From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Wed Oct 8 14:49:25 2008 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Francisco_Jos=E9_Ruiz_De_Mendoza_Ib=E1=F1ez=22?=) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:49:25 +0200 Subject: Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics volume 6 Message-ID: Dear colleagues: I attach information on the next issue of ARCL. Please, circulate the information among potentially interested researchers. The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective. Fruitful debate is encouraged with neighboring academic disciplines as well as with other approaches to language study, particularly functionally-oriented ones. 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Articles   Historical dictionary definitions revisited from a prototype theoretical standpoint Clara Molina   Usage-based dialectology: Emotion concepts in the Southern Csango dialect Veronika Szelid and Dirk Geeraerts   Text for context, trial for trialogue: A fieldwork study of a fictive interaction blend Esther Pascual   A prototype approach to sentences and sentence types Klaus-Uwe Panther and Klaus-Michael Köpcke   Determining the structure of lexical entries and grammatical constructions in Construction Grammar Hans C. Boas   Coreference between singular epicenes and the plural pronoun Marion Neubauer   Conceptual metaphor theory: Some criticisms and alternative proposals Zoltán Kövecses   Qualificational meanings, illocutionary signals, and the cognitive planning of language use Jan Nuyts   The interaction of metonymy and metaphor in the meaning and form of 'bahuvrihi' compounds Antonio Barcelona   Interviews   A whole-systems approach to language: An interview with Luc Steels Benjamin K. Bergen   Cognitive Construction Grammar works: An interview with Adele E. 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Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends Reviewed by Marisa Cordella From clements at indiana.edu Fri Oct 10 21:11:39 2008 From: clements at indiana.edu (Clements, Joseph Clancy) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:11:39 -0400 Subject: question about patterns of N-A, A-N order Message-ID: In morphology, Cutler, Hawkins, et al (1985) found that Prep-VO languages have prefixes and suffixes and Postp-OV languages have almost exclusively suffixes. It has been shown that adj order relative to its modified N does not pattern with Prep-VO or Postp-OV languages. However, the following looks like a pattern in the few languages I've worked with: there are languages that have almost exclusively A-N order (e.g. English, German, the Neo-Aryan languages) and languages with N-A order that also have A-N order (e.g. the Romance languages). My question: does anyone know of any studies on A-N/N-A order patterns in the world's languages? Any references would be greatly appreciated. Clancy J. Clancy Clements, Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Depts. of Linguistics & Spanish and Portuguese Ling: MM322, IUB, 1021 E. Third St. S&P: BH844, IUB, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405 Tel: (812)855-6456 (Ling); (812)855-8612 (S&P) Fax:(812)855-5363 (Ling); (812)855-4526 (S&P) ________________________________________ From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of Vyv Evans [v.evans at bangor.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:52 AM To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu Subject: [FUNKNET] Subscribe to 'Language & Cognition' Dear colleagues, Subscriptions for the new journal 'Language & Cognition' are now open. Subscription is achieved by joining the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association (UK-CLA), and is free of charge for the first year (2009). Downloadable registration forms, and full details of how to subscribe, are available from the journal website: www.languageandcognition.net The table of contents for 2009 and 2010 are detailed below. Sincerely, Vyv Evans Bangor University www.vyvevans.net ----------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 1 (2009) Issue 1 How infants build a semantic system. Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford) The cognitive poetics of literary resonance. Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham) Action in cognition: The case of language. Lawrence J. Taylor and Rolf A. Zwaan (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) Prototype constructions in early language development. Paul Ibbotson (University of Manchester) and Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) The Enactment of Language: 20 Years of Interactions Between Linguistic and Motor Processes. Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced) and Sarah Anderson (Cornell University) Episodic affordances contribute to language comprehension. Arthur M. Glenberg (Arizona State Universtiy), Raymond Becker (Wilfrid Laurier University), Susann Klötzer, Lidia Kolanko, Silvana Müller (Dresden University of Technology), and Mike Rinck (Radboud University Nijmegen) Reviews: Daniel D. Hutto. 2008. Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons (MIT Press). Reviewed by Chris Sinha Aniruddh Patel. 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford Univeristy Press). Reviewed by Daniel Casasanto Issue 2 Pronunciation reflects syntactic probabilities: Evidence from spontaneous speech. Harry Tily (Stanford University), Susanne Gahl (University of California, Berkeley), Inbal Arnon, Anubha Kothari, Neal Snider and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) Causal agents in English, Korean and Chinese: The role of internal and external causation. Phillip Wolff, Ga-hyun Jeon, and Yu Li (Emory University) Ontology as correlations: How language and perception interact to create knowledge. Linda Smith (Indiana University) and Eliana Colunga (University of Colorado at Boulder) Toward a theory of word meaning. Gabriella Vigliocco, Lotte Meteyard and Mark Andrews (University College London) Spatial language in the brain. Mikkel Wallentin (University of Aarhus) The neural basis of semantic memory: Insights from neuroimaging. Uta Noppeney (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen) Reviews: Ronald Langacker. 2008. Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction. (Oxford University Press). Reviewed by Vyvyan Evans Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigagalia. Mirrors in the brain: How our minds share actions and emotions. 2008. (Oxford University Press). Reviewed by David Kemmerer. volume 2 (2010) Issue 1 Adaptive cognition without massive modularity: The context-sensitivity of language use. Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Guy Van Orden (University of Cincinnati) Spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Jean Mandler (University California, San Diego and University College London) Metaphor: Old words, new concepts, imagined worlds. Robyn Carston (University College London) Language Development and Linguistic Relativity. John A. Lucy (University of Chicago) Construction Learning. Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Space and Language: some neural considerations. Anjan Chatterjee (University of Pennsylvania) Issue 2 What can language tell us about psychotic thought? Gina Kuperberg (Tufts University) Abstract motion is no longer abstract. Teenie Matlock (University California, Merced) When gesture does and doesn't promote learning. Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago) Discourse Space Theory. Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) Relational language supports relational cognition. Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University) Talking about quantities in space. Kenny Coventry (Northumbria University). -- Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilëwch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio â defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu 100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract rhwymol - mae rhestr o lofnodwyr awdurdodedig ar gael o Swyddfa Cyllid Prifysgol Bangor. www.bangor.ac.uk This email and any attachments may contain confidential material and is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you must not use, retain or disclose any information contained in this email. Any views or opinions are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of the Bangor University. Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk From tgivon at uoregon.edu Fri Oct 10 22:35:07 2008 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:35:07 -0600 Subject: question about patterns of N-A, A-N order In-Reply-To: <60427DD941446A4581EDC2E2B99594270C004D5238@iu-mssg-mbx07.ads.iu.edu> Message-ID: This is completely a function of the diachrony of grammar (grammaticalization). So, in the most simplified version: (i) If a language was an OV language and then developed morphology during that period, there will be a tendency (not absolute) to develop suffixes. If the language then changes to VO, it doesn't get rid of the old suffixal morphology. But when it develops new morphology, it would tend to develop prefixes. English, German, Hebrew & Latin are such languages. (ii) Conversely, if a language is VO and develops prefixal morphology, but then changes to OV (mostly via substratum contact; examples: Akkadian, Amharic New-Guinea Austronesian), then when it develops new morphology, it would be primarily suffixal. But the old prefixes don't go away (iii) Since OV appears to be the oldest word-order attested (Givon 1979), and languages tend to drift FROM it rather than TO it (except in substratum-contact cases), OV languages tend to only have suffixal morphology, since they were not VO at any prior time. This is of course highly simplified, and to many of us it belabors the obvious...Some of the gory detail can be found in: Givon, T. (1971) "Historical syntax and synchronic morphology", CLS #7, U. of Chicago Givon, T. (1979) On Understanding Grammar, NY: Academic Press Givon, T. (200) "Internal reconstruction: As method, as theory", in S. Gildea, ed. TSL volume, Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Givon, T. (2001) Syntax (vol. 1, several chapters), Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Best, TG ============ Clements, Joseph Clancy wrote: > In morphology, Cutler, Hawkins, et al (1985) found that Prep-VO languages have prefixes and suffixes and Postp-OV languages have almost exclusively suffixes. > > It has been shown that adj order relative to its modified N does not pattern with Prep-VO or Postp-OV languages. However, the following looks like a pattern in the few languages I've worked with: there are languages that have almost exclusively A-N order (e.g. English, German, the Neo-Aryan languages) and languages with N-A order that also have A-N order (e.g. the Romance languages). > > My question: does anyone know of any studies on A-N/N-A order patterns in the world's languages? > > Any references would be greatly appreciated. > > Clancy > > > > > J. Clancy Clements, Professor > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Depts. of Linguistics & Spanish and Portuguese > Ling: MM322, IUB, 1021 E. Third St. > S&P: BH844, IUB, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. > Bloomington, IN 47405 > Tel: (812)855-6456 (Ling); (812)855-8612 (S&P) > Fax:(812)855-5363 (Ling); (812)855-4526 (S&P) > ________________________________________ > From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of Vyv Evans [v.evans at bangor.ac.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:52 AM > To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu > Subject: [FUNKNET] Subscribe to 'Language & Cognition' > > Dear colleagues, > > Subscriptions for the new journal 'Language & Cognition' are now open. > Subscription is achieved by joining the UK Cognitive Linguistics > Association (UK-CLA), and is free of charge for the first year (2009). > > Downloadable registration forms, and full details of how to subscribe, > are available from the journal website: www.languageandcognition.net > > The table of contents for 2009 and 2010 are detailed below. > > Sincerely, > > Vyv Evans > Bangor University > www.vyvevans.net > ----------------------- > > TABLE OF CONTENTS > Volume 1 (2009) > Issue 1 > How infants build a semantic system. Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford) > > The cognitive poetics of literary resonance. Peter Stockwell (University > of Nottingham) > > Action in cognition: The case of language. Lawrence J. Taylor and Rolf > A. Zwaan (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) > > Prototype constructions in early language development. Paul Ibbotson > (University of Manchester) and Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary > Anthropology, Leipzig) > > The Enactment of Language: 20 Years of Interactions Between Linguistic > and Motor Processes. Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced) > and Sarah Anderson (Cornell University) > > Episodic affordances contribute to language comprehension. Arthur M. > Glenberg (Arizona State Universtiy), Raymond Becker (Wilfrid Laurier > University), Susann Klötzer, Lidia Kolanko, Silvana Müller (Dresden > University of Technology), and Mike Rinck (Radboud University Nijmegen) > > Reviews: > Daniel D. Hutto. 2008. Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural > Basis of Understanding Reasons (MIT Press). Reviewed by Chris Sinha > > Aniruddh Patel. 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford > Univeristy Press). Reviewed by Daniel Casasanto > > Issue 2 > Pronunciation reflects syntactic probabilities: Evidence from > spontaneous speech. Harry Tily (Stanford University), Susanne Gahl > (University of California, Berkeley), Inbal Arnon, Anubha > Kothari, Neal Snider and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) > > Causal agents in English, Korean and Chinese: The role of internal and > external causation. Phillip Wolff, Ga-hyun Jeon, and Yu Li (Emory > University) > > Ontology as correlations: How language and perception interact to > create knowledge. Linda Smith (Indiana University) and Eliana Colunga > (University of Colorado at Boulder) > > Toward a theory of word meaning. Gabriella Vigliocco, Lotte Meteyard and > Mark Andrews (University College London) > > Spatial language in the brain. Mikkel Wallentin (University of Aarhus) > > The neural basis of semantic memory: Insights from neuroimaging. Uta > Noppeney (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen) > > Reviews: > Ronald Langacker. 2008. Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction. > (Oxford University Press). Reviewed by Vyvyan Evans > > Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigagalia. Mirrors in the brain: How > our minds share actions and emotions. 2008. (Oxford University > Press). Reviewed by David Kemmerer. > > > volume 2 (2010) > Issue 1 > Adaptive cognition without massive modularity: The context-sensitivity > of language use. Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa > Cruz) and Guy Van Orden (University of Cincinnati) > > Spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Jean Mandler (University > California, San Diego and University College London) > > Metaphor: Old words, new concepts, imagined worlds. Robyn Carston > (University College London) > > Language Development and Linguistic Relativity. John A. Lucy > (University of Chicago) > > Construction Learning. Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) > > Space and Language: some neural considerations. Anjan Chatterjee > (University of Pennsylvania) > > Issue 2 > > What can language tell us about psychotic thought? Gina Kuperberg > (Tufts University) > > Abstract motion is no longer abstract. Teenie Matlock (University > California, Merced) > > When gesture does and doesn't promote learning. Susan Goldin-Meadow > (University of Chicago) > > Discourse Space Theory. Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) > > Relational language supports relational cognition. Dedre Gentner > (Northwestern University) > > Talking about quantities in space. Kenny Coventry (Northumbria > University). > > > > > -- > Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, > gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig > gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y > neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar > unwaith a dilëwch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, > rhaid i chi beidio â defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a > gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i > hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn > Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu > bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu > 100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn > nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract > rhwymol - mae rhestr o lofnodwyr awdurdodedig ar gael o Swyddfa > Cyllid Prifysgol Bangor. www.bangor.ac.uk > > This email and any attachments may contain confidential material and > is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have > received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately > and delete this email. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you > must not use, retain or disclose any information contained in this > email. Any views or opinions are solely those of the sender and do > not necessarily represent those of the Bangor University. > Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or > any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless > expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is > not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised > signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance > Office. www.bangor.ac.uk > > > From cbutler at ntlworld.com Sat Oct 11 08:46:13 2008 From: cbutler at ntlworld.com (Chris Butler) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:46:13 +0200 Subject: question about patterns of N-A, A-N order Message-ID: You should definitely look at the work of Jan Rijkhoff, who has made a detailed study of ordering in the NP within the framework of Functional Grammar, and later Functional Discourse Grammar. The following references should prove useful: Rijkhoff, Jan (1990). Explaining word order in the noun phrase. Linguistics 28, 5-42. Rijkhoff, Jan (1992). The Noun Phrase: A typological study of its form and structure. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Amsterdam. Rijkhoff, Jan (2002). The Noun Phrase. Oxford: Oxford University Press [an expanded paperback edition was published in 2004]. Rijkhoff, Jan (2002). On the interaction of Linguistic Typology and Functional Grammar. Functions of Language 9-2, 209-237 (Special issue: The interaction of data, description, and theory in linguistics: Functional perspectives. Guest editor: William B. McGregor). Rijkhoff, Jan. 2004. Iconic and non-iconic word order patterns: on symmetry in the NP and counter examples to Universal 20'. In Words in their Places: A Festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Henk Aertsen & Mike Hannay & Rod Lyall (eds.), 169-180. Amsterdam: Free University, Faculty of Arts. Rijkhoff, Jan (2008). Layers, levels and contexts in Functional Discourse Grammar. In The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar, Daniel García Velasco & Jan Rijkhoff (eds.), 63-116. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Rijkhoff, Jan (2008) Descriptive and discourse-referential modifiers in a layered model of the noun phrase. Linguistics 46(4), 789-829 (Special issue: Layering in Functional Grammars. Eds: Christopher S. Butler and Miriam Taverniers). Chris Butler Honorary Professor, Swansea University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clements, Joseph Clancy" To: Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 11:11 PM Subject: [FUNKNET] question about patterns of N-A, A-N order In morphology, Cutler, Hawkins, et al (1985) found that Prep-VO languages have prefixes and suffixes and Postp-OV languages have almost exclusively suffixes. It has been shown that adj order relative to its modified N does not pattern with Prep-VO or Postp-OV languages. However, the following looks like a pattern in the few languages I've worked with: there are languages that have almost exclusively A-N order (e.g. English, German, the Neo-Aryan languages) and languages with N-A order that also have A-N order (e.g. the Romance languages). My question: does anyone know of any studies on A-N/N-A order patterns in the world's languages? Any references would be greatly appreciated. Clancy From clements at indiana.edu Sat Oct 11 21:26:51 2008 From: clements at indiana.edu (Clements, Joseph Clancy) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:26:51 -0400 Subject: Position in Linguistics, with focus on Indic languages Message-ID: INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIA STUDIES PROGRAM ASSOCIATE / FULL PROFESSOR (FT2 / FT1) The India Studies Program at Indiana University announces a search for a scholar with a distinguished record in research and teaching to fill a newly-opened senior position. 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Indiana University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Please send completed applications to: Professor Sumit Ganguly, Chair, India Studies Search Committee, India Studies Program, Indiana University, 825 East 8th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408-3842. From dryer at buffalo.edu Wed Oct 15 16:13:58 2008 From: dryer at buffalo.edu (Matthew Dryer) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:13:58 -0400 Subject: question about patterns of N-A, A-N order In-Reply-To: <60427DD941446A4581EDC2E2B99594270C004D5238@iu-mssg-mbx07.ads.iu.edu> Message-ID: I am not exactly sure what Clancy is asking. If he is asking whether languages with dominant NAdj order are more likely to allow AdjN as a possible alternative order than languages with dominant AdjN order are to allow NAdj as a possible alternative order, then the answer appears to be no. In my database, I code 121 languages as being dominant NAdj, with AdjN as an alternate order, and 83 languages as dominant AdjN, with NAdj as a dominant order. Since languages with dominant order NAdj outnumber languages with dominant AdjN order by over 2 to 1 in my database, this suggests a slight trend in the opposite direction from that suggested by Clancy. Matthew Dryer --On Friday, October 10, 2008 5:11 PM -0400 "Clements, Joseph Clancy" wrote: > In morphology, Cutler, Hawkins, et al (1985) found that Prep-VO languages > have prefixes and suffixes and Postp-OV languages have almost exclusively > suffixes. > > It has been shown that adj order relative to its modified N does not > pattern with Prep-VO or Postp-OV languages. However, the following looks > like a pattern in the few languages I've worked with: there are languages > that have almost exclusively A-N order (e.g. English, German, the > Neo-Aryan languages) and languages with N-A order that also have A-N > order (e.g. the Romance languages). > > My question: does anyone know of any studies on A-N/N-A order patterns in > the world's languages? > > Any references would be greatly appreciated. > > Clancy > > > > > J. Clancy Clements, Professor > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Depts. of Linguistics & Spanish and Portuguese > Ling: MM322, IUB, 1021 E. Third St. > S&P: BH844, IUB, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. > Bloomington, IN 47405 > Tel: (812)855-6456 (Ling); (812)855-8612 (S&P) > Fax:(812)855-5363 (Ling); (812)855-4526 (S&P) > ________________________________________ > From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] > On Behalf Of Vyv Evans [v.evans at bangor.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September > 24, 2008 11:52 AM > To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu > Subject: [FUNKNET] Subscribe to 'Language & Cognition' > > Dear colleagues, > > Subscriptions for the new journal 'Language & Cognition' are now open. > Subscription is achieved by joining the UK Cognitive Linguistics > Association (UK-CLA), and is free of charge for the first year (2009). > > Downloadable registration forms, and full details of how to subscribe, > are available from the journal website: www.languageandcognition.net > > The table of contents for 2009 and 2010 are detailed below. > > Sincerely, > > Vyv Evans > Bangor University > www.vyvevans.net > ----------------------- > > TABLE OF CONTENTS > Volume 1 (2009) > Issue 1 > How infants build a semantic system. Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford) > > The cognitive poetics of literary resonance. Peter Stockwell (University > of Nottingham) > > Action in cognition: The case of language. Lawrence J. Taylor and Rolf > A. Zwaan (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) > > Prototype constructions in early language development. Paul Ibbotson > (University of Manchester) and Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary > Anthropology, Leipzig) > > The Enactment of Language: 20 Years of Interactions Between Linguistic > and Motor Processes. Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced) > and Sarah Anderson (Cornell University) > > Episodic affordances contribute to language comprehension. Arthur M. > Glenberg (Arizona State Universtiy), Raymond Becker (Wilfrid Laurier > University), Susann Klötzer, Lidia Kolanko, Silvana Müller (Dresden > University of Technology), and Mike Rinck (Radboud University Nijmegen) > > Reviews: > Daniel D. Hutto. 2008. Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural > Basis of Understanding Reasons (MIT Press). Reviewed by Chris Sinha > > Aniruddh Patel. 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford > Univeristy Press). Reviewed by Daniel Casasanto > > Issue 2 > Pronunciation reflects syntactic probabilities: Evidence from > spontaneous speech. Harry Tily (Stanford University), Susanne Gahl > (University of California, Berkeley), Inbal Arnon, Anubha > Kothari, Neal Snider and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) > > Causal agents in English, Korean and Chinese: The role of internal and > external causation. Phillip Wolff, Ga-hyun Jeon, and Yu Li (Emory > University) > > Ontology as correlations: How language and perception interact to > create knowledge. Linda Smith (Indiana University) and Eliana Colunga > (University of Colorado at Boulder) > > Toward a theory of word meaning. Gabriella Vigliocco, Lotte Meteyard and > Mark Andrews (University College London) > > Spatial language in the brain. Mikkel Wallentin (University of Aarhus) > > The neural basis of semantic memory: Insights from neuroimaging. Uta > Noppeney (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen) > > Reviews: > Ronald Langacker. 2008. Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction. > (Oxford University Press). Reviewed by Vyvyan Evans > > Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigagalia. Mirrors in the brain: How > our minds share actions and emotions. 2008. (Oxford University > Press). Reviewed by David Kemmerer. > > > volume 2 (2010) > Issue 1 > Adaptive cognition without massive modularity: The context-sensitivity > of language use. Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa > Cruz) and Guy Van Orden (University of Cincinnati) > > Spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Jean Mandler (University > California, San Diego and University College London) > > Metaphor: Old words, new concepts, imagined worlds. Robyn Carston > (University College London) > > Language Development and Linguistic Relativity. John A. 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Unless > expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is > not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised > signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance > Office. www.bangor.ac.uk > > From caterina.mauri at unipv.it Mon Oct 20 14:46:17 2008 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:46:17 +0200 Subject: REMINDER: International Spring School - Standard and non-standard languages in Europe Message-ID: ************* REMINDER, DEADLINE APPROACHING **************** ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------- INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL 2009 "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe" LETiSS - Center for Postgraduate Education and Research Pavia, 6-10 April 2009 ------------------------- Dear list members, the newborn Center for Postgraduate Education and Research on “Languages of Europe: Typology, History and Sociolinguistics” (LETiSS) ANNOUNCES the International Spring School 2009 on "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe", to be held in Pavia (Italy), 6-10 April 2009. The LETISS Center has been launched within the frame of an institute for advanced studies called IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori - http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/index.php). It is the first center in Italy (and in Europe) specifically dedicated to the linguistic situation of Europe, approached from a variety of perspectives. More information on the aims, the research topics and the activities of the Center can be found at the following URL: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETISS The first activity organized by LETiSS is the Spring School on "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe". The aim of the spring school is to enhance dialogue among young linguists interested in the topics announced in the title, under the guide of leading specialists. This is why the number of participants has been limited to 20, in order to facilitate interactions among them. The Spring School will last one week, from Monday the 6th until Friday the 10th of April 2009, at the IUSS Institute in Pavia. The school will offer four courses that will last five days, according to the (provisional) timetable provided below. The courses will be taught by four scientists who have specific expertise in the topics of the school. The everyday schedule, from Monday to Friday, will be as follows: 9-11: 1st course 11.15-13.15: 2nd course 15-17: 3rd course 17.15-19.15: 4th course Thursday evening there will be a farewell dinner at 20.00. THE COURSES: 1st course – Bernd Kortmann (Universität Freiburg i.Br.) topic: Dialectology and Typology ------- 2nd course – Thomas Stolz (Universität Bremen) topic: Standard Average European ------- 3rd course – Davide Ricca (Università di Torino) topic: Dialects as Endangered languages ------- 4th course – Suzanne Romaine (University of Oxford) topic: Endangered languages and varieties in Europe The exact titles and a preliminary bibliography will be online approximately next October. APPLICATIONS 20 advanced students in linguistics and related fields will be selected by the Scientific Committee of the School (see LETiSS website). The main criterion will be the degree of relatedness/ pertinence of their research interests with the topics of the School. In particular: * applicants must have achieved at least the B.A. + M.A. level (= a five years cycle); therefore the students may be Ph.D. students, Post- docs, and young researchers; * in the CV applicants should indicate any research activity and publication that may be relevant for the admission; * applicants should also attach a short description (one/two pages) of their past and ongoing research projects. APPLICATION GUIDELINES Please send an e-mail to letiss (at) iusspavia.it with the following information: * Name * Contact info * Position and affiliation * Motivation for application (max 500 words) * CV (as a separate attachment) * Brief description of past and ongoing research projects (as a separate attachment). NO TUITION FEE IS REQUIRED!! Each participant will receive 250 Euros as partial refund for his/her travel and accommodation expenses, and a certificate of attendance will be issued at the end of the school. IMPORTANT DATES - 31st October 2008: application deadline. Applications must be sent to letiss at iusspavia.it by the 31st October - 30th November 2008: notification of acceptance. The applicants who have been accepted will receive a communication with all the relevant informations. - 15th December 2008: the list of the accepted participants will be online. ORGANIZERS: Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sansò, Paolo Ramat Please send your application and any questions to: letiss at iusspavia.it More information can be found on the following websites: LETiSS Center: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS International Spring School 2009: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS.springschool Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sansò, Paolo Ramat From d.brown at surrey.ac.uk Tue Oct 21 08:57:07 2008 From: d.brown at surrey.ac.uk (Dunstan Brown) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:57:07 +0100 Subject: Call for Participation: Creating Infrastructure for Canonical Typology Message-ID: Call for Participation Creating Infrastructure For Canonical Typology January 9 - 10, 2009 Conference hosted by the Surrey Morphology Group and Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK There is a growing movement within linguistics to promote the use of ontologies for linguistic description. However, differences in terminology and underlying logic are major stumbling blocks. One way of addressing these problems is to adopt the canonical approach to typology 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. A two-day international seminar is being held at Surrey in January 2009, addressing the issues relevant for the creation of an ontology for Canonical Typology in the form of a Community of Practice Extension (COPE) within the General Ontology for Linguistic Description (GOLD). It brings together computational linguists, fieldworkers and typologists, as well as researchers working specifically on ontologies. Registration for the conference is now open online at: http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/typology/index.php Everyone who wishes to attend the meeting must register, using the online form, no later than 10 December 2008. A small number of bursaries is available to subsidise travel within the UK for postgraduate student participants. Anyone wishing to be considered for a student bursary should send a one-page letter of application to Mrs Mirela Dumic by the end of 7 December 2008. Programme January 9, 2009 9.00-10.00 Meeting of the LTRC Group 10:00-10:30 Refreshments and arrival Session A 10:30-10:45 Introduction Dunstan Brown (Surrey) 10:45-11:30 Canonical morphosyntactic features Grev Corbett (Surrey) 11:30-12:30 Towards a multidimensional typology of nominal classification Frank Seifart (Regensburg) 12:30-1:15 Lunch Session B 1:15-2:00 Refining the canonical characterization of the passive Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) 2:00-3:00 Rare but useful: the canons 'direct' and 'indirect' in reported speech typology Nicholas Evans (ANU) 3:00-3:30 Coffee break 3:30-4:15 Canonical typology: the case of reflexivization Martin Everaert (Utrecht) 4:15-5:00 Towards a typology of finiteness: a canonical approach Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS) January 10, 2009 Session A 9:00-9:45 On clitics and canons Andrew Spencer (Essex) and Ana Luis (Coimbra) 9:45-10:30 Canonical typology of person agreement: Evidence from signed languages Kearsy Cormier (UCL) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-11:45 Canons and the Possession-Modification Scale Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS) & Andrew Spencer (Essex) 11:45-12:30 Infrastructure requires a foundation: a base for the canons of negation Oliver Bond (SOAS) 12:30-1:30 Lunch Session B 1:30-2:15 From interlinearized glossing to standard annotation Dorothee Beermann Hellan (Trondheim) 2:15-3:00 Corpus informed approach to Canonical Typology Jiajin XU (Lancaster) 3:00-3:15 Coffee break 3:15-4:00 An extensible design for linguistic survey databases Alexis Dimitriadis (Utrecht) 4:00-5:00 Using canonical typology to achieve e-Linguistics Scott Farrar (Washington) 5:00 Concluding Remarks From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Tue Oct 21 15:13:36 2008 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:13:36 +0200 Subject: SALC2009: Second call for papers/theme sessions Message-ID: With apologies for cross-postings ************************************************************************ ** Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) June 10-12, 2009 Arranged by the Departments of English, Scandinavian Languages, and General Linguistics Stockholm University Second Circular We are pleased to announce the second SALC conference, SALC-2009, where we hope to bring together researchers from within all areas of language and cognition studies in Sweden and internationally. We welcome discussions on a wide variety of issues within the general area of language and cognition, and with particular focus on the areas of cognitive linguistic approaches to language acquisition and the contributions of psycholinguistics to linguistic theory. We are very pleased to announce our plenary speakers for the conference: * Elizabeth C. Traugott - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and English at Stanford University. She has done research in historical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, lexicalization, socio-historical linguistics, and linguistics and literature. Her current research focuses on ways to bring the theories of grammaticalization and Construction Grammar to bear on accounts of micro-changes. * Daniel Casasanto - Postdoctoral Researcher, Senior Scientific Staff at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. His research integrates methods from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience to explore connections between talking, thinking, perceiving, and acting. * Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm - Professor in General Linguistics at Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. Her interests include: typology, lexical typology, nominal juxtaposition, the origin, meaning(s) and grammatical properties of kin and temperature terms. Maria's current research focuses on areal phenomena in the languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and also recurrent semantic shifts and form/meaning correlations in the core vocabulary of human languages. * Niclas Abrahamsson - Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism Stockholm University. His research interests include first and second language acquisition, cognitive, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of language acquisition and language use and maturational constraints and the critical period, language aptitude, first language attrition and also second language phonology and phonetics. Call for papers We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations for the "Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) / Svenska Sällskapet för Språk och Kognition (SSSK)" to be held at Stockholm University between June 10th and 12th, 2009. Presentations should involve research based on structures and processes of general cognition (e.g. perception, memory and reasoning) and social cognition (e.g. joint attention and imitation), and as affecting such structures and processes. The conference, as SALC in general, is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas between disciplines, fields of study and theoretical frameworks. Topics include, but are not limited to: * psycholinguistic approaches to language and cognition * language acquisition/use and cognition * language structure and cognition * language and cognitive development and evolution * language change and cognition * language and gesture * language and consciousness * linguistic typology and cognition * linguistic relativity The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2008. Please send two copies of an abstract of about 400 words (excluding references) to SALC2009 at english.su.se , with your name and affiliation written under the title in one copy; one copy must remain anonymous. Presentations should last 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. After the process of peer-revision, e-mail notifications will be sent out by March 1, 2009. Conference fees: * 50 Euros for faculty SALC members, * 70 Euros for faculty non-members * 40 Euros for student SALC members * 50 Euros for student non-members The annual SALC membership is 15 Euros for faculty and 10 Euros for students. There will be a conference dinner for a cost of 40 Euros. Registration and payments can be made on-line at http://www.salc-sssk.org/salc09/ Theme sessions. As part of SALC-2009 there will be four theme sessions: 1. Interfaces of Language and Vision. Coordinator: Pirita Pyykkönen, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland. 2. Cognition and Second Language Use. Coordinator: Alan Mcmillion, English Language Department, Stockholm University, Sweden. 3. Language, Consciousness and Semiosis. Coordinators: Jordan Zlatev, Centre for Languages and Literature and Göran Sonesson, Department of Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden. 4. When a Word Makes a World. Coordinator: Tetyana Lunyova, English Philology Department, Poltava State Pedagogical University, Ukraine. If you are interested in submitting a paper to one of the theme sessions, please mark your abstract clearly with your intended theme session. All submissions, both general and for theme sessions, will be peer-reviewed, after which e-mail notifications will be sent out by March 1, 2009. *************************************************** Jordan Zlatev, Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Center for Languages and Literature Lund University Box 201 221 00 Lund, Sweden email: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/JordanZlatev.html *************************************************** From e.pascual at let.vu.nl Wed Oct 22 14:47:49 2008 From: e.pascual at let.vu.nl (Pascual, E.) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:47:49 +0200 Subject: Cognitive Linguistics Conference in the Low Countries: Leiden, Dec. 19-20, 2008 Message-ID: Nederlands-Vlaamse CogLingDagen: programma en registratie on-line Na de bijeenkomsten in Utrecht (2004) en Leuven (2006), wordt op 19 en 20 december 2008 in Leiden de derde editie van de Cognitieve Linguïstiekdagen (CogLingDag) georganiseerd. Het doel van de conferentie is om een platform te bieden aan het werk van cognitief en functioneel georiënteerde taalwetenschappers. Voor het eerst zal deze conferentie twee dagen duren. Plenaire sprekers: Felix Ameka Multiple interpretations and levels of meaning: Towards a U-Semantics of lexical and grammatical constructions Melissa Bowerman The semantic categorization of everyday events in adult and child language: A cross-linguistic perspective Kurt Feyaarts Construal voorbij. Intersubjectieve betekenisconstructie in creatieve interacties Ad Foolen Emotion and Language: Conceptualization and expression Op zaterdag is er naast een algemene sessie ook een parallelsessie over de relatie tussen Cognitieve Taalkunde en Structuralisme. Het volledige programma is nu on-line op: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/coglingdag-2008.jsp Op de website kunt u zich ook registeren als deelnemer. De deadline voor registratie en betaling is 30 november 2008. Organisatie: * Ronny Boogaart (Universiteit Leiden) * Egbert Fortuin (Universiteit Leiden) * Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Leiden) * Esther Pascual (VU Amsterdam) Contactadres: * coglingdag at hum.leidenuniv.nl From sepkit at utu.fi Tue Oct 28 06:18:51 2008 From: sepkit at utu.fi (=?iso-8859-1?B?IlNlcHBvIEtpdHRpbOQi?=) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:18:51 +0200 Subject: Call for abstracts: Case in and across languages, Helsinki, August 27-29, 2009 Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) Call for abstracts Case in and across languages SKY (The Linguistic Association of Finland) organizes a symposium ‘Case in and across languages’ in Helsinki (Finland), August 27-29, 2009. The official website of the workshop, with the Call for Papers and other information, is found at: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/case/ As a system that marks the relations between words in a sentence, case is essential to every language. Case has, for example, the function of distinguishing between agent and patient, and it often codes adverbial functions, such as location, instruments and manner, all of which are central concepts in every language. Yet while there is no doubt that case constitutes a core feature of grammar, linguists are not fully agreed on how to define it theoretically. What, for example, are the differences between adpositions and morphological cases? The status and definition of case also varies across different theories of grammar. In addition to the multitude of theoretical definitions, languages display significant differences, for example, in the number, characteristics and functions of cases. Furthermore, while morphological case is a significant grammatical feature in many languages, it is not obligatory in language generally: numerous languages lack (morphological) case altogeth er and use distinct formal means (such as serial verb constructions and applicatives) to encode relations that other languages express via case marking. Cases also differ according to whether their form and meaning is determined by the verb or other head word, or whether they are more independent in nature. The goal of this symposium is to bring together scholars working on case. We welcome contributions dealing with case from various perspectives and backgrounds (including theoretical, empirical and experimental approaches), and with both language-specific and cross-linguistic approaches to case. Presentations should be accessible to all scholars regardless of their backgrounds. Possible topics for talks include (but are not restricted to) the following: - Case inventories/systems in individual languages/language families - Languages without morphological cases/with poor case inventories - Distinction between morphological cases and adpositions - Grammaticalization of cases - Functions expressed by case in/and across languages - Differences between semantic and grammatical cases - Discussions of core vs. peripheral cases - Case in psycholinguistics (e.g. acquisition of cases, processing of cases) - Case in different theories of grammar - Case polysemy - The expression of case functions in languages without cases - The relevance of case to linguistic theory/definitions of case - Corpus-based studies of case - Non-existent cases that ought to be The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max 500 words, an additional page is allowed for data, tables and references) is March 1, 2009. Please submit your abstract by e-mail to the address of the organizing committee (sky-case at helsinki.fi). Send your abstract as attachment to an e-mail message (in both .pdf and .doc formats). The abstracts must be anonymous (author information must be given in the body of the message only). Please indicate clearly whether your abstract is intended as a poster or a section paper. The abstracts will be evaluated by the organizing committee and by the members of the scientific committee (see below). Participants will be notified of acceptance by April 3, 2009. The collection of abstracts will be made available on the symposium website after the program has been finalized. The time allotted for talks is 20 minutes for the talk and 10 minutes for discussion. Workshops Proposals for workshops should be submitted no later than February 15, 2009. Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee. Notification of acceptance status will be given by March 15. These one-day workshops may run in parallel sessions with the main conference program; alternatively, the first day of the symposium may be dedicated to workshops. The symposium organizers will provide the lecture rooms and other facilities, but the workshop organizers will be responsible for the organization of their workshops (choosing the speakers etc.). The body of the message should include the following information (preferably in this order): 1) Name of the participant 2) Title of presentation 3) Affiliation 4) E-mail address 5) Whether the paper is meant as a section paper, a poster, or a workshop? Activities - Presentations by invited speakers - Presentations by other participants - Posters - Workshops Confirmed invited speakers Peter Austin (SOAS, London) Tuomas Huumo (University of Tartu) Laura Janda (University of Tromso) Scientific committee Ina Bornkessel (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) Martin Haspelmath (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Bernd Heine (University of Cologne) Helen de Hoop (University of Nijmegen) Andrej Malchukov (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) John Newman (University of Alberta) Urpo Nikanne (Åbo Akademi University) Krista Ojutkangas (University of Turku) Anna Siewierska (University of Lancaster) Maria Vilkuna (Research Centre for the Languages of Finland) Organizing committee Seppo Kittilä, University of Helsinki Aki Kyröläinen, University of Turku Ulla Vanhatalo, University of Helsinki Laura Visapää, University of Helsinki Registration The registration deadline is August 1, 2009. Please send your registration by e-mail to the address of the organizing committee, given below. Registration fees General: 75 Euro Members of the association: 50 Euro Undergraduate students: 25 Euro The registration fee includes conference folder, refreshments during coffee breaks, get-together on August 27 and the conference dinner on August 28. Finnish participants are requested to pay the registration fee to the SKY bank account when they register for the conference (bank account number 174530-71243 (Nordea)). Participants from abroad are likewise requested to pay in advance with bank transfer, when at all possible, to the SKY bank account in Finland (Bank: Nordea; IBAN: FI76 1745 3000 0712 43, BIC: NDEAFIHH), though we will also accept payment IN CASH (only in Euros; moreover, we CANNOT accept credit cards of any sort) upon arrival. In the case of advance bank transfer payment from abroad, we would kindly ask you to bring with you and present upon registration a COPY of the original transaction receipt. Conference venue Tieteiden talo (House of Sciences), address Kirkkokatu 6. How to get there information will be found at the webpage of the symposium closer to the conference. Contact Please send all queries to the address of the organizing committee at sky-case at helsinki.fi From geoffnathan at wayne.edu Tue Oct 28 10:15:09 2008 From: geoffnathan at wayne.edu (Geoff Nathan) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:15:09 -0400 Subject: New phonology textbook In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I'd like to announce the availability of a new phonology textbook with a strong functionalist bent: Phonology: A cognitive grammar introduction Geoffrey S. Nathan Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 3, John Benjamins, 2008. further information available here: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CLiP%203 -- Geoffrey S. Nathan Faculty Liaison, Computing and Information Technology, and Associate Professor of English, Linguistics Program Phone Numbers (313) 577-1259 or (313) 577-8621 Wayne State University Detroit, MI, 48202  From francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es Wed Oct 8 14:49:25 2008 From: francisco.ruizdemendoza at unirioja.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Francisco_Jos=E9_Ruiz_De_Mendoza_Ib=E1=F1ez=22?=) Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:49:25 +0200 Subject: Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics volume 6 Message-ID: Dear colleagues: I attach information on the next issue of ARCL. Please, circulate the information among potentially interested researchers. The Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics (published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association) aims to establish itself as an international forum for the publication of high-quality original research on all areas of linguistic enquiry from a cognitive perspective. Fruitful debate is encouraged with neighboring academic disciplines as well as with other approaches to language study, particularly functionally-oriented ones. Best regards, Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=ARCL%206 Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics Volume 6 Table of contents This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes. Articles ? Historical dictionary definitions revisited from a prototype theoretical standpoint Clara?Molina ? Usage-based dialectology: Emotion concepts in the Southern Csango dialect Veronika?Szelid?and?Dirk?Geeraerts ? Text for context, trial for trialogue: A fieldwork study of a fictive interaction blend Esther?Pascual ? A prototype approach to sentences and sentence types Klaus-Uwe?Panther?and?Klaus-Michael?K?pcke ? Determining the structure of lexical entries and grammatical constructions in Construction Grammar Hans?C.?Boas ? Coreference between singular epicenes and the plural pronoun Marion?Neubauer ? Conceptual metaphor theory: Some criticisms and alternative proposals Zolt?n?K?vecses ? Qualificational meanings, illocutionary signals, and the cognitive planning of language use Jan?Nuyts ? The interaction of metonymy and metaphor in the meaning and form of 'bahuvrihi' compounds Antonio?Barcelona ? Interviews ? A whole-systems approach to language: An interview with Luc Steels Benjamin?K.?Bergen ? Cognitive Construction Grammar works: An interview with Adele E. Goldberg Francisco?Gonz?lvez-Garc?a ? Reviews ? Hannay, Mike and Gerard J. Steen (Eds.). (2007). Structural-Functional Studies in English Grammar: In Honour of Lachlan Mackenzie (Studies in Language Companion Series, 83) Reviewed?by?Francisco?Gonz?lvez-Garc?a ? M?nica Gonz?lez-M?rquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey (Eds.). (2007). Methods in Cognitive Linguistics. Reviewed?by?Javier?Valenzuela ? Radden, G?nter and Ren? Dirven. (2007). Cognitive English Grammar Reviewed?by?Carlos?Inchaurralde?Besga ? Evans, Vyvyan. (2007). A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics. Reviewed?by?Maria?Josep?Cuenca ? Chamizo-Dom?nguez Pedro J. (2008). Semantics and Pragmatics of False Friends Reviewed?by?Marisa?Cordella From clements at indiana.edu Fri Oct 10 21:11:39 2008 From: clements at indiana.edu (Clements, Joseph Clancy) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:11:39 -0400 Subject: question about patterns of N-A, A-N order Message-ID: In morphology, Cutler, Hawkins, et al (1985) found that Prep-VO languages have prefixes and suffixes and Postp-OV languages have almost exclusively suffixes. It has been shown that adj order relative to its modified N does not pattern with Prep-VO or Postp-OV languages. However, the following looks like a pattern in the few languages I've worked with: there are languages that have almost exclusively A-N order (e.g. English, German, the Neo-Aryan languages) and languages with N-A order that also have A-N order (e.g. the Romance languages). My question: does anyone know of any studies on A-N/N-A order patterns in the world's languages? Any references would be greatly appreciated. Clancy J. Clancy Clements, Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Depts. of Linguistics & Spanish and Portuguese Ling: MM322, IUB, 1021 E. Third St. S&P: BH844, IUB, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405 Tel: (812)855-6456 (Ling); (812)855-8612 (S&P) Fax:(812)855-5363 (Ling); (812)855-4526 (S&P) ________________________________________ From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of Vyv Evans [v.evans at bangor.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:52 AM To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu Subject: [FUNKNET] Subscribe to 'Language & Cognition' Dear colleagues, Subscriptions for the new journal 'Language & Cognition' are now open. Subscription is achieved by joining the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association (UK-CLA), and is free of charge for the first year (2009). Downloadable registration forms, and full details of how to subscribe, are available from the journal website: www.languageandcognition.net The table of contents for 2009 and 2010 are detailed below. Sincerely, Vyv Evans Bangor University www.vyvevans.net ----------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 1 (2009) Issue 1 How infants build a semantic system. Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford) The cognitive poetics of literary resonance. Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham) Action in cognition: The case of language. Lawrence J. Taylor and Rolf A. Zwaan (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) Prototype constructions in early language development. Paul Ibbotson (University of Manchester) and Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) The Enactment of Language: 20 Years of Interactions Between Linguistic and Motor Processes. Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced) and Sarah Anderson (Cornell University) Episodic affordances contribute to language comprehension. Arthur M. Glenberg (Arizona State Universtiy), Raymond Becker (Wilfrid Laurier University), Susann Kl?tzer, Lidia Kolanko, Silvana M?ller (Dresden University of Technology), and Mike Rinck (Radboud University Nijmegen) Reviews: Daniel D. Hutto. 2008. Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons (MIT Press). Reviewed by Chris Sinha Aniruddh Patel. 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford Univeristy Press). Reviewed by Daniel Casasanto Issue 2 Pronunciation reflects syntactic probabilities: Evidence from spontaneous speech. Harry Tily (Stanford University), Susanne Gahl (University of California, Berkeley), Inbal Arnon, Anubha Kothari, Neal Snider and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) Causal agents in English, Korean and Chinese: The role of internal and external causation. Phillip Wolff, Ga-hyun Jeon, and Yu Li (Emory University) Ontology as correlations: How language and perception interact to create knowledge. Linda Smith (Indiana University) and Eliana Colunga (University of Colorado at Boulder) Toward a theory of word meaning. Gabriella Vigliocco, Lotte Meteyard and Mark Andrews (University College London) Spatial language in the brain. Mikkel Wallentin (University of Aarhus) The neural basis of semantic memory: Insights from neuroimaging. Uta Noppeney (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen) Reviews: Ronald Langacker. 2008. Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction. (Oxford University Press). Reviewed by Vyvyan Evans Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigagalia. Mirrors in the brain: How our minds share actions and emotions. 2008. (Oxford University Press). Reviewed by David Kemmerer. volume 2 (2010) Issue 1 Adaptive cognition without massive modularity: The context-sensitivity of language use. Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Guy Van Orden (University of Cincinnati) Spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Jean Mandler (University California, San Diego and University College London) Metaphor: Old words, new concepts, imagined worlds. Robyn Carston (University College London) Language Development and Linguistic Relativity. John A. Lucy (University of Chicago) Construction Learning. Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Space and Language: some neural considerations. Anjan Chatterjee (University of Pennsylvania) Issue 2 What can language tell us about psychotic thought? Gina Kuperberg (Tufts University) Abstract motion is no longer abstract. Teenie Matlock (University California, Merced) When gesture does and doesn't promote learning. Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago) Discourse Space Theory. Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) Relational language supports relational cognition. Dedre Gentner (Northwestern University) Talking about quantities in space. Kenny Coventry (Northumbria University). -- Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dil?wch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio ? defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu 100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract rhwymol - mae rhestr o lofnodwyr awdurdodedig ar gael o Swyddfa Cyllid Prifysgol Bangor. www.bangor.ac.uk This email and any attachments may contain confidential material and is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you must not use, retain or disclose any information contained in this email. Any views or opinions are solely those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of the Bangor University. Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk From tgivon at uoregon.edu Fri Oct 10 22:35:07 2008 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:35:07 -0600 Subject: question about patterns of N-A, A-N order In-Reply-To: <60427DD941446A4581EDC2E2B99594270C004D5238@iu-mssg-mbx07.ads.iu.edu> Message-ID: This is completely a function of the diachrony of grammar (grammaticalization). So, in the most simplified version: (i) If a language was an OV language and then developed morphology during that period, there will be a tendency (not absolute) to develop suffixes. If the language then changes to VO, it doesn't get rid of the old suffixal morphology. But when it develops new morphology, it would tend to develop prefixes. English, German, Hebrew & Latin are such languages. (ii) Conversely, if a language is VO and develops prefixal morphology, but then changes to OV (mostly via substratum contact; examples: Akkadian, Amharic New-Guinea Austronesian), then when it develops new morphology, it would be primarily suffixal. But the old prefixes don't go away (iii) Since OV appears to be the oldest word-order attested (Givon 1979), and languages tend to drift FROM it rather than TO it (except in substratum-contact cases), OV languages tend to only have suffixal morphology, since they were not VO at any prior time. This is of course highly simplified, and to many of us it belabors the obvious...Some of the gory detail can be found in: Givon, T. (1971) "Historical syntax and synchronic morphology", CLS #7, U. of Chicago Givon, T. (1979) On Understanding Grammar, NY: Academic Press Givon, T. (200) "Internal reconstruction: As method, as theory", in S. Gildea, ed. TSL volume, Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Givon, T. (2001) Syntax (vol. 1, several chapters), Amsterdam: J. Benjamins Best, TG ============ Clements, Joseph Clancy wrote: > In morphology, Cutler, Hawkins, et al (1985) found that Prep-VO languages have prefixes and suffixes and Postp-OV languages have almost exclusively suffixes. > > It has been shown that adj order relative to its modified N does not pattern with Prep-VO or Postp-OV languages. However, the following looks like a pattern in the few languages I've worked with: there are languages that have almost exclusively A-N order (e.g. English, German, the Neo-Aryan languages) and languages with N-A order that also have A-N order (e.g. the Romance languages). > > My question: does anyone know of any studies on A-N/N-A order patterns in the world's languages? > > Any references would be greatly appreciated. > > Clancy > > > > > J. Clancy Clements, Professor > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Depts. of Linguistics & Spanish and Portuguese > Ling: MM322, IUB, 1021 E. Third St. > S&P: BH844, IUB, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. > Bloomington, IN 47405 > Tel: (812)855-6456 (Ling); (812)855-8612 (S&P) > Fax:(812)855-5363 (Ling); (812)855-4526 (S&P) > ________________________________________ > From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of Vyv Evans [v.evans at bangor.ac.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:52 AM > To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu > Subject: [FUNKNET] Subscribe to 'Language & Cognition' > > Dear colleagues, > > Subscriptions for the new journal 'Language & Cognition' are now open. > Subscription is achieved by joining the UK Cognitive Linguistics > Association (UK-CLA), and is free of charge for the first year (2009). > > Downloadable registration forms, and full details of how to subscribe, > are available from the journal website: www.languageandcognition.net > > The table of contents for 2009 and 2010 are detailed below. > > Sincerely, > > Vyv Evans > Bangor University > www.vyvevans.net > ----------------------- > > TABLE OF CONTENTS > Volume 1 (2009) > Issue 1 > How infants build a semantic system. Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford) > > The cognitive poetics of literary resonance. Peter Stockwell (University > of Nottingham) > > Action in cognition: The case of language. Lawrence J. Taylor and Rolf > A. Zwaan (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) > > Prototype constructions in early language development. Paul Ibbotson > (University of Manchester) and Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary > Anthropology, Leipzig) > > The Enactment of Language: 20 Years of Interactions Between Linguistic > and Motor Processes. Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced) > and Sarah Anderson (Cornell University) > > Episodic affordances contribute to language comprehension. Arthur M. > Glenberg (Arizona State Universtiy), Raymond Becker (Wilfrid Laurier > University), Susann Kl?tzer, Lidia Kolanko, Silvana M?ller (Dresden > University of Technology), and Mike Rinck (Radboud University Nijmegen) > > Reviews: > Daniel D. Hutto. 2008. Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural > Basis of Understanding Reasons (MIT Press). Reviewed by Chris Sinha > > Aniruddh Patel. 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford > Univeristy Press). Reviewed by Daniel Casasanto > > Issue 2 > Pronunciation reflects syntactic probabilities: Evidence from > spontaneous speech. Harry Tily (Stanford University), Susanne Gahl > (University of California, Berkeley), Inbal Arnon, Anubha > Kothari, Neal Snider and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) > > Causal agents in English, Korean and Chinese: The role of internal and > external causation. Phillip Wolff, Ga-hyun Jeon, and Yu Li (Emory > University) > > Ontology as correlations: How language and perception interact to > create knowledge. Linda Smith (Indiana University) and Eliana Colunga > (University of Colorado at Boulder) > > Toward a theory of word meaning. Gabriella Vigliocco, Lotte Meteyard and > Mark Andrews (University College London) > > Spatial language in the brain. Mikkel Wallentin (University of Aarhus) > > The neural basis of semantic memory: Insights from neuroimaging. Uta > Noppeney (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen) > > Reviews: > Ronald Langacker. 2008. Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction. > (Oxford University Press). Reviewed by Vyvyan Evans > > Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigagalia. Mirrors in the brain: How > our minds share actions and emotions. 2008. (Oxford University > Press). Reviewed by David Kemmerer. > > > volume 2 (2010) > Issue 1 > Adaptive cognition without massive modularity: The context-sensitivity > of language use. Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa > Cruz) and Guy Van Orden (University of Cincinnati) > > Spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Jean Mandler (University > California, San Diego and University College London) > > Metaphor: Old words, new concepts, imagined worlds. Robyn Carston > (University College London) > > Language Development and Linguistic Relativity. John A. Lucy > (University of Chicago) > > Construction Learning. Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) > > Space and Language: some neural considerations. Anjan Chatterjee > (University of Pennsylvania) > > Issue 2 > > What can language tell us about psychotic thought? Gina Kuperberg > (Tufts University) > > Abstract motion is no longer abstract. Teenie Matlock (University > California, Merced) > > When gesture does and doesn't promote learning. Susan Goldin-Meadow > (University of Chicago) > > Discourse Space Theory. Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) > > Relational language supports relational cognition. Dedre Gentner > (Northwestern University) > > Talking about quantities in space. Kenny Coventry (Northumbria > University). > > > > > -- > Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, > gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig > gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y > neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar > unwaith a dil?wch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, > rhaid i chi beidio ? defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a > gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i > hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn > Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu > bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu > 100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn > nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract > rhwymol - mae rhestr o lofnodwyr awdurdodedig ar gael o Swyddfa > Cyllid Prifysgol Bangor. www.bangor.ac.uk > > This email and any attachments may contain confidential material and > is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have > received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately > and delete this email. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you > must not use, retain or disclose any information contained in this > email. Any views or opinions are solely those of the sender and do > not necessarily represent those of the Bangor University. > Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or > any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless > expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is > not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised > signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance > Office. www.bangor.ac.uk > > > From cbutler at ntlworld.com Sat Oct 11 08:46:13 2008 From: cbutler at ntlworld.com (Chris Butler) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:46:13 +0200 Subject: question about patterns of N-A, A-N order Message-ID: You should definitely look at the work of Jan Rijkhoff, who has made a detailed study of ordering in the NP within the framework of Functional Grammar, and later Functional Discourse Grammar. The following references should prove useful: Rijkhoff, Jan (1990). Explaining word order in the noun phrase. Linguistics 28, 5-42. Rijkhoff, Jan (1992). The Noun Phrase: A typological study of its form and structure. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Amsterdam. Rijkhoff, Jan (2002). The Noun Phrase. Oxford: Oxford University Press [an expanded paperback edition was published in 2004]. Rijkhoff, Jan (2002). On the interaction of Linguistic Typology and Functional Grammar. Functions of Language 9-2, 209-237 (Special issue: The interaction of data, description, and theory in linguistics: Functional perspectives. Guest editor: William B. McGregor). Rijkhoff, Jan. 2004. Iconic and non-iconic word order patterns: on symmetry in the NP and counter examples to Universal 20'. In Words in their Places: A Festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie, Henk Aertsen & Mike Hannay & Rod Lyall (eds.), 169-180. Amsterdam: Free University, Faculty of Arts. Rijkhoff, Jan (2008). Layers, levels and contexts in Functional Discourse Grammar. In The Noun Phrase in Functional Discourse Grammar, Daniel Garc?a Velasco & Jan Rijkhoff (eds.), 63-116. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Rijkhoff, Jan (2008) Descriptive and discourse-referential modifiers in a layered model of the noun phrase. Linguistics 46(4), 789-829 (Special issue: Layering in Functional Grammars. Eds: Christopher S. Butler and Miriam Taverniers). Chris Butler Honorary Professor, Swansea University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clements, Joseph Clancy" To: Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 11:11 PM Subject: [FUNKNET] question about patterns of N-A, A-N order In morphology, Cutler, Hawkins, et al (1985) found that Prep-VO languages have prefixes and suffixes and Postp-OV languages have almost exclusively suffixes. It has been shown that adj order relative to its modified N does not pattern with Prep-VO or Postp-OV languages. However, the following looks like a pattern in the few languages I've worked with: there are languages that have almost exclusively A-N order (e.g. English, German, the Neo-Aryan languages) and languages with N-A order that also have A-N order (e.g. the Romance languages). My question: does anyone know of any studies on A-N/N-A order patterns in the world's languages? Any references would be greatly appreciated. Clancy From clements at indiana.edu Sat Oct 11 21:26:51 2008 From: clements at indiana.edu (Clements, Joseph Clancy) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:26:51 -0400 Subject: Position in Linguistics, with focus on Indic languages Message-ID: INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIA STUDIES PROGRAM ASSOCIATE / FULL PROFESSOR (FT2 / FT1) The India Studies Program at Indiana University announces a search for a scholar with a distinguished record in research and teaching to fill a newly-opened senior position. 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Indiana University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Please send completed applications to: Professor Sumit Ganguly, Chair, India Studies Search Committee, India Studies Program, Indiana University, 825 East 8th Street, Bloomington, IN 47408-3842. From dryer at buffalo.edu Wed Oct 15 16:13:58 2008 From: dryer at buffalo.edu (Matthew Dryer) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:13:58 -0400 Subject: question about patterns of N-A, A-N order In-Reply-To: <60427DD941446A4581EDC2E2B99594270C004D5238@iu-mssg-mbx07.ads.iu.edu> Message-ID: I am not exactly sure what Clancy is asking. If he is asking whether languages with dominant NAdj order are more likely to allow AdjN as a possible alternative order than languages with dominant AdjN order are to allow NAdj as a possible alternative order, then the answer appears to be no. In my database, I code 121 languages as being dominant NAdj, with AdjN as an alternate order, and 83 languages as dominant AdjN, with NAdj as a dominant order. Since languages with dominant order NAdj outnumber languages with dominant AdjN order by over 2 to 1 in my database, this suggests a slight trend in the opposite direction from that suggested by Clancy. Matthew Dryer --On Friday, October 10, 2008 5:11 PM -0400 "Clements, Joseph Clancy" wrote: > In morphology, Cutler, Hawkins, et al (1985) found that Prep-VO languages > have prefixes and suffixes and Postp-OV languages have almost exclusively > suffixes. > > It has been shown that adj order relative to its modified N does not > pattern with Prep-VO or Postp-OV languages. However, the following looks > like a pattern in the few languages I've worked with: there are languages > that have almost exclusively A-N order (e.g. English, German, the > Neo-Aryan languages) and languages with N-A order that also have A-N > order (e.g. the Romance languages). > > My question: does anyone know of any studies on A-N/N-A order patterns in > the world's languages? > > Any references would be greatly appreciated. > > Clancy > > > > > J. Clancy Clements, Professor > Director of Undergraduate Studies > Depts. of Linguistics & Spanish and Portuguese > Ling: MM322, IUB, 1021 E. Third St. > S&P: BH844, IUB, 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. > Bloomington, IN 47405 > Tel: (812)855-6456 (Ling); (812)855-8612 (S&P) > Fax:(812)855-5363 (Ling); (812)855-4526 (S&P) > ________________________________________ > From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] > On Behalf Of Vyv Evans [v.evans at bangor.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, September > 24, 2008 11:52 AM > To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu > Subject: [FUNKNET] Subscribe to 'Language & Cognition' > > Dear colleagues, > > Subscriptions for the new journal 'Language & Cognition' are now open. > Subscription is achieved by joining the UK Cognitive Linguistics > Association (UK-CLA), and is free of charge for the first year (2009). > > Downloadable registration forms, and full details of how to subscribe, > are available from the journal website: www.languageandcognition.net > > The table of contents for 2009 and 2010 are detailed below. > > Sincerely, > > Vyv Evans > Bangor University > www.vyvevans.net > ----------------------- > > TABLE OF CONTENTS > Volume 1 (2009) > Issue 1 > How infants build a semantic system. Kim Plunkett (University of Oxford) > > The cognitive poetics of literary resonance. Peter Stockwell (University > of Nottingham) > > Action in cognition: The case of language. Lawrence J. Taylor and Rolf > A. Zwaan (Erasmus University of Rotterdam) > > Prototype constructions in early language development. Paul Ibbotson > (University of Manchester) and Michael Tomasello (MPI for Evolutionary > Anthropology, Leipzig) > > The Enactment of Language: 20 Years of Interactions Between Linguistic > and Motor Processes. Michael Spivey (University of California, Merced) > and Sarah Anderson (Cornell University) > > Episodic affordances contribute to language comprehension. Arthur M. > Glenberg (Arizona State Universtiy), Raymond Becker (Wilfrid Laurier > University), Susann Kl?tzer, Lidia Kolanko, Silvana M?ller (Dresden > University of Technology), and Mike Rinck (Radboud University Nijmegen) > > Reviews: > Daniel D. Hutto. 2008. Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural > Basis of Understanding Reasons (MIT Press). Reviewed by Chris Sinha > > Aniruddh Patel. 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford > Univeristy Press). Reviewed by Daniel Casasanto > > Issue 2 > Pronunciation reflects syntactic probabilities: Evidence from > spontaneous speech. Harry Tily (Stanford University), Susanne Gahl > (University of California, Berkeley), Inbal Arnon, Anubha > Kothari, Neal Snider and Joan Bresnan (Stanford University) > > Causal agents in English, Korean and Chinese: The role of internal and > external causation. Phillip Wolff, Ga-hyun Jeon, and Yu Li (Emory > University) > > Ontology as correlations: How language and perception interact to > create knowledge. Linda Smith (Indiana University) and Eliana Colunga > (University of Colorado at Boulder) > > Toward a theory of word meaning. Gabriella Vigliocco, Lotte Meteyard and > Mark Andrews (University College London) > > Spatial language in the brain. Mikkel Wallentin (University of Aarhus) > > The neural basis of semantic memory: Insights from neuroimaging. Uta > Noppeney (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen) > > Reviews: > Ronald Langacker. 2008. Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction. > (Oxford University Press). Reviewed by Vyvyan Evans > > Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigagalia. Mirrors in the brain: How > our minds share actions and emotions. 2008. (Oxford University > Press). Reviewed by David Kemmerer. > > > volume 2 (2010) > Issue 1 > Adaptive cognition without massive modularity: The context-sensitivity > of language use. Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa > Cruz) and Guy Van Orden (University of Cincinnati) > > Spatial foundations of the conceptual system. Jean Mandler (University > California, San Diego and University College London) > > Metaphor: Old words, new concepts, imagined worlds. Robyn Carston > (University College London) > > Language Development and Linguistic Relativity. John A. Lucy > (University of Chicago) > > Construction Learning. Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) > > Space and Language: some neural considerations. Anjan Chatterjee > (University of Pennsylvania) > > Issue 2 > > What can language tell us about psychotic thought? Gina Kuperberg > (Tufts University) > > Abstract motion is no longer abstract. Teenie Matlock (University > California, Merced) > > When gesture does and doesn't promote learning. Susan Goldin-Meadow > (University of Chicago) > > Discourse Space Theory. Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) > > Relational language supports relational cognition. Dedre Gentner > (Northwestern University) > > Talking about quantities in space. Kenny Coventry (Northumbria > University). > > > > > -- > Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, > gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig > gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). 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(LETiSS) ANNOUNCES the International Spring School 2009 on "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe", to be held in Pavia (Italy), 6-10 April 2009. The LETISS Center has been launched within the frame of an institute for advanced studies called IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori - http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/index.php). It is the first center in Italy (and in Europe) specifically dedicated to the linguistic situation of Europe, approached from a variety of perspectives. More information on the aims, the research topics and the activities of the Center can be found at the following URL: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETISS The first activity organized by LETiSS is the Spring School on "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe". The aim of the spring school is to enhance dialogue among young linguists interested in the topics announced in the title, under the guide of leading specialists. This is why the number of participants has been limited to 20, in order to facilitate interactions among them. The Spring School will last one week, from Monday the 6th until Friday the 10th of April 2009, at the IUSS Institute in Pavia. The school will offer four courses that will last five days, according to the (provisional) timetable provided below. The courses will be taught by four scientists who have specific expertise in the topics of the school. The everyday schedule, from Monday to Friday, will be as follows: 9-11: 1st course 11.15-13.15: 2nd course 15-17: 3rd course 17.15-19.15: 4th course Thursday evening there will be a farewell dinner at 20.00. THE COURSES: 1st course ? Bernd Kortmann (Universit?t Freiburg i.Br.) topic: Dialectology and Typology ------- 2nd course ? Thomas Stolz (Universit?t Bremen) topic: Standard Average European ------- 3rd course ? Davide Ricca (Universit? di Torino) topic: Dialects as Endangered languages ------- 4th course ? Suzanne Romaine (University of Oxford) topic: Endangered languages and varieties in Europe The exact titles and a preliminary bibliography will be online approximately next October. APPLICATIONS 20 advanced students in linguistics and related fields will be selected by the Scientific Committee of the School (see LETiSS website). The main criterion will be the degree of relatedness/ pertinence of their research interests with the topics of the School. In particular: * applicants must have achieved at least the B.A. + M.A. level (= a five years cycle); therefore the students may be Ph.D. students, Post- docs, and young researchers; * in the CV applicants should indicate any research activity and publication that may be relevant for the admission; * applicants should also attach a short description (one/two pages) of their past and ongoing research projects. APPLICATION GUIDELINES Please send an e-mail to letiss (at) iusspavia.it with the following information: * Name * Contact info * Position and affiliation * Motivation for application (max 500 words) * CV (as a separate attachment) * Brief description of past and ongoing research projects (as a separate attachment). NO TUITION FEE IS REQUIRED!! Each participant will receive 250 Euros as partial refund for his/her travel and accommodation expenses, and a certificate of attendance will be issued at the end of the school. IMPORTANT DATES - 31st October 2008: application deadline. Applications must be sent to letiss at iusspavia.it by the 31st October - 30th November 2008: notification of acceptance. The applicants who have been accepted will receive a communication with all the relevant informations. - 15th December 2008: the list of the accepted participants will be online. ORGANIZERS: Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sans?, Paolo Ramat Please send your application and any questions to: letiss at iusspavia.it More information can be found on the following websites: LETiSS Center: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS International Spring School 2009: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS.springschool Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sans?, Paolo Ramat From d.brown at surrey.ac.uk Tue Oct 21 08:57:07 2008 From: d.brown at surrey.ac.uk (Dunstan Brown) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:57:07 +0100 Subject: Call for Participation: Creating Infrastructure for Canonical Typology Message-ID: Call for Participation Creating Infrastructure For Canonical Typology January 9 - 10, 2009 Conference hosted by the Surrey Morphology Group and Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK There is a growing movement within linguistics to promote the use of ontologies for linguistic description. However, differences in terminology and underlying logic are major stumbling blocks. One way of addressing these problems is to adopt the canonical approach to typology 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. A two-day international seminar is being held at Surrey in January 2009, addressing the issues relevant for the creation of an ontology for Canonical Typology in the form of a Community of Practice Extension (COPE) within the General Ontology for Linguistic Description (GOLD). It brings together computational linguists, fieldworkers and typologists, as well as researchers working specifically on ontologies. Registration for the conference is now open online at: http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/typology/index.php Everyone who wishes to attend the meeting must register, using the online form, no later than 10 December 2008. A small number of bursaries is available to subsidise travel within the UK for postgraduate student participants. Anyone wishing to be considered for a student bursary should send a one-page letter of application to Mrs Mirela Dumic by the end of 7 December 2008. Programme January 9, 2009 9.00-10.00 Meeting of the LTRC Group 10:00-10:30 Refreshments and arrival Session A 10:30-10:45 Introduction Dunstan Brown (Surrey) 10:45-11:30 Canonical morphosyntactic features Grev Corbett (Surrey) 11:30-12:30 Towards a multidimensional typology of nominal classification Frank Seifart (Regensburg) 12:30-1:15 Lunch Session B 1:15-2:00 Refining the canonical characterization of the passive Anna Siewierska (Lancaster) 2:00-3:00 Rare but useful: the canons 'direct' and 'indirect' in reported speech typology Nicholas Evans (ANU) 3:00-3:30 Coffee break 3:30-4:15 Canonical typology: the case of reflexivization Martin Everaert (Utrecht) 4:15-5:00 Towards a typology of finiteness: a canonical approach Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS) January 10, 2009 Session A 9:00-9:45 On clitics and canons Andrew Spencer (Essex) and Ana Luis (Coimbra) 9:45-10:30 Canonical typology of person agreement: Evidence from signed languages Kearsy Cormier (UCL) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 11:00-11:45 Canons and the Possession-Modification Scale Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS) & Andrew Spencer (Essex) 11:45-12:30 Infrastructure requires a foundation: a base for the canons of negation Oliver Bond (SOAS) 12:30-1:30 Lunch Session B 1:30-2:15 From interlinearized glossing to standard annotation Dorothee Beermann Hellan (Trondheim) 2:15-3:00 Corpus informed approach to Canonical Typology Jiajin XU (Lancaster) 3:00-3:15 Coffee break 3:15-4:00 An extensible design for linguistic survey databases Alexis Dimitriadis (Utrecht) 4:00-5:00 Using canonical typology to achieve e-Linguistics Scott Farrar (Washington) 5:00 Concluding Remarks From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Tue Oct 21 15:13:36 2008 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:13:36 +0200 Subject: SALC2009: Second call for papers/theme sessions Message-ID: With apologies for cross-postings ************************************************************************ ** Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) June 10-12, 2009 Arranged by the Departments of English, Scandinavian Languages, and General Linguistics Stockholm University Second Circular We are pleased to announce the second SALC conference, SALC-2009, where we hope to bring together researchers from within all areas of language and cognition studies in Sweden and internationally. We welcome discussions on a wide variety of issues within the general area of language and cognition, and with particular focus on the areas of cognitive linguistic approaches to language acquisition and the contributions of psycholinguistics to linguistic theory. We are very pleased to announce our plenary speakers for the conference: * Elizabeth C. Traugott - Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and English at Stanford University. She has done research in historical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, lexicalization, socio-historical linguistics, and linguistics and literature. Her current research focuses on ways to bring the theories of grammaticalization and Construction Grammar to bear on accounts of micro-changes. * Daniel Casasanto - Postdoctoral Researcher, Senior Scientific Staff at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. His research integrates methods from cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience to explore connections between talking, thinking, perceiving, and acting. * Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm - Professor in General Linguistics at Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. Her interests include: typology, lexical typology, nominal juxtaposition, the origin, meaning(s) and grammatical properties of kin and temperature terms. Maria's current research focuses on areal phenomena in the languages spoken around the Baltic Sea and also recurrent semantic shifts and form/meaning correlations in the core vocabulary of human languages. * Niclas Abrahamsson - Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism Stockholm University. His research interests include first and second language acquisition, cognitive, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic aspects of language acquisition and language use and maturational constraints and the critical period, language aptitude, first language attrition and also second language phonology and phonetics. Call for papers We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations for the "Second Conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) / Svenska S?llskapet f?r Spr?k och Kognition (SSSK)" to be held at Stockholm University between June 10th and 12th, 2009. Presentations should involve research based on structures and processes of general cognition (e.g. perception, memory and reasoning) and social cognition (e.g. joint attention and imitation), and as affecting such structures and processes. The conference, as SALC in general, is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas between disciplines, fields of study and theoretical frameworks. Topics include, but are not limited to: * psycholinguistic approaches to language and cognition * language acquisition/use and cognition * language structure and cognition * language and cognitive development and evolution * language change and cognition * language and gesture * language and consciousness * linguistic typology and cognition * linguistic relativity The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2008. Please send two copies of an abstract of about 400 words (excluding references) to SALC2009 at english.su.se , with your name and affiliation written under the title in one copy; one copy must remain anonymous. Presentations should last 20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. After the process of peer-revision, e-mail notifications will be sent out by March 1, 2009. Conference fees: * 50 Euros for faculty SALC members, * 70 Euros for faculty non-members * 40 Euros for student SALC members * 50 Euros for student non-members The annual SALC membership is 15 Euros for faculty and 10 Euros for students. There will be a conference dinner for a cost of 40 Euros. Registration and payments can be made on-line at http://www.salc-sssk.org/salc09/ Theme sessions. As part of SALC-2009 there will be four theme sessions: 1. Interfaces of Language and Vision. Coordinator: Pirita Pyykk?nen, Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Finland. 2. Cognition and Second Language Use. Coordinator: Alan Mcmillion, English Language Department, Stockholm University, Sweden. 3. Language, Consciousness and Semiosis. Coordinators: Jordan Zlatev, Centre for Languages and Literature and G?ran Sonesson, Department of Semiotics, Lund University, Sweden. 4. When a Word Makes a World. Coordinator: Tetyana Lunyova, English Philology Department, Poltava State Pedagogical University, Ukraine. If you are interested in submitting a paper to one of the theme sessions, please mark your abstract clearly with your intended theme session. All submissions, both general and for theme sessions, will be peer-reviewed, after which e-mail notifications will be sent out by March 1, 2009. *************************************************** Jordan Zlatev, Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Center for Languages and Literature Lund University Box 201 221 00 Lund, Sweden email: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se http://www.ling.lu.se/persons/JordanZlatev.html *************************************************** From e.pascual at let.vu.nl Wed Oct 22 14:47:49 2008 From: e.pascual at let.vu.nl (Pascual, E.) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:47:49 +0200 Subject: Cognitive Linguistics Conference in the Low Countries: Leiden, Dec. 19-20, 2008 Message-ID: Nederlands-Vlaamse CogLingDagen: programma en registratie on-line Na de bijeenkomsten in Utrecht (2004) en Leuven (2006), wordt op 19 en 20 december 2008 in Leiden de derde editie van de Cognitieve Lingu?stiekdagen (CogLingDag) georganiseerd. Het doel van de conferentie is om een platform te bieden aan het werk van cognitief en functioneel geori?nteerde taalwetenschappers. Voor het eerst zal deze conferentie twee dagen duren. Plenaire sprekers: Felix Ameka Multiple interpretations and levels of meaning: Towards a U-Semantics of lexical and grammatical constructions Melissa Bowerman The semantic categorization of everyday events in adult and child language: A cross-linguistic perspective Kurt Feyaarts Construal voorbij. Intersubjectieve betekenisconstructie in creatieve interacties Ad Foolen Emotion and Language: Conceptualization and expression Op zaterdag is er naast een algemene sessie ook een parallelsessie over de relatie tussen Cognitieve Taalkunde en Structuralisme. Het volledige programma is nu on-line op: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/coglingdag-2008.jsp Op de website kunt u zich ook registeren als deelnemer. De deadline voor registratie en betaling is 30 november 2008. Organisatie: * Ronny Boogaart (Universiteit Leiden) * Egbert Fortuin (Universiteit Leiden) * Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Leiden) * Esther Pascual (VU Amsterdam) Contactadres: * coglingdag at hum.leidenuniv.nl From sepkit at utu.fi Tue Oct 28 06:18:51 2008 From: sepkit at utu.fi (=?iso-8859-1?B?IlNlcHBvIEtpdHRpbOQi?=) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:18:51 +0200 Subject: Call for abstracts: Case in and across languages, Helsinki, August 27-29, 2009 Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) Call for abstracts Case in and across languages SKY (The Linguistic Association of Finland) organizes a symposium ?Case in and across languages? in Helsinki (Finland), August 27-29, 2009. The official website of the workshop, with the Call for Papers and other information, is found at: http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/case/ As a system that marks the relations between words in a sentence, case is essential to every language. Case has, for example, the function of distinguishing between agent and patient, and it often codes adverbial functions, such as location, instruments and manner, all of which are central concepts in every language. Yet while there is no doubt that case constitutes a core feature of grammar, linguists are not fully agreed on how to define it theoretically. What, for example, are the differences between adpositions and morphological cases? The status and definition of case also varies across different theories of grammar. In addition to the multitude of theoretical definitions, languages display significant differences, for example, in the number, characteristics and functions of cases. Furthermore, while morphological case is a significant grammatical feature in many languages, it is not obligatory in language generally: numerous languages lack (morphological) case altogeth er and use distinct formal means (such as serial verb constructions and applicatives) to encode relations that other languages express via case marking. Cases also differ according to whether their form and meaning is determined by the verb or other head word, or whether they are more independent in nature. The goal of this symposium is to bring together scholars working on case. We welcome contributions dealing with case from various perspectives and backgrounds (including theoretical, empirical and experimental approaches), and with both language-specific and cross-linguistic approaches to case. Presentations should be accessible to all scholars regardless of their backgrounds. Possible topics for talks include (but are not restricted to) the following: - Case inventories/systems in individual languages/language families - Languages without morphological cases/with poor case inventories - Distinction between morphological cases and adpositions - Grammaticalization of cases - Functions expressed by case in/and across languages - Differences between semantic and grammatical cases - Discussions of core vs. peripheral cases - Case in psycholinguistics (e.g. acquisition of cases, processing of cases) - Case in different theories of grammar - Case polysemy - The expression of case functions in languages without cases - The relevance of case to linguistic theory/definitions of case - Corpus-based studies of case - Non-existent cases that ought to be The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max 500 words, an additional page is allowed for data, tables and references) is March 1, 2009. Please submit your abstract by e-mail to the address of the organizing committee (sky-case at helsinki.fi). Send your abstract as attachment to an e-mail message (in both .pdf and .doc formats). The abstracts must be anonymous (author information must be given in the body of the message only). Please indicate clearly whether your abstract is intended as a poster or a section paper. The abstracts will be evaluated by the organizing committee and by the members of the scientific committee (see below). Participants will be notified of acceptance by April 3, 2009. The collection of abstracts will be made available on the symposium website after the program has been finalized. The time allotted for talks is 20 minutes for the talk and 10 minutes for discussion. Workshops Proposals for workshops should be submitted no later than February 15, 2009. Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee. Notification of acceptance status will be given by March 15. These one-day workshops may run in parallel sessions with the main conference program; alternatively, the first day of the symposium may be dedicated to workshops. The symposium organizers will provide the lecture rooms and other facilities, but the workshop organizers will be responsible for the organization of their workshops (choosing the speakers etc.). The body of the message should include the following information (preferably in this order): 1) Name of the participant 2) Title of presentation 3) Affiliation 4) E-mail address 5) Whether the paper is meant as a section paper, a poster, or a workshop? Activities - Presentations by invited speakers - Presentations by other participants - Posters - Workshops Confirmed invited speakers Peter Austin (SOAS, London) Tuomas Huumo (University of Tartu) Laura Janda (University of Tromso) Scientific committee Ina Bornkessel (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) Martin Haspelmath (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Bernd Heine (University of Cologne) Helen de Hoop (University of Nijmegen) Andrej Malchukov (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) John Newman (University of Alberta) Urpo Nikanne (?bo Akademi University) Krista Ojutkangas (University of Turku) Anna Siewierska (University of Lancaster) Maria Vilkuna (Research Centre for the Languages of Finland) Organizing committee Seppo Kittil?, University of Helsinki Aki Kyr?l?inen, University of Turku Ulla Vanhatalo, University of Helsinki Laura Visap??, University of Helsinki Registration The registration deadline is August 1, 2009. Please send your registration by e-mail to the address of the organizing committee, given below. Registration fees General: 75 Euro Members of the association: 50 Euro Undergraduate students: 25 Euro The registration fee includes conference folder, refreshments during coffee breaks, get-together on August 27 and the conference dinner on August 28. Finnish participants are requested to pay the registration fee to the SKY bank account when they register for the conference (bank account number 174530-71243 (Nordea)). Participants from abroad are likewise requested to pay in advance with bank transfer, when at all possible, to the SKY bank account in Finland (Bank: Nordea; IBAN: FI76 1745 3000 0712 43, BIC: NDEAFIHH), though we will also accept payment IN CASH (only in Euros; moreover, we CANNOT accept credit cards of any sort) upon arrival. In the case of advance bank transfer payment from abroad, we would kindly ask you to bring with you and present upon registration a COPY of the original transaction receipt. Conference venue Tieteiden talo (House of Sciences), address Kirkkokatu 6. How to get there information will be found at the webpage of the symposium closer to the conference. Contact Please send all queries to the address of the organizing committee at sky-case at helsinki.fi From geoffnathan at wayne.edu Tue Oct 28 10:15:09 2008 From: geoffnathan at wayne.edu (Geoff Nathan) Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:15:09 -0400 Subject: New phonology textbook In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I'd like to announce the availability of a new phonology textbook with a strong functionalist bent: Phonology: A cognitive grammar introduction Geoffrey S. Nathan Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 3, John Benjamins, 2008. further information available here: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CLiP%203 -- Geoffrey S. Nathan Faculty Liaison, Computing and Information Technology, and Associate Professor of English, Linguistics Program Phone Numbers (313) 577-1259 or (313) 577-8621 Wayne State University Detroit, MI, 48202