From annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Tue Nov 1 08:01:25 2011 From: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it (Annalisa Baicchi) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 09:01:25 +0100 Subject: SLE 2012 workshop proposal: Meaning Construction in the 21st Century In-Reply-To: Message-ID: *45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea* 29 August - 1 September 2012 University of Stockholm *Proposal for workshop: *“Meaning Construction in the 21st Century: Common Grounds, Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction” *Convenors:* Annalisa Baicchi (University of Pavia) – annalisa.baicchi at gmail.com Alba Luzondo Oyón (University of La Rioja) – alba.luzondo at gmail.com The central assumption of this workshop is that cognitive and/or functional accounts of language have enough points in common for cooperation to be possible. This assumption, although not new –as evident from Nuyts (2005, 2007) and Gonzálvez & Butler (2006), and references therein– has not yet given rise to any major integration, except perhaps work carried out within the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM; Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal, 2008, 2011; Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza, 2009; Ruiz de Mendoza & Baicchi 2007; Baicchi & Ruiz de Mendoza 2010; Mairal & Gonzálvez, 2010; Gonzálvez, 2011). The architecture of the LCM assigns different places and functions to lexical structure and to constructions at the argument structure, implicational, illocutionary and discourse levels. It is interdisciplinary since it makes connections with pragmatics, discourse analysis and cognitive science in general (cf. Eddington & Ruiz de Mendoza, 2010), including the field of language-based knowledge engineering for natural language processing (cf. Periñán & Mairal, 2009). In line with such an all-encompassing attempt, in this workshop we seek to engage scholars from both the cognitive and/or functional camps and from different fields and subfields of linguistics in creating a collaborative environment where it is possible to bridge gaps and to surmount theoretical and/or methodological discrepancies. For example, one of the points of divergence between cognitive and functional accounts of language lies in the way they approach the role of verbal semantics in syntax. Functionalist theories generally assume that much of syntactic structure can be predicted on the basis of the information coded by the lexical predicates in conjunction with a set of linking rules, thus disregarding the role that other higher-level constructs, such as argument-structure constructions, may play in predicting morphosyntactic structure. By contrast, constructionist accounts, such as Goldberg’s Construction Grammar (CxG; cf. Goldberg, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2006), postulate the existence of such higher-level configurations, called constructions, which are capable of adding arguments to those arising from verbal structure. In this process, the final overall meaning (e.g. the caused-motion/resultative sense in the example *They scorned him into a depression*) is not derivable from verbal projection (i.e. the argument structure of the verb *scorn*). On the other hand, construction-based approaches have not yet fully explained what it is that either licenses or constrains the unification between a given syntactic pattern and a lexical entry. For example, no fine-grained account has been provided of the perfect acceptability of instantiations of the middle construction such as *The bread cuts easily*, *The window breaks easily *in contrast to the ungrammaticality of **The building destroys easily*. Such problems have led scholars such as Boas (2003, 2008ab) to argue for finer-grained analyses within constructionist approaches. As a result, much of the present debate within CxG revolves around two apparently opposing views, namely the so-called “lumper” and “splitter” approaches. While the former concentrates on a macroscopic picture of lexical-constructional fusion mechanisms in which the role of verbal predicates is largely taken for granted, the latter contends that, in addition to broad-scale, abstract constructions *à la* Goldberg, constructions also need to be formulated at more delicate levels of resolution, whether as verb-class-specific or even verb-specific constructions (e.g. Croft, 2003) or in the form of ‘mini-constructions’ (cf. Boas, 2003), which are but instantiations of the former type. As things stand now, however, none of these proposals has been fully built into a linguistic model in which both fine-nuanced analyses and broad-scale generalizations in the form of constraints coexist, much less beyond argument structure configurations. It is therefore necessary (i) to strike a balance between the rather extreme projectionist and constructionist accounts, (ii) to resolve the tension between the lumper and the splitter approaches in achieving explanatory adequacy, and (iii) to make explicit the connections between the different areas of linguistic description and the various disciplines that deal with communication and cognition. Within this context, this workshop aims to foster a constructive dialogue not only between functionalism and cognitively-oriented constructionism in linguistics, but also between research in linguistics and research in communication theory and the cognitive sciences in general. We thus seek to insightfully combine apparently divergent theoretical views so as to achieve a more powerful descriptive and explanatory framework. In sum, our objective is to move away from what Arppe *et al.* (2010: 3) label “methodological monism” in order to find a holistic and comprehensive understanding of language capable of merging evidence types and methods that address different aspects of linguistic behavior and knowledge (cf. Arppe *et al.*, 2010). With these (hopefully) thought-provoking ideas in mind, the present workshop is intended to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in one or more of the following issues or in other related topics: 1. Argument structure constructions vs. other constructional configurations (e.g. illocutionary, discourse): in search for a holistic view and/or unified approach to meaning construction. What kinds of non-argument structure constructions can be proposed (e.g. morphological, illocutionary, discoursive, etc.)? What is their theoretical status? 2. The “lumper” vs. “splitter” approaches: from thesis and antithesis to synthesis. 3. What robust generalizations can be made on the principled interaction across the various levels of description in meaning construction (e.g. lexical and constructional structure, pragmatic and discourse activity, whether construction-based or inferential)? 4. What factors constrain the interaction between lexical and constructional structure across descriptive levels? 5. What is the role of constructions in a usage-based view of grammaticalization? 6. What are the prospects for mutual co-operation between usage-based constructionist and non-constructionist approaches to language? * * * * *Important dates* * * Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations with 10 minute discussion. Interested researchers and linguists are invited to email both convenors - annalisa.baicchi at gmail.com, alba.luzondo at gmail.com - with their name, affiliation and provisional abstract of 500 words by 10 November 2011. - Submission of provisional abstract: November 10, 2011 Should the workshop proposal be accepted, all abstracts will need to be submitted to SLE by 15th January 2012 - Notification of acceptance/rejection by SLE: March 31, 2012 - Conference dates: August, 29 - September 1, 2012 *Selected references* * * Arppe, A., G. Gilquin, D. Glynn, M. Hilpet, & A. Zeschel (2010). Cognitive corpus linguistics: Five points of debate on current theory and methodology*. **Corpora 5*, 1-2. Baicchi A., & F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza (2010). The cognitive grounding of illocutionary constructions within the theoretical perspective of the Lexical Constructional Model. *Textus* XXIII (3), 543-564. Boas, H. C. (2003). *A Constructional Approach to Resultatives*. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Boas, H. C. (2008a). Resolving form-meaning discrepancies in Construction Grammar. In J. Leino (Ed.), *Constructional reorganization*. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, John* *Benjamins: 11-36.* * Boas, H.C. (2008b). Determining the structure of lexical entries and grammatical constructions in Construction Grammar. *Annual Review* *of Cognitive Linguistics *6, 113-144. Croft, W. (2003). Lexical rules vs. constructions: A false dichotomy. In H. Cuyckens, T. Berg, R. Dirven & K. Panther (Eds.), *Motivation in* *language. Studies in Honour of Gunter Radden*. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, John Benjamins: 49–68. Eddington, D., F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza (2010). Argument constructions and language processing: evidence from a priming experiment and pedagogical implications. In S. De Knop, F. Boers & T. De Rycker (Eds.), *Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive* *Linguistics. *Berlin & New York, Mouton de Gruyter: 213-238. Goldberg, A. E. (1995). *Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Goldberg, A. E. (1997). Relationships between verb and construction. In M. Verspoor & E. Sweetser (Eds.), *Lexicon and Grammar*. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, John Benjamins:* *383-398. Goldberg, A. E. (2002). Surface generalizations: An alternative to alternations. *Cognitive Linguistics *13 (4), 327-356. Goldberg, A. E. (2003). Constructions: A new theoretical approach to language. *Trends in Cognitive Sciences *7 (5), 219–224. Goldberg, A. E. (2006). *Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language*. New York: Oxford University Press. Gonzálvez, F. (2011). Metaphor and metonymy do *not* render coercion superfluous: Evidence from the subjective-transitive construction. * Linguistics* 49 (6). 1305–1358. Gonzálvez, F. & C.S. Butler (2006). Mapping functional cognitive space. *Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics* 4: 39-96. Mairal, R. & F. Gonzálvez (2010) .Verbos y construcciones en el espacio cognitivo-funcional del siglo XXI. In J.F. Val Álvaro, M.C. Horno Chéliz *La Gramática del Sentido: Léxico y Sintaxis en la Encrucijada. /Conocimiento, Lenguaje y Comunicación / Knowledge, Language and Communication*, 3, Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza: 123-152. Mairal, R. & F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza (2009). Levels of description and explanation in meaning construction. In C. S. Butler, & J. Martín Arista (Eds.), *Deconstructing Constructions*. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins: 153-198. Nuyts, J. (2005). Brothers in arms? On the relations between cognitive and functional linguistics. In F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza, M.S. Peña (Eds.) *Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction*. (Cognitive linguistics research.) Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 69-100. Nuyts, J. (2007). Cognitive linguistics and functional linguistics. In Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens (Eds.) 2007. *The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics*. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 543-565. Periñán, C. & R. Mairal (2009). Bringing Role and Reference Grammar to natural language understanding. *Procesamiento del* *Lenguaje Natural *43, 265-273. Ruiz de Mendoza, F.J. & A. Baicchi. (2007), Illocutionary constructions. Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization. In Kecskes I., L. Horn (eds.), *Explorations in Pragmatics**,* Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 95-128. Ruiz de Mendoza, F.J. & R. Mairal (2008). Levels of description and constraining factors in meaning construction: An introduction to the *Lexical Constructional Model*. *Folia Linguistica *42 (2),* *355-400. Ruiz de Mendoza, F.J. & R. Mairal (2011). Constraints on syntactic alternation: lexical-constructional subsumption in the Lexical-Constructional Model. In P. Guerrero (Ed.), *Morphosyntactic* *Alternations in English. Functional and Cognitive Perspectives*. London, UK/ Oakville, CT, Equinox: 62-82. * * -- Francisco J. Ruiz-de-Mendoza www.cilap.es www.lexicom.es -- Annalisa From kemmer at rice.edu Tue Nov 1 17:39:33 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:39:33 -0500 Subject: Melissa Bowerman Message-ID: Dear all, I am sorry to have to report that Melissa Bowerman, a long-time friend and colleague of many of us in Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, has passed away in Nijmegen. Melissa was not only a great linguist, contributing to many areas of linguistics including child language acquisition, language typology and universals, and the cognitive linguistics of space and motion, but also a warm and wonderful human being, as those of you who ever spent any time with her will know. Melissa was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences about a month ago, but sadly missed the ceremony as that is when her illness became manifest. Suzanne From Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se Sun Nov 6 09:13:22 2011 From: Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 09:13:22 +0000 Subject: Third CfP: Language, Culture, Mind 5, Lisbon June 27-29, 2012 Message-ID: ******* THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS ******* Fifth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind https://sites.google.com/site/languagecultureandmindv/home The Fifth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM V) will be held on 27-29 June 2012 at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. It will be preceded by a Young Researchers Workshop on 26 June 2012 (same venue), in which young researchers will present their ongoing dissertation projects and current work. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, semiotics and other related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. http://www.salc-sssk.org/lcm/ Plenary speakers: · Nick Enfield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen http://www.mpi.nl/people/enfield-nick · Cynthia Lightfoot, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University http://www.brandywine.psu.edu/Academics/faculty_cgl3.htm · Dan Slobin, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=35 · Beata Stawarska, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/faculty/profiles/stawarsk/ · Sherman Wilcox, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico http://web.mac.com/swilcox/UNM/Welcome.html The theme for LCM V is: *Integrating Semiotic Resources in Communication and Creativity* The conference will include two round tables on the sub-themes: - Multimodality in communication and performance - Creativity, imagination and innovation We invite submissions of individual papers, posters and symposium proposals. (Please indicate the format chosen when you submit the abstract). Formats: - Individual research papers Name, affiliation, 400 word abstract 20 min presentation + 10 minute discussion - Individual poster Name, affiliation, 100 word abstract. 1 minute oral presentation in the main lecture hall, preceding the poster session - Symposia 90-minute symposia of 3 papers, allowing time for discussion at the end. Up to two 90-minute symposia may be merged for proposals with 5-6 participants. Papers in each symposium should be thematically linked. Proposals for thematic symposia should include: - symposium title - name and affiliation of symposium convener - an introduction of up to 400 words explaining the theme; - all symposium abstracts, in suitable order. Symposium proposers should indicate whether, if a symposium is not accepted as a whole, they wish the individual abstracts to be considered as individual presentations (oral or poster) Deadline for abstract submission of symposia: Nov 15, 2011. Deadline for abstract submission of individual papers and posters: Dec 15, 2011. Abstracts should be sent as .rtf or .doc attachments to lcmv.lisbon2012 @gmail.com Important dates · Deadline for abstract submission (symposia): 15 Nov 2011 · Deadline for abstract submission (papers, posters): 15 Dec 2011 · Notification of acceptance (symposia): 15 Jan 2012 · Notification of acceptance (papers, posters): 15 Feb 2012 · Last date for early registration: 1 Mar 2012 · Last date for registration: 1 May 2012 · Final program publication: 15 May 2012 Young Researchers Workshop The LCM V Young Researchers Workshop is a satellite event of the LCM V conference, aimed at graduate students and junior scholars conducting theoretical or empirical research in language and communication including, but not limited to cognitive, social, affective, embodied and/or cultural perspectives. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting results and foster interaction and debate in the context of interdisciplinary collaboration. Young researchers in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience are invited to share, and thereby enrich, their study of human natural language and communication. A specialist's comment on each accepted contribution makes the workshop a unique opportunity to receive expert feedback. Abstract specifications: 1 page, 500 words, single-spaced, font size 12 pt, Times New Roman, 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Diagrams must fit in the page. Heading should include: - Title of the paper - Author(s) name - Author(s) affiliation - E-mail address of principal author Deadline for abstract submission: Dec 15, 2011 Abstracts for Young Researchers Workshop presentations should be submitted to: lcmv.workshop at gmail.com The International LCM organizing committee · Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Language and Communication · Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy · John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology · Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics · Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish Language · Esther Pascual, University of Groningen, Communication Studies · Victor Rosenthal, Inserm-EHESS, Paris · Chris Sinha, Lund University, Linguistics/Cognitive Semiotics · Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Linguistics/Cognitive Semiotics LCM V Local organizing committee · Ana Margarida Abrantes, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture · Peter Hanenberg, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture From cmnash at ku.edu Sun Nov 6 20:23:39 2011 From: cmnash at ku.edu (Carlos Nash) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:23:39 -0600 Subject: Language Documentation - CoLang 2012 at University of Kansas Message-ID: Dear Colleague: We would like to invite you to attend the upcoming CoLang 2012 summer institute to be held at the University of Kansas. CoLang 2012 is a six-week Institute on Collabora­tive Lan­guage Re­search (formerly InField). The Institute provides an opportunity for graduate students, prac­ticing lin­guists, and community linguists to become trained in a wide range of skills in community-cen­tered language documentation. Held in 2008 (University of California, Santa Barbara) and 2010 (University of Oregon), the six-week insti­tute consists of two parts: the Work­shops - two weeks of intensive workshops on the practice of documentary linguistics – followed by a Practicum –a four-week apprenticeship in the applica­tion of linguis­tic science and techno­logy to on-site empirical documentation (a.k.a. “field linguis­tics”). Those who enroll in the Practicum are required to enroll in the preceding Workshops, thereby re­ceiving an intensive course in docu­mentary best practices before putting these skills to use. Participants may choose to enroll only in the two-week Work­shops. Completion certificates (but no academic credit) will be awarded. PRACTICUM Languages offered (http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/practicum/): - Tlingit: NaDene language family - Amazigh (Berber): Afro-Asiatic language family - Uda: Niger-Congo language family - Cherokee: Iroquoian language family TUITION: $750 for the Workshops;  $1500 for the Workshops + Practicum (after April 30, 2012 late fees apply) For more information the Workshops and Practicum, please visit our website: http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/. REGISTRATION: http://linguistlist.org/CoLang/2012 All international participants should register by January 15, 2012 for visa and travel purposes. International participants will still be able to register after this date, but may not be able to obtain a visa in time. April 30, 2012 is the last registration day to receive the regular Workshop and Practicum pricing. A late registration fee will be charged after this date. HOUSING: On-campus housing at the University of Kansas campus is available to early registrants. Housing costs and a meal plan will be added to your total tuition costs at the time of registration. Campus housing is available until 20 May 2012. Visit the registration page for more details. Thank you,  We hope to see at this upcoming CoLang 2012 summer institute! Sincerely, Arienne Dwyer and Carlos Nash, Co-Directors Jari Billiot, Assistant Director -- Carlos M Nash Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology and Language Technology Dept. of Anthropology - University of Kansas 614 Fraser Hall e-mail: cmnash at ku.edu phone: +1 785.864.6357 From srice at ualberta.ca Tue Nov 8 20:15:03 2011 From: srice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:15:03 -0700 Subject: Chair Position, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta Message-ID: Dear Funknet colleagues, Please circulate (and consider!) this position announcement. --Sally Rice, Linguistics, University of Alberta Chair, Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics Competition No. - *A107315909* Closing Date - *Will remain open until filled.* The Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invites applications for the position of Department Chair with tenure at the associate or full professor level. The Department consists of eleven full-time, continuing faculty members and currently is home to 40 graduate students at the Masters and PhD level. The Department of Linguistics has a strong commitment to empirical and experimental approaches to linguistic research and its members conduct investigations in phonetics, the morphosyntax and semantics of Amerindian languages, child bilingual acquisition, child language impairment, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, phonology, cognitive linguistics, child and adult 2ndlanguage acquisition, language documentation and revitalization, computational historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. More information about the Department can be found at www.linguistics.ualberta.ca . The Chair will be someone with a strong sense of collaborative leadership and a clear commitment to continuing to develop the Department’s standing within the University, within Canada, and internationally on the cutting edge of data-centered approaches to the study of human language and linguistic development. The Chair will support a culture of grantsmanship and will contribute to the development of graduate and undergraduate programmes in the Department and will foster the activities of the in-house research facilities—the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics, the Language Documentation Research Cluster, Alberta Phonetics Lab, and the Language Acquisition Lab; an active participation in one or more of these groups would be expected. Candidates with demonstrated administrative experience will be preferred, and must hold the PhD, together with a distinguished record in university teaching and research (including a strong track record of appropriate grant activity) in areas of interest to the Department. The successful candidate should have strong interpersonal communication skills and a commitment to excellence in teaching and research, as well as a scholarly track record suitable for appointment at a senior rank. The University of Alberta, one of Canada’s largest and most accomplished research universities, is situated in Edmonton, a metropolitan area of over one million with a vibrant artistic community and excellent standard of living. Established in 1908 as a board-governed public institution, the University of Alberta has earned the reputation of being one of the top five universities in Canada based on its strengths in teaching, research and service. The University of Alberta serves over 38,000 students in more than 200 undergraduate and 170 graduate programs (www.ualberta.ca). The Faculty of Arts is the oldest and most diverse faculty on campus, and one of the largest research and teaching centres in western Canada ( www.arts.ualberta.ca). Salary is negotiable and will be commensurate with experience. This competition will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. The selection committee will begin consideration of candidates December 31, 2011. To receive consideration, applications (including an up-to-date *curriculum vitae *and the names of at least three referees), nominations, or expressions of interest should be submitted in confidence to: Dean Lesley B. Cormack Faculty of Arts University of Alberta 6-33 Humanities Centre Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 How to Apply * Email* lesley.cormack at ualberta.ca All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. -- Dr. Sally Rice Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Linguistics Landrex Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Arts 4-60 Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7 CANADA tel: +780.492.5500 fax: +780.492.0806 sally.rice at ualberta.ca www.ualberta.ca/~srice From srice at ualberta.ca Thu Nov 10 17:53:41 2011 From: srice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:53:41 -0700 Subject: Professor in Quantitative Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta Message-ID: Dear Funknet colleagues, Here is a second position being advertised in our Department. Please circulate! --Sally Rice * * *Professor in Quantitative Linguistics* * * *Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta*** * * *Application deadline: 13 January 2012* The Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenured position in Quantitative Linguistics at the Full Professor level. The successful candidate will be exceptionally well qualified with an outstanding research record in the application of quantitative, statistically-based techniques to the study of language, particularly in the areas of morphosyntax, language processing, and corpus linguistics. Responsibilities will include maintaining an active research program, teaching/supervision in both our undergraduate and graduate linguistics programs, and administrative service. The Department of Linguistics has a strong commitment to empirical and experimental approaches to linguistic research. The Department consists of eleven full-time, continuing faculty members pursuing research projects in experimental phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax and semantics of Amerindian languages, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, bilingual 1st and 2nd language acquisition and language impairment, psycholinguistics, computational/historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. We usually have approximately 40 students in our graduate program at any given time, of which roughly one quarter are pursuing the MSc while the majority are working towards the PhD. More information about the Department can be found at www.linguistics.ualberta.ca. Established in 1908 as a board-governed, public institution, the University of Alberta has earned the reputation of being one of the best universities in Canada based on our strengths in teaching, research, and services. The University of Alberta serves over 38,000 students in more than 200 undergraduate programs and 170 graduate programs (www.ualberta.ca). The Faculty of Arts is the oldest and most diverse faculty on campus, and one of the largest research and teaching centres in western Canada ( www.foa.ualberta.ca). The University’s main campus is located in Edmonton, the vibrant, cosmopolitan capital of the province of Alberta. The Edmonton metropolitan area is the sixth largest in the country with a population of approximately one million. Edmonton is located only a few hours drive from Banff and Jasper National Parks, which offer skiing in winter and excellent hiking and sightseeing in summer. *How to Apply* Applicants should send curriculum vitae, a letter describing their areas of research interest, samples of publications, and, if available*, *a teaching dossier and evaluations of teaching performance to: *Dr Sally Rice, Interim Chair* *Department of Linguistics* *University of Alberta* *Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2E7* *Tel: (780) 492-5500* *Fax: (780) 492-0806* *Email: sally.rice at ualberta.ca* Applicants must also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent in confidence to the Chair. The closing deadline is *13 January 2012*. The effective date of employment will be *1 July 2012*. Salary is negotiable and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. *All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. If suitable Canadian citizens or permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. **The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons.*** -- Dr. Sally Rice Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Linguistics Landrex Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Arts 4-60 Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7 CANADA tel: +780.492.5500 fax: +780.492.0806 sally.rice at ualberta.ca www.ualberta.ca/~srice From christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk Thu Nov 10 18:13:13 2011 From: christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:13:13 -0000 Subject: 3rd CfP: CADAAD 2012 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The fourth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) will take place at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, 4-6 July 2012. The following distinguished scholars have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers: * Professor Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) * Professor Michal Krzyzanowski (Adam Mickiewicz University) * Professor Michelle Lazar (National University of Singapore) * Professor Juana Marín Arrese (Universidad Complutense Madrid) * Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse studies. We welcome papers dealing with any contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourse/genre. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: * (New) Media discourse * Party political discourse * Advertising * Discourses of war and terrorism * Discourses of discrimination and inequality * Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse * Identity in discourse * Education discourses * Environmental discourses * Health communication * Language and the law We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing frameworks for critical discourse studies and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences including but without being limited to: * Sociolinguistics * Functional Linguistics * Cognitive Linguistics * Corpus Linguistics * Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory * Conversation and Discourse Analysis * Discursive Psychology * Multimodality * Media Studies * Communication Studies * Political Science Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent as MS Word attachment to christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk before 18 December 2011. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract your name, affiliation and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2012. Further information is available at www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2012. For any other inquiries please contact Chris Hart (Christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk) or the local organiser, Maria Zara Simões Pinto Coelho (zara at ics.uminho.pt). From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Mon Nov 14 21:16:12 2011 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:16:12 +0000 Subject: Language & Cognition 3-2: Recently published Message-ID: Language and Cognition www.languageandcognition.net *Volume*: 3, *Number*: 2 (November 2011) Don't forget to ask your librarian to arrange an institutional subscription! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The above issue is now available online at: http://www.reference-global.com/toc/langcog/2011/3/2?ai=1yw&ui=1bbp&af=H The table of contents for this issue is listed below. Click on the links below to view the abstract for each article, or click on the link above to read the table of contents online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Why subject relatives prevail: Constraints versus constructional licensing* Cecily Jill Duffield and Laura A. Michaelis Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 171-208. Abstract | PDF (778 KB) | PDF with Links (809 KB) *Metaphors in the description of seizure experiences: Common expressions and differential diagnosis* Leendert Plug , Basil Sharrack , and Markus Reuber Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 209-233. Abstract | PDF (408 KB) | PDF with Links (423 KB) *From text-linguistics to literary /actants/ -- The force dynamics of (emotional) vampirism* Michael Kimmel Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 235-282. Abstract | PDF (970 KB) | PDF with Links (978 KB) *Metaphor, hyperbole and simile: A pragmatic approach* Robyn Carston and Catherine Wearing Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 283-312. Abstract | PDF (615 KB) | PDF with Links (623 KB) *Verbs in the lexicon: Why is hitting easier than breaking?* Gail McKoon and Jessica Love Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 313-330. Abstract | PDF (499 KB) | PDF with Links (520 KB) *Reviews* Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 331-343. Abstract | PDF (202 KB) | PDF with Links (206 KB) -- Professor/Yr Athro Vyv Evans Professor of Linguistics/Athro mewn Ieithyddiaeth www.vyvevans.net Head of School/Pennaeth Ysgol School of Linguistics & English Language/ Ysgol Ieithyddiaeth a Iaith Saesneg Bangor University/Prifysgol Bangor www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics Deputy Head of College (Research)/ Dirprwy Bennaeth y Coleg (Ymchwil) College of Arts and Humanities/ Coleg y Celfyddydau a'r Dyniaethau Bangor University/Prifysgol Bangor General Editor of 'Language & Cognition' A Mouton de Gruyter journal www.languageandcognition.net -- Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig / Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). 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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 vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr Mon Nov 14 22:40:35 2011 From: vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr (Alice Vittrant) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:40:35 +0100 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - SEALS 22 Message-ID: *** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING *** (Version française ci-dessous) ---------- CALL FOR PAPERS 22TH SOUTHEAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS SOCIETY MEETING Agay/Saint-Raphaël (FRANCE) May 30 - June 2, 2012 ---------- The International Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) conference takes place every year, alternating between an Asian and a non-Asian country. In 2012, the 22nd annual International SEALS conference is organized by SeDyl, with the active support of INALCO, LACITO, CASE, CNRS (INSHS), IRD, IRSEA, Aix-Marseille Université, and Maison Asie Pacifique. It will take place in Agay (France). Abstracts are invited for papers on any of the following themes related to Southeast Asian Languages: · Space in Southeast Asian Languages: trajectory, deixis, directionality, metaphorical space etc… · Discourse in Southeast Asian Languages: information structure, discourses markers discourse construction, etc. · Corpus and variation in Southeast Asian Languages: data, variation, analysis, structure, normalization, usages, etc… Furthermore, we invite papers on any aspect of language or linguistics related to languages of Southeast Asia. Keynote speakers · Gérard DIFFLOTH (EFFEO) · Nick ENFIELD (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) · Denis PAILLARD (CNRS/Paris-Diderot University) Abstract submission format Please send your abstract of no more than 500 words on-line at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=seals22 Please note that you need to register first on Easychair website before submitting your abstract on-line. During your registration, you will be asked to confirm your registration before proceeding to submit your abstract. The actual content of your abstract proposal, without any personal information, should be attached to the submission form as a PDF file, and containing the following structure: Page 1 : Text (500 words) containing a statement of topic, approach, and conclusions. Page 2: Examples and references Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee on a strictly scientific basis. Abstract checklist The abstracts themselves must be anonymous, but the body of your message/e-mail should include the following information: Deadlines · Abstract submission: February 1st 2012, online Notification of acceptance: March 15th 2012, via e-mail Presentation guidelines Presentations should be in English (or in French). Participants will be allocated 25 minutes for presentation, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Organizing Committee Joseph THACH (INALCO, SeDyl) Alice VITTRANT (Aix-Marseille Université, LACITO) Local Organizing Committee Jérôme SAMUEL (INALCO, CASE) San San HNIN TUN (INALCO, LACITO) Michel ANTELME (INALCO, CERLOM) Administrative and technical management Viviane RAKOTOVAHINY (SeDyl) Séverine GUILLAUME (LACITO) Conference updates http://sealsxxii.vjf.cnrs.fr E-mail : seals22.agay at gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPEL A COMMUNICATION SEALS 22 Agay/Saint-Raphaël (FRANCE) 30 May - 2 Juin, 2012 Chaque année la Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) organise un colloque international, alternativement dans un pays asiatique et un pays non-asiatique. En 2012, la 22e édition du colloque SEALS est organisée à Agay (83-France) par le SeDyL avec le soutien actif de : INALCO, LACITO, CASE, INSHS, IRD, Aix-Marseille Université, IRSEA, Maison Asie Pacifique. Cette 22e édition de la SEALS souhaite mettre l’accent sur trois thèmes de recherche: · L’espace dans les langues d’Asie du Sud-est : trajectoire, deixis, directionalité, métaphorisation de l’espace, grammaticalisation, etc. · Le discours dans les langues d’Asie du Sud-est : structure informationnelle, marqueurs discursifs, construction du discours, etc. · Corpus et variation dans les langues d’Asie du Sud-est : données, variation des données, analyse des données, structuration des données, usages, normalisation, etc. Une session générale accueillera les interventions sur tout autre domaine en lien avec les langues d’Asie du Sud-Est. Nous invitons toute personne intéressée à soumettre une proposition de communication sur l’un de ces thèmes, ou sur tout autre aspect concernant une langue d’Asie du Sud-est. Conférenciers invités · Gérard DIFFLOTH (EFFEO) · Nick ENFIELD (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) · Denis PAILLARD (CNRS/Université Paris-Diderot) Format de soumission Les propositions sont à soumettre en ligne à l’adresse suivante : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seals22 Attention : la soumission en ligne d’une communication nécessite plusieurs étapes (pré-enregistrement, validation de votre enregistrement, dépôt de votre proposition de communication). Les propositions, anonymes, doivent être jointes au formulaire d’enregistrement sous format PDF, et avoir la forme suivante: Page 1 : Texte de votre proposition, 500 mots maximum, contenant : thème de l’intervention, problématique développée, conclusion Page 2 : Exemples et références Format des communications Les deux langues du colloque sont le français et l’anglais. Les propositions de communication peuvent être envoyées dans ces deux langues. Les intervenants disposeront de 25 minutes pour leur exposé, et de 10 minutes pour la discussion. Dates importantes · Date limite de soumission: 1 février 2012, en ligne · Notification d’acceptation : 15 mars 2012, via e-mail Comité d’organisation Joseph THACH (INALCO, SeDyl) Alice VITTRANT (Aix-Marseille Université, LACITO) Comité d’organisation local Jérôme SAMUEL (INALCO, CASE) San San HNIN TUN (INALCO, LACITO) Michel ANTELME (INALCO, CERLOM) Gestion administrative et technique Viviane RAKOTOVAHINY (SEDYL) Séverine GUILLAUME (LACITO) Actualités de la conférence http://sealsXXII.vjf.cnrs.fr E-mail : seals22.agay at gmail.com ------------------- Alice Vittrant Université de Provence / CNRS-LACITO vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr ------------------- Alice Vittrant Université de Provence / CNRS-LACITO vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Thu Nov 17 23:49:21 2011 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:49:21 -0500 Subject: Idioms crosslinguistically universal? Message-ID: I've been in discussions with a linguist studying idioms in English and we started wondering whether all languages have idioms. I've already found online mention of projects comparing idioms in Eurasian areal perspective. But have enough studies been done on languages elsewhere to be able to claim universality as a form-class? In Yahgan, for ex.,idioms seem to have a very restricted distribution (generally certain noun-adjective compounds). Has anyone looked at this from a typological POV? I'd be posting this to LINGTYP but I usually get very few responses there. Thanks. Jess Tauber From john at research.haifa.ac.il Fri Nov 18 09:38:33 2011 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john at research.haifa.ac.il) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:38:33 +0200 Subject: Idioms crosslinguistically universal? In-Reply-To: <24719751.1321573762462.JavaMail.root@wamui-june.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: It seems very unlikely that there are any languages which don't have idioms but I have a feeling that certain typological features will result in more idioms. The languages I've studied for which learning idioms seemed to constitute the biggest part of learning the language is definitely Chinese, I think because the morphemes are all monosyllabic whereas the words are generally bisyllabic, the result being that the semantic connection between the bisyllabic word and the two monosyllabic morphemes that it's made up of is often tenuous--put another way, in order to satisfy the general preference for bisyllabic words, Chinese speakers have been very creative in combining morphemes. I have the same general feeling about Circassian and Dinka, two other languages in which morphemes are almost always monosyllabic, although I've studied them much less. John Quoting jess tauber : > I've been in discussions with a linguist studying idioms in English and we > started wondering whether all languages have idioms. I've already found > online mention of projects comparing idioms in Eurasian areal perspective. > But have enough studies been done on languages elsewhere to be able to claim > universality as a form-class? In Yahgan, for ex.,idioms seem to have a very > restricted distribution (generally certain noun-adjective compounds). Has > anyone looked at this from a typological POV? I'd be posting this to LINGTYP > but I usually get very few responses there. Thanks. > > Jess Tauber > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message was sent using IMP, the Webmail Program of Haifa University From dryer at buffalo.edu Fri Nov 18 12:18:50 2011 From: dryer at buffalo.edu (Matthew Dryer) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:18:50 -0500 Subject: Idioms crosslinguistically universal? In-Reply-To: <24719751.1321573762462.JavaMail.root@wamui-june.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: The two languages I have worked on the most differ dramatically in how much they use idioms. Walman, a Papuan language, has many idioms. Kutenai, an American Indian languages, has few if any. The difference seems to be related to the fact that Kutenai is polysynthetic. Kutenai essentially has the morphological equivalent of idioms, in combining roots within stems in ways that are the analogue of idioms. I know of at least one other polysynthetic language which is similar. Matthew Dryer On 11/17/11 6:49 PM, jess tauber wrote: > I've been in discussions with a linguist studying idioms in English and we started wondering whether all languages have idioms. I've already found online mention of projects comparing idioms in Eurasian areal perspective. But have enough studies been done on languages elsewhere to be able to claim universality as a form-class? In Yahgan, for ex.,idioms seem to have a very restricted distribution (generally certain noun-adjective compounds). Has anyone looked at this from a typological POV? I'd be posting this to LINGTYP but I usually get very few responses there. Thanks. > > Jess Tauber > > From geoffnathan at wayne.edu Fri Nov 18 14:28:40 2011 From: geoffnathan at wayne.edu (Geoff Nathan) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:28:40 -0500 Subject: Idioms crosslinguistically universal? In-Reply-To: <4EC64D2A.5090407@buffalo.edu> Message-ID: A number of years ago Jerry Sadock (who, I don't believe is on this list) gave a paper at CLS in a session on metaphor, back when that stuff was trendy. He argued that Greenlandic ('his' language), while it did have idioms that traded on metaphorical meanings, never lost their literal meanings, which were equally likely. to be invoked. Going strictly on memory here, I recall an example of the 'word' (Greenlandic is also polysynthetic, of course) 'arrange sheets/bedding', which could mean 'make the bed', but it could also mean 'arrange sheets'. I think there was one about setting the table that had the same double meaning. It's not exactly that the language doesn't have idioms, it's that they always seemed to retain their literal meaning as well. (Apologies to Jerry if I've gotten this wrong.) Geoff Geoffrey S. Nathan Faculty Liaison, C&IT and Professor, Linguistics Program http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/ +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT) +1 (313) 577-8621 (English/Linguistics) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Dryer" To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 7:18:50 AM Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] Idioms crosslinguistically universal? The two languages I have worked on the most differ dramatically in how much they use idioms. Walman, a Papuan language, has many idioms. Kutenai, an American Indian languages, has few if any. The difference seems to be related to the fact that Kutenai is polysynthetic. Kutenai essentially has the morphological equivalent of idioms, in combining roots within stems in ways that are the analogue of idioms. I know of at least one other polysynthetic language which is similar. Matthew Dryer On 11/17/11 6:49 PM, jess tauber wrote: > I've been in discussions with a linguist studying idioms in English and we started wondering whether all languages have idioms. I've already found online mention of projects comparing idioms in Eurasian areal perspective. But have enough studies been done on languages elsewhere to be able to claim universality as a form-class? In Yahgan, for ex.,idioms seem to have a very restricted distribution (generally certain noun-adjective compounds). Has anyone looked at this from a typological POV? I'd be posting this to LINGTYP but I usually get very few responses there. Thanks. > > Jess Tauber > > From bischoff.st at gmail.com Mon Nov 21 18:00:39 2011 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:00:39 -0500 Subject: Pullum on Chomsky in London Message-ID: For those of you that don't subscribe to The Linguists, there was an interesting post by Geoff Pullum regarding Chomsky's recent talk in London. Cheers, Shannon From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Fri Nov 25 13:25:51 2011 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:25:51 +0000 Subject: FINAL CALL -- 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference: London, July 2012 Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 4^th UK COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE -- LONDON 2012 The 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC4) will take place 10-12 July 2012 at King's College London, London, UK. Confirmed keynote speakers: * Professor Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) * Professor George Lakoff (University of California - Berkeley) * Professor Gilles Fauconnier (University of California - San Diego) * Professor Elena Lieven (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) * Professor Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh) * Professor Lawrence Barsalou (Emory University) We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster presentations) addressing all aspects of Cognitive Linguistics. These include, but are by no means limited to: * Domains and frame semantics * Categorisation, prototypes and polysemy * Metaphor and metonymy * Mental spaces and conceptual blending * Cognitive and construction grammar * Embodiment and linguistic relativity * Language acquisition and language impairment * Language evolution and language change * Language use Cognitive Linguistics is an inherently interdisciplinary enterprise which is broadly concerned with the connection between language and cognition in relation to body, culture and contexts of use. We therefore invite interdisciplinary research that combines theories and methods from across the cognitive, biological and social sciences. These include, but are not limited to: * Linguistics * Psycholinguistics * Anthropology * Evolution * Paleoanthropology * Primatology * Neuroscience * Cognitive and developmental psychology * Discourse and Communication studies Talks will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for question. Posters will stay up for a day and be allocated to dedicated, timetabled sessions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be submitted online at www.cognitivelinguistics.org.uk/submission/ All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an international Scientific Committee. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 December, 2011. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated by 15 February 2012. For further information, please visit the conference website at www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/education/events/ukclc4 or contact the Local Organising Committee at uk-clc4 at kcl.ac.uk REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN All attendees must register for the conference in advance. Registration is irrespective of whether an attendee is presenting at the conference or not. 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Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilëwch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio â defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn Prifysgol Bangor. Nid yw Prifysgol Bangor yn gwarantu bod y neges e-bost hon neu unrhyw atodiadau yn rhydd rhag firysau neu 100% yn ddiogel. Oni bai fod hyn wedi ei ddatgan yn uniongyrchol yn nhestun yr e-bost, nid bwriad y neges e-bost hon yw ffurfio contract rhwymol - mae rhestr o lofnodwyr awdurdodedig ar gael o Swyddfa Cyllid Prifysgol Bangor. www.bangor.ac.uk This email and any attachments may contain confidential material and is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email. 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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 annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it Tue Nov 1 08:01:25 2011 From: annalisa.baicchi at unipv.it (Annalisa Baicchi) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 09:01:25 +0100 Subject: SLE 2012 workshop proposal: Meaning Construction in the 21st Century In-Reply-To: Message-ID: *45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea* 29 August - 1 September 2012 University of Stockholm *Proposal for workshop: *?Meaning Construction in the 21st Century: Common Grounds, Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction? *Convenors:* Annalisa Baicchi (University of Pavia) ? annalisa.baicchi at gmail.com Alba Luzondo Oy?n (University of La Rioja) ? alba.luzondo at gmail.com The central assumption of this workshop is that cognitive and/or functional accounts of language have enough points in common for cooperation to be possible. This assumption, although not new ?as evident from Nuyts (2005, 2007) and Gonz?lvez & Butler (2006), and references therein? has not yet given rise to any major integration, except perhaps work carried out within the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM; Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal, 2008, 2011; Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza, 2009; Ruiz de Mendoza & Baicchi 2007; Baicchi & Ruiz de Mendoza 2010; Mairal & Gonz?lvez, 2010; Gonz?lvez, 2011). The architecture of the LCM assigns different places and functions to lexical structure and to constructions at the argument structure, implicational, illocutionary and discourse levels. It is interdisciplinary since it makes connections with pragmatics, discourse analysis and cognitive science in general (cf. Eddington & Ruiz de Mendoza, 2010), including the field of language-based knowledge engineering for natural language processing (cf. Peri??n & Mairal, 2009). In line with such an all-encompassing attempt, in this workshop we seek to engage scholars from both the cognitive and/or functional camps and from different fields and subfields of linguistics in creating a collaborative environment where it is possible to bridge gaps and to surmount theoretical and/or methodological discrepancies. For example, one of the points of divergence between cognitive and functional accounts of language lies in the way they approach the role of verbal semantics in syntax. Functionalist theories generally assume that much of syntactic structure can be predicted on the basis of the information coded by the lexical predicates in conjunction with a set of linking rules, thus disregarding the role that other higher-level constructs, such as argument-structure constructions, may play in predicting morphosyntactic structure. By contrast, constructionist accounts, such as Goldberg?s Construction Grammar (CxG; cf. Goldberg, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2006), postulate the existence of such higher-level configurations, called constructions, which are capable of adding arguments to those arising from verbal structure. In this process, the final overall meaning (e.g. the caused-motion/resultative sense in the example *They scorned him into a depression*) is not derivable from verbal projection (i.e. the argument structure of the verb *scorn*). On the other hand, construction-based approaches have not yet fully explained what it is that either licenses or constrains the unification between a given syntactic pattern and a lexical entry. For example, no fine-grained account has been provided of the perfect acceptability of instantiations of the middle construction such as *The bread cuts easily*, *The window breaks easily *in contrast to the ungrammaticality of **The building destroys easily*. Such problems have led scholars such as Boas (2003, 2008ab) to argue for finer-grained analyses within constructionist approaches. As a result, much of the present debate within CxG revolves around two apparently opposing views, namely the so-called ?lumper? and ?splitter? approaches. While the former concentrates on a macroscopic picture of lexical-constructional fusion mechanisms in which the role of verbal predicates is largely taken for granted, the latter contends that, in addition to broad-scale, abstract constructions *? la* Goldberg, constructions also need to be formulated at more delicate levels of resolution, whether as verb-class-specific or even verb-specific constructions (e.g. Croft, 2003) or in the form of ?mini-constructions? (cf. Boas, 2003), which are but instantiations of the former type. As things stand now, however, none of these proposals has been fully built into a linguistic model in which both fine-nuanced analyses and broad-scale generalizations in the form of constraints coexist, much less beyond argument structure configurations. It is therefore necessary (i) to strike a balance between the rather extreme projectionist and constructionist accounts, (ii) to resolve the tension between the lumper and the splitter approaches in achieving explanatory adequacy, and (iii) to make explicit the connections between the different areas of linguistic description and the various disciplines that deal with communication and cognition. Within this context, this workshop aims to foster a constructive dialogue not only between functionalism and cognitively-oriented constructionism in linguistics, but also between research in linguistics and research in communication theory and the cognitive sciences in general. We thus seek to insightfully combine apparently divergent theoretical views so as to achieve a more powerful descriptive and explanatory framework. In sum, our objective is to move away from what Arppe *et al.* (2010: 3) label ?methodological monism? in order to find a holistic and comprehensive understanding of language capable of merging evidence types and methods that address different aspects of linguistic behavior and knowledge (cf. Arppe *et al.*, 2010). With these (hopefully) thought-provoking ideas in mind, the present workshop is intended to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in one or more of the following issues or in other related topics: 1. Argument structure constructions vs. other constructional configurations (e.g. illocutionary, discourse): in search for a holistic view and/or unified approach to meaning construction. What kinds of non-argument structure constructions can be proposed (e.g. morphological, illocutionary, discoursive, etc.)? What is their theoretical status? 2. The ?lumper? vs. ?splitter? approaches: from thesis and antithesis to synthesis. 3. What robust generalizations can be made on the principled interaction across the various levels of description in meaning construction (e.g. lexical and constructional structure, pragmatic and discourse activity, whether construction-based or inferential)? 4. What factors constrain the interaction between lexical and constructional structure across descriptive levels? 5. What is the role of constructions in a usage-based view of grammaticalization? 6. What are the prospects for mutual co-operation between usage-based constructionist and non-constructionist approaches to language? * * * * *Important dates* * * Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations with 10 minute discussion. Interested researchers and linguists are invited to email both convenors - annalisa.baicchi at gmail.com, alba.luzondo at gmail.com - with their name, affiliation and provisional abstract of 500 words by 10 November 2011. - Submission of provisional abstract: November 10, 2011 Should the workshop proposal be accepted, all abstracts will need to be submitted to SLE by 15th January 2012 - Notification of acceptance/rejection by SLE: March 31, 2012 - Conference dates: August, 29 - September 1, 2012 *Selected references* * * Arppe, A., G. Gilquin, D. Glynn, M. Hilpet, & A. Zeschel (2010). Cognitive corpus linguistics: Five points of debate on current theory and methodology*. **Corpora 5*, 1-2. Baicchi A., & F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza (2010). The cognitive grounding of illocutionary constructions within the theoretical perspective of the Lexical Constructional Model. *Textus* XXIII (3), 543-564. Boas, H. C. (2003). *A Constructional Approach to Resultatives*. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Boas, H. C. (2008a). Resolving form-meaning discrepancies in Construction Grammar. In J. Leino (Ed.), *Constructional reorganization*. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, John* *Benjamins: 11-36.* * Boas, H.C. (2008b). Determining the structure of lexical entries and grammatical constructions in Construction Grammar. *Annual Review* *of Cognitive Linguistics *6, 113-144. Croft, W. (2003). Lexical rules vs. constructions: A false dichotomy. In H. Cuyckens, T. Berg, R. Dirven & K. Panther (Eds.), *Motivation in* *language. Studies in Honour of Gunter Radden*. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, John Benjamins: 49?68. Eddington, D., F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza (2010). Argument constructions and language processing: evidence from a priming experiment and pedagogical implications. In S. De Knop, F. Boers & T. De Rycker (Eds.), *Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive* *Linguistics. *Berlin & New York, Mouton de Gruyter: 213-238. Goldberg, A. E. (1995). *Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Goldberg, A. E. (1997). Relationships between verb and construction. In M. Verspoor & E. Sweetser (Eds.), *Lexicon and Grammar*. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, John Benjamins:* *383-398. Goldberg, A. E. (2002). Surface generalizations: An alternative to alternations. *Cognitive Linguistics *13 (4), 327-356. Goldberg, A. E. (2003). Constructions: A new theoretical approach to language. *Trends in Cognitive Sciences *7 (5), 219?224. Goldberg, A. E. (2006). *Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language*. New York: Oxford University Press. Gonz?lvez, F. (2011). Metaphor and metonymy do *not* render coercion superfluous: Evidence from the subjective-transitive construction. * Linguistics* 49 (6). 1305?1358. Gonz?lvez, F. & C.S. Butler (2006). Mapping functional cognitive space. *Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics* 4: 39-96. Mairal, R. & F. Gonz?lvez (2010) .Verbos y construcciones en el espacio cognitivo-funcional del siglo XXI. In J.F. Val ?lvaro, M.C. Horno Ch?liz *La Gram?tica del Sentido: L?xico y Sintaxis en la Encrucijada. /Conocimiento, Lenguaje y Comunicaci?n / Knowledge, Language and Communication*, 3, Zaragoza, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza: 123-152. Mairal, R. & F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza (2009). Levels of description and explanation in meaning construction. In C. S. Butler, & J. Mart?n Arista (Eds.), *Deconstructing Constructions*. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins: 153-198. Nuyts, J. (2005). Brothers in arms? On the relations between cognitive and functional linguistics. In F.J. Ruiz de Mendoza, M.S. Pe?a (Eds.) *Cognitive Linguistics: Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction*. (Cognitive linguistics research.) Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 69-100. Nuyts, J. (2007). Cognitive linguistics and functional linguistics. In Dirk Geeraerts and Hubert Cuyckens (Eds.) 2007. *The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics*. Oxford, Oxford University Press: 543-565. Peri??n, C. & R. Mairal (2009). Bringing Role and Reference Grammar to natural language understanding. *Procesamiento del* *Lenguaje Natural *43, 265-273. Ruiz de Mendoza, F.J. & A. Baicchi. (2007), Illocutionary constructions. Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization. In Kecskes I., L. Horn (eds.), *Explorations in Pragmatics**,* Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 95-128. Ruiz de Mendoza, F.J. & R. Mairal (2008). Levels of description and constraining factors in meaning construction: An introduction to the *Lexical Constructional Model*. *Folia Linguistica *42 (2),* *355-400. Ruiz de Mendoza, F.J. & R. Mairal (2011). Constraints on syntactic alternation: lexical-constructional subsumption in the Lexical-Constructional Model. In P. Guerrero (Ed.), *Morphosyntactic* *Alternations in English. Functional and Cognitive Perspectives*. London, UK/ Oakville, CT, Equinox: 62-82. * * -- Francisco J. Ruiz-de-Mendoza www.cilap.es www.lexicom.es -- Annalisa From kemmer at rice.edu Tue Nov 1 17:39:33 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:39:33 -0500 Subject: Melissa Bowerman Message-ID: Dear all, I am sorry to have to report that Melissa Bowerman, a long-time friend and colleague of many of us in Functional and Cognitive Linguistics, has passed away in Nijmegen. Melissa was not only a great linguist, contributing to many areas of linguistics including child language acquisition, language typology and universals, and the cognitive linguistics of space and motion, but also a warm and wonderful human being, as those of you who ever spent any time with her will know. Melissa was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences about a month ago, but sadly missed the ceremony as that is when her illness became manifest. Suzanne From Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se Sun Nov 6 09:13:22 2011 From: Jordan.Zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 09:13:22 +0000 Subject: Third CfP: Language, Culture, Mind 5, Lisbon June 27-29, 2012 Message-ID: ******* THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS ******* Fifth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind https://sites.google.com/site/languagecultureandmindv/home The Fifth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM V) will be held on 27-29 June 2012 at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. It will be preceded by a Young Researchers Workshop on 26 June 2012 (same venue), in which young researchers will present their ongoing dissertation projects and current work. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, semiotics and other related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. http://www.salc-sssk.org/lcm/ Plenary speakers: ? Nick Enfield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen http://www.mpi.nl/people/enfield-nick ? Cynthia Lightfoot, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University http://www.brandywine.psu.edu/Academics/faculty_cgl3.htm ? Dan Slobin, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=35 ? Beata Stawarska, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/faculty/profiles/stawarsk/ ? Sherman Wilcox, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico http://web.mac.com/swilcox/UNM/Welcome.html The theme for LCM V is: *Integrating Semiotic Resources in Communication and Creativity* The conference will include two round tables on the sub-themes: - Multimodality in communication and performance - Creativity, imagination and innovation We invite submissions of individual papers, posters and symposium proposals. (Please indicate the format chosen when you submit the abstract). Formats: - Individual research papers Name, affiliation, 400 word abstract 20 min presentation + 10 minute discussion - Individual poster Name, affiliation, 100 word abstract. 1 minute oral presentation in the main lecture hall, preceding the poster session - Symposia 90-minute symposia of 3 papers, allowing time for discussion at the end. Up to two 90-minute symposia may be merged for proposals with 5-6 participants. Papers in each symposium should be thematically linked. Proposals for thematic symposia should include: - symposium title - name and affiliation of symposium convener - an introduction of up to 400 words explaining the theme; - all symposium abstracts, in suitable order. Symposium proposers should indicate whether, if a symposium is not accepted as a whole, they wish the individual abstracts to be considered as individual presentations (oral or poster) Deadline for abstract submission of symposia: Nov 15, 2011. Deadline for abstract submission of individual papers and posters: Dec 15, 2011. Abstracts should be sent as .rtf or .doc attachments to lcmv.lisbon2012 @gmail.com Important dates ? Deadline for abstract submission (symposia): 15 Nov 2011 ? Deadline for abstract submission (papers, posters): 15 Dec 2011 ? Notification of acceptance (symposia): 15 Jan 2012 ? Notification of acceptance (papers, posters): 15 Feb 2012 ? Last date for early registration: 1 Mar 2012 ? Last date for registration: 1 May 2012 ? Final program publication: 15 May 2012 Young Researchers Workshop The LCM V Young Researchers Workshop is a satellite event of the LCM V conference, aimed at graduate students and junior scholars conducting theoretical or empirical research in language and communication including, but not limited to cognitive, social, affective, embodied and/or cultural perspectives. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting results and foster interaction and debate in the context of interdisciplinary collaboration. Young researchers in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience are invited to share, and thereby enrich, their study of human natural language and communication. A specialist's comment on each accepted contribution makes the workshop a unique opportunity to receive expert feedback. Abstract specifications: 1 page, 500 words, single-spaced, font size 12 pt, Times New Roman, 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Diagrams must fit in the page. Heading should include: - Title of the paper - Author(s) name - Author(s) affiliation - E-mail address of principal author Deadline for abstract submission: Dec 15, 2011 Abstracts for Young Researchers Workshop presentations should be submitted to: lcmv.workshop at gmail.com The International LCM organizing committee ? Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Language and Communication ? Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy ? John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology ? Aliyah Morgenstern, Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics ? Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish Language ? Esther Pascual, University of Groningen, Communication Studies ? Victor Rosenthal, Inserm-EHESS, Paris ? Chris Sinha, Lund University, Linguistics/Cognitive Semiotics ? Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Linguistics/Cognitive Semiotics LCM V Local organizing committee ? Ana Margarida Abrantes, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture ? Peter Hanenberg, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture From cmnash at ku.edu Sun Nov 6 20:23:39 2011 From: cmnash at ku.edu (Carlos Nash) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:23:39 -0600 Subject: Language Documentation - CoLang 2012 at University of Kansas Message-ID: Dear Colleague: We would like to invite you to attend the upcoming CoLang 2012 summer institute to be held at the University of Kansas. CoLang 2012?is a six-week Institute on?Collabora?tive?Lan?guage Re?search (formerly InField). The Institute provides an opportunity for graduate students, prac?ticing lin?guists, and community linguists to become trained in a wide range of skills in community-cen?tered language documentation. Held in 2008 (University of California, Santa Barbara) and 2010 (University of Oregon), the six-week insti?tute consists of two parts: the?Work?shops?- two weeks of intensive workshops on the practice of documentary linguistics ? followed by a?Practicum ?a four-week apprenticeship in the applica?tion of linguis?tic science and techno?logy to on-site empirical documentation (a.k.a. ?field linguis?tics?). Those who enroll in the Practicum are required to enroll in the preceding Workshops, thereby re?ceiving an intensive course in docu?mentary best practices before putting these skills to use. Participants may choose to enroll only in the two-week Work?shops. Completion certificates (but no academic credit) will be awarded. PRACTICUM Languages offered (http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/practicum/): - Tlingit: NaDene language family - Amazigh (Berber): Afro-Asiatic language family - Uda: Niger-Congo language family - Cherokee: Iroquoian language family TUITION: $750 for the Workshops; ?$1500 for the Workshops + Practicum (after April 30, 2012 late fees apply) For more information the Workshops and Practicum, please visit our website: http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/. REGISTRATION: http://linguistlist.org/CoLang/2012 All international participants should register by January 15, 2012 for visa and travel purposes. International participants will still be able to register after this date, but may not be able to obtain a visa in time. April 30, 2012 is the last registration day to receive the regular Workshop and Practicum pricing. A late registration fee will be charged after this date. HOUSING: On-campus housing at the University of Kansas campus is available to early registrants. Housing costs and a meal plan will be added to your total tuition costs at the time of registration. Campus housing is available until 20 May 2012. Visit the registration page for more details. Thank you, ?We hope to see at this upcoming CoLang 2012 summer institute! Sincerely, Arienne Dwyer and Carlos Nash, Co-Directors Jari Billiot, Assistant Director -- Carlos M Nash Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology and Language Technology Dept. of Anthropology - University of Kansas 614 Fraser Hall e-mail: cmnash at ku.edu phone: +1 785.864.6357 From srice at ualberta.ca Tue Nov 8 20:15:03 2011 From: srice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:15:03 -0700 Subject: Chair Position, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta Message-ID: Dear Funknet colleagues, Please circulate (and consider!) this position announcement. --Sally Rice, Linguistics, University of Alberta Chair, Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics Competition No. - *A107315909* Closing Date - *Will remain open until filled.* The Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invites applications for the position of Department Chair with tenure at the associate or full professor level. The Department consists of eleven full-time, continuing faculty members and currently is home to 40 graduate students at the Masters and PhD level. The Department of Linguistics has a strong commitment to empirical and experimental approaches to linguistic research and its members conduct investigations in phonetics, the morphosyntax and semantics of Amerindian languages, child bilingual acquisition, child language impairment, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, phonology, cognitive linguistics, child and adult 2ndlanguage acquisition, language documentation and revitalization, computational historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. More information about the Department can be found at www.linguistics.ualberta.ca . The Chair will be someone with a strong sense of collaborative leadership and a clear commitment to continuing to develop the Department?s standing within the University, within Canada, and internationally on the cutting edge of data-centered approaches to the study of human language and linguistic development. The Chair will support a culture of grantsmanship and will contribute to the development of graduate and undergraduate programmes in the Department and will foster the activities of the in-house research facilities?the Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics, the Language Documentation Research Cluster, Alberta Phonetics Lab, and the Language Acquisition Lab; an active participation in one or more of these groups would be expected. Candidates with demonstrated administrative experience will be preferred, and must hold the PhD, together with a distinguished record in university teaching and research (including a strong track record of appropriate grant activity) in areas of interest to the Department. The successful candidate should have strong interpersonal communication skills and a commitment to excellence in teaching and research, as well as a scholarly track record suitable for appointment at a senior rank. The University of Alberta, one of Canada?s largest and most accomplished research universities, is situated in Edmonton, a metropolitan area of over one million with a vibrant artistic community and excellent standard of living. Established in 1908 as a board-governed public institution, the University of Alberta has earned the reputation of being one of the top five universities in Canada based on its strengths in teaching, research and service. The University of Alberta serves over 38,000 students in more than 200 undergraduate and 170 graduate programs (www.ualberta.ca). The Faculty of Arts is the oldest and most diverse faculty on campus, and one of the largest research and teaching centres in western Canada ( www.arts.ualberta.ca). Salary is negotiable and will be commensurate with experience. This competition will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. The selection committee will begin consideration of candidates December 31, 2011. To receive consideration, applications (including an up-to-date *curriculum vitae *and the names of at least three referees), nominations, or expressions of interest should be submitted in confidence to: Dean Lesley B. Cormack Faculty of Arts University of Alberta 6-33 Humanities Centre Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2E5 How to Apply * Email* lesley.cormack at ualberta.ca All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons. -- Dr. Sally Rice Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Linguistics Landrex Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Arts 4-60 Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7 CANADA tel: +780.492.5500 fax: +780.492.0806 sally.rice at ualberta.ca www.ualberta.ca/~srice From srice at ualberta.ca Thu Nov 10 17:53:41 2011 From: srice at ualberta.ca (Sally Rice) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:53:41 -0700 Subject: Professor in Quantitative Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta Message-ID: Dear Funknet colleagues, Here is a second position being advertised in our Department. Please circulate! --Sally Rice * * *Professor in Quantitative Linguistics* * * *Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta*** * * *Application deadline: 13 January 2012* The Department of Linguistics in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenured position in Quantitative Linguistics at the Full Professor level. The successful candidate will be exceptionally well qualified with an outstanding research record in the application of quantitative, statistically-based techniques to the study of language, particularly in the areas of morphosyntax, language processing, and corpus linguistics. Responsibilities will include maintaining an active research program, teaching/supervision in both our undergraduate and graduate linguistics programs, and administrative service. The Department of Linguistics has a strong commitment to empirical and experimental approaches to linguistic research. The Department consists of eleven full-time, continuing faculty members pursuing research projects in experimental phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax and semantics of Amerindian languages, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, bilingual 1st and 2nd language acquisition and language impairment, psycholinguistics, computational/historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. We usually have approximately 40 students in our graduate program at any given time, of which roughly one quarter are pursuing the MSc while the majority are working towards the PhD. More information about the Department can be found at www.linguistics.ualberta.ca. Established in 1908 as a board-governed, public institution, the University of Alberta has earned the reputation of being one of the best universities in Canada based on our strengths in teaching, research, and services. The University of Alberta serves over 38,000 students in more than 200 undergraduate programs and 170 graduate programs (www.ualberta.ca). The Faculty of Arts is the oldest and most diverse faculty on campus, and one of the largest research and teaching centres in western Canada ( www.foa.ualberta.ca). The University?s main campus is located in Edmonton, the vibrant, cosmopolitan capital of the province of Alberta. The Edmonton metropolitan area is the sixth largest in the country with a population of approximately one million. Edmonton is located only a few hours drive from Banff and Jasper National Parks, which offer skiing in winter and excellent hiking and sightseeing in summer. *How to Apply* Applicants should send curriculum vitae, a letter describing their areas of research interest, samples of publications, and, if available*, *a teaching dossier and evaluations of teaching performance to: *Dr Sally Rice, Interim Chair* *Department of Linguistics* *University of Alberta* *Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2E7* *Tel: (780) 492-5500* *Fax: (780) 492-0806* *Email: sally.rice at ualberta.ca* Applicants must also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent in confidence to the Chair. The closing deadline is *13 January 2012*. The effective date of employment will be *1 July 2012*. Salary is negotiable and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. *All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. If suitable Canadian citizens or permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. **The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons.*** -- Dr. Sally Rice Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Linguistics Landrex Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Arts 4-60 Assiniboia Hall University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E7 CANADA tel: +780.492.5500 fax: +780.492.0806 sally.rice at ualberta.ca www.ualberta.ca/~srice From christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk Thu Nov 10 18:13:13 2011 From: christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk (Christopher Hart) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:13:13 -0000 Subject: 3rd CfP: CADAAD 2012 Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The fourth international conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) will take place at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, 4-6 July 2012. The following distinguished scholars have confirmed their participation as plenary speakers: * Professor Paul Chilton (Lancaster University) * Professor Michal Krzyzanowski (Adam Mickiewicz University) * Professor Michelle Lazar (National University of Singapore) * Professor Juana Mar?n Arrese (Universidad Complutense Madrid) * Professor Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) CADAAD conferences are intended to promote current directions and new developments in cross-disciplinary critical discourse studies. We welcome papers dealing with any contemporary social, scientific, political, economic, or professional discourse/genre. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: * (New) Media discourse * Party political discourse * Advertising * Discourses of war and terrorism * Discourses of discrimination and inequality * Power, ideology and dominance in institutional discourse * Identity in discourse * Education discourses * Environmental discourses * Health communication * Language and the law We especially welcome papers which re-examine existing frameworks for critical discourse studies and/or which highlight and apply new methodologies sourced from anywhere across the humanities, social and cognitive sciences including but without being limited to: * Sociolinguistics * Functional Linguistics * Cognitive Linguistics * Corpus Linguistics * Pragmatics and Argumentation Theory * Conversation and Discourse Analysis * Discursive Psychology * Multimodality * Media Studies * Communication Studies * Political Science Papers will be allocated 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words including references should be sent as MS Word attachment to christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk before 18 December 2011. Please include in the body of the email but not in the abstract your name, affiliation and email address. Notifications of acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2012. Further information is available at www.cadaad.net/cadaad_2012. For any other inquiries please contact Chris Hart (Christopher.hart at northumbria.ac.uk) or the local organiser, Maria Zara Sim?es Pinto Coelho (zara at ics.uminho.pt). From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Mon Nov 14 21:16:12 2011 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:16:12 +0000 Subject: Language & Cognition 3-2: Recently published Message-ID: Language and Cognition www.languageandcognition.net *Volume*: 3, *Number*: 2 (November 2011) Don't forget to ask your librarian to arrange an institutional subscription! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The above issue is now available online at: http://www.reference-global.com/toc/langcog/2011/3/2?ai=1yw&ui=1bbp&af=H The table of contents for this issue is listed below. Click on the links below to view the abstract for each article, or click on the link above to read the table of contents online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Why subject relatives prevail: Constraints versus constructional licensing* Cecily Jill Duffield and Laura A. Michaelis Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 171-208. Abstract | PDF (778 KB) | PDF with Links (809 KB) *Metaphors in the description of seizure experiences: Common expressions and differential diagnosis* Leendert Plug , Basil Sharrack , and Markus Reuber Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 209-233. Abstract | PDF (408 KB) | PDF with Links (423 KB) *From text-linguistics to literary /actants/ -- The force dynamics of (emotional) vampirism* Michael Kimmel Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 235-282. Abstract | PDF (970 KB) | PDF with Links (978 KB) *Metaphor, hyperbole and simile: A pragmatic approach* Robyn Carston and Catherine Wearing Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 283-312. Abstract | PDF (615 KB) | PDF with Links (623 KB) *Verbs in the lexicon: Why is hitting easier than breaking?* Gail McKoon and Jessica Love Language and Cognition November 2011, Vol. 3, No. 2: 313-330. 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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 vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr Mon Nov 14 22:40:35 2011 From: vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr (Alice Vittrant) Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:40:35 +0100 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - SEALS 22 Message-ID: *** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING *** (Version fran?aise ci-dessous) ---------- CALL FOR PAPERS 22TH SOUTHEAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS SOCIETY MEETING Agay/Saint-Rapha?l (FRANCE) May 30 - June 2, 2012 ---------- The International Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) conference takes place every year, alternating between an Asian and a non-Asian country. In 2012, the 22nd annual International SEALS conference is organized by SeDyl, with the active support of INALCO, LACITO, CASE, CNRS (INSHS), IRD, IRSEA, Aix-Marseille Universit?, and Maison Asie Pacifique. It will take place in Agay (France). Abstracts are invited for papers on any of the following themes related to Southeast Asian Languages: ? Space in Southeast Asian Languages: trajectory, deixis, directionality, metaphorical space etc? ? Discourse in Southeast Asian Languages: information structure, discourses markers discourse construction, etc. ? Corpus and variation in Southeast Asian Languages: data, variation, analysis, structure, normalization, usages, etc? Furthermore, we invite papers on any aspect of language or linguistics related to languages of Southeast Asia. Keynote speakers ? G?rard DIFFLOTH (EFFEO) ? Nick ENFIELD (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) ? Denis PAILLARD (CNRS/Paris-Diderot University) Abstract submission format Please send your abstract of no more than 500 words on-line at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=seals22 Please note that you need to register first on Easychair website before submitting your abstract on-line. During your registration, you will be asked to confirm your registration before proceeding to submit your abstract. The actual content of your abstract proposal, without any personal information, should be attached to the submission form as a PDF file, and containing the following structure: Page 1 : Text (500 words) containing a statement of topic, approach, and conclusions. Page 2: Examples and references Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee on a strictly scientific basis. Abstract checklist The abstracts themselves must be anonymous, but the body of your message/e-mail should include the following information: Deadlines ? Abstract submission: February 1st 2012, online Notification of acceptance: March 15th 2012, via e-mail Presentation guidelines Presentations should be in English (or in French). Participants will be allocated 25 minutes for presentation, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Organizing Committee Joseph THACH (INALCO, SeDyl) Alice VITTRANT (Aix-Marseille Universit?, LACITO) Local Organizing Committee J?r?me SAMUEL (INALCO, CASE) San San HNIN TUN (INALCO, LACITO) Michel ANTELME (INALCO, CERLOM) Administrative and technical management Viviane RAKOTOVAHINY (SeDyl) S?verine GUILLAUME (LACITO) Conference updates http://sealsxxii.vjf.cnrs.fr E-mail : seals22.agay at gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPEL A COMMUNICATION SEALS 22 Agay/Saint-Rapha?l (FRANCE) 30 May - 2 Juin, 2012 Chaque ann?e la Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) organise un colloque international, alternativement dans un pays asiatique et un pays non-asiatique. En 2012, la 22e ?dition du colloque SEALS est organis?e ? Agay (83-France) par le SeDyL avec le soutien actif de : INALCO, LACITO, CASE, INSHS, IRD, Aix-Marseille Universit?, IRSEA, Maison Asie Pacifique. Cette 22e ?dition de la SEALS souhaite mettre l?accent sur trois th?mes de recherche: ? L?espace dans les langues d?Asie du Sud-est : trajectoire, deixis, directionalit?, m?taphorisation de l?espace, grammaticalisation, etc. ? Le discours dans les langues d?Asie du Sud-est : structure informationnelle, marqueurs discursifs, construction du discours, etc. ? Corpus et variation dans les langues d?Asie du Sud-est : donn?es, variation des donn?es, analyse des donn?es, structuration des donn?es, usages, normalisation, etc. Une session g?n?rale accueillera les interventions sur tout autre domaine en lien avec les langues d?Asie du Sud-Est. Nous invitons toute personne int?ress?e ? soumettre une proposition de communication sur l?un de ces th?mes, ou sur tout autre aspect concernant une langue d?Asie du Sud-est. Conf?renciers invit?s ? G?rard DIFFLOTH (EFFEO) ? Nick ENFIELD (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) ? Denis PAILLARD (CNRS/Universit? Paris-Diderot) Format de soumission Les propositions sont ? soumettre en ligne ? l?adresse suivante : http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seals22 Attention : la soumission en ligne d?une communication n?cessite plusieurs ?tapes (pr?-enregistrement, validation de votre enregistrement, d?p?t de votre proposition de communication). Les propositions, anonymes, doivent ?tre jointes au formulaire d?enregistrement sous format PDF, et avoir la forme suivante: Page 1 : Texte de votre proposition, 500 mots maximum, contenant : th?me de l?intervention, probl?matique d?velopp?e, conclusion Page 2 : Exemples et r?f?rences Format des communications Les deux langues du colloque sont le fran?ais et l?anglais. Les propositions de communication peuvent ?tre envoy?es dans ces deux langues. Les intervenants disposeront de 25 minutes pour leur expos?, et de 10 minutes pour la discussion. Dates importantes ? Date limite de soumission: 1 f?vrier 2012, en ligne ? Notification d?acceptation : 15 mars 2012, via e-mail Comit? d?organisation Joseph THACH (INALCO, SeDyl) Alice VITTRANT (Aix-Marseille Universit?, LACITO) Comit? d?organisation local J?r?me SAMUEL (INALCO, CASE) San San HNIN TUN (INALCO, LACITO) Michel ANTELME (INALCO, CERLOM) Gestion administrative et technique Viviane RAKOTOVAHINY (SEDYL) S?verine GUILLAUME (LACITO) Actualit?s de la conf?rence http://sealsXXII.vjf.cnrs.fr E-mail : seals22.agay at gmail.com ------------------- Alice Vittrant Universit? de Provence / CNRS-LACITO vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr ------------------- Alice Vittrant Universit? de Provence / CNRS-LACITO vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Thu Nov 17 23:49:21 2011 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:49:21 -0500 Subject: Idioms crosslinguistically universal? Message-ID: I've been in discussions with a linguist studying idioms in English and we started wondering whether all languages have idioms. I've already found online mention of projects comparing idioms in Eurasian areal perspective. But have enough studies been done on languages elsewhere to be able to claim universality as a form-class? In Yahgan, for ex.,idioms seem to have a very restricted distribution (generally certain noun-adjective compounds). Has anyone looked at this from a typological POV? I'd be posting this to LINGTYP but I usually get very few responses there. Thanks. Jess Tauber From john at research.haifa.ac.il Fri Nov 18 09:38:33 2011 From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john at research.haifa.ac.il) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:38:33 +0200 Subject: Idioms crosslinguistically universal? In-Reply-To: <24719751.1321573762462.JavaMail.root@wamui-june.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: It seems very unlikely that there are any languages which don't have idioms but I have a feeling that certain typological features will result in more idioms. The languages I've studied for which learning idioms seemed to constitute the biggest part of learning the language is definitely Chinese, I think because the morphemes are all monosyllabic whereas the words are generally bisyllabic, the result being that the semantic connection between the bisyllabic word and the two monosyllabic morphemes that it's made up of is often tenuous--put another way, in order to satisfy the general preference for bisyllabic words, Chinese speakers have been very creative in combining morphemes. I have the same general feeling about Circassian and Dinka, two other languages in which morphemes are almost always monosyllabic, although I've studied them much less. John Quoting jess tauber : > I've been in discussions with a linguist studying idioms in English and we > started wondering whether all languages have idioms. I've already found > online mention of projects comparing idioms in Eurasian areal perspective. > But have enough studies been done on languages elsewhere to be able to claim > universality as a form-class? In Yahgan, for ex.,idioms seem to have a very > restricted distribution (generally certain noun-adjective compounds). Has > anyone looked at this from a typological POV? I'd be posting this to LINGTYP > but I usually get very few responses there. Thanks. > > Jess Tauber > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message was sent using IMP, the Webmail Program of Haifa University From dryer at buffalo.edu Fri Nov 18 12:18:50 2011 From: dryer at buffalo.edu (Matthew Dryer) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:18:50 -0500 Subject: Idioms crosslinguistically universal? In-Reply-To: <24719751.1321573762462.JavaMail.root@wamui-june.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Message-ID: The two languages I have worked on the most differ dramatically in how much they use idioms. Walman, a Papuan language, has many idioms. Kutenai, an American Indian languages, has few if any. The difference seems to be related to the fact that Kutenai is polysynthetic. Kutenai essentially has the morphological equivalent of idioms, in combining roots within stems in ways that are the analogue of idioms. I know of at least one other polysynthetic language which is similar. Matthew Dryer On 11/17/11 6:49 PM, jess tauber wrote: > I've been in discussions with a linguist studying idioms in English and we started wondering whether all languages have idioms. I've already found online mention of projects comparing idioms in Eurasian areal perspective. But have enough studies been done on languages elsewhere to be able to claim universality as a form-class? In Yahgan, for ex.,idioms seem to have a very restricted distribution (generally certain noun-adjective compounds). Has anyone looked at this from a typological POV? I'd be posting this to LINGTYP but I usually get very few responses there. Thanks. > > Jess Tauber > > From geoffnathan at wayne.edu Fri Nov 18 14:28:40 2011 From: geoffnathan at wayne.edu (Geoff Nathan) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:28:40 -0500 Subject: Idioms crosslinguistically universal? In-Reply-To: <4EC64D2A.5090407@buffalo.edu> Message-ID: A number of years ago Jerry Sadock (who, I don't believe is on this list) gave a paper at CLS in a session on metaphor, back when that stuff was trendy. He argued that Greenlandic ('his' language), while it did have idioms that traded on metaphorical meanings, never lost their literal meanings, which were equally likely. to be invoked. Going strictly on memory here, I recall an example of the 'word' (Greenlandic is also polysynthetic, of course) 'arrange sheets/bedding', which could mean 'make the bed', but it could also mean 'arrange sheets'. I think there was one about setting the table that had the same double meaning. It's not exactly that the language doesn't have idioms, it's that they always seemed to retain their literal meaning as well. (Apologies to Jerry if I've gotten this wrong.) Geoff Geoffrey S. Nathan Faculty Liaison, C&IT and Professor, Linguistics Program http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/ +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT) +1 (313) 577-8621 (English/Linguistics) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Dryer" To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 7:18:50 AM Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] Idioms crosslinguistically universal? The two languages I have worked on the most differ dramatically in how much they use idioms. Walman, a Papuan language, has many idioms. Kutenai, an American Indian languages, has few if any. The difference seems to be related to the fact that Kutenai is polysynthetic. Kutenai essentially has the morphological equivalent of idioms, in combining roots within stems in ways that are the analogue of idioms. I know of at least one other polysynthetic language which is similar. Matthew Dryer On 11/17/11 6:49 PM, jess tauber wrote: > I've been in discussions with a linguist studying idioms in English and we started wondering whether all languages have idioms. I've already found online mention of projects comparing idioms in Eurasian areal perspective. But have enough studies been done on languages elsewhere to be able to claim universality as a form-class? In Yahgan, for ex.,idioms seem to have a very restricted distribution (generally certain noun-adjective compounds). Has anyone looked at this from a typological POV? I'd be posting this to LINGTYP but I usually get very few responses there. Thanks. > > Jess Tauber > > From bischoff.st at gmail.com Mon Nov 21 18:00:39 2011 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:00:39 -0500 Subject: Pullum on Chomsky in London Message-ID: For those of you that don't subscribe to The Linguists, there was an interesting post by Geoff Pullum regarding Chomsky's recent talk in London. Cheers, Shannon From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Fri Nov 25 13:25:51 2011 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:25:51 +0000 Subject: FINAL CALL -- 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference: London, July 2012 Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 4^th UK COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE -- LONDON 2012 The 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC4) will take place 10-12 July 2012 at King's College London, London, UK. 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