From pakendorf at eva.mpg.de Mon Dec 1 09:04:02 2008 From: pakendorf at eva.mpg.de (Brigitte Pakendorf) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:04:02 +0100 Subject: Post-doctoral position in ‘Khoisan ’ Documentation and Contact Linguistics Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. One post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in the Kalahari Basin with a particular focus on the underdocumented language ǂHoan; this will potentially involve close collaboration with a molecular anthropological project dealing with ‘Khoisan’ peoples. The project is planned as part of a broader collaborative interdisciplinary project on the ‘Kalahari Basin Area: A ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction’, for which a funding application is still pending; however, the ǂHoan contact project will be pursued regardless of the outcome of that application. Applicants are required to hold a PhD degree or at least to have submitted their PhD thesis at the time the project starts. Prior experience with linguistic fieldwork is imperative, familiarity with ‘Khoisan’ languages is highly desirable, and an interest in interdisciplinary research is important. The position will be available for an initial period of two years, with a possibility of extension for up to 12 more months. The Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics is an interdisciplinary group consisting of linguists, molecular anthropologists, and a social anthropologist devoted to the study of prehistoric language and population contact. Additional information can be found at our webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ The group is tied in with the Department of Linguistics at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, which has a strong focus on functional-typological research as well as on fieldwork-based language description; see http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/. The ǂHoan contact project will be conducted in close collaboration with two other projects on ‘Khoisan’ languages carried out at the MPI-EVA; see http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/taa/project and http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=131. Interested individuals should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of their writing, and the names and e-mail addresses of two referees to Brigitte Pakendorf by e-mail (pakendorf at eva.mpg.de ). In addition, they should arrange for the letters of reference to be sent directly to Brigitte Pakendorf. The deadline for applications is December 31st, 2008, and the position will ideally be filled soon after that; however, the exact starting date is negotiable. For further information, please contact Brigitte Pakendorf. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer. -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf (Ph.D. Molecular Anthropology, Ph.D. Linguistics) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 phone +49 (0) 341 35 50 308 D-04103 Leipzig fax +49 (0) 341 35 50 333 Germany e-mail pakendorf at eva.mpg.de http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ ************************************************************************ From Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se Wed Dec 3 23:49:24 2008 From: Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:49:24 +0100 Subject: SALC2009, Final call for papers (deadline 15/12) Message-ID: With apologies for multiple postings ****************************************************************** Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition SALC June 10-12, 2009 Arranged by the Departments of English, Scandinavian Languages, and General Linguistics, Stockholm University Final call for papers (abstract submission deadline Dec. 15, 2008) We are pleased to announce the second SALC conference, SALC-2009, where we hope to bring together researchers from within all areas of language and cognition studies in Sweden and internationally. We welcome discussions on a wide variety of issues within the general area of language and cognition, and with particular focus on the areas of cognitive linguistic approaches to language acquisition and the contributions of psycholinguistics to linguistic theory. We are very pleased to announce our plenary speakers for the conference: * Elizabeth C. Traugott, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and English at Stanford University * Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Professor of General Linguistics at Stockholm University. * Niclas Abrahamsson, Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University. * Daniel Casasanto, Senior Scientific Staff at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations for the "Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) / Svenska Sällskapet för Språk och Kognition (SSSK)" to be held at Stockholm University between June 10th and 12th, 2009. Presentations should involve research based on structures and processes of general cognition (e.g. perception, memory and reasoning) and social cognition (e.g. joint attention and imitation), and as affecting such structures and processes. The conference,as SALC in general, is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas between disciplines, fields of study and theoretical frameworks. Topics include, but are not limited to: * psycholinguistic approaches to language and cognition * language acquisition/use and cognition * language structure and cognition * language and cognitive development and evolution * language change and cognition * language and gesture * language and consciousness * linguistic typology and cognition * linguistic relativity In addition, there are currently five theme sessions (see the attached file call themes for full description) 1. Language, Consciousness and Semiosis. Coordinators: Jordan Zlatev and Göran Sonesson, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. 2. The function of negation in verbal and nonverbal communication. Coordinators Rachel Giora, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Carita Paradis, School of Humanities, Växjö University, Sweden. 3. Interfaces of Language and Vision. Coordinator: Pirita Pyykkönen, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland. 4. Cognition and Second Language Use. Coordinator: Alan McMillion, Department of English,Stockholm University, Sweden. 5. When a Word Makes a World. Coordinator: Tetyana Lunyova, English Philology Department, Poltava State Pedagogical University, Ukraine. The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2008. Please send two copies of your abstract in English of about 400 words (excluding references) to SALC2009 at english.su.se , with your name and affiliation written under the title in one copy; one copy must remain anonymous. Presentations should last 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. After the process of peer-revision, e-mail notifications will be sent out by March 1, 2009. Conference fees: * 50 Euros for faculty SALC members, * 70 Euros for faculty non-members * 40 Euros for student SALC members * 50 Euros for student non-members The annual SALC membership is 15 Euros for faculty and 10 Euros for students. There will be a conference dinner for a cost of 40 Euros. Registration and payments can be made on-line at http://www.salc-sssk.org/salc09/ From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr Tue Dec 9 12:37:39 2008 From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:37:39 +0100 Subject: JOB: Tenure track (E)SL, Lille, France Message-ID: LECTURER POSITION ESL LILLE, FRANCE – *DEADLINE Dec. 22, 2008* Pending approval by the university authorities, a tenure track position will open up in 2009 at the University of Lille, France (www.univ-lille3.fr) for a lecturer ("mâitre de conférences" or MCF) with an *ESL profile* (English as a Second Language or in French "LANSAD" = "Langues pour des Spécialistes d'Autres Disciplines"). Candidates who are interested in this positions are asked to contact Maarten Lemmens (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr) *as soon as possible*. He can also provide you with more information should that be desired. SUMMARY DESCRIPTION The successful candidate has worked within field of Second Language Acquisition (preferably applied to English) and/or have demonstrated expertise in this domain, through quality publications and/or solid teaching experience. The candidate will engage in the further expansion of the ESL teaching and research group at the Université Lille 3 and be asked the become the coordinator for ESL in the university. He/she will also be responsible for the guidance of the teaching assistants. REQUIREMENTS 1) DEGREE The candidate must hold a PhD, or be sure to have a PhD in hand by December 10, 2008 at the latest, preferably in the field of (English) SLA. 2) PROCEDURE Candidates who want to apply MUST go through an evaluation first (called "qualification"), which is independent of the final job application. Once "qualified", you can apply for any job in France for which the level of qualification (MCF/ or PR) holds. Deadline for submission for the "qualification" is December 22, 2008, 16h. (Paris time) and should be done using the on-line platform ANTARES (see http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr, click on "Concours, emploi et carrières", then "eseignant-chercheurs" (on the left) for more info; to acces the on-line platform, choose "Galaxie" (or go directly to "ANTARES"). Initially, there is no requirement that candidates speak French fluently, but it is necessary that they at least have a sufficient knowledge to understand the procedures. The successful candidate must be authorized to work legally in France by Sept. 1, 2009, the start date of the positions. TEACHING Normal teaching load is about 7 hours per week (2 terms of 13 weeks) and for this position concerns English classes for non-specialists (ESP) exclusively (undergraduate level). Hiring will be done at the level of "Maître de Conférences" with a monthly salary scale ranging from 2,058 to 3,722 (before taxes and withholdings), depending on the number of years of experience at MCF level (i.e. most positions for which a PhD is required). -- Den bästa taktiken är inte alltid att hålla sig upprätt, utan att lära sig falla mjukt" (Kajsa Ingemarsson, "Små citroner gula", p. 292) -- Maarten (=Martin) Lemmens Professeur en linguistique et didactique des langues (Spécialités: linguistique anglaise & linguistique cognitive) Université Lille 3, B.P. 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens Président de l'Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/ Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes" http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/cognitextes/ Board member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.cogling.org/ -- From pakendorf at eva.mpg.de Thu Dec 11 11:26:04 2008 From: pakendorf at eva.mpg.de (Brigitte Pakendorf) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:26:04 +0100 Subject: post-doctoral position available Message-ID: My apologies for multiple postings *Post-doctoral position in Melanesian Contact Linguistics* One post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in Melanesia (here understood as encompassing all areas where Non-Austronesian languages are spoken, including Indonesia). The choice of the location and linguistic details of the project are up to the candidate to decide, but the project should be fieldwork-based and ideally involve contact between Non-Austronesian and Austronesian languages. Projects including a sociolinguistic component are very welcome. The Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics is an interdisciplinary group consisting of linguists, molecular anthropologists, and a social anthropologist devoted to the study of prehistoric language and population contact. Additional information can be found at our webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ The group is tied in with the Department of Linguistics at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, which has a strong focus on functional-typological research as well as on fieldwork-based language description; see http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/. Applicants are required to hold a PhD degree or at least to have submitted their PhD thesis at the time the project starts. Prior experience with linguistic fieldwork is imperative, familiarity with languages of Melanesia is highly desirable, and an interest in interdisciplinary research is important. The position will be available for an initial period of two years, with a possibility of extension. Interested individuals should send a letter of application, description of the proposed research project, curriculum vitae, a sample of their writing, and the names and e-mail addresses of two referees to Brigitte Pakendorf by e-mail (pakendorf at eva.mpg.de ). In addition, they should arrange for the letters of reference to be sent directly to Brigitte Pakendorf. The deadline for applications is January 10th, 2009, and the position will ideally be filled soon after that; however, the exact starting date is negotiable. For further information, please contact Brigitte Pakendorf. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer. -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf (Ph.D. Molecular Anthropology, Ph.D. Linguistics) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 phone +49 (0) 341 35 50 308 D-04103 Leipzig fax +49 (0) 341 35 50 333 Germany e-mail pakendorf at eva.mpg.de http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ ************************************************************************ From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Dec 17 13:51:16 2008 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:51:16 -0400 Subject: article inquiry Message-ID: Hi, I'm a new member to this listserve and wanted to ask if anyone is aware of a website that serves as a host for linguistic articles from a non-generative perspective...I'm wondering if there might be a sight akin to Lingbuzz or ROA, only dedicated to other approaches to linguistics. Thank you, Shannon Bischoff From lamb at rice.edu Wed Dec 17 18:07:21 2008 From: lamb at rice.edu (Sydney Lamb) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:07:21 -0600 Subject: LACUS 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: LACUS 2009 - Call for Papers The 2009 annual meeting of LACUS will be held July 28- August 1 at Pitzer College (one of the Claremont Colleges), Claremont, California. Conference theme: Mechanisms of Linguistic Behavior LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas. Featured Speakers: * Gregory Hickok, UC Irvine What is the nature of sensory-motor interaction in speech processing? Evidence from neuroscience * Sydney Lamb, Rice University Categories in the Brain: A Hypothesis * Ronald Langaker, UC San Diego Conceptual Semantics, Symbolic Grammar, and the day after day Construction * William S-Y. Wang, UC Berkeley and Chinese University of Hong Kong Concepts, Percepts, and Languages Further information is posted at www.rice.edu/lacus/2009.html Due Date for Abstracts: January 31, 2009 Abstract Submission Guidelines are posted at http://lacus.org/wordpress/?page_id=16 Suggested topics The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive: Neurological mechanisms of linguistic behavior Psychological mechanisms of linguistic behavior Sociological mechanisms of linguistic behavior Language and thought Stratificational grammar Relational network grammar Computational linguistics Functional linguistics Cognitive linguistics Linguistics and the physical sciences The aims of linguistics Language and reality Program Chair: Douglas Coleman, Univerity of Toledo Local host: John Regan, Claremont Graduate University From haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Thu Dec 18 07:45:02 2008 From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:45:02 +0100 Subject: article archive In-Reply-To: <1c1f75a20812170551o53b08563o4456d319cbc2f4dd@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: It would be great if someone took the initiative to organize an archive that could be used by functional linguists as well. I think ideally there would be an article archive for all of linguistics, without restriction to a particular approach or sub-community. With a simple indexing system, it would be easy to narrow one's searches to particular topics, approaches or sub-communities. My colleague Michael Cysouw once approached arXiv.org (http://arxiv.org/), the leading e-print archive in physics and mathematics, but apparently they were not interested in opening up their system to linguistics. So we have to do it ourselves. The person who would do it would earn the eternal gratitude of the field, but I'm not sure what else. Martin s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new member to this listserve and wanted to ask if anyone is aware of a > website that serves as a host for linguistic articles from a non-generative > perspective...I'm wondering if there might be a sight akin to Lingbuzz or > ROA, only dedicated to other approaches to linguistics. > > Thank you, > Shannon Bischoff > -- Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) +49-341-980 1616 Glottopedia - the free encyclopedia of linguistics (http://www.glottopedia.org) From mark.turner at case.edu Thu Dec 18 16:19:33 2008 From: mark.turner at case.edu (Mark Turner) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:19:33 -0500 Subject: article archive In-Reply-To: <4949FF7E.3070703@eva.mpg.de> Message-ID: I am pleased to report that in some weeks, the Social Science Research Network will announce a new subnetwork, the Cognitive Science Network, which can serve this purpose. For an introduction, see http://case.edu/artsci/cogs/csnmov.html http://ssrn.com/csn and https://sites.google.com/a/case.edu/csnkeywords/ The 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language is already archived at http://hq.ssrn.com/Conference/Conf_Welcome.cfm?confid=1274045. To see the archive, one must register with http://ssrn.com. Registration is free. Authors retain copyright. It is always free to upload and search papers and to download papers authors have uploaded. My papers are available on CSN at http://ssrn.com/author=1058129 . By all means, upload your papers related to cognitive science. SSRN offers full search utilities. Enjoy! Very truly yours, Mark Turner Institute Professor and Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science Case Western Reserve University 607 Crawford Hall 10900 Euclid Avenue Case Western Reserve University Cleveland OH 44106 http://markturner.org 216-849-1223 ========= Consider uploading your papers to CSN, the Cognitive Science Network, at http://ssrn.com/csn. Authors retain copyright. It is always free to upload and search papers and to download papers authors have uploaded. My papers are available on CSN at http://ssrn.com/author=1058129 . On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:45 AM, Martin Haspelmath wrote: > It would be great if someone took the initiative to organize an > archive that could be used by functional linguists as well. I think > ideally there would be an article archive for all of linguistics, > without restriction to a particular approach or sub-community. With > a simple indexing system, it would be easy to narrow one's searches > to particular topics, approaches or sub-communities. > > My colleague Michael Cysouw once approached arXiv.org (http://arxiv.org/ > ), the leading e-print archive in physics and mathematics, but > apparently they were not interested in opening up their system to > linguistics. So we have to do it ourselves. > > The person who would do it would earn the eternal gratitude of the > field, but I'm not sure what else. > > Martin > > s.t. bischoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a new member to this listserve and wanted to ask if anyone is >> aware of a >> website that serves as a host for linguistic articles from a non- >> generative >> perspective...I'm wondering if there might be a sight akin to >> Lingbuzz or >> ROA, only dedicated to other approaches to linguistics. >> >> Thank you, >> Shannon Bischoff >> > -- > Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) > Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher > Platz 6 > D-04103 Leipzig Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) > +49-341-980 1616 > > Glottopedia - the free encyclopedia of linguistics > (http://www.glottopedia.org) > > > > > From vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr Fri Dec 19 18:39:10 2008 From: vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr (Alice Vittrant) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:39:10 +0100 Subject: Conference on South East Asian Languages Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS First CONFERENCE ON SOUTH EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES 17-19 DECEMBER 2009 CLI, CELOM/INALCO, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, FRANCE Deadline for submission of abstract : June 15, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Call for papers Conference on South East Asian Languages Initiated by the CLI, the CERLOM (INALCO, Paris) and the Formal Linguistics laboratory (UMR 7110, Université Paris Diderot) an international conference on South East Asian languages will be held in Paris on December 2009 the 17th, 18th and 19th . This conference will be organized into two parts : A. A thematic session, dedicated to the serial constructions B. A general session, that will gather communications addressing the syntax, semantics, as well as the (morpho-)phonology and phonetics of these languages in either a synchronic or diachronic perspective. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE : M. Antelme (INaLCO), Ch. Bauer (Univ. Humboldt, Berlin), W. Bisang (Univ. Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz), G. Delouche (INALCO), Ph. Grangé (Univ. La Rochelle), M. Jenny (Univ. de Zürich), D. Paillard (Univ. Paris Diderot), G. Steinhauer (Univ. de Leyden), D. Thach (INALCO / URBA (Phnom Penh), A. Vittrant (Univ. d’Aix en Provence), J. Watkins (SOAS, Univ. of London) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: D. Thach (INaLCO) / D. Paillard (Univ. Paris Diderot) email : Proposals for papers should be sent in an anonymous abstract of less than two pages, including examples and bibliography, written either in English or French, in view of a 35 minutes communication (plus 10 minutes for discussion) They should reach the organization comittee before 2009 June the 15th at The e-mail will show the name of the first author as the object of the message, followed by the word « abstract » (e.g., ‘Dupont abstract’) and the message will quote the authors’ name, institutional affiliation and address together with the title of the abstract. The abstract will be anonymous, and attached under the Word or PDF format. An author may submit one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one author should be designated as the contact person. Answer : 2009, September the 15th Languages : French or English ---------- Appel à communications Conférence sur les langues d’Asie du Sud Est A l’initiative du CLI et du CERLOM (INALCO, Paris) et du Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (UMR 7110, Université Paris Diderot) une conférence internationale sur les langues d’Asie du Sud Est se tiendra à Paris les 17, 18 et 19 décembre 2009 Cette conférence est organisée en deux parties : A. Session thématique consacrée aux constructions sérielles ; B. Session générale qui accueillera des communications portant sur la syntaxe, la sémantique mais aussi la (morpho-)phonologie et la phonétique de ces langues dans une perspective synchronique ou diachronique Comité Scientifique : M. Antelme (INaLCO), Ch. Bauer (Univ. Humboldt, Berlin), W. Bisang (Univ. Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz), G. Delouche (INALCO), Ph. Grangé (Univ. La Rochelle), M. Jenny (Univ. de Zürich), D. Paillard (Univ. Paris Diderot), G. Steinhauer (Univ. de Leyden), D. Thach (INALCO / URBA (Phnom Penh), A. Vittrant (Univ. d’Aix en Provence), J. Watkins (SOAS, Univ. of London) Comité d’organisation : D. Thach (INaLCO) / D. Paillard (Univ. Paris Diderot) Adresse email : Soumission d’une communication. Nous invitons toutes les personnes intéressées à soumettre des résumés pour une présentation de 35 minutes (plus dix minutes de discussion). Les résumés doivent être anonymes. Ils ne doivent pas dépasser deux pages, exemples et indications bibliographiques inclus. Les résumés peuvent être en français ou en anglais. Un auteur peut soumettre une proposition individuelle et une proposition avec un co-auteur. Dans ce second cas un des auteurs doit être désignée comme la personne à contacter. Les résumés sont à envoyer par courrier électronique, de façon anonyme, à l’adresse au plus tard le 15 juin 2009. Envoyer le résumé sans mention des auteurs en pièce jointe (au format Word ou PDF), et indiquez dans la rubrique ’objet’ le nom du premier auteur suivi du mot ’abstract’ (e.g., ’Dupont abstract’).Veuillez inscrire dans le corps du message les coordonnées des auteurs (nom, affiliation, adresse) et le titre du résumé. Réponse : 15 septembre 2009 Langues de communication : français, anglais. ------------------- Alice Vittrant Université de Provence CNRS-LACITO vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr From mark.turner at case.edu Wed Dec 24 18:09:29 2008 From: mark.turner at case.edu (Mark Turner) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:09:29 -0500 Subject: article archive Message-ID: In response to Martin Haspelmath's posting, I am pleased to report that in some weeks, the Social Science Research Network will announce a new subnetwork, the Cognitive Science Network, which will provide the means to archive articles. For an introduction, see http://case.edu/artsci/cogs/csnmov.html http://ssrn.com/csn and https://sites.google.com/a/case.edu/csnkeywords/ The 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language is already archived at http://hq.ssrn.com/Conference/Conf_Welcome.cfm?confid=1274045. To see the archive, one must register with http://ssrn.com. Registration is free. Authors retain copyright. It is always free to upload and search papers and to download papers authors have uploaded. My papers are available on CSN at http://ssrn.com/author=1058129 . By all means, upload your papers related to cognitive science. SSRN offers full search utilities. Enjoy! Very truly yours, Mark Turner Institute Professor and Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science Case Western Reserve University 607 Crawford Hall 10900 Euclid Avenue Case Western Reserve University Cleveland OH 44106 http://markturner.org 216-849-1223 ========= Consider uploading your papers to CSN, the Cognitive Science Network, at http://ssrn.com/csn. Authors retain copyright. It is always free to upload and search papers and to download papers authors have uploaded. My papers are available on CSN at http://ssrn.com/author=1058129 . On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:45 AM, Martin Haspelmath wrote: > It would be great if someone took the initiative to organize an > archive that could be used by functional linguists as well. I think > ideally there would be an article archive for all of linguistics, > without restriction to a particular approach or sub-community. With > a simple indexing system, it would be easy to narrow one's searches > to particular topics, approaches or sub-communities. > > My colleague Michael Cysouw once approached arXiv.org (http://arxiv.org/ > ), the leading e-print archive in physics and mathematics, but > apparently they were not interested in opening up their system to > linguistics. So we have to do it ourselves. > > The person who would do it would earn the eternal gratitude of the > field, but I'm not sure what else. > > Martin > > s.t. bischoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a new member to this listserve and wanted to ask if anyone is >> aware of a >> website that serves as a host for linguistic articles from a non- >> generative >> perspective...I'm wondering if there might be a sight akin to >> Lingbuzz or >> ROA, only dedicated to other approaches to linguistics. >> >> Thank you, >> Shannon Bischoff >> > -- > Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) > Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher > Platz 6 > D-04103 Leipzig Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) > +49-341-980 1616 > > Glottopedia - the free encyclopedia of linguistics > (http://www.glottopedia.org) > > > > > From ttrogers at wisc.edu Mon Dec 29 20:00:36 2008 From: ttrogers at wisc.edu (Tim Rogers) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:00:36 -0600 Subject: 31ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY Message-ID: The Cognitive Science Society is pleased to announce its 31st Annual Conference. The Society brings together researchers from many fields that hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind. The Society promotes scientific exchange among researchers in disciplines comprising the field of Cognitive Science, including Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, Education, Linguistics, Machine Learning, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Psychology. The conference will be held in Amsterdam, at the Free University, from Wednesday, July 29th to Saturday, August 1st (Wednesday, July 29th, is a day of tutorials and workshops). The conference produces a digital proceedings of all papers and posters. All sessions will be accessible for those with disabilities. The submission deadline is February 1, 2009. For more information, visit the conference website at: http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2009/index.html. In recent years The Society has continued its tradition of hosting symposia, workshops and conference streams featuring cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research presented by leading scientists. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, topics included: Psychocomputational models of language acquisition; How language affects thought; Integrating human and machine vision; Complex systems and the cognitive sciences; Cognitive science of games and gameplay; Cultural impacts on cognition ; Statistical learning in language, vision, and comparative cognition; Situated and embodied cognition; Building and evaluating models of human-level intelligence; and many more. Tutorial sessions have included: Computational models of spoken language processing, Embodied cognition and robotics, Cognitive science in the design of graphical images and interfaces, Computational cognitive neuroscience modeling using LEABRA in pdp++, Bayesian models of inductive learning, ACT-R, SOAR, Quantum information processing theory, and many more; and plenary speakers in the last three years have included John Anderson, Jeff Elman, Walter Kintsch, Jay McClelland, John Laird, David Plaut, Shimon Ullman, and other scientists whose work spans cognition, computation, language, and neuroscience. The 2009 program promises to be similarly diverse! The 31st Annual Conference will feature three plenary speakers, Joshua Tenenbaum, Randall O'Reilly and Nicola Clayton. In addition, we will announce the 2009 Rumelhart Prize winner, Susan Carey, and the winner of the Heineken 2008 prize, Stanislas Dehaene. Amsterdam is the capital of The Netherlands, and its largest city. Incorporated in the 14th century, Amsterdam is a liberal and vibrant city, rich with historical attractions, natural beauty, a multitude of shops and restaurants, and a thriving nightlife. Take an evening canal tour and see the enchanting lights of the beautifully illuminated bridges and canal houses; visit The Hague; see the vast collection of classic Dutch art at the Rijksmuseum; and explore the labyrinthine “Red Light” district. Amsterdam is also one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world and also boasts an excellent public transportation system. From pakendorf at eva.mpg.de Mon Dec 1 09:04:02 2008 From: pakendorf at eva.mpg.de (Brigitte Pakendorf) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 10:04:02 +0100 Subject: Post-doctoral position in ‘Khoisan ’ Documentation and Contact Linguistics Message-ID: Apologies for multiple postings. One post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in the Kalahari Basin with a particular focus on the underdocumented language ?Hoan; this will potentially involve close collaboration with a molecular anthropological project dealing with ?Khoisan? peoples. The project is planned as part of a broader collaborative interdisciplinary project on the ?Kalahari Basin Area: A ?Sprachbund? on the verge of extinction?, for which a funding application is still pending; however, the ?Hoan contact project will be pursued regardless of the outcome of that application. Applicants are required to hold a PhD degree or at least to have submitted their PhD thesis at the time the project starts. Prior experience with linguistic fieldwork is imperative, familiarity with ?Khoisan? languages is highly desirable, and an interest in interdisciplinary research is important. The position will be available for an initial period of two years, with a possibility of extension for up to 12 more months. The Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics is an interdisciplinary group consisting of linguists, molecular anthropologists, and a social anthropologist devoted to the study of prehistoric language and population contact. Additional information can be found at our webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ The group is tied in with the Department of Linguistics at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, which has a strong focus on functional-typological research as well as on fieldwork-based language description; see http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/. The ?Hoan contact project will be conducted in close collaboration with two other projects on ?Khoisan? languages carried out at the MPI-EVA; see http://www.mpi.nl/DOBES/projects/taa/project and http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=131. Interested individuals should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of their writing, and the names and e-mail addresses of two referees to Brigitte Pakendorf by e-mail (pakendorf at eva.mpg.de ). In addition, they should arrange for the letters of reference to be sent directly to Brigitte Pakendorf. The deadline for applications is December 31st, 2008, and the position will ideally be filled soon after that; however, the exact starting date is negotiable. For further information, please contact Brigitte Pakendorf. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer. -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf (Ph.D. Molecular Anthropology, Ph.D. Linguistics) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 phone +49 (0) 341 35 50 308 D-04103 Leipzig fax +49 (0) 341 35 50 333 Germany e-mail pakendorf at eva.mpg.de http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ ************************************************************************ From Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se Wed Dec 3 23:49:24 2008 From: Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 00:49:24 +0100 Subject: SALC2009, Final call for papers (deadline 15/12) Message-ID: With apologies for multiple postings ****************************************************************** Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition SALC June 10-12, 2009 Arranged by the Departments of English, Scandinavian Languages, and General Linguistics, Stockholm University Final call for papers (abstract submission deadline Dec. 15, 2008) We are pleased to announce the second SALC conference, SALC-2009, where we hope to bring together researchers from within all areas of language and cognition studies in Sweden and internationally. We welcome discussions on a wide variety of issues within the general area of language and cognition, and with particular focus on the areas of cognitive linguistic approaches to language acquisition and the contributions of psycholinguistics to linguistic theory. We are very pleased to announce our plenary speakers for the conference: * Elizabeth C. Traugott, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and English at Stanford University * Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Professor of General Linguistics at Stockholm University. * Niclas Abrahamsson, Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University. * Daniel Casasanto, Senior Scientific Staff at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations for the "Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) / Svenska S?llskapet f?r Spr?k och Kognition (SSSK)" to be held at Stockholm University between June 10th and 12th, 2009. Presentations should involve research based on structures and processes of general cognition (e.g. perception, memory and reasoning) and social cognition (e.g. joint attention and imitation), and as affecting such structures and processes. The conference,as SALC in general, is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas between disciplines, fields of study and theoretical frameworks. Topics include, but are not limited to: * psycholinguistic approaches to language and cognition * language acquisition/use and cognition * language structure and cognition * language and cognitive development and evolution * language change and cognition * language and gesture * language and consciousness * linguistic typology and cognition * linguistic relativity In addition, there are currently five theme sessions (see the attached file call themes for full description) 1. Language, Consciousness and Semiosis. Coordinators: Jordan Zlatev and G?ran Sonesson, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. 2. The function of negation in verbal and nonverbal communication. Coordinators Rachel Giora, Department of Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Carita Paradis, School of Humanities, V?xj? University, Sweden. 3. Interfaces of Language and Vision. Coordinator: Pirita Pyykk?nen, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland. 4. Cognition and Second Language Use. Coordinator: Alan McMillion, Department of English,Stockholm University, Sweden. 5. When a Word Makes a World. Coordinator: Tetyana Lunyova, English Philology Department, Poltava State Pedagogical University, Ukraine. The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2008. Please send two copies of your abstract in English of about 400 words (excluding references) to SALC2009 at english.su.se , with your name and affiliation written under the title in one copy; one copy must remain anonymous. Presentations should last 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. After the process of peer-revision, e-mail notifications will be sent out by March 1, 2009. Conference fees: * 50 Euros for faculty SALC members, * 70 Euros for faculty non-members * 40 Euros for student SALC members * 50 Euros for student non-members The annual SALC membership is 15 Euros for faculty and 10 Euros for students. There will be a conference dinner for a cost of 40 Euros. Registration and payments can be made on-line at http://www.salc-sssk.org/salc09/ From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr Tue Dec 9 12:37:39 2008 From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:37:39 +0100 Subject: JOB: Tenure track (E)SL, Lille, France Message-ID: LECTURER POSITION ESL LILLE, FRANCE ? *DEADLINE Dec. 22, 2008* Pending approval by the university authorities, a tenure track position will open up in 2009 at the University of Lille, France (www.univ-lille3.fr) for a lecturer ("m?itre de conf?rences" or MCF) with an *ESL profile* (English as a Second Language or in French "LANSAD" = "Langues pour des Sp?cialistes d'Autres Disciplines"). Candidates who are interested in this positions are asked to contact Maarten Lemmens (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr) *as soon as possible*. He can also provide you with more information should that be desired. SUMMARY DESCRIPTION The successful candidate has worked within field of Second Language Acquisition (preferably applied to English) and/or have demonstrated expertise in this domain, through quality publications and/or solid teaching experience. The candidate will engage in the further expansion of the ESL teaching and research group at the Universit? Lille 3 and be asked the become the coordinator for ESL in the university. He/she will also be responsible for the guidance of the teaching assistants. REQUIREMENTS 1) DEGREE The candidate must hold a PhD, or be sure to have a PhD in hand by December 10, 2008 at the latest, preferably in the field of (English) SLA. 2) PROCEDURE Candidates who want to apply MUST go through an evaluation first (called "qualification"), which is independent of the final job application. Once "qualified", you can apply for any job in France for which the level of qualification (MCF/ or PR) holds. Deadline for submission for the "qualification" is December 22, 2008, 16h. (Paris time) and should be done using the on-line platform ANTARES (see http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr, click on "Concours, emploi et carri?res", then "eseignant-chercheurs" (on the left) for more info; to acces the on-line platform, choose "Galaxie" (or go directly to "ANTARES"). Initially, there is no requirement that candidates speak French fluently, but it is necessary that they at least have a sufficient knowledge to understand the procedures. The successful candidate must be authorized to work legally in France by Sept. 1, 2009, the start date of the positions. TEACHING Normal teaching load is about 7 hours per week (2 terms of 13 weeks) and for this position concerns English classes for non-specialists (ESP) exclusively (undergraduate level). Hiring will be done at the level of "Ma?tre de Conf?rences" with a monthly salary scale ranging from 2,058 to 3,722 (before taxes and withholdings), depending on the number of years of experience at MCF level (i.e. most positions for which a PhD is required). -- Den b?sta taktiken ?r inte alltid att h?lla sig uppr?tt, utan att l?ra sig falla mjukt" (Kajsa Ingemarsson, "Sm? citroner gula", p. 292) -- Maarten (=Martin) Lemmens Professeur en linguistique et didactique des langues (Sp?cialit?s: linguistique anglaise & linguistique cognitive) Universit? Lille 3, B.P. 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens Pr?sident de l'Association Fran?aise de Linguistique Cognitive http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/ Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes" http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/cognitextes/ Board member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.cogling.org/ -- From pakendorf at eva.mpg.de Thu Dec 11 11:26:04 2008 From: pakendorf at eva.mpg.de (Brigitte Pakendorf) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:26:04 +0100 Subject: post-doctoral position available Message-ID: My apologies for multiple postings *Post-doctoral position in Melanesian Contact Linguistics* One post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in Melanesia (here understood as encompassing all areas where Non-Austronesian languages are spoken, including Indonesia). The choice of the location and linguistic details of the project are up to the candidate to decide, but the project should be fieldwork-based and ideally involve contact between Non-Austronesian and Austronesian languages. Projects including a sociolinguistic component are very welcome. The Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics is an interdisciplinary group consisting of linguists, molecular anthropologists, and a social anthropologist devoted to the study of prehistoric language and population contact. Additional information can be found at our webpage: http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ The group is tied in with the Department of Linguistics at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, which has a strong focus on functional-typological research as well as on fieldwork-based language description; see http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/. Applicants are required to hold a PhD degree or at least to have submitted their PhD thesis at the time the project starts. Prior experience with linguistic fieldwork is imperative, familiarity with languages of Melanesia is highly desirable, and an interest in interdisciplinary research is important. The position will be available for an initial period of two years, with a possibility of extension. Interested individuals should send a letter of application, description of the proposed research project, curriculum vitae, a sample of their writing, and the names and e-mail addresses of two referees to Brigitte Pakendorf by e-mail (pakendorf at eva.mpg.de ). In addition, they should arrange for the letters of reference to be sent directly to Brigitte Pakendorf. The deadline for applications is January 10th, 2009, and the position will ideally be filled soon after that; however, the exact starting date is negotiable. For further information, please contact Brigitte Pakendorf. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer. -- ************************************************************************ Dr. Dr. Brigitte Pakendorf (Ph.D. Molecular Anthropology, Ph.D. Linguistics) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 phone +49 (0) 341 35 50 308 D-04103 Leipzig fax +49 (0) 341 35 50 333 Germany e-mail pakendorf at eva.mpg.de http://www.eva.mpg.de/cpl/ ************************************************************************ From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Dec 17 13:51:16 2008 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:51:16 -0400 Subject: article inquiry Message-ID: Hi, I'm a new member to this listserve and wanted to ask if anyone is aware of a website that serves as a host for linguistic articles from a non-generative perspective...I'm wondering if there might be a sight akin to Lingbuzz or ROA, only dedicated to other approaches to linguistics. Thank you, Shannon Bischoff From lamb at rice.edu Wed Dec 17 18:07:21 2008 From: lamb at rice.edu (Sydney Lamb) Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:07:21 -0600 Subject: LACUS 2009 Call for Papers Message-ID: LACUS 2009 - Call for Papers The 2009 annual meeting of LACUS will be held July 28- August 1 at Pitzer College (one of the Claremont Colleges), Claremont, California. Conference theme: Mechanisms of Linguistic Behavior LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas. Featured Speakers: * Gregory Hickok, UC Irvine What is the nature of sensory-motor interaction in speech processing? Evidence from neuroscience * Sydney Lamb, Rice University Categories in the Brain: A Hypothesis * Ronald Langaker, UC San Diego Conceptual Semantics, Symbolic Grammar, and the day after day Construction * William S-Y. Wang, UC Berkeley and Chinese University of Hong Kong Concepts, Percepts, and Languages Further information is posted at www.rice.edu/lacus/2009.html Due Date for Abstracts: January 31, 2009 Abstract Submission Guidelines are posted at http://lacus.org/wordpress/?page_id=16 Suggested topics The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive: Neurological mechanisms of linguistic behavior Psychological mechanisms of linguistic behavior Sociological mechanisms of linguistic behavior Language and thought Stratificational grammar Relational network grammar Computational linguistics Functional linguistics Cognitive linguistics Linguistics and the physical sciences The aims of linguistics Language and reality Program Chair: Douglas Coleman, Univerity of Toledo Local host: John Regan, Claremont Graduate University From haspelmath at eva.mpg.de Thu Dec 18 07:45:02 2008 From: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de (Martin Haspelmath) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:45:02 +0100 Subject: article archive In-Reply-To: <1c1f75a20812170551o53b08563o4456d319cbc2f4dd@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: It would be great if someone took the initiative to organize an archive that could be used by functional linguists as well. I think ideally there would be an article archive for all of linguistics, without restriction to a particular approach or sub-community. With a simple indexing system, it would be easy to narrow one's searches to particular topics, approaches or sub-communities. My colleague Michael Cysouw once approached arXiv.org (http://arxiv.org/), the leading e-print archive in physics and mathematics, but apparently they were not interested in opening up their system to linguistics. So we have to do it ourselves. The person who would do it would earn the eternal gratitude of the field, but I'm not sure what else. Martin s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new member to this listserve and wanted to ask if anyone is aware of a > website that serves as a host for linguistic articles from a non-generative > perspective...I'm wondering if there might be a sight akin to Lingbuzz or > ROA, only dedicated to other approaches to linguistics. > > Thank you, > Shannon Bischoff > -- Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) +49-341-980 1616 Glottopedia - the free encyclopedia of linguistics (http://www.glottopedia.org) From mark.turner at case.edu Thu Dec 18 16:19:33 2008 From: mark.turner at case.edu (Mark Turner) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:19:33 -0500 Subject: article archive In-Reply-To: <4949FF7E.3070703@eva.mpg.de> Message-ID: I am pleased to report that in some weeks, the Social Science Research Network will announce a new subnetwork, the Cognitive Science Network, which can serve this purpose. For an introduction, see http://case.edu/artsci/cogs/csnmov.html http://ssrn.com/csn and https://sites.google.com/a/case.edu/csnkeywords/ The 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language is already archived at http://hq.ssrn.com/Conference/Conf_Welcome.cfm?confid=1274045. To see the archive, one must register with http://ssrn.com. Registration is free. Authors retain copyright. It is always free to upload and search papers and to download papers authors have uploaded. My papers are available on CSN at http://ssrn.com/author=1058129 . By all means, upload your papers related to cognitive science. SSRN offers full search utilities. Enjoy! Very truly yours, Mark Turner Institute Professor and Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science Case Western Reserve University 607 Crawford Hall 10900 Euclid Avenue Case Western Reserve University Cleveland OH 44106 http://markturner.org 216-849-1223 ========= Consider uploading your papers to CSN, the Cognitive Science Network, at http://ssrn.com/csn. Authors retain copyright. It is always free to upload and search papers and to download papers authors have uploaded. My papers are available on CSN at http://ssrn.com/author=1058129 . On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:45 AM, Martin Haspelmath wrote: > It would be great if someone took the initiative to organize an > archive that could be used by functional linguists as well. I think > ideally there would be an article archive for all of linguistics, > without restriction to a particular approach or sub-community. With > a simple indexing system, it would be easy to narrow one's searches > to particular topics, approaches or sub-communities. > > My colleague Michael Cysouw once approached arXiv.org (http://arxiv.org/ > ), the leading e-print archive in physics and mathematics, but > apparently they were not interested in opening up their system to > linguistics. So we have to do it ourselves. > > The person who would do it would earn the eternal gratitude of the > field, but I'm not sure what else. > > Martin > > s.t. bischoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a new member to this listserve and wanted to ask if anyone is >> aware of a >> website that serves as a host for linguistic articles from a non- >> generative >> perspective...I'm wondering if there might be a sight akin to >> Lingbuzz or >> ROA, only dedicated to other approaches to linguistics. >> >> Thank you, >> Shannon Bischoff >> > -- > Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) > Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher > Platz 6 > D-04103 Leipzig Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) > +49-341-980 1616 > > Glottopedia - the free encyclopedia of linguistics > (http://www.glottopedia.org) > > > > > From vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr Fri Dec 19 18:39:10 2008 From: vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr (Alice Vittrant) Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:39:10 +0100 Subject: Conference on South East Asian Languages Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS First CONFERENCE ON SOUTH EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES 17-19 DECEMBER 2009 CLI, CELOM/INALCO, Universit? Paris Diderot, Paris, FRANCE Deadline for submission of abstract : June 15, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------- Call for papers Conference on South East Asian Languages Initiated by the CLI, the CERLOM (INALCO, Paris) and the Formal Linguistics laboratory (UMR 7110, Universit? Paris Diderot) an international conference on South East Asian languages will be held in Paris on December 2009 the 17th, 18th and 19th . This conference will be organized into two parts : A. A thematic session, dedicated to the serial constructions B. A general session, that will gather communications addressing the syntax, semantics, as well as the (morpho-)phonology and phonetics of these languages in either a synchronic or diachronic perspective. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE : M. Antelme (INaLCO), Ch. Bauer (Univ. Humboldt, Berlin), W. Bisang (Univ. Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz), G. Delouche (INALCO), Ph. Grang? (Univ. La Rochelle), M. Jenny (Univ. de Z?rich), D. Paillard (Univ. Paris Diderot), G. Steinhauer (Univ. de Leyden), D. Thach (INALCO / URBA (Phnom Penh), A. Vittrant (Univ. d?Aix en Provence), J. Watkins (SOAS, Univ. of London) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: D. Thach (INaLCO) / D. Paillard (Univ. Paris Diderot) email : Proposals for papers should be sent in an anonymous abstract of less than two pages, including examples and bibliography, written either in English or French, in view of a 35 minutes communication (plus 10 minutes for discussion) They should reach the organization comittee before 2009 June the 15th at The e-mail will show the name of the first author as the object of the message, followed by the word ? abstract ? (e.g., ?Dupont abstract?) and the message will quote the authors? name, institutional affiliation and address together with the title of the abstract. The abstract will be anonymous, and attached under the Word or PDF format. An author may submit one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one author should be designated as the contact person. Answer : 2009, September the 15th Languages : French or English ---------- Appel ? communications Conf?rence sur les langues d?Asie du Sud Est A l?initiative du CLI et du CERLOM (INALCO, Paris) et du Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (UMR 7110, Universit? Paris Diderot) une conf?rence internationale sur les langues d?Asie du Sud Est se tiendra ? Paris les 17, 18 et 19 d?cembre 2009 Cette conf?rence est organis?e en deux parties : A. Session th?matique consacr?e aux constructions s?rielles ; B. Session g?n?rale qui accueillera des communications portant sur la syntaxe, la s?mantique mais aussi la (morpho-)phonologie et la phon?tique de ces langues dans une perspective synchronique ou diachronique Comit? Scientifique : M. Antelme (INaLCO), Ch. Bauer (Univ. Humboldt, Berlin), W. Bisang (Univ. Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz), G. Delouche (INALCO), Ph. Grang? (Univ. La Rochelle), M. Jenny (Univ. de Z?rich), D. Paillard (Univ. Paris Diderot), G. Steinhauer (Univ. de Leyden), D. Thach (INALCO / URBA (Phnom Penh), A. Vittrant (Univ. d?Aix en Provence), J. Watkins (SOAS, Univ. of London) Comit? d?organisation : D. Thach (INaLCO) / D. Paillard (Univ. Paris Diderot) Adresse email : Soumission d?une communication. Nous invitons toutes les personnes int?ress?es ? soumettre des r?sum?s pour une pr?sentation de 35 minutes (plus dix minutes de discussion). Les r?sum?s doivent ?tre anonymes. Ils ne doivent pas d?passer deux pages, exemples et indications bibliographiques inclus. Les r?sum?s peuvent ?tre en fran?ais ou en anglais. Un auteur peut soumettre une proposition individuelle et une proposition avec un co-auteur. Dans ce second cas un des auteurs doit ?tre d?sign?e comme la personne ? contacter. Les r?sum?s sont ? envoyer par courrier ?lectronique, de fa?on anonyme, ? l?adresse au plus tard le 15 juin 2009. Envoyer le r?sum? sans mention des auteurs en pi?ce jointe (au format Word ou PDF), et indiquez dans la rubrique ?objet? le nom du premier auteur suivi du mot ?abstract? (e.g., ?Dupont abstract?).Veuillez inscrire dans le corps du message les coordonn?es des auteurs (nom, affiliation, adresse) et le titre du r?sum?. R?ponse : 15 septembre 2009 Langues de communication : fran?ais, anglais. ------------------- Alice Vittrant Universit? de Provence CNRS-LACITO vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr From mark.turner at case.edu Wed Dec 24 18:09:29 2008 From: mark.turner at case.edu (Mark Turner) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:09:29 -0500 Subject: article archive Message-ID: In response to Martin Haspelmath's posting, I am pleased to report that in some weeks, the Social Science Research Network will announce a new subnetwork, the Cognitive Science Network, which will provide the means to archive articles. For an introduction, see http://case.edu/artsci/cogs/csnmov.html http://ssrn.com/csn and https://sites.google.com/a/case.edu/csnkeywords/ The 9th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language is already archived at http://hq.ssrn.com/Conference/Conf_Welcome.cfm?confid=1274045. To see the archive, one must register with http://ssrn.com. Registration is free. Authors retain copyright. It is always free to upload and search papers and to download papers authors have uploaded. My papers are available on CSN at http://ssrn.com/author=1058129 . By all means, upload your papers related to cognitive science. SSRN offers full search utilities. Enjoy! Very truly yours, Mark Turner Institute Professor and Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science Case Western Reserve University 607 Crawford Hall 10900 Euclid Avenue Case Western Reserve University Cleveland OH 44106 http://markturner.org 216-849-1223 ========= Consider uploading your papers to CSN, the Cognitive Science Network, at http://ssrn.com/csn. Authors retain copyright. It is always free to upload and search papers and to download papers authors have uploaded. My papers are available on CSN at http://ssrn.com/author=1058129 . On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:45 AM, Martin Haspelmath wrote: > It would be great if someone took the initiative to organize an > archive that could be used by functional linguists as well. I think > ideally there would be an article archive for all of linguistics, > without restriction to a particular approach or sub-community. With > a simple indexing system, it would be easy to narrow one's searches > to particular topics, approaches or sub-communities. > > My colleague Michael Cysouw once approached arXiv.org (http://arxiv.org/ > ), the leading e-print archive in physics and mathematics, but > apparently they were not interested in opening up their system to > linguistics. So we have to do it ourselves. > > The person who would do it would earn the eternal gratitude of the > field, but I'm not sure what else. > > Martin > > s.t. bischoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a new member to this listserve and wanted to ask if anyone is >> aware of a >> website that serves as a host for linguistic articles from a non- >> generative >> perspective...I'm wondering if there might be a sight akin to >> Lingbuzz or >> ROA, only dedicated to other approaches to linguistics. >> >> Thank you, >> Shannon Bischoff >> > -- > Martin Haspelmath (haspelmath at eva.mpg.de) > Max-Planck-Institut fuer evolutionaere Anthropologie, Deutscher > Platz 6 > D-04103 Leipzig Tel. (MPI) +49-341-3550 307, (priv.) > +49-341-980 1616 > > Glottopedia - the free encyclopedia of linguistics > (http://www.glottopedia.org) > > > > > From ttrogers at wisc.edu Mon Dec 29 20:00:36 2008 From: ttrogers at wisc.edu (Tim Rogers) Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:00:36 -0600 Subject: 31ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY Message-ID: The Cognitive Science Society is pleased to announce its 31st Annual Conference. The Society brings together researchers from many fields that hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind. The Society promotes scientific exchange among researchers in disciplines comprising the field of Cognitive Science, including Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence, Education, Linguistics, Machine Learning, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Psychology. The conference will be held in Amsterdam, at the Free University, from Wednesday, July 29th to Saturday, August 1st (Wednesday, July 29th, is a day of tutorials and workshops). The conference produces a digital proceedings of all papers and posters. All sessions will be accessible for those with disabilities. The submission deadline is February 1, 2009. For more information, visit the conference website at: http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2009/index.html. In recent years The Society has continued its tradition of hosting symposia, workshops and conference streams featuring cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research presented by leading scientists. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, topics included: Psychocomputational models of language acquisition; How language affects thought; Integrating human and machine vision; Complex systems and the cognitive sciences; Cognitive science of games and gameplay; Cultural impacts on cognition ; Statistical learning in language, vision, and comparative cognition; Situated and embodied cognition; Building and evaluating models of human-level intelligence; and many more. Tutorial sessions have included: Computational models of spoken language processing, Embodied cognition and robotics, Cognitive science in the design of graphical images and interfaces, Computational cognitive neuroscience modeling using LEABRA in pdp++, Bayesian models of inductive learning, ACT-R, SOAR, Quantum information processing theory, and many more; and plenary speakers in the last three years have included John Anderson, Jeff Elman, Walter Kintsch, Jay McClelland, John Laird, David Plaut, Shimon Ullman, and other scientists whose work spans cognition, computation, language, and neuroscience. The 2009 program promises to be similarly diverse! The 31st Annual Conference will feature three plenary speakers, Joshua Tenenbaum, Randall O'Reilly and Nicola Clayton. In addition, we will announce the 2009 Rumelhart Prize winner, Susan Carey, and the winner of the Heineken 2008 prize, Stanislas Dehaene. Amsterdam is the capital of The Netherlands, and its largest city. Incorporated in the 14th century, Amsterdam is a liberal and vibrant city, rich with historical attractions, natural beauty, a multitude of shops and restaurants, and a thriving nightlife. Take an evening canal tour and see the enchanting lights of the beautifully illuminated bridges and canal houses; visit The Hague; see the vast collection of classic Dutch art at the Rijksmuseum; and explore the labyrinthine ?Red Light? district. Amsterdam is also one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world and also boasts an excellent public transportation system.