From austin.bennett at case.edu Mon Apr 2 12:43:22 2012 From: austin.bennett at case.edu (Austin Bennett) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 08:43:22 -0400 Subject: FINAL CALL for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 Message-ID: *FINAL CALL for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 - Case Western August 1 – 5, 2012* *************** FINAL DEADLINE: April 8, 2012 11:59 PM PST (FOR CALIFORNIA TIME) Applications are open for the 6th Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshop, to be held at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio August 1 – 5, 2012. See https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/ for more information. The goal of EMCL is to facilitate dialogue among language researchers with different methodological backgrounds, i.e. theorists, experimentalists, corpus linguists, etc. We do this by creating an environment where specialists learn from each other by developing a research project together where their various skills are combined. Intended audience: Language researchers with an embodiment, situated cognition and/or cognitive linguistics background. No prior experimental or corpus training is required though an understanding of the theoretical issues is necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in their careers, i.e. graduate students, post-grads, post-docs, junior faculty, etc. *Workshop Format*: During the course of a week, participants will join one of 5 hands-on mini-labs. Each mini-lab will be responsible for completing a joint research project. A select group of students (max. 8 per group for a total of 40) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. *Topics* to be covered include - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience - post-Workshop write up of the research, as a brief article *Confirmed Faculty* *Groups*: *Group 1: Seana Coulson and Shelli Feist* Seana Coulson - UCSD, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, joke comprehension, conceptual metaphor, sentence processing http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~coulson/ Shelli Feist - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Institute of Cognitive Science Lexical semantics, spatial language, psycholinguistics http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ *Group 2: Daniel Casasanto and Todd Oakley* Daniel Casasanto - The New School, Dept. of Psychology Language and thought, culture and cognition, mind and body http://www.casasanto.com/Site/home.html Todd Oakley - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, force dynamics, joint attention http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/oakley.html *Group 3: Ben Bergen and Laura Casasanto * Ben Bergen - UCSD Dept. of Cognitive Science Language comprehension, perceptual/motor simulation of language, conceptual metaphor http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/ Laura Casassanto - Stony Brook University, Dept. of Linguistics Identity, sociolinguistic variation, conceptual metaphor http://www.casasanto.com/Site/laura/index.html *Group 4: Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin* Fey Parrill - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Co-speech gesture, pragmatics, embodied cognition, construction grammar, social cognition http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/parrill.html Vera Tobin - UCSB, Dept. of English Language, social cognition, joint attention, cognitive approaches to literature http://stuttercut.org/ *Group 5: Kensy Cooperrider and Michael Spivey* Kensey Cooperrider - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Gesture and cognition, language and cognitive diversity http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~kcooperr/ Michael Spivey - UC Merced, Dept. of Cognitive Science Language and vision, sentence processing, computational modeling http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/directory/michael-j-spivey *Application*: Please see our website for details. Completed applications must be submitted to emcl6case at gmail.com by *APRIL 8, 2012*. *Accomodation*: Student housing at Case Western Reserve will be available for all participants. This will be the cheapest housing around (approx. $25 per night), though participants are free to stay anywhere they like. *Participation Fee*: $160. We have 1 tuition scholarship available for a student from Eastern Europe or a developing country which will be awarded by lottery. *This workshop is sponsored by the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), **http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/* --- EMCL Scientific Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Cornell University/University of Bielefeld Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ray Becker, University of Bielefeld Shelli Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette EMCL 6 Organizing Committee: Austin Bennett, Case Western Reserve (chair) Kashmiri Stec, University of Groningen Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/home From cmnash at ku.edu Tue Apr 3 17:11:06 2012 From: cmnash at ku.edu (Carlos Nash) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 12:11:06 -0500 Subject: Language Documentation - CoLang 2012 upcoming deadline Message-ID: Dear Colleague: We would like to invite you to attend the upcoming CoLang 2012 (formerly InField) summer institute to be held at the University of Kansas. The Institute provides an opportunity for undergraduates, graduate students, practicing linguists, and community linguists to become trained in a wide range of skills in community-centered language documentation. Part 1: Workshops - two weeks of intensive workshops on the practice of documentary linguistics Part 2: Practicum - a four-week apprenticeship in language documentation. Languages offered are Tlingit [NaDene], Amazigh (Berber) [Afro-Asiatic], Uda [Niger-Congo], and Cherokee [Iroquoian]. For more information the Workshops and Practicum, please visit our website: http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/. UPCOMING DEADLINE: 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. Thank you, We hope to see at this upcoming CoLang 2012 summer institute! Sincerely, Arienne Dwyer and Carlos Nash, Co-Directors -- 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 website: http://people.ku.edu/~c167n725/ From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr Fri Apr 6 16:24:23 2012 From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:24:23 +0200 Subject: Master English Linguistics Lille3, France Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, If you know of any students who are interested in doing a MA in (English) linguistics in France --with courses in Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches, please forward message below. Thanks, -Maarten Lemmens & Ilse Depraetere == Maarten Lemmens Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes" (revue de l'AFLiCo) http://cognitextes.revues.org/ Membre du bureau de l'Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive http://www.aflico.fr/ Board member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.cogling.org/ === *MA IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AT LILLE 3, FRANCE* One of the central concerns of the two-year MA programme in English Linguistics at Lille 3 is at the heart of what language is all about: meaning, and how it is brought about. The programme is not committed to one particular theoretical framework and the emphasis is on *solid empirical description* (e.g., via corpus analyses) and a *usage-based approach*. Students acquire a solid foundation for linguistic analysis built on extensive and careful data analysis. At the end of the Master’s programme, students are equipped with sound methodological skills, a capacity for problem solving, and they have learnt how to develop an argument and how to present it in a written or an oral form. The Master in English Linguistics in Lille 3 is one of the few programmes in France which offer courses in *Cognitive Linguistics* and/or *Construction Grammar*. A more detailed description of the programme, the course schedule, information on registration (also for foreign students), and faculty can be found on the MA web site: http://angellier.formation.univ-lille3.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=260&Itemid=73 A PDF version of the information brochure can also be downloaded from the website. For further information contact: Prof. Ilse Depraetere (ilse.depraetere at univ-lille3.fr) Prof. Maarten Lemmens (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr) From dan at daneverett.org Mon Apr 9 20:01:51 2012 From: dan at daneverett.org (Daniel Everett) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 16:01:51 -0400 Subject: Whistle speech Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting of this question. In most whistled languages I am aware of, women do not whistle, only men do. The only two exceptions I am aware of are courtship whistling among the Lalana Chinantec and Silbo Gomero. I am interested in learning if there are other languages with whistle speech in which both men and women converse by whistling. Dan Everett From pekka.posio at helsinki.fi Tue Apr 10 13:10:26 2012 From: pekka.posio at helsinki.fi (Pekka Posio) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:10:26 +0300 Subject: Call for papers (reminder) - Grammar and genre, Oct 24-26, Turku/Finland Message-ID: Grammar and genre: interfaces and influences October 24th – 26th, 2012 Turku, Finland The Linguistic Association of Finland (in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of Åbo Akademi University) Variation is one of the key themes in modern grammatical studies, and its investigation highlights the role of contextual factors in the structure of language. These factors can be on many levels and of many different types. The mere genre to which a text belongs potentially dictates a variety of linguistic structures. (For studies about genre see e.g. Bakhtin 1986 to begin with, and more recently Martin & Rose 2008, Biber & Conrad 2009, and Dorgeloh & Wanner 2010.) This symposium aims to study the interfaces between grammar and genre: the purpose is to investigate how genre affects grammatical choices. How are genre distinctions reflected in grammar, be it for example literary vs. media genres, or distinctions such as argumentative, informative, persuasive, expressive, or narrative genres? Is a specific genre belonging to a particular domain, e.g. sport news vs. economy news, characterized by certain grammatical choices? Possible genre distinctions are various, and both empirical questions related to the theme and more theoretical implications and reflections thereof are welcome. We would like to bring together linguists from different fields: linguists studying languages with a small number of speakers, linguists whose data come from languages with millions of speakers and a wide variety of institutionalized genres, theoretically oriented linguists to discuss the implications, as well as linguists with more empirical concerns. We warmly welcome papers related to these questions. Possible topics for talks include, but, as usual, are not restricted to, the following: - How does the grammarian take into account the belonging of the data to a certain genre? If the available data is restricted to a particular genre, how does this affect the results? How does the field worker react to this? - How does the linguist identify the genre in question? - Why do some grammatical constructions appear only in a specific genre? - Is grammar one and only for a given language? How do we account for Coseriu’s distinction sistema - norma social/individual - hablar concreto in empirical, data-driven linguistics? - How can we use the outcomes of stylistics in modern grammatical studies (cf. Bally’s stylistics a century ago), that is not only in the literary sense but to explore variation in grammar? What is the relationship between genre and style? - How does the speaker manipulate grammar to create a genre? - The concept of genre and language learning - Genre in different domains - Genre and language evolution - Genre and language contacts: Does genre play a role in code switching? Invited plenary speakers: Maarten Mous, Leiden University Maria Vilkuna, Institute for the Languages of Finland Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm, Åbo Akademi University Anja Wanner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Scientific committee: Heidrun Dorgeloh Kjersti Fløttum Jyrki Kalliokoski Ritva Laury Jan Nuyts María José Serrano Susanna Shore Anna Solin Geoff Thompson Organizing committee: Meri Larjavaara Sonja Dahlgren Arja Hamari Leena Maria Heikkola Lotta Jalava Santra Jantunen Pekka Posio Ilona Rauhala Erika Sandman Maija Sirola Elina Tapio Mikko Virtanen Katja Västi Milja Väänänen Abstract submission: Please send your abstract no later than April 30, 2012 (see https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre for instructions). The length of abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding data and references). Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee and also by the organizing committee. Letters of acceptance will be sent by June 5, 2012. Key dates: – Deadline for abstract submission: April 30, 2012 – Notification of acceptance: June 5, 2012 – Notification of acceptance of workshops: April 16, 2012 Activities: – Presentations by the invited speakers – Presentations by other participants – Posters – Workshops References: Bakhtin, M. 1986: Speech genres and other late essays. Translated by Vern W. McGee. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. Biber, D. & S. Conrad 2009: Register, genre and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dorgeloh, H. & A. Wanner (eds) 2010: Syntactic variation and genre, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton. Martin, J. R. & D. Rose 2008: Genre relations. Mapping culture. London: Equinox. For more information please visit the webpage of the symposium at https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Tue Apr 10 17:41:50 2012 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:41:50 -0700 Subject: C Message-ID: Sent from my iPhone From mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu Wed Apr 11 01:46:07 2012 From: mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Marianne Mithun) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:46:07 -0700 Subject: Visiting Asst Prof Position Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks to fill a Visiting Assistant Professor position in general linguistics for the academic year 2012-2013, with the possibility of renewal for a second year. Applicants are sought who have a strong background in general linguistics and fieldwork experience, as well as a strong record of excellent teaching. The Department of Linguistics has a commitment to studying language from a functional and typologically diverse perspective. Candidates should be able to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in core areas of linguistics, graduate and undergraduate courses in Field Methods and in Language Documentation, as well as other subjects. The appointment is effective July 1, 2012; fall quarter teaching begins September 27, 2012. The course load will consist of 5 courses distributed over three 10-week terms. Ph.D. in linguistics is required at the time of appointment. The position will remain open until filled, but to ensure full consideration, all application materials, including letters of reference, should be received by May 14. Applicants should submit the following to search at linguistics.ucsb.edu in PDF only: letter of application, a one-page research statement, a one-page teaching statement, curriculum vitae, and 2 writing samples. Applicants should request that 3 academic letters of reference, at least one of which addresses teaching proficiency, be sent directly to search at linguistics.ucsb.edu by the May 14 deadline. Applicants should also complete the supplemental online data form at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/search/coversheet.html. Fax and mail applications not accepted. Inquiries may be addressed to the Search Committee at search at linguistics.ucsb.edu. Interviews will be conducted via Skype video conference call. The UCSB Department of Linguistics has a genuine commitment to diversity and is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. UCSB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Apr 11 16:16:56 2012 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:16:56 +0000 Subject: New Issue Alert - Canadian Journal of Linguistics Message-ID: Now available on Project MUSE The Canadian Journal of Linguistics Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2012 This issue contains: Why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic are verbless Rashid Al-balushi Abstract: This article aims to account for why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic lack a copular verb. In contrast to previous accounts which attribute the absence of the copula to some defect of present tense, I claim that a verbless sentence does not take a copula because its nominals do not need structural Case. The proposed analysis argues that structural Case is licensed by a "Verbal Case" feature on the relevant Case-checking heads, and assumes the Visibility Condition. The present analysis is based on a unique interaction between tense and word order, and on the observation that verbless sentences are finite clauses composed of a topic and a predicate, as well as on the observation that they do not involve licensing of structural Case. Résumé: Cet article vise à expliquer pourquoi les phrases sans verbe en arabe standard n'ont pas de copule. Contrairement à certaines analyses précédentes qui attribuaient l'absence de copule à un quelconque défaut du temps présent, je soutiens que la phrase sans verbe ne requiert pas de copule parce ses substantifs n'ont pas besoin de cas structural. Il est proposé que le cas structural est permis par un trait de «Cas Verbal» porté par les têtes pertinentes pour la vérification de cas, en assumant la Condition de Visibilité. La présente analyse est fondée sur une interaction unique entre le temps et l'ordre des mots, et sur la constatation que les phrases sans verbe sont des propositions finies, composées d'un topique et d'un prédicat, et que celles-ci n'impliquent pas de cas structural. Tense and control interpretations in gerund-participle and to infinitive complement constructions with verbs of risk Patrick Duffley, Maryse Arseneau Abstract: This study investigates temporal and control interpretations with verbs of risk followed by non-finite complements in English. It addresses two questions: Why does the gerund-participle show variation in the temporal relation between the event it denotes and that of the main verb whereas the to-infinitive manifests a constant temporal relation? Why does the gerund-participle construction allow variation in control while the to-infinitive shows constant subject control readings? The study is based on a corpus of 1345 attested uses. The explanation is framed in a natural-language semantics involving the meanings of the gerund-participle, the infinitive, the preposition to, and the meaning-relation between the matrix and its complement. Temporal and control interpretations are shown to arise as implications grounded in the semantic content of what is linguistically expressed. It is argued that the capacity of a natural-language semantic approach to account for the data obviates the need to have recourse to purely syntactic operations to account for control. Résumé: Cette étude porte sur les interprétations temporelles et de contrôle avec des verbes exprimant la notion de risque suivis par des compléments infinitifs ou gérondifs en anglais. Deux questions y sont abordées : Pourquoi le gérondif montre-il une variation dans la relation temporelle entre l'événement qu'il dénote et celui du verbe de la principale, tandis que l'infinitif manifeste une relation temporelle constante? Pourquoi la construction gérondive est-elle caractérisée par une variation de contrôle alors que l'infinitif produit des lectures constantes de contrôle par le sujet? Un corpus de 1345 exemples attestés est examiné. L'explication est formulée en termes d'une sémantique de langage naturel fondée sur les signifiés linguistiques du gérondif, de l'infinitif, de la préposition to et le rapport sémantique entre le verbe de la principale et son complément. Il est démontré que les interprétations temporelles et de contrôle sont des implications fondées sur le contenu sémantique de ce qui est exprimé linguistiquement. On soutient que la capacité d'une sémantique de langage naturel de rendre compte des données élimine le besoin d'avoir recours à des opérations purement syntaxiques pour expliquer le phénomène du contrôle. 'Imala and rounding in a rural Syrian variety: Morphophonological and lexical conditioning Rania Habib Abstract: This study investigates two concurrent phenomena-'imala and rounding-in the Arabic variety spoken in the Syrian village of Oyoun Al-Wadi. 'Imala refers to the use of [e] and [e:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively; rounding refers to the use of [o] and [o:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively. The use of two different vowels for each urban vowel is explained morphophonologically. The study economically proposes two phonological rules to account for 'imala and rounding and shows that only one rule can apply per word, to the final syllable of a word. In light of Lexical Phonology theory, certain morphological patterns and suffixes explain the presence of 'imala in initial syllables and in environments that induce rounding. That is, it is part of the lexical representation of a morphological pattern or suffix in the lexicon. Hence, 'imala could occur in the initial syllable as part of the morphological pattern, and rounding could occur in the final syllable of the same word as a result of a post-lexical phonological rule. Résumé: Cette étude examine deux phénomènes concurrents-le 'imala et l'arrondissement- dans la variété d'arabe parlée au village syrien d'Oyoun Al-Wadi. Le 'imala est l'utilisation de [e] et [e:] à la place des voyelles urbaines [a] et [a:], respectivement; l'arrondissement est l'emploi de [o] et [o:] à la place des voyelles urbaines [a] et [a:], respectivement. L'utilisation de deux voyelles différentes pour chaque voyelle urbaine est expliquée morpho-phonologiquement, avec quelques mots conditionnés au niveau du lexique. L'étude propose deux règles phonologiques économiques pour expliquer le 'imala et l'arrondissement et montre qu'une seule règle s'applique par mot, toujours à la dernière syllabe d'unmot. En tenant compte de la théorie de la phonologie lexicale, certains modèles morphologiques et certains suffixes expliquent la présence du 'imala dans les syllabes initiales et dans des environnements causant l'arrondissement. Autrement dit, le 'imala fait partie de la représentation lexicale d'un modèle morphologique ou d'un suffixe du lexique. Ainsi, le 'imala pourrait se produire à la syllabe initiale comme une partie du modèle morphologique et l'arrondissement pourrait se produire à la syllabe finale du même mot comme résultat d'une règle phonologique postlexicale. Affectees in subject position and applicative theory Kyumin Kim Abstract: The aim of this article is twofold. First, based on passives in Japanese and Korean, it expands the domain of the applicative head (Appl) to include an argument in the structural subject position. These languages provide evidence for a new type of Appl, peripheral Appl, distinct from the well-known high Appl in Bantu: unlike high Appl, peripheral Appl is the highest argument-introducing head under T, and can merge above VoiceP. The recognition of peripheralAppl makes it possible to account for the cross-linguistic positional variation among affectee arguments. Second, the article provides articulated clause structures for passives in Japanese and Korean in terms of Appl. The applicative account proves to be successful in providing a unified account of Japanese possessive and non-possessive passives, and of Korean possessive passives and causatives. Résumé: L'objectif de cet article est double. D'abord, sur la base des passifs en japonais et en coréen, il étend le domaine de la tête applicative (Appl) pour inclure un argument en position structurale sujet. Ces langues apportent des arguments pour un nouveau type d'Appl, soit Appl périphérique, qui est distinct de la tête Appl plus haut bien connu dans les langues bantoues : à la différence du haut Appl, l'Appl périphérique est la tête la plus élevée qui introduit un argument sous T, et peut fusionner au-dessus du Groupe Voix. La reconnaissance de l'Appl périphérique permet d'expliquer la variation positionnelle interlinguale entre des arguments appliqués. En second lieu, cet article fournit des structures propositionnelles pour les passifs en japonais et en coréen en termes d'Appl. Cette approche applicative réussit à fournir une explication unifiée des passifs possessifs et non possessifs en japonais, et de passifs possessifs et causatifs en coréen. Anticipation labiale et perception visuelle Johanna-Pascale Roy Résumé: L'objectif principal de cet article est de décrire le processus de perception visuelle anticipée du geste d'arrondissement dans des séquences [iC(CCCC)y], en prenant en compte l'ensemble des caractéristiques de leur production (configurations articulatoires, données temporelles et événements cinématiques). Les productions de deux locuteurs francophones ont été analysées afin d'obtenir les données nécessaires à l'interprétation des résultats d'un test de perception. Ce dernier est constitué de séquences vidéo tronquées, suivant le paradigme du gating. Nos résultats indiquent que la portion perceptivement efficace du geste d'arrondissement prend généralement naissance lorsqu'un pic de vitesse important est observé. À l'inverse, si la séquence ne comporte pas de pic de vitesse proéminent, la voyelle arrondie ne pourra être reconnue que lorsque les configurations labiales seront plus proches de la cible articulatoire. Nos résultats pourront être interprétés à la lumière de modèles généraux de perception du mouvement, ici le momentum représentationnel. Abstract: The main aim of this article is to describe the visual perception process of anticipatory rounding gestures in [iC(CCCC)y] sequences by considering the characteristics that contribute to their production (articulatory configurations, temporal data, and kinematic events). Productions of two French speakers were analyzed to obtain the data needed to interpret the results of a perception test composed of truncated visual sequences using the gating paradigm. The results indicate that the perceptually effective portion of the gesture usually begins when a significant velocity peak is observed. In contrast, if the sequence has no prominent velocity peak, the rounded vowel can be recognized only when the labial configurations are closer to the articulatory target. The results can be interpreted on the basis of general models for movement perception, in this case representational momentum. Wh-questions in child bilingual acquisition of French: Derivational complexity and cross-linguistic influence Nelleke Strik Abstract: This study investigates the development of wh-questions in French in a group of bilingual French-Dutch children. Fifteen children (aged 4 to 8, mean age 6;03, first exposure to French under age 4 for most of the children) participated in an elicited production task. Their results were compared to those of 4-year-old and 6-year-old monolingual children from a previous study. In order to examine possible influence from Dutch, two main hypotheses with contrasting predictions are proposed: structural overlap and derivational complexity. The results show that the bilingual children exhibited the same developmental course for wh-questions as their monolingual peers. The majority of responses involved wh-fronting without inversion, whereas wh-fronting with inversion, the only possible structure in Dutch, was not frequent. Therefore, the results do not provide clear evidence for influence from Dutch. Instead, they confirm that derivational complexity constrains the development of wh-questions in French. Résumé: Cette étude porte sur les questions wh en français chez des enfants bilingues français-néerlandais. Quinze enfants (âgés de 4 à 8 ans, âge moyen 6;03, première exposition au français en dessous de 4 ans pour la majorité) ont participé à une tâche de production induite. Leurs résultats ont été comparés à ceux des enfants monolingues de 4 ans et de 6 ans d'une étude précédente. Pour examiner l'influence possible du néerlandais, deux hypothèses principales sont proposées : le chevauchement structural et la complexité dérivationnelle. Les résultats montrent un développement similaire à celui des enfants monolingues. Les questions à wh antéposé sans inversion sont les plus fréquentes, alors que les questions à wh antéposé avec inversion, la seule structure possible en néerlandais, sont plus rares. Par conséquent, les résultats ne contiennent pas de preuve évidente d'influence du néerlandais. En revanche, ils confirment que la complexité dérivationnelle contraint le développement des questions wh en français. Reviews/Comptes Rendus Edges, heads and projections: Interface properties (review) Anna Bondaruk Locality in minimalist syntax Jason Ginsburg Language and identity: An introduction (review) Amin Karimnia The sound structure of English: An introduction (review) Marie Ploquin Register, genre, and style (review) Nur Yiğitoğlu ________________________________ The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. 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From hdls at unm.edu Fri Apr 13 20:55:02 2012 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society UNM) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:55:02 -0600 Subject: High Desert Linguistics Society Conference 10--Call for Papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) Please see the attached document for the call for papers and abstract submission guidelines. *Call for papers—Tenth High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference:** **Cognition, culture and discourse in signed, spoken and indigenous languages* University of New Mexico November 1-3, 2012 Registration opens: May 15, 2012 http://linggraduate.unm.edu/conference/conference.htm* * * We invite you to submit proposals for talks at the Tenth High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference. **General presentations** will be 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes for discussion. We are also accepting abstract submissions for**poster-sessions**. We welcome proposals for talks/poster-sessions in the following areas: * - Cognitive linguistics - Functional linguistics and discourse analysis - Linguistic typology - Gesture and signed languages - Indigenous language endangerment, revitalization and description - Acquisition - Language and culture *Finally, we also invite speakers to propose** themed panels**, **which will consist of three presenters. Each presenter will be responsible for a 10-minute presentation, for a combined total of 30-minutes per panel, followed by 10 minutes for questions addressed to the panel. Speakers who propose a panel topic are responsible for arranging who will participate in the proposed panel. Only one abstract should be submitted per topic. The abstract should include the proposed panel topic, and how each speaker will contribute to the proposed theme.* ** *Keynote speakers:* *Paul Dudis—Gallaudet University (Signed Languages)* *Jane Hill—University of Arizona (Language Revitalization and Language Ideologies) * *Beth Levin —Stanford University (Cognitive Linguistics)* Sincerely, HDLS Officers President: Laura Hirrel Vice president: Corrine Occhino-Kehoe Secretary: Keiko Beers Treasurer: Masha Sotnikova HDLS Liaison to the Faculty: Benjamin Anible High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics The University of New Mexico hdls at unm.edu From langconf at bu.edu Mon Apr 16 15:00:18 2012 From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:00:18 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 37 Call for Papers - Please post Message-ID: Please post the following call for papers. Many thanks, BUCLD organizers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE 37th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 2-4, 2012 Keynote Speaker: Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University Plenary Speaker: Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington Lunch Symposium: "Language delay - does it matter?" Yonata Levy, Hadassah-Hebrew University (organizer) Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production. A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ We are now accepting abstracts. You may submit yours online at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2012. FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 244 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. Telephone: (617) 353-3085 Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu -- Master's Student, Applied Linguistics BUCLD 37, Coorganizer, Abstracts/Reviews Chair Boston University From jrosesla at uwo.ca Mon Apr 16 15:21:21 2012 From: jrosesla at uwo.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Emilio_Ros=E9s_Labrada?=) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:21:21 -0400 Subject: Call for papers: Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, Attached you will find a call for papers for a special session at the upcoming LSA Annual Meeting; the call is intended for those of you who work in Latin America and who are involved in Language Documentation and/or Revitalization efforts in the region (or any interested parties you may know). Gabriela Pérez Báez, Chris Rogers, and I would really appreciate it if you would consider submitting an abstract for this special session at the 2013 Annual Meeting: we would like to get as many people as possible involved in the conversation we are looking forward to have at the next LSA meeting regarding Language Documentation and Revitalization in the Latin American context. Our apologies for cross-postings... Best wishes, Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada PhD Student University of Western Ontario From jrosesla at uwo.ca Mon Apr 16 15:38:40 2012 From: jrosesla at uwo.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Emilio_Ros=E9s_Labrada?=) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:38:40 -0400 Subject: Call for papers: Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It seems like the attachments did not make it through the listserv. Our apologies. Here is the call again both as an attachment and in the body of the email. Best wishes, Jorge Emilio Call for Abstracts Joint LSA-SSILA session entitled “Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization” for the 2013 Annual Meeting To be held during the LSA 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA from 3 to 6 January 2013, this panel’s main goal is to broaden the discussion initiated by the 2013 session entitled “From Language Documentation to Language Revitalization”, to address the particulars of language documentation and revitalization in Latin America. *Rationale.* While there has been a significant increase in the awareness of the needs, best practices, and goals of language documentation projects in the field of linguistics, the focus has been predominately on North American languages (especially within the US). The greatest genetic diversity in languages is found in Latin America, home to over 100 distinct language families and isolates. Language communities range from sizeable communities of languages with official status such as certain varieties of Guaraní, Quechua and Aymara, to communities of highly endangered languages with limited attention from communities, scholars and governments, as is the case of many Mesoamerican and Amazonian languages. The context in which language documentation might be conducted throughout Latin American and the challenges facing revitalization efforts are unique and cannot be extrapolated from the North American experience. This session therefore intends to give the Latin American context the focus and attention it requires by highlighting the key differences and needs for communities outside the US. It is understood that language documentation and revitalization in Latin America present complex issues and challenges which range across disciplines and sub-disciplines, and which have the potential to alter the methodologies, processes and expected outcomes in documenting and revitalizing languages in this part of the world. This session will address the various factors affecting language documentation and revitalization and will feature six case studies selected through competitive abstract submission to highlight the various ways in which these factors interact, and to provide broad geographic coverage. The following is a list of issues and challenges language documenters and/or activists may face while working in Latin America. The list is just suggestive rather than comprehensive and it is intended to provide you with clues of some of the factors that might be worth exploring. *1. Resources* a. Community-internal resources range from limited to non-existent in Latin American societies many of which are dependent on subsistence agriculture, hunter-gathering, or, small scale trade and services. b. State and federal resources, if available, are generally very limited and not efficiently administered. c. Technology-enabled access is not a given in a substantial portion of Latin American communities. d. Access to resources (e.g. grants, archives, telecommunications, academic scholars, training) for community members not residing in major urban areas is generally extremely limited e. Resources might only be available in dominant languages such as Spanish or English making access to conferences, training and other resources restricted to monolingual speakers of any given language. Even bilingual speakers of their language and Spanish or Portuguese are shut out of English-based resources and exchange opportunities such as most US based conferences and training opportunities. *2. Community engagement and motivation* a. Cultural constructs and/or social priorities may not allow for community-wide acknowledgement of a language endangerment situation. b. Different degrees of language vitality may lead to different levels of community engagement and motivation. c. Subsistence, cultural and social priorities may interfere with the ability to develop partnerships between community members and external researchers. * 3. Linguistic and dialectal diversity* a. Linguistic diversity is uniquely complex in Latin America with concentrations of numerous dialectal varieties or even mutually unintelligible and/or genetically unrelated languages in small geographic areas demand very high investments in intellectual and economic resources to ensure impact. *4. Literacy and institutionalized education* a. Widespread institutionalized education is relatively recent in many areas in Latin America. b. Widespread literacy cannot be assumed. *5. Expected outcomes and outcome formats* a. Factors 1 to 4 above require small scale, customized strategies and national level approaches along the lines of a national or even a regional Breath of Life are not feasible. b. Success in documentation and revitalization is a notion that needs to be customized based on the case specific interaction of Factors 1 to 4. c. Language communities in Latin America are complex and often have different agendas for language revitalization which will often not include formal education or extra-curricular educational programs. *6. Geographic distance* a. Location of a given community and access to it with regards to the researcher’s place of residence may compromise the continuity of collaborative documentation and especially, of collaborative revitalization efforts. *7. Ethics, human subjects, and IRB requirements* a. Most Latin American societies do not share the concerns that significantly condition a US-based researcher’s ability to conduct language documentation or to access funding to support it. b. IRB requirements such as signed consent forms may be misinterpreted by centuries-old experiences of abuse through administrative devices such as written and signed documents, and may be a source of distrust. *Guidelines* Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute discussion period (or shorter depending on number of submissions). Based on participants’ interest, a poster session might be added to the special session. Please submit your abstract in keeping with LSA 2013 Annual Meeting Abstract Guidelines and Specifications available at http://lsadc.org/info/meet-annual13-abguide.cfm, by e-mail attachment (as Word, RTF or PDF files – please use PDF if there are any potential problems with fonts) to documentation.revitalization at gmail.com. Please write ‘ABSTRACT FOR LSA-SSILA SPECIAL SESSION’ in the subject line. Make the abstract as anonymous as possible, and include a title. In the body of your e-mail message, include the following: - Title of the abstract: - Word count - Author(s): - Affiliation(s): - Date submitted: The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 27, 2012. The anonymous abstracts will be refereed by the panel organizing committee, and authors will be notified of inclusion to the proposed session by May 15. A final decision of LSA-SSILA acceptance of the special session falls outside of the organizers’ control and will be communicated to authors by late Summer/early Fall. Panel organizing committee: Gabriela Pérez Báez, Smithsonian Institution, perezbaezg at si.edu Chris Rogers, University of Utah, chris.rogers at utah.edu Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada, University of Western Ontario, jrosesla at uwo.ca Further information regarding the 87th LSA Annual Meeting can be found at http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm From tpayne at uoregon.edu Wed Apr 18 17:11:34 2012 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:11:34 -0700 Subject: Books available for review Message-ID: A new listing of books available for review in Studies in Language has been posted at the following URL: http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/BooksAvailable-04-2012.pdf Qualified reviewers are encouraged to participate in the dialogue of our discipline by reviewing one or more of these books. Please contact the Review Editor, Thomas E. Payne, if you are interested. Please include a brief statement of why you want to review a particular book, a link to a CV or other web page that indicates your qualifications as a reviewer, and a postal address where I may send the book. Format and content guidelines for Book Reviews and Review Articles can be found at http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/SLstylesheet.pdf Reviews will be due five months after receipt of the book. If you submit a publishable review by the target date, the book will be yours to keep. Studies in Language (SL) provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: Social Sciences Citation Index; Social Scisearch; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Abstracts in English Studies; Cultures, Langues, Textes; European Reference Index for the Humanities; Germanistik; Humanities Index; IBR/IBZ; Linguistics Abstracts; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique; LLBA; MLA International Bibliography, Translation Studies Abstracts Online. From amnfn at well.com Thu Apr 19 16:17:46 2012 From: amnfn at well.com (A. Katz) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:17:46 -0700 Subject: Press Release: Book publication Message-ID: Inverted-A announces the publication of a new book, Vacuum County. Although a novel, it has at its heart a linguistic mystery. Funknet members wishing to write a review may request a review copy. http://www.inverteda.com/blog/press-release-vacuum-county-published-april-19-2012 From m.norde at rug.nl Wed Apr 25 20:29:12 2012 From: m.norde at rug.nl (Muriel Norde) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:29:12 +0200 Subject: CfP: CogLingdays 2012 Message-ID: ************ apologies for cross-postings****************** *CogLingdays 5, Groningen, 14th and 15th December 2012 * *Biannual meeting of the Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA) * After four fruitful meetings in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006), Leiden (2008), and Antwerp (2010), Groningen will host the fifthbiennial conference of the Belgium Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA, http://benecla.com/). The event is being organized by the University of Groningen in cooperation with the BeNeCLA board. The two-day conference offers a venue for researchers from the Low Countries to present and discuss their research results in the various strands of cognitive linguistics or other cognitively inspired usage based approaches. These may encompass a variety of perspectives, but they share the view that grammar is not only a socially grounded system for producing and understanding language, but is also shaped by those processes during linguistic interactions. All interested scholars working in the field of cognitive linguistics or related areas are invited to submit an abstract for the conference. Invited speakers *Mirjam Fried, Dagmar Divjak, and Alan Cienki* Forum *The Faculty of Language: a debate* with Arie Verhagen, Jan Wouter Zwart, and Muriel Norde *Abstracts * We invite abstracts for poster presentations (with a one-minute presentation) and regular conference papers (20 min. talk plus 10 min. discussion), which will be reviewed anonymously. The abstract text in *PDF format* should be limited to *400 words*, including references and data, and mention main research question(s), methodology, dataset and (expected) results. Please do _not_ reveal the identity of the author(s) in the text itself. Please indicate preference for *poster *or *regular presentation *and provide *three key words* to help the organizers put the presentations in coherent sessions. Please submit electronically at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CogLingdays2012. In the submission process, author(s) name(s) and affiliation are asked for. Deadline for submission: 31^st of May 2012 Notification of acceptance: 20th July 2012 ** *Organizing committee at the University of Groningen* Marjolijn Verspoor (Chair), Mike Huiskes, Muriel Norde, Rasmus Steinkrauss, Esther Pascual, Susanne Grassmann, Rimke Groeneveld Email: cogling2012 at gmail.com Web site: www.rug.nl/let/CogLing2012 *BeNeCla board and scientific committee * Ronny Boogaart (University Leiden), Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam),Dirk Geeraerts (Universiteit Leuven), Maarten van Leeuwen (Unviersiteit Leiden), Paul Sambre (Lessius/ Antwerpen/Leuven), Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Utrecht) Marjolijn Verspoor (RU Groningen) . -- Prof. dr. Muriel Norde Scandinavian Languages and Cultures University of Groningen P.O. Box 716 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands http://www.murielnorde.com From austin.bennett at case.edu Mon Apr 2 12:43:22 2012 From: austin.bennett at case.edu (Austin Bennett) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 08:43:22 -0400 Subject: FINAL CALL for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 Message-ID: *FINAL CALL for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 - Case Western August 1 ? 5, 2012* *************** FINAL DEADLINE: April 8, 2012 11:59 PM PST (FOR CALIFORNIA TIME) Applications are open for the 6th Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshop, to be held at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio August 1 ? 5, 2012. See https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/ for more information. The goal of EMCL is to facilitate dialogue among language researchers with different methodological backgrounds, i.e. theorists, experimentalists, corpus linguists, etc. We do this by creating an environment where specialists learn from each other by developing a research project together where their various skills are combined. Intended audience: Language researchers with an embodiment, situated cognition and/or cognitive linguistics background. No prior experimental or corpus training is required though an understanding of the theoretical issues is necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in their careers, i.e. graduate students, post-grads, post-docs, junior faculty, etc. *Workshop Format*: During the course of a week, participants will join one of 5 hands-on mini-labs. Each mini-lab will be responsible for completing a joint research project. A select group of students (max. 8 per group for a total of 40) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. *Topics* to be covered include - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience - post-Workshop write up of the research, as a brief article *Confirmed Faculty* *Groups*: *Group 1: Seana Coulson and Shelli Feist* Seana Coulson - UCSD, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, joke comprehension, conceptual metaphor, sentence processing http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~coulson/ Shelli Feist - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Institute of Cognitive Science Lexical semantics, spatial language, psycholinguistics http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ *Group 2: Daniel Casasanto and Todd Oakley* Daniel Casasanto - The New School, Dept. of Psychology Language and thought, culture and cognition, mind and body http://www.casasanto.com/Site/home.html Todd Oakley - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, force dynamics, joint attention http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/oakley.html *Group 3: Ben Bergen and Laura Casasanto * Ben Bergen - UCSD Dept. of Cognitive Science Language comprehension, perceptual/motor simulation of language, conceptual metaphor http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/ Laura Casassanto - Stony Brook University, Dept. of Linguistics Identity, sociolinguistic variation, conceptual metaphor http://www.casasanto.com/Site/laura/index.html *Group 4: Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin* Fey Parrill - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Co-speech gesture, pragmatics, embodied cognition, construction grammar, social cognition http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/parrill.html Vera Tobin - UCSB, Dept. of English Language, social cognition, joint attention, cognitive approaches to literature http://stuttercut.org/ *Group 5: Kensy Cooperrider and Michael Spivey* Kensey Cooperrider - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Gesture and cognition, language and cognitive diversity http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~kcooperr/ Michael Spivey - UC Merced, Dept. of Cognitive Science Language and vision, sentence processing, computational modeling http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/directory/michael-j-spivey *Application*: Please see our website for details. Completed applications must be submitted to emcl6case at gmail.com by *APRIL 8, 2012*. *Accomodation*: Student housing at Case Western Reserve will be available for all participants. This will be the cheapest housing around (approx. $25 per night), though participants are free to stay anywhere they like. *Participation Fee*: $160. We have 1 tuition scholarship available for a student from Eastern Europe or a developing country which will be awarded by lottery. *This workshop is sponsored by the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), **http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/* --- EMCL Scientific Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Cornell University/University of Bielefeld Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ray Becker, University of Bielefeld Shelli Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette EMCL 6 Organizing Committee: Austin Bennett, Case Western Reserve (chair) Kashmiri Stec, University of Groningen Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/home From cmnash at ku.edu Tue Apr 3 17:11:06 2012 From: cmnash at ku.edu (Carlos Nash) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 12:11:06 -0500 Subject: Language Documentation - CoLang 2012 upcoming deadline Message-ID: Dear Colleague: We would like to invite you to attend the upcoming CoLang 2012 (formerly InField) summer institute to be held at the University of Kansas. The Institute provides an opportunity for undergraduates, graduate students, practicing linguists, and community linguists to become trained in a wide range of skills in community-centered language documentation. Part 1: Workshops - two weeks of intensive workshops on the practice of documentary linguistics Part 2: Practicum - a four-week apprenticeship in language documentation. Languages offered are Tlingit [NaDene], Amazigh (Berber) [Afro-Asiatic], Uda [Niger-Congo], and Cherokee [Iroquoian]. For more information the Workshops and Practicum, please visit our website: http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/. UPCOMING DEADLINE: 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. Thank you, We hope to see at this upcoming CoLang 2012 summer institute! Sincerely, Arienne Dwyer and Carlos Nash, Co-Directors -- 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 website: http://people.ku.edu/~c167n725/ From maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr Fri Apr 6 16:24:23 2012 From: maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr (Maarten Lemmens) Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:24:23 +0200 Subject: Master English Linguistics Lille3, France Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, If you know of any students who are interested in doing a MA in (English) linguistics in France --with courses in Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus linguistics, and usage-based approaches, please forward message below. Thanks, -Maarten Lemmens & Ilse Depraetere == Maarten Lemmens Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes" (revue de l'AFLiCo) http://cognitextes.revues.org/ Membre du bureau de l'Association Fran?aise de Linguistique Cognitive http://www.aflico.fr/ Board member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.cogling.org/ === *MA IN ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AT LILLE 3, FRANCE* One of the central concerns of the two-year MA programme in English Linguistics at Lille 3 is at the heart of what language is all about: meaning, and how it is brought about. The programme is not committed to one particular theoretical framework and the emphasis is on *solid empirical description* (e.g., via corpus analyses) and a *usage-based approach*. Students acquire a solid foundation for linguistic analysis built on extensive and careful data analysis. At the end of the Master?s programme, students are equipped with sound methodological skills, a capacity for problem solving, and they have learnt how to develop an argument and how to present it in a written or an oral form. The Master in English Linguistics in Lille 3 is one of the few programmes in France which offer courses in *Cognitive Linguistics* and/or *Construction Grammar*. A more detailed description of the programme, the course schedule, information on registration (also for foreign students), and faculty can be found on the MA web site: http://angellier.formation.univ-lille3.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=260&Itemid=73 A PDF version of the information brochure can also be downloaded from the website. For further information contact: Prof. Ilse Depraetere (ilse.depraetere at univ-lille3.fr) Prof. Maarten Lemmens (maarten.lemmens at univ-lille3.fr) From dan at daneverett.org Mon Apr 9 20:01:51 2012 From: dan at daneverett.org (Daniel Everett) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 16:01:51 -0400 Subject: Whistle speech Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting of this question. In most whistled languages I am aware of, women do not whistle, only men do. The only two exceptions I am aware of are courtship whistling among the Lalana Chinantec and Silbo Gomero. I am interested in learning if there are other languages with whistle speech in which both men and women converse by whistling. Dan Everett From pekka.posio at helsinki.fi Tue Apr 10 13:10:26 2012 From: pekka.posio at helsinki.fi (Pekka Posio) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:10:26 +0300 Subject: Call for papers (reminder) - Grammar and genre, Oct 24-26, Turku/Finland Message-ID: Grammar and genre: interfaces and influences October 24th ? 26th, 2012 Turku, Finland The Linguistic Association of Finland (in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of ?bo Akademi University) Variation is one of the key themes in modern grammatical studies, and its investigation highlights the role of contextual factors in the structure of language. These factors can be on many levels and of many different types. The mere genre to which a text belongs potentially dictates a variety of linguistic structures. (For studies about genre see e.g. Bakhtin 1986 to begin with, and more recently Martin & Rose 2008, Biber & Conrad 2009, and Dorgeloh & Wanner 2010.) This symposium aims to study the interfaces between grammar and genre: the purpose is to investigate how genre affects grammatical choices. How are genre distinctions reflected in grammar, be it for example literary vs. media genres, or distinctions such as argumentative, informative, persuasive, expressive, or narrative genres? Is a specific genre belonging to a particular domain, e.g. sport news vs. economy news, characterized by certain grammatical choices? Possible genre distinctions are various, and both empirical questions related to the theme and more theoretical implications and reflections thereof are welcome. We would like to bring together linguists from different fields: linguists studying languages with a small number of speakers, linguists whose data come from languages with millions of speakers and a wide variety of institutionalized genres, theoretically oriented linguists to discuss the implications, as well as linguists with more empirical concerns. We warmly welcome papers related to these questions. Possible topics for talks include, but, as usual, are not restricted to, the following: - How does the grammarian take into account the belonging of the data to a certain genre? If the available data is restricted to a particular genre, how does this affect the results? How does the field worker react to this? - How does the linguist identify the genre in question? - Why do some grammatical constructions appear only in a specific genre? - Is grammar one and only for a given language? How do we account for Coseriu?s distinction sistema - norma social/individual - hablar concreto in empirical, data-driven linguistics? - How can we use the outcomes of stylistics in modern grammatical studies (cf. Bally?s stylistics a century ago), that is not only in the literary sense but to explore variation in grammar? What is the relationship between genre and style? - How does the speaker manipulate grammar to create a genre? - The concept of genre and language learning - Genre in different domains - Genre and language evolution - Genre and language contacts: Does genre play a role in code switching? Invited plenary speakers: Maarten Mous, Leiden University Maria Vilkuna, Institute for the Languages of Finland Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm, ?bo Akademi University Anja Wanner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Scientific committee: Heidrun Dorgeloh Kjersti Fl?ttum Jyrki Kalliokoski Ritva Laury Jan Nuyts Mar?a Jos? Serrano Susanna Shore Anna Solin Geoff Thompson Organizing committee: Meri Larjavaara Sonja Dahlgren Arja Hamari Leena Maria Heikkola Lotta Jalava Santra Jantunen Pekka Posio Ilona Rauhala Erika Sandman Maija Sirola Elina Tapio Mikko Virtanen Katja V?sti Milja V??n?nen Abstract submission: Please send your abstract no later than April 30, 2012 (see https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre for instructions). The length of abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding data and references). Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee and also by the organizing committee. Letters of acceptance will be sent by June 5, 2012. Key dates: ? Deadline for abstract submission: April 30, 2012 ? Notification of acceptance: June 5, 2012 ? Notification of acceptance of workshops: April 16, 2012 Activities: ? Presentations by the invited speakers ? Presentations by other participants ? Posters ? Workshops References: Bakhtin, M. 1986: Speech genres and other late essays. Translated by Vern W. McGee. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. Biber, D. & S. Conrad 2009: Register, genre and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dorgeloh, H. & A. Wanner (eds) 2010: Syntactic variation and genre, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton. Martin, J. R. & D. Rose 2008: Genre relations. Mapping culture. London: Equinox. For more information please visit the webpage of the symposium at https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Tue Apr 10 17:41:50 2012 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:41:50 -0700 Subject: C Message-ID: Sent from my iPhone From mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu Wed Apr 11 01:46:07 2012 From: mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Marianne Mithun) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:46:07 -0700 Subject: Visiting Asst Prof Position Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks to fill a Visiting Assistant Professor position in general linguistics for the academic year 2012-2013, with the possibility of renewal for a second year. Applicants are sought who have a strong background in general linguistics and fieldwork experience, as well as a strong record of excellent teaching. The Department of Linguistics has a commitment to studying language from a functional and typologically diverse perspective. Candidates should be able to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in core areas of linguistics, graduate and undergraduate courses in Field Methods and in Language Documentation, as well as other subjects. The appointment is effective July 1, 2012; fall quarter teaching begins September 27, 2012. The course load will consist of 5 courses distributed over three 10-week terms. Ph.D. in linguistics is required at the time of appointment. The position will remain open until filled, but to ensure full consideration, all application materials, including letters of reference, should be received by May 14. Applicants should submit the following to search at linguistics.ucsb.edu in PDF only: letter of application, a one-page research statement, a one-page teaching statement, curriculum vitae, and 2 writing samples. Applicants should request that 3 academic letters of reference, at least one of which addresses teaching proficiency, be sent directly to search at linguistics.ucsb.edu by the May 14 deadline. Applicants should also complete the supplemental online data form at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/search/coversheet.html. Fax and mail applications not accepted. Inquiries may be addressed to the Search Committee at search at linguistics.ucsb.edu. Interviews will be conducted via Skype video conference call. The UCSB Department of Linguistics has a genuine commitment to diversity and is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. UCSB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Apr 11 16:16:56 2012 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:16:56 +0000 Subject: New Issue Alert - Canadian Journal of Linguistics Message-ID: Now available on Project MUSE The Canadian Journal of Linguistics Volume 57, Issue 1, March 2012 This issue contains: Why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic are verbless Rashid Al-balushi Abstract: This article aims to account for why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic lack a copular verb. In contrast to previous accounts which attribute the absence of the copula to some defect of present tense, I claim that a verbless sentence does not take a copula because its nominals do not need structural Case. The proposed analysis argues that structural Case is licensed by a "Verbal Case" feature on the relevant Case-checking heads, and assumes the Visibility Condition. The present analysis is based on a unique interaction between tense and word order, and on the observation that verbless sentences are finite clauses composed of a topic and a predicate, as well as on the observation that they do not involve licensing of structural Case. R?sum?: Cet article vise ? expliquer pourquoi les phrases sans verbe en arabe standard n'ont pas de copule. Contrairement ? certaines analyses pr?c?dentes qui attribuaient l'absence de copule ? un quelconque d?faut du temps pr?sent, je soutiens que la phrase sans verbe ne requiert pas de copule parce ses substantifs n'ont pas besoin de cas structural. Il est propos? que le cas structural est permis par un trait de ?Cas Verbal? port? par les t?tes pertinentes pour la v?rification de cas, en assumant la Condition de Visibilit?. La pr?sente analyse est fond?e sur une interaction unique entre le temps et l'ordre des mots, et sur la constatation que les phrases sans verbe sont des propositions finies, compos?es d'un topique et d'un pr?dicat, et que celles-ci n'impliquent pas de cas structural. Tense and control interpretations in gerund-participle and to infinitive complement constructions with verbs of risk Patrick Duffley, Maryse Arseneau Abstract: This study investigates temporal and control interpretations with verbs of risk followed by non-finite complements in English. It addresses two questions: Why does the gerund-participle show variation in the temporal relation between the event it denotes and that of the main verb whereas the to-infinitive manifests a constant temporal relation? Why does the gerund-participle construction allow variation in control while the to-infinitive shows constant subject control readings? The study is based on a corpus of 1345 attested uses. The explanation is framed in a natural-language semantics involving the meanings of the gerund-participle, the infinitive, the preposition to, and the meaning-relation between the matrix and its complement. Temporal and control interpretations are shown to arise as implications grounded in the semantic content of what is linguistically expressed. It is argued that the capacity of a natural-language semantic approach to account for the data obviates the need to have recourse to purely syntactic operations to account for control. R?sum?: Cette ?tude porte sur les interpr?tations temporelles et de contr?le avec des verbes exprimant la notion de risque suivis par des compl?ments infinitifs ou g?rondifs en anglais. Deux questions y sont abord?es : Pourquoi le g?rondif montre-il une variation dans la relation temporelle entre l'?v?nement qu'il d?note et celui du verbe de la principale, tandis que l'infinitif manifeste une relation temporelle constante? Pourquoi la construction g?rondive est-elle caract?ris?e par une variation de contr?le alors que l'infinitif produit des lectures constantes de contr?le par le sujet? Un corpus de 1345 exemples attest?s est examin?. L'explication est formul?e en termes d'une s?mantique de langage naturel fond?e sur les signifi?s linguistiques du g?rondif, de l'infinitif, de la pr?position to et le rapport s?mantique entre le verbe de la principale et son compl?ment. Il est d?montr? que les interpr?tations temporelles et de contr?le sont des implications fond?es sur le contenu s?mantique de ce qui est exprim? linguistiquement. On soutient que la capacit? d'une s?mantique de langage naturel de rendre compte des donn?es ?limine le besoin d'avoir recours ? des op?rations purement syntaxiques pour expliquer le ph?nom?ne du contr?le. 'Imala and rounding in a rural Syrian variety: Morphophonological and lexical conditioning Rania Habib Abstract: This study investigates two concurrent phenomena-'imala and rounding-in the Arabic variety spoken in the Syrian village of Oyoun Al-Wadi. 'Imala refers to the use of [e] and [e:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively; rounding refers to the use of [o] and [o:] in place of the urban vowels [a] and [a:] respectively. The use of two different vowels for each urban vowel is explained morphophonologically. The study economically proposes two phonological rules to account for 'imala and rounding and shows that only one rule can apply per word, to the final syllable of a word. In light of Lexical Phonology theory, certain morphological patterns and suffixes explain the presence of 'imala in initial syllables and in environments that induce rounding. That is, it is part of the lexical representation of a morphological pattern or suffix in the lexicon. Hence, 'imala could occur in the initial syllable as part of the morphological pattern, and rounding could occur in the final syllable of the same word as a result of a post-lexical phonological rule. R?sum?: Cette ?tude examine deux ph?nom?nes concurrents-le 'imala et l'arrondissement- dans la vari?t? d'arabe parl?e au village syrien d'Oyoun Al-Wadi. Le 'imala est l'utilisation de [e] et [e:] ? la place des voyelles urbaines [a] et [a:], respectivement; l'arrondissement est l'emploi de [o] et [o:] ? la place des voyelles urbaines [a] et [a:], respectivement. L'utilisation de deux voyelles diff?rentes pour chaque voyelle urbaine est expliqu?e morpho-phonologiquement, avec quelques mots conditionn?s au niveau du lexique. L'?tude propose deux r?gles phonologiques ?conomiques pour expliquer le 'imala et l'arrondissement et montre qu'une seule r?gle s'applique par mot, toujours ? la derni?re syllabe d'unmot. En tenant compte de la th?orie de la phonologie lexicale, certains mod?les morphologiques et certains suffixes expliquent la pr?sence du 'imala dans les syllabes initiales et dans des environnements causant l'arrondissement. Autrement dit, le 'imala fait partie de la repr?sentation lexicale d'un mod?le morphologique ou d'un suffixe du lexique. Ainsi, le 'imala pourrait se produire ? la syllabe initiale comme une partie du mod?le morphologique et l'arrondissement pourrait se produire ? la syllabe finale du m?me mot comme r?sultat d'une r?gle phonologique postlexicale. Affectees in subject position and applicative theory Kyumin Kim Abstract: The aim of this article is twofold. First, based on passives in Japanese and Korean, it expands the domain of the applicative head (Appl) to include an argument in the structural subject position. These languages provide evidence for a new type of Appl, peripheral Appl, distinct from the well-known high Appl in Bantu: unlike high Appl, peripheral Appl is the highest argument-introducing head under T, and can merge above VoiceP. The recognition of peripheralAppl makes it possible to account for the cross-linguistic positional variation among affectee arguments. Second, the article provides articulated clause structures for passives in Japanese and Korean in terms of Appl. The applicative account proves to be successful in providing a unified account of Japanese possessive and non-possessive passives, and of Korean possessive passives and causatives. R?sum?: L'objectif de cet article est double. D'abord, sur la base des passifs en japonais et en cor?en, il ?tend le domaine de la t?te applicative (Appl) pour inclure un argument en position structurale sujet. Ces langues apportent des arguments pour un nouveau type d'Appl, soit Appl p?riph?rique, qui est distinct de la t?te Appl plus haut bien connu dans les langues bantoues : ? la diff?rence du haut Appl, l'Appl p?riph?rique est la t?te la plus ?lev?e qui introduit un argument sous T, et peut fusionner au-dessus du Groupe Voix. La reconnaissance de l'Appl p?riph?rique permet d'expliquer la variation positionnelle interlinguale entre des arguments appliqu?s. En second lieu, cet article fournit des structures propositionnelles pour les passifs en japonais et en cor?en en termes d'Appl. Cette approche applicative r?ussit ? fournir une explication unifi?e des passifs possessifs et non possessifs en japonais, et de passifs possessifs et causatifs en cor?en. Anticipation labiale et perception visuelle Johanna-Pascale Roy R?sum?: L'objectif principal de cet article est de d?crire le processus de perception visuelle anticip?e du geste d'arrondissement dans des s?quences [iC(CCCC)y], en prenant en compte l'ensemble des caract?ristiques de leur production (configurations articulatoires, donn?es temporelles et ?v?nements cin?matiques). Les productions de deux locuteurs francophones ont ?t? analys?es afin d'obtenir les donn?es n?cessaires ? l'interpr?tation des r?sultats d'un test de perception. Ce dernier est constitu? de s?quences vid?o tronqu?es, suivant le paradigme du gating. Nos r?sultats indiquent que la portion perceptivement efficace du geste d'arrondissement prend g?n?ralement naissance lorsqu'un pic de vitesse important est observ?. ? l'inverse, si la s?quence ne comporte pas de pic de vitesse pro?minent, la voyelle arrondie ne pourra ?tre reconnue que lorsque les configurations labiales seront plus proches de la cible articulatoire. Nos r?sultats pourront ?tre interpr?t?s ? la lumi?re de mod?les g?n?raux de perception du mouvement, ici le momentum repr?sentationnel. Abstract: The main aim of this article is to describe the visual perception process of anticipatory rounding gestures in [iC(CCCC)y] sequences by considering the characteristics that contribute to their production (articulatory configurations, temporal data, and kinematic events). Productions of two French speakers were analyzed to obtain the data needed to interpret the results of a perception test composed of truncated visual sequences using the gating paradigm. The results indicate that the perceptually effective portion of the gesture usually begins when a significant velocity peak is observed. In contrast, if the sequence has no prominent velocity peak, the rounded vowel can be recognized only when the labial configurations are closer to the articulatory target. The results can be interpreted on the basis of general models for movement perception, in this case representational momentum. Wh-questions in child bilingual acquisition of French: Derivational complexity and cross-linguistic influence Nelleke Strik Abstract: This study investigates the development of wh-questions in French in a group of bilingual French-Dutch children. Fifteen children (aged 4 to 8, mean age 6;03, first exposure to French under age 4 for most of the children) participated in an elicited production task. Their results were compared to those of 4-year-old and 6-year-old monolingual children from a previous study. In order to examine possible influence from Dutch, two main hypotheses with contrasting predictions are proposed: structural overlap and derivational complexity. The results show that the bilingual children exhibited the same developmental course for wh-questions as their monolingual peers. The majority of responses involved wh-fronting without inversion, whereas wh-fronting with inversion, the only possible structure in Dutch, was not frequent. Therefore, the results do not provide clear evidence for influence from Dutch. Instead, they confirm that derivational complexity constrains the development of wh-questions in French. R?sum?: Cette ?tude porte sur les questions wh en fran?ais chez des enfants bilingues fran?ais-n?erlandais. Quinze enfants (?g?s de 4 ? 8 ans, ?ge moyen 6;03, premi?re exposition au fran?ais en dessous de 4 ans pour la majorit?) ont particip? ? une t?che de production induite. Leurs r?sultats ont ?t? compar?s ? ceux des enfants monolingues de 4 ans et de 6 ans d'une ?tude pr?c?dente. Pour examiner l'influence possible du n?erlandais, deux hypoth?ses principales sont propos?es : le chevauchement structural et la complexit? d?rivationnelle. Les r?sultats montrent un d?veloppement similaire ? celui des enfants monolingues. Les questions ? wh ant?pos? sans inversion sont les plus fr?quentes, alors que les questions ? wh ant?pos? avec inversion, la seule structure possible en n?erlandais, sont plus rares. Par cons?quent, les r?sultats ne contiennent pas de preuve ?vidente d'influence du n?erlandais. En revanche, ils confirment que la complexit? d?rivationnelle contraint le d?veloppement des questions wh en fran?ais. Reviews/Comptes Rendus Edges, heads and projections: Interface properties (review) Anna Bondaruk Locality in minimalist syntax Jason Ginsburg Language and identity: An introduction (review) Amin Karimnia The sound structure of English: An introduction (review) Marie Ploquin Register, genre, and style (review) Nur Yi?ito?lu ________________________________ The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. 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From hdls at unm.edu Fri Apr 13 20:55:02 2012 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society UNM) Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:55:02 -0600 Subject: High Desert Linguistics Society Conference 10--Call for Papers In-Reply-To: Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) Please see the attached document for the call for papers and abstract submission guidelines. *Call for papers?Tenth High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference:** **Cognition, culture and discourse in signed, spoken and indigenous languages* University of New Mexico November 1-3, 2012 Registration opens: May 15, 2012 http://linggraduate.unm.edu/conference/conference.htm* * * We invite you to submit proposals for talks at the Tenth High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference. **General presentations** will be 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes for discussion. We are also accepting abstract submissions for**poster-sessions**. We welcome proposals for talks/poster-sessions in the following areas: * - Cognitive linguistics - Functional linguistics and discourse analysis - Linguistic typology - Gesture and signed languages - Indigenous language endangerment, revitalization and description - Acquisition - Language and culture *Finally, we also invite speakers to propose** themed panels**, **which will consist of three presenters. Each presenter will be responsible for a 10-minute presentation, for a combined total of 30-minutes per panel, followed by 10 minutes for questions addressed to the panel. Speakers who propose a panel topic are responsible for arranging who will participate in the proposed panel. Only one abstract should be submitted per topic. The abstract should include the proposed panel topic, and how each speaker will contribute to the proposed theme.* ** *Keynote speakers:* *Paul Dudis?Gallaudet University (Signed Languages)* *Jane Hill?University of Arizona (Language Revitalization and Language Ideologies) * *Beth Levin ?Stanford University (Cognitive Linguistics)* Sincerely, HDLS Officers President: Laura Hirrel Vice president: Corrine Occhino-Kehoe Secretary: Keiko Beers Treasurer: Masha Sotnikova HDLS Liaison to the Faculty: Benjamin Anible High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics The University of New Mexico hdls at unm.edu From langconf at bu.edu Mon Apr 16 15:00:18 2012 From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:00:18 -0400 Subject: BUCLD 37 Call for Papers - Please post Message-ID: Please post the following call for papers. Many thanks, BUCLD organizers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE 37th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 2-4, 2012 Keynote Speaker: Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University Plenary Speaker: Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington Lunch Symposium: "Language delay - does it matter?" Yonata Levy, Hadassah-Hebrew University (organizer) Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production. A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ We are now accepting abstracts. You may submit yours online at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ DEADLINE: All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2012. FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 244 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. Telephone: (617) 353-3085 Questions about abstracts should be sent to abstract at bu.edu -- Master's Student, Applied Linguistics BUCLD 37, Coorganizer, Abstracts/Reviews Chair Boston University From jrosesla at uwo.ca Mon Apr 16 15:21:21 2012 From: jrosesla at uwo.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Emilio_Ros=E9s_Labrada?=) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:21:21 -0400 Subject: Call for papers: Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, Attached you will find a call for papers for a special session at the upcoming LSA Annual Meeting; the call is intended for those of you who work in Latin America and who are involved in Language Documentation and/or Revitalization efforts in the region (or any interested parties you may know). Gabriela P?rez B?ez, Chris Rogers, and I would really appreciate it if you would consider submitting an abstract for this special session at the 2013 Annual Meeting: we would like to get as many people as possible involved in the conversation we are looking forward to have at the next LSA meeting regarding Language Documentation and Revitalization in the Latin American context. Our apologies for cross-postings... Best wishes, Jorge Emilio Ros?s Labrada PhD Student University of Western Ontario From jrosesla at uwo.ca Mon Apr 16 15:38:40 2012 From: jrosesla at uwo.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Emilio_Ros=E9s_Labrada?=) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:38:40 -0400 Subject: Call for papers: Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It seems like the attachments did not make it through the listserv. Our apologies. Here is the call again both as an attachment and in the body of the email. Best wishes, Jorge Emilio Call for Abstracts Joint LSA-SSILA session entitled ?Latin American Contexts for Language Documentation and Revitalization? for the 2013 Annual Meeting To be held during the LSA 2013 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA from 3 to 6 January 2013, this panel?s main goal is to broaden the discussion initiated by the 2013 session entitled ?From Language Documentation to Language Revitalization?, to address the particulars of language documentation and revitalization in Latin America. *Rationale.* While there has been a significant increase in the awareness of the needs, best practices, and goals of language documentation projects in the field of linguistics, the focus has been predominately on North American languages (especially within the US). The greatest genetic diversity in languages is found in Latin America, home to over 100 distinct language families and isolates. Language communities range from sizeable communities of languages with official status such as certain varieties of Guaran?, Quechua and Aymara, to communities of highly endangered languages with limited attention from communities, scholars and governments, as is the case of many Mesoamerican and Amazonian languages. The context in which language documentation might be conducted throughout Latin American and the challenges facing revitalization efforts are unique and cannot be extrapolated from the North American experience. This session therefore intends to give the Latin American context the focus and attention it requires by highlighting the key differences and needs for communities outside the US. It is understood that language documentation and revitalization in Latin America present complex issues and challenges which range across disciplines and sub-disciplines, and which have the potential to alter the methodologies, processes and expected outcomes in documenting and revitalizing languages in this part of the world. This session will address the various factors affecting language documentation and revitalization and will feature six case studies selected through competitive abstract submission to highlight the various ways in which these factors interact, and to provide broad geographic coverage. The following is a list of issues and challenges language documenters and/or activists may face while working in Latin America. The list is just suggestive rather than comprehensive and it is intended to provide you with clues of some of the factors that might be worth exploring. *1. Resources* a. Community-internal resources range from limited to non-existent in Latin American societies many of which are dependent on subsistence agriculture, hunter-gathering, or, small scale trade and services. b. State and federal resources, if available, are generally very limited and not efficiently administered. c. Technology-enabled access is not a given in a substantial portion of Latin American communities. d. Access to resources (e.g. grants, archives, telecommunications, academic scholars, training) for community members not residing in major urban areas is generally extremely limited e. Resources might only be available in dominant languages such as Spanish or English making access to conferences, training and other resources restricted to monolingual speakers of any given language. Even bilingual speakers of their language and Spanish or Portuguese are shut out of English-based resources and exchange opportunities such as most US based conferences and training opportunities. *2. Community engagement and motivation* a. Cultural constructs and/or social priorities may not allow for community-wide acknowledgement of a language endangerment situation. b. Different degrees of language vitality may lead to different levels of community engagement and motivation. c. Subsistence, cultural and social priorities may interfere with the ability to develop partnerships between community members and external researchers. * 3. Linguistic and dialectal diversity* a. Linguistic diversity is uniquely complex in Latin America with concentrations of numerous dialectal varieties or even mutually unintelligible and/or genetically unrelated languages in small geographic areas demand very high investments in intellectual and economic resources to ensure impact. *4. Literacy and institutionalized education* a. Widespread institutionalized education is relatively recent in many areas in Latin America. b. Widespread literacy cannot be assumed. *5. Expected outcomes and outcome formats* a. Factors 1 to 4 above require small scale, customized strategies and national level approaches along the lines of a national or even a regional Breath of Life are not feasible. b. Success in documentation and revitalization is a notion that needs to be customized based on the case specific interaction of Factors 1 to 4. c. Language communities in Latin America are complex and often have different agendas for language revitalization which will often not include formal education or extra-curricular educational programs. *6. Geographic distance* a. Location of a given community and access to it with regards to the researcher?s place of residence may compromise the continuity of collaborative documentation and especially, of collaborative revitalization efforts. *7. Ethics, human subjects, and IRB requirements* a. Most Latin American societies do not share the concerns that significantly condition a US-based researcher?s ability to conduct language documentation or to access funding to support it. b. IRB requirements such as signed consent forms may be misinterpreted by centuries-old experiences of abuse through administrative devices such as written and signed documents, and may be a source of distrust. *Guidelines* Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute discussion period (or shorter depending on number of submissions). Based on participants? interest, a poster session might be added to the special session. Please submit your abstract in keeping with LSA 2013 Annual Meeting Abstract Guidelines and Specifications available at http://lsadc.org/info/meet-annual13-abguide.cfm, by e-mail attachment (as Word, RTF or PDF files ? please use PDF if there are any potential problems with fonts) to documentation.revitalization at gmail.com. Please write ?ABSTRACT FOR LSA-SSILA SPECIAL SESSION? in the subject line. Make the abstract as anonymous as possible, and include a title. In the body of your e-mail message, include the following: - Title of the abstract: - Word count - Author(s): - Affiliation(s): - Date submitted: The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 27, 2012. The anonymous abstracts will be refereed by the panel organizing committee, and authors will be notified of inclusion to the proposed session by May 15. A final decision of LSA-SSILA acceptance of the special session falls outside of the organizers? control and will be communicated to authors by late Summer/early Fall. Panel organizing committee: Gabriela P?rez B?ez, Smithsonian Institution, perezbaezg at si.edu Chris Rogers, University of Utah, chris.rogers at utah.edu Jorge Emilio Ros?s Labrada, University of Western Ontario, jrosesla at uwo.ca Further information regarding the 87th LSA Annual Meeting can be found at http://www.lsadc.org/info/meet-annual.cfm From tpayne at uoregon.edu Wed Apr 18 17:11:34 2012 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:11:34 -0700 Subject: Books available for review Message-ID: A new listing of books available for review in Studies in Language has been posted at the following URL: http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/BooksAvailable-04-2012.pdf Qualified reviewers are encouraged to participate in the dialogue of our discipline by reviewing one or more of these books. Please contact the Review Editor, Thomas E. Payne, if you are interested. Please include a brief statement of why you want to review a particular book, a link to a CV or other web page that indicates your qualifications as a reviewer, and a postal address where I may send the book. Format and content guidelines for Book Reviews and Review Articles can be found at http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/SLstylesheet.pdf Reviews will be due five months after receipt of the book. If you submit a publishable review by the target date, the book will be yours to keep. Studies in Language (SL) provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: Social Sciences Citation Index; Social Scisearch; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Abstracts in English Studies; Cultures, Langues, Textes; European Reference Index for the Humanities; Germanistik; Humanities Index; IBR/IBZ; Linguistics Abstracts; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique; LLBA; MLA International Bibliography, Translation Studies Abstracts Online. From amnfn at well.com Thu Apr 19 16:17:46 2012 From: amnfn at well.com (A. Katz) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:17:46 -0700 Subject: Press Release: Book publication Message-ID: Inverted-A announces the publication of a new book, Vacuum County. Although a novel, it has at its heart a linguistic mystery. Funknet members wishing to write a review may request a review copy. http://www.inverteda.com/blog/press-release-vacuum-county-published-april-19-2012 From m.norde at rug.nl Wed Apr 25 20:29:12 2012 From: m.norde at rug.nl (Muriel Norde) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:29:12 +0200 Subject: CfP: CogLingdays 2012 Message-ID: ************ apologies for cross-postings****************** *CogLingdays 5, Groningen, 14th and 15th December 2012 * *Biannual meeting of the Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA) * After four fruitful meetings in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006), Leiden (2008), and Antwerp (2010), Groningen will host the fifthbiennial conference of the Belgium Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA, http://benecla.com/). The event is being organized by the University of Groningen in cooperation with the BeNeCLA board. The two-day conference offers a venue for researchers from the Low Countries to present and discuss their research results in the various strands of cognitive linguistics or other cognitively inspired usage based approaches. These may encompass a variety of perspectives, but they share the view that grammar is not only a socially grounded system for producing and understanding language, but is also shaped by those processes during linguistic interactions. All interested scholars working in the field of cognitive linguistics or related areas are invited to submit an abstract for the conference. Invited speakers *Mirjam Fried, Dagmar Divjak, and Alan Cienki* Forum *The Faculty of Language: a debate* with Arie Verhagen, Jan Wouter Zwart, and Muriel Norde *Abstracts * We invite abstracts for poster presentations (with a one-minute presentation) and regular conference papers (20 min. talk plus 10 min. discussion), which will be reviewed anonymously. The abstract text in *PDF format* should be limited to *400 words*, including references and data, and mention main research question(s), methodology, dataset and (expected) results. Please do _not_ reveal the identity of the author(s) in the text itself. Please indicate preference for *poster *or *regular presentation *and provide *three key words* to help the organizers put the presentations in coherent sessions. Please submit electronically at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CogLingdays2012. In the submission process, author(s) name(s) and affiliation are asked for. Deadline for submission: 31^st of May 2012 Notification of acceptance: 20th July 2012 ** *Organizing committee at the University of Groningen* Marjolijn Verspoor (Chair), Mike Huiskes, Muriel Norde, Rasmus Steinkrauss, Esther Pascual, Susanne Grassmann, Rimke Groeneveld Email: cogling2012 at gmail.com Web site: www.rug.nl/let/CogLing2012 *BeNeCla board and scientific committee * Ronny Boogaart (University Leiden), Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam),Dirk Geeraerts (Universiteit Leuven), Maarten van Leeuwen (Unviersiteit Leiden), Paul Sambre (Lessius/ Antwerpen/Leuven), Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Utrecht) Marjolijn Verspoor (RU Groningen) . -- Prof. dr. Muriel Norde Scandinavian Languages and Cultures University of Groningen P.O. Box 716 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands http://www.murielnorde.com