From amir.zeldes at rz.hu-berlin.de Mon Jun 4 09:21:14 2012 From: amir.zeldes at rz.hu-berlin.de (Amir Zeldes) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:21:14 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers: DGfS Workshop on Usage-Based Approaches to Morphology Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) DGfS Workshop on Usage-Based Approaches to Morphology 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) Potsdam University, 13-15.3.2013 In the past years usage-based models have made substantial contributions to our understanding of the inner workings of grammar and the mental lexicon, especially as they apply to syntax and argument structure (e.g. Goldberg 2006). More recently, the same theoretical mechanisms have been applied specifically to the study of morphology (cf. Booij 2010), shedding new light on familiar problems and offering unified accounts of seemingly disparate phenomena which open up new research areas and questions about learnability, lexicalization, the nature of productive morphology and the structure of the lexicon. This working group will focus on usage-based accounts of morphological phenomena, both synchronic and diachronic, using a wide range of methodologies focusing on empirical evidence such as corpus studies, psycholinguistic experiments, eye tracking and reading studies, grammaticality judgment tasks and more. In particular we welcome submissions on usage-based approaches dealing with, but not limited to: - Usage effects on inflectional paradigms synchronically and diachronically - Regular and irregular inflection and derivation and their relation to usage - First and second language acquisition and learnability of morphology - Morphological productivity and restrictions in usage, both graded and categorical - Constructional analyses of non-concatenative or discontinuous morphology (e.g. pattern and root in Semitic languages) - Valency interactions between morphology and lexical representation - Schemas for compound formations and interpretation of their semantics - Interfaces between morphology and syntax, semantics and the lexicon We look forward to diverse papers offering converging evidence from all languages and disciplines for the role of usage in the emergence of morphological structure. Invited Speakers: Prof. Geert E. Booij, Leiden University Prof. Stefan Th. Gries, UC Santa Barbara Organizing Committee: Anke Lüdeling, HU Berlin (anke.luedeling at rz.hu-berlin.de) Amir Zeldes, HU Berlin ( amir.zeldes at rz.hu-berlin.de) Format: Authors should submit 1 page abstracts (including references) in a 12 point font (e.g. Times New Roman) electronically to both organizers above. References should be formatted according to the APA guidelines. Talks will be given 30 or 60 minute slots including discussion, depending on the program. Please specify your preferred length in your submission. The workshop language is English for both abstracts and talks. Important dates: - Submission of abstracts: 19.8.2012 - Notification of acceptance: 30.8.2012 - Workshop: 13-15.3.2013 References: Booij, G. E. 2010. Construction Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goldberg, A. E. 2006. Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. From taisaoliveira at yahoo.com Wed Jun 13 16:50:37 2012 From: taisaoliveira at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ta=EDsa_Peres?=) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:50:37 -0700 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: http://www.acumenergonomics.com/wp-content/themes/kassyopea.1.5/googlemail.html From taisaoliveira at yahoo.com Thu Jun 14 03:35:49 2012 From: taisaoliveira at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ta=EDsa_Peres?=) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:35:49 -0700 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: http://rustyboltracing.com/blog/wp-content/themes/TrendyOrange/googlemail.html From tpayne at uoregon.edu Thu Jun 14 23:36:53 2012 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:36:53 -0700 Subject: Resources on Dela-Oenale? Message-ID: Greetings. I would like to know of any published or unpublished resources on Dela-Oenale or any other Extra-Ramelaic languages of West Timor, Indonesia. Please let me know if you are aware of any linguists working in these languages, or of any resources that may be available. I have searched in the usual places with very little success. Thanks in advance! Tom Payne From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Sun Jun 17 08:23:28 2012 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 01:23:28 -0700 Subject: 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages Message-ID:                         Fourth  Workshop on     Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages(CAASL4)        In conjunction with  The tenth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas    (AMTA-2012) San Diego CA, USA Thursday, November 1st, 2012        Three years after CAASL3, this workshop provides an opportunity for developers and researchers in Academia,  the industry, and government  to present their work, exchange  ideas, and demonstrate systems that focus on the challenging task of dealing with all aspects in natural language processing for languages that use the Arabic script.  It also provides an opportunity to assess  the progress that has been made since the third workshop in 2009.  Authors are invited to submit papers on completed original research and research in progress on any aspect of NLP for the Arabic Script-based languages.  Papers should  relate directly or indirectly to the following themes: Statistical and rule-based machine translation     Translation Aids, Evaluation Methods and Techniques of  machine translation systems    Localization and multilingual information retrieval systems, Shallow and deep parsing, Data driven approaches, Entity extraction, Tokenization and segmentation,    Name matching, Speech synthesis and recognition,Text to speech systems, Semantic analysis, Knowledge Bases, Information retrieval, Semantic web and inferences, Topic Detection and text summarization.        Organizing Committee Ali Farghaly and Farhard Oroumchian        Workshop Dates and Deadlines          The workshop will be held on Thursday  November 1st, 2012    from 9 – 5.  Papers submission deadline:  August 1st, 2012 Author notification: August 15, 2012 Camera Ready submissions due:  September 1st, 2012 Website for submission       https://www.softconf.com/amta2012/CAASL4/ Contact Information: alifarghaly at yahoo.com Papers must be submitted in pdf. Papers should not exceed 8 pages including references and tables. and should follow the formatting guidelines at http://amta2012.amtaweb.org/CFP. Papers should present original, previously unpublished or under consideration work.  Papers will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the program committee. Tentative Program Committee  Tim BuckwalterUniversity of Maryland, USA Violetta Cavalli-SforzaAlAkhawayn University, Moroccoa Sherri CondonMITRE, USA Aly FahmyCairo University Mona Diab Columbia University, USA Joseph DichyLyon University, France Andrew FreemanUniversity of Washington, USA Nizar HabashColumbia University, USA Lamia Hadrich Belguith University of  Sfax, Tunisia   Sarmad HussainCRULP, Pakistan  Mohamed MaamouriLinguistics Data Consortium, USA Farhad OroumchianUniversity of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab            Emirates Jean SennellartSYSTRAN, France Khaled ShaalanThe British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Ahmed Rafea The American University in Cairo, Egypt Imed Zitouni IBM, USA Azadeh ShakeryUniversity of Tehran, Iran Karim BouzoubaaMohamed Vth Agdal University, Morocco Abdelhadi SaudiÉcole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Morocco From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Tue Jun 19 18:00:29 2012 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:00:29 +0000 Subject: Extended deadline: A Germanic Sandwich 2013 Message-ID: EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 July 2012 Call for papers for the conference 'A Germanic Sandwich 2013' Meeting Description: 'A Germanic Sandwich 2013' will be held at the University of Leuven from 11-12 January 2013, as the fourth edition of a series of conferences in which Dutch is compared with its West Germanic neighbours, English and German. The first one took place in Berlin to commemorate the 1956 appearance of the seminal publication Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels ('Dutch between German and English'), a study by the renowned Dutch linguist C.B. van Haeringen. Later editions of the conference were held at Sheffield (2008) and Oldenburg (2010). The conferences have spawned a number of special issues, either as a book volume (Hüning et al. 2006) or as special issues of journals (Vismans et al. 2010; Ruigendijk et al. in prep.). See also http://www.shef.ac.uk/dutch/pastevents#sandwich and Van der Wouden, forthc.). Invited Speaker: Johan Van der Auwera, in collaboration with Daniël Van Olmen: "On West Germanic moods and modalities" Abstracts are invited for 30 minutes talks (20+10), in which Dutch is compared to German and/or English. Other Germanic languages may of course be included as well, and application of the 'sandwich' idea to other language families (see e.g. Lamiroy & De Mulder 2011) also fall within the scope of the conference. We welcome studies with a typological and/or comparative perspective, dealing with questions about structural aspects of the languages, their history or their status. Studies from a language acquisition or psycholinguistic perspective will find their place as well. Hüning, M., A. Verhagen, U. Vogl & T. van der Wouden (eds.). 2006. Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels. Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden. Lamiroy, B. & W. De Mulder 2011. 'Degrees of grammaticalization across Languages'. In: H. Narrog & B. Heine (eds.), The Oxford handbook of grammaticalization. Oxford University Press. 302-317. Ruigendijk, E., F. Van de Velde & R. Vismans (eds.). In prep. Special issue: Dutch between English and German. Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology. Vismans, R., M. Hüning & F. Weerman (eds.). 2010. Special issue: Dutch between English and German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 22(4). Wouden, T. van der. Forthcoming. 'Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels'. Internationale Neerlandistiek. Abstracts (ca. 500 words) can be sent to: > Deadline for submission: 15 July 2012 Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2012 Website: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/nedling/germanicsandwich2013/ Local organising committee: Hans Smessaert (University of Leuven), Joop van der Horst (University of Leuven), Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven) Scientific committee: Matthias Hüning (FU Berlin), Esther Ruigendijk (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), Alan Scott (University of Nottingham) Hans Smessaert (University of Leuven), Joop van der Horst (University of Leuven); Ton van der Wouden (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam); Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven); Roel Vismans (University of Sheffield), Fred Weerman (University of Amsterdam). From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Sat Jun 23 22:19:04 2012 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:19:04 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers -- Cognitive Fututures of the Humanities, April 2013, Bangor University Message-ID: Cognitive Futures of the Humanities International Conference 4-6th April 2013, Bangor University FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS We invite 20-minute paper submissions for the first international conference organized on the Cognitive Futures in the Humanities. The conference will take place on 4-6 April 2013, and will be hosted by Bangor University (www.bangor.ac.uk). Confirmed plenary speakers include: Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham) Ellen Spolsky (Bar Ilan University ) Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis) Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky) Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University) Elena Semino (Lancaster University) The conference is associated with an international research network on the ‘Cognitive Futures in the Humanities’, which is supported by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). RATIONALE AND CONTEXT This first major conference provides a forum in order to bring together researchers from different humanities disciplines, whose work relates to, informs, or is informed by aspects of the cognitive, brain and behavioural sciences. It aims to address, in various ways, the following questions: what is the ‘cognitive humanities’? In what ways is knowledge from the cognitive sciences changing approaches to language, literature, aesthetics, historiography and creative culture? How have practices in the arts and humanities influenced the cognitive sciences, and how might they do so in the future? This conference will facilitate the exchange of new, innovative research at the intersection of established disciplines, such as philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, art history and cultural studies. The ‘cognitive revolution’ has begun to make an impact on how humanists think about language, identity, embodiment and culture, in fields such as cognitive poetics, narratology, phenomenology and literary theory. This conference will assess the state of the field now and ask what new directions lie open for cognitive humanities research. If the cognitive sciences ask fundamental questions about the very nature of the ‘human’ that underpins the humanities, what new forms of knowledge and research practice might be produced in an emerging area called the ‘cognitive humanities’? How can the field be mapped? What methodological opportunities exist, and what value do cognitive paradigms add to traditional modes of inquiry? How may interests particular to the humanities, such as fiction and the imagination, influence the development of research in the cognitive sciences? In addressing these questions, the conference will generate exciting new communication across disciplines and help define an emerging international research community. As part of this initiative, two postgraduate fee-waiver bursaries are being advertised (see details below). CONFERENCE STRUCTURE In addition to six plenary talks, the conference will feature a series of special themed panel sessions with leading researchers serving as discussants, including Alan Richardson (Boston College), Michael Wheeler (Stirling University), Vyv Evans (Bangor University) and Patricia Waugh (Durham University). Proposals may indicate if they wish to be considered for inclusion in one of these sessions (see below). We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers on topics such as: • Cognitive neuroscience and the arts • Language, meaning and cognitive processing • Embodiment • Phenomenology of technologies • Cognitive poetics and interpretation • Reading, immersion and memory • Theory of mind • Cognition beyond the skin • Applied conceptual blending • Empirical aesthetics • Modularity and creativity • Cognition and race, gender and sexuality • Cognitive approaches to theatrical performance • Literature and affect • Literary history and mental science • Historicizing cognitive science SUBMISSION DETAILS: Please send 250-word abstracts to az.cognitivefutures at northumbria.ac.uk by the closing date of 30 November 2012. Abstracts should be included as Word file attachments, and be anonymised. Please indicate clearly in your email whether your abstract is to be considered for a paper, as part of a 3-person panel, or poster, along with the name of presenter(s), university affiliation(s) and email address(es). Proposers can expect to hear if their abstract has been accepted by January 2013. If you wish your abstract to be considered for one of the special themed sessions, please also state which of the following sessions it might contribute to: Metaphor and Mind; Extended and Embodied Cognition; Cognitive Historicism; The Minds of Others; and Cognitive Approaches to Art, Visual Culture and Performance. If you are a postgraduate student who wishes to apply for one of the two fee-waiver bursaries, please also append a 100-word statement to your attached abstract explaining how your research relates to the conference theme of the ‘cognitive humanities’, and include contact details for your principal supervisor. For further details about the conference, or about the Cognitive Futures research network, visit the website www.northumbria.ac.uk/coghumanities-conference or contact Dr Peter Garratt (peter.garratt at northumbria.ac.uk), Professor Vyv Evans (v.evans at bangor.ac.uk) – also the local conference organizer – or Dr Matt Hayler (m.s.hayler at exeter.ac.uk). -- Professor/Yr Athro Vyv Evans Professor of Linguistics/Athro mewn Ieithyddiaeth www.vyvevans.net Head of School/Pennaeth yr Ysgol School of Linguistics & English Language/ Ysgol Ieithyddiaeth a Iaith Saesneg Bangor University/Prifysgol Bangor www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics Deputy Head of College (Research)/ Dirprwy Bennaeth y Coleg (Ymchwil) College of Arts and Humanities/ Coleg y Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau Bangor University/Prifysgol Bangor General Editor of 'Language & Cognition' A Mouton de Gruyter journal www.languageandcognition.net -- Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig / Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). 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Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. www.bangor.ac.uk From amir.zeldes at rz.hu-berlin.de Mon Jun 4 09:21:14 2012 From: amir.zeldes at rz.hu-berlin.de (Amir Zeldes) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:21:14 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers: DGfS Workshop on Usage-Based Approaches to Morphology Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) DGfS Workshop on Usage-Based Approaches to Morphology 35th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) Potsdam University, 13-15.3.2013 In the past years usage-based models have made substantial contributions to our understanding of the inner workings of grammar and the mental lexicon, especially as they apply to syntax and argument structure (e.g. Goldberg 2006). More recently, the same theoretical mechanisms have been applied specifically to the study of morphology (cf. Booij 2010), shedding new light on familiar problems and offering unified accounts of seemingly disparate phenomena which open up new research areas and questions about learnability, lexicalization, the nature of productive morphology and the structure of the lexicon. This working group will focus on usage-based accounts of morphological phenomena, both synchronic and diachronic, using a wide range of methodologies focusing on empirical evidence such as corpus studies, psycholinguistic experiments, eye tracking and reading studies, grammaticality judgment tasks and more. In particular we welcome submissions on usage-based approaches dealing with, but not limited to: - Usage effects on inflectional paradigms synchronically and diachronically - Regular and irregular inflection and derivation and their relation to usage - First and second language acquisition and learnability of morphology - Morphological productivity and restrictions in usage, both graded and categorical - Constructional analyses of non-concatenative or discontinuous morphology (e.g. pattern and root in Semitic languages) - Valency interactions between morphology and lexical representation - Schemas for compound formations and interpretation of their semantics - Interfaces between morphology and syntax, semantics and the lexicon We look forward to diverse papers offering converging evidence from all languages and disciplines for the role of usage in the emergence of morphological structure. Invited Speakers: Prof. Geert E. Booij, Leiden University Prof. Stefan Th. Gries, UC Santa Barbara Organizing Committee: Anke L?deling, HU Berlin (anke.luedeling at rz.hu-berlin.de) Amir Zeldes, HU Berlin ( amir.zeldes at rz.hu-berlin.de) Format: Authors should submit 1 page abstracts (including references) in a 12 point font (e.g. Times New Roman) electronically to both organizers above. References should be formatted according to the APA guidelines. Talks will be given 30 or 60 minute slots including discussion, depending on the program. Please specify your preferred length in your submission. The workshop language is English for both abstracts and talks. Important dates: - Submission of abstracts: 19.8.2012 - Notification of acceptance: 30.8.2012 - Workshop: 13-15.3.2013 References: Booij, G. E. 2010. Construction Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goldberg, A. E. 2006. Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. From taisaoliveira at yahoo.com Wed Jun 13 16:50:37 2012 From: taisaoliveira at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ta=EDsa_Peres?=) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:50:37 -0700 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: http://www.acumenergonomics.com/wp-content/themes/kassyopea.1.5/googlemail.html From taisaoliveira at yahoo.com Thu Jun 14 03:35:49 2012 From: taisaoliveira at yahoo.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ta=EDsa_Peres?=) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:35:49 -0700 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: http://rustyboltracing.com/blog/wp-content/themes/TrendyOrange/googlemail.html From tpayne at uoregon.edu Thu Jun 14 23:36:53 2012 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:36:53 -0700 Subject: Resources on Dela-Oenale? Message-ID: Greetings. I would like to know of any published or unpublished resources on Dela-Oenale or any other Extra-Ramelaic languages of West Timor, Indonesia. Please let me know if you are aware of any linguists working in these languages, or of any resources that may be available. I have searched in the usual places with very little success. Thanks in advance! Tom Payne From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Sun Jun 17 08:23:28 2012 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 01:23:28 -0700 Subject: 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages Message-ID: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Fourth ?Workshop on? ? ?Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages(CAASL4) ? ? ? ?In conjunction with ?The tenth biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas ?? (AMTA-2012) San Diego CA, USA Thursday, November 1st, 2012 ? ? ? ?Three years after CAASL3, this workshop provides an opportunity for developers and researchers in Academia, ?the industry, and government ?to present their work, exchange ?ideas, and demonstrate systems that focus on the challenging task of dealing with all aspects in natural language processing for languages that use the Arabic script. ?It also provides an opportunity to assess ?the progress that has been made since the third workshop in 2009. ?Authors are invited to submit papers on completed original research and research in progress on any aspect of NLP for the Arabic Script-based languages. ?Papers should ?relate directly or indirectly to the following themes: Statistical and rule-based machine translation? ? ?Translation Aids, Evaluation Methods and Techniques of ?machine translation systems ? ?Localization and multilingual information retrieval systems, Shallow and deep parsing, Data driven approaches, Entity extraction, Tokenization and segmentation, ? ?Name matching, Speech synthesis and recognition,Text to speech systems, Semantic analysis, Knowledge Bases, Information retrieval, Semantic web and inferences, Topic Detection and text summarization. ? ? ? ?Organizing Committee Ali Farghaly and?Farhard Oroumchian ? ? ? ?Workshop Dates and Deadlines? ? ? ? ? The workshop will be held on Thursday ?November 1st, 2012 ? ?from 9 ? 5.? Papers submission deadline: ?August 1st, 2012 Author notification: August 15, 2012 Camera Ready submissions due: ?September 1st, 2012 Website for submission ? ? ? https://www.softconf.com/amta2012/CAASL4/ Contact Information: alifarghaly at yahoo.com Papers must be submitted in pdf. Papers should not exceed 8 pages including references and tables. and should follow the formatting guidelines at http://amta2012.amtaweb.org/CFP. Papers should present original, previously unpublished or under consideration work. ?Papers will be anonymously reviewed by three members of the program committee. Tentative Program Committee? Tim BuckwalterUniversity of Maryland, USA Violetta Cavalli-SforzaAlAkhawayn University, Moroccoa Sherri CondonMITRE, USA Aly FahmyCairo University Mona Diab Columbia University, USA Joseph DichyLyon University, France Andrew FreemanUniversity of Washington, USA Nizar HabashColumbia University, USA Lamia Hadrich Belguith University of ?Sfax, Tunisia ? Sarmad HussainCRULP, Pakistan? Mohamed MaamouriLinguistics Data Consortium, USA Farhad OroumchianUniversity of Wollongong in Dubai, United Arab ? ? ? ? ? ?Emirates Jean SennellartSYSTRAN, France Khaled ShaalanThe British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates Ahmed Rafea The American University in Cairo, Egypt Imed Zitouni IBM, USA Azadeh ShakeryUniversity of Tehran, Iran Karim BouzoubaaMohamed Vth Agdal University, Morocco Abdelhadi Saudi?cole Nationale de l'Industrie Min?rale, Morocco From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Tue Jun 19 18:00:29 2012 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:00:29 +0000 Subject: Extended deadline: A Germanic Sandwich 2013 Message-ID: EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 July 2012 Call for papers for the conference 'A Germanic Sandwich 2013' Meeting Description: 'A Germanic Sandwich 2013' will be held at the University of Leuven from 11-12 January 2013, as the fourth edition of a series of conferences in which Dutch is compared with its West Germanic neighbours, English and German. The first one took place in Berlin to commemorate the 1956 appearance of the seminal publication Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels ('Dutch between German and English'), a study by the renowned Dutch linguist C.B. van Haeringen. Later editions of the conference were held at Sheffield (2008) and Oldenburg (2010). The conferences have spawned a number of special issues, either as a book volume (H?ning et al. 2006) or as special issues of journals (Vismans et al. 2010; Ruigendijk et al. in prep.). See also http://www.shef.ac.uk/dutch/pastevents#sandwich and Van der Wouden, forthc.). Invited Speaker: Johan Van der Auwera, in collaboration with Dani?l Van Olmen: "On West Germanic moods and modalities" Abstracts are invited for 30 minutes talks (20+10), in which Dutch is compared to German and/or English. Other Germanic languages may of course be included as well, and application of the 'sandwich' idea to other language families (see e.g. Lamiroy & De Mulder 2011) also fall within the scope of the conference. We welcome studies with a typological and/or comparative perspective, dealing with questions about structural aspects of the languages, their history or their status. Studies from a language acquisition or psycholinguistic perspective will find their place as well. H?ning, M., A. Verhagen, U. Vogl & T. van der Wouden (eds.). 2006. Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels. Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden. Lamiroy, B. & W. De Mulder 2011. 'Degrees of grammaticalization across Languages'. In: H. Narrog & B. Heine (eds.), The Oxford handbook of grammaticalization. Oxford University Press. 302-317. Ruigendijk, E., F. Van de Velde & R. Vismans (eds.). In prep. Special issue: Dutch between English and German. Leuven Contributions in Linguistics and Philology. Vismans, R., M. H?ning & F. Weerman (eds.). 2010. Special issue: Dutch between English and German. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 22(4). Wouden, T. van der. Forthcoming. 'Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels'. Internationale Neerlandistiek. Abstracts (ca. 500 words) can be sent to: > Deadline for submission: 15 July 2012 Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2012 Website: http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/nedling/germanicsandwich2013/ Local organising committee: Hans Smessaert (University of Leuven), Joop van der Horst (University of Leuven), Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven) Scientific committee: Matthias H?ning (FU Berlin), Esther Ruigendijk (Carl von Ossietzky Universit?t Oldenburg), Alan Scott (University of Nottingham) Hans Smessaert (University of Leuven), Joop van der Horst (University of Leuven); Ton van der Wouden (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam); Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven); Roel Vismans (University of Sheffield), Fred Weerman (University of Amsterdam). From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Sat Jun 23 22:19:04 2012 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:19:04 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers -- Cognitive Fututures of the Humanities, April 2013, Bangor University Message-ID: Cognitive Futures of the Humanities International Conference 4-6th April 2013, Bangor University FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS We invite 20-minute paper submissions for the first international conference organized on the Cognitive Futures in the Humanities. The conference will take place on 4-6 April 2013, and will be hosted by Bangor University (www.bangor.ac.uk). Confirmed plenary speakers include: Peter Stockwell (University of Nottingham) Ellen Spolsky (Bar Ilan University ) Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis) Lisa Zunshine (University of Kentucky) Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University) Elena Semino (Lancaster University) The conference is associated with an international research network on the ?Cognitive Futures in the Humanities?, which is supported by the UK?s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). RATIONALE AND CONTEXT This first major conference provides a forum in order to bring together researchers from different humanities disciplines, whose work relates to, informs, or is informed by aspects of the cognitive, brain and behavioural sciences. It aims to address, in various ways, the following questions: what is the ?cognitive humanities?? In what ways is knowledge from the cognitive sciences changing approaches to language, literature, aesthetics, historiography and creative culture? How have practices in the arts and humanities influenced the cognitive sciences, and how might they do so in the future? This conference will facilitate the exchange of new, innovative research at the intersection of established disciplines, such as philosophy, linguistics, literary studies, art history and cultural studies. The ?cognitive revolution? has begun to make an impact on how humanists think about language, identity, embodiment and culture, in fields such as cognitive poetics, narratology, phenomenology and literary theory. This conference will assess the state of the field now and ask what new directions lie open for cognitive humanities research. If the cognitive sciences ask fundamental questions about the very nature of the ?human? that underpins the humanities, what new forms of knowledge and research practice might be produced in an emerging area called the ?cognitive humanities?? How can the field be mapped? What methodological opportunities exist, and what value do cognitive paradigms add to traditional modes of inquiry? How may interests particular to the humanities, such as fiction and the imagination, influence the development of research in the cognitive sciences? In addressing these questions, the conference will generate exciting new communication across disciplines and help define an emerging international research community. As part of this initiative, two postgraduate fee-waiver bursaries are being advertised (see details below). CONFERENCE STRUCTURE In addition to six plenary talks, the conference will feature a series of special themed panel sessions with leading researchers serving as discussants, including Alan Richardson (Boston College), Michael Wheeler (Stirling University), Vyv Evans (Bangor University) and Patricia Waugh (Durham University). Proposals may indicate if they wish to be considered for inclusion in one of these sessions (see below). We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers on topics such as: ? Cognitive neuroscience and the arts ? Language, meaning and cognitive processing ? Embodiment ? Phenomenology of technologies ? Cognitive poetics and interpretation ? Reading, immersion and memory ? Theory of mind ? Cognition beyond the skin ? Applied conceptual blending ? Empirical aesthetics ? Modularity and creativity ? Cognition and race, gender and sexuality ? Cognitive approaches to theatrical performance ? Literature and affect ? Literary history and mental science ? Historicizing cognitive science SUBMISSION DETAILS: Please send 250-word abstracts to az.cognitivefutures at northumbria.ac.uk by the closing date of 30 November 2012. Abstracts should be included as Word file attachments, and be anonymised. Please indicate clearly in your email whether your abstract is to be considered for a paper, as part of a 3-person panel, or poster, along with the name of presenter(s), university affiliation(s) and email address(es). Proposers can expect to hear if their abstract has been accepted by January 2013. If you wish your abstract to be considered for one of the special themed sessions, please also state which of the following sessions it might contribute to: Metaphor and Mind; Extended and Embodied Cognition; Cognitive Historicism; The Minds of Others; and Cognitive Approaches to Art, Visual Culture and Performance. If you are a postgraduate student who wishes to apply for one of the two fee-waiver bursaries, please also append a 100-word statement to your attached abstract explaining how your research relates to the conference theme of the ?cognitive humanities?, and include contact details for your principal supervisor. 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