From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Fri Feb 1 10:15:15 2008 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:15:15 +0100 Subject: Workshop Program: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC), February 5-6, 2008, Vienna, Austria Message-ID: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC) A Related Workshop of the 13th International Morphology Meeting (IMM13), February 3-6, 2008, Vienna, Austria Website of IMM13: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/roman/imm13 Reference website for the workshop: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Nino.Amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html Invited Speakers: Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook) Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley) Venue: Centre of Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Gymnasiumstrasse 50, A- 1190 Vienna, Austria P R O G R A M Tuesday, February 5, 2008. 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk. Proving that Change is Induced by Contact: Examples from the Caucasus. Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook) 11:00-11:30 Coffee break. 11:30-12:00 Typology of Morphosyntactic Variations of Ergative Constructions in the Batsbi and the Georgian Languages. Rusudan Asatiani and Marina Ivanishvili (Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences). 12:00-12:30 Person agreement and cliticization of personal pronouns in Batsbi. Yasuhiro Kojima (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). 12:30-13:00 On Possible West-Caucasian Influence on Possession Marking in Ossetic. David Erschler (The Independent University of Moscow, Russia) and Arseny Vydrin (The Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sceinces). 13:00-14:30 Lunch break. 14:30-15:00 Variation of oblique noun stem markers in Daghestanian languages. Aleksandr Kibrik (Moscow State University). 15:00-15:30 Diachronic and dialectological variation of verb morphology in Armenian: Internal and/or contact-induced changes? Anaid Donabedian-Demopoulos (INALCO) and Agnes Ouzounian (INALCO; Institut Catholique de Paris). 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-16:30 The factors of variation in de¯niteness marking in the history of Georgian. Albert Ortmann and Tinatin Kiguradze (University of Duesseldorf). 16:30-17:00 Loss of morphological complexity under language contact. The case of Georgian. Nino Amiridze (Utrecht University). 17:00-17:30 The loss of case system in Ardesheni Laz and its morpho-syntactic consequences. Balkiz Ozturk (Bogazici University). 17:30-17:50 Khinalug 2007. Creating a digital portrait of an endangered language. A film. 17:50-18:10 Eastern Armenian National Corpus: A tool for linguists/typologists. Wednesday, February 6, 2008. 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk. Variation in the Distribution of Source Gender in Nakh-Daghestanian. Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley). 11:00-11:30 Coffee break. 11:30-12:00 Contact-induced morphological change in the Agul dialects. Dmitry Ganenkov and Timur Maisak (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sceinces). 12:00-12:30 Contact-Induced Uses of Volitive Moods in Daghestanian. Nina Dobrushina (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow) 12:30-13:00 On the way to Evidentiality: Some observations on Georgian Perfect. Manana Topadze (University of Pavia). 13:00-14:30 Lunch break. 14:30-15:00 Short-term morphological changes in Archi. Marina Chumakina (University of Surrey). 15:00-15:30 Inclusive in Archi. Michael Daniel (Moscow State University). 15:30-16:00 Mehweb: Archaic or innovative? Nina Sumbatova (Russian State University for the Humanities). From antti.arppe at helsinki.fi Mon Feb 4 16:44:08 2008 From: antti.arppe at helsinki.fi (Antti Arppe) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:44:08 +0200 Subject: Final CfP: 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] Final Call for Papers: 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3) 2-4 June 2008 Helsinki, Finland Invited speakers: Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Gary Marcus, New York University Richard Sproat, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign ----- General and background: The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) in association with the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki will be co-hosting the Third Workshop on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3), to be held on Mon-Wed, 2-4 June, 2008, in Helsinki, Finland. The official website of the workshop is to be found at: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ This workshop is both a continuation of the two previous QITL events held in Osnabrück, Germany (http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~qitl/), and the latest in the sequence of summer symposia arranged by SKY (http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumia.shtml). ----- Call for Papers: Since the turn of the millenium, the application of quantitative methods on empirical data, with increasing sophistication and complexity, has become widely accepted as central in the development and testing of theoretical hypotheses concerning the nature of natural language and its processing by human beings. However, it is also increasingly recognized that quantitative investigations should be theoretically motivated and anchored, in addition to that linguistic theories and models should be modified or even fundamentally revised, if not also sometimes altogether refuted, to properly reflect the reality of quantitative results. Simply put, quantitative methods and theoretical developments should mutually feed and influence each other. As with the previous two QITL meetings, we invite researchers from all linguistic frameworks engaged in quantitative investigations of theoretical linguistic questions to submit abstracts for 30 minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion). The preferred focus is on how one has been able to address a theoretically motivated linguistic question with some quantitative method(s); computational and exploratory approaches may also be of interest if they lead to or shed light on theoretical issues. Furthermore, we welcome studies concerning all media of language use, whether spoken, written or electronic in form. Relevant topics include (but are not by any means limited to) models of lexical, syntactic or pragmatic/prosodic preferences, the nature of linguistic rules/regularities and the lexicon (e.g. morphological productivity), the relationship between language use, linguistic judgements and/or indirect data on language processing, cross-linguistic typological tendencies, first and second language acquisition, diachronic language development, and so forth. Our goal is to continue the workshoppy and conversational form as well as the theoretically and methodologically pluralistic atmosphere of the previous QITL events. Abstracts should be at the maximum 3 pages long (A4, with 12 point Times New Roman or equivalent font and single spacing), including all tables, figures and references (corresponding to approximately 1000-1500 words). Electronic submission (in either PDF, PostScript or RTF format) by e-mail to "qitl-3 at helsinki.fi" is strongly preferred. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by (at least) two members of the program committee. The deadline for submissions is **Monday, 11 February 2008.** ----- Important Dates: Announcement: 18 October 2007 1st Call for Papers: 19 November 2007 (Monday) 2nd Call for Papers: 14 January 2008 (Monday) Final Call for Papers: 4 February 2008 (Monday) Submission deadline: 11 February 2008 (Monday) Notification of acceptance/rejection: week 11/2008 (beginning of March) Event: 2-4 June 2008 (Monday-Wednesday) ----- Program committee: Harald Baayen, University of Alberta Marco Baroni, University of Trento/CIMeC Peter Bosch, University of Osnabrück Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp Stefan Evert, University of Osnabrück Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara Stefan Grondelaers, Radboud University Nijmegen Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology Juhani Järvikivi, Max Planck Institute/Nijmegen Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) Jonas Kuhn, University of Potsdam Merja Kytö, University of Uppsala Roger Levy, University of California, San Diego Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University in Berlin Elena Maslova, Bielefeld University Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University Matti Miestamo, University of Helsinki Jussi Niemi, University of Joensuu Martti Vainio, University of Helsinki Yi Xu, University College London ----- Organizing committee: Antti Arppe, University of Helsinki Urpo Nikanne, Ã…bo Akademi University Kaius Sinnemäki, University of Helsinki ----- Contact information: Contact Email: "qitl-3 at helsinki.fi" Meeting URL: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ ----- From feist at louisiana.edu Wed Feb 6 21:17:43 2008 From: feist at louisiana.edu (Michele Feist) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:17:43 -0600 Subject: PhD studentships available for Fall 2008 Message-ID: The Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette has Research Assistantships available for PhD students starting in Fall 2008. ICS's areas of research span cognitive phenomena across humans, machines and animals and include in particular the following emphases: learning and memory, lexical semantics, language processing, creativity, evolutionary approaches, and the philosophy of mind and of cognitive science. The Institute supports empirical, theoretical and computer-based approaches to cognition and cognitive processes. As an interdisciplinary program we are also open to students with an interest in education, the arts and the humanities. We are however particularly interested in students with a background in cognitive science or closely related disciplines. For more information, please see our website ics.louisiana.edu . -- Michele I. Feist Institute of Cognitive Science University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-3772 feist at louisiana.edu From nagaya at rice.edu Fri Feb 8 06:03:25 2008 From: nagaya at rice.edu (Naonori Nagaya) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:03:25 -0600 Subject: Symposium on Syntactic Complexity Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language, to be held at Rice University, Texas, on March 27th-29th,2008. The program and the abstracts of the plenary papers are now available at: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eivs/sympo/ Registration is free; please preregister at this website. The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Program ****THURSDAY, MARCH 27**** Morning session (9am–12noon): Diachrony-I Opening remarks: T. Givón Bernd Heine (Köln) "A grammaticalization perspective on the rise of syntactic complexity" Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara) "Re(e)volving complexity: adding intonation" Matt Shibatani (Rice) "Elements of complex structures , where recursion isn't" Afternoon session (2pm–5–pm): Child Language Holger Diessel (Jena) "The emergence of relative clauses in early child language" Cecilia Rojas (UNAM, Mexico) "Starting small' processes in the acquisition of early relative clauses in Spanish" T. Givón (Oregon "The acquisition of complex VPs: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire" ****FRIDAY, MARCH 28***** Morning session (9am–12noon): Diachrony-II Guy Deutscher (Leiden) "Nominalization and the origin of subordination" Martin Hilpert (UC Berkeley) and Christian Koops (Rice) "The rise of pragmatic complexity: Diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudo-clefts" T. Givón (Oregon) "Toward a diachronic typology of relative clauses" Afternoon session (2pm–6pm): Cognition-Neurology Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon) "The emergence of linguistic complexity through catalysis and usage" Eric Pederson & Mitzi Barker (Oregon) "Syntactic complexity and coordination in a verbal production task" Diego Fernandez-Duque (Villa Nova) "Cognitive underpinning of syntactic complexity: A possible role for 'chunking'?" ****SATURDAY, MARCH 29**** Morning session (9am-12noon): Diachrony-III Östen Dahl (Stockholm) "Two pathways of grammatical evolution" Andrew Pawley (Canberra) "On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam" Claire Bowern (Rice) "Defining complexity: Arguments from historical reconstruction" Afternoon session (2pm–5pm): Biology and Evolution Nathan Tublitz (Oregon) "Neural plasticity: A window into the complexity of the brain" Don Tucker (Oregon) "Neural mechanisms of the language process" Derek Bickerton (Hawaii) "How central is recursivity?" We look forward to seeing you at the symposium. Matt Shibatani Department of Linguistics Rice University From aberez at umail.ucsb.edu Sat Feb 9 23:49:16 2008 From: aberez at umail.ucsb.edu (Andrea Berez) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:49:16 -0800 Subject: Extended CFP Deadline: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The abstract deadline for the 11th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on May 23 and 24, 2008 has been extended for one more week. Abstracts are now due on February 16. We are excited to announce that Keren Rice (U. of Toronto) will be our plenary speaker! (Topic TBA) Best wishes, Andrea Berez -- ----------------------------- Andrea L. Berez PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/ ********************************************************************************************* Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA May 23-24, 2008 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 11th 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. 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-authored 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. Special Panel on Language Policy: This year we are welcoming abstracts for a Special Panel on all issues concerning language policy. Talks will be 20 minutes each, followed by a group discussion/question-and-answer period. 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; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send email submissions to: wail.ucsb at gmail.com For hard copy submissions: Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Attn: Joye Kiester or Verónica Muñoz Ledo Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: February 16, 2008 Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 29, 2008. 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 and Verónica Muñoz Ledo, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or (805) 893-3776, or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ From Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU Sun Feb 10 19:54:39 2008 From: Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU (Lise Menn) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:54:39 -0700 Subject: Linguistics&Language Sciences Web Page - AAAS Message-ID: Apologies for duplicate listings! The Linguistics & Language Sciences Web Page for our section of the America Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is now up and running, thanks to the help of many people. Check them out! Go to http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/organization/sections/ling.shtml, or if you forget, just Google AAAS and enter Linguistics in the search query box that will come up on the left side of the page, and follow the obvious links. Student memberships are only $75, SCIENCE is included, and you can get an on-line subscription to SCIENCE if you start by becoming a member online. It's the one of the best ways to keep up with major developments in related sciences, and with the news that other folks are reading about linguistics. Also, AAAS is meeting in Boston this year, Feb 14-18; you can still register if you want to go. We'll be posting a list of symposia of interest to linguists shortly. Lise Menn Home Office: 303-444-4274 1625 Mariposa Ave Fax: 303-413-0017 Boulder CO 80302 Professor Emerita of Linguistics Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado Secretary, AAAS Section Z [Linguistics] Fellow, Linguistic Society of America Campus Mail Address: UCB 594, Institute for Cognitive Science Campus Physical Address: CINC 234 1777 Exposition Ave, Boulder From Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU Sun Feb 10 21:46:50 2008 From: Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU (Lise Menn) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:46:50 -0700 Subject: AAAS ’08 Boston Events of Interest to Linguists Message-ID: Apologies for duplicate listings - LM AAAS ’08 Boston Events of Interest to Linguists, Language Scientists, and Developmental Psycholinguists Some events of general interest have also been included; there are many others, which you can find on the AAAS web page. Events directly involving Section Z: Linguistics and Language Sciences organizers are *starred. Apologies for any omissions. Lise Menn, Secretary, Section Z NB: Topical Lecture Sunday, 17 February Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University 2008 John P. McGovern Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences Architecture of the Mind 12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 312 ********** Thursday, 14 February 4:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m. Special Event AAAS First-Timer's Orientation Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Commonwealth Open to all registrants Friday, 15 February 8:30 a.m.—10:00 a.m. Scientific Symposia *Advances in Language and Speech Science and Technology Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 206 English-Only Science in a Multilingual World: Costs, Benefits, and Options Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 203 8:30 a.m.—11:30 a.m. Scientific Symposia Power in Its Place: Science in Tribal Education Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 306 9:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m. Section Business Meeting (for members of the AAAS sections listed) Information, Computing, and Communication Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Clarendon 10:30 a.m.—NOON Scientific Symposia Moral Judgment: Evolutionary and Psychological Perspectives Sheraton Boston, Second Floor, Republic B *Thinking With and Without Language Sheraton Boston, Second Floor, Constitution A NOON—3:00 p.m.Section Business Meetings Neuroscience Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Beacon D 1:45 p.m.—3:15 p.m. Scientific Symposia Inside the Double Bind: Women of Color in STEM Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 207 Poverty and Brain Development: Correlations, Mechanisms, and Societal Implications Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 312 Power of the Internet To Facilitate Science Education and Networking: The Supercourse Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 313 4:00 p.m.—5:30 p.m. Career Workshops Gatekeepers, Midwives, and Wordsmiths: Career Options in Science Editing Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 201 7:45 p.m.—10:00 p.m. Section Business Meetings *Linguistics and Language Science Boston Marriott Copley Place, Fifth Floor, Vermont 8:00 p.m.—10:00 p.m. Special Event Annals of Improbable Research Sheraton Boston, Second Floor, Republic A Saturday, 16 February 8:30 a.m.—10:00 a.m. Scientific Symposia Mathematics and the Brain Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 208 9:00 a.m.—10:00 a.m. Career Workshops An Inside-Out Approach to Launching a Great Science Career Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 201 Retired Scientists and Engineers Assisting in Science Education Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 204 9:00 a.m.—NOON Section Business Meeting Psychology Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Beacon H 10:00 a.m.—NOON Section Business Meeting Anthropology Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Beacon D 10:30 a.m.—NOON Scientific Symposia *Brain Basis of Speech Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 306 11:00 a.m.—5:00 p.m. Special Event AAAS Family Science Day Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Hall D 1:45 p.m.—3:15 p.m. Sponsored Workshop NSF Funding Opportunities for International Activities Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 303 1:45 p.m.—3:15 p.m. Scientific Symposia Blogs, Boards, and Bonding: Using Electronic Communities To Support Women in Science Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 312 Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Mental Illness Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 302 Promoting the Success of Minority Graduate Students Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 202 2:00 p.m.—3:30 p.m. Special Event Building the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Hilton Boston Back Bay, Second Floor, Maverick A Sunday, 17 February 8:30 a.m.—10:00 a.m. Scientific Symposia Imagining the Future: New Perspectives from Psychology and Neuroscience Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 210 Managing and Preserving Scientific Data: Emerging Perspectives on a Global Basis Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 203 8:30 a.m.—10:00 a.m. Sponsored Workshop Faculty Collaborative Online Tools and Projects: Lessons from the National Science Digital Library 10:30 a.m.—NOON Career Workshops Careers that Combine Scientific Expertise and Interpersonal Communication Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 201 Linguistic Tools for Scientists To Improve Their Writing of Articles Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 204 12:30 p.m.—1:15 p.m. Topical Lectures 2008 John P. McGovern Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences: Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University: Architecture of the Mind Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 312 1:45 p.m.—4:45 p.m. Scientific Symposia Communicating Science in a Religious America Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 309 4:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m. Special Event National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals Reception Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Berkeley Open to all registrants 6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m. Plenary Lecture Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop per Child Boston Marriott Copley Place, Fourth Floor, Grand Ballroom E—G Lise Menn Home Office: 303-444-4274 1625 Mariposa Ave Fax: 303-413-0017 Boulder CO 80302 Professor Emerita of Linguistics Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado Secretary, AAAS Section Z [Linguistics] Fellow, Linguistic Society of America Campus Mail Address: UCB 594, Institute for Cognitive Science Campus Physical Address: CINC 234 1777 Exposition Ave, Boulder From c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Mon Feb 11 12:16:31 2008 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:16:31 +0000 Subject: New Issue of CADAAD Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of /Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines /has just been published online at http://cadaad.org/ejournal Kind regards, Chris Hart -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk Wed Feb 13 15:34:20 2008 From: phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk (Philippe De Brabanter) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:34:20 +0000 Subject: CFP Utterance Interpretation & Cognitive Models II, Brussels July 2008 Message-ID: Description: The second edition of the Brussels conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models will take place on July 19-21, 2008. While the first edition addressed the issue of the semantics/pragmatics interface from a cognitive perspective, this time we wish to adopt a broader perspective. The conference aims at reaching across disciplinary boundaries and bringing together researchers who, though belonging to different schools or traditions, all take a view of interpretation that is informed by cognitive concerns. We are convinced that a better understanding of how utterances come to be endowed with meaning calls for collaboration between various subfields of linguistics — syntax, formal semantics, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, evolutionary linguistics —, as well as with other disciplines, such as developmental and cognitive psychology, cognitive sciences, and philosophy of language. However, whatever the theoretical background and the empirical phenomena to be accounted for, in our view the ultimate test for any theory of utterance interpretation is that it should be psychologically plausible. We hope that the second conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models will help popularize this idea. Keynote speakers: Nicholas Asher (Austin University of Texas/CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) Robyn Carston (University College London) Herbert Clark (Stanford University) Jim Hurford (University of Edinburgh) Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut) Robert Stainton (University of Western Ontario) Leonard Talmy (University at Buffalo) Abstract submissions: In addition to keynote lectures, the conference will feature parallel sessions with contributed papers. We welcome submissions of abstracts for 25-minute papers that focus on the cognitive underpinnings of utterance interpretation or, conversely, address the implications that theories of any aspect of utterance interpretation can have for cognitive science. We also welcome papers from scholars who study utterance interpretation in connection with language development, impaired communication, non-verbal communication and non-human communication. Abstracts will be anonymously refereed by members of the program committee. Important dates: Deadline for abstracts: April 15 Notification of acceptance: May 30 Conference: July 19-21 2008 Abstract format: - Only electronic submissions are accepted. - Abstracts should be submitted to the email address: uicm2 at ulb.ac.be, with the following subject line: ''Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models 2'' - The abstracts should be sent as an attachment to an email message, in either MS Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf ) format - The length of the submissions is a maximum of two A4 sides, using 2,5 cm (1 inch) margins and a 12 pt font. Each abstract should clearly indicate the title of the talk, and may include references. In the interest of fairness these constraints will be strictly enforced. - The abstracts should be prepared for blind review, and include no indication of the name(s) of the author(s). Only anonymous abstracts will be considered. - The body of the email message should contain the following information: The name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, title of the paper and contact details (postal and email address). - A maximum of one submission as author, and one as co-author will be considered Program committee Nicholas Asher (Austin University of Texas/CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) Anne Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina) Frank Brisard (Universiteit Antwerpen) Robyn Carston (University College London) Eros Corazza (Carleton University) Francis Corblin (Université de Paris 4-Sorbonne, Institut Jean-Nicod) Philippe De Brabanter (Université de Paris 4-Sorbonne, Institut Jean-Nicod) Walter De Mulder (Universiteit Antwerpen) Jérôme Dokic (Institut Jean-Nicod) Marc Dominicy (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Gilles Fauconnier (University of California San Diego) Pierre Feyereisen (Université Catholique de Louvain) Bart Geurts (Radboud University Nijmegen) Mitchell Green (University of Virginia) Jim Hurford (University of Edinburgh) Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) Mikhail Kissine (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Philippe Kreutz (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Pascal Ludwig (Université de Paris 4-Sorbonne, Institut Jean-Nicod) Fabienne Martin (Universität Stuttgart) Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut) Jan Nuyts (Universiteit Antwerpen) Nausicaa Pouscoulous (University College London) François Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod) Barry Smith (Birkbeck College, University of London) Rob Stainton (University of Western Ontario) Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean-Nicod) Leonard Talmy (University at Buffalo) Ken Turner (University of Brighton) Johan van der Auwera (Universiteit Antwerpen) Neftali Villanueva (Institut Jean-Nicod) Svetlana Vogeleer (Institut Marie Haps) Additional information is available at: www.ulb.ac.be/uicm2 --------------------------------- Sent from Yahoo! - a smarter inbox. From Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Wed Feb 13 16:21:47 2008 From: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:21:47 +0000 Subject: Graduate Teaching Fellowships available for prospective Ph.D.-students, University of Manchester, UK Message-ID: Generator Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium) The University of Manchester School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures Postgraduate Funding Opportunities 2008-9 GUIDELINES FOR APPLICANTS The School' s postgraduate community is one of the UK's largest and most diverse in the UK, enjoying state-of-the-art facilities and excellent support within a high-quality research environment. In step with our continuing expansion, we are enhancing our support for students registering for a research degree (PhD) in 2008-9. In addition to our current 20 Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTFs), we are offering: Graduate Teaching Fellowships (Full and Part-time) in: Arabic (Full-time) Film Studies (Full-time) French (Full-time) German (Full-time) Spanish (Full-time) Translation Studies: Greek (Part-time) Please note, the GTF must be undertaken in conjunction with a PhD programme of study at the University of Manchester and applicants for the GTF MUST possess relevant teaching experience. The full-time GTF will be required to teach for 6 hours per week and the part-time GTF will be required to teach for 3 hours per week. The full-time GTF is open to Home/EU and International applicants and comprises three elements: the payment of full Home/EU or International fees [2008-9 academic session £3300 per annum (Home/EU) or £10500 per annum (International)], which is paid directly to the University, a monthly salary for teaching (2007-8 academic session: £5806.92 per annum), which is paid directly into your bank account in 10 monthly instalments and a bursary (£6754.80 per annum) paid in quarterly instalments by bank transfer (by arrangement with the Student Services Centre) or by cheque, which is normally collected the first week of October, January, April and July. The part-time GTF will be paid pro-rata, ie. the above amounts will be halved. The application criteria for the GTF are as follows: 1. You must apply and have been accepted for a PhD programme of study in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures. Applicants must be holding an offer of a place by the closing date specified below in order to be included in the competition. 2. You must possess previous teaching experience. For further information regarding the teaching element of the Arabic, French*, German and Spanish GTFs, please contact Mr John Morley, Director, University-wide Language Programmes, University Language Centre, email john.morley at manchester.ac.uk *Please note that the holder of the French GTF will be required to register for a PhD in the area of French Linguistics under the supervision of Professor Maj-Britt Hansen, email Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk For further information regarding the teaching element of the Film Studies GTF ONLY, please contact Dr Núria Triana Toribio, email nuria.triana at manchester.ac.uk For further information regarding the teaching element of the Translation Studies (Greek) GTF ONLY, please contact Dr Maeve Olohan, email maeve.olohan at manchester.ac.uk For general information and guidance regarding entry requirements and applying for a PhD programme of study, please contact Michelle Fenlon, the Postgraduate Admissions Officer; telephone +44 (0)161 275 3559, email michelle.fenlon at manchester.ac.uk The closing date for receipt of the GTF Application Form is Friday 16 May 2008. Short-listed applicants will be invited for interview before the end of June 2008. Please note, strong preference will be given to new PhD applicants and only short-listed candidates will be contacted. ____________________________________________ Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Professor of French language and linguistics School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tel.: +44 (0)161 306-1733 Fax: +44 (0)161 275-3031 Web: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk Editor-in-Chief of Revue Romane Associate Editor of Studies in Pragmatics From emcl4.2008 at gmail.com Thu Feb 14 00:07:34 2008 From: emcl4.2008 at gmail.com (Monica Gonzalez-Marquez) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:07:34 -0600 Subject: CFP EMCL4: Integration - Methods and Perspectives Message-ID: EMCL 4: Integration - Methods and Perspectives July 7 – 12, 2008 University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark http://www.lcm.sdu.dk/index.php?id=1629 EMCL4.2008 at gmail.com To precede Language, Culture and Mind 3 http://www.lcm.sdu.dk ***********Application deadline: April 30, 2008*********** The Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (EMCL) Workshops have emerged out of the desire of many language researchers to incorporate empirical methods into their investigative repertoire. While theoretical work in cognitive linguistics has yielded significant insights, they still await empirical validation. To that end, we seek to further develop an empirically valid account of the connection between language and cognition through the continuous merging of theoretical and empirical research. Our theme for this, the fourth EMCL, is integration of methodologies and perspectives. Language is a complex phenomenon, "too human to be confined to a single discipline" (Hunt & Agnoli, 1991) or to be understood using a single methodology. Although using one perspective or method can be quite informative, pursuit of corroborating evidence via multiple means is substantially more illuminating. Our goal with this workshop is to provide a setting where integration is considered from the onset of a research project. The basic unit of the workshop will therefore be hands-on sessions led by pairs of researchers who will work together to provide complementary perspectives on a problem's investigation. In this setting, invited students will learn how to apply different approaches to a given question, as well as how to carry out a research project from conception to implementation. Intended Audience: The interdisciplinary training required to advance Empirical Cognitive Linguistics remains unfortunately scarce at most universities. This makes the transition from one way of looking at language to another often overwhelming and intimidating. Most beginners never get started because they don't know who to ask for help, how to begin, what questions to ask, what to read. As such, the focus of the EMCL Workshops is to unite gifted cognitive linguists lacking empirical training, with experienced researchers who will guide them in the development and implementation of a research project. The workshop will also serve to introduce new researchers to the community of active empiricists, to whom they will be able to look to for guidance long after the workshop is over. This workshop is aimed specifically at scholars with sound theoretical knowledge in their field though lacking in empirical training, including experimental research. Participants are not expected to have any background at all in empirical work. Candidates should at least have completed initial university training, a B.A. in the US, or be working on a Masters degree if training in Europe, in theoretical linguistics or a similar field, and be familiar with cognitive linguistics (this familiarity need not have occurred in a formal university setting). Graduate students, i.e. post-grads, pre-doctoral, etc., as well as post-doctoral researchers and junior faculty, are invited to apply. The only real prerequisite is a background in cognitive linguistics or embodiment, and a desire to gain empirical research experience. Format: A select group of students (max. 8 per group) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. Topics to be covered include, - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience Cost: 125 Euros, payable upon arrival ** Scholarships will be available for students traveling from Eastern Europe and 3rd world countries. ** Please note: Unlike at previous EMCL workshops, attendance to this session will be strictly limited to the invited participants. No exceptions will be made so as to preserve pedagogical integrity. Workshop Topics and Faculty 1. Gesture and Simulation Semantics Alan Cienki http://www.let.vu.nl/staf/a.cienki/index_en.htm Ben Bergen http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/ 2. Lexical Semantics and Multidimensional Scaling Steven Clancy http://home.uchicago.edu/~sclancy/ Michele Feist http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ 3. Linguistic Relativity and Meaning John Lucy http://home.uchicago.edu/~johnlucy/ Gabriella Vigliocco http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/language/index.html 4. Music and Language Erin Hannon http://psychology.unlv.edu/html/hannon.html TBA 5. Bilingualism Viorica Marian http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/?PID=VioricaMarian Kathryn Kohnert http://www.slhs.umn.edu/people/facExp.php?UID=kohne005 Accommodation: TBA Application: To apply, please send the following by April 30, 2008. All materials must be submitted electronically to EMCL4.2008 at gmail.com . PLEASE WRITE 'APPLICATION' IN THE SUBJECT LINE. 1. A maximum of two (2) pages, (1000 words), describing, - your background, - your reasons for wanting to participate, - the research group you would like to work in and why. Please include in this section a brief description of your research interests. 2. A copy of your curriculum vitae. Accepted applicants will be notified on or before June 1, 2008. --- EMCL 4 Organizing Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Chair, Cornell (EMCL4.2008 at gmail.com) Raymond Becker, University of California, Merced Michele Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve University Anders R. Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark Gitte R. Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark From fey.parrill at case.edu Fri Feb 15 16:55:53 2008 From: fey.parrill at case.edu (Fey Parrill) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:55:53 -0500 Subject: CFP: CSDL 9 (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, & Language) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for duplicate postings. The ninth conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language will be held October 18-20, 2008, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. We are now accepting abstracts. The theme of CSDL 9 is "Meaning, Form, and Body." The focus is on two central, related research areas in the study of language: (1) the integration of form and meaning, and (2) language and the human body. These topics intersect naturally, as in the study of grammatical constructions, of conceptual integration, and of gesture. PLENARY SPEAKERS Seana Coulson: Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego Gilles Fauconnier: Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego Adele Goldberg: Program in Linguistics, Princeton University Michael Spivey: Department of Psychology, Cornell University Eve Sweetser: Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley ABSTRACT SUBMISSION We welcome abstracts for papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech and language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition. The deadline for proposals to the general session is May 15, 2008. Please submit abstracts of no longer than 500 words, in English, via our online submission system, at http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9. Acceptance notices will be sent by email by June 30, 2008. All papers will be scheduled for 20 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes for questions and discussion. -- Fey Parrill, Vera Tobin, and Mark Turner Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language 9 http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9 From annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Sun Feb 17 10:51:20 2008 From: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it (Annalisa Baicchi) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:51:20 +0100 Subject: Seminar on Meaning Construction - English Society for English St udies (ESSE 2008 ) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, submissions are invited for ESSE seminar S.21: ‘Meaning Construction: Functionalist, Cognitivist and Constructionist ApproachesÂ’. Convenors: Prof. Annalisa Baicchi (University of Pavia) e-mail: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Prof. Francisco Gonzálvez-García (University of Almería) e-mail: fgonza at ual.es The seminar aims to promote the interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in recent functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist approaches with special focus on present-day English. Specifically, the seminar is intended to be a forum for the discussion of virtually any theoretical and/or descriptive/applied aspect concerning grammar, the lexicon and discourse, and in particular controversial areas such as: the relationship between syntax and all facets of meaning construction, the boundaries between grammar and the lexicon, argument structure configuration, the interaction between lexical and constructional templates, pragmatic inferencing, implicature and illocutionary meaning, and the potential of metonymic operations in speech act configuration. Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2008 Meeting Dates: 22-26 August 2008 Meeting URL: http://www.esse2008.dk/ General Information: Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to both convenors of the seminar in question before 1st March 2008. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008. Please note that authors of seminar papers will be expected to give an oral presentation of not more than 15 minutes' duration, rather than simply reading their papers aloud. Convenors should ensure that reduced versions of the papers are circulated among all speakers in advance of the seminar in question. There will be a maximum of 5 papers in each two-hour seminar session, and convenors should plan so that there is time for discussion between speakers and with the audience. Looking forward to meeting you at the ESSE Conference, Annalisa Baicchi (also on behalf of Francisco Gonzálvez-García) From fg-fgw at uva.nl Wed Feb 20 13:10:15 2008 From: fg-fgw at uva.nl (fg-fgw) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:10:15 +0100 Subject: News on ICFG13 and IPCFG4 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Here are some updates with respect to our upcoming Functional Grammar course and conference at Westminster University in London: - The preconference course will be taught by Christopher S. Butler, John H. Connolly, Kees Hengeveld & Lachlan Mackenzie. The programme can now be found at www.functionalgrammar.com - A reservation form for cheap and high-quality on-campus accomodation is now available and can be send on request or can be downloaded from www.functionalgrammar.com ; - Until July 1st you are entitled to the early bird registration fees. Bank details can now be found at www.functionalgrammar.com . Please note that the deadline for the submission of abstract is February 29, 2008. Best wishes, Gerry Wanders +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you do not wish to receive further announcements, please let us now at fg-fgw at uva.nl Functional Grammar Foundation International Secretary Universiteit van Amsterdam Department of Theoretical Linguistics Spuistraat 210 1012 VT Amsterdam The Netherlands e-mail: fg-fgw at uva.nl +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From janemc at bu.edu Sun Feb 24 22:11:33 2008 From: janemc at bu.edu (Jane M. Chandlee) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:11:33 -0500 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: BUCLD 33 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS THE 33rd ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 2, 2008 Keynote Speaker: Barbara Landau, Johns Hopkins University "Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition: Origins, Development, and Interaction" Plenary Speaker: Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts - Amherst "From Input to Mind: How Acquisition work captures the heart of linguistic theory and the soul of practical application" Lunch Symposium: "Brain mechanisms of language development: The promise and pitfalls of neuroimaging" Dick Aslin, University of Rochester Debra Mills, Emory University Colin Phillips, University of Maryland Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University Submissions which present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: * Bilingualism * Cognition & Language * Creoles & Pidgins * Dialects * Discourse and Narrative * Gesture * Hearing Impairment and Deafness * Input & Interaction * Language Disorders (Autism, Down Syndrome, SLI, Williams Syndrome, etc.) * Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon) * Neurolinguistics * Pragmatics * Pre-linguistic Development * Reading and Literacy * Signed Languages * Sociolinguistics * Speech Perception & Production Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10-minute question period. Posters will be on display for a full day with two attended sessions during the day. ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT * Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research. * Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 500 words in length. Text of abstract should fit on one page, with a second page for examples, figures, or references. Abstracts longer than 500 words will be rejected without being evaluated. * Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract. Note that word counts should not include the abstract title, figure or table titles, examples, or the list of references. * A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/template.html * Three examples of how to formulate the content of the abstract can be found at: http://www.lsadc.org/info/dec02bulletin/model.html http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/sociocultural/abstracttips.html http://www.ulcl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=5&c=124 * The criteria used by the reviewers to evaluate abstracts can be found at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html#rate * All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents. Specific instructions for how to create PDF documents are available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/pdfinfo.html. If you encounter a problem creating a PDF file, please contact us for further assistance. Please use the first author's last name as the file name (eg. Smith.pdf). No author information should appear anywhere in the contents of the PDF file itself. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * Electronic submission: To facilitate the abstract submission process, abstracts will be submitted using the form available at the conference website at http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm. * Specific instructions for abstract submission are available on this website. * Abstracts will be accepted between April 1 and May 15. * Contact information for each author must be submitted via webform. No author information should appear anywhere in the abstract PDF. * At the time of submission you will be asked whether you would like your abstract to be considered for a poster, a paper, or both. Note that this preference is not revealed to the reviewers, and thus is not considered in the review process. * Although each author may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will accept for presentation by each author: (a) a maximum of 1 first authored paper/poster, and (b) a maximum of 2 papers/posters in any authorship status. Note that no changes in authorship (including deleting an author or changing author order) will be possible after the review process is completed or for publication in the conference proceedings. DEADLINE * All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2008. * Late abstracts will not be considered, whatever the reason for the delay. * We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions by fax or email. * Submissions via surface mail will only be accepted in special circumstances, on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us well in advance of the submission deadline (May 15, 2008) to make these arrangements. ABSTRACT SELECTION * Each abstract is blind reviewed by 5 reviewers from a panel of approximately 180 international scholars. Further information about the review process is available at http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html. * Acknowledgment of receipt of the abstract will be sent by email as soon as possible after receipt. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent to first authors only, in early August, by email. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will be available in late August 2008. * If your abstract is accepted, you will need to submit a 150-word abstract including title, author(s) and affiliation(s) for inclusion in the conference handbook. Guidelines will be provided along with notification of acceptance. * Abstracts accepted as papers will be invited for publication in the BUCLD Proceedings. * Abstracts accepted as posters will be invited for publication online only, but not in the printed version. * All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in group sessions. * No schedule changes will be possible once the schedule is set. Scheduling requests for religious reasons only must be made before the review process is complete (i.e. at the time of submission). A space is provided on the abstract submission webform to specify such requests. FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/ Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 244 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. Telephone: (617) 353-3085 Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu From gj.steen at let.vu.nl Fri Feb 29 12:18:59 2008 From: gj.steen at let.vu.nl (G.J. Steen) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:18:59 +0100 Subject: New MA in metaphor at the VU, Amsterdam Message-ID: New MA in Metaphor Studies at the Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, Netherlands Starting in September 2008, the VU will offer a track within the Master of Arts degree programme in English Language and Culture that is centred on the study of metaphor. This special programme will consist of four taught courses (each worth 10 ects) plus a MasterÂ’s thesis (20 ects). Three of the courses are focused on metaphor, and are compulsory. The fourth course can be chosen from the wide range of topics offered in the Department of Language and Communication and other departments in the Faculty of Arts. Each student will then complete a MasterÂ’s thesis of approximately 30,000 words. The one-year programme is designed as follows: Semester 1 – Metaphor in discourse Instructor: Prof. Gerard Steen Addresses conventional uses of metaphor in language and questions about how it can be defined and identified, when and how it is used, and how it can be analysed in linguistics. – Metaphor, metonymy and creativity Instructor: Dr Irene Mittelberg Attention is given to the cline between conventional and novel metaphor and the link to metonymy, examining various forms of expression in the media, politics, arts and sciences. – Elective course Semester 2 – Metaphor, Embodied Experience and Thought Instructor: Dr Alan Cienki Considers how our language about the physical world is connected to how we think about and express abstract ideas; engages questions from linguistics, psychology and philosophy. – MA thesis This MA degree may serve as solid preparation for PhD work on metaphor and other language phenomena in various fields of linguistics, and the humanities more broadly. It may also prepare the student for professional activities in teaching, document design, editing, communication advice and other fields in which text analysis plays an important role. For general information about the MA programme in English, please see http://www.let.vu.nl/master/english/ . For specific questions, please contact the programme coordinator, Dr Alan Cienki, e-mail a.cienki AT let.vu.nl From A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk Fri Feb 29 15:46:24 2008 From: A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk (A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:46:24 -0000 Subject: 2nd CFP: 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
University of Brighton, 8th of August, 2008, Brighton, UK
Website: www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl Affiliated with the International Conference on Language and Cognition, running the 4th � 7th of August, 2008. (www.languageandcognition.net for details.) The 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics provides a forum for postgraduate students working within Cognitive Linguistics, language and cognition, and related areas of research to share and discuss their individual research, current methodologies and frameworks, and future directions of study. 

Empirical, theoretical, methodological abstracts relating to the following topics are welcome: - Language and communication - Language and cognition - Metaphor - Grammar and conceptualisation - Knowledge structure - Applied cognitive linguistics - Cognitive semantics - Related areas of research Keynote speakers Dr Ewa D�browska, University of Sheffield, England, Vice President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, Editor of Cognitive Linguistics journal. Prof Vyvyan Evans, University of Brighton, England, President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association. Workshop chair Dr Daniel Casasanto, Stanford University, USA. Editor of Language and Cognition, an interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science (2009 launch). Submission of abstracts Submissions are solicited for the three parallel sessions and the poster session. - Abstracts should not exceed 500 words�references are excluded from this count. - Abstracts should clearly indicate a presentation title. - Abstracts should be anonymous for purposes of blind review. - Abstracts should be formatted as Word, RTF or PDF documents. - Abstracts should be submitted electronically to UKPGCCL at gmail.com. - Please include the following information in the body of your email: title and name of author(s) affiliation email address for correspondence presentation title 3-5 keywords preference for presentation or poster session. Please state in the subject line of your email that this is an abstract submission, i.e., �Abstract Submission: Name(s)� ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 2nd of April, 2008 For full details please consult the conference website: http://www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl Organisers The conference is organised by Andrea Morgado De Matos and Kyle Jasmin. Contact The conference email address is UKPGCCL at gmail.com Web details are available at: www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl Andrea Morgado de Matos From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Fri Feb 1 10:15:15 2008 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:15:15 +0100 Subject: Workshop Program: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC), February 5-6, 2008, Vienna, Austria Message-ID: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC) A Related Workshop of the 13th International Morphology Meeting (IMM13), February 3-6, 2008, Vienna, Austria Website of IMM13: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/roman/imm13 Reference website for the workshop: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Nino.Amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html Invited Speakers: Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook) Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley) Venue: Centre of Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Gymnasiumstrasse 50, A- 1190 Vienna, Austria P R O G R A M Tuesday, February 5, 2008. 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk. Proving that Change is Induced by Contact: Examples from the Caucasus. Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook) 11:00-11:30 Coffee break. 11:30-12:00 Typology of Morphosyntactic Variations of Ergative Constructions in the Batsbi and the Georgian Languages. Rusudan Asatiani and Marina Ivanishvili (Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences). 12:00-12:30 Person agreement and cliticization of personal pronouns in Batsbi. Yasuhiro Kojima (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). 12:30-13:00 On Possible West-Caucasian Influence on Possession Marking in Ossetic. David Erschler (The Independent University of Moscow, Russia) and Arseny Vydrin (The Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sceinces). 13:00-14:30 Lunch break. 14:30-15:00 Variation of oblique noun stem markers in Daghestanian languages. Aleksandr Kibrik (Moscow State University). 15:00-15:30 Diachronic and dialectological variation of verb morphology in Armenian: Internal and/or contact-induced changes? Anaid Donabedian-Demopoulos (INALCO) and Agnes Ouzounian (INALCO; Institut Catholique de Paris). 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-16:30 The factors of variation in de?niteness marking in the history of Georgian. Albert Ortmann and Tinatin Kiguradze (University of Duesseldorf). 16:30-17:00 Loss of morphological complexity under language contact. The case of Georgian. Nino Amiridze (Utrecht University). 17:00-17:30 The loss of case system in Ardesheni Laz and its morpho-syntactic consequences. Balkiz Ozturk (Bogazici University). 17:30-17:50 Khinalug 2007. Creating a digital portrait of an endangered language. A film. 17:50-18:10 Eastern Armenian National Corpus: A tool for linguists/typologists. Wednesday, February 6, 2008. 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk. Variation in the Distribution of Source Gender in Nakh-Daghestanian. Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley). 11:00-11:30 Coffee break. 11:30-12:00 Contact-induced morphological change in the Agul dialects. Dmitry Ganenkov and Timur Maisak (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sceinces). 12:00-12:30 Contact-Induced Uses of Volitive Moods in Daghestanian. Nina Dobrushina (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow) 12:30-13:00 On the way to Evidentiality: Some observations on Georgian Perfect. Manana Topadze (University of Pavia). 13:00-14:30 Lunch break. 14:30-15:00 Short-term morphological changes in Archi. Marina Chumakina (University of Surrey). 15:00-15:30 Inclusive in Archi. Michael Daniel (Moscow State University). 15:30-16:00 Mehweb: Archaic or innovative? Nina Sumbatova (Russian State University for the Humanities). From antti.arppe at helsinki.fi Mon Feb 4 16:44:08 2008 From: antti.arppe at helsinki.fi (Antti Arppe) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:44:08 +0200 Subject: Final CfP: 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3) Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] Final Call for Papers: 3rd Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3) 2-4 June 2008 Helsinki, Finland Invited speakers: Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Gary Marcus, New York University Richard Sproat, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign ----- General and background: The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) in association with the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki will be co-hosting the Third Workshop on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL-3), to be held on Mon-Wed, 2-4 June, 2008, in Helsinki, Finland. The official website of the workshop is to be found at: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ This workshop is both a continuation of the two previous QITL events held in Osnabr?ck, Germany (http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~qitl/), and the latest in the sequence of summer symposia arranged by SKY (http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumia.shtml). ----- Call for Papers: Since the turn of the millenium, the application of quantitative methods on empirical data, with increasing sophistication and complexity, has become widely accepted as central in the development and testing of theoretical hypotheses concerning the nature of natural language and its processing by human beings. However, it is also increasingly recognized that quantitative investigations should be theoretically motivated and anchored, in addition to that linguistic theories and models should be modified or even fundamentally revised, if not also sometimes altogether refuted, to properly reflect the reality of quantitative results. Simply put, quantitative methods and theoretical developments should mutually feed and influence each other. As with the previous two QITL meetings, we invite researchers from all linguistic frameworks engaged in quantitative investigations of theoretical linguistic questions to submit abstracts for 30 minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion). The preferred focus is on how one has been able to address a theoretically motivated linguistic question with some quantitative method(s); computational and exploratory approaches may also be of interest if they lead to or shed light on theoretical issues. Furthermore, we welcome studies concerning all media of language use, whether spoken, written or electronic in form. Relevant topics include (but are not by any means limited to) models of lexical, syntactic or pragmatic/prosodic preferences, the nature of linguistic rules/regularities and the lexicon (e.g. morphological productivity), the relationship between language use, linguistic judgements and/or indirect data on language processing, cross-linguistic typological tendencies, first and second language acquisition, diachronic language development, and so forth. Our goal is to continue the workshoppy and conversational form as well as the theoretically and methodologically pluralistic atmosphere of the previous QITL events. Abstracts should be at the maximum 3 pages long (A4, with 12 point Times New Roman or equivalent font and single spacing), including all tables, figures and references (corresponding to approximately 1000-1500 words). Electronic submission (in either PDF, PostScript or RTF format) by e-mail to "qitl-3 at helsinki.fi" is strongly preferred. Each submission will be peer-reviewed by (at least) two members of the program committee. The deadline for submissions is **Monday, 11 February 2008.** ----- Important Dates: Announcement: 18 October 2007 1st Call for Papers: 19 November 2007 (Monday) 2nd Call for Papers: 14 January 2008 (Monday) Final Call for Papers: 4 February 2008 (Monday) Submission deadline: 11 February 2008 (Monday) Notification of acceptance/rejection: week 11/2008 (beginning of March) Event: 2-4 June 2008 (Monday-Wednesday) ----- Program committee: Harald Baayen, University of Alberta Marco Baroni, University of Trento/CIMeC Peter Bosch, University of Osnabr?ck Michael Cysouw, Max Planck Institute/Leipzig Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp Stefan Evert, University of Osnabr?ck Stefan Th. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara Stefan Grondelaers, Radboud University Nijmegen Jennifer Hay, University of Canterbury Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology Juhani J?rvikivi, Max Planck Institute/Nijmegen Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (?FAI) Jonas Kuhn, University of Potsdam Merja Kyt?, University of Uppsala Roger Levy, University of California, San Diego Anke L?deling, Humboldt University in Berlin Elena Maslova, Bielefeld University Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University Matti Miestamo, University of Helsinki Jussi Niemi, University of Joensuu Martti Vainio, University of Helsinki Yi Xu, University College London ----- Organizing committee: Antti Arppe, University of Helsinki Urpo Nikanne, ?bo Akademi University Kaius Sinnem?ki, University of Helsinki ----- Contact information: Contact Email: "qitl-3 at helsinki.fi" Meeting URL: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/qitl/ ----- From feist at louisiana.edu Wed Feb 6 21:17:43 2008 From: feist at louisiana.edu (Michele Feist) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:17:43 -0600 Subject: PhD studentships available for Fall 2008 Message-ID: The Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette has Research Assistantships available for PhD students starting in Fall 2008. ICS's areas of research span cognitive phenomena across humans, machines and animals and include in particular the following emphases: learning and memory, lexical semantics, language processing, creativity, evolutionary approaches, and the philosophy of mind and of cognitive science. The Institute supports empirical, theoretical and computer-based approaches to cognition and cognitive processes. As an interdisciplinary program we are also open to students with an interest in education, the arts and the humanities. We are however particularly interested in students with a background in cognitive science or closely related disciplines. For more information, please see our website ics.louisiana.edu . -- Michele I. Feist Institute of Cognitive Science University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette, LA 70504-3772 feist at louisiana.edu From nagaya at rice.edu Fri Feb 8 06:03:25 2008 From: nagaya at rice.edu (Naonori Nagaya) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:03:25 -0600 Subject: Symposium on Syntactic Complexity Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language, to be held at Rice University, Texas, on March 27th-29th,2008. The program and the abstracts of the plenary papers are now available at: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eivs/sympo/ Registration is free; please preregister at this website. The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Program ****THURSDAY, MARCH 27**** Morning session (9am?12noon): Diachrony-I Opening remarks: T. Giv?n Bernd Heine (K?ln) "A grammaticalization perspective on the rise of syntactic complexity" Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara) "Re(e)volving complexity: adding intonation" Matt Shibatani (Rice) "Elements of complex structures , where recursion isn't" Afternoon session (2pm?5?pm): Child Language Holger Diessel (Jena) "The emergence of relative clauses in early child language" Cecilia Rojas (UNAM, Mexico) "Starting small' processes in the acquisition of early relative clauses in Spanish" T. Giv?n (Oregon "The acquisition of complex VPs: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire" ****FRIDAY, MARCH 28***** Morning session (9am?12noon): Diachrony-II Guy Deutscher (Leiden) "Nominalization and the origin of subordination" Martin Hilpert (UC Berkeley) and Christian Koops (Rice) "The rise of pragmatic complexity: Diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudo-clefts" T. Giv?n (Oregon) "Toward a diachronic typology of relative clauses" Afternoon session (2pm?6pm): Cognition-Neurology Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon) "The emergence of linguistic complexity through catalysis and usage" Eric Pederson & Mitzi Barker (Oregon) "Syntactic complexity and coordination in a verbal production task" Diego Fernandez-Duque (Villa Nova) "Cognitive underpinning of syntactic complexity: A possible role for 'chunking'?" ****SATURDAY, MARCH 29**** Morning session (9am-12noon): Diachrony-III ?sten Dahl (Stockholm) "Two pathways of grammatical evolution" Andrew Pawley (Canberra) "On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam" Claire Bowern (Rice) "Defining complexity: Arguments from historical reconstruction" Afternoon session (2pm?5pm): Biology and Evolution Nathan Tublitz (Oregon) "Neural plasticity: A window into the complexity of the brain" Don Tucker (Oregon) "Neural mechanisms of the language process" Derek Bickerton (Hawaii) "How central is recursivity?" We look forward to seeing you at the symposium. Matt Shibatani Department of Linguistics Rice University From aberez at umail.ucsb.edu Sat Feb 9 23:49:16 2008 From: aberez at umail.ucsb.edu (Andrea Berez) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 15:49:16 -0800 Subject: Extended CFP Deadline: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The abstract deadline for the 11th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on May 23 and 24, 2008 has been extended for one more week. Abstracts are now due on February 16. We are excited to announce that Keren Rice (U. of Toronto) will be our plenary speaker! (Topic TBA) Best wishes, Andrea Berez -- ----------------------------- Andrea L. Berez PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/ ********************************************************************************************* Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA May 23-24, 2008 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 11th 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. 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-authored 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. Special Panel on Language Policy: This year we are welcoming abstracts for a Special Panel on all issues concerning language policy. Talks will be 20 minutes each, followed by a group discussion/question-and-answer period. 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; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send email submissions to: wail.ucsb at gmail.com For hard copy submissions: Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Attn: Joye Kiester or Ver?nica Mu?oz Ledo Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: February 16, 2008 Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 29, 2008. 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 and Ver?nica Mu?oz Ledo, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or (805) 893-3776, or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ From Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU Sun Feb 10 19:54:39 2008 From: Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU (Lise Menn) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:54:39 -0700 Subject: Linguistics&Language Sciences Web Page - AAAS Message-ID: Apologies for duplicate listings! The Linguistics & Language Sciences Web Page for our section of the America Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is now up and running, thanks to the help of many people. Check them out! Go to http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/organization/sections/ling.shtml, or if you forget, just Google AAAS and enter Linguistics in the search query box that will come up on the left side of the page, and follow the obvious links. Student memberships are only $75, SCIENCE is included, and you can get an on-line subscription to SCIENCE if you start by becoming a member online. It's the one of the best ways to keep up with major developments in related sciences, and with the news that other folks are reading about linguistics. Also, AAAS is meeting in Boston this year, Feb 14-18; you can still register if you want to go. We'll be posting a list of symposia of interest to linguists shortly. Lise Menn Home Office: 303-444-4274 1625 Mariposa Ave Fax: 303-413-0017 Boulder CO 80302 Professor Emerita of Linguistics Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado Secretary, AAAS Section Z [Linguistics] Fellow, Linguistic Society of America Campus Mail Address: UCB 594, Institute for Cognitive Science Campus Physical Address: CINC 234 1777 Exposition Ave, Boulder From Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU Sun Feb 10 21:46:50 2008 From: Lise.Menn at Colorado.EDU (Lise Menn) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:46:50 -0700 Subject: AAAS ’08 Boston Events of Interest to Linguists Message-ID: Apologies for duplicate listings - LM AAAS ?08 Boston Events of Interest to Linguists, Language Scientists, and Developmental Psycholinguists Some events of general interest have also been included; there are many others, which you can find on the AAAS web page. Events directly involving Section Z: Linguistics and Language Sciences organizers are *starred. Apologies for any omissions. Lise Menn, Secretary, Section Z NB: Topical Lecture Sunday, 17 February Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University 2008 John P. McGovern Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences Architecture of the Mind 12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m. Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 312 ********** Thursday, 14 February 4:00 p.m.?5:00 p.m. Special Event AAAS First-Timer's Orientation Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Commonwealth Open to all registrants Friday, 15 February 8:30 a.m.?10:00 a.m. Scientific Symposia *Advances in Language and Speech Science and Technology Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 206 English-Only Science in a Multilingual World: Costs, Benefits, and Options Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 203 8:30 a.m.?11:30 a.m. Scientific Symposia Power in Its Place: Science in Tribal Education Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 306 9:30 a.m.?12:30 p.m. Section Business Meeting (for members of the AAAS sections listed) Information, Computing, and Communication Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Clarendon 10:30 a.m.?NOON Scientific Symposia Moral Judgment: Evolutionary and Psychological Perspectives Sheraton Boston, Second Floor, Republic B *Thinking With and Without Language Sheraton Boston, Second Floor, Constitution A NOON?3:00 p.m.Section Business Meetings Neuroscience Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Beacon D 1:45 p.m.?3:15 p.m. Scientific Symposia Inside the Double Bind: Women of Color in STEM Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 207 Poverty and Brain Development: Correlations, Mechanisms, and Societal Implications Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 312 Power of the Internet To Facilitate Science Education and Networking: The Supercourse Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 313 4:00 p.m.?5:30 p.m. Career Workshops Gatekeepers, Midwives, and Wordsmiths: Career Options in Science Editing Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 201 7:45 p.m.?10:00 p.m. Section Business Meetings *Linguistics and Language Science Boston Marriott Copley Place, Fifth Floor, Vermont 8:00 p.m.?10:00 p.m. Special Event Annals of Improbable Research Sheraton Boston, Second Floor, Republic A Saturday, 16 February 8:30 a.m.?10:00 a.m. Scientific Symposia Mathematics and the Brain Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 208 9:00 a.m.?10:00 a.m. Career Workshops An Inside-Out Approach to Launching a Great Science Career Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 201 Retired Scientists and Engineers Assisting in Science Education Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 204 9:00 a.m.?NOON Section Business Meeting Psychology Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Beacon H 10:00 a.m.?NOON Section Business Meeting Anthropology Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Beacon D 10:30 a.m.?NOON Scientific Symposia *Brain Basis of Speech Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 306 11:00 a.m.?5:00 p.m. Special Event AAAS Family Science Day Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Hall D 1:45 p.m.?3:15 p.m. Sponsored Workshop NSF Funding Opportunities for International Activities Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 303 1:45 p.m.?3:15 p.m. Scientific Symposia Blogs, Boards, and Bonding: Using Electronic Communities To Support Women in Science Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 312 Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Mental Illness Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 302 Promoting the Success of Minority Graduate Students Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 202 2:00 p.m.?3:30 p.m. Special Event Building the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Hilton Boston Back Bay, Second Floor, Maverick A Sunday, 17 February 8:30 a.m.?10:00 a.m. Scientific Symposia Imagining the Future: New Perspectives from Psychology and Neuroscience Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 210 Managing and Preserving Scientific Data: Emerging Perspectives on a Global Basis Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 203 8:30 a.m.?10:00 a.m. Sponsored Workshop Faculty Collaborative Online Tools and Projects: Lessons from the National Science Digital Library 10:30 a.m.?NOON Career Workshops Careers that Combine Scientific Expertise and Interpersonal Communication Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 201 Linguistic Tools for Scientists To Improve Their Writing of Articles Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 204 12:30 p.m.?1:15 p.m. Topical Lectures 2008 John P. McGovern Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences: Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University: Architecture of the Mind Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 312 1:45 p.m.?4:45 p.m. Scientific Symposia Communicating Science in a Religious America Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 309 4:00 p.m.?6:00 p.m. Special Event National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals Reception Sheraton Boston, Third Floor, Berkeley Open to all registrants 6:30 p.m.?7:30 p.m. Plenary Lecture Nicholas Negroponte, One Laptop per Child Boston Marriott Copley Place, Fourth Floor, Grand Ballroom E?G Lise Menn Home Office: 303-444-4274 1625 Mariposa Ave Fax: 303-413-0017 Boulder CO 80302 Professor Emerita of Linguistics Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Science University of Colorado Secretary, AAAS Section Z [Linguistics] Fellow, Linguistic Society of America Campus Mail Address: UCB 594, Institute for Cognitive Science Campus Physical Address: CINC 234 1777 Exposition Ave, Boulder From c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk Mon Feb 11 12:16:31 2008 From: c.j.hart at herts.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:16:31 +0000 Subject: New Issue of CADAAD Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of /Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines /has just been published online at http://cadaad.org/ejournal Kind regards, Chris Hart -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk -- Christopher Hart Lecturer in English Language and Communication School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire www.hartcda.org.uk From phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk Wed Feb 13 15:34:20 2008 From: phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk (Philippe De Brabanter) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:34:20 +0000 Subject: CFP Utterance Interpretation & Cognitive Models II, Brussels July 2008 Message-ID: Description: The second edition of the Brussels conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models will take place on July 19-21, 2008. While the first edition addressed the issue of the semantics/pragmatics interface from a cognitive perspective, this time we wish to adopt a broader perspective. The conference aims at reaching across disciplinary boundaries and bringing together researchers who, though belonging to different schools or traditions, all take a view of interpretation that is informed by cognitive concerns. We are convinced that a better understanding of how utterances come to be endowed with meaning calls for collaboration between various subfields of linguistics ? syntax, formal semantics, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, evolutionary linguistics ?, as well as with other disciplines, such as developmental and cognitive psychology, cognitive sciences, and philosophy of language. However, whatever the theoretical background and the empirical phenomena to be accounted for, in our view the ultimate test for any theory of utterance interpretation is that it should be psychologically plausible. We hope that the second conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models will help popularize this idea. Keynote speakers: Nicholas Asher (Austin University of Texas/CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) Robyn Carston (University College London) Herbert Clark (Stanford University) Jim Hurford (University of Edinburgh) Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut) Robert Stainton (University of Western Ontario) Leonard Talmy (University at Buffalo) Abstract submissions: In addition to keynote lectures, the conference will feature parallel sessions with contributed papers. We welcome submissions of abstracts for 25-minute papers that focus on the cognitive underpinnings of utterance interpretation or, conversely, address the implications that theories of any aspect of utterance interpretation can have for cognitive science. We also welcome papers from scholars who study utterance interpretation in connection with language development, impaired communication, non-verbal communication and non-human communication. Abstracts will be anonymously refereed by members of the program committee. Important dates: Deadline for abstracts: April 15 Notification of acceptance: May 30 Conference: July 19-21 2008 Abstract format: - Only electronic submissions are accepted. - Abstracts should be submitted to the email address: uicm2 at ulb.ac.be, with the following subject line: ''Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models 2'' - The abstracts should be sent as an attachment to an email message, in either MS Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf ) format - The length of the submissions is a maximum of two A4 sides, using 2,5 cm (1 inch) margins and a 12 pt font. Each abstract should clearly indicate the title of the talk, and may include references. In the interest of fairness these constraints will be strictly enforced. - The abstracts should be prepared for blind review, and include no indication of the name(s) of the author(s). Only anonymous abstracts will be considered. - The body of the email message should contain the following information: The name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, title of the paper and contact details (postal and email address). - A maximum of one submission as author, and one as co-author will be considered Program committee Nicholas Asher (Austin University of Texas/CNRS, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) Anne Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina) Frank Brisard (Universiteit Antwerpen) Robyn Carston (University College London) Eros Corazza (Carleton University) Francis Corblin (Universit? de Paris 4-Sorbonne, Institut Jean-Nicod) Philippe De Brabanter (Universit? de Paris 4-Sorbonne, Institut Jean-Nicod) Walter De Mulder (Universiteit Antwerpen) J?r?me Dokic (Institut Jean-Nicod) Marc Dominicy (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles) Gilles Fauconnier (University of California San Diego) Pierre Feyereisen (Universit? Catholique de Louvain) Bart Geurts (Radboud University Nijmegen) Mitchell Green (University of Virginia) Jim Hurford (University of Edinburgh) Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) Mikhail Kissine (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles) Philippe Kreutz (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles) Pascal Ludwig (Universit? de Paris 4-Sorbonne, Institut Jean-Nicod) Fabienne Martin (Universit?t Stuttgart) Ruth Millikan (University of Connecticut) Jan Nuyts (Universiteit Antwerpen) Nausicaa Pouscoulous (University College London) Fran?ois Recanati (Institut Jean-Nicod) Barry Smith (Birkbeck College, University of London) Rob Stainton (University of Western Ontario) Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean-Nicod) Leonard Talmy (University at Buffalo) Ken Turner (University of Brighton) Johan van der Auwera (Universiteit Antwerpen) Neftali Villanueva (Institut Jean-Nicod) Svetlana Vogeleer (Institut Marie Haps) Additional information is available at: www.ulb.ac.be/uicm2 --------------------------------- Sent from Yahoo! - a smarter inbox. From Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Wed Feb 13 16:21:47 2008 From: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:21:47 +0000 Subject: Graduate Teaching Fellowships available for prospective Ph.D.-students, University of Manchester, UK Message-ID: Generator Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium) The University of Manchester School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures Postgraduate Funding Opportunities 2008-9 GUIDELINES FOR APPLICANTS The School' s postgraduate community is one of the UK's largest and most diverse in the UK, enjoying state-of-the-art facilities and excellent support within a high-quality research environment. In step with our continuing expansion, we are enhancing our support for students registering for a research degree (PhD) in 2008-9. In addition to our current 20 Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTFs), we are offering: Graduate Teaching Fellowships (Full and Part-time) in: Arabic (Full-time) Film Studies (Full-time) French (Full-time) German (Full-time) Spanish (Full-time) Translation Studies: Greek (Part-time) Please note, the GTF must be undertaken in conjunction with a PhD programme of study at the University of Manchester and applicants for the GTF MUST possess relevant teaching experience. The full-time GTF will be required to teach for 6 hours per week and the part-time GTF will be required to teach for 3 hours per week. The full-time GTF is open to Home/EU and International applicants and comprises three elements: the payment of full Home/EU or International fees [2008-9 academic session ?3300 per annum (Home/EU) or ?10500 per annum (International)], which is paid directly to the University, a monthly salary for teaching (2007-8 academic session: ?5806.92 per annum), which is paid directly into your bank account in 10 monthly instalments and a bursary (?6754.80 per annum) paid in quarterly instalments by bank transfer (by arrangement with the Student Services Centre) or by cheque, which is normally collected the first week of October, January, April and July. The part-time GTF will be paid pro-rata, ie. the above amounts will be halved. The application criteria for the GTF are as follows: 1. You must apply and have been accepted for a PhD programme of study in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures. Applicants must be holding an offer of a place by the closing date specified below in order to be included in the competition. 2. You must possess previous teaching experience. For further information regarding the teaching element of the Arabic, French*, German and Spanish GTFs, please contact Mr John Morley, Director, University-wide Language Programmes, University Language Centre, email john.morley at manchester.ac.uk *Please note that the holder of the French GTF will be required to register for a PhD in the area of French Linguistics under the supervision of Professor Maj-Britt Hansen, email Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk For further information regarding the teaching element of the Film Studies GTF ONLY, please contact Dr N?ria Triana Toribio, email nuria.triana at manchester.ac.uk For further information regarding the teaching element of the Translation Studies (Greek) GTF ONLY, please contact Dr Maeve Olohan, email maeve.olohan at manchester.ac.uk For general information and guidance regarding entry requirements and applying for a PhD programme of study, please contact Michelle Fenlon, the Postgraduate Admissions Officer; telephone +44 (0)161 275 3559, email michelle.fenlon at manchester.ac.uk The closing date for receipt of the GTF Application Form is Friday 16 May 2008. Short-listed applicants will be invited for interview before the end of June 2008. Please note, strong preference will be given to new PhD applicants and only short-listed candidates will be contacted. ____________________________________________ Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Professor of French language and linguistics School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tel.: +44 (0)161 306-1733 Fax: +44 (0)161 275-3031 Web: http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk Editor-in-Chief of Revue Romane Associate Editor of Studies in Pragmatics From emcl4.2008 at gmail.com Thu Feb 14 00:07:34 2008 From: emcl4.2008 at gmail.com (Monica Gonzalez-Marquez) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:07:34 -0600 Subject: CFP EMCL4: Integration - Methods and Perspectives Message-ID: EMCL 4: Integration - Methods and Perspectives July 7 ? 12, 2008 University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark http://www.lcm.sdu.dk/index.php?id=1629 EMCL4.2008 at gmail.com To precede Language, Culture and Mind 3 http://www.lcm.sdu.dk ***********Application deadline: April 30, 2008*********** The Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (EMCL) Workshops have emerged out of the desire of many language researchers to incorporate empirical methods into their investigative repertoire. While theoretical work in cognitive linguistics has yielded significant insights, they still await empirical validation. To that end, we seek to further develop an empirically valid account of the connection between language and cognition through the continuous merging of theoretical and empirical research. Our theme for this, the fourth EMCL, is integration of methodologies and perspectives. Language is a complex phenomenon, "too human to be confined to a single discipline" (Hunt & Agnoli, 1991) or to be understood using a single methodology. Although using one perspective or method can be quite informative, pursuit of corroborating evidence via multiple means is substantially more illuminating. Our goal with this workshop is to provide a setting where integration is considered from the onset of a research project. The basic unit of the workshop will therefore be hands-on sessions led by pairs of researchers who will work together to provide complementary perspectives on a problem's investigation. In this setting, invited students will learn how to apply different approaches to a given question, as well as how to carry out a research project from conception to implementation. Intended Audience: The interdisciplinary training required to advance Empirical Cognitive Linguistics remains unfortunately scarce at most universities. This makes the transition from one way of looking at language to another often overwhelming and intimidating. Most beginners never get started because they don't know who to ask for help, how to begin, what questions to ask, what to read. As such, the focus of the EMCL Workshops is to unite gifted cognitive linguists lacking empirical training, with experienced researchers who will guide them in the development and implementation of a research project. The workshop will also serve to introduce new researchers to the community of active empiricists, to whom they will be able to look to for guidance long after the workshop is over. This workshop is aimed specifically at scholars with sound theoretical knowledge in their field though lacking in empirical training, including experimental research. Participants are not expected to have any background at all in empirical work. Candidates should at least have completed initial university training, a B.A. in the US, or be working on a Masters degree if training in Europe, in theoretical linguistics or a similar field, and be familiar with cognitive linguistics (this familiarity need not have occurred in a formal university setting). Graduate students, i.e. post-grads, pre-doctoral, etc., as well as post-doctoral researchers and junior faculty, are invited to apply. The only real prerequisite is a background in cognitive linguistics or embodiment, and a desire to gain empirical research experience. Format: A select group of students (max. 8 per group) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. Topics to be covered include, - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience Cost: 125 Euros, payable upon arrival ** Scholarships will be available for students traveling from Eastern Europe and 3rd world countries. ** Please note: Unlike at previous EMCL workshops, attendance to this session will be strictly limited to the invited participants. No exceptions will be made so as to preserve pedagogical integrity. Workshop Topics and Faculty 1. Gesture and Simulation Semantics Alan Cienki http://www.let.vu.nl/staf/a.cienki/index_en.htm Ben Bergen http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen/ 2. Lexical Semantics and Multidimensional Scaling Steven Clancy http://home.uchicago.edu/~sclancy/ Michele Feist http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ 3. Linguistic Relativity and Meaning John Lucy http://home.uchicago.edu/~johnlucy/ Gabriella Vigliocco http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/language/index.html 4. Music and Language Erin Hannon http://psychology.unlv.edu/html/hannon.html TBA 5. Bilingualism Viorica Marian http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/?PID=VioricaMarian Kathryn Kohnert http://www.slhs.umn.edu/people/facExp.php?UID=kohne005 Accommodation: TBA Application: To apply, please send the following by April 30, 2008. All materials must be submitted electronically to EMCL4.2008 at gmail.com . PLEASE WRITE 'APPLICATION' IN THE SUBJECT LINE. 1. A maximum of two (2) pages, (1000 words), describing, - your background, - your reasons for wanting to participate, - the research group you would like to work in and why. Please include in this section a brief description of your research interests. 2. A copy of your curriculum vitae. Accepted applicants will be notified on or before June 1, 2008. --- EMCL 4 Organizing Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Chair, Cornell (EMCL4.2008 at gmail.com) Raymond Becker, University of California, Merced Michele Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve University Anders R. Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark Gitte R. Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark From fey.parrill at case.edu Fri Feb 15 16:55:53 2008 From: fey.parrill at case.edu (Fey Parrill) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:55:53 -0500 Subject: CFP: CSDL 9 (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, & Language) Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Apologies for duplicate postings. The ninth conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language will be held October 18-20, 2008, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. We are now accepting abstracts. The theme of CSDL 9 is "Meaning, Form, and Body." The focus is on two central, related research areas in the study of language: (1) the integration of form and meaning, and (2) language and the human body. These topics intersect naturally, as in the study of grammatical constructions, of conceptual integration, and of gesture. PLENARY SPEAKERS Seana Coulson: Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego Gilles Fauconnier: Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego Adele Goldberg: Program in Linguistics, Princeton University Michael Spivey: Department of Psychology, Cornell University Eve Sweetser: Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley ABSTRACT SUBMISSION We welcome abstracts for papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics, functional linguistics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech and language processing, especially among scholars exploring the interface between language and cognition. The deadline for proposals to the general session is May 15, 2008. Please submit abstracts of no longer than 500 words, in English, via our online submission system, at http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9. Acceptance notices will be sent by email by June 30, 2008. All papers will be scheduled for 20 minutes, with an additional 5 minutes for questions and discussion. -- Fey Parrill, Vera Tobin, and Mark Turner Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language 9 http://artsci.case.edu/csdl9 From annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Sun Feb 17 10:51:20 2008 From: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it (Annalisa Baicchi) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:51:20 +0100 Subject: Seminar on Meaning Construction - English Society for English St udies (ESSE 2008 ) Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, submissions are invited for ESSE seminar S.21: ?Meaning Construction: Functionalist, Cognitivist and Constructionist Approaches?. Convenors: Prof. Annalisa Baicchi (University of Pavia) e-mail: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Prof. Francisco Gonz?lvez-Garc?a (University of Almer?a) e-mail: fgonza at ual.es The seminar aims to promote the interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in recent functionalist, cognitivist and/or constructionist approaches with special focus on present-day English. Specifically, the seminar is intended to be a forum for the discussion of virtually any theoretical and/or descriptive/applied aspect concerning grammar, the lexicon and discourse, and in particular controversial areas such as: the relationship between syntax and all facets of meaning construction, the boundaries between grammar and the lexicon, argument structure configuration, the interaction between lexical and constructional templates, pragmatic inferencing, implicature and illocutionary meaning, and the potential of metonymic operations in speech act configuration. Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2008 Meeting Dates: 22-26 August 2008 Meeting URL: http://www.esse2008.dk/ General Information: Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to both convenors of the seminar in question before 1st March 2008. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008. Please note that authors of seminar papers will be expected to give an oral presentation of not more than 15 minutes' duration, rather than simply reading their papers aloud. Convenors should ensure that reduced versions of the papers are circulated among all speakers in advance of the seminar in question. There will be a maximum of 5 papers in each two-hour seminar session, and convenors should plan so that there is time for discussion between speakers and with the audience. Looking forward to meeting you at the ESSE Conference, Annalisa Baicchi (also on behalf of Francisco Gonz?lvez-Garc?a) From fg-fgw at uva.nl Wed Feb 20 13:10:15 2008 From: fg-fgw at uva.nl (fg-fgw) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:10:15 +0100 Subject: News on ICFG13 and IPCFG4 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Here are some updates with respect to our upcoming Functional Grammar course and conference at Westminster University in London: - The preconference course will be taught by Christopher S. Butler, John H. Connolly, Kees Hengeveld & Lachlan Mackenzie. The programme can now be found at www.functionalgrammar.com - A reservation form for cheap and high-quality on-campus accomodation is now available and can be send on request or can be downloaded from www.functionalgrammar.com ; - Until July 1st you are entitled to the early bird registration fees. Bank details can now be found at www.functionalgrammar.com . Please note that the deadline for the submission of abstract is February 29, 2008. Best wishes, Gerry Wanders +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you do not wish to receive further announcements, please let us now at fg-fgw at uva.nl Functional Grammar Foundation International Secretary Universiteit van Amsterdam Department of Theoretical Linguistics Spuistraat 210 1012 VT Amsterdam The Netherlands e-mail: fg-fgw at uva.nl +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From janemc at bu.edu Sun Feb 24 22:11:33 2008 From: janemc at bu.edu (Jane M. Chandlee) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:11:33 -0500 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: BUCLD 33 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS THE 33rd ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT OCTOBER 31 - NOVEMBER 2, 2008 Keynote Speaker: Barbara Landau, Johns Hopkins University "Spatial Language and Spatial Cognition: Origins, Development, and Interaction" Plenary Speaker: Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts - Amherst "From Input to Mind: How Acquisition work captures the heart of linguistic theory and the soul of practical application" Lunch Symposium: "Brain mechanisms of language development: The promise and pitfalls of neuroimaging" Dick Aslin, University of Rochester Debra Mills, Emory University Colin Phillips, University of Maryland Helen Tager-Flusberg, Boston University Submissions which present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: * Bilingualism * Cognition & Language * Creoles & Pidgins * Dialects * Discourse and Narrative * Gesture * Hearing Impairment and Deafness * Input & Interaction * Language Disorders (Autism, Down Syndrome, SLI, Williams Syndrome, etc.) * Linguistic Theory (Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon) * Neurolinguistics * Pragmatics * Pre-linguistic Development * Reading and Literacy * Signed Languages * Sociolinguistics * Speech Perception & Production Presentations will be 20 minutes long followed by a 10-minute question period. Posters will be on display for a full day with two attended sessions during the day. ABSTRACT FORMAT AND CONTENT * Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research. * Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 500 words in length. Text of abstract should fit on one page, with a second page for examples, figures, or references. Abstracts longer than 500 words will be rejected without being evaluated. * Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract. Note that word counts should not include the abstract title, figure or table titles, examples, or the list of references. * A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/template.html * Three examples of how to formulate the content of the abstract can be found at: http://www.lsadc.org/info/dec02bulletin/model.html http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/bucholtz/sociocultural/abstracttips.html http://www.ulcl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=5&c=124 * The criteria used by the reviewers to evaluate abstracts can be found at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html#rate * All abstracts must be submitted as PDF documents. Specific instructions for how to create PDF documents are available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/pdfinfo.html. If you encounter a problem creating a PDF file, please contact us for further assistance. Please use the first author's last name as the file name (eg. Smith.pdf). No author information should appear anywhere in the contents of the PDF file itself. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS * Electronic submission: To facilitate the abstract submission process, abstracts will be submitted using the form available at the conference website at http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/abstract.htm. * Specific instructions for abstract submission are available on this website. * Abstracts will be accepted between April 1 and May 15. * Contact information for each author must be submitted via webform. No author information should appear anywhere in the abstract PDF. * At the time of submission you will be asked whether you would like your abstract to be considered for a poster, a paper, or both. Note that this preference is not revealed to the reviewers, and thus is not considered in the review process. * Although each author may submit as many abstracts as desired, we will accept for presentation by each author: (a) a maximum of 1 first authored paper/poster, and (b) a maximum of 2 papers/posters in any authorship status. Note that no changes in authorship (including deleting an author or changing author order) will be possible after the review process is completed or for publication in the conference proceedings. DEADLINE * All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2008. * Late abstracts will not be considered, whatever the reason for the delay. * We regret that we cannot accept abstract submissions by fax or email. * Submissions via surface mail will only be accepted in special circumstances, on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us well in advance of the submission deadline (May 15, 2008) to make these arrangements. ABSTRACT SELECTION * Each abstract is blind reviewed by 5 reviewers from a panel of approximately 180 international scholars. Further information about the review process is available at http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/reviewprocess.html. * Acknowledgment of receipt of the abstract will be sent by email as soon as possible after receipt. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent to first authors only, in early August, by email. Pre-registration materials and preliminary schedule will be available in late August 2008. * If your abstract is accepted, you will need to submit a 150-word abstract including title, author(s) and affiliation(s) for inclusion in the conference handbook. Guidelines will be provided along with notification of acceptance. * Abstracts accepted as papers will be invited for publication in the BUCLD Proceedings. * Abstracts accepted as posters will be invited for publication online only, but not in the printed version. * All conference papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts submitted. Although each abstract will be evaluated individually, we will attempt to honor requests to schedule accepted papers together in group sessions. * No schedule changes will be possible once the schedule is set. Scheduling requests for religious reasons only must be made before the review process is complete (i.e. at the time of submission). A space is provided on the abstract submission webform to specify such requests. FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD/ Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 244 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. Telephone: (617) 353-3085 Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu From gj.steen at let.vu.nl Fri Feb 29 12:18:59 2008 From: gj.steen at let.vu.nl (G.J. Steen) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:18:59 +0100 Subject: New MA in metaphor at the VU, Amsterdam Message-ID: New MA in Metaphor Studies at the Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, Netherlands Starting in September 2008, the VU will offer a track within the Master of Arts degree programme in English Language and Culture that is centred on the study of metaphor. This special programme will consist of four taught courses (each worth 10 ects) plus a Master?s thesis (20 ects). Three of the courses are focused on metaphor, and are compulsory. The fourth course can be chosen from the wide range of topics offered in the Department of Language and Communication and other departments in the Faculty of Arts. Each student will then complete a Master?s thesis of approximately 30,000 words. The one-year programme is designed as follows: Semester 1 ? Metaphor in discourse Instructor: Prof. Gerard Steen Addresses conventional uses of metaphor in language and questions about how it can be defined and identified, when and how it is used, and how it can be analysed in linguistics. ? Metaphor, metonymy and creativity Instructor: Dr Irene Mittelberg Attention is given to the cline between conventional and novel metaphor and the link to metonymy, examining various forms of expression in the media, politics, arts and sciences. ? Elective course Semester 2 ? Metaphor, Embodied Experience and Thought Instructor: Dr Alan Cienki Considers how our language about the physical world is connected to how we think about and express abstract ideas; engages questions from linguistics, psychology and philosophy. ? MA thesis This MA degree may serve as solid preparation for PhD work on metaphor and other language phenomena in various fields of linguistics, and the humanities more broadly. It may also prepare the student for professional activities in teaching, document design, editing, communication advice and other fields in which text analysis plays an important role. For general information about the MA programme in English, please see http://www.let.vu.nl/master/english/ . For specific questions, please contact the programme coordinator, Dr Alan Cienki, e-mail a.cienki AT let.vu.nl From A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk Fri Feb 29 15:46:24 2008 From: A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk (A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:46:24 -0000 Subject: 2nd CFP: 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
University of Brighton, 8th of August, 2008, Brighton, UK
Website: www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl Affiliated with the International Conference on Language and Cognition, running the 4th ? 7th of August, 2008. (www.languageandcognition.net for details.) The 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics provides a forum for postgraduate students working within Cognitive Linguistics, language and cognition, and related areas of research to share and discuss their individual research, current methodologies and frameworks, and future directions of study. 

Empirical, theoretical, methodological abstracts relating to the following topics are welcome: - Language and communication - Language and cognition - Metaphor - Grammar and conceptualisation - Knowledge structure - Applied cognitive linguistics - Cognitive semantics - Related areas of research Keynote speakers Dr Ewa D?browska, University of Sheffield, England, Vice President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association, Editor of Cognitive Linguistics journal. Prof Vyvyan Evans, University of Brighton, England, President of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association. Workshop chair Dr Daniel Casasanto, Stanford University, USA. Editor of Language and Cognition, an interdisciplinary journal of language and cognitive science (2009 launch). Submission of abstracts Submissions are solicited for the three parallel sessions and the poster session. - Abstracts should not exceed 500 words?references are excluded from this count. - Abstracts should clearly indicate a presentation title. - Abstracts should be anonymous for purposes of blind review. - Abstracts should be formatted as Word, RTF or PDF documents. - Abstracts should be submitted electronically to UKPGCCL at gmail.com. - Please include the following information in the body of your email: title and name of author(s) affiliation email address for correspondence presentation title 3-5 keywords preference for presentation or poster session. Please state in the subject line of your email that this is an abstract submission, i.e., ?Abstract Submission: Name(s)? ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 2nd of April, 2008 For full details please consult the conference website: http://www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl Organisers The conference is organised by Andrea Morgado De Matos and Kyle Jasmin. Contact The conference email address is UKPGCCL at gmail.com Web details are available at: www.languageandcognition.net/pgccl Andrea Morgado de Matos