From jeonglee12 at hotmail.com Mon Dec 4 07:16:36 2006 From: jeonglee12 at hotmail.com (Jeong-Hwa Lee) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 07:16:36 +0000 Subject: 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Theme: Cognition, Meaning, Implicature, and Discourse July 6th-7th, 2007 Korea University, Seoul, Korea The Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea (DISCOG) is happy to announce the 3rd International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics during July 6 and 7, 2007, at Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Start-line for Abstract Submissions: Dec. 6, 2006 Dead-line for Abstract Submissions: Jan. 6, 2007 Notification of Abstract Acceptance: Feb. 6, 2007 Conference Dates: July 6-7, 2007 (An independent workshop on Cognitive Linguistics by Prof. Yo Matsumoto (Kobe University, Japan) is scheduled on July 5, 2007.) Invited Speakers Sung-Bom Lee (Sogang University, Korea): on Metapragmatic Implicature Yo Matsumoto (Kobe University, Japan): on Cognitive Linguistics Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA): "Towards a theory of functional semantics: discovery, description, and the proofs of meaning" SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS * For General and Poster Sessions: We solicit abstracts (for 25-minute presentations including discussion) which address various aspects of cognitive and discourse (both spoken and written) approaches to human language. Papers on cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse studies, corpus linguistics, or language processing will be of particular interest. However, papers concerning any issues relating cognition and language will be welcome. We ask that the presentation andthe discussion by a discussant may not exceed 25 minutes. All submissions should follow the abstract specifications below: Abstract specifications An abstract should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including examples and references. It should specify research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by three members of a large international panel. Notification of General and Poster Sessions will be made on or before Mar. 6, 2007. Electronic submissions as attachment (in MS word or PDF format) are strongly encouraged. We ask each author to restrict their submission to one single-authored abstract and one co-authored abstract maximum to give opportunity to more authors within limited time. The body of e-mail message should include - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - telephone number - e-mail address - fax number (optional) - title of paper - specific area (e.g., subfields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse studies, etc.) - three to five keywords - presenter's name - preferred session: (a) General Session (b) Poster Session (c) Preference for General Session but willing to do a poster The abstract should be anonymous. All abstracts should be sent to (Prof. Jeong-Hwa Lee of Korea Digital University, Program Committee Co-Chair). NB: Abstracts will be accepted from December 6, 2006 to January 6, 2007. Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send three high-quality copies of your abstract and a separate page containing the required information no later than January 6, 2007 to Prof. Yong-Jin Kim Soongsil University English Department Dongjak-gu Sangdo-5dong Seoul 156-743, Korea For further information, visit the website http://discog.com (after December 6, 2006). Yong-Jin Kim, PhD Chair of Organizing Committee The 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Jeong-Hwa Lee Ph.D. Korea Digital University Dept. of Practical Foreign Languages/Assistant Professor #215, Gyedong 1-21, Jongno-Gu, Seoul Korea, 110-800 TEL. +82-2-6361-1928/ FAX. +82-2-6361-1800 Mobile: +82-17-332-5616 E-mail: jeonglee12 at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ From meri.larjavaara at helsinki.fi Mon Dec 4 21:14:23 2006 From: meri.larjavaara at helsinki.fi (Meri Larjavaara) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:14:23 +0200 Subject: Colloque Representations du sens linguistique 2008 Message-ID: 1ère circulaire Le département des langues romanes de l’Université de Helsinki en collaboration avec le programme international GRAMM-R organise le colloque REPRÉSENTATIONS DU SENS LINGUISTIQUE IV Helsinki, du mercredi 28 mai au vendredi 30 mai 2008 Généralités Le premier colloque international « Représentations du sens linguistique » a eu lieu à Bucarest en mai 2001. Il a été suivi par les colloques RSL II à Montréal, en mai 2003 et RSL III à Bruxelles, en novembre 2005. Maintenant ce sera le département des langues romanes de l’Université de Helsinki qui en accueillera la quatrième édition, en mai 2008. Comme précédemment, l’objectif est d’examiner les rapports entre les différents modèles de description linguistique et le traitement de sens. Thème du colloque Nous proposons comme thème du colloque les articulations complexes entre la langue et les paramètres contextuels. Les linguistes distinguent, entre autres, les usages écrits/oraux de la langue, les usages privés/institutionnels, les discours interactionnels/monologaux... La question que nous nous posons est de savoir en quoi diffèrent les représentations du sens linguistique d'après le contexte d'utilisation ; est-ce que par exemple 'l'oralité' s'exprime de la même manière dans une publicité écrite et dans un dialogue spontané ? Quelles sont les réalisations concrètes de l'interactivité dans deux types d'écrits différents, tels le blog et le chat ? Comment se concrétise la confidentialité dans des contextes d'utilisation de la langue très différents (le journal intime et la session thérapeutique, par exemple) ? De quelle manière s’utilisent certaines structures grammaticales dans un texte littéraire et dans un texte journalistique, à l’oral et à l’écrit ? La problématique pourra être abordée d'un point de vue contrastif (différences entre deux langues ou entre deux genres), synchronique (un seul genre/type de texte dans une langue définie) ou diachronique (nouveaux sens donnés aux mots/structures dans un genre défini au cours de l'évolution). Nous vous prions de bien définir le(s) genre(s)/type(s) de texte choisi(s) et de bien délimiter votre point d’intérêt, qui sera strictement lié au sens linguistique. Comité d’organisation Eva Havu (Université de Helsinki), Mervi Helkkula (Université de Helsinki), Juhani Härmä (Université de Helsinki), Johanna Isosävi (Université de Helsinki), Meri Larjavaara (Université de Helsinki), Kristina Svensson (Université de Helsinki), Ulla Tuomarla (Université de Helsinki), Laura Tuominen (Université de Helsinki), Mari Lehtinen (Université de Helsinki) Comité scientifique Présidence : Eva Havu (Université de Helsinki) Michel Charolles (Université de Paris III Sorbonne nouvelle), Bernard Combettes (Université de Nancy), Ivan Evrard (Université d’Oviedo), Olga Galatanu (Université de Nantes), Pascale Haderman (Universiteit Gent), Mervi Helkkula (Université de Helsinki), Juhani Härmä (Université de Helsinki), Georges Kleiber (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg), Dominique Lagorgette (Université de Savoie), Meri Larjavaara (Université de Helsinki), Pierre Larrivée (Université d’Aston), Christiane Marchello-Nizia (ENS-LSH Lyon), Lorenza Mondada (Université Lumière Lyon 2), Mary-Annick Morel (Université de Paris III Sorbonne nouvelle), Franck Neveu (Université de Caen), Gilles Philippe (Université Stendhal Grenoble 3), Michel Pierrard (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Laurence Rosier (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Ulla Tuomarla (Université de Helsinki), Dan Van Raemdonck (Université Libre de Bruxelles/Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Marc Wilmet (Université Libre de Bruxelles/Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Conférences plénières Bernard Combettes (Université de Nancy) Auli Hakulinen (Université de Helsinki) Marc Wilmet (Université Libre de Bruxelles/Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Principales échéances - 28 septembre 2007 : rentrée des propositions de communications et pré-inscription - 25 janvier 2008 : notification de la liste des communications acceptées - 1er mars 2008 : publication du programme - 31 mars 2008 : inscriptions définitives - 25 avril 2008 : rentrée des textes provisoires pour les pré-actes et clôture des inscriptions définitives - 16 mai 2008 : les pré-actes se trouveront sur le site du colloque Instructions pour la présentation des propositions de communications Les propositions de communication devront arriver pour le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 au plus tard par courrier électronique à l’adresse rsl-2008 at helsinki.fi, sous la forme suivante : - dans le corps du message : nom, prénom, affiliation, adresse professionnelle, adresse de correspondance et titre de la communication ; - dans un fichier joint au format .rtf (rich text format) de Microsoft Word et dont le nom répondra au schéma suivant : : un résumé de 3000 signes maximum reprenant le titre de l’exposé, son cadre et ses limites, son objectif précis (y compris quelques exemples), la méthode utilisée, le raisonnement suivi, les principaux résultats obtenus et une indication de bibliographie (5 titres maximum). Ni le nom de l’ / des auteur(s) ni l’établissement / laboratoire auquel il(s)/elle(s) est sont rattaché(e)(s) ne doivent y apparaître. Droit d’inscription Un droit d’inscription de 120 euros / étudiants 40 euros sera demandé à l’inscription définitive. Ce droit d’inscription inclut la participation au colloque, les pauses-café, les réceptions et un exemplaire des actes, qui comprendront une sélection des communications (étudiants : les actes sont compris uniquement pour les intervenants) Voyages, logement, festivités, services Il existe de nombreux vols directs quotidiens depuis les grandes capitales européennes ainsi que depuis certaines autres villes (p.ex. Paris- Helsinki, environ trois heures de vol, compagnies aériennes Finnair, Air France, Blue1). Une navette relie l’aéroport au centre ville (environ 25 minutes de trajet). Le colloque aura lieu dans les locaux de l’université situés dans le centre. Les organisateurs du colloque effectueront une pré-réservation de chambres dans plusieurs hôtels de catégories différentes dans le centre. Deux réceptions et un banquet final (payant) seront organisés. Les participants seront informés des modalités pratiques (dates, inscriptions, frais du banquet) à la clôture des inscriptions définitives. Une excursion pourra être organisée le samedi 31 mai si suffisamment de participants manifestent leur intérêt lors des inscriptions définitives. Les intervenants sont priés de bien vouloir préparer à l’avance les photocopies de leur exemplier et d’indiquer le matériel audiovisuel dont ils souhaiteront disposer pour accompagner leur exposé. From els603 at bangor.ac.uk Wed Dec 6 13:58:09 2006 From: els603 at bangor.ac.uk (June Luchjenbroers) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:58:09 +0000 Subject: PLEASE POST: FUNKNET list Message-ID: Second CALL FOR PAPERS: 2nd Conference of the UK-Cognitive Linguistics Assoc. NEW DIRECTIONS IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Hosted at CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, WALES U.K. August 27-30, 2007 http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: LYNNE CAMERON, Open University, U.K. SEANA COULSON, Univ. California, San Diego, USA KLAUS PANTHER, Univ. Hamburg, Germany CHRIS SINHA, Univ. Portsmouth, England, UK EVE SWEETSER, Univ. California, Berkeley, USA ARIE VERHAGEN, Leiden Univ., Netherlands We invite scholars of diverse disciplines and languages to contribute to this conference. Papers dealing with any facet of cognitive linguistics research are welcome, including research on meaning, conceptual structure, conceptual operations, cognitive processing, grammar, acquisition, language use, discourse function, and other issues. For more details about the areas of investigation we welcome for this conference, please see our website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html Types of Submissions & submission deadlines (i) theme session Mon. 8 January 2007 (ii) paper presentation Mon. 5 February 2007 (iii) poster presentation 5 February 2007 (iv) paper or poster 5 February 2007 We also hope to publish papers given at this conference. COORDINATORS June Luchjenbroers, Univ. Wales Bangor WALES UK Michelle Aldridge, Cardiff Univ. WALES UK ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Michelle Aldridge, Cardiff Univ. WALES UK June Luchjenbroers, Univ. Wales Bangor WALES UK Vyvyan Evans, Centre in Language, Communication & Cognition, Univ. Brighton, Esther Pascual, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands CONTACT: NDCL-2 at cardiff.ac.uk -- Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). 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Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the University of Wales, Bangor Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk From ali.farghaly at oracle.com Thu Dec 7 17:46:14 2006 From: ali.farghaly at oracle.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:46:14 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: * FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS * SECOND WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL-2) July 21-22, 2007 LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute Stanford University, California, USA http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2 The first workshop on "Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages", held in conjunction with COLING 2004, brought together researchers working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto, Urdu and Kurdish. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common to all these languages despite their being of distinct language families, such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system. The proposed second workshop, three years after the successful first workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share their research and experience. The goal of the workshop is to provide the participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems for Arabic script languages. This second workshop also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made since the first workshop in 2004. This workshop is being held in conjunction with the LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute at Stanford University. WORKSHOP TOPICS Authors of papers in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages are invited to apply. We also accept proposals for demonstrations of computational systems. Preference would be given to papers that extend their results and analyses to other Arabic script-based languages. Papers and demos could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics: * Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources * Transliteration, transcription and diacritization * Morphological analysis * Syntactic ambiguity resolution * Shallow and deep parsing * Machine translation from and to Arabic script languages * Sense disambiguation * Homograph resolution * Semantic analysis * Semantic web and inferences * Named entity recognition * Information retrieval * Text mining * Summarization * Text-to-speech systems SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Papers should be original, previously unpublished work and should not identify the author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (including figures and references). Email submissions (ps or pdf) are preferred and should be sent to both Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com and karine at mitre.org by midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the author(s) and paper's title. Formatting requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 26, 2007 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2007 Camera ready submissions: June 15, 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Richard Sproat (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA, Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, karine at mitre.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE As of December 7, the following have accepted to participate in the program committee: Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products) Mona Diab (Columbia University) Sherri Condon (The MITRE Corporation) Nizar Habash (Columbia University) Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini (Iowa State University) Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute) Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai) Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo) Imed Zitouni (IBM) * FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS * SECOND WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL-2) July 21-22, 2007 LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute Stanford University, California, USA http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2 The first workshop on "Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages", held in conjunction with COLING 2004, brought together researchers working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto, Urdu and Kurdish. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common to all these languages despite their being of distinct language families, such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system. The proposed second workshop, three years after the successful first workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share their research and experience. The goal of the workshop is to provide the participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems for Arabic script languages. This second workshop also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made since the first workshop in 2004. This workshop is being held in conjunction with the LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute at Stanford University. WORKSHOP TOPICS Authors of papers in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages are invited to apply. We also accept proposals for demonstrations of computational systems. Preference would be given to papers that extend their results and analyses to other Arabic script-based languages. Papers and demos could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics: * Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources * Transliteration, transcription and diacritization * Morphological analysis * Syntactic ambiguity resolution * Shallow and deep parsing * Machine translation from and to Arabic script languages * Sense disambiguation * Homograph resolution * Semantic analysis * Semantic web and inferences * Named entity recognition * Information retrieval * Text mining * Summarization * Text-to-speech systems SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Papers should be original, previously unpublished work and should not identify the author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (including figures and references). Email submissions (ps or pdf) are preferred and should be sent to both Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com and karine at mitre.org by midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the author(s) and paper's title. Formatting requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 26, 2007 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2007 Camera ready submissions: June 15, 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Richard Sproat (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA, Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, karine at mitre.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE As of November 30th, the following have accepted to participate in the program committee: Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products) Mona Diab (Columbia University) Sherri Condon (The MITRE Corporation) Nizar Habash (Columbia University) Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini (Iowa State University) Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute) Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai) Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo) Imed Zitouni (IBM) Violetta Cavalli-Sforza Carnegie Mellon University Joseph Dichy Lyon University From haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Thu Dec 7 18:29:10 2006 From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 19:29:10 +0100 Subject: Paris 2007 Semantic Maps workshop Message-ID: Call for abstracts Semantic maps: methods and applications A workshop to be held adjacent to the seventh meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology on Saturday, 29 September 2007 in the Centre André-Georges Haudricourt (CNRS linguistic research units), Villejuif (Paris Metro area). http://email.eva.mpg.de/~cysouw/meetings/semanticmaps.html Organized by: Michael Cysouw, Martin Haspelmath, and Andrej Malchukov Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig In recent years the semantic map methodology has enjoyed increased popularity in cross-linguistic studies. Although there are various ways to make semantic maps, they all are attempts to visually represent cross-linguistic regularity in semantic structure. It has become increasingly clear that these attempts to map out linguistic categorization provide an empirically testable tool to the study of semantic variation across languages. The semantic map approach has further shown convergence with grammaticalization theory, as well as with the research using (implicational) hierarchies, as found in functional typology and optimality theory. Yet various aspects of the semantic maps approach remain unsettled and open to discussion: it is the goal of the workshop to address these topics, in order to contribute - both empirically and theoretically - to the development of the semantic map methodology. Some general discussion and references on the (recieved) method of building semantic maps can be found in Croft 2001 and Haspelmath 2003. Further, different kinds of semantic maps have been proposed for diverse parts of linguistic structure, including tense/aspect (e.g., Anderson 1982; Croft fc.), modality (Anderson 1986; van der Auwera & Plungian), voice (Kemmer 1993; Croft 2001), pronouns (Haspelmath 1997a; Cysouw fc.), case-marking (Haspelmath 2003; Narrog & Ito 2006), clause linkage (Kortmann 1997; Malchukov 2004), spatial and temporal domain (Haspelmath 1997b; Levinson & Meira 2003), as well as to a number of syntactic domains, such as intransitive predication (Stassen 1997) and secondary predication (van der Auwera & Malchukov 2005). The workshop invites contributions related to the further understanding of the semantic map method. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Status of semantic maps in linguistic theory; - Methods of building semantic maps from data; - Limits of the semantic map approach; - Possibilities for and problems of the interpretation of semantic map; - Relation between semantic maps and grammaticalization chains; - Presentation and discussion of particular semantic maps; - Scalability of the method to build semantic maps (e.g. the problem of the ''vacuous'' semantic maps, which might arise when more empirical data is included); - Implications of cross-linguistically rare phenomena for semantic maps; - In what way can the semantic map approach guide and be guided by the deductive (decompositional) approaches in (formal) semantics; - Relation between semantic maps and psycholinguistic research (i.e. issues of mental reality of the structures discovered by the semantic map methodology). Call for Papers: Send your one-page abstract to Michael Cysouw at the address below, preferably by email (in plain text or in PDF format) or as hard copy, to arrive no later than January 31st, 2007. Notification of acceptance is by March 1st, 2007. The normal time allotted for presentation is 30 minutes plus 15 minutes for discussion. Further information: Martin Haspelmath (haspelmatheva.mpg.de) Andrej Malchukov (andrej_malchukoveva.mpg.de) Michael Cysouw (cysouweva.mpg.de) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Germany From Marie.Fellbaum at anu.edu.au Fri Dec 8 02:55:01 2006 From: Marie.Fellbaum at anu.edu.au (Marie Fellbaum) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:55:01 +1100 Subject: WORKSHOP: DEFINITENESS AND REFERENTIALITY Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON DEFINITENESS AND REFERENTIALITY: THEORY AND DESCRIPTION Sept. 26-28, 2007 University of Adelaide Adelaide, Australia A one day workshop on Definiteness and Referentiality will be held in conjunction with ALS 2007 at the University of Adelaide. We welcome papers on Australian, Austronesian, Asian and other natural languages, and in all areas of linguistics including sociolinguistics, language variation and change, first/second language acquisition, conversational analysis, and cognitive (including psycho-/neurolinguistic) processing of definiteness. The following topics are of particular interest: --data based studies of definiteness properties in particular languages --theoretical aspects of definiteness and/or specificity --the article systems of a language group(s) --the interaction of definiteness/specificity with the grammar of a language --the behavior of subsystems within languages, e.g. polarity references and number and quantification of nouns --the acquisition and development of definiteness and/or referentiality in child and second languages --language change in progress with respect to a property or subsystem of a language. Proposals for both a General Session and a Poster Session should include the author's name and affiliation, contact details (including e-mail and postal addresses), title of the paper, keywords, and a one page abstract of no more than 500 words, excluding examples and references. Key references may include, but not limited to, the work of Irene Heim, M. Enç, Kamp & Reyle (DRT), B. Partee, Donka Farkas, T.Givon, Christopher Lyons, J. Hawkins, and M. Haspelmath. In your submission, please indicate your preference, and, if your choice is a General Session, please state if you would be willing to do a poster. The format of the sessions will be 20 minutes for each paper, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Posters will be displayed for one whole day, with a time slot left specifically for discussing them. Poster sessions are ideal for feedback on work in progress. Honors students are encouraged to apply. Each abstract will be blind reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: --Topic appropriate to the workshop theme --Paper contributing new knowledge on the topic --Argument supported by data from natural language --Clear statement of results Submissions should be sent electronically to Korpi.DefWorkshop at anu.edu.au. In the e-mail subject line, please write ‘NAME ALSDEFworkshop’ where NAME is your surname. The abstracts should be sent in the body of the e-mail message and also as an attachment in PDF or rtf format with filename: YOUR NAME_ALSDEFworkshop. DEADLINE for abstracts is March 16th with notification of acceptance by April 30. Selected papers from the workshop will be peer reviewed according to DEST standards and published in a special volume devoted to the workshop theme. Workshop organizers: Brett Baker (University of New England) Marie Fellbaum Korpi (The Australian National University) Harumi Minagawa (The University of Auckland) Lesley Stirling (The University of Melbourne) From iadimly at usc.es Tue Dec 12 08:52:25 2006 From: iadimly at usc.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mar=EDa_=C1ngeles_G=F3mez?=) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:52:25 +0100 Subject: ARTICLE ON FUNCTIONAL-COGNITIVE SPACE Message-ID: APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS! __________________________________ Dear colleagues, It may be of interest to some list members to know of the recent publication of a substantial article on the relationship between functional and cognitive linguistics. In this article, we compare the following approaches on a set of 36 properties: Functional Grammar; Functional Discourse Grammar; Role and Reference Grammar; Systemic Functional Grammar; Givón's work; Emergent Grammar; Langacker's Cognitive Grammar; the Constructional Grammar variants of Goldberg, Fillmore et al, and Croft; Culicover and Jackendoff's 'Simpler Syntax' model, the last of these being included because of its adoption of some of the key ideas of functionalist and constructionist thinking within a model which has its origins in generative linguistics. This analysis allows us to produce a 'mapping' of functional-cognitive space which shows the relationships across this set of models in much greater detail than has so far been the case. The reference is: Gonzálvez-García, Francisco and Christopher S. Butler (2006) Mapping functional-cognitive space. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 4, 39-96. The authors would, of course, be pleased to receive comments on this work (fgonza at ual.es, cbutler at telefonica.net). Chris Butler Honorary Professor, University of Wales Swansea, UK From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Wed Dec 13 17:04:21 2006 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:04:21 +0100 Subject: LCM 3 Message-ID: Please open the attached document. Anders R. Hougaard Assistant professor, PhD Institute of Language and Communication University of Southern Denmark, Odense hougaard at language.sdu.dk Phone: +45 65503154 Fax: + 45 65932483 From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Wed Dec 13 17:11:40 2006 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:11:40 +0100 Subject: LCM 3 Message-ID: Trying again... Please open the attached document. Anders R. Hougaard Assistant professor, PhD Institute of Language and Communication University of Southern Denmark, Odense hougaard at language.sdu.dk Phone: +45 65503154 Fax: + 45 65932483 From reng at ruf.rice.edu Wed Dec 13 17:28:12 2006 From: reng at ruf.rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:28:12 -0600 Subject: reminder: posting to Funknet Message-ID: Dear Funknet Subscribers, Please remember that, for security reasons, the Funknet list does not allow the distribution of attachments. If you need to disseminate non-text material, either paste it into the body of your e-mail message, or post the material on a web site and include the URL in your message to the list. Best, --Robert Englebretson (Funknet list admin) ****************************************************************** Dr. Robert Englebretson Dept. of Linguistics, MS23 Rice University 6100 Main St. Houston, TX 77005-1892 Phone: 713 348-4776 E-mail: reng at rice.edu http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Wed Dec 13 17:30:37 2006 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:30:37 +0100 Subject: LCM 3 Message-ID: Announcement It gives us great pleasure to announce the third international, inter-disciplinary conference in the series Language, Culture and Mind (LCM). The conference will be held in modern and comfortable conference facilities at University of Southern Denmark in Odense 14th - 16th July 2008. The conference aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an integration of cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication The special theme of the conference is Social Life and Meaning Construction. Plenary speakers include: Michael Chandler (University of British Columbia) Alessandro Duranti (University of California at Los Angeles) Derek Edwards (University of Loughborough) Marianne Gullberg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Esa Itkonen (University of Turku) Summer School: Before the conference there will be a three-day summer school (9th - 11th July) on Social Life and Meaning Construction. Faculty and further details will be announced later. See also The International Graduate School in Language and Communication Conference Website: http://www.lcm.sdu.dk Submissions: We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, social interaction, 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 social life, culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language and communication sciences. Theme Sessions: We encourage interdisciplinary theme sessions. There will be a major theme session at the conference on Social Life and Meaning Construction. Details we be announced later Important dates: To be announced Earlier LCM conferences: 1st LCM conference: Portsmouth 2004 2nd LCM conference: Paris 2006 The international LCM committee: Raphael Berthele Carlos Cornejo Caroline David Merlin Donald Barbara Fultner Anders R. Hougaard Jean Lassègue John A Lucy Aliyah Morgenstern Eve Pinsker Vera da Silva Chris Sinha Jordan Zlatev The local organizing committee: Center for Social Practises and Cognition (SoPraCon): Rineke Brouwer Dennis Day Annette Grindsted Anders R. Hougaard Gitte R. Hougaard (Director) Kristian Mortensen On behalf of the organizing committee, Anders R. Hougaard Assistant prof., PhD Center for Social Practises and Cognition University of Southern Denmark, Odense From mary.dalrymple at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk Wed Dec 20 15:05:57 2006 From: mary.dalrymple at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk (Mary Dalrymple) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:05:57 +0000 Subject: University Lecturer in Korean Language and Linguistics, Oxford University Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de Fri Dec 22 08:56:34 2006 From: bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de (bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:56:34 GMT Subject: Query: Anapher / Pronominal Reference Resolution Message-ID: ********************** Apologies for cross-posting ********************** INTRA- AND INTERSENTENTIAL ANAPHER/PRONOMINAL REFERENCE RESOLUTION Dear all, Admittedly, that’s really a very bad moment, 2 days for X-mas, to start a query, but all the same, I’m in hopes that some of you has the time or inclination to give me some hints. I’m interested in work on anapher resolution in both child and adult language, especially the former. There are lots of work done in the generative framework, related to binding and optimality theories and stuff. And I was wondering whether any of you know about work from the functional and/or cognitive perspectives. I’d be very grateful for any reference, regardless of the language studied and whether the study is based on expressive or receptive language, i.e., production or processing/comprehension/interpretation, or on experimental or naturalistic data. I’m especially interested in intra-sentential pronominal reference resolution, as in: (1) Peter washed him. (2) Peter washed himself. But also references on inter-sentential reference are wellcome, as in: (3) Jane likes Mary. She often brings her flowers. Many thanks in advance! I’m looking forward to receiving some hints from you, I’ll post a summary if I get enough references and information. Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Best, Susanna Susanna Bartsch https://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/bartsch/ bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung (ZaS) Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research Schützenstr. 18 10117 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 (0)30 20192562 Fax +49 (0)30 20192402 From lise.menn at colorado.edu Fri Dec 22 19:13:18 2006 From: lise.menn at colorado.edu (Lise Menn) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:13:18 -0700 Subject: Query: Anapher / Pronominal Reference Resolution In-Reply-To: <20061222085634.24179.qmail@dmz01.zas.gwz-berlin.de> Message-ID: for cross-sentential early functional work, start with Chris Tanz's classic 1980 methodological study, Studies in the Acquisition of Deictic Terms (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). It should be required reading for anybody interested in anaphor resolution by kids. Lise Menn On Dec 22, 2006, at 8:56 AM, bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de wrote: > ********************** > Apologies for cross-posting > ********************** > > INTRA- AND INTERSENTENTIAL ANAPHER/PRONOMINAL REFERENCE RESOLUTION > > Dear all, > Admittedly, that’s really a very bad moment, 2 days for X-mas, to > start a query, but all the same, I’m in hopes that some of you has > the time or inclination to give me some hints. > I’m interested in work on anapher resolution in both child and > adult language, especially the former. There are lots of work done > in the generative framework, related to binding and optimality > theories and stuff. And I was wondering whether any of you know > about work from the functional and/or cognitive perspectives. I’d > be very grateful for any reference, regardless of the language > studied and whether the study is based on expressive or receptive > language, i.e., production or processing/comprehension/ > interpretation, or on experimental or naturalistic data. > I’m especially interested in intra-sentential pronominal reference > resolution, as in: > (1) Peter washed him. > (2) Peter washed himself. > But also references on inter-sentential reference are wellcome, as in: > (3) Jane likes Mary. She often brings her flowers. > Many thanks in advance! I’m looking forward to receiving some hints > from you, I’ll post a summary if I get enough references and > information. > Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. > Best, > Susanna > > > Susanna Bartsch > https://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/bartsch/ > bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de > Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und > Universalienforschung (ZaS) > Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research > Schützenstr. 18 > 10117 Berlin > Germany > Tel. +49 (0)30 20192562 > Fax +49 (0)30 20192402 Lise Menn Professor of Linguistics University of Colorado, Boulder 295 UCB Boulder CO 80309-0295 USA From phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk Tue Dec 26 22:48:21 2006 From: phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk (Philippe De Brabanter) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:48:21 +0000 Subject: Commitment Conference: Final Announcement Message-ID: International Conference « La notion de prise en charge en linguistique/The notion of commitment in linguistics » Antwerp University, 11-13 janvier 2007. Organised by Patrick Dendale (Antwerp University), Danielle Coltier (Université du Maine), Philippe De Brabanter (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, Institut Jean Nicod), under the auspices of the Linguistic Society of Belgium The final programme can be consulted on the conference website : www.ua.ac.be/commitment Online registration is open until January, 3rd. Plenary Speakers: Christine Gunlogson (University of Rochester, USA) Commitment and sentence type Paul Laurendeau (York University, Canada) Préassertion, réassertion, désassertion: construction et déconstruction de l'opération de prise en charge Jean-Pierre Desclés (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, France) Carte sémantique des opérations de prise en charge et d’engagement Scientific Committee: Barbara Abbott (Emerita, Michigan State University, USA), Alexandra Aikhenvald (Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Australia), Jean-Claude Anscombre (CNRS-LLI, France), Jacqueline Authier-Revuz (Emerita, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France), Kent Bach (San Francisco State University, USA), Michel Charolles (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France), Pierre Cotte (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, France), Liesbeth Degand (FNRS & Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Jean-Pierre Desclés (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, France), Marc Dominicy (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Corinne Féron (Université du Maine, France), Kjersti Fløttum (Universitetet i Bergen, Norway), Zlatka Guentchéva (CNRS-LACITO, France), Pierre Patrick Haillet (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France), Hans Kronning (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden), Pierre Larrivée (Aston University, UK), Reza Mir-Samii (Université du Maine, France), Henning Nølke (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark), Jan Nuyts (Antwerp University, Belgium), Laurence Rosier (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Johan van der Auwera (Antwerp University, Belgium), Robert Vion (Université de Provence, France), Marc Wilmet (Emeritus, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium). Conference website: www.ua.ac.be/commitment ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com From jeonglee12 at hotmail.com Mon Dec 4 07:16:36 2006 From: jeonglee12 at hotmail.com (Jeong-Hwa Lee) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 07:16:36 +0000 Subject: 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Theme: Cognition, Meaning, Implicature, and Discourse July 6th-7th, 2007 Korea University, Seoul, Korea The Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea (DISCOG) is happy to announce the 3rd International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics during July 6 and 7, 2007, at Korea University, Seoul, Korea. Start-line for Abstract Submissions: Dec. 6, 2006 Dead-line for Abstract Submissions: Jan. 6, 2007 Notification of Abstract Acceptance: Feb. 6, 2007 Conference Dates: July 6-7, 2007 (An independent workshop on Cognitive Linguistics by Prof. Yo Matsumoto (Kobe University, Japan) is scheduled on July 5, 2007.) Invited Speakers Sung-Bom Lee (Sogang University, Korea): on Metapragmatic Implicature Yo Matsumoto (Kobe University, Japan): on Cognitive Linguistics Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA): "Towards a theory of functional semantics: discovery, description, and the proofs of meaning" SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS * For General and Poster Sessions: We solicit abstracts (for 25-minute presentations including discussion) which address various aspects of cognitive and discourse (both spoken and written) approaches to human language. Papers on cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse studies, corpus linguistics, or language processing will be of particular interest. However, papers concerning any issues relating cognition and language will be welcome. We ask that the presentation andthe discussion by a discussant may not exceed 25 minutes. All submissions should follow the abstract specifications below: Abstract specifications An abstract should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including examples and references. It should specify research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by three members of a large international panel. Notification of General and Poster Sessions will be made on or before Mar. 6, 2007. Electronic submissions as attachment (in MS word or PDF format) are strongly encouraged. We ask each author to restrict their submission to one single-authored abstract and one co-authored abstract maximum to give opportunity to more authors within limited time. The body of e-mail message should include - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - telephone number - e-mail address - fax number (optional) - title of paper - specific area (e.g., subfields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse studies, etc.) - three to five keywords - presenter's name - preferred session: (a) General Session (b) Poster Session (c) Preference for General Session but willing to do a poster The abstract should be anonymous. All abstracts should be sent to (Prof. Jeong-Hwa Lee of Korea Digital University, Program Committee Co-Chair). NB: Abstracts will be accepted from December 6, 2006 to January 6, 2007. Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send three high-quality copies of your abstract and a separate page containing the required information no later than January 6, 2007 to Prof. Yong-Jin Kim Soongsil University English Department Dongjak-gu Sangdo-5dong Seoul 156-743, Korea For further information, visit the website http://discog.com (after December 6, 2006). Yong-Jin Kim, PhD Chair of Organizing Committee The 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Jeong-Hwa Lee Ph.D. Korea Digital University Dept. of Practical Foreign Languages/Assistant Professor #215, Gyedong 1-21, Jongno-Gu, Seoul Korea, 110-800 TEL. +82-2-6361-1928/ FAX. +82-2-6361-1800 Mobile: +82-17-332-5616 E-mail: jeonglee12 at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar - get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/ From meri.larjavaara at helsinki.fi Mon Dec 4 21:14:23 2006 From: meri.larjavaara at helsinki.fi (Meri Larjavaara) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:14:23 +0200 Subject: Colloque Representations du sens linguistique 2008 Message-ID: 1?re circulaire Le d?partement des langues romanes de l?Universit? de Helsinki en collaboration avec le programme international GRAMM-R organise le colloque REPR?SENTATIONS DU SENS LINGUISTIQUE IV Helsinki, du mercredi 28 mai au vendredi 30 mai 2008 G?n?ralit?s Le premier colloque international ? Repr?sentations du sens linguistique ? a eu lieu ? Bucarest en mai 2001. Il a ?t? suivi par les colloques RSL II ? Montr?al, en mai 2003 et RSL III ? Bruxelles, en novembre 2005. Maintenant ce sera le d?partement des langues romanes de l?Universit? de Helsinki qui en accueillera la quatri?me ?dition, en mai 2008. Comme pr?c?demment, l?objectif est d?examiner les rapports entre les diff?rents mod?les de description linguistique et le traitement de sens. Th?me du colloque Nous proposons comme th?me du colloque les articulations complexes entre la langue et les param?tres contextuels. Les linguistes distinguent, entre autres, les usages ?crits/oraux de la langue, les usages priv?s/institutionnels, les discours interactionnels/monologaux... La question que nous nous posons est de savoir en quoi diff?rent les repr?sentations du sens linguistique d'apr?s le contexte d'utilisation ; est-ce que par exemple 'l'oralit?' s'exprime de la m?me mani?re dans une publicit? ?crite et dans un dialogue spontan? ? Quelles sont les r?alisations concr?tes de l'interactivit? dans deux types d'?crits diff?rents, tels le blog et le chat ? Comment se concr?tise la confidentialit? dans des contextes d'utilisation de la langue tr?s diff?rents (le journal intime et la session th?rapeutique, par exemple) ? De quelle mani?re s?utilisent certaines structures grammaticales dans un texte litt?raire et dans un texte journalistique, ? l?oral et ? l??crit ? La probl?matique pourra ?tre abord?e d'un point de vue contrastif (diff?rences entre deux langues ou entre deux genres), synchronique (un seul genre/type de texte dans une langue d?finie) ou diachronique (nouveaux sens donn?s aux mots/structures dans un genre d?fini au cours de l'?volution). Nous vous prions de bien d?finir le(s) genre(s)/type(s) de texte choisi(s) et de bien d?limiter votre point d?int?r?t, qui sera strictement li? au sens linguistique. Comit? d?organisation Eva Havu (Universit? de Helsinki), Mervi Helkkula (Universit? de Helsinki), Juhani H?rm? (Universit? de Helsinki), Johanna Isos?vi (Universit? de Helsinki), Meri Larjavaara (Universit? de Helsinki), Kristina Svensson (Universit? de Helsinki), Ulla Tuomarla (Universit? de Helsinki), Laura Tuominen (Universit? de Helsinki), Mari Lehtinen (Universit? de Helsinki) Comit? scientifique Pr?sidence : Eva Havu (Universit? de Helsinki) Michel Charolles (Universit? de Paris III Sorbonne nouvelle), Bernard Combettes (Universit? de Nancy), Ivan Evrard (Universit? d?Oviedo), Olga Galatanu (Universit? de Nantes), Pascale Haderman (Universiteit Gent), Mervi Helkkula (Universit? de Helsinki), Juhani H?rm? (Universit? de Helsinki), Georges Kleiber (Universit? Marc Bloch, Strasbourg), Dominique Lagorgette (Universit? de Savoie), Meri Larjavaara (Universit? de Helsinki), Pierre Larriv?e (Universit? d?Aston), Christiane Marchello-Nizia (ENS-LSH Lyon), Lorenza Mondada (Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2), Mary-Annick Morel (Universit? de Paris III Sorbonne nouvelle), Franck Neveu (Universit? de Caen), Gilles Philippe (Universit? Stendhal Grenoble 3), Michel Pierrard (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Laurence Rosier (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles), Ulla Tuomarla (Universit? de Helsinki), Dan Van Raemdonck (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles/Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Marc Wilmet (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles/Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Conf?rences pl?ni?res Bernard Combettes (Universit? de Nancy) Auli Hakulinen (Universit? de Helsinki) Marc Wilmet (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles/Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Principales ?ch?ances - 28 septembre 2007 : rentr?e des propositions de communications et pr?-inscription - 25 janvier 2008 : notification de la liste des communications accept?es - 1er mars 2008 : publication du programme - 31 mars 2008 : inscriptions d?finitives - 25 avril 2008 : rentr?e des textes provisoires pour les pr?-actes et cl?ture des inscriptions d?finitives - 16 mai 2008 : les pr?-actes se trouveront sur le site du colloque Instructions pour la pr?sentation des propositions de communications Les propositions de communication devront arriver pour le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 au plus tard par courrier ?lectronique ? l?adresse rsl-2008 at helsinki.fi, sous la forme suivante : - dans le corps du message : nom, pr?nom, affiliation, adresse professionnelle, adresse de correspondance et titre de la communication ; - dans un fichier joint au format .rtf (rich text format) de Microsoft Word et dont le nom r?pondra au sch?ma suivant : : un r?sum? de 3000 signes maximum reprenant le titre de l?expos?, son cadre et ses limites, son objectif pr?cis (y compris quelques exemples), la m?thode utilis?e, le raisonnement suivi, les principaux r?sultats obtenus et une indication de bibliographie (5 titres maximum). Ni le nom de l? / des auteur(s) ni l??tablissement / laboratoire auquel il(s)/elle(s) est sont rattach?(e)(s) ne doivent y appara?tre. Droit d?inscription Un droit d?inscription de 120 euros / ?tudiants 40 euros sera demand? ? l?inscription d?finitive. Ce droit d?inscription inclut la participation au colloque, les pauses-caf?, les r?ceptions et un exemplaire des actes, qui comprendront une s?lection des communications (?tudiants : les actes sont compris uniquement pour les intervenants) Voyages, logement, festivit?s, services Il existe de nombreux vols directs quotidiens depuis les grandes capitales europ?ennes ainsi que depuis certaines autres villes (p.ex. Paris- Helsinki, environ trois heures de vol, compagnies a?riennes Finnair, Air France, Blue1). Une navette relie l?a?roport au centre ville (environ 25 minutes de trajet). Le colloque aura lieu dans les locaux de l?universit? situ?s dans le centre. Les organisateurs du colloque effectueront une pr?-r?servation de chambres dans plusieurs h?tels de cat?gories diff?rentes dans le centre. Deux r?ceptions et un banquet final (payant) seront organis?s. Les participants seront inform?s des modalit?s pratiques (dates, inscriptions, frais du banquet) ? la cl?ture des inscriptions d?finitives. Une excursion pourra ?tre organis?e le samedi 31 mai si suffisamment de participants manifestent leur int?r?t lors des inscriptions d?finitives. Les intervenants sont pri?s de bien vouloir pr?parer ? l?avance les photocopies de leur exemplier et d?indiquer le mat?riel audiovisuel dont ils souhaiteront disposer pour accompagner leur expos?. From els603 at bangor.ac.uk Wed Dec 6 13:58:09 2006 From: els603 at bangor.ac.uk (June Luchjenbroers) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:58:09 +0000 Subject: PLEASE POST: FUNKNET list Message-ID: Second CALL FOR PAPERS: 2nd Conference of the UK-Cognitive Linguistics Assoc. NEW DIRECTIONS IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS Cognitive Linguistics, Applied Hosted at CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, WALES U.K. August 27-30, 2007 http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: LYNNE CAMERON, Open University, U.K. SEANA COULSON, Univ. California, San Diego, USA KLAUS PANTHER, Univ. Hamburg, Germany CHRIS SINHA, Univ. Portsmouth, England, UK EVE SWEETSER, Univ. California, Berkeley, USA ARIE VERHAGEN, Leiden Univ., Netherlands We invite scholars of diverse disciplines and languages to contribute to this conference. Papers dealing with any facet of cognitive linguistics research are welcome, including research on meaning, conceptual structure, conceptual operations, cognitive processing, grammar, acquisition, language use, discourse function, and other issues. For more details about the areas of investigation we welcome for this conference, please see our website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html Types of Submissions & submission deadlines (i) theme session Mon. 8 January 2007 (ii) paper presentation Mon. 5 February 2007 (iii) poster presentation 5 February 2007 (iv) paper or poster 5 February 2007 We also hope to publish papers given at this conference. COORDINATORS June Luchjenbroers, Univ. Wales Bangor WALES UK Michelle Aldridge, Cardiff Univ. WALES UK ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Michelle Aldridge, Cardiff Univ. WALES UK June Luchjenbroers, Univ. Wales Bangor WALES UK Vyvyan Evans, Centre in Language, Communication & Cognition, Univ. Brighton, Esther Pascual, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands CONTACT: NDCL-2 at cardiff.ac.uk -- Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). 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Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the University of Wales, Bangor Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk From ali.farghaly at oracle.com Thu Dec 7 17:46:14 2006 From: ali.farghaly at oracle.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:46:14 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: * FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS * SECOND WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL-2) July 21-22, 2007 LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute Stanford University, California, USA http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2 The first workshop on "Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages", held in conjunction with COLING 2004, brought together researchers working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto, Urdu and Kurdish. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common to all these languages despite their being of distinct language families, such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system. The proposed second workshop, three years after the successful first workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share their research and experience. The goal of the workshop is to provide the participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems for Arabic script languages. This second workshop also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made since the first workshop in 2004. This workshop is being held in conjunction with the LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute at Stanford University. WORKSHOP TOPICS Authors of papers in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages are invited to apply. We also accept proposals for demonstrations of computational systems. Preference would be given to papers that extend their results and analyses to other Arabic script-based languages. Papers and demos could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics: * Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources * Transliteration, transcription and diacritization * Morphological analysis * Syntactic ambiguity resolution * Shallow and deep parsing * Machine translation from and to Arabic script languages * Sense disambiguation * Homograph resolution * Semantic analysis * Semantic web and inferences * Named entity recognition * Information retrieval * Text mining * Summarization * Text-to-speech systems SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Papers should be original, previously unpublished work and should not identify the author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (including figures and references). Email submissions (ps or pdf) are preferred and should be sent to both Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com and karine at mitre.org by midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the author(s) and paper's title. Formatting requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 26, 2007 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2007 Camera ready submissions: June 15, 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Richard Sproat (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA, Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, karine at mitre.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE As of December 7, the following have accepted to participate in the program committee: Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products) Mona Diab (Columbia University) Sherri Condon (The MITRE Corporation) Nizar Habash (Columbia University) Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini (Iowa State University) Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute) Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai) Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo) Imed Zitouni (IBM) * FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS * SECOND WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO ARABIC SCRIPT-BASED LANGUAGES (CAASL-2) July 21-22, 2007 LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute Stanford University, California, USA http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2 The first workshop on "Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages", held in conjunction with COLING 2004, brought together researchers working on the computer processing of Arabic script-based languages such as Arabic, Persian (Farsi and Dari), Pashto, Urdu and Kurdish. The usage of the Arabic script and the influence of Arabic vocabulary give rise to certain computational issues that are common to all these languages despite their being of distinct language families, such as right to left direction, encoding variation, absence of capitalization, complex word structure, and a high degree of ambiguity due to non-representation of short vowels in the writing system. The proposed second workshop, three years after the successful first workshop, will provide a forum for researchers from academia, industry, and government developers, practitioners, and users to share their research and experience. The goal of the workshop is to provide the participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems for Arabic script languages. This second workshop also provides an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made since the first workshop in 2004. This workshop is being held in conjunction with the LSA 2007 Linguistic Institute at Stanford University. WORKSHOP TOPICS Authors of papers in any area of NLP in Arabic script-based languages are invited to apply. We also accept proposals for demonstrations of computational systems. Preference would be given to papers that extend their results and analyses to other Arabic script-based languages. Papers and demos could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics: * Knowledge bases, corpora, and development of resources * Transliteration, transcription and diacritization * Morphological analysis * Syntactic ambiguity resolution * Shallow and deep parsing * Machine translation from and to Arabic script languages * Sense disambiguation * Homograph resolution * Semantic analysis * Semantic web and inferences * Named entity recognition * Information retrieval * Text mining * Summarization * Text-to-speech systems SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS Papers should be original, previously unpublished work and should not identify the author(s). They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages (including figures and references). Email submissions (ps or pdf) are preferred and should be sent to both Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com and karine at mitre.org by midnight of the due date. Submissions should be in English. The papers should be attached to an email indicating contact information for the author(s) and paper's title. Formatting requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES Submissions due: February 26, 2007 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2007 Camera ready submissions: June 15, 2007 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Richard Sproat (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA, Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com Karine Megerdoomian, The MITRE Corporation, karine at mitre.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE As of November 30th, the following have accepted to participate in the program committee: Jan W. Amtrup (Kofax Image Products) Mona Diab (Columbia University) Sherri Condon (The MITRE Corporation) Nizar Habash (Columbia University) Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini (Iowa State University) Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute) Farhad Oroumchian (University of Wollongong in Dubai) Ahmed Rafea (The American University in Cairo) Imed Zitouni (IBM) Violetta Cavalli-Sforza Carnegie Mellon University Joseph Dichy Lyon University From haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Thu Dec 7 18:29:10 2006 From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath) Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 19:29:10 +0100 Subject: Paris 2007 Semantic Maps workshop Message-ID: Call for abstracts Semantic maps: methods and applications A workshop to be held adjacent to the seventh meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology on Saturday, 29 September 2007 in the Centre Andr?-Georges Haudricourt (CNRS linguistic research units), Villejuif (Paris Metro area). http://email.eva.mpg.de/~cysouw/meetings/semanticmaps.html Organized by: Michael Cysouw, Martin Haspelmath, and Andrej Malchukov Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig In recent years the semantic map methodology has enjoyed increased popularity in cross-linguistic studies. Although there are various ways to make semantic maps, they all are attempts to visually represent cross-linguistic regularity in semantic structure. It has become increasingly clear that these attempts to map out linguistic categorization provide an empirically testable tool to the study of semantic variation across languages. The semantic map approach has further shown convergence with grammaticalization theory, as well as with the research using (implicational) hierarchies, as found in functional typology and optimality theory. Yet various aspects of the semantic maps approach remain unsettled and open to discussion: it is the goal of the workshop to address these topics, in order to contribute - both empirically and theoretically - to the development of the semantic map methodology. Some general discussion and references on the (recieved) method of building semantic maps can be found in Croft 2001 and Haspelmath 2003. Further, different kinds of semantic maps have been proposed for diverse parts of linguistic structure, including tense/aspect (e.g., Anderson 1982; Croft fc.), modality (Anderson 1986; van der Auwera & Plungian), voice (Kemmer 1993; Croft 2001), pronouns (Haspelmath 1997a; Cysouw fc.), case-marking (Haspelmath 2003; Narrog & Ito 2006), clause linkage (Kortmann 1997; Malchukov 2004), spatial and temporal domain (Haspelmath 1997b; Levinson & Meira 2003), as well as to a number of syntactic domains, such as intransitive predication (Stassen 1997) and secondary predication (van der Auwera & Malchukov 2005). The workshop invites contributions related to the further understanding of the semantic map method. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: - Status of semantic maps in linguistic theory; - Methods of building semantic maps from data; - Limits of the semantic map approach; - Possibilities for and problems of the interpretation of semantic map; - Relation between semantic maps and grammaticalization chains; - Presentation and discussion of particular semantic maps; - Scalability of the method to build semantic maps (e.g. the problem of the ''vacuous'' semantic maps, which might arise when more empirical data is included); - Implications of cross-linguistically rare phenomena for semantic maps; - In what way can the semantic map approach guide and be guided by the deductive (decompositional) approaches in (formal) semantics; - Relation between semantic maps and psycholinguistic research (i.e. issues of mental reality of the structures discovered by the semantic map methodology). Call for Papers: Send your one-page abstract to Michael Cysouw at the address below, preferably by email (in plain text or in PDF format) or as hard copy, to arrive no later than January 31st, 2007. Notification of acceptance is by March 1st, 2007. The normal time allotted for presentation is 30 minutes plus 15 minutes for discussion. Further information: Martin Haspelmath (haspelmatheva.mpg.de) Andrej Malchukov (andrej_malchukoveva.mpg.de) Michael Cysouw (cysouweva.mpg.de) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Germany From Marie.Fellbaum at anu.edu.au Fri Dec 8 02:55:01 2006 From: Marie.Fellbaum at anu.edu.au (Marie Fellbaum) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:55:01 +1100 Subject: WORKSHOP: DEFINITENESS AND REFERENTIALITY Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP ON DEFINITENESS AND REFERENTIALITY: THEORY AND DESCRIPTION Sept. 26-28, 2007 University of Adelaide Adelaide, Australia A one day workshop on Definiteness and Referentiality will be held in conjunction with ALS 2007 at the University of Adelaide. We welcome papers on Australian, Austronesian, Asian and other natural languages, and in all areas of linguistics including sociolinguistics, language variation and change, first/second language acquisition, conversational analysis, and cognitive (including psycho-/neurolinguistic) processing of definiteness. The following topics are of particular interest: --data based studies of definiteness properties in particular languages --theoretical aspects of definiteness and/or specificity --the article systems of a language group(s) --the interaction of definiteness/specificity with the grammar of a language --the behavior of subsystems within languages, e.g. polarity references and number and quantification of nouns --the acquisition and development of definiteness and/or referentiality in child and second languages --language change in progress with respect to a property or subsystem of a language. Proposals for both a General Session and a Poster Session should include the author's name and affiliation, contact details (including e-mail and postal addresses), title of the paper, keywords, and a one page abstract of no more than 500 words, excluding examples and references. Key references may include, but not limited to, the work of Irene Heim, M. En?, Kamp & Reyle (DRT), B. Partee, Donka Farkas, T.Givon, Christopher Lyons, J. Hawkins, and M. Haspelmath. In your submission, please indicate your preference, and, if your choice is a General Session, please state if you would be willing to do a poster. The format of the sessions will be 20 minutes for each paper, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Posters will be displayed for one whole day, with a time slot left specifically for discussing them. Poster sessions are ideal for feedback on work in progress. Honors students are encouraged to apply. Each abstract will be blind reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: --Topic appropriate to the workshop theme --Paper contributing new knowledge on the topic --Argument supported by data from natural language --Clear statement of results Submissions should be sent electronically to Korpi.DefWorkshop at anu.edu.au. In the e-mail subject line, please write ?NAME ALSDEFworkshop? where NAME is your surname. The abstracts should be sent in the body of the e-mail message and also as an attachment in PDF or rtf format with filename: YOUR NAME_ALSDEFworkshop. DEADLINE for abstracts is March 16th with notification of acceptance by April 30. Selected papers from the workshop will be peer reviewed according to DEST standards and published in a special volume devoted to the workshop theme. Workshop organizers: Brett Baker (University of New England) Marie Fellbaum Korpi (The Australian National University) Harumi Minagawa (The University of Auckland) Lesley Stirling (The University of Melbourne) From iadimly at usc.es Tue Dec 12 08:52:25 2006 From: iadimly at usc.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mar=EDa_=C1ngeles_G=F3mez?=) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:52:25 +0100 Subject: ARTICLE ON FUNCTIONAL-COGNITIVE SPACE Message-ID: APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS! __________________________________ Dear colleagues, It may be of interest to some list members to know of the recent publication of a substantial article on the relationship between functional and cognitive linguistics. In this article, we compare the following approaches on a set of 36 properties: Functional Grammar; Functional Discourse Grammar; Role and Reference Grammar; Systemic Functional Grammar; Giv?n's work; Emergent Grammar; Langacker's Cognitive Grammar; the Constructional Grammar variants of Goldberg, Fillmore et al, and Croft; Culicover and Jackendoff's 'Simpler Syntax' model, the last of these being included because of its adoption of some of the key ideas of functionalist and constructionist thinking within a model which has its origins in generative linguistics. This analysis allows us to produce a 'mapping' of functional-cognitive space which shows the relationships across this set of models in much greater detail than has so far been the case. The reference is: Gonz?lvez-Garc?a, Francisco and Christopher S. Butler (2006) Mapping functional-cognitive space. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 4, 39-96. The authors would, of course, be pleased to receive comments on this work (fgonza at ual.es, cbutler at telefonica.net). Chris Butler Honorary Professor, University of Wales Swansea, UK From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Wed Dec 13 17:04:21 2006 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:04:21 +0100 Subject: LCM 3 Message-ID: Please open the attached document. Anders R. Hougaard Assistant professor, PhD Institute of Language and Communication University of Southern Denmark, Odense hougaard at language.sdu.dk Phone: +45 65503154 Fax: + 45 65932483 From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Wed Dec 13 17:11:40 2006 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:11:40 +0100 Subject: LCM 3 Message-ID: Trying again... Please open the attached document. Anders R. Hougaard Assistant professor, PhD Institute of Language and Communication University of Southern Denmark, Odense hougaard at language.sdu.dk Phone: +45 65503154 Fax: + 45 65932483 From reng at ruf.rice.edu Wed Dec 13 17:28:12 2006 From: reng at ruf.rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:28:12 -0600 Subject: reminder: posting to Funknet Message-ID: Dear Funknet Subscribers, Please remember that, for security reasons, the Funknet list does not allow the distribution of attachments. If you need to disseminate non-text material, either paste it into the body of your e-mail message, or post the material on a web site and include the URL in your message to the list. Best, --Robert Englebretson (Funknet list admin) ****************************************************************** Dr. Robert Englebretson Dept. of Linguistics, MS23 Rice University 6100 Main St. Houston, TX 77005-1892 Phone: 713 348-4776 E-mail: reng at rice.edu http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng From hougaard at language.sdu.dk Wed Dec 13 17:30:37 2006 From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:30:37 +0100 Subject: LCM 3 Message-ID: Announcement It gives us great pleasure to announce the third international, inter-disciplinary conference in the series Language, Culture and Mind (LCM). The conference will be held in modern and comfortable conference facilities at University of Southern Denmark in Odense 14th - 16th July 2008. The conference aims at establishing an interdisciplinary forum for an integration of cognitive, social and cultural perspectives in theoretical and empirical studies of language and communication The special theme of the conference is Social Life and Meaning Construction. Plenary speakers include: Michael Chandler (University of British Columbia) Alessandro Duranti (University of California at Los Angeles) Derek Edwards (University of Loughborough) Marianne Gullberg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) Esa Itkonen (University of Turku) Summer School: Before the conference there will be a three-day summer school (9th - 11th July) on Social Life and Meaning Construction. Faculty and further details will be announced later. See also The International Graduate School in Language and Communication Conference Website: http://www.lcm.sdu.dk Submissions: We call for contributions from scholars and scientists in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, social interaction, 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 social life, culture, mind and language, and/or multi-methodological approaches in language and communication sciences. Theme Sessions: We encourage interdisciplinary theme sessions. There will be a major theme session at the conference on Social Life and Meaning Construction. Details we be announced later Important dates: To be announced Earlier LCM conferences: 1st LCM conference: Portsmouth 2004 2nd LCM conference: Paris 2006 The international LCM committee: Raphael Berthele Carlos Cornejo Caroline David Merlin Donald Barbara Fultner Anders R. Hougaard Jean Lass?gue John A Lucy Aliyah Morgenstern Eve Pinsker Vera da Silva Chris Sinha Jordan Zlatev The local organizing committee: Center for Social Practises and Cognition (SoPraCon): Rineke Brouwer Dennis Day Annette Grindsted Anders R. Hougaard Gitte R. Hougaard (Director) Kristian Mortensen On behalf of the organizing committee, Anders R. Hougaard Assistant prof., PhD Center for Social Practises and Cognition University of Southern Denmark, Odense From mary.dalrymple at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk Wed Dec 20 15:05:57 2006 From: mary.dalrymple at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk (Mary Dalrymple) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:05:57 +0000 Subject: University Lecturer in Korean Language and Linguistics, Oxford University Message-ID: An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de Fri Dec 22 08:56:34 2006 From: bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de (bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:56:34 GMT Subject: Query: Anapher / Pronominal Reference Resolution Message-ID: ********************** Apologies for cross-posting ********************** INTRA- AND INTERSENTENTIAL ANAPHER/PRONOMINAL REFERENCE RESOLUTION Dear all, Admittedly, that?s really a very bad moment, 2 days for X-mas, to start a query, but all the same, I?m in hopes that some of you has the time or inclination to give me some hints. I?m interested in work on anapher resolution in both child and adult language, especially the former. There are lots of work done in the generative framework, related to binding and optimality theories and stuff. And I was wondering whether any of you know about work from the functional and/or cognitive perspectives. I?d be very grateful for any reference, regardless of the language studied and whether the study is based on expressive or receptive language, i.e., production or processing/comprehension/interpretation, or on experimental or naturalistic data. I?m especially interested in intra-sentential pronominal reference resolution, as in: (1) Peter washed him. (2) Peter washed himself. But also references on inter-sentential reference are wellcome, as in: (3) Jane likes Mary. She often brings her flowers. Many thanks in advance! I?m looking forward to receiving some hints from you, I?ll post a summary if I get enough references and information. Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Best, Susanna Susanna Bartsch https://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/bartsch/ bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de Zentrum f?r allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung (ZaS) Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research Sch?tzenstr. 18 10117 Berlin Germany Tel. +49 (0)30 20192562 Fax +49 (0)30 20192402 From lise.menn at colorado.edu Fri Dec 22 19:13:18 2006 From: lise.menn at colorado.edu (Lise Menn) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:13:18 -0700 Subject: Query: Anapher / Pronominal Reference Resolution In-Reply-To: <20061222085634.24179.qmail@dmz01.zas.gwz-berlin.de> Message-ID: for cross-sentential early functional work, start with Chris Tanz's classic 1980 methodological study, Studies in the Acquisition of Deictic Terms (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). It should be required reading for anybody interested in anaphor resolution by kids. Lise Menn On Dec 22, 2006, at 8:56 AM, bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de wrote: > ********************** > Apologies for cross-posting > ********************** > > INTRA- AND INTERSENTENTIAL ANAPHER/PRONOMINAL REFERENCE RESOLUTION > > Dear all, > Admittedly, that?s really a very bad moment, 2 days for X-mas, to > start a query, but all the same, I?m in hopes that some of you has > the time or inclination to give me some hints. > I?m interested in work on anapher resolution in both child and > adult language, especially the former. There are lots of work done > in the generative framework, related to binding and optimality > theories and stuff. And I was wondering whether any of you know > about work from the functional and/or cognitive perspectives. I?d > be very grateful for any reference, regardless of the language > studied and whether the study is based on expressive or receptive > language, i.e., production or processing/comprehension/ > interpretation, or on experimental or naturalistic data. > I?m especially interested in intra-sentential pronominal reference > resolution, as in: > (1) Peter washed him. > (2) Peter washed himself. > But also references on inter-sentential reference are wellcome, as in: > (3) Jane likes Mary. She often brings her flowers. > Many thanks in advance! I?m looking forward to receiving some hints > from you, I?ll post a summary if I get enough references and > information. > Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. > Best, > Susanna > > > Susanna Bartsch > https://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/bartsch/ > bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de > Zentrum f?r allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und > Universalienforschung (ZaS) > Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research > Sch?tzenstr. 18 > 10117 Berlin > Germany > Tel. +49 (0)30 20192562 > Fax +49 (0)30 20192402 Lise Menn Professor of Linguistics University of Colorado, Boulder 295 UCB Boulder CO 80309-0295 USA From phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk Tue Dec 26 22:48:21 2006 From: phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk (Philippe De Brabanter) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:48:21 +0000 Subject: Commitment Conference: Final Announcement Message-ID: International Conference ? La notion de prise en charge en linguistique/The notion of commitment in linguistics ? Antwerp University, 11-13 janvier 2007. Organised by Patrick Dendale (Antwerp University), Danielle Coltier (Universit? du Maine), Philippe De Brabanter (Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, Institut Jean Nicod), under the auspices of the Linguistic Society of Belgium The final programme can be consulted on the conference website : www.ua.ac.be/commitment Online registration is open until January, 3rd. Plenary Speakers: Christine Gunlogson (University of Rochester, USA) Commitment and sentence type Paul Laurendeau (York University, Canada) Pr?assertion, r?assertion, d?sassertion: construction et d?construction de l'op?ration de prise en charge Jean-Pierre Descl?s (Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, France) Carte s?mantique des op?rations de prise en charge et d?engagement Scientific Committee: Barbara Abbott (Emerita, Michigan State University, USA), Alexandra Aikhenvald (Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Australia), Jean-Claude Anscombre (CNRS-LLI, France), Jacqueline Authier-Revuz (Emerita, Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France), Kent Bach (San Francisco State University, USA), Michel Charolles (Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France), Pierre Cotte (Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, France), Liesbeth Degand (FNRS & Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Jean-Pierre Descl?s (Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV, France), Marc Dominicy (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Corinne F?ron (Universit? du Maine, France), Kjersti Fl?ttum (Universitetet i Bergen, Norway), Zlatka Guentch?va (CNRS-LACITO, France), Pierre Patrick Haillet (Universit? de Cergy-Pontoise, France), Hans Kronning (Uppsala Universitet, Sweden), Pierre Larriv?e (Aston University, UK), Reza Mir-Samii (Universit? du Maine, France), Henning N?lke (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark), Jan Nuyts (Antwerp University, Belgium), Laurence Rosier (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium), Johan van der Auwera (Antwerp University, Belgium), Robert Vion (Universit? de Provence, France), Marc Wilmet (Emeritus, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium). Conference website: www.ua.ac.be/commitment ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com