From feldmana at mail.montclair.edu  Tue Jan  2 20:56:40 2007
From: feldmana at mail.montclair.edu (Anna Feldman)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:56:40 -0700
Subject: FINAL CFP: HLT/NAACL-07 Workshop on Computational Approaches to
 Figurative Language
Message-ID: <TUE.2.JAN.2007.135640.0700.FELDMANA@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** 
 
Computational Approaches to Figurative Language 
 
Workshop in conjunction with HLT/NAACL 2007 
To be held in Rochester, NY, April 26, 2007 
 
Submission deadline: January 18, 2007 
 
Workshop Home Page: 
http://www.purl.org/net/fa/FigLang2007/ 
 
Important Dates: 
 
Paper submission deadline: January 18, 2007 
Notification of acceptance for papers: February 
22, 2007 
Camera ready papers due: March 1, 2007 
Workshop Date: April 26, 2007 
 
 


From anggarrgoon at gmail.com  Wed Jan  3 14:54:21 2007
From: anggarrgoon at gmail.com (Claire Bowern)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:54:21 -0600
Subject: Historical Linguistics List
Message-ID: <WED.3.JAN.2007.085421.0600.>

Dear all,

John Charles Smith and I have revived the Histling email list. It's an
open list for discussion and announcements on anything related to
historical linguistics and language change. In the past it was a low- to
medium-volume list.

To subscribe, visit

https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l

and fill in your email address. Only members will be able to post to the
list, but posts will be unmoderated.

For any questions, please contact the list administrator (me), Claire
Bowern (bowern @ rice <dot>edu).

Best wishes,
Claire and JC


-------------
Dr Claire Bowern
Department of Linguistics
Rice University


From robert at vjf.cnrs.fr  Fri Jan  5 13:14:36 2007
From: robert at vjf.cnrs.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Robert)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:14:36 +0100
Subject: ALT 7 last call
Message-ID: <FRI.5.JAN.2007.141436.0100.ROBERT@VJF.CNRS.FR>

Association for linguistic typology

The seventh International Conference of the Association for Linguistic 
Typology (ALT VII) will be held in Paris (France)at the Ministry of 
Research, from Tuesday September 25 to Friday September 28, 2007.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 15, 2007

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
<mailto:gil at eva.mpg.de>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,Edith Moravcsik, and 
Martine Vanhove.

Details concerning registration and accommodation for the conference will 
follow. There is also a dedicated website: 
<http://www.alt7.cnrs.fr/>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: <mailto:gil at eva.mpg.de>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
<mailto:gil at eva.mpg.de>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/>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 : <mailto:gil at eva.mpg.de>gil at eva.mpg.de ou Fax +49 341-9952119
Date d’acceptation : 15 mars 2007


__________________

Stephane ROBERT
CNRS - LLACAN "Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique noire" (UMR 8135)
Centre André-Georges Haudricourt, B.P. 8
7, rue Guy Môquet - 94801 Villejuif Cedex FRANCE
Tel: 33 1 49 58 38 46 - Fax: 33 1 49 58 38 00
robert at vjf.cnrs.fr

http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr


From jeonglee12 at hotmail.com  Fri Jan  5 13:28:20 2007
From: jeonglee12 at hotmail.com (Jeong-Hwa Lee)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:28:20 +0000
Subject: extension: 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and
 Cognitive Ling
Message-ID: <FRI.5.JAN.2007.132820.0000.JEONGLEE12@HOTMAIL.COM>

Extension
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
Extended Dead-line for Abstract Submissions: Jan. 31, 2007
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: Feb. 28, 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"
Foong Ha Yap (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong): "Aspectual 
asymmetries: Implications for sentence-processing and discourse structure"


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 31, 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 31, 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

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From segerer at vjf.cnrs.fr  Mon Jan  8 16:26:52 2007
From: segerer at vjf.cnrs.fr (Guillaume Segerer)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:26:52 +0100
Subject: Atelier sur la Typologie des Langues  Africaines - (R)Appel �
 communication / Workshop o n the Typology of African Languages -
 Call for papers  (Reminder)
Message-ID: <MON.8.JAN.2007.172652.0100.SEGERER@VJF.CNRS.FR>

Workshop on the Typology of African Languages - Call for papers (Reminder)

The Seventh International Conference of the Association of Linguistic 
Typology (ALT VII) will take place in Paris from the 24th to the 28th of 
September 2007. It will be organized by the « Fédération Typologie et 
Universaux Linguistiques » of the CNRS. The local organizing comittee 
includes Stéphane Robert, Isabelle Bril, Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and 
Martine Vanhove.

On Monday, September 24, there will be a Workshop on the typology of 
African Languages organized by Guillaume Segerer and Bernard Caron. 
African languages show a great typological diversity as well as specific 
features that cross genetic boundaries and contrast with other languages 
of the world. Four sessions will be dedicated to papers on the following 
topics, with a State-of-the-Art paper followed by a case study for each 
of them. The four topics are

(i) Information structure and prosody. Invited Speaker : Laura Downing
(ii) A typology of linguistic change. Invited Speaker : Konstantin 
Pozdniakov
(iii) Linguistic typology and genealogy. Invited Speaker : Zygmund 
Frajzyngier
(iv) Areal typology in Africa. Invited Speaker : Tom Güldemann

Anyone wishing to present a paper is invited to send an abstract (max 
400 words) to the address below. Abstracts sent by e-mail should be 
included in the message (i.e. not appended as an attachment). The 
scientific committtee is composed of the Invited Speakers and the 
Organizers.
Deadline for submission : March 15th, 2007
Notification of acceptance : mid April, 2007

The Proceedings of the workshop will be published.

Address for workshop abstracts:

Guillaume Segerer
Workshop on African Languages
LLACAN – CNRS – B.P. 8
7, rue Guy Moquet
94801 Villejuif Cedex
France

email: segerer at vjf.cnrs.fr
fax: ++33 1 49 58 38 00


Atelier sur la Typologie des Langues Africaines - Appel à communication 
(Rappel)

Le Septième Congrès de l’Association de Typologie Linguistique (ALT VII) 
se tiendra à Paris du 24 au 28 Septembre 2007. Il sera organisé par la 
Fédération Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques du CNRS. Le comité 
local d’organisation comprend Stéphane Robert, Isabelle Bril, Jocelyne 
Fernandez-Vest et Martine Vanhove.
Le lundi 24 septembre se déroulera un atelier sur les langues 
africaines. Celles-ci présentent une très grande diversité typologique 
ainsi que des traits uniques qui traversent les frontières génétiques et 
contrastent de diverses manières avec les autres langues du monde. 
Quatre sessions seront dédiées à des communications portant sur les 
thèmes suivants, avec chacune un conférencier invité :
(i) Structure informationnelle et prosodie. Invitée : Laura Downing
(ii) Typologie du changement linguistique. Invité : Konstantin Pozdniakov
(iii)Typologie linguistique et généalogie. Invité : Zygmund Frajzyngier
(iv)Typologie aréale en Afrique. Invité : Tom Güldemann

Si vous désirez présenter une communication dans le cadre de cet atelier 
(de 20 minutes plus 10 minutes de discussion), vous devez envoyer un 
résumé (400 mots maximum) à l’adresse ci-dessous. Les soumissions par 
couriel devront se faire dans le corps du message et non en fichier 
attaché. Le comité scientifique est composé des conférenciers invités et 
des organisateurs.
La date limite pour proposer une communication est fixée au 15 mars 2007.
L'acceptation des propositions sera notifiée vers la mi-avril.

Les Actes de l’Atelier feront l’objet d’une publication.

L’envoi des résumés devra se faire à l’adresse suivante :

Guillaume Segerer
Atelier Typologie des Langues Africaines
LLACAN - CNRS
Centre Georges Haudricourt
B.P. 8
7, rue Guy Môquet
94801 Villejuif Cedex
France

email: segerer at vjf.cnrs.fr
fax: 33 1 49 58 38 00


From els603 at bangor.ac.uk  Tue Jan  9 11:10:26 2007
From: els603 at bangor.ac.uk (June Luchjenbroers)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:10:26 +0000
Subject: FINAL CALL: 2nd UK-Cognitive Linguistics Assoc. Conference,
 Cardiff
Message-ID: <TUE.9.JAN.2007.111026.0000.>


FINAL 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, Universität Hamburg, Germany
CHRIS SINHA,   Univ. Portsmouth, England, UK
EVE SWEETSER,   Univ. California, Berkeley, USA
ARIE VERHAGEN,   Leiden University, 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. 

We also encourage papers that relate to the secondary 
conference theme, “Cognitive Linguistics, Applied”; 
as well as the primary theme, “New Directions”. 

These papers may involve (but are not limited to) any of the following:
- New  descriptive or theoretical insights in  Cognitive Linguistics
- Critical evaluations of  the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise
- The  interface between Cognitive  Linguistics and neighbouring disciplines
- New  frontiers in Cognitive Linguistics
- Conceptual Blending in Discourse
- Language in Interaction
- Situated meaning 
- Distributed Cognition
- Usage-Based Models
- Gesture, and Sign

Submissions may offer any of the following:
(i) theme session; (ii) paper presentation; (iii) poster presentation; 
(iv) paper or poster presentation  
 
In addition to papers, posters and/or theme sessions 
dealing with more general areas of cognitive linguistics 
research, we are particularly interested in research 
that applies cognitive linguistics methodologies to 
specific language contexts (e.g., classroom, law, etc.).

Procedural TimeTable:
- 5th February, 2007	
       Deadline for paper & poster submissions
- April, 2007	
       Notice of acceptance; Registrations open,
- 27 – 30th Aug, 2007	
       NDCL-2 Conference
- 14th January, 2008	
       Submission of papers for possible publication

Talks are scheduled in 30 minute slots: 20 minutes 
presentation, 5 minutes for discussion and 5 minutes to 
change sessions and/or change speakers. We anticipate 
3 – 4 parallel sessions of regular papers, plus plenary 
lectures. The provisional conference program can be 
viewed at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html

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 Lang., Com. & Cognition, Univ. Brighton,
     Esther Pascual, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands

CONTACT:	NDCL-2 at cardiff.ac.uk  

ABSTRACTS:

Abstracts (with the heading “NDCL-2”) need to be no more 
than 1 A4 page in length (excluding references), minimum 
size 12 font; and must be submitted in PDF format to the 
conference contact email address. Authors may submit more
than 1 abstract though (in all likelihood) only 1 paper 
will be accepted. 

Please visit http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html 
for further details regarding submission of proposals, 
registration, programme of events etc.

Publication Plans:

Two volumes are anticipated: 1 devoted to papers dealing 
with the theme: Cognitive Linguistics, Applied; and the 
other devoted to a cross-section of the papers offered 
at this conference. Papers to be considered for these
publications will need to be submitted to the editors 
by 14th January, 2008. 



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From aberez at umail.ucsb.edu  Wed Jan 10 01:54:09 2007
From: aberez at umail.ucsb.edu (Andrea L. Berez)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:54:09 -0800
Subject: 2nd CFP: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Message-ID: <TUE.9.JAN.2007.175409.0800.ABEREZ@UMAIL.UCSB.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the Call for Papers below for the 10th Annual Workshop on  
American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), to be held May 11-12 2007 at the  
University of California, Santa Barbara. Please note that the abstract  
submission deadline has been extended to February 8.

Best wishes,
Andrea Berez


CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Santa Barbara, CA
May 11-12, 2007

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa  
Barbara announces its tenth annual Workshop on American Indigenous  
Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of  
theoretical and descriptive studies of the indigenous languages of the  
Americas.

We are pleased to have Dr. Judith Aissen from the University of  
California at Santa Cruz as our WAIL Keynote speaker for 2007!

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics.  
Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.  
Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or  
references) and can be submitted by hard copy or email.  Individuals  
may submit abstracts for one single and one co-authored paper.  Please  
indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g.  
recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.).  For  
co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as  
well as who will be in attendance.


For email submissions: Include the abstract as an attachment. Please  
limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft  
Word document.

Include the following information in the body of the email message:  
(1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number;  
(5) email address; (6) title of your paper.

Send email submissions to:  wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu

For hard copy submissions: Please send five copies of your abstract,  
along with a 3x5 card with: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3)  
mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of  
your paper.



Send hard copy submissions to:

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA



EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:

February 8, 2007

Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 22, 2007.

General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean  
near the Santa Yñez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the  
Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in  
Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus.  
Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about  
hotel accommodations will be posted on our website  
(http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/).



For further information contact the conference coordinators, Joye  
Kiester or Bekki Siemens, at

wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776,

or check out our website at
      http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/


From Jean-Christophe.Verstraete at arts.kuleuven.be  Thu Jan 11 17:45:56 2007
From: Jean-Christophe.Verstraete at arts.kuleuven.be (Jean-Christophe Verstraete)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:45:56 +0100
Subject: 2007 LOT Summer School
Message-ID: <THU.11.JAN.2007.184556.0100.JEANCHRISTOPHE.VERSTRAETE@ARTS.KULEUVEN.BE>

                      2007 LOT Summer School
                   Leuven (Belgium), 11 - 22 June 2007

              <http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/fll/lotschool.htm>

The annual summer school of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics 
is being
organized by the Department of Linguistics of the University of 
Leuven  from 11 June to
22 June 2007.

The school offers introductory and advanced graduate courses, with 24 
different subjects
spread over two weeks. The courses run for five days, with daily sessions 
lasting two and
a half hours. Each course can be taken as a partial credit (without paper) 
or a full
credit (with submission of a paper after the course). The course 
descriptions and the
schedule will soon be available on the website of the Netherlands Graduate 
School of
Linguistics <http://www.let.uu.nl/LOT/GraduateProgram/graduate.htm>.

The teachers are:


Marc Brysbaert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven)
Catia Cucchiarini (University of Nijmegen)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Renaat Declerck (University of Leuven)
Holger Diessel (University of Jena)
Paola Escudero (University of Amsterdam)
Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen)
Caroline Heycock (University of  Edinburgh)
Brian Joseph (Ohio State University)
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)
William McGregor (University of Aarhus)
Andrea Moro (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Pieter Muysken (University of Nijmegen)
Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp)
Leon Stassen (University of Nijmegen / University of Utrecht)
Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels)
Anatol Stefanowitsch (University of Bremen)
Pierre Swiggers (University of Leuven)
John Taylor (University of Otago)
Alice ter Meulen (University of Groningen)
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Catholic University of Brussels)
Guido Van den Wyngaerd (Catholic University of Brussels)
Edwin Williams (Princeton University)


Registration and tuition fees
The school is in principle open to everyone. For participants who do not 
belong to
partner institutes of LOT the tuition fees are EUR 150 for a week and EUR 
250  for two
weeks. Accommodation (including breakfast and lunch) is available at the 
summer school
venue at EUR 32.10 per night (for a shared room) or EUR 35.70 (for a single 
room).

Registration forms and other practical information will soon be available 
on the website
of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics. For any 
other  questions, please feel
free to contact one of the local organizers, at <lotschool at arts.kuleuven.be>.

The head of the local organizing committee is Kristin Davidse
<http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/fll/kdavidse>

Transport information
Leuven can easily be reached by train from Brussels airport (in 15 minutes) 
and from the
Brussels train stations (in 30 minutes). Brussels has direct connections 
with Paris,
London, Amsterdam and Cologne. Travel directions to  Leuven can be found at
<http://www.kuleuven.be/transportation/faq.htm> and maps of Leuven are 
available at
<http://cwisdb.cc.kuleuven.be/kaarten-bin/basiskaart.pl>.


Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm


From hougaard at language.sdu.dk  Fri Jan 12 11:27:53 2007
From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:27:53 +0100
Subject: Transfer
Message-ID: <FRI.12.JAN.2007.122753.0100.HOUGAARD@LANGUAGE.SDU.DK>

Hi,
Can anybody give me some references to functional work on "transfer" (of syntax from L1 to L2)
in connection to second language acquisition? Does such work exist?
Thanks!
 
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 fey.parrill at case.edu  Fri Jan 12 14:02:50 2007
From: fey.parrill at case.edu (Fey Parrill)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:02:50 -0500
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT OF CSDL9
Message-ID: <FRI.12.JAN.2007.090250.0500.FEY.PARRILL@CASE.EDU>

The Ninth Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language  
will be held at Case Western Reserve University, 18-20 October 2008.  
We invite you to mark your calendars and visit the conference website  
at http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9.

Organizers: Fey Parrill, Vera Tobin, and Mark Turner

Tentatively confirmed invited speakers include:
Seana Coulson, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
Gilles Fauconnier: Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
Eve Sweetser: Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley


From language at sprynet.com  Sun Jan 14 07:39:53 2007
From: language at sprynet.com (Alexander Gross2)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:39:53 -0500
Subject: A request for assistance...
Message-ID: <SUN.14.JAN.2007.023953.0500.LANGUAGE@SPRYNET.COM>

I'd be grateful to colleagues if you would be willing to take a look at a piece I wrote as part of a recently received commission.  It represents my best attempt so far to bring together and synthesize the three great passions of my life: Linguistics, Theatre, and Translation.  You'll find it at:

http://language.home.sprynet.com/theatdex/weiss2.htm#ling

This URL should take you to the portion of the piece dealing with Linguistics, but some of you might also want to scroll backwards and look at the sections on theatre and translation as well.

I look forward to your comments and criticisms.

Happy New Year and all the best to everyone!

alex


From hougaard at language.sdu.dk  Wed Jan 17 08:40:48 2007
From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:40:48 +0100
Subject: Transfer: bio
Message-ID: <WED.17.JAN.2007.094048.0100.HOUGAARD@LANGUAGE.SDU.DK>

Dear all,
 
Here's a summary of the responses I got to my
inquiry on this mailing list regarding functional work on transfer:
 
1) Heine & Kuveta. "Language Contact and Grammatical Change" (Cambridge University Press,
2005). [thanks to Bernd Heine]

2) Relevant data should be found on works on 2nd-L pidgin. (Derek Bickerton
& I published one such thing long ago in CLS 1976, parasession on
diachronic syntax). But that's, in my opinion, the best way of looking
at it. In my SYNTAX (2001, Amsterdam, J. Benjamins) in the chapter on
word-order & morphotactic typology (in vol. I) there are many examples
that boil down to this.  [thanks to Tom Givon]

3) I have worked on this issue -- but have argued that it really isn't the
syntax that transfers but the discourse 'meaning' of the L1 form,
attaching to an 'analogous' but purely native L2 form (native to L2,
that is), often leading to real or apparent *internal* syntactic change
in L2. The following paper is downloadable from my website
(http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ellen):

The borrowing of meaning as a cause of internal syntactic change. In
Schmid, M., Austin, J.R., and Stein, D., eds. Historical linguistics
1997. Current issues in linguistic theory. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Pp. 339-62. 1998. [thanks to Ellen Prince]

4) In the pidgin and creole literature, there's a lot on
transfer of features in shift or the adoption of features
in borrowing. It is compatible with functionalist
approaches to language. I would suggest you look at:

Thomason and Kaufman, 1988, chapters on shift, on
creolization
Roger Andersen (ed.), 1983, Acquisition as creolization
Salikoko Mufwene, 2001, Ecology of language evolution (ch.
6) William Croft, 2000, Explaining language change
[thanks to Clancy Clements]
 
 
Cheers,
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 eilamavi at babel.ling.upenn.edu  Wed Jan 17 14:04:26 2007
From: eilamavi at babel.ling.upenn.edu (Aviad Eilam)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:04:26 -0500
Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 40, Issue 8 - Alexander Gross' post
Message-ID: <WED.17.JAN.2007.090426.0500.EILAMAVI@BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>

As you asked, I took a look at your piece on linguistics.
Unfortunately, all I found there was a mix of distortions and non sequiturs,
based on a genuine misunderstanding of what linguists are interested in and what
they do. As someone who worked for years in translation and has also been
studying linguistics for a number of years, I found most of your arguments
simply bizarre.

The writing seems to follow both Godwin's Law:
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving
Nazis or Hitler approaches one"
and Benford's Law:
"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available."

Sadly, neither are indications of high intellectual standards.

---
Aviad Eilam
Department of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
619 Williams Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
eilamavi at babel.ling.upenn.edu



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From emilio.servidio at gmail.com  Thu Jan 18 16:59:03 2007
From: emilio.servidio at gmail.com (Emilio Servidio)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:59:03 +0100
Subject: Who Is Tykk?
Message-ID: <THU.18.JAN.2007.175903.0100.EMILIO.SERVIDIO@GMAIL.COM>

Dear Tykk,

I have just subscribed to FunkNet.
I would like to buy two publications from General Linguistics Series of the
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From els603 at bangor.ac.uk  Mon Jan 22 14:21:13 2007
From: els603 at bangor.ac.uk (June Luchjenbroers)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:21:13 +0000
Subject: MORE INFO re UK-Cognitive Linguistics conference, Cardiff
Message-ID: <MON.22.JAN.2007.142113.0000.ELS603@BANGOR.AC.UK>

ALERT: deadline for abstract submission, 5th February, 2007
(only 2 weeks away now!!)


Please also take a look at
http://cogling.org.uk/mambo/index.php? 
option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=1
to see some more general information about our conference,
to be held in Cardiff, 27-30 August, 2007.

Hope to see you there :-)

Cheers,
June & Michelle


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From language at sprynet.com  Mon Jan 22 19:28:04 2007
From: language at sprynet.com (Alexander Gross2)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:28:04 -0500
Subject: Room for optimism...?
Message-ID: <MON.22.JAN.2007.142804.0500.LANGUAGE@SPRYNET.COM>

Although I've been reading works on linguistics for almost sixty years, this is the first time during fifty of those years that I have once again begun to feel slightly optimistic about the future of our field.  I found Alex Kravchenko's two recent contributions to LinguistList most welcome, as well as that group's comparatively favorable reception of announcements about two other remarkable pieces.  One is an article from the latest issue of City Journal and can be found at:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_urbanities-language.html

The other is an NPR interview with the poet and professor Andrei Codrescu, aubible at:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626808

I believe a number of you here, assuming you have not already seen them, will find both of these of interest.

I find it hard to imagine how some of our colleagues may be reacting to this recent spate of aberrant ideas, and I can't help wondering if some of those who are not steadfastly ignoring it  may finally, after five decades in the arms of Van Winkle's Narcolepsy, be coming abruptly awake and rubbing their eyes in utter disbelief, as they mutter: "You mean, it's not just grammar after all...?"  

In any case, I look forward to hearing your reactions.

All the best to linguists everywhere!

alex


From ALI.FARGHALY at ORACLE.COM  Mon Jan 22 21:58:31 2007
From: ALI.FARGHALY at ORACLE.COM (Ali Farghaly)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:58:31 -0700
Subject: Second Call for papers (CAASL-2)
Message-ID: <MON.22.JAN.2007.145831.0700.ALI.FARGHALY@ORACLE.COM>

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

 



CAASL-2

Second Workshop on

Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages

 

July 21-22, 2007

The Linguistic Summer Institute
Stanford University

 Workshop description


 

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.

 

The invited speaker for this workshop will be Richard Sproat from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can be found at http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2 (http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2)

 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 (mailto:Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com) and karinem at mitre.org (mailto:karinem at inxight.com) 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

 Organizing committee


 

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA, Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com (mailto:Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com)

Karine Megerdoomian, MITRE Corporation, karine at mitre.org (mailto:karine at mitre.org)

 

 Program Committee


 

Jan W. Amtrup                                     Kofax Images

Tim Buckwalter                                     Linguistic Data  Consortium

Miriam Butt                                           Konstanz University, Germany

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza                         Carnegie Mellon University

Joseph Dichy                                        Lyon University

Nizar Habash                                        Columbia University

Mona Diab                                            Columbia University

Kevin Knight                                        USC/Information Sciences Institute

Farhad Oroumchian                             University of Wollongong in Dubai

Ahmed Rafea                                        The American University in Cairo

Bonnie Glover Stalls                            University of Southern California

Rémi Zajac                                             Yahoo!, Inc.

Kareem Darweesh                                Cairo University

Sherri L. Condon                                The MITRE Corporation

Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini  Iowa State University

Farhad Oroumchian                       University of Wollongong in Dubai

Imed Zitouni                                      IBM

Hany Hassan                                     IBM Cairo

 



 


From haspelmath at eva.mpg.de  Wed Jan 24 08:17:11 2007
From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:17:11 +0100
Subject: Reminder: Semantic maps workshop Paris
Message-ID: <WED.24.JAN.2007.091711.0100.HASPELMATH@EVA.MPG.DE>

Reminder: 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 <http://email.eva.mpg.de/%7Ecysouw/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 (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de)
Andrej Malchukov (andrej_malchukov at eva.mpg.de)
Michael Cysouw (cysouw at eva.mpg.de)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany


From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr  Thu Jan 25 09:00:54 2007
From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:00:54 +0100
Subject: CONF: Cogling, France, 10-12 May, 2007
Message-ID: <THU.25.JAN.2007.100054.0100.MAARTEN.LEMMENS@UNIVLILLE3.FR>

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Apologies for cross-posting
***************************

Second International Conference of the French Association for Cognitive 
Linguistics (AFLiCo), with special thematic sessions on "Typology, Gesture, 
and Sign"

University of Lille 3, Lille, France
10-12 May 2007
http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/colloque2007/

*********************************
!!! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN !!!
!!! DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2007 !!!
**********************************

INVITED SPEAKERS (see the conference web site for titles and abstracts)
Jean-Marc COLLETTA (Univ. de Grenoble, France)
William CROFT (Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)
Christan CUXAC (Univ. Paris 8, France)
Susan GOLDIN-MEADOW (Univ of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
Nini HOITING (Royal Effatha-Guyot Group Haren, Netherlands)
Scott LIDDELL (Gallaudet Univ., Washington, DC, USA)
Irit MEIR (Univ. of Haifa, Israel)
Dan SLOBIN (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA)
Eve SWEETSER (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA)
Phyllis WILCOX (Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)
Sherman WILCOX (Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)

PROGRAMME
A provisional programme is downloadable from the conference web site.
There will be 4 parallel sessions, of which one is always a thematic 
session (devoted to sign, gesture or typology), depending on the day. The 
other sessions deal with different topics in cognitive linguistics. There 
will also be two special thematic sessions, one on the Lexical-Grammar 
interface (Lexical bootstrapping), the other on metonymy in gesture. There 
will also be a poster session on the first two days.

CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference is hosted by the University of Lille3, France. All talks 
will be held in the B building. For more info on how to come to Lille or to 
campus, please check the conference web site.

LANGUAGES
The official languages of the conference are French, English and French 
Sign Language (LSF), the latter at least for the first two days. Given the 
overall international character of the participants, English will generally 
be preferred.

REGISTRATION
To register, please download the registration form from the website and 
send it back, together with your payment, to the conference secretary 
Emmanuelle Jablonski. To simplify the administration, we strongly encourage 
you to send us the spread sheet file (MS-Excel or OpenOffice) via email 
(emmanuelle.jablonski AT univ-lille3.fr). Alternatively, you send the 
printed form, duly filled out, via regular mail (Université Lille 3, UMR 
8163 STL, BP 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France).
Your registration will only be valid after your payment has been received. 
(See below for methods of payment).

REGISTRATION FEE
Upon registration, you will have to specify on the form which fee applies 
to you. To encourage deaf people to attend the conference, especially the 
first two days, when the sessions on sign language will be held, a special 
formula has been set up for them (not open to others):
- Regular : 80 euros
- Student : 40 euros
- Member AFLiCo : 60 euros  (membership effective at time of registration !)
- AFLiCo student : 30 euros  (membership effective at time of registration !)
- Deaf person attending Thursday, May 10 & Friday May 11: 50 euros

The conference fee covers the organisational costs of the conference and 
also includes a conference bag, a book of abstracts, name tag, coffee 
breaks, the welcome reception, the concert, and a guided city tour (see 
below). Lunches and the conference dinner are not included but are offered 
at a modest price. It is strongly recommended to take the lunches offered 
by the conference, as it will be difficult to find other places to eat on 
campus (esp. on Saturday).

METHOD OF PAYMENT
Unfortunately, no payment on site can be accepted!
- Bon de commande (French institutions only)
- Cheque (French cheques only)  -- see registration form for details
- Money order or transfer  -- see registration form for details
- Others (please contact the secretary)

SATELLITE EVENT
On the day before the conference, May 9, 9h00 – 18h00, there will be a 
workshop on "Language and Space", with renowned invited speakers (see the 
conference web site for full details).
The regular fee for this conference is 30 euros (including lunch and 
coffee), but people also registered for the AFLiCo conference only pay 15 
euros. Registration for the workshop is to be done via the same form as 
that for the conference.

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

(1) WELCOME RECEPTION & REGISTRATION: Wednesday, May 9, 17h00 – 20h00
Given the tight conference schedule and given that many participants will 
already have arrived, registration will be on the day before the 
conference. We plan to have a small welcome reception (pending funding).

(2) CONFERENCE Dinner: Thursday, May 10, 20h30, Restaurant "Le Flore", Lille.
The organisers have opted for a dinner formula that is affordable to all, 
so that also people on limited funding (particularly students) can also 
attend. The integration of students and young scholars is one of the main 
aims of the conference and of AFLiCo.
The diner will be held in the centre of Lille, in the restaurant "Le Flore" 
(Place Rihour), and will offer a menu of specialties of the North of 
France. The price for the diner is 30 euros (unlimited beverages during the 
meal).

(3) CONCERT with French-Flemish Renaissance music, Friday May 11, 21h00
If all goes as planned, this concert will be a unique occasion to hear 
magnificent polyphonic Renaissance music from the region. It will further 
have a nice personal touch, in that it will be brought by the vocal 
ensemble OrSeCante from Leuven, Belgium, the choir of which one of the 
conference organisers, Maarten Lemmens, has been a member since 1991. The 
choir is specialized in Renaissance and Baroque music.
The concert would be free for the conference participants, but open to the 
general public who will be asked a small entrance fee.

(4) GUIDED TOUR IN OLD LILLE, Sunday May 12, 10h00-12h00
To offer visitors a view of the beautiful city of Lille and its rich 
history, the organisers plan to have a guided tour of old Lille, the day 
after the conference. Whether this guided tour takes place depends on the 
number of people who sign up and on funding (once again, alas!).

As already indicated, the welcome reception, the concert and the guided 
tour are not yet fully confirmed, still awaiting funding. We nevertheless 
ask that you indicate on the registration form whether you intend to 
participate in these events.

CONTACT
- organisers : aflico AT univ-lille3.fr
- secretary : emmanuelle.jablonski AT univ-lille3.fr


From lamb at rice.edu  Thu Jan 25 17:10:08 2007
From: lamb at rice.edu (Sydney Lamb)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:10:08 -0600
Subject: Conference: Speech and Beyond
Message-ID: <THU.25.JAN.2007.111008.0600.LAMB@RICE.EDU>

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: FEBRUARY TENTH

The 2007 annual meeting of LACUS will be held at Eastern Kentucky
University, Richmond, Kentucky (just South of Lexington), July 24-28.

Conference theme: "Speech and Beyond" (emphasis on "beyond"). The
venue relates to this theme, as eastern Kentucky is horse country.
The theme is intended to include animal communication, including
interspecies communication, especially between humans and animals.
An excursion is being planned to a demonstration of horse communication
(see LACUS website for further information).

Featured Speakers include:
   Linda Acredolo, UC Davis: Signing with Babies Before they can Talk:
     A Window into the Infant Mind
   Sidney Burrus, Rice University, The Book and Beyond
   Louis Herman, University of Hawaii: Linguistic and Cognitive Skills of
     Dolphins
   Sydney Lamb, Rice University: Varieties of Human and Animal Semiosis
     and their Neurocognitive Basis
   Irene Pepperburg, Harvard University and Brandeis University:
     Communicative and Cognitive Skills of African Gray Parrots

Contributions are welcomed on
   Human-animal communication
   Animal-animal communication
   Human communication in media other than speech and writing
   The uniqueness/nonuniqueness of human language
   Other aspects of communication (including spoken and written)

Further information is posted on the LACUS web site, at
www.rice.edu/lacus/ (click on "2007 Conference").


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From rls at rice.edu  Mon Jan 29 07:26:17 2007
From: rls at rice.edu (Rice Linguistics Society)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:26:17 -0600
Subject: Rice Linguistics Society Workshop - Feb 3-4
Message-ID: <MON.29.JAN.2007.012617.0600.RLS@RICE.EDU>

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Next weekend, February 3-4, the Rice Linguistics Society (a student-run
organization at Rice University) will host "Structuring Language: Cultural,
Cognitive, and Theoretical Perspectives." The primary objective of this
workshop is to bring together linguistics grads in Texas (and the
south/southwest more generally) for an informal conference-style discussion of
their current research.

The workshop will be held in Room 117 of the Humanities Building (#31, viewable
at www.rice.edu/maps.maps.html) on the Rice campus. Free parking is available
in the Greenbriar Lot, which is accessible from entrances 13A and 13B.
Alternatively, there is paid parking that is somewhat closer in the Founder’s
Lot ($9 for daily parking; see campus maps webpage for the location of the
parking lots and campus entrances). There is no registration fee, and
attendance is open to everyone.

The first session will begin at 9:30am each morning, preceded by registration
(for nametags) and coffee. There will be talks all day Saturday, and on Sunday
the workshop will end at 1:00pm.

In the next few days a detailed schedule will be made available on the
departmental website. As soon as the schedule's up, I'll send around a link.

All the best,

Chris Taylor
RLS President


From lilianguerrero at yahoo.com  Wed Jan 31 22:06:16 2007
From: lilianguerrero at yahoo.com (Lilian Guerrero)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:06:16 -0800
Subject: RRG 2007 First Call
Message-ID: <WED.31.JAN.2007.140616.0800.LILIANGUERRERO@YAHOO.COM>

***************************
Apologies for cross-posting
***************************

First Announcement

THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL COURSE AND CONFERENCE ON ROLE
AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City,
August 6-10, 2007

The annual International Course and Conference on Role
and Reference Grammar (RRG) will be hosted by the
Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, at the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in México
City, 6-10 August, 2007. The international Conference
will be preceded by two-day (course) workshops. The
Conference will stage papers and plenary sessions. 

Keynote Speakers

JOHANNA NICHOLS
University of California, Berkeley

JOSE MARIA GARCIA-MIGUEL 				
Universidade de Vigo

MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN
University of Chicago			          

DANIEL EVERETT
Illinois State University 

RICARDO MALDONADO
Universidad de Querétaro,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. 			                
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf,
University at Buffalo

The 2007 Conference will deal with issues in
linguistic theory in its wider discursive, cognitive
and typological perspective. Papers dealing with
further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology,
syntax, semantics, information structure, as well as
language processing are encouraged.  The workshops
will include lecture sessions at three levels:
introductory, graduate and specialized. The
introductory and graduate sessions will be taught in
Spanish and will provide the basics and core
theoretical principles of RRG for those not yet
acquainted with the theory. The specialized workshops
will deal with advanced topics on RRG, and will be
presented by RRG specialists.

Abstracts must be received electronically by March 31,
2007 at 2007RRG at gmail.com. Abstracts should be no
longer than two pages, including data and references,
and must be submitted as Word documents (a PDF version
is also required if special characters are included).
The abstracts should be anonymous. The email message
must include the following information: author’s
name(s), affiliation, email address, and title of
abstract. The selection of papers for presentation
will have been communicated by May 1, 2007. The talks
will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten
minutes for discussion.

Further information including registration fee,
travel, accommodation, social events, will be on the
Conference website at
http://www.filologicas.unam.mx/2007rrg.html.

Organizing Committee: Lilián Guerrero, Sergio Ibáñez,
Paulette Levy, Chantal Melis, Cecilia Rojas, Ma.
Ángeles Soler (Instituto de Investigaciones
Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México);
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf,  University at Buffalo), and Daniel
Everett (Illinois State University).



Lilián Guerrero
Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas
Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Circuito Mario de la Cueva
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
México, D.F.
Tlf. +52-(55)-5622-7489
Fax: +52-(55)-5622-7496


 
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From feldmana at mail.montclair.edu  Tue Jan  2 20:56:40 2007
From: feldmana at mail.montclair.edu (Anna Feldman)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:56:40 -0700
Subject: FINAL CFP: HLT/NAACL-07 Workshop on Computational Approaches to
 Figurative Language
Message-ID: <TUE.2.JAN.2007.135640.0700.FELDMANA@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** 
 
Computational Approaches to Figurative Language 
 
Workshop in conjunction with HLT/NAACL 2007 
To be held in Rochester, NY, April 26, 2007 
 
Submission deadline: January 18, 2007 
 
Workshop Home Page: 
http://www.purl.org/net/fa/FigLang2007/ 
 
Important Dates: 
 
Paper submission deadline: January 18, 2007 
Notification of acceptance for papers: February 
22, 2007 
Camera ready papers due: March 1, 2007 
Workshop Date: April 26, 2007 
 
 


From anggarrgoon at gmail.com  Wed Jan  3 14:54:21 2007
From: anggarrgoon at gmail.com (Claire Bowern)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:54:21 -0600
Subject: Historical Linguistics List
Message-ID: <WED.3.JAN.2007.085421.0600.>

Dear all,

John Charles Smith and I have revived the Histling email list. It's an
open list for discussion and announcements on anything related to
historical linguistics and language change. In the past it was a low- to
medium-volume list.

To subscribe, visit

https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l

and fill in your email address. Only members will be able to post to the
list, but posts will be unmoderated.

For any questions, please contact the list administrator (me), Claire
Bowern (bowern @ rice <dot>edu).

Best wishes,
Claire and JC


-------------
Dr Claire Bowern
Department of Linguistics
Rice University


From robert at vjf.cnrs.fr  Fri Jan  5 13:14:36 2007
From: robert at vjf.cnrs.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Robert)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:14:36 +0100
Subject: ALT 7 last call
Message-ID: <FRI.5.JAN.2007.141436.0100.ROBERT@VJF.CNRS.FR>

Association for linguistic typology

The seventh International Conference of the Association for Linguistic 
Typology (ALT VII) will be held in Paris (France)at the Ministry of 
Research, from Tuesday September 25 to Friday September 28, 2007.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 15, 2007

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
<mailto:gil at eva.mpg.de>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,Edith Moravcsik, and 
Martine Vanhove.

Details concerning registration and accommodation for the conference will 
follow. There is also a dedicated website: 
<http://www.alt7.cnrs.fr/>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: <mailto:gil at eva.mpg.de>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
<mailto:gil at eva.mpg.de>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/>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 : <mailto:gil at eva.mpg.de>gil at eva.mpg.de ou Fax +49 341-9952119
Date d?acceptation : 15 mars 2007


__________________

Stephane ROBERT
CNRS - LLACAN "Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique noire" (UMR 8135)
Centre Andr?-Georges Haudricourt, B.P. 8
7, rue Guy M?quet - 94801 Villejuif Cedex FRANCE
Tel: 33 1 49 58 38 46 - Fax: 33 1 49 58 38 00
robert at vjf.cnrs.fr

http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr


From jeonglee12 at hotmail.com  Fri Jan  5 13:28:20 2007
From: jeonglee12 at hotmail.com (Jeong-Hwa Lee)
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:28:20 +0000
Subject: extension: 3rd Seoul International Conference on Discourse and
 Cognitive Ling
Message-ID: <FRI.5.JAN.2007.132820.0000.JEONGLEE12@HOTMAIL.COM>

Extension
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
Extended Dead-line for Abstract Submissions: Jan. 31, 2007
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: Feb. 28, 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"
Foong Ha Yap (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong): "Aspectual 
asymmetries: Implications for sentence-processing and discourse structure"


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 31, 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 31, 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

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From segerer at vjf.cnrs.fr  Mon Jan  8 16:26:52 2007
From: segerer at vjf.cnrs.fr (Guillaume Segerer)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:26:52 +0100
Subject: Atelier sur la Typologie des Langues  Africaines - (R)Appel �
 communication / Workshop o n the Typology of African Languages -
 Call for papers  (Reminder)
Message-ID: <MON.8.JAN.2007.172652.0100.SEGERER@VJF.CNRS.FR>

Workshop on the Typology of African Languages - Call for papers (Reminder)

The Seventh International Conference of the Association of Linguistic 
Typology (ALT VII) will take place in Paris from the 24th to the 28th of 
September 2007. It will be organized by the ? F?d?ration Typologie et 
Universaux Linguistiques ? of the CNRS. The local organizing comittee 
includes St?phane Robert, Isabelle Bril, Jocelyne Fernandez-Vest and 
Martine Vanhove.

On Monday, September 24, there will be a Workshop on the typology of 
African Languages organized by Guillaume Segerer and Bernard Caron. 
African languages show a great typological diversity as well as specific 
features that cross genetic boundaries and contrast with other languages 
of the world. Four sessions will be dedicated to papers on the following 
topics, with a State-of-the-Art paper followed by a case study for each 
of them. The four topics are

(i) Information structure and prosody. Invited Speaker : Laura Downing
(ii) A typology of linguistic change. Invited Speaker : Konstantin 
Pozdniakov
(iii) Linguistic typology and genealogy. Invited Speaker : Zygmund 
Frajzyngier
(iv) Areal typology in Africa. Invited Speaker : Tom G?ldemann

Anyone wishing to present a paper is invited to send an abstract (max 
400 words) to the address below. Abstracts sent by e-mail should be 
included in the message (i.e. not appended as an attachment). The 
scientific committtee is composed of the Invited Speakers and the 
Organizers.
Deadline for submission : March 15th, 2007
Notification of acceptance : mid April, 2007

The Proceedings of the workshop will be published.

Address for workshop abstracts:

Guillaume Segerer
Workshop on African Languages
LLACAN ? CNRS ? B.P. 8
7, rue Guy Moquet
94801 Villejuif Cedex
France

email: segerer at vjf.cnrs.fr
fax: ++33 1 49 58 38 00


Atelier sur la Typologie des Langues Africaines - Appel ? communication 
(Rappel)

Le Septi?me Congr?s de l?Association de Typologie Linguistique (ALT VII) 
se tiendra ? Paris du 24 au 28 Septembre 2007. Il sera organis? par la 
F?d?ration Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques du CNRS. Le comit? 
local d?organisation comprend St?phane Robert, Isabelle Bril, Jocelyne 
Fernandez-Vest et Martine Vanhove.
Le lundi 24 septembre se d?roulera un atelier sur les langues 
africaines. Celles-ci pr?sentent une tr?s grande diversit? typologique 
ainsi que des traits uniques qui traversent les fronti?res g?n?tiques et 
contrastent de diverses mani?res avec les autres langues du monde. 
Quatre sessions seront d?di?es ? des communications portant sur les 
th?mes suivants, avec chacune un conf?rencier invit? :
(i) Structure informationnelle et prosodie. Invit?e : Laura Downing
(ii) Typologie du changement linguistique. Invit? : Konstantin Pozdniakov
(iii)Typologie linguistique et g?n?alogie. Invit? : Zygmund Frajzyngier
(iv)Typologie ar?ale en Afrique. Invit? : Tom G?ldemann

Si vous d?sirez pr?senter une communication dans le cadre de cet atelier 
(de 20 minutes plus 10 minutes de discussion), vous devez envoyer un 
r?sum? (400 mots maximum) ? l?adresse ci-dessous. Les soumissions par 
couriel devront se faire dans le corps du message et non en fichier 
attach?. Le comit? scientifique est compos? des conf?renciers invit?s et 
des organisateurs.
La date limite pour proposer une communication est fix?e au 15 mars 2007.
L'acceptation des propositions sera notifi?e vers la mi-avril.

Les Actes de l?Atelier feront l?objet d?une publication.

L?envoi des r?sum?s devra se faire ? l?adresse suivante :

Guillaume Segerer
Atelier Typologie des Langues Africaines
LLACAN - CNRS
Centre Georges Haudricourt
B.P. 8
7, rue Guy M?quet
94801 Villejuif Cedex
France

email: segerer at vjf.cnrs.fr
fax: 33 1 49 58 38 00


From els603 at bangor.ac.uk  Tue Jan  9 11:10:26 2007
From: els603 at bangor.ac.uk (June Luchjenbroers)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:10:26 +0000
Subject: FINAL CALL: 2nd UK-Cognitive Linguistics Assoc. Conference,
 Cardiff
Message-ID: <TUE.9.JAN.2007.111026.0000.>


FINAL 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, Universit?t Hamburg, Germany
CHRIS SINHA,   Univ. Portsmouth, England, UK
EVE SWEETSER,   Univ. California, Berkeley, USA
ARIE VERHAGEN,   Leiden University, 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. 

We also encourage papers that relate to the secondary 
conference theme, ?Cognitive Linguistics, Applied?; 
as well as the primary theme, ?New Directions?. 

These papers may involve (but are not limited to) any of the following:
- New  descriptive or theoretical insights in  Cognitive Linguistics
- Critical evaluations of  the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise
- The  interface between Cognitive  Linguistics and neighbouring disciplines
- New  frontiers in Cognitive Linguistics
- Conceptual Blending in Discourse
- Language in Interaction
- Situated meaning 
- Distributed Cognition
- Usage-Based Models
- Gesture, and Sign

Submissions may offer any of the following:
(i) theme session; (ii) paper presentation; (iii) poster presentation; 
(iv) paper or poster presentation  
 
In addition to papers, posters and/or theme sessions 
dealing with more general areas of cognitive linguistics 
research, we are particularly interested in research 
that applies cognitive linguistics methodologies to 
specific language contexts (e.g., classroom, law, etc.).

Procedural TimeTable:
- 5th February, 2007	
       Deadline for paper & poster submissions
- April, 2007	
       Notice of acceptance; Registrations open,
- 27 ? 30th Aug, 2007	
       NDCL-2 Conference
- 14th January, 2008	
       Submission of papers for possible publication

Talks are scheduled in 30 minute slots: 20 minutes 
presentation, 5 minutes for discussion and 5 minutes to 
change sessions and/or change speakers. We anticipate 
3 ? 4 parallel sessions of regular papers, plus plenary 
lectures. The provisional conference program can be 
viewed at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html

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 Lang., Com. & Cognition, Univ. Brighton,
     Esther Pascual, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands

CONTACT:	NDCL-2 at cardiff.ac.uk  

ABSTRACTS:

Abstracts (with the heading ?NDCL-2?) need to be no more 
than 1 A4 page in length (excluding references), minimum 
size 12 font; and must be submitted in PDF format to the 
conference contact email address. Authors may submit more
than 1 abstract though (in all likelihood) only 1 paper 
will be accepted. 

Please visit http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html 
for further details regarding submission of proposals, 
registration, programme of events etc.

Publication Plans:

Two volumes are anticipated: 1 devoted to papers dealing 
with the theme: Cognitive Linguistics, Applied; and the 
other devoted to a cross-section of the papers offered 
at this conference. Papers to be considered for these
publications will need to be submitted to the editors 
by 14th January, 2008. 



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From aberez at umail.ucsb.edu  Wed Jan 10 01:54:09 2007
From: aberez at umail.ucsb.edu (Andrea L. Berez)
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:54:09 -0800
Subject: 2nd CFP: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Message-ID: <TUE.9.JAN.2007.175409.0800.ABEREZ@UMAIL.UCSB.EDU>

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the Call for Papers below for the 10th Annual Workshop on  
American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), to be held May 11-12 2007 at the  
University of California, Santa Barbara. Please note that the abstract  
submission deadline has been extended to February 8.

Best wishes,
Andrea Berez


CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Santa Barbara, CA
May 11-12, 2007

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa  
Barbara announces its tenth annual Workshop on American Indigenous  
Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of  
theoretical and descriptive studies of the indigenous languages of the  
Americas.

We are pleased to have Dr. Judith Aissen from the University of  
California at Santa Cruz as our WAIL Keynote speaker for 2007!

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics.  
Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.  
Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or  
references) and can be submitted by hard copy or email.  Individuals  
may submit abstracts for one single and one co-authored paper.  Please  
indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g.  
recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.).  For  
co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as  
well as who will be in attendance.


For email submissions: Include the abstract as an attachment. Please  
limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft  
Word document.

Include the following information in the body of the email message:  
(1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number;  
(5) email address; (6) title of your paper.

Send email submissions to:  wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu

For hard copy submissions: Please send five copies of your abstract,  
along with a 3x5 card with: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3)  
mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of  
your paper.



Send hard copy submissions to:

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA



EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:

February 8, 2007

Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 22, 2007.

General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean  
near the Santa Y?ez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the  
Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in  
Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus.  
Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about  
hotel accommodations will be posted on our website  
(http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/).



For further information contact the conference coordinators, Joye  
Kiester or Bekki Siemens, at

wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776,

or check out our website at
      http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/


From Jean-Christophe.Verstraete at arts.kuleuven.be  Thu Jan 11 17:45:56 2007
From: Jean-Christophe.Verstraete at arts.kuleuven.be (Jean-Christophe Verstraete)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:45:56 +0100
Subject: 2007 LOT Summer School
Message-ID: <THU.11.JAN.2007.184556.0100.JEANCHRISTOPHE.VERSTRAETE@ARTS.KULEUVEN.BE>

                      2007 LOT Summer School
                   Leuven (Belgium), 11 - 22 June 2007

              <http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/fll/lotschool.htm>

The annual summer school of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics 
is being
organized by the Department of Linguistics of the University of 
Leuven  from 11 June to
22 June 2007.

The school offers introductory and advanced graduate courses, with 24 
different subjects
spread over two weeks. The courses run for five days, with daily sessions 
lasting two and
a half hours. Each course can be taken as a partial credit (without paper) 
or a full
credit (with submission of a paper after the course). The course 
descriptions and the
schedule will soon be available on the website of the Netherlands Graduate 
School of
Linguistics <http://www.let.uu.nl/LOT/GraduateProgram/graduate.htm>.

The teachers are:


Marc Brysbaert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Hubert Cuyckens (University of Leuven)
Catia Cucchiarini (University of Nijmegen)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp)
Renaat Declerck (University of Leuven)
Holger Diessel (University of Jena)
Paola Escudero (University of Amsterdam)
Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen)
Caroline Heycock (University of  Edinburgh)
Brian Joseph (Ohio State University)
Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland)
William McGregor (University of Aarhus)
Andrea Moro (Universit? Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Pieter Muysken (University of Nijmegen)
Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp)
Leon Stassen (University of Nijmegen / University of Utrecht)
Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels)
Anatol Stefanowitsch (University of Bremen)
Pierre Swiggers (University of Leuven)
John Taylor (University of Otago)
Alice ter Meulen (University of Groningen)
Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (Catholic University of Brussels)
Guido Van den Wyngaerd (Catholic University of Brussels)
Edwin Williams (Princeton University)


Registration and tuition fees
The school is in principle open to everyone. For participants who do not 
belong to
partner institutes of LOT the tuition fees are EUR 150 for a week and EUR 
250  for two
weeks. Accommodation (including breakfast and lunch) is available at the 
summer school
venue at EUR 32.10 per night (for a shared room) or EUR 35.70 (for a single 
room).

Registration forms and other practical information will soon be available 
on the website
of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics. For any 
other  questions, please feel
free to contact one of the local organizers, at <lotschool at arts.kuleuven.be>.

The head of the local organizing committee is Kristin Davidse
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Transport information
Leuven can easily be reached by train from Brussels airport (in 15 minutes) 
and from the
Brussels train stations (in 30 minutes). Brussels has direct connections 
with Paris,
London, Amsterdam and Cologne. Travel directions to  Leuven can be found at
<http://www.kuleuven.be/transportation/faq.htm> and maps of Leuven are 
available at
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From hougaard at language.sdu.dk  Fri Jan 12 11:27:53 2007
From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:27:53 +0100
Subject: Transfer
Message-ID: <FRI.12.JAN.2007.122753.0100.HOUGAARD@LANGUAGE.SDU.DK>

Hi,
Can anybody give me some references to functional work on "transfer" (of syntax from L1 to L2)
in connection to second language acquisition? Does such work exist?
Thanks!
 
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 fey.parrill at case.edu  Fri Jan 12 14:02:50 2007
From: fey.parrill at case.edu (Fey Parrill)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:02:50 -0500
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT OF CSDL9
Message-ID: <FRI.12.JAN.2007.090250.0500.FEY.PARRILL@CASE.EDU>

The Ninth Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language  
will be held at Case Western Reserve University, 18-20 October 2008.  
We invite you to mark your calendars and visit the conference website  
at http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9.

Organizers: Fey Parrill, Vera Tobin, and Mark Turner

Tentatively confirmed invited speakers include:
Seana Coulson, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
Gilles Fauconnier: Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
Eve Sweetser: Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley


From language at sprynet.com  Sun Jan 14 07:39:53 2007
From: language at sprynet.com (Alexander Gross2)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:39:53 -0500
Subject: A request for assistance...
Message-ID: <SUN.14.JAN.2007.023953.0500.LANGUAGE@SPRYNET.COM>

I'd be grateful to colleagues if you would be willing to take a look at a piece I wrote as part of a recently received commission.  It represents my best attempt so far to bring together and synthesize the three great passions of my life: Linguistics, Theatre, and Translation.  You'll find it at:

http://language.home.sprynet.com/theatdex/weiss2.htm#ling

This URL should take you to the portion of the piece dealing with Linguistics, but some of you might also want to scroll backwards and look at the sections on theatre and translation as well.

I look forward to your comments and criticisms.

Happy New Year and all the best to everyone!

alex


From hougaard at language.sdu.dk  Wed Jan 17 08:40:48 2007
From: hougaard at language.sdu.dk (Anders Hougaard)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:40:48 +0100
Subject: Transfer: bio
Message-ID: <WED.17.JAN.2007.094048.0100.HOUGAARD@LANGUAGE.SDU.DK>

Dear all,
 
Here's a summary of the responses I got to my
inquiry on this mailing list regarding functional work on transfer:
 
1) Heine & Kuveta. "Language Contact and Grammatical Change" (Cambridge University Press,
2005). [thanks to Bernd Heine]

2) Relevant data should be found on works on 2nd-L pidgin. (Derek Bickerton
& I published one such thing long ago in CLS 1976, parasession on
diachronic syntax). But that's, in my opinion, the best way of looking
at it. In my SYNTAX (2001, Amsterdam, J. Benjamins) in the chapter on
word-order & morphotactic typology (in vol. I) there are many examples
that boil down to this.  [thanks to Tom Givon]

3) I have worked on this issue -- but have argued that it really isn't the
syntax that transfers but the discourse 'meaning' of the L1 form,
attaching to an 'analogous' but purely native L2 form (native to L2,
that is), often leading to real or apparent *internal* syntactic change
in L2. The following paper is downloadable from my website
(http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ellen):

The borrowing of meaning as a cause of internal syntactic change. In
Schmid, M., Austin, J.R., and Stein, D., eds. Historical linguistics
1997. Current issues in linguistic theory. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins. Pp. 339-62. 1998. [thanks to Ellen Prince]

4) In the pidgin and creole literature, there's a lot on
transfer of features in shift or the adoption of features
in borrowing. It is compatible with functionalist
approaches to language. I would suggest you look at:

Thomason and Kaufman, 1988, chapters on shift, on
creolization
Roger Andersen (ed.), 1983, Acquisition as creolization
Salikoko Mufwene, 2001, Ecology of language evolution (ch.
6) William Croft, 2000, Explaining language change
[thanks to Clancy Clements]
 
 
Cheers,
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 eilamavi at babel.ling.upenn.edu  Wed Jan 17 14:04:26 2007
From: eilamavi at babel.ling.upenn.edu (Aviad Eilam)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:04:26 -0500
Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 40, Issue 8 - Alexander Gross' post
Message-ID: <WED.17.JAN.2007.090426.0500.EILAMAVI@BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>

As you asked, I took a look at your piece on linguistics.
Unfortunately, all I found there was a mix of distortions and non sequiturs,
based on a genuine misunderstanding of what linguists are interested in and what
they do. As someone who worked for years in translation and has also been
studying linguistics for a number of years, I found most of your arguments
simply bizarre.

The writing seems to follow both Godwin's Law:
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving
Nazis or Hitler approaches one"
and Benford's Law:
"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available."

Sadly, neither are indications of high intellectual standards.

---
Aviad Eilam
Department of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
619 Williams Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
eilamavi at babel.ling.upenn.edu



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> This URL should take you to the portion of the piece dealing with
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From emilio.servidio at gmail.com  Thu Jan 18 16:59:03 2007
From: emilio.servidio at gmail.com (Emilio Servidio)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:59:03 +0100
Subject: Who Is Tykk?
Message-ID: <THU.18.JAN.2007.175903.0100.EMILIO.SERVIDIO@GMAIL.COM>

Dear Tykk,

I have just subscribed to FunkNet.
I would like to buy two publications from General Linguistics Series of the
University of Turku, namely (6) and (8) respectively "Methods..." and "What
Is A Language...", both by Esa Itkonen. How can I do?

Please contact me

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From els603 at bangor.ac.uk  Mon Jan 22 14:21:13 2007
From: els603 at bangor.ac.uk (June Luchjenbroers)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:21:13 +0000
Subject: MORE INFO re UK-Cognitive Linguistics conference, Cardiff
Message-ID: <MON.22.JAN.2007.142113.0000.ELS603@BANGOR.AC.UK>

ALERT: deadline for abstract submission, 5th February, 2007
(only 2 weeks away now!!)


Please also take a look at
http://cogling.org.uk/mambo/index.php? 
option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=1
to see some more general information about our conference,
to be held in Cardiff, 27-30 August, 2007.

Hope to see you there :-)

Cheers,
June & Michelle


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gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig
gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y
neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar
unwaith a dil?wch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi,
rhaid i chi beidio ? defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a
gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i
hanfonodd yn unig  ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn
Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Cymru, Bangor yn gwarantu
bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu
100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn
nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract
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From language at sprynet.com  Mon Jan 22 19:28:04 2007
From: language at sprynet.com (Alexander Gross2)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:28:04 -0500
Subject: Room for optimism...?
Message-ID: <MON.22.JAN.2007.142804.0500.LANGUAGE@SPRYNET.COM>

Although I've been reading works on linguistics for almost sixty years, this is the first time during fifty of those years that I have once again begun to feel slightly optimistic about the future of our field.  I found Alex Kravchenko's two recent contributions to LinguistList most welcome, as well as that group's comparatively favorable reception of announcements about two other remarkable pieces.  One is an article from the latest issue of City Journal and can be found at:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_urbanities-language.html

The other is an NPR interview with the poet and professor Andrei Codrescu, aubible at:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626808

I believe a number of you here, assuming you have not already seen them, will find both of these of interest.

I find it hard to imagine how some of our colleagues may be reacting to this recent spate of aberrant ideas, and I can't help wondering if some of those who are not steadfastly ignoring it  may finally, after five decades in the arms of Van Winkle's Narcolepsy, be coming abruptly awake and rubbing their eyes in utter disbelief, as they mutter: "You mean, it's not just grammar after all...?"  

In any case, I look forward to hearing your reactions.

All the best to linguists everywhere!

alex


From ALI.FARGHALY at ORACLE.COM  Mon Jan 22 21:58:31 2007
From: ALI.FARGHALY at ORACLE.COM (Ali Farghaly)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:58:31 -0700
Subject: Second Call for papers (CAASL-2)
Message-ID: <MON.22.JAN.2007.145831.0700.ALI.FARGHALY@ORACLE.COM>

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

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CAASL-2

Second Workshop on

Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages

?

July 21-22, 2007

The Linguistic Summer Institute
Stanford University

?Workshop description


?

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.

?

The invited speaker for this workshop will be Richard Sproat from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

?

The call for papers as well as future information on the workshop can be found at http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2 (http://www.zoorna.org/CAASL2)

?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 (mailto:Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com) and karinem at mitre.org (mailto:karinem at inxight.com) 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

?Organizing committee


?

Ali Farghaly, Oracle USA, Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com (mailto:Ali.Farghaly at oracle.com)

Karine Megerdoomian, MITRE Corporation, karine at mitre.org (mailto:karine at mitre.org)

?

?Program Committee


?

Jan W. Amtrup???????????????????? ??????????????? Kofax Images

Tim Buckwalter???????????????????? ??????????????? Linguistic Data? Consortium

Miriam Butt?????????????????????????? ??????????????? Konstanz University, Germany

Violetta Cavalli-Sforza???????? ??????????????? Carnegie Mellon University

Joseph Dichy??????????????????????? ??????????????? Lyon University

Nizar Habash??????????????????????? ??????????????? Columbia University

Mona Diab??????????????????????????? ??????????????? Columbia University

Kevin Knight??????????????????????? ??????????????? USC/Information Sciences Institute

Farhad Oroumchian???????????? ??????????????? University of Wollongong in Dubai

Ahmed Rafea ?????? ??????????????? ??????????????? The American University in Cairo

Bonnie Glover Stalls??????????? ??????????????? University of Southern California

R?mi Zajac???????????????????????????? ??????????????? Yahoo!, Inc.

Kareem Darweesh??????????????????????????????? Cairo University

Sherri L. Condon???? ?????????????????????????? The MITRE Corporation

Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini? Iowa State University

Farhad Oroumchian ????????????????????? University of Wollongong in Dubai

Imed Zitouni ???????????????????? ??????????????? IBM

Hany Hassan???????????????????????????????????? IBM Cairo

?



?


From haspelmath at eva.mpg.de  Wed Jan 24 08:17:11 2007
From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:17:11 +0100
Subject: Reminder: Semantic maps workshop Paris
Message-ID: <WED.24.JAN.2007.091711.0100.HASPELMATH@EVA.MPG.DE>

Reminder: 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 <http://email.eva.mpg.de/%7Ecysouw/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 (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de)
Andrej Malchukov (andrej_malchukov at eva.mpg.de)
Michael Cysouw (cysouw at eva.mpg.de)

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany


From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr  Thu Jan 25 09:00:54 2007
From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:00:54 +0100
Subject: CONF: Cogling, France, 10-12 May, 2007
Message-ID: <THU.25.JAN.2007.100054.0100.MAARTEN.LEMMENS@UNIVLILLE3.FR>

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Second International Conference of the French Association for Cognitive 
Linguistics (AFLiCo), with special thematic sessions on "Typology, Gesture, 
and Sign"

University of Lille 3, Lille, France
10-12 May 2007
http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/colloque2007/

*********************************
!!! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN !!!
!!! DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2007 !!!
**********************************

INVITED SPEAKERS (see the conference web site for titles and abstracts)
Jean-Marc COLLETTA (Univ. de Grenoble, France)
William CROFT (Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)
Christan CUXAC (Univ. Paris 8, France)
Susan GOLDIN-MEADOW (Univ of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
Nini HOITING (Royal Effatha-Guyot Group Haren, Netherlands)
Scott LIDDELL (Gallaudet Univ., Washington, DC, USA)
Irit MEIR (Univ. of Haifa, Israel)
Dan SLOBIN (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA)
Eve SWEETSER (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA)
Phyllis WILCOX (Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)
Sherman WILCOX (Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)

PROGRAMME
A provisional programme is downloadable from the conference web site.
There will be 4 parallel sessions, of which one is always a thematic 
session (devoted to sign, gesture or typology), depending on the day. The 
other sessions deal with different topics in cognitive linguistics. There 
will also be two special thematic sessions, one on the Lexical-Grammar 
interface (Lexical bootstrapping), the other on metonymy in gesture. There 
will also be a poster session on the first two days.

CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference is hosted by the University of Lille3, France. All talks 
will be held in the B building. For more info on how to come to Lille or to 
campus, please check the conference web site.

LANGUAGES
The official languages of the conference are French, English and French 
Sign Language (LSF), the latter at least for the first two days. Given the 
overall international character of the participants, English will generally 
be preferred.

REGISTRATION
To register, please download the registration form from the website and 
send it back, together with your payment, to the conference secretary 
Emmanuelle Jablonski. To simplify the administration, we strongly encourage 
you to send us the spread sheet file (MS-Excel or OpenOffice) via email 
(emmanuelle.jablonski AT univ-lille3.fr). Alternatively, you send the 
printed form, duly filled out, via regular mail (Universit? Lille 3, UMR 
8163 STL, BP 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France).
Your registration will only be valid after your payment has been received. 
(See below for methods of payment).

REGISTRATION FEE
Upon registration, you will have to specify on the form which fee applies 
to you. To encourage deaf people to attend the conference, especially the 
first two days, when the sessions on sign language will be held, a special 
formula has been set up for them (not open to others):
- Regular : 80 euros
- Student : 40 euros
- Member AFLiCo : 60 euros  (membership effective at time of registration !)
- AFLiCo student : 30 euros  (membership effective at time of registration !)
- Deaf person attending Thursday, May 10 & Friday May 11: 50 euros

The conference fee covers the organisational costs of the conference and 
also includes a conference bag, a book of abstracts, name tag, coffee 
breaks, the welcome reception, the concert, and a guided city tour (see 
below). Lunches and the conference dinner are not included but are offered 
at a modest price. It is strongly recommended to take the lunches offered 
by the conference, as it will be difficult to find other places to eat on 
campus (esp. on Saturday).

METHOD OF PAYMENT
Unfortunately, no payment on site can be accepted!
- Bon de commande (French institutions only)
- Cheque (French cheques only)  -- see registration form for details
- Money order or transfer  -- see registration form for details
- Others (please contact the secretary)

SATELLITE EVENT
On the day before the conference, May 9, 9h00 ? 18h00, there will be a 
workshop on "Language and Space", with renowned invited speakers (see the 
conference web site for full details).
The regular fee for this conference is 30 euros (including lunch and 
coffee), but people also registered for the AFLiCo conference only pay 15 
euros. Registration for the workshop is to be done via the same form as 
that for the conference.

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

(1) WELCOME RECEPTION & REGISTRATION: Wednesday, May 9, 17h00 ? 20h00
Given the tight conference schedule and given that many participants will 
already have arrived, registration will be on the day before the 
conference. We plan to have a small welcome reception (pending funding).

(2) CONFERENCE Dinner: Thursday, May 10, 20h30, Restaurant "Le Flore", Lille.
The organisers have opted for a dinner formula that is affordable to all, 
so that also people on limited funding (particularly students) can also 
attend. The integration of students and young scholars is one of the main 
aims of the conference and of AFLiCo.
The diner will be held in the centre of Lille, in the restaurant "Le Flore" 
(Place Rihour), and will offer a menu of specialties of the North of 
France. The price for the diner is 30 euros (unlimited beverages during the 
meal).

(3) CONCERT with French-Flemish Renaissance music, Friday May 11, 21h00
If all goes as planned, this concert will be a unique occasion to hear 
magnificent polyphonic Renaissance music from the region. It will further 
have a nice personal touch, in that it will be brought by the vocal 
ensemble OrSeCante from Leuven, Belgium, the choir of which one of the 
conference organisers, Maarten Lemmens, has been a member since 1991. The 
choir is specialized in Renaissance and Baroque music.
The concert would be free for the conference participants, but open to the 
general public who will be asked a small entrance fee.

(4) GUIDED TOUR IN OLD LILLE, Sunday May 12, 10h00-12h00
To offer visitors a view of the beautiful city of Lille and its rich 
history, the organisers plan to have a guided tour of old Lille, the day 
after the conference. Whether this guided tour takes place depends on the 
number of people who sign up and on funding (once again, alas!).

As already indicated, the welcome reception, the concert and the guided 
tour are not yet fully confirmed, still awaiting funding. We nevertheless 
ask that you indicate on the registration form whether you intend to 
participate in these events.

CONTACT
- organisers : aflico AT univ-lille3.fr
- secretary : emmanuelle.jablonski AT univ-lille3.fr


From lamb at rice.edu  Thu Jan 25 17:10:08 2007
From: lamb at rice.edu (Sydney Lamb)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:10:08 -0600
Subject: Conference: Speech and Beyond
Message-ID: <THU.25.JAN.2007.111008.0600.LAMB@RICE.EDU>

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: FEBRUARY TENTH

The 2007 annual meeting of LACUS will be held at Eastern Kentucky
University, Richmond, Kentucky (just South of Lexington), July 24-28.

Conference theme: "Speech and Beyond" (emphasis on "beyond"). The
venue relates to this theme, as eastern Kentucky is horse country.
The theme is intended to include animal communication, including
interspecies communication, especially between humans and animals.
An excursion is being planned to a demonstration of horse communication
(see LACUS website for further information).

Featured Speakers include:
   Linda Acredolo, UC Davis: Signing with Babies Before they can Talk:
     A Window into the Infant Mind
   Sidney Burrus, Rice University, The Book and Beyond
   Louis Herman, University of Hawaii: Linguistic and Cognitive Skills of
     Dolphins
   Sydney Lamb, Rice University: Varieties of Human and Animal Semiosis
     and their Neurocognitive Basis
   Irene Pepperburg, Harvard University and Brandeis University:
     Communicative and Cognitive Skills of African Gray Parrots

Contributions are welcomed on
   Human-animal communication
   Animal-animal communication
   Human communication in media other than speech and writing
   The uniqueness/nonuniqueness of human language
   Other aspects of communication (including spoken and written)

Further information is posted on the LACUS web site, at
www.rice.edu/lacus/ (click on "2007 Conference").


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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:29:07 +0100
Subject: Outstanding Academic Title: Atlas of North American English
Message-ID: <THU.25.JAN.2007.182907.0100.JULIA.ULRICH@DEGRUYTER.COM>

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From rls at rice.edu  Mon Jan 29 07:26:17 2007
From: rls at rice.edu (Rice Linguistics Society)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:26:17 -0600
Subject: Rice Linguistics Society Workshop - Feb 3-4
Message-ID: <MON.29.JAN.2007.012617.0600.RLS@RICE.EDU>

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Next weekend, February 3-4, the Rice Linguistics Society (a student-run
organization at Rice University) will host "Structuring Language: Cultural,
Cognitive, and Theoretical Perspectives." The primary objective of this
workshop is to bring together linguistics grads in Texas (and the
south/southwest more generally) for an informal conference-style discussion of
their current research.

The workshop will be held in Room 117 of the Humanities Building (#31, viewable
at www.rice.edu/maps.maps.html) on the Rice campus. Free parking is available
in the Greenbriar Lot, which is accessible from entrances 13A and 13B.
Alternatively, there is paid parking that is somewhat closer in the Founder?s
Lot ($9 for daily parking; see campus maps webpage for the location of the
parking lots and campus entrances). There is no registration fee, and
attendance is open to everyone.

The first session will begin at 9:30am each morning, preceded by registration
(for nametags) and coffee. There will be talks all day Saturday, and on Sunday
the workshop will end at 1:00pm.

In the next few days a detailed schedule will be made available on the
departmental website. As soon as the schedule's up, I'll send around a link.

All the best,

Chris Taylor
RLS President


From lilianguerrero at yahoo.com  Wed Jan 31 22:06:16 2007
From: lilianguerrero at yahoo.com (Lilian Guerrero)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:06:16 -0800
Subject: RRG 2007 First Call
Message-ID: <WED.31.JAN.2007.140616.0800.LILIANGUERRERO@YAHOO.COM>

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First Announcement

THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL COURSE AND CONFERENCE ON ROLE
AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR

Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico, M?xico City,
August 6-10, 2007

The annual International Course and Conference on Role
and Reference Grammar (RRG) will be hosted by the
Instituto de Investigaciones Filol?gicas, at the
Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico, in M?xico
City, 6-10 August, 2007. The international Conference
will be preceded by two-day (course) workshops. The
Conference will stage papers and plenary sessions. 

Keynote Speakers

JOHANNA NICHOLS
University of California, Berkeley

JOSE MARIA GARCIA-MIGUEL 				
Universidade de Vigo

MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN
University of Chicago			          

DANIEL EVERETT
Illinois State University 

RICARDO MALDONADO
Universidad de Quer?taro,
Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico

ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. 			                
Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf,
University at Buffalo

The 2007 Conference will deal with issues in
linguistic theory in its wider discursive, cognitive
and typological perspective. Papers dealing with
further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology,
syntax, semantics, information structure, as well as
language processing are encouraged.  The workshops
will include lecture sessions at three levels:
introductory, graduate and specialized. The
introductory and graduate sessions will be taught in
Spanish and will provide the basics and core
theoretical principles of RRG for those not yet
acquainted with the theory. The specialized workshops
will deal with advanced topics on RRG, and will be
presented by RRG specialists.

Abstracts must be received electronically by March 31,
2007 at 2007RRG at gmail.com. Abstracts should be no
longer than two pages, including data and references,
and must be submitted as Word documents (a PDF version
is also required if special characters are included).
The abstracts should be anonymous. The email message
must include the following information: author?s
name(s), affiliation, email address, and title of
abstract. The selection of papers for presentation
will have been communicated by May 1, 2007. The talks
will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten
minutes for discussion.

Further information including registration fee,
travel, accommodation, social events, will be on the
Conference website at
http://www.filologicas.unam.mx/2007rrg.html.

Organizing Committee: Lili?n Guerrero, Sergio Ib??ez,
Paulette Levy, Chantal Melis, Cecilia Rojas, Ma.
?ngeles Soler (Instituto de Investigaciones
Filol?gicas, Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico);
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t
D?sseldorf,  University at Buffalo), and Daniel
Everett (Illinois State University).



Lili?n Guerrero
Seminario de Lenguas Ind?genas
Instituto de Investigaciones Filol?gicas
Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico
Circuito Mario de la Cueva
Ciudad Universitaria, 04510
M?xico, D.F.
Tlf. +52-(55)-5622-7489
Fax: +52-(55)-5622-7496


 
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