From anggarrgoon at gmail.com Fri Dec 2 19:04:32 2005 From: anggarrgoon at gmail.com (Anggarrgoon) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:04:32 -0600 Subject: Graduate Program at Rice University Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics at Rice University in Houston, Texas is pleased to announce that competition for fellowships and admission to our graduate program for Fall, 2006 is now open. We invite talented students with degrees in linguistics and other related fields to visit our newly reconstructed website at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ling/programs.html for information about our graduate program, including information regarding application procedures and deadlines. Additionally, you may contact the graduate advisor, Dr. Nancy Niedzielski, at niedz at rice.edu, for more information. The Department of Linguistics at Rice adopts a functional, usage-based approach to language and linguistic theory. A number of recurrent themes emerge in faculty research and the degree programs offered: in-depth investigation of languages, coupled with the search for cross-linguistic generalization; the effects of semantics, language-in-use, sociocultural factors, and other functional influences that motivate and constrain linguistic form; grounding of theories in solid empirical data of many sorts; an interest in the relation between language and mind; and interest in discourse and social/communicative interaction more generally. The faculty possess a broad range of interests, including: * cognitive/functional linguistics * typology and language universals * field studies in American Indian, Australian, Austronesian, African, and other languages * sociolinguistics * discourse studies * phonetics and speech processing * laboratory phonology * corpus linguistics * second language acquisition * neurolinguistics * language change and grammaticization. We look forward to hearing from you. From noonan at csd.uwm.edu Wed Dec 14 19:09:14 2005 From: noonan at csd.uwm.edu (Michael Noonan) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:09:14 -0600 Subject: SLE-Workshop on "Cross-linguistic aspect/Aktionsart-modality links" Message-ID: See attached circular for an announcement of a workshop on "Cross-linguistic aspect/Aktionsart-modality links" organized by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss at the 39th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). From Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com Tue Dec 20 12:57:23 2005 From: Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com (Julia Ulrich) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:57:23 +0100 Subject: Cognitive LInguistics, edited by Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and M. Sandra Peña Cervel (2005) Message-ID: New Publication by Mouton de Gruyter! COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction Edited by Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and M. Sandra Peña Cervel 2005. x, 432 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 132.30 ISBN 3-11-018617-9 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 32) Date of publication: 12/2005 http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110186179-1&l=E The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself. CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently been taken into account in this orientation. The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii) the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions therein. EDITORS: Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez is Professor at the University of La Rioja, Spain. M. Sandra Peña Cervel is Lecturer at the National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain. FROM THE CONTENTS: Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza and M. Sandra Peña Introduction: As strong as its foundations, as wide as its scope Section 1. Variety in Unity: Cognitive-Functional Linguistics and Different Routes within CL Jan Nuyts Brothers in arms? On the relations between Cognitive and Functional Linguistics René Dirven Major strands in Cognitive Linguistics Ronald W. Langacker Construction Grammars: cognitive, radical, and less so Section 2. A Usage-Based Cognitive Linguistics Dirk Geeraerts Lectal variation and empirical data in Cognitive Linguistics Enrique Bernárdez Social cognition: variation, language, and culture in a cognitive linguistic typology Section 3. A Mental-Process-Oriented Cognitive Linguistics Raymond W. Gibbs Embodied action in thought and language Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza and M. Sandra Peña Cognitive operations and projection spaces Section 4. A Discourse-Oriented Cognitive Linguistics Gerard Steen Basic Discourse Acts. Towards a psychological theory of discourse segmentation Antonio Barcelona Metonymic chains: metonymy in discourse Klaus-Uwe Panther The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning construction Brigitte Nerlich Tracking the fate of the metaphor silent spring in British environmental discourse TO ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT SFG Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada, Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. PO Box 960 Herndon, VA 20172-0960 Tel.: +1 (703) 661 1589 Tel. Toll-free +1 (800) 208 8144 Fax: +1 (703) 661 1501 e-mail: degruytermail at presswarehouse.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: www.mouton-publishers.com For free demo versions of Mouton de Gruyter's multimedia products, please visit www.mouton-online.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge sind fuer den angegebenen Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From ana.ibanezm at dfm.unirioja.es Wed Dec 21 16:46:24 2005 From: ana.ibanezm at dfm.unirioja.es (Ana Ibanez) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:46:24 +0100 Subject: Conference announcement and Call for papers Message-ID: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT XXI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE YOUNG LINGUISTS ASSOCIATION (ASOCIACIÓN DE JÓVENES LINGÃœISTAS –AJL) Dear colleagues, The Organizing Committee of the next AJL Conference is pleased to announce its XXI edition, which will take place at the University of La Rioja (UR) in Logroño (Spain) during the days 26, 27 and 28 of April 2006. All works related to the thematic panels in which our recent conferences have been divided are welcome. This event is being organized by the young members of the Department of Modern Languages and of the Department of Hispanic and Classical Languages of the University of La Rioja. Until the moment, the following plenary speakers have already confirmed their participation: Prof. Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez. University of La Rioja Prof. Claudio García Turza. University of La Rioja Prof. María Ãngeles Calero. University of Lérida Prof. David Singleton. Trinity College Dublin We invite papers for 20 minutes presentations, which would be followed by 10 minutes discussions. Contributions will be structured according to the following subject areas: • DISCOURSE ANALYSIS • DIALECTOLOGY • SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING • PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY • HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE • LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY • LEXICOGRAPHY • APPLIED LINGUISTICS • COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS • DIACHRONIC LINGUISTICS • MORPHOLOGY • ONOMASTICS • PRAGMATICS • PSYCHOLINGUISTICS • SEMANTICS AND LEXICOLOGY • SINTAX • SOCIOLINGUISTICS • TRANSLATION Submission proposals should be sent electronically to the address: ajl2006 at gmail.com from January 1st 2006 to April 1st 2006, by using the registration form that is available on the Association web page: www.joveneslinguistas.org All proposals will be reviewed, and notification of acceptance will be given as soon as possible. PUBLICATION At the end of their paper presentation in the Conference, authors must hand a paper copy of the last version of their work to the session chairs, together with a digital copy (in either .doc or .rtf format) for their posterior publication. For this, texts should adjust to the style norms of the journal of the Association, Interlingüística. The style norms are also available in our web page. REGISTRATION Registration fees are the following: Member presenters: 36 € Non-member presenters: 42 € Non-members and/or non-presenter attendants: 20 € We look forward to having you here! From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Thu Dec 22 09:48:22 2005 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:48:22 +0100 Subject: Second Call for Language, Culture & Mind Conference - Paris 2006 Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR LANGUAGE CULTURE AND MIND CONFERENCE (LCM 2) INTEGRATING PERSPECTIVES AND METHODOLOGIES IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE PARIS 17-20 JULY 2006 The second `Language Culture and Mind' Conference (LCM 2) will be held in Paris in July 2006, following the successful first LCM conference in Portsmouth in 2004. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue, and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. The second edition will be held at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris France. Further information concerning the organization, accommodation and fees will be provided as soon as available at the site of the conference: http://www.lcm2006.net  PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE Deadline for submissions:  January 15 (for further detail see underneath) Notification to authors by March 30, 2006 Pre-registration by April 15, 2006 PRESENTATION Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity of human cultural life. As has long been recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human. In the recent past, perception and cognition have been the basis of general unifying models of language and language activity. However, a genuine integrative perspective should also involve such essential modalities of human action as: empathy, mimesis, intersubjectivity, normativity, agentivity and narrativity. Significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advancements in the relevant disciplines now provide a realistic basis for such a broadened perspective. This conference will articulate and discuss approaches to human natural language and to diverse genres of language activity which aim to integrate its cultural, social, cognitive and bodily foundations. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences. Topics include but are not limited to the relation between language and: - biological and cultural co-evolution  - comparative study of communication systems, whether animal or artificial - cognitive and cultural schematization  - emergence in ontogeny and phylogeny  - multi-modal communication - normativity  - thought, emotion and consciousness - perception and categorization - empathy and intersubjectivity - imitation and mimesis - symbolic activity - discourse genres in language evolution and ontogeny - sign, text and literacy Further information about LCM 2 will be presented at http://www.lcm2006.net. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Caroline David (Université de Montpellier) Jean-Louis Dessalles (École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris) Jean Lassègue (CNRS, Paris) Victor Rosenthal (Inserm-EHESS, Paris) Chris Sinha (University of Portsmouth) Yves-Marie Visetti (CNRS, Paris) Joerg Zinken (University of Portsmouth) Jordan Zlatev (Lund University) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (current composition) Iraide Ibarretxe Antunano (University of Zaragoza) Jocelyn Benoist (Université de Paris 1) Raphael Berthele (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland) Per Aage Brandt, (Case Western Reserve University) Peer F. BundgÃ¥rd (Aarhus Universitet) Seana Coulson, (Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD) Jules Davidoff (Goldsmith's, University of London) Jean-Pierre Durafour (University of Tubingen) Michel de Fornel (EHESS, Paris) Vyvyan Evans, (University of Sussex, Grande-Bretagne) Dirk Geeraerts, (Department of Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique) Clarisse Herrenschmidt (CNRS-Laboratoire Anthropologie Sociale, Paris) Chris Knight (University of Edinburgh) Bernard Laks (Université de Paris 10-Nanterre) Sandra Laugier (Université d'Amiens) Maarten Lemmens, (Université Lille III) Lorenza Mondada (Université Lyon II) François Nemo (Université Orléans) Domenico Parisi (CNR, Roma) David Piotrowski (CREA, Paris) Stéphane Robert (CNRS, Paris) François Rastier (CNRS-Modico, Paris) Lucien Scubla (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) Göran Sonesson (Lund, Semiotics) John Stewart (Université de Technologie de Compiègne) Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Copenhagen) Wolfgang Wildgen (University of Bremen) SUBMISSIONS Submissions are solicited either for oral presentations or for poster sessions. They will be reviewed by members of the International Scientific Committee. Oral presentations should last 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes discussion). All submissions should follow the abstract guidelines below. Submissions should be in English. Abstracts should not exceed 1200 words (about two A4 pages), single-spaced, font size 12 pt or larger, with 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Any diagrams and references must fit on this two page submission. Head material (at the top of the first page): - Title of the paper, - Author name(s), - Author affiliation(s) in brief (1 line), - Email address of principal author - Type of submission (oral presentation, poster) Abstracts should be emailed to submission at lcm2006.net as an ATTACHMENT (i.e. not included in the message) preferably as a MS Word document, but in PDF or postscript format if it is necessary to include a diagram or figure. Abstracts should be submitted by January 15, 2006. Notification of acceptance by March 30, 2006. All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the International Scientific Committee. From Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com Thu Dec 29 15:09:55 2005 From: Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com (Julia Ulrich) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:09:55 +0100 Subject: Frajzyngier, Johnston: A Grammar of Mina (Mouton de Gruyter, 2005) Message-ID: NEW FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Eric Johnston A Grammar of Mina In cooperation with Adrian Edwards 2005. xx, 512 pages. Cloth. Euro 148.00 / sFr 237.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 207.20 ISBN 3-11-018565-2 (Mouton Grammar Library 36) Language of publication: English Date of publication: 12/2005 http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110185652-1&l=E "A Grammar of Mina" is a reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed and endangered Central Chadic language. The book contains a description of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and all the functional domains encoded by this language. For each hypothesis regarding a form of linguistic expression and its function, ample evidence is given. The description of formal means and of the functions coded by these means is couched in terms accessible to all linguists regardless of their theoretical orientations. The outstanding characteristics of Mina include: vowel harmony; use of phonological means, including vowel deletion and vowel retention, to code phrasal boundaries; two tense and aspectual systems, each system carrying a different pragmatic function; a lexical category 'locative predicator' hitherto not observed in other languages; some tense, aspect, and mood markers that occur before the verb, and others that occur after the verb; the markers of interrogative and negative modality that occur in clause-final position; the conjunction used for a conjoined noun phrase in the subject function that differs from the conjunction used for a conjoined noun phrase in all other functions.In addition to the coding of argument structure, adjuncts, tense, aspect, and mood categories, Mina also codes the category point-of-view. The language has a clausal category 'comment clause' used in both simple and complex sentences, which overtly marks the speaker's comment on the proposition. The discourse structure has the principle of unity of place. If one of the participants in a described event changes scene, that is coded by a special syntactic construction in addition to any verb of movement that may be used. Because of these unusual linguistic characteristics, the "Grammar of Mina" will be of interest to a wide range of linguists. AUTHORS: Zygmunt Frajzyngier is Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Eric Johnston is affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. TO ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT SFG Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada, Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. PO Box 960 Herndon, VA 20172-0960 Tel.: +1 (703) 661 1589 Tel. Toll-free +1 (800) 208 8144 Fax: +1 (703) 661 1501 e-mail: degruytermail at presswarehouse.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: www.mouton-publishers.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge sind fuer den angegebenen Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From anggarrgoon at gmail.com Fri Dec 2 19:04:32 2005 From: anggarrgoon at gmail.com (Anggarrgoon) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:04:32 -0600 Subject: Graduate Program at Rice University Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics at Rice University in Houston, Texas is pleased to announce that competition for fellowships and admission to our graduate program for Fall, 2006 is now open. We invite talented students with degrees in linguistics and other related fields to visit our newly reconstructed website at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ling/programs.html for information about our graduate program, including information regarding application procedures and deadlines. Additionally, you may contact the graduate advisor, Dr. Nancy Niedzielski, at niedz at rice.edu, for more information. The Department of Linguistics at Rice adopts a functional, usage-based approach to language and linguistic theory. A number of recurrent themes emerge in faculty research and the degree programs offered: in-depth investigation of languages, coupled with the search for cross-linguistic generalization; the effects of semantics, language-in-use, sociocultural factors, and other functional influences that motivate and constrain linguistic form; grounding of theories in solid empirical data of many sorts; an interest in the relation between language and mind; and interest in discourse and social/communicative interaction more generally. The faculty possess a broad range of interests, including: * cognitive/functional linguistics * typology and language universals * field studies in American Indian, Australian, Austronesian, African, and other languages * sociolinguistics * discourse studies * phonetics and speech processing * laboratory phonology * corpus linguistics * second language acquisition * neurolinguistics * language change and grammaticization. We look forward to hearing from you. From noonan at csd.uwm.edu Wed Dec 14 19:09:14 2005 From: noonan at csd.uwm.edu (Michael Noonan) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:09:14 -0600 Subject: SLE-Workshop on "Cross-linguistic aspect/Aktionsart-modality links" Message-ID: See attached circular for an announcement of a workshop on "Cross-linguistic aspect/Aktionsart-modality links" organized by Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss at the 39th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). From Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com Tue Dec 20 12:57:23 2005 From: Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com (Julia Ulrich) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:57:23 +0100 Subject: Cognitive LInguistics, edited by Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and M. Sandra Peña Cervel (2005) Message-ID: New Publication by Mouton de Gruyter! COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction Edited by Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez and M. Sandra Pe?a Cervel 2005. x, 432 pages. Cloth. Euro 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 132.30 ISBN 3-11-018617-9 (Cognitive Linguistics Research 32) Date of publication: 12/2005 http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110186179-1&l=E The book testifies of the great tolerance of Cognitive Linguists towards internal variety within itself and towards external interaction with major linguistic subdisciplines. Internally, it opens up the broad variety of CL strands and the cognitive unity between convergent linguistic disciplines. Externally, it provides a wide overview of the connections between cognition and social, psychological, pragmatic, and discourse-oriented dimensions of language, which will make this book attractive to scholars from different persuasions. The book is thus expected to raise productive debate inside and outside the CL community. Furthermore, the book examines interdisciplinary connections from the point of view of the internal dynamics of CL research itself. CL is rapidly developing into different compatible frameworks with extensions into levels of linguistics description like discourse, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics among others that have only recently been taken into account in this orientation. The book covers two general topics: (i) the relationship between the embodied nature of language, cultural models, and social action; (ii) the role of metaphor and metonymy in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties. More specific topics are the nature and scope of constructional meaning, language variation and cultural models; discourse acts; the relationship between communication and cognition, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse, the role of mental spaces in linguistic processing, and the role of empirical work in CL research. These features endow the book with internal unity and consistency while preserving the identity of each of the contributions therein. EDITORS: Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez is Professor at the University of La Rioja, Spain. M. Sandra Pe?a Cervel is Lecturer at the National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain. FROM THE CONTENTS: Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza and M. Sandra Pe?a Introduction: As strong as its foundations, as wide as its scope Section 1. Variety in Unity: Cognitive-Functional Linguistics and Different Routes within CL Jan Nuyts Brothers in arms? On the relations between Cognitive and Functional Linguistics Ren? Dirven Major strands in Cognitive Linguistics Ronald W. Langacker Construction Grammars: cognitive, radical, and less so Section 2. A Usage-Based Cognitive Linguistics Dirk Geeraerts Lectal variation and empirical data in Cognitive Linguistics Enrique Bern?rdez Social cognition: variation, language, and culture in a cognitive linguistic typology Section 3. A Mental-Process-Oriented Cognitive Linguistics Raymond W. Gibbs Embodied action in thought and language Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza and M. Sandra Pe?a Cognitive operations and projection spaces Section 4. A Discourse-Oriented Cognitive Linguistics Gerard Steen Basic Discourse Acts. Towards a psychological theory of discourse segmentation Antonio Barcelona Metonymic chains: metonymy in discourse Klaus-Uwe Panther The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning construction Brigitte Nerlich Tracking the fate of the metaphor silent spring in British environmental discourse TO ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT SFG Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada, Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. PO Box 960 Herndon, VA 20172-0960 Tel.: +1 (703) 661 1589 Tel. Toll-free +1 (800) 208 8144 Fax: +1 (703) 661 1501 e-mail: degruytermail at presswarehouse.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: www.mouton-publishers.com For free demo versions of Mouton de Gruyter's multimedia products, please visit www.mouton-online.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge sind fuer den angegebenen Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From ana.ibanezm at dfm.unirioja.es Wed Dec 21 16:46:24 2005 From: ana.ibanezm at dfm.unirioja.es (Ana Ibanez) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:46:24 +0100 Subject: Conference announcement and Call for papers Message-ID: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT XXI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE YOUNG LINGUISTS ASSOCIATION (ASOCIACI?N DE J?VENES LING?ISTAS ?AJL) Dear colleagues, The Organizing Committee of the next AJL Conference is pleased to announce its XXI edition, which will take place at the University of La Rioja (UR) in Logro?o (Spain) during the days 26, 27 and 28 of April 2006. All works related to the thematic panels in which our recent conferences have been divided are welcome. This event is being organized by the young members of the Department of Modern Languages and of the Department of Hispanic and Classical Languages of the University of La Rioja. Until the moment, the following plenary speakers have already confirmed their participation: Prof. Francisco Jos? Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez. University of La Rioja Prof. Claudio Garc?a Turza. University of La Rioja Prof. Mar?a ?ngeles Calero. University of L?rida Prof. David Singleton. Trinity College Dublin We invite papers for 20 minutes presentations, which would be followed by 10 minutes discussions. Contributions will be structured according to the following subject areas: ? DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ? DIALECTOLOGY ? SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING ? PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY ? HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE ? LINGUISTIC HISTORIOGRAPHY ? LEXICOGRAPHY ? APPLIED LINGUISTICS ? COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ? DIACHRONIC LINGUISTICS ? MORPHOLOGY ? ONOMASTICS ? PRAGMATICS ? PSYCHOLINGUISTICS ? SEMANTICS AND LEXICOLOGY ? SINTAX ? SOCIOLINGUISTICS ? TRANSLATION Submission proposals should be sent electronically to the address: ajl2006 at gmail.com from January 1st 2006 to April 1st 2006, by using the registration form that is available on the Association web page: www.joveneslinguistas.org All proposals will be reviewed, and notification of acceptance will be given as soon as possible. PUBLICATION At the end of their paper presentation in the Conference, authors must hand a paper copy of the last version of their work to the session chairs, together with a digital copy (in either .doc or .rtf format) for their posterior publication. For this, texts should adjust to the style norms of the journal of the Association, Interling??stica. The style norms are also available in our web page. REGISTRATION Registration fees are the following: Member presenters: 36 ? Non-member presenters: 42 ? Non-members and/or non-presenter attendants: 20 ? We look forward to having you here! From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Thu Dec 22 09:48:22 2005 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:48:22 +0100 Subject: Second Call for Language, Culture & Mind Conference - Paris 2006 Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR LANGUAGE CULTURE AND MIND CONFERENCE (LCM 2) INTEGRATING PERSPECTIVES AND METHODOLOGIES IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE PARIS 17-20 JULY 2006 The second `Language Culture and Mind' Conference (LCM 2) will be held in Paris in July 2006, following the successful first LCM conference in Portsmouth in 2004. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue, and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. The second edition will be held at the ?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des T?l?communications (ENST), 46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris France. Further information concerning the organization, accommodation and fees will be provided as soon as available at the site of the conference: http://www.lcm2006.net? PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE Deadline for submissions:? January 15 (for further detail see underneath) Notification to authors by March 30, 2006 Pre-registration by April 15, 2006 PRESENTATION Human natural languages are biologically based, cognitively motivated, affectively rich, socially shared, grammatically organized symbolic systems. They provide the principal semiotic means for the complexity and diversity of human cultural life. As has long been recognized, no single discipline or methodology is sufficient to capture all the dimensions of this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, which lies at the heart of what it is to be human. In the recent past, perception and cognition have been the basis of general unifying models of language and language activity. However, a genuine integrative perspective should also involve such essential modalities of human action as: empathy, mimesis, intersubjectivity, normativity, agentivity and narrativity. Significant theoretical, methodological and empirical advancements in the relevant disciplines now provide a realistic basis for such a broadened perspective. This conference will articulate and discuss approaches to human natural language and to diverse genres of language activity which aim to integrate its cultural, social, cognitive and bodily foundations. We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience, who wish both to impart their insights and findings, and learn from other disciplines. Preference will be given to submissions which emphasize interdisciplinarity, the interaction between culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language sciences. Topics include but are not limited to the relation between language and: - biological and cultural co-evolution? - comparative study of communication systems, whether animal or artificial - cognitive and cultural schematization? - emergence in ontogeny and phylogeny? - multi-modal communication - normativity? - thought, emotion and consciousness - perception and categorization - empathy and intersubjectivity - imitation and mimesis - symbolic activity - discourse genres in language evolution and ontogeny - sign, text and literacy Further information about LCM 2 will be presented at http://www.lcm2006.net. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Caroline David (Universit? de Montpellier) Jean-Louis Dessalles (?cole Nationale Sup?rieure des T?l?communications, Paris) Jean Lass?gue (CNRS, Paris) Victor Rosenthal (Inserm-EHESS, Paris) Chris Sinha (University of Portsmouth) Yves-Marie Visetti (CNRS, Paris) Joerg Zinken (University of Portsmouth) Jordan Zlatev (Lund University) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (current composition) Iraide Ibarretxe Antunano (University of Zaragoza) Jocelyn Benoist (Universit? de Paris 1) Raphael Berthele (Universit? de Fribourg, Switzerland) Per Aage Brandt, (Case Western Reserve University) Peer F. Bundg?rd (Aarhus?Universitet) Seana Coulson, (Department of Cognitive Science, UCSD) Jules Davidoff (Goldsmith's, University of London) Jean-Pierre Durafour (University of Tubingen) Michel de Fornel (EHESS, Paris) Vyvyan Evans, (University of Sussex, Grande-Bretagne) Dirk Geeraerts, (Department of Linguistics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique) Clarisse Herrenschmidt (CNRS-Laboratoire Anthropologie Sociale, Paris) Chris Knight (University of Edinburgh) Bernard Laks (Universit? de Paris 10-Nanterre) Sandra Laugier (Universit? d'Amiens) Maarten Lemmens, (Universit? Lille III) Lorenza Mondada (Universit? Lyon II) Fran?ois Nemo (Universit? Orl?ans) Domenico Parisi (CNR, Roma) David Piotrowski (CREA, Paris) St?phane Robert (CNRS, Paris) Fran?ois Rastier (CNRS-Modico, Paris) Lucien Scubla (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) G?ran Sonesson (Lund, Semiotics) John Stewart (Universit? de Technologie de Compi?gne) Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Copenhagen) Wolfgang Wildgen (University of Bremen) SUBMISSIONS Submissions are solicited either for oral presentations or for poster sessions. They will be reviewed by members of the International Scientific Committee. Oral presentations should last 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes discussion). All submissions should follow the abstract guidelines below. Submissions should be in English. Abstracts should not exceed 1200 words (about two A4 pages), single-spaced, font size 12 pt or larger, with 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Any diagrams and references must fit on this two page submission. Head material (at the top of the first page): - Title of the paper, - Author name(s), - Author affiliation(s) in brief (1 line), - Email address of principal author - Type of submission (oral presentation, poster) Abstracts should be emailed to submission at lcm2006.net as an ATTACHMENT (i.e. not included in the message) preferably as a MS Word document, but in PDF or postscript format if it is necessary to include a diagram or figure. Abstracts should be submitted by January 15, 2006. Notification of acceptance by March 30, 2006. All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the International Scientific Committee. From Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com Thu Dec 29 15:09:55 2005 From: Julia.Ulrich at degruyter.com (Julia Ulrich) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:09:55 +0100 Subject: Frajzyngier, Johnston: A Grammar of Mina (Mouton de Gruyter, 2005) Message-ID: NEW FROM MOUTON DE GRUYTER Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Eric Johnston A Grammar of Mina In cooperation with Adrian Edwards 2005. xx, 512 pages. Cloth. Euro 148.00 / sFr 237.00 / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 207.20 ISBN 3-11-018565-2 (Mouton Grammar Library 36) Language of publication: English Date of publication: 12/2005 http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110185652-1&l=E "A Grammar of Mina" is a reference grammar of a hitherto undescribed and endangered Central Chadic language. The book contains a description of the phonology, morphology, syntax, and all the functional domains encoded by this language. For each hypothesis regarding a form of linguistic expression and its function, ample evidence is given. The description of formal means and of the functions coded by these means is couched in terms accessible to all linguists regardless of their theoretical orientations. The outstanding characteristics of Mina include: vowel harmony; use of phonological means, including vowel deletion and vowel retention, to code phrasal boundaries; two tense and aspectual systems, each system carrying a different pragmatic function; a lexical category 'locative predicator' hitherto not observed in other languages; some tense, aspect, and mood markers that occur before the verb, and others that occur after the verb; the markers of interrogative and negative modality that occur in clause-final position; the conjunction used for a conjoined noun phrase in the subject function that differs from the conjunction used for a conjoined noun phrase in all other functions.In addition to the coding of argument structure, adjuncts, tense, aspect, and mood categories, Mina also codes the category point-of-view. The language has a clausal category 'comment clause' used in both simple and complex sentences, which overtly marks the speaker's comment on the proposition. The discourse structure has the principle of unity of place. If one of the participants in a described event changes scene, that is coded by a special syntactic construction in addition to any verb of movement that may be used. Because of these unusual linguistic characteristics, the "Grammar of Mina" will be of interest to a wide range of linguists. AUTHORS: Zygmunt Frajzyngier is Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Eric Johnston is affiliated with the Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. TO ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT SFG Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada, Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. PO Box 960 Herndon, VA 20172-0960 Tel.: +1 (703) 661 1589 Tel. 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