From fontainel at Cardiff.ac.uk Tue Feb 3 08:04:58 2009 From: fontainel at Cardiff.ac.uk (Lise Fontaine) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:04:58 +0000 Subject: CFP extended deadline: ESFLCW 09, Cardiff Wales Message-ID: The 21st European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop 8-10 July, 2009 Cardiff, Wales Submission deadline: February 14 2009 Call for Papers & Workshops Theme: ‘Choice’ “The grammar is based on the notion of choice” (Halliday, 1969) Choice could be considered the most important core concept in Systemic Functional Linguistics. It is perhaps the most controversial or challenging. What do we mean by choice? Although choice is a central notion in Systemic Functional Linguistics, it is rarely the explicit topic of research. The goal of ESFLCW09 is to consider the role of ‘choice’ as a core concept in theoretical and applied work. We strongly encourage paper submissions to ESFLCW09 to address the theme of ‘choice’ in one of the following ways. Its role in: * Systemic Functional Linguistic theory. * Human language production and/or understanding. * Computational language generation and/or parsing. * Code-switching and multilingualism - one system or many? * The practical analysis of the clause, text, and/or discourse. We would also like to encourage submissions which link SFL with related linguistic theories where choice also plays an important role (for example, other functional approaches, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, etc.). Papers focussing on other core concepts in SFL will also be accepted. Research on languages other than English is strongly encouraged. We also welcome submissions representing work in progress. Presentations may be organised according to the following strands: * lexicogrammar * phonology and intonation * computational models * language disorders * corpus linguistics * formulaic or mulitword expressions * language production and understanding * choice for the analyst * code switching and multilingualism * language acquisition * language evolution * historical linguistics * other (please specify) Plenary Speakers: * Chris Butler, Swansea University * Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool * Elke Teich, Technische Universität Darmstadt Submissions Papers: We invite submission of abstracts of papers for presentation at the conference. Papers directly relevant to the conference theme will be preferred but we will consider other topics within Systemic-Functional Linguistics. Presentations will be 20 minutes long plus 10 minutes for questions. Workshops: We will be able to hold a small number of 1.5 hour workshops. Workshops will need to be directly relevant to the theme. Please send a description of the workshop. For each submission, please provide: * For each author: name, title, affiliation. * Title of paper. * Abstract (not more than 300 words). * The strand or strands appropriate for your submission (if ‘other’, please specify) * State whether the submission is for a paper or workshop presentation. Please send abstracts by email to: esflcw at cf.ac.uk Closing Date: 14 February 2009 (extended deadline) For more information: www.cf.ac.uk/encap/esflcw/ Lecturer Centre for Language and Communication Research School of English, Communication and Philosophy Cardiff University/Prifysgol Caerdydd Humanities Building Colum Drive Cardiff CF10 3EU From m.norde at rug.nl Sun Feb 8 12:10:20 2009 From: m.norde at rug.nl (Muriel Norde) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:10:20 +0100 Subject: call for papers: Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research Message-ID: ** apologies for cross-postings ** *Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research: first circular* University of Groningen, October 8-9, 2009 /Call for papers/ The study of grammaticalization and related phenomena continues to be a thriving branch of historical linguistics. Where the 1990s and the beginning of the 21^st century witnessed a special interest in definitional issues, recent theorizing has been focusing on a synthesis of grammaticalization studies and other disciplines, such as psycholinguistics, contact linguistics, and Construction Grammar. These novel perspectives, along with an increasing body of data (including work from non-Indo-European languages), provoke new and interesting questions about the very nature of grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and lexicalization. This two-day workshop aims to bring together theoretical and empirical approaches to grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and lexicalization, and we therefore welcome both theoretical and data-oriented submissions. Topics include (but are not restricted to): - the grammaticalization-lexicalization interface - the status of pragmaticalization - contact-induced grammaticalization - psycholinguistic approaches to directional tendencies - grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and lexicalization within a constructional framework /Plenary speakers/ We are pleased to announce the following plenary speakers: - Nikolaus Himmelmann, University of Münster - Tania Kuteva, University of Düsseldorf - Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh - Jacqueline Visconti, University of Genova / Abstracts/ // We invite abstracts for 30-minute papers (including ten minutes discussion time). Abstracts should not exceed a maximum of 400 words, including references. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is *April 15, 2009*. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by May 15, 2009. For details about abstract submission please visit our website (see url below). /Registration/ Early registration (until July 1, 2009) is 75 Euro. Late or on-site registration will be 100 Euro. Early registration for (graduate) students is 45 euro, late registration 60 euro. Please bring some kind of identification to prove that you are a student. The fee includes the workshop package, reception, coffee, tea, and lunches. The workshop dinner will have to be paid for separately. More information about payment (bank transfer only) will be posted on our website as soon as possible. /Venue/ The workshop will be held at the University of Groningen. The city of Groningen is situated in the North of the Netherlands and is easily accessible by train (with direct trains to and from Schiphol Airport running every hour). The University's Faculty of Arts is conveniently located in the city centre, with all main attractions within walking distance. Please visit our website (see URL below) for information about travel and accommodation. /Contact/ The workshop is organized by Karin Beijering, Alexandra Lenz, and Muriel Norde. Workshop e-mail: grammaticalization at rug.nl Workshop URL: http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/clcg/events/currenttrends/index Abstract submission address: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CTGR2009 -- Prof. dr. Muriel Norde Scandinavian Languages and Cultures University of Groningen P.O. Box 716 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands http://www.let.rug.nl/~norde/ From dwood3 at uoregon.edu Tue Feb 10 19:15:43 2009 From: dwood3 at uoregon.edu (Daniel Wood) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:15:43 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers - Himalayan Languages Symposium 15 (sorry for cross-posting) Message-ID: Announcing the 15th Himalayan Languages Symposium University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon, USA July 31-August 1, 2009 The Himalayan Languages Symposium is an annually convening, open scholarly forum for scholars of Himalayan languages. The Himalayan Languages Symposium serves as a podium for contributions on any language of the greater Himalayan region, whether Burushaski, Kusunda, a Tibeto-Burman language, an Indo-Aryan tongue or other language. Linguists as well as specialists from related disciplines like philology, history, anthropology, archaeology and prehistory are welcome to make their contributions to the study of Himalayan languages and Himalayan language communities. We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to: - Descriptions of lesser-known languages - Language change and variation - Multilingualism and language contact - Historical-comparative studies - Typological studies - Field reports - Corpus-based analysis - Language death and language preservation - Language policy and language planning - Ethnology and folklore - Himalayan languages and new technologies For more information on the HLS, see: http://www.iias.nl/hls/index.php?q=about -or- Go to the HLS15 website at www.uoregon.edu/~hls15 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Abstracts limited to 500 words should be submitted electronically as an .rtf, .pdf or Word (.doc) file. As the subject header of the message, please use your last name + HLS abstract. Please include your name, affiliation, address and title of your paper in the body of the message, as well as contact information: email, physical address, phone, fax Address for abstracts: hls15 at uoregon.edu Abstract deadline March 1st Special early deadline January 15: For participants who may need time to make visa or funding arrangements. Local organizers: Scott DeLancey, Gwen Hyslop, Linda Konnerth, Anna Pucilowski, Dan Wood CONTACT INFORMATION The organizers of HLS 15 can be contacted at hls15 at uoregon.edu, delancey at uoregon.edu, or glow at uoregon.edu or fax 01-541-346-5961, attn. Himalayan Languages Symposium or Himalayan Languages Symposium Department of Linguistics University of Oregon 1290 Eugene, OR 97403-1290 U.S.A. From sclancy at uchicago.edu Tue Feb 10 19:36:28 2009 From: sclancy at uchicago.edu (Steven Clancy) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:36:28 -0600 Subject: CFP: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2009) in Prague, October 15-17, 2009 Message-ID: THE 2009 SLAVIC COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE (SCLC-2009) October 15-17, 2009 The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) announces the call for papers for the 2009 Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2009), October 15-17, 2009. We are very pleased to hold SCLC-2009 in conjunction with the Department of Czech Language and Theory of Communication of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Full information about the conference may be found at the official conference website (http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc_eng.htm ). Papers concerning all aspects of Slavic languages (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistic and broadly cultural aspects) from the perspective of cognitive linguistics are welcome. Abstracts may be submitted up until the deadline of March 31, 2009 to Steven Clancy . Abstracts should be approximately 500 words, but strict word limits are not required. Notification of acceptance will be provided by May 31, 2009. Please see the official conference website (http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc_eng.htm ) for more details. We hope you will be able to join us in Prague for SCLC-2009. Please forward this call for papers to your colleagues and graduate students who may be interested in presenting or attending. All the best, Steven Clancy Steven Clancy Tore Nesset President, SCLA Vice-President, SCLA on behalf of the SCLC-2009 organizing committee Team of organizers in Prague: Mgr. Jan Chromý (chief coordinator) doc. PhDr. Ivana Bozděchová, CSc. Veronika Čurdová PhDr. Jasňa Pacovská, CSc. PhDr. Lucie Saicová Římalová, Ph.D. PhDr. Lucie Šůchová doc. PhDr. Irena Vaňková, CSc. Pre-Conference Workshop in Corpus and Experimental Methods at SCLC-2009 in Prague October 15, 2009 We also plan to organize a one-day pre-conference workshop on corpus linguistics, experimental methods and statistical analysis. This will take place on October 15, 2009 before the start of the main SCLC-2009 conference. More details forthcoming at the SCLA website (http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/ ). From sepkit at utu.fi Wed Feb 11 10:13:30 2009 From: sepkit at utu.fi (=?iso-8859-1?B?IlNlcHBvIEtpdHRpbOQi?=) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:13:30 +0200 Subject: Final call for abstracts: Case in and across languages Message-ID: (apologies for multiple postings) (the deadline for abstract submission has been postponed until March 2, because March 1 is Sunday) Final 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 symposium, 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 altogether 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 2, 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-Schlesewsky (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 Pekka Posio, University of Helsinki Erika Sandman, University of Helsinki 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 jscheibm at odu.edu Tue Feb 17 20:33:09 2009 From: jscheibm at odu.edu (Joanne Scheibman) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:33:09 -0500 Subject: Job notice: Asst. Professor Linguistics: TESOL Message-ID: Assistant Professor, Linguistics: TESOL. The Department of English at Old Dominion University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics (subject to approval for funding) with a specialty in TESOL to teach undergraduate and graduate courses. Required: Ph.D. in Linguistics or Applied Linguistics by August 15, 2009; qualified to teach courses in TESOL methods, first and second language acquisition, and other linguistics courses as needed. Salary commensurate with experience. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names of three references to Dr. Jeffrey Richards, Chair, Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529. Review of applications will begin March 9 and continue until position is filled. Old Dominion University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution and encourages applications from women and minority candidates. From pwd at rice.edu Tue Feb 17 22:41:54 2009 From: pwd at rice.edu (Philip W. Davis) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:41:54 -0600 Subject: Information about Hausa? Message-ID: I would like to get responses to the examples below from any native speaker of Hausa, who may be on the list. The first example consists of (1A) a question, and (1B), (1C), (1D), (1E), and (1F), possible responses to (1A). I would like to know whether each response is OK, not appropriate, or maybe just not Hausa regardless of how it is used. Some of the responses may just be kinda odd when trying to answer (1A). If that is so, I would appreciate any comments that may describe the oddness. Example (2) is similar. (2A) is the question and (2B), (2C), and (2D) are the possible replies. Example (3) is a bit different. (3A) and (3B) have the same English gloss, but I suspect that they are not identical. My own guess is that (3A) might perhaps be used when the students have run out of money while in the store, and (3B) describes a situation in which the students had only books on their shopping list. Is that a possible difference? Are there better ones you can think of? Most of the utterances are taken from published literature on Hausa, but I have had to compose a few on my own: (1D), (1F), (2C), and (2D). If you want to respond, you can send me your reactions to me at the e-mail address in the signature below. I don't know how long it would take to answer my questions, but I certainly thank you in advance for your time and any information I may receive. Best, Philip P.S. I want to thank all who responded to an earlier inquiry about Modern Greek. I got several really useful replies. ******************** (1) (A) Mè ya faaru? [what 3SG.FOC.PF happen] 'What happened?' (B) B£arayii ne suka yi min saataa! [thieves FM.PL 3PL.FOC.PF do IO.1S theft] 'Thieves have stolen from me!' (C) Bàk£žn suka isoo [guests.DD 3PL.FOC.PF arrive] 'The guests have arrived!' (D) Bàk£žn sun isoo [guests.DD 3PL.PF arrive] 'The guests have arrived!' (E) Fi¶rjii nee Audu ya sàyaa [fridge PRT Audu 3SG.REL.PF buy] 'Audu bought a fridge' (F) Audu yaa sàyaa fi¶rjii [Audu 3SG.PF buy fridge] 'Audu bought a fridge' (2) (A) Tsoohuwa-¶r-sa cee ta mut¡u? [mother-of-his PRT 3SG.REL.PF die] 'Was it his mother who died?' (B) Aa'aa, maata-¶r-sa cee ta mutu [no wife-of-3M PRT 3SG-REL-PF die] 'No, it was his wife who died' (C) Na'àm, soohuwa-¶r-sa cee ta mut¡u [yes mother-of-his PRT 3SG.REL.PF die] 'Yes, it was his mother who died' (D) Na'àm, soohuwa-¶r-sa taa mut¡u [yes mother-of-his 3SG.PF die] 'Yes, his mother died' (3) (A) Dàalìbai sun sàyi lìttàttàafai kawài [students 3PL.PF buy books only] 'The students bought only books' (B) Lìttàttàafai kawài dàalìbai su-kà sàyi [books only students 3PL.REL.PF buy] 'The students bought only books' -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Philip W. Davis E-mail: pwd at rice.edu 2635 Nottingham Phone: 713-667-0512 (H), 713-503-0528 (C) Houston, TX 77005 Fax: 713-666-5720 URL: www.ruf.rice.edu/~pwd/index.html +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= From akbari_r at yahoo.com Wed Feb 18 09:43:17 2009 From: akbari_r at yahoo.com (Ramin Akbari) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:43:17 -0800 Subject: International applied linguistics conference: Call for papers Message-ID: First call for papers   The International Conference on Applied Linguistics: Developments, Challenges, and Promises will be held in Tehran ’s ( Iran )  Milad Tower Conference Hall on September 26-27, 2009. The conference aims at exploring some vital issues in applied linguistics that have shaped, and are still shaping the identity of the profession. Applied linguists from across the globe are invited to contribute to a lively debate that would include ideas from some of the prominent figures of the field.   Different themes will be explored in the course of the two day conference: applied linguistics and its definitions; globalization and its impact on ELT; applied linguistics and English as the world’s lingua franca; post method era and teacher qualifications; research debates in applied linguistics ….   The keynote speakers for the conference are (alphabetically arranged):   Professor David Block, University of London Professor Guy Cook, The Open University Professor Hossein Farhady, American University of Armenia Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna Professor Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna   The deadline for abstract submission is June 14, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 10. Early registration deadline is August 5; all the participants whose papers have been accepted must register before the deadline.   To submit an abstract, please visit the conference website at: www.appliedlinguistics.ir   For any queries, please contact me: akbari_ram at yahoo.com     Ramin Akbari Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics ELT Department Tarbiat Modares University Tehran Iran From paul at benjamins.com Thu Feb 19 16:29:57 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:29:57 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins title: G=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F3mez_Gonz=E1lez?= et al.: Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics Message-ID: Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics Functional and cognitive perspectives Edited by María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez University of Santiago de Compostela / VU University Amsterdam / University of Santiago de Compostela Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 60 2008. xxi, 333 pp. Hardbound In stock 978 90 272 1571 0 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 e-Book Not yet available 978 90 272 8968 1 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the field of contrastive linguistics. Part I focuses, from a broadly functional-cognitive viewpoint, on the close link with typology, stressing the importance of embedding the treatment of grammatical categories in their contexts of use. Part II turns to methodological issues, exploring the enormous potential offered by parallel, computer-accessible corpora to contrastive linguistics and to enhancing the testability, authenticity and empirical adequacy of cross-linguistic studies. Part III is concerned with contrastive semantics, ranging from individual items to entire grammatical constructions, and shows how meanings are coupled to language-specific cognitive strategies and even to cultural differences in subjective awareness and the fashioning of personal identity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents Contributors viixi Abbreviations used in glosses xiii Introduction María de los Ángeles Gómez González, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez xvxxi Part I. Grammatical categories in contrast Ways of impersonalizing: Pronominal vs verbal strategies Anna Siewierska 326 Construing reference in context: Non-specific reference forms in Finnish and French discussion groups Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Marjut Johansson 2750 The contrast between pronoun position in European Portuguese and Castilian Spanish: An application of Functional Grammar J. Lachlan Mackenzie 5175 Modals and typology: English and German in contrast Raphael Salkie 7798 Part II. Contrastive linguistics and corpus studies Parallel texts and corpus-based contrastive analysis Michael Barlow 101121 Machine translation and human translation: Using machine translation engines and corpora for teaching and research Belinda Maia 123145 'Basically speaking': A corpus-based analysis of three English adverbs and their formal equivalents in Spanish Christopher S. Butler 147176 Causative make and faire: A case of mismatch Gaëtanelle Gilquin 177201 Part III. Meaning and cognition from a contrastive perspective Universal human concepts as a basis for contrastive linguistic semantics Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka 205226 Subjective construal as a 'fashion of speaking' in Japanese Yoshihiko Ikegami 227250 Grammatical metonymy within the 'action' frame in English and Spanish Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez and Mária Sandra Peña Cervel 251280 Towards a constructionist account of secondary predication with verba dicendi et declarandi in English and Spanish Francisco Gonzálvez-García 281321 Index of terms 323327 Index of languages 329330 Index of scholars 331333 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Thu Feb 19 16:26:50 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:26:50 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins title: Productivity - Bar=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F0dal?= Message-ID: Productivity Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic Jóhanna Barðdal University of Bergen Constructional Approaches to Language 8 2008. xiii, 209 pp. Hardbound In stock 978 90 272 1830 8 / EUR 95.00 / USD 143.00 e-Book Not yet available 978 90 272 8967 4 / EUR 95.00 / USD 143.00 Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: 'extensibility', 'regularity', and 'generality'. The focus in this study of case and argument structure constructions in Icelandic is on the concept of extensibility, while generality and regularity are regarded as derivative of extensibility. Productivity is considered to be a function of type frequency, semantic coherence, and the inverse correlation between these two. This study establishes productivity as an emergent feature of the grammatical system, in an analysis that is grounded in a usage-based constructional approach, where constructions are organized into lexicality-schematicity hierarchies. The view of syntactic productivity advocated here offers a unified account of productivity, in that it captures different degrees of productivity, ranging from highly productive patterns through various intermediate degrees of productivity to low-level analogical extensions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Productivity Chapter 3. New verbs in Icelandic: A general outline Chapter 4. Nonce verbs: A psycholinguistic experiment Chapter 5. New verbs of communication: A questionnaire Chapter 6. Old and Modern Icelandic: A frequency comparison Chapter 7. Synthesis References Appendix A. Predicates and case and argument structure constructions in the text corpora Appendix B. Recent borrowings in Icelandic Appendix C. The questionnaire Name index 203204 Subject index 205207 Constructions index 209 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A 'two-for-one' package, containing both an original and realistic approach to productivity in terms of Construction Grammar and, simultaneously, a penetrating study of case and argument structure in Icelandic. On both accounts the book is a novel and, in my view, a highly successful contribution to theoretical and empirical linguistics." Thórhallur Eythórsson, University of Iceland "An important book, clarifying the concept of productivity, which is often used in the language sciences but is seldom clearly defined. Apart from providing an illuminating meta-analysis, Barðdal develops an original theory of the productivity of case and argument structure constructions." Jordan Zlatev, Lund University & Copenhagen Business School Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Thu Feb 19 16:23:07 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:23:07 -0500 Subject: Journal TOC: Functions of Language 16:1 (2009) Special Issue Message-ID: From John Benjamins Publishing: Evidentiality in language and cognition Special Issue of Functions of Language 16:1 (2009) Edited by Lena Ekberg and Carita Paradis Lund University Functions of Language 16:1 2009. 172 pp. Table of contents Obituary A tribute to Robert de Beaugrande Jay L. Lemke and Caspar van Helden 13 Articles Editorial: Evidentiality in language and cognition Lena Ekberg and Carita Paradis 57 Evidentiality: Linguistic categories and grammaticalization Kasper Boye and Peter Harder 943 Evidentiality and epistemic modality: On the close relationship between two different categories Bert Cornillie 4462 Seem and evidentiality Karin Aijmer 6388 Evidentials and metarepresentation in early child language Elly Ifantidou 89122 Reviews Nomi Erteschik-Shir. 2007. Information structure: The syntaxdiscourse interface María de los Ángeles Gómez González 123134 Robert Fiengo. 2007. Asking questions: Using meaningful structures to imply ignorance Reviewed by Eirian C. Davies 135148 Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibañez, and María Sandra Peña Cervel, (eds.). 2005. Cognitive Linguistics: Internal dynamics and interdisciplinary interaction Reviewed by Annalisa Baicchi 149160 Mark Sebba. 2007. Spelling and society: The culture and politics of orthography around the world Reviewed by Michael Stubbs 161164 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Mon Feb 23 15:31:16 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:31:16 -0500 Subject: New Benjains title: Harrison et al. - Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages Message-ID: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2078 Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages Edited by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer Swarthmore College / University of Colorado / University of Kansas Typological Studies in Language 78 2008. vi, 375 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 2990 8 / EUR 115.00 / USD 173.00 e-Book Available from e-book platforms 978 90 272 9020 5 / EUR 115.00 / USD 173.00 This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is narrower than the actual lifetime of a language, and is now rapidly closing for many languages represented in this volume. The authors of these papers unveil newly collected data from previously poorly known and endangered languages. They organize highly complex linguistic facts - paradigms, affixes, vowel patterns - while pointing out the theoretically challenging aspects of these. Beyond this, they reflect on the social and human dimensions, discussing particular problems of nostalgia and modernity, memory and forgetting, and obsolescence and ethics, while viewing language as not merely data on a page but as a living creation in the minds and mouths of its speakers. Table of contents A world of many voices: Editors' introduction K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer 112 Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification Umberto Ansaldo 1342 Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case Aurore Monod Becquelin, Emmanuel de Vienne and Raquel Guirardello-Damian 4366 Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awetí verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms. Sebastian Drude 67110 Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. Arienne Dwyer 111128 Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society Carlos Fausto, Bruna Franchetto and Michael Heckenberger 129158 Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of language endangerment Jost Gippert 159194 Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of Tapiete and Vilela Lucía A. Golluscio and Hebe González 195242 Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers K. David Harrison and Gregory D.S. Anderson 243270 Hocank's challenge to morphological theory Johannes Helmbrecht and Christian Lehmann 271316 A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation Armik Mirzayan 317354 Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, interrogatives and reciprocals in Akhoe Hai om Thomas Widlok, Christian Rapold and Gertie Hoymann 355370 Index 371375 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Mon Feb 23 15:27:55 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:27:55 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins title: Mushin/Baker- Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages Message-ID: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20104&artid=66119075 Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages Edited by Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker University of Queensland / University of New England Studies in Language Companion Series 104 2008. x, 239 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0571 1 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 e-Book Available from e-book platforms 978 90 272 9034 2 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages is the first major survey to address the issue of the effects of information packaging on Australian languages, widely known for nonconfigurationality. The papers are based on individual fieldwork and describe a wide range of Australian languages of different types, ranging from the polysynthetic languages of Arnhem Land and the Kimberley to the classical types represented by Walpiri. Topics covered include the pragmatics of information exchange, the interaction of noun class marking with polarity and referentiality, the effects of specificity on argument indexing, the discourse uses of the ergative case, the contribution of pronouns to NP reference, the interaction of tense and aspect clitics with information structure, clause-initial position, and discourse and grammar in Australian languages. The volume will appeal to scholars interested in discourse, typology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Table of contents Foreword vii Maps ixx Discourse and grammar in Australian languages Brett Baker and Ilana Mushin 123 Clause-initial position in four Australian languages Jane Simpson and Ilana Mushin 2557 Bardi arguments: Referentiality, agreement and omission in Bardi discourse Claire Bowern 5985 Diverging paths: Variation in Garrwa tense/aspect clitic placement Ilana Mushin 87109 Pragmatically case-marked: Non-syntactic functions of the Kuuk Thaayorre ergative suffix Alice Gaby 111134 The interpretation of complex nominal expressions in Southeast Arnhem Land languages Brett Baker 135166 "Double reference" in Kala Lagaw Ya narratives Lesley Stirling 167202 Person reference, proper names and circumspection in Bininj Kunwok conversation Murray Garde 203232 Index of languages 233 Index of names 235236 Index of subjects 237239 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From clements at indiana.edu Thu Feb 26 14:23:31 2009 From: clements at indiana.edu (Clements, Joseph Clancy) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:23:31 -0500 Subject: Michael Noonan Message-ID: I received this from John Peterson of the Vyakaran list. Clancy ============== Dear colleagues, It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you about the sudden and most unexpected death of Professor Michael Noonan. Mickey (as he was fondly known) wrote extensively on the languages of Nepal, particularly Chantyal and Narphu of the TGTM group, and published numerous articles, grammars, dictionaries, and text-collections. In addition to his invaluable grammatical studies of previously undescribed languages, he conducted broad comparative historical and typological research and was a significant contributor to the literature on functional-typological linguistics. He was also actively involved in editorialship. He was one of the two Managing Editors of Studies in Language and SLCS, the General Editor of Typological Studies in Language, the founder and Associate Editor of Himalayan Linguistics. He was also a member of the Editorial Board of BSSAL and LTBA. Mickey will be remembered for his deep linguistic analyses, his lasting descriptive works, his constructive and insightful criticism, and his leadership in our shared field. He will be greatly missed. From kemmer at rice.edu Fri Feb 27 03:08:39 2009 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:08:39 -0600 Subject: Obituary: Michael Noonan Message-ID: I think funknetters should see this too. Suzanne Begin forwarded message: > From: Carol Genetti > Date: February 26, 2009 1:57:07 PM CST > To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG > Subject: Obituary: Michael Noonan > Reply-To: Carol Genetti > > It is with great sadness that we report the unexpected death of Dr. > Michael > Noonan, Professor in the Department of English at the University of > Wisconsin-Milwaukee, at his home on February 23rd, apparently of a > brain > aneurysm. Mickey (as he was fondly known) was a well-known > contributor to > functional and typological linguistics. Following publication of > his Grammar > of Lango, Mickey wrote extensively on the languages of Nepal and > published > numerous articles, grammars, dictionaries, and text-collections. He > also > worked for some time on Salish and on Irish, his heritage language. > > In addition to his invaluable grammatical studies of previously > undescribed > languages, Mickey was a frequent contributor to the literature on > syntactic > typology, with notable co-edited collections on word order, voice, and > formalism and functionalism, as well as articles on complementation > (his > paper in the Shopen volume has become part of the essential canon > on this > topic), converbal constructions, subjectless clauses, > nominalization, and > many other topics. > > Mickey was an editor, with Bernard Comrie of Studies in Language. > He was > also the founding editor of Himalayan Linguistics; it was his > vision to > produce a web-based journal which is free and accessible to all, > with a > separate "Archive" section devoted to the publication of grammars, > dictionaries, and texts. He was also the editor of the John Benjamins’ > Series Typological Studies in Language and with Werner Abraham, of the > Studies in Language Companion Series. > > Mickey was strongly devoted to the communities with which he > worked. He > played for them an important role of teacher, sponsor, mentor, and > friend. > He had a deep interest in language preservation and worked with > members of > the communities to increase the awareness of the importance of their > languages as well as to provide practical support of language > maintenance > efforts. Notable among his publication is a book of children’s > stories, the > first work ever produced in the Chantyal language, distributed free to > schools in three Chantyal speaking villages and to interested > members of the > ethnic organization of the Chantyal people. > > Mickey was the supervisor of numerous doctoral students and was a > devoted > mentor to many other young and developing scholars. His > contributions to > their work were invaluable and he ceaselessly promoted the highest > academic > quality in the work of his students and others. > > Mickey had a truly encyclopedic mind: he had a very wide range of > knowledge > in various areas such as history, economics, and biology, which he > readily > and joyfully shared with people on social occasions. He was also a > great > connoisseur of food and wine and took great pleasure in his garden > and in > his table – both were rich and abundant! (The last wine he > recommended to me > was a Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio from the Trentino in Italy, so > if you > come across this, have a glass and think of him!) > > Mickey will be remembered for his deep linguistic analyses, his > lasting > descriptive works, his constructive and insightful criticism, and his > leadership in Himalayan linguistics and beyond. He will be greatly > missed. > > The family requests that those wishing to make a contribution in > his name > contact the Endangered Languages Fund > (http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org). People making > contributions should > write on their checks: "In memory of Michael Noonan". > > Carol Genetti > From cgenetti at linguistics.ucsb.edu Fri Feb 27 13:58:33 2009 From: cgenetti at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Carol Genetti) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:58:33 -0800 Subject: Obituary: Michael Noonan Message-ID: It is with great sadness that we report the unexpected death of Dr. Michael Noonan, Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, at his home on February 23rd, apparently of a brain aneurysm. Mickey (as he was fondly known) was a well-known contributor to functional and typological linguistics. Following publication of his Grammar of Lango, Mickey wrote extensively on the languages of Nepal and published numerous articles, grammars, dictionaries, and text-collections. He also worked for some time on Salish and on Irish, his heritage language. In addition to his invaluable grammatical studies of previously undescribed languages, Mickey was a frequent contributor to the literature on syntactic typology, with notable co-edited collections on word order, voice, and formalism and functionalism, as well as articles on complementation (his paper in the Shopen volume has become part of the essential canon on this topic), converbal constructions, subjectless clauses, nominalization, and many other topics. Mickey was an editor, with Bernard Comrie of Studies in Language. He was also the founding editor of Himalayan Linguistics; it was his vision to produce a web-based journal which is free and accessible to all, with a separate "Archive" section devoted to the publication of grammars, dictionaries, and texts. He was also the editor of the John Benjamins' Series Typological Studies in Language and, with Werner Abraham, of the Studies in Language Companion Series. Mickey was strongly devoted to the communities with which he worked. He played for them an important role of teacher, sponsor, mentor, and friend. He had a deep interest in language preservation and worked with members of the communities to increase the awareness of the importance of their languages as well as to provide practical support of language maintenance efforts. Notable among his publication is a book of children's stories, the first work ever produced in the Chantyal language, distributed free to schools in three Chantyal speaking villages and to interested members of the ethnic organization of the Chantyal people. Mickey was the supervisor of numerous doctoral students and was a devoted mentor to many other young and developing scholars. His contributions to their work were invaluable and he ceaselessly promoted the highest academic quality in the work of his students and others. Mickey had a truly encyclopedic mind: he had a very wide range of knowledge in various areas such as history, economics, and biology, which he readily and joyfully shared with people on social occasions. He was also a great connoisseur of food and wine and took pleasure in his garden and in his table - both were rich and abundant! (The last wine he recommended to me was a Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio from the Trentino in Italy, so if you come across this, have a glass and think of him!) Mickey will be remembered for his deep linguistic analyses, his lasting descriptive works, his constructive and insightful criticism, and his leadership in Himalayan linguistics and beyond. He will be greatly missed. The family requests that those wishing to make a contribution in his name contact the Endangered Languages Fund (http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org). People making contributions should write on their check: "In memory of Michael Noonan". Carol Genetti From fontainel at Cardiff.ac.uk Tue Feb 3 08:04:58 2009 From: fontainel at Cardiff.ac.uk (Lise Fontaine) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:04:58 +0000 Subject: CFP extended deadline: ESFLCW 09, Cardiff Wales Message-ID: The 21st European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop 8-10 July, 2009 Cardiff, Wales Submission deadline: February 14 2009 Call for Papers & Workshops Theme: ?Choice? ?The grammar is based on the notion of choice? (Halliday, 1969) Choice could be considered the most important core concept in Systemic Functional Linguistics. It is perhaps the most controversial or challenging. What do we mean by choice? Although choice is a central notion in Systemic Functional Linguistics, it is rarely the explicit topic of research. The goal of ESFLCW09 is to consider the role of ?choice? as a core concept in theoretical and applied work. We strongly encourage paper submissions to ESFLCW09 to address the theme of ?choice? in one of the following ways. Its role in: * Systemic Functional Linguistic theory. * Human language production and/or understanding. * Computational language generation and/or parsing. * Code-switching and multilingualism - one system or many? * The practical analysis of the clause, text, and/or discourse. We would also like to encourage submissions which link SFL with related linguistic theories where choice also plays an important role (for example, other functional approaches, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, etc.). Papers focussing on other core concepts in SFL will also be accepted. Research on languages other than English is strongly encouraged. We also welcome submissions representing work in progress. Presentations may be organised according to the following strands: * lexicogrammar * phonology and intonation * computational models * language disorders * corpus linguistics * formulaic or mulitword expressions * language production and understanding * choice for the analyst * code switching and multilingualism * language acquisition * language evolution * historical linguistics * other (please specify) Plenary Speakers: * Chris Butler, Swansea University * Geoff Thompson, University of Liverpool * Elke Teich, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt Submissions Papers: We invite submission of abstracts of papers for presentation at the conference. Papers directly relevant to the conference theme will be preferred but we will consider other topics within Systemic-Functional Linguistics. Presentations will be 20 minutes long plus 10 minutes for questions. Workshops: We will be able to hold a small number of 1.5 hour workshops. Workshops will need to be directly relevant to the theme. Please send a description of the workshop. For each submission, please provide: * For each author: name, title, affiliation. * Title of paper. * Abstract (not more than 300 words). * The strand or strands appropriate for your submission (if ?other?, please specify) * State whether the submission is for a paper or workshop presentation. Please send abstracts by email to: esflcw at cf.ac.uk Closing Date: 14 February 2009 (extended deadline) For more information: www.cf.ac.uk/encap/esflcw/ Lecturer Centre for Language and Communication Research School of English, Communication and Philosophy Cardiff University/Prifysgol Caerdydd Humanities Building Colum Drive Cardiff CF10 3EU From m.norde at rug.nl Sun Feb 8 12:10:20 2009 From: m.norde at rug.nl (Muriel Norde) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 13:10:20 +0100 Subject: call for papers: Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research Message-ID: ** apologies for cross-postings ** *Current Trends in Grammaticalization Research: first circular* University of Groningen, October 8-9, 2009 /Call for papers/ The study of grammaticalization and related phenomena continues to be a thriving branch of historical linguistics. Where the 1990s and the beginning of the 21^st century witnessed a special interest in definitional issues, recent theorizing has been focusing on a synthesis of grammaticalization studies and other disciplines, such as psycholinguistics, contact linguistics, and Construction Grammar. These novel perspectives, along with an increasing body of data (including work from non-Indo-European languages), provoke new and interesting questions about the very nature of grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and lexicalization. This two-day workshop aims to bring together theoretical and empirical approaches to grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and lexicalization, and we therefore welcome both theoretical and data-oriented submissions. Topics include (but are not restricted to): - the grammaticalization-lexicalization interface - the status of pragmaticalization - contact-induced grammaticalization - psycholinguistic approaches to directional tendencies - grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and lexicalization within a constructional framework /Plenary speakers/ We are pleased to announce the following plenary speakers: - Nikolaus Himmelmann, University of M?nster - Tania Kuteva, University of D?sseldorf - Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh - Jacqueline Visconti, University of Genova / Abstracts/ // We invite abstracts for 30-minute papers (including ten minutes discussion time). Abstracts should not exceed a maximum of 400 words, including references. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is *April 15, 2009*. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by May 15, 2009. For details about abstract submission please visit our website (see url below). /Registration/ Early registration (until July 1, 2009) is 75 Euro. Late or on-site registration will be 100 Euro. Early registration for (graduate) students is 45 euro, late registration 60 euro. Please bring some kind of identification to prove that you are a student. The fee includes the workshop package, reception, coffee, tea, and lunches. The workshop dinner will have to be paid for separately. More information about payment (bank transfer only) will be posted on our website as soon as possible. /Venue/ The workshop will be held at the University of Groningen. The city of Groningen is situated in the North of the Netherlands and is easily accessible by train (with direct trains to and from Schiphol Airport running every hour). The University's Faculty of Arts is conveniently located in the city centre, with all main attractions within walking distance. Please visit our website (see URL below) for information about travel and accommodation. /Contact/ The workshop is organized by Karin Beijering, Alexandra Lenz, and Muriel Norde. Workshop e-mail: grammaticalization at rug.nl Workshop URL: http://www.rug.nl/let/onderzoek/onderzoekinstituten/clcg/events/currenttrends/index Abstract submission address: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CTGR2009 -- Prof. dr. Muriel Norde Scandinavian Languages and Cultures University of Groningen P.O. Box 716 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands http://www.let.rug.nl/~norde/ From dwood3 at uoregon.edu Tue Feb 10 19:15:43 2009 From: dwood3 at uoregon.edu (Daniel Wood) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:15:43 -0800 Subject: Call for Papers - Himalayan Languages Symposium 15 (sorry for cross-posting) Message-ID: Announcing the 15th Himalayan Languages Symposium University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon, USA July 31-August 1, 2009 The Himalayan Languages Symposium is an annually convening, open scholarly forum for scholars of Himalayan languages. The Himalayan Languages Symposium serves as a podium for contributions on any language of the greater Himalayan region, whether Burushaski, Kusunda, a Tibeto-Burman language, an Indo-Aryan tongue or other language. Linguists as well as specialists from related disciplines like philology, history, anthropology, archaeology and prehistory are welcome to make their contributions to the study of Himalayan languages and Himalayan language communities. We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to: - Descriptions of lesser-known languages - Language change and variation - Multilingualism and language contact - Historical-comparative studies - Typological studies - Field reports - Corpus-based analysis - Language death and language preservation - Language policy and language planning - Ethnology and folklore - Himalayan languages and new technologies For more information on the HLS, see: http://www.iias.nl/hls/index.php?q=about -or- Go to the HLS15 website at www.uoregon.edu/~hls15 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Abstracts limited to 500 words should be submitted electronically as an .rtf, .pdf or Word (.doc) file. As the subject header of the message, please use your last name + HLS abstract. Please include your name, affiliation, address and title of your paper in the body of the message, as well as contact information: email, physical address, phone, fax Address for abstracts: hls15 at uoregon.edu Abstract deadline March 1st Special early deadline January 15: For participants who may need time to make visa or funding arrangements. Local organizers: Scott DeLancey, Gwen Hyslop, Linda Konnerth, Anna Pucilowski, Dan Wood CONTACT INFORMATION The organizers of HLS 15 can be contacted at hls15 at uoregon.edu, delancey at uoregon.edu, or glow at uoregon.edu or fax 01-541-346-5961, attn. Himalayan Languages Symposium or Himalayan Languages Symposium Department of Linguistics University of Oregon 1290 Eugene, OR 97403-1290 U.S.A. From sclancy at uchicago.edu Tue Feb 10 19:36:28 2009 From: sclancy at uchicago.edu (Steven Clancy) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:36:28 -0600 Subject: CFP: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2009) in Prague, October 15-17, 2009 Message-ID: THE 2009 SLAVIC COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE (SCLC-2009) October 15-17, 2009 The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) announces the call for papers for the 2009 Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2009), October 15-17, 2009. We are very pleased to hold SCLC-2009 in conjunction with the Department of Czech Language and Theory of Communication of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Full information about the conference may be found at the official conference website (http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc_eng.htm ). Papers concerning all aspects of Slavic languages (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistic and broadly cultural aspects) from the perspective of cognitive linguistics are welcome. Abstracts may be submitted up until the deadline of March 31, 2009 to Steven Clancy . Abstracts should be approximately 500 words, but strict word limits are not required. Notification of acceptance will be provided by May 31, 2009. Please see the official conference website (http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc_eng.htm ) for more details. We hope you will be able to join us in Prague for SCLC-2009. Please forward this call for papers to your colleagues and graduate students who may be interested in presenting or attending. All the best, Steven Clancy Steven Clancy Tore Nesset President, SCLA Vice-President, SCLA on behalf of the SCLC-2009 organizing committee Team of organizers in Prague: Mgr. Jan Chrom? (chief coordinator) doc. PhDr. Ivana Bozd?chov?, CSc. Veronika ?urdov? PhDr. Jas?a Pacovsk?, CSc. PhDr. Lucie Saicov? ??malov?, Ph.D. PhDr. Lucie ??chov? doc. PhDr. Irena Va?kov?, CSc. Pre-Conference Workshop in Corpus and Experimental Methods at SCLC-2009 in Prague October 15, 2009 We also plan to organize a one-day pre-conference workshop on corpus linguistics, experimental methods and statistical analysis. This will take place on October 15, 2009 before the start of the main SCLC-2009 conference. More details forthcoming at the SCLA website (http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/ ). From sepkit at utu.fi Wed Feb 11 10:13:30 2009 From: sepkit at utu.fi (=?iso-8859-1?B?IlNlcHBvIEtpdHRpbOQi?=) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:13:30 +0200 Subject: Final call for abstracts: Case in and across languages Message-ID: (apologies for multiple postings) (the deadline for abstract submission has been postponed until March 2, because March 1 is Sunday) Final 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 symposium, 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 altogether 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 2, 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-Schlesewsky (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 Pekka Posio, University of Helsinki Erika Sandman, University of Helsinki 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 jscheibm at odu.edu Tue Feb 17 20:33:09 2009 From: jscheibm at odu.edu (Joanne Scheibman) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:33:09 -0500 Subject: Job notice: Asst. Professor Linguistics: TESOL Message-ID: Assistant Professor, Linguistics: TESOL. The Department of English at Old Dominion University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics (subject to approval for funding) with a specialty in TESOL to teach undergraduate and graduate courses. Required: Ph.D. in Linguistics or Applied Linguistics by August 15, 2009; qualified to teach courses in TESOL methods, first and second language acquisition, and other linguistics courses as needed. Salary commensurate with experience. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names of three references to Dr. Jeffrey Richards, Chair, Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529. Review of applications will begin March 9 and continue until position is filled. Old Dominion University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution and encourages applications from women and minority candidates. From pwd at rice.edu Tue Feb 17 22:41:54 2009 From: pwd at rice.edu (Philip W. Davis) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:41:54 -0600 Subject: Information about Hausa? Message-ID: I would like to get responses to the examples below from any native speaker of Hausa, who may be on the list. The first example consists of (1A) a question, and (1B), (1C), (1D), (1E), and (1F), possible responses to (1A). I would like to know whether each response is OK, not appropriate, or maybe just not Hausa regardless of how it is used. Some of the responses may just be kinda odd when trying to answer (1A). If that is so, I would appreciate any comments that may describe the oddness. Example (2) is similar. (2A) is the question and (2B), (2C), and (2D) are the possible replies. Example (3) is a bit different. (3A) and (3B) have the same English gloss, but I suspect that they are not identical. My own guess is that (3A) might perhaps be used when the students have run out of money while in the store, and (3B) describes a situation in which the students had only books on their shopping list. Is that a possible difference? Are there better ones you can think of? Most of the utterances are taken from published literature on Hausa, but I have had to compose a few on my own: (1D), (1F), (2C), and (2D). If you want to respond, you can send me your reactions to me at the e-mail address in the signature below. I don't know how long it would take to answer my questions, but I certainly thank you in advance for your time and any information I may receive. Best, Philip P.S. I want to thank all who responded to an earlier inquiry about Modern Greek. I got several really useful replies. ******************** (1) (A) M? ya faaru? [what 3SG.FOC.PF happen] 'What happened?' (B) B?ar?ayii n?e suk?a yi m?in saataa! [thieves FM.PL 3PL.FOC.PF do IO.1S theft] 'Thieves have stolen from me!' (C) B?k??n suk?a isoo [guests.DD 3PL.FOC.PF arrive] 'The guests have arrived!' (D) B?k??n sun isoo [guests.DD 3PL.PF arrive] 'The guests have arrived!' (E) Fi?rjii nee Audu ya s?yaa [fridge PRT Audu 3SG.REL.PF buy] 'Audu bought a fridge' (F) Audu yaa s?yaa fi?rjii [Audu 3SG.PF buy fridge] 'Audu bought a fridge' (2) (A) Tsoohuwa-?r-s?a cee ta mut?u? [mother-of-his PRT 3SG.REL.PF die] 'Was it his mother who died?' (B) Aa'aa, m?aata-?r-s?a cee ta mut?u [no wife-of-3M PRT 3SG-REL-PF die] 'No, it was his wife who died' (C) Na'?m, soohuwa-?r-s?a cee ta mut?u [yes mother-of-his PRT 3SG.REL.PF die] 'Yes, it was his mother who died' (D) Na'?m, soohuwa-?r-s?a taa mut?u [yes mother-of-his 3SG.PF die] 'Yes, his mother died' (3) (A) D?al?bai sun s?yi l?tt?tt?afai kaw?i [students 3PL.PF buy books only] 'The students bought only books' (B) L?tt?tt?afai kaw?i d?al?bai su-k? s?yi [books only students 3PL.REL.PF buy] 'The students bought only books' -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Philip W. Davis E-mail: pwd at rice.edu 2635 Nottingham Phone: 713-667-0512 (H), 713-503-0528 (C) Houston, TX 77005 Fax: 713-666-5720 URL: www.ruf.rice.edu/~pwd/index.html +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= From akbari_r at yahoo.com Wed Feb 18 09:43:17 2009 From: akbari_r at yahoo.com (Ramin Akbari) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:43:17 -0800 Subject: International applied linguistics conference: Call for papers Message-ID: First call for papers ? The International Conference on Applied Linguistics: Developments, Challenges, and Promises will be held in Tehran ?s ( Iran ) ?Milad Tower Conference Hall on September 26-27, 2009. The conference aims at exploring some vital issues in applied linguistics that have shaped, and are still shaping the identity of the profession. Applied linguists from across the globe are invited to contribute to a lively debate that would include ideas from some of the prominent figures of the field. ? Different themes will be explored in the course of the two day conference: applied linguistics and its definitions; globalization and its impact on ELT; applied linguistics and English as the world?s lingua franca; post method era and teacher qualifications; research debates in applied linguistics ?. ? The keynote speakers for the conference are (alphabetically arranged): ? Professor David Block, University of London Professor Guy Cook, The Open University Professor Hossein Farhady, American University of Armenia Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, University of Vienna Professor Henry Widdowson, University of Vienna ? The deadline for abstract submission is June 14, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 10. Early registration deadline is August 5; all the participants whose papers have been accepted must register before the deadline. ? To submit an abstract, please visit the conference website at: www.appliedlinguistics.ir ? For any queries, please contact me: akbari_ram at yahoo.com ? ? Ramin Akbari Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics ELT Department Tarbiat Modares University Tehran Iran From paul at benjamins.com Thu Feb 19 16:29:57 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:29:57 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins title: G=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F3mez_Gonz=E1lez?= et al.: Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics Message-ID: Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics Functional and cognitive perspectives Edited by Mar?a de los ?ngeles G?mez Gonz?lez, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. Gonz?lez ?lvarez University of Santiago de Compostela / VU University Amsterdam / University of Santiago de Compostela Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 60 2008. xxi, 333 pp. Hardbound In stock 978 90 272 1571 0 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 e-Book Not yet available 978 90 272 8968 1 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 This book examines the contribution of various recent developments in linguistics to contrastive analysis. The articles range across a broad gamut of languages, with most attention going to the languages of Europe. They show how advances in theory and computer technology are together impacting the field of contrastive linguistics. Part I focuses, from a broadly functional-cognitive viewpoint, on the close link with typology, stressing the importance of embedding the treatment of grammatical categories in their contexts of use. Part II turns to methodological issues, exploring the enormous potential offered by parallel, computer-accessible corpora to contrastive linguistics and to enhancing the testability, authenticity and empirical adequacy of cross-linguistic studies. Part III is concerned with contrastive semantics, ranging from individual items to entire grammatical constructions, and shows how meanings are coupled to language-specific cognitive strategies and even to cultural differences in subjective awareness and the fashioning of personal identity. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents Contributors viixi Abbreviations used in glosses xiii Introduction Mar?a de los ?ngeles G?mez Gonz?lez, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. Gonz?lez ?lvarez xvxxi Part I. Grammatical categories in contrast Ways of impersonalizing: Pronominal vs verbal strategies Anna Siewierska 326 Construing reference in context: Non-specific reference forms in Finnish and French discussion groups Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Marjut Johansson 2750 The contrast between pronoun position in European Portuguese and Castilian Spanish: An application of Functional Grammar J. Lachlan Mackenzie 5175 Modals and typology: English and German in contrast Raphael Salkie 7798 Part II. Contrastive linguistics and corpus studies Parallel texts and corpus-based contrastive analysis Michael Barlow 101121 Machine translation and human translation: Using machine translation engines and corpora for teaching and research Belinda Maia 123145 'Basically speaking': A corpus-based analysis of three English adverbs and their formal equivalents in Spanish Christopher S. Butler 147176 Causative make and faire: A case of mismatch Ga?tanelle Gilquin 177201 Part III. Meaning and cognition from a contrastive perspective Universal human concepts as a basis for contrastive linguistic semantics Cliff Goddard and Anna Wierzbicka 205226 Subjective construal as a 'fashion of speaking' in Japanese Yoshihiko Ikegami 227250 Grammatical metonymy within the 'action' frame in English and Spanish Francisco Jos? Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez and M?ria Sandra Pe?a Cervel 251280 Towards a constructionist account of secondary predication with verba dicendi et declarandi in English and Spanish Francisco Gonz?lvez-Garc?a 281321 Index of terms 323327 Index of languages 329330 Index of scholars 331333 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Thu Feb 19 16:26:50 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:26:50 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins title: Productivity - Bar=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F0dal?= Message-ID: Productivity Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic J?hanna Bar?dal University of Bergen Constructional Approaches to Language 8 2008. xiii, 209 pp. Hardbound In stock 978 90 272 1830 8 / EUR 95.00 / USD 143.00 e-Book Not yet available 978 90 272 8967 4 / EUR 95.00 / USD 143.00 Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: 'extensibility', 'regularity', and 'generality'. The focus in this study of case and argument structure constructions in Icelandic is on the concept of extensibility, while generality and regularity are regarded as derivative of extensibility. Productivity is considered to be a function of type frequency, semantic coherence, and the inverse correlation between these two. This study establishes productivity as an emergent feature of the grammatical system, in an analysis that is grounded in a usage-based constructional approach, where constructions are organized into lexicality-schematicity hierarchies. The view of syntactic productivity advocated here offers a unified account of productivity, in that it captures different degrees of productivity, ranging from highly productive patterns through various intermediate degrees of productivity to low-level analogical extensions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents Preface Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Productivity Chapter 3. New verbs in Icelandic: A general outline Chapter 4. Nonce verbs: A psycholinguistic experiment Chapter 5. New verbs of communication: A questionnaire Chapter 6. Old and Modern Icelandic: A frequency comparison Chapter 7. Synthesis References Appendix A. Predicates and case and argument structure constructions in the text corpora Appendix B. Recent borrowings in Icelandic Appendix C. The questionnaire Name index 203204 Subject index 205207 Constructions index 209 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A 'two-for-one' package, containing both an original and realistic approach to productivity in terms of Construction Grammar and, simultaneously, a penetrating study of case and argument structure in Icelandic. On both accounts the book is a novel and, in my view, a highly successful contribution to theoretical and empirical linguistics." Th?rhallur Eyth?rsson, University of Iceland "An important book, clarifying the concept of productivity, which is often used in the language sciences but is seldom clearly defined. Apart from providing an illuminating meta-analysis, Bar?dal develops an original theory of the productivity of case and argument structure constructions." Jordan Zlatev, Lund University & Copenhagen Business School Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Thu Feb 19 16:23:07 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:23:07 -0500 Subject: Journal TOC: Functions of Language 16:1 (2009) Special Issue Message-ID: From John Benjamins Publishing: Evidentiality in language and cognition Special Issue of Functions of Language 16:1 (2009) Edited by Lena Ekberg and Carita Paradis Lund University Functions of Language 16:1 2009. 172 pp. Table of contents Obituary A tribute to Robert de Beaugrande Jay L. Lemke and Caspar van Helden 13 Articles Editorial: Evidentiality in language and cognition Lena Ekberg and Carita Paradis 57 Evidentiality: Linguistic categories and grammaticalization Kasper Boye and Peter Harder 943 Evidentiality and epistemic modality: On the close relationship between two different categories Bert Cornillie 4462 Seem and evidentiality Karin Aijmer 6388 Evidentials and metarepresentation in early child language Elly Ifantidou 89122 Reviews Nomi Erteschik-Shir. 2007. Information structure: The syntaxdiscourse interface Mar?a de los ?ngeles G?mez Gonz?lez 123134 Robert Fiengo. 2007. Asking questions: Using meaningful structures to imply ignorance Reviewed by Eirian C. Davies 135148 Francisco Jos? Ruiz de Mendoza Iba?ez, and Mar?a Sandra Pe?a Cervel, (eds.). 2005. Cognitive Linguistics: Internal dynamics and interdisciplinary interaction Reviewed by Annalisa Baicchi 149160 Mark Sebba. 2007. Spelling and society: The culture and politics of orthography around the world Reviewed by Michael Stubbs 161164 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Mon Feb 23 15:31:16 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:31:16 -0500 Subject: New Benjains title: Harrison et al. - Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages Message-ID: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2078 Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages Edited by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer Swarthmore College / University of Colorado / University of Kansas Typological Studies in Language 78 2008. vi, 375 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 2990 8 / EUR 115.00 / USD 173.00 e-Book Available from e-book platforms 978 90 272 9020 5 / EUR 115.00 / USD 173.00 This volume represents part of an unprecedented and still growing effort to advance, coordinate and disseminate the scientific documentation of endangered languages. As the pace of language extinction increases, linguists and native communities are accelerating their efforts to speak, remember, record, analyze and archive as much as possible of our common human heritage that is linguistic diversity. The window of opportunity for documentation is narrower than the actual lifetime of a language, and is now rapidly closing for many languages represented in this volume. The authors of these papers unveil newly collected data from previously poorly known and endangered languages. They organize highly complex linguistic facts - paradigms, affixes, vowel patterns - while pointing out the theoretically challenging aspects of these. Beyond this, they reflect on the social and human dimensions, discussing particular problems of nostalgia and modernity, memory and forgetting, and obsolescence and ethics, while viewing language as not merely data on a page but as a living creation in the minds and mouths of its speakers. Table of contents A world of many voices: Editors' introduction K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer 112 Sri Lanka Malay revisited: Genesis and classification Umberto Ansaldo 1342 Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case Aurore Monod Becquelin, Emmanuel de Vienne and Raquel Guirardello-Damian 4366 Tense, Aspect and Mood in Awet? verb-paradigms: Analytic and synthetic forms. Sebastian Drude 67110 Tonogenesis in Southeastern Monguor. Arienne Dwyer 111128 Language, ritual and historical reconstruction: Towards a linguistic, ethnographical and archaeological account of Upper Xingu Society Carlos Fausto, Bruna Franchetto and Michael Heckenberger 129158 Endangered Caucasian languages in Georgia: Linguistic parameters of language endangerment Jost Gippert 159194 Contact, attrition and shift in two Chaco languages: The cases of Tapiete and Vilela Luc?a A. Golluscio and Hebe Gonz?lez 195242 Tofa language change and terminal generation speakers K. David Harrison and Gregory D.S. Anderson 243270 Hocank's challenge to morphological theory Johannes Helmbrecht and Christian Lehmann 271316 A Preliminary study of same-turn self-repair initiation in Wichita conversation Armik Mirzayan 317354 Multimedia analysis in documentation projects: Kinship, interrogatives and reciprocals in Akhoe Hai om Thomas Widlok, Christian Rapold and Gertie Hoymann 355370 Index 371375 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Mon Feb 23 15:27:55 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:27:55 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins title: Mushin/Baker- Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages Message-ID: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20104&artid=66119075 Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages Edited by Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker University of Queensland / University of New England Studies in Language Companion Series 104 2008. x, 239 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0571 1 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 e-Book Available from e-book platforms 978 90 272 9034 2 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 Discourse and Grammar in Australian Languages is the first major survey to address the issue of the effects of information packaging on Australian languages, widely known for nonconfigurationality. The papers are based on individual fieldwork and describe a wide range of Australian languages of different types, ranging from the polysynthetic languages of Arnhem Land and the Kimberley to the classical types represented by Walpiri. Topics covered include the pragmatics of information exchange, the interaction of noun class marking with polarity and referentiality, the effects of specificity on argument indexing, the discourse uses of the ergative case, the contribution of pronouns to NP reference, the interaction of tense and aspect clitics with information structure, clause-initial position, and discourse and grammar in Australian languages. The volume will appeal to scholars interested in discourse, typology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Table of contents Foreword vii Maps ixx Discourse and grammar in Australian languages Brett Baker and Ilana Mushin 123 Clause-initial position in four Australian languages Jane Simpson and Ilana Mushin 2557 Bardi arguments: Referentiality, agreement and omission in Bardi discourse Claire Bowern 5985 Diverging paths: Variation in Garrwa tense/aspect clitic placement Ilana Mushin 87109 Pragmatically case-marked: Non-syntactic functions of the Kuuk Thaayorre ergative suffix Alice Gaby 111134 The interpretation of complex nominal expressions in Southeast Arnhem Land languages Brett Baker 135166 "Double reference" in Kala Lagaw Ya narratives Lesley Stirling 167202 Person reference, proper names and circumspection in Bininj Kunwok conversation Murray Garde 203232 Index of languages 233 Index of names 235236 Index of subjects 237239 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From clements at indiana.edu Thu Feb 26 14:23:31 2009 From: clements at indiana.edu (Clements, Joseph Clancy) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:23:31 -0500 Subject: Michael Noonan Message-ID: I received this from John Peterson of the Vyakaran list. Clancy ============== Dear colleagues, It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you about the sudden and most unexpected death of Professor Michael Noonan. Mickey (as he was fondly known) wrote extensively on the languages of Nepal, particularly Chantyal and Narphu of the TGTM group, and published numerous articles, grammars, dictionaries, and text-collections. In addition to his invaluable grammatical studies of previously undescribed languages, he conducted broad comparative historical and typological research and was a significant contributor to the literature on functional-typological linguistics. He was also actively involved in editorialship. He was one of the two Managing Editors of Studies in Language and SLCS, the General Editor of Typological Studies in Language, the founder and Associate Editor of Himalayan Linguistics. He was also a member of the Editorial Board of BSSAL and LTBA. Mickey will be remembered for his deep linguistic analyses, his lasting descriptive works, his constructive and insightful criticism, and his leadership in our shared field. He will be greatly missed. From kemmer at rice.edu Fri Feb 27 03:08:39 2009 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:08:39 -0600 Subject: Obituary: Michael Noonan Message-ID: I think funknetters should see this too. Suzanne Begin forwarded message: > From: Carol Genetti > Date: February 26, 2009 1:57:07 PM CST > To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG > Subject: Obituary: Michael Noonan > Reply-To: Carol Genetti > > It is with great sadness that we report the unexpected death of Dr. > Michael > Noonan, Professor in the Department of English at the University of > Wisconsin-Milwaukee, at his home on February 23rd, apparently of a > brain > aneurysm. Mickey (as he was fondly known) was a well-known > contributor to > functional and typological linguistics. Following publication of > his Grammar > of Lango, Mickey wrote extensively on the languages of Nepal and > published > numerous articles, grammars, dictionaries, and text-collections. He > also > worked for some time on Salish and on Irish, his heritage language. > > In addition to his invaluable grammatical studies of previously > undescribed > languages, Mickey was a frequent contributor to the literature on > syntactic > typology, with notable co-edited collections on word order, voice, and > formalism and functionalism, as well as articles on complementation > (his > paper in the Shopen volume has become part of the essential canon > on this > topic), converbal constructions, subjectless clauses, > nominalization, and > many other topics. > > Mickey was an editor, with Bernard Comrie of Studies in Language. > He was > also the founding editor of Himalayan Linguistics; it was his > vision to > produce a web-based journal which is free and accessible to all, > with a > separate "Archive" section devoted to the publication of grammars, > dictionaries, and texts. He was also the editor of the John Benjamins? > Series Typological Studies in Language and with Werner Abraham, of the > Studies in Language Companion Series. > > Mickey was strongly devoted to the communities with which he > worked. He > played for them an important role of teacher, sponsor, mentor, and > friend. > He had a deep interest in language preservation and worked with > members of > the communities to increase the awareness of the importance of their > languages as well as to provide practical support of language > maintenance > efforts. Notable among his publication is a book of children?s > stories, the > first work ever produced in the Chantyal language, distributed free to > schools in three Chantyal speaking villages and to interested > members of the > ethnic organization of the Chantyal people. > > Mickey was the supervisor of numerous doctoral students and was a > devoted > mentor to many other young and developing scholars. His > contributions to > their work were invaluable and he ceaselessly promoted the highest > academic > quality in the work of his students and others. > > Mickey had a truly encyclopedic mind: he had a very wide range of > knowledge > in various areas such as history, economics, and biology, which he > readily > and joyfully shared with people on social occasions. He was also a > great > connoisseur of food and wine and took great pleasure in his garden > and in > his table ? both were rich and abundant! (The last wine he > recommended to me > was a Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio from the Trentino in Italy, so > if you > come across this, have a glass and think of him!) > > Mickey will be remembered for his deep linguistic analyses, his > lasting > descriptive works, his constructive and insightful criticism, and his > leadership in Himalayan linguistics and beyond. He will be greatly > missed. > > The family requests that those wishing to make a contribution in > his name > contact the Endangered Languages Fund > (http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org). People making > contributions should > write on their checks: "In memory of Michael Noonan". > > Carol Genetti > From cgenetti at linguistics.ucsb.edu Fri Feb 27 13:58:33 2009 From: cgenetti at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Carol Genetti) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:58:33 -0800 Subject: Obituary: Michael Noonan Message-ID: It is with great sadness that we report the unexpected death of Dr. Michael Noonan, Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, at his home on February 23rd, apparently of a brain aneurysm. Mickey (as he was fondly known) was a well-known contributor to functional and typological linguistics. Following publication of his Grammar of Lango, Mickey wrote extensively on the languages of Nepal and published numerous articles, grammars, dictionaries, and text-collections. He also worked for some time on Salish and on Irish, his heritage language. In addition to his invaluable grammatical studies of previously undescribed languages, Mickey was a frequent contributor to the literature on syntactic typology, with notable co-edited collections on word order, voice, and formalism and functionalism, as well as articles on complementation (his paper in the Shopen volume has become part of the essential canon on this topic), converbal constructions, subjectless clauses, nominalization, and many other topics. Mickey was an editor, with Bernard Comrie of Studies in Language. He was also the founding editor of Himalayan Linguistics; it was his vision to produce a web-based journal which is free and accessible to all, with a separate "Archive" section devoted to the publication of grammars, dictionaries, and texts. He was also the editor of the John Benjamins' Series Typological Studies in Language and, with Werner Abraham, of the Studies in Language Companion Series. Mickey was strongly devoted to the communities with which he worked. He played for them an important role of teacher, sponsor, mentor, and friend. He had a deep interest in language preservation and worked with members of the communities to increase the awareness of the importance of their languages as well as to provide practical support of language maintenance efforts. Notable among his publication is a book of children's stories, the first work ever produced in the Chantyal language, distributed free to schools in three Chantyal speaking villages and to interested members of the ethnic organization of the Chantyal people. Mickey was the supervisor of numerous doctoral students and was a devoted mentor to many other young and developing scholars. His contributions to their work were invaluable and he ceaselessly promoted the highest academic quality in the work of his students and others. Mickey had a truly encyclopedic mind: he had a very wide range of knowledge in various areas such as history, economics, and biology, which he readily and joyfully shared with people on social occasions. He was also a great connoisseur of food and wine and took pleasure in his garden and in his table - both were rich and abundant! (The last wine he recommended to me was a Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio from the Trentino in Italy, so if you come across this, have a glass and think of him!) Mickey will be remembered for his deep linguistic analyses, his lasting descriptive works, his constructive and insightful criticism, and his leadership in Himalayan linguistics and beyond. He will be greatly missed. The family requests that those wishing to make a contribution in his name contact the Endangered Languages Fund (http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org). People making contributions should write on their check: "In memory of Michael Noonan". Carol Genetti