From gj.steen at let.vu.nl Wed Sep 2 12:26:12 2009 From: gj.steen at let.vu.nl (Steen, G.J.) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:26:12 +0200 Subject: CfP RaAM 8 Message-ID: RaAM 8 conference: Metaphor and Domains of Discourse We are pleased to announce the 8th conference of the Researching and Applying Metaphor International Association (RaAM), which will be held at VU University (Vrije Universiteit), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 30 June through 3 July 2010. As an association, RaAM strives to advance the study of metaphor, metonymy and other aspects of figurative language, with a commitment to the application of metaphor research to 'real world' issues. In light of this, the theme of the upcoming international conference will be 'metaphor and domains of discourse'. The theme is intended to highlight the socio-cultural as well as the situational diversity of metaphor as manifested in, for example: -- government and politics; -- religion and ethics; -- education; -- science and healthcare; -- business and organizations; -- mass media and journalism; and -- literature and the arts. The conference will feature plenary lectures by: - Paul Chilton Dept. of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University, UK - Dedre Gentner Dept. of Psychology and School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University, USA and an address by the outgoing Chair of the RaAM Executive Committee: - Lynne Cameron Faculty of Education and Language Studies Open University, UK We are soliciting abstracts for 20-minute papers and for poster presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words (excluding references). Updates, including a link to the conference web site and information on abstract submission, will be posted shortly at http://www.raam.org.uk/Amsterdam_2010.html . The deadline for abstracts is 31 December 2009. Notification of acceptance decisions will be sent by 1 March 2010. Early registration will be open between 1 March and 30 April 2010. The conference will also include a new way of linking basic and applied research: in addition to regular papers and a poster session, a selection of 'real world workshops' will be offered. The workshops will involve demonstrations for, and with, conference participants on how metaphor can be used as an intervention or tool to change people's way of thinking and reasoning. 'Real world workshops' will be offered on: -- Metaphor in communicating public interest issues (Joseph Grady, Cultural Logic, USA) -- Metaphor in business organizations (Joep Cornelissen, Leeds University Business School, UK) -- Metaphor in education professionals' discourse (Graham Low, University of York, UK) -- Metaphor in knowledge management (Daan Andriessen, INHolland University of Applied Sciences, NL) -- Metaphor and metonymy in painting (Irene Mittelberg, RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Metaphor in product design (Paul Hekkert, Technical University Delft, NL). A number of pre-conference tutorials, geared toward PhD students, will be offered on 30 June before the conference begins. Furthermore, a limited number of bursaries/stipends will be available for PhD students from the RaAM Executive Committee and the local organising committee. Details will be available in the second call for abstracts and the conference web site. The RaAM8 scientific committee: John Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK) Frank Boers (Erasmus College of Brussels, Belgium) Lynne Cameron (Open University, UK) Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of the West of England, UK) Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) Charles Forceville (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, UK) Zouhair Maalej (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia) Brigitte Nerlich (University of Nottingham, UK) Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK) Gerard Steen (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) Dvora Yanow (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) Ning Yu (University of Oklahoma, USA) Lawrence Zbikowski (University of Chicago, USA) The local organizing committee: Alan Cienki and Gerard Steen (chairs); Lettie Dorst, Berenike Herrmann, Anna Kaal, Tina Krennmayr, Tryntje Pasma From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Thu Sep 3 09:49:10 2009 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 02:49:10 -0700 Subject: Call for papers Message-ID:   INFOS 2010 The 7th International Conference on Informatics and Systems                                                             Cairo University                                Faculty of Computers and Information          www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2010/   28 – 30 March, 2010 Cairo, EGYPT   Special Track On Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Mining Natural language processing (NLP) allows computers to process and understand human languages and because of its wide range of applications as well as its challenges, has become a very active research area. The field covers basic research, technologies, applications and engineering. It addresses areas such as automatic parsing and tagging, named entity recognition, word sense disambiguation, sentence understanding, grammar induction, machine translation, information extraction, automatic question answering, text summarization, and text mining. State-of-the-art NLP research combines sophisticated and deep linguistic modeling and data analysis with innovative probabilistic and machine learning approaches. The goals of this track are to provide participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems. Topics The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track: ·  Word Sense Disambiguation ·  Named Entities Identification ·  Anaphora resolution ·  Statistical vs. Linguistic Approaches ·  Language Modeling ·  Spoken Language Processing ·  Speech Recognition and Language Models ·  Text to Speech and Language Models ·  Dialog Strategy and Technology ·  Natural Language Learning, Generation and Understanding ·  Evaluation of Natural Language Systems ·  Lexical, Semantic Resources and Corpora ·  Corpora Linguistics ·  Semantic Web ·  Machine Translation ·  Information Retrieval ·  Cross Language Information Retrieval ·  Information Extraction ·  Question Answering ·  Domain-Specific Man-machine Dialog ·  Ontology Learning from Text ·  Text Categorization and Summarization ·  Text Mining and Machine Learning ·  Opinion Mining ·  Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition from Text ·   Machine Learning ·  Language Knowledge Engineering ·   NLP Applications in E-Learning ·   NLP Applications in E-Commerce ·   NLP E-mail Filtering ·   Other Applications Important Dates:   Full Paper submission due:   30  November 2009 Notification of acceptance:   1    February 2010 Camera ready submissions:   15  February 2010 To submit your paper please log into http://infos2010.fci.cu.edu.eg/authorlogin.php   Program Committee   Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Morocco Ahmed Rafea, American University in Cairo, Egypt Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA Andy Way, DCU, Ireland Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Chia-Hui Chang, National Central University, Taiwan Chris Cieri, LDC, USA Doaa Samy, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK Fawaz Al-Anzi, Kuwait University, Kuwait Hanady Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt Hany Hassan, IBM, Egypt Horacio Rodrguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Ibrahim Al-Kharashi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Joseph Dichy, Université Lumière Lyon2, France Kareem Darwish, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center, Egypt Khaled Shaalan, The British University, Dubai Khalid Choukri, ELDA, Paris, France Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax, Tunisia Mansour Al-Ghamdi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Mohamed Attia, RDI, Egypt Mohamed Kamel, Univeristy of Waterloo, Canada Mohamed Maamouri, LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA Ossama Emam, IBM Egypt Otakar Smrz, Charles University, Czech Republic Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University , Netherlands Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Sattar Izwaini, Abu Dhabi University, UAE Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athens, Greece Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST, Japan   Track Chair Prof. Dr. Aly Fahmy Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University   Track Co-Chair Dr. Samhaa El-Beltagy Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University   For further information: Dr. Samhaa El-Beltagy, samhaa at computer.org       From fg-fgw at uva.nl Wed Sep 9 13:31:21 2009 From: fg-fgw at uva.nl (fg-fgw) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:31:21 +0200 Subject: First announcement FDG Conference, Course and Colloquium Message-ID: First Announcement IC-FDG-2010 International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal 2-4 June 2010 preceded by IPC-FDG-2010 International Postgraduate Course on Functional Discourse Grammar Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal 31 May-1 June 2010 followed by Colóquio / Colloquium A gramática do Português do ponto de vista funcional Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal 5 June 2010 For more detailed information see www.functionalgrammar.com or mail to fg-fgw at uva.nl From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Sep 16 11:25:20 2009 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:25:20 -0400 Subject: promotion question Message-ID: Hi all, I'm up for promotion this year and have created an online archive with a student and am wondering if anyone has experienced trying to quantify that work in a promotion situation? I received no grant for the work, and the student worked primarily on developing the PHP algorithm for the Root Dictionary search mechanism (a good deal of work). The archive is for the Coeur d'Alene language and includes: (1) 1,200 pages of unpublished manuscripts (field notes and typed manuscripts) and published English translations of narratives (2) a searchable root dictionary in the Salishan orthography and tribal orthography with English glosses (about 1,400 roots and 8,000 entries) (3) a searchable stem list in the Salishan orthography and tribal orthography with English glosses (and link to original source) with about 1,300 stems (4) a searchable affix list with 200 affixes in Salishan orthography and tribal orthography with English glosses and link to original entry in grammar (located at the Internet Archive) (5) a grammatical sketch (6) a working bibliography (7) a conversion list for the orthographies used to document the language among some other elements...you can see the website at http://academic.uprm.edu/~sbischoff/crd_archive/start1.htmlthe affix list and stem list should have the Coeur d'Alene orthographic elements tomorrow. My department hasn't dealt with anything like this before, so no one is sure how to evaluate it. Thanks for advice in advance. Shannon From macw at cmu.edu Wed Sep 16 14:22:00 2009 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:22:00 -0400 Subject: promotion question In-Reply-To: <1c1f75a20909160425r2e6bb2ah7cfd093e6f4b5e3d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Shannon, I would recommend that you ask your department to solicit letters from one or two experts in Salishan who can evaluate the current and potential contribution of the database/archive to the field. The letters from the department to these evaluators could specifically mention the database and the department's interest in evaluating its status and potential contribution. --Brian MacWhinney On Sep 16, 2009, at 7:25 AM, s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm up for promotion this year and have created an online archive > with a > student and am wondering if anyone has experienced trying to > quantify that > work in a promotion situation? I received no grant for the work, and > the > student worked primarily on developing the PHP algorithm for the Root > Dictionary search mechanism (a good deal of work). The archive is > for the > Coeur d'Alene language and includes: > > (1) 1,200 pages of unpublished manuscripts (field notes and typed > manuscripts) and published English translations of narratives > (2) a searchable root dictionary in the Salishan orthography and > tribal > orthography with English glosses (about 1,400 roots and 8,000 entries) > (3) a searchable stem list in the Salishan orthography and tribal > orthography with English glosses (and link to original source) with > about > 1,300 stems > (4) a searchable affix list with 200 affixes in Salishan orthography > and > tribal orthography with English glosses and link to original entry in > grammar (located at the Internet Archive) > (5) a grammatical sketch > (6) a working bibliography > (7) a conversion list for the orthographies used to document the > language > > among some other elements...you can see the website at > http://academic.uprm.edu/~sbischoff/crd_archive/start1.html >the > affix list and stem list should have the Coeur d'Alene orthographic > elements tomorrow. My department hasn't dealt with anything like this > before, so no one is sure how to evaluate it. > > Thanks for advice in advance. > Shannon > From amnfn at well.com Wed Sep 16 14:32:59 2009 From: amnfn at well.com (A. Katz) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:32:59 -0700 Subject: Hyperlexia Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I've posted an article about hyperlexia and the pragmatic difficulties of hyperlexics in reading comprehension. It is intended for parents and teachers, but may be of interest to functional linguists as well, because it emphasizes the importance of pragmatics and contextual cues in the construction of meaning. http://hubpages.com/hub/Reading-Comprehension-and-the-Hyperlexic-Child I would welcome any comments. Best, --Aya Katz From paul at benjamins.com Wed Sep 16 19:26:23 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:26:23 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: van Gelderen- Cyclical Change Message-ID: Cyclical Change Edited by Elly van Gelderen Arizona State University Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 146 2009. viii, 329 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 5529 7 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 e-Book Not yet available 978 90 272 8921 6 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing, and subjects, where full pronouns are reanalyzed as endings on the verb. This book presents new data and insights on the well-known cyclical changes as well as on less well-known ones, such as the preposition, auxiliary, copula, modal, and complementation cycles. Part I covers the negative cycle with chapters looking in great detail at the steps that are typical in this cycle. Part II focuses on pronouns, auxiliaries, and the left periphery. Part III includes work on modals, prepositions, and complementation. The book ends with a psycholinguistic chapter. This book brings together linguists from a variety of theoretical frameworks and contributes to new directions in work on language change. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents List of contributors viiviii Chapter 1. Cyclical change, an introduction Elly van Gelderen Part I. Negatives Chapter 2. Jespersen recycled Jack Hoeksema Chapter 3. The Jespersen cycles Johan van der Auwera Chapter 4. The negative cycle in Early and Modern Russian Olena Tsurska Chapter 5. Jespersen off course? The case of contemporary Afrikaans negation Theresa Biberauer Part II. Pronouns, agreement, and topic markers Chapter 6. Weak pronouns in Italian: Instances of a broken cycle? Diana Vedovato Chapter 7. The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in Old North Russian Kyongjoon Kwon Chapter 8. Two instances of a broken cycle: Sentential particles in Old Italian Cecilia Poletto Part III. Copulas, auxiliaries, and adpositions Chapter 9. The Copula cycle Terje Lohndal Chapter 10. RATHER On a modal cycle Remus Gergel Chapter 11. Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages Clifton Pye Chapter 12. The Preposition cycle in English Cathleen Waters Part IV. An experiment Chapter 13. The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever Author index Subject index -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject classification Linguistics Historical linguistics Syntax Theoretical linguistics 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 Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se Fri Sep 18 10:57:01 2009 From: Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:57:01 +0200 Subject: Second CfP, Language, Culture, Mind 2010 (LCM 4) Message-ID: Second Call for abstracts LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 2010 (LCM 4) http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4 The 4th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM 4) will be held in Turku, Finland, at Åbo Akademi University, 21st-23rd June 2010. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving linguistics, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, semiotics and other related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. Currently confirmed plenary speakers: Jukka Hyönä, University of Turku Peggy Miller, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Cornelia Müller, Berlin Gesture Centre and Europa Universität Viadrina Bradd Shore, Emory University, Atlanta Dan Zahavi, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen The International LCM committee invites the submission of abstracts for presentations (oral and posters), on topics including but not limited to: * biological and cultural co-evolution * comparative study of communication systems * cognitive and cultural schematization in language * emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny * language in social interaction and multi-modal communication * language, intersubjectivity and normativity * language and thought, emotion and consciousness Abstracts of up to 500 words, including references, should be sent to lcm4turku at gmail.com as an attachment, in pdf or rtf format. Indicate if the abstract is for an oral or poster presentation. Note that there will be proper poster session(s), with one minute self-presentations to the audience in the plenary hall, just before the poster session. Round tables with invited participants will focus on certain key themes. Presenters are asked to bear in mind that the audience will consist of people from various disciplines, each of which has its own theoretical assumptions and methodological approaches. Therefore, presenters should make an effort to reflect a bit on the assumptions behind the theories and methods they themselves are using, and then bring these up explicitly in their talks/posters. The deadline for abstract submission is Dec 15, 2009. Please see the homesite for additional information on abstract formatting.Registration for the conference should be done through the online registration form; see http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4/registration.html. The fees for the LCM conference are: * Early registration (until 1st March 2010): 140 euros * Late registration (from 2nd March 2010 to 1st May 2010): 165 euros * Reduced registration fee (see registration form): 125 euros * The Finnish Evening 70 euros Members of The Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC), which is sponsoring the event, will receive 20% discount on registration fees. The registration fee includes lunch and coffee breaks during the conference, admission to all scientific sessions, all congress materials and administration costs. The Finnish evening fee includes a steam ship trip, dinner and sauna (swimming), and Finnish tango music. Important dates * Deadline for abstract submission 15 Dec 2009 * Notification of acceptance 15 Feb 2010 * Last date for early registration 1 Mar 2010 * Last date for registration 1 May 2010 * Final program publication 15th May 2010 The international LCM committee * Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Language and Communication * Carlos Cornejo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Psychology * Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy * Anders Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark, Social Cognition * Esa Itkonen, University of Turku, Linguistics * John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology * Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics * Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, Psychol ogy * Daniel Wolk, University of Kurdistan Hawler, Sociology LCM4 Local organizing committee * Urpo Nikanne, Åbo Akademi University, Finnish language * Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish languge * Esa Itkonen, University of Turku, General linguistics From spike at darkwing.uoregon.edu Sun Sep 20 16:27:37 2009 From: spike at darkwing.uoregon.edu (Spike Gildea) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:27:37 -0700 Subject: Call for workshop proposals, InField 2010 Message-ID: **Apologies for Cross-postings** CALL FOR PROPOSALS Workshops on Language Documentation, Maintenance, and Revitalization to be held as part of InField 2010 Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation University of Oregon June 21st – July 2nd, 2010 The Organizing Committee of InField solicits applications for workshops in language documentation, language maintenance, and/or language revitalization to be held as part of the second Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation, at the University of Oregon from June 22nd to July 2nd, 2010. Our immediate purpose is to offer practical training to current or potential fieldworkers and speech community members; we also plan to add to the body of freely available training materials online. We particularly seek proposals from current practitioners in this area, who would like to teach a workshop of two to eight hours in length to an audience of practicing linguists, graduate students in linguistics, and/or language activists with an interest in documenting, maintaining, or revitalizing their particular language of interest. A preliminary list of desired workshop topics for InField 2010 appears on the next page (pdf version accessible at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~spike/Site/InField_2010_files/Call for proposals, InField 2010.pdf). We solicit proposals for these topics, but we are also open to additional proposals that bring fresh ideas to InField, and these delineations of topic are not fixed, e.g., a proposal could link two or more of these topics into a single workshop. The proposal should be a maximum of 2 pages in length, and should include: topic (specify number if already in list; if new, rationale for including it as part of InField), proposed length (in hours), a brief description of workshop content (general lesson plan and level, e.g., beginning, intermediate, advanced), how it would be taught (balance of theory, examples, hands-on exercises), and what experience qualifies you to teach it (we encourage students and language activists to apply). Workshop instructors will receive reimbursement for travel, room and board, and a modest honorarium. Questions should be directed to Spike Gildea ; completed proposals should be submitted to InField 2010 . Deadline for receipt of proposals: October 12, 2009 Selection of proposals: October 30, 2009 Preliminary Workshop Category / Title Hours *Plenaries* *1. Steps in language documentation*: How do I conceptualize a documentation, revitalization, or maintenance project? 5 hrs *2. Models of language documentation and revitalization*: What models of language maintenance and revitalization work? Different models for different communities; presentations by community members on what they have done, challenges they have faced, and their successes 10 hrs *Technology* *3. Audio recording*: How do I make a good recording? How do I work with digital media files? Choosing and maintaining equipment; recording techniques; metadata; practice and analysis of results; editing sound files; sampling rates; compression; introduction to sound-editing software 7 hrs *4. Video recording and editing*. Introduction to video recording and basics of video editing for fieldwork. 9 hrs *5. Data Management and Archiving*. Managing, converting, storing, and manipulating your data; using available archives and creating an archivable corpus; data accessibility and mobilization. 6 hrs *6. Principles of database design*: What are the best uses of a database, and how do I make a good one? Database features; design considerations; practice in database queries and scripts; exporting and importing; comparison of database software; creation of databases for different linguistic purposes. 8 hrs *7. Aligning text to audio and video using ELAN.* Using ELAN software to create archival text/audio and text/video alignments; interlinearized glossing; conceptualizing the structure of a transcript of spoken language 9 hrs *8. Toolbox/FLEX*. Multipurpose data management software 6 hrs *Transcription and Lexicography* *9. Orthography*: Which orthography should I use? Issues in orthography; working with communities for developing working orthographies 7 hrs *10. Lexicography*: How do I make a dictionary? Principles of lexicography; dictionaries for different purposes; software for dictionary creation 7 hrs *11. Transcription Conventions for discourse transcription, intonation.* 8 hrs *Field Methodologies and Ethics* *12. Life in the field*: How do I succeed in the field? A discussion-based workshop on the personal, practical, and social dimensions of fieldwork. Separate workshops targeted at audiences of specific levels of experience. 6 hrs *13. Ethical issues in fieldwork: Case studies.* Eight seminar presentations on specific ethical concerns and ways to promote the highest ethical standards in fieldwork. Each should be led by a different presenter / facilitator, about half scholars and half language activists. 12 hrs *14. Field phonetics.* Introduction to recording and digitization, transcription, and acoustic analysis using Praat software and other techniques 6 hrs *15. Ethnobiology.* How does the language community categorize and label the natural world? Areas of focus: botany and ecosystems, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects 8 hrs *16. Survey Methods.* How many speakers are there of my language? When is it used by which groups? 5 hrs *Language Maintenance and Revitalization* *17. Introduction to linguistics for language activists.* What can linguistics teach me to help me maintain/revitalize my language? 10 hrs *18. Language activism.* What skills do community language activists need? How can these skills be transferred more widely at the community/grassroots level? 7 hrs *19. Language resources and the community.* How can I provide technical support for my community? How can I develop materials or work with materials already at hand to best help my community? Creating and using materials to meet the needs of a unique community; from documentation to pedagogy and revitalization 4 hrs *20. Grant writing for language activists and linguists*: How can I write a successful grant proposal? Identifying appropriate granting agencies; structuring grant proposals; making a convincing case for support 10 hrs *21. Pedagogical Grammars.* How to make grammatical analysis accessible and useful to language learners and language programs. 10 hrs *22. Teaching Methods. *A practical approach to the consideration of models for revitalizing endangered languages. Among models to be compared are early childhood immersion, master-apprentice, and classroom-based programs. The ultimate goal is to support enduring multilingualism. 10 hrs *23. Classroom Materials and Technology.* In this hands-on course, students explore ways to make materials for classroom or home use. Students use latest technologies to create learning materials and practice using them as both teachers and learners 10 hrs From simon at ipfw.edu Mon Sep 21 19:26:22 2009 From: simon at ipfw.edu (Beth Simon) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:26:22 -0400 Subject: Job Opening in Linguistics / Applied Linguistics Message-ID: with apologies for cross-posting, regards, bls NaN. NaN. NaN. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}Assistant Professor, Linguistics/Applied Linguistics The Department of English andLinguistics of Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) invitesapplications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics at the rank ofAssistant Professor to begin August, 2010. TeachingEnglish as a New Language program with state endorsements, and isdeveloping a separate undergraduate major in Linguistics. Ph.D. in hand by August, 2010.Minimum one-year teaching experience is required. Applications should includethe following: Cover letter indicating research focus and teaching experience Curriculum Vitae Unofficial Transcripts Names and contact information for three currentreferences ApplicationDeadline: November 16, 2009. First-round interviews to coincide with the LinguisticSociety of America conference, 2010, in Baltimore. : 260 481 6751 Please visit our website http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/to learn more about our department. Indiana University-PurdueUniversity, Fort Wayne is located on a growing campus of approximately 13,000students in a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000 people. IPFW is anEqual Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action University fully committedto a diverse workforce. Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu From simon at ipfw.edu Mon Sep 21 21:51:17 2009 From: simon at ipfw.edu (Beth Simon) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:51:17 -0400 Subject: Job Opening announcement Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I think perhaps the funknet default is set for plain text. Lots of code appeared when the announcement was posted to funknet (but not to others), and that may be the reason. I'm sorry about the fuzz. If you care to have the job posting, contact me and I'll send it to you. regards, beth Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu From tgivon at uoregon.edu Mon Sep 21 22:06:12 2009 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:06:12 -0600 Subject: Indiana-Purdue job Message-ID: Since some people on the list may be interested in this job, I've taken the liberty to clean up the announcement just a bit, hopefully. With apologies. Best, TG ============= The Department of English and Linguistics of Indiana University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August, 2010. The position is in the Teaching English as a New Language program (with state endorsements), and involves developing a separate undergraduate major in Linguistics. Ph.D. in hand by August, 2010 and a minimum of one year teaching experience are required. Applications should includethe following: Cover letter indicating research focus and teaching experience Curriculum Vitae Unofficial Transcripts Names and contact information for three current referees Application Deadline: November 16, 2009. First-round interviews will coincide with the Linguistic Society of America conference, 2010, in Baltimore presumably the January meeting?). Please visit our website http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/to learn more about our department. Indiana University/PurdueUniversity, Fort Wayne is located on a growing campus of approximately 13,000students in a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000 people. IPFW is an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action University fully committed to a diverse workforce. Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu From mischlerj at nsula.edu Mon Sep 21 22:13:22 2009 From: mischlerj at nsula.edu (James J. Mischler) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:13:22 -0500 Subject: Indiana-Purdue job Message-ID: All, The hyperlink to the IPFW English Dept. site, shown in the original message and in Tom's cleaned-up message (thanks!), is slightly incorrect. The link should read: http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/ Just put a space between the final forward slash (engl/) and the word "to" and the site should come up. Best, Jim Mischler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Language & Communication Northwestern State University Natchitoches, LA 71457 mischlerj at nsula.edu -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu on behalf of Tom Givon Sent: Mon 9/21/2009 5:06 PM To: Funknet Subject: [FUNKNET] Indiana-Purdue job Since some people on the list may be interested in this job, I've taken the liberty to clean up the announcement just a bit, hopefully. With apologies. Best, TG ============= The Department of English and Linguistics of Indiana University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August, 2010. The position is in the Teaching English as a New Language program (with state endorsements), and involves developing a separate undergraduate major in Linguistics. Ph.D. in hand by August, 2010 and a minimum of one year teaching experience are required. Applications should includethe following: Cover letter indicating research focus and teaching experience Curriculum Vitae Unofficial Transcripts Names and contact information for three current referees Application Deadline: November 16, 2009. First-round interviews will coincide with the Linguistic Society of America conference, 2010, in Baltimore presumably the January meeting?). Please visit our website http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/to learn more about our department. Indiana University/PurdueUniversity, Fort Wayne is located on a growing campus of approximately 13,000students in a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000 people. IPFW is an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action University fully committed to a diverse workforce. Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu From thompsoc at ipfw.edu Mon Sep 21 22:44:11 2009 From: thompsoc at ipfw.edu (Chad Thompson) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:44:11 -0400 Subject: Indiana-Purdue job Message-ID: Thanks, Tom. Also, the contact information for the job should read: For further information, contact Dr. Hardin Aasand, Chair, Department of English and Linguistics, IPFW, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499; email: aasandh at ipfw.edu; tel: 260-481-6751 Chad Thompson >>> Tom Givon 09/21/09 6:06 PM >>> Since some people on the list may be interested in this job, I've taken the liberty to clean up the announcement just a bit, hopefully. With apologies. Best, TG ============= The Department of English and Linguistics of Indiana University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August, 2010. The position is in the Teaching English as a New Language program (with state endorsements), and involves developing a separate undergraduate major in Linguistics. Ph.D. in hand by August, 2010 and a minimum of one year teaching experience are required. Applications should includethe following: Cover letter indicating research focus and teaching experience Curriculum Vitae Unofficial Transcripts Names and contact information for three current referees Application Deadline: November 16, 2009. First-round interviews will coincide with the Linguistic Society of America conference, 2010, in Baltimore presumably the January meeting?). Please visit our website http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/to learn more about our department. Indiana University/PurdueUniversity, Fort Wayne is located on a growing campus of approximately 13,000students in a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000 people. IPFW is an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action University fully committed to a diverse workforce. Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu From gj.steen at let.vu.nl Wed Sep 2 12:26:12 2009 From: gj.steen at let.vu.nl (Steen, G.J.) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:26:12 +0200 Subject: CfP RaAM 8 Message-ID: RaAM 8 conference: Metaphor and Domains of Discourse We are pleased to announce the 8th conference of the Researching and Applying Metaphor International Association (RaAM), which will be held at VU University (Vrije Universiteit), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 30 June through 3 July 2010. As an association, RaAM strives to advance the study of metaphor, metonymy and other aspects of figurative language, with a commitment to the application of metaphor research to 'real world' issues. In light of this, the theme of the upcoming international conference will be 'metaphor and domains of discourse'. The theme is intended to highlight the socio-cultural as well as the situational diversity of metaphor as manifested in, for example: -- government and politics; -- religion and ethics; -- education; -- science and healthcare; -- business and organizations; -- mass media and journalism; and -- literature and the arts. The conference will feature plenary lectures by: - Paul Chilton Dept. of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University, UK - Dedre Gentner Dept. of Psychology and School of Education and Social Policy Northwestern University, USA and an address by the outgoing Chair of the RaAM Executive Committee: - Lynne Cameron Faculty of Education and Language Studies Open University, UK We are soliciting abstracts for 20-minute papers and for poster presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words (excluding references). Updates, including a link to the conference web site and information on abstract submission, will be posted shortly at http://www.raam.org.uk/Amsterdam_2010.html . The deadline for abstracts is 31 December 2009. Notification of acceptance decisions will be sent by 1 March 2010. Early registration will be open between 1 March and 30 April 2010. The conference will also include a new way of linking basic and applied research: in addition to regular papers and a poster session, a selection of 'real world workshops' will be offered. The workshops will involve demonstrations for, and with, conference participants on how metaphor can be used as an intervention or tool to change people's way of thinking and reasoning. 'Real world workshops' will be offered on: -- Metaphor in communicating public interest issues (Joseph Grady, Cultural Logic, USA) -- Metaphor in business organizations (Joep Cornelissen, Leeds University Business School, UK) -- Metaphor in education professionals' discourse (Graham Low, University of York, UK) -- Metaphor in knowledge management (Daan Andriessen, INHolland University of Applied Sciences, NL) -- Metaphor and metonymy in painting (Irene Mittelberg, RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Metaphor in product design (Paul Hekkert, Technical University Delft, NL). A number of pre-conference tutorials, geared toward PhD students, will be offered on 30 June before the conference begins. Furthermore, a limited number of bursaries/stipends will be available for PhD students from the RaAM Executive Committee and the local organising committee. Details will be available in the second call for abstracts and the conference web site. The RaAM8 scientific committee: John Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK) Frank Boers (Erasmus College of Brussels, Belgium) Lynne Cameron (Open University, UK) Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of the West of England, UK) Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) Charles Forceville (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, UK) Zouhair Maalej (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia) Brigitte Nerlich (University of Nottingham, UK) Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK) Gerard Steen (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) Dvora Yanow (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) Ning Yu (University of Oklahoma, USA) Lawrence Zbikowski (University of Chicago, USA) The local organizing committee: Alan Cienki and Gerard Steen (chairs); Lettie Dorst, Berenike Herrmann, Anna Kaal, Tina Krennmayr, Tryntje Pasma From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Thu Sep 3 09:49:10 2009 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 02:49:10 -0700 Subject: Call for papers Message-ID: ? INFOS 2010 The 7th International Conference on Informatics and Systems ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Cairo University ? ???????????????????????????? Faculty of Computers and Information ???????? www.fci.cu.edu.eg/INFOS2010/ ? 28 ? 30 March, 2010 Cairo, EGYPT ? Special Track On Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Mining Natural language processing (NLP) allows computers to process and understand human languages and because of its wide range of applications as well as its challenges, has become a very active research area. The field covers basic research, technologies, applications and engineering. It addresses areas such as automatic parsing and tagging, named entity recognition, word sense disambiguation, sentence understanding, grammar induction, machine translation, information extraction, automatic question answering, text summarization, and text mining. State-of-the-art NLP research combines sophisticated and deep linguistic modeling and data analysis with innovative probabilistic and machine learning approaches. The goals of this track are to provide participants with an opportunity to exchange ideas, approaches and implementations of computational systems, to highlight the common challenges faced by all practitioners, to assess the state of the art in the field, and to identify promising areas for future collaborative research in the development of NLP resources and systems. Topics The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics covered by the track: ?? Word Sense Disambiguation ?? Named Entities Identification ?? Anaphora resolution ?? Statistical vs. Linguistic Approaches ?? Language Modeling ?? Spoken Language Processing ?? Speech Recognition and Language Models ?? Text to Speech and Language Models ?? Dialog Strategy and Technology ?? Natural Language Learning, Generation and Understanding ?? Evaluation of Natural Language Systems ?? Lexical, Semantic Resources and Corpora ?? Corpora Linguistics ?? Semantic Web ?? Machine Translation ?? Information Retrieval ?? Cross Language Information Retrieval ?? Information Extraction ?? Question Answering ?? Domain-Specific Man-machine Dialog ?? Ontology Learning from Text ?? Text Categorization and Summarization ?? Text Mining and Machine Learning ?? Opinion Mining ?? Knowledge Discovery and Acquisition from Text ?? ?Machine Learning ?? Language Knowledge Engineering ?? ?NLP Applications in E-Learning ?? ?NLP Applications in E-Commerce ?? ?NLP E-mail Filtering ?? ?Other Applications Important Dates: ? Full Paper submission due: ??30 ?November 2009 Notification of acceptance: ??1 ?? February 2010 Camera ready submissions: ??15 ?February 2010 To submit your paper please log into http://infos2010.fci.cu.edu.eg/authorlogin.php ? Program Committee ? Abdelhadi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l?Industrie Min?rale, Morocco Ahmed Rafea, American University in Cairo, Egypt Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA Andy Way, DCU, Ireland Bente Maegaard, CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Chia-Hui Chang, National Central University, Taiwan Chris Cieri, LDC, USA Doaa Samy, Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK Fawaz Al-Anzi, Kuwait University, Kuwait Hanady Ahmed, Alexandria University, Egypt Hany Hassan, IBM, Egypt Horacio Rodrguez, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Ibrahim Al-Kharashi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Joseph Dichy, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon2, France Kareem Darwish, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center, Egypt Khaled Shaalan, The British University, Dubai Khalid Choukri, ELDA, Paris, France Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Sfax, Tunisia Mansour Al-Ghamdi, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Mohamed Attia, RDI, Egypt Mohamed Kamel, Univeristy of Waterloo, Canada Mohamed Maamouri, LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA Mohsen Rashwan, Cairo University, Egypt Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA Nizar Habash, Columbia University, USA Ossama Emam, IBM Egypt Otakar Smrz, Charles University, Czech Republic Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University , Netherlands Paolo Rosso, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain Sattar Izwaini, Abu Dhabi University, UAE Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athens, Greece Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST, Japan ? Track Chair Prof. Dr. Aly Fahmy Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University ? Track Co-Chair Dr. Samhaa El-Beltagy Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University ? For further information: Dr. Samhaa El-Beltagy, samhaa at computer.org ? ? ? From fg-fgw at uva.nl Wed Sep 9 13:31:21 2009 From: fg-fgw at uva.nl (fg-fgw) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:31:21 +0200 Subject: First announcement FDG Conference, Course and Colloquium Message-ID: First Announcement IC-FDG-2010 International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar Centro Cient?fico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal 2-4 June 2010 preceded by IPC-FDG-2010 International Postgraduate Course on Functional Discourse Grammar Centro Cient?fico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal 31 May-1 June 2010 followed by Col?quio / Colloquium A gram?tica do Portugu?s do ponto de vista funcional Centro Cient?fico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal 5 June 2010 For more detailed information see www.functionalgrammar.com or mail to fg-fgw at uva.nl From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Sep 16 11:25:20 2009 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:25:20 -0400 Subject: promotion question Message-ID: Hi all, I'm up for promotion this year and have created an online archive with a student and am wondering if anyone has experienced trying to quantify that work in a promotion situation? I received no grant for the work, and the student worked primarily on developing the PHP algorithm for the Root Dictionary search mechanism (a good deal of work). The archive is for the Coeur d'Alene language and includes: (1) 1,200 pages of unpublished manuscripts (field notes and typed manuscripts) and published English translations of narratives (2) a searchable root dictionary in the Salishan orthography and tribal orthography with English glosses (about 1,400 roots and 8,000 entries) (3) a searchable stem list in the Salishan orthography and tribal orthography with English glosses (and link to original source) with about 1,300 stems (4) a searchable affix list with 200 affixes in Salishan orthography and tribal orthography with English glosses and link to original entry in grammar (located at the Internet Archive) (5) a grammatical sketch (6) a working bibliography (7) a conversion list for the orthographies used to document the language among some other elements...you can see the website at http://academic.uprm.edu/~sbischoff/crd_archive/start1.htmlthe affix list and stem list should have the Coeur d'Alene orthographic elements tomorrow. My department hasn't dealt with anything like this before, so no one is sure how to evaluate it. Thanks for advice in advance. Shannon From macw at cmu.edu Wed Sep 16 14:22:00 2009 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:22:00 -0400 Subject: promotion question In-Reply-To: <1c1f75a20909160425r2e6bb2ah7cfd093e6f4b5e3d@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Dear Shannon, I would recommend that you ask your department to solicit letters from one or two experts in Salishan who can evaluate the current and potential contribution of the database/archive to the field. The letters from the department to these evaluators could specifically mention the database and the department's interest in evaluating its status and potential contribution. --Brian MacWhinney On Sep 16, 2009, at 7:25 AM, s.t. bischoff wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm up for promotion this year and have created an online archive > with a > student and am wondering if anyone has experienced trying to > quantify that > work in a promotion situation? I received no grant for the work, and > the > student worked primarily on developing the PHP algorithm for the Root > Dictionary search mechanism (a good deal of work). The archive is > for the > Coeur d'Alene language and includes: > > (1) 1,200 pages of unpublished manuscripts (field notes and typed > manuscripts) and published English translations of narratives > (2) a searchable root dictionary in the Salishan orthography and > tribal > orthography with English glosses (about 1,400 roots and 8,000 entries) > (3) a searchable stem list in the Salishan orthography and tribal > orthography with English glosses (and link to original source) with > about > 1,300 stems > (4) a searchable affix list with 200 affixes in Salishan orthography > and > tribal orthography with English glosses and link to original entry in > grammar (located at the Internet Archive) > (5) a grammatical sketch > (6) a working bibliography > (7) a conversion list for the orthographies used to document the > language > > among some other elements...you can see the website at > http://academic.uprm.edu/~sbischoff/crd_archive/start1.html >the > affix list and stem list should have the Coeur d'Alene orthographic > elements tomorrow. My department hasn't dealt with anything like this > before, so no one is sure how to evaluate it. > > Thanks for advice in advance. > Shannon > From amnfn at well.com Wed Sep 16 14:32:59 2009 From: amnfn at well.com (A. Katz) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:32:59 -0700 Subject: Hyperlexia Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I've posted an article about hyperlexia and the pragmatic difficulties of hyperlexics in reading comprehension. It is intended for parents and teachers, but may be of interest to functional linguists as well, because it emphasizes the importance of pragmatics and contextual cues in the construction of meaning. http://hubpages.com/hub/Reading-Comprehension-and-the-Hyperlexic-Child I would welcome any comments. Best, --Aya Katz From paul at benjamins.com Wed Sep 16 19:26:23 2009 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:26:23 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: van Gelderen- Cyclical Change Message-ID: Cyclical Change Edited by Elly van Gelderen Arizona State University Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 146 2009. viii, 329 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 5529 7 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 e-Book Not yet available 978 90 272 8921 6 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 Linguistic Cycles are ever present in language change and involve a phrase or word that gradually disappears and is replaced by a new linguistic item. The most well-known cycles involve negatives, where an initial single negative, such as not, is reinforced by another negative, such as no thing, and subjects, where full pronouns are reanalyzed as endings on the verb. This book presents new data and insights on the well-known cyclical changes as well as on less well-known ones, such as the preposition, auxiliary, copula, modal, and complementation cycles. Part I covers the negative cycle with chapters looking in great detail at the steps that are typical in this cycle. Part II focuses on pronouns, auxiliaries, and the left periphery. Part III includes work on modals, prepositions, and complementation. The book ends with a psycholinguistic chapter. This book brings together linguists from a variety of theoretical frameworks and contributes to new directions in work on language change. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of contents List of contributors viiviii Chapter 1. Cyclical change, an introduction Elly van Gelderen Part I. Negatives Chapter 2. Jespersen recycled Jack Hoeksema Chapter 3. The Jespersen cycles Johan van der Auwera Chapter 4. The negative cycle in Early and Modern Russian Olena Tsurska Chapter 5. Jespersen off course? The case of contemporary Afrikaans negation Theresa Biberauer Part II. Pronouns, agreement, and topic markers Chapter 6. Weak pronouns in Italian: Instances of a broken cycle? Diana Vedovato Chapter 7. The subject cycle of pronominal auxiliaries in Old North Russian Kyongjoon Kwon Chapter 8. Two instances of a broken cycle: Sentential particles in Old Italian Cecilia Poletto Part III. Copulas, auxiliaries, and adpositions Chapter 9. The Copula cycle Terje Lohndal Chapter 10. RATHER On a modal cycle Remus Gergel Chapter 11. Cycles of complementation in the Mayan languages Clifton Pye Chapter 12. The Preposition cycle in English Cathleen Waters Part IV. An experiment Chapter 13. The study of syntactic cycles as an experimental science Roeland Hancock and Thomas G. Bever Author index Subject index -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject classification Linguistics Historical linguistics Syntax Theoretical linguistics 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 Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se Fri Sep 18 10:57:01 2009 From: Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:57:01 +0200 Subject: Second CfP, Language, Culture, Mind 2010 (LCM 4) Message-ID: Second Call for abstracts LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND 2010 (LCM 4) http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4 The 4th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM 4) will be held in Turku, Finland, at ?bo Akademi University, 21st-23rd June 2010. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving linguistics, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, semiotics and other related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. Currently confirmed plenary speakers: Jukka Hy?n?, University of Turku Peggy Miller, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Cornelia M?ller, Berlin Gesture Centre and Europa Universit?t Viadrina Bradd Shore, Emory University, Atlanta Dan Zahavi, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen The International LCM committee invites the submission of abstracts for presentations (oral and posters), on topics including but not limited to: * biological and cultural co-evolution * comparative study of communication systems * cognitive and cultural schematization in language * emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny * language in social interaction and multi-modal communication * language, intersubjectivity and normativity * language and thought, emotion and consciousness Abstracts of up to 500 words, including references, should be sent to lcm4turku at gmail.com as an attachment, in pdf or rtf format. Indicate if the abstract is for an oral or poster presentation. Note that there will be proper poster session(s), with one minute self-presentations to the audience in the plenary hall, just before the poster session. Round tables with invited participants will focus on certain key themes. Presenters are asked to bear in mind that the audience will consist of people from various disciplines, each of which has its own theoretical assumptions and methodological approaches. Therefore, presenters should make an effort to reflect a bit on the assumptions behind the theories and methods they themselves are using, and then bring these up explicitly in their talks/posters. The deadline for abstract submission is Dec 15, 2009. Please see the homesite for additional information on abstract formatting.Registration for the conference should be done through the online registration form; see http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4/registration.html. The fees for the LCM conference are: * Early registration (until 1st March 2010): 140 euros * Late registration (from 2nd March 2010 to 1st May 2010): 165 euros * Reduced registration fee (see registration form): 125 euros * The Finnish Evening 70 euros Members of The Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC), which is sponsoring the event, will receive 20% discount on registration fees. The registration fee includes lunch and coffee breaks during the conference, admission to all scientific sessions, all congress materials and administration costs. The Finnish evening fee includes a steam ship trip, dinner and sauna (swimming), and Finnish tango music. Important dates * Deadline for abstract submission 15 Dec 2009 * Notification of acceptance 15 Feb 2010 * Last date for early registration 1 Mar 2010 * Last date for registration 1 May 2010 * Final program publication 15th May 2010 The international LCM committee * Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Language and Communication * Carlos Cornejo, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile, Psychology * Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy * Anders Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark, Social Cognition * Esa Itkonen, University of Turku, Linguistics * John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology * Aliyah Morgenstern, Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics * Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, Psychol ogy * Daniel Wolk, University of Kurdistan Hawler, Sociology LCM4 Local organizing committee * Urpo Nikanne, ?bo Akademi University, Finnish language * Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish languge * Esa Itkonen, University of Turku, General linguistics From spike at darkwing.uoregon.edu Sun Sep 20 16:27:37 2009 From: spike at darkwing.uoregon.edu (Spike Gildea) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:27:37 -0700 Subject: Call for workshop proposals, InField 2010 Message-ID: **Apologies for Cross-postings** CALL FOR PROPOSALS Workshops on Language Documentation, Maintenance, and Revitalization to be held as part of InField 2010 Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation University of Oregon June 21st ? July 2nd, 2010 The Organizing Committee of InField solicits applications for workshops in language documentation, language maintenance, and/or language revitalization to be held as part of the second Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation, at the University of Oregon from June 22nd to July 2nd, 2010. Our immediate purpose is to offer practical training to current or potential fieldworkers and speech community members; we also plan to add to the body of freely available training materials online. We particularly seek proposals from current practitioners in this area, who would like to teach a workshop of two to eight hours in length to an audience of practicing linguists, graduate students in linguistics, and/or language activists with an interest in documenting, maintaining, or revitalizing their particular language of interest. A preliminary list of desired workshop topics for InField 2010 appears on the next page (pdf version accessible at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~spike/Site/InField_2010_files/Call for proposals, InField 2010.pdf). We solicit proposals for these topics, but we are also open to additional proposals that bring fresh ideas to InField, and these delineations of topic are not fixed, e.g., a proposal could link two or more of these topics into a single workshop. The proposal should be a maximum of 2 pages in length, and should include: topic (specify number if already in list; if new, rationale for including it as part of InField), proposed length (in hours), a brief description of workshop content (general lesson plan and level, e.g., beginning, intermediate, advanced), how it would be taught (balance of theory, examples, hands-on exercises), and what experience qualifies you to teach it (we encourage students and language activists to apply). Workshop instructors will receive reimbursement for travel, room and board, and a modest honorarium. Questions should be directed to Spike Gildea ; completed proposals should be submitted to InField 2010 . Deadline for receipt of proposals: October 12, 2009 Selection of proposals: October 30, 2009 Preliminary Workshop Category / Title Hours *Plenaries* *1. Steps in language documentation*: How do I conceptualize a documentation, revitalization, or maintenance project? 5 hrs *2. Models of language documentation and revitalization*: What models of language maintenance and revitalization work? Different models for different communities; presentations by community members on what they have done, challenges they have faced, and their successes 10 hrs *Technology* *3. Audio recording*: How do I make a good recording? How do I work with digital media files? Choosing and maintaining equipment; recording techniques; metadata; practice and analysis of results; editing sound files; sampling rates; compression; introduction to sound-editing software 7 hrs *4. Video recording and editing*. Introduction to video recording and basics of video editing for fieldwork. 9 hrs *5. Data Management and Archiving*. Managing, converting, storing, and manipulating your data; using available archives and creating an archivable corpus; data accessibility and mobilization. 6 hrs *6. Principles of database design*: What are the best uses of a database, and how do I make a good one? Database features; design considerations; practice in database queries and scripts; exporting and importing; comparison of database software; creation of databases for different linguistic purposes. 8 hrs *7. Aligning text to audio and video using ELAN.* Using ELAN software to create archival text/audio and text/video alignments; interlinearized glossing; conceptualizing the structure of a transcript of spoken language 9 hrs *8. Toolbox/FLEX*. Multipurpose data management software 6 hrs *Transcription and Lexicography* *9. Orthography*: Which orthography should I use? Issues in orthography; working with communities for developing working orthographies 7 hrs *10. Lexicography*: How do I make a dictionary? Principles of lexicography; dictionaries for different purposes; software for dictionary creation 7 hrs *11. Transcription Conventions for discourse transcription, intonation.* 8 hrs *Field Methodologies and Ethics* *12. Life in the field*: How do I succeed in the field? A discussion-based workshop on the personal, practical, and social dimensions of fieldwork. Separate workshops targeted at audiences of specific levels of experience. 6 hrs *13. Ethical issues in fieldwork: Case studies.* Eight seminar presentations on specific ethical concerns and ways to promote the highest ethical standards in fieldwork. Each should be led by a different presenter / facilitator, about half scholars and half language activists. 12 hrs *14. Field phonetics.* Introduction to recording and digitization, transcription, and acoustic analysis using Praat software and other techniques 6 hrs *15. Ethnobiology.* How does the language community categorize and label the natural world? Areas of focus: botany and ecosystems, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects 8 hrs *16. Survey Methods.* How many speakers are there of my language? When is it used by which groups? 5 hrs *Language Maintenance and Revitalization* *17. Introduction to linguistics for language activists.* What can linguistics teach me to help me maintain/revitalize my language? 10 hrs *18. Language activism.* What skills do community language activists need? How can these skills be transferred more widely at the community/grassroots level? 7 hrs *19. Language resources and the community.* How can I provide technical support for my community? How can I develop materials or work with materials already at hand to best help my community? Creating and using materials to meet the needs of a unique community; from documentation to pedagogy and revitalization 4 hrs *20. Grant writing for language activists and linguists*: How can I write a successful grant proposal? Identifying appropriate granting agencies; structuring grant proposals; making a convincing case for support 10 hrs *21. Pedagogical Grammars.* How to make grammatical analysis accessible and useful to language learners and language programs. 10 hrs *22. Teaching Methods. *A practical approach to the consideration of models for revitalizing endangered languages. Among models to be compared are early childhood immersion, master-apprentice, and classroom-based programs. The ultimate goal is to support enduring multilingualism. 10 hrs *23. Classroom Materials and Technology.* In this hands-on course, students explore ways to make materials for classroom or home use. Students use latest technologies to create learning materials and practice using them as both teachers and learners 10 hrs From simon at ipfw.edu Mon Sep 21 19:26:22 2009 From: simon at ipfw.edu (Beth Simon) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:26:22 -0400 Subject: Job Opening in Linguistics / Applied Linguistics Message-ID: with apologies for cross-posting, regards, bls NaN. NaN. NaN. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;mso-para-margin:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}Assistant Professor, Linguistics/Applied Linguistics The Department of English andLinguistics of Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) invitesapplications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics at the rank ofAssistant Professor to begin August, 2010. TeachingEnglish as a New Language program with state endorsements, and isdeveloping a separate undergraduate major in Linguistics. Ph.D. in hand by August, 2010.Minimum one-year teaching experience is required. Applications should includethe following: Cover letter indicating research focus and teaching experience Curriculum Vitae Unofficial Transcripts Names and contact information for three currentreferences ApplicationDeadline: November 16, 2009. First-round interviews to coincide with the LinguisticSociety of America conference, 2010, in Baltimore. : 260 481 6751 Please visit our website http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/to learn more about our department. Indiana University-PurdueUniversity, Fort Wayne is located on a growing campus of approximately 13,000students in a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000 people. IPFW is anEqual Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action University fully committedto a diverse workforce. Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu From simon at ipfw.edu Mon Sep 21 21:51:17 2009 From: simon at ipfw.edu (Beth Simon) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:51:17 -0400 Subject: Job Opening announcement Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I think perhaps the funknet default is set for plain text. Lots of code appeared when the announcement was posted to funknet (but not to others), and that may be the reason. I'm sorry about the fuzz. If you care to have the job posting, contact me and I'll send it to you. regards, beth Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu From tgivon at uoregon.edu Mon Sep 21 22:06:12 2009 From: tgivon at uoregon.edu (Tom Givon) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:06:12 -0600 Subject: Indiana-Purdue job Message-ID: Since some people on the list may be interested in this job, I've taken the liberty to clean up the announcement just a bit, hopefully. With apologies. Best, TG ============= The Department of English and Linguistics of Indiana University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August, 2010. The position is in the Teaching English as a New Language program (with state endorsements), and involves developing a separate undergraduate major in Linguistics. Ph.D. in hand by August, 2010 and a minimum of one year teaching experience are required. Applications should includethe following: Cover letter indicating research focus and teaching experience Curriculum Vitae Unofficial Transcripts Names and contact information for three current referees Application Deadline: November 16, 2009. First-round interviews will coincide with the Linguistic Society of America conference, 2010, in Baltimore presumably the January meeting?). Please visit our website http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/to learn more about our department. Indiana University/PurdueUniversity, Fort Wayne is located on a growing campus of approximately 13,000students in a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000 people. IPFW is an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action University fully committed to a diverse workforce. Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu From mischlerj at nsula.edu Mon Sep 21 22:13:22 2009 From: mischlerj at nsula.edu (James J. Mischler) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:13:22 -0500 Subject: Indiana-Purdue job Message-ID: All, The hyperlink to the IPFW English Dept. site, shown in the original message and in Tom's cleaned-up message (thanks!), is slightly incorrect. The link should read: http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/ Just put a space between the final forward slash (engl/) and the word "to" and the site should come up. Best, Jim Mischler, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Language & Communication Northwestern State University Natchitoches, LA 71457 mischlerj at nsula.edu -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu on behalf of Tom Givon Sent: Mon 9/21/2009 5:06 PM To: Funknet Subject: [FUNKNET] Indiana-Purdue job Since some people on the list may be interested in this job, I've taken the liberty to clean up the announcement just a bit, hopefully. With apologies. Best, TG ============= The Department of English and Linguistics of Indiana University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August, 2010. The position is in the Teaching English as a New Language program (with state endorsements), and involves developing a separate undergraduate major in Linguistics. Ph.D. in hand by August, 2010 and a minimum of one year teaching experience are required. Applications should includethe following: Cover letter indicating research focus and teaching experience Curriculum Vitae Unofficial Transcripts Names and contact information for three current referees Application Deadline: November 16, 2009. First-round interviews will coincide with the Linguistic Society of America conference, 2010, in Baltimore presumably the January meeting?). Please visit our website http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/to learn more about our department. Indiana University/PurdueUniversity, Fort Wayne is located on a growing campus of approximately 13,000students in a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000 people. IPFW is an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action University fully committed to a diverse workforce. Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu From thompsoc at ipfw.edu Mon Sep 21 22:44:11 2009 From: thompsoc at ipfw.edu (Chad Thompson) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:44:11 -0400 Subject: Indiana-Purdue job Message-ID: Thanks, Tom. Also, the contact information for the job should read: For further information, contact Dr. Hardin Aasand, Chair, Department of English and Linguistics, IPFW, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499; email: aasandh at ipfw.edu; tel: 260-481-6751 Chad Thompson >>> Tom Givon 09/21/09 6:06 PM >>> Since some people on the list may be interested in this job, I've taken the liberty to clean up the announcement just a bit, hopefully. With apologies. Best, TG ============= The Department of English and Linguistics of Indiana University/Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW) invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in linguistics at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August, 2010. The position is in the Teaching English as a New Language program (with state endorsements), and involves developing a separate undergraduate major in Linguistics. Ph.D. in hand by August, 2010 and a minimum of one year teaching experience are required. Applications should includethe following: Cover letter indicating research focus and teaching experience Curriculum Vitae Unofficial Transcripts Names and contact information for three current referees Application Deadline: November 16, 2009. First-round interviews will coincide with the Linguistic Society of America conference, 2010, in Baltimore presumably the January meeting?). Please visit our website http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/to learn more about our department. Indiana University/PurdueUniversity, Fort Wayne is located on a growing campus of approximately 13,000students in a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000 people. IPFW is an Equal Opportunity, Equal Access, Affirmative Action University fully committed to a diverse workforce. Beth Lee Simon, Ph.D. Professor, Linguistics and English Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne, In 46805, U.S. voice (011) 260 481 6761 email simon at ipfw.edu