From twood at uwc.ac.za Thu Aug 2 12:09:38 2012 From: twood at uwc.ac.za (Tahir Wood) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:09:38 +0200 Subject: The proposition redux Message-ID: Dear Funknet A couple of years ago I initiated a debate on this list about the nature of the proposition, which generated some interest. I also had some interesting off-list exchanges on the topic. Since then my thinking has evolved to the point where I now no longer feel that the term proposition can be of any good use within linguistic semantics, regardless of its status in logic. I have finally published an article to this effect and can send the pdf to anyone interested. The ref is: Prolegomenon to a cognitive theory of content: alternatives to the proposition Text & Talk 32–3 (2012), pp. 413 – 431 Any critical comments will be welcome. Tahir -------------- next part -------------- All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/emaildisclaimer From jrubba at calpoly.edu Sun Aug 5 03:40:07 2012 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:40:07 -0700 Subject: Alternative Intro Ling courses Message-ID: Hi, Carol, I've been looking through responses to a query I made about intro ling textbooks in 2010. I STILL haven't found a good one! Has yours been published? I don't find anything under "How Languages Work" connected to your name. Thanks! Johanna Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics "Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu Tel.: 805.756.2184 Dept. Ofc. Tel.: 805.756.2596 Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374 URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba From jrubba at calpoly.edu Sun Aug 5 03:44:05 2012 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:44:05 -0700 Subject: Ignore message Message-ID: It seems to be the case that an e-mail I addressed to Carol Genetti went to the entire list. Please ignore it. Thanks. Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics "Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu Tel.: 805.756.2184 Dept. Ofc. Tel.: 805.756.2596 Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374 URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba From benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se Tue Aug 7 09:46:56 2012 From: benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se (Benjamin Lyngfelt) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:46:56 +0200 Subject: Languages abroad, workshop on heritage languages, Gothenburg Message-ID: Languages Abroad: workshop on heritage languages Gothenburg, October 24-25 2012. Languages abroad, a workshop on heritage languages, will be held at the University of Gothenburg on October 24-25, lunch to lunch. The speakers are: Hans Boas - on Texas German Janne Bondi Johannessen & Signe Laake - on Norwegian in America Catrin Norrby & Gisela Håkansson - on Swedish in Spain Christiane Andersen - on German in Russia Maia Andréasson, Ida Larsson, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Jenny Nilsson & Sofia Tingsell - on Swedish in America Csilla Wilhelm Szabó - on German in Romania and Hungary Hyeon-Sok Park - on Code Switching between Swedish and Korean Marie Rydenvald - on Swedish Third Culture Kids in Europe The location of the workshop is the Humanisten campus, Renströmsgatan 6 in Gothenburg, H building. There is no participation fee, but please send an e-mail to and tell us that you're coming. On behalf of the organization committee, Benjamin Lyngfelt From abergs at uos.de Wed Aug 8 18:16:01 2012 From: abergs at uos.de (Alexander Bergs) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 20:16:01 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers: Cognition and Poetics 2013 Message-ID: COGNITION AND POETICS 2013 Call for Papers We invite 20-minute paper submissions for the first international conference on Cognition and Poetics (CaP-12). The conference will take place from the 25-27 April 2013 at the Institute of English and American Studies of the University of Osnabrück, Germany. The conference is part of the UOS Research Cluster on Cognition and Poetics. FORMAT The conference will feature up to six plenary talks by leading scholars. In addition, the conference invites proposals for special workshops and themed panels/sessions. Scholars interested in organizing a workshop or panel/session should outline the topic and rationale of the project (in no more than 400 words), develop a suitable format, and invite participants to the event. Needless to say, all participants will have to register for the main conference. Please send proposals to cap at uni-osnabrueck.de by November 30, 2012. We also invite abstracts for 20-minute papers on topics dealing with cognition and poetics in the broad sense outlined above, including: • Cognitive perspectives and cultural history • Aesthetics, emotion, affect • From sentence to text: linguistic perspectives and the macro level • Universals and specifics in cognition and aesthetic experience • Creativity and the arts • The differentia specifica of the arts • Blending • Brain versus mind • Literature and experience • Constructional approaches to language and literature • Text types / genres from a cognitive perspective • The evolution of the arts • Pragmatic perspectives on authors and readers SUBMISSION DETAILS Please send 250-word abstracts to cap at uni-osnabrueck.de by 30 November 2012. Abstracts should be sent as anonymized attachments in MS Word format. You need to specify in your email text: • your name, • affiliation, • email address, • title of the talk Acceptance of papers will be sent out by 31 December 2012. STIPENDS & WAIVERS Graduate students and PhD Candidates are particularly invited to send paper and workshop proposals. We offer fifteen (15) grants for graduate students which cover the conference fee and accommodation. These grants will be awarded for the fifteen best proposals. For further details about the conference please contact Professor Alexander Bergs (abergs at uos.de), Professor Peter Schneck (pschneck at uos.de), or Ms Meike Pentrel, who is in charge of organizing the conference (mpentrel at uos.de). +++++++++++++ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Bergs, M.A. Chair of English Language and Linguistics Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (IfAA) Fachbereich 7 -Universitaet Osnabrueck Neuer Graben 40 D-49069 Osnabrueck Germany Tel: +49 541 969 4255 Tel: +49 541 969 6042 (secy) Fax: +49 541 969 4738 http://uni-osnabrueck.academia.edu/AlexanderBergs/About From hdls at unm.edu Wed Aug 15 16:00:23 2012 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society UNM) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:00:23 -0600 Subject: Extended deadline for call for papers (8/17) - High Desert Linguistics Society Conference 10 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) You still have time to submit an abstract for the Tenth High Desert Linguistic Society Conference. The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended until *Friday, August 17th at 11:59 PM (MST)*. Submitters will be notified of acceptance status by Sunday, August 19th. If you would like more information, please visit the HDLS Conference 10 website at http://linggraduate.unm.edu/conference/2012/index.html *Final 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 Please visit the HDLS Conference 10 website at http://linggraduate.unm.edu/conference/2012/index.html * We invite you to submit proposals for talks at the Tenth High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference 10. **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: * - Acquisition - Cognitive linguistics - Educational linguistics - Functional linguistics and discourse analysis - Gesture - Indigenous language endangerment, revitalization and description - Language and culture - Linguistic typology - Signed languages - Sociolinguistics *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 (Lexical Semantics) 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 a.schalley at griffith.edu.au Thu Aug 23 05:28:51 2012 From: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au (Andrea Schalley) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:28:51 +1000 Subject: Workshop on Aspect across Languages Message-ID: WORKSHOP: Aspect Across Languages: Divergence and Convergence DATE: 05-Dec-2012 - 07-Dec-2012 LOCATION: Perth, WA, Australia CONTACT: Andrea Schalley a.schalley at griffith.edu.au URL: SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20-Sep-2012 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: The level of complexity and importance of aspectual systems in languages, compounded by the diversity of approaches to representing aspect, make aspect an extremely interesting topic for discussion. In this workshop, we would like to engage in this discussion from a cross-linguistic perspective. Although many authors have thoroughly addressed and investigated issues surrounding aspect, there still remains a lack of uniformity in regard to the theoretical notion of aspect (Beavers, 2008, in press; Borer, 2005; Comrie, 1976; de Swart, 1998; Dowty, 1979; Filip, 2008; Klein, 1994; Krifka, 1998; Vendler, 1967, amongst others). Aspect can roughly be delimited as describing the speaker's perspective on the internal organisation of an action, event or state, which not only covers temporal perspectives, but might also include characteristics such as progressive, habitual, repetition, momentary, bounded, perfective etc. (Bybee, Perkins, & Pagliuca, 1994; Dahl, 1985; Smith, 1997; Talmy, 2000; Verkuyl, 1993). Topics of interest in this workshop include but are not limited to: - definitions and classifications of aspectual notions; - diachronic perspectives on aspect; - aspectual coding in specific languages, i.e. single-language treatments of aspect; - comparisons of aspect across different languages. The workshop is held as part of the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (https://sites.google.com/site/als2012uwa/home). CALL FOR PAPERS: We invite abstracts of up to 500 words. Please submit your abstract at Papers will be of 30 minutes duration, consisting of a 20 minute lecture-style presentation followed by 10 minutes for questions/responses. Abstracts should be submitted online and will be reviewed by at least two reviewers drawn from the Program Committee. Please ensure that your abstract meets the specific guidelines (cf. website). Note that only ALS members are eligible to present at an ALS conference. Non-members presenting papers must take up membership by the beginning of the conference. We particularly invite contributions that focus on the premise that aspectual categories reflect conceptual structures and which make these structures explicit. In addition, we welcome analytical and comparative studies of aspect across languages as well as discussions and presentations that help to clarify the current knowledge base of aspect terminology. Authors with problematic and non-standard examples as well as with work in progress are encouraged to contribute. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Helen Arnot, Griffith University, Australia Östen Dahl, University of Stockholm, Sweden Stefan Engelberg, Institute for the German Language (IDS) Mannheim, Germany Hana Filip, University of Düsseldorf, Germany Mark Harvey, University of Newcastle, Australia Beth Levin, Stanford University, USA Robert Mailhammer, University of Western Sydney, Australia Andrea Schalley, Griffith University, Australia Ruth Singer, University of Melbourne, Australia WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: Andrea Schalley Helen Arnot Linguistic Subfield: Linguistic Theories Semantics Typology General Linguistics Historical Linguistics -- Dr Andrea Schalley Senior Lecturer in Linguistics School of Languages and Linguistics Nathan Campus, Griffith University Nathan, Brisbane, QLD 4111 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 7 3735-4428 Fax: +61 7 3735-6766 Email: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au From Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be Fri Aug 31 08:23:45 2012 From: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be (Torsten Leuschner) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:23:45 +0200 Subject: Second Call for Papers: ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 (contrastive linguistics / corpus-based translation studies) - UGent, 2013 Message-ID: Ghent University (UGent) and University College Ghent (HoGent) are pleased to remind you of ICLC 7 – UCCTS 3, an international event combining in a single venue the latest editions of two conference series: - the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), and - the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS). Between them, ICLC 7 and UCCTS 3 encompass the full range of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based interpreting studies. Given the complementary nature of these fields of study, and the methodological overlap between them, the primary aim of ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 is to bring together people and create theoretical and empirical synergies across disciplinary boundaries. Date: July 10-13, 2013 Location: Ghent (Belgium), “Het Pand” Contact: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be URL: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be INVITED SPEAKERS: - Volker Gast (Jena) - Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens) - Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Anna Mauranen (Helsinki) - Sandra Halverson (Bergen) CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers are invited on a broad range of themes in the areas of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, provided they address one or more of the following issues: - The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistics; its relationship with neighbouring disciplines such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics - The aims, objectives and scope of corpus-based translation studies, in particular the ongoing debate about so-called translation universals: criticism and explanation (regarding e.g. the role of 'risk aversion'), the 'dominance' of the source language, interaction between universals (e.g. explicitation v. normalisation), effects of genre and other external variables - Corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with translation research - The role of theoretical frameworks; comparability, incommensurability and the tertium comparationis; the necessity and significance of the 'socio-cultural link' - Types, uses and mutual limitations of corpus data; the benefits of combining parallel and comparable corpora and their methodological relationship; the benefits of combining different methodologies, including multivariate statistics, distinctive collexeme analysis, etc.; the need to account for convergences as well as divergences - The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and general interface issues on the other (e.g. syntax/morphology, syntax/pragmatics) - Contrasts between languages at the levels of text, register, discourse, and information structure - The effect of the source language or of particular language pairs on translation and how to factor it into quantificational analyses SUBMISSIONS: Papers will last 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions will be anonymously evaluated by members of the scientific committee with the relevant expertise, and the conference programme will combine mixed sessions with sessions focusing on contrastive linguistics or translation/interpreting studies, as appropriate. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system, which may be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc7uccts3. Abstracts must be anonymous throughout, written in English, and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. Submissions are limited to two per individual, at least one of which must be co-authored. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2012 Notifications of acceptance: December 15, 2012 From geoffnathan at wayne.edu Fri Aug 31 18:53:27 2012 From: geoffnathan at wayne.edu (Geoffrey Steven Nathan) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:53:27 -0400 Subject: Reminder: ICLC 2013 Theme Session: Music and Language In-Reply-To: <789742125.18159.1339163314230.JavaMail.root@wsu-ms08> Message-ID: As those of us in the Americas gear up for the new semester I thought I'd put out this reminder. I've had several expressions of interest, but need more to have a full-fledged theme session. In the past few years several conferences (not all specifically linguistic) have included papers exploring relationships between language and music with Cognitive Linguistics as an organizing framework. I would like to organize a Theme Session at ICLC 2013 on this topic, and am soliciting paper proposals. Please email me a tentative title or one or two-line description of what you would be interested in doing by September 15 2012. Geoff Nathan geoffnathan at wayne.edu Geoffrey S. Nathan Faculty Liaison, C&IT and Professor, Linguistics Program http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/ +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT) +1 (313) 577-8621 (English/Linguistics) From twood at uwc.ac.za Thu Aug 2 12:09:38 2012 From: twood at uwc.ac.za (Tahir Wood) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:09:38 +0200 Subject: The proposition redux Message-ID: Dear Funknet A couple of years ago I initiated a debate on this list about the nature of the proposition, which generated some interest. I also had some interesting off-list exchanges on the topic. Since then my thinking has evolved to the point where I now no longer feel that the term proposition can be of any good use within linguistic semantics, regardless of its status in logic. I have finally published an article to this effect and can send the pdf to anyone interested. The ref is: Prolegomenon to a cognitive theory of content: alternatives to the proposition Text & Talk 32?3 (2012), pp. 413 ? 431 Any critical comments will be welcome. Tahir -------------- next part -------------- All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/emaildisclaimer From jrubba at calpoly.edu Sun Aug 5 03:40:07 2012 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:40:07 -0700 Subject: Alternative Intro Ling courses Message-ID: Hi, Carol, I've been looking through responses to a query I made about intro ling textbooks in 2010. I STILL haven't found a good one! Has yours been published? I don't find anything under "How Languages Work" connected to your name. Thanks! Johanna Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics "Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu Tel.: 805.756.2184 Dept. Ofc. Tel.: 805.756.2596 Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374 URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba From jrubba at calpoly.edu Sun Aug 5 03:44:05 2012 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:44:05 -0700 Subject: Ignore message Message-ID: It seems to be the case that an e-mail I addressed to Carol Genetti went to the entire list. Please ignore it. Thanks. Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics "Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu Tel.: 805.756.2184 Dept. Ofc. Tel.: 805.756.2596 Dept. Fax: 805.756.6374 URL: http://www.cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba From benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se Tue Aug 7 09:46:56 2012 From: benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se (Benjamin Lyngfelt) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:46:56 +0200 Subject: Languages abroad, workshop on heritage languages, Gothenburg Message-ID: Languages Abroad: workshop on heritage languages Gothenburg, October 24-25 2012. Languages abroad, a workshop on heritage languages, will be held at the University of Gothenburg on October 24-25, lunch to lunch. The speakers are: Hans Boas - on Texas German Janne Bondi Johannessen & Signe Laake - on Norwegian in America Catrin Norrby & Gisela H?kansson - on Swedish in Spain Christiane Andersen - on German in Russia Maia Andr?asson, Ida Larsson, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Jenny Nilsson & Sofia Tingsell - on Swedish in America Csilla Wilhelm Szab? - on German in Romania and Hungary Hyeon-Sok Park - on Code Switching between Swedish and Korean Marie Rydenvald - on Swedish Third Culture Kids in Europe The location of the workshop is the Humanisten campus, Renstr?msgatan 6 in Gothenburg, H building. There is no participation fee, but please send an e-mail to and tell us that you're coming. On behalf of the organization committee, Benjamin Lyngfelt From abergs at uos.de Wed Aug 8 18:16:01 2012 From: abergs at uos.de (Alexander Bergs) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 20:16:01 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers: Cognition and Poetics 2013 Message-ID: COGNITION AND POETICS 2013 Call for Papers We invite 20-minute paper submissions for the first international conference on Cognition and Poetics (CaP-12). The conference will take place from the 25-27 April 2013 at the Institute of English and American Studies of the University of Osnabr?ck, Germany. The conference is part of the UOS Research Cluster on Cognition and Poetics. FORMAT The conference will feature up to six plenary talks by leading scholars. In addition, the conference invites proposals for special workshops and themed panels/sessions. Scholars interested in organizing a workshop or panel/session should outline the topic and rationale of the project (in no more than 400 words), develop a suitable format, and invite participants to the event. Needless to say, all participants will have to register for the main conference. Please send proposals to cap at uni-osnabrueck.de by November 30, 2012. We also invite abstracts for 20-minute papers on topics dealing with cognition and poetics in the broad sense outlined above, including: ? Cognitive perspectives and cultural history ? Aesthetics, emotion, affect ? From sentence to text: linguistic perspectives and the macro level ? Universals and specifics in cognition and aesthetic experience ? Creativity and the arts ? The differentia specifica of the arts ? Blending ? Brain versus mind ? Literature and experience ? Constructional approaches to language and literature ? Text types / genres from a cognitive perspective ? The evolution of the arts ? Pragmatic perspectives on authors and readers SUBMISSION DETAILS Please send 250-word abstracts to cap at uni-osnabrueck.de by 30 November 2012. Abstracts should be sent as anonymized attachments in MS Word format. You need to specify in your email text: ? your name, ? affiliation, ? email address, ? title of the talk Acceptance of papers will be sent out by 31 December 2012. STIPENDS & WAIVERS Graduate students and PhD Candidates are particularly invited to send paper and workshop proposals. We offer fifteen (15) grants for graduate students which cover the conference fee and accommodation. These grants will be awarded for the fifteen best proposals. For further details about the conference please contact Professor Alexander Bergs (abergs at uos.de), Professor Peter Schneck (pschneck at uos.de), or Ms Meike Pentrel, who is in charge of organizing the conference (mpentrel at uos.de). +++++++++++++ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Bergs, M.A. Chair of English Language and Linguistics Institut f?r Anglistik und Amerikanistik (IfAA) Fachbereich 7 -Universitaet Osnabrueck Neuer Graben 40 D-49069 Osnabrueck Germany Tel: +49 541 969 4255 Tel: +49 541 969 6042 (secy) Fax: +49 541 969 4738 http://uni-osnabrueck.academia.edu/AlexanderBergs/About From hdls at unm.edu Wed Aug 15 16:00:23 2012 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society UNM) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:00:23 -0600 Subject: Extended deadline for call for papers (8/17) - High Desert Linguistics Society Conference 10 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) You still have time to submit an abstract for the Tenth High Desert Linguistic Society Conference. The deadline for abstract submissions has been extended until *Friday, August 17th at 11:59 PM (MST)*. Submitters will be notified of acceptance status by Sunday, August 19th. If you would like more information, please visit the HDLS Conference 10 website at http://linggraduate.unm.edu/conference/2012/index.html *Final 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 Please visit the HDLS Conference 10 website at http://linggraduate.unm.edu/conference/2012/index.html * We invite you to submit proposals for talks at the Tenth High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference 10. **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: * - Acquisition - Cognitive linguistics - Educational linguistics - Functional linguistics and discourse analysis - Gesture - Indigenous language endangerment, revitalization and description - Language and culture - Linguistic typology - Signed languages - Sociolinguistics *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 (Lexical Semantics) 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 a.schalley at griffith.edu.au Thu Aug 23 05:28:51 2012 From: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au (Andrea Schalley) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 15:28:51 +1000 Subject: Workshop on Aspect across Languages Message-ID: WORKSHOP: Aspect Across Languages: Divergence and Convergence DATE: 05-Dec-2012 - 07-Dec-2012 LOCATION: Perth, WA, Australia CONTACT: Andrea Schalley a.schalley at griffith.edu.au URL: SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20-Sep-2012 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: The level of complexity and importance of aspectual systems in languages, compounded by the diversity of approaches to representing aspect, make aspect an extremely interesting topic for discussion. In this workshop, we would like to engage in this discussion from a cross-linguistic perspective. Although many authors have thoroughly addressed and investigated issues surrounding aspect, there still remains a lack of uniformity in regard to the theoretical notion of aspect (Beavers, 2008, in press; Borer, 2005; Comrie, 1976; de Swart, 1998; Dowty, 1979; Filip, 2008; Klein, 1994; Krifka, 1998; Vendler, 1967, amongst others). Aspect can roughly be delimited as describing the speaker's perspective on the internal organisation of an action, event or state, which not only covers temporal perspectives, but might also include characteristics such as progressive, habitual, repetition, momentary, bounded, perfective etc. (Bybee, Perkins, & Pagliuca, 1994; Dahl, 1985; Smith, 1997; Talmy, 2000; Verkuyl, 1993). Topics of interest in this workshop include but are not limited to: - definitions and classifications of aspectual notions; - diachronic perspectives on aspect; - aspectual coding in specific languages, i.e. single-language treatments of aspect; - comparisons of aspect across different languages. The workshop is held as part of the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (https://sites.google.com/site/als2012uwa/home). CALL FOR PAPERS: We invite abstracts of up to 500 words. Please submit your abstract at Papers will be of 30 minutes duration, consisting of a 20 minute lecture-style presentation followed by 10 minutes for questions/responses. Abstracts should be submitted online and will be reviewed by at least two reviewers drawn from the Program Committee. Please ensure that your abstract meets the specific guidelines (cf. website). Note that only ALS members are eligible to present at an ALS conference. Non-members presenting papers must take up membership by the beginning of the conference. We particularly invite contributions that focus on the premise that aspectual categories reflect conceptual structures and which make these structures explicit. In addition, we welcome analytical and comparative studies of aspect across languages as well as discussions and presentations that help to clarify the current knowledge base of aspect terminology. Authors with problematic and non-standard examples as well as with work in progress are encouraged to contribute. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Helen Arnot, Griffith University, Australia ?sten Dahl, University of Stockholm, Sweden Stefan Engelberg, Institute for the German Language (IDS) Mannheim, Germany Hana Filip, University of D?sseldorf, Germany Mark Harvey, University of Newcastle, Australia Beth Levin, Stanford University, USA Robert Mailhammer, University of Western Sydney, Australia Andrea Schalley, Griffith University, Australia Ruth Singer, University of Melbourne, Australia WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: Andrea Schalley Helen Arnot Linguistic Subfield: Linguistic Theories Semantics Typology General Linguistics Historical Linguistics -- Dr Andrea Schalley Senior Lecturer in Linguistics School of Languages and Linguistics Nathan Campus, Griffith University Nathan, Brisbane, QLD 4111 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 7 3735-4428 Fax: +61 7 3735-6766 Email: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au From Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be Fri Aug 31 08:23:45 2012 From: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be (Torsten Leuschner) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:23:45 +0200 Subject: Second Call for Papers: ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 (contrastive linguistics / corpus-based translation studies) - UGent, 2013 Message-ID: Ghent University (UGent) and University College Ghent (HoGent) are pleased to remind you of ICLC 7 ? UCCTS 3, an international event combining in a single venue the latest editions of two conference series: - the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), and - the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS). Between them, ICLC 7 and UCCTS 3 encompass the full range of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based interpreting studies. Given the complementary nature of these fields of study, and the methodological overlap between them, the primary aim of ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 is to bring together people and create theoretical and empirical synergies across disciplinary boundaries. Date: July 10-13, 2013 Location: Ghent (Belgium), ?Het Pand? Contact: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be URL: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be INVITED SPEAKERS: - Volker Gast (Jena) - Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens) - Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Anna Mauranen (Helsinki) - Sandra Halverson (Bergen) CALL FOR PAPERS: Papers are invited on a broad range of themes in the areas of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, provided they address one or more of the following issues: - The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistics; its relationship with neighbouring disciplines such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics - The aims, objectives and scope of corpus-based translation studies, in particular the ongoing debate about so-called translation universals: criticism and explanation (regarding e.g. the role of 'risk aversion'), the 'dominance' of the source language, interaction between universals (e.g. explicitation v. normalisation), effects of genre and other external variables - Corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with translation research - The role of theoretical frameworks; comparability, incommensurability and the tertium comparationis; the necessity and significance of the 'socio-cultural link' - Types, uses and mutual limitations of corpus data; the benefits of combining parallel and comparable corpora and their methodological relationship; the benefits of combining different methodologies, including multivariate statistics, distinctive collexeme analysis, etc.; the need to account for convergences as well as divergences - The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and general interface issues on the other (e.g. syntax/morphology, syntax/pragmatics) - Contrasts between languages at the levels of text, register, discourse, and information structure - The effect of the source language or of particular language pairs on translation and how to factor it into quantificational analyses SUBMISSIONS: Papers will last 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions will be anonymously evaluated by members of the scientific committee with the relevant expertise, and the conference programme will combine mixed sessions with sessions focusing on contrastive linguistics or translation/interpreting studies, as appropriate. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system, which may be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc7uccts3. Abstracts must be anonymous throughout, written in English, and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. Submissions are limited to two per individual, at least one of which must be co-authored. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2012 Notifications of acceptance: December 15, 2012 From geoffnathan at wayne.edu Fri Aug 31 18:53:27 2012 From: geoffnathan at wayne.edu (Geoffrey Steven Nathan) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:53:27 -0400 Subject: Reminder: ICLC 2013 Theme Session: Music and Language In-Reply-To: <789742125.18159.1339163314230.JavaMail.root@wsu-ms08> Message-ID: As those of us in the Americas gear up for the new semester I thought I'd put out this reminder. I've had several expressions of interest, but need more to have a full-fledged theme session. In the past few years several conferences (not all specifically linguistic) have included papers exploring relationships between language and music with Cognitive Linguistics as an organizing framework. I would like to organize a Theme Session at ICLC 2013 on this topic, and am soliciting paper proposals. Please email me a tentative title or one or two-line description of what you would be interested in doing by September 15 2012. Geoff Nathan geoffnathan at wayne.edu Geoffrey S. Nathan Faculty Liaison, C&IT and Professor, Linguistics Program http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/ +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT) +1 (313) 577-8621 (English/Linguistics)