From paul at benjamins.com Thu Jul 1 16:41:52 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:41:52 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Gildea/Queixal=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F3s=3A_?= Ergativity in Amazonia Message-ID: Ergativity in Amazonia Edited by Spike Gildea and Francesc Queixalós University of Oregon / CNRS/CELIA Typological Studies in Language 89 2010. v, 319 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0670 1 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2089 This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in the region, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several also provide diachronic insight into the evolution of these systems. The five papers in Part I focus on languages from four larger families with ergative patterns primarily in morphology. The typological contribution is in detailed consideration of unusual splits, changes in ergative patterns, and parallels between ergative main clauses and nominalizations. The three papers in Part II discuss genetically isolated languages. Two present dominant ergative patterns in both morphology and syntax, the other a syntactic inverse system that is predominantly ergative in discourse. In each, the authors demonstrate that identification of traditional grammatical relations is problematic. These data will figure in all future typological and theoretical debates about grammatical relations. Table of contents Manifestations of ergativity in Amazonia Francesc Queixalós and Spike Gildea 126 Part I. Well-established systems: Morphological ergativity Ergativity in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family David W. Fleck 2964 Ergativity in Shipibo-Konibo, a Panoan language of the Ucayali Pilar M. Valenzuela 6596 How ergative is Cavineña? Antoine Guillaume 97120 The ergativity effect in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil) Bruna Franchetto 121158 Nominative-absolutive: Counter-universal split ergativity in Jê and Cariban Spike Gildea and Flávia Castro Alves 159200 Part II. Recent diachronic innovations: Syntactic ergativity Ergativity in Trumai Raquel Guirardello-Damian 203234 Grammatical relations in Katukina-Kanamari Francesc Queixalós 235284 The intransitive basis of Movima clause structure Katharina Haude 285316 Index 317320 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Thu Jul 1 16:53:41 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:53:41 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Hasko/Perelmutter: New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion Message-ID: New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion Edited by Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter University of Georgia / University of Kansas Studies in Language Companion Series 115 2010. x, 392 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0582 7 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20115 This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a particular focus on verbs of motion, the nuclei of the lexicalization patterns for encoding motion. Motion verbs are notorious among Slavic linguists for their baffling idiosyncratic behavior in their lexical, semantic, syntactical, and aspectual characteristics. The collaborative effort of this volume is aimed both at highlighting and accounting for the unique properties of Slavic verbs of motion and at situating Slavic languages within the larger framework of typological research investigating cross-linguistic encoding of the motion domain. Due to the multiplicity of approaches to the linguistic analysis the collection offers, it will suitably complement courses and programs of study focusing on Slavic linguistics as well as typology, diachronic and comparative linguistics, semantics, and second language acquisition. Table of contents Contributors ix-x Introduction. Verbs of motion in Slavic languages: Paths for exploration Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter 1-11 Part I. Diachrony of motion expressions Chapter 1. Clause and text organization in early East Slavic with reference to motion and position expressions Sarah Turner 15-45 Chapter 2. Indeterminate motion verbs are denominal Johanna Nichols 47-65 Chapter 3. Common Slavic "indeterminate" verbs of motion were really manner-of-motion verbs Stephen M. Dickey 67-109 Chapter 4. PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in -i- Marc L. Greenberg 111-121 Part II. Synchronic approaches to aspect Chapter 5. Perfectives from indeterminate motion verbs in Russian Laura A. Janda 125-139 Chapter 6. Aspects of motion: On the semantics and pragmatics of indeterminate aspect Olga Kagan 141-162 Chapter 7. Verbs of motion under negation in Modern Russian Renee Perelmutter 163-193 Part III. Typological approach to the study of Slavic verbs of motion Chapter 8. Semantic composition of motion verbs in Russian and English: The case of intra-typological variability Victoria Hasko 197-223 Chapter 9. Motion events in Polish: Lexicalization patterns and the description of Manner Anetta Kopecka 225-246 Chapter 10. The importance of being a prefix: Prefixal morphology and the lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian Luna Filipoviæ 247-266 Chapter 11. Variation in the encoding of endpoints of motion in Russian Tatiana Nikitina 267-290 Chapter 12. Verbs of rotation in Russian and Polish Ekaterina V. Rakhilina 291-316 Chapter 13. Aquamotion verbs in Slavic and Germanic: A case study in lexical typology Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Dagmar Divjak and Ekaterina V. Rakhilina 315-341 Chapter 14. Metaphorical walking: Russian idti as a generalized motion verb Tore Nesset 343-359 Chapter 15. Russian verbs of motion: Second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics perspectives Kira Gor, Svetlana Cook, Vera Malyushenkova and Tatyana Vdovina 361-381 Author index 383 Language index 387 Subject index 389 "This important book is a model of in-depth exploration that is much needed: intra-typological, diachronic, and synchronic exploration of contrasting ways of encoding a particular semantic domain - in this case the domain of motion events. The various Slavic languages present contrasting but related solutions to the intersection of motion and aspect. And, as a group, they offer alternate forms of satellite-framed typology, in contrast to the more heavily studied Germanic languages of this general type. The up-to-date and interdisciplinary nature of the volume makes it essential reading in cognitive and typological linguistics." Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley "A feast for the mind, with untold riches and variety: different approaches, patterns and usage, diachronic as well as synchronic, Slavic and not just Russian. All on a high intellectual level from capable scholars. Ful besy were the editors in every thing, That to the feste was appertinent." Alan Timberlake, Columbia University Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Thu Jul 1 16:38:17 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:38:17 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Z=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=FA=F1iga/Kittil=E4=3A_?= Benefactives and Malefactives Message-ID: Benefactives and Malefactives Typological perspectives and case studies Edited by Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä University of Zurich / University of Helsinki Typological Studies in Language 92 2010. x, 440 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0673 2 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2092 Benefactives are constructions used to express that a state of affairs holds to someone's advantage. The same construction sometimes also serves as a malefactive, whose meanings are generally not a simple mirror image of the benefactive. Benefactive constructions cover a wide range of phenomena: malefactive passives, general and specialized benefactive cases and adpositions, serial verb constructions and converbal constructions (including e.g. verbs of giving and taking), benefactive applicatives, and other morphosyntactic strategies. The present book is the first collection of its kind to be published on this topic. It includes both typological surveys and in-depth descriptive studies, exploring both the morphosyntactic properties and the semantic nuances of phenomena ranging from the familiar English double-object construction and the Japanese adversative passive to comparable phenomena found in lesser-known languages of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The book will appeal to typologists and linguists interested in linguistic diversity and it will also be a useful reference work for linguists working on language description. Table of contents Preface vii List of contributors ix-x Introduction: Benefaction and malefaction from a cross-linguistic perspective Seppo Kittilä and Fernando Zúñiga 1-28 Benefactive applicative periphrases: A typological approach Denis Creissels 29-70 Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure: A preliminary framework for benefactive typology Tomoko Yamashita Smith 71-96 An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions Paula Radetzky and Tomoko Smith 97-120 The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses Karsten Schmidtke-Bode 121-146 Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives Kaoru Kiyosawa and Donna B. Gerdts 147-184 Beneficiaries and recipients in Toba (Guaycurú) Marisa Censabella 185-202 Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun Fernando Zúñiga 203-218 The benefactive semantic potential of 'caused reception' constructions: A case study of English, German, French, and Dutch Timothy Colleman 219-244 Beneficiary coding in Finnish Seppo Kittilä 245-270 Benefactives in Laz René Lacroix 271-294 Benefactive and malefactive verb extensions in the Koalib very system Nicolas Quint 295-316 Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage) Sascha Völlmin 317-330 A "reflexive benefactive" in Chamba-Daka (Adamawa branch, Niger-Congo family) Raymond Boyd 331-350 Beneficiary and other roles of the dative in Tashelhiyt Christian J. Rapold 351-376 Benefactive strategies in Thai Mathias Jenny 377-392 Korean benefactive particles and their meanings Jae Jung Song 393-418 Malefactivity in Japanese Eijiro Tsuboi 419-436 Index 437-440 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 amnfn at well.com Fri Jul 2 14:05:37 2010 From: amnfn at well.com (A. Katz) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:05:37 -0700 Subject: Help with getting materials from Bridwell Library, SMU Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I don't have any institutional affiliation, and the rural county library where I have a library card does not do interlibrary loan. I am interested in getting a copy of Deuteronomy 32 in each of the six Kaifeng scrolls available at the Bridwell Library at SMU. I have been in correspondence with Dr. Eric White of the Bridwell Library for over a year now, in the hopes of finding some way to get copies of the material, which has not yet been digitized. I offered to hire a grad student at SMU to make the copies for me, but I was informed there was no one competent enough or interested enough to do so. Can any of you who are geographically close or who are interested in the material yourself and who might borrow it on interlibrary loan help me with this? Thanks in advance, --Aya Katz http://hubpages.com/profile/Aya+Katz From hdls at unm.edu Mon Jul 19 15:13:45 2010 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:13:45 -0600 Subject: HDLS 9 Conference Call for Papers Message-ID: Hello, Below you will find the call for abstracts for HDLS-9 _________________________________________________________________________ We invite you to submit proposals for 20-minute talks with 5-minute discussion sessions in any area of linguistics – especially those from a cognitive/functional linguistics perspective. This year we will include a poster session. Papers and posters in the following areas are particularly welcome: -Typology, Discourse Analysis, Language Change and Variation, Evolution of Language, Grammaticization, Sign Languages, Metaphor and Metonymy, Computational Linguistics -Native American Languages, Spanish and Languages of the American Southwest, Language Revitalization and Maintenance -Sociolinguistics, Sociocultural Theory, Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition Keynote speakers Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico, University of California, Berkeley) Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba) Call For Papers The deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, August 27th, 2010. Abstracts should be sent via email, as an attachment, to hdls at unm.edu. Please include the title ''HDLS-9 abstract '' in the subject line. Include the title ''HDLS-9 Poster Session'' in the subject line for abstracts submitted for the poster session. MS-Word format is preferred; RTF and PDF formats are accepted. The actual abstract must not have your name on it- only the title of the project, that we can then match up with the information you send us in the email. You may also send hard copies of abstracts (three copies) to the HDLS address listed at the bottom of the page. The e-mail must include the following information: 1. Author's name(s) 2. Author's affiliation(s) 3. Title of the paper or poster 4. E-mail address of the primary author 5. A list of the equipment you will need 6. Whether you will require an official letter of acceptance The abstract should be no more than one page in no smaller than 11-point font. A second page is permitted for references and data. Only two submissions (for presentations) per author will be accepted and we will only consider submissions that conform to the above guidelines. If your abstract has special fonts or characters, please send your abstract as a PDF. Please be advised that shortly after the conference a call for proceedings will be announced. Poster Session - Participants will be given a space approximately 6' by 4' to display their work. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by September 10th, 2010. If you have any questions or need for further information please contact us at hdls at unm.edu with ''HDLS-9 Conference'' in the subject line. The HDLS mailing address is: HDLS, Department of Linguistics, MSC03 2130, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 87131-001 USA President: Sook-Kyung Lee Vice president: Susan Brumbaugh Secretary: Motomi Kajitani Treasurer: Shelece Easterday High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics The University of New Mexico hdls at unm.edu From hdls at unm.edu Mon Jul 19 15:42:45 2010 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:42:45 -0600 Subject: HDLS 9 Conference Call for Papers Message-ID: Hello, Below you will find the call for abstracts for HDLS-9. Sorry, we forgot to post the dates of the conference. The dates are November 4-6. __________________________________________________________________ We invite you to submit proposals for 20-minute talks with 5-minute discussion sessions for the Ninth High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference, to be held at University of New Mexico November 4-6. This year we will also include a poster session. Papers and posters in the following areas are particularly welcome: - Typology, Discourse Analysis, Language Change and Variation, Evolution of Language, Grammaticization, Sign Languages, Metaphor and Metonymy, Computational Linguistics - Native American Languages, Spanish and Languages of the American Southwest, Language Revitalization and Maintenance - Sociolinguistics, Sociocultural Theory, Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition Keynote speakers Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico, University of California, Berkeley) Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba) The deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, August 27th, 2010. Abstracts should be sent via email, as an attachment, to hdls at unm.edu. Please include the title "HDLS-9 abstract" in the subject line. Include the title "HDLS-9 Poster Session" in the subject line for abstracts submitted for the poster session. MS-Word format is preferred; RTF and PDF formats are accepted. The actual abstract must not have your name on it- only the title of the project, which we can then match up with the information you send us in the email. You may also send hard copies of abstracts (three copies) to the HDLS address listed at the bottom of the page. The e-mail must include the following information: 1. Author's name(s) 2. Author's affiliation(s) 3. Title of the paper or poster 4. E-mail address of the primary author 5. A list of the equipment you will need 6. Whether you will require an official letter of acceptance The abstract should be no more than one page in no smaller than 11-point font. A second page is permitted for references and data. Only two submissions (for presentations) per author will be accepted and we will only consider submissions that conform to the above guidelines. If your abstract has special fonts or characters, please send your abstract as a PDF. Please be advised that shortly after the conference a call for proceedings will be announced. Poster Session - Participants will be given a space approximately 6' by 4' to display their work. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by September 10th, 2010. If you have any questions or need for further information please contact us at hdls at unm.edu with "HDLS-9 Conference" in the subject line. The HDLS mailing address is: HDLS, Department of Linguistics, MSC03 2130, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 87131-001 USA Sincerely, HDLS officiers, President: Sook-Kyung Lee Vice president: Susan Brumbaugh Secretary: Motomi Kajitani Treasurer: Shelece Easterday High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics The University of New Mexico hdls at unm.edu From pedprax at terra.com.br Tue Jul 20 12:02:48 2010 From: pedprax at terra.com.br (Pedro Henrique Lima Praxedes Filho) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:02:48 -0300 Subject: PRORROGA=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C7=C3O_3a._Chamada_de_trabalhos_/_PRORROGACI=D3N_3a._L?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?lamada_de_trabajos_/_EXTENSION_3rd_Call_for_papers_-_VI?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_ALSFAL_-_Fortaleza-Cear=E1-Brasil?= Message-ID: VI CONGRESSO DA ALSFAL - PRORROGAÇÃO 3a. CHAMADA DE TRABALHOS VI CONGRESO DE LA ALSFAL - PRORROGACIÓN 3a. LLAMADA DE TRABAJOS VI CONFERENCE OF THE ALSFAL - EXTENTION 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS (All functionalist theoretical approaches to the stufy of language are more than welcome to the VI Conference of the Latin American Systemic-Functional Association-ALSFAL) (PARA ESPAÑOL, POR FAVOR, VEA MÁS ABAJO / FOR ENGLISH, PLEASE SEE BELOW): EM PORTUGUÊS: Prezado(a)s Colegas, Esta mensagem tem a intenção de informar-lhes que o período relativo à 3a. chamada de trabalhos para o VI Congresso da ALSFAL FOI PRORROGADO ATÉ 01/08/10. A fim de inscrever-se no congresso, submeter resumos e inscrever-se em até 2 minicursos pré-congresso, de 13, por favor, visite o web site do congresso em http://www.6alsfal-uece.com.br. Haverá 6 conferências plenárias (Christian Matthiessen, Louise Ravelli, Kay O'Halloran, Christopher Taylor, Nora Kaplan, and Orlando Vian Jr) e 11 mesas redondas. O VI Congresso da ALSFAL acontecerá de 7 de outubro a 9 de outubro de 2010. Os minicursos pré-congresso acontecerão de 5 de outubro a 6 de outubro de 2010. Todas as atividades, que girarão em torno do tema 'A Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional e seu potencial de empoderamento semiótico-discursivo', terão lugar no Hotel Ponta Mar, em Fortaleza, a capital do Estado do Ceará, e serão anfitrionadas pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística Aplicada da UECE (Universidade Estadual do Ceará). Encorajamos a todo(a)s a aproveitarem o período de pagamento early bird, que se prolongará até 30/07/10 se você mora no Brasil. Estamos esperando por vocês aqui em Fortaleza em outubro! Um abraço, Pedro Praxedes Pela Comissão Organizadora -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EN ESPAÑOL: Estimado(a)s Colegas, Esto es para informarles que el período relativo a la 3a. llamada de trabajos para el VI Congreso de la ALSFAL HA SIDO PRORROGADO HASTA EL 01/08/10. A fin de inscribirse en el congreso, enviar resúmenes y registrarse en un máximo de 2 minicursos, de 13, por favor, visite la página web del congreso en http://www.6alsfal-uece.com.br. Habrá 6 sesiones plenarias (Christian Matthiessen, Louise Ravelli, Kay O'Halloran, Christopher Taylor, Nora Kaplan, and Orlando Vian Jr) y 11 mesas redondas. El VI Congreso de la ALSFAL tendrá lugar del 7 de octubre al 9 de octubre de 2010. Los minicursos pre-congreso tendrán lugar del 5 de octubre al 6 de octubre de 2010. Todas las actividades, que girarán en torno al tema 'La Lingüística Sistémico Funcional y su potencial para el empoderamiento semiótico-discursivo', ocurrirán en el Hotel Ponta Mar, en Fortaleza, capital del Estado de Ceará, en Noreste de Brasil y están siendo organizadas por el Programa de Postgrado en Lingüística Aplicada de la Universidade Estadual do Ceará-UECE. Animamos a todo(a)s a aprovechar el período de pago early bird, que se prolongará hasta el 30/07/10 si usted vive en Brasil. ¡Estamos esperando por usteds aquí en Fortaleza en octubre! Un cordial saludo, Pedro Praxedes Por el Comité Organizador -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IN ENGLISH: Dear Colleagues, This is to let you know that the period relative to the 3rd call for papers for the VI Conference of the ALSFAL HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 8/1/10. In order to register yourself, submit abstracts, and sign up for up to 2 pre-conference workshps, out of 13, please visit the conference website at http://www.6alsfal-uece.com.br. There will be 6 plenaries (Christian Matthiessen, Louise Ravelli, Kay O'Halloran, Christopher Taylor, Nora Kaplan, and Orlando Vian Jr) and 11 roundtables. The VI Conference of the ALSFAL will be held from October 7 to October 9, 2010. The pre-conference workshops will be held from October 5 to October 6, 2010. All the activities, which will revolve around the theme 'Systemic-Functional Linguistics and its potential for semiotic-discursive emporwerment', will happen at Ponta Mar Hotel, in Fortaleza, the capital city of the Brazilian northeastern State of Ceará and will be hosted by UECE's (Universidade Estadual do Ceará) Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics. We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird payment period, which will last until 7/30/10 if you live in Brazil. We look forward to seeing you all in Fortaleza in October! 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For more information, visit our website at www.iie.org/ cies or contact us at scholars at iie.org. From paul at benjamins.com Thu Jul 1 16:41:52 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:41:52 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Gildea/Queixal=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=F3s=3A_?= Ergativity in Amazonia Message-ID: Ergativity in Amazonia Edited by Spike Gildea and Francesc Queixal?s University of Oregon / CNRS/CELIA Typological Studies in Language 89 2010. v, 319 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0670 1 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2089 This volume presents a typological/theoretical introduction plus eight papers about ergative alignment in 16 Amazonian languages. All are written by linguists with years of fieldwork and comparative experience in the region, all describe details of the synchronic systems, and several also provide diachronic insight into the evolution of these systems. The five papers in Part I focus on languages from four larger families with ergative patterns primarily in morphology. The typological contribution is in detailed consideration of unusual splits, changes in ergative patterns, and parallels between ergative main clauses and nominalizations. The three papers in Part II discuss genetically isolated languages. Two present dominant ergative patterns in both morphology and syntax, the other a syntactic inverse system that is predominantly ergative in discourse. In each, the authors demonstrate that identification of traditional grammatical relations is problematic. These data will figure in all future typological and theoretical debates about grammatical relations. Table of contents Manifestations of ergativity in Amazonia Francesc Queixal?s and Spike Gildea 126 Part I. Well-established systems: Morphological ergativity Ergativity in the Mayoruna branch of the Panoan family David W. Fleck 2964 Ergativity in Shipibo-Konibo, a Panoan language of the Ucayali Pilar M. Valenzuela 6596 How ergative is Cavine?a? Antoine Guillaume 97120 The ergativity effect in Kuikuro (Southern Carib, Brazil) Bruna Franchetto 121158 Nominative-absolutive: Counter-universal split ergativity in J? and Cariban Spike Gildea and Fl?via Castro Alves 159200 Part II. Recent diachronic innovations: Syntactic ergativity Ergativity in Trumai Raquel Guirardello-Damian 203234 Grammatical relations in Katukina-Kanamari Francesc Queixal?s 235284 The intransitive basis of Movima clause structure Katharina Haude 285316 Index 317320 Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Thu Jul 1 16:53:41 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:53:41 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Hasko/Perelmutter: New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion Message-ID: New Approaches to Slavic Verbs of Motion Edited by Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter University of Georgia / University of Kansas Studies in Language Companion Series 115 2010. x, 392 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0582 7 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20115 This volume unifies a wide breadth of interdisciplinary studies examining the expression of motion in Slavic languages. The contributors to the volume have joined in the discussion of Slavic motion talk from diachronic, typological, comparative, cognitive, and acquisitional perspectives with a particular focus on verbs of motion, the nuclei of the lexicalization patterns for encoding motion. Motion verbs are notorious among Slavic linguists for their baffling idiosyncratic behavior in their lexical, semantic, syntactical, and aspectual characteristics. The collaborative effort of this volume is aimed both at highlighting and accounting for the unique properties of Slavic verbs of motion and at situating Slavic languages within the larger framework of typological research investigating cross-linguistic encoding of the motion domain. Due to the multiplicity of approaches to the linguistic analysis the collection offers, it will suitably complement courses and programs of study focusing on Slavic linguistics as well as typology, diachronic and comparative linguistics, semantics, and second language acquisition. Table of contents Contributors ix-x Introduction. Verbs of motion in Slavic languages: Paths for exploration Victoria Hasko and Renee Perelmutter 1-11 Part I. Diachrony of motion expressions Chapter 1. Clause and text organization in early East Slavic with reference to motion and position expressions Sarah Turner 15-45 Chapter 2. Indeterminate motion verbs are denominal Johanna Nichols 47-65 Chapter 3. Common Slavic "indeterminate" verbs of motion were really manner-of-motion verbs Stephen M. Dickey 67-109 Chapter 4. PIE inheritance and word-formational innovation in Slavic motion verbs in -i- Marc L. Greenberg 111-121 Part II. Synchronic approaches to aspect Chapter 5. Perfectives from indeterminate motion verbs in Russian Laura A. Janda 125-139 Chapter 6. Aspects of motion: On the semantics and pragmatics of indeterminate aspect Olga Kagan 141-162 Chapter 7. Verbs of motion under negation in Modern Russian Renee Perelmutter 163-193 Part III. Typological approach to the study of Slavic verbs of motion Chapter 8. Semantic composition of motion verbs in Russian and English: The case of intra-typological variability Victoria Hasko 197-223 Chapter 9. Motion events in Polish: Lexicalization patterns and the description of Manner Anetta Kopecka 225-246 Chapter 10. The importance of being a prefix: Prefixal morphology and the lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian Luna Filipovi? 247-266 Chapter 11. Variation in the encoding of endpoints of motion in Russian Tatiana Nikitina 267-290 Chapter 12. Verbs of rotation in Russian and Polish Ekaterina V. Rakhilina 291-316 Chapter 13. Aquamotion verbs in Slavic and Germanic: A case study in lexical typology Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Dagmar Divjak and Ekaterina V. Rakhilina 315-341 Chapter 14. Metaphorical walking: Russian idti as a generalized motion verb Tore Nesset 343-359 Chapter 15. Russian verbs of motion: Second language acquisition and cognitive linguistics perspectives Kira Gor, Svetlana Cook, Vera Malyushenkova and Tatyana Vdovina 361-381 Author index 383 Language index 387 Subject index 389 "This important book is a model of in-depth exploration that is much needed: intra-typological, diachronic, and synchronic exploration of contrasting ways of encoding a particular semantic domain - in this case the domain of motion events. The various Slavic languages present contrasting but related solutions to the intersection of motion and aspect. And, as a group, they offer alternate forms of satellite-framed typology, in contrast to the more heavily studied Germanic languages of this general type. The up-to-date and interdisciplinary nature of the volume makes it essential reading in cognitive and typological linguistics." Dan I. Slobin, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley "A feast for the mind, with untold riches and variety: different approaches, patterns and usage, diachronic as well as synchronic, Slavic and not just Russian. All on a high intellectual level from capable scholars. Ful besy were the editors in every thing, That to the feste was appertinent." Alan Timberlake, Columbia University Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) General Manager John Benjamins Publishing Company 763 N. 24th St. Philadelphia PA 19130 Phone: 215 769-3444 Fax: 215 769-3446 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com From paul at benjamins.com Thu Jul 1 16:38:17 2010 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:38:17 -0400 Subject: New Benjamins title: Z=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=FA=F1iga/Kittil=E4=3A_?= Benefactives and Malefactives Message-ID: Benefactives and Malefactives Typological perspectives and case studies Edited by Fernando Z??iga and Seppo Kittil? University of Zurich / University of Helsinki Typological Studies in Language 92 2010. x, 440 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0673 2 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2092 Benefactives are constructions used to express that a state of affairs holds to someone's advantage. The same construction sometimes also serves as a malefactive, whose meanings are generally not a simple mirror image of the benefactive. Benefactive constructions cover a wide range of phenomena: malefactive passives, general and specialized benefactive cases and adpositions, serial verb constructions and converbal constructions (including e.g. verbs of giving and taking), benefactive applicatives, and other morphosyntactic strategies. The present book is the first collection of its kind to be published on this topic. It includes both typological surveys and in-depth descriptive studies, exploring both the morphosyntactic properties and the semantic nuances of phenomena ranging from the familiar English double-object construction and the Japanese adversative passive to comparable phenomena found in lesser-known languages of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The book will appeal to typologists and linguists interested in linguistic diversity and it will also be a useful reference work for linguists working on language description. Table of contents Preface vii List of contributors ix-x Introduction: Benefaction and malefaction from a cross-linguistic perspective Seppo Kittil? and Fernando Z??iga 1-28 Benefactive applicative periphrases: A typological approach Denis Creissels 29-70 Cross-linguistic categorization of benefactives by event structure: A preliminary framework for benefactive typology Tomoko Yamashita Smith 71-96 An areal and cross-linguistic study of benefactive and malefactive constructions Paula Radetzky and Tomoko Smith 97-120 The role of benefactives and related notions in the typology of purpose clauses Karsten Schmidtke-Bode 121-146 Benefactive and malefactive uses of Salish applicatives Kaoru Kiyosawa and Donna B. Gerdts 147-184 Beneficiaries and recipients in Toba (Guaycur?) Marisa Censabella 185-202 Benefactive and malefactive applicativization in Mapudungun Fernando Z??iga 203-218 The benefactive semantic potential of 'caused reception' constructions: A case study of English, German, French, and Dutch Timothy Colleman 219-244 Beneficiary coding in Finnish Seppo Kittil? 245-270 Benefactives in Laz Ren? Lacroix 271-294 Benefactive and malefactive verb extensions in the Koalib very system Nicolas Quint 295-316 Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage) Sascha V?llmin 317-330 A "reflexive benefactive" in Chamba-Daka (Adamawa branch, Niger-Congo family) Raymond Boyd 331-350 Beneficiary and other roles of the dative in Tashelhiyt Christian J. Rapold 351-376 Benefactive strategies in Thai Mathias Jenny 377-392 Korean benefactive particles and their meanings Jae Jung Song 393-418 Malefactivity in Japanese Eijiro Tsuboi 419-436 Index 437-440 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 amnfn at well.com Fri Jul 2 14:05:37 2010 From: amnfn at well.com (A. Katz) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:05:37 -0700 Subject: Help with getting materials from Bridwell Library, SMU Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I don't have any institutional affiliation, and the rural county library where I have a library card does not do interlibrary loan. I am interested in getting a copy of Deuteronomy 32 in each of the six Kaifeng scrolls available at the Bridwell Library at SMU. I have been in correspondence with Dr. Eric White of the Bridwell Library for over a year now, in the hopes of finding some way to get copies of the material, which has not yet been digitized. I offered to hire a grad student at SMU to make the copies for me, but I was informed there was no one competent enough or interested enough to do so. Can any of you who are geographically close or who are interested in the material yourself and who might borrow it on interlibrary loan help me with this? Thanks in advance, --Aya Katz http://hubpages.com/profile/Aya+Katz From hdls at unm.edu Mon Jul 19 15:13:45 2010 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:13:45 -0600 Subject: HDLS 9 Conference Call for Papers Message-ID: Hello, Below you will find the call for abstracts for HDLS-9 _________________________________________________________________________ We invite you to submit proposals for 20-minute talks with 5-minute discussion sessions in any area of linguistics ? especially those from a cognitive/functional linguistics perspective. This year we will include a poster session. Papers and posters in the following areas are particularly welcome: -Typology, Discourse Analysis, Language Change and Variation, Evolution of Language, Grammaticization, Sign Languages, Metaphor and Metonymy, Computational Linguistics -Native American Languages, Spanish and Languages of the American Southwest, Language Revitalization and Maintenance -Sociolinguistics, Sociocultural Theory, Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition Keynote speakers Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico, University of California, Berkeley) Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba) Call For Papers The deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, August 27th, 2010. Abstracts should be sent via email, as an attachment, to hdls at unm.edu. Please include the title ''HDLS-9 abstract '' in the subject line. Include the title ''HDLS-9 Poster Session'' in the subject line for abstracts submitted for the poster session. MS-Word format is preferred; RTF and PDF formats are accepted. The actual abstract must not have your name on it- only the title of the project, that we can then match up with the information you send us in the email. You may also send hard copies of abstracts (three copies) to the HDLS address listed at the bottom of the page. The e-mail must include the following information: 1. Author's name(s) 2. Author's affiliation(s) 3. Title of the paper or poster 4. E-mail address of the primary author 5. A list of the equipment you will need 6. Whether you will require an official letter of acceptance The abstract should be no more than one page in no smaller than 11-point font. A second page is permitted for references and data. Only two submissions (for presentations) per author will be accepted and we will only consider submissions that conform to the above guidelines. If your abstract has special fonts or characters, please send your abstract as a PDF. Please be advised that shortly after the conference a call for proceedings will be announced. Poster Session - Participants will be given a space approximately 6' by 4' to display their work. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by September 10th, 2010. If you have any questions or need for further information please contact us at hdls at unm.edu with ''HDLS-9 Conference'' in the subject line. The HDLS mailing address is: HDLS, Department of Linguistics, MSC03 2130, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 87131-001 USA President: Sook-Kyung Lee Vice president: Susan Brumbaugh Secretary: Motomi Kajitani Treasurer: Shelece Easterday High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics The University of New Mexico hdls at unm.edu From hdls at unm.edu Mon Jul 19 15:42:45 2010 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:42:45 -0600 Subject: HDLS 9 Conference Call for Papers Message-ID: Hello, Below you will find the call for abstracts for HDLS-9. Sorry, we forgot to post the dates of the conference. The dates are November 4-6. __________________________________________________________________ We invite you to submit proposals for 20-minute talks with 5-minute discussion sessions for the Ninth High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference, to be held at University of New Mexico November 4-6. This year we will also include a poster session. Papers and posters in the following areas are particularly welcome: - Typology, Discourse Analysis, Language Change and Variation, Evolution of Language, Grammaticization, Sign Languages, Metaphor and Metonymy, Computational Linguistics - Native American Languages, Spanish and Languages of the American Southwest, Language Revitalization and Maintenance - Sociolinguistics, Sociocultural Theory, Bilingualism, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition Keynote speakers Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico, University of California, Berkeley) Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba) The deadline for submitting abstracts is Friday, August 27th, 2010. Abstracts should be sent via email, as an attachment, to hdls at unm.edu. Please include the title "HDLS-9 abstract" in the subject line. Include the title "HDLS-9 Poster Session" in the subject line for abstracts submitted for the poster session. MS-Word format is preferred; RTF and PDF formats are accepted. The actual abstract must not have your name on it- only the title of the project, which we can then match up with the information you send us in the email. You may also send hard copies of abstracts (three copies) to the HDLS address listed at the bottom of the page. The e-mail must include the following information: 1. Author's name(s) 2. Author's affiliation(s) 3. Title of the paper or poster 4. E-mail address of the primary author 5. A list of the equipment you will need 6. Whether you will require an official letter of acceptance The abstract should be no more than one page in no smaller than 11-point font. A second page is permitted for references and data. Only two submissions (for presentations) per author will be accepted and we will only consider submissions that conform to the above guidelines. If your abstract has special fonts or characters, please send your abstract as a PDF. Please be advised that shortly after the conference a call for proceedings will be announced. Poster Session - Participants will be given a space approximately 6' by 4' to display their work. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by September 10th, 2010. If you have any questions or need for further information please contact us at hdls at unm.edu with "HDLS-9 Conference" in the subject line. The HDLS mailing address is: HDLS, Department of Linguistics, MSC03 2130, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. 87131-001 USA Sincerely, HDLS officiers, President: Sook-Kyung Lee Vice president: Susan Brumbaugh Secretary: Motomi Kajitani Treasurer: Shelece Easterday High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics The University of New Mexico hdls at unm.edu From pedprax at terra.com.br Tue Jul 20 12:02:48 2010 From: pedprax at terra.com.br (Pedro Henrique Lima Praxedes Filho) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:02:48 -0300 Subject: PRORROGA=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C7=C3O_3a._Chamada_de_trabalhos_/_PRORROGACI=D3N_3a._L?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?lamada_de_trabajos_/_EXTENSION_3rd_Call_for_papers_-_VI?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_ALSFAL_-_Fortaleza-Cear=E1-Brasil?= Message-ID: VI CONGRESSO DA ALSFAL - PRORROGA??O 3a. CHAMADA DE TRABALHOS VI CONGRESO DE LA ALSFAL - PRORROGACI?N 3a. LLAMADA DE TRABAJOS VI CONFERENCE OF THE ALSFAL - EXTENTION 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS (All functionalist theoretical approaches to the stufy of language are more than welcome to the VI Conference of the Latin American Systemic-Functional Association-ALSFAL) (PARA ESPA?OL, POR FAVOR, VEA M?S ABAJO / FOR ENGLISH, PLEASE SEE BELOW): EM PORTUGU?S: Prezado(a)s Colegas, Esta mensagem tem a inten??o de informar-lhes que o per?odo relativo ? 3a. chamada de trabalhos para o VI Congresso da ALSFAL FOI PRORROGADO AT? 01/08/10. A fim de inscrever-se no congresso, submeter resumos e inscrever-se em at? 2 minicursos pr?-congresso, de 13, por favor, visite o web site do congresso em http://www.6alsfal-uece.com.br. Haver? 6 confer?ncias plen?rias (Christian Matthiessen, Louise Ravelli, Kay O'Halloran, Christopher Taylor, Nora Kaplan, and Orlando Vian Jr) e 11 mesas redondas. O VI Congresso da ALSFAL acontecer? de 7 de outubro a 9 de outubro de 2010. Os minicursos pr?-congresso acontecer?o de 5 de outubro a 6 de outubro de 2010. Todas as atividades, que girar?o em torno do tema 'A Lingu?stica Sist?mico-Funcional e seu potencial de empoderamento semi?tico-discursivo', ter?o lugar no Hotel Ponta Mar, em Fortaleza, a capital do Estado do Cear?, e ser?o anfitrionadas pelo Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Lingu?stica Aplicada da UECE (Universidade Estadual do Cear?). Encorajamos a todo(a)s a aproveitarem o per?odo de pagamento early bird, que se prolongar? at? 30/07/10 se voc? mora no Brasil. Estamos esperando por voc?s aqui em Fortaleza em outubro! Um abra?o, Pedro Praxedes Pela Comiss?o Organizadora -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EN ESPA?OL: Estimado(a)s Colegas, Esto es para informarles que el per?odo relativo a la 3a. llamada de trabajos para el VI Congreso de la ALSFAL HA SIDO PRORROGADO HASTA EL 01/08/10. A fin de inscribirse en el congreso, enviar res?menes y registrarse en un m?ximo de 2 minicursos, de 13, por favor, visite la p?gina web del congreso en http://www.6alsfal-uece.com.br. Habr? 6 sesiones plenarias (Christian Matthiessen, Louise Ravelli, Kay O'Halloran, Christopher Taylor, Nora Kaplan, and Orlando Vian Jr) y 11 mesas redondas. El VI Congreso de la ALSFAL tendr? lugar del 7 de octubre al 9 de octubre de 2010. Los minicursos pre-congreso tendr?n lugar del 5 de octubre al 6 de octubre de 2010. Todas las actividades, que girar?n en torno al tema 'La Ling??stica Sist?mico Funcional y su potencial para el empoderamiento semi?tico-discursivo', ocurrir?n en el Hotel Ponta Mar, en Fortaleza, capital del Estado de Cear?, en Noreste de Brasil y est?n siendo organizadas por el Programa de Postgrado en Ling??stica Aplicada de la Universidade Estadual do Cear?-UECE. Animamos a todo(a)s a aprovechar el per?odo de pago early bird, que se prolongar? hasta el 30/07/10 si usted vive en Brasil. ?Estamos esperando por usteds aqu? en Fortaleza en octubre! Un cordial saludo, Pedro Praxedes Por el Comit? Organizador -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IN ENGLISH: Dear Colleagues, This is to let you know that the period relative to the 3rd call for papers for the VI Conference of the ALSFAL HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 8/1/10. In order to register yourself, submit abstracts, and sign up for up to 2 pre-conference workshps, out of 13, please visit the conference website at http://www.6alsfal-uece.com.br. There will be 6 plenaries (Christian Matthiessen, Louise Ravelli, Kay O'Halloran, Christopher Taylor, Nora Kaplan, and Orlando Vian Jr) and 11 roundtables. The VI Conference of the ALSFAL will be held from October 7 to October 9, 2010. The pre-conference workshops will be held from October 5 to October 6, 2010. All the activities, which will revolve around the theme 'Systemic-Functional Linguistics and its potential for semiotic-discursive emporwerment', will happen at Ponta Mar Hotel, in Fortaleza, the capital city of the Brazilian northeastern State of Cear? and will be hosted by UECE's (Universidade Estadual do Cear?) Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics. We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird payment period, which will last until 7/30/10 if you live in Brazil. We look forward to seeing you all in Fortaleza in October! 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