From langconf at bu.edu Mon Sep 4 17:31:29 2006 From: langconf at bu.edu (bucld) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 13:31:29 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 31 Pre-Registration Announcement Message-ID: Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce that pre-registration for BUCLD 31 is now available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm The 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will be held at Boston University, November 3-5, 2006. Our invited speakers are: Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University "Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical Middle." Keynote address, Friday, November 3 at 8:00 pm Jürgen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg & University of Calgary "Multiple First Language Acquisition: A Case for Autonomous Syntactic Development in the Simultaneous Acquisition of More Than One Language.” Plenary address, Saturday, November 4 at 5:45 pm Mabel Rice, University of Kansas Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University Simon Fisher, University of Oxford Discussant: Gary Marcus, New York University “Future Directions in Search of Genes that Influence Language: Phenotypes, Molecules, Brains, and Growth.” Lunchtime symposium, Saturday, November 4 at 12:00 pm The Society for Language Development (SLD) will be holding its third annual symposium on “Learning Verbs” on Thursday, November 2, in conjunction with the BUCLD meeting. BUCLD 31 is offering online pre- registration and on-site registration for this event. Speakers: Lila Gleitman, Cynthia Fisher,Adele Goldberg, and Dedre Gentner. More information on the SLD symposium can be found at: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html BUCLD and SLD pre-registration information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm The full conference schedule is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/schedule.htm More information about BUCLD is available at our website: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 31. Sincerely, Heather Caunt-Nulton, Samantha Kulatilake, I-hao Woo BUCLD 31 Co-organizers From nstern at ccny.cuny.edu Wed Sep 6 02:06:53 2006 From: nstern at ccny.cuny.edu (Nancy Stern) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:06:53 -0400 Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior February 18-19, 2007 The City College of New York New York, New York Invited speakers: Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University) Special session: Functional linguistics in language education Papers are invited on any aspect of linguistic analysis in which the postulation and testing of hypotheses about meaningful signals plays a central role in explaining the distribution of linguistic forms. A special session will be devoted to functional linguistics in language education. The Columbia School is a group of linguists developing the theoretical framework originally established by the late William Diver. Language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its users. Grammatical analyses account for the distribution of linguistic forms as an interaction between hypothesized linguistic meanings and contextual, pragmatic and functional factors such as inference, ease of processing, and iconicity. Phonological analyses explain the syntagmatic and paradigmatic distribution of phonological units within signals, also drawing on both communicative function and human physiological and psychological characteristics. Abstracts should be sent as an email attachment to nstern at ccny.cuny.edu, following these guidelines: *In the body of the email, please include: (1) Author name(s) and affiliation(s); (2) Title of the paper; (3) Email addresses and telephone numbers of all authors. *The abstract, containing only the title of the paper and the text of the abstract, should be sent as an attachment (RTF or Word) format. The abstract should be no more than 300 words, although references and/or data may be added to that limit. DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 30 SEPTEMBER 2006 The language of the conference is English. Papers delivered in languages other than English will be considered. * * * * * * * * The support of The Columbia School Linguistic Society is gratefully acknowledged www.csling.org * * * * * * * * Selected Columbia School bibliography: Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner, and Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller (eds). 2005. Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Contini-Morava, Ellen, and Barbara Sussman Goldberg (eds). 1995. Meaning as Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Huffman, Alan. 1997. The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Huffman, Alan. 2001. “The Linguistics of William Diver and the Columbia School.” WORD 52:1, 29-68. Reid, Wallis. 1991. Verb and Noun Number in English: A Functional Explanation. London: Longman. Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy, and Nancy Stern (eds). 2002. Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on Sign-Based Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Tobin, Yishai. 1997. Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications. Durham, NC: Duke U Press. For more information, please contact Nancy Stern at nstern at ccny.cuny.edu From dlevere at ilstu.edu Fri Sep 8 13:18:58 2006 From: dlevere at ilstu.edu (Daniel L. Everett) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:18:58 -0500 Subject: Recursion in Human Languages In-Reply-To: <200609052206.AA432078984@ccny.cuny.edu> Message-ID: Conference Call for Papers: Recursion in human languages In an important paper, Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch (2002) state the following about the narrow faculty of language (FLN): "We hypothesize that FLN only includes recursion and is the only uniquely human component of the faculty of language. We further argue that FLN may have evolved for reasons other than language, hence comparative studies might look for evidence of such computations outside of the domain of communication (for example, number, navigation, and social relations)." As interesting as this claim might be, it is difficult to evaluate it for various reasons. For example, there is first the fact that recursion has a long and yet often unclear history in the development of formal linguistics (Tomalin (2006)). How is recursion defined? Second, the question arises as to where recursion must manifest itself in FLN. In the morphology? In the phonology? In the syntax? In the semantics? In all components of the grammar? Third, there is the empirical issue as to whether the claim above is in fact true. Is recursion found in all languages? Is it distributed throughout grammars in the same way in all languages? As a start towards addressing these and other fundamental questions about the nature of recursion in human languages, the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Illinois State University are sponsoring a conference from April 27-29, 2007, at the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. Invited speakers for this conference are (topics are listed, rather than actual titles of presentations): Prof. Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) – ' Uniform and non-uniform recursion Prof. Edward Gibson (MIT) – 'The psychology of recursion' Prof. Marianne Mithun (UCSB) – 'The typology of recursion' Prof. D. Robert Ladd (Edinburgh) – What would 'recursion' mean in phonology?' Prof. Daniel L. Everett (ISU) – 'Cultural constraints on recursion' Prof. Alec Marantz (MIT) – 'Recursion in morphology' (tentative) Prof. W. Tecumseh Fitch (St. Andrews) – 'The evolution of recursion' In addition to these invited talks, we would like to invite abstracts for up to sixteen additional talks on recursion. Abstracts may be up to 500 words in length and may address any aspect of recursion, e.g. its history, its formal nature, unusual distributions or manifestations of recursion in specific languages, etc. Abstracts must be received by November 20, 2006. Authors will be notified on abstract decisions by December 20, 2006. A webpage for this conference will be announced soon. Please send abstracts and any questions regarding this conference to: Daniel L. Everett, Professor of Linguistics & Anthropology and Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Campus Box 4300 Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 61790-4300 OFFICE: 309-438-3604 FAX: 309-438-8038 ************** From dlevere at ilstu.edu Fri Sep 8 13:25:03 2006 From: dlevere at ilstu.edu (Daniel L. Everett) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:25:03 -0500 Subject: Job Announcements Message-ID: Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Illinois State University, Normal, IL The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Applied Linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor. The ideal candidate will hold a PhD or be ABD in applied linguistics or foreign language pedagogy, with a specialization in instructional technology. S/he will have a solid scholarly agenda and documented teaching experience. Though French is preferred, other modern languages will also be considered. Normal teaching load is five courses per year (2/3 or 3/2), primarily undergraduate and graduate courses in instructional technology, foreign language pedagogy or applied linguistics, and language, including advanced conversation and composition. The successful candidate must be authorized to work legally in the United States by August 16, 2007, the start date of the position. To assure full consideration, letter of application, curriculum vitae, copy of graduate transcript (original transcript is not required for application) and three letters of recommendation must arrive by November 10, 2006. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Send materials via conventional mail to Dr. Daniel Everett, Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4300, Normal IL 61790-4300. Illinois State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action university encouraging diversity. Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Illinois State University The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Spanish Linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will hold a PhD or be ABD, with a specialization in some area of Spanish Linguistics. S/he will have a solid scholarly agenda and documented teaching experience. Normal teaching load is five courses per year (2/3 or 3/2), primarily undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish Linguistics and advanced Spanish Language. The successful candidate must be authorized to work legally in the United States by August 16, 2007, the start date of the position. To assure full consideration, letter of application, curriculum vitae, copy of graduate transcript (original transcript is not required for application) and three letters of recommendation must arrive by November 10, 2006. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Send materials via conventional mail to Dr. Daniel Everett, Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4300, Normal IL 61790-4300. Illinois State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action university encouraging diversity ********************** Daniel L. Everett, Professor of Linguistics & Anthropology and Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Campus Box 4300 Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 61790-4300 OFFICE: 309-438-3604 FAX: 309-438-8038 http://www.foreignlanguages.ilstu.edu/default.asp and Honorary Professor of Linguistics University of Manchester Manchester, UK From edith at uwm.edu Tue Sep 12 15:42:14 2006 From: edith at uwm.edu (Edith Moravcsik) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:42:14 -0500 Subject: conference on formulaic language Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS UWM LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM ON FORMULAIC LANGUAGE 1. TIME AND PLACE 2. CONFERENCE TOPIC 3. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 4. ABSTRACTS 5. WEBSITE 1. TIME AND PLACE The linguistics community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will hold a symposium on the topic of 'formulaic language'. The symposium, which will be held on the campus of UWM April 18-21, 2007, (Wednesday through Saturday) will be the 25th in the series of the once-annual UWM Linguistics Symposia. 2. CONFERENCE TOPIC By formulaic language we mean multi-word collocations which are stored and retrieved holistically rather than being generated de novo with each use. Examples of formulaic language include idioms, set expressions, rhymes, songs, prayers, and proverbs; they may also be taken to include recurrent turns of phrase within more ordinary sentence structures. These are notable in ordinary speech as well as in ritualized speech events such as sports broadcasts, weather reports, sermons, etc. In our symposium, we are aiming to explore the issue of formulaic language from a variety of perspectives. To this end, our keynote speakers are scholars whose specializations range over a large spectrum of language-based study, including specialists in corpus-based linguistics, psycholinguistics, phonology, phonetics, typology, and related fields. 3. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Our keynote speakers are: Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico Oesten Dahl, Stockholm University Britt Erman, Stockholm University Charles Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley Lily Wong Fillmore, Univesity of California, Berkeley Barbara Fox, University of Colorado Adele Goldberg, Princeton University John Haiman, Macalester College Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham Koenraad Kuiper, University of Canterbury Jill Morford, University of New Mexico Andrew Pawley, Australian National University Ann Peters, University of Hawai'i Joanne Scheibman, Old Dominion University Sandra Thompson, University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Rena Torres-Cacoullos, University of New Mexico Diana van Lancker, New York University Thomas Wasow, Stanford University Alison Wray, Cardiff University 4. ABSTRACTS In addition, there will be a general session, for which potential speakers are invited to submit a one-page abstract. Selected papers from the symposium will be published as an edited set of volumes in the Typological Studies in Language series published by John Benjamins. ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS DUE DATE: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Abstracts may be submitted in hardcopy or in electronic form. Hardcopy abstracts should be sent to: Roberta Corrigan Dept. of Educational Psychology University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 Electronic submissions should be sent to: corrigan at uwm.edu Questions concerning the Symposium can be addressed to Michael Noonan: noonan at uwm.edu 5. WEBSITE Announcements and symposium information will be posted at: www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/conferences/fsl/index.html Edith A. Moravcsik Professor of Linguistics Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 E-mail: edith at uwm.edu Tel: (414) 229-6794 Fax: (414) 229-2741 From Diane.Lesley-neuman at colorado.edu Wed Sep 13 04:11:38 2006 From: Diane.Lesley-neuman at colorado.edu (Diane Frances Lesley-Neuman) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:11:38 -0600 Subject: Request for assistance from the grammaticalization community Message-ID: Hello all, I am currently working on a theoretical claim regarding layering, and I am seeking cross-linguistic evidence to support my claim. I would like to cite examples from multiple languages in which there are grammaticalizing morphemes, occuring simultaneously with established morphemes of the similar/redundant meanings. The more agglutinating the language the better,and African language data is particularly valuable. If anyone has any suggestions from the languages they have worked with, know, or know about, they would be enormously helpful. Thank you for any assistance that you can provide. -- Diane Lesley-Neuman, M. Ed. Linguistics Department Institute for Cognitive Science University of Colorado at Boulder From bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de Mon Sep 18 14:38:01 2006 From: bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de (bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:38:01 GMT Subject: Announcement and Programme - Session on Lexical Bootstrapping - GCLA conference Message-ID: Dear all, Please find below the announcement and programme of our special session on Lexical Bootstrapping in child language development, to be held at the 2nd GCLA International Conference. LEXICAL BOOTSTRAPPING IN CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CHILD CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT Theme session to be held at the SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE GERMAN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION, Munich, 5-7 October 2006 ORGANISATORS: Susanna Bartsch and Dagmar Bittner Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research, Berlin **DESCRIPTION** Apart from some few exceptions (Brown 1958, Nelson 1973), the research on child lexical development did not receive much attention from students of child language in the 1960s and 1970s. In opposition to some statements found in the more recent literature (e.g., Rothweiler & Meibauer 1999), this fact is not really surprising when one considers the very influential role then played by formal linguistics with its primacy of syntactic structures and the view of lexicon and semantics as something rather epiphenomenal. From the 1980s on, this state of affairs has changed dramatically. A huge body of research, much of which has been done within functionalist-cognitivist frameworks and focussed on within- and cross-domain correlations in language development (Bates et al.'s 1988 correlational method), seems to allow for the formulation of a Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis (LBH) (some more recent examples: Dale et al. 2000; Dionne et al. 2003; Bassano et al. 2004). LBH is the assumption that early lexical development, as mapping of words to referents or their conceptualisations, and even to whole propositions, is not only prior to, but also pre-requisite for the emergence of morpho-syntactic constructions. Such assumption on the fundamental role of early lexical acquisition for later language development as a whole challenges the view about the primacy of syntax over lexicon and semantics that has been postulated in these 50 years of formal linguistics. In our theme session, we aim at an exploratory discussion about the role of Lexical Bootstrapping in children's linguistic and conceptual development. Bassano, D., Laaha, S., Maillochon, I., & Dressler, W. U. (2004). Early acquisition of verb grammar and lexical development: Evidence from periphrastic constructions in French and Austrian German. First Language, 24(1), pp. 33–70. Bates, E., Bretherton, I., & Snyder, L. 1988. From First Words to Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. Brown, R. 1958. Words and things. Glencoe, IL: Free Press. Dale, P. S., Dionne, G., Eley, T. C., & Plomin, R. 2000. Lexical and grammatical development: A behavioural genetic perspective. Journal of Child Language, 27/3, 619-642. Dionne, G., Dale, P. S., Boivin, M., & Plomin R. 2003. Genetic evidence for bidirectional effects of early lexical and grammatical development. Child Development, 74, 394-412. Nelson, K. 1973. Structure and strategy in learning to talk. Chicago: Univ. Press. Rothweiler, M. & Meibauer, J. (eds.) 1999. Das Lexikon im Spracherwerb: Ein Überblick. In: Meibauer, J., & Rothweiler, M. (eds.). 1999. Das Lexikon im Spracherwerb. UTB für Wissenschaft; Mittlere Reihe, 2039. Tübingen: Francke. **PROGRAMME** THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 2006 11.15-11.45 Introducing the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis (LBH) Susanna Bartsch (Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research, Berlin) 11.45-12.15 The Interrelation Between Lexical and Grammatical Abilities in Early Language Acquisition Christina Kauschke (Universität Potsdam) 12.15-12.45 Implications of Noun/Verb Asynchrony for Children's Lexical and Cognitive Development: A Developmental Perspective from Turkisch Feyza Turkay (Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Lyon, France) 15.30-16.00 The Very Emergence of Words: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in its Description Alexandra Karousou, Demetra Katis, and Chrisoula Stambouliadou (University of Athens) 16.00-16.30 The "Lexical Bootstrapping" Hypothesis and Bilingual First Language Acquisition (Using Data from a Longitudinal Study of a German-Russian-Speaking Child) Elena Dieser (University of Tübingen) 16.30-17.00 Discussion Round FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 2006 10.15-10.45 Acquisition of Verbs and Development of Sentence Structure in German Impaired and Unimpaired Children Dagmar Bittner (Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research, Berlin) Julia Siegmüller (Universität Potsdam) 10.45-11.15 Pre-Language Cognition, Motion Event Semantics, and the Transition from Single Words to First Sentences Lorraine McCune, Ellen Herr-Israel (Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ) 11.45-12.15 Syntactic Constructions and the Emergence of Event Types: A Computational Analysis of Verb Learning Alessandro Lenci (Università di Pisa) 12.15-12.45 Bootstrapping-Mechanismen: das Lexikon als Zentrum des Zusammenspiels sprachlicher Aufgabenbereiche - netzwerktheoretische Erklärungen zum kindlichen Erstspracherwerb Karin Schlipphak (München) 15.15-15.45 Does Number of Action Labels Predict an Early Acquisition of the Conventional Meaning of Verbs? Ping Chen (Peking University) Lauren Tonietto, Maria-Alice Parente (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre) Karine Duvignau, Bruno Gaume (Université Toulouse III) 15.45-16.15 Final Discussion For the abstracts, please point your browser to http://www.kognitive- sprachforschung.lmu.de/event/programme.html Also see the related event ELeGi 2006: International Conference "Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface", Hanover, October 5-7, 2006 (at the same time as our session). http://www.elegi-2006.com/ELeGI%20preliminary%20conference%20programme%20040 906.pdf Best regards, Susanna Susanna Bartsch Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung (ZaS) Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research Jägerstr. 10-11 10117 Berlin Germany From dlevere at ilstu.edu Wed Sep 20 15:58:56 2006 From: dlevere at ilstu.edu (Daniel L. Everett) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:58:56 -0500 Subject: URL for RecHul Message-ID: The website for Recursion in Human Languages, RecHul, to be held April 27-29 at Illinois State University in Normal, IL is now ready. At this website, you will be able to submit abstracts, register for the conference, and find out more about the conference and invited speakers. Any further questions, please contact Dan Everett, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4300, Normal, IL 61790-4300 or dlevere at ilstu.edu The URL for RecHul: http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/rechul/ We hope to see you at what is shaping up to be a very important conference on the formal and functional bases of modern linguistics. The deadline for abstracts, once again, is November 20, 2006. ********************** Daniel L. Everett, Professor of Linguistics & Anthropology and Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Campus Box 4300 Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 61790-4300 OFFICE: 309-438-3604 FAX: 309-438-8038 http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/default.asp http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/rechul/ and Honorary Professor of Linguistics University of Manchester Manchester, UK http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/SubjectAreas/ LinguisticsEnglishLanguage/Staff/Daniel%20Everett/ From lise.menn at colorado.edu Wed Sep 20 17:24:58 2006 From: lise.menn at colorado.edu (Lise Menn) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:24:58 -0600 Subject: Jobs: Language Development: Asst Prof, University of Colorado Message-ID: Subject: Jobs: Language Development: Asst Prof, University of Colorado University or Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Department: Linguistics Web Address: www.colorado.edu/linguistics/ Job Rank: Assistant Professor The Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level in the field of language development, to begin August 2007. We encourage applications from specialists in any area of language development, including first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language socialization, aphasiology, and bilingualism. We especially welcome applicants whose research is empirical, usage-based, and attentive to social as well as cognitive dimensions of language development. Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of specialization, as well as occasional introductory survey courses in linguistics, psycholinguistics, or sociolinguistics. Applicants should have completed a Ph.D. in linguistics (or closely related field) by the time of the appointment. Additional information on the University of Colorado Department of Linguistics can be found at www.colorado.edu/ linguistics/. The deadline for receipt of applications is November 17, 2006, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter outlining details of current and future research interests, a statement of teaching experience and specialization, a curriculum vitae, two representative publications or research papers, and three letters of recommendation. Address all correspondence to: Prof. Kira Hall, Search Committee Chair, Department of Linguistics, 295 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0295. The University of Colorado at Boulder is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment. Lise Menn Office: 303-492-1609 Linguistics Dept. Fax: 303-413-0017 295 UCB Hellems 293 University of Colorado Boulder CO 80309-0295 Professor of Linguistics, University of Colorado, University of Hunan Secretary, AAAS Section Z [Linguistics] Lise Menn's home page http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/lmenn/ "Shirley Says: Living with Aphasia" http://spot.colorado.edu/~menn/Shirley4.pdf Japanese version of "Shirley Says" http://www.bayget.com/inpaku/kinen9.htm Academy of Aphasia http://www.academyofaphasia.org/ From yves.peirsman at arts.kuleuven.be Thu Sep 21 08:08:04 2006 From: yves.peirsman at arts.kuleuven.be (Yves Peirsman) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:08:04 +0200 Subject: CfP for Theme Session at ICLC2007: Cognitive Sociolinguistics Message-ID: First Call for Papers for a Theme Session at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference THEME: Cognitive Sociolinguistics ORGANISERS: Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven, dirk.geeraerts [at] arts.kuleuven.be Gitte Kristiansen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, gkristia [at] filol.ucm.es Yves Peirsman, University of Leuven, yves.peirsman [at] arts.kuleuven.be EVENT: 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland 15-20 July 2007 www.iclc2007.pl INTRODUCTION Although there is a growing interest within Cognitive Linguistics for language-internal variation (see Kristiansen and Dirven, forthcoming: Cognitive Sociolinguistics, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter), it remains an understudied area in Cognitive Linguistics. Too often linguistic analyses (or cross-linguistic comparisons) are carried out at the level of 'a language', disregarding rich and complex patterns of intralingual variation. Such a level of granularity ultimately amounts to that of a homogeneous and thus idealized speech community. Cognitive Linguistics, to the extent that it takes the claim that it is a usage-based approach to language and cognition seriously, cannot afford to work with language situated taxonomically at an almost Chomskyan level of abstraction. The purpose of the theme session is therefore to bring together examples of outstanding sociolinguistic research within the field of Cognitive Linguistics. THE SCOPE OF COGNITIVE SOCIOLINGUISTICS The domain of investigation of Cognitive Sociolinguistics may be roughly divided into three main areas, each of which represents a specific relationship between cognition and language-internal linguistic diversity (which we will henceforth refer to as "lectal variation"). We invite abstracts for presentations in all three areas: 1. LECTAL VARIATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANGUAGE How does language-internal variation affect the occurrence of linguistic phenomena, and in particular, how does it affect the occurrence of linguistic phenomena that have the specific attention of Cognitive Linguistics? The question involves not only active knowledge of the language (i.e. language use), but also passive knowledge (i.e. reading and understanding skills). Existing examples of Cognitive Linguistic work in this area may be found in Berthele's work on verbal framing in the Swiss dialects, the work by Gries and Stefanowitsch on register variation in collostructions, and Croft's views on the importance of social variation for a theory of linguistic change. Topics of specific interest within this domain of research include - lectal factors in language acquisition: how does the change in an individual's knowledge of the language interact with social factors? - language variation and change: how do changes spread over a linguistic community, what is the role of distributed linguistic cognition in these processes, and how does the feedback loop between individual acts and common systemic changes actually work? - multivariate models of language variation: what analytical and descriptive tools do we need to arrive at an adequate description of linguistic variation? 2. LECTAL VARIATION, LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT A lot of front-edge research is looking into the relationship between language and thought (Slobin, Bowerman etc.), but this is basically done from an interlingual (typological) point of view. What happens if you conduct similar research from an intralingual point of view? Does lectal variation have the same effect on the relationship between language and thought as typological variation? Although this is only an emerging trend, a clear example of Cognitive Linguistic work in this area is Grondelaers' work on the psycholinguistic correlates of the multifactorial distribution of Dutch "er". Topics of specific interest within this domain of research involve - the relationship between language and culture: do language-internal differences in the relationship between language and thought reflect differences of "culture" ? - the relationship between cultural models and thought: to what extent does variation in cultural models within a community correlate with cognitive differences? 3. THE COGNITIVE REPRESENTATION OF LECTAL VARIATION How do language users perceive lectal differences, and how do they evaluate them attitudinally? What models do they use to categorize linguistic diversity? Examples of this kind of work within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics are Kristiansen's work on the socially informed prototype structure of phonemes, or Geeraerts' work on cultural models of standardization. Topics of specific interest within this domain of research include - stereotyping: how do language users categorize other groups of speakers? - subjective and objective linguistic distances: is there a correlation between objective linguistic distances, perceived distances, and language attitudes? - cultural models of language diversity: what models of lectal variation, standardization, and language change do people work with? - attitudes, perception, and change: to what extent do attitudinal and perceptual factors have an influence on language change? STRUCTURE OF THE SESSION Our theme session will consist of (1) presentations of the selected papers, (2) presentations by a number of invited specialists, (3) three 20-minute thematic discussion slots. PROCEDURE We invite abstracts of max. 500 words for 20-minute presentations in the three areas described above. Your abstract should contain: - The title of the presentation - Your name(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) - The research question(s) that you address - A discussion of the methodology - A description of the data - A summary of the obtained results Abstracts should be sent to all three theme session organisers before October 31, 2006. SCHEDULE Deadline call for abstracts: October 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstracts: November 15, 2006 Submission of the theme session proposal to the conference organisers: November 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance/rejection of theme session: February 1, 2007 For up-to-date information about the theme session, see wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From jleitao at ci.uc.pt Fri Sep 22 11:18:15 2006 From: jleitao at ci.uc.pt (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Leit=E3o?=) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:18:15 +0100 Subject: Last Cfp : DAARC'2007 - The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium Message-ID: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC'2007) Lagos (Algarve), Portugal hosted by University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences March 29-30, 2007 http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/ Anaphora is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines such as theoretical, corpus and computational linguistics, philosophy of language, cognitive science, psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. On the other hand, the correct interpretation of anaphora has played an increasingly vital role in real-world natural language processing applications, including machine translation, automatic abstracting, information extraction and question answering. As a result, the processing of anaphora has become one of the most productive topics of multi- and inter-disciplinary research, and has enjoyed increased interest and attention in recent years. In this context, the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquia (DAARC) have emerged as the major regular forum for presentation and discussion of the best research results in this area. Initiated in 1996 at Lancaster University and taken over in 2002 by the University of Lisbon, the DAARC series established itself as a specialised and competitive forum for the presentation of the latest results on anaphora processing, ranging from theoretical linguistic approaches through psycholinguistic and cognitive work to corpus studies and computational modelling. The sixth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC’2007) will take place in Lagos (Algarve), Portugal, in March 29-30, 2007. We would like to invite anyone currently researching in the areas of discourse anaphora and anaphor resolution, from any methodological perspective or framework, to submit a paper to DAARC'2007. *The closing date for submission is October 16, 2006.* Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 2006. Final versions of selected papers to be included in the proceedings are expected by January 19, 2007. Submissions (extended abstracts) must be anonymous and at most 3 pages in length. For further details on the submission procedure, and other relevant info on the colloquium visit its website at: http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/ Program Committee: Mijail Alexandrov-Kabadjov, Univ Essex Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv Univ Sergey Avrutin, OTS Amit Bagga, Ask.com Patricio Martinez Barco, Univ Alicante Peter Bosch, Univ Osnabrueck António Branco, Univ Lisbon Donna Byron, Ohio State Univ Francis Cornish, Univ Toulouse-Le Mirail Dan Cristea, Univ Iasi Robert Dale, Macquarie Univ Richard Evans, Univ Wolverhampton Martin Everaert, OTS Lyn Frazier, MIT Claire Gardent, CNRS/Loria Rafael Muñoz Guillena, Univ Alicante Jeanette Gundel, Univ Minnesota Sanda Harabagiu, Univ Texas at Dallas Lars Hellan, Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology Erhard Hinrichs, Univ Tuebingen Graeme Hirst, Univ Toronto Yan Huang, Univ Reading Andrew Kehler, Univ California San Diego Andrej Kibrik, Russian Academy of Sciences Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg Univ Shalom Lappin, King's College Tony McEnery, Lancaster Univ Ruslan Mitkov, Univ Wolverhampton Jill Nickerson, Ab Initio Software Corp Constantin Orasan, Univ. Wolverhampton Maria Mercedes Piñango, Yale Univ Georgiana Puscasu, Univ Wolverhampton Costanza Navarretta, CST Massimo Poesio, Univ Essex Eric Reuland, OTS Jeffrey Runner, Univ of Rochester Antonio Fernandez Rodriguez, Univ Alacant Tony Sanford, Glasgow Univ Frédérique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe Roland Stuckardt, Univ Frankfurt am Main Joel Tetreault, Univ. Rochester Renata Vieira, Unisinos Organisers: Antonio Branco, Univ Lisbon Tony McEnery, Lancaster Univ Ruslan Mitkov, Univ Wolverhampton Fátima Silva, Univ Oporto From robert at vjf.cnrs.fr Tue Sep 26 15:57:01 2006 From: robert at vjf.cnrs.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Robert) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:57:01 +0200 Subject: call for papers ALT7 Message-ID: Association for linguistic typology Fédération Typologie et Universaux linguistiques, Paris A general call for papers for ALT VII The seventh International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT VII) will be held in Paris at the Ministry of Research, from Tuesday September 25 to Friday September 28, 2007. The conference will be organized by the French Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques of the CNRS. The local organizers for ALT VII will be Stéphane Robert, Isabelle Bril, Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Martine Vanhove. Members and non-members wishing to present a paper at ALT VII are asked to e-mail a one-page abstract to the chair of the program committee, David Gil, to reach him no later than January 15, 2007. A second page may be included with the abstract listing data. The abstract itself should contain no identification of the author. A separate page should indicate the title of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one mailing address, with telephone, fax, and e-mail address as available. The conference will be held in English and French; abtracts may be submitted in either language.After the decision of acceptance of the abtracts has been conveyed, authors will be asked to send their abtracts in both languages. Submissions should be sent to: David Gil Fax +49 341-9952119 gil at eva.mpg.de The committee strongly encourages submissions by e-mail (preferably with the abstract in pdf format and author information as part of the e-mail text), but abstracts may also be sent by fax. Authors are asked to check their pdf files carefully to ensure that special characters are embedded properly. The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 30 minutes. Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. Members and non-members are also encouraged to present posters at ALT7 (final format should be 2m high and 1m wide). An abstract should be submitted under the same conditions as for papers (see above). By March 1, 2007, the program committee will convey its decision on acceptance of papers to those submitting abstracts. The committee consists of David Gil (chair), Nicholas R.D. Evans, M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest, Suzanne Kemmer, Ekkehart Koenig, Brian Migliazza, and Martine Vanhove Details concerning registration and accommodation for the conference will follow. There is also a dedicated website: http://www.alt7.cnrs.fr/ Contact: alt7 at ivry.cnrs.fr Further information about the Association for Linguistic Typology is available at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt Dead line for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2007 Address: gil at eva.mpg.de or Fax +49 341-9952119 Date of acceptance: March 1, 2007 __________________________________________ Association for linguistic typology Fédération Typologie et Universaux linguistiques, Paris Appel à communication pour ALT VII Le septième Colloque International de l’Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT VII) se déroulera à Paris, au Ministère de la Recherche, du mardi 25 septembre au vendredi 28 septembre 2007. Le colloque sera organisé par la Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques du CNRS. Le comité d’organisation local pour ALT VII est composé de Mmes Stéphane Robert, Isabelle Bril, Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest et Martine Vanhove. Les membres et non-membres souhaitant présenter une communication à ALT VII sont invités à envoyer un résumé d’une page au président du comité de programme, David Gil, avant le 15 janvier 2007. Une seconde page composée d’exemples peut être ajoutée au résumé. Le résumé lui-même ne devra pas mentionner le nom du ou des auteur(s). Sur une feuille séparée devront figurer le titre du résumé, le(s) nom(s) de l’auteur(s), une adresse postale, avec un numéro de téléphone, de fax, et une adresse courriel, si possible. L'anglais et le français sont les deux langues du colloque et les résumés peuvent être soumis dans l'une des deux langues. Pour ceux dont les propositions sont retenues, on demandera de fournir une version du résumé dans les deux langues. Les soumissions devront être adressées à : David Gil Fax +49 341-9952119 gil at eva.mpg.de Le comité encourage vivement les soumissions par courriel (de préférence avec un résumé au format pdf et les informations sur l’auteur dans le corps du message courriel), mais les résumés peuvent aussi être envoyés par fax. Il est demandé aux auteurs de bien vérifier leur fichier pdf afin de s’assurer que les caractères spéciaux sont correctement implémentés. Le temps imparti pour chaque communication est de 30 minutes, discussion comprise. Les participants ne doivent pas être impliqués dans plus de deux résumés, dont un au plus à titre individuel. Le français et l’anglais sont les langues préférées de la conférence. Il est également possible de soumettre une proposition de poster (format des panneaux : 2m de haut sur 1m de large). Il faut pour cela envoyer un résumé dans les mêmes conditions que pour les communications (voir ci-dessus). Le comité de programme fera connaître ses décisions le 15 mars 2007 à ceux qui ont soumis un résumé. Ce comité est constitué de David Gil (président), Nicholas R.D.Evans, M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest, Suzanne Kemmer, Ekkehart Koenig, Brian Migliazza et Martine Vanhove. Les détails concernant l’inscription et l’hébergement seront communiqués ultérieurement, individuellement et sur le site web du colloque : http://www.alt7.cnrs.fr. Des informations sur l’Association for Linguistic Typology sont accessibles sur : http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2007 Adresse : gil at eva.mpg.de ou Fax +49 341-9952119 Date d’acceptation : 15 mars 2007 From rcameron at uic.edu Tue Sep 26 22:11:20 2006 From: rcameron at uic.edu (Cameron, Richard) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:11:20 -0500 Subject: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics: SLA or Bilingualism Message-ID: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Spanish linguistics, specialization in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) or Bilingualism. The department is seeking a dynamic scholar committed to excellence in teaching, and to scholarly research and publications, who will carry out two principal functions: 1) Make substantial contributions to the undergraduate and graduate programs in linguistics in the areas of Second Language Acquisition or Bilingualism, and 2) Direct the Basic Language Program with the assistance of a full-time qualified language coordinator. Preference will be given to candidates with a minimum 3 years prior experience directing a basic language program. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in linguistics with concentration in SLA or Bilingualism. The Director is expected to work closely with the new Language Center Director, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, the Director of the Heritage Language Program, and the Director of the Spanish Teacher Education major. The teaching load will be one course per semester. Send CV, a writing sample, and three letters of reference to Prof. Rafael Nuñez-Cedeño, Chair Search Committee, Dept. of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Chicago, M/C 315, 601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607-7117. Applications packages must be postmarked by November 17, 2006. The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. From langconf at bu.edu Mon Sep 4 17:31:29 2006 From: langconf at bu.edu (bucld) Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 13:31:29 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 31 Pre-Registration Announcement Message-ID: Dear Colleague, We are pleased to announce that pre-registration for BUCLD 31 is now available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm The 31st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development will be held at Boston University, November 3-5, 2006. Our invited speakers are: Roberta Golinkoff, University of Delaware Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University "Breaking the Language Barrier: The View from the Radical Middle." Keynote address, Friday, November 3 at 8:00 pm J?rgen M. Meisel, University of Hamburg & University of Calgary "Multiple First Language Acquisition: A Case for Autonomous Syntactic Development in the Simultaneous Acquisition of More Than One Language.? Plenary address, Saturday, November 4 at 5:45 pm Mabel Rice, University of Kansas Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University Simon Fisher, University of Oxford Discussant: Gary Marcus, New York University ?Future Directions in Search of Genes that Influence Language: Phenotypes, Molecules, Brains, and Growth.? Lunchtime symposium, Saturday, November 4 at 12:00 pm The Society for Language Development (SLD) will be holding its third annual symposium on ?Learning Verbs? on Thursday, November 2, in conjunction with the BUCLD meeting. BUCLD 31 is offering online pre- registration and on-site registration for this event. Speakers: Lila Gleitman, Cynthia Fisher,Adele Goldberg, and Dedre Gentner. More information on the SLD symposium can be found at: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/sld/symposium.html BUCLD and SLD pre-registration information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/prereg.htm The full conference schedule is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/schedule.htm More information about BUCLD is available at our website: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD We look forward to seeing you at BUCLD 31. Sincerely, Heather Caunt-Nulton, Samantha Kulatilake, I-hao Woo BUCLD 31 Co-organizers From nstern at ccny.cuny.edu Wed Sep 6 02:06:53 2006 From: nstern at ccny.cuny.edu (Nancy Stern) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 22:06:53 -0400 Subject: Call for Papers Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior February 18-19, 2007 The City College of New York New York, New York Invited speakers: Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University) Special session: Functional linguistics in language education Papers are invited on any aspect of linguistic analysis in which the postulation and testing of hypotheses about meaningful signals plays a central role in explaining the distribution of linguistic forms. A special session will be devoted to functional linguistics in language education. The Columbia School is a group of linguists developing the theoretical framework originally established by the late William Diver. Language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its users. Grammatical analyses account for the distribution of linguistic forms as an interaction between hypothesized linguistic meanings and contextual, pragmatic and functional factors such as inference, ease of processing, and iconicity. Phonological analyses explain the syntagmatic and paradigmatic distribution of phonological units within signals, also drawing on both communicative function and human physiological and psychological characteristics. Abstracts should be sent as an email attachment to nstern at ccny.cuny.edu, following these guidelines: *In the body of the email, please include: (1) Author name(s) and affiliation(s); (2) Title of the paper; (3) Email addresses and telephone numbers of all authors. *The abstract, containing only the title of the paper and the text of the abstract, should be sent as an attachment (RTF or Word) format. The abstract should be no more than 300 words, although references and/or data may be added to that limit. DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: 30 SEPTEMBER 2006 The language of the conference is English. Papers delivered in languages other than English will be considered. * * * * * * * * The support of The Columbia School Linguistic Society is gratefully acknowledged www.csling.org * * * * * * * * Selected Columbia School bibliography: Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner, and Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller (eds). 2005. Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Contini-Morava, Ellen, and Barbara Sussman Goldberg (eds). 1995. Meaning as Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Huffman, Alan. 1997. The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Huffman, Alan. 2001. ?The Linguistics of William Diver and the Columbia School.? WORD 52:1, 29-68. Reid, Wallis. 1991. Verb and Noun Number in English: A Functional Explanation. London: Longman. Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy, and Nancy Stern (eds). 2002. Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on Sign-Based Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Tobin, Yishai. 1997. Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications. Durham, NC: Duke U Press. For more information, please contact Nancy Stern at nstern at ccny.cuny.edu From dlevere at ilstu.edu Fri Sep 8 13:18:58 2006 From: dlevere at ilstu.edu (Daniel L. Everett) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:18:58 -0500 Subject: Recursion in Human Languages In-Reply-To: <200609052206.AA432078984@ccny.cuny.edu> Message-ID: Conference Call for Papers: Recursion in human languages In an important paper, Hauser, Chomsky, and Fitch (2002) state the following about the narrow faculty of language (FLN): "We hypothesize that FLN only includes recursion and is the only uniquely human component of the faculty of language. We further argue that FLN may have evolved for reasons other than language, hence comparative studies might look for evidence of such computations outside of the domain of communication (for example, number, navigation, and social relations)." As interesting as this claim might be, it is difficult to evaluate it for various reasons. For example, there is first the fact that recursion has a long and yet often unclear history in the development of formal linguistics (Tomalin (2006)). How is recursion defined? Second, the question arises as to where recursion must manifest itself in FLN. In the morphology? In the phonology? In the syntax? In the semantics? In all components of the grammar? Third, there is the empirical issue as to whether the claim above is in fact true. Is recursion found in all languages? Is it distributed throughout grammars in the same way in all languages? As a start towards addressing these and other fundamental questions about the nature of recursion in human languages, the Department of Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Illinois State University are sponsoring a conference from April 27-29, 2007, at the campus of Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. Invited speakers for this conference are (topics are listed, rather than actual titles of presentations): Prof. Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) ? ' Uniform and non-uniform recursion Prof. Edward Gibson (MIT) ? 'The psychology of recursion' Prof. Marianne Mithun (UCSB) ? 'The typology of recursion' Prof. D. Robert Ladd (Edinburgh) ? What would 'recursion' mean in phonology?' Prof. Daniel L. Everett (ISU) ? 'Cultural constraints on recursion' Prof. Alec Marantz (MIT) ? 'Recursion in morphology' (tentative) Prof. W. Tecumseh Fitch (St. Andrews) ? 'The evolution of recursion' In addition to these invited talks, we would like to invite abstracts for up to sixteen additional talks on recursion. Abstracts may be up to 500 words in length and may address any aspect of recursion, e.g. its history, its formal nature, unusual distributions or manifestations of recursion in specific languages, etc. Abstracts must be received by November 20, 2006. Authors will be notified on abstract decisions by December 20, 2006. A webpage for this conference will be announced soon. Please send abstracts and any questions regarding this conference to: Daniel L. Everett, Professor of Linguistics & Anthropology and Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Campus Box 4300 Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 61790-4300 OFFICE: 309-438-3604 FAX: 309-438-8038 ************** From dlevere at ilstu.edu Fri Sep 8 13:25:03 2006 From: dlevere at ilstu.edu (Daniel L. Everett) Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:25:03 -0500 Subject: Job Announcements Message-ID: Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Illinois State University, Normal, IL The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Applied Linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor. The ideal candidate will hold a PhD or be ABD in applied linguistics or foreign language pedagogy, with a specialization in instructional technology. S/he will have a solid scholarly agenda and documented teaching experience. Though French is preferred, other modern languages will also be considered. Normal teaching load is five courses per year (2/3 or 3/2), primarily undergraduate and graduate courses in instructional technology, foreign language pedagogy or applied linguistics, and language, including advanced conversation and composition. The successful candidate must be authorized to work legally in the United States by August 16, 2007, the start date of the position. To assure full consideration, letter of application, curriculum vitae, copy of graduate transcript (original transcript is not required for application) and three letters of recommendation must arrive by November 10, 2006. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Send materials via conventional mail to Dr. Daniel Everett, Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4300, Normal IL 61790-4300. Illinois State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action university encouraging diversity. Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Illinois State University The Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Spanish Linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will hold a PhD or be ABD, with a specialization in some area of Spanish Linguistics. S/he will have a solid scholarly agenda and documented teaching experience. Normal teaching load is five courses per year (2/3 or 3/2), primarily undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish Linguistics and advanced Spanish Language. The successful candidate must be authorized to work legally in the United States by August 16, 2007, the start date of the position. To assure full consideration, letter of application, curriculum vitae, copy of graduate transcript (original transcript is not required for application) and three letters of recommendation must arrive by November 10, 2006. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Send materials via conventional mail to Dr. Daniel Everett, Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4300, Normal IL 61790-4300. Illinois State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action university encouraging diversity ********************** Daniel L. Everett, Professor of Linguistics & Anthropology and Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Campus Box 4300 Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 61790-4300 OFFICE: 309-438-3604 FAX: 309-438-8038 http://www.foreignlanguages.ilstu.edu/default.asp and Honorary Professor of Linguistics University of Manchester Manchester, UK From edith at uwm.edu Tue Sep 12 15:42:14 2006 From: edith at uwm.edu (Edith Moravcsik) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:42:14 -0500 Subject: conference on formulaic language Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS UWM LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM ON FORMULAIC LANGUAGE 1. TIME AND PLACE 2. CONFERENCE TOPIC 3. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS 4. ABSTRACTS 5. WEBSITE 1. TIME AND PLACE The linguistics community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will hold a symposium on the topic of 'formulaic language'. The symposium, which will be held on the campus of UWM April 18-21, 2007, (Wednesday through Saturday) will be the 25th in the series of the once-annual UWM Linguistics Symposia. 2. CONFERENCE TOPIC By formulaic language we mean multi-word collocations which are stored and retrieved holistically rather than being generated de novo with each use. Examples of formulaic language include idioms, set expressions, rhymes, songs, prayers, and proverbs; they may also be taken to include recurrent turns of phrase within more ordinary sentence structures. These are notable in ordinary speech as well as in ritualized speech events such as sports broadcasts, weather reports, sermons, etc. In our symposium, we are aiming to explore the issue of formulaic language from a variety of perspectives. To this end, our keynote speakers are scholars whose specializations range over a large spectrum of language-based study, including specialists in corpus-based linguistics, psycholinguistics, phonology, phonetics, typology, and related fields. 3. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Our keynote speakers are: Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico Oesten Dahl, Stockholm University Britt Erman, Stockholm University Charles Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley Lily Wong Fillmore, Univesity of California, Berkeley Barbara Fox, University of Colorado Adele Goldberg, Princeton University John Haiman, Macalester College Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University Susan Hunston, University of Birmingham Koenraad Kuiper, University of Canterbury Jill Morford, University of New Mexico Andrew Pawley, Australian National University Ann Peters, University of Hawai'i Joanne Scheibman, Old Dominion University Sandra Thompson, University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Rena Torres-Cacoullos, University of New Mexico Diana van Lancker, New York University Thomas Wasow, Stanford University Alison Wray, Cardiff University 4. ABSTRACTS In addition, there will be a general session, for which potential speakers are invited to submit a one-page abstract. Selected papers from the symposium will be published as an edited set of volumes in the Typological Studies in Language series published by John Benjamins. ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS DUE DATE: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 Abstracts may be submitted in hardcopy or in electronic form. Hardcopy abstracts should be sent to: Roberta Corrigan Dept. of Educational Psychology University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 Electronic submissions should be sent to: corrigan at uwm.edu Questions concerning the Symposium can be addressed to Michael Noonan: noonan at uwm.edu 5. WEBSITE Announcements and symposium information will be posted at: www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/conferences/fsl/index.html Edith A. Moravcsik Professor of Linguistics Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413 E-mail: edith at uwm.edu Tel: (414) 229-6794 Fax: (414) 229-2741 From Diane.Lesley-neuman at colorado.edu Wed Sep 13 04:11:38 2006 From: Diane.Lesley-neuman at colorado.edu (Diane Frances Lesley-Neuman) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:11:38 -0600 Subject: Request for assistance from the grammaticalization community Message-ID: Hello all, I am currently working on a theoretical claim regarding layering, and I am seeking cross-linguistic evidence to support my claim. I would like to cite examples from multiple languages in which there are grammaticalizing morphemes, occuring simultaneously with established morphemes of the similar/redundant meanings. The more agglutinating the language the better,and African language data is particularly valuable. If anyone has any suggestions from the languages they have worked with, know, or know about, they would be enormously helpful. Thank you for any assistance that you can provide. -- Diane Lesley-Neuman, M. Ed. Linguistics Department Institute for Cognitive Science University of Colorado at Boulder From bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de Mon Sep 18 14:38:01 2006 From: bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de (bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:38:01 GMT Subject: Announcement and Programme - Session on Lexical Bootstrapping - GCLA conference Message-ID: Dear all, Please find below the announcement and programme of our special session on Lexical Bootstrapping in child language development, to be held at the 2nd GCLA International Conference. LEXICAL BOOTSTRAPPING IN CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND CHILD CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT Theme session to be held at the SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE GERMAN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION, Munich, 5-7 October 2006 ORGANISATORS: Susanna Bartsch and Dagmar Bittner Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research, Berlin **DESCRIPTION** Apart from some few exceptions (Brown 1958, Nelson 1973), the research on child lexical development did not receive much attention from students of child language in the 1960s and 1970s. In opposition to some statements found in the more recent literature (e.g., Rothweiler & Meibauer 1999), this fact is not really surprising when one considers the very influential role then played by formal linguistics with its primacy of syntactic structures and the view of lexicon and semantics as something rather epiphenomenal. From the 1980s on, this state of affairs has changed dramatically. A huge body of research, much of which has been done within functionalist-cognitivist frameworks and focussed on within- and cross-domain correlations in language development (Bates et al.'s 1988 correlational method), seems to allow for the formulation of a Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis (LBH) (some more recent examples: Dale et al. 2000; Dionne et al. 2003; Bassano et al. 2004). LBH is the assumption that early lexical development, as mapping of words to referents or their conceptualisations, and even to whole propositions, is not only prior to, but also pre-requisite for the emergence of morpho-syntactic constructions. Such assumption on the fundamental role of early lexical acquisition for later language development as a whole challenges the view about the primacy of syntax over lexicon and semantics that has been postulated in these 50 years of formal linguistics. In our theme session, we aim at an exploratory discussion about the role of Lexical Bootstrapping in children's linguistic and conceptual development. Bassano, D., Laaha, S., Maillochon, I., & Dressler, W. U. (2004). Early acquisition of verb grammar and lexical development: Evidence from periphrastic constructions in French and Austrian German. First Language, 24(1), pp. 33?70. Bates, E., Bretherton, I., & Snyder, L. 1988. From First Words to Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. Brown, R. 1958. Words and things. Glencoe, IL: Free Press. Dale, P. S., Dionne, G., Eley, T. C., & Plomin, R. 2000. Lexical and grammatical development: A behavioural genetic perspective. Journal of Child Language, 27/3, 619-642. Dionne, G., Dale, P. S., Boivin, M., & Plomin R. 2003. Genetic evidence for bidirectional effects of early lexical and grammatical development. Child Development, 74, 394-412. Nelson, K. 1973. Structure and strategy in learning to talk. Chicago: Univ. Press. Rothweiler, M. & Meibauer, J. (eds.) 1999. Das Lexikon im Spracherwerb: Ein ?berblick. In: Meibauer, J., & Rothweiler, M. (eds.). 1999. Das Lexikon im Spracherwerb. UTB f?r Wissenschaft; Mittlere Reihe, 2039. T?bingen: Francke. **PROGRAMME** THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 2006 11.15-11.45 Introducing the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis (LBH) Susanna Bartsch (Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research, Berlin) 11.45-12.15 The Interrelation Between Lexical and Grammatical Abilities in Early Language Acquisition Christina Kauschke (Universit?t Potsdam) 12.15-12.45 Implications of Noun/Verb Asynchrony for Children's Lexical and Cognitive Development: A Developmental Perspective from Turkisch Feyza Turkay (Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage, Lyon, France) 15.30-16.00 The Very Emergence of Words: Methodological and Theoretical Issues in its Description Alexandra Karousou, Demetra Katis, and Chrisoula Stambouliadou (University of Athens) 16.00-16.30 The "Lexical Bootstrapping" Hypothesis and Bilingual First Language Acquisition (Using Data from a Longitudinal Study of a German-Russian-Speaking Child) Elena Dieser (University of T?bingen) 16.30-17.00 Discussion Round FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 2006 10.15-10.45 Acquisition of Verbs and Development of Sentence Structure in German Impaired and Unimpaired Children Dagmar Bittner (Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research, Berlin) Julia Siegm?ller (Universit?t Potsdam) 10.45-11.15 Pre-Language Cognition, Motion Event Semantics, and the Transition from Single Words to First Sentences Lorraine McCune, Ellen Herr-Israel (Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ) 11.45-12.15 Syntactic Constructions and the Emergence of Event Types: A Computational Analysis of Verb Learning Alessandro Lenci (Universit? di Pisa) 12.15-12.45 Bootstrapping-Mechanismen: das Lexikon als Zentrum des Zusammenspiels sprachlicher Aufgabenbereiche - netzwerktheoretische Erkl?rungen zum kindlichen Erstspracherwerb Karin Schlipphak (M?nchen) 15.15-15.45 Does Number of Action Labels Predict an Early Acquisition of the Conventional Meaning of Verbs? Ping Chen (Peking University) Lauren Tonietto, Maria-Alice Parente (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre) Karine Duvignau, Bruno Gaume (Universit? Toulouse III) 15.45-16.15 Final Discussion For the abstracts, please point your browser to http://www.kognitive- sprachforschung.lmu.de/event/programme.html Also see the related event ELeGi 2006: International Conference "Exploring the Lexis-Grammar Interface", Hanover, October 5-7, 2006 (at the same time as our session). http://www.elegi-2006.com/ELeGI%20preliminary%20conference%20programme%20040 906.pdf Best regards, Susanna Susanna Bartsch Zentrum f?r allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung (ZaS) Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research J?gerstr. 10-11 10117 Berlin Germany From dlevere at ilstu.edu Wed Sep 20 15:58:56 2006 From: dlevere at ilstu.edu (Daniel L. Everett) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:58:56 -0500 Subject: URL for RecHul Message-ID: The website for Recursion in Human Languages, RecHul, to be held April 27-29 at Illinois State University in Normal, IL is now ready. At this website, you will be able to submit abstracts, register for the conference, and find out more about the conference and invited speakers. Any further questions, please contact Dan Everett, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois State University, Campus Box 4300, Normal, IL 61790-4300 or dlevere at ilstu.edu The URL for RecHul: http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/rechul/ We hope to see you at what is shaping up to be a very important conference on the formal and functional bases of modern linguistics. The deadline for abstracts, once again, is November 20, 2006. ********************** Daniel L. Everett, Professor of Linguistics & Anthropology and Chair, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Campus Box 4300 Illinois State University Normal, Illinois 61790-4300 OFFICE: 309-438-3604 FAX: 309-438-8038 http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/default.asp http://www.llc.ilstu.edu/rechul/ and Honorary Professor of Linguistics University of Manchester Manchester, UK http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/SubjectAreas/ LinguisticsEnglishLanguage/Staff/Daniel%20Everett/ From lise.menn at colorado.edu Wed Sep 20 17:24:58 2006 From: lise.menn at colorado.edu (Lise Menn) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:24:58 -0600 Subject: Jobs: Language Development: Asst Prof, University of Colorado Message-ID: Subject: Jobs: Language Development: Asst Prof, University of Colorado University or Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Department: Linguistics Web Address: www.colorado.edu/linguistics/ Job Rank: Assistant Professor The Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level in the field of language development, to begin August 2007. We encourage applications from specialists in any area of language development, including first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language socialization, aphasiology, and bilingualism. We especially welcome applicants whose research is empirical, usage-based, and attentive to social as well as cognitive dimensions of language development. Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of specialization, as well as occasional introductory survey courses in linguistics, psycholinguistics, or sociolinguistics. Applicants should have completed a Ph.D. in linguistics (or closely related field) by the time of the appointment. Additional information on the University of Colorado Department of Linguistics can be found at www.colorado.edu/ linguistics/. The deadline for receipt of applications is November 17, 2006, but applications will be considered until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a cover letter outlining details of current and future research interests, a statement of teaching experience and specialization, a curriculum vitae, two representative publications or research papers, and three letters of recommendation. Address all correspondence to: Prof. Kira Hall, Search Committee Chair, Department of Linguistics, 295 UCB, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0295. The University of Colorado at Boulder is committed to diversity and equality in education and employment. Lise Menn Office: 303-492-1609 Linguistics Dept. Fax: 303-413-0017 295 UCB Hellems 293 University of Colorado Boulder CO 80309-0295 Professor of Linguistics, University of Colorado, University of Hunan Secretary, AAAS Section Z [Linguistics] Lise Menn's home page http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/lmenn/ "Shirley Says: Living with Aphasia" http://spot.colorado.edu/~menn/Shirley4.pdf Japanese version of "Shirley Says" http://www.bayget.com/inpaku/kinen9.htm Academy of Aphasia http://www.academyofaphasia.org/ From yves.peirsman at arts.kuleuven.be Thu Sep 21 08:08:04 2006 From: yves.peirsman at arts.kuleuven.be (Yves Peirsman) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:08:04 +0200 Subject: CfP for Theme Session at ICLC2007: Cognitive Sociolinguistics Message-ID: First Call for Papers for a Theme Session at the 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference THEME: Cognitive Sociolinguistics ORGANISERS: Dirk Geeraerts, University of Leuven, dirk.geeraerts [at] arts.kuleuven.be Gitte Kristiansen, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, gkristia [at] filol.ucm.es Yves Peirsman, University of Leuven, yves.peirsman [at] arts.kuleuven.be EVENT: 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland 15-20 July 2007 www.iclc2007.pl INTRODUCTION Although there is a growing interest within Cognitive Linguistics for language-internal variation (see Kristiansen and Dirven, forthcoming: Cognitive Sociolinguistics, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter), it remains an understudied area in Cognitive Linguistics. Too often linguistic analyses (or cross-linguistic comparisons) are carried out at the level of 'a language', disregarding rich and complex patterns of intralingual variation. Such a level of granularity ultimately amounts to that of a homogeneous and thus idealized speech community. Cognitive Linguistics, to the extent that it takes the claim that it is a usage-based approach to language and cognition seriously, cannot afford to work with language situated taxonomically at an almost Chomskyan level of abstraction. The purpose of the theme session is therefore to bring together examples of outstanding sociolinguistic research within the field of Cognitive Linguistics. THE SCOPE OF COGNITIVE SOCIOLINGUISTICS The domain of investigation of Cognitive Sociolinguistics may be roughly divided into three main areas, each of which represents a specific relationship between cognition and language-internal linguistic diversity (which we will henceforth refer to as "lectal variation"). We invite abstracts for presentations in all three areas: 1. LECTAL VARIATION AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANGUAGE How does language-internal variation affect the occurrence of linguistic phenomena, and in particular, how does it affect the occurrence of linguistic phenomena that have the specific attention of Cognitive Linguistics? The question involves not only active knowledge of the language (i.e. language use), but also passive knowledge (i.e. reading and understanding skills). Existing examples of Cognitive Linguistic work in this area may be found in Berthele's work on verbal framing in the Swiss dialects, the work by Gries and Stefanowitsch on register variation in collostructions, and Croft's views on the importance of social variation for a theory of linguistic change. Topics of specific interest within this domain of research include - lectal factors in language acquisition: how does the change in an individual's knowledge of the language interact with social factors? - language variation and change: how do changes spread over a linguistic community, what is the role of distributed linguistic cognition in these processes, and how does the feedback loop between individual acts and common systemic changes actually work? - multivariate models of language variation: what analytical and descriptive tools do we need to arrive at an adequate description of linguistic variation? 2. LECTAL VARIATION, LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT A lot of front-edge research is looking into the relationship between language and thought (Slobin, Bowerman etc.), but this is basically done from an interlingual (typological) point of view. What happens if you conduct similar research from an intralingual point of view? Does lectal variation have the same effect on the relationship between language and thought as typological variation? Although this is only an emerging trend, a clear example of Cognitive Linguistic work in this area is Grondelaers' work on the psycholinguistic correlates of the multifactorial distribution of Dutch "er". Topics of specific interest within this domain of research involve - the relationship between language and culture: do language-internal differences in the relationship between language and thought reflect differences of "culture" ? - the relationship between cultural models and thought: to what extent does variation in cultural models within a community correlate with cognitive differences? 3. THE COGNITIVE REPRESENTATION OF LECTAL VARIATION How do language users perceive lectal differences, and how do they evaluate them attitudinally? What models do they use to categorize linguistic diversity? Examples of this kind of work within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics are Kristiansen's work on the socially informed prototype structure of phonemes, or Geeraerts' work on cultural models of standardization. Topics of specific interest within this domain of research include - stereotyping: how do language users categorize other groups of speakers? - subjective and objective linguistic distances: is there a correlation between objective linguistic distances, perceived distances, and language attitudes? - cultural models of language diversity: what models of lectal variation, standardization, and language change do people work with? - attitudes, perception, and change: to what extent do attitudinal and perceptual factors have an influence on language change? STRUCTURE OF THE SESSION Our theme session will consist of (1) presentations of the selected papers, (2) presentations by a number of invited specialists, (3) three 20-minute thematic discussion slots. PROCEDURE We invite abstracts of max. 500 words for 20-minute presentations in the three areas described above. Your abstract should contain: - The title of the presentation - Your name(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es) - The research question(s) that you address - A discussion of the methodology - A description of the data - A summary of the obtained results Abstracts should be sent to all three theme session organisers before October 31, 2006. SCHEDULE Deadline call for abstracts: October 31, 2006 Notification of acceptance/rejection of abstracts: November 15, 2006 Submission of the theme session proposal to the conference organisers: November 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance/rejection of theme session: February 1, 2007 For up-to-date information about the theme session, see wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl. Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From jleitao at ci.uc.pt Fri Sep 22 11:18:15 2006 From: jleitao at ci.uc.pt (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Leit=E3o?=) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:18:15 +0100 Subject: Last Cfp : DAARC'2007 - The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium Message-ID: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC'2007) Lagos (Algarve), Portugal hosted by University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences March 29-30, 2007 http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/ Anaphora is a central topic in the study of natural language and has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines such as theoretical, corpus and computational linguistics, philosophy of language, cognitive science, psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. On the other hand, the correct interpretation of anaphora has played an increasingly vital role in real-world natural language processing applications, including machine translation, automatic abstracting, information extraction and question answering. As a result, the processing of anaphora has become one of the most productive topics of multi- and inter-disciplinary research, and has enjoyed increased interest and attention in recent years. In this context, the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquia (DAARC) have emerged as the major regular forum for presentation and discussion of the best research results in this area. Initiated in 1996 at Lancaster University and taken over in 2002 by the University of Lisbon, the DAARC series established itself as a specialised and competitive forum for the presentation of the latest results on anaphora processing, ranging from theoretical linguistic approaches through psycholinguistic and cognitive work to corpus studies and computational modelling. The sixth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC?2007) will take place in Lagos (Algarve), Portugal, in March 29-30, 2007. We would like to invite anyone currently researching in the areas of discourse anaphora and anaphor resolution, from any methodological perspective or framework, to submit a paper to DAARC'2007. *The closing date for submission is October 16, 2006.* Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 2006. Final versions of selected papers to be included in the proceedings are expected by January 19, 2007. Submissions (extended abstracts) must be anonymous and at most 3 pages in length. For further details on the submission procedure, and other relevant info on the colloquium visit its website at: http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/ Program Committee: Mijail Alexandrov-Kabadjov, Univ Essex Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv Univ Sergey Avrutin, OTS Amit Bagga, Ask.com Patricio Martinez Barco, Univ Alicante Peter Bosch, Univ Osnabrueck Ant?nio Branco, Univ Lisbon Donna Byron, Ohio State Univ Francis Cornish, Univ Toulouse-Le Mirail Dan Cristea, Univ Iasi Robert Dale, Macquarie Univ Richard Evans, Univ Wolverhampton Martin Everaert, OTS Lyn Frazier, MIT Claire Gardent, CNRS/Loria Rafael Mu?oz Guillena, Univ Alicante Jeanette Gundel, Univ Minnesota Sanda Harabagiu, Univ Texas at Dallas Lars Hellan, Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology Erhard Hinrichs, Univ Tuebingen Graeme Hirst, Univ Toronto Yan Huang, Univ Reading Andrew Kehler, Univ California San Diego Andrej Kibrik, Russian Academy of Sciences Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg Univ Shalom Lappin, King's College Tony McEnery, Lancaster Univ Ruslan Mitkov, Univ Wolverhampton Jill Nickerson, Ab Initio Software Corp Constantin Orasan, Univ. Wolverhampton Maria Mercedes Pi?ango, Yale Univ Georgiana Puscasu, Univ Wolverhampton Costanza Navarretta, CST Massimo Poesio, Univ Essex Eric Reuland, OTS Jeffrey Runner, Univ of Rochester Antonio Fernandez Rodriguez, Univ Alacant Tony Sanford, Glasgow Univ Fr?d?rique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe Roland Stuckardt, Univ Frankfurt am Main Joel Tetreault, Univ. Rochester Renata Vieira, Unisinos Organisers: Antonio Branco, Univ Lisbon Tony McEnery, Lancaster Univ Ruslan Mitkov, Univ Wolverhampton F?tima Silva, Univ Oporto From robert at vjf.cnrs.fr Tue Sep 26 15:57:01 2006 From: robert at vjf.cnrs.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Robert) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:57:01 +0200 Subject: call for papers ALT7 Message-ID: Association for linguistic typology F?d?ration Typologie et Universaux linguistiques, Paris A general call for papers for ALT VII The seventh International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT VII) will be held in Paris at the Ministry of Research, from Tuesday September 25 to Friday September 28, 2007. The conference will be organized by the French F?d?ration Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques of the CNRS. The local organizers for ALT VII will be St?phane Robert, Isabelle Bril, Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and Martine Vanhove. Members and non-members wishing to present a paper at ALT VII are asked to e-mail a one-page abstract to the chair of the program committee, David Gil, to reach him no later than January 15, 2007. A second page may be included with the abstract listing data. The abstract itself should contain no identification of the author. A separate page should indicate the title of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one mailing address, with telephone, fax, and e-mail address as available. The conference will be held in English and French; abtracts may be submitted in either language.After the decision of acceptance of the abtracts has been conveyed, authors will be asked to send their abtracts in both languages. Submissions should be sent to: David Gil Fax +49 341-9952119 gil at eva.mpg.de The committee strongly encourages submissions by e-mail (preferably with the abstract in pdf format and author information as part of the e-mail text), but abstracts may also be sent by fax. Authors are asked to check their pdf files carefully to ensure that special characters are embedded properly. The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 30 minutes. Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. Members and non-members are also encouraged to present posters at ALT7 (final format should be 2m high and 1m wide). An abstract should be submitted under the same conditions as for papers (see above). By March 1, 2007, the program committee will convey its decision on acceptance of papers to those submitting abstracts. The committee consists of David Gil (chair), Nicholas R.D. Evans, M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest, Suzanne Kemmer, Ekkehart Koenig, Brian Migliazza, and Martine Vanhove Details concerning registration and accommodation for the conference will follow. There is also a dedicated website: http://www.alt7.cnrs.fr/ Contact: alt7 at ivry.cnrs.fr Further information about the Association for Linguistic Typology is available at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt Dead line for submission of abstracts: January 15, 2007 Address: gil at eva.mpg.de or Fax +49 341-9952119 Date of acceptance: March 1, 2007 __________________________________________ Association for linguistic typology F?d?ration Typologie et Universaux linguistiques, Paris Appel ? communication pour ALT VII Le septi?me Colloque International de l?Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT VII) se d?roulera ? Paris, au Minist?re de la Recherche, du mardi 25 septembre au vendredi 28 septembre 2007. Le colloque sera organis? par la F?d?ration Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques du CNRS. Le comit? d?organisation local pour ALT VII est compos? de Mmes St?phane Robert, Isabelle Bril, Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest et Martine Vanhove. Les membres et non-membres souhaitant pr?senter une communication ? ALT VII sont invit?s ? envoyer un r?sum? d?une page au pr?sident du comit? de programme, David Gil, avant le 15 janvier 2007. Une seconde page compos?e d?exemples peut ?tre ajout?e au r?sum?. Le r?sum? lui-m?me ne devra pas mentionner le nom du ou des auteur(s). Sur une feuille s?par?e devront figurer le titre du r?sum?, le(s) nom(s) de l?auteur(s), une adresse postale, avec un num?ro de t?l?phone, de fax, et une adresse courriel, si possible. L'anglais et le fran?ais sont les deux langues du colloque et les r?sum?s peuvent ?tre soumis dans l'une des deux langues. Pour ceux dont les propositions sont retenues, on demandera de fournir une version du r?sum? dans les deux langues. Les soumissions devront ?tre adress?es ? : David Gil Fax +49 341-9952119 gil at eva.mpg.de Le comit? encourage vivement les soumissions par courriel (de pr?f?rence avec un r?sum? au format pdf et les informations sur l?auteur dans le corps du message courriel), mais les r?sum?s peuvent aussi ?tre envoy?s par fax. Il est demand? aux auteurs de bien v?rifier leur fichier pdf afin de s?assurer que les caract?res sp?ciaux sont correctement impl?ment?s. Le temps imparti pour chaque communication est de 30 minutes, discussion comprise. Les participants ne doivent pas ?tre impliqu?s dans plus de deux r?sum?s, dont un au plus ? titre individuel. Le fran?ais et l?anglais sont les langues pr?f?r?es de la conf?rence. Il est ?galement possible de soumettre une proposition de poster (format des panneaux : 2m de haut sur 1m de large). Il faut pour cela envoyer un r?sum? dans les m?mes conditions que pour les communications (voir ci-dessus). Le comit? de programme fera conna?tre ses d?cisions le 15 mars 2007 ? ceux qui ont soumis un r?sum?. Ce comit? est constitu? de David Gil (pr?sident), Nicholas R.D.Evans, M.M. Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest, Suzanne Kemmer, Ekkehart Koenig, Brian Migliazza et Martine Vanhove. Les d?tails concernant l?inscription et l?h?bergement seront communiqu?s ult?rieurement, individuellement et sur le site web du colloque : http://www.alt7.cnrs.fr. Des informations sur l?Association for Linguistic Typology sont accessibles sur : http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2007 Adresse : gil at eva.mpg.de ou Fax +49 341-9952119 Date d?acceptation : 15 mars 2007 From rcameron at uic.edu Tue Sep 26 22:11:20 2006 From: rcameron at uic.edu (Cameron, Richard) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:11:20 -0500 Subject: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics: SLA or Bilingualism Message-ID: Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Spanish linguistics, specialization in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) or Bilingualism. The department is seeking a dynamic scholar committed to excellence in teaching, and to scholarly research and publications, who will carry out two principal functions: 1) Make substantial contributions to the undergraduate and graduate programs in linguistics in the areas of Second Language Acquisition or Bilingualism, and 2) Direct the Basic Language Program with the assistance of a full-time qualified language coordinator. Preference will be given to candidates with a minimum 3 years prior experience directing a basic language program. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in linguistics with concentration in SLA or Bilingualism. The Director is expected to work closely with the new Language Center Director, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, the Director of the Heritage Language Program, and the Director of the Spanish Teacher Education major. The teaching load will be one course per semester. Send CV, a writing sample, and three letters of reference to Prof. Rafael Nu?ez-Cede?o, Chair Search Committee, Dept. of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Illinois at Chicago, M/C 315, 601 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607-7117. Applications packages must be postmarked by November 17, 2006. The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.