From bischoff.st at gmail.com Fri Mar 2 14:43:50 2012 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:43:50 -0500 Subject: ERP research query Message-ID: Hello all, I'm presently working with a number of linguists on grant proposal that has ERP research as one component. I know very little regarding ERP and was wondering if there might be someone on the listserv that might have time to answer a few questions I have. Thanks, Shannon From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Fri Mar 2 16:56:30 2012 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:56:30 +0000 Subject: Call for papers: A Germanic Sandwich 2013 Message-ID: This a 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.). Hüning, M., A. Verhagen, U. Vogl & T. van der Wouden (eds.). 2006. Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels. Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden. 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. 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). 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. Abstracts (ca. 500 words) can be sent to: Deadline for submission: 15 June 2012 Notification of acceptance: 1 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 Mon Mar 5 21:47:08 2012 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:47:08 +0000 Subject: Lecturer post in Cognitive Linguistics -- Bangor University Message-ID: BANGOR UNIVERSITY School of Linguistics and English Language Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics, or Bilingualism Grade 7 or 8: £30,122 - £44,156 p.a. As part of an exciting expansion of the School of Linguistics & English Language, applications are now invited for a permanent (=tenured) lecturer (=Assistant Professor) in either Cognitive Linguistics or Bilingualism. Outstanding applicants are sought who will have an emerging or established research programme in either (or both) of these areas, and have evidence of producing, or the potential to produce research outputs that are judged to be internationally excellent. Candidates will be able to contribute to a wide range of undergraduate teaching in Linguistics, and English Language Studies, as well as more specialist topics in one or more of the School's MA and MSc programmes, especially in the areas of Cognitive Linguistics, or Bilingualism. The ability to offer undergraduate teaching in the areas of language and society, discourse and variation, sociolinguistics, and teaching English as a foreign language may be an advantage. Information on Linguistics & English Language, including its staff and their research interests can be found at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/ Salary will be on the appropriate grade dependant on experience. This post is tenable from 1^st September 2012. Application forms and further particulars should be obtained by contacting Human Resources, Bangor University; tel: (01248) 382926/383865; e-mail: personnel at bangor.ac.uk ; web: www.bangor.ac.uk Please quote reference number 12-11/169 when applying. Closing date for applications: *1.00 p.m.* Thursday 5^th April 2012. Interviews will take place on Wednesday 9^th May 2012. For any informal enquiries about the post, please contact the Head of School, Professor Vyv Evans (tel. +44 (0)1248 383295, email: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk). */Committed To Equal Opportunities/* *Background information:* The School of Linguistics & English Language is the only School of Linguistics in Wales, one of the oldest in the UK, and Bangor University is the only Welsh institution to offer a degree in Linguistics. At present, the School has approximately 230 undergraduate and around 20 MA students and 15 PhD students. We offer single honours degrees in Linguistics, and English language plus combined degree programmes with other Schools. We also have a number of Masters programmes, including an MA in Linguistics, an MA in Bilingualism, an MA in Cognitive Linguistics, a Masters by Research (MRes), with various pathways (including one in Welsh Linguistics), and two new MSc schemes, one in Forensic Linguistics, and one in Language Development. The School has a vibrant research community and culture and is particularly known for its research in the areas of Cognitive Linguistics, and Bilingualism. In terms of the latter, the School leads an interdisciplinary ESRC-funded Bilingualism Research Centre, which involves collaboration with the Schools of Psychology and Education (www.bilingualism.bangor.ac.uk), and is involved in the All-Wales ESRC-funded doctoral training centre with the Bilingualism pathway coordinated from Bangor. The School currently has nine permanent members of fulltime academic staff, plus two teaching associates. Information on Linguistics & English Language, including its staff and their research interests can be found at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/ *Rationale for the present post:* The present post forms part of an expansion of the School of Linguistics, involving an ambitious internationalisation agenda. In addition to enhancement of the taught postgraduate programme, such as two new MSc schemes, the School has developed a new BA degree scheme in English Language Studies, which inaugurates from September 2012. The new BA will run parallel to our existing BA schemes in Linguistics, and English Language, and shares some components with those degree schemes. However, the new BA is specifically aimed at the international undergraduate market. A consequence of these exciting new developments is that the School now seeks to further enhance its research and teaching capacity. The School seeks to appoint an additional permanent member of staff whose research profile directly engages with one of the two research priorities of the School (Cognitive Linguistics, or Bilingualism); the new staff member should also be able to offer teaching, at undergraduate level, in a wide range of English linguistics/English language studies, as well as in their research specialism(s) at postgraduate level. The School is particularly keen to appoint someone who can teach in one or more of the following areas: sociolinguistics, discourse and variation, Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The ability to offer forensic linguistics may also be an advantage. Details of the BA in English language Studies are here: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/overseas.php?menu=13&catid=3907&subid=0 Post specification: The post holder will maintain an active research programme leading to publications at a level of international excellence, while developing plans and applying for external funding. Teaching commitment will not exceed 8 hours per week, for 20 teaching weeks per year, with one semester of teaching remission granted periodically as agreed by the Head of School in order to support research activities. The post holder will maintain an administrative portfolio of responsibility, as agreed with the Head of School, be eligible for School research support funds, some of which are awarded on a merit basis in order to support the development of an internationally excellent reputation in areas of research expertise. The post holder will also be expected to establish a record of teaching excellence at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to offer at least one module in their area of research expertise at the MA/MSc level, and to actively attract PhD students to the School. The post holder is also expected to establish a record of significant service to the School, including serving as a personal tutor to undergraduate and graduate students, and University and the academic community at large. The post holder will be responsible to the Head of School. *Person specification:* Essential: . An emerging or established research programme focusing primarily on one or both of the School's research priorities: Cognitive Linguistics, and/or Bilingualism . A PhD focused on some aspect of either Cognitive Linguistics, Bilingualism, or both . A publication record in either Cognitive Linguistics, Bilingualism or both, that shows evidence of, or potential for, being internationally excellent (=3* or better) under the terms of the UK's Research Excellence Framework (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/) . Clear plans for grant application, and promise of successful grant capture, . An ability to contribute to teaching in the new BA in English Language Studies, and an ability to contribute to the School's taught MA and/or MSc schemes . Evidence of, or the promise of excellence in teaching provision . The ability to work well as part of a team, and in a collegial way * */./* *Demonstrate an understanding of the bilingual nature of the institution and area and the ensuing responsibilities. Desirable: . Experience of teaching or the ability to teach a subset of the following at undergraduate level: Language and society, Discourse and variation, Introduction to language, sociolinguistics, text analysis, Describing language, Teaching English as a Foreign Language . Evidence or promise of the ability to build national and international research Collaborations . Experience of university administration How to apply: To receive full consideration, applicants are requested to provide i) a completed standard Bangor application form, available from the Bangor University Human Resources website, ii) a curriculum vitae including a full listing of publications (a separate document is required from the application form), iii) a separate statement of research interests and plans, and iv) a separate statement of teaching experience, including details of which modules at undergraduate and graduate levels the applicant is able and willing to teach, and how they could contribute to the BA in English Language Studies (visit this link for further information: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/overseas.php?menu=13&catid=3907&subid=0). *_Evidence of Eligibility to work in the U.K._* The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. 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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 pekka.posio at helsinki.fi Tue Mar 6 15:14:41 2012 From: pekka.posio at helsinki.fi (Pekka Posio) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:14:41 +0200 Subject: Call for papers: Grammar and genre: interfaces and influences - October 24-26, Turku, Finland Message-ID: Grammar and genre: interfaces and influences October 24th – 26th, 2012 Turku, Finland The Linguistic Association of Finland (in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of Åbo Akademi University) Variation is one of the key themes in modern grammatical studies, and its investigation highlights the role of contextual factors in the structure of language. These factors can be on many levels and of many different types. The mere genre to which a text belongs potentially dictates a variety of linguistic structures. (For studies about genre see e.g. Bakhtin 1986 to begin with, and more recently Martin & Rose 2008, Biber & Conrad 2009, and Dorgeloh & Wanner 2010.) This symposium aims to study the interfaces between grammar and genre: the purpose is to investigate how genre affects grammatical choices. How are genre distinctions reflected in grammar, be it for example literary vs. media genres, or distinctions such as argumentative, informative, persuasive, expressive, or narrative genres? Is a specific genre belonging to a particular domain, e.g. sport news vs. economy news, characterized by certain grammatical choices? Possible genre distinctions are various, and both empirical questions related to the theme and more theoretical implications and reflections thereof are welcome. We would like to bring together linguists from different fields: linguists studying languages with a small number of speakers, linguists whose data come from languages with millions of speakers and a wide variety of institutionalized genres, theoretically oriented linguists to discuss the implications, as well as linguists with more empirical concerns. We warmly welcome papers related to these questions. Possible topics for talks include, but, as usual, are not restricted to, the following: - How does the grammarian take into account the belonging of the data to a certain genre? If the available data is restricted to a particular genre, how does this affect the results? How does the field worker react to this? - How does the linguist identify the genre in question? - Why do some grammatical constructions appear only in a specific genre? - Is grammar one and only for a given language? How do we account for Coseriu’s distinction sistema - norma social/individual - hablar concreto in empirical, data-driven linguistics? - How can we use the outcomes of stylistics in modern grammatical studies (cf. Bally’s stylistics a century ago), that is not only in the literary sense but to explore variation in grammar? What is the relationship between genre and style? - How does the speaker manipulate grammar to create a genre? - The concept of genre and language learning - Genre in different domains - Genre and language evolution - Genre and language contacts: Does genre play a role in code switching? Invited plenary speakers: Maarten Mous, Leiden University Maria Vilkuna, Institute for the Languages of Finland Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm, Åbo Akademi University Anja Wanner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Scientific committee: Heidrun Dorgeloh Kjersti Fløttum Jyrki Kalliokoski Ritva Laury Jan Nuyts María José Serrano Susanna Shore Anna Solin Geoff Thompson Organizing committee: Meri Larjavaara Sonja Dahlgren Arja Hamari Leena Maria Heikkola Lotta Jalava Santra Jantunen Pekka Posio Ilona Rauhala Erika Sandman Maija Sirola Elina Tapio Mikko Virtanen Katja Västi Milja Väänänen Abstract submission: Please send your abstract no later than April 30, 2012 (see https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre for instructions). The length of abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding data and references). Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee and also by the organizing committee. Letters of acceptance will be sent by June 5, 2012. Workshops: The symposium can include workshops. Proposals for them should be submitted no later than April 2, 2012 (see https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre for instructions). Notification of acceptance will be given by April 16. These one-day workshops will run in parallel sessions with the main conference program. Alternatively, the first day of the symposium may be dedicated to workshops. The symposium organizers will provide the lecture rooms and other facilities, but the workshop organizers will be responsible for the organization of their workshops (choosing the speakers etc.). Key dates: – Deadline for abstract submission: April 30, 2012 – Notification of acceptance: June 5, 2012 – Proposals for workshops: April 2, 2012 – Notification of acceptance of workshops: April 16, 2012 Activities: – Presentations by the invited speakers – Presentations by other participants – Posters – Workshops References: Bakhtin, M. 1986: Speech genres and other late essays. Translated by Vern W. McGee. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. Biber, D. & S. Conrad 2009: Register, genre and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dorgeloh, H. & A. Wanner (eds) 2010: Syntactic variation and genre, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton. Martin, J. R. & D. Rose 2008: Genre relations. Mapping culture. London: Equinox. For more information please visit the webpage of the symposium at https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Tue Mar 6 16:41:20 2012 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:41:20 +0000 Subject: Now available on Project MUSE - Canadian Journal of Linguistics 56:3 Message-ID: Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique 56(3), November/novembre 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE: The phonetics-phonology interface / L'interface phonétique-phonologie This issue contains: Introduction Kimary Shahin, Patricia Shaw DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0035 Articles Individual variation in English flaps and taps: A case of categorical phonetics Donald Derrick, Bryan Gick DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0024 Acoustic testing for phonologization Kimary Shahin DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0026 Patterns and scales of expressive palatalization: Experimental evidence from Japanese Alexei Kochetov, John Alderete DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0028 Floating yet grounded: Feature transmutation in Optimality Theory Darin Flynn DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0030 Squibs/Notules The syntax of Southern American English personal datives: An anti-locality account Youssef A. 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Here are three examples: (1) The branch of the metaphysics of modality with which I will be concerned with is the question of the ontological basis of metaphysical modality. (2) To a large extent these objections will be dealt with by denying the authority of intuition in these domains , but I will also sketch an account of counterlegal statements which allows some of them to come out as not trivially true . (3) That it took until 1836 to enact specific legislation against ' thuggee ' is a further measure of the extent to which Sleeman and Smith were able to organise and expand relatively freewheeling operations against ' thuggee ' in the early 1830s , evading the restraining influence of the Judicial Department . I read all three as restrictive relative clauses. In pre-theoretical terms I'd point out the functional differences I'm interested in in the following way: (1) acts as a 'filter' in that one out of many (possible or actually existing) branches is selected; (2) is descriptive in the sense that there's only one account sketched, which is further qualified (a reading as 'filter' like (1) is syntactically possible, but seems rather implausible here); in (3), 'extent to which' forms a functional unit with the effect of providing a particular focus on S & S's ability to organize..., rather than focusing on qualification of 'extent', as the syntactic surface might suggest. I'd be grateful for pointers to theoretical frameworks that would allow me to analyze that sort of functional difference, or, indeed, any comments on your analysis of these functions. With thanks in advance, Alois From austin.bennett at case.edu Wed Mar 7 04:18:05 2012 From: austin.bennett at case.edu (Austin Bennett) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 23:18:05 -0500 Subject: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 - Case Western Message-ID: *SECOND CALL for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 - Case Western August 1 – 5, 2012* Applications are open for the 6th Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshop, to be held at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio August 1 – 5, 2012. See https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/ for more information. The goal of EMCL is to facilitate dialogue among language researchers with different methodological backgrounds, i.e. theorists, experimentalists, corpus linguists, etc. We do this by creating an environment where specialists learn from each other by developing a research project together where their various skills are combined. Intended audience: Language researchers with an embodiment, situated cognition and/or cognitive linguistics background. No prior experimental or corpus training is required though an understanding of the theoretical issues is necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in their careers, i.e. graduate students, post-grads, post-docs, junior faculty, etc. *Workshop Format*: During the course of a week, participants will join one of 5 hands-on mini-labs. Each mini-lab will be responsible for completing a joint research project. A select group of students (max. 8 per group for a total of 40) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. *Topics* to be covered include - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience - post-Workshop write up of the research, as a brief article *Confirmed Faculty* *Groups*: *Group 1: Seana Coulson and Shelli Feist* Seana Coulson - UCSD, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, joke comprehension, conceptual metaphor, sentence processing http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~coulson/ Shelli Feist - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Institute of Cognitive Science Lexical semantics, spatial language, psycholinguistics http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ *Group 2: Daniel Casasanto and Todd Oakley* Daniel Casasanto - The New School, Dept. of Psychology Language and thought, culture and cognition, mind and body http://www.casasanto.com/Site/home.html Todd Oakley - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, force dynamics, joint attention http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/oakley.html *Group 3: Ben Bergen and Laura Casasanto * Ben Bergen - UCSD Dept. of Cognitive Science Language comprehension, perceptual/motor simulation of language, conceptual metaphor http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/ Laura Casassanto - Stony Brook University, Dept. of Linguistics Identity, sociolinguistic variation, conceptual metaphor http://www.casasanto.com/Site/laura/index.html *Group 4: Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin* Fey Parrill - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Co-speech gesture, pragmatics, embodied cognition, construction grammar, social cognition http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/parrill.html Vera Tobin - UCSB, Dept. of English Language, social cognition, joint attention, cognitive approaches to literature http://stuttercut.org/ *Group 5: Kensy Cooperrider and Michael Spivey* Kensey Cooperrider - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Gesture and cognition, language and cognitive diversity http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~kcooperr/ Michael Spivey - UC Merced, Dept. of Cognitive Science Language and vision, sentence processing, computational modeling http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/directory/michael-j-spivey *Application*: Please see our website for details. Completed applications must be submitted to emcl6case at gmail.com by *APRIL 1, 2012*. *Accomodation*: Student housing at Case Western Reserve will be available for all participants. This will be the cheapest housing around (approx. $25 per night), though participants are free to stay anywhere they like. *Participation Fee*: $160. We have 1 tuition scholarship available for a student from Eastern Europe or a developing country which will be awarded by lottery. *This workshop is sponsored by the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), **http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/* --- EMCL Scientific Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Cornell University/University of Bielefeld Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ray Becker, University of Bielefeld Shelli Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette EMCL 6 Organizing Committee: Austin Bennett, Case Western Reserve (chair) Kashmiri Stec, University of Groningen Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/home From karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl Thu Mar 22 11:02:27 2012 From: karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl (Karin Plijnaar) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:02:27 +0100 Subject: New Benjamins Title: Roesch - Language Maintenance and Language Death Message-ID: Language Maintenance and Language Death The decline of Texas Alsatian By Karen A. Roesch, University of Texas at Austin Culture and Language Use 6 2012. xv, 253 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0288 8 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 e-Book - Sold by e-book platforms 978 90 272 7503 5 / EUR 99 / USD 149.00 This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21^st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with minimal change for six generations. Texas Alsatian has maintained lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic features which differentiate it from the prevalent standard-near varieties of Texas German. This study both describes its grammatical features and discusses extra-linguistic factors contributing to the dialect's preservation or accelerating its decline, e.g., social, historical, political, and economic factors, and speaker attitudes and ideologies linked to cultural identity. The work's multi-faceted approach makes its relevant to a broad range of scholars such as dialectologists, historical linguists, sociolinguists, ethnographers, and anthropologists interested in language variation and change, language and identity, immigrant dialects, and language maintenance and death. Table of Contents List of table xi-xii List of figures xiii-xiv List of illustrations xv-xvi Chapter One. Introduction 1-34 Chapter Two. The sociohistorical context 35-68 Chapter Three. The lexicon of Texas Alsatian 69-92 Chapter Four. The phonology of Texas Alsatian 93-122 Chapter Five. The morphosyntax of Texas Alsatian 123-168 Chapter Six. Language attitudes 169-188 Chapter Seven. Language maintenance and death 189-204 Appendices 205-236 References 237-248 Index 249-254 -- 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, our street address must be used in order for the shipment to reach us. From okb at umail.ucsb.edu Sun Mar 25 21:47:18 2012 From: okb at umail.ucsb.edu (Brendan Barnwell) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:47:18 -0700 Subject: Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) Message-ID: The 2012 Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) will take place on April 14, 2012, at UC Santa Barbara. The conference will feature an invited keynote talk by Professor Seana Coulson of UC San Diego, entitled "Neural Cartography: Conceptual Mapping in Language and Cognition". The program also includes eight talks selected from among peer-reviewed abstracts. Conference presentations cover a range of topics in the area of language and cognition, including language acquisition, codeswitching, metaphor, and morphosyntax, and draw on data from several languages, including English, Dutch, Czech, and Albanian. More information about the conference, including the complete program, can be found on the CLaW website at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/claw/ . To register for the conference, please email claw.ucsb at gmail.com with your name and affiliation. There is a $10 registration fee, payable on site or by mailing a check. -- Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown From austin.bennett at case.edu Mon Mar 26 20:20:23 2012 From: austin.bennett at case.edu (Austin Bennett) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:20:23 -0400 Subject: eXTENDED DEADLINE and FINAL CALL for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 Message-ID: *FINAL CALL and EXTENDED DEADLINE for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 - Case Western August 1 – 5, 2012* Applications are open for the 6th Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshop, to be held at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio August 1 – 5, 2012. See https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/ for more information. The goal of EMCL is to facilitate dialogue among language researchers with different methodological backgrounds, i.e. theorists, experimentalists, corpus linguists, etc. We do this by creating an environment where specialists learn from each other by developing a research project together where their various skills are combined. Intended audience: Language researchers with an embodiment, situated cognition and/or cognitive linguistics background. No prior experimental or corpus training is required though an understanding of the theoretical issues is necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in their careers, i.e. graduate students, post-grads, post-docs, junior faculty, etc. *Workshop Format*: During the course of a week, participants will join one of 5 hands-on mini-labs. Each mini-lab will be responsible for completing a joint research project. A select group of students (max. 8 per group for a total of 40) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. *Topics* to be covered include - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience - post-Workshop write up of the research, as a brief article *Confirmed Faculty* *Groups*: *Group 1: Seana Coulson and Shelli Feist* Seana Coulson - UCSD, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, joke comprehension, conceptual metaphor, sentence processing http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~coulson/ Shelli Feist - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Institute of Cognitive Science Lexical semantics, spatial language, psycholinguistics http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ *Group 2: Daniel Casasanto and Todd Oakley* Daniel Casasanto - The New School, Dept. of Psychology Language and thought, culture and cognition, mind and body http://www.casasanto.com/Site/home.html Todd Oakley - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, force dynamics, joint attention http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/oakley.html *Group 3: Ben Bergen and Laura Casasanto * Ben Bergen - UCSD Dept. of Cognitive Science Language comprehension, perceptual/motor simulation of language, conceptual metaphor http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/ Laura Casassanto - Stony Brook University, Dept. of Linguistics Identity, sociolinguistic variation, conceptual metaphor http://www.casasanto.com/Site/laura/index.html *Group 4: Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin* Fey Parrill - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Co-speech gesture, pragmatics, embodied cognition, construction grammar, social cognition http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/parrill.html Vera Tobin - UCSB, Dept. of English Language, social cognition, joint attention, cognitive approaches to literature http://stuttercut.org/ *Group 5: Kensy Cooperrider and Michael Spivey* Kensey Cooperrider - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Gesture and cognition, language and cognitive diversity http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~kcooperr/ Michael Spivey - UC Merced, Dept. of Cognitive Science Language and vision, sentence processing, computational modeling http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/directory/michael-j-spivey *Application*: Please see our website for details. Completed applications must be submitted to emcl6case at gmail.com by *APRIL 1, 2012*. *Accomodation*: Student housing at Case Western Reserve will be available for all participants. This will be the cheapest housing around (approx. $25 per night), though participants are free to stay anywhere they like. *Participation Fee*: $160. We have 1 tuition scholarship available for a student from Eastern Europe or a developing country which will be awarded by lottery. *This workshop is sponsored by the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), **http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/* --- EMCL Scientific Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Cornell University/University of Bielefeld Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ray Becker, University of Bielefeld Shelli Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette EMCL 6 Organizing Committee: Austin Bennett, Case Western Reserve (chair) Kashmiri Stec, University of Groningen Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/home From ceford at wisc.edu Wed Mar 28 13:01:59 2012 From: ceford at wisc.edu (Cecilia E. Ford) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:01:59 -0500 Subject: Visiting Assistant Professor - University of Wisconsin-Madison - SLA, Language Variation In-Reply-To: <7650958026a1e2.4f730ba7@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Message-ID: University or Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Department: Department of English Job Location: Wisconsin, USA Web Address: http://www.english.wisc.edu/ Job Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition; Second Language Acquisition; Linguistic Variation Required Language(s): English (eng)(http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=eng) Description: The Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professorship in English linguistics (2012-13). Applicants should demonstrate strong research and teaching experience in second language acquisition and language variation. The appointment includes teaching five undergraduate courses (2 in the fall, 3 in the spring) in second language acquisition and language variation. Salary range is $50,000-55,000 (actual salary will depend on the candidate's qualifications) plus benefits and $1500 in flex funds. Candidates must have Ph.D. in hand before the appointment begins in August 2012. Applications must include a curriculum vita, a statement of research and teaching interests, and a writing sample. Also, applicants must submit the names and contact information of three referees who have agreed to provide letters of reference. Send your applications by mail to Professor Anja Wanner, at the application address below. Applications must arrive on or before May 11, 2012, for full consideration. UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. A criminal background check will be conducted. Application Deadline: 11-May-2012 Mailing Address for Applications: Professor Anja Wanner, Associate Chair Department of English University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 USA Contact Information: Professor Anja Wanner Email: awannerwisc.edu -- From bkbergen at cogsci.ucsd.edu Sat Mar 31 15:51:33 2012 From: bkbergen at cogsci.ucsd.edu (Benjamin Bergen) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:51:33 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers: International Conference on Construction Grammar 7--Seoul, Korea Message-ID: I'm forwarding this on behalf of the organizing committee--please contact them (info below) regarding ICCG-7. ----------- Full Title: 7th international Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-7) Date: August 10-12, 2012 Location: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea Contact Person: Jeong-Woon Park (parkjw at hufs.ac.kr) Abstract deadline: April 10, 2012 Meeting description: We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 7th international Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-7) to be held on August 10--12 at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea. In line with the previous International Conferences on Construction Grammar, ICCG-7 will continue to serve as an international forum for promoting discussion and collaboration among linguists interested in Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, as well as in related constructional research in its various models and applications. (Further information about Construction Grammar can be found from http://constructiongrammar.org.) Plenary speakers: Benjamin Bergen (University of California at San Diego) Mirjam Fried (Charles University, Prague) Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Kyoko Hirose Ohara (Keio University) Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) Laura Michaelis (University of Colorado at Boulder) Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (with 10 min discussion) as well as poster presentations. We invite abstract submissions on synchronic analysis of individual languages, as well as historical, typological, and contrastive analysis of all kinds. Abstracts should be no more than one page (single-spaced, 12 pt font, 1-inch margin) with data and references in a separate page. Please note that the number of abstracts per author is limited to one singly-authored and one co-authored abstract per author. Under the title of the abstract, please indicate whether you would like it to be considered for a talk, a poster or both. Abstracts should be submitted in the PDF format via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccg7 If you have questions about the submission of abstracts, or the program, please email them to: iccg7program at gmail.com. Important dates: The EXTENDED deadline for submitting abstracts: April 10, 2012 (March 15, 2012) Notification of the result of selection: April 30, 2012 Early registration deadline: June 30, 2012 For more information, visit the conference webpage: http://iccg7.hufs.ac.kr. Ben +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ Benjamin K. Bergen Associate Professor, Department of Cognitive Science University of California, San Diego bkbergen at ucsd.edu Office: (858)534-2523 http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/ Director, Language and Cognition Lab http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/lcl/ Associate Editor, Cognitive Linguistics http://www.cogling.group.shef.ac.uk/ +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ From bischoff.st at gmail.com Fri Mar 2 14:43:50 2012 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:43:50 -0500 Subject: ERP research query Message-ID: Hello all, I'm presently working with a number of linguists on grant proposal that has ERP research as one component. I know very little regarding ERP and was wondering if there might be someone on the listserv that might have time to answer a few questions I have. Thanks, Shannon From Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Fri Mar 2 16:56:30 2012 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 16:56:30 +0000 Subject: Call for papers: A Germanic Sandwich 2013 Message-ID: This a 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.). H?ning, M., A. Verhagen, U. Vogl & T. van der Wouden (eds.). 2006. Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels. Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden. 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. 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). 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. Abstracts (ca. 500 words) can be sent to: Deadline for submission: 15 June 2012 Notification of acceptance: 1 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 Mon Mar 5 21:47:08 2012 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:47:08 +0000 Subject: Lecturer post in Cognitive Linguistics -- Bangor University Message-ID: BANGOR UNIVERSITY School of Linguistics and English Language Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics, or Bilingualism Grade 7 or 8: ?30,122 - ?44,156 p.a. As part of an exciting expansion of the School of Linguistics & English Language, applications are now invited for a permanent (=tenured) lecturer (=Assistant Professor) in either Cognitive Linguistics or Bilingualism. Outstanding applicants are sought who will have an emerging or established research programme in either (or both) of these areas, and have evidence of producing, or the potential to produce research outputs that are judged to be internationally excellent. Candidates will be able to contribute to a wide range of undergraduate teaching in Linguistics, and English Language Studies, as well as more specialist topics in one or more of the School's MA and MSc programmes, especially in the areas of Cognitive Linguistics, or Bilingualism. The ability to offer undergraduate teaching in the areas of language and society, discourse and variation, sociolinguistics, and teaching English as a foreign language may be an advantage. Information on Linguistics & English Language, including its staff and their research interests can be found at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/ Salary will be on the appropriate grade dependant on experience. This post is tenable from 1^st September 2012. Application forms and further particulars should be obtained by contacting Human Resources, Bangor University; tel: (01248) 382926/383865; e-mail: personnel at bangor.ac.uk ; web: www.bangor.ac.uk Please quote reference number 12-11/169 when applying. Closing date for applications: *1.00 p.m.* Thursday 5^th April 2012. Interviews will take place on Wednesday 9^th May 2012. For any informal enquiries about the post, please contact the Head of School, Professor Vyv Evans (tel. +44 (0)1248 383295, email: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk). */Committed To Equal Opportunities/* *Background information:* The School of Linguistics & English Language is the only School of Linguistics in Wales, one of the oldest in the UK, and Bangor University is the only Welsh institution to offer a degree in Linguistics. At present, the School has approximately 230 undergraduate and around 20 MA students and 15 PhD students. We offer single honours degrees in Linguistics, and English language plus combined degree programmes with other Schools. We also have a number of Masters programmes, including an MA in Linguistics, an MA in Bilingualism, an MA in Cognitive Linguistics, a Masters by Research (MRes), with various pathways (including one in Welsh Linguistics), and two new MSc schemes, one in Forensic Linguistics, and one in Language Development. The School has a vibrant research community and culture and is particularly known for its research in the areas of Cognitive Linguistics, and Bilingualism. In terms of the latter, the School leads an interdisciplinary ESRC-funded Bilingualism Research Centre, which involves collaboration with the Schools of Psychology and Education (www.bilingualism.bangor.ac.uk), and is involved in the All-Wales ESRC-funded doctoral training centre with the Bilingualism pathway coordinated from Bangor. The School currently has nine permanent members of fulltime academic staff, plus two teaching associates. Information on Linguistics & English Language, including its staff and their research interests can be found at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/ *Rationale for the present post:* The present post forms part of an expansion of the School of Linguistics, involving an ambitious internationalisation agenda. In addition to enhancement of the taught postgraduate programme, such as two new MSc schemes, the School has developed a new BA degree scheme in English Language Studies, which inaugurates from September 2012. The new BA will run parallel to our existing BA schemes in Linguistics, and English Language, and shares some components with those degree schemes. However, the new BA is specifically aimed at the international undergraduate market. A consequence of these exciting new developments is that the School now seeks to further enhance its research and teaching capacity. The School seeks to appoint an additional permanent member of staff whose research profile directly engages with one of the two research priorities of the School (Cognitive Linguistics, or Bilingualism); the new staff member should also be able to offer teaching, at undergraduate level, in a wide range of English linguistics/English language studies, as well as in their research specialism(s) at postgraduate level. The School is particularly keen to appoint someone who can teach in one or more of the following areas: sociolinguistics, discourse and variation, Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The ability to offer forensic linguistics may also be an advantage. Details of the BA in English language Studies are here: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/overseas.php?menu=13&catid=3907&subid=0 Post specification: The post holder will maintain an active research programme leading to publications at a level of international excellence, while developing plans and applying for external funding. Teaching commitment will not exceed 8 hours per week, for 20 teaching weeks per year, with one semester of teaching remission granted periodically as agreed by the Head of School in order to support research activities. The post holder will maintain an administrative portfolio of responsibility, as agreed with the Head of School, be eligible for School research support funds, some of which are awarded on a merit basis in order to support the development of an internationally excellent reputation in areas of research expertise. The post holder will also be expected to establish a record of teaching excellence at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to offer at least one module in their area of research expertise at the MA/MSc level, and to actively attract PhD students to the School. The post holder is also expected to establish a record of significant service to the School, including serving as a personal tutor to undergraduate and graduate students, and University and the academic community at large. The post holder will be responsible to the Head of School. *Person specification:* Essential: . An emerging or established research programme focusing primarily on one or both of the School's research priorities: Cognitive Linguistics, and/or Bilingualism . A PhD focused on some aspect of either Cognitive Linguistics, Bilingualism, or both . A publication record in either Cognitive Linguistics, Bilingualism or both, that shows evidence of, or potential for, being internationally excellent (=3* or better) under the terms of the UK's Research Excellence Framework (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/) . Clear plans for grant application, and promise of successful grant capture, . An ability to contribute to teaching in the new BA in English Language Studies, and an ability to contribute to the School's taught MA and/or MSc schemes . Evidence of, or the promise of excellence in teaching provision . The ability to work well as part of a team, and in a collegial way * */./* *Demonstrate an understanding of the bilingual nature of the institution and area and the ensuing responsibilities. Desirable: . Experience of teaching or the ability to teach a subset of the following at undergraduate level: Language and society, Discourse and variation, Introduction to language, sociolinguistics, text analysis, Describing language, Teaching English as a Foreign Language . Evidence or promise of the ability to build national and international research Collaborations . Experience of university administration How to apply: To receive full consideration, applicants are requested to provide i) a completed standard Bangor application form, available from the Bangor University Human Resources website, ii) a curriculum vitae including a full listing of publications (a separate document is required from the application form), iii) a separate statement of research interests and plans, and iv) a separate statement of teaching experience, including details of which modules at undergraduate and graduate levels the applicant is able and willing to teach, and how they could contribute to the BA in English Language Studies (visit this link for further information: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/overseas.php?menu=13&catid=3907&subid=0). *_Evidence of Eligibility to work in the U.K._* The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. For positions which require highly specialised skills and qualifications, and there are no suitable 'resident' (i.e European Economic Area (EEA)) applicants, the University will often be able to obtain a certificate of sponsorship for a suitably qualified applicant who is not currently eligible to work in the UK. For vacancies that are not academic, research or highly specialist it is extremely unlikely that a certificate of sponsorship would be granted. In such cases we will therefore be unable to consider an application from someone who is not currently eligible to work in the UK. The UK Border Agency website www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk has full details to help you assess whether you would be eligible to apply for one of our vacancies. Prior to being permitted to commence employment with the University, you will be required to produce documentary evidence of permission to work in the United Kingdom. Acceptable documents are items such as a passport showing you are a British Citizen, or that you have a right of abode in the United Kingdom; a document showing your permanent UK National Insurance Number _and_ your full UK Birth Certificate; A document showing that you are a national of a European Economic Area country or Switzerland - this must be a national passport or national identity card; A passport or UK issued national identity card providing evidence of your Visa detailing the Tier for which your Certificate of Sponsorship covered you e.g. Tier 2, Tier 4, Tier 5 or indeed Tier 1 if you applied for this yourself. This list is not exhaustive. A full list of acceptable documentary evidence is available on request. 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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 pekka.posio at helsinki.fi Tue Mar 6 15:14:41 2012 From: pekka.posio at helsinki.fi (Pekka Posio) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 17:14:41 +0200 Subject: Call for papers: Grammar and genre: interfaces and influences - October 24-26, Turku, Finland Message-ID: Grammar and genre: interfaces and influences October 24th ? 26th, 2012 Turku, Finland The Linguistic Association of Finland (in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities of ?bo Akademi University) Variation is one of the key themes in modern grammatical studies, and its investigation highlights the role of contextual factors in the structure of language. These factors can be on many levels and of many different types. The mere genre to which a text belongs potentially dictates a variety of linguistic structures. (For studies about genre see e.g. Bakhtin 1986 to begin with, and more recently Martin & Rose 2008, Biber & Conrad 2009, and Dorgeloh & Wanner 2010.) This symposium aims to study the interfaces between grammar and genre: the purpose is to investigate how genre affects grammatical choices. How are genre distinctions reflected in grammar, be it for example literary vs. media genres, or distinctions such as argumentative, informative, persuasive, expressive, or narrative genres? Is a specific genre belonging to a particular domain, e.g. sport news vs. economy news, characterized by certain grammatical choices? Possible genre distinctions are various, and both empirical questions related to the theme and more theoretical implications and reflections thereof are welcome. We would like to bring together linguists from different fields: linguists studying languages with a small number of speakers, linguists whose data come from languages with millions of speakers and a wide variety of institutionalized genres, theoretically oriented linguists to discuss the implications, as well as linguists with more empirical concerns. We warmly welcome papers related to these questions. Possible topics for talks include, but, as usual, are not restricted to, the following: - How does the grammarian take into account the belonging of the data to a certain genre? If the available data is restricted to a particular genre, how does this affect the results? How does the field worker react to this? - How does the linguist identify the genre in question? - Why do some grammatical constructions appear only in a specific genre? - Is grammar one and only for a given language? How do we account for Coseriu?s distinction sistema - norma social/individual - hablar concreto in empirical, data-driven linguistics? - How can we use the outcomes of stylistics in modern grammatical studies (cf. Bally?s stylistics a century ago), that is not only in the literary sense but to explore variation in grammar? What is the relationship between genre and style? - How does the speaker manipulate grammar to create a genre? - The concept of genre and language learning - Genre in different domains - Genre and language evolution - Genre and language contacts: Does genre play a role in code switching? Invited plenary speakers: Maarten Mous, Leiden University Maria Vilkuna, Institute for the Languages of Finland Tuija Virtanen-Ulfhielm, ?bo Akademi University Anja Wanner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Scientific committee: Heidrun Dorgeloh Kjersti Fl?ttum Jyrki Kalliokoski Ritva Laury Jan Nuyts Mar?a Jos? Serrano Susanna Shore Anna Solin Geoff Thompson Organizing committee: Meri Larjavaara Sonja Dahlgren Arja Hamari Leena Maria Heikkola Lotta Jalava Santra Jantunen Pekka Posio Ilona Rauhala Erika Sandman Maija Sirola Elina Tapio Mikko Virtanen Katja V?sti Milja V??n?nen Abstract submission: Please send your abstract no later than April 30, 2012 (see https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre for instructions). The length of abstracts should not exceed 500 words (excluding data and references). Abstracts will be evaluated by the members of the scientific committee and also by the organizing committee. Letters of acceptance will be sent by June 5, 2012. Workshops: The symposium can include workshops. Proposals for them should be submitted no later than April 2, 2012 (see https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre for instructions). Notification of acceptance will be given by April 16. These one-day workshops will run in parallel sessions with the main conference program. Alternatively, the first day of the symposium may be dedicated to workshops. The symposium organizers will provide the lecture rooms and other facilities, but the workshop organizers will be responsible for the organization of their workshops (choosing the speakers etc.). Key dates: ? Deadline for abstract submission: April 30, 2012 ? Notification of acceptance: June 5, 2012 ? Proposals for workshops: April 2, 2012 ? Notification of acceptance of workshops: April 16, 2012 Activities: ? Presentations by the invited speakers ? Presentations by other participants ? Posters ? Workshops References: Bakhtin, M. 1986: Speech genres and other late essays. Translated by Vern W. McGee. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. Biber, D. & S. Conrad 2009: Register, genre and style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dorgeloh, H. & A. Wanner (eds) 2010: Syntactic variation and genre, Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton. Martin, J. R. & D. Rose 2008: Genre relations. Mapping culture. London: Equinox. For more information please visit the webpage of the symposium at https://www.confitur.net/en/conferences/grammar-and-genre From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Tue Mar 6 16:41:20 2012 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:41:20 +0000 Subject: Now available on Project MUSE - Canadian Journal of Linguistics 56:3 Message-ID: Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique 56(3), November/novembre 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE: The phonetics-phonology interface / L'interface phon?tique-phonologie This issue contains: Introduction Kimary Shahin, Patricia Shaw DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0035 Articles Individual variation in English flaps and taps: A case of categorical phonetics Donald Derrick, Bryan Gick DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0024 Acoustic testing for phonologization Kimary Shahin DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0026 Patterns and scales of expressive palatalization: Experimental evidence from Japanese Alexei Kochetov, John Alderete DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0028 Floating yet grounded: Feature transmutation in Optimality Theory Darin Flynn DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2011.0030 Squibs/Notules The syntax of Southern American English personal datives: An anti-locality account Youssef A. 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For more information about the Canadian Journal of Linguistics or for submissions information, please contact: University of Toronto Press - Journals Division 5201 Dufferin St. Toronto, ON M3H 5T8 Tel: (416) 667-7810 Fax: (416) 667-7881 E-mail: journals at utpress.utoronto.ca www.utpjournals.com/cjl Join us on Facebook www.facebook.com/utpjournals Join us for advance notice of tables of contents of forthcoming issues, author and editor commentaries and insights, calls for papers and advice on publishing in our journals. Become a fan and receive free access to articles weekly through UTPJournals focus. From a.heuboeck at pgr.reading.ac.uk Tue Mar 6 22:29:35 2012 From: a.heuboeck at pgr.reading.ac.uk (Alois Heuboeck) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 22:29:35 +0000 Subject: Relative clauses Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, I'm interested in discursive (or: 'rhetorical', in a wider sense) functions of relative clauses. Here are three examples: (1) The branch of the metaphysics of modality with which I will be concerned with is the question of the ontological basis of metaphysical modality. (2) To a large extent these objections will be dealt with by denying the authority of intuition in these domains , but I will also sketch an account of counterlegal statements which allows some of them to come out as not trivially true . (3) That it took until 1836 to enact specific legislation against ' thuggee ' is a further measure of the extent to which Sleeman and Smith were able to organise and expand relatively freewheeling operations against ' thuggee ' in the early 1830s , evading the restraining influence of the Judicial Department . I read all three as restrictive relative clauses. In pre-theoretical terms I'd point out the functional differences I'm interested in in the following way: (1) acts as a 'filter' in that one out of many (possible or actually existing) branches is selected; (2) is descriptive in the sense that there's only one account sketched, which is further qualified (a reading as 'filter' like (1) is syntactically possible, but seems rather implausible here); in (3), 'extent to which' forms a functional unit with the effect of providing a particular focus on S & S's ability to organize..., rather than focusing on qualification of 'extent', as the syntactic surface might suggest. I'd be grateful for pointers to theoretical frameworks that would allow me to analyze that sort of functional difference, or, indeed, any comments on your analysis of these functions. With thanks in advance, Alois From austin.bennett at case.edu Wed Mar 7 04:18:05 2012 From: austin.bennett at case.edu (Austin Bennett) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 23:18:05 -0500 Subject: Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 - Case Western Message-ID: *SECOND CALL for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 - Case Western August 1 ? 5, 2012* Applications are open for the 6th Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshop, to be held at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio August 1 ? 5, 2012. See https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/ for more information. The goal of EMCL is to facilitate dialogue among language researchers with different methodological backgrounds, i.e. theorists, experimentalists, corpus linguists, etc. We do this by creating an environment where specialists learn from each other by developing a research project together where their various skills are combined. Intended audience: Language researchers with an embodiment, situated cognition and/or cognitive linguistics background. No prior experimental or corpus training is required though an understanding of the theoretical issues is necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in their careers, i.e. graduate students, post-grads, post-docs, junior faculty, etc. *Workshop Format*: During the course of a week, participants will join one of 5 hands-on mini-labs. Each mini-lab will be responsible for completing a joint research project. A select group of students (max. 8 per group for a total of 40) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. *Topics* to be covered include - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience - post-Workshop write up of the research, as a brief article *Confirmed Faculty* *Groups*: *Group 1: Seana Coulson and Shelli Feist* Seana Coulson - UCSD, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, joke comprehension, conceptual metaphor, sentence processing http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~coulson/ Shelli Feist - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Institute of Cognitive Science Lexical semantics, spatial language, psycholinguistics http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ *Group 2: Daniel Casasanto and Todd Oakley* Daniel Casasanto - The New School, Dept. of Psychology Language and thought, culture and cognition, mind and body http://www.casasanto.com/Site/home.html Todd Oakley - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, force dynamics, joint attention http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/oakley.html *Group 3: Ben Bergen and Laura Casasanto * Ben Bergen - UCSD Dept. of Cognitive Science Language comprehension, perceptual/motor simulation of language, conceptual metaphor http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/ Laura Casassanto - Stony Brook University, Dept. of Linguistics Identity, sociolinguistic variation, conceptual metaphor http://www.casasanto.com/Site/laura/index.html *Group 4: Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin* Fey Parrill - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Co-speech gesture, pragmatics, embodied cognition, construction grammar, social cognition http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/parrill.html Vera Tobin - UCSB, Dept. of English Language, social cognition, joint attention, cognitive approaches to literature http://stuttercut.org/ *Group 5: Kensy Cooperrider and Michael Spivey* Kensey Cooperrider - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Gesture and cognition, language and cognitive diversity http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~kcooperr/ Michael Spivey - UC Merced, Dept. of Cognitive Science Language and vision, sentence processing, computational modeling http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/directory/michael-j-spivey *Application*: Please see our website for details. Completed applications must be submitted to emcl6case at gmail.com by *APRIL 1, 2012*. *Accomodation*: Student housing at Case Western Reserve will be available for all participants. This will be the cheapest housing around (approx. $25 per night), though participants are free to stay anywhere they like. *Participation Fee*: $160. We have 1 tuition scholarship available for a student from Eastern Europe or a developing country which will be awarded by lottery. *This workshop is sponsored by the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), **http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/* --- EMCL Scientific Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Cornell University/University of Bielefeld Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ray Becker, University of Bielefeld Shelli Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette EMCL 6 Organizing Committee: Austin Bennett, Case Western Reserve (chair) Kashmiri Stec, University of Groningen Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/home From karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl Thu Mar 22 11:02:27 2012 From: karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl (Karin Plijnaar) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:02:27 +0100 Subject: New Benjamins Title: Roesch - Language Maintenance and Language Death Message-ID: Language Maintenance and Language Death The decline of Texas Alsatian By Karen A. Roesch, University of Texas at Austin Culture and Language Use 6 2012. xv, 253 pp. Hardbound 978 90 272 0288 8 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00 e-Book - Sold by e-book platforms 978 90 272 7503 5 / EUR 99 / USD 149.00 This book provides the first extensive description of Texas Alsatian, a critically-endangered Texas German dialect, as spoken in Medina County in the 21^st century. The dialect was brought to Texas in the 1840s by colonists recruited by French entrepreneur Henri Castro and has been preserved with minimal change for six generations. Texas Alsatian has maintained lexical, phonological, and morphosyntactic features which differentiate it from the prevalent standard-near varieties of Texas German. This study both describes its grammatical features and discusses extra-linguistic factors contributing to the dialect's preservation or accelerating its decline, e.g., social, historical, political, and economic factors, and speaker attitudes and ideologies linked to cultural identity. The work's multi-faceted approach makes its relevant to a broad range of scholars such as dialectologists, historical linguists, sociolinguists, ethnographers, and anthropologists interested in language variation and change, language and identity, immigrant dialects, and language maintenance and death. Table of Contents List of table xi-xii List of figures xiii-xiv List of illustrations xv-xvi Chapter One. Introduction 1-34 Chapter Two. The sociohistorical context 35-68 Chapter Three. The lexicon of Texas Alsatian 69-92 Chapter Four. The phonology of Texas Alsatian 93-122 Chapter Five. The morphosyntax of Texas Alsatian 123-168 Chapter Six. Language attitudes 169-188 Chapter Seven. Language maintenance and death 189-204 Appendices 205-236 References 237-248 Index 249-254 -- 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, our street address must be used in order for the shipment to reach us. From okb at umail.ucsb.edu Sun Mar 25 21:47:18 2012 From: okb at umail.ucsb.edu (Brendan Barnwell) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:47:18 -0700 Subject: Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) Message-ID: The 2012 Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) will take place on April 14, 2012, at UC Santa Barbara. The conference will feature an invited keynote talk by Professor Seana Coulson of UC San Diego, entitled "Neural Cartography: Conceptual Mapping in Language and Cognition". The program also includes eight talks selected from among peer-reviewed abstracts. Conference presentations cover a range of topics in the area of language and cognition, including language acquisition, codeswitching, metaphor, and morphosyntax, and draw on data from several languages, including English, Dutch, Czech, and Albanian. More information about the conference, including the complete program, can be found on the CLaW website at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/claw/ . To register for the conference, please email claw.ucsb at gmail.com with your name and affiliation. There is a $10 registration fee, payable on site or by mailing a check. -- Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown From austin.bennett at case.edu Mon Mar 26 20:20:23 2012 From: austin.bennett at case.edu (Austin Bennett) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:20:23 -0400 Subject: eXTENDED DEADLINE and FINAL CALL for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 Message-ID: *FINAL CALL and EXTENDED DEADLINE for Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics 6 - Case Western August 1 ? 5, 2012* Applications are open for the 6th Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics workshop, to be held at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio August 1 ? 5, 2012. See https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/ for more information. The goal of EMCL is to facilitate dialogue among language researchers with different methodological backgrounds, i.e. theorists, experimentalists, corpus linguists, etc. We do this by creating an environment where specialists learn from each other by developing a research project together where their various skills are combined. Intended audience: Language researchers with an embodiment, situated cognition and/or cognitive linguistics background. No prior experimental or corpus training is required though an understanding of the theoretical issues is necessary. Participants can be at different early stages in their careers, i.e. graduate students, post-grads, post-docs, junior faculty, etc. *Workshop Format*: During the course of a week, participants will join one of 5 hands-on mini-labs. Each mini-lab will be responsible for completing a joint research project. A select group of students (max. 8 per group for a total of 40) will be invited to participate. Each group will work with two researchers who will guide the group in selecting an idea for the group to investigate, structuring and organizing a research project, and carrying it out. The session will end with the presentation of findings and a general discussion. *Topics* to be covered include - Deciding on a research topic - Transforming the research topic into a research question - Developing experimental hypotheses and designing an experiment - Data collection - Statistical analysis and interpretation - Presentation of findings to an audience - post-Workshop write up of the research, as a brief article *Confirmed Faculty* *Groups*: *Group 1: Seana Coulson and Shelli Feist* Seana Coulson - UCSD, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, joke comprehension, conceptual metaphor, sentence processing http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~coulson/ Shelli Feist - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Institute of Cognitive Science Lexical semantics, spatial language, psycholinguistics http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~mif8232/ *Group 2: Daniel Casasanto and Todd Oakley* Daniel Casasanto - The New School, Dept. of Psychology Language and thought, culture and cognition, mind and body http://www.casasanto.com/Site/home.html Todd Oakley - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Conceptual blending, force dynamics, joint attention http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/oakley.html *Group 3: Ben Bergen and Laura Casasanto * Ben Bergen - UCSD Dept. of Cognitive Science Language comprehension, perceptual/motor simulation of language, conceptual metaphor http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bkbergen/ Laura Casassanto - Stony Brook University, Dept. of Linguistics Identity, sociolinguistic variation, conceptual metaphor http://www.casasanto.com/Site/laura/index.html *Group 4: Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin* Fey Parrill - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Co-speech gesture, pragmatics, embodied cognition, construction grammar, social cognition http://www.case.edu/artsci/cogs/parrill.html Vera Tobin - UCSB, Dept. of English Language, social cognition, joint attention, cognitive approaches to literature http://stuttercut.org/ *Group 5: Kensy Cooperrider and Michael Spivey* Kensey Cooperrider - Case Western, Dept. of Cognitive Science Gesture and cognition, language and cognitive diversity http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~kcooperr/ Michael Spivey - UC Merced, Dept. of Cognitive Science Language and vision, sentence processing, computational modeling http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/directory/michael-j-spivey *Application*: Please see our website for details. Completed applications must be submitted to emcl6case at gmail.com by *APRIL 1, 2012*. *Accomodation*: Student housing at Case Western Reserve will be available for all participants. This will be the cheapest housing around (approx. $25 per night), though participants are free to stay anywhere they like. *Participation Fee*: $160. We have 1 tuition scholarship available for a student from Eastern Europe or a developing country which will be awarded by lottery. *This workshop is sponsored by the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), **http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/* --- EMCL Scientific Committee: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Cornell University/University of Bielefeld Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Ray Becker, University of Bielefeld Shelli Feist, University of Louisiana at Lafayette EMCL 6 Organizing Committee: Austin Bennett, Case Western Reserve (chair) Kashmiri Stec, University of Groningen Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve https://sites.google.com/site/emcl6case/home From ceford at wisc.edu Wed Mar 28 13:01:59 2012 From: ceford at wisc.edu (Cecilia E. Ford) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:01:59 -0500 Subject: Visiting Assistant Professor - University of Wisconsin-Madison - SLA, Language Variation In-Reply-To: <7650958026a1e2.4f730ba7@wiscmail.wisc.edu> Message-ID: University or Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison Department: Department of English Job Location: Wisconsin, USA Web Address: http://www.english.wisc.edu/ Job Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition; Second Language Acquisition; Linguistic Variation Required Language(s): English (eng)(http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=eng) Description: The Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professorship in English linguistics (2012-13). Applicants should demonstrate strong research and teaching experience in second language acquisition and language variation. The appointment includes teaching five undergraduate courses (2 in the fall, 3 in the spring) in second language acquisition and language variation. Salary range is $50,000-55,000 (actual salary will depend on the candidate's qualifications) plus benefits and $1500 in flex funds. Candidates must have Ph.D. in hand before the appointment begins in August 2012. Applications must include a curriculum vita, a statement of research and teaching interests, and a writing sample. Also, applicants must submit the names and contact information of three referees who have agreed to provide letters of reference. Send your applications by mail to Professor Anja Wanner, at the application address below. Applications must arrive on or before May 11, 2012, for full consideration. UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. A criminal background check will be conducted. Application Deadline: 11-May-2012 Mailing Address for Applications: Professor Anja Wanner, Associate Chair Department of English University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street Madison, WI 53706 USA Contact Information: Professor Anja Wanner Email: awannerwisc.edu -- From bkbergen at cogsci.ucsd.edu Sat Mar 31 15:51:33 2012 From: bkbergen at cogsci.ucsd.edu (Benjamin Bergen) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:51:33 -0700 Subject: Call for Papers: International Conference on Construction Grammar 7--Seoul, Korea Message-ID: I'm forwarding this on behalf of the organizing committee--please contact them (info below) regarding ICCG-7. ----------- Full Title: 7th international Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-7) Date: August 10-12, 2012 Location: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea Contact Person: Jeong-Woon Park (parkjw at hufs.ac.kr) Abstract deadline: April 10, 2012 Meeting description: We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 7th international Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-7) to be held on August 10--12 at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea. In line with the previous International Conferences on Construction Grammar, ICCG-7 will continue to serve as an international forum for promoting discussion and collaboration among linguists interested in Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, as well as in related constructional research in its various models and applications. (Further information about Construction Grammar can be found from http://constructiongrammar.org.) Plenary speakers: Benjamin Bergen (University of California at San Diego) Mirjam Fried (Charles University, Prague) Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Kyoko Hirose Ohara (Keio University) Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) Laura Michaelis (University of Colorado at Boulder) Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (with 10 min discussion) as well as poster presentations. We invite abstract submissions on synchronic analysis of individual languages, as well as historical, typological, and contrastive analysis of all kinds. Abstracts should be no more than one page (single-spaced, 12 pt font, 1-inch margin) with data and references in a separate page. Please note that the number of abstracts per author is limited to one singly-authored and one co-authored abstract per author. Under the title of the abstract, please indicate whether you would like it to be considered for a talk, a poster or both. Abstracts should be submitted in the PDF format via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccg7 If you have questions about the submission of abstracts, or the program, please email them to: iccg7program at gmail.com. Important dates: The EXTENDED deadline for submitting abstracts: April 10, 2012 (March 15, 2012) Notification of the result of selection: April 30, 2012 Early registration deadline: June 30, 2012 For more information, visit the conference webpage: http://iccg7.hufs.ac.kr. Ben +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ Benjamin K. 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