From FontaineL at cardiff.ac.uk Mon Jan 11 17:20:39 2010 From: FontaineL at cardiff.ac.uk (Lise Fontaine) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:20:39 +0000 Subject: revised announcement: Summer School in Functional Linguistics Message-ID: Hello Please find below an announcement for the LinC Summer School and Workshop in Systemic Functional Linguistics. If you have seen this announcement before, please note that the list of presenters has been updated. with best wishes Lise The LinC Summer School and Workshop in Systemic Functional Linguistics 13 - 16 September 2010 Cardiff University http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/linc LinC is the research network for Linguistics in Cardiff We are pleased to announce the 1st LinC summer school in Systemic Functional Linguistics to be held at Cardiff University from September 14-16 inclusive, 2010, with welcome and registration taking place on September 13th. The summer school will also include a Poster Session. Presenters Michael Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, Sydney Lamb, Geoff Thompson, Mick O’Donnell, Robin Fawcett, Gordon Tucker, Paul Tench, Lise Fontaine, Tom Bartlett, Gerard O’Grady About the summer school Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is an increasingly popular framework for understanding and analysing language in use. At the very foundation of SFL is the view of language as a social function. As Halliday states, “the internal organization of language is not arbitrary but embodies a positive reflection of the functions that language has evolved to serve in the life of social man” (1970:26). The functions of language include both the functions that language serves (i.e. how people use language) and linguistic functions (i.e. the grammatical and semantic roles assigned to parts of language). It is this focus on the functions of language that has lead to the successful application of SFL in areas such as language teaching, literacy, computational approaches to language, counselling, research in language and communication and many more. The goal of the summer school is to offer research training in both understanding the SFL theory of language and applying it to real-world challenges. The summer school will run two parallel courses: introductory and advanced. Details are available on the website. Call for Poster Presentations Participants at the summer school are encouraged to submit an abstract for a Poster Presentation. Accepted proposals will be presented at a poster session. Deadline for submissions is May 1st 2010. Send abstracts of 500 words to linc2010 at cf.ac.uk. Registration Registration fee is £105 for the full three days. There are a limited number of places available so please book early. The summer school will only run if the minimum number of places are filled. The registration form is now available from the menu in the top right section of this page. For further information please contact: Lise Fontaine, Tom Bartlett or Gerard O'Grady: Email: Linc2010 at cf.ac.uk Website: http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/linc From E.Pascual at rug.nl Tue Jan 12 10:04:10 2010 From: E.Pascual at rug.nl (Esther Pascual) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:04:10 +0100 Subject: Call for papers: 'Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics', Utrecht, 23 April 2010 Message-ID: Call for Papers Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics /Approches cognitives en linguistique appliquée/ Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd Friday/Vendredi/Vrijdag 23 April/23 avril 2010, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands In cooperation with ABLA and BeNeCLA, Anéla organizes the Anéla Spring Conference 2010. The theme is "Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics", focusing on the interface between cognitive linguistic, functional or other usage-based approaches to the field of Applied Linguistics. Possible themes are language (L1 or L2) acquisition, processing, teaching, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, lexicography and translation studies. En collaboration avec l'ABLA et BeNeCLA, l'Anéla organise sa « Journée d'études de printemps 2010 » sur le thème de l'application des approches cognitives, fonctionnelles et 'basées sur l'usage' en linguistique appliquée. Thèmes possibles sont acquisition du langage (L1 et L2), traitement du langage, développement langagier, enseignement des langues, analyse textuelle, analyse du discours, sociolinguistique, lexicographie et traductologie. Op 23 april 2010 organiseert Anéla, in samenwerking met ABLA en BeNeCLA, haar jaarlijkse Voorjaarsstudiedag. Het thema voor deze dag is "Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd", waarbij we geïnteresseerd zijn in raakvlakken tussen cognitieve, functionele en usage-based benaderingen van taal enerzijds en de Toegepaste Taalwetenschap anderzijds. Mogelijke thema's zijn eerste of tweede taalontwikkeling, -verwerking, -onderwijs, discourse analyse, sociolinguïstiek, lexicografie en vertaalwetenschap. Abstracts (200 words/woorden/môts) before/avant/voor 31 January/Janvier/januari 2010 Submit through: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/anela2010 For more detail see: http://www.anela.nl/ Notification of acceptance: 23 February 2010 Organizing committee: Marjolijn Verspoor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; Elena Tribushina, Universiteit Utrecht; Esther Pascual, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Universiteit Utrecht; Laurent Rasier, Université Catholique de Louvain Anéla (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Toegepaste Taalwetenschap): http://www.anela.nl/ ABLA (Association Belge de Linguistique appliquée): http://www.abla.be/ BeNeCla (Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Lingusitics Association): http://benecla.com/ From I.Berzlanovich at rug.nl Tue Jan 12 14:07:50 2010 From: I.Berzlanovich at rug.nl (I.Berzlanovich) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:07:50 +0100 Subject: 31st TABU Dag, Groningen, 3-4 June 2010 Message-ID: 31st TABU Dag 2010 University of Groningen, The Netherlands 3-4 June 2010 www.tabudag.nl Abstract submission deadline: 22 March 2010 The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen is pleased to announce the 31st TABU Dag, which will take place at the University of Groningen on 3 and 4 June 2010. Senior researchers, postdoctoral researchers, (post)graduate students, and others who are interested are warmly invited to participate. TABU Dag is an annual international linguistics conference which offers excellent opportunities to meet other linguists and discuss current research in several areas of linguistics. (Post)graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in particular are encouraged to present their work. In addition to the presentations, four plenary lectures will be held. We are happy to have Michael Cysouw (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University), John C. Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania), and Sten Vikner (University of Aarhus) as keynote speakers at the conference. TABU Dag provides an opportunity for the participants to present work addressing any of the following research areas: - Computational linguistics - Discourse and communication - Language and literacy development across the life span - Language variation and language change - Neurolinguistics - Syntax and semantics In addition, we encourage abstract submissions from other linguistic areas, which may have remained unmentioned in the overview above. We invite short abstracts for presentations and posters in English. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. Abstracts should be submitted, preferably in PDF format, via the submission system on the conference website. Depending on the number of submissions, some authors may be invited for a poster presentation. Time allotted for presentations is 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of discussion. The official language of the conference is English. The deadline for the abstract submission is 22 March 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 19 April 2010. For further information, please visit our website: http://www.tabudag.nl We are looking forward to seeing you in Groningen! Kind regards, The organising committee, Veerle Baaijen, Ildikó Berzlánovich, Tim Kallenborn, Ben Maassen and Ruggero Montalto tabudag at rug.nl From rebekkasiemens at umail.ucsb.edu Tue Jan 12 18:12:22 2010 From: rebekkasiemens at umail.ucsb.edu (Rebekka S. Siemens) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:12:22 -0800 Subject: WAIL 2010 2nd Call for papers Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 30th-May 1st, 2010 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 13th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of language in the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Plenary speaker: Sally Rice (University of Alberta) Special panel: This year's workshop will include a panel presented by academic and community-based researchers working on the documentation, description and revitalization of their heritage languages. Talks will be 20 minutes each, followed by a question-and-answer period. Guidelines: Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references). Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have internet access. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance. Online submissions: Please submit all abstracts online at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/wail2010. PDF, RTF, Microsoft Word and Open Office formats are preferred. For hard copy submissions: Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Attn: Daisy Rosenblum or Stephanie Morse Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: February 1st, 2010 Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than March 1st, 2009. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Yñez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/). For further information contact the conference coordinators, Daisy Rosenblum and Stephanie Morse, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com, or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ -- Rebekka S. Townsend rebekkasiemens at umail.ucsb.edu From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Thu Jan 14 11:50:34 2010 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:50:34 +0000 Subject: CFP PANEL: Corpus design, compilation and types (CILC10) Message-ID: The University of A Coruña (Spain) hosts the 2nd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics CILC10 13-15 May 2010 (Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics - AELINCO) URL: http://www.udc.es/dep/finc/Cilc10/maineng.html PANEL CALL FOR PAPERS Corpus design, compilation and types The organizers of CILC10 invites contributions for the panel on corpus design, compilation and types integrated in the Conference. The objectives of this panel cover the following issues, among others: * description of corpus projects, * description of corpus design criteria, * corpus objectives, * criteria for textual selection and compilation, * corpus representativeness, * the implementation of existing corpora, * corpus tagging processes Please, visit the Conference 'Sending a Proposal' page at http://www.udc.es/dep/finc/Cilc10/propeng.html , and follow the instructions given there. The deadline for submission of proposals is 15th February, 2010. Francisco Alonso, Panel Coordinator falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es La Universidad de A Coruña celebra el II Congreso Internacional de Lingüística del Corpus (CILC10) 13-15 de mayo de 2010 (Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus - AELINCO) URL: http://www.udc.es/dep/finc/Cilc10/maineng.html SOLICITUD DE PROPUESTAS PARA EL PANEL Diseño, elaboración y tipología de corpus La temática del panel incluye lo siguiente, entre otros aspectos: * descripción de proyectos relativos a la creación de corpus, * descripción de los criterios de diseño de corpus, * objetivos de los corpus, * criterios para la selección y compilación de los textos, * representatividad textual, * implementación de los corpus existentes, * etiquetado de corpus Para información relativa al envío de propuestas, visite la página 'Envío de propuestas' (http://www.udc.es/dep/finc/Cilc10/prop.html). Fecha límite para la recepción de propuestas: 15 de febrero de 2010. Francisco Alonso, Coordinador del Panel falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es From a.schueppert at rug.nl Thu Jan 21 10:17:02 2010 From: a.schueppert at rug.nl (A. Schueppert) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:17:02 +0100 Subject: Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP2010) Message-ID: *********************************************************************************** Call for Papers Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP2010) Groningen, Netherlands, 11-12 November 2010 http://www.rug.nl/let/exapp2010 *********************************************************************************** Empirical approaches to the study of language variation and change can benefit largely from the accompaniment of systematic manipulation of variables in the research setting. The goal of ExAPP2010 is to gather scholars employing experimental methods to investigate linguistic variation. We welcome abstracts for posters and papers that cover aspects of variation on all linguistic levels, and the perception as well as the production thereof. These include, but are not limited to, the following topics: · Perception of variation · Production of variation · Social meaning of linguistic features · Language attitudes · (Mutual) intelligibility · Innovative methodologies Talks are 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be approximately 300 words (excluding references) and may be submitted using EasyAbstracts provided by LinguistList (http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/ExAPP2010). Posters will be displayed throughout one day, and there will be a dedicated poster session. The following plenary speakers have kindly accepted an invitation:: · Raphael Berthele (Fribourg) · Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Ohio State) · Marianne Gullberg (Lund and MPI Nijmegen) · Mark Liberman (UPenn) · Nancy Niedzielski (Rice) 15 March 2010: Deadline of Abstract Submission 15 April 2010: Notification of Acceptance 15 April - 30 June 2010: Early Bird Registration 1 July - 30 September: Normal Registration 11 - 12 November 2010: Conference A publication of selected papers is planned. Please visit our website at http://www.rug.nl/let/exapp2010 for more information. If you have any inquiries, please contact us at _exapp2010 at rug.nl_. Organisational team: · Charlotte Gooskens · Nanna Haug Hilton · Alexandra Lenz · Anja Schüppert -- Anja Schüppert Rijksuniversiteit Groningen CLCG, Skandinavistiek Postbus 716 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands http://www.rug.nl/staff/a.schueppert From easp at hfx.eastlink.ca Fri Jan 22 20:22:08 2010 From: easp at hfx.eastlink.ca (Elissa Asp) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:22:08 -0400 Subject: Linguistics Job -- Phonology, Canada Message-ID: This may be of interest...Elissa LINGUISTICS PROGRAM Saint Mary's University – The Linguistics Program at Saint Mary's University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Linguistics at an entry-level rank of Assistant Professor starting 1 July 2010. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in hand and demonstrate the ability to teach undergraduate courses in the linguistics program and carry out research in their area of specialization. The ideal candidate will have a specialization in Phonology and ability to teach Introduction to Linguistics and Morphology in our core linguistics program. Candidates who also have a demonstrated research interest in an area of empirical investigation and/or application which can be integrated into their teaching will be particularly welcome. The successful candidate will receive a primary appointment to the Linguistics Program, and hold a secondary cross-appointment in a cognate Department in the Faculty of Arts. The mission of Saint Mary’s University is to offer undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs to both full time and part time students; to carry out research and disseminate its results; and to serve the community at the local, regional, national, and international levels.  In carrying out its mission, Saint Mary’s is guided by a commitment to accessibility, diversity, and the provision of a positive and supportive learning environment.  It attaches high priority to promoting the personal as well as the intellectual development of students, to encouraging engagement with global issues, and to fostering the spirit of critical enquiry through the effective integration of teaching and research. Applicants should submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a teaching dossier, including evidence of teaching effectiveness, a sample of recent scholarly writing, graduate school transcripts, and names and contact information of three referees to: Dr. Elissa Asp Coordinator Linguistics Program Saint Mary's University Halifax, Nova Scotia  B3H 3C3.  Electronic applications or queries may be sent to Elissa Asp at elissa.asp at smu.ca. Closing date: The selection committee will begin reviewing applications on March 1, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled.  Although candidates of all nationalities are encouraged to apply, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.  Saint Mary’s University is committed to principles of employment equity.    à faire circuler Programme de linguistique L’Université Saint Mary’s – Le programme de linguistique à l’Université Saint Mary’s sollicite des candidatures pour un poste de professeur(e) adjoint(e) en linguistique menant à la permanence. La date d’entrée en fonction est le 1 juillet 2010. Les candidat(e)s doivent avoir un doctorat, attester une expérience en enseignement de la linguistique au niveau postsecondaire et faire preuve d’une activité de recherche dans leur domaine de spécialisation. La/Le candidat(e) idéal(e) aura une spécialisation en phonologie et devrait être en mesure d’enseigner l’introduction à la linguistique et la morphologie dans notre programme de base. L’intérêt de recherche dans un domaine appliqué qui pourra être intégré à l’enseignement sera un atout. La personne retenue recevra un poste principal en linguistique et aura une affiliation secondaire dans un département apparenté de la Faculté des Arts. La mission de l’Université Saint Mary’s est d’offrir aux étudiant(e) à temps plein et à temps partiel des programmes sous-gradués, gradués et de formation continue, de mener et de diffuser la recherche et de répondre aux besoins de la communauté locale, régionale, nationale et internationale. Dans cette mission, l’Université Saint Mary’s s’engage à assurer l’accessibilité, la diversité et la disposition d’un environnement d’apprentissage favorable et positif. Elle accorde une grande priorité au développement personnel et intellectuel des étudiant(e)s, aux questions de la mondialisation et à la promotion de l’esprit critique à travers une intégration efficace de la recherche et de l’enseignement. Les postulant(e)s doivent envoyer une lettre d’intention, un curriculum vitae, un dossier pédagogique avec des preuves de l’efficacité de l’enseignement, un échantillon des publications récentes, un relevé des notes au niveau des études graduées et les noms et coordonnées de trois répondants à : Dr. Elissa Asp Coordonnatrice Programme de linguistique Université Saint Mary’s Halifax, Nouvelle Écosse,  B3H 3C3.  Des demandes électroniques et des renseignements peuvent être envoyés par courriel : elissa.asp at smu.ca. Date butoir: l’examen des candidatures débutera le 1 mars 2010 et se poursuivra jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.  Nous encourageons toutes les candidatures qualifiées, en accordant la priorité aux citoyens canadiens et aux résidents permanents. L’Université Saint Mary’s souscrit au principe de l’équité en matière d’emploi. From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Mon Jan 25 12:40:07 2010 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:40:07 +0000 Subject: CFP[Journal]: Revista de Lenguas para Fines Espec=?iso-8859-1?Q?=EDficos?= Message-ID: Call for papers LFE, 15-16 (Autumn, 2010) The Journal Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (LFE) invites submissions of original full-length articles from scholars in the field of languages for specific purposes, as well as reviews of books in the field. Articles should be submitted electronically using the Internet form at http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/instructions.html. Manuscripts should not exceed 8000 words, including references and notes. The languages of publication are Spanish, English, French, and German, although other languages could be also considered. Prospective authors are encouraged to follow the guidelines for submissions in the journal webpage at http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/LFE_guidelines.pdf . Contributions submitted to LFE should not be under consideration in any other journal. Deadline for submission: 15 April 2010 From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Mon Jan 25 12:41:47 2010 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:41:47 +0000 Subject: CFP[Journal]: Special Issue LFE - Diachronic ESP Message-ID: Call for papers LFE, 17 (Autumn, 2011) Special Issue: Diachronic English for Specific Purposes Guest editors: Francisco Alonso-Almeida and M. Sandra Marrero-Morales The Journal Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos (LFE) invites submissions of original full-length articles from scholars in the field of English for specific purposes from a diachronic perspective. Article topics must fall into any field of applied linguistics within the scope of specialized English. Manuscripts should not exceed 8000 words, including references and notes, and should be submitted electronically using the Internet form at http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/instructions.html . Prospective authors are encouraged to follow the guidelines for submissions in the journal webpage at http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/LFE_guidelines.pdf . Contributions submitted to LFE should not be under consideration in any other journal. All submissions will be subject to our peer-review process, and the last decision regarding the publication of contributions falls on the General Editors. For further queries on this special issue, you may contact us via email: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Important dates: Submission deadline: 20 February 2011 Readers’ reports due: 24 April 2011 Final draft due: 04 July 2011 Publication: Autumn 2011 From annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Tue Jan 26 18:33:24 2010 From: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it (Annalisa Baicchi) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:33:24 +0100 Subject: Seminar on Construction Grammar Message-ID: ESSE 2010 The European Society for the Study of English 10th International Conference Turin, ITALY 24-28 August 2010 *Seminar n° 55. * *Construction Grammar(s) meets Cognitive Semantics: Theoretical, Lexicographic and Acquisitional Perspectives* The seminar is intended to be a forum for the discussion of the notion of construction conceived of a learned pairing of form with semantic and discursive function, along with its psychological status based on language processing and acquisition. Specifically, the seminar aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in areas of mainly (though not exclusively) present-day English such as: the definition of construction and its relation to similar alternative notions such as templates or fragments, the division of labour between lexical semantics and constructional semantics, the combination of constructions, the grammar-lexicon continuum, the interaction between lexical and constructional templates, coercion and/or metonymic operations, illocutionary constructions, database vs. knowledge-base dictionaries, the impact of frequency on the status of construction as well as a facilitatory factor of language learning, the role of constructions in a context-based view of grammaticalization, etc. Convenors: Annalisa BAICCHI (Università di Pavia, IT) annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Francisco GONZÁLVEZ-GARCÍA (Universidad de Almería, ES) fgonza at ual.es Ø Procedure for submitting proposals for papers: Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to the convenors of the seminar in question before 20 February 2010. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 28 February 2010. Oral presentations are expected to take 20 minutes plus 10 approximately for questions and/or further discussion. From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Tue Jan 26 22:19:49 2010 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:19:49 +0000 Subject: MAs in Language Science at Bangor University: Postgraduate fair Feb 19th 2010 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The School of Linguistics at Bangor University offers a range of MAs (12months full time, or 24 months part time) in language science. MAs on offer include: MA in Cognitive Linguistics MA in Anthropological Linguistics MA in Linguistics MA in Language, Communication & Cognition, and MA in Bilingualism Bangor Linguistics is one of the oldest departments of Linguistics in the UK. All courses are taught by leading experts, and the University, situated on the Menai Strait in North Wales, adjacent to the Snowdon Mountain range, occupies one of the most picturesque regions in Europe. Potential applicants are invited to attend a postgraduate recruitment event on February 19th, 2010. Full details are available on the web here: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/pgfair/index.php.en Details on the MA programmes can be located on the Linguistics website: www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/postgraduate.php.en With best wishes, Vyv Evans -- Prof. Vyv Evans Professor of Linguistics www.vyvevans.net -- Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilëwch y neges. 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Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk From Gramis2010 at ua.ac.be Wed Jan 27 09:09:15 2010 From: Gramis2010 at ua.ac.be (Gramis2010) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:09:15 +0100 Subject: Int'l Conf. on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification Message-ID: Second Call for Papers International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification November 11-13, 2010 - Brussels (Belgium) Conference website: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/conference/conference.html We invite papers dealing with any aspect of the processes of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification, both empirical and conceptual, from any theoretical angle, but we are especially interested in papers dealing with * the interaction between the processes of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification; * the relation of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification to other mechanisms of language change, including, most notably, analogy; and * processes of degrammaticalization and de-(inter)subjectification: how (in)frequent are they, what kinds of factors trigger them, and what mechanisms are at work in them? Presentations are 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion. Abstracts of max. 4000 characters (i.e. app. 500 words; including references) should be submitted via the conference website. Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance: late March 2010 Information regarding registration, accommodation and other practical matters will be provided early March at the conference website. Plenary speakers: Kasper Boye/Peter Harder Hilary Chappell Bernd Heine Heiko Narrog Muriel Norde Organizers: Johan van der Auwera & Jan Nuyts (Antwerp) ? From annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Wed Jan 27 18:43:24 2010 From: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it (Annalisa Baicchi) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:43:24 +0100 Subject: Int'l Conf. on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification In-Reply-To: <2F7B70885960AA42BE820036B3A8CDA09E851E@xmail06.ad.ua.ac.be> Message-ID: Dear Paco, just got home from crazy Milan Central Station.......there was a strike !!! simply AWFUL !!! do you think this may be of interest to you? besotes a. 2010/1/27 Gramis2010 > Second Call for Papers > > International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification > > November 11-13, 2010 - Brussels (Belgium) > > Conference website: > http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/conference/conference.html > > We invite papers dealing with any aspect of the processes of > grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification, both empirical and > conceptual, from any theoretical angle, but we are especially interested in > papers dealing with > > * the interaction between the processes of grammaticalization and > (inter)subjectification; > > * the relation of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification to other > mechanisms of language change, including, most notably, analogy; and > > * processes of degrammaticalization and de-(inter)subjectification: how > (in)frequent are they, what kinds of factors trigger them, and what > mechanisms are at work in them? > > Presentations are 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion. > > Abstracts of max. 4000 characters (i.e. app. 500 words; including > references) should be submitted via the conference website. > > Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2010 > > Notification of acceptance: late March 2010 > > Information regarding registration, accommodation and other practical > matters will be provided early March at the conference website. > > Plenary speakers: > > Kasper Boye/Peter Harder > > Hilary Chappell > > Bernd Heine > > Heiko Narrog > > Muriel Norde > > Organizers: > > Johan van der Auwera & Jan Nuyts (Antwerp) > > ? > > -- Prof.Dr. Annalisa Baicchi (PhD in Cognitive Semantics) Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics University of Pavia Corso Strada Nuova, 65 27100 Pavia (Italy) tel:+39-0382-984684 fax: +39-0382-984487 annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=134 From paul at benjamins.com Wed Jan 27 21:48:58 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:48:58 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins title: Schmidtke-Bode: A Typology of Purpose Clauses Message-ID: A Typology of Purpose Clauses Karsten Schmidtke-Bode Friedrich Schiller University, Jena Typological Studies in Language 88 2009. xii, 229 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0669 5 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 [] e-Book – Available from e-book platforms 978 90 272 8898 1 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 [] [] This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world's languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences. Explanations for significantly recurrent coding patterns are couched in a usage-based approach to language structure, which pays due attention to the cognitive and communicative pressures on usage events involving purpose clauses, to frequency distributions of grammatical choices in corpora, and to the ways in which usage preferences conventionalize in pathways of diachronic change. The book integrates diverse previous strands of research on purpose clauses with a thorough empirical analysis in its own right and thus reflects the current state of the art of crosslinguistic research into this distinctive type of adverbial clause. An appendix to A Typology of Purpose Clauses can be found on the author's website: www.karsten-schmidtke.net/purpose ---------- Table of contents Acknowledgements vii Abbreviations and notational conventions ix–xii 1. Aims and scope of the book 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations 5–28 3. The grammar of purpose: Documentation and explanation 29–146 4. Purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences 147–198 Conclusion and outlook 199–203 References 205–219 Index of authors 221–223 Index of languages 224–225 Index of subjects 226–229 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 Wed Jan 27 21:46:33 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:46:33 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins journal: Chinese Language and Discourse Message-ID: New For 2010: Chinese Language and Discourse An International and Interdisciplinary Journal Cover image Editors K. K. Luke, Nanyang Technological University/University of Hong Kong Hongyin Tao, University of California, Los Angeles Li Wei, University of London Review Editor Li Wei, University of London cld.editors at gmail.com ISSN: 1877-7031 E-ISSN: 1877-8798 go! Electronic edition at ingentaJournals A peer reviewed journal which seeks to publish original work on Chinese and related languages, with a focus on current topics in Chinese discourse studies. The notion of discourse is a broad one, emphasizing an empirical orientation and encompassing such linguistic fields as language and society, language and culture, language and social interaction, discourse and grammar, communication studies, and contact linguistics. Special emphasis is placed on systematic documentation of Chinese usage patterns and methodological innovations in explaining Chinese and related languages from a wide range of functionalistic perspectives, including, but not limited to, those of Conversation Analysis, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, grammaticalization, cognitive linguistics, typological and comparative studies. The journal also publishes review articles as well as discussion topics. Exchanges of research views between authors and readers are also encouraged. 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 fgonza at ual.es Thu Jan 28 23:30:29 2010 From: fgonza at ual.es (fgonza at ual.es) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:30:29 +0100 Subject: CFP:LIBFFD IN CHINA Message-ID: *************APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS********************************************** Dear colleagues, I just thought the following CFP might be of interest to some of you. Kindest regards, Francisco Gonzálvez García CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LIBFFD IN CHINA ———————————————————————————————————------------- Languages and International Business: First Forum across Disciplines (LIBFFD) In order to encourage the cross-discipline research between language and business, Languages and International Business: First Forum across Disciplines will be held at University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, from 20-21 March 2010. PLENARY SPEAKERS  F. Ruiz de Mendoza---University of La Rioja  Ricardo Mairal----- National Distance University  LuJianming------- - Peking University  XuShenghuan----- -Henan University  WangLifei------------University of International Business and Economics  Huangguowen-------Zhongshan University  WangMingyu--------Heilongjiang University  Zhanghanlin-------- University of International Business and Economics  Zhangli---------------Beijing Language and Culture University  WangYonggui-------University of International Business and Economics  Caodafeng-----------Beijing Foreign Studies University CONFERENCE THEME The theme of the conference is international business research from a multi-linguistic perspective, focusing on business language research and including business language theory, business advertisement research, business negotiation research, and business language from a number of (potentially relatable) perspectives: cognitive, functional, social, corpus-based, comparative, applied, cultural, pedagogical, pragmatic, discursive, etc. The theme of this forum is intended to be broad and inclusive. It may involve views from theoretical approaches within Construction Grammar(s), Cognitive Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, and Functional Linguistics. WEBSITE http://www.uibelcc.com SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Proposals for paper presentations, workshops and colloquia should be sent in abstract form to LanguageBusiness at 126.com by March 5th, 2010. Abstracts should be around 400 words and include the following information: - Type of Presentation: Paper, colloquium, workshop. - Title of Paper - Presenters: Names of presenters and institutional affiliation and address, including email address - Presentation Aim: Succinct statement of the aim of the contribution - Presentation Background: Relationship to previous and current work with key references. - Presentation Body: Description of the main part of the presentation - References: List of references cited in the abstract - Key terms: Key terms identifying the field(s) of presentation (Conference Fee：600 Yuan for each participant with food and drink without hotel and transport) LOCATION OF UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS No. 10 Huixin Dongjie Chaoyang District Beijing, China Check-in Place: Yinhua Hotel (Tel: 010-64934455) Conference fee: ¥600 (¥300-Registered students), meals and drink are included. CONFERENCE ORGANISERS Language Research Center University of International Business and Economics Beijing, China E-mail：LanguageBusiness at 126.com Tel：+8610-62522328 CONTACT US Xianglan Chen (UIBC): 010-62522328, 13811127336; Jun Wu (UIBC): 13910066881; Xingquan Tang (UIBC): 13681196838; E-mail: LanguageBusiness at 126.com. Keep up-to-date by bookmarking and checking the website regularly: http://www.uibelcc.com From mcarrete at filol.ucm.es Fri Jan 29 18:19:58 2010 From: mcarrete at filol.ucm.es (MARTA BEGONA CARRETERO LAPEYRE) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:19:58 +0100 Subject: ModE4 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: Fourth International Conference on Modality in English-ModE4 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9-11 September 2010 Departamento de Filología Inglesa I http://www.ucm.es/centros/webs/se5065/ DEADLINE EXTENSION: 21st FEBRUARY 2010 SECOND CIRCULAR The 4th International Conference on Modality in English will take place at the Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9-11 September 2010. The conference is designed to be a follow-up to the: – International Conference on Modality in Contemporary English, University of Verona (Italy), 6-8 September 2001. – Second International Conference on Modality in English, University of Pau (France), 2-4 September 2004. – Third International Conference on Modality in English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), 4-6 May 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS ModE4 invites the submission of papers and posters from all (sub)domains of modality and evidentiality in English, including crosslinguistic studies. In addition to individual talks, we also welcome proposals for theme sessions. The conference aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between researchers working in modality and evidentiality in English, and to bring to the fore the most recent developments in the field. PLENARY SPEAKERS Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) Ronald W. Langacker (University of California, San Diego) Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster) Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (University of Ghent) Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) VENUE The venue of the conference will be the Facultad de Filología, on the campus of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, which is of easy access from the city centre and the hotels. (There are convenient bus links and an underground station on campus). PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS Papers and posters are invited on all topics belonging to the field of modality and evidentiality in English, including crosslinguistic studies. Presentations of papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. Authors of papers and posters should submit anonymous abstracts, together with a separate page specifying the author's name, affiliation, surface mail address and e-mail address. Abstracts should be between 600-700 words (excluding references), and should state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. All submitted abstracts will go through a double-blind reviewing process (at least two reviewers). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail, as attachments, to ModE4 (mode4 at filol.ucm.es) Please use Word or RTF format; and if your abstract contains special symbols, please include a PDF version as well. The new deadline for all abstracts (papers and posters) is 21 February 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 March 2010. THEME SESSIONS There will be three theme sessions at the Conference: (i) The Modality of Intersubjectivity. This theme session focuses on the identification of the linguistic and non-linguistic (multimodal) overt and covert strategies exploited by the speaker/writer to convey their point, to involve the addressee(s) and, finally, to lead them to share such point. Papers for this theme session are welcome. Convenor: Prof. Roberta Facchinetti, Università degli Studi di Verona. (ii) Modality in English and Spanish: functional and corpus-based perspectives. This theme session will focus on a number of functional and corpus-based aspects of the contrastive study of modality in English and Spanish as a topic of theoretical and applied relevance in a number of research contexts. Modality will be considered as the expression of a number of semantic categories clustered around the notions of speaker’s commitment and non-factuality. Special emphasis will be given to the relationship between modality and evaluative language. Convenor: Prof. Julia Lavid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (iii) Evidentiality and Modality: Cross-linguistic perspectives. This theme session will focus on corpus-based contrastive studies of evidential and modal markers, on the overlap of the domains of evidentiality and modality, and the interplay of semantic meanings with pragmatic and discourse factors. Papers for this theme session are welcome. Convenors: Profs. Juana Marín and Marta Carretero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The sessions will consist of two one hour and a half slots (maximum 5 papers) focusing on a common topic within modality and/or evidentiality. Each theme session should include a 30-minute slot for final discussion on the topic. Abstracts for theme sessions (i) and (iii) should be sent by e-mail, as attachments, to ModE4 (mode4 at filol.ucm.es) The new deadline for abstracts is 21 February 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 March 2010. REGISTRATION Registration will start from April 1 onwards. Registration fees are anticipated to be the following: Early registration fee (from 1 April 2010 to 31 May 2010): 150 Euros Students (without salary or grant): 70 Euros Late registration fee: 180 Euros Students (without salary or grant): 100 Euros The registration fee includes the conference materials, coffee/tea, the conference reception, and a walking tour to places of interest in Madrid. SOCIAL PROGRAMME There will be a reception at the Facultad de Filología on the 8th September. The walking tour of Madrid (included in the registration fee) will take place on the 9th., and the conference dinner on the 10th. On Saturday afternoon there will be a post-conference excursion to Toledo (optional), where we plan to visit the Cathedral, the Sephardic Museum, the Sinagoga de Sta. María la Blanca and the Mezquita del Cristo de la Luz (full details will be given in due course on the conference website). IMPORTANT DATES 21 February 2010: New deadline for submission of abstracts 31 March 2010: Notification of acceptance 1 April 2010: Early registration starts 1 June 2010: Registration (full fee) PUBLICATIONS Conference Proceedings will be published either in a scientific journal or in a book. A special volume with selected papers will also be published. ModE GENERAL COMMITTEE - Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) - Pierre Busuttil (University of Pau) - Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona) - Paul Larreya (University of Paris 13) - Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Juana I. Marín-Arrese (Chair): juana at filol.ucm.es - Marta Carretero (Secretary): mcarrete at filol.ucm.es - Jorge Arús - Elena Domínguez - Carmen Maíz Arévalo - Mª Victoria Martín de la Rosa - Juan Rafael Zamorano CONTACT ModE4 Organizing committee: Departamento de Filología Inglesa I Facultad de Filología Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria, s/n E-28040 Madrid Spain Phone: +34-91-394-5357/5835/5382 Fax: +34-91-394-5762/5357 E-mail: mode4 at filol.ucm.es Marta Carretero Associate Professor Departamento de Filología Inglesa I Facultad de Filología Universidad Complutense de Madrid E-28040-Madrid Spain From edith at uwm.edu Sat Jan 30 01:42:48 2010 From: edith at uwm.edu (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:42:48 -0600 Subject: Call for papers: competing motivations Message-ID: Conference on COMPETING MOTIVATIONS GENERAL We invite papers on the role of competing motivations in the emergence and use of linguistic structures from linguists, psychologists, and others working in related fields. TIME AND PLACE The three-day conference will take place NOVEMBER 23-25 (TUESDAY-THURSDAY) 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. ORGANIZERS The conference is organized by Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology) and Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (emerita)) and will be sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. PROGRAM In addition to the papers selected from abstracts and the introductory and closing talks by the conference organizers, there will be a number of invited presentations. So far we have the following on board: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky Joan Bresnan Wolfgang Dressler John Du Bois Martin Haspelmath John A. Hawkins Helen de Hoop Brian MacWhinney Gereon Müller Frederick Newmeyer Michael Tomasello TOPICS Competing motivations is a topic coming in different guises in linguistics and related disciplines. In language typology, the concept of competing motivations was explicitly introduced by Du Bois (1985), and since then it has made its way into many contributions including typology textbooks (e.g. Croft 1990; 2003). Currently it is a common trend in functional typology to view the evolution of grammar as resulting from different partly converging but also potentially conflicting functional motivations. An approach to typology where competing motivations (“conflicting constraints”) have been accorded the status of a major theoretical concept is Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004, Müller 2000). In OT, grammatical patterns are viewed as resulting from constraint interaction, and cross-linguistic variation is attributed to different rankings of constraints. A similar approach has been introduced in psycholinguistics under the name of Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney 1989), which addressed the question of how different cues are weighted in language comprehension and language acquisition when the cues are in conflict. These three strands of research have not been totally independent from the start (e.g. OT was inspired by the work in psycholinguistics and cognitive sciences), and recently there have been further signs of the converging tendencies in these fields. On the one hand, with the rise of functional OT (Bresnan & Aissen 2002) conceptual differences of functional typology and OT (see Haspelmath 1999 for discussion) have been reduced, and some recent work explicitly tries to further integrate OT and functional typology (see, e.g., Malchukov 2005; de Hoop & Malchukov 2008). On the other hand, OT shows further convergence with psycholinguistic research, with the rise of OT semantics and bidirectional OT approaches that are concerned with comprehension optimization (de Hoop & Lamers 2006). John Hawkins’ work (2004 et passim) aiming to explain generalizations found in typological and psycholinguistic work in terms of a few general principles grounded in processing goes in the same direction. It seems that these new developments have overcome some of the problems of the early competing motivation approaches noted in the literature (Newmeyer 1998) and are opening new perspectives in the respective disciplines. It should also be noted that there is an increased awareness of the similarities of competing motivations models as practiced within linguistic disciplines and beyond (e.g., in psychological research). The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from linguistics and other fields that adopt the competing motivation approach in one form or other another, and to promote further integration and cross-fertilization between them. Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to the following: • application of the competing motivation approach to individual languages and cross-linguistically; • application of competition models in psycholinguistic research (both language comprehension and language production); • theoretical questions such as: • What motivations are at work in given domains? • What evidence is there for the existence and the weighting of the constraints? • What factors determine the weightings of the constraints? • How are competing motivations manifested synchronically and diachronically? (cf. Haspelmath’s (1999) notion of ‘diachronic adaptation’ and the research program of ‘evolutionary phonology’ advocated by Blevins (2004)). SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS (a) Length: up to one page of text plus up to one page containing possible tables and references (b) Format: The abstract should include the title of the paper and the text of the abstract but not the author’s name or affiliation. The e-mail message to which it is attached should list the title, the author’s name, and the author’s affiliation. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously. Please send the message to both organizers at the following addresses: malchukov at mpi.eva.de edith at uwm.edu (c) Deadline: The abstracts should reach us by WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31. Submitters will be notified by FRIDAY, APRIL 30. REFERENCES Bates, E., & MacWhinney, B. 1987. Competition, variation, and language learning. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, 157–193. Hillsdale, New Jersey; London: Lawrence Erlbaum. Blevins, J. (2004). Evolutionary phonology: The emergence of sound patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bresnan, J. and J. Aissen (2002). Optionality and functionality: Objections and refutations. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20, 81–95. Croft, W., 1990. Typology and universals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Du Bois, J.A. 1985. “Competing motivations”. In: Haiman, J. (ed.) Iconicity in syntax. 343-366. Amsterdam: Benjamins, Haspelmath, M. 1999. ‘Optimality and diachronic adaptation.’ Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 18.2: 180-205. Hawkins, John A. 2004. Efficiency and complexity in grammars. Oxford: Oxford University Press. de Hoop, H. and M. Lamers. 2006. Incremental distinguishability of subject and object. In L. Kulikov, A. L. Malchukov and P. de Swart (eds.) Case, valency, and transitivity. Amsterdam, John Benjamins. de Hoop, H. and A. Malchukov. 2008. Case-marking strategies. Linguistic Inquiry 39 565–587. Malchukov, A., 2005. Case pattern splits, verb types, and construction competition. In M. Amberber & H. de Hoop (eds.) Competition and variation in natural languages: the case for case, 73-117. Elsevier, Amsterdam, etc. Müller, Gereon. 2000. Elemente der optimalitätstheoretischen Syntax. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. Prince, A. and P. Smolensky (2004). Optimality Theory:constraint interaction in Generative Grammar. Oxford, Blackwell. From edith at uwm.edu Sun Jan 31 03:18:02 2010 From: edith at uwm.edu (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:18:02 -0600 Subject: Corrected text of the call for papers In-Reply-To: <1959880006.4540441264815921278.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Message-ID: The text of the call for papers for the conference on competing motivations that I posted yesterday included an incorrect e-mail address for Andrej Malchukov. Please find the corrected text below. I am sorry for the error. CALL FOR PAPERS Conference on COMPETING MOTIVATIONS GENERAL We invite papers on the role of competing motivations in the emergence and use of linguistic structures from linguists, psychologists, and others working in related fields. TIME AND PLACE The three-day conference will take place NOVEMBER 23-25 (TUESDAY-THURSDAY) 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. ORGANIZERS The conference is organized by Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology) and Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (emerita)) and will be sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. PROGRAM In addition to the papers selected from abstracts and the introductory and closing talks by the conference organizers, there will be a number of invited presentations. So far we have the following on board: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky Joan Bresnan Wolfgang Dressler John Du Bois Martin Haspelmath John A. Hawkins Helen de Hoop Brian MacWhinney Gereon Müller Frederick Newmeyer Michael Tomasello TOPICS Competing motivations is a topic coming in different guises in linguistics and related disciplines. In language typology, the concept of competing motivations was explicitly introduced by Du Bois (1985), and since then it has made its way into many contributions including typology textbooks (e.g. Croft 1990; 2003). Currently it is a common trend in functional typology to view the evolution of grammar as resulting from different partly converging but also potentially conflicting functional motivations. An approach to typology where competing motivations (“conflicting constraints”) have been accorded the status of a major theoretical concept is Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004, Müller 2000). In OT, grammatical patterns are viewed as resulting from constraint interaction, and cross-linguistic variation is attributed to different rankings of constraints. A similar approach has been introduced in psycholinguistics under the name of Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney 1989), which addressed the question of how different cues are weighted in language comprehension and language acquisition when the cues are in conflict. These three strands of research have not been totally independent from the start (e.g. OT was inspired by the work in psycholinguistics and cognitive sciences), and recently there have been further signs of the converging tendencies in these fields. On the one hand, with the rise of functional OT (Bresnan & Aissen 2002) conceptual differences of functional typology and OT (see Haspelmath 1999 for discussion) have been reduced, and some recent work explicitly tries to further integrate OT and functional typology (see, e.g., Malchukov 2005; de Hoop & Malchukov 2008). On the other hand, OT shows further convergence with psycholinguistic research, with the rise of OT semantics and bidirectional OT approaches that are concerned with comprehension optimization (de Hoop & Lamers 2006). John Hawkins’ work (2004 et passim) aiming to explain generalizations found in typological and psycholinguistic work in terms of a few general principles grounded in processing goes in the same direction. It seems that these new developments have overcome some of the problems of the early competing motivation approaches noted in the literature (Newmeyer 1998) and are opening new perspectives in the respective disciplines. It should also be noted that there is an increased awareness of the similarities of competing motivations models as practiced within linguistic disciplines and beyond (e.g., in psychological research). The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from linguistics and other fields that adopt the competing motivation approach in one form or other another, and to promote further integration and cross-fertilization between them. Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to the following: • application of the competing motivation approach to individual languages and cross-linguistically; • application of competition models in psycholinguistic research (both language comprehension and language production); • theoretical questions such as: • What motivations are at work in given domains? • What evidence is there for the existence and the weighting of the constraints? • What factors determine the weightings of the constraints? • How are competing motivations manifested synchronically and diachronically? (cf. Haspelmath’s (1999) notion of ‘diachronic adaptation’ and the research program of ‘evolutionary phonology’ advocated by Blevins (2004)). SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS (a) Length: up to one page of text plus up to one page containing possible tables and references (b) Format: The abstract should include the title of the paper and the text of the abstract but not the author’s name or affiliation. The e-mail message to which it is attached should list the title, the author’s name, and the author’s affiliation. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously. Please send the message to both organizers at the following addresses: andrej_malchukov at eva.mpg.de edith at uwm.edu (c) Deadline: The abstracts should reach us by WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31. Submitters will be notified by FRIDAY, APRIL 30. REFERENCES Bates, E., & MacWhinney, B. 1987. Competition, variation, and language learning. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, 157–193. Hillsdale, New Jersey; London: Lawrence Erlbaum. Blevins, J. (2004). Evolutionary phonology: The emergence of sound patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bresnan, J. and J. Aissen (2002). Optionality and functionality: Objections and refutations. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20, 81–95. Croft, W., 1990. Typology and universals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Du Bois, J.A. 1985. “Competing motivations”. In: Haiman, J. (ed.) Iconicity in syntax. 343-366. Amsterdam: Benjamins, Haspelmath, M. 1999. ‘Optimality and diachronic adaptation.’ Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 18.2: 180-205. Hawkins, John A. 2004. Efficiency and complexity in grammars. Oxford: Oxford University Press. de Hoop, H. and M. Lamers. 2006. Incremental distinguishability of subject and object. In L. Kulikov, A. L. Malchukov and P. de Swart (eds.) Case, valency, and transitivity. Amsterdam, John Benjamins. de Hoop, H. and A. Malchukov. 2008. Case-marking strategies. Linguistic Inquiry 39 565–587. Malchukov, A., 2005. Case pattern splits, verb types, and construction competition. In M. Amberber & H. de Hoop (eds.) Competition and variation in natural languages: the case for case, 73-117. Elsevier, Amsterdam, etc. Müller, Gereon. 2000. Elemente der optimalitätstheoretischen Syntax. Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. Prince, A. and P. Smolensky (2004). Optimality Theory:constraint interaction in Generative Grammar. Oxford, Blackwell. From FontaineL at cardiff.ac.uk Mon Jan 11 17:20:39 2010 From: FontaineL at cardiff.ac.uk (Lise Fontaine) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:20:39 +0000 Subject: revised announcement: Summer School in Functional Linguistics Message-ID: Hello Please find below an announcement for the LinC Summer School and Workshop in Systemic Functional Linguistics. If you have seen this announcement before, please note that the list of presenters has been updated. with best wishes Lise The LinC Summer School and Workshop in Systemic Functional Linguistics 13 - 16 September 2010 Cardiff University http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/linc LinC is the research network for Linguistics in Cardiff We are pleased to announce the 1st LinC summer school in Systemic Functional Linguistics to be held at Cardiff University from September 14-16 inclusive, 2010, with welcome and registration taking place on September 13th. The summer school will also include a Poster Session. Presenters Michael Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan, Sydney Lamb, Geoff Thompson, Mick O?Donnell, Robin Fawcett, Gordon Tucker, Paul Tench, Lise Fontaine, Tom Bartlett, Gerard O?Grady About the summer school Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is an increasingly popular framework for understanding and analysing language in use. At the very foundation of SFL is the view of language as a social function. As Halliday states, ?the internal organization of language is not arbitrary but embodies a positive reflection of the functions that language has evolved to serve in the life of social man? (1970:26). The functions of language include both the functions that language serves (i.e. how people use language) and linguistic functions (i.e. the grammatical and semantic roles assigned to parts of language). It is this focus on the functions of language that has lead to the successful application of SFL in areas such as language teaching, literacy, computational approaches to language, counselling, research in language and communication and many more. The goal of the summer school is to offer research training in both understanding the SFL theory of language and applying it to real-world challenges. The summer school will run two parallel courses: introductory and advanced. Details are available on the website. Call for Poster Presentations Participants at the summer school are encouraged to submit an abstract for a Poster Presentation. Accepted proposals will be presented at a poster session. Deadline for submissions is May 1st 2010. Send abstracts of 500 words to linc2010 at cf.ac.uk. Registration Registration fee is ?105 for the full three days. There are a limited number of places available so please book early. The summer school will only run if the minimum number of places are filled. The registration form is now available from the menu in the top right section of this page. For further information please contact: Lise Fontaine, Tom Bartlett or Gerard O'Grady: Email: Linc2010 at cf.ac.uk Website: http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/linc From E.Pascual at rug.nl Tue Jan 12 10:04:10 2010 From: E.Pascual at rug.nl (Esther Pascual) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:04:10 +0100 Subject: Call for papers: 'Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics', Utrecht, 23 April 2010 Message-ID: Call for Papers Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics /Approches cognitives en linguistique appliqu?e/ Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd Friday/Vendredi/Vrijdag 23 April/23 avril 2010, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands In cooperation with ABLA and BeNeCLA, An?la organizes the An?la Spring Conference 2010. The theme is "Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics", focusing on the interface between cognitive linguistic, functional or other usage-based approaches to the field of Applied Linguistics. Possible themes are language (L1 or L2) acquisition, processing, teaching, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, lexicography and translation studies. En collaboration avec l'ABLA et BeNeCLA, l'An?la organise sa ? Journ?e d'?tudes de printemps 2010 ? sur le th?me de l'application des approches cognitives, fonctionnelles et 'bas?es sur l'usage' en linguistique appliqu?e. Th?mes possibles sont acquisition du langage (L1 et L2), traitement du langage, d?veloppement langagier, enseignement des langues, analyse textuelle, analyse du discours, sociolinguistique, lexicographie et traductologie. Op 23 april 2010 organiseert An?la, in samenwerking met ABLA en BeNeCLA, haar jaarlijkse Voorjaarsstudiedag. Het thema voor deze dag is "Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd", waarbij we ge?nteresseerd zijn in raakvlakken tussen cognitieve, functionele en usage-based benaderingen van taal enerzijds en de Toegepaste Taalwetenschap anderzijds. Mogelijke thema's zijn eerste of tweede taalontwikkeling, -verwerking, -onderwijs, discourse analyse, sociolingu?stiek, lexicografie en vertaalwetenschap. Abstracts (200 words/woorden/m?ts) before/avant/voor 31 January/Janvier/januari 2010 Submit through: http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/anela2010 For more detail see: http://www.anela.nl/ Notification of acceptance: 23 February 2010 Organizing committee: Marjolijn Verspoor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; Elena Tribushina, Universiteit Utrecht; Esther Pascual, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Universiteit Utrecht; Laurent Rasier, Universit? Catholique de Louvain An?la (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Toegepaste Taalwetenschap): http://www.anela.nl/ ABLA (Association Belge de Linguistique appliqu?e): http://www.abla.be/ BeNeCla (Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Lingusitics Association): http://benecla.com/ From I.Berzlanovich at rug.nl Tue Jan 12 14:07:50 2010 From: I.Berzlanovich at rug.nl (I.Berzlanovich) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:07:50 +0100 Subject: 31st TABU Dag, Groningen, 3-4 June 2010 Message-ID: 31st TABU Dag 2010 University of Groningen, The Netherlands 3-4 June 2010 www.tabudag.nl Abstract submission deadline: 22 March 2010 The Center for Language and Cognition Groningen is pleased to announce the 31st TABU Dag, which will take place at the University of Groningen on 3 and 4 June 2010. Senior researchers, postdoctoral researchers, (post)graduate students, and others who are interested are warmly invited to participate. TABU Dag is an annual international linguistics conference which offers excellent opportunities to meet other linguists and discuss current research in several areas of linguistics. (Post)graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in particular are encouraged to present their work. In addition to the presentations, four plenary lectures will be held. We are happy to have Michael Cysouw (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University), John C. Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania), and Sten Vikner (University of Aarhus) as keynote speakers at the conference. TABU Dag provides an opportunity for the participants to present work addressing any of the following research areas: - Computational linguistics - Discourse and communication - Language and literacy development across the life span - Language variation and language change - Neurolinguistics - Syntax and semantics In addition, we encourage abstract submissions from other linguistic areas, which may have remained unmentioned in the overview above. We invite short abstracts for presentations and posters in English. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. Abstracts should be submitted, preferably in PDF format, via the submission system on the conference website. Depending on the number of submissions, some authors may be invited for a poster presentation. Time allotted for presentations is 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of discussion. The official language of the conference is English. The deadline for the abstract submission is 22 March 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 19 April 2010. For further information, please visit our website: http://www.tabudag.nl We are looking forward to seeing you in Groningen! Kind regards, The organising committee, Veerle Baaijen, Ildik? Berzl?novich, Tim Kallenborn, Ben Maassen and Ruggero Montalto tabudag at rug.nl From rebekkasiemens at umail.ucsb.edu Tue Jan 12 18:12:22 2010 From: rebekkasiemens at umail.ucsb.edu (Rebekka S. Siemens) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:12:22 -0800 Subject: WAIL 2010 2nd Call for papers Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 30th-May 1st, 2010 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 13th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of language in the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Plenary speaker: Sally Rice (University of Alberta) Special panel: This year's workshop will include a panel presented by academic and community-based researchers working on the documentation, description and revitalization of their heritage languages. Talks will be 20 minutes each, followed by a question-and-answer period. Guidelines: Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references). Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have internet access. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance. Online submissions: Please submit all abstracts online at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/wail2010. PDF, RTF, Microsoft Word and Open Office formats are preferred. For hard copy submissions: Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Attn: Daisy Rosenblum or Stephanie Morse Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: February 1st, 2010 Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than March 1st, 2009. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Y?ez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/). For further information contact the conference coordinators, Daisy Rosenblum and Stephanie Morse, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com, or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ -- Rebekka S. Townsend rebekkasiemens at umail.ucsb.edu From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Thu Jan 14 11:50:34 2010 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:50:34 +0000 Subject: CFP PANEL: Corpus design, compilation and types (CILC10) Message-ID: The University of A Coru?a (Spain) hosts the 2nd International Conference on Corpus Linguistics CILC10 13-15 May 2010 (Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics - AELINCO) URL: http://www.udc.es/dep/finc/Cilc10/maineng.html PANEL CALL FOR PAPERS Corpus design, compilation and types The organizers of CILC10 invites contributions for the panel on corpus design, compilation and types integrated in the Conference. The objectives of this panel cover the following issues, among others: * description of corpus projects, * description of corpus design criteria, * corpus objectives, * criteria for textual selection and compilation, * corpus representativeness, * the implementation of existing corpora, * corpus tagging processes Please, visit the Conference 'Sending a Proposal' page at http://www.udc.es/dep/finc/Cilc10/propeng.html , and follow the instructions given there. The deadline for submission of proposals is 15th February, 2010. Francisco Alonso, Panel Coordinator falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es La Universidad de A Coru?a celebra el II Congreso Internacional de Ling??stica del Corpus (CILC10) 13-15 de mayo de 2010 (Asociaci?n Espa?ola de Ling??stica de Corpus - AELINCO) URL: http://www.udc.es/dep/finc/Cilc10/maineng.html SOLICITUD DE PROPUESTAS PARA EL PANEL Dise?o, elaboraci?n y tipolog?a de corpus La tem?tica del panel incluye lo siguiente, entre otros aspectos: * descripci?n de proyectos relativos a la creaci?n de corpus, * descripci?n de los criterios de dise?o de corpus, * objetivos de los corpus, * criterios para la selecci?n y compilaci?n de los textos, * representatividad textual, * implementaci?n de los corpus existentes, * etiquetado de corpus Para informaci?n relativa al env?o de propuestas, visite la p?gina 'Env?o de propuestas' (http://www.udc.es/dep/finc/Cilc10/prop.html). Fecha l?mite para la recepci?n de propuestas: 15 de febrero de 2010. Francisco Alonso, Coordinador del Panel falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es From a.schueppert at rug.nl Thu Jan 21 10:17:02 2010 From: a.schueppert at rug.nl (A. Schueppert) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:17:02 +0100 Subject: Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP2010) Message-ID: *********************************************************************************** Call for Papers Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (ExAPP2010) Groningen, Netherlands, 11-12 November 2010 http://www.rug.nl/let/exapp2010 *********************************************************************************** Empirical approaches to the study of language variation and change can benefit largely from the accompaniment of systematic manipulation of variables in the research setting. The goal of ExAPP2010 is to gather scholars employing experimental methods to investigate linguistic variation. We welcome abstracts for posters and papers that cover aspects of variation on all linguistic levels, and the perception as well as the production thereof. These include, but are not limited to, the following topics: ? Perception of variation ? Production of variation ? Social meaning of linguistic features ? Language attitudes ? (Mutual) intelligibility ? Innovative methodologies Talks are 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be approximately 300 words (excluding references) and may be submitted using EasyAbstracts provided by LinguistList (http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/ExAPP2010). Posters will be displayed throughout one day, and there will be a dedicated poster session. The following plenary speakers have kindly accepted an invitation:: ? Raphael Berthele (Fribourg) ? Kathryn Campbell-Kibler (Ohio State) ? Marianne Gullberg (Lund and MPI Nijmegen) ? Mark Liberman (UPenn) ? Nancy Niedzielski (Rice) 15 March 2010: Deadline of Abstract Submission 15 April 2010: Notification of Acceptance 15 April - 30 June 2010: Early Bird Registration 1 July - 30 September: Normal Registration 11 - 12 November 2010: Conference A publication of selected papers is planned. Please visit our website at http://www.rug.nl/let/exapp2010 for more information. If you have any inquiries, please contact us at _exapp2010 at rug.nl_. Organisational team: ? Charlotte Gooskens ? Nanna Haug Hilton ? Alexandra Lenz ? Anja Sch?ppert -- Anja Sch?ppert Rijksuniversiteit Groningen CLCG, Skandinavistiek Postbus 716 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands http://www.rug.nl/staff/a.schueppert From easp at hfx.eastlink.ca Fri Jan 22 20:22:08 2010 From: easp at hfx.eastlink.ca (Elissa Asp) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:22:08 -0400 Subject: Linguistics Job -- Phonology, Canada Message-ID: This may be of interest...Elissa LINGUISTICS PROGRAM Saint Mary's University ? The Linguistics Program at Saint Mary's University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Linguistics at an entry-level rank of Assistant Professor starting 1 July 2010. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in hand and demonstrate the ability to teach undergraduate courses in the linguistics program and carry out research in their area of specialization. The ideal candidate will have a specialization in Phonology and ability to teach Introduction to Linguistics and Morphology in our core linguistics program. Candidates who also have a demonstrated research interest in an area of empirical investigation and/or application which can be integrated into their teaching will be particularly welcome. The successful candidate will receive a primary appointment to the Linguistics Program, and hold a secondary cross-appointment in a cognate Department in the Faculty of Arts. The mission of Saint Mary?s University is to offer undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education programs to both full time and part time students; to carry out research and disseminate its results; and to serve the community at the local, regional, national, and international levels.? In carrying out its mission, Saint Mary?s is guided by a commitment to accessibility, diversity, and the provision of a positive and supportive learning environment.? It attaches high priority to promoting the personal as well as the intellectual development of students, to encouraging engagement with global issues, and to fostering the spirit of critical enquiry through the effective integration of teaching and research. Applicants should submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a teaching dossier, including evidence of teaching effectiveness, a sample of recent scholarly writing, graduate school transcripts, and names and contact information of three referees to: Dr. Elissa Asp Coordinator Linguistics Program Saint Mary's University Halifax, Nova Scotia? B3H 3C3.? Electronic applications or queries may be sent to Elissa Asp at elissa.asp at smu.ca. Closing date: The selection committee will begin reviewing applications on March 1, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled.? Although candidates of all nationalities are encouraged to apply, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.? Saint Mary?s University is committed to principles of employment equity.? ? ? faire circuler Programme de linguistique L?Universit? Saint Mary?s ? Le programme de linguistique ? l?Universit? Saint Mary?s sollicite des candidatures pour un poste de professeur(e) adjoint(e) en linguistique menant ? la permanence. La date d?entr?e en fonction est le 1 juillet 2010. Les candidat(e)s doivent avoir un doctorat, attester une exp?rience en enseignement de la linguistique au niveau postsecondaire et faire preuve d?une activit? de recherche dans leur domaine de sp?cialisation. La/Le candidat(e) id?al(e) aura une sp?cialisation en phonologie et devrait ?tre en mesure d?enseigner l?introduction ? la linguistique et la morphologie dans notre programme de base. L?int?r?t de recherche dans un domaine appliqu? qui pourra ?tre int?gr? ? l?enseignement sera un atout. La personne retenue recevra un poste principal en linguistique et aura une affiliation secondaire dans un d?partement apparent? de la Facult? des Arts. La mission de l?Universit? Saint Mary?s est d?offrir aux ?tudiant(e) ? temps plein et ? temps partiel des programmes sous-gradu?s, gradu?s et de formation continue, de mener et de diffuser la recherche et de r?pondre aux besoins de la communaut? locale, r?gionale, nationale et internationale.?Dans cette mission, l?Universit? Saint Mary?s s?engage ? assurer l?accessibilit?, la diversit? et la disposition d?un environnement d?apprentissage favorable et positif.?Elle accorde une grande priorit? au d?veloppement personnel et intellectuel des ?tudiant(e)s, aux questions de la mondialisation et ? la promotion de l?esprit critique ? travers une int?gration efficace de la recherche et de l?enseignement. Les postulant(e)s doivent envoyer une lettre d?intention, un curriculum vitae, un dossier p?dagogique avec des preuves de l?efficacit? de l?enseignement, un ?chantillon des publications r?centes, un relev? des notes au niveau des ?tudes gradu?es et les noms et coordonn?es de trois r?pondants ??: Dr. Elissa Asp Coordonnatrice Programme de linguistique Universit? Saint Mary?s Halifax, Nouvelle ?cosse,? B3H 3C3.? Des demandes ?lectroniques et des renseignements peuvent ?tre envoy?s par courriel?: elissa.asp at smu.ca. Date butoir: l?examen des candidatures d?butera le 1 mars 2010 et se poursuivra jusqu?? ce que le poste soit pourvu.? Nous encourageons toutes les candidatures qualifi?es, en accordant la priorit? aux citoyens canadiens et aux r?sidents permanents. L?Universit? Saint Mary?s souscrit au principe de l??quit? en mati?re d?emploi. From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Mon Jan 25 12:40:07 2010 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:40:07 +0000 Subject: CFP[Journal]: Revista de Lenguas para Fines Espec=?iso-8859-1?Q?=EDficos?= Message-ID: Call for papers LFE, 15-16 (Autumn, 2010) The Journal Revista de Lenguas para Fines Espec?ficos (LFE) invites submissions of original full-length articles from scholars in the field of languages for specific purposes, as well as reviews of books in the field. Articles should be submitted electronically using the Internet form at http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/instructions.html. Manuscripts should not exceed 8000 words, including references and notes. The languages of publication are Spanish, English, French, and German, although other languages could be also considered. Prospective authors are encouraged to follow the guidelines for submissions in the journal webpage at http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/LFE_guidelines.pdf . Contributions submitted to LFE should not be under consideration in any other journal. Deadline for submission: 15 April 2010 From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Mon Jan 25 12:41:47 2010 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:41:47 +0000 Subject: CFP[Journal]: Special Issue LFE - Diachronic ESP Message-ID: Call for papers LFE, 17 (Autumn, 2011) Special Issue: Diachronic English for Specific Purposes Guest editors: Francisco Alonso-Almeida and M. Sandra Marrero-Morales The Journal Revista de Lenguas para Fines Espec?ficos (LFE) invites submissions of original full-length articles from scholars in the field of English for specific purposes from a diachronic perspective. Article topics must fall into any field of applied linguistics within the scope of specialized English. Manuscripts should not exceed 8000 words, including references and notes, and should be submitted electronically using the Internet form at http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/instructions.html . Prospective authors are encouraged to follow the guidelines for submissions in the journal webpage at http://www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe/LFE_guidelines.pdf . Contributions submitted to LFE should not be under consideration in any other journal. All submissions will be subject to our peer-review process, and the last decision regarding the publication of contributions falls on the General Editors. For further queries on this special issue, you may contact us via email: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Important dates: Submission deadline: 20 February 2011 Readers? reports due: 24 April 2011 Final draft due: 04 July 2011 Publication: Autumn 2011 From annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Tue Jan 26 18:33:24 2010 From: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it (Annalisa Baicchi) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:33:24 +0100 Subject: Seminar on Construction Grammar Message-ID: ESSE 2010 The European Society for the Study of English 10th International Conference Turin, ITALY 24-28 August 2010 *Seminar n? 55. * *Construction Grammar(s) meets Cognitive Semantics: Theoretical, Lexicographic and Acquisitional Perspectives* The seminar is intended to be a forum for the discussion of the notion of construction conceived of a learned pairing of form with semantic and discursive function, along with its psychological status based on language processing and acquisition. Specifically, the seminar aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in areas of mainly (though not exclusively) present-day English such as: the definition of construction and its relation to similar alternative notions such as templates or fragments, the division of labour between lexical semantics and constructional semantics, the combination of constructions, the grammar-lexicon continuum, the interaction between lexical and constructional templates, coercion and/or metonymic operations, illocutionary constructions, database vs. knowledge-base dictionaries, the impact of frequency on the status of construction as well as a facilitatory factor of language learning, the role of constructions in a context-based view of grammaticalization, etc. Convenors: Annalisa BAICCHI (Universit? di Pavia, IT) annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Francisco GONZ?LVEZ-GARC?A (Universidad de Almer?a, ES) fgonza at ual.es ? Procedure for submitting proposals for papers: Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to the convenors of the seminar in question before 20 February 2010. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 28 February 2010. Oral presentations are expected to take 20 minutes plus 10 approximately for questions and/or further discussion. From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Tue Jan 26 22:19:49 2010 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:19:49 +0000 Subject: MAs in Language Science at Bangor University: Postgraduate fair Feb 19th 2010 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The School of Linguistics at Bangor University offers a range of MAs (12months full time, or 24 months part time) in language science. MAs on offer include: MA in Cognitive Linguistics MA in Anthropological Linguistics MA in Linguistics MA in Language, Communication & Cognition, and MA in Bilingualism Bangor Linguistics is one of the oldest departments of Linguistics in the UK. All courses are taught by leading experts, and the University, situated on the Menai Strait in North Wales, adjacent to the Snowdon Mountain range, occupies one of the most picturesque regions in Europe. Potential applicants are invited to attend a postgraduate recruitment event on February 19th, 2010. Full details are available on the web here: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/pgfair/index.php.en Details on the MA programmes can be located on the Linguistics website: www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/postgraduate.php.en With best wishes, Vyv Evans -- Prof. Vyv Evans Professor of Linguistics www.vyvevans.net -- Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dil?wch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio ? defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu 100% yn ddiogel. 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Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk From Gramis2010 at ua.ac.be Wed Jan 27 09:09:15 2010 From: Gramis2010 at ua.ac.be (Gramis2010) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:09:15 +0100 Subject: Int'l Conf. on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification Message-ID: Second Call for Papers International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification November 11-13, 2010 - Brussels (Belgium) Conference website: http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/conference/conference.html We invite papers dealing with any aspect of the processes of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification, both empirical and conceptual, from any theoretical angle, but we are especially interested in papers dealing with * the interaction between the processes of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification; * the relation of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification to other mechanisms of language change, including, most notably, analogy; and * processes of degrammaticalization and de-(inter)subjectification: how (in)frequent are they, what kinds of factors trigger them, and what mechanisms are at work in them? Presentations are 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion. Abstracts of max. 4000 characters (i.e. app. 500 words; including references) should be submitted via the conference website. Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance: late March 2010 Information regarding registration, accommodation and other practical matters will be provided early March at the conference website. Plenary speakers: Kasper Boye/Peter Harder Hilary Chappell Bernd Heine Heiko Narrog Muriel Norde Organizers: Johan van der Auwera & Jan Nuyts (Antwerp) ? From annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Wed Jan 27 18:43:24 2010 From: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it (Annalisa Baicchi) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:43:24 +0100 Subject: Int'l Conf. on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification In-Reply-To: <2F7B70885960AA42BE820036B3A8CDA09E851E@xmail06.ad.ua.ac.be> Message-ID: Dear Paco, just got home from crazy Milan Central Station.......there was a strike !!! simply AWFUL !!! do you think this may be of interest to you? besotes a. 2010/1/27 Gramis2010 > Second Call for Papers > > International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification > > November 11-13, 2010 - Brussels (Belgium) > > Conference website: > http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/conference/conference.html > > We invite papers dealing with any aspect of the processes of > grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification, both empirical and > conceptual, from any theoretical angle, but we are especially interested in > papers dealing with > > * the interaction between the processes of grammaticalization and > (inter)subjectification; > > * the relation of grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification to other > mechanisms of language change, including, most notably, analogy; and > > * processes of degrammaticalization and de-(inter)subjectification: how > (in)frequent are they, what kinds of factors trigger them, and what > mechanisms are at work in them? > > Presentations are 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion. > > Abstracts of max. 4000 characters (i.e. app. 500 words; including > references) should be submitted via the conference website. > > Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2010 > > Notification of acceptance: late March 2010 > > Information regarding registration, accommodation and other practical > matters will be provided early March at the conference website. > > Plenary speakers: > > Kasper Boye/Peter Harder > > Hilary Chappell > > Bernd Heine > > Heiko Narrog > > Muriel Norde > > Organizers: > > Johan van der Auwera & Jan Nuyts (Antwerp) > > ? > > -- Prof.Dr. Annalisa Baicchi (PhD in Cognitive Semantics) Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics University of Pavia Corso Strada Nuova, 65 27100 Pavia (Italy) tel:+39-0382-984684 fax: +39-0382-984487 annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=134 From paul at benjamins.com Wed Jan 27 21:48:58 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:48:58 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins title: Schmidtke-Bode: A Typology of Purpose Clauses Message-ID: A Typology of Purpose Clauses Karsten Schmidtke-Bode Friedrich Schiller University, Jena Typological Studies in Language 88 2009. xii, 229 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0669 5 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 [] e-Book ? Available from e-book platforms 978 90 272 8898 1 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 [] [] This book presents the first comprehensive typology of purpose clause constructions in the world's languages. Based on a stratified variety sample of 80 languages, it uncovers the unity and diversity of the morphosyntactic means by which purposive relations are coded, and discusses the status of purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences. Explanations for significantly recurrent coding patterns are couched in a usage-based approach to language structure, which pays due attention to the cognitive and communicative pressures on usage events involving purpose clauses, to frequency distributions of grammatical choices in corpora, and to the ways in which usage preferences conventionalize in pathways of diachronic change. The book integrates diverse previous strands of research on purpose clauses with a thorough empirical analysis in its own right and thus reflects the current state of the art of crosslinguistic research into this distinctive type of adverbial clause. An appendix to A Typology of Purpose Clauses can be found on the author's website: www.karsten-schmidtke.net/purpose ---------- Table of contents Acknowledgements vii Abbreviations and notational conventions ix?xii 1. Aims and scope of the book 2. Theoretical and methodological foundations 5?28 3. The grammar of purpose: Documentation and explanation 29?146 4. Purpose clauses in the syntactic and conceptual space of complex sentences 147?198 Conclusion and outlook 199?203 References 205?219 Index of authors 221?223 Index of languages 224?225 Index of subjects 226?229 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 Wed Jan 27 21:46:33 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:46:33 -0500 Subject: New Benjamins journal: Chinese Language and Discourse Message-ID: New For 2010: Chinese Language and Discourse An International and Interdisciplinary Journal Cover image Editors K. K. Luke, Nanyang Technological University/University of Hong Kong Hongyin Tao, University of California, Los Angeles Li Wei, University of London Review Editor Li Wei, University of London cld.editors at gmail.com ISSN: 1877-7031 E-ISSN: 1877-8798 go! Electronic edition at ingentaJournals A peer reviewed journal which seeks to publish original work on Chinese and related languages, with a focus on current topics in Chinese discourse studies. The notion of discourse is a broad one, emphasizing an empirical orientation and encompassing such linguistic fields as language and society, language and culture, language and social interaction, discourse and grammar, communication studies, and contact linguistics. Special emphasis is placed on systematic documentation of Chinese usage patterns and methodological innovations in explaining Chinese and related languages from a wide range of functionalistic perspectives, including, but not limited to, those of Conversation Analysis, sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, grammaticalization, cognitive linguistics, typological and comparative studies. The journal also publishes review articles as well as discussion topics. Exchanges of research views between authors and readers are also encouraged. 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 fgonza at ual.es Thu Jan 28 23:30:29 2010 From: fgonza at ual.es (fgonza at ual.es) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:30:29 +0100 Subject: CFP:LIBFFD IN CHINA Message-ID: *************APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS********************************************** Dear colleagues, I just thought the following CFP might be of interest to some of you. Kindest regards, Francisco Gonz?lvez Garc?a CALL FOR PAPERS FOR LIBFFD IN CHINA ???????????????????????????????????------------- Languages and International Business: First Forum across Disciplines (LIBFFD) In order to encourage the cross-discipline research between language and business, Languages and International Business: First Forum across Disciplines will be held at University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in Beijing, from 20-21 March 2010. PLENARY SPEAKERS  F. Ruiz de Mendoza---University of La Rioja  Ricardo Mairal----- National Distance University  LuJianming------- - Peking University  XuShenghuan----- -Henan University  WangLifei------------University of International Business and Economics  Huangguowen-------Zhongshan University  WangMingyu--------Heilongjiang University  Zhanghanlin-------- University of International Business and Economics  Zhangli---------------Beijing Language and Culture University  WangYonggui-------University of International Business and Economics  Caodafeng-----------Beijing Foreign Studies University CONFERENCE THEME The theme of the conference is international business research from a multi-linguistic perspective, focusing on business language research and including business language theory, business advertisement research, business negotiation research, and business language from a number of (potentially relatable) perspectives: cognitive, functional, social, corpus-based, comparative, applied, cultural, pedagogical, pragmatic, discursive, etc. The theme of this forum is intended to be broad and inclusive. It may involve views from theoretical approaches within Construction Grammar(s), Cognitive Grammar, Cognitive Semantics, and Functional Linguistics. WEBSITE http://www.uibelcc.com SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Proposals for paper presentations, workshops and colloquia should be sent in abstract form to LanguageBusiness at 126.com by March 5th, 2010. Abstracts should be around 400 words and include the following information: - Type of Presentation: Paper, colloquium, workshop. - Title of Paper - Presenters: Names of presenters and institutional affiliation and address, including email address - Presentation Aim: Succinct statement of the aim of the contribution - Presentation Background: Relationship to previous and current work with key references. - Presentation Body: Description of the main part of the presentation - References: List of references cited in the abstract - Key terms: Key terms identifying the field(s) of presentation (Conference Fee：600 Yuan for each participant with food and drink without hotel and transport) LOCATION OF UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS No. 10 Huixin Dongjie Chaoyang District Beijing, China Check-in Place: Yinhua Hotel (Tel: 010-64934455) Conference fee: ?600 (?300-Registered students), meals and drink are included. CONFERENCE ORGANISERS Language Research Center University of International Business and Economics Beijing, China E-mail：LanguageBusiness at 126.com Tel：+8610-62522328 CONTACT US Xianglan Chen (UIBC): 010-62522328, 13811127336; Jun Wu (UIBC): 13910066881; Xingquan Tang (UIBC): 13681196838; E-mail: LanguageBusiness at 126.com. Keep up-to-date by bookmarking and checking the website regularly: http://www.uibelcc.com From mcarrete at filol.ucm.es Fri Jan 29 18:19:58 2010 From: mcarrete at filol.ucm.es (MARTA BEGONA CARRETERO LAPEYRE) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:19:58 +0100 Subject: ModE4 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: Fourth International Conference on Modality in English-ModE4 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9-11 September 2010 Departamento de Filolog?a Inglesa I http://www.ucm.es/centros/webs/se5065/ DEADLINE EXTENSION: 21st FEBRUARY 2010 SECOND CIRCULAR The 4th International Conference on Modality in English will take place at the Facultad de Filolog?a, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 9-11 September 2010. The conference is designed to be a follow-up to the: ? International Conference on Modality in Contemporary English, University of Verona (Italy), 6-8 September 2001. ? Second International Conference on Modality in English, University of Pau (France), 2-4 September 2004. ? Third International Conference on Modality in English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), 4-6 May 2007. CALL FOR PAPERS ModE4 invites the submission of papers and posters from all (sub)domains of modality and evidentiality in English, including crosslinguistic studies. In addition to individual talks, we also welcome proposals for theme sessions. The conference aims to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between researchers working in modality and evidentiality in English, and to bring to the fore the most recent developments in the field. PLENARY SPEAKERS Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) Ronald W. Langacker (University of California, San Diego) Geoffrey Leech (University of Lancaster) Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (University of Ghent) Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) VENUE The venue of the conference will be the Facultad de Filolog?a, on the campus of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, which is of easy access from the city centre and the hotels. (There are convenient bus links and an underground station on campus). PAPER PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS Papers and posters are invited on all topics belonging to the field of modality and evidentiality in English, including crosslinguistic studies. Presentations of papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. Authors of papers and posters should submit anonymous abstracts, together with a separate page specifying the author's name, affiliation, surface mail address and e-mail address. Abstracts should be between 600-700 words (excluding references), and should state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. All submitted abstracts will go through a double-blind reviewing process (at least two reviewers). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail, as attachments, to ModE4 (mode4 at filol.ucm.es) Please use Word or RTF format; and if your abstract contains special symbols, please include a PDF version as well. The new deadline for all abstracts (papers and posters) is 21 February 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 March 2010. THEME SESSIONS There will be three theme sessions at the Conference: (i) The Modality of Intersubjectivity. This theme session focuses on the identification of the linguistic and non-linguistic (multimodal) overt and covert strategies exploited by the speaker/writer to convey their point, to involve the addressee(s) and, finally, to lead them to share such point. Papers for this theme session are welcome. Convenor: Prof. Roberta Facchinetti, Universit? degli Studi di Verona. (ii) Modality in English and Spanish: functional and corpus-based perspectives. This theme session will focus on a number of functional and corpus-based aspects of the contrastive study of modality in English and Spanish as a topic of theoretical and applied relevance in a number of research contexts. Modality will be considered as the expression of a number of semantic categories clustered around the notions of speaker?s commitment and non-factuality. Special emphasis will be given to the relationship between modality and evaluative language. Convenor: Prof. Julia Lavid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. (iii) Evidentiality and Modality: Cross-linguistic perspectives. This theme session will focus on corpus-based contrastive studies of evidential and modal markers, on the overlap of the domains of evidentiality and modality, and the interplay of semantic meanings with pragmatic and discourse factors. Papers for this theme session are welcome. Convenors: Profs. Juana Mar?n and Marta Carretero, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The sessions will consist of two one hour and a half slots (maximum 5 papers) focusing on a common topic within modality and/or evidentiality. Each theme session should include a 30-minute slot for final discussion on the topic. Abstracts for theme sessions (i) and (iii) should be sent by e-mail, as attachments, to ModE4 (mode4 at filol.ucm.es) The new deadline for abstracts is 21 February 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 31 March 2010. REGISTRATION Registration will start from April 1 onwards. Registration fees are anticipated to be the following: Early registration fee (from 1 April 2010 to 31 May 2010): 150 Euros Students (without salary or grant): 70 Euros Late registration fee: 180 Euros Students (without salary or grant): 100 Euros The registration fee includes the conference materials, coffee/tea, the conference reception, and a walking tour to places of interest in Madrid. SOCIAL PROGRAMME There will be a reception at the Facultad de Filolog?a on the 8th September. The walking tour of Madrid (included in the registration fee) will take place on the 9th., and the conference dinner on the 10th. On Saturday afternoon there will be a post-conference excursion to Toledo (optional), where we plan to visit the Cathedral, the Sephardic Museum, the Sinagoga de Sta. Mar?a la Blanca and the Mezquita del Cristo de la Luz (full details will be given in due course on the conference website). IMPORTANT DATES 21 February 2010: New deadline for submission of abstracts 31 March 2010: Notification of acceptance 1 April 2010: Early registration starts 1 June 2010: Registration (full fee) PUBLICATIONS Conference Proceedings will be published either in a scientific journal or in a book. A special volume with selected papers will also be published. ModE GENERAL COMMITTEE - Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp) - Pierre Busuttil (University of Pau) - Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona) - Paul Larreya (University of Paris 13) - Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Juana I. Mar?n-Arrese (Chair): juana at filol.ucm.es - Marta Carretero (Secretary): mcarrete at filol.ucm.es - Jorge Ar?s - Elena Dom?nguez - Carmen Ma?z Ar?valo - M? Victoria Mart?n de la Rosa - Juan Rafael Zamorano CONTACT ModE4 Organizing committee: Departamento de Filolog?a Inglesa I Facultad de Filolog?a Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria, s/n E-28040 Madrid Spain Phone: +34-91-394-5357/5835/5382 Fax: +34-91-394-5762/5357 E-mail: mode4 at filol.ucm.es Marta Carretero Associate Professor Departamento de Filolog?a Inglesa I Facultad de Filolog?a Universidad Complutense de Madrid E-28040-Madrid Spain From edith at uwm.edu Sat Jan 30 01:42:48 2010 From: edith at uwm.edu (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:42:48 -0600 Subject: Call for papers: competing motivations Message-ID: Conference on COMPETING MOTIVATIONS GENERAL We invite papers on the role of competing motivations in the emergence and use of linguistic structures from linguists, psychologists, and others working in related fields. TIME AND PLACE The three-day conference will take place NOVEMBER 23-25 (TUESDAY-THURSDAY) 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. ORGANIZERS The conference is organized by Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology) and Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (emerita)) and will be sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. PROGRAM In addition to the papers selected from abstracts and the introductory and closing talks by the conference organizers, there will be a number of invited presentations. So far we have the following on board: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky Joan Bresnan Wolfgang Dressler John Du Bois Martin Haspelmath John A. Hawkins Helen de Hoop Brian MacWhinney Gereon M?ller Frederick Newmeyer Michael Tomasello TOPICS Competing motivations is a topic coming in different guises in linguistics and related disciplines. In language typology, the concept of competing motivations was explicitly introduced by Du Bois (1985), and since then it has made its way into many contributions including typology textbooks (e.g. Croft 1990; 2003). Currently it is a common trend in functional typology to view the evolution of grammar as resulting from different partly converging but also potentially conflicting functional motivations. An approach to typology where competing motivations (?conflicting constraints?) have been accorded the status of a major theoretical concept is Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004, M?ller 2000). In OT, grammatical patterns are viewed as resulting from constraint interaction, and cross-linguistic variation is attributed to different rankings of constraints. A similar approach has been introduced in psycholinguistics under the name of Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney 1989), which addressed the question of how different cues are weighted in language comprehension and language acquisition when the cues are in conflict. These three strands of research have not been totally independent from the start (e.g. OT was inspired by the work in psycholinguistics and cognitive sciences), and recently there have been further signs of the converging tendencies in these fields. On the one hand, with the rise of functional OT (Bresnan & Aissen 2002) conceptual differences of functional typology and OT (see Haspelmath 1999 for discussion) have been reduced, and some recent work explicitly tries to further integrate OT and functional typology (see, e.g., Malchukov 2005; de Hoop & Malchukov 2008). On the other hand, OT shows further convergence with psycholinguistic research, with the rise of OT semantics and bidirectional OT approaches that are concerned with comprehension optimization (de Hoop & Lamers 2006). John Hawkins? work (2004 et passim) aiming to explain generalizations found in typological and psycholinguistic work in terms of a few general principles grounded in processing goes in the same direction. It seems that these new developments have overcome some of the problems of the early competing motivation approaches noted in the literature (Newmeyer 1998) and are opening new perspectives in the respective disciplines. It should also be noted that there is an increased awareness of the similarities of competing motivations models as practiced within linguistic disciplines and beyond (e.g., in psychological research). The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from linguistics and other fields that adopt the competing motivation approach in one form or other another, and to promote further integration and cross-fertilization between them. Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to the following: ? application of the competing motivation approach to individual languages and cross-linguistically; ? application of competition models in psycholinguistic research (both language comprehension and language production); ? theoretical questions such as: ? What motivations are at work in given domains? ? What evidence is there for the existence and the weighting of the constraints? ? What factors determine the weightings of the constraints? ? How are competing motivations manifested synchronically and diachronically? (cf. Haspelmath?s (1999) notion of ?diachronic adaptation? and the research program of ?evolutionary phonology? advocated by Blevins (2004)). SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS (a) Length: up to one page of text plus up to one page containing possible tables and references (b) Format: The abstract should include the title of the paper and the text of the abstract but not the author?s name or affiliation. The e-mail message to which it is attached should list the title, the author?s name, and the author?s affiliation. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously. Please send the message to both organizers at the following addresses: malchukov at mpi.eva.de edith at uwm.edu (c) Deadline: The abstracts should reach us by WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31. Submitters will be notified by FRIDAY, APRIL 30. REFERENCES Bates, E., & MacWhinney, B. 1987. Competition, variation, and language learning. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, 157?193. Hillsdale, New Jersey; London: Lawrence Erlbaum. Blevins, J. (2004). Evolutionary phonology: The emergence of sound patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bresnan, J. and J. Aissen (2002). Optionality and functionality: Objections and refutations. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20, 81?95. Croft, W., 1990. Typology and universals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Du Bois, J.A. 1985. ?Competing motivations?. In: Haiman, J. (ed.) Iconicity in syntax. 343-366. Amsterdam: Benjamins, Haspelmath, M. 1999. ?Optimality and diachronic adaptation.? Zeitschrift f?r Sprachwissenschaft 18.2: 180-205. Hawkins, John A. 2004. Efficiency and complexity in grammars. Oxford: Oxford University Press. de Hoop, H. and M. Lamers. 2006. Incremental distinguishability of subject and object. In L. Kulikov, A. L. Malchukov and P. de Swart (eds.) Case, valency, and transitivity. Amsterdam, John Benjamins. de Hoop, H. and A. Malchukov. 2008. Case-marking strategies. Linguistic Inquiry 39 565?587. Malchukov, A., 2005. Case pattern splits, verb types, and construction competition. In M. Amberber & H. de Hoop (eds.) Competition and variation in natural languages: the case for case, 73-117. Elsevier, Amsterdam, etc. M?ller, Gereon. 2000. Elemente der optimalit?tstheoretischen Syntax. T?bingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. Prince, A. and P. Smolensky (2004). Optimality Theory:constraint interaction in Generative Grammar. Oxford, Blackwell. From edith at uwm.edu Sun Jan 31 03:18:02 2010 From: edith at uwm.edu (Edith A Moravcsik) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:18:02 -0600 Subject: Corrected text of the call for papers In-Reply-To: <1959880006.4540441264815921278.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Message-ID: The text of the call for papers for the conference on competing motivations that I posted yesterday included an incorrect e-mail address for Andrej Malchukov. Please find the corrected text below. I am sorry for the error. CALL FOR PAPERS Conference on COMPETING MOTIVATIONS GENERAL We invite papers on the role of competing motivations in the emergence and use of linguistic structures from linguists, psychologists, and others working in related fields. TIME AND PLACE The three-day conference will take place NOVEMBER 23-25 (TUESDAY-THURSDAY) 2010 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. ORGANIZERS The conference is organized by Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology) and Edith Moravcsik (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (emerita)) and will be sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. PROGRAM In addition to the papers selected from abstracts and the introductory and closing talks by the conference organizers, there will be a number of invited presentations. So far we have the following on board: Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky Joan Bresnan Wolfgang Dressler John Du Bois Martin Haspelmath John A. Hawkins Helen de Hoop Brian MacWhinney Gereon M?ller Frederick Newmeyer Michael Tomasello TOPICS Competing motivations is a topic coming in different guises in linguistics and related disciplines. In language typology, the concept of competing motivations was explicitly introduced by Du Bois (1985), and since then it has made its way into many contributions including typology textbooks (e.g. Croft 1990; 2003). Currently it is a common trend in functional typology to view the evolution of grammar as resulting from different partly converging but also potentially conflicting functional motivations. An approach to typology where competing motivations (?conflicting constraints?) have been accorded the status of a major theoretical concept is Optimality Theory (OT; Prince & Smolensky 1993/2004, M?ller 2000). In OT, grammatical patterns are viewed as resulting from constraint interaction, and cross-linguistic variation is attributed to different rankings of constraints. A similar approach has been introduced in psycholinguistics under the name of Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney 1989), which addressed the question of how different cues are weighted in language comprehension and language acquisition when the cues are in conflict. These three strands of research have not been totally independent from the start (e.g. OT was inspired by the work in psycholinguistics and cognitive sciences), and recently there have been further signs of the converging tendencies in these fields. On the one hand, with the rise of functional OT (Bresnan & Aissen 2002) conceptual differences of functional typology and OT (see Haspelmath 1999 for discussion) have been reduced, and some recent work explicitly tries to further integrate OT and functional typology (see, e.g., Malchukov 2005; de Hoop & Malchukov 2008). On the other hand, OT shows further convergence with psycholinguistic research, with the rise of OT semantics and bidirectional OT approaches that are concerned with comprehension optimization (de Hoop & Lamers 2006). John Hawkins? work (2004 et passim) aiming to explain generalizations found in typological and psycholinguistic work in terms of a few general principles grounded in processing goes in the same direction. It seems that these new developments have overcome some of the problems of the early competing motivation approaches noted in the literature (Newmeyer 1998) and are opening new perspectives in the respective disciplines. It should also be noted that there is an increased awareness of the similarities of competing motivations models as practiced within linguistic disciplines and beyond (e.g., in psychological research). The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from linguistics and other fields that adopt the competing motivation approach in one form or other another, and to promote further integration and cross-fertilization between them. Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to the following: ? application of the competing motivation approach to individual languages and cross-linguistically; ? application of competition models in psycholinguistic research (both language comprehension and language production); ? theoretical questions such as: ? What motivations are at work in given domains? ? What evidence is there for the existence and the weighting of the constraints? ? What factors determine the weightings of the constraints? ? How are competing motivations manifested synchronically and diachronically? (cf. Haspelmath?s (1999) notion of ?diachronic adaptation? and the research program of ?evolutionary phonology? advocated by Blevins (2004)). SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS (a) Length: up to one page of text plus up to one page containing possible tables and references (b) Format: The abstract should include the title of the paper and the text of the abstract but not the author?s name or affiliation. The e-mail message to which it is attached should list the title, the author?s name, and the author?s affiliation. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously. Please send the message to both organizers at the following addresses: andrej_malchukov at eva.mpg.de edith at uwm.edu (c) Deadline: The abstracts should reach us by WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31. Submitters will be notified by FRIDAY, APRIL 30. REFERENCES Bates, E., & MacWhinney, B. 1987. Competition, variation, and language learning. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Mechanisms of Language Acquisition, 157?193. Hillsdale, New Jersey; London: Lawrence Erlbaum. Blevins, J. (2004). Evolutionary phonology: The emergence of sound patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bresnan, J. and J. Aissen (2002). Optionality and functionality: Objections and refutations. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20, 81?95. Croft, W., 1990. Typology and universals. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Du Bois, J.A. 1985. ?Competing motivations?. In: Haiman, J. (ed.) Iconicity in syntax. 343-366. Amsterdam: Benjamins, Haspelmath, M. 1999. ?Optimality and diachronic adaptation.? Zeitschrift f?r Sprachwissenschaft 18.2: 180-205. Hawkins, John A. 2004. Efficiency and complexity in grammars. Oxford: Oxford University Press. de Hoop, H. and M. Lamers. 2006. Incremental distinguishability of subject and object. In L. Kulikov, A. L. Malchukov and P. de Swart (eds.) Case, valency, and transitivity. Amsterdam, John Benjamins. de Hoop, H. and A. Malchukov. 2008. Case-marking strategies. Linguistic Inquiry 39 565?587. Malchukov, A., 2005. Case pattern splits, verb types, and construction competition. In M. Amberber & H. de Hoop (eds.) Competition and variation in natural languages: the case for case, 73-117. Elsevier, Amsterdam, etc. M?ller, Gereon. 2000. Elemente der optimalit?tstheoretischen Syntax. T?bingen: Stauffenburg Verlag. Prince, A. and P. Smolensky (2004). Optimality Theory:constraint interaction in Generative Grammar. Oxford, Blackwell.