From macw at cmu.edu Tue Jul 2 17:09:42 2013 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:09:42 -0400 Subject: adjective typology Message-ID: Dear Funknet, Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs? In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. Many thanks for any suggestions on this. If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From BartlettT at cardiff.ac.uk Tue Jul 2 18:46:16 2013 From: BartlettT at cardiff.ac.uk (Tom Bartlett) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 19:46:16 +0100 Subject: adjective typology In-Reply-To: <6ED3DE27-A484-4265-9290-6F5869989108@cmu.edu> Message-ID: I don't know if you're looking for a list or a classificatory framework; if the latter, you might try Gordon Tucker's The Lexicogrammar of adjectives. All the best, Tom Bartlett. CLCR Cardiff.   -----funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu wrote: ----- To: Funknet From: Brian MacWhinney Sent by: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu Date: 02/07/2013 18:09 Subject: [FUNKNET] adjective typology Dear Funknet,      Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs?  In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. Many thanks for any suggestions on this.  If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From timo.honkela at tkk.fi Tue Jul 2 19:57:23 2013 From: timo.honkela at tkk.fi (Timo Honkela) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:57:23 +0300 Subject: adjective typology Message-ID: Dear Brian, We have written a short paper on "Measuring adjective spaces" for which we compared 3-4 classification frameworks with lexica and found them to be mutually incompatible to such a degree that made us to conclude that "[t]here does not seem to exist a consensus among linguists on how adjectives should be divided into categories in general." To have some ground truth for our experiments, we simply compared how well the different methods were able to find synonyms and antonyms. The paper is available at http://users.ics.aalto.fi/tho/info/honkela2010measuring.shtml Regrettably I don't have information on the classification frameworks that we studied available here and now. One potentially interesting reference is "Adjective Classes: A Cross-Linguistic Typology" (Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds.). Adjectives are an exciting topic of research for which many classical theoretical frameworks are necessarily not fully suitable. One potentially useful direction could be to check if researchers on fuzzy sets have produced something systematic regarding adjectives. There is a quite early paper in which we modeled fuzziness of size adjectives: http://users.ics.aalto.fi/tho/info/honkela91a.shtml Adjectives are also a central topic in a growing number of research projects related to sentiment analysis. Best regards, Timo P.S. We have recently come into the conclusion that good statistical or probabilistic methods are able to judge semantic similarities based on contextual data at a level that is comparable to a human-level performance. In other words, the differences between human judgements are so widespread that it is not necessary sensible to consider human classifications as a ground truth. This topic is discussed in our recent short paper "Exploratory Text Analysis: Data-Driven versus Human Semantic Similarity Judgments". A journal paper with broader set of experiments is under preparation. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-37213-1_44 ________________________________________ Lähettäjä: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] käyttäjän Tom Bartlett [BartlettT at cardiff.ac.uk] puolesta Lähetetty: 2. heinäkuuta 2013 21:46 Vastaanottaja: Brian MacWhinney Kopio: Funknet Aihe: Re: [FUNKNET] adjective typology I don't know if you're looking for a list or a classificatory framework; if the latter, you might try Gordon Tucker's The Lexicogrammar of adjectives. All the best, Tom Bartlett. CLCR Cardiff. -----funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu wrote: ----- To: Funknet From: Brian MacWhinney Sent by: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu Date: 02/07/2013 18:09 Subject: [FUNKNET] adjective typology Dear Funknet, Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs? In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. Many thanks for any suggestions on this. If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From macw at cmu.edu Tue Jul 2 20:59:12 2013 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:59:12 -0400 Subject: adjective typology In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Tom and others, Many thanks. I will consult that. René-Joseph Lavie pointed me to Marengo's treatment of how adjective classes predict to some extent those that cannot serve as predicates. There is the edited book by Dixon and Aikhenvald, and various other typological treatments. The closest to a full classification system may be the EAGLES system for adjective classification called SIMPLE (Peters & Peters, 2000). And, as Gwen Frishkoff pointed out to me, there is the Osgood Semantic Differential which analyzed a few very common adjectives into EPA (evaluation, potency, activity). But what I was hoping to find was a list with coverage of perhaps a thousand adjectives across a good set of interesting dimensions and it appears, so far, that no such list exists. From what Timo says, it may make most sense to construct such a set through machine classification rather than human judgment. It appears that several groups have worked on this, but I can't find any of their results on line. I can certainly see the effectiveness of this approach for the syntax-based parts of adjectival classification, but for the qualities and evaluation segments, I would still vote for humans. We are thinking of a combination of machine techniques and AMT to work on this. Too bad that there is so little of the results of this work in WordNet or any other public source. --Brian MacWhinney On Jul 2, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Tom Bartlett wrote: > I don't know if you're looking for a list or a classificatory framework; if the latter, you might try Gordon Tucker's The Lexicogrammar of adjectives. > > All the best, > > Tom Bartlett. > > CLCR > Cardiff. > > > > -----funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu wrote: ----- > To: Funknet > From: Brian MacWhinney > Sent by: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu > Date: 02/07/2013 18:09 > Subject: [FUNKNET] adjective typology > > Dear Funknet, > Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs? In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. > Many thanks for any suggestions on this. If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. > > --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From brian.nolan at gmail.com Mon Jul 8 10:59:33 2013 From: brian.nolan at gmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Brian_O_Nuall=E1in?=) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 11:59:33 +0100 Subject: adjective typology In-Reply-To: <6ED3DE27-A484-4265-9290-6F5869989108@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Brian, In Nolan 2009, I gave a characterisation of the semantics and syntax of the adjective in Modern Irish that may be of interest to you. Reference: Nolan Brian. 2009. The functions, semantics and syntax of the adjective in Irish. In Studies in Role and Reference Grammar. 2009. Lilián Guerrero, Sergio Ibáñez-Cerda, Valeria A. Belloro (editors). México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México The abstract of that paper is: In this paper we examine the functions, semantics and syntax of the adjective as found in Modern Irish. Initially, we characterise the adjective in Irish as to its prototypical features as noted cross-linguistically by Dixon (1977), Dixon & Aikhenveld (2004) and Thompson (1990). We then examine the use of the adjective in its referential and attributive functions within Irish and also briefly note its use with the copula. We relate the position of the adjective within the hierarchical structure of the noun phrase as per Rijkhoff (2004: 224) and the layered structure of the clause as found in RRG (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997:53ff, Van Valin 2005: 11ff & 21ff). As the characterisation of internal structure of the nominal within RRG theory leverages Qualia Theory (Pustejovsky 1995, Van Valin & LaPolla 1997, Van Valin 2005) we posit that adjectives in their prototypical functions connect to certain features in the qualia structure of the head nominal with which they are associated. We differentiate between adjectives that are more verbal in nature from those that are not. In Irish, certain nominal compounds may be formed with an adjective+noun combination. In these, the adjective always precedes the noun even though the unmarked adjective occurrence position is post nominal in the word order of Irish. These adjective+noun nominal compounds may, in turn, have adjectives associated with them. The precedence order when several adjectives are used with the noun and the closeness of occurrence of adjectives to the noun is discussed. Adjectives may also be deployed as adverbial constructs within the clause. If you are interested in a PDF offprint let me know and can send it to you (and anyone else on Funknet too, of course). Best regards, Brian _______________________________ Dr. Brian Nolan Head of Department of Informatics School of Informatics and Engineering Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Blanchardstown Road North Blanchardstown Dublin 15 Ireland email: brian.nolan at itb.ie email: brian.nolan at gmail.com http://itb-dublin-ireland.academia.edu/BrianNolan _______________________________ Recently published: On 2 Jul 2013, at 18:09, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Dear Funknet, > Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs? In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. > Many thanks for any suggestions on this. If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. > > --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From katia.golovko at gmail.com Mon Jul 8 22:03:45 2013 From: katia.golovko at gmail.com (katia golovko) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 00:03:45 +0200 Subject: Fwd: CALL: COPULAS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting *Workshop on Copulas* University of Bologna, Italy. This is a preliminary call for papers to be presented at the workshop on copulas taking place at the University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) on March 13th, 2014. The aim of this workshop is to gather together scholars and students studying copulas from all domains of linguistic analysis. We have adopted a broad definition of copula including attributive, ascriptive, identificational, equative, locative and existential sentences. Contributions may address one or more of the following subjects: - Copular taxonomy; - The semantics of copular items; - Dropping, omission deletion or absence of copulas; - Copula variation due to semantic and/or syntactic factors; - Copulas in pidgin and creoles; - Emergence of copular items - the copula cycle; - Copulas in first and second language acquisition; - Micro-variation: comparative studies of the copular systems in typologically related languages, languages pertaining to the same dialect cluster, or even in different registers of the same language; - Multi-copula systems; All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. Invited speakers: Alessandro Panunzi (University of Firenze) Andrea Moro (IUSS - Pavia) (to be confirmed) Abstracts should be no more than 500 words including title, main text and references (word count to be written at the bottom of your text). Please send your proposal as a PDF or Word file attached to an email containing your personal information (name, surname and affiliation). By September 15th, please send your expression of interest or any other queries to: Katia Golovko ekaterina.golovko4 at unibo.it Maria Mazzoli tefra.tefra at gmail.com -- Katia Golovko via Olindo Guerrini, 17 40134 Bologna Italia -- Katia Golovko via Olindo Guerrini, 17 40134 Bologna Italia From jrubba at calpoly.edu Tue Jul 9 15:16:02 2013 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:16:02 -0700 Subject: Query about stylistics textbooks Message-ID: Hello, all, I'm teaching a stylistics course in the Fall and am looking for a current textbook. I have used Mick Short's Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose with great success in the past, but it's 1996, and I don't think a 2nd edition has been put out. This class is for English majors who have had one ten-week course introduction to linguistics, which, as you can imagine, doesn't go deeply into anything, and most of the students have little interest in the material, so it's doubtful they retain much. So the text would have to be basic, while at the same time illuminating. Short is excellent in this regard, but it would be nice to find a more-recent book. Please post suggestions directly to me and I will post a summary to the list. Thanks! 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 Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Wed Jul 10 14:19:07 2013 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:19:07 +0000 Subject: Workshop at Evolang X Message-ID: Workshop "How Grammaticalization processes create grammar. From historical corpus data to agent-based models" at Evolang X, 14th-17th April 2014 in Vienna (http://evolangx.univie.ac.at/) Workshop website: http://www.emergent-languages.org/?page_id=327 Convenors: Luc Steels ICREA, Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris Freek Van de Velde University of Leuven Remi van Trijp Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris Description Recently the scientific study of language origins and evolution has seen three important breakthroughs. First, a growing number of corpora of historical language data has become available. Although initially these corpora have been used to examine surface features only (for example the frequency and distribution of word occurrences), advances in statistical language processing now allow for the thorough examination of aspects of grammar, for example, how syntactic structure has progressively arisen in the history of Indo-European languages or how constructional choices have undergone change (e.g. Krug 2000; Bybee 2010; Sommerer 2010; Van de Velde 2010; Traugott & Trousdale, forthc.; Hilpert & Gries, ms.). Second, agent-based models of the cognitive and cultural processes underlying the emergence and evolution of language have made a significant leap forward by using sophisticated, and therefore more realistic, representations of grammar and language processing (e.g. Van Trijp 2012; Beuls & Steels 2013), so that we can now go way beyond the lexicon-oriented experiments characteristic for the field a decade ago. Finally, selectionist theorizing, which has given such tremendous power to evolutionary biology, is being applied increasingly to understand language evolution at the cultural level (Croft 2000; Ritt 2004; Mufwene 2008; Rosenbach et al. 2008; Landsbergen et al. 2010; Steels 2011). Researchers are beginning to look more closely at what selectionist criteria could drive the origins and change in grammatical paradigms and how new language strategies could arise through exaptation, recombination or mutation of existing strategies. The selectionist criteria are primarily based on achieving enough expressive power, maximizing communicative success, and minimizing cognitive effort (Van Trijp 2013). The confluence of these three trends is beginning to give us sophisticated agent-based models which are empirically grounded in real corpus data and framed in a well-established theory of cultural evolution, thus leading to comprehensive scientific models of the grammaticalization processes underlying language emergence and evolution. All this is tremendously exciting. The goal of this workshop is to alert the community of researchers in language evolution to this important development and to show concrete research achievements demonstrating the current state of the art. It will act as a forum for exchanging tools and it will inquire what kind of open problems might be amenable to this approach, given the currently available data and the state of the art in computational linguistics tools for agent-based modeling. The workshop is intended to enable a deeper dialog between two communities (historical linguistics and computational linguistics) so that we can productively combine the very long tradition of empirical research from historical linguistics with the rigorous formalization and validation through simulation as practiced in agent-based modeling. The workshop will as much as possible be based on real case studies. For example, how can we explain the current messy state of the German article system, given that old High German had a much clearer system? (Van Trijp 2013) Is this development based on random drift or are there selectionist forces at work? How can we explain that Indo-European languages progressively developed a rich constituent structure with an increasing number of syntactic categories, a gradual incorporation of 'floating' words into phrases, and a loss of grammatical agreement? (Van de Velde 2009)? How can we explain the emergence of quantifiers out of adjectives? How can we explain the rise of a case system (Beuls & Steels 2013). General research questions that are to be addressed: 1. What are the processes that cause variation in populations of speakers? 2. What are the processes that select variants to become dominant in a speech community? 3. How do language strategies give rise to language systems? 4. Which cognitive functions must the brain support in order to implement language strategies? 5. What are good tools for doing empirically driven agent-based modeling? Call for papers: We invite contributions (10' talk + 5' discussion) to one of the following three sessions in the workshop: Session I. Case studies: historical data of emergence and evolution of grammatical phenomena and concrete agent-based models, or steps towards them. Session II. Tools: What is the state of the art for historical linguistics corpora and tools extracting trends in grammatical evolution? What tools are available for building realistic agent-based models of grammaticalization? Session III. Cultural evolution theory: Which results from theoretical research in evolutionary biology can be exapted to advance cultural evolutionary linguistics? An extended abstract of 4 pages / 1500 words should be sent to: info at fcg-net.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 October 2013 Notification of acceptance: 4 November 2013 References: Beuls, Katrien & Luc Steels. 2013. 'Agent-based models of strategies for the emergence and evolution of grammatical agreement'. PLoS ONE 8(3), e58960. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058960. Bybee, Joan L. 2010. Language, Usage and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Croft, William. 2000. Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach. Harlow: Longman. Hilpert, Martin & Stefan Th, Gries. Manuscript. 'Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics'. In: Merja Kytö & Päivi Pahta (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of English historical linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Krug, Manfred. 2000. Emerging English modals: a corpus-based study of grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Landsbergen, Frank, Robert Lachlan, Carel ten Cate & Arie Verhagen. 'A cultural evolutionary model of patterns in semantic change'. Linguistics 48: 363-390. Ritt, Nikolaus. 2004. Selfish Sounds. A Darwinian Approach to Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rosenbach, Anette. 2008. 'Language Change as Cultural Evolution: Evolutionary Approaches to Language Change'. In: Regine Eckardt, Gerhard Jäger and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), Variation, Selection, Development. Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Chang. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 23-72. Sommerer, Lotte. 2011. 'Old English se: from demonstrative to article. A usage-based study of nominal determination and category emergence'. PhD thesis, University of Vienna. Steels, Luc. 2011. 'Modeling the cultural evolution of language'. Physics of Life Review 8: 339-356. Traugott, Elizabeth & Graeme Trousdale. Forthcoming. Constructionalization and constructional change. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Van de Velde, Freek. 2009. De nominale constituent. Structuur en geschiedenis. Leuven: Leuven University Press. Van de Velde, Freek. 2010. 'The emergence of the determiner in the Dutch NP'. Linguistics 48: 263-299. Van Trijp, Remi. 2012. 'Not as awful as it seems: explaining German case through computational experiments in fluid construction grammar. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 829-839. Van Trijp, Remi. 2013. 'Linguistic assessment criteria for explaining language change: a case study on syncretism in German definite articles'. Language Dynamics and Change 3(1): 105-132. Freek Van de Velde http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl/freek.htm From anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr Thu Jul 11 07:22:29 2013 From: anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr (Anne Salazar Orvig) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:22:29 +0200 Subject: International conference on the acquisition of referring expression Message-ID: Dear colleagues Please find attached the program of the conference on acquisition of referring expressions to be held in Paris, October 25th and 26th. You can also visit the conference site (www.univ-paris3.fr/aeref-2013) or write to aeref2013 at univ-paris3.fr Regitration is open. Please note that the deadline for early bird registration is July 15th Hoping to see you in Paris in October ! Anne Salazar Orvig ILPGA Université Sorbonne Nouvelle EA 1483 - Recherche sur le français contemporain CLESTHIA From e.pascual at rug.nl Thu Jul 11 13:02:15 2013 From: e.pascual at rug.nl (E.Pascual) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:02:15 +0200 Subject: CfP: Language Under Discussion Journal In-Reply-To: <76b0881a1984c5.51dec74c@rug.nl> Message-ID: *New Journal on Language as Such* Language Under Discussion(http://ludjournal.org/index.php?journal=LUD) is a new open-access peer-reviewed journal devoted to promoting open-minded debate on central questions in the study of language, from all relevant disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. We are now looking for open-minded and original authors, volunteer reviewers, and, once the first issue is out, interested readers from all academic disciplines that deal with human languages in one way or another. 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The Editorial Team: Dr. Esther Pascual, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Dr. Marla Perkins, Northern Arizona University, United States Dr. Sergeiy Sandler, Independent scholar From bischoff.st at gmail.com Thu Jul 11 20:26:21 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:26:21 -0700 Subject: Neandertal linguistic Message-ID: A recent paper of possible interest to some...(available free online at the following: http://www.frontiersin.org/Language_Sciences/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00397/abstrac t) * On the antiquity of language: the reinterpretation of Neandertal linguistic capacities and its consequences* Dan Dediu1,2*† and Stephen C. Levinson2,3† 1Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands 2Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands 3Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands It is usually assumed that modern language is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with the emergence of modern humans themselves. Many assume as well that this is the result of a single, sudden mutation giving rise to the full “modern package.” However, we argue here that recognizably modern language is likely an ancient feature of our genus pre-dating at least the common ancestor of modern humans and Neandertals about half a million years ago. To this end, we adduce a broad range of evidence from linguistics, genetics, paleontology, and archaeology clearly suggesting that Neandertals shared with us something like modern speech and language. This reassessment of the antiquity of modern language, from the usually quoted 50,000–100,000 years to half a million years, has profound consequences for our understanding of our own evolution in general and especially for the sciences of speech and language. As such, it argues against a saltationist scenario for the evolution of language, and toward a gradual process of culture-gene co-evolution extending to the present day. Another consequence is that the present-day linguistic diversity might better reflect the properties of the design space for language and not just the vagaries of history, and could also contain traces of the languages spoken by other human forms such as the Neandertals. From collfitz at gmail.com Sun Jul 14 01:28:02 2013 From: collfitz at gmail.com (Colleen Fitzgerald) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:28:02 -0600 Subject: Final Call for CoLang/InField Workshop Proposals Message-ID: Just a reminder, the final deadline for proposals is Monday, July 15. Here's the full call: Call for proposals: Workshops on Language Documentation, Maintenance, and Revitalization Deadline for receipt of proposals: July 15, 2013 Selection of proposals: August 30, 2013 To be held as part of: 2014 Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang/InField) Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/ (please note this web address is case sensitive) University of Texas at Arlington June 16th – June 27th, 2014 We are soliciting proposals for workshops in language documentation, language maintenance, and language revitalization to be held as part of the fourth CoLang/InField, Institute on Collaborative Language Research. The CoLang/InField training institutes take place in summers alternating with the Linguistic Society of America's Institute. The participant audience at CoLang 2014 will include Indigenous community members, practicing linguists, graduate and undergraduate students in linguistics and anthropology, archivists, and language activists with an interest in documenting, maintaining, or revitalizing their languages. Previous workshops have been hosted by the University of Kansas, the University of Oregon and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Past participants have gone on to great success in developing documentation and revitalization projects, generating funding, and presenting results at major international venues like the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, and the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. The 2014 Institute will take place at The University of Texas at Arlington from June 16 to June 27, 2014. CoLang 2014 will offer courses that address technological training, interdisciplinary collaborations with the sciences, developing collaborative community language projects, and pedagogical/teaching applications. Several foundation courses in linguistics are also offered. The current list of planned courses is online at http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/CoLang2014-courselistv 1.htm. These courses are already assigned instructors. In keeping with CoLang as a training venue that promotes exposure to cutting-edge techniques and innovative approaches in language documentation and revitalization, proposals for new workshop topics are being solicited. Workshops should not duplicate currently planned courses. At CoLang 2014, there will be two instruction formats for workshop offerings : 4-day courses (6 hours total) and 2-hour workshops (2 hours total). We estimate accepting approximately five new workshops of each type (ten accepted workshops from this solicitation, five in 4-day format, five in 2-hour format). The proposal should be a maximum of 2 pages in length, and should include: topic, rationale for including it as part of CoLang, proposed length (2-hour or 4-day), a brief description of workshop content (general lesson plan , target audience, and level, e.g., beginning, intermediate, advanced), how it would be taught (balance of theory, examples, hands-on exercises), and what experience qualifies you to teach it. We encourage students and language activists to apply. For an example of workshop titles and descriptions from a previous institute, go to http://linguistics.uoregon.edu/infield2010/workshops/index.php Travel and room and board will be covered for instructors, and a modest honorarium provided. Questions should be directed to Colleen Fitzgerald, Director of the 2014 Institute on Collaborative Research at cmfitzuta.edu. Completed proposals should be submitted as a PDF to uta2014institutegmail.com. CoLang/InField is partially funded by the National Science Foundation. From OGradyGN at cardiff.ac.uk Mon Jul 15 19:00:24 2013 From: OGradyGN at cardiff.ac.uk (Gerard O'Grady) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:00:24 +0100 Subject: New Book announcement Message-ID: Dear Funknet Members   We are delighted to announce the publication of a new book and to offer you 25% off the published price for orders placed on our websitewww.equinoxpub.com quoting the discount code CHOICE valid until the end of September 2013.   Link to book and ordering page:   https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=541&keyword=     Choice in Language Applications in Text Analysis Edited by Gerard O’Grady, Tom Bartlett and Lise Fontaine, all at Cardiff University   HB  £55       $95    9781908049544 PB  £19.99   $35    9781908049551 346pp   The notion of Choice provides a constant underlying theme to work in Systemic Functional Linguistics, whether this is concerned with in-depth description of the system of lexicogrammatical options available within specific languages, or with the analysis of the semiotic and/or social implications of the choices taken within specific texts. Yet, to date, little has been published exploring the applicability of choice across various contexts. Choice in Language addresses this gap by presenting a selection of writings from internationally renowned authors that develop the analytical perspective of choice across wide-ranging contexts and, in some cases, in languages other than English. The book demonstrates the value of Systemic Functional Linguistics as an ‘applicable’ linguistics, which is a core tool in broader fields such as pedagogy, literary studies and critical discourse analysis.     With best wishes   Equinox Publishing Ltd   From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Wed Jul 17 12:03:23 2013 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:03:23 +0000 Subject: Information structure in Amazonian languages Message-ID: http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/vanvalin/infostructure/Site/Intro.html I have been asked by a few people if anyone has ever done work on information structure and intonation in Amazonian languages. This link above connects to a site at SUNY Buffalo reporting research done by me, Robert Van Valin, and several associates and students. There are useful data and analyses there, along with Van's excellent overview. Dan Everett From grvsmth at panix.com Sat Jul 20 15:49:27 2013 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus B. Grieve-Smith) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:49:27 -0400 Subject: Fwd: [Corpora-List] Last CFP - ICDM Workshop on INCREMENTAL CLASSIFICATION, CONCEPT DRIFT AND NOVELTY DETECTION In-Reply-To: <1463861812.27193.1374312370740.JavaMail.root@loria.fr> Message-ID: And they told me you couldn't make money studying language change! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Corpora-List] Last CFP - ICDM Workshop on INCREMENTAL CLASSIFICATION, CONCEPT DRIFT AND NOVELTY DETECTION Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:26:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Jean-Charles Lamirel To: CORPORA at UIB.NO Last Call for papers Workshop on INCREMENTAL CLASSIFICATION, CONCEPT DRIFT AND NOVELTY DETECTION [http://perso.rd.francetelecom.fr/lemaire/ICDM2013/] (IClaNov) In conjunction with INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING (ICDM 2013, Dallas, Texas / December 7-11, 2013) [http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu/] Description: The development of dynamic information analysis methods, like incremental clustering, concept drift management and novelty detection techniques, is becoming a central concern in a bunch of applications whose main goal is to deal with information which is varying over time. These applications relate themselves to very various and highly strategic domains, including web mining, social network analysis, adaptive information retrieval, anomaly or intrusion detection, process control and management, recommender systems, technological and scientific survey, and even genomic information analysis in bioinformatics. The term â??incrementalâ?? is often associated to the terms dynamics, adaptive, interactive, on-line, or batch. The majority of the learning methods were initially defined in a non incremental way. However, in each of these families, were initiated incremental methods making it possible to take into account the temporal component of a datastream. In a more general way incremental clustering algorithms and novelty detection approaches are subjected to the following constraints: - Possibility to be applied without knowing as a preliminary all the data to be analyzed; - Taking into account of a new data must be carried out without making intensive use of the already considered data; - Result must but available after insertion of all new data; - Potential changes in the data description space must be taken into consideration; - Independency of order of data arrival. This workshop aims to offer a meeting opportunity for academics and industry-related researchers, belonging to the various communities of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Experimental Design and Data Mining to discuss new areas of incremental clustering, concept drift management and novelty detection and on their application to analysis of time varying information of various natures. Another important aim of the workshop is to bridge the gap between data acquisition or experimentation and model building. The set of proposed incremental techniques includes, but is not limited to: - Novelty and drift detection algorithms and techniques - Adaptive hierarchical, k-means or density based methods - Adaptive neural methods and associated Hebbian learning techniques - Multiview diachronic approaches - Probabilistic approaches like LDA or ICA-based approaches - Graph partitioning methods and incremental clustering approaches based on attributed graphs - Incremental clustering approaches based on swarm intelligence and genetic algorithms - Evolving classifier ensemble techniques - Dynamic features selection techniques - Object tracking techniques - Visualization methods for evolving data analysis results The list of application domain is includes, but it is not limited to: - Evolving textual information analysis - Evolving social network analysis - Dynamic process control and tracking - Dynamic scene analysis - Intrusion and anomaly detection - Genomics and DNA microarray data analysis - Adaptive recommender and filtering systems - Scientometrics, webometrics and technological survey All accepted workshop papers will be published in formal proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Invited speaker: Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Important dates: - Paper submission: August 3, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2013 - Camera-ready: October 15, 2013 - ICDM 2013 Conference: December 7, 2013 Important - Submission Guidelines: - Please follow the regular submission guidelines of ICDM 2013 (paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of *8* pages) http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu/author-instructions - and use this link to submit your paper (IclaNov has the number 7 in the page): http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2013/icdm13/scripts/ws_submit.php Contact: pascal.cuxac at inist.fr â?? jean-charles.lamirel at loria.fr - vincent.lemaire at orange.com, Organizing committee: Abou-Nasr MahmoudFord Motor CompanyUSA Al Shehabi ShadiAllepo UniversitySyria Albatineh Ahmed Dept of Biostatistics Florida Int. U. MiamiUSA Alippi CesarePolitecnico di MilanoItalia Arredondo TomasU.T.F.S.M. ValparaísoChile Bennani YounesLIPN, ParisFrance Bifet AlbertUniversity of Waikato, HamiltonNew Zealand Bondu AlexisEDF R&DFrance Cabanes GuenaelLIPN, ParisFrance Chawla NiteshNotre Dame University, IndianaUSA Chen ChaomeiDrexel University, PhiladelphiaUSA Cuxac PascalINIST-CNRS, NancyFrance Diallo Abdoulaye B.UQAM MontrealCanada El Haddadi AnassIRIT, ToulouseFrance Escalante Hugo JairNational Institute of Astrophysics Optics and ElectronicsMexico García-Rodríguez JoséUniversity of AlicanteSpain Glanzel WolfgangKU Leuven, LeuvenBelgia Hammer BarbaraUniversity of BielefeldGermany Kumova Bora I.Izmir UniversityTurkey Kuntz-Cosperec PascalePolytech'NantesFrance Lallich StephaneUniversity of Lyon 2France Lamirel Jean-CharlesTALARIS- LORIA, NancyFrance Lebbah MustaphaLIPN, ParisFrance Lemaire VincentOrange Labs, LannionFrance Lenca PhilippeTelecom BretagneFrance Li BinUTS, SydneyAustralia Nuggent RebeccaCarnegie Mellon University, PittsburghUSA Popescu FlorinFraunhofer Institute, BerlinGermany Roveri ManuelPolitecnico di MilanoItalia Tamir DanTexas State University, San MarcosUSA Torre FabienUniversity of Lille 3France Zhou Zhi-HuaNanjing UniversityChina Zhu XingquanUTS, SydneyAustralia Dr habil. Jean-Charles LAMIREL Maître de Conférences, Habilité à Diriger des Recherches Université de Strasbourg Projet INRIA TALARIS - LORIA - Nancy GSM : 0624365491 -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora at uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora From wcroft at unm.edu Mon Jul 22 18:09:22 2013 From: wcroft at unm.edu (William Croft) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:09:22 +0000 Subject: Multidimensional scaling programs Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting) Dear all, Jason Timm, a student of mine, has adapted Keith Poole's Optimal Classification (OC) multidimensional scaling (MDS) programs (in R) for general use by linguists. The programs can be found at http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft/MDS.html (case sensitive URL), along with a user guide describing MDS and what linguistic data it is suitable for, how to use the programs, and how to interpret the results. MDS is being used in typology for cross-linguistic comparison of language-specific category data (lexical and grammatical). But it can also be used to visualize any patterns of complex variation in the categorization of stimuli by linguistic properties. The OC algorithm allows one to model distributional data directly rather than constructing pairwise (dis)similarity matrices; for this reason, it also models lopsided data better than dissimilarity algorithms. Bill Croft From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Mon Jul 29 22:05:05 2013 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:05:05 +0100 Subject: 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics conference: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: *5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Empirical Approaches to Language and Cognition Lancaster University, United Kingdom* *29-31 July 2014* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/uk-clc5/ We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster presentations) addressing all aspects of cognitive linguistics. Confirmed plenary speakers are: • Daniel Casasanto (The New School, New York) • Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) • William Croft (University of New Mexico) • Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) • Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara) • Elena Semino (Lancaster University) The conference aims to cover a broad range of research concerned with language and cognition. We will be especially interested in promoting strongly empirical work. To this end, we intend to organise (some of) the papers into thematic sessions, with our plenary speakers acting as discussants. The themes will be: • embodiment • gesture • typology and constructional analyses of the languages of the world • acquisition • corpora and statistical methods • metaphor and discourse In addition to these themes, submissions on other aspects of the field are also welcome. These include but are not restricted to: • domains and frame semantics • categorisation, prototypes and polysemy • mental spaces and conceptual blending • language evolution • linguistic variation and language change • cognitive linguistic approaches to language teaching Cognitive linguistics is by definition highly interdisciplinary, and so in addition to primarily linguistic research, we also invite submissions that are based on disciplines such as (cognitive and social) psychology, cognitive and neuroscience, anthropology, primatology, biology, and discourse and communication studies. Talks will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will also be a poster session. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be submitted using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ukclc5. Participants are allowed to submit abstracts for no more than one single-authored paper and one joint-authored paper. All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an international scientific committee. The deadline for abstract submission is 20 December 2013. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2014. Abstracts must be strictly anonymous, and should be submitted in plain text and/or PDF format. If you need to use phonetic characters, please make sure that they are displayed correctly. To be able to submit an abstract you must use your existing EasyChair login details. If you have not registered with EasyChair before, please do so using the link above. Once you have created an account or signed in please follow the following steps: 1. Click on the ‘New Submission’ link at the top of the page; 2. Agree to the terms and conditions (if prompted); 3. Fill in the relevant information about the author or authors; 4. Give the title of the paper in the ‘Title’ box and then (a) enter or paste your abstract into the ‘Abstract’ box (please remember that this is plain text only) and/or: (b) upload your abstract as a PDF file by clicking ‘Choose File’ under ‘Upload Paper’; 5. At the top of your abstract, indicate whether you would prefer an oral presentation, a poster, or either. Please do this by entering “oral presentation”, “poster”, or “oral presentation/poster” at the top of your abstract, above the title. 6. Type three or more keywords into the ‘Keywords’ box (these will help us choose suitable reviewers for your abstract, as well as a possible thematic session for your paper); 7. When you are done, please press ‘Submit’ at the very bottom of the page. Since UK-CLC3, the UK-CLA publishes selected conference presentations in the series ‘Selected Papers from UK-CLA Meetings’ (ISSN 2046-9144); UK-CLC5 will continue this tradition. 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Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. 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 timthornes at boisestate.edu Wed Jul 31 15:28:52 2013 From: timthornes at boisestate.edu (Tim Thornes) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:28:52 -0600 Subject: Book announcement (please share) Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, Please see the attached flyer for a newly released collection of papers entitled "Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: in Honor of Scott DeLancey." It is published as volume 103 in the Typological Studies in Language series by John Benjamins. http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tsl.103/main "Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas — southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All of the papers appeal, in one way or another, to functional-historical approaches to explanation. Behind this appeal lies an assumption that languages are selective in their development in ways that are dependent upon the communicative tasks to which they are put. As such, language function accounts for both variation and historical development over time." Best, Tim -- TimThornes Assistant Professor of Linguistics English Department Boise State University SMITC 218A (208) 426-4267 From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Jul 31 19:16:05 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:16:05 -0700 Subject: career advise: tenure salary/sabatical Message-ID: Hello all, I'm a junior faculty member in the US who is currently up for tenure. I anticipate no problems with the proccess and to recieve tenure next year (based on previous evaluations and our departments policies). Though I think I have a healthy bit of nervousness regarding the process. I wanted to ask if anyone might have advice regarding salary negotion upon recieving tenure and promotion, e.g. is it appropriate and how best to go about it if so. I know this will vary from institution to institution and linguist to linguist, but I'm hoping to get some idea if it is something I should consider. Provided I do get tenure, I will be eligible for sabatical in two years. I will have the option to take a full or half-year. Like with my query regarding salary negotiation, I wonder if anyone might have advice regarding preparing for sabatical and possibly securing a research or teaching opportunity outside the US. I am familiar with the Fullbright program and would apprecaite hearing about anyone's experience with it or any other programs. Thank your time, Shannon Bischoff From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Jul 31 19:21:00 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:21:00 -0700 Subject: career advice: tenure salary/sabbatical Message-ID: Hello all, Please ignore the previous post...I sent it before I had a chance to proof it by mistake. I'm a junior faculty member in the US who is currently up for tenure. I anticipate no problems with the process and to receive tenure next year (based on previous evaluations and our departments policies). Though I think I have a healthy bit of nervousness regarding the process. I wanted to ask if anyone might have advice regarding salary negotiation upon receiving tenure and promotion, e.g. is it appropriate and how best to go about it if so. I know this will vary from institution to institution and linguist to linguist, but I'm hoping to get some idea if it is something I should consider. Provided I do get tenure, I will be eligible for sabbatical in two years. I will have the option to take a full or half-year. Like with my query regarding salary negotiation, I wonder if anyone might have advice regarding preparing for sabbatical and possibly securing a research or teaching opportunity outside the US. I am familiar with the Fulbright program and would appreciate hearing about experience with it or any other programs. Thank your time, Shannon Bischoff From mewinters at wayne.edu Wed Jul 31 21:05:37 2013 From: mewinters at wayne.edu (Margaret E. Winters) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:05:37 -0400 Subject: career advice: tenure salary/sabbatical In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Shannon, You should check with your university about salary adjustments upon reaching tenure and promotion - in most places I am aware of, it is not a negotiation but rather an automatic raise. If it is negotiated, talk to newly promoted/tenured colleagues about the process - you may want to look, if it is public information, at what relatively new associate professors get in the Humanities and Social Sciences - that would give you a range. Best of luck with the tenure process! Maggie ------------------------------------------ Margaret E. Winters Interim Provost Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Phone: (313) 577- 2433 Fax: (313) 577-5666 e-mail: mewinters at wayne.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "s.t. bischoff" To: "Funknet" Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:21:00 PM Subject: [FUNKNET] career advice: tenure salary/sabbatical Hello all, Please ignore the previous post...I sent it before I had a chance to proof it by mistake. I'm a junior faculty member in the US who is currently up for tenure. I anticipate no problems with the process and to receive tenure next year (based on previous evaluations and our departments policies). Though I think I have a healthy bit of nervousness regarding the process. I wanted to ask if anyone might have advice regarding salary negotiation upon receiving tenure and promotion, e.g. is it appropriate and how best to go about it if so. I know this will vary from institution to institution and linguist to linguist, but I'm hoping to get some idea if it is something I should consider. Provided I do get tenure, I will be eligible for sabbatical in two years. I will have the option to take a full or half-year. Like with my query regarding salary negotiation, I wonder if anyone might have advice regarding preparing for sabbatical and possibly securing a research or teaching opportunity outside the US. I am familiar with the Fulbright program and would appreciate hearing about experience with it or any other programs. Thank your time, Shannon Bischoff From macw at cmu.edu Tue Jul 2 17:09:42 2013 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 13:09:42 -0400 Subject: adjective typology Message-ID: Dear Funknet, Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs? In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. Many thanks for any suggestions on this. If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From BartlettT at cardiff.ac.uk Tue Jul 2 18:46:16 2013 From: BartlettT at cardiff.ac.uk (Tom Bartlett) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 19:46:16 +0100 Subject: adjective typology In-Reply-To: <6ED3DE27-A484-4265-9290-6F5869989108@cmu.edu> Message-ID: I don't know if you're looking for a list or a classificatory framework; if the latter, you might try Gordon Tucker's The Lexicogrammar of adjectives. All the best, Tom Bartlett. CLCR Cardiff. ? -----funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu wrote: ----- To: Funknet From: Brian MacWhinney Sent by: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu Date: 02/07/2013 18:09 Subject: [FUNKNET] adjective typology Dear Funknet, ?? ? Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs? ?In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. Many thanks for any suggestions on this. ?If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From timo.honkela at tkk.fi Tue Jul 2 19:57:23 2013 From: timo.honkela at tkk.fi (Timo Honkela) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 22:57:23 +0300 Subject: adjective typology Message-ID: Dear Brian, We have written a short paper on "Measuring adjective spaces" for which we compared 3-4 classification frameworks with lexica and found them to be mutually incompatible to such a degree that made us to conclude that "[t]here does not seem to exist a consensus among linguists on how adjectives should be divided into categories in general." To have some ground truth for our experiments, we simply compared how well the different methods were able to find synonyms and antonyms. The paper is available at http://users.ics.aalto.fi/tho/info/honkela2010measuring.shtml Regrettably I don't have information on the classification frameworks that we studied available here and now. One potentially interesting reference is "Adjective Classes: A Cross-Linguistic Typology" (Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds.). Adjectives are an exciting topic of research for which many classical theoretical frameworks are necessarily not fully suitable. One potentially useful direction could be to check if researchers on fuzzy sets have produced something systematic regarding adjectives. There is a quite early paper in which we modeled fuzziness of size adjectives: http://users.ics.aalto.fi/tho/info/honkela91a.shtml Adjectives are also a central topic in a growing number of research projects related to sentiment analysis. Best regards, Timo P.S. We have recently come into the conclusion that good statistical or probabilistic methods are able to judge semantic similarities based on contextual data at a level that is comparable to a human-level performance. In other words, the differences between human judgements are so widespread that it is not necessary sensible to consider human classifications as a ground truth. This topic is discussed in our recent short paper "Exploratory Text Analysis: Data-Driven versus Human Semantic Similarity Judgments". A journal paper with broader set of experiments is under preparation. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-37213-1_44 ________________________________________ L?hett?j?: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] käyttäjän Tom Bartlett [BartlettT at cardiff.ac.uk] puolesta L?hetetty: 2. hein?kuuta 2013 21:46 Vastaanottaja: Brian MacWhinney Kopio: Funknet Aihe: Re: [FUNKNET] adjective typology I don't know if you're looking for a list or a classificatory framework; if the latter, you might try Gordon Tucker's The Lexicogrammar of adjectives. All the best, Tom Bartlett. CLCR Cardiff. -----funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu wrote: ----- To: Funknet From: Brian MacWhinney Sent by: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu Date: 02/07/2013 18:09 Subject: [FUNKNET] adjective typology Dear Funknet, Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs? In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. Many thanks for any suggestions on this. If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From macw at cmu.edu Tue Jul 2 20:59:12 2013 From: macw at cmu.edu (Brian MacWhinney) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 16:59:12 -0400 Subject: adjective typology In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Tom and others, Many thanks. I will consult that. Ren?-Joseph Lavie pointed me to Marengo's treatment of how adjective classes predict to some extent those that cannot serve as predicates. There is the edited book by Dixon and Aikhenvald, and various other typological treatments. The closest to a full classification system may be the EAGLES system for adjective classification called SIMPLE (Peters & Peters, 2000). And, as Gwen Frishkoff pointed out to me, there is the Osgood Semantic Differential which analyzed a few very common adjectives into EPA (evaluation, potency, activity). But what I was hoping to find was a list with coverage of perhaps a thousand adjectives across a good set of interesting dimensions and it appears, so far, that no such list exists. From what Timo says, it may make most sense to construct such a set through machine classification rather than human judgment. It appears that several groups have worked on this, but I can't find any of their results on line. I can certainly see the effectiveness of this approach for the syntax-based parts of adjectival classification, but for the qualities and evaluation segments, I would still vote for humans. We are thinking of a combination of machine techniques and AMT to work on this. Too bad that there is so little of the results of this work in WordNet or any other public source. --Brian MacWhinney On Jul 2, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Tom Bartlett wrote: > I don't know if you're looking for a list or a classificatory framework; if the latter, you might try Gordon Tucker's The Lexicogrammar of adjectives. > > All the best, > > Tom Bartlett. > > CLCR > Cardiff. > > > > -----funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu wrote: ----- > To: Funknet > From: Brian MacWhinney > Sent by: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu > Date: 02/07/2013 18:09 > Subject: [FUNKNET] adjective typology > > Dear Funknet, > Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs? In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. > Many thanks for any suggestions on this. If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. > > --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From brian.nolan at gmail.com Mon Jul 8 10:59:33 2013 From: brian.nolan at gmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Brian_O_Nuall=E1in?=) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 11:59:33 +0100 Subject: adjective typology In-Reply-To: <6ED3DE27-A484-4265-9290-6F5869989108@cmu.edu> Message-ID: Dear Brian, In Nolan 2009, I gave a characterisation of the semantics and syntax of the adjective in Modern Irish that may be of interest to you. Reference: Nolan Brian. 2009. The functions, semantics and syntax of the adjective in Irish. In Studies in Role and Reference Grammar. 2009. Lili?n Guerrero, Sergio Ib??ez-Cerda, Valeria A. Belloro (editors). M?xico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico The abstract of that paper is: In this paper we examine the functions, semantics and syntax of the adjective as found in Modern Irish. Initially, we characterise the adjective in Irish as to its prototypical features as noted cross-linguistically by Dixon (1977), Dixon & Aikhenveld (2004) and Thompson (1990). We then examine the use of the adjective in its referential and attributive functions within Irish and also briefly note its use with the copula. We relate the position of the adjective within the hierarchical structure of the noun phrase as per Rijkhoff (2004: 224) and the layered structure of the clause as found in RRG (Van Valin & LaPolla 1997:53ff, Van Valin 2005: 11ff & 21ff). As the characterisation of internal structure of the nominal within RRG theory leverages Qualia Theory (Pustejovsky 1995, Van Valin & LaPolla 1997, Van Valin 2005) we posit that adjectives in their prototypical functions connect to certain features in the qualia structure of the head nominal with which they are associated. We differentiate between adjectives that are more verbal in nature from those that are not. In Irish, certain nominal compounds may be formed with an adjective+noun combination. In these, the adjective always precedes the noun even though the unmarked adjective occurrence position is post nominal in the word order of Irish. These adjective+noun nominal compounds may, in turn, have adjectives associated with them. The precedence order when several adjectives are used with the noun and the closeness of occurrence of adjectives to the noun is discussed. Adjectives may also be deployed as adverbial constructs within the clause. If you are interested in a PDF offprint let me know and can send it to you (and anyone else on Funknet too, of course). Best regards, Brian _______________________________ Dr. Brian Nolan Head of Department of Informatics School of Informatics and Engineering Institute of Technology Blanchardstown Blanchardstown Road North Blanchardstown Dublin 15 Ireland email: brian.nolan at itb.ie email: brian.nolan at gmail.com http://itb-dublin-ireland.academia.edu/BrianNolan _______________________________ Recently published: On 2 Jul 2013, at 18:09, Brian MacWhinney wrote: > Dear Funknet, > Has anyone ever produced an adjective classification along the lines of the Levin classification system for verbs? In other words, one that breaks adjectives into syntactic/semantic groups. Something in digital format would be best, but printed would be okay too. > Many thanks for any suggestions on this. If anyone locates anything, I will post the result to the list. > > --Brian MacWhinney (macw at cmu.edu) From katia.golovko at gmail.com Mon Jul 8 22:03:45 2013 From: katia.golovko at gmail.com (katia golovko) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 00:03:45 +0200 Subject: Fwd: CALL: COPULAS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting *Workshop on Copulas* University of Bologna, Italy. This is a preliminary call for papers to be presented at the workshop on copulas taking place at the University of Bologna, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC) on March 13th, 2014. The aim of this workshop is to gather together scholars and students studying copulas from all domains of linguistic analysis. We have adopted a broad definition of copula including attributive, ascriptive, identificational, equative, locative and existential sentences. Contributions may address one or more of the following subjects: - Copular taxonomy; - The semantics of copular items; - Dropping, omission deletion or absence of copulas; - Copula variation due to semantic and/or syntactic factors; - Copulas in pidgin and creoles; - Emergence of copular items - the copula cycle; - Copulas in first and second language acquisition; - Micro-variation: comparative studies of the copular systems in typologically related languages, languages pertaining to the same dialect cluster, or even in different registers of the same language; - Multi-copula systems; All papers will be allocated 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. Invited speakers: Alessandro Panunzi (University of Firenze) Andrea Moro (IUSS - Pavia) (to be confirmed) Abstracts should be no more than 500 words including title, main text and references (word count to be written at the bottom of your text). Please send your proposal as a PDF or Word file attached to an email containing your personal information (name, surname and affiliation). By September 15th, please send your expression of interest or any other queries to: Katia Golovko ekaterina.golovko4 at unibo.it Maria Mazzoli tefra.tefra at gmail.com -- Katia Golovko via Olindo Guerrini, 17 40134 Bologna Italia -- Katia Golovko via Olindo Guerrini, 17 40134 Bologna Italia From jrubba at calpoly.edu Tue Jul 9 15:16:02 2013 From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:16:02 -0700 Subject: Query about stylistics textbooks Message-ID: Hello, all, I'm teaching a stylistics course in the Fall and am looking for a current textbook. I have used Mick Short's Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose with great success in the past, but it's 1996, and I don't think a 2nd edition has been put out. This class is for English majors who have had one ten-week course introduction to linguistics, which, as you can imagine, doesn't go deeply into anything, and most of the students have little interest in the material, so it's doubtful they retain much. So the text would have to be basic, while at the same time illuminating. Short is excellent in this regard, but it would be nice to find a more-recent book. Please post suggestions directly to me and I will post a summary to the list. Thanks! 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 Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Wed Jul 10 14:19:07 2013 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:19:07 +0000 Subject: Workshop at Evolang X Message-ID: Workshop "How Grammaticalization processes create grammar. From historical corpus data to agent-based models" at Evolang X, 14th-17th April 2014 in Vienna (http://evolangx.univie.ac.at/) Workshop website: http://www.emergent-languages.org/?page_id=327 Convenors: Luc Steels ICREA, Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris Freek Van de Velde University of Leuven Remi van Trijp Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris Description Recently the scientific study of language origins and evolution has seen three important breakthroughs. First, a growing number of corpora of historical language data has become available. Although initially these corpora have been used to examine surface features only (for example the frequency and distribution of word occurrences), advances in statistical language processing now allow for the thorough examination of aspects of grammar, for example, how syntactic structure has progressively arisen in the history of Indo-European languages or how constructional choices have undergone change (e.g. Krug 2000; Bybee 2010; Sommerer 2010; Van de Velde 2010; Traugott & Trousdale, forthc.; Hilpert & Gries, ms.). Second, agent-based models of the cognitive and cultural processes underlying the emergence and evolution of language have made a significant leap forward by using sophisticated, and therefore more realistic, representations of grammar and language processing (e.g. Van Trijp 2012; Beuls & Steels 2013), so that we can now go way beyond the lexicon-oriented experiments characteristic for the field a decade ago. Finally, selectionist theorizing, which has given such tremendous power to evolutionary biology, is being applied increasingly to understand language evolution at the cultural level (Croft 2000; Ritt 2004; Mufwene 2008; Rosenbach et al. 2008; Landsbergen et al. 2010; Steels 2011). Researchers are beginning to look more closely at what selectionist criteria could drive the origins and change in grammatical paradigms and how new language strategies could arise through exaptation, recombination or mutation of existing strategies. The selectionist criteria are primarily based on achieving enough expressive power, maximizing communicative success, and minimizing cognitive effort (Van Trijp 2013). The confluence of these three trends is beginning to give us sophisticated agent-based models which are empirically grounded in real corpus data and framed in a well-established theory of cultural evolution, thus leading to comprehensive scientific models of the grammaticalization processes underlying language emergence and evolution. All this is tremendously exciting. The goal of this workshop is to alert the community of researchers in language evolution to this important development and to show concrete research achievements demonstrating the current state of the art. It will act as a forum for exchanging tools and it will inquire what kind of open problems might be amenable to this approach, given the currently available data and the state of the art in computational linguistics tools for agent-based modeling. The workshop is intended to enable a deeper dialog between two communities (historical linguistics and computational linguistics) so that we can productively combine the very long tradition of empirical research from historical linguistics with the rigorous formalization and validation through simulation as practiced in agent-based modeling. The workshop will as much as possible be based on real case studies. For example, how can we explain the current messy state of the German article system, given that old High German had a much clearer system? (Van Trijp 2013) Is this development based on random drift or are there selectionist forces at work? How can we explain that Indo-European languages progressively developed a rich constituent structure with an increasing number of syntactic categories, a gradual incorporation of 'floating' words into phrases, and a loss of grammatical agreement? (Van de Velde 2009)? How can we explain the emergence of quantifiers out of adjectives? How can we explain the rise of a case system (Beuls & Steels 2013). General research questions that are to be addressed: 1. What are the processes that cause variation in populations of speakers? 2. What are the processes that select variants to become dominant in a speech community? 3. How do language strategies give rise to language systems? 4. Which cognitive functions must the brain support in order to implement language strategies? 5. What are good tools for doing empirically driven agent-based modeling? Call for papers: We invite contributions (10' talk + 5' discussion) to one of the following three sessions in the workshop: Session I. Case studies: historical data of emergence and evolution of grammatical phenomena and concrete agent-based models, or steps towards them. Session II. Tools: What is the state of the art for historical linguistics corpora and tools extracting trends in grammatical evolution? What tools are available for building realistic agent-based models of grammaticalization? Session III. Cultural evolution theory: Which results from theoretical research in evolutionary biology can be exapted to advance cultural evolutionary linguistics? An extended abstract of 4 pages / 1500 words should be sent to: info at fcg-net.org. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 October 2013 Notification of acceptance: 4 November 2013 References: Beuls, Katrien & Luc Steels. 2013. 'Agent-based models of strategies for the emergence and evolution of grammatical agreement'. PLoS ONE 8(3), e58960. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058960. Bybee, Joan L. 2010. Language, Usage and Cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Croft, William. 2000. Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach. Harlow: Longman. Hilpert, Martin & Stefan Th, Gries. Manuscript. 'Quantitative approaches to diachronic corpus linguistics'. In: Merja Kyt? & P?ivi Pahta (eds.), The Cambridge handbook of English historical linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Krug, Manfred. 2000. Emerging English modals: a corpus-based study of grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Landsbergen, Frank, Robert Lachlan, Carel ten Cate & Arie Verhagen. 'A cultural evolutionary model of patterns in semantic change'. Linguistics 48: 363-390. Ritt, Nikolaus. 2004. Selfish Sounds. A Darwinian Approach to Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rosenbach, Anette. 2008. 'Language Change as Cultural Evolution: Evolutionary Approaches to Language Change'. In: Regine Eckardt, Gerhard J?ger and Tonjes Veenstra (eds.), Variation, Selection, Development. Probing the Evolutionary Model of Language Chang. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 23-72. Sommerer, Lotte. 2011. 'Old English se: from demonstrative to article. A usage-based study of nominal determination and category emergence'. PhD thesis, University of Vienna. Steels, Luc. 2011. 'Modeling the cultural evolution of language'. Physics of Life Review 8: 339-356. Traugott, Elizabeth & Graeme Trousdale. Forthcoming. Constructionalization and constructional change. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Van de Velde, Freek. 2009. De nominale constituent. Structuur en geschiedenis. Leuven: Leuven University Press. Van de Velde, Freek. 2010. 'The emergence of the determiner in the Dutch NP'. Linguistics 48: 263-299. Van Trijp, Remi. 2012. 'Not as awful as it seems: explaining German case through computational experiments in fluid construction grammar. In: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 829-839. Van Trijp, Remi. 2013. 'Linguistic assessment criteria for explaining language change: a case study on syncretism in German definite articles'. Language Dynamics and Change 3(1): 105-132. Freek Van de Velde http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/qlvl/freek.htm From anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr Thu Jul 11 07:22:29 2013 From: anne.salazar-orvig at univ-paris3.fr (Anne Salazar Orvig) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:22:29 +0200 Subject: International conference on the acquisition of referring expression Message-ID: Dear colleagues Please find attached the program of the conference on acquisition of referring expressions to be held in Paris, October 25th and 26th. You can also visit the conference site (www.univ-paris3.fr/aeref-2013) or write to aeref2013 at univ-paris3.fr Regitration is open. Please note that the deadline for early bird registration is July 15th Hoping to see you in Paris in October ! Anne Salazar Orvig ILPGA Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle EA 1483 - Recherche sur le fran?ais contemporain CLESTHIA From e.pascual at rug.nl Thu Jul 11 13:02:15 2013 From: e.pascual at rug.nl (E.Pascual) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:02:15 +0200 Subject: CfP: Language Under Discussion Journal In-Reply-To: <76b0881a1984c5.51dec74c@rug.nl> Message-ID: *New Journal on Language as Such* Language Under Discussion(http://ludjournal.org/index.php?journal=LUD)?is a new open-access peer-reviewed journal devoted to promoting open-minded debate on central questions in the study of language, from all relevant disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. We are now looking for open-minded and original authors, volunteer reviewers, and, once the first issue is out, interested readers from all academic disciplines that deal with human languages in one way or another. Language Under Discussion is a journal that seeks, unapologetically, to promote scholarly discussion of the "big" questions about language, such as: What kind of a thing is language? What is the nature of linguistic meaning? How to best conceptualize structure and regularity in human languages? What is the role language plays in culture and how do cultural phenomena reflect on language? What are the roles of cognition and communication in language? We believe that specialized and applied studies are at their best when they are informed by a vision or model of language in general and reflect back on it, just as theoretical discussions are only truly valuable when grounded in empirical research. Each issue of the journal will be composed of a focus paper and discussion notes responding to it. 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The Editorial Team: Dr. Esther Pascual, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Dr. Marla Perkins, Northern Arizona University, United States Dr. Sergeiy Sandler, Independent scholar From bischoff.st at gmail.com Thu Jul 11 20:26:21 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:26:21 -0700 Subject: Neandertal linguistic Message-ID: A recent paper of possible interest to some...(available free online at the following: http://www.frontiersin.org/Language_Sciences/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00397/abstrac t) * On the antiquity of language: the reinterpretation of Neandertal linguistic capacities and its consequences* Dan Dediu1,2*? and Stephen C. Levinson2,3? 1Language and Genetics Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands 2Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands 3Language and Cognition Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands It is usually assumed that modern language is a recent phenomenon, coinciding with the emergence of modern humans themselves. Many assume as well that this is the result of a single, sudden mutation giving rise to the full ?modern package.? However, we argue here that recognizably modern language is likely an ancient feature of our genus pre-dating at least the common ancestor of modern humans and Neandertals about half a million years ago. To this end, we adduce a broad range of evidence from linguistics, genetics, paleontology, and archaeology clearly suggesting that Neandertals shared with us something like modern speech and language. This reassessment of the antiquity of modern language, from the usually quoted 50,000?100,000 years to half a million years, has profound consequences for our understanding of our own evolution in general and especially for the sciences of speech and language. As such, it argues against a saltationist scenario for the evolution of language, and toward a gradual process of culture-gene co-evolution extending to the present day. Another consequence is that the present-day linguistic diversity might better reflect the properties of the design space for language and not just the vagaries of history, and could also contain traces of the languages spoken by other human forms such as the Neandertals. From collfitz at gmail.com Sun Jul 14 01:28:02 2013 From: collfitz at gmail.com (Colleen Fitzgerald) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 19:28:02 -0600 Subject: Final Call for CoLang/InField Workshop Proposals Message-ID: Just a reminder, the final deadline for proposals is Monday, July 15. Here's the full call: Call for proposals: Workshops on Language Documentation, Maintenance, and Revitalization Deadline for receipt of proposals: July 15, 2013 Selection of proposals: August 30, 2013 To be held as part of: 2014 Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang/InField) Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/ (please note this web address is case sensitive) University of Texas at Arlington June 16th ? June 27th, 2014 We are soliciting proposals for workshops in language documentation, language maintenance, and language revitalization to be held as part of the fourth CoLang/InField, Institute on Collaborative Language Research. The CoLang/InField training institutes take place in summers alternating with the Linguistic Society of America's Institute. The participant audience at CoLang 2014 will include Indigenous community members, practicing linguists, graduate and undergraduate students in linguistics and anthropology, archivists, and language activists with an interest in documenting, maintaining, or revitalizing their languages. Previous workshops have been hosted by the University of Kansas, the University of Oregon and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Past participants have gone on to great success in developing documentation and revitalization projects, generating funding, and presenting results at major international venues like the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, and the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation. The 2014 Institute will take place at The University of Texas at Arlington from June 16 to June 27, 2014. CoLang 2014 will offer courses that address technological training, interdisciplinary collaborations with the sciences, developing collaborative community language projects, and pedagogical/teaching applications. Several foundation courses in linguistics are also offered. The current list of planned courses is online at http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/CoLang2014-courselistv 1.htm. These courses are already assigned instructors. In keeping with CoLang as a training venue that promotes exposure to cutting-edge techniques and innovative approaches in language documentation and revitalization, proposals for new workshop topics are being solicited. Workshops should not duplicate currently planned courses. At CoLang 2014, there will be two instruction formats for workshop offerings : 4-day courses (6 hours total) and 2-hour workshops (2 hours total). We estimate accepting approximately five new workshops of each type (ten accepted workshops from this solicitation, five in 4-day format, five in 2-hour format). The proposal should be a maximum of 2 pages in length, and should include: topic, rationale for including it as part of CoLang, proposed length (2-hour or 4-day), a brief description of workshop content (general lesson plan , target audience, and level, e.g., beginning, intermediate, advanced), how it would be taught (balance of theory, examples, hands-on exercises), and what experience qualifies you to teach it. We encourage students and language activists to apply. For an example of workshop titles and descriptions from a previous institute, go to http://linguistics.uoregon.edu/infield2010/workshops/index.php Travel and room and board will be covered for instructors, and a modest honorarium provided. Questions should be directed to Colleen Fitzgerald, Director of the 2014 Institute on Collaborative Research at cmfitzuta.edu. Completed proposals should be submitted as a PDF to uta2014institutegmail.com. CoLang/InField is partially funded by the National Science Foundation. From OGradyGN at cardiff.ac.uk Mon Jul 15 19:00:24 2013 From: OGradyGN at cardiff.ac.uk (Gerard O'Grady) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:00:24 +0100 Subject: New Book announcement Message-ID: Dear Funknet Members ? We are delighted to announce the publication of a new book and to offer you?25% off the published price?for orders placed on our websitewww.equinoxpub.com?quoting the discount code?CHOICE?valid until the end of September 2013. ? Link to book and ordering page: ? https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=541&keyword= ? ? Choice in Language Applications in Text Analysis Edited by Gerard O’Grady, Tom Bartlett and Lise Fontaine, all at?Cardiff?University ? 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Equinox Publishing Ltd ? From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Wed Jul 17 12:03:23 2013 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 12:03:23 +0000 Subject: Information structure in Amazonian languages Message-ID: http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/vanvalin/infostructure/Site/Intro.html I have been asked by a few people if anyone has ever done work on information structure and intonation in Amazonian languages. This link above connects to a site at SUNY Buffalo reporting research done by me, Robert Van Valin, and several associates and students. There are useful data and analyses there, along with Van's excellent overview. Dan Everett From grvsmth at panix.com Sat Jul 20 15:49:27 2013 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus B. Grieve-Smith) Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:49:27 -0400 Subject: Fwd: [Corpora-List] Last CFP - ICDM Workshop on INCREMENTAL CLASSIFICATION, CONCEPT DRIFT AND NOVELTY DETECTION In-Reply-To: <1463861812.27193.1374312370740.JavaMail.root@loria.fr> Message-ID: And they told me you couldn't make money studying language change! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Corpora-List] Last CFP - ICDM Workshop on INCREMENTAL CLASSIFICATION, CONCEPT DRIFT AND NOVELTY DETECTION Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 11:26:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Jean-Charles Lamirel To: CORPORA at UIB.NO Last Call for papers Workshop on INCREMENTAL CLASSIFICATION, CONCEPT DRIFT AND NOVELTY DETECTION [http://perso.rd.francetelecom.fr/lemaire/ICDM2013/] (IClaNov) In conjunction with INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING (ICDM 2013, Dallas, Texas / December 7-11, 2013) [http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu/] Description: The development of dynamic information analysis methods, like incremental clustering, concept drift management and novelty detection techniques, is becoming a central concern in a bunch of applications whose main goal is to deal with information which is varying over time. These applications relate themselves to very various and highly strategic domains, including web mining, social network analysis, adaptive information retrieval, anomaly or intrusion detection, process control and management, recommender systems, technological and scientific survey, and even genomic information analysis in bioinformatics. The term ???incremental??? is often associated to the terms dynamics, adaptive, interactive, on-line, or batch. The majority of the learning methods were initially defined in a non incremental way. However, in each of these families, were initiated incremental methods making it possible to take into account the temporal component of a datastream. In a more general way incremental clustering algorithms and novelty detection approaches are subjected to the following constraints: - Possibility to be applied without knowing as a preliminary all the data to be analyzed; - Taking into account of a new data must be carried out without making intensive use of the already considered data; - Result must but available after insertion of all new data; - Potential changes in the data description space must be taken into consideration; - Independency of order of data arrival. This workshop aims to offer a meeting opportunity for academics and industry-related researchers, belonging to the various communities of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Experimental Design and Data Mining to discuss new areas of incremental clustering, concept drift management and novelty detection and on their application to analysis of time varying information of various natures. Another important aim of the workshop is to bridge the gap between data acquisition or experimentation and model building. The set of proposed incremental techniques includes, but is not limited to: - Novelty and drift detection algorithms and techniques - Adaptive hierarchical, k-means or density based methods - Adaptive neural methods and associated Hebbian learning techniques - Multiview diachronic approaches - Probabilistic approaches like LDA or ICA-based approaches - Graph partitioning methods and incremental clustering approaches based on attributed graphs - Incremental clustering approaches based on swarm intelligence and genetic algorithms - Evolving classifier ensemble techniques - Dynamic features selection techniques - Object tracking techniques - Visualization methods for evolving data analysis results The list of application domain is includes, but it is not limited to: - Evolving textual information analysis - Evolving social network analysis - Dynamic process control and tracking - Dynamic scene analysis - Intrusion and anomaly detection - Genomics and DNA microarray data analysis - Adaptive recommender and filtering systems - Scientometrics, webometrics and technological survey All accepted workshop papers will be published in formal proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Invited speaker: Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Important dates: - Paper submission: August 3, 2013 - Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2013 - Camera-ready: October 15, 2013 - ICDM 2013 Conference: December 7, 2013 Important - Submission Guidelines: - Please follow the regular submission guidelines of ICDM 2013 (paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of *8* pages) http://icdm2013.rutgers.edu/author-instructions - and use this link to submit your paper (IclaNov has the number 7 in the page): http://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2013/icdm13/scripts/ws_submit.php Contact: pascal.cuxac at inist.fr ??? jean-charles.lamirel at loria.fr - vincent.lemaire at orange.com, Organizing committee: Abou-Nasr MahmoudFord Motor CompanyUSA Al Shehabi ShadiAllepo UniversitySyria Albatineh Ahmed Dept of Biostatistics Florida Int. U. MiamiUSA Alippi CesarePolitecnico di MilanoItalia Arredondo TomasU.T.F.S.M. Valpara??soChile Bennani YounesLIPN, ParisFrance Bifet AlbertUniversity of Waikato, HamiltonNew Zealand Bondu AlexisEDF R&DFrance Cabanes GuenaelLIPN, ParisFrance Chawla NiteshNotre Dame University, IndianaUSA Chen ChaomeiDrexel University, PhiladelphiaUSA Cuxac PascalINIST-CNRS, NancyFrance Diallo Abdoulaye B.UQAM MontrealCanada El Haddadi AnassIRIT, ToulouseFrance Escalante Hugo JairNational Institute of Astrophysics Optics and ElectronicsMexico Garc??a-Rodr??guez Jos??University of AlicanteSpain Glanzel WolfgangKU Leuven, LeuvenBelgia Hammer BarbaraUniversity of BielefeldGermany Kumova Bora I.Izmir UniversityTurkey Kuntz-Cosperec PascalePolytech'NantesFrance Lallich StephaneUniversity of Lyon 2France Lamirel Jean-CharlesTALARIS- LORIA, NancyFrance Lebbah MustaphaLIPN, ParisFrance Lemaire VincentOrange Labs, LannionFrance Lenca PhilippeTelecom BretagneFrance Li BinUTS, SydneyAustralia Nuggent RebeccaCarnegie Mellon University, PittsburghUSA Popescu FlorinFraunhofer Institute, BerlinGermany Roveri ManuelPolitecnico di MilanoItalia Tamir DanTexas State University, San MarcosUSA Torre FabienUniversity of Lille 3France Zhou Zhi-HuaNanjing UniversityChina Zhu XingquanUTS, SydneyAustralia Dr habil. Jean-Charles LAMIREL Ma??tre de Conf??rences, Habilit?? ? Diriger des Recherches Universit?? de Strasbourg Projet INRIA TALARIS - LORIA - Nancy GSM : 0624365491 -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora at uib.no http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora From wcroft at unm.edu Mon Jul 22 18:09:22 2013 From: wcroft at unm.edu (William Croft) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:09:22 +0000 Subject: Multidimensional scaling programs Message-ID: (apologies for cross-posting) Dear all, Jason Timm, a student of mine, has adapted Keith Poole's Optimal Classification (OC) multidimensional scaling (MDS) programs (in R) for general use by linguists. The programs can be found at http://www.unm.edu/~wcroft/MDS.html (case sensitive URL), along with a user guide describing MDS and what linguistic data it is suitable for, how to use the programs, and how to interpret the results. MDS is being used in typology for cross-linguistic comparison of language-specific category data (lexical and grammatical). But it can also be used to visualize any patterns of complex variation in the categorization of stimuli by linguistic properties. The OC algorithm allows one to model distributional data directly rather than constructing pairwise (dis)similarity matrices; for this reason, it also models lopsided data better than dissimilarity algorithms. Bill Croft From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Mon Jul 29 22:05:05 2013 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:05:05 +0100 Subject: 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics conference: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: *5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference: Empirical Approaches to Language and Cognition Lancaster University, United Kingdom* *29-31 July 2014* http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/uk-clc5/ We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster presentations) addressing all aspects of cognitive linguistics. Confirmed plenary speakers are: ? Daniel Casasanto (The New School, New York) ? Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) ? William Croft (University of New Mexico) ? Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) ? Stefan Gries (University of California, Santa Barbara) ? Elena Semino (Lancaster University) The conference aims to cover a broad range of research concerned with language and cognition. We will be especially interested in promoting strongly empirical work. To this end, we intend to organise (some of) the papers into thematic sessions, with our plenary speakers acting as discussants. The themes will be: ? embodiment ? gesture ? typology and constructional analyses of the languages of the world ? acquisition ? corpora and statistical methods ? metaphor and discourse In addition to these themes, submissions on other aspects of the field are also welcome. These include but are not restricted to: ? domains and frame semantics ? categorisation, prototypes and polysemy ? mental spaces and conceptual blending ? language evolution ? linguistic variation and language change ? cognitive linguistic approaches to language teaching Cognitive linguistics is by definition highly interdisciplinary, and so in addition to primarily linguistic research, we also invite submissions that are based on disciplines such as (cognitive and social) psychology, cognitive and neuroscience, anthropology, primatology, biology, and discourse and communication studies. Talks will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will also be a poster session. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be submitted using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ukclc5. Participants are allowed to submit abstracts for no more than one single-authored paper and one joint-authored paper. All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an international scientific committee. The deadline for abstract submission is 20 December 2013. Notification of acceptance will be communicated by 1 February 2014. Abstracts must be strictly anonymous, and should be submitted in plain text and/or PDF format. If you need to use phonetic characters, please make sure that they are displayed correctly. To be able to submit an abstract you must use your existing EasyChair login details. If you have not registered with EasyChair before, please do so using the link above. Once you have created an account or signed in please follow the following steps: 1. Click on the ?New Submission? link at the top of the page; 2. Agree to the terms and conditions (if prompted); 3. Fill in the relevant information about the author or authors; 4. Give the title of the paper in the ?Title? box and then (a) enter or paste your abstract into the ?Abstract? box (please remember that this is plain text only) and/or: (b) upload your abstract as a PDF file by clicking ?Choose File? under ?Upload Paper?; 5. At the top of your abstract, indicate whether you would prefer an oral presentation, a poster, or either. Please do this by entering ?oral presentation?, ?poster?, or ?oral presentation/poster? at the top of your abstract, above the title. 6. Type three or more keywords into the ?Keywords? box (these will help us choose suitable reviewers for your abstract, as well as a possible thematic session for your paper); 7. When you are done, please press ?Submit? at the very bottom of the page. Since UK-CLC3, the UK-CLA publishes selected conference presentations in the series ?Selected Papers from UK-CLA Meetings? (ISSN 2046-9144); UK-CLC5 will continue this tradition. Key dates and information Abstract deadline: 20 December 2013 Decisions communicated by: 1 February 2014 Early bird registration opens: 1 February 2014 Early bird registration closes: 15 March 2014 Registration closes: 1 June 2014 Conference dates: 29-31 July 2014 Queries: uk-clc5 at languageandcognition.net -- Professor/Yr Athro Vyv Evans Professor of Linguistics/Athro mewn Ieithyddiaeth www.vyvevans.net General Editor of 'Language & Cognition' A Mouton de Gruyter journal www.languageandcognition.net -- Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig / Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dil?wch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio ? defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. 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Bangor University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. 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 timthornes at boisestate.edu Wed Jul 31 15:28:52 2013 From: timthornes at boisestate.edu (Tim Thornes) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:28:52 -0600 Subject: Book announcement (please share) Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, Please see the attached flyer for a newly released collection of papers entitled "Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: in Honor of Scott DeLancey." It is published as volume 103 in the Typological Studies in Language series by John Benjamins. http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/tsl.103/main "Contributions from both well-known practitioners and new voices in the areas of language typology, historical linguistics, and function-based approaches to language description define this volume, as does its foci in two major geographical areas ? southeast Asia and northwestern North America. All of the papers appeal, in one way or another, to functional-historical approaches to explanation. Behind this appeal lies an assumption that languages are selective in their development in ways that are dependent upon the communicative tasks to which they are put. As such, language function accounts for both variation and historical development over time." Best, Tim -- TimThornes Assistant Professor of Linguistics English Department Boise State University SMITC 218A (208) 426-4267 From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Jul 31 19:16:05 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:16:05 -0700 Subject: career advise: tenure salary/sabatical Message-ID: Hello all, I'm a junior faculty member in the US who is currently up for tenure. I anticipate no problems with the proccess and to recieve tenure next year (based on previous evaluations and our departments policies). Though I think I have a healthy bit of nervousness regarding the process. I wanted to ask if anyone might have advice regarding salary negotion upon recieving tenure and promotion, e.g. is it appropriate and how best to go about it if so. I know this will vary from institution to institution and linguist to linguist, but I'm hoping to get some idea if it is something I should consider. Provided I do get tenure, I will be eligible for sabatical in two years. I will have the option to take a full or half-year. Like with my query regarding salary negotiation, I wonder if anyone might have advice regarding preparing for sabatical and possibly securing a research or teaching opportunity outside the US. I am familiar with the Fullbright program and would apprecaite hearing about anyone's experience with it or any other programs. Thank your time, Shannon Bischoff From bischoff.st at gmail.com Wed Jul 31 19:21:00 2013 From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. bischoff) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:21:00 -0700 Subject: career advice: tenure salary/sabbatical Message-ID: Hello all, Please ignore the previous post...I sent it before I had a chance to proof it by mistake. I'm a junior faculty member in the US who is currently up for tenure. I anticipate no problems with the process and to receive tenure next year (based on previous evaluations and our departments policies). Though I think I have a healthy bit of nervousness regarding the process. I wanted to ask if anyone might have advice regarding salary negotiation upon receiving tenure and promotion, e.g. is it appropriate and how best to go about it if so. I know this will vary from institution to institution and linguist to linguist, but I'm hoping to get some idea if it is something I should consider. Provided I do get tenure, I will be eligible for sabbatical in two years. I will have the option to take a full or half-year. Like with my query regarding salary negotiation, I wonder if anyone might have advice regarding preparing for sabbatical and possibly securing a research or teaching opportunity outside the US. I am familiar with the Fulbright program and would appreciate hearing about experience with it or any other programs. Thank your time, Shannon Bischoff From mewinters at wayne.edu Wed Jul 31 21:05:37 2013 From: mewinters at wayne.edu (Margaret E. Winters) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 17:05:37 -0400 Subject: career advice: tenure salary/sabbatical In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Shannon, You should check with your university about salary adjustments upon reaching tenure and promotion - in most places I am aware of, it is not a negotiation but rather an automatic raise. If it is negotiated, talk to newly promoted/tenured colleagues about the process - you may want to look, if it is public information, at what relatively new associate professors get in the Humanities and Social Sciences - that would give you a range. Best of luck with the tenure process! Maggie ------------------------------------------ Margaret E. Winters Interim Provost Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 Phone: (313) 577- 2433 Fax: (313) 577-5666 e-mail: mewinters at wayne.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "s.t. bischoff" To: "Funknet" Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 3:21:00 PM Subject: [FUNKNET] career advice: tenure salary/sabbatical Hello all, Please ignore the previous post...I sent it before I had a chance to proof it by mistake. I'm a junior faculty member in the US who is currently up for tenure. I anticipate no problems with the process and to receive tenure next year (based on previous evaluations and our departments policies). Though I think I have a healthy bit of nervousness regarding the process. I wanted to ask if anyone might have advice regarding salary negotiation upon receiving tenure and promotion, e.g. is it appropriate and how best to go about it if so. I know this will vary from institution to institution and linguist to linguist, but I'm hoping to get some idea if it is something I should consider. Provided I do get tenure, I will be eligible for sabbatical in two years. I will have the option to take a full or half-year. Like with my query regarding salary negotiation, I wonder if anyone might have advice regarding preparing for sabbatical and possibly securing a research or teaching opportunity outside the US. I am familiar with the Fulbright program and would appreciate hearing about experience with it or any other programs. Thank your time, Shannon Bischoff