From m.norde at rug.nl Wed Jan 4 11:10:40 2012 From: m.norde at rug.nl (Muriel Norde) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:10:40 +0100 Subject: CfP Pragmaticalization at NRG5 Message-ID: Call for papers:Pragmaticalization at NRG5 Call deadline: January 17^th , 2012 Convenors Karin Beijering (k.beijering at rug.nl ), University of Groningen Muriel Norde (m.norde at rug.nl ), University of Groningen This is a call for papers for a workshop proposal to be submitted to the /New Reflections on Grammaticalization 5/ conference, to be held at the university of Edinburgh, July 16^th -19^th , 2012. Abstracts should be submitted directly to the NRG5 website (http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/nrg5/Call_For_Papers.html) and marked for "Workshop on Pragmaticalization". Please send your abstract to the two of us as well, so we can include it in our workshop proposal. If you already submitted your abstract to the conference website but would like to join our workshop, please forward your abstract to us and we will inform the conference organizers. Important notice:the general deadline for abstract submission to NRG5 is January 10^th , but has been extended to the 17^th for just this workshop. If our workshop proposal is rejected, your abstract will still be reviewed for the general programme. Workshop description The development of discourse markers is a controversial issue in grammaticalization theorizing (Beijering fc.). On the one hand, the growth of discourse markers is characterized by changes and effects typically attested in grammaticalization, e.g. decategorialization, phonological reduction, divergence or layering. On the other hand, it is crucially different from grammaticalization (Brinton & Traugott 2005:138f.), for instance because it involves scope increase instead of scope reduction, and an increase in syntactic freedom instead of syntactic fixation. These differences and similarities with prototypical cases of grammaticalization have given rise to divergent conceptualizations of the rise of discourse markers. Some authors (e.g. Ocampo 2006, Norde 2009) define pragmaticalization a process distinct from grammaticalization, others (e.g. Wischer 2000) consider it a special subtype of grammaticalization, yet others redefine grammaticalization properties so as to be able to include discourse makers. For example, Diewald (2011: 368) extends the notion of (grammatical) obligatoriness to "communicative obligatoriness". In this workshop, we welcome both theoretically and empirically oriented papers that address the question of whether pragmaticalization is a composite change in its own right, besides (de)lexicalization and (de)grammaticalization.Although we consider the boundaries between these "izations" as gradient, we are keen to explore the specific properties that distinguish discourse markers from grammatical elements suchas prepositions or modal auxiliaries, both synchronically and diachronically. References Beijering, Karin. fc. /Expressions of epistemic modality in Mainland Scandinavian: A study into the lexicalization-grammmaticalization-pragmaticalization interface/. PhD thesis, University of Groningen. Brinton, Laurel J. & Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 2005. /Lexicalization and language change/. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Diewald, Gabriele. 2011. Pragmaticalization (defined) as grammaticalization of discourse functions. /Linguistics/ 49(2), 365-390. Norde, Muriel. 2009. /Degrammaticalization./ Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ocampo, Francisco. 2006. Movement towards discourse is not grammaticalization: the evolution of /claro/ from adjective to discourse particle in spoken Spanish. In Sagarra, Nuria & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (eds) /Selected proceedings of the 9^th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium/, 308-319. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Wischer, Ilse. 2000. Grammaticalization versus lexicalization. '/Methinks/' there is some confusion. In Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach & Dieter Stein (eds) /Pathways of change. Grammaticalization in English/, 355-370. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. -- 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 brian.nolan at gmail.com Fri Jan 6 19:40:33 2012 From: brian.nolan at gmail.com (Brian Nolan) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:40:33 +0000 Subject: CALL for ABSTRACTS-> SLE workshop - Functionally motivated computational approaches to models of language and grammar In-Reply-To: Message-ID: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR WORKSHOP on: Functionally motivated computational approaches to models of language and grammar Within the framework of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, to be held on 29 August - 1 September 2012, at the Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, we are holding a workshop on functionally motivated work in computational approaches to models of language and grammar. Convenors: Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Dublin Ireland) brian.nolan at gmail.com Carlos Periñán Pascual (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) carlos.perinan at gmail.com This call for abstracts is for a workshop under the 45th Annual Meeting of the SLE to examine and discuss recent and current work in the use of functional, cognitive and constructional approaches to the computational modelling of language and grammars. A full day workshop hosted under last years 44th meeting of the SLE, at the Universidad de La Rioja (Logroño, Spain) was particularly successful. Abstract submission date is 15th January 2012 via the SLE website: http://sle2011.cliap.es We wish to examine in particular computational models that are linguistically motivated and that deal with problems at the interfaces between concept, semantics, lexicon, syntax and morphology. Many functionally oriented models of grammar, including Functional Grammar, Functional Discourse Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar have lent themselves to this work The organisers of this workshop are a European group of linguists, computational linguists and computer scientists who, since the 2004 Role and Reference Grammar International Conference in Dublin have formulated computational proposals in different areas concerned with the lexicon and concept ontologies, and the computational processing of the syntax, morphology and semantics of a variety of languages. A consequence of this computational work has been the enrichment of the theoretical elements of the RRG theory, especially in its semantics and lexical underpinnings where they connect with concepts, and the building of frame based applications in software that demonstrate its viability in natural language processing. This computational work provides compelling evidence that functional approaches to grammar have a positive and crucial role to play in natural language processing. The main topics of the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following: · The deployment of functional models in parse and generation · The architecture of the lexicon, · The linking system between semantics, lexicon and morphosyntax · Interpretation of the linguistic model into an algorithm specification · Issues for the layered structure of the clause and word · Complexity issues · Concept formation · Linguistically motivated computational approaches to gesture in language Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations with 10 minute discussion. Interested researchers and linguists are invited to submit an abstract to this workshop with their name, affiliation and abstract of 500 words Important dates 15 January 2012: submission of all abstracts 31 March 2012: notification of acceptance The workshop proposal has been accepted so all abstracts will need to be submitted to SLE by 15th January 2012, via the SLE conference Website: http://sle2011.cliap.es Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2012 Registration: From April 2012 onwards Conference: 29 August-1 September 2012 Selected references Cassell, J., Sullivan, J., Prevost, S., and Churchill, E. (Eds.). 2000. EmbodiedConversational Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Fauconnier, Gilles. (1994). Mental Spaces: Aspects of Meaning Construction inNatural Language. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Guest, Elizabeth, Brian Nolan and Ricardo Mairal-Uson. 2009. Natural Languageprocessing applications in an RRG Framework. Proceedings of the 10th International Role and Reference Grammar Conference. University of California, Berkeley USA. Leeson, Lorraine and Brian Nolan. 2008. Digital Deployment of the Signs ofIreland Corpus in Elearning. Language Resources and Evaluation LREC2008 - 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora. Marrakech, Morocco. Leeson, Lorraine, John Saeed, Deirdre Byrne-Dunne, Alison Macduff and Cormac Leonard. 2006. Moving Heads and Moving Hands: Developing a Digital Corpus of Irish Sign Language. The ‘Signs of Ireland’ Corpus Development Project. IT&T Conference (www.ittconference.ie). IT Carlow, Ireland.http://www.tara.tcd.ie/jspui/handle/2262/1597 Mairal Usón, R. and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza. 2008: New challenges for lexical representation within the Lexical-Constructional Model (LCM). In Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. Universidad de La Laguna. Mairal Usón, Ricardo and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza. 2009: Levels of description and explanation in meaning construction. In Ch. Butler and J. Martín Arista (eds.). Deconstructing Constructions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Morrissey, Sara and Andy Way. 2006. Lost in Translation: the Problems of UsingMainstream MT Evaluation Metrics for Sign Language Translation. In Proceedings of Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages: 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages. Genoa, Italy. pp.91-98 Nolan, Brian. 2011. Constructions as grammatical objects: A new perspective onconstructions in RRG. Paper presented at the International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar on "Functional Linguistics: Grammar, Communication & Cognition". Facultad de Letras, at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago de Chile. Nolan, Brian. 2011. Meaning Construction and Grammatical Inflection in the Layered
Structure of the Irish Word: An RRG Account of Morphological Constructions. In: Watara Nakamura (ed.). New perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Nolan, Brian. 2011. Constructional templates at the morphology-lexicon interface– meaning and the layered structure of the Irish word. Paper presented at the workshop on Meaning construction at the crossroads of grammar, cognition and communication. Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain. Nolan, Brian and Yasser Salem. 2011. UniArab: RRG Arabic-to-English Machine Translation. In: Watara Nakamura (ed.). New perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Periñán-Pascual, Carlos, and Francisco Arcas-Túnez. 2005. Microconceptual-Knowledge Spreading in FunGramKB. Proceedings on the 9th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. 239-244, ACTA Press, Anaheim-Calgary-Zurich. Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Francisco Arcas Túnez. 2007. Cognitive modules of an NLP knowledge base for language understanding. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 39, 197-204. Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Francisco Arcas Túnez. 2010a. Ontological commitments in FunGramKB. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 44, 27-34. Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Francisco Arcas Túnez. 2010b. The architecture of FunGramKB. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2667-2674. Periñán-Pascual, Carlos and Ricardo Mairal Usón. 2009. Bringing Role and Reference Grammar to natural language understanding. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 43, 265-273. Prendinger, Helmut and Mitsuru Ishizuka. 2010. Life-Like Characters: Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications (Cognitive Technologies). Springer. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José and Mairal, Ricardo. 2008: ‘Levels of description and constraining factors in meaning construction: an introduction to the Lexical Constructional Model’. Folia Linguistica 42/2 (2008), 355–400. Salem, Y., Hensman, A., and Nolan, B., 2008a. Implementing Arabic-to-Englishmachine translation using the Role and Reference Grammar linguistic model. In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunication (IT&T 2008), Galway, Ireland. Salem, Y. and Nolan, B., 2009a. Designing an XML lexicon architecture for Arabicmachine translation based on Role and Reference Grammar. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools (MEDAR 2009), Cairo, Egypt. Salem, Y. and Nolan, B., 2009b. UNIARAB: An universal machine translatorsystem for Arabic Based on Role and Reference Grammar. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Germany (DGfS 2009). Van Valin, R., 2005. Exploring the Syntax-Semantic Interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Van Valin, R. and LaPolla, R., 1997. Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function. Cambridge University Press. _______________________________ Dr. Brian Nolan Head of Department of Informatics School of Informatics and Engineering Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Blanchardstown Road North Blanchardstown Dublin 15 Ireland email: brian.nolan at itb.ie email: brian.nolan at gmail.com _______________________________ From dan at daneverett.org Sat Jan 7 18:02:53 2012 From: dan at daneverett.org (Daniel Everett) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:02:53 -0800 Subject: Computational Analysis of Piraha Grammar Message-ID: The link below is to a talk given at the LSA in Portland, OR on January 07, 2012, "A corpus analysis of Piraha grammar: An investigation of recursion." http://tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_website/researchpapers/piantadosi_et_al_piraha_lsa_2012.pdf -- Dan From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Mon Jan 9 13:03:45 2012 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:03:45 +0000 Subject: Language & Cognition Message-ID: Dear colleague. *2012 Subscription to 'Language & Cognition' * www.languageandcognition.net** We are writing to invite you to subscribe to Language & Cognition for 2012. 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Deadline for abstracts and proposals: February 15, 2012; Conference Website: www.dgkl.uni-freiburg.de; Conference Committee email address: dgkl2012 at googlemail.com. We look forward to your abstracts dealing with topics in cognitive-functional linguistics. We welcome contributions dealing with all research areas of cognitive linguistics as well as contributions taking a cognitive perspective on language on the basis of methods from psychology, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics and artificial intelligence or explorations of the connections between these disciplines and cognitive linguistics. --Martin Hilpert From grvsmth at panix.com Tue Jan 10 05:24:53 2012 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:24:53 -0500 Subject: Cognitive (literary) Theory Message-ID: Last week at the Modern Language Association I presented my work connecting Bybee and Thompson's (2000) observations about the role of type and token frequency in the propagation of analogical language changes to Kroch's (1989) logistic model of S-curves in the same types of changes. http://stjohns.academia.edu/grvsmth/Talks/67194/The_Spread_of_ne_..._pas_in_French I believe it was well-received, but I attended a few other papers that as a cognitive/functional linguist I was particularly excited about, and I wanted to share that with those of you who were not there. There is a relatively new movement in literary criticism known as "cognitive theory" which aims to apply some of the methods and findings of cognitive linguistics to the study and teaching of literature. I noticed that some of the MLA presenters referred to Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) theory of embodied metaphor, which is not terribly surprising given the role of metaphor in literature. But after one talk I suggested that Rosch's (1973 and others) notion non-platonic categories, which Lakoff (1987, 2008) developed further, could be helpful in addressing a particular question of semantics, and mentioned that I had not heard anyone else mention them yet at the conference. One of the other attendees who was sitting near me mentioned that at the next session she was going to hear a panel on Cognitive approaches to teaching /Don Quixote/, which I had overlooked since I haven't read Cervantes or worked on Spanish, but in that panel every talk applied one or another finding from Cognitive Linguistics to Cervantes. Sadly I didn't hear any mention of Langacker or Fillmore, but there was plenty of embodied metaphor, and one participant used Roschian categorization to explain shifts in the assignment of /Don Quixote/ from one literary genre or another over the centuries. This looks to me like an opening for some very fruitful discussion and collaboration between linguists and literary critics. In the coming year I will be looking at literary conferences, panels and journals that indicate an openness to cognitive approaches as possible venues for presentations and publications, and reaching out to cognitive literary theorists who might be interested in presenting at the ILA's annual conference. I hope to see some of you presenting your work in these venues as well. Have any of you encountered this Cognitive Theory so far? I imagine George Lakoff has heard of it... -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith grvsmth at panix.com From karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl Wed Jan 11 15:00:28 2012 From: karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl (Karin Plijnaar) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:00:28 +0100 Subject: New Benjamins title: N=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F8rg=E5rd-S=F8rensen/Heltoft/Sch=F8sler=3A_?=Connecting Grammaticalisation Message-ID: Connecting Grammaticalisation Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler University of Copenhagen / Roskilde University Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 65 2011. xiii, 347 pp. Hardbound ISBN 978 90 272 1575 8 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 e-Book Forthcoming ISBN 978 90 272 8413 6 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word order), constructional syntax and other grammatical subsystems is their paradigmatic organisation. The traditional concept of an inflexional paradigm is generalised as the structuring principle of grammar. Grammatical change involves paradigmatic restructuring, and in the process of grammatical change morphological, topological and constructional paradigms often connect to form complex paradigms. The book introduces the concept of /connecting grammaticalisation/ to describe the formation, restructuring and dismantling of such complex paradigms. Drawing primarily on data from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages, the book offers both a broad general discussion of theoretical issues (part one) and three case studies (part two). Introduction xi-xiv Chapter 1 Morphology 1-42 Chapter 2 Topology (word order) 43-70 Chapter 3 Constructions 71-102 Chapter 4 Connecting grammaticalisation 103-112 Chapter 5 Patterns of connecting grammaticalisation in Russian: Syntax, animacy and aspect Jens Nørgård-Sørensen 113-170 Chapter 6 Word order change as grammaticalisation: Paradigm structure and change in Scandinavian Lars Heltoft 171-236 Chapter 7 Scenarios of grammatical change in Romance languages Lene Schøsler 237-326 References 327-342 Language index 343-344 Subject index 345-348 -- John Benjamins Publishing Company Karin Plijnaar, Marketing/Publicity karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl P.O. Box 36224, 1020 ME, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Klaprozenweg 75G, 1033 NN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel. 00 31 (0)20 630 47 47 - Fax 00 31 (0)20 673 97 73 www.benjamins.com NB The Dutch P.O. does not sign for parcels. 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Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden Indiana University / University of Pittsburgh Benjamins Current Topics 36 2011. v, 241 pp. Hardbound ISBN 978 90 272 0255 0 / EUR 90.00 / USD 135.00 e-Book Forthcoming ISBN 978 90 272 8255 2 / EUR 90.00 / USD 135.00 The studies in /Language Change in Contact Languages/ showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of the studies deal with morphosyntactic issues while the other three address questions of prosody. The studies include data from the Atlantic creoles (Saramaccan, Sranan, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Creole, Trinidadian Creole, Papiamentu), as well as Singapore English. This volume, originally pulished as special issue of /Studies in Language/ 33:2 (2009), aims to make the work of several language contact experts available to a wider audience. The studies will be of use to any student or scholar interested in different approaches to contact-induced language processes, particularly as they relate to morphosyntax and prosody. Language change in contact languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations: An introduction J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden 1-18 The contribution of relexification, grammaticalization, and reanalysis to creole genesis and development Claire Lefebvre 19-52 Grammaticalization in creoles: Ordinary and not-so-ordinary cases Adrienne Bruyn 53-78 One in Singapore English Bao Zhiming 79-106 Contact-induced grammaticalization: Evidence from bilingual acquisition Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip 107-135 Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in 'hybrid' prosodic systems Shelome Gooden, Kathy-Ann Drayton and Mary E. Beckman 137-176 Subsystem interface and tone typology in Papiamentu Yolanda Rivera-Castillo 177-198 A twice-mixed creole?: Tracing the history of a prosodic split in the Saramaccan lexicon Jeffrey Good 199-238 -- John Benjamins Publishing Company Karin Plijnaar, Marketing/Publicity karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl P.O. Box 36224, 1020 ME, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Klaprozenweg 75G, 1033 NN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel. 00 31 (0)20 630 47 47 - Fax 00 31 (0)20 673 97 73 www.benjamins.com NB The Dutch P.O. does not sign for parcels. If you send anything by express delivery (DHL, Fedex, UPS, etc.) our street address must be used in order for the shipment to reach us. From federicodanielnavarro at gmail.com Thu Jan 12 23:35:27 2012 From: federicodanielnavarro at gmail.com (Federico Navarro) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:35:27 -0300 Subject: Invitation to join ALSFAL Message-ID: The Latin American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ALSFAL) invites you to become a member, free of charge, and to join the members’ discussion list, ALSFAL-lista. ALSFAL, founded in 2004, is an organization which brings together researchers from all over the world who are interested in studying Latin American socio-discursive phenomena from a Systemic Functional point of view and which has so far organized seven annual regional conferences. The principal objectives of the Association are to consolidate links among scholars active in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and to promote knowledge and development of SFL in the region. There is no membership fee. In order to join the Association please write to sociosalsfal at gmail.com, writing in the subject slot I WISH TO JOIN ALSFAL and including in the body of the mail the following information: full name; affiliation; city and country; email; phone number; area of SFL in which you work; language in which you work. Once you have joined, you will receive an invitation to join the discussion list. For further information, please go to: http://www.pucsp.br/isfc/alsfal/english/Home.html From bradley.mcdonnell at gmail.com Tue Jan 17 18:11:25 2012 From: bradley.mcdonnell at gmail.com (Bradley McDonnell) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:11:25 -0800 Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 27th- 28th, 2012 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 15th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of language in the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references) and can be submitted online at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/wail2012. Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have internet access. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance. *Online submissions:* Abstracts can be submitted online at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/wail2012 in PDF format. *For hard copy submissions:* Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Attn: Elliott Hoey or Dibella Wdzenczny Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:January 31st, 2011 Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 29th, 2012. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Yñez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/). For further information contact the conference coordinators, Elliott Hoey or Dibella Wdzenczny, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com, or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ From vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr Tue Jan 17 23:14:13 2012 From: vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr (Alice Vittrant) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:14:13 +0100 Subject: Second Call for Abstracts, SEALS22, France Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 22nd SOUTHEAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS SOCIETY MEETING Agay/Saint-Raphaël (FRANCE) May 30 - June 2, 2012 Dear Colleagues, The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to February 12th. ---------- The International Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) conference takes place every year, alternating between an Asian and a non-Asian country. In 2012, the 22nd annual International SEALS conference is organized by SeDyl, with the active support of INALCO, LACITO, CASE, CNRS (INSHS), IRD, IRSEA, Aix-Marseille Université, and Maison Asie Pacifique. It will take place in Agay (France). Abstracts are invited for papers on any of the following themes related to Southeast Asian Languages: ·Space in Southeast Asian Languages: trajectory, deixis, directionality, metaphorical space etc… ·Discourse in Southeast Asian Languages: information structure, discourses markers discourse construction, etc. ·Corpus and variation in Southeast Asian Languages: data, variation, analysis, structure, normalization, usages, etc… Furthermore, we invite papers on any aspect of language or linguistics related to languages of Southeast Asia. Keynote speakers ·Gérard DIFFLOTH (EFFEO) ·Nick ENFIELD (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) ·Denis PAILLARD (CNRS/Université Paris-Diderot) Abstract submission format Please send your abstract of no more than 500 words on-line at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=seals22 Please note that you need to register first on Easychair website before submitting your abstract on-line. During your registration, you will be asked to confirm your registration before proceeding to submit your abstract. The actual content of your abstract proposal, without any personal information, should be attached to the submission form as a PDF file, and containing the following structure: Page 1 : Text (500 words) containing a statement of topic, approach, and conclusions. Page 2: Examples and references Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee on a strictly scientific basis. Abstract checklist The abstracts themselves must be anonymous, but the body of your message/e-mail should include the following information: Deadlines - Abstract submission: February 12th 2012, online - Notification of acceptance: March 15th 2012, via e-mail Presentation guidelines Presentations should be in English (or in French). Participants will be allocated 25 minutes for presentation, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Conference updates http://sealsxxii.vjf.cnrs.fr E-mail : seals22.agay at gmail.com ------------------- Alice Vittrant Université de Provence / CNRS-LACITO vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr From ana.zwitter at guest.arnes.si Thu Jan 19 21:29:59 2012 From: ana.zwitter at guest.arnes.si (Ana Zwitter) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:29:59 +0100 Subject: Journal call for papers - Spoken discourse Message-ID: Linguistica - Spoken discourse The journal Linguistica, published by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), will devote its 52th issue (2012) to spoken discourse. Over the last decades, spoken discourse has been one of the most prominent topics of linguistic research. This can probably be attributed to two principal characteristics of spoken discourse: its formal complexity and variability, on the one hand, and the diversity of functions performed by different linguistic practices. Contributions may deal with methodological aspects of spoken discourse analysis as well as with specific linguistic practices. Possible topics could include the following: - public discourse, - spontaneous speech, - language acquisition, - interpreting, - sociolinguistics, - speech pathology, - forensic linguistics, - language technologies, - spoken discourse in language reference sources, - terminology of spoken discourse research. The list is not exhaustive and proposals concerning other aspects of spoken discourse analysis are also welcome. Authors are invited to submit the title and the abstract (100 - 200 words) of their paper by 10th March 2012 on the website http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica in the following two steps: - register and log-in as Author, - open the User Home tab, choose New submission and follow the submission process. Each abstract will be evaluated by two reviewers. Papers and abstracts can be written in English, German, Spanish, French or Italian. The accepted papers should not exceed 30 000 characters (including spaces). Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 5 April 2012 Deadline for sending in accepted papers: 20 June 2012 Evaluation of papers: July - August 2012 Revised versions of the articles: 15 October 2012 Guest editor: Ana Zwitter Vitez (Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia). From egibson at MIT.EDU Sat Jan 21 19:52:56 2012 From: egibson at MIT.EDU (Ted Gibson) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:52:56 -0500 Subject: languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking Message-ID: Dear Funknet people: Can you please provide me with references for the claim that word order in language tends to shift between SOV word order with case-marking to SVO word order without case-marking? Or any similar such claim? I am citing Givon for this claim, but I have heard from others that there are some claims that pre-date him. I am interested in all such references: both pre- and post-Givon. Yours sincerely, Ted Gibson From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Sun Jan 22 18:08:29 2012 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:08:29 +0100 Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 100, Issue 10 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Ted, I assume you are familiar with the - not uncontroversial paper - by Murray Gell-Mann and Merritt Ruhlen that appeared a couple of months ago in PNAS ('The origin and evolution of word order')? I am not sure what they claim about case systems, but they do claim that languages tend to evolve from SOV to SVO. There is some reference to similar but earlier claims from Vennemann in the paper. Best regards, --- Freek Van de Velde http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/nedling_e/fvandevelde/ -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:00 PM To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 100, Issue 10 Send FUNKNET mailing list submissions to funknet at mailman.rice.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/funknet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu You can reach the person managing the list at funknet-owner at mailman.rice.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of FUNKNET digest..." Today's Topics: 1. languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking (Ted Gibson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:52:56 -0500 From: Ted Gibson Subject: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking To: funknet , Tom Givon Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear Funknet people: Can you please provide me with references for the claim that word order in language tends to shift between SOV word order with case-marking to SVO word order without case-marking? Or any similar such claim? I am citing Givon for this claim, but I have heard from others that there are some claims that pre-date him. I am interested in all such references: both pre- and post-Givon. Yours sincerely, Ted Gibson End of FUNKNET Digest, Vol 100, Issue 10 **************************************** From dwhieb at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 15:10:37 2012 From: dwhieb at gmail.com (Daniel W. Hieber) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:10:37 -0500 Subject: languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Ted, Comrie discusses this in his book Language Universals & Linguistic Typology, pp. 213-214, citing specifically Vennemann 1974 (full citation below), although Comrie is rather critical of his claims. Vennemann's idea is also critiqued by Hawkins 1983, chs. 5-6. Vennemann, Theo. 1984. Typology, universals and change of language. In Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Historical Syntax. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 23. Berlin: Mouton, 593-612. Hawkins, John A. 1983. Word order universals. Quantitative Analyses of Linguistic Structure. New York: Academic Press. Hope that helps, Danny Hieber -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of Ted Gibson Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 2:53 PM To: funknet; Tom Givon Subject: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking Dear Funknet people: Can you please provide me with references for the claim that word order in language tends to shift between SOV word order with case-marking to SVO word order without case-marking? Or any similar such claim? I am citing Givon for this claim, but I have heard from others that there are some claims that pre-date him. I am interested in all such references: both pre- and post-Givon. Yours sincerely, Ted Gibson From megusto.tw at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 16:42:47 2012 From: megusto.tw at gmail.com (Mei-jun Liu) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:42:47 +0800 Subject: Question for Tagging issues Message-ID: Dear Funknet people, I have been confusing while I tagging the error type for the data in learner corpus For some data are not considered as "Error" while it is spoken, and some data are not good but acceptable in written form. It is not a clear boundary between right sentence and wrong sentence. So I wonder anyone can share your comment on my struggle? LUZ From megusto.tw at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 16:49:07 2012 From: megusto.tw at gmail.com (=?big5?B?vEKs/Kdn?=) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:49:07 +0800 Subject: [Question ] about the error analysis Message-ID: Dear Funknet people, I have been confusing while I tagging the error type for the data in learner corpus For some data are not considered as "Error" while it is spoken, and some data are not good but acceptable in written form. It is not a clear boundary between right sentence and wrong sentence. So I wonder anyone can share your comment on my struggle? Sincerely, LUZ From egibson at MIT.EDU Fri Jan 27 17:53:57 2012 From: egibson at MIT.EDU (Ted Gibson) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:53:57 -0500 Subject: Summary of languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Funknetters: I got a lot of responses to my request, which I report below. Thank you to all who responded! You have been very helpful. I am working on summarizing what I am learning from the various papers that people have recommended for me. Ted > From: Ted Gibson > Date: January 21, 2012 2:52:56 PM EST > To: funknet , Tom Givon > Subject: languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Dear Funknet people: > > Can you please provide me with references for the claim that word order in language tends to shift between SOV word order with case-marking to SVO word order without case-marking? Or any similar such claim? I am citing Givon for this claim, but I have heard from others that there are some claims that pre-date him. I am interested in all such references: both pre- and post-Givon. > > Yours sincerely, > > Ted Gibson > 1. Tom Givon (private email): Begin forwarded message: > From: Tom Givon > Date: January 21, 2012 3:15:40 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson , "Heine, Bernd" > Subject: Re: languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > > Dear Ted, > > I don't recall making this claim. Ever since my articles in 1971 (CLS 7) and 1974 (C. Li ed. "WO & WO Change") I have seen no support for any correlation between WO and lack of case-marking. What I have noted, repeatedly, are grammaticalization pathways that produce case-marking from either verbal or nominal sources, and that WO at the time of grammaticalization is the most crucial factor in determining whether case-marking will be re-positional or post-positional. > > The question of existence vs. non-existence of case-marking is entirely separate, and has to do with two separate issues: > > (i) Indirect pathways via which SUBJ & OBJ case-marking arises, what I call "secondary grammaticalization". Well known examples are: > (a) INSTR > AGT of PASSIVE > ERG subject > NOM subject (Polynesian) > (b) GEN subject (in nominalized clauses) > NOM subject in main clauses (Japanese) > (c) DAT in subord clauses > ERG subject in main clauses (Carib) > (d) GEN object in nominalized VPs > ACC object in main clauses (No. Uto-Aztecan , Ute) > (e) DAT of possession > NOM subject (No. Iranian; Neo-Aramaic) > (f) ALLATIVE > DATIVE > ACCUSATIVE (Spanish) > > (ii) Phonological attrition of case-marking (particularly NOM & ACC) (Indo-European, Semitic, etc.) > > These two general processes are independent of each other, and as far as I know they are totally independent of Word-Order typology. > > I am copying my friend Bernd Heine, since I am not on FUNKNET any more and he might be able to contribute to this discussion. > > I hope this helps. Best, TG 2. Jess Tauber Begin forwarded message: > From: jess tauber > Date: January 21, 2012 3:40:37 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > Reply-To: jess tauber > > Hi- saw your inquiry. I don't have refs to any general hypothesis, but work on a language, Yahgan, from Tierra del Fuego that had a great deal of case marking with SOV typological features, yet was already by the mid 19th Century showing preferences for SVO ordering. Now, I haven't looked to see whether the distribution of case marking is different between the two orders, but would be willing to if you're interested. > > Sincerely, > Jess Tauber > (please respond using goldenratio at earthlink.net rather than phonosemantics... thanks) 3. Joan Bybee Begin forwarded message: > From: Joan Bybee > Date: January 21, 2012 3:58:55 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Theo Vennemann makes this claim in 'An explanation of drift' in 1975 in Charles Li (ed.) Word order and word order change (p. 289) and in some earlier papers he cites there. Of course, Theo and Talmy were both at UCLA in the early 70's and were both influenced by Greenberg's findings of 1966. > > Joan 4. Ron Smyth Begin forwarded message: > From: Ron Smyth > Date: January 21, 2012 6:31:08 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Hi Ted! This caught my eye because in 1975 I wrote my Honours thesis on > syntactic drift from Old Norse to Modern Icelandic, checking the sagas vs. > modern Icelandic novels to see if they conformed with Greenberg's > principles. Of course that was 37 years ago and I no longer have a copy, > but it seems to my fading memory that Greenberg is where I first heard of > this phenomenon. But of course he is the obvious place to look so you've > probably already checked that out. 5. Olga Yokoyama Begin forwarded message: > From: "Yokoyama, Olga" > Date: January 21, 2012 7:05:34 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: RE: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Ted, > Depending on what you mean by a "similar claim": I claim that in Russian there was (and in some registers perhaps it is still on-going) a shift between VSO and SVO accompanied by a change in intonational phrase boundary (Discourse and word order, p. 284 ff). > Olga > > Olga T. Yokoyama > > Professor > Department of Applied Linguistics > University of California, Los Angeles > Tel. (310) 825-7694 > Fax (310) 206-4118 > http://www.appling.ucla.edu 6. Matthew Dryer Begin forwarded message: > From: Matthew Dryer > Date: January 22, 2012 9:18:31 AM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > > Ted, > > I'm not sure if your query refers explicitly to diachronic claims about this, but the following article discusses the synchronic relationship between case and word order > > Dryer, Matthew S. 2002. "Case Distinctions, Rich Verb Agreement, and Word Order Type". Theoretical Linguistics 28: 151-157. > > a nonfinal draft of which is downloadable from > > http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/DryerTheoLing02.pdf > > This article is a response to the following, which also raises this issue: > > Hawkins, J.A. (2002) "Symmetries and asymmetries: their grammar, typology and parsing". Target article in peer reviewed issue of Theoretical Linguistics 28:95 149. > > Matthew Dryer 7. Freek Van der Velde Begin forwarded message: > From: Freek Van de Velde > Date: January 22, 2012 1:08:29 PM EST > To: "funknet at mailman.rice.edu" > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] FUNKNET Digest, Vol 100, Issue 10 > > Dear Ted, > I assume you are familiar with the - not uncontroversial paper - by Murray Gell-Mann and Merritt Ruhlen that appeared a couple of months ago in PNAS ('The origin and evolution of word order')? I am not sure what they claim about case systems, but they do claim that languages tend to evolve from SOV to SVO. There is some reference to similar but earlier claims from Vennemann in the paper. > Best regards, > --- > Freek Van de Velde > http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/nedling_e/fvandevelde/ 8. Kaius Sinnemäki Begin forwarded message: > From: Kaius Sinnemäki > Date: January 22, 2012 1:38:58 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Dear Ted, > > A number of people have worked on a similar hypothesis. Vennemann > wrote about this in his 1973 and 1974 papers. I think Mallinson and > Blake 1981 also discuss it briefly. Balthasar Bickel has also > researched whether case marking tends to correlate with verb-final > word order or not, using a sample of a few hundred languages. I have > recently surveyed the correlation between word order and the absence > of case and agreement with a sample of about 850 languages. Below some > references. Hope these help > > Best, > Kaius Sinnemäki > University of Helsinki > > > > Bickel, Balthasar 2008b. A general method for the statistical > evaluation of typological distributions. Manuscript. > http://www.spw.uzh.ch/bickel-files/papers/. > Mallinson, Graham & Barry J. Blake. 1981. Language typology: > Cross-Linguistic studies in syntax. Amsterdam: North-Holland > Publishing Company. > Sinnemäki, Kaius 2010. Word order in zero-marking languages. Studies > in Language 34(4): 869-912. > Vennemann, Theo 1973. Explanation in syntax. In John Kimball (ed.), > Syntax and semantics (vol. 2), 1 -50. New York: Academic Press. > Vennemann, Theo 1974. Topics, subjects, and word order: From SXV to > SVX via TVX. In John Anderson and Charles Jones (eds.), Historical > linguistics: Proceedings of the first international congress of > historical linguistics, Edinburgh, September 1973 (vol. II), 339-376. > Amsterdam: North -Holland. Holland. 9. Bernd Heine Begin forwarded message: > From: Bernd Heine > Date: January 23, 2012 1:23:24 AM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Cc: Tom Givon > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Dear Ted, > Since Tom mentioned my name, here is at least a short response. Your hypothesis is interesting indeed and there are certainly some examples in support of it (such as from Indo-European to Romance and other languages). But I am not entirely sure whether we have sufficient cases of attested typological change to test the hypothesis, even in its weakened 'tend-to' format. > I'd prefer to go with Tom and focus at this stage on individual pathways of grammaticalization, both giving rise to new case markers and leading to the decline and loss of existing case markers, rather than attempting overall comparisons of language systems. And the pathways he listed are roughly the ones that I also had in mind when I read your message. > With best wishes for your research, > Bernd 10. Danny Hieber > From: "Daniel W. Hieber" > Date: January 23, 2012 10:10:37 AM EST > To: "'Ted Gibson'" , "'funknet'" , "'Tom Givon'" > Subject: RE: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Hi Ted, > > Comrie discusses this in his book Language Universals & Linguistic Typology, > pp. 213-214, citing specifically Vennemann 1974 (full citation below), > although Comrie is rather critical of his claims. Vennemann's idea is also > critiqued by Hawkins 1983, chs. 5-6. > > Vennemann, Theo. 1984. Typology, universals and change of language. In Jacek > Fisiak (ed.), Historical Syntax. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and > Monographs 23. Berlin: Mouton, 593-612. > > Hawkins, John A. 1983. Word order universals. Quantitative Analyses of > Linguistic Structure. New York: Academic Press. > > Hope that helps, > > Danny Hieber 11. Tom Givon again Begin forwarded message: > From: Tom Givon > Date: January 23, 2012 12:58:28 PM EST > To: "Daniel W. Hieber" > Cc: "'Ted Gibson'" > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > > Yes, Danny. Vennemann (1973) was responsible for this suggestion, based solely on Indo-European. (It was during A summer conference at UC Santa Cruz, one of the early Syntax & Semantics volumes, and I happened to be there & indeed objected, but to no avail). I don't know if Ted shared with you my response (I am not on FUNKNET anymore, so it went only to him). With aplogy to Ted, Here it is. Cheers, TG 12. Danny Hieber again Begin forwarded message: > From: "Daniel W. Hieber" > Date: January 23, 2012 4:27:44 PM EST > To: "'Tom Givon'" > Cc: "'Ted Gibson'" > Subject: RE: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Hi Tom, > > Thanks for sending that along. While Vennemann's suggestion seems reasonable > on its face, I'm inclined to agree with you. If an attrition of case marking > causes ambiguity for SOV languages, thus causing the switch to SVO, then we > have to ask why there even exist SOV languages without case marking at all. > But since there are clearly numerous examples of SOV languages without case > marking, Vennemann's suggestion seems unlikely. I wouldn't want to discount > the idea entirely - it does seem possible that, for some specific languages > in the past, an attrition in case marking was one of the factors > contributing to a switch from SOV to SVO word order. But this would just be > one possible contributing factor to one possible pathway of word order > change. > > All the best, > > Danny From eitkonen at utu.fi Sat Jan 28 13:47:46 2012 From: eitkonen at utu.fi (Esa Itkonen) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:47:46 +0000 Subject: information requested Message-ID: Dear Funknetters: I am sorry to bother you with the following (odd) query. Some time ago I was recruited to write a referee statement on an article manuscript with the title 'On the influence of the grammatical system and analogy in processes of language change', and I completed this task well before the deadline. The problem is, however, that being apparently overwhelmed with different assignments, I am no longer sure which journal I was meant to write the statement for. Any ideas? Esa Homepage: http://users.utu.fi/eitkonen From grvsmth at panix.com Sat Jan 28 16:04:10 2012 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:04:10 -0500 Subject: information requested In-Reply-To: <20228BF0CE70E442A633BEEEAD3B392446AD8EC2@exch-mbx-01.utu.fi> Message-ID: On 1/28/2012 8:47 AM, Esa Itkonen wrote: > Dear Funknetters: I am sorry to bother you with the following (odd) query. Some time ago I was recruited to write a referee statement on an article manuscript with the title 'On the influence of the grammatical system and analogy in processes of language change' Maybe Olga Fischer can tell you: http://weblog.leidenuniv.nl/media/blogs/74593/Fischer.pdf Whichever journal it is, it sounds promising and I look forward to seeing it in print. -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith grvsmth at panix.com From m.norde at rug.nl Wed Jan 4 11:10:40 2012 From: m.norde at rug.nl (Muriel Norde) Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:10:40 +0100 Subject: CfP Pragmaticalization at NRG5 Message-ID: Call for papers:Pragmaticalization at NRG5 Call deadline: January 17^th , 2012 Convenors Karin Beijering (k.beijering at rug.nl ), University of Groningen Muriel Norde (m.norde at rug.nl ), University of Groningen This is a call for papers for a workshop proposal to be submitted to the /New Reflections on Grammaticalization 5/ conference, to be held at the university of Edinburgh, July 16^th -19^th , 2012. Abstracts should be submitted directly to the NRG5 website (http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/nrg5/Call_For_Papers.html) and marked for "Workshop on Pragmaticalization". Please send your abstract to the two of us as well, so we can include it in our workshop proposal. If you already submitted your abstract to the conference website but would like to join our workshop, please forward your abstract to us and we will inform the conference organizers. Important notice:the general deadline for abstract submission to NRG5 is January 10^th , but has been extended to the 17^th for just this workshop. If our workshop proposal is rejected, your abstract will still be reviewed for the general programme. Workshop description The development of discourse markers is a controversial issue in grammaticalization theorizing (Beijering fc.). On the one hand, the growth of discourse markers is characterized by changes and effects typically attested in grammaticalization, e.g. decategorialization, phonological reduction, divergence or layering. On the other hand, it is crucially different from grammaticalization (Brinton & Traugott 2005:138f.), for instance because it involves scope increase instead of scope reduction, and an increase in syntactic freedom instead of syntactic fixation. These differences and similarities with prototypical cases of grammaticalization have given rise to divergent conceptualizations of the rise of discourse markers. Some authors (e.g. Ocampo 2006, Norde 2009) define pragmaticalization a process distinct from grammaticalization, others (e.g. Wischer 2000) consider it a special subtype of grammaticalization, yet others redefine grammaticalization properties so as to be able to include discourse makers. For example, Diewald (2011: 368) extends the notion of (grammatical) obligatoriness to "communicative obligatoriness". In this workshop, we welcome both theoretically and empirically oriented papers that address the question of whether pragmaticalization is a composite change in its own right, besides (de)lexicalization and (de)grammaticalization.Although we consider the boundaries between these "izations" as gradient, we are keen to explore the specific properties that distinguish discourse markers from grammatical elements suchas prepositions or modal auxiliaries, both synchronically and diachronically. References Beijering, Karin. fc. /Expressions of epistemic modality in Mainland Scandinavian: A study into the lexicalization-grammmaticalization-pragmaticalization interface/. PhD thesis, University of Groningen. Brinton, Laurel J. & Elizabeth Closs Traugott. 2005. /Lexicalization and language change/. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Diewald, Gabriele. 2011. Pragmaticalization (defined) as grammaticalization of discourse functions. /Linguistics/ 49(2), 365-390. Norde, Muriel. 2009. /Degrammaticalization./ Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ocampo, Francisco. 2006. Movement towards discourse is not grammaticalization: the evolution of /claro/ from adjective to discourse particle in spoken Spanish. In Sagarra, Nuria & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (eds) /Selected proceedings of the 9^th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium/, 308-319. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. Wischer, Ilse. 2000. Grammaticalization versus lexicalization. '/Methinks/' there is some confusion. In Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach & Dieter Stein (eds) /Pathways of change. Grammaticalization in English/, 355-370. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. -- 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 brian.nolan at gmail.com Fri Jan 6 19:40:33 2012 From: brian.nolan at gmail.com (Brian Nolan) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:40:33 +0000 Subject: CALL for ABSTRACTS-> SLE workshop - Functionally motivated computational approaches to models of language and grammar In-Reply-To: Message-ID: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR WORKSHOP on: Functionally motivated computational approaches to models of language and grammar Within the framework of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, to be held on 29 August - 1 September 2012, at the Department of Linguistics, University of Stockholm, we are holding a workshop on functionally motivated work in computational approaches to models of language and grammar. Convenors: Brian Nolan (Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Dublin Ireland) brian.nolan at gmail.com Carlos Peri??n Pascual (Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain) carlos.perinan at gmail.com This call for abstracts is for a workshop under the 45th Annual Meeting of the SLE to examine and discuss recent and current work in the use of functional, cognitive and constructional approaches to the computational modelling of language and grammars. A full day workshop hosted under last years 44th meeting of the SLE, at the Universidad de La Rioja (Logro?o, Spain) was particularly successful. Abstract submission date is 15th January 2012 via the SLE website: http://sle2011.cliap.es We wish to examine in particular computational models that are linguistically motivated and that deal with problems at the interfaces between concept, semantics, lexicon, syntax and morphology. Many functionally oriented models of grammar, including Functional Grammar, Functional Discourse Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar have lent themselves to this work The organisers of this workshop are a European group of linguists, computational linguists and computer scientists who, since the 2004 Role and Reference Grammar International Conference in Dublin have formulated computational proposals in different areas concerned with the lexicon and concept ontologies, and the computational processing of the syntax, morphology and semantics of a variety of languages. A consequence of this computational work has been the enrichment of the theoretical elements of the RRG theory, especially in its semantics and lexical underpinnings where they connect with concepts, and the building of frame based applications in software that demonstrate its viability in natural language processing. This computational work provides compelling evidence that functional approaches to grammar have a positive and crucial role to play in natural language processing. The main topics of the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following: ? The deployment of functional models in parse and generation ? The architecture of the lexicon, ? The linking system between semantics, lexicon and morphosyntax ? Interpretation of the linguistic model into an algorithm specification ? Issues for the layered structure of the clause and word ? Complexity issues ? Concept formation ? Linguistically motivated computational approaches to gesture in language Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations with 10 minute discussion. Interested researchers and linguists are invited to submit an abstract to this workshop with their name, affiliation and abstract of 500 words Important dates 15 January 2012: submission of all abstracts 31 March 2012: notification of acceptance The workshop proposal has been accepted so all abstracts will need to be submitted to SLE by 15th January 2012, via the SLE conference Website: http://sle2011.cliap.es Notification of acceptance: 31st March 2012 Registration: From April 2012 onwards Conference: 29 August-1 September 2012 Selected references Cassell, J., Sullivan, J., Prevost, S., and Churchill, E. (Eds.). 2000. EmbodiedConversational Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Fauconnier, Gilles. (1994). Mental Spaces: Aspects of Meaning Construction inNatural Language. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Guest, Elizabeth, Brian Nolan and Ricardo Mairal-Uson. 2009. Natural Languageprocessing applications in an RRG Framework. Proceedings of the 10th International Role and Reference Grammar Conference. University of California, Berkeley USA. Leeson, Lorraine and Brian Nolan. 2008. Digital Deployment of the Signs ofIreland Corpus in Elearning. Language Resources and Evaluation LREC2008 - 3rd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora. Marrakech, Morocco. Leeson, Lorraine, John Saeed, Deirdre Byrne-Dunne, Alison Macduff and Cormac Leonard. 2006. Moving Heads and Moving Hands: Developing a Digital Corpus of Irish Sign Language. The ?Signs of Ireland? Corpus Development Project. IT&T Conference (www.ittconference.ie). IT Carlow, Ireland.http://www.tara.tcd.ie/jspui/handle/2262/1597 Mairal Us?n, R. and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza. 2008: New challenges for lexical representation within the Lexical-Constructional Model (LCM). In Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. Universidad de La Laguna. Mairal Us?n, Ricardo and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza. 2009: Levels of description and explanation in meaning construction. In Ch. Butler and J. Mart?n Arista (eds.). Deconstructing Constructions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Morrissey, Sara and Andy Way. 2006. Lost in Translation: the Problems of UsingMainstream MT Evaluation Metrics for Sign Language Translation. In Proceedings of Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages: 5th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages. Genoa, Italy. pp.91-98 Nolan, Brian. 2011. Constructions as grammatical objects: A new perspective onconstructions in RRG. Paper presented at the International Conference on Role and Reference Grammar on "Functional Linguistics: Grammar, Communication & Cognition". Facultad de Letras, at the Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile, in Santiago de Chile. Nolan, Brian. 2011. Meaning Construction and Grammatical Inflection in the Layered Structure of the Irish Word: An RRG Account of Morphological Constructions. In: Watara Nakamura (ed.). New perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Nolan, Brian. 2011. Constructional templates at the morphology-lexicon interface? meaning and the layered structure of the Irish word. Paper presented at the workshop on Meaning construction at the crossroads of grammar, cognition and communication. Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of La Rioja, Logro?o, Spain. Nolan, Brian and Yasser Salem. 2011. UniArab: RRG Arabic-to-English Machine Translation. In: Watara Nakamura (ed.). New perspectives in Role and Reference Grammar. London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Peri??n-Pascual, Carlos, and Francisco Arcas-T?nez. 2005. Microconceptual-Knowledge Spreading in FunGramKB. Proceedings on the 9th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. 239-244, ACTA Press, Anaheim-Calgary-Zurich. Peri??n-Pascual, Carlos and Francisco Arcas T?nez. 2007. Cognitive modules of an NLP knowledge base for language understanding. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 39, 197-204. Peri??n-Pascual, Carlos and Francisco Arcas T?nez. 2010a. Ontological commitments in FunGramKB. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 44, 27-34. Peri??n-Pascual, Carlos and Francisco Arcas T?nez. 2010b. The architecture of FunGramKB. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2667-2674. Peri??n-Pascual, Carlos and Ricardo Mairal Us?n. 2009. Bringing Role and Reference Grammar to natural language understanding. Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 43, 265-273. Prendinger, Helmut and Mitsuru Ishizuka. 2010. Life-Like Characters: Tools, Affective Functions, and Applications (Cognitive Technologies). Springer. Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez, Francisco Jos? and Mairal, Ricardo. 2008: ?Levels of description and constraining factors in meaning construction: an introduction to the Lexical Constructional Model?. Folia Linguistica 42/2 (2008), 355?400. Salem, Y., Hensman, A., and Nolan, B., 2008a. Implementing Arabic-to-Englishmachine translation using the Role and Reference Grammar linguistic model. In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Conference on Information Technology and Telecommunication (IT&T 2008), Galway, Ireland. Salem, Y. and Nolan, B., 2009a. Designing an XML lexicon architecture for Arabicmachine translation based on Role and Reference Grammar. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools (MEDAR 2009), Cairo, Egypt. Salem, Y. and Nolan, B., 2009b. UNIARAB: An universal machine translatorsystem for Arabic Based on Role and Reference Grammar. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Germany (DGfS 2009). Van Valin, R., 2005. Exploring the Syntax-Semantic Interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Van Valin, R. and LaPolla, R., 1997. Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function. Cambridge University Press. _______________________________ Dr. Brian Nolan Head of Department of Informatics School of Informatics and Engineering Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Blanchardstown Road North Blanchardstown Dublin 15 Ireland email: brian.nolan at itb.ie email: brian.nolan at gmail.com _______________________________ From dan at daneverett.org Sat Jan 7 18:02:53 2012 From: dan at daneverett.org (Daniel Everett) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 10:02:53 -0800 Subject: Computational Analysis of Piraha Grammar Message-ID: The link below is to a talk given at the LSA in Portland, OR on January 07, 2012, "A corpus analysis of Piraha grammar: An investigation of recursion." http://tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_website/researchpapers/piantadosi_et_al_piraha_lsa_2012.pdf -- Dan From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Mon Jan 9 13:03:45 2012 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:03:45 +0000 Subject: Language & Cognition Message-ID: Dear colleague. *2012 Subscription to 'Language & Cognition' * www.languageandcognition.net** We are writing to invite you to subscribe to Language & Cognition for 2012. 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Deadline for abstracts and proposals: February 15, 2012; Conference Website: www.dgkl.uni-freiburg.de; Conference Committee email address: dgkl2012 at googlemail.com. We look forward to your abstracts dealing with topics in cognitive-functional linguistics. We welcome contributions dealing with all research areas of cognitive linguistics as well as contributions taking a cognitive perspective on language on the basis of methods from psychology, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, historical linguistics and artificial intelligence or explorations of the connections between these disciplines and cognitive linguistics. --Martin Hilpert From grvsmth at panix.com Tue Jan 10 05:24:53 2012 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:24:53 -0500 Subject: Cognitive (literary) Theory Message-ID: Last week at the Modern Language Association I presented my work connecting Bybee and Thompson's (2000) observations about the role of type and token frequency in the propagation of analogical language changes to Kroch's (1989) logistic model of S-curves in the same types of changes. http://stjohns.academia.edu/grvsmth/Talks/67194/The_Spread_of_ne_..._pas_in_French I believe it was well-received, but I attended a few other papers that as a cognitive/functional linguist I was particularly excited about, and I wanted to share that with those of you who were not there. There is a relatively new movement in literary criticism known as "cognitive theory" which aims to apply some of the methods and findings of cognitive linguistics to the study and teaching of literature. I noticed that some of the MLA presenters referred to Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) theory of embodied metaphor, which is not terribly surprising given the role of metaphor in literature. But after one talk I suggested that Rosch's (1973 and others) notion non-platonic categories, which Lakoff (1987, 2008) developed further, could be helpful in addressing a particular question of semantics, and mentioned that I had not heard anyone else mention them yet at the conference. One of the other attendees who was sitting near me mentioned that at the next session she was going to hear a panel on Cognitive approaches to teaching /Don Quixote/, which I had overlooked since I haven't read Cervantes or worked on Spanish, but in that panel every talk applied one or another finding from Cognitive Linguistics to Cervantes. Sadly I didn't hear any mention of Langacker or Fillmore, but there was plenty of embodied metaphor, and one participant used Roschian categorization to explain shifts in the assignment of /Don Quixote/ from one literary genre or another over the centuries. This looks to me like an opening for some very fruitful discussion and collaboration between linguists and literary critics. In the coming year I will be looking at literary conferences, panels and journals that indicate an openness to cognitive approaches as possible venues for presentations and publications, and reaching out to cognitive literary theorists who might be interested in presenting at the ILA's annual conference. I hope to see some of you presenting your work in these venues as well. Have any of you encountered this Cognitive Theory so far? I imagine George Lakoff has heard of it... -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith grvsmth at panix.com From karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl Wed Jan 11 15:00:28 2012 From: karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl (Karin Plijnaar) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:00:28 +0100 Subject: New Benjamins title: N=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F8rg=E5rd-S=F8rensen/Heltoft/Sch=F8sler=3A_?=Connecting Grammaticalisation Message-ID: Connecting Grammaticalisation Jens N?rg?rd-S?rensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Sch?sler University of Copenhagen / Roskilde University Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 65 2011. xiii, 347 pp. Hardbound ISBN 978 90 272 1575 8 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 e-Book Forthcoming ISBN 978 90 272 8413 6 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word order), constructional syntax and other grammatical subsystems is their paradigmatic organisation. The traditional concept of an inflexional paradigm is generalised as the structuring principle of grammar. Grammatical change involves paradigmatic restructuring, and in the process of grammatical change morphological, topological and constructional paradigms often connect to form complex paradigms. The book introduces the concept of /connecting grammaticalisation/ to describe the formation, restructuring and dismantling of such complex paradigms. Drawing primarily on data from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages, the book offers both a broad general discussion of theoretical issues (part one) and three case studies (part two). Introduction xi-xiv Chapter 1 Morphology 1-42 Chapter 2 Topology (word order) 43-70 Chapter 3 Constructions 71-102 Chapter 4 Connecting grammaticalisation 103-112 Chapter 5 Patterns of connecting grammaticalisation in Russian: Syntax, animacy and aspect Jens N?rg?rd-S?rensen 113-170 Chapter 6 Word order change as grammaticalisation: Paradigm structure and change in Scandinavian Lars Heltoft 171-236 Chapter 7 Scenarios of grammatical change in Romance languages Lene Sch?sler 237-326 References 327-342 Language index 343-344 Subject index 345-348 -- John Benjamins Publishing Company Karin Plijnaar, Marketing/Publicity karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl P.O. Box 36224, 1020 ME, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Klaprozenweg 75G, 1033 NN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel. 00 31 (0)20 630 47 47 - Fax 00 31 (0)20 673 97 73 www.benjamins.com NB The Dutch P.O. does not sign for parcels. If you send anything by express delivery (DHL, Fedex, UPS, etc.) our street address must be used in order for the shipment to reach us. From karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl Wed Jan 11 15:00:19 2012 From: karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl (Karin Plijnaar) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:00:19 +0100 Subject: New Benjamins Title - Clements/Gooden: Language Change in Contact Languages Message-ID: Language Change in Contact Languages Grammatical and prosodic considerations Edited by J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden Indiana University / University of Pittsburgh Benjamins Current Topics 36 2011. v, 241 pp. Hardbound ISBN 978 90 272 0255 0 / EUR 90.00 / USD 135.00 e-Book Forthcoming ISBN 978 90 272 8255 2 / EUR 90.00 / USD 135.00 The studies in /Language Change in Contact Languages/ showcase the contributions that the study of contact language varieties make to the understanding of phenomena such as relexification, transfer, reanalysis, grammaticalization, prosodic variation and the development of prosodic systems. Four of the studies deal with morphosyntactic issues while the other three address questions of prosody. The studies include data from the Atlantic creoles (Saramaccan, Sranan, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Creole, Trinidadian Creole, Papiamentu), as well as Singapore English. This volume, originally pulished as special issue of /Studies in Language/ 33:2 (2009), aims to make the work of several language contact experts available to a wider audience. The studies will be of use to any student or scholar interested in different approaches to contact-induced language processes, particularly as they relate to morphosyntax and prosody. Language change in contact languages: Grammatical and prosodic considerations: An introduction J. Clancy Clements and Shelome Gooden 1-18 The contribution of relexification, grammaticalization, and reanalysis to creole genesis and development Claire Lefebvre 19-52 Grammaticalization in creoles: Ordinary and not-so-ordinary cases Adrienne Bruyn 53-78 One in Singapore English Bao Zhiming 79-106 Contact-induced grammaticalization: Evidence from bilingual acquisition Stephen Matthews and Virginia Yip 107-135 Tone inventories and tune-text alignments: Prosodic variation in 'hybrid' prosodic systems Shelome Gooden, Kathy-Ann Drayton and Mary E. Beckman 137-176 Subsystem interface and tone typology in Papiamentu Yolanda Rivera-Castillo 177-198 A twice-mixed creole?: Tracing the history of a prosodic split in the Saramaccan lexicon Jeffrey Good 199-238 -- John Benjamins Publishing Company Karin Plijnaar, Marketing/Publicity karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl P.O. Box 36224, 1020 ME, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Klaprozenweg 75G, 1033 NN, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel. 00 31 (0)20 630 47 47 - Fax 00 31 (0)20 673 97 73 www.benjamins.com NB The Dutch P.O. does not sign for parcels. If you send anything by express delivery (DHL, Fedex, UPS, etc.) our street address must be used in order for the shipment to reach us. From federicodanielnavarro at gmail.com Thu Jan 12 23:35:27 2012 From: federicodanielnavarro at gmail.com (Federico Navarro) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:35:27 -0300 Subject: Invitation to join ALSFAL Message-ID: The Latin American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association (ALSFAL) invites you to become a member, free of charge, and to join the members? discussion list, ALSFAL-lista. ALSFAL, founded in 2004, is an organization which brings together researchers from all over the world who are interested in studying Latin American socio-discursive phenomena from a Systemic Functional point of view and which has so far organized seven annual regional conferences. The principal objectives of the Association are to consolidate links among scholars active in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and to promote knowledge and development of SFL in the region. There is no membership fee. In order to join the Association please write to sociosalsfal at gmail.com, writing in the subject slot I WISH TO JOIN ALSFAL and including in the body of the mail the following information: full name; affiliation; city and country; email; phone number; area of SFL in which you work; language in which you work. Once you have joined, you will receive an invitation to join the discussion list. For further information, please go to: http://www.pucsp.br/isfc/alsfal/english/Home.html From bradley.mcdonnell at gmail.com Tue Jan 17 18:11:25 2012 From: bradley.mcdonnell at gmail.com (Bradley McDonnell) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:11:25 -0800 Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Santa Barbara, CA April 27th- 28th, 2012 The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 15th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of language in the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references) and can be submitted online at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/wail2012. Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have internet access. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance. *Online submissions:* Abstracts can be submitted online at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/wail2012 in PDF format. *For hard copy submissions:* Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session or the Special Panel. Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages Attn: Elliott Hoey or Dibella Wdzenczny Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:January 31st, 2011 Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 29th, 2012. General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Y?ez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/). For further information contact the conference coordinators, Elliott Hoey or Dibella Wdzenczny, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com, or check out our website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ From vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr Tue Jan 17 23:14:13 2012 From: vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr (Alice Vittrant) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:14:13 +0100 Subject: Second Call for Abstracts, SEALS22, France Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 22nd SOUTHEAST ASIAN LINGUISTICS SOCIETY MEETING Agay/Saint-Rapha?l (FRANCE) May 30 - June 2, 2012 Dear Colleagues, The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to February 12th. ---------- The International Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS) conference takes place every year, alternating between an Asian and a non-Asian country. In 2012, the 22nd annual International SEALS conference is organized by SeDyl, with the active support of INALCO, LACITO, CASE, CNRS (INSHS), IRD, IRSEA, Aix-Marseille Universit?, and Maison Asie Pacifique. It will take place in Agay (France). Abstracts are invited for papers on any of the following themes related to Southeast Asian Languages: ?Space in Southeast Asian Languages: trajectory, deixis, directionality, metaphorical space etc? ?Discourse in Southeast Asian Languages: information structure, discourses markers discourse construction, etc. ?Corpus and variation in Southeast Asian Languages: data, variation, analysis, structure, normalization, usages, etc? Furthermore, we invite papers on any aspect of language or linguistics related to languages of Southeast Asia. Keynote speakers ?G?rard DIFFLOTH (EFFEO) ?Nick ENFIELD (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen) ?Denis PAILLARD (CNRS/Universit? Paris-Diderot) Abstract submission format Please send your abstract of no more than 500 words on-line at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=seals22 Please note that you need to register first on Easychair website before submitting your abstract on-line. During your registration, you will be asked to confirm your registration before proceeding to submit your abstract. The actual content of your abstract proposal, without any personal information, should be attached to the submission form as a PDF file, and containing the following structure: Page 1 : Text (500 words) containing a statement of topic, approach, and conclusions. Page 2: Examples and references Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee on a strictly scientific basis. Abstract checklist The abstracts themselves must be anonymous, but the body of your message/e-mail should include the following information: Deadlines - Abstract submission: February 12th 2012, online - Notification of acceptance: March 15th 2012, via e-mail Presentation guidelines Presentations should be in English (or in French). Participants will be allocated 25 minutes for presentation, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Conference updates http://sealsxxii.vjf.cnrs.fr E-mail : seals22.agay at gmail.com ------------------- Alice Vittrant Universit? de Provence / CNRS-LACITO vittrant at vjf.cnrs.fr From ana.zwitter at guest.arnes.si Thu Jan 19 21:29:59 2012 From: ana.zwitter at guest.arnes.si (Ana Zwitter) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:29:59 +0100 Subject: Journal call for papers - Spoken discourse Message-ID: Linguistica - Spoken discourse The journal Linguistica, published by the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), will devote its 52th issue (2012) to spoken discourse. Over the last decades, spoken discourse has been one of the most prominent topics of linguistic research. This can probably be attributed to two principal characteristics of spoken discourse: its formal complexity and variability, on the one hand, and the diversity of functions performed by different linguistic practices. Contributions may deal with methodological aspects of spoken discourse analysis as well as with specific linguistic practices. Possible topics could include the following: - public discourse, - spontaneous speech, - language acquisition, - interpreting, - sociolinguistics, - speech pathology, - forensic linguistics, - language technologies, - spoken discourse in language reference sources, - terminology of spoken discourse research. The list is not exhaustive and proposals concerning other aspects of spoken discourse analysis are also welcome. Authors are invited to submit the title and the abstract (100 - 200 words) of their paper by 10th March 2012 on the website http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica in the following two steps: - register and log-in as Author, - open the User Home tab, choose New submission and follow the submission process. Each abstract will be evaluated by two reviewers. Papers and abstracts can be written in English, German, Spanish, French or Italian. The accepted papers should not exceed 30 000 characters (including spaces). Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2012 Notification of acceptance: 5 April 2012 Deadline for sending in accepted papers: 20 June 2012 Evaluation of papers: July - August 2012 Revised versions of the articles: 15 October 2012 Guest editor: Ana Zwitter Vitez (Trojina, Institute for Applied Slovene Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia). From egibson at MIT.EDU Sat Jan 21 19:52:56 2012 From: egibson at MIT.EDU (Ted Gibson) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:52:56 -0500 Subject: languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking Message-ID: Dear Funknet people: Can you please provide me with references for the claim that word order in language tends to shift between SOV word order with case-marking to SVO word order without case-marking? Or any similar such claim? I am citing Givon for this claim, but I have heard from others that there are some claims that pre-date him. I am interested in all such references: both pre- and post-Givon. Yours sincerely, Ted Gibson From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Sun Jan 22 18:08:29 2012 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:08:29 +0100 Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 100, Issue 10 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Ted, I assume you are familiar with the - not uncontroversial paper - by Murray Gell-Mann and Merritt Ruhlen that appeared a couple of months ago in PNAS ('The origin and evolution of word order')? I am not sure what they claim about case systems, but they do claim that languages tend to evolve from SOV to SVO. There is some reference to similar but earlier claims from Vennemann in the paper. Best regards, --- Freek Van de Velde http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/nedling_e/fvandevelde/ -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:00 PM To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu Subject: FUNKNET Digest, Vol 100, Issue 10 Send FUNKNET mailing list submissions to funknet at mailman.rice.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/funknet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to funknet-request at mailman.rice.edu You can reach the person managing the list at funknet-owner at mailman.rice.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of FUNKNET digest..." Today's Topics: 1. languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking (Ted Gibson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:52:56 -0500 From: Ted Gibson Subject: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking To: funknet , Tom Givon Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear Funknet people: Can you please provide me with references for the claim that word order in language tends to shift between SOV word order with case-marking to SVO word order without case-marking? Or any similar such claim? I am citing Givon for this claim, but I have heard from others that there are some claims that pre-date him. I am interested in all such references: both pre- and post-Givon. Yours sincerely, Ted Gibson End of FUNKNET Digest, Vol 100, Issue 10 **************************************** From dwhieb at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 15:10:37 2012 From: dwhieb at gmail.com (Daniel W. Hieber) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:10:37 -0500 Subject: languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Ted, Comrie discusses this in his book Language Universals & Linguistic Typology, pp. 213-214, citing specifically Vennemann 1974 (full citation below), although Comrie is rather critical of his claims. Vennemann's idea is also critiqued by Hawkins 1983, chs. 5-6. Vennemann, Theo. 1984. Typology, universals and change of language. In Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Historical Syntax. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 23. Berlin: Mouton, 593-612. Hawkins, John A. 1983. Word order universals. Quantitative Analyses of Linguistic Structure. New York: Academic Press. Hope that helps, Danny Hieber -----Original Message----- From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of Ted Gibson Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 2:53 PM To: funknet; Tom Givon Subject: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking Dear Funknet people: Can you please provide me with references for the claim that word order in language tends to shift between SOV word order with case-marking to SVO word order without case-marking? Or any similar such claim? I am citing Givon for this claim, but I have heard from others that there are some claims that pre-date him. I am interested in all such references: both pre- and post-Givon. Yours sincerely, Ted Gibson From megusto.tw at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 16:42:47 2012 From: megusto.tw at gmail.com (Mei-jun Liu) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:42:47 +0800 Subject: Question for Tagging issues Message-ID: Dear Funknet people, I have been confusing while I tagging the error type for the data in learner corpus For some data are not considered as "Error" while it is spoken, and some data are not good but acceptable in written form. It is not a clear boundary between right sentence and wrong sentence. So I wonder anyone can share your comment on my struggle? LUZ From megusto.tw at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 16:49:07 2012 From: megusto.tw at gmail.com (=?big5?B?vEKs/Kdn?=) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:49:07 +0800 Subject: [Question ] about the error analysis Message-ID: Dear Funknet people, I have been confusing while I tagging the error type for the data in learner corpus For some data are not considered as "Error" while it is spoken, and some data are not good but acceptable in written form. It is not a clear boundary between right sentence and wrong sentence. So I wonder anyone can share your comment on my struggle? Sincerely, LUZ From egibson at MIT.EDU Fri Jan 27 17:53:57 2012 From: egibson at MIT.EDU (Ted Gibson) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:53:57 -0500 Subject: Summary of languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Funknetters: I got a lot of responses to my request, which I report below. Thank you to all who responded! You have been very helpful. I am working on summarizing what I am learning from the various papers that people have recommended for me. Ted > From: Ted Gibson > Date: January 21, 2012 2:52:56 PM EST > To: funknet , Tom Givon > Subject: languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Dear Funknet people: > > Can you please provide me with references for the claim that word order in language tends to shift between SOV word order with case-marking to SVO word order without case-marking? Or any similar such claim? I am citing Givon for this claim, but I have heard from others that there are some claims that pre-date him. I am interested in all such references: both pre- and post-Givon. > > Yours sincerely, > > Ted Gibson > 1. Tom Givon (private email): Begin forwarded message: > From: Tom Givon > Date: January 21, 2012 3:15:40 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson , "Heine, Bernd" > Subject: Re: languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > > Dear Ted, > > I don't recall making this claim. Ever since my articles in 1971 (CLS 7) and 1974 (C. Li ed. "WO & WO Change") I have seen no support for any correlation between WO and lack of case-marking. What I have noted, repeatedly, are grammaticalization pathways that produce case-marking from either verbal or nominal sources, and that WO at the time of grammaticalization is the most crucial factor in determining whether case-marking will be re-positional or post-positional. > > The question of existence vs. non-existence of case-marking is entirely separate, and has to do with two separate issues: > > (i) Indirect pathways via which SUBJ & OBJ case-marking arises, what I call "secondary grammaticalization". Well known examples are: > (a) INSTR > AGT of PASSIVE > ERG subject > NOM subject (Polynesian) > (b) GEN subject (in nominalized clauses) > NOM subject in main clauses (Japanese) > (c) DAT in subord clauses > ERG subject in main clauses (Carib) > (d) GEN object in nominalized VPs > ACC object in main clauses (No. Uto-Aztecan , Ute) > (e) DAT of possession > NOM subject (No. Iranian; Neo-Aramaic) > (f) ALLATIVE > DATIVE > ACCUSATIVE (Spanish) > > (ii) Phonological attrition of case-marking (particularly NOM & ACC) (Indo-European, Semitic, etc.) > > These two general processes are independent of each other, and as far as I know they are totally independent of Word-Order typology. > > I am copying my friend Bernd Heine, since I am not on FUNKNET any more and he might be able to contribute to this discussion. > > I hope this helps. Best, TG 2. Jess Tauber Begin forwarded message: > From: jess tauber > Date: January 21, 2012 3:40:37 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > Reply-To: jess tauber > > Hi- saw your inquiry. I don't have refs to any general hypothesis, but work on a language, Yahgan, from Tierra del Fuego that had a great deal of case marking with SOV typological features, yet was already by the mid 19th Century showing preferences for SVO ordering. Now, I haven't looked to see whether the distribution of case marking is different between the two orders, but would be willing to if you're interested. > > Sincerely, > Jess Tauber > (please respond using goldenratio at earthlink.net rather than phonosemantics... thanks) 3. Joan Bybee Begin forwarded message: > From: Joan Bybee > Date: January 21, 2012 3:58:55 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Theo Vennemann makes this claim in 'An explanation of drift' in 1975 in Charles Li (ed.) Word order and word order change (p. 289) and in some earlier papers he cites there. Of course, Theo and Talmy were both at UCLA in the early 70's and were both influenced by Greenberg's findings of 1966. > > Joan 4. Ron Smyth Begin forwarded message: > From: Ron Smyth > Date: January 21, 2012 6:31:08 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Hi Ted! This caught my eye because in 1975 I wrote my Honours thesis on > syntactic drift from Old Norse to Modern Icelandic, checking the sagas vs. > modern Icelandic novels to see if they conformed with Greenberg's > principles. Of course that was 37 years ago and I no longer have a copy, > but it seems to my fading memory that Greenberg is where I first heard of > this phenomenon. But of course he is the obvious place to look so you've > probably already checked that out. 5. Olga Yokoyama Begin forwarded message: > From: "Yokoyama, Olga" > Date: January 21, 2012 7:05:34 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: RE: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Ted, > Depending on what you mean by a "similar claim": I claim that in Russian there was (and in some registers perhaps it is still on-going) a shift between VSO and SVO accompanied by a change in intonational phrase boundary (Discourse and word order, p. 284 ff). > Olga > > Olga T. Yokoyama > > Professor > Department of Applied Linguistics > University of California, Los Angeles > Tel. (310) 825-7694 > Fax (310) 206-4118 > http://www.appling.ucla.edu 6. Matthew Dryer Begin forwarded message: > From: Matthew Dryer > Date: January 22, 2012 9:18:31 AM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > > Ted, > > I'm not sure if your query refers explicitly to diachronic claims about this, but the following article discusses the synchronic relationship between case and word order > > Dryer, Matthew S. 2002. "Case Distinctions, Rich Verb Agreement, and Word Order Type". Theoretical Linguistics 28: 151-157. > > a nonfinal draft of which is downloadable from > > http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/DryerTheoLing02.pdf > > This article is a response to the following, which also raises this issue: > > Hawkins, J.A. (2002) "Symmetries and asymmetries: their grammar, typology and parsing". Target article in peer reviewed issue of Theoretical Linguistics 28:95 149. > > Matthew Dryer 7. Freek Van der Velde Begin forwarded message: > From: Freek Van de Velde > Date: January 22, 2012 1:08:29 PM EST > To: "funknet at mailman.rice.edu" > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] FUNKNET Digest, Vol 100, Issue 10 > > Dear Ted, > I assume you are familiar with the - not uncontroversial paper - by Murray Gell-Mann and Merritt Ruhlen that appeared a couple of months ago in PNAS ('The origin and evolution of word order')? I am not sure what they claim about case systems, but they do claim that languages tend to evolve from SOV to SVO. There is some reference to similar but earlier claims from Vennemann in the paper. > Best regards, > --- > Freek Van de Velde > http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/nedling_e/fvandevelde/ 8. Kaius Sinnem?ki Begin forwarded message: > From: Kaius Sinnem?ki > Date: January 22, 2012 1:38:58 PM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Dear Ted, > > A number of people have worked on a similar hypothesis. Vennemann > wrote about this in his 1973 and 1974 papers. I think Mallinson and > Blake 1981 also discuss it briefly. Balthasar Bickel has also > researched whether case marking tends to correlate with verb-final > word order or not, using a sample of a few hundred languages. I have > recently surveyed the correlation between word order and the absence > of case and agreement with a sample of about 850 languages. Below some > references. Hope these help > > Best, > Kaius Sinnem?ki > University of Helsinki > > > > Bickel, Balthasar 2008b. A general method for the statistical > evaluation of typological distributions. Manuscript. > http://www.spw.uzh.ch/bickel-files/papers/. > Mallinson, Graham & Barry J. Blake. 1981. Language typology: > Cross-Linguistic studies in syntax. Amsterdam: North-Holland > Publishing Company. > Sinnem?ki, Kaius 2010. Word order in zero-marking languages. Studies > in Language 34(4): 869-912. > Vennemann, Theo 1973. Explanation in syntax. In John Kimball (ed.), > Syntax and semantics (vol. 2), 1 -50. New York: Academic Press. > Vennemann, Theo 1974. Topics, subjects, and word order: From SXV to > SVX via TVX. In John Anderson and Charles Jones (eds.), Historical > linguistics: Proceedings of the first international congress of > historical linguistics, Edinburgh, September 1973 (vol. II), 339-376. > Amsterdam: North -Holland. Holland. 9. Bernd Heine Begin forwarded message: > From: Bernd Heine > Date: January 23, 2012 1:23:24 AM EST > To: Ted Gibson > Cc: Tom Givon > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Dear Ted, > Since Tom mentioned my name, here is at least a short response. Your hypothesis is interesting indeed and there are certainly some examples in support of it (such as from Indo-European to Romance and other languages). But I am not entirely sure whether we have sufficient cases of attested typological change to test the hypothesis, even in its weakened 'tend-to' format. > I'd prefer to go with Tom and focus at this stage on individual pathways of grammaticalization, both giving rise to new case markers and leading to the decline and loss of existing case markers, rather than attempting overall comparisons of language systems. And the pathways he listed are roughly the ones that I also had in mind when I read your message. > With best wishes for your research, > Bernd 10. Danny Hieber > From: "Daniel W. Hieber" > Date: January 23, 2012 10:10:37 AM EST > To: "'Ted Gibson'" , "'funknet'" , "'Tom Givon'" > Subject: RE: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Hi Ted, > > Comrie discusses this in his book Language Universals & Linguistic Typology, > pp. 213-214, citing specifically Vennemann 1974 (full citation below), > although Comrie is rather critical of his claims. Vennemann's idea is also > critiqued by Hawkins 1983, chs. 5-6. > > Vennemann, Theo. 1984. Typology, universals and change of language. In Jacek > Fisiak (ed.), Historical Syntax. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and > Monographs 23. Berlin: Mouton, 593-612. > > Hawkins, John A. 1983. Word order universals. Quantitative Analyses of > Linguistic Structure. New York: Academic Press. > > Hope that helps, > > Danny Hieber 11. Tom Givon again Begin forwarded message: > From: Tom Givon > Date: January 23, 2012 12:58:28 PM EST > To: "Daniel W. Hieber" > Cc: "'Ted Gibson'" > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > > Yes, Danny. Vennemann (1973) was responsible for this suggestion, based solely on Indo-European. (It was during A summer conference at UC Santa Cruz, one of the early Syntax & Semantics volumes, and I happened to be there & indeed objected, but to no avail). I don't know if Ted shared with you my response (I am not on FUNKNET anymore, so it went only to him). With aplogy to Ted, Here it is. Cheers, TG 12. Danny Hieber again Begin forwarded message: > From: "Daniel W. Hieber" > Date: January 23, 2012 4:27:44 PM EST > To: "'Tom Givon'" > Cc: "'Ted Gibson'" > Subject: RE: [FUNKNET] languages with SOV word order with case-marking vs. languages with SVO word order without case-marking > > Hi Tom, > > Thanks for sending that along. While Vennemann's suggestion seems reasonable > on its face, I'm inclined to agree with you. If an attrition of case marking > causes ambiguity for SOV languages, thus causing the switch to SVO, then we > have to ask why there even exist SOV languages without case marking at all. > But since there are clearly numerous examples of SOV languages without case > marking, Vennemann's suggestion seems unlikely. I wouldn't want to discount > the idea entirely - it does seem possible that, for some specific languages > in the past, an attrition in case marking was one of the factors > contributing to a switch from SOV to SVO word order. But this would just be > one possible contributing factor to one possible pathway of word order > change. > > All the best, > > Danny From eitkonen at utu.fi Sat Jan 28 13:47:46 2012 From: eitkonen at utu.fi (Esa Itkonen) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:47:46 +0000 Subject: information requested Message-ID: Dear Funknetters: I am sorry to bother you with the following (odd) query. Some time ago I was recruited to write a referee statement on an article manuscript with the title 'On the influence of the grammatical system and analogy in processes of language change', and I completed this task well before the deadline. The problem is, however, that being apparently overwhelmed with different assignments, I am no longer sure which journal I was meant to write the statement for. Any ideas? Esa Homepage: http://users.utu.fi/eitkonen From grvsmth at panix.com Sat Jan 28 16:04:10 2012 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:04:10 -0500 Subject: information requested In-Reply-To: <20228BF0CE70E442A633BEEEAD3B392446AD8EC2@exch-mbx-01.utu.fi> Message-ID: On 1/28/2012 8:47 AM, Esa Itkonen wrote: > Dear Funknetters: I am sorry to bother you with the following (odd) query. Some time ago I was recruited to write a referee statement on an article manuscript with the title 'On the influence of the grammatical system and analogy in processes of language change' Maybe Olga Fischer can tell you: http://weblog.leidenuniv.nl/media/blogs/74593/Fischer.pdf Whichever journal it is, it sounds promising and I look forward to seeing it in print. -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith grvsmth at panix.com