From g.philip.polidoro at gmail.com Fri Feb 1 10:10:07 2013 From: g.philip.polidoro at gmail.com (Gill Philip) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:10:07 +0100 Subject: Extended CFP: Metaphor and Austerity pre-conference workshop Message-ID: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS *The deadline for submissions has been extended to 15th February 2013* Fifth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language: Metaphor and Austerity Corpus Linguistics 2013 pre-conference workshop. Place: Lancaster University, UK. Date: Monday 22nd July. Metaphor and Austerity The West is settling into a new age of austerity: the “NICE”(‘non-inflationary consistent expansion’, Kitson et al. 2011) economy has turned “VILE” (‘volatile inflation, little expansion’, ibid.), and the economic and social fall-out is now becoming visible. Unemployment, redundancy, inflation, recession, insecurity, and poverty all loom, causing governments, businesses and individuals to re-evaluate their priorities. A changing world changes attitudes, and the earliest manifestations of such change can often be found in figurative language. Political rhetoric attempts to sweeten the bitter pill that nations have no choice but to swallow; all are invited to share the pain, make sacrifices for the common good, and weather the storm. But more sinister undertones can also be perceived. In times of social and financial dire straits, scapegoats are sought and mercilessly pursued in the press. The elderly, unemployed, and disabled are under fire for “sponging off the state”; and as jobs become scarcer and the tax bill rises, migrant populations and asylum seekers are viewed with increasing suspicion and resentment. Calls for a “big society” fall on deaf ears. Society, it seems, is shrinking as self-preservation takes hold. This fifth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language will consist of a day-long colloquium including oral presentations (20 + 10 minutes), a poster session, plus a round-table discussion chaired by members of the organizing committee. It is the organizers’ intention to showcase original research into the figurative language associated with Austerity in its many guises and in various spheres of life, and to stimulate interdisciplinary debate between established and early-career researchers who are investigating Austerity in corpus data. Proposals are therefore welcome on any aspect of figurative language relevant to the central theme of Austerity, including, but not limited to, the economy, work and unemployment, immigration and asylum seeking, social inclusion and exclusion. Given the dominance of English in the literature on metaphor, research dealing with other languages will be particularly welcome, whether contrastive or otherwise. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Extended abstracts for 20 minute talks (1500-2000 words, excluding references) and for posters (1000-1250 words, excluding references) should be sent in an email attachment to Gill Philip by 15 February 2013. Following notification of acceptance, participants will be invited to resubmit their abstracts for inclusion in the peer-reviewed workshop proceedings which will be published concurrently with the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of abstracts: EXTENDED to 15th February 2013 Notification of acceptance: 5 March 2013 Deadline for revised abstracts: 14 May 2013 Workshop: 22 July 2013 References M. Kitson, R. Martin & P. Tyler. 2011. The geographies of austerity. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 4. 289–302. -- ********************************* Dr. Gill Philip Università degli Studi di Macerata Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, dei Beni Culturali, e del Turismo Piazzale L. Bertelli Contrada Vallebona 62100 Macerata Italy From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Tue Feb 5 22:22:05 2013 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 22:22:05 +0000 Subject: Cfp Revista de lenguas para fines espec=?iso-8859-1?Q?=EDficos?= Message-ID: Call for papers Revista de lenguas para fines específicos (Journal of languages for specific purposes) Revista de Lengua para Fines Específicos (LFE) is a peer-reviewed journal published annually since 1993 under the auspices of the Departmento de Filología Moderna, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The languages of publication are Spanish, English, French, and German, although other languages could be also considered. LFE invites submissions of original full-length articles, short articles and book reviews from scholars in the field of languages for specific and professional purposes. Article topics must fall into any field of applied linguistics within the scope of specialized languages. This includes areas of discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociology, contrastive analysis, global languages, development and implementation of specialized corpora and software, learning and teaching techniques and methodology, curriculum development, among others. The journal also accepts articles describing running projects on the field of languages for specific purposes. Contributions with a historical scope are also of interest for the journal. Prospective authors are advised to follow the guidelines for submissions. The monographic section of the November 2013 Special issue, 20th Anniversary, is about the following: "Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and the teaching of languages for specific purposes/Aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) y didactica de la enseñanza de lenguas para fines específicos". Papers outside the scope of this monograph are also welcome. Journal's URL: www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe From chauvette at rice.edu Thu Feb 7 16:17:32 2013 From: chauvette at rice.edu (Benjamin Chauvette) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:17:32 -0600 Subject: Augmentatives? Message-ID: Does anyone know of any typological or cognitive work that focuses primarily on augmentatives? I am familiar with the general literature dealing with diminutive and augmentative morphology (e.g. Scalise 1984 and responses thereto; Matisoff 1992, Dressler & Barbaresi 1994; Jurafsky 1996), but am curious if there is any other research, particularly unpublished manuscripts, that I am overlooking. Grandi's (2002) work on the Mediterranean area is great, but I have not found anything similar for other areas. Best, Ben Chauvette References ---------- Dressler, W.U. & L.M. Barbaresi. 1994. Morphopragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Grandi, N. 2002. Development and Spread of Augmentative Suffixes in the Mediterranean Area, in P. Ramat and T. Stolz (eds.), *Mediterranean Languages, *171-190. Bochum: Dr. Brockmeyer University Press. Jurafsky, D. 1996. Universal Tendencies in the Semantics of the Diminutive. *Language* 72. 533-578. Matisoff, J.A. 1992. The Mother of All Morphemes: augmentatives and diminutives in a real and universal perspective, in M. Ratliff and E. Schiller (eds.), *Papers from the First Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society,* 293-349. Scalise, S. 1984. *Generative Morphology.* Dordrecht: Foris. From tiflo at csli.stanford.edu Thu Feb 7 17:40:13 2013 From: tiflo at csli.stanford.edu (T. Florian Jaeger) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 12:40:13 -0500 Subject: Workshop announcement and call for abstracts: Linguistic variability and how the mind/brain accommodates it Message-ID: Victor Ferreira and I are organizing a one-day workshop for the 2013 LSA Summer Institute on linguistic variability, how the brain overcomes it, and what the consequences are for linguistic theory. Invited speakers will include Molly Babel, Joan Bresnan, Sheila Blumstein, Ann Bradlow, and Gary Dell. We invited poster submissions (there's going to be a best paper award for students). The call for papers and more information about the conferences can be found at http://www.hlp.rochester.edu/variability/index.html. Best, Florian (Jaeger) From hsimpson at umail.ucsb.edu Fri Feb 8 01:27:24 2013 From: hsimpson at umail.ucsb.edu (Heather Simpson) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 17:27:24 -0800 Subject: Fwd: 1st CFP: Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: **Apologies for multiple postings** ------------------------------ *Cognition and Language Workshop: Call for Papers* **University of California, Santa Barbara, August 31-September 1 2013** The Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) invites abstracts for talks and poster presentations involving the relation between language and cognition. CLaW is organized by SCUL (Studying the Cognitive Underpinnings of Language), an interdisciplinary research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. We welcome talks that investigate language as a cognitive activity as well as talks investigating cognition as a dimension of language. Talks may involve any area of linguistics — phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, corpus and/or computational linguistics, and others. We especially encourage empirical data-driven perspectives, as well as interdisciplinary talks connecting linguistics to other disciplines within cognitive science. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Posters will be presented during a separate poster session. Submission guidelines for abstracts and posters are on our website at: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/claw/call.html. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Sunday, June 30, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than July 14, 2013. Notifications will indicate whether your abstract has been accepted for presentation as a talk or as a poster. *Workshops* This year CLaW will also feature pre-conference workshops on August 31. Workshops should be self-contained instructional sessions providing a practical introduction to specific methodological and/or analytical techniques of use in research on language and cognition. If you are interested in offering a workshop, please see the guidelines on our website at: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/claw/call.html. The deadline for receipt of workshop proposals is May 1, 2013. Notification of accepted workshops will be by email no later than May 15, 2013 From jrubba at calpoly.edu Sun Feb 10 16:12:54 2013 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:12:54 -0800 Subject: "The Adventure of English" Message-ID: Hi, I know there are at least a few historians of English on this list. Someone recommended the serious "The Adventure of English" to me. I'm teaching HEL next quarter and it would be great to have some video to show to my media-saturated students (one lone comment on a student evaluation: "more movies!"). Has anyone watched this ITV Melvyn Bragg series? Is it worthwhile? "The Story of English" is certainly seriously outdated, and has a false point here and there (and is somewhat boosterish). I'll post responses. Jo Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Tel. 805.756.2184 Dept. Tel 805.756.2596 E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ******************************************* "Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West From kemmer at rice.edu Sun Feb 10 17:18:26 2013 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:18:26 -0600 Subject: "The Adventure of English" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I screen episodes #1, 2 and 4 for my class "Words in English: Structure, History, Use". (I make the whole series available to the students, and if they make an extra credit video (5-minute limit) they sometimes consult the other episodes for topics, information, and inspiration). The landscape and architectural footage is gorgeous; I never get tired of watching these. The students like the series, especially the first episode which includes scenes of young people in pubs etc.. It is boosterish, as the prime motivation for this is highlighting British cultural heritage to Brits through linguistic heritage. The students sometimes take note of the British point of view. Some seem to have assumed that British culture (and language) pretty much stopped a while ago and the U.S. then developed the culture and the language for better or worse; so they're a bit surprised and interested at the 'boosterism-with-a-somewhat-different-center' and the living language and culture on view. I think there is less in this one that linguists would object to than The Story of English. Instead of the Welsh historical fiction writer with her stereotypical heroic analysis of the Welsh character through Welsh language (somewhat cringeworthy), there is Seamus Heaney talking about Beowulf. A little stereotypical 'essence of the character revealed in the language' stuff but more intelligently done, and the English lit students sometimes know Heaney and his translation, and are excited that he is in there. Bragg consulted with and featured women scholars, too; if makers of The Story of English consulted any women scholars, they are invisible in the series, in my remembrance. The Battle for the Bible episode is of interest to a significant minority here (I'm in the Bible Belt). The non-religious ones take little interest in this episode and it seems less about language than the others. All in all, it's not a perfect series but very watchable and a lot can be learned from it. Suzanne On Feb 10, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Johanna Rubba wrote: > Hi, > > I know there are at least a few historians of English on this list. Someone recommended the serious "The Adventure of English" to me. I'm teaching HEL next quarter and it would be great to have some video to show to my media-saturated students (one lone comment on a student evaluation: "more movies!"). Has anyone watched this ITV Melvyn Bragg series? Is it worthwhile? "The Story of English" is certainly seriously outdated, and has a false point here and there (and is somewhat boosterish). > > I'll post responses. > > Jo > > Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics > Linguistics Minor Advisor > English Department > Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo > Tel. 805.756.2184 > Dept. Tel 805.756.2596 > E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu > URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba > ******************************************* > "Justice is what love looks like in public." > - Cornel West > > > > From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Wed Feb 13 21:27:46 2013 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:27:46 +0000 Subject: Language and Cognition: Issue 5/1 Message-ID: Dear colleague. The first issue of Language & Cognition for 2013 has recently been published, please see Table of Contents below. 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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 Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be Mon Feb 18 19:54:02 2013 From: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be (Torsten Leuschner) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:54:02 +0100 Subject: ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 (Ghent, July 11-13, 2013): registration open In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ghent University (UGent) and University College Ghent (HoGent) are pleased to announce that registration is now open for ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3, an international conference combining the latest editions of two series: - the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), and - the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS). Date: July 11-13, 2013 Location: Ghent (Belgium), Het Pand Contact: iclc7-uccts3 at UGent.be URL: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be INVITED SPEAKERS: - Volker Gast (Jena) - Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens) - Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Anna Mauranen (Helsinki) - Sandra Halverson (Bergen) REGISTRATION is now open at www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be. A preliminary programme is available, including abstracts, as is information on travel and accomodation. Deadline for Early Bird fees is May 15, 2013. From llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr Tue Feb 19 07:48:48 2013 From: llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr (llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:48:48 +0100 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Message-ID: - Call for papers - This is a call for contributions to the first issue of a new journal called “Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLA)” (African Languages and Linguistics) which is due to appear in 2013. The main goal of LLA is to contribute to a better knowledge of languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. We welcome papers concerned with linguistics and/or anthropological linguistics. We give special priority to analyses based on fieldwork data as well as studies relating to little documented or endangered languages and cultures. Submissions should not exceed 40,000 characters (including spaces) and should be sent no later than 28 April 2013. They may be written in English or French, but the editors will also consider submissions in other widely spoken language. For further information, please check our website: http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/lla/index.html#Engl. Or, feel free to contact us at: llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr Nicolas Quint (Llacan, CNRS) & Paulette Roulon (Llacan, CNRS), Chief Editors of LLA - Appel à publication - La revue “Linguistique & Langues Africaines” dont l’objectif est de contribuer à une meilleure connaissance des langues parlées en Afrique subsaharienne lance un appel à contributions pour son premier numéro à paraître en 2013. Nous accueillons les articles à thématique linguistique ou ethnolinguistique et nous entendons favoriser en particulier les analyses fondées sur des données de terrain, de même que les travaux portant sur des langues et des cultures africaines qui sont peu ou mal décrites ou en danger. Les manuscrits ne doivent pas excéder 40.000 caractères (espaces compris) et sont à envoyer avant le 28 avril 2013. Ils peuvent être écrits en anglais, en français ou éventuellement dans une autre langue de grande diffusion (nous consulter). Pour de plus amples informations, consultez le lien suivant : http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/lla/ Ou contactez-nous à : llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr Nicolas Quint (Llacan, CNRS) et Paulette Roulon (Llacan, CNRS), Éditeurs. From bischoff.st at gmail.com Tue Feb 19 18:10:36 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:10:36 -0500 Subject: Chinese Syntax Message-ID: Hello all, I have a student interested in Chinese syntax. Can anyone recommend a graduate program in this area? He is interested in learning more about how people are working in this area from different perspectives. He has some time before he graduates, and thus his broad interest at the moment. Thanks, Shannon From anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr Thu Feb 21 17:31:40 2013 From: anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr (Anne Salazar Orvig) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:31:40 +0100 Subject: Call for papers Acquisition of referring expressions Paris Message-ID: Dear colleagues Please find attached a call for papers for a conference on Acquisition on referring expressions to be held in Paris (October 25 -26) Sincerily Anne Salazar Orvig ILPGA Université Sorbonne Nouvelle EA1483 - Recherche sur le Français contemporain CLESTHIA ACQUISITION OF REFERRING EXPRESSIONS: CROSSED PERSPECTIVES Date of conference: October 25-26, 2013 Location: Paris 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED DEADLINE for submissions: April 1st 2013. Submissions will be registered on-line, via the Easychair platform (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeref2013) We are happy to announce the participation of the following guest speakers Keynote Lectures: Shanley Allen, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Eve Clark, Stanford University, Ca. USA Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Maya Hickmann, CNRS, Université Paris 8, SFL, France Elena Lieven, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Edy Veneziano, Université Paris Descartes, Modyco) And the DIAREF project team Oral presentations: Dominique Bassano (CNRS, Université Paris 8, SFL, France), Dagmar Bittner (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany), Cécile de Cat (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Jeannette Gundel (University of Minnesota, USA), Susana Lopez Ornat Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Yuriko Oshima-Takane ( McGill University, Montréal, Canada), Ludovica Serratrice (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Barbora Skarabela (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Rushen Shi (Quebec University , Montréal, Canada), Sophie Wauquier (Université Paris 8, SFL, France) For further information please visit our website : http://www.univ-paris3.fr/aeref-2013 From benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se Fri Feb 22 09:11:09 2013 From: benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se (Benjamin Lyngfelt) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:11:09 +0100 Subject: Funded PhD positions available in Gothenburg Message-ID: PhD positions in Computational linguistics, Nordic languages, and Swedish as a second language, and a licentiate/PhD position in Swedish as a second language Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, 4-5 years Basis: 100% Location: Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg First day of employment: 2013-09-01 Reference number: Job description The successful candidate is expected to devote their time primarily to the completion of obligatory course work and the writing of a doctoral dissertation. He or she may, however, undertake a limited amount of teaching, administration or research not directly connected to their dissertation topic. General entry requirements To meet the basic entry requirements of doctoral programmes at the University of Gothenburg, applicants must have obtained a second-cycle degree, have completed studies of at least 240 higher education credits of which at least 60 credits were awarded in the second-cycle, have completed a corresponding programme in some other country or be able to demonstrate the possession of equivalent qualifications. General entry requirements To meet the basic entry requirements of doctoral programmes at the University of Gothenburg, applicants must have obtained a second-cycle degree, have completed studies of at least 240 higher education credits of which at least 60 credits were awarded in the second-cycle, have completed a corresponding programme in some other country or be able to demonstrate the possession of equivalent qualifications. Specific entry requirements, Computational linguistics: At least 30 credits from second-cycle courses in Computational linguistics or Language technology, including a research paper of at least 15 credits or At least 30 credits from second-cycle courses in linguistics, including a research paper of at least 15 credits, plus at least 30 credits from first-level courses in Language technology, Computational linguistics, or Computer science. or At least 30 credits from second-cycle courses in Computer science, including a research paper of at least 15 credits, plus at least 30 credits from first-level courses in linguistics. Applicants must have good reading skills in the languages necessary for the completion of obligatory course work and in order to be able to participate actively in department seminars. Specific entry requirements, Nordic languages: At least 120 higher education credits are required for admission to the third-cycle programme in Nordic languages. At least 30 credits must be from the advanced level courses and include a research paper of at least 15 credits. Applicants must have good reading skills in the languages necessary for the completion of obligatory course work and in order to be able to participate actively in department seminars. Specific entry requirements, Swedish as a second language: At least 120 higher education credits in Swedish as a second language, Nordic languages, or General linguistics are required for admission to the third-cycle programme. At least 30 credits must be from the advanced level courses and include a research paper of at least 15 credits. Applicants must have good reading skills in the languages necessary for the completion of obligatory course work and in order to be able to participate actively in department seminars. Assessment Regulations for the evaluation of qualifications for education on a doctoral level are given in Higher Education Ordinance, SFS 1993: 100. Instructions for applicants are available at: http://svenska.gu.se/english/education/doctoral-studies-third-cycle/instructions-to-applicants/ For further information, please contact: Benjamin Lyngfelt, Professor of Swedish, Director of postgraduate studies +4631-786 4472 (FU-antagning at svenska.gu.se) From eva.staudinger at romanistik.uni-freiburg.de Fri Feb 22 13:06:17 2013 From: eva.staudinger at romanistik.uni-freiburg.de (Eva Staudinger) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:06:17 +0100 Subject: Second call for papers for the 2013 Role and Reference Grammar conference Message-ID: Dear list members, this is the second call for papers for the 2013 Role and Reference conference, which will be held in Freiburg, Germany. It will deal with all aspects of functional linguistics. We cordially invite you to submit papers dealing with further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology, syntax, semantics, information structure, as well as language processing. Abstracts must be received electronically by March 15, 2013 at rrg2013 at romanistik.uni-freiburg.de. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including data and references, and must be submitted as PDF documents. The abstracts should be anonymous. Submissions are limited to one single-authored and one-co-authored abstract or two co-authored abstracts. The email message must include the following information: author's name, affiliation, email address, and title of the abstract. The selection of papers for presentation will be communicated by May 1, 2013. The talks will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes for discussion. For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/lang_and_lit/veranstaltungen/role-and-reference-grammar Best, Eva Staudinger ************************************* Eva Staudinger Research assistant University of Freiburg Department of Romance Languages Platz der Universität 3 D-79085 Freiburg Phone +49-761-203 9066 Fax +49-761-203 3195 ************************************* From meri.larjavaara at abo.fi Fri Feb 22 14:15:26 2013 From: meri.larjavaara at abo.fi (Meri Larjavaara) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:15:26 +0200 Subject: SKY Symposium on "Subject: cognitive, typological and functional approaches" Message-ID: The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) organizes a symposium on: Subject: cognitive, typological and functional approaches Helsinki, September 12-14, 2013 http://www.linguistics.fi/subject/index.html Grammatical subject is a central notion in linguistic theories. Subjects have been studied across multiple theoretical frameworks, and defined from various perspectives, including, for example, feature-based (Keenan 1976), construction-based (Goldberg 1995), and cognitive-based (Langacker 2008). While there is no doubt that in many languages subjects constitute a core element of grammar, there is no general agreement on how to define them in and across languages, what conditions the way in which subjects are expressed, and what functions they have in discourse. Furthermore, there are numerous languages that lack the idea of a grammatical subject altogether, and the assignment of semantic roles to the constituents of discourse is conditioned by pragmatics and discourse structure. The aim of this symposium of the Linguistic Association of Finland is to bring together linguists from different fields who work on subjects within cognitive, functional, typological, and interactional approaches. Contributions are expected to be data-driven, and the discussion of theoretical issues is appreciated to the extent that it helps to elucidate the data and remains accessible to linguists working within other theoretical approaches as well. The invited speakers are: Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) Pekka Posio (University of Helsinki) Catherine E. Travis (Australian National University, Canberra) Possible topics for talks include (but are not restricted to) the following: · Definitions of subject in different theoretical frameworks: feature-based, construction-based and cognitive definitions (Keenan 1976; Goldberg 1995; Langacker 2008), relation between subject and topic and subject-prominent vs. topic-prominent languages (Li & Thompson 1976) · Languages with variable subject expression (e.g. null-subject and pro-drop languages), different marking strategies, information structure, and choice of referring expressions in the subject position (Kibrik 2011; Dryer 2011; Posio 2012) · Non-referential and vague subjects, for instance in the sense of reference reducing impersonals (Siewierska & Papastathi 2011; Malchukov & Ogawa 2011) · Grammaticalization of subjects and subject pronouns (Shibatani 1991; Heine & Song 2011) · Discourse functions of subjects; differences between deictic and anaphoric subjects (Scheibman 2002; Travis & Torres Cacoullos 2012) · Subjects in typology; the universality of subject as a grammatical relation (LaPolla 1993); prototypical and non-canonical subjects · Syntax and semantics of subjects in and across languages: subjects and semantic roles; the role of subjects in argument structure (Shibatani 1977; Van Valin & LaPolla 1997; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 2005) Abstract submission: Anonymous abstracts, no more than 500 words, excluding data and references, should be submitted by April 15, 2013. The abstracts must be anonymous. They will be evaluated by the organizing committee and by the members of the scientific committee. Notifications of acceptance will be announced by May 20, 2013. The talks will be 30 minutes long: 20 min for presentation and 10 min for discussion. In addition, there will be a poster section. Please submit your abstract via EasyAbs available at: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/subject2013 Proposals for workshops should be submitted no later than April 1, 2013. Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee. Notification of acceptance will be given by April 8, 2013. The symposium organizers will provide the lecture rooms and other facilities, but the workshop organizers will be responsible for the organization of their workshops (such as choosing the speakers). Organizing committee: Chair: Leena Kolehmainen (University of Eastern Finland), Meri Larjavaara (Åbo Akademi University), Tommi Nieminen (Unversity of Eastern Finland), Santeri Palviainen (University of Oulu), Hanna Parviainen (University of Tampere) and Erika Sandman (University of Helsinki). Scientific committee: Denis Creissels (University of Lyon) Pål K. Eriksen (National Library of Norway, Oslo) Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (University of Turku) Tuomas Huumo (University of Turku) Laura Janda (University of Tromsø) Marja Järventausta (University of Cologne) Jae Jung Song (University of Otago) Andrej A. Kibrik (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Seppo Kittilä (University of Helsinki) Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Maria Vilkuna (Institute for the Languages of Finland) Camilla Wide (University of Turku) Registration fee: · 100 EUR · members of the association: 80 EUR · students 50 EUR Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2013 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2013 Proposals for workshops: April 1, 2013 Notification of workshop proposals: April 8, 2013 Early registration starts: June 1, 2013 Deadline for registrations: August 15, 2013 Conference dates: September 12-14, 2013 For further information, see http://www.linguistics.fi/subject/index.html. For all correspondence concerning the symposium, please contact: subject-2013 at helsinki.fi. References Dryer, Matthew S. 2011. Expression of pronominal subjects. In Matthew S. Dryer & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Max Planck Digital Library, Munich. Chapter 101. Available online at wals.info/chapter/101. Goldberg, Adele 1995. Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Heine, Bernd & Song, Kyung-An 2011. On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns. Journal of Linguistics 47: 587-630. Keenan, Edward 1976. Towards a universal definition of subject. In Charles N. Li (ed.). Subject and Topic. New York: Academic Press: 305-334. Kibrik, Andrej A. 2011. Reference in Discourse. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. Langacker, Ronald W. 2008. Cognitive Grammar. A Basic Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. LaPolla, Randy J. 1993. Arguments against 'subject' and 'direct object' as viable concepts in Chinese. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 63 (4): 759-813. Levin, Beth & Malka Rappaport Hovav 2005. Argument Realization. Research Surveys in Linguistics Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Li, Charles N. & Sandra A. Thompson 1976. Subject and topic: a new typology of language. In Charles N. Li (ed.). Subject and Topic. London/New York: Academic Press: 457-489. Malchukov, Andrej & Ogawa, Akio 2011. Towards a typology of impersonal constructions. A semantic map approach. In Malchukov, Andrej & Siewierska, Anna (eds.) Impersonal Constructions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins: 17-54. Posio, Pekka 2012. Who are 'we' in spoken Peninsular Spanish and European Portuguese? Expression and reference of first person plural subject pronouns. Language Sciences 34(3): 339-360. Scheibman, Joanne 2002. Point of View and Grammar: Structural Patterns of Subjectivity in American English Conversation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Seo, Seunghyun 2001. The Frequency of Null Subject in Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian: An Analysis According to Morphosyntactic Environments. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University. Shibatani, Masayoshi 1977. Grammatical relations and surface cases. Language 53: 789-809. Shibatani, Masayoshi 1991. Grammaticization of topic into subject. In Bernd Heine & Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds.) Grammaticalization . Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 93-133. Siewierska, Anna & Maria Papastathi 2011. Third person plurals in the languages of Europe: typological and methodological issues. Linguistics 43(2): 575-610. Travis, Catherine E. & Torres Cacoullos, Rena 2012. What do subject pronouns do in discourse? Cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors in variation. Cognitive Linguistics 23 (4): 711-748. Van Valin, Robert D. and LaPolla, Randy J. 1997. Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function. Cambridge textbooks in linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. From bischoff.st at gmail.com Fri Feb 22 21:45:46 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:45:46 -0500 Subject: Human Language & Bird Song Message-ID: Hello all, Not sure if anyone has read the original paper...but thought folks might find this of interest... http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/how-human-language-could-have-evolved-from-birdsong-0221.html How human language could have evolved from birdsong Linguistics and biology researchers propose a new theory on the deep roots of human speech. The sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy to language,” Charles Darwin wrote in “The Descent of Man” (1871), while contemplating how humans learned to speak. Language, he speculated, might have had its origins in singing, which “might have given rise to words expressive of various complex emotions.” Now researchers from MIT, along with a scholar from the University of Tokyo, say that Darwin was on the right path. The balance of evidence, they believe, suggests that human language is a grafting of two communication forms found elsewhere in the animal kingdom: first, the elaborate songs of birds, and second, the more utilitarian, information-bearing types of expression seen in a diversity of other animals... From marefat at ut.ac.ir Sat Feb 23 19:25:01 2013 From: marefat at ut.ac.ir (marefat) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:25:01 -0800 Subject: a question about Greek Message-ID: Dear List members, Does anyone on the list know Greek? i need some help to know the English translation of the following sentence: Enas antras kitakse ton dhaskalo tis mathitrias pu itan stin avli. most specifically i need to know what the two DPs before the RC are: the teacher of the student or the student of the teacher. thank you in advance Best Regards hamideh marefat From sathomps at linguistics.ucsb.edu Sat Feb 23 22:51:29 2013 From: sathomps at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Sandra A. Thompson) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:51:29 -0800 Subject: Job opening: Professor of Linguistics at Sydney U. Message-ID: http://sydney.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.processJobSearch&jobid=b78b3688-8224-1fa2-aa41-6e292c15c118&CurATC=EXT&CurBID=949319bc-8898-4f11-ac4b-9db401358504&jobsListKey=770f2cf9-dc6e-4d65-8557-90b519d From g.philip.polidoro at gmail.com Fri Feb 1 10:10:07 2013 From: g.philip.polidoro at gmail.com (Gill Philip) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 11:10:07 +0100 Subject: Extended CFP: Metaphor and Austerity pre-conference workshop Message-ID: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS *The deadline for submissions has been extended to 15th February 2013* Fifth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language: Metaphor and Austerity Corpus Linguistics 2013 pre-conference workshop. Place: Lancaster University, UK. Date: Monday 22nd July. Metaphor and Austerity The West is settling into a new age of austerity: the ?NICE?(?non-inflationary consistent expansion?, Kitson et al. 2011) economy has turned ?VILE? (?volatile inflation, little expansion?, ibid.), and the economic and social fall-out is now becoming visible. Unemployment, redundancy, inflation, recession, insecurity, and poverty all loom, causing governments, businesses and individuals to re-evaluate their priorities. A changing world changes attitudes, and the earliest manifestations of such change can often be found in figurative language. Political rhetoric attempts to sweeten the bitter pill that nations have no choice but to swallow; all are invited to share the pain, make sacrifices for the common good, and weather the storm. But more sinister undertones can also be perceived. In times of social and financial dire straits, scapegoats are sought and mercilessly pursued in the press. The elderly, unemployed, and disabled are under fire for ?sponging off the state?; and as jobs become scarcer and the tax bill rises, migrant populations and asylum seekers are viewed with increasing suspicion and resentment. Calls for a ?big society? fall on deaf ears. Society, it seems, is shrinking as self-preservation takes hold. This fifth Interdisciplinary Workshop on Corpus-Based Approaches to Figurative Language will consist of a day-long colloquium including oral presentations (20 + 10 minutes), a poster session, plus a round-table discussion chaired by members of the organizing committee. It is the organizers? intention to showcase original research into the figurative language associated with Austerity in its many guises and in various spheres of life, and to stimulate interdisciplinary debate between established and early-career researchers who are investigating Austerity in corpus data. Proposals are therefore welcome on any aspect of figurative language relevant to the central theme of Austerity, including, but not limited to, the economy, work and unemployment, immigration and asylum seeking, social inclusion and exclusion. Given the dominance of English in the literature on metaphor, research dealing with other languages will be particularly welcome, whether contrastive or otherwise. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Extended abstracts for 20 minute talks (1500-2000 words, excluding references) and for posters (1000-1250 words, excluding references) should be sent in an email attachment to Gill Philip by 15 February 2013. Following notification of acceptance, participants will be invited to resubmit their abstracts for inclusion in the peer-reviewed workshop proceedings which will be published concurrently with the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of abstracts: EXTENDED to 15th February 2013 Notification of acceptance: 5 March 2013 Deadline for revised abstracts: 14 May 2013 Workshop: 22 July 2013 References M. Kitson, R. Martin & P. Tyler. 2011. The geographies of austerity. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 4. 289?302. -- ********************************* Dr. Gill Philip Universit? degli Studi di Macerata Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione, dei Beni Culturali, e del Turismo Piazzale L. Bertelli Contrada Vallebona 62100 Macerata Italy From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Tue Feb 5 22:22:05 2013 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 22:22:05 +0000 Subject: Cfp Revista de lenguas para fines espec=?iso-8859-1?Q?=EDficos?= Message-ID: Call for papers Revista de lenguas para fines espec?ficos (Journal of languages for specific purposes) Revista de Lengua para Fines Espec?ficos (LFE) is a peer-reviewed journal published annually since 1993 under the auspices of the Departmento de Filolog?a Moderna, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The languages of publication are Spanish, English, French, and German, although other languages could be also considered. LFE invites submissions of original full-length articles, short articles and book reviews from scholars in the field of languages for specific and professional purposes. Article topics must fall into any field of applied linguistics within the scope of specialized languages. This includes areas of discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociology, contrastive analysis, global languages, development and implementation of specialized corpora and software, learning and teaching techniques and methodology, curriculum development, among others. The journal also accepts articles describing running projects on the field of languages for specific purposes. Contributions with a historical scope are also of interest for the journal. Prospective authors are advised to follow the guidelines for submissions. The monographic section of the November 2013 Special issue, 20th Anniversary, is about the following: "Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and the teaching of languages for specific purposes/Aprendizaje integrado de contenidos y lenguas extranjeras (AICLE) y didactica de la ense?anza de lenguas para fines espec?ficos". Papers outside the scope of this monograph are also welcome. Journal's URL: www.webs.ulpgc.es/lfe From chauvette at rice.edu Thu Feb 7 16:17:32 2013 From: chauvette at rice.edu (Benjamin Chauvette) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:17:32 -0600 Subject: Augmentatives? Message-ID: Does anyone know of any typological or cognitive work that focuses primarily on augmentatives? I am familiar with the general literature dealing with diminutive and augmentative morphology (e.g. Scalise 1984 and responses thereto; Matisoff 1992, Dressler & Barbaresi 1994; Jurafsky 1996), but am curious if there is any other research, particularly unpublished manuscripts, that I am overlooking. Grandi's (2002) work on the Mediterranean area is great, but I have not found anything similar for other areas. Best, Ben Chauvette References ---------- Dressler, W.U. & L.M. Barbaresi. 1994. Morphopragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Grandi, N. 2002. Development and Spread of Augmentative Suffixes in the Mediterranean Area, in P. Ramat and T. Stolz (eds.), *Mediterranean Languages, *171-190. Bochum: Dr. Brockmeyer University Press. Jurafsky, D. 1996. Universal Tendencies in the Semantics of the Diminutive. *Language* 72. 533-578. Matisoff, J.A. 1992. The Mother of All Morphemes: augmentatives and diminutives in a real and universal perspective, in M. Ratliff and E. Schiller (eds.), *Papers from the First Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society,* 293-349. Scalise, S. 1984. *Generative Morphology.* Dordrecht: Foris. From tiflo at csli.stanford.edu Thu Feb 7 17:40:13 2013 From: tiflo at csli.stanford.edu (T. Florian Jaeger) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 12:40:13 -0500 Subject: Workshop announcement and call for abstracts: Linguistic variability and how the mind/brain accommodates it Message-ID: Victor Ferreira and I are organizing a one-day workshop for the 2013 LSA Summer Institute on linguistic variability, how the brain overcomes it, and what the consequences are for linguistic theory. Invited speakers will include Molly Babel, Joan Bresnan, Sheila Blumstein, Ann Bradlow, and Gary Dell. We invited poster submissions (there's going to be a best paper award for students). The call for papers and more information about the conferences can be found at http://www.hlp.rochester.edu/variability/index.html. Best, Florian (Jaeger) From hsimpson at umail.ucsb.edu Fri Feb 8 01:27:24 2013 From: hsimpson at umail.ucsb.edu (Heather Simpson) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 17:27:24 -0800 Subject: Fwd: 1st CFP: Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: **Apologies for multiple postings** ------------------------------ *Cognition and Language Workshop: Call for Papers* **University of California, Santa Barbara, August 31-September 1 2013** The Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) invites abstracts for talks and poster presentations involving the relation between language and cognition. CLaW is organized by SCUL (Studying the Cognitive Underpinnings of Language), an interdisciplinary research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. We welcome talks that investigate language as a cognitive activity as well as talks investigating cognition as a dimension of language. Talks may involve any area of linguistics ? phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, corpus and/or computational linguistics, and others. We especially encourage empirical data-driven perspectives, as well as interdisciplinary talks connecting linguistics to other disciplines within cognitive science. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Posters will be presented during a separate poster session. Submission guidelines for abstracts and posters are on our website at: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/claw/call.html. The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Sunday, June 30, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than July 14, 2013. Notifications will indicate whether your abstract has been accepted for presentation as a talk or as a poster. *Workshops* This year CLaW will also feature pre-conference workshops on August 31. Workshops should be self-contained instructional sessions providing a practical introduction to specific methodological and/or analytical techniques of use in research on language and cognition. If you are interested in offering a workshop, please see the guidelines on our website at: http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/claw/call.html. The deadline for receipt of workshop proposals is May 1, 2013. Notification of accepted workshops will be by email no later than May 15, 2013 From jrubba at calpoly.edu Sun Feb 10 16:12:54 2013 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:12:54 -0800 Subject: "The Adventure of English" Message-ID: Hi, I know there are at least a few historians of English on this list. Someone recommended the serious "The Adventure of English" to me. I'm teaching HEL next quarter and it would be great to have some video to show to my media-saturated students (one lone comment on a student evaluation: "more movies!"). Has anyone watched this ITV Melvyn Bragg series? Is it worthwhile? "The Story of English" is certainly seriously outdated, and has a false point here and there (and is somewhat boosterish). I'll post responses. Jo Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics Linguistics Minor Advisor English Department Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo Tel. 805.756.2184 Dept. Tel 805.756.2596 E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ******************************************* "Justice is what love looks like in public." - Cornel West From kemmer at rice.edu Sun Feb 10 17:18:26 2013 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:18:26 -0600 Subject: "The Adventure of English" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I screen episodes #1, 2 and 4 for my class "Words in English: Structure, History, Use". (I make the whole series available to the students, and if they make an extra credit video (5-minute limit) they sometimes consult the other episodes for topics, information, and inspiration). The landscape and architectural footage is gorgeous; I never get tired of watching these. The students like the series, especially the first episode which includes scenes of young people in pubs etc.. It is boosterish, as the prime motivation for this is highlighting British cultural heritage to Brits through linguistic heritage. The students sometimes take note of the British point of view. Some seem to have assumed that British culture (and language) pretty much stopped a while ago and the U.S. then developed the culture and the language for better or worse; so they're a bit surprised and interested at the 'boosterism-with-a-somewhat-different-center' and the living language and culture on view. I think there is less in this one that linguists would object to than The Story of English. Instead of the Welsh historical fiction writer with her stereotypical heroic analysis of the Welsh character through Welsh language (somewhat cringeworthy), there is Seamus Heaney talking about Beowulf. A little stereotypical 'essence of the character revealed in the language' stuff but more intelligently done, and the English lit students sometimes know Heaney and his translation, and are excited that he is in there. Bragg consulted with and featured women scholars, too; if makers of The Story of English consulted any women scholars, they are invisible in the series, in my remembrance. The Battle for the Bible episode is of interest to a significant minority here (I'm in the Bible Belt). The non-religious ones take little interest in this episode and it seems less about language than the others. All in all, it's not a perfect series but very watchable and a lot can be learned from it. Suzanne On Feb 10, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Johanna Rubba wrote: > Hi, > > I know there are at least a few historians of English on this list. Someone recommended the serious "The Adventure of English" to me. I'm teaching HEL next quarter and it would be great to have some video to show to my media-saturated students (one lone comment on a student evaluation: "more movies!"). Has anyone watched this ITV Melvyn Bragg series? Is it worthwhile? "The Story of English" is certainly seriously outdated, and has a false point here and there (and is somewhat boosterish). > > I'll post responses. > > Jo > > Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics > Linguistics Minor Advisor > English Department > Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo > Tel. 805.756.2184 > Dept. Tel 805.756.2596 > E-mail: jrubba at calpoly.edu > URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba > ******************************************* > "Justice is what love looks like in public." > - Cornel West > > > > From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Wed Feb 13 21:27:46 2013 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:27:46 +0000 Subject: Language and Cognition: Issue 5/1 Message-ID: Dear colleague. The first issue of Language & Cognition for 2013 has recently been published, please see Table of Contents below. 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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 Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be Mon Feb 18 19:54:02 2013 From: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be (Torsten Leuschner) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:54:02 +0100 Subject: ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3 (Ghent, July 11-13, 2013): registration open In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Ghent University (UGent) and University College Ghent (HoGent) are pleased to announce that registration is now open for ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3, an international conference combining the latest editions of two series: - the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), and - the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS). Date: July 11-13, 2013 Location: Ghent (Belgium), Het Pand Contact: iclc7-uccts3 at UGent.be URL: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be INVITED SPEAKERS: - Volker Gast (Jena) - Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens) - Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Anna Mauranen (Helsinki) - Sandra Halverson (Bergen) REGISTRATION is now open at www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be. A preliminary programme is available, including abstracts, as is information on travel and accomodation. Deadline for Early Bird fees is May 15, 2013. From llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr Tue Feb 19 07:48:48 2013 From: llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr (llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 08:48:48 +0100 Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Message-ID: - Call for papers - This is a call for contributions to the first issue of a new journal called ?Linguistique et Langues Africaines (LLA)? (African Languages and Linguistics) which is due to appear in 2013. The main goal of LLA is to contribute to a better knowledge of languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. We welcome papers concerned with linguistics and/or anthropological linguistics. We give special priority to analyses based on fieldwork data as well as studies relating to little documented or endangered languages and cultures. Submissions should not exceed 40,000 characters (including spaces) and should be sent no later than 28 April 2013. They may be written in English or French, but the editors will also consider submissions in other widely spoken language. For further information, please check our website: http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/lla/index.html#Engl. Or, feel free to contact us at: llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr Nicolas Quint (Llacan, CNRS) & Paulette Roulon (Llacan, CNRS), Chief Editors of LLA - Appel ? publication - La revue ?Linguistique & Langues Africaines? dont l?objectif est de contribuer ? une meilleure connaissance des langues parl?es en Afrique subsaharienne lance un appel ? contributions pour son premier num?ro ? para?tre en 2013. Nous accueillons les articles ? th?matique linguistique ou ethnolinguistique et nous entendons favoriser en particulier les analyses fond?es sur des donn?es de terrain, de m?me que les travaux portant sur des langues et des cultures africaines qui sont peu ou mal d?crites ou en danger. Les manuscrits ne doivent pas exc?der 40.000 caract?res (espaces compris) et sont ? envoyer avant le 28 avril 2013. Ils peuvent ?tre ?crits en anglais, en fran?ais ou ?ventuellement dans une autre langue de grande diffusion (nous consulter). Pour de plus amples informations, consultez le lien suivant : http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/lla/ Ou contactez-nous ? : llafrique at vjf.cnrs.fr Nicolas Quint (Llacan, CNRS) et Paulette Roulon (Llacan, CNRS), ?diteurs. From bischoff.st at gmail.com Tue Feb 19 18:10:36 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:10:36 -0500 Subject: Chinese Syntax Message-ID: Hello all, I have a student interested in Chinese syntax. Can anyone recommend a graduate program in this area? He is interested in learning more about how people are working in this area from different perspectives. He has some time before he graduates, and thus his broad interest at the moment. Thanks, Shannon From anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr Thu Feb 21 17:31:40 2013 From: anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr (Anne Salazar Orvig) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:31:40 +0100 Subject: Call for papers Acquisition of referring expressions Paris Message-ID: Dear colleagues Please find attached a call for papers for a conference on Acquisition on referring expressions to be held in Paris (October 25 -26) Sincerily Anne Salazar Orvig ILPGA Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle EA1483 - Recherche sur le Fran?ais contemporain CLESTHIA ACQUISITION OF REFERRING EXPRESSIONS: CROSSED PERSPECTIVES Date of conference: October 25-26, 2013 Location: Paris 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED DEADLINE for submissions: April 1st 2013. Submissions will be registered on-line, via the Easychair platform (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeref2013) We are happy to announce the participation of the following guest speakers Keynote Lectures: Shanley Allen, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Eve Clark, Stanford University, Ca. USA Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Maya Hickmann, CNRS, Universit? Paris 8, SFL, France Elena Lieven, University of Manchester, United Kingdom Edy Veneziano, Universit? Paris Descartes, Modyco) And the DIAREF project team Oral presentations: Dominique Bassano (CNRS, Universit? Paris 8, SFL, France), Dagmar Bittner (Zentrum f?r Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany), C?cile de Cat (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Jeannette Gundel (University of Minnesota, USA), Susana Lopez Ornat Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom), Yuriko Oshima-Takane ( McGill University, Montr?al, Canada), Ludovica Serratrice (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), Barbora Skarabela (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom), Rushen Shi (Quebec University , Montr?al, Canada), Sophie Wauquier (Universit? Paris 8, SFL, France) For further information please visit our website : http://www.univ-paris3.fr/aeref-2013 From benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se Fri Feb 22 09:11:09 2013 From: benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se (Benjamin Lyngfelt) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:11:09 +0100 Subject: Funded PhD positions available in Gothenburg Message-ID: PhD positions in Computational linguistics, Nordic languages, and Swedish as a second language, and a licentiate/PhD position in Swedish as a second language Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, 4-5 years Basis: 100% Location: Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg First day of employment: 2013-09-01 Reference number: Job description The successful candidate is expected to devote their time primarily to the completion of obligatory course work and the writing of a doctoral dissertation. He or she may, however, undertake a limited amount of teaching, administration or research not directly connected to their dissertation topic. General entry requirements To meet the basic entry requirements of doctoral programmes at the University of Gothenburg, applicants must have obtained a second-cycle degree, have completed studies of at least 240 higher education credits of which at least 60 credits were awarded in the second-cycle, have completed a corresponding programme in some other country or be able to demonstrate the possession of equivalent qualifications. General entry requirements To meet the basic entry requirements of doctoral programmes at the University of Gothenburg, applicants must have obtained a second-cycle degree, have completed studies of at least 240 higher education credits of which at least 60 credits were awarded in the second-cycle, have completed a corresponding programme in some other country or be able to demonstrate the possession of equivalent qualifications. Specific entry requirements, Computational linguistics: At least 30 credits from second-cycle courses in Computational linguistics or Language technology, including a research paper of at least 15 credits or At least 30 credits from second-cycle courses in linguistics, including a research paper of at least 15 credits, plus at least 30 credits from first-level courses in Language technology, Computational linguistics, or Computer science. or At least 30 credits from second-cycle courses in Computer science, including a research paper of at least 15 credits, plus at least 30 credits from first-level courses in linguistics. Applicants must have good reading skills in the languages necessary for the completion of obligatory course work and in order to be able to participate actively in department seminars. Specific entry requirements, Nordic languages: At least 120 higher education credits are required for admission to the third-cycle programme in Nordic languages. At least 30 credits must be from the advanced level courses and include a research paper of at least 15 credits. Applicants must have good reading skills in the languages necessary for the completion of obligatory course work and in order to be able to participate actively in department seminars. Specific entry requirements, Swedish as a second language: At least 120 higher education credits in Swedish as a second language, Nordic languages, or General linguistics are required for admission to the third-cycle programme. At least 30 credits must be from the advanced level courses and include a research paper of at least 15 credits. Applicants must have good reading skills in the languages necessary for the completion of obligatory course work and in order to be able to participate actively in department seminars. Assessment Regulations for the evaluation of qualifications for education on a doctoral level are given in Higher Education Ordinance, SFS 1993: 100. Instructions for applicants are available at: http://svenska.gu.se/english/education/doctoral-studies-third-cycle/instructions-to-applicants/ For further information, please contact: Benjamin Lyngfelt, Professor of Swedish, Director of postgraduate studies +4631-786 4472 (FU-antagning at svenska.gu.se) From eva.staudinger at romanistik.uni-freiburg.de Fri Feb 22 13:06:17 2013 From: eva.staudinger at romanistik.uni-freiburg.de (Eva Staudinger) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:06:17 +0100 Subject: Second call for papers for the 2013 Role and Reference Grammar conference Message-ID: Dear list members, this is the second call for papers for the 2013 Role and Reference conference, which will be held in Freiburg, Germany. It will deal with all aspects of functional linguistics. We cordially invite you to submit papers dealing with further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology, syntax, semantics, information structure, as well as language processing. Abstracts must be received electronically by March 15, 2013 at rrg2013 at romanistik.uni-freiburg.de. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including data and references, and must be submitted as PDF documents. The abstracts should be anonymous. Submissions are limited to one single-authored and one-co-authored abstract or two co-authored abstracts. The email message must include the following information: author's name, affiliation, email address, and title of the abstract. The selection of papers for presentation will be communicated by May 1, 2013. The talks will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes for discussion. For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/lang_and_lit/veranstaltungen/role-and-reference-grammar Best, Eva Staudinger ************************************* Eva Staudinger Research assistant University of Freiburg Department of Romance Languages Platz der Universit?t 3 D-79085 Freiburg Phone +49-761-203 9066 Fax +49-761-203 3195 ************************************* From meri.larjavaara at abo.fi Fri Feb 22 14:15:26 2013 From: meri.larjavaara at abo.fi (Meri Larjavaara) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:15:26 +0200 Subject: SKY Symposium on "Subject: cognitive, typological and functional approaches" Message-ID: The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) organizes a symposium on: Subject: cognitive, typological and functional approaches Helsinki, September 12-14, 2013 http://www.linguistics.fi/subject/index.html Grammatical subject is a central notion in linguistic theories. Subjects have been studied across multiple theoretical frameworks, and defined from various perspectives, including, for example, feature-based (Keenan 1976), construction-based (Goldberg 1995), and cognitive-based (Langacker 2008). While there is no doubt that in many languages subjects constitute a core element of grammar, there is no general agreement on how to define them in and across languages, what conditions the way in which subjects are expressed, and what functions they have in discourse. Furthermore, there are numerous languages that lack the idea of a grammatical subject altogether, and the assignment of semantic roles to the constituents of discourse is conditioned by pragmatics and discourse structure. The aim of this symposium of the Linguistic Association of Finland is to bring together linguists from different fields who work on subjects within cognitive, functional, typological, and interactional approaches. Contributions are expected to be data-driven, and the discussion of theoretical issues is appreciated to the extent that it helps to elucidate the data and remains accessible to linguists working within other theoretical approaches as well. The invited speakers are: J?hanna Bar?dal (University of Bergen) Pekka Posio (University of Helsinki) Catherine E. Travis (Australian National University, Canberra) Possible topics for talks include (but are not restricted to) the following: ? Definitions of subject in different theoretical frameworks: feature-based, construction-based and cognitive definitions (Keenan 1976; Goldberg 1995; Langacker 2008), relation between subject and topic and subject-prominent vs. topic-prominent languages (Li & Thompson 1976) ? Languages with variable subject expression (e.g. null-subject and pro-drop languages), different marking strategies, information structure, and choice of referring expressions in the subject position (Kibrik 2011; Dryer 2011; Posio 2012) ? Non-referential and vague subjects, for instance in the sense of reference reducing impersonals (Siewierska & Papastathi 2011; Malchukov & Ogawa 2011) ? Grammaticalization of subjects and subject pronouns (Shibatani 1991; Heine & Song 2011) ? Discourse functions of subjects; differences between deictic and anaphoric subjects (Scheibman 2002; Travis & Torres Cacoullos 2012) ? Subjects in typology; the universality of subject as a grammatical relation (LaPolla 1993); prototypical and non-canonical subjects ? Syntax and semantics of subjects in and across languages: subjects and semantic roles; the role of subjects in argument structure (Shibatani 1977; Van Valin & LaPolla 1997; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 2005) Abstract submission: Anonymous abstracts, no more than 500 words, excluding data and references, should be submitted by April 15, 2013. The abstracts must be anonymous. They will be evaluated by the organizing committee and by the members of the scientific committee. Notifications of acceptance will be announced by May 20, 2013. The talks will be 30 minutes long: 20 min for presentation and 10 min for discussion. In addition, there will be a poster section. Please submit your abstract via EasyAbs available at: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/subject2013 Proposals for workshops should be submitted no later than April 1, 2013. Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee. Notification of acceptance will be given by April 8, 2013. The symposium organizers will provide the lecture rooms and other facilities, but the workshop organizers will be responsible for the organization of their workshops (such as choosing the speakers). Organizing committee: Chair: Leena Kolehmainen (University of Eastern Finland), Meri Larjavaara (?bo Akademi University), Tommi Nieminen (Unversity of Eastern Finland), Santeri Palviainen (University of Oulu), Hanna Parviainen (University of Tampere) and Erika Sandman (University of Helsinki). Scientific committee: Denis Creissels (University of Lyon) P?l K. Eriksen (National Library of Norway, Oslo) Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (University of Turku) Tuomas Huumo (University of Turku) Laura Janda (University of Troms?) Marja J?rventausta (University of Cologne) Jae Jung Song (University of Otago) Andrej A. Kibrik (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) Seppo Kittil? (University of Helsinki) Andrej Malchukov (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) Maria Vilkuna (Institute for the Languages of Finland) Camilla Wide (University of Turku) Registration fee: ? 100 EUR ? members of the association: 80 EUR ? students 50 EUR Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2013 Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2013 Proposals for workshops: April 1, 2013 Notification of workshop proposals: April 8, 2013 Early registration starts: June 1, 2013 Deadline for registrations: August 15, 2013 Conference dates: September 12-14, 2013 For further information, see http://www.linguistics.fi/subject/index.html. For all correspondence concerning the symposium, please contact: subject-2013 at helsinki.fi. References Dryer, Matthew S. 2011. Expression of pronominal subjects. In Matthew S. Dryer & Martin Haspelmath (eds.), The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Max Planck Digital Library, Munich. Chapter 101. Available online at wals.info/chapter/101. Goldberg, Adele 1995. Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Heine, Bernd & Song, Kyung-An 2011. On the grammaticalization of personal pronouns. Journal of Linguistics 47: 587-630. Keenan, Edward 1976. Towards a universal definition of subject. In Charles N. Li (ed.). Subject and Topic. New York: Academic Press: 305-334. Kibrik, Andrej A. 2011. Reference in Discourse. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. Langacker, Ronald W. 2008. Cognitive Grammar. A Basic Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. LaPolla, Randy J. 1993. Arguments against 'subject' and 'direct object' as viable concepts in Chinese. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 63 (4): 759-813. Levin, Beth & Malka Rappaport Hovav 2005. Argument Realization. Research Surveys in Linguistics Series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Li, Charles N. & Sandra A. Thompson 1976. Subject and topic: a new typology of language. In Charles N. Li (ed.). Subject and Topic. London/New York: Academic Press: 457-489. Malchukov, Andrej & Ogawa, Akio 2011. Towards a typology of impersonal constructions. A semantic map approach. In Malchukov, Andrej & Siewierska, Anna (eds.) Impersonal Constructions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins: 17-54. Posio, Pekka 2012. Who are 'we' in spoken Peninsular Spanish and European Portuguese? Expression and reference of first person plural subject pronouns. Language Sciences 34(3): 339-360. Scheibman, Joanne 2002. Point of View and Grammar: Structural Patterns of Subjectivity in American English Conversation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Seo, Seunghyun 2001. The Frequency of Null Subject in Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian: An Analysis According to Morphosyntactic Environments. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University. Shibatani, Masayoshi 1977. Grammatical relations and surface cases. Language 53: 789-809. Shibatani, Masayoshi 1991. Grammaticization of topic into subject. In Bernd Heine & Elizabeth Closs Traugott (eds.) Grammaticalization . Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 93-133. Siewierska, Anna & Maria Papastathi 2011. Third person plurals in the languages of Europe: typological and methodological issues. Linguistics 43(2): 575-610. Travis, Catherine E. & Torres Cacoullos, Rena 2012. What do subject pronouns do in discourse? Cognitive, mechanical and constructional factors in variation. Cognitive Linguistics 23 (4): 711-748. Van Valin, Robert D. and LaPolla, Randy J. 1997. Syntax: Structure, Meaning, and Function. Cambridge textbooks in linguistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. From bischoff.st at gmail.com Fri Feb 22 21:45:46 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:45:46 -0500 Subject: Human Language & Bird Song Message-ID: Hello all, Not sure if anyone has read the original paper...but thought folks might find this of interest... http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/how-human-language-could-have-evolved-from-birdsong-0221.html How human language could have evolved from birdsong Linguistics and biology researchers propose a new theory on the deep roots of human speech. The sounds uttered by birds offer in several respects the nearest analogy to language,? Charles Darwin wrote in ?The Descent of Man? (1871), while contemplating how humans learned to speak. Language, he speculated, might have had its origins in singing, which ?might have given rise to words expressive of various complex emotions.? Now researchers from MIT, along with a scholar from the University of Tokyo, say that Darwin was on the right path. The balance of evidence, they believe, suggests that human language is a grafting of two communication forms found elsewhere in the animal kingdom: first, the elaborate songs of birds, and second, the more utilitarian, information-bearing types of expression seen in a diversity of other animals... From marefat at ut.ac.ir Sat Feb 23 19:25:01 2013 From: marefat at ut.ac.ir (marefat) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:25:01 -0800 Subject: a question about Greek Message-ID: Dear List members, Does anyone on the list know Greek? i need some help to know the English translation of the following sentence: Enas antras kitakse ton dhaskalo tis mathitrias pu itan stin avli. most specifically i need to know what the two DPs before the RC are: the teacher of the student or the student of the teacher. thank you in advance Best Regards hamideh marefat From sathomps at linguistics.ucsb.edu Sat Feb 23 22:51:29 2013 From: sathomps at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Sandra A. Thompson) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:51:29 -0800 Subject: Job opening: Professor of Linguistics at Sydney U. Message-ID: http://sydney.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm?event=jobs.checkJobDetailsNewApplication&returnToEvent=jobs.processJobSearch&jobid=b78b3688-8224-1fa2-aa41-6e292c15c118&CurATC=EXT&CurBID=949319bc-8898-4f11-ac4b-9db401358504&jobsListKey=770f2cf9-dc6e-4d65-8557-90b519d