, semantic and pragmatic mechanisms, the interdependence of which determines the interpretations that emerge as discourse unfolds. The papers will allow confrontation between different theoretical frameworks in the field of verb semantics and syntax and will aim at a better understanding of the relations between formal and semantic constraints and pragmatic requirements for the production of meaning. The question will be envisaged in different perspectives: - the variability of the syntactic functions of verb arguments (for example, subject vs. object vs. adjunt) ; - grammatical paradigms and semantic categories of verb units ; - the discursive use of arguments : theme, rheme, topicalisation, focalisation. ; - syntactic variability and syntactic constraints (government). Participants with different theoretical frameworks (theories of "enunciation", generativism, Guillaumian framework, Lexis-Grammar, etc.) will endeavour to make their papers intelligible to an audience prepared to welcome a variety of theoretical approaches. Anonymous abstracts (about 500 words) and a short bio-bibliography are to be sent by June, 15th 2005 at the latest to : Daniel Lebaud : daniel.lebaud at wanadoo.fr Catherine Paulin : catherinepaulin at wanadoo.fr Katja Ploog : katploog at wanadoo.fr Notification of acceptance to the participants : 1st week in September Scientific committee Saburo Aoki (Tsukuba University, Japan) Peter Blumenthal (K?ln University, Germany) Jean-Fran?ois Bonnot (UFC) Bernard Caron (LLACAN) Pierre Cotte (Paris IV) William Croft (Manchester University, United Kingdom) Claude Delmas (Paris III) Genevi?ve Girard (Paris III) Jacqueline Gu?ron (Paris III) Daniel Lebaud (UFC) Maarten Lemmens (Lille III) Philippe Miller (Lille III) Claudine Normand (Paris X-Nanterre) Kazuro Oguma (Seinan Daigaku University, Japan) Wulf Oesterreicher (Munich University, Germany) Sylvester Osu (Tours University) Denis Paillard (CNRS) Catherine Paulin (UFC) Katja Ploog (UFC) Claus Pusch (Friburg University, Germany) Nigel Quayle (Lille III, Ecole Centrale)igel Quayle Uli Reich (K?ln University, Germany) Sylvain Vogel (URPP, Cambodia) Sarah de Vogu? 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DIK, Simon Cornelis (1997) The Theory of Functional Grammar, Berlin , de Gruyter (2e ?dition r?vis?e). FRIES, P.H. & HASAN, R. (eds.) (1999) On Subject and Theme. A discourse functional perspective, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins. FRANCKEL, Jean-Jacques et LEBAUD, Daniel (1990) Les figures du sujet, Gap, Ophrys. GIRARD, Genevi?ve (2004) La notion de sujet et la notion de compl?ment, Cercles 9 (www.cercles.com). GIRARD, Genevi?ve (2003a) Identification, localisation, attribution d'une propri?t? : analyse des structures there's an oddnessto the room et she had a timid side to her, Cycnos, 21-1 (http://revel-unice.fr/cycnos). GIRARD, Genevi?ve (2003b) la notion de sujet : une notion ? d?finir, Faits de langue, Actes du colloque de l'Universit? de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). GROSS, Maurice (1975) M?thode en syntaxe, Paris, Hermann. 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From ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu Mon Apr 18 18:50:35 2005 From: ph1u at andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Hopper) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:50:35 -0400 Subject: Call for papers In-Reply-To: <016b01c5426e$62290b60$0770c253@nomy6g795skgf6> Message-ID: Isn't the "bibliography" for this "international conference" just a little skewed? Seems to me I have read many things on these topics that aren't mentioned. Paul Hopper --On Saturday, April 16, 2005 12:23 PM +0200 "sylvester.osu" wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Below is a call for papers for a conference taking place in Besan?on, a > very beautiful city in northeastern France. > > Apologies for multiple postings. > > Sylvester. > > > > > > > > > International Conference > University of Franche-Comt? > LASELDI, UFR SLHS & CLA > Besan?on, 26-27-28 January 2006 > > VERB CONSTRUCTIONS > AND PRODUCTION OF MEANING > > > > > Organizing committe > - Daniel Lebaud, Catherine Paulin, Katja Ploog (UFR SLHS, > LASELDI-Idiomes) and R?my B?le-Richard (LASELDI) ; > > - Serge Borg (CLA, LASELDI-Idiomes) ; > > - Carole C?rignat, Scylia Ach?che, Hiroko Noda, Vanessa Parisot-Moulay, > V?ronica Portillo, Emmanuel Sawadogo, Yoshiko Suto (LASELDI-Idiomes). > > > > > > The acquisition of natural languages cannot be dissociated from > metalinguistic choices and activities which call for one's awareness of > linguistic differences and for the elaboration of grammatical notions > that need to be questioned. The comparison of equivalent structural > schemata in different languages enables one to highlight differences > between languages and to test the linguistic categories used to describe > and explain the singular functioning of natural languages. The diversity > of the data and the relevance of the categories determine the quality of > the conceptualisation. > > > > The microsyntactic unit around the verb has been the object of many > linguistic research studies, under different denominations: valence, > actance, predicative schema, predicative structure or relationship, > argument structure, theta theory. These research studies have been > carried out using different objects of investigation and different > theoretical approaches. > > The discursive use of verb units mobilizes syntactic, semantic and > pragmatic mechanisms, the interdependence of which determines the > interpretations that emerge as discourse unfolds. > > > > The papers will allow confrontation between different theoretical > frameworks in the field of verb semantics and syntax and will aim at a > better understanding of the relations between formal and semantic > constraints and pragmatic requirements for the production of meaning. > > > > The question will be envisaged in different perspectives: > > - the variability of the syntactic functions of verb arguments (for > example, subject vs. object vs. adjunt) ; > > - grammatical paradigms and semantic categories of verb units ; > > - the discursive use of arguments : theme, rheme, topicalisation, > focalisation. ; > > - syntactic variability and syntactic constraints (government). > > > > Participants with different theoretical frameworks (theories of > "enunciation", generativism, Guillaumian framework, Lexis-Grammar, etc.) > will endeavour to make their papers intelligible to an audience prepared > to welcome a variety of theoretical approaches. > > > > Anonymous abstracts (about 500 words) and a short bio-bibliography are to > be sent by June, 15th 2005 at the latest to : > > Daniel Lebaud : daniel.lebaud at wanadoo.fr > > Catherine Paulin : catherinepaulin at wanadoo.fr > > Katja Ploog : katploog at wanadoo.fr > > Notification of acceptance to the participants : 1st week in September > > > > Scientific committee > Saburo Aoki (Tsukuba University, Japan) > > Peter Blumenthal (K?ln University, Germany) > > Jean-Fran?ois Bonnot (UFC) > > Bernard Caron (LLACAN) > > Pierre Cotte (Paris IV) > > William Croft (Manchester University, United Kingdom) > > Claude Delmas (Paris III) > > Genevi?ve Girard (Paris III) > > Jacqueline Gu?ron (Paris III) > > Daniel Lebaud (UFC) > > Maarten Lemmens (Lille III) > > Philippe Miller (Lille III) > > Claudine Normand (Paris X-Nanterre) > > Kazuro Oguma (Seinan Daigaku University, Japan) > > Wulf Oesterreicher (Munich University, Germany) > > Sylvester Osu (Tours University) > > Denis Paillard (CNRS) > > Catherine Paulin (UFC) > > Katja Ploog (UFC) > > Claus Pusch (Friburg University, Germany) > > Nigel Quayle (Lille III, Ecole Centrale)igel Quayle > > Uli Reich (K?ln University, Germany) > > Sylvain Vogel (URPP, Cambodia) > > Sarah de Vogu? (Paris X-Nanterre) > > Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris VIII-Vincennes) > > > > > > Bibliography > FAITS DE LANGUES n? 17 (2001) Cor?en-japonais, sous la direction de Raoul > Blin et Ir?ne Tamba, Ophrys. > > FAITS DE LANGUES n? 23-24 (2004) Les langues austron?siennes, sous la > direction d'Elizabeth Zeitoun, Ophrys. > > LANGAGES n? 129 (1998) Diversit? de la (des) science(s) du langage > aujourd'hui, sous la direction de Simon Bouquet, Larousse. > > Linguistische Arbeiten 392 (1998) Transitivit?t und Diathese in > romanischen Sprachen, T?bingen, Niemeyer, Hans Geisler & Daniel Jacob. > > LINX (1999) Typologie des langues, Universaux linguistiques, sous la > direction d'Anne S?r?s et Christianne Marchello-Nizia, Universit? de > Paris X-Nanterre. > > LINX n?48 (2003) Approches syntaxiques contemporaines, sous la direction > de Danielle Leeman, Universit? de Paris X-Nanterre. > > LINX n?50 (2004) Variation s?mantique et syntaxique des unit?s lexicales > : ?tudes de six verbes fran?ais, sous la direction de R?mi Camus et Sarah > de Vog?e, Universit? de Paris X-Nanterre. > > TRAVAUX DE LINGUISTIQUE n? 44, Colloque Prep'2000, Bruxelles, Duculot. > > > AOKI, Saburo (2001) La cat?gorie de la d?f?rence en japonais, Faits de > Langues, 17, Ophrys, pp.131-136. > > BLUMENTHAL, Peter et KOCH, Peter (?d.) (2003) Valence : perspectives > allemandes, Caen, PU de Caen. > > BLANCHE-BENVENISTE, Claire & DEULOFEU, Jos? & van der EYNDE Karel & > STEFANINI, Jean (1987) Pronom et syntaxe. L'approche pronominale au > fran?ais. Paris, SELAF (1e ?d. 1984). > > BONNOT, Jean-Fran?ois (dir.) (1995) Paroles r?gionales : normes, vari?t?s > linguistiques et contexte social, Strasbourg, PU de Strasbourg. > > BOSSONG, Georg (1998) Le marquage diff?rentiel de l'objet dans les > langues d'Europe ; actancielle des langues romanes, in: Jack Feuillet > (ed.), Actance et valence, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter [EALT EUROTYP 20-2], > 193-258 ; 259-294 ; 769-788. > > CARON, Bernard (?d.) (2000) Topicalisation et focalisation dans les > langues africaines, Paris, Louvain, Peeters. > > COTTE, Pierre (?d.) (1999) Langage et lin?arit?, Villeneuve d'Ascq, > Septentrion. > > CROFT, William (2001) Radical Construction Grammar, Oxford. Oxford > University Press. > > DELMAS, Claude (2004) Incompl?tude, compl?tude et imp?ratif, Cercles 9 > (www.cercles.com). > > DELMAS, Claude (1998) Lexique et grammaire du ? manque ? en anglais, > Recherches en Linguistique Etrang?re XIX, Annales litt?raires de > l'Universit? de Franche-Comt?. > > DELMAS, Claude et ROUX, Louis (?d.) (2002) Construire et reconstruire en > linguistique anglaise, Saint-Etienne, Publications de l'Universit? de > Saint-Etienne. > > DIK, Simon Cornelis (1997) The Theory of Functional Grammar, Berlin , de > Gruyter (2e ?dition r?vis?e). > > FRIES, P.H. & HASAN, R. (eds.) (1999) On Subject and Theme. A discourse > functional perspective, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins. > > FRANCKEL, Jean-Jacques et LEBAUD, Daniel (1990) Les figures du sujet, > Gap, Ophrys. > > GIRARD, Genevi?ve (2004) La notion de sujet et > la notion de compl?ment, Cercles 9 (www.cercles.com). > > GIRARD, Genevi?ve (2003a) Identification, > localisation, attribution d'une propri?t? : analyse des structures > there's an oddnessto the room et she had a timid side to her, Cycnos, > 21-1 (http://revel-unice.fr/cycnos). > > GIRARD, Genevi?ve (2003b) la notion de sujet : > une notion ? d?finir, Faits de langue, Actes du colloque de l'Universit? > de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). > > GROSS, Maurice (1975) M?thode en syntaxe, Paris, Hermann. > > GROSS, Maurice (1986) Grammaire transformationnelle du fran?ais : 1. le > verbe. 2. le nom. 3. l'adverbe, (1?re ?dition Larousse, 1968), Paris, > Cantil?ne. > > GUERON, Jacqueline & Jacqueline LECARME (?d.) (2004) The Syntax of Time, > MIT Press. > > HARRIS, Zellig S. (1988) Language and Information, New York, Columbia > University Press. > > HASPELMATH, Martin, K?NIG, Ekkehard et OESTERREICHER, Wulf (?ds.) (2001) > Language typology and language universals, Berlin, New York, W. de > Gruyter. > > JACOB, Daniel (1990) Markierung von Aktantenfunktionen und > ?Pr?determination? im Franz?sischen. Ein Beitrag zur Neuinterpretation > morphosyntaktischer Strukturen in der franz?sischen Umgangssprache, > T?bingen, Niemeyer (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift f?r Romanische Philologie, > 231). > > LAMBRECHT, Knud (1994) Information structure and sentence form. Topic, > focus and the mental reprensentations of discourse referents, Cambridge, > Cambridge University Press (coll. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics n?71). > > LAZARD, Gilbert (1994) L'actance, Paris, PUF. > > LAZARD, Gilbert (2001) Etudes de linguistique g?n?rale. Typologie > grammaticale, Leuven-Paris, Peeters. > > LEMMENS, Maarten (1998) Lexical perspectives on transitivity and > ergativity : causative constructions in English, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, > J. Benjamins. > > LI, Charles (ed.) (1976) Subject and Topic, New York, Academic Press. > > LOUGHRAIEB, Mounira (coord.) (1997) Structures pr?dicatives : approches > syntaxiques et s?mantiques, Verbum 19/4, Nancy, Presses Universitaires. > > LYONS, John (1978) Semantics II, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. > > MILLER, Philip et ZRIBI-HERTZ, Anne (2003) Essais sur la grammaire > compar?e du fran?ais et de l'anglais, PU de Vincennes. > > MULLER, Claude (2002) Les bases de la syntaxe. Syntaxe contrastive > fran?ais - langues voisines, Bordeaux, PU de Bordeaux. > > NORMAND, Claudine (dir.) (1990) La Quadrature du sens : questions de > linguistes, Paris, PUF. > > OGUMA, Kazuro (2001) Particules ?nonciatives en japonais : le cas de > bakari, Faits de Langues, 17, Ophrys, pp.263-272. > > OSU, Sylvester Nhneanotnu (1998) Op?rations ?nonciatives et probl?matique > du rep?rage : cinq particules verbales ?kw?r?, Paris, Montr?al, > L'Harmattan. > > PAILLARD, Denis (1984) ?nonciation et d?termination en russe > contemporain, Paris, Institut d'?tudes slaves. > > PAULIN, Catherine (2003) Polys?mie et compl?mentation verbale : le verbe > feel dans tous ses ?tats, Correct, incorrect en linguistique anglaise, > CIEREC Travaux n?113, St Etienne. > > PLOOG, Katja (2002) Le fran?ais ? Abidjan : pour une approche syntaxique > du non-standard, Paris, CNRS. > > QUAYLE, Nigel (2003) Sujet et support dans les phrases existentielles en > anglais : essai d'analyse psychom?canique, Faits de langue, Actes du > colloque de l'Universit? de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, > Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). > > QUAYLE, Nigel (1994) "Up" et le verbe ? particule en anglais > contemporain, Lille, Presses universitaires de Lille. > > TESNIERE, Lucien (1969) El?ments de linguistique structurale, 2?me ?d., > Paris, Klincksieck. > > ULI, Reich (2002) Freie Pronomina, Verbalklitika und Nullobjekte im > Spielraum diskursiver Variation des Portugiesischen in Sao Paulo, m. C, > Romanica Monacensia Bd.62, erschienen bei Narr. > > VICTORRI, Bernard, FUCHS, Catherine (1996) La polys?mie, construction > dynamique du sens, Paris, Hermes. > > VOGEL, Sylvain (2003) Noms en emploi syncat?gor?matique en khmer et en > francique, Bulletin de la Soci?t? de linguistique de Paris, 98-I, pp. > 435-453. > > VOGU?, Sarah De (? para?tre) L'article un, la position sujet, et la > relation avec le pr?dicat, in Corblin F., S. Ferrando, L. Kupferman > (?ds), Ind?finis et pr?dications, Paris, PU de Paris-Sorbonne > (http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Vogue/article_un_sdv.pdf). > > > --------------------------- Paul Hopper Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Department of English College of Humanities and Social Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Telephone (412) 268-7174 Fax (412) 268-7989 From sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr Tue Apr 19 08:02:48 2005 From: sylvester.osu at wanadoo.fr (sylvester.osu) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:02:48 +0200 Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: Dear Paul Hopper, I guess you are right. I'm wondering whether the organizers really meant to give an exhaustive list. For further information, please contact the organizers whose names are given below as follows: Daniel Lebaud : daniel.lebaud at wanadoo.fr > > Catherine Paulin : catherinepaulin at wanadoo.fr > > Katja Ploog : katploog at wanadoo.fr Thanking you for your interest in this forthcoming conference. My regards, Sylvester Osu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hopper" To: Cc: "sylvester.osu" ; Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:50 PM Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] Call for papers Isn't the "bibliography" for this "international conference" just a little skewed? Seems to me I have read many things on these topics that aren't mentioned. Paul Hopper --On Saturday, April 16, 2005 12:23 PM +0200 "sylvester.osu" wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Below is a call for papers for a conference taking place in Besan?on, a > very beautiful city in northeastern France. > > Apologies for multiple postings. > > Sylvester. > > > > > > > > > International Conference > University of Franche-Comt? > LASELDI, UFR SLHS & CLA > Besan?on, 26-27-28 January 2006 > > VERB CONSTRUCTIONS > AND PRODUCTION OF MEANING > > > > > Organizing committe > - Daniel Lebaud, Catherine Paulin, Katja Ploog (UFR SLHS, > LASELDI-Idiomes) and R?my B?le-Richard (LASELDI) ; > > - Serge Borg (CLA, LASELDI-Idiomes) ; > > - Carole C?rignat, Scylia Ach?che, Hiroko Noda, Vanessa Parisot-Moulay, > V?ronica Portillo, Emmanuel Sawadogo, Yoshiko Suto (LASELDI-Idiomes). > > > > > > The acquisition of natural languages cannot be dissociated from > metalinguistic choices and activities which call for one's awareness of > linguistic differences and for the elaboration of grammatical notions > that need to be questioned. The comparison of equivalent structural > schemata in different languages enables one to highlight differences > between languages and to test the linguistic categories used to describe > and explain the singular functioning of natural languages. The diversity > of the data and the relevance of the categories determine the quality of > the conceptualisation. > > > > The microsyntactic unit around the verb has been the object of many > linguistic research studies, under different denominations: valence, > actance, predicative schema, predicative structure or relationship, > argument structure, theta theory. These research studies have been > carried out using different objects of investigation and different > theoretical approaches. > > The discursive use of verb units mobilizes syntactic, semantic and > pragmatic mechanisms, the interdependence of which determines the > interpretations that emerge as discourse unfolds. > > > > The papers will allow confrontation between different theoretical > frameworks in the field of verb semantics and syntax and will aim at a > better understanding of the relations between formal and semantic > constraints and pragmatic requirements for the production of meaning. > > > > The question will be envisaged in different perspectives: > > - the variability of the syntactic functions of verb arguments (for > example, subject vs. object vs. adjunt) ; > > - grammatical paradigms and semantic categories of verb units ; > > - the discursive use of arguments : theme, rheme, topicalisation, > focalisation. ; > > - syntactic variability and syntactic constraints (government). > > > > Participants with different theoretical frameworks (theories of > "enunciation", generativism, Guillaumian framework, Lexis-Grammar, etc.) > will endeavour to make their papers intelligible to an audience prepared > to welcome a variety of theoretical approaches. > > > > Anonymous abstracts (about 500 words) and a short bio-bibliography are to > be sent by June, 15th 2005 at the latest to : > > Daniel Lebaud : daniel.lebaud at wanadoo.fr > > Catherine Paulin : catherinepaulin at wanadoo.fr > > Katja Ploog : katploog at wanadoo.fr > > Notification of acceptance to the participants : 1st week in September > > > > Scientific committee > Saburo Aoki (Tsukuba University, Japan) > > Peter Blumenthal (K?ln University, Germany) > > Jean-Fran?ois Bonnot (UFC) > > Bernard Caron (LLACAN) > > Pierre Cotte (Paris IV) > > William Croft (Manchester University, United Kingdom) > > Claude Delmas (Paris III) > > Genevi?ve Girard (Paris III) > > Jacqueline Gu?ron (Paris III) > > Daniel Lebaud (UFC) > > Maarten Lemmens (Lille III) > > Philippe Miller (Lille III) > > Claudine Normand (Paris X-Nanterre) > > Kazuro Oguma (Seinan Daigaku University, Japan) > > Wulf Oesterreicher (Munich University, Germany) > > Sylvester Osu (Tours University) > > Denis Paillard (CNRS) > > Catherine Paulin (UFC) > > Katja Ploog (UFC) > > Claus Pusch (Friburg University, Germany) > > Nigel Quayle (Lille III, Ecole Centrale)igel Quayle > > Uli Reich (K?ln University, Germany) > > Sylvain Vogel (URPP, Cambodia) > > Sarah de Vogu? (Paris X-Nanterre) > > Anne Zribi-Hertz (Paris VIII-Vincennes) > > > > > > Bibliography > FAITS DE LANGUES n? 17 (2001) Cor?en-japonais, sous la direction de Raoul > Blin et Ir?ne Tamba, Ophrys. > > FAITS DE LANGUES n? 23-24 (2004) Les langues austron?siennes, sous la > direction d'Elizabeth Zeitoun, Ophrys. > > LANGAGES n? 129 (1998) Diversit? de la (des) science(s) du langage > aujourd'hui, sous la direction de Simon Bouquet, Larousse. > > Linguistische Arbeiten 392 (1998) Transitivit?t und Diathese in > romanischen Sprachen, T?bingen, Niemeyer, Hans Geisler & Daniel Jacob. > > LINX (1999) Typologie des langues, Universaux linguistiques, sous la > direction d'Anne S?r?s et Christianne Marchello-Nizia, Universit? de > Paris X-Nanterre. > > LINX n?48 (2003) Approches syntaxiques contemporaines, sous la direction > de Danielle Leeman, Universit? de Paris X-Nanterre. > > LINX n?50 (2004) Variation s?mantique et syntaxique des unit?s lexicales > : ?tudes de six verbes fran?ais, sous la direction de R?mi Camus et Sarah > de Vog?e, Universit? de Paris X-Nanterre. > > TRAVAUX DE LINGUISTIQUE n? 44, Colloque Prep'2000, Bruxelles, Duculot. > > > AOKI, Saburo (2001) La cat?gorie de la d?f?rence en japonais, Faits de > Langues, 17, Ophrys, pp.131-136. > > BLUMENTHAL, Peter et KOCH, Peter (?d.) (2003) Valence : perspectives > allemandes, Caen, PU de Caen. > > BLANCHE-BENVENISTE, Claire & DEULOFEU, Jos? & van der EYNDE Karel & > STEFANINI, Jean (1987) Pronom et syntaxe. L'approche pronominale au > fran?ais. Paris, SELAF (1e ?d. 1984). > > BONNOT, Jean-Fran?ois (dir.) (1995) Paroles r?gionales : normes, vari?t?s > linguistiques et contexte social, Strasbourg, PU de Strasbourg. > > BOSSONG, Georg (1998) Le marquage diff?rentiel de l'objet dans les > langues d'Europe ; actancielle des langues romanes, in: Jack Feuillet > (ed.), Actance et valence, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter [EALT EUROTYP 20-2], > 193-258 ; 259-294 ; 769-788. > > CARON, Bernard (?d.) (2000) Topicalisation et focalisation dans les > langues africaines, Paris, Louvain, Peeters. > > COTTE, Pierre (?d.) (1999) Langage et lin?arit?, Villeneuve d'Ascq, > Septentrion. > > CROFT, William (2001) Radical Construction Grammar, Oxford. Oxford > University Press. > > DELMAS, Claude (2004) Incompl?tude, compl?tude et imp?ratif, Cercles 9 > (www.cercles.com). > > DELMAS, Claude (1998) Lexique et grammaire du ? manque ? en anglais, > Recherches en Linguistique Etrang?re XIX, Annales litt?raires de > l'Universit? de Franche-Comt?. > > DELMAS, Claude et ROUX, Louis (?d.) (2002) Construire et reconstruire en > linguistique anglaise, Saint-Etienne, Publications de l'Universit? de > Saint-Etienne. > > DIK, Simon Cornelis (1997) The Theory of Functional Grammar, Berlin , de > Gruyter (2e ?dition r?vis?e). > > FRIES, P.H. & HASAN, R. (eds.) (1999) On Subject and Theme. A discourse > functional perspective, Amsterdam / Philadelphia, John Benjamins. > > FRANCKEL, Jean-Jacques et LEBAUD, Daniel (1990) Les figures du sujet, > Gap, Ophrys. > > GIRARD, Genevi?ve (2004) La notion de sujet et > la notion de compl?ment, Cercles 9 (www.cercles.com). > > GIRARD, Genevi?ve (2003a) Identification, > localisation, attribution d'une propri?t? : analyse des structures > there's an oddnessto the room et she had a timid side to her, Cycnos, > 21-1 (http://revel-unice.fr/cycnos). > > GIRARD, Genevi?ve (2003b) la notion de sujet : > une notion ? d?finir, Faits de langue, Actes du colloque de l'Universit? > de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). > > GROSS, Maurice (1975) M?thode en syntaxe, Paris, Hermann. > > GROSS, Maurice (1986) Grammaire transformationnelle du fran?ais : 1. le > verbe. 2. le nom. 3. l'adverbe, (1?re ?dition Larousse, 1968), Paris, > Cantil?ne. > > GUERON, Jacqueline & Jacqueline LECARME (?d.) (2004) The Syntax of Time, > MIT Press. > > HARRIS, Zellig S. (1988) Language and Information, New York, Columbia > University Press. > > HASPELMATH, Martin, K?NIG, Ekkehard et OESTERREICHER, Wulf (?ds.) (2001) > Language typology and language universals, Berlin, New York, W. de > Gruyter. > > JACOB, Daniel (1990) Markierung von Aktantenfunktionen und > ?Pr?determination? im Franz?sischen. Ein Beitrag zur Neuinterpretation > morphosyntaktischer Strukturen in der franz?sischen Umgangssprache, > T?bingen, Niemeyer (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift f?r Romanische Philologie, > 231). > > LAMBRECHT, Knud (1994) Information structure and sentence form. Topic, > focus and the mental reprensentations of discourse referents, Cambridge, > Cambridge University Press (coll. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics n?71). > > LAZARD, Gilbert (1994) L'actance, Paris, PUF. > > LAZARD, Gilbert (2001) Etudes de linguistique g?n?rale. Typologie > grammaticale, Leuven-Paris, Peeters. > > LEMMENS, Maarten (1998) Lexical perspectives on transitivity and > ergativity : causative constructions in English, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, > J. Benjamins. > > LI, Charles (ed.) (1976) Subject and Topic, New York, Academic Press. > > LOUGHRAIEB, Mounira (coord.) (1997) Structures pr?dicatives : approches > syntaxiques et s?mantiques, Verbum 19/4, Nancy, Presses Universitaires. > > LYONS, John (1978) Semantics II, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. > > MILLER, Philip et ZRIBI-HERTZ, Anne (2003) Essais sur la grammaire > compar?e du fran?ais et de l'anglais, PU de Vincennes. > > MULLER, Claude (2002) Les bases de la syntaxe. Syntaxe contrastive > fran?ais - langues voisines, Bordeaux, PU de Bordeaux. > > NORMAND, Claudine (dir.) (1990) La Quadrature du sens : questions de > linguistes, Paris, PUF. > > OGUMA, Kazuro (2001) Particules ?nonciatives en japonais : le cas de > bakari, Faits de Langues, 17, Ophrys, pp.263-272. > > OSU, Sylvester Nhneanotnu (1998) Op?rations ?nonciatives et probl?matique > du rep?rage : cinq particules verbales ?kw?r?, Paris, Montr?al, > L'Harmattan. > > PAILLARD, Denis (1984) ?nonciation et d?termination en russe > contemporain, Paris, Institut d'?tudes slaves. > > PAULIN, Catherine (2003) Polys?mie et compl?mentation verbale : le verbe > feel dans tous ses ?tats, Correct, incorrect en linguistique anglaise, > CIEREC Travaux n?113, St Etienne. > > PLOOG, Katja (2002) Le fran?ais ? Abidjan : pour une approche syntaxique > du non-standard, Paris, CNRS. > > QUAYLE, Nigel (2003) Sujet et support dans les phrases existentielles en > anglais : essai d'analyse psychom?canique, Faits de langue, Actes du > colloque de l'Universit? de Provence des 27 et 28 septembre 2001, > Jean-Marie Merle (coordinateur). > > QUAYLE, Nigel (1994) "Up" et le verbe ? particule en anglais > contemporain, Lille, Presses universitaires de Lille. > > TESNIERE, Lucien (1969) El?ments de linguistique structurale, 2?me ?d., > Paris, Klincksieck. > > ULI, Reich (2002) Freie Pronomina, Verbalklitika und Nullobjekte im > Spielraum diskursiver Variation des Portugiesischen in Sao Paulo, m. C, > Romanica Monacensia Bd.62, erschienen bei Narr. > > VICTORRI, Bernard, FUCHS, Catherine (1996) La polys?mie, construction > dynamique du sens, Paris, Hermes. > > VOGEL, Sylvain (2003) Noms en emploi syncat?gor?matique en khmer et en > francique, Bulletin de la Soci?t? de linguistique de Paris, 98-I, pp. > 435-453. > > VOGU?, Sarah De (? para?tre) L'article un, la position sujet, et la > relation avec le pr?dicat, in Corblin F., S. Ferrando, L. Kupferman > (?ds), Ind?finis et pr?dications, Paris, PU de Paris-Sorbonne > (http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Vogue/article_un_sdv.pdf). > > > --------------------------- Paul Hopper Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Department of English College of Humanities and Social Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Telephone (412) 268-7174 Fax (412) 268-7989 From langconf at acs.bu.edu Tue Apr 19 21:34:58 2005 From: langconf at acs.bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:34:58 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 30 Lunch Symposium Message-ID: The Boston University Conference on Language Development is pleased to announce the topic of the lunch symposium for BUCLD 30 (November 4-6 at Boston University): "Statistical Learning in Language Development: What is it, What is its Potential, and What are its Limitations?" The symposium speakers will be Jeff Elman (University of California at San Diego), LouAnn Gerken (University of Arizona) and Mark Johnson (Brown University). The conference will also include a keynote address by Janet Werker ("Speech Perception and Language Acquisition: Comparing Monolingual and Bilingual Infants") and a plenary talk by Harald Clahsen ("Grammatical Processing in First and Second Language Learners"). Further information is available on the BUCLD website ( http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD ). The call for papers (deadline May 15) can be found at < http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/callforpapers.htm >. From vyv.evans at sussex.ac.uk Wed Apr 20 10:13:41 2005 From: vyv.evans at sussex.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:13:41 +0100 Subject: NDCL Conference: Registration now open Message-ID: Colleagues, With apologies for cross-postings, registration for the 'New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics' Conference being hosted at the University of Sussex in October is now open. An updated list of plenary speakers is below. For full conference details, including how to register/attend, please see the conference website: www.cogling.org.uk Updated list of plenary speakers: Paul Chilton, University East Anglia, UK 'Dimensions of Discourse' William Croft (Keynote speaker), University of Manchester, UK Talk title tbc Ronald Langacker, University of California, San Diego, USA 'Constructions and constructional meaning' Brigitte Nerlich, University of Nottingham, UK 'Cognitive linguistics: A tale of two cultures?' Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, UK 'Mind, brain, society: Language as vehicle and language as window' Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University, USA 'Blending and compression' Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden 'Intersubjectivity, bodily mimesis and the grounding of language' Best regards, Vyv Dr. Vyv Evans Arts B-161 Department of Linguistics and English Language University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9QN United Kingdom Tel. +44-(0)1273-872527 Web. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/vyv/ From gdesagulier at univ-paris8.fr Thu Apr 28 12:49:41 2005 From: gdesagulier at univ-paris8.fr (Guillaume Desagulier) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 14:49:41 +0200 Subject: program update : "From Gram to Mind" - Bordeaux (France) 19-21 May 2005 Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings / Toutes nos excuses pour les envois multiples. ************************************************** International Conference / Colloque international Bordeaux, 19-21 May 2005 From Gram to Mind : Grammar as Cognition Du fait grammatical au fait cognitif. ************************************************** Registration is now open. Nous vous invitons ? vous inscrire d?s maintenant. For more conference details (hotel reservations, registration form, etc.), please visit the conference website: http://www.u-bordeaux3.fr/Actu/colloques/2004/25-22052005.htm ******************* Program / Programme ******************* --------------------------------------------- Thursday May 19th / Jeudi 19 mai 2005 --------------------------------------------- 8 : 00 - 9 : 00 Registration / Accueil des participants. 9 : 00 - 9 :30 Opening address / Ouverture officielle du colloque 9 :30 - 10 :00 Plenary session 1 / Seance pleniere 1 Michel Achard, Rice University Local Versus Global Accounts of Intransitivity 10 :00 - 10 :45 Plenary session 2 / Seance pleniere 2 Eve Sweetser, U.C. Berkeley Mental spaces and viewpoint in gesture - and in text 11 :00 - 12 :30 Thematic sessions 1-5 / Sessions thematiques paralleles 1 ? 5 12 :30 - 14 :30 Lunch / Dejeuner 14 :30 - 16 :00 Thematic sessions 6-11 / Sessions thematiques paralleles 6-11 16 :30 - 17 : 00 Coffee break / Pause cafe 17 :00 - 17 : 45 Plenary session 3 / Seance pleniere 3 Jean-Pierre Descles, Paris IV-Sorbonne / CNRS Topological and cognitive representations of grammatical relations: relations between prepositions, adverbs and preverbs in natural languages 17 :45 - 18 : 30 Plenary session 4 / Seance pleniere 4 Bernard Laks, Paris X- Nanterre / CNRS Approche cognitive de la phonologie 19 :00 Cocktail reception at Palais Rohan (Town Hall) / Cocktail au Palais Rohan (Mairie) --------------------------------------------- Friday May 20th / Vendredi 20 mai 2005 --------------------------------------------- 8 : 30 - 9 : 00 Registration / Accueil 9 :00 - 10 :30 Thematic Sessions 12-17 / Sessions thematiques paralleles 12-17 10 :30 - 11 : 00 Coffe break / Pause cafe 11 :00 - 12 : 00 Plenary Session 5 / Conference pleniere 5 R. Langacker, Prof. U.C. San Diego Enunciating the Parallelism between Nominal and Clausal Grounding 12 :00 - 14 :00 Lunch / Repas 14 :00 - 15 :30 Thematic sessions 18-23 / Sessions thematiques paralleles 18-23 15 :30 - 16 : 00 Coffee break / Pause cafe 16 :00 - 17 :00 Thematic sessions (short and standard presentations) 24-29 Sessions thematiques breves 24-29 17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break / Pause cafe 17 :30 - 18 :00 Plenary session 6/ Session pleniere 6 G. Radden, University of Hambourg A cognitive grammar of English : Qualification of things: modifiers" 18 :00 - 18 :30 Plenary session 7 / Conference pleniere 7 B. Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, University of Lodz Language and cognitivism today 20 :30 - 23 :00 Conference dinner / Banquet --------------------------------------------- Saturday May 21st / Samedi 21 mai 2005 --------------------------------------------- 9 :00 - 9 :45 Plenary session 8 / Session pleniere 8 Paulo de Carvalho, Universite de Bordeaux 3 Le nom et le nombre. [Nouns and number] 9 :45 - 10 :30 Plenary session 9 / Session pleniere 9 Bernd Heine, University of Cologne Cognitive and pragmatic factors in the emergence of functional categories 10 :30 - 11 :00 Coffee break / Pause cafe 11 :00 - 11 :45 Plenary session 10 / Session pleniere 10 Suzanne Kemmer, Rice University Passive and usage. 11 :45 - 12 :30 Plenary session 11 / Seance pleniere 11 Arie Verhagen, University of Leiden Argumentativity in grammar, communication, and cognition 12 :30 - 13 :00 Closing session / Cloture du colloque 14 :00 - 15 :30 Free wine tasting and buffet / Degustation de vins et buffet Salons des 4 Soeurs (in the heart of Bordeaux's Golden Triangle) Salon des 4 Soeurs (au coeur du triangle d'or de Bordeaux) 16 :00- 17 :30 Free guided tour of Bordeaux's historic districts / Visite guidee du centre historique de Bordeaux From dryer at buffalo.edu Fri Apr 29 13:41:28 2005 From: dryer at buffalo.edu (Matthew Dryer) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:41:28 -0400 Subject: reversative morphemes Message-ID: A student of mine, Scott Paauw, is interested in identifying references to reversative morphemes in various languages, grammatical morphemes that sometimes translate into English as ?back? and sometimes as ?again? (so that when combining with ?He went?, the resulting meaning might be either ?He went back? or ?He went again?). In some languages, such as Kutenai, the reversative has a use that goes beyond this, that occurs in clauses containing a morpheme that is semantically negative, illustrated by the following (using to represent the voiceless lateral fricative: taxa-s la lit-uk-s-i. then-obv revers without-water-obv.subj-indic ?Then there was no more water.? An English translation with ?again? doesn?t work, like ?Then they were without water again?, since that implies that they are returning to a state without water, when the original sentence appears not to have any such implication. Another Kutenai example: qapi-l la lu?-s-i all-prvb revers not.exist-obv.subj-indic ?All of them were gone ? Scott tells me that there is a reversative morpheme in Indonesian that shares this property with Kutenai. So he is interested in any other information about reversatives, especially any other instances where they interact with negative morphemes in this way. You can reply either to me or to Scott (shpaauw at buffalo.edu). Thanks, Matthew Dryer From jmori at wisc.edu Fri Apr 29 15:38:34 2005 From: jmori at wisc.edu (Junko Mori) Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:38:34 -0500 Subject: Call for Papers: 15th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference -- Deadline May1st! Message-ID: The 15th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held October 7-9, 2005, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This conference aims to provide a forum for presenting research in Japanese and Korean linguistics, thereby facilitating efforts to deepen our understanding of these two languages, which have striking typological similarities. The invited speakers include Masayoshi Shibatani (Rice University), Patricia Clancy (University of California, Santa Barbara), Yoshiko Matsumoto (Stanford University), and Chung-hey Han (Simon Fraser University). Papers in all sub areas of Japanese and Korean linguistics are invited. Presentations, except for those by the keynote speakers, will be 20 minutes long and will be followed by a 10-minute question and answer period. Please submit abstracts (one page, 500 words maximum) as a PDF file attached to an email message to eall at mailplus.wisc.edu by May 1, 2005. You may use a second page for references and/or example sentences. The first line of your abstract should indicate the category (Formal or Functional), followed by the sub-field (e.g., Formal/Syntax, Functional/Discourse, etc.). The second line should be the paper title. Omit your name and affiliation from the abstract. In the body of your email message, include name(s) and affiliation(s), address, phone number, and email address. Use the following subject header for your email: ?JK15, Last name, First Initial.? Please note that only one abstract from each individual can be considered for acceptance. One individual abstract and one jointly authored abstract may be submitted. All the necessary information about the conference will appear on our conference website in the coming weeks. Go to http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/easian/ for a link. Please direct any inquiries to Naomi McGloin (nmcgloin at facstaff.wisc.edu). From yutamb at mail.ru Tue Apr 12 19:49:24 2005 From: yutamb at mail.ru (Yuri Tambovtsev) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:49:24 +0700 Subject: Is Cognitive Typology possible? Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Is Cognitive Typology possible? If yes, is it a branch of Cognitive Linguistics? What is the difference between Cognitive Linguistics and Incognitive Linguistics? Is not Linguistics (as it is) not cognitive? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to yutamb at mail.ru Remain yours most thankfully Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk