From john at research.haifa.ac.il Sat Mar 1 09:30:41 2008 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john at research.haifa.ac.il) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:30:41 +0200 Subject: Advice about a student of mine In-Reply-To: <20080229154935.2A9BFDF1D0@amanita.mail.rice.edu> Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I'm writing to you all for advice about an MA student of mine, Sandy Habib, who is just finishing up his thesis and thinking about where to study for his Ph.D. He is an absolutely outstanding student--he received our department's award for best linguistics student last year--and he is a Maronite and a very serious Catholic. He wants to combine linguistics and religious studies in his career, addressing controversial issues in the Church but from a linguistically sophisticated point of view. He has always maintained that he wants to get his doctorate in linguistics, not theology, but he wants to address theological issues, at least in part, in his research. I don't know how to advise him. I suggested he apply to Georgetown because it was the only place I could think of where both linguistics and Catholic religious studies are taken seriously, but they didn't even accept him in the linguistics department in spite of his outstanding record, with the only explanation being that maybe he should apply to the religion department-- but it's clear that in terms of intellectual approach he fits linguistics more than religion. He's now applying to Lancaster to study CDA (this was his idea) but I'm concerned he is going to have zero contact with religious scholars there. If any of you have some suggestions about how Sandy might complete his studies so as to combine his interests, I would very much appreciate your input. I'm really clueless about this. Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message was sent using IMP, the Webmail Program of Haifa University From dcyr at yorku.ca Sat Mar 1 15:08:08 2008 From: dcyr at yorku.ca (Danielle E. Cyr) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:08:08 -0500 Subject: Advice about a student of mine In-Reply-To: <1204363841.47c922413da0b@webmail.haifa.ac.il> Message-ID: Hi John, The closest expert I know in that domain is Dr. Huamei Han at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, who has a Ph.D in linguistics (discourse analysis) and religious studies from University of Toronto. She continues her research on the subject, more specifically on the discourse of (Chinese) immigrants who have converted to Christianism. She is equally an outstanding young scholar and her dissertation has been highly praised at U. of T. It would be a good idea for Sandy to contact her (huamei at sfu.ca) All the best, Danielle Cyr Quoting john at research.haifa.ac.il: > Dear Funknetters, > I'm writing to you all for advice about an MA student of mine, Sandy Habib, > who is just finishing up his thesis and thinking about where to study for > his Ph.D. He is an absolutely outstanding student--he received our > department's > award for best linguistics student last year--and he is a Maronite and > a very serious Catholic. He wants to combine linguistics and religious > studies in his career, addressing controversial issues in the Church but > from a linguistically sophisticated point of view. He has always maintained > that he wants to get his doctorate in linguistics, not theology, but > he wants to address theological issues, at least in part, in his research. > I don't know how to advise him. I suggested he apply to Georgetown > because it was the only place I could think of where both linguistics and > Catholic religious studies are taken seriously, but they didn't even accept > him in the linguistics department in spite of his outstanding record, with > the > only explanation being that maybe he should apply to the religion > department-- > but it's clear that in terms of intellectual approach he fits linguistics > more than religion. He's now applying to Lancaster to study CDA (this > was his idea) but I'm concerned he is going to have zero contact with > religious scholars there. If any of you have some suggestions about how > Sandy might complete his studies so as to combine his interests, I would > very much appreciate your input. I'm really clueless about this. > Thanks, > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This message was sent using IMP, the Webmail Program of Haifa University > Professor Danielle E. Cyr Department of French Studies York University Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3 Tel. 1.416.736.2100 #310180 FAX. 1.416.736.5924 dcyr at yorku.ca From w.hollmann at lancaster.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 18:33:17 2008 From: w.hollmann at lancaster.ac.uk (Hollmann, Willem) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:33:17 -0000 Subject: Advice about a student of mine Message-ID: Hi John I saw your message (and Danielle's reply) and while I don't work in CDA and/or theology myself I thought I'd reply on behalf of my Department. Lancaster is well known for research in CDA, and one of our most prominent researchers in this area, Paul Chilton, has done research on biblical and religious texts. Karin Tusting, who is in the Literacy Research Centre (associated with the Linguistics Department), is also interested in CDA in a religious context. Cross-department supervision is normal at Lancaster for interdisciplinary topics. Some people we would consider as potential co-supervisors would be Gavin Hyman and Paul Fletcher in the Religious Studies Department. In sum, I'd say that your student would make a good choice to apply to us. Hope this helps, WBH -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu on behalf of Danielle E. Cyr Sent: Sat 3/1/2008 15:08 To: john at research.haifa.ac.il Cc: A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk; huamei at sfu.ca; funknet at mailman.rice.edu Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] Advice about a student of mine Hi John, The closest expert I know in that domain is Dr. Huamei Han at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, who has a Ph.D in linguistics (discourse analysis) and religious studies from University of Toronto. She continues her research on the subject, more specifically on the discourse of (Chinese) immigrants who have converted to Christianism. She is equally an outstanding young scholar and her dissertation has been highly praised at U. of T. It would be a good idea for Sandy to contact her (huamei at sfu.ca) All the best, Danielle Cyr Quoting john at research.haifa.ac.il: > Dear Funknetters, > I'm writing to you all for advice about an MA student of mine, Sandy > Habib, who is just finishing up his thesis and thinking about where to > study for his Ph.D. He is an absolutely outstanding student--he > received our department's award for best linguistics student last > year--and he is a Maronite and a very serious Catholic. He wants to > combine linguistics and religious studies in his career, addressing > controversial issues in the Church but from a linguistically > sophisticated point of view. He has always maintained that he wants to > get his doctorate in linguistics, not theology, but he wants to > address theological issues, at least in part, in his research. > I don't know how to advise him. I suggested he apply to Georgetown > because it was the only place I could think of where both linguistics > and Catholic religious studies are taken seriously, but they didn't > even accept him in the linguistics department in spite of his > outstanding record, with the only explanation being that maybe he > should apply to the religion > department-- > but it's clear that in terms of intellectual approach he fits > linguistics more than religion. He's now applying to Lancaster to > study CDA (this was his idea) but I'm concerned he is going to have > zero contact with religious scholars there. If any of you have some > suggestions about how Sandy might complete his studies so as to > combine his interests, I would very much appreciate your input. I'm really clueless about this. > Thanks, > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- This message was sent using IMP, the Webmail Program of Haifa > University > Professor Danielle E. Cyr Department of French Studies York University Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3 Tel. 1.416.736.2100 #310180 FAX. 1.416.736.5924 dcyr at yorku.ca ************************************************ Willem Hollmann Dept of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YT Tel: +44 (0)1524 594644 Fax: +44 (0)1524 843085 http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/289/ ************************************************ From amnfn at well.com Sun Mar 9 16:33:40 2008 From: amnfn at well.com (A. Katz) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:33:40 -0700 Subject: speech to text software for poor articulators Message-ID: This is is a general query to the list: Is there anywhere out there available a speech to text program for people with disabilities, who do talk, but articulate so poorly it's difficult for ordinary people to understand them? --Aya Katz ================================================================ Dr. Aya Katz, Inverted-A, Inc, P.O. 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The canonical approach allows us to address these differences by taking defining properties and placing them in a multidimensional space. In this way, we can treat, for example, issues of whether particular constructions fit under the rubric Œagreement¹ or Œcase¹ as a matter of greater or lesser proximity to a canonical ideal. An ontology for this approach therefore requires a mapping out of the criteria that linguistic typologists use for defining linguistic constructs. The Surrey Morphology Group proposes to bring together linguists from different perspectives to outline the issues relevant for the creation of an ontology for Canonical Typology in the form of a Community of Practice Extension (COPE) within the GOLD ontology for linguistics (Farrar and Langendoen 2003; see also: www.linguistics-ontology.org/gold.html). Contributions may address the following issues: the canonical criteria for defining different morphosyntactic features (case, gender, number, etc.); defining canonical criteria for syntax-morphology interaction (agreement, government, head, modifier, etc.); practical issues for the fieldworker; issues of computational implementation and reasoning. We invite papers on these and related topics from computational linguists, fieldworkers, typologists, as well as researchers working on ontologies. Confirmed speakers: · Nicholas Evans (Australian National University) · Scott Farrar (University of Washington) · Frank Seifart (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Anonymous abstracts (500 word maximum) should be sent as an attachment by e-mail to a.kibort at surrey.ac.uk by 29 August 2008, with contact information contained in the body of the message. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October 31, 2008. Any questions may also be sent to the above address. References Corbett, Greville G. 2005. The canonical approach in typology. In: Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Adam Hodges and David S. Rood (eds) Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 25-49. Corbett, Greville G. 2006. Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Farrar, Scott and D. Terence Langendoen .2003. A linguistic ontology for the Semantic Web. GLOT International 7 (3), 97 - 100. From gert.desutter at hogent.be Thu Mar 13 14:34:48 2008 From: gert.desutter at hogent.be (Gert De Sutter) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:34:48 +0100 Subject: International Conference on Discourse and Grammar (DG 2008): Ghent, 23-24 May 2008 Message-ID: *Discourse and Grammar DG 2008, Ghent, 23-24 May 2008* "Illocutionary force, information structure and subordination between discourse and grammar" is an international conference on the grammatical, pragmatic and semantic status of less prominent states of affairs in discourse and complex sentence structure. The more than 40 contributions to the conference focus in particular on the interaction between grammatical properties of subordination, speech act properties and clausal information structure. The conference is organised by University College Ghent and Ghent University Keynote speakers: C. Lehmann (Erfurt) A. Verhagen (Leiden) J.-C. Verstraete (Leuven) Registration before April 15th 2008 on http://www.hogent.be/dg2008 Registration fee: 75 € (includes lunches on Friday and Saturday, all conference material and a guided tour of Ghent's historical centre) Detailed information about the venue, the programme, the contributors and the abstracts on http://www.hogent.be/dg2008 From Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk Tue Mar 18 10:31:17 2008 From: Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk (Vyvyan Evans) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:31:17 -0000 Subject: Conference registration: Language, Communication & Cognition Message-ID: Conference on Language, Communication & Cognition Brighton, 4-7th August 2008 Conference registration is now open, and the conference programme has been posted on the conference website. Full details are available on the web here: www.languageandcognition.net Vyv Evans From emcl4.2008 at gmail.com Thu Mar 20 00:53:06 2008 From: emcl4.2008 at gmail.com (Monica Gonzalez-Marquez) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:53:06 -0500 Subject: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics IV Workshop In-Reply-To: <89f6d9420803191752w2bceffe8p3cbed87326faa5b0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics IV Integration - Methods and Perspectives University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Dk July 7 – 12, 2008 For more info visit new website: http://emcl4.2008.googlepages.com/home Flyers available above for download and posting. ***********Application deadline: April 30, 2008*********** Applications must be submitted by email to EMCL4.2008 at gmail.com Acceptance notifications will be sent on or before June 1, 2008. Intended Audience: 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 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 or embodiment (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. Workshop Topics: Gesture & Simulation Semantics Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ben Bergen, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Lexical Semantics & Multidimensional Scaling Steven Clancy, University of Chicago Michele Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Linguistic Relativity & Meaning John Lucy, University of Chicago Gabriella Vigliocco, University College London Bilingualism Viorica Marian, Northwestern University Kathryn Kohnert, University of Minnesota Cost: 125 Euros (Scholarships will be available for students traveling from Eastern Europe and developing countries) To precede Language, Culture and Mind 3 http://www.lcm.sdu.dk EMCL 4 Organizing Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Chair, Cornell University (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 kemmer at rice.edu Mon Mar 24 21:15:28 2008 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:15:28 -0500 Subject: Rice University: One-year lecturer position Message-ID: ONE-YEAR LECTURER POSITION AT RICE UNIVERSITY Pending funding approval, the Department of Linguistics at Rice University is now accepting applications for a one-year lecturer position. Deadline for receipt of applications is April 15, 2008. Responsibilities of the position include teaching historical linguistics, a two-semester field methods sequence, and a fourth course to be determined by mutual agreement. Ph.D. required by time of appointment, July 1, 2008. We especially welcome applications from researchers who share the department's interest in approaching language from a usage-based perspective with solid empirical grounding in primary data, especially approaches of a cognitive, social-interactional, and/or functional nature. Experience in fieldwork and language documentation/revitalization is also desirable. See also our departmental web site at http://ling.rice.edu. Application materials include: cover letter, CV, teaching statement, sample of written work, and three letters of reference. Past teaching evaluations and/or information about course topics the applicant could teach are also welcome but not required at this time. Rice University is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity in education and employment. Rice does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status. Rice University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Address for Applications: Lecturer Position Department of Linguistics, MS-23 Rice University 6100 Main Street Houston, TX 77005 USA Further questions contact Dept. Coordinator Rita Riley rriley at rice.edu From A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk Tue Mar 25 16:38:30 2008 From: A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk (A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:38:30 -0000 Subject: 3rd and FINAL CFP: 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) THIRD AND FINAL 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 phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk Sun Mar 30 20:18:32 2008 From: phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk (Philippe De Brabanter) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:18:32 +0000 Subject: 2nd CFP Utterance Interpretation & Cognitive Models, Brussels + CORRECTION Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS UICM2: Brussels Conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models II. NOTE that there was a mistake in some versions of the first call for papers: the conference website address is: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~uicm2/ 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: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~uicm2/ __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html From john at research.haifa.ac.il Sat Mar 1 09:30:41 2008 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john at research.haifa.ac.il) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:30:41 +0200 Subject: Advice about a student of mine In-Reply-To: <20080229154935.2A9BFDF1D0@amanita.mail.rice.edu> Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I'm writing to you all for advice about an MA student of mine, Sandy Habib, who is just finishing up his thesis and thinking about where to study for his Ph.D. He is an absolutely outstanding student--he received our department's award for best linguistics student last year--and he is a Maronite and a very serious Catholic. He wants to combine linguistics and religious studies in his career, addressing controversial issues in the Church but from a linguistically sophisticated point of view. He has always maintained that he wants to get his doctorate in linguistics, not theology, but he wants to address theological issues, at least in part, in his research. I don't know how to advise him. I suggested he apply to Georgetown because it was the only place I could think of where both linguistics and Catholic religious studies are taken seriously, but they didn't even accept him in the linguistics department in spite of his outstanding record, with the only explanation being that maybe he should apply to the religion department-- but it's clear that in terms of intellectual approach he fits linguistics more than religion. He's now applying to Lancaster to study CDA (this was his idea) but I'm concerned he is going to have zero contact with religious scholars there. If any of you have some suggestions about how Sandy might complete his studies so as to combine his interests, I would very much appreciate your input. I'm really clueless about this. Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message was sent using IMP, the Webmail Program of Haifa University From dcyr at yorku.ca Sat Mar 1 15:08:08 2008 From: dcyr at yorku.ca (Danielle E. Cyr) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 10:08:08 -0500 Subject: Advice about a student of mine In-Reply-To: <1204363841.47c922413da0b@webmail.haifa.ac.il> Message-ID: Hi John, The closest expert I know in that domain is Dr. Huamei Han at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, who has a Ph.D in linguistics (discourse analysis) and religious studies from University of Toronto. She continues her research on the subject, more specifically on the discourse of (Chinese) immigrants who have converted to Christianism. She is equally an outstanding young scholar and her dissertation has been highly praised at U. of T. It would be a good idea for Sandy to contact her (huamei at sfu.ca) All the best, Danielle Cyr Quoting john at research.haifa.ac.il: > Dear Funknetters, > I'm writing to you all for advice about an MA student of mine, Sandy Habib, > who is just finishing up his thesis and thinking about where to study for > his Ph.D. He is an absolutely outstanding student--he received our > department's > award for best linguistics student last year--and he is a Maronite and > a very serious Catholic. He wants to combine linguistics and religious > studies in his career, addressing controversial issues in the Church but > from a linguistically sophisticated point of view. He has always maintained > that he wants to get his doctorate in linguistics, not theology, but > he wants to address theological issues, at least in part, in his research. > I don't know how to advise him. I suggested he apply to Georgetown > because it was the only place I could think of where both linguistics and > Catholic religious studies are taken seriously, but they didn't even accept > him in the linguistics department in spite of his outstanding record, with > the > only explanation being that maybe he should apply to the religion > department-- > but it's clear that in terms of intellectual approach he fits linguistics > more than religion. He's now applying to Lancaster to study CDA (this > was his idea) but I'm concerned he is going to have zero contact with > religious scholars there. If any of you have some suggestions about how > Sandy might complete his studies so as to combine his interests, I would > very much appreciate your input. I'm really clueless about this. > Thanks, > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This message was sent using IMP, the Webmail Program of Haifa University > Professor Danielle E. Cyr Department of French Studies York University Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3 Tel. 1.416.736.2100 #310180 FAX. 1.416.736.5924 dcyr at yorku.ca From w.hollmann at lancaster.ac.uk Thu Mar 6 18:33:17 2008 From: w.hollmann at lancaster.ac.uk (Hollmann, Willem) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:33:17 -0000 Subject: Advice about a student of mine Message-ID: Hi John I saw your message (and Danielle's reply) and while I don't work in CDA and/or theology myself I thought I'd reply on behalf of my Department. Lancaster is well known for research in CDA, and one of our most prominent researchers in this area, Paul Chilton, has done research on biblical and religious texts. Karin Tusting, who is in the Literacy Research Centre (associated with the Linguistics Department), is also interested in CDA in a religious context. Cross-department supervision is normal at Lancaster for interdisciplinary topics. Some people we would consider as potential co-supervisors would be Gavin Hyman and Paul Fletcher in the Religious Studies Department. In sum, I'd say that your student would make a good choice to apply to us. Hope this helps, WBH -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu on behalf of Danielle E. Cyr Sent: Sat 3/1/2008 15:08 To: john at research.haifa.ac.il Cc: A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk; huamei at sfu.ca; funknet at mailman.rice.edu Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] Advice about a student of mine Hi John, The closest expert I know in that domain is Dr. Huamei Han at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, who has a Ph.D in linguistics (discourse analysis) and religious studies from University of Toronto. She continues her research on the subject, more specifically on the discourse of (Chinese) immigrants who have converted to Christianism. She is equally an outstanding young scholar and her dissertation has been highly praised at U. of T. It would be a good idea for Sandy to contact her (huamei at sfu.ca) All the best, Danielle Cyr Quoting john at research.haifa.ac.il: > Dear Funknetters, > I'm writing to you all for advice about an MA student of mine, Sandy > Habib, who is just finishing up his thesis and thinking about where to > study for his Ph.D. He is an absolutely outstanding student--he > received our department's award for best linguistics student last > year--and he is a Maronite and a very serious Catholic. He wants to > combine linguistics and religious studies in his career, addressing > controversial issues in the Church but from a linguistically > sophisticated point of view. He has always maintained that he wants to > get his doctorate in linguistics, not theology, but he wants to > address theological issues, at least in part, in his research. > I don't know how to advise him. I suggested he apply to Georgetown > because it was the only place I could think of where both linguistics > and Catholic religious studies are taken seriously, but they didn't > even accept him in the linguistics department in spite of his > outstanding record, with the only explanation being that maybe he > should apply to the religion > department-- > but it's clear that in terms of intellectual approach he fits > linguistics more than religion. He's now applying to Lancaster to > study CDA (this was his idea) but I'm concerned he is going to have > zero contact with religious scholars there. If any of you have some > suggestions about how Sandy might complete his studies so as to > combine his interests, I would very much appreciate your input. I'm really clueless about this. > Thanks, > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- This message was sent using IMP, the Webmail Program of Haifa > University > Professor Danielle E. 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The canonical approach allows us to address these differences by taking defining properties and placing them in a multidimensional space. In this way, we can treat, for example, issues of whether particular constructions fit under the rubric ?agreement? or ?case? as a matter of greater or lesser proximity to a canonical ideal. An ontology for this approach therefore requires a mapping out of the criteria that linguistic typologists use for defining linguistic constructs. The Surrey Morphology Group proposes to bring together linguists from different perspectives to outline the issues relevant for the creation of an ontology for Canonical Typology in the form of a Community of Practice Extension (COPE) within the GOLD ontology for linguistics (Farrar and Langendoen 2003; see also: www.linguistics-ontology.org/gold.html). Contributions may address the following issues: the canonical criteria for defining different morphosyntactic features (case, gender, number, etc.); defining canonical criteria for syntax-morphology interaction (agreement, government, head, modifier, etc.); practical issues for the fieldworker; issues of computational implementation and reasoning. We invite papers on these and related topics from computational linguists, fieldworkers, typologists, as well as researchers working on ontologies. Confirmed speakers: ? Nicholas Evans (Australian National University) ? Scott Farrar (University of Washington) ? Frank Seifart (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum) Anonymous abstracts (500 word maximum) should be sent as an attachment by e-mail to a.kibort at surrey.ac.uk by 29 August 2008, with contact information contained in the body of the message. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October 31, 2008. Any questions may also be sent to the above address. References Corbett, Greville G. 2005. The canonical approach in typology. In: Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Adam Hodges and David S. Rood (eds) Linguistic Diversity and Language Theories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 25-49. Corbett, Greville G. 2006. Agreement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Farrar, Scott and D. Terence Langendoen .2003. A linguistic ontology for the Semantic Web. GLOT International 7 (3), 97 - 100. From gert.desutter at hogent.be Thu Mar 13 14:34:48 2008 From: gert.desutter at hogent.be (Gert De Sutter) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:34:48 +0100 Subject: International Conference on Discourse and Grammar (DG 2008): Ghent, 23-24 May 2008 Message-ID: *Discourse and Grammar DG 2008, Ghent, 23-24 May 2008* "Illocutionary force, information structure and subordination between discourse and grammar" is an international conference on the grammatical, pragmatic and semantic status of less prominent states of affairs in discourse and complex sentence structure. The more than 40 contributions to the conference focus in particular on the interaction between grammatical properties of subordination, speech act properties and clausal information structure. The conference is organised by University College Ghent and Ghent University Keynote speakers: C. Lehmann (Erfurt) A. Verhagen (Leiden) J.-C. Verstraete (Leuven) Registration before April 15th 2008 on http://www.hogent.be/dg2008 Registration fee: 75 ? (includes lunches on Friday and Saturday, all conference material and a guided tour of Ghent's historical centre) Detailed information about the venue, the programme, the contributors and the abstracts on http://www.hogent.be/dg2008 From Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk Tue Mar 18 10:31:17 2008 From: Vyv.Evans at brighton.ac.uk (Vyvyan Evans) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:31:17 -0000 Subject: Conference registration: Language, Communication & Cognition Message-ID: Conference on Language, Communication & Cognition Brighton, 4-7th August 2008 Conference registration is now open, and the conference programme has been posted on the conference website. Full details are available on the web here: www.languageandcognition.net Vyv Evans From emcl4.2008 at gmail.com Thu Mar 20 00:53:06 2008 From: emcl4.2008 at gmail.com (Monica Gonzalez-Marquez) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:53:06 -0500 Subject: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics IV Workshop In-Reply-To: <89f6d9420803191752w2bceffe8p3cbed87326faa5b0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics IV Integration - Methods and Perspectives University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Dk July 7 ? 12, 2008 For more info visit new website: http://emcl4.2008.googlepages.com/home Flyers available above for download and posting. ***********Application deadline: April 30, 2008*********** Applications must be submitted by email to EMCL4.2008 at gmail.com Acceptance notifications will be sent on or before June 1, 2008. Intended Audience: 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 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 or embodiment (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. Workshop Topics: Gesture & Simulation Semantics Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ben Bergen, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Lexical Semantics & Multidimensional Scaling Steven Clancy, University of Chicago Michele Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Linguistic Relativity & Meaning John Lucy, University of Chicago Gabriella Vigliocco, University College London Bilingualism Viorica Marian, Northwestern University Kathryn Kohnert, University of Minnesota Cost: 125 Euros (Scholarships will be available for students traveling from Eastern Europe and developing countries) To precede Language, Culture and Mind 3 http://www.lcm.sdu.dk EMCL 4 Organizing Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Chair, Cornell University (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 kemmer at rice.edu Mon Mar 24 21:15:28 2008 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:15:28 -0500 Subject: Rice University: One-year lecturer position Message-ID: ONE-YEAR LECTURER POSITION AT RICE UNIVERSITY Pending funding approval, the Department of Linguistics at Rice University is now accepting applications for a one-year lecturer position. Deadline for receipt of applications is April 15, 2008. Responsibilities of the position include teaching historical linguistics, a two-semester field methods sequence, and a fourth course to be determined by mutual agreement. Ph.D. required by time of appointment, July 1, 2008. We especially welcome applications from researchers who share the department's interest in approaching language from a usage-based perspective with solid empirical grounding in primary data, especially approaches of a cognitive, social-interactional, and/or functional nature. Experience in fieldwork and language documentation/revitalization is also desirable. See also our departmental web site at http://ling.rice.edu. Application materials include: cover letter, CV, teaching statement, sample of written work, and three letters of reference. Past teaching evaluations and/or information about course topics the applicant could teach are also welcome but not required at this time. Rice University is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity in education and employment. Rice does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status. Rice University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Address for Applications: Lecturer Position Department of Linguistics, MS-23 Rice University 6100 Main Street Houston, TX 77005 USA Further questions contact Dept. Coordinator Rita Riley rriley at rice.edu From A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk Tue Mar 25 16:38:30 2008 From: A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk (A.MorgadoDeMatos at brighton.ac.uk) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:38:30 -0000 Subject: 3rd and FINAL CFP: 2nd UK Postgraduate Conference in Cognitive Linguistics Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) THIRD AND FINAL 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 phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk Sun Mar 30 20:18:32 2008 From: phdebrab at yahoo.co.uk (Philippe De Brabanter) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:18:32 +0000 Subject: 2nd CFP Utterance Interpretation & Cognitive Models, Brussels + CORRECTION Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS UICM2: Brussels Conference on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models II. NOTE that there was a mistake in some versions of the first call for papers: the conference website address is: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~uicm2/ 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: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~uicm2/ __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html