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Sorry to bother you all, but the process just keeps going on… best to you all, beth ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From kesmith at cambridge.org Tue Aug 5 13:16:02 2014 From: kesmith at cambridge.org (Katie Smith) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 14:16:02 +0100 Subject: New issue of Language and Cognition is available on Cambridge Journals Online Message-ID: Language and Cognition Volume 6/ Issue 3 Research Articles Strike, accident, risk, and counter-factuality: hidden meanings of the post-Soviet Russian news discourse of the 1990s via conceptual blending ANNA PLESHAKOVA A perceptually grounded model of the singular?plural distinction HAYDEN WALLES, ANTHONY ROBINS, ALISTAIR KNOTT An instruction-based analysis of over GILLES COL, THIERRY POIBEAU ?Hollering from across the yard?: fictive path in manner of speaking events CARLA VERGARO, JODI L. SANDFORD, ROBERTA MASTROFINI, YHARA M. FORMISANO Access the issue online at http://journals.cambridge.org/LCO/Sept Katie Smith Cambridge University Press kesmith at cambridge.org From shahars at uoregon.edu Tue Aug 5 18:51:49 2014 From: shahars at uoregon.edu (shahars) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 11:51:49 -0700 Subject: CfP: the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Message-ID: With apologies for cross-postings. Dear all, The 2015 Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 46) will be held at the University of Oregon (Eugene), March 26-28, 2015. Please see the website at http://blogs.uoregon.edu/acal2015/ . The ACAL conference deals with all aspects of the linguistics of African languages, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, information structure, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, areal linguistics, and language planning and policy. Confirmed plenary speakers for the 2015 meeting are: * Dr. Lee Bickmore, SUNY-Albany * Dr. Roderic Casali, Trinity Western University * Dr. Kweku Osam, University of Ghana In addition to GENERAL-SESSION ABSTRACTS, we encourage ACAL members to consider organizing topic-specific WORKSHOPS. Workshop organizers should submit a one-page workshop description along with a list of paper titles and presenters. The deadline for the submission of WORKSHOP PROPOSALS is November 3rd, with notification of acceptance/rejection for the workshop given to the workshop organizers by November 17th. Once accepted, the workshop organizers will be requested to invite their participants to submit their full abstracts by December 8th. These full abstracts will be evaluated individually by the local UO organizing committee. ABSTRACTS: All abstracts should be written in English with glosses or translations for words or examples in any other language. Each abstract, including the title and any data in figures or tables, should not exceed 500 words. The 500-word abstract should be single-spaced and in a font no smaller than 11 point. Outside the body of the abstract, please indicate session the paper is being submitted to (general session, poster session, or name of workshop). The deadline for both general-session abstracts and individual workshop abstracts is December 8th, with notification of acceptance by mid-January, 2015. Workshop proposals and abstract submissions should be sent by email to acal.oregon.2014 at gmail.com, with the word “Abstract” or “Workshop” and your last name in the subject line. Submissions should be in both PDF format, and Microsoft Word formats (e.g. .DOC, .DOCX) or .RTF. In the body of the email message please include the following information: Full Name Affiliation Email Address Abstract Title Conference co-chairs, Doris Payne, Ph.D. Mokaya Bosire, Ph.D. (acal.oregon.2015 at gmail.com) From matt.shibatani at gmail.com Tue Aug 5 20:45:09 2014 From: matt.shibatani at gmail.com (Matt Shibatani) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 05:45:09 +0900 Subject: Workshop on nominalization Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the following workshop on nominalization in Lima, Peru. Those interested in attending, please contact Gabriel Martínez ( nominalizationpucp at gmail.com). *Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú* *Dirección de Gestión de la Investigación* *Departamento de Humanidades* *Maestría en Lingüística* *Archivo Digital de Lenguas Peruanas* *Congreso Internacional: Nominalización en las lenguas de América* *International Workshop: Nominalization in the languages of the Americas* *(28-30 de agosto 2014 / August, 28-30th, 2014)* *Programa/Schedule* Hora Jueves 28 de agosto Viernes 29 de agosto Sábado 30 de agosto 8:20 Bienvenida --- --- *9:00* *What is nominalization?* *Toward the theoretical foundations of nominalization* Shibatani, Masayoshi *The evolution of nominalization cross-linguistically: what we know what to look for * Cristofaro, Sonia 10:00 *Nominalizadores y construcciones nominalizadas en shiwilu* Valenzuela, Pilar *On the habitual periphrasis in Cuzco Quechua* Rammie Cahlon *Non-referential uses of nominalizations in Aguaruna (Jivaroan)* Overall, Simon 10:40 *Nominalisations in Balsapuerto Shawi, a GSM approach* Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia *Agentive nominalizations, participants, and event construal —a functional account of discontinuous noun phrases in ancash quechua—* Carlos Molina Vital *Functions of nominalization in Wampis* Jaime Peña 11:20 Café Café Café 11:40 *Nominalization and its pervasiveness in Xavante* Machado, Adriana *Sobre el artículo definido / actualizador en el quechua central* Gonzalo Ramírez Herrera *El papel de la nominalización en la identificación de áreas lingüísticas en Sudamérica* Lucía Golluscio, Willem de Reuse y Felipe Hasler 12:20 *Considerações formais e funcionais sobre a nominalização gramatical em xikrín e krahô (jê)* Lucivaldo Costa, Maxwell Miranda *Nominalización deverbal, deadjetival y verbalización denominal en el registro lingüístico de la actividad minera artesanal en la zona minera de Caravelí* Glaiber Ancalla Flores *Nominalización deverbativa por prefijación en yagán* María alejandra regúnaga 1:00 Almuerzo Almuerzo Almuerzo 2:30 *The rise of the nominalizations: the case of the grammaticalization of clause types in Ecuadorian Siona* Bruil, Martine *Nominalizações em tupí * Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, Ariel Pheula do Couto y Silva, Gabriel Barros *Noun-based and demonstrative-based nominalizers in Yurakaré: an analysis of their referential and non-referential uses* Sonja Gipper y Foong Ha Yap 3:10 *Nominalization and compo* *Nominalización y género en el asháninka pajonalino* Liliana Fernández Fabián *Nominalización gramatical y estrategias de complementación en Tapiete (Tupí-Guaraní)* Florencia Ciccone *Possessive constructions, sentential nominalization and recursion in pirahã* Rodrigues, Cilene 3:50 *Análisis morfológico de la nominalización en Yine* Maireth E. Dueñas Chinchay *Paralelismos no desenvolvimento histórico do Gerúndio no Indo-Europeu em Tupí* Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, Gerd Carling *Nominalization in Harakmbut: form and function* Van Linden, An 4:30 Café Café Café 4:50 *Nominalized clauses in Matses* David W. Fleck *Nominalização em Tapirapé* Walkiria Neiva Praça *Nominalization and insubordination in Central Alaskan Yup’ik* Tamura, Yuki-Shinge 5:30 *Case marking as evidence of clausal nominalization in Yaminawa (Panoan, Peru)* Neely, Kelsey *Event nominalizations and participant nominalizations in Nheengatu* Aline da Cruz *The “relative” illusion or the different functions of grammatical nominalizations in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) * Albert Álvarez González 6:10 *Clausal nominalizations in Kakataibo (Panoan)* Daniel, Valle *A nominalização em rikbaktsa* Silva, Léia *Visiting relatives can be tiresome: nominals and relative clauses in Mopan Maya* Eve Danziger, Ellen Contini-Morava 6:50 *Nominalizaciones, cambio de referencia y obsolescencia lingüística: el caso del iskonawa (pano, Perú) * Roberto Zariquiey Presentación del Archivo Digital de Lenguas Peruanas PUCP Planes de publicación 7:40 ---- CENA CLAUSURA From hdls at unm.edu Wed Aug 6 15:06:36 2014 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society UNM) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:06:36 -0600 Subject: 2nd Call for Papers - High Desert Linguistics Society Conference 11 Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) The deadline is approaching for abstract submission for the Tenth High Desert Linguistic Society Conference. The abstract deadline has been *extended *and abstracts are now due on *Monday, September 1st**. *Please see the attached documents for the official call for papers and abstract submission guidelines. Sincerely, Jackelyn Van Buren HDLS President University of New Mexico Please see the attached document for the call for papers and abstract submission guidelines. *Call for papers – 11th High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference:* *Cognition, Culture and Discourse in signed, spoken, and indigenous languages* with a special emphasis this year on *Language Evolution and Grammaticalization* University of New Mexico November 13-15, 2014 *Keynote speakers:* Joan Bybee – University of New Mexico (Morphology, Typology, and Phonology) Salikoko Mufwene – University of Chicago (Language Evolution & Creolization) Carol Padden – UC San Diego (Signed Language Morphology and Syntax) *Call for Papers: * We invite proposals for talks or poster presentations at the 11th HDLS Conference. General presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions. We welcome research that takes into account *functional*, *usage-based approaches* to language including but not limited to: · Cognitive linguistics · Discourse analysis · Linguistic typology · Gesture and signed languages · Indigenous language endangerment, revitalization, and description · Sociolinguistics and bilingualism · Language change & variation Finally, we also invite speakers to propose *themed panels**, *which will consist of three presenters. Each presenter will be responsible for a 20-minute presentation, for a combined total of 60-minutes per panel, followed by 30 minutes for discussion and questions addressed to the panel. Speakers who propose a panel topic are responsible for arranging who will participate in the proposed panel. Only one abstract should be submitted per topic. The abstract should include the proposed panel topic (300-word abstract), and how each speaker will contribute to the proposed theme (500-word abstract each). HDLS Officers President: Jackelyn Van Buren Vice president: Deborah Wager Secretary: Ricardo Napoleão de Souza Treasurer: Pavlina Peskova HDLS Liaison to the Faculty: Aubrey Healey Liaison to Educational Linguistics: Moses Allen High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics The University of New Mexico hdls at unm.edu From amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk Mon Aug 11 10:19:46 2014 From: amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk (Amanda Patten) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:19:46 +0000 Subject: ICLC-13 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13) http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13 20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We invite a broad range of papers taking a cognitive, functional, typological, and discourse approach to the study of language and cognition in relation to body, culture, and context of use. The special theme of ICLC-13 is “bringing together theory and method”. We welcome papers that demonstrate, or reflect upon, the successful union of modern empirical methods with sound theory. Potential Topics: The range of topics at past ICLCs has typically included (but is not limited to): Categorization, prototypes, and polysemy; Cognitive and Construction Grammars; cognitive corpus linguistics; cognitive phonology; cognitive semantics; discourse and grammar, text and discourse; domains and frame semantics; embodiment and situated cognition; empirical methods in cognitive linguistics; grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; image schemas and force dynamics; language development, impairment, attrition, and loss; linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; metaphor and metonymy; mental spaces and conceptual blending; neural models of language; signed languages, gesture, and modality; usage-based approaches. General Session and Poster Session: The language of the conference is English. General (parallel) session talks will be allocated 25 minutes, which includes questions and discussion. Posters will stay up for a day and will be allocated to dedicated, timetabled sessions. Theme Session: Theme sessions will be integrated into the conference schedule. We encourage theme session organisers to submit theme session titles and proposals (up to 500 words) directly to the conference organisers (by email: ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk) along with the names of authors and titles of the individual papers. We will consider sessions of varying lengths and formats (with or without an allocated “discussion” slot). However, we would like to note that the conference schedule particularly suits sessions comprised of 6 slots (of 25 minutes each). The maximum length for theme sessions is 12 slots (of 25 minutes each). Theme session authors will still need to submit their abstracts for review (following the guidelines below) and should make sure to note the title of the theme session at the top of their abstracts. The deadline for organisers to submit proposals for Theme Sessions is September 15, 2014. Abstract Submission: Each author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper, regardless of whether they are intended for the general or a special theme session. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through EasyAbs: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/iclc13 The submission period is 1 August – 3 November 2014. Abstracts must not exceed 1 page of A4 (including title, data, figures and references), and should be formatted in the following way. Please use 10 point Arial (Unicode) font, single-spaced and set margins to 1 inch (2.54cm) all around. Abstracts will be subjected to blind review by a minimum of two referees from an international Scientific Committee, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Please include a list of five keywords that describe the research at the top of the abstract to assist the reviewing process. Authors must include the following information on the EasyAbs web page: (1) name(s) of author(s); (2) affiliation(s); (3) email address; and (4) preference for oral or poster presentation. Authors should upload .pdf versions of their abstracts to preserve special formatting or fonts. Abstracts must be submitted through EasyAbs starting on 1 August 2014. Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of scope, relevance, originality, methodology, and strength of conclusions. It is possible that we will require authors submitting papers to ICLC-13 to assist in the reviewing process. Please note that submitting an abstract constitutes an agreement to reviewing a maximum of 5 other abstracts. ICLA Membership: ICLC is the biennial conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA, http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org). There is no requirement to be an ICLA member to submit an abstract. Participation in the ICLC conference will require standard ICLA membership (at a revised rate of approximately 25€ to 30€), which also gives ICLC participants access to several member benefits. Important Dates: Abstract submission becomes available on EasyAbs: 1 August 2014 Deadline for theme session proposals: 15 September 2014 Deadline for abstract submission: 3 November 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2015 Dates of conference: 20-25 July 2015 Please direct all enquiries to ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk From tpayne at uoregon.edu Tue Aug 12 02:33:56 2014 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:33:56 -0700 Subject: Books available for review. Message-ID: Qualified reviewers are sought for books relating to typological linguistics, linguistic theory and closely related sub-disciplines. And updated list of Books available for review in Studies in Language is now posted at: http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/Booksavailable-2014.pdf Please contact the Review Editor, Thomas E. Payne (tpayne at uoregon.edu), if you are interested in reviewing one or more of these books for Studies in Language. In your request, please include a brief statement of why you want to review a particular book, a link to a CV or other web page that indicates your qualifications as a reviewer, and a postal address where I may send the book. Format and content guidelines for Book Reviews can be found at http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/SLstylesheet.pdf. Reviews will be due five months after receipt of the book. However, publication is not automatic. Reviews must meet the editorial standards of Studies in Language before they can be published. Please consider participating in the dialog of our discipline by reviewing one or more of these books. Thank you very much. Thomas E. Payne Review Editor Studies in Language http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=SL From FKRATOCHVIL at ntu.edu.sg Tue Aug 12 03:20:30 2014 From: FKRATOCHVIL at ntu.edu.sg (=?Windows-1252?Q?Franti=9Aek_Kratochv=EDl?=) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 03:20:30 +0000 Subject: new e-book: Number and quantity in East Nusantara: papers from 12-ICAL, Volume 1 Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, We would like to draw your attention to a new publication dealing with number and quantify in languages of Eastern Indonesia: Title: Number and quantity in East Nusantara: papers from 12-ICAL, Volume 1 Editors: Marian Klamer and František Kratochvíl Publisher: Asia-Pacific Linguistics (http://pacling.anu.edu.au/) This volume showcases the expression of number and quantity in a dozen minority languages spoken in Eastern Indonesia. While several papers offer a typological and comparative perspective, most contributions provide detailed descriptions of the numeral systems, universal quantifiers, classifiers, and the expression of nominal and verbal number in individual languages. Languages featuring in this volume include the Austronesian languages Sumbawa, Tolaki, Helong, Uab Meto, and Papuan Malay; the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages Abui, Bunaq, Kamang, Makalero, Sawila, and Western Pantar, and the West-Papuan language Tobelo. The entire book is freely available for download under the Creative Commons license from the following website: http://pacling.anu.edu.au/materials/SAL/APL012-SAL001 With kind regards, František and Marian ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you. From weilunlu at gmail.com Tue Aug 12 09:54:13 2014 From: weilunlu at gmail.com (Wei-lun Lu) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:54:13 +0200 Subject: CfP: Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Information Structure and Information Flow (ICLC-13) Message-ID: *Call for Papers for the Theme Session for ICLC-13* *“Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Information Structure and Information Flow”* Since the pioneering contributions of Vilém Mathesius (e.g. 1929) and other Prague School scholars, the study of Information Structure has generally been considered an inseparable part of research into language communication. Representing a concept which goes beyond the bounds of a sentence (clause) structure, it is not surprising that this topic has been considered a promising area of study even for cognitive linguists, as suggested for example by Sperber-Wilson (1995). Nevertheless, the latest contributions to the field of Cognitive Linguistics, as evidenced for example in Croft-Cruse (2004) or Geeraerts-Cuyckens (2007), seem to have left the topic largely untouched. We thus propose a theme session which would (re)-establish the connection between the study of information structure and cognitive-pragmatic aspects of language communication. This theme session is open to researchers applying various approaches to the cognitive and pragmatic aspects of Information Structure and Information Flow, for example the approaches developed by Wallace L. Chafe, František Daneš, Jan Firbas, Eva Hajičová and Petr Sgall, Janet K. Gundel, Michael A. K. Halliday, Knud Lambrecht, Ellen F. Prince, and Enric Vallduví, among others. We welcome proposals for presentations of approximately 250 words excluding references. Please send your proposal to us at cog_is at phil.muni.cz by 10 September. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 September. Please note that accepted authors will still need to follow up with a full abstract for review as a general policy of the conference ( https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/call-for-papers/ ). Organizers: Jana Chamonikolasová Martin Drápela Wei-lun Lu References Chafe, W. L. (1994) *Discourse, consciousness, and time*, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Croft, W. and D. Alan Cruse (2004) *Cognitive Linguistics*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Daneš, F. (1974) “Functional sentence perspective and the organization of the text” IN F. Daneš (Ed.): *Papers on Functional Sentence Perspective*, Prague: Academia, pp. 106-128. Firbas, J. (1992) *Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Geeraerts, D. and H. Cuyckens (eds.) (2007) *The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics*, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gundel, J. (2003) “Information Structure and Referential Givenness/Newness: How Much Belongs in the Grammar?” IN S. Müller (Ed.): *Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar*, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pp. 122-142. Halliday, M. A. K. (1994) *An Introduction to Functional Grammar*, London: Edward Arnold. Lambrecht, K. (1994) *Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus and the Mental Representation of Discourse Referents*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Langacker, R. W. (2009) *Investigations in Cognitive Grammar*, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter. Mathesius V. (1929) “Zur Satzperspektive im modernen Englisch”, *Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen* 84, pp. 202-210. Mathesius, V. (1964) “On linguistic characterology with illustrations from Modern English” IN J. Vachek (Ed.): *A Prague School Reader in Linguistic*s, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 59-67. Prince, E. F. (1981) “Towards a taxonomy of given-new information” IN P. Cole (Ed.): *Radical Pragmatics*, New York: Academic Press, pp. 223-255. Sgall, P., E. Hajičová and J. Panevová (1986) *The Meaning of the Sentence in Its Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects*, Prague/Dordrecht: Academia/Reidel. Sperber, D. and D. Wilson (1995) *Relevance*, Oxford: Blackwell. Vallduví, E. (1992) *The Informational Component*, New York: Garland. -- Wei-lun LU Postdoc Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics Masaryk University Gorkeho 7/Arna Novaka 1, 60200 Brno, Czech Public Phone: +420 549 49 6824 http://is.muni.cz/osoba/232873?lang=en From weilunlu at gmail.com Wed Aug 20 16:53:32 2014 From: weilunlu at gmail.com (Wei-lun Lu) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:53:32 +0200 Subject: CfP: Use of Parallel Texts in Cognitive Linguistics Research (ICLC-13, 20-25 July) Message-ID: We propose a theme session at ICLC-13 (20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University, UK) that addresses the usefulness of parallel texts as research material in all subfields of cognitive linguistics, including cognitive semantics/pragmatics, construction grammar, metaphor/metonymy and stylistics/cognitive poetics. This session is expected to include scholars interested not only in cognitive linguistics but also in contrastive linguistics, linguistic typology, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. Different languages provide their users with different words and constructions for different construals in the same usage event. For research into cross-linguistic universals and similarities on the one hand, and language dependent variation on the other, the use of parallel texts (translations) would seem to constitute an excellent methodological opportunity: while keeping the usage event the same, we can investigate differences in construals. Perhaps surprisingly, however, the systematic use of parallel texts has not received much attention in the field, unlike other empirical approaches such as monolingual corpus research and experimentation. There are some fine exceptions (e.g. Rojo and Ibarretxe-Antuñano 2013; Muskat-Tabakowska 2014; Slobin 1996, 2003; Tabakowska 1993) which show the promise of this approach, but together these do not yet constitute a body of knowledge approaching a coherent insight into what can and cannot be done with parallel texts in cognitive linguistics. On the other hand, translation corpora have also received increasing interest in neighboring disciplines, such as linguistic typology (Cysouw and Wälchli 2007; Van der Auwera et. al 2005; Verkerk 2014) and corpus linguistics (Barlow 2008; Xiao and Dai 2014). Therefore, there seems to be quite some potential in exploring this methodology that cognitive linguistics can take advantage of, in empirical coverage, in linguistic theorizing and in connecting to other parts of the field. The questions that we are interested in include, but are by no means limited to: 1. 1. Does use of parallel texts enjoy an advantage over other approaches in answering any theoretically relevant questions in CL? What are the strengths and weaknesses of using parallel texts? 2. 2. What kind of insight can parallel texts bring to CL that other types of methodologies cannot? 3. 3. In cases where a functional category (or, to construe it in another way, a functionally relevant family of constructions) is available in all the languages involved but mismatches of distribution among the texts are found, can these be taken as indicative for differences in construal? How can hypotheses in this area be tested? 4. 4. In cases where a functional category is absent in one of the languages involved, do we still find a pattern of correspondence in the texts? How can such patterns be established and validated? 5. 5. How do we account for the level of correspondence in the texts? We invite proposals of ca. 250 words (excluding references) for theme session presentations. If interested, please send your proposal to Dr. Wei-lun Lu (weilunlu at gmail.com) by 10 September. Notification of selection will be communicated by 15 September. Be advised that accepted authors will still have to submit their abstracts to the main conference for review. For more information of the main conference, visit https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/ . Organizers Michael BARLOW (University of Auckland) Wei-lun LU (Masaryk University) Arie VERHAGEN (Leiden University) *Selected bibliography* Aijmer, K. 2008. Parallel and comparable corpora. In: Lüdeling, A. and M. Kytö (eds.), Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook. Vol. I., 275—291. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. Barlow, Michael. 2008. Parallel texts and corpus-based contrastive analysis, In: Gómez González, M. Mackenzie, L. and Gonzlez Alvarez, E. (eds.), Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives., Benjamins, 101-121. Cysouw, Michael, and Bernhard Wälchli. (eds.), 2007. Parallel Texts. Using Translational Equivalents in Linguistic Typology. Theme issue in Sprachtypologie & Universalienforschung STUF 60.2. Rojo, Ana and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano (ed.) 2013. Cognitive Linguistics and Translation Advances in Some Theoretical Models and Applications. Berlin: De Gruyter. Slobin, D. I. 1996. Two ways to travel: Verbs of motion in English and Spanish. In M. Shibatani & S. A. Thompson (Eds.), Grammatical constructions: Their form and meaning (pp. 195-220). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Slobin, Dan I. 2003. Language and thought online: Cognitive consequences of linguistic relativity. Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought, D. Gentner and S. Goldin-Meadow eds., 157-192. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Tabakowska, Elżbieta. 1993. Cognitive Linguistics and poetics of translation. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Muskat-Tabakowska, Elżbieta. 2014. Lewis Carroll’s *Alice* in grammatical wonderlands. Cognitive Grammar in Literature, Harrison, Chloe, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan (eds.), 101–116. Amsterdam: John Benjamin. Van der Auwera, Johan, E. Schalley and Jan Nuyts. 2005. Epistemic possibility in a Slavonic parallel corpus - a pilot study. Modality in Slavonic Languages, New Perspectives. ed. by B. Hansen & P. Karlik. München: Sagner, 201-17. Verkerk, Annemarie. 2014. The evolutionary dynamics of motion event encoding. Nijmegen: MPI Series in Psycholinguistics. Xiao, Richard, and Dai Guangrong. 2014. Lexical and grammatical properties of Translational Chinese: translation universal hypotheses reevaluated from the Chinese perspective. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 10 (1), 11-55. From kittila at mappi.helsinki.fi Thu Aug 21 04:20:56 2014 From: kittila at mappi.helsinki.fi (Seppo Kittil=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=83=C2=A4?=) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:20:56 +0300 Subject: Second call for papers: Expression of evidentiality in Uralic languages In-Reply-To: <20140821071223.Horde.TMKUzsyysj8SarfOkgZckw1@webmail.helsinki.fi> Message-ID: (the call can be forwarded to anyone potentially interested in the topic) Symposium: Expressions of evidentiality in Uralic languages At the XII International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Oulu from August 17 to August 21, 2015 (see: http://www.oulu.fi/suomenkieli/fuxii/englanti/etusivu). Language: English, Organized by Evidego project (Seppo Kittilä & Lotta Jalava) Call for papers Evidentiality as a linguistic notion refers to the source of information speakers have for their statements. The statements can be based on, for example, direct sensory evidence, hearsay, inference, or on shared or private information. All languages can refer to the source of information somehow, but languages differ according to whether evidentiality is an obligatory category or not. In Uralic languages evidentiality is usually not an obligatory category, i.e. many of these languages lack grammaticalized evidentials. However, in Uralic languages lexical elements such as specialized particles (such as 'näköjään' (based on the verb 'see') and kuulemma (based on the verb 'hear') of Finnish) or verbs of sensory perception ('see', 'hear', 'taste' etc,) may be used to indicate the kind of evidence the speaker has for her/his statement. In some of the Uralic languages indirect evidence may be expressed as part of the modal system of the language, or, as secondary use of other verbal categories such as tense and aspect (e.g. perfects or resultatives), while in others there are also grammatical evidentials for hearsay or non-visual sensory evidence, that is, elements that indicate source of information as their primary function. In recent years, evidentiality has been a popular topic also in research of languages lacking obligatory evidentiality, especially when it comes to (Indo-)European languages. As for Uralic languages, expressions of evidentiality are much less studied. This theme session aims to explore how source of information is expressed in Uralic languages. It brings together scholars studying evidentiality and related phenomena in different Uralic languages/language groups and in their contact languages. The main focus is on the analysis of evidential strategies/expression in Uralic languages, especially from a typological perspective (or from the viewpoint of what Uralic data can provide for our understanding of evidentiality). We encourage contributors to take any descriptive, theoretical, comparative or historical perspective on the topic. Specific topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to: - Description/analysis of evidentiality system/of a particular evidential expression in one or more Uralic languages - Evidentiality as secondary function of other (verbal) categories, or, evidential expressions in relation to other linguistic categories - Lexical vs. grammatical evidentiality - Evidentiality in context: encoding source of information in different genres of text and types of discourse - Evidentiality and interaction: evidentiality and intersubjectivity; the effect of personal knowledge or involvement - History/grammaticalization/etymology/change of one or more particular evidential expressions in one or more Uralic languages (and their contact languages) Please submit an abstract of a maximum of 3000 characters (including references, data, etc.) by September 30, 2014, following the guidelines of The XII International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies. The abstract must be submitted through EasyChair, see the conference site http://www.oulu.fi/suomenkieli/fuxii/englanti/abstraktit. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by October 31, 2014. The organizers of the symposium Seppo Kittilä (kittila (at) mappi.helsinki.fi) and Lotta Jalava (lotta.jalava (at) helsinki.fi) are happy to answer any questions regarding the symposium. From eep at hum.ku.dk Tue Aug 26 10:53:18 2014 From: eep at hum.ku.dk (Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:53:18 +0000 Subject: Workshop on substance and structure in linguistics - final call Message-ID: FINAL CALL Workshop on substance and structure in linguistics University of Copenhagen, February 27-28, 2015 Workshop description For the old structuralists (especially the European variety), the distinction between substance and structure (or form) served two important purposes. Firstly, it provided a means for simultaneously allowing for language-particular and universal aspects of language: structural properties were seen as language-particular modulations of substance, which was taken to be at least potentially universal (e.g. Hjelmslev 1943). Secondly, it made possible a definition of linguistics as an autonomous discipline dealing with an area of phenomena that are specifically properties of languages: according to structuralism, structure (and thus language-particular issues) were taken to be the central concern of linguists, rather than substance (and universal issues) (e.g. de Saussure 1916). >>From the beginning, then, substance played a marginal role in 20th century linguistics, and with the fading of structuralist frameworks such as Hjelmslev’s and Ulldal’s Glossematics and the rise and increasing dominance of generative grammar in the 1950’s and 1960’s, the distinction between substance and structure fell into almost complete oblivion. In two respects, the notion of substance would in fact seem useful to Chomsky. Firstly, like the structuralists, Chomsky and his followers had the ambition of defining linguistics (at least, grammar) as an autonomous discipline. Secondly, unlike the structuralists, they took an interest in universal issues. However, the idea of Universal Grammar and thus universal linguistic structure left little need and room for substance in the theory. Still, the distinction between structure and substance was not entirely forgotten. It lived on in some individual linguists and scholarly environments that did not follow the Chomskyan way, and did not reject structuralist ideas en bloc. As one example, Danish Functional Linguistics – a research community established around Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Lisbeth Falster Jacobsen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder and Lars Heltoft in the 1990’s (cf. Engberg-Pedersen & al. 1996) – adopted (in modified form) Hjelmslev’s version of the distinction, and in this community it continues to play a central role (especially, Harder 1996). Other examples are found in linguistic typology, where Gilbert Lazard has stressed the importance of distinguishing between structure and substance (e.g. Lazard 2005), and Bybee has discussed grammaticalization and semantic change in terms of the distinction (e.g. Bybee 1988, Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca 1994). Recent years have witnessed a revitalization of the distinction within functional typology and cognitive linguistics. Haspelmath has explicitly invoked the notion of substance in his discussions of the basis of crosslinguistic comparison and categorization (e.g. Haspelmath 2007, 2010), and Croft has used a similar notion, conceptual space, to point out the common ground of semantic mapping and multidimensional scaling (e.g. Croft 2001, 2003). In connection with the issue of linguistic relativity, Slobin’s work on ‘Thinking for Speaking’ (e.g. Slobin 1996) may be seen as an argument that it is not a one-way issue of substance constraining structure – the way we form substance for the purpose of linguistic formulation may have an impact on the conceptual substance itself, i.e. on how speakers conceptualize the world around them. In a similar vein, Levinson (2003) makes a distinction between semantic structure (language-particular) and conceptual structure (potentially universal), and simultaneously argues that there is an interface between the two. All these scholars – including those affiliated with Danish Functional Linguistics – seem to converge in stressing the importance of the structuralist distinction between substance and structure, while at the same diverging from the old structuralists by including substance in the focus of linguistics. Aim The aim of this workshop is to discuss the distinction between substance and structure itself and linguistic phenomena and problems that can fruitfully be approached in terms of the distinction. Specific areas of interest include (but are not restricted to) the following: Crosslinguistic comparison How is substance-based crosslinguistic comparison carried out in practice? Are Haspelmath’s (2010) “comparative concepts” necessarily entirely subjective, or can they be objectified? Crosslinguistic categorization What are the criteria for identifying substance-based descriptive categories like Tense, Aspect, and Modality? Linguistic relativity In what respects does substance constrain structure, and in what respects may structure influence on substance? Can a strict distinction between substance and structure always be maintained? The nature of substance What is substance, conceptual structure, functional-communicative potential, both or neither? Substance and structure in semantics How do we tell substance from structure in semantics, and how is the distinction relevant? Substance and structure in phonology and phonetics How do we tell substance from structure in phonetics and phonology, and when is it at all relevant? Conceptual dependency and layered structure? Is it possible to distinguish between Langackerian conceptual dependency (as substance) and layered structure (as structure)? References Bybee, Joan L. 1988. “Semantic substance vs. contrast in the development of grammatical meaning.” Berkeley Linguistics Society 14: 247-64. Bybee, J., R. Perkins & W. Pagliuca. 1994. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Croft, W. 2001. Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Croft, W. 2003. Typology and universals, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft & Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.). 1996. Content, expression and structure: Studies in Danish Functional Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Harder, P. 1996. Functional semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Haspelmath, M. 2007. “Pre-established categories don’t exist: Consequences for language description and typology”. Linguistic Typology 11 (1): 119-132. Haspelmath, M. 2010. “Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in cross-linguistic studies”. Language 86 (3): 663-687. Hjelmslev, L. 1943. Omkring sprogteoriens grundlæggelse. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen. Lazard, G. 2005. “What are typologists doing?”. Z. Frajzyngier, A. Hodges & D. S. Rod (eds.). Linguistic diversity and language theories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-24. Levinson, S. C. 2003. “Language and mind: Let’s get the issues straight!”. D. Gentner & S. Goldin-Meadow (eds.). Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. 25-46. Saussure, F. de. 1916. Cours de linguistique générale. Lausanne: Payot. Slobin, D. I. 1996. “From ‘thought and language’ to ‘thinking for speaking’”. J. J. Gumperz & S. C. Levinson (eds.). Rethinking linguistic relativity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 70-96. Invited speakers Confirmed invited speakers: William Croft Peter Harder Martin Haspelmath Venue University of Copenhagen, Denmark Time February 27-28, 2015 Call We invite papers which discuss aspects of the substance-structure distinction as indicated above. Submission procedure Abstracts not exceeding 500 words (exclusive of references) for 20 minutes oral presentations are to be submitted electronically no later than October 1, 2014, to eep at hum.ku.dk. Notification of acceptance will be given no later than November 1st, 2014. Organizers Kasper Boye (boye at hum.ku.dk) Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen (eep at hum.ku.dk) Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen From simon at ipfw.edu Sun Aug 3 21:29:16 2014 From: simon at ipfw.edu (Beth Lee Simon) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 21:29:16 +0000 Subject: unsub - how, sorry to bother list, but... In-Reply-To: <10a96c2860c142fbaa7360d06915f7cb@BY2PR08MB716.namprd08.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: ________________________________________ Could someone please tell me, or help me, unsub. I had been, I think, but now messages are appearing again. 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FORMISANO Access the issue online at http://journals.cambridge.org/LCO/Sept Katie Smith Cambridge University Press kesmith at cambridge.org From shahars at uoregon.edu Tue Aug 5 18:51:49 2014 From: shahars at uoregon.edu (shahars) Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 11:51:49 -0700 Subject: CfP: the 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Message-ID: With apologies for cross-postings. Dear all, The 2015 Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL 46) will be held at the University of Oregon (Eugene), March 26-28, 2015. Please see the website at http://blogs.uoregon.edu/acal2015/ . The ACAL conference deals with all aspects of the linguistics of African languages, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, information structure, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, areal linguistics, and language planning and policy. Confirmed plenary speakers for the 2015 meeting are: * Dr. Lee Bickmore, SUNY-Albany * Dr. Roderic Casali, Trinity Western University * Dr. Kweku Osam, University of Ghana In addition to GENERAL-SESSION ABSTRACTS, we encourage ACAL members to consider organizing topic-specific WORKSHOPS. Workshop organizers should submit a one-page workshop description along with a list of paper titles and presenters. The deadline for the submission of WORKSHOP PROPOSALS is November 3rd, with notification of acceptance/rejection for the workshop given to the workshop organizers by November 17th. Once accepted, the workshop organizers will be requested to invite their participants to submit their full abstracts by December 8th. These full abstracts will be evaluated individually by the local UO organizing committee. ABSTRACTS: All abstracts should be written in English with glosses or translations for words or examples in any other language. Each abstract, including the title and any data in figures or tables, should not exceed 500 words. The 500-word abstract should be single-spaced and in a font no smaller than 11 point. Outside the body of the abstract, please indicate session the paper is being submitted to (general session, poster session, or name of workshop). The deadline for both general-session abstracts and individual workshop abstracts is December 8th, with notification of acceptance by mid-January, 2015. Workshop proposals and abstract submissions should be sent by email to acal.oregon.2014 at gmail.com, with the word ?Abstract? or ?Workshop? and your last name in the subject line. Submissions should be in both PDF format, and Microsoft Word formats (e.g. .DOC, .DOCX) or .RTF. In the body of the email message please include the following information: Full Name Affiliation Email Address Abstract Title Conference co-chairs, Doris Payne, Ph.D. Mokaya Bosire, Ph.D. (acal.oregon.2015 at gmail.com) From matt.shibatani at gmail.com Tue Aug 5 20:45:09 2014 From: matt.shibatani at gmail.com (Matt Shibatani) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 05:45:09 +0900 Subject: Workshop on nominalization Message-ID: We are pleased to announce the following workshop on nominalization in Lima, Peru. Those interested in attending, please contact Gabriel Mart?nez ( nominalizationpucp at gmail.com). *Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica del Per?* *Direcci?n de Gesti?n de la Investigaci?n* *Departamento de Humanidades* *Maestr?a en Ling??stica* *Archivo Digital de Lenguas Peruanas* *Congreso Internacional: Nominalizaci?n en las lenguas de Am?rica* *International Workshop: Nominalization in the languages of the Americas* *(28-30 de agosto 2014 / August, 28-30th, 2014)* *Programa/Schedule* Hora Jueves 28 de agosto Viernes 29 de agosto S?bado 30 de agosto 8:20 Bienvenida --- --- *9:00* *What is nominalization?* *Toward the theoretical foundations of nominalization* Shibatani, Masayoshi *The evolution of nominalization cross-linguistically: what we know what to look for * Cristofaro, Sonia 10:00 *Nominalizadores y construcciones nominalizadas en shiwilu* Valenzuela, Pilar *On the habitual periphrasis in Cuzco Quechua* Rammie Cahlon *Non-referential uses of nominalizations in Aguaruna (Jivaroan)* Overall, Simon 10:40 *Nominalisations in Balsapuerto Shawi, a GSM approach* Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia *Agentive nominalizations, participants, and event construal ?a functional account of discontinuous noun phrases in ancash quechua?* Carlos Molina Vital *Functions of nominalization in Wampis* Jaime Pen?a 11:20 Caf? Caf? Caf? 11:40 *Nominalization and its pervasiveness in Xavante* Machado, Adriana *Sobre el art?culo definido / actualizador en el quechua central* Gonzalo Ram?rez Herrera *El papel de la nominalizaci?n en la identificaci?n de ?reas ling??sticas en Sudam?rica* Luc?a Golluscio, Willem de Reuse y Felipe Hasler 12:20 *Considera??es formais e funcionais sobre a nominaliza??o gramatical em xikr?n e krah? (j?)* Lucivaldo Costa, Maxwell Miranda *Nominalizaci?n deverbal, deadjetival y verbalizaci?n denominal en el registro ling??stico de la actividad minera artesanal en la zona minera de Caravel?* Glaiber Ancalla Flores *Nominalizaci?n deverbativa por prefijaci?n en yag?n* Mar?a alejandra reg?naga 1:00 Almuerzo Almuerzo Almuerzo 2:30 *The rise of the nominalizations: the case of the grammaticalization of clause types in Ecuadorian Siona* Bruil, Martine *Nominaliza??es em tup? * Ana Suelly Arruda C?mara Cabral, Ariel Pheula do Couto y Silva, Gabriel Barros *Noun-based and demonstrative-based nominalizers in Yurakar?: an analysis of their referential and non-referential uses* Sonja Gipper y Foong Ha Yap 3:10 *Nominalization and compo* *Nominalizaci?n y g?nero en el ash?ninka pajonalino* Liliana Fern?ndez Fabi?n *Nominalizaci?n gramatical y estrategias de complementaci?n en Tapiete (Tup?-Guaran?)* Florencia Ciccone *Possessive constructions, sentential nominalization and recursion in piraha?* Rodrigues, Cilene 3:50 *An?lisis morfol?gico de la nominalizaci?n en Yine* Maireth E. Due?as Chinchay *Paralelismos no desenvolvimento hist?rico do Ger?ndio no Indo-Europeu em Tup?* Ana Suelly Arruda C?mara Cabral, Gerd Carling *Nominalization in Harakmbut: form and function* Van Linden, An 4:30 Caf? Caf? Caf? 4:50 *Nominalized clauses in Matses* David W. Fleck *Nominalizac?a?o em Tapirape?* Walkiria Neiva Prac?a *Nominalization and insubordination in Central Alaskan Yup?ik* Tamura, Yuki-Shinge 5:30 *Case marking as evidence of clausal nominalization in Yaminawa (Panoan, Peru)* Neely, Kelsey *Event nominalizations and participant nominalizations in Nheengatu* Aline da Cruz *The ?relative? illusion or the different functions of grammatical nominalizations in Yaqui (Uto-Aztecan) * Albert ?lvarez Gonz?lez 6:10 *Clausal nominalizations in Kakataibo (Panoan)* Daniel, Valle *A nominaliza??o em rikbaktsa* Silva, L?ia *Visiting relatives can be tiresome: nominals and relative clauses in Mopan Maya* Eve Danziger, Ellen Contini-Morava 6:50 *Nominalizaciones, cambio de referencia y obsolescencia ling??stica: el caso del iskonawa (pano, Per?) * Roberto Zariquiey Presentaci?n del Archivo Digital de Lenguas Peruanas PUCP Planes de publicaci?n 7:40 ---- CENA CLAUSURA From hdls at unm.edu Wed Aug 6 15:06:36 2014 From: hdls at unm.edu (High Desert Linguistics Society UNM) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:06:36 -0600 Subject: 2nd Call for Papers - High Desert Linguistics Society Conference 11 Message-ID: (Apologies for multiple postings) The deadline is approaching for abstract submission for the Tenth High Desert Linguistic Society Conference. The abstract deadline has been *extended *and abstracts are now due on *Monday, September 1st**. *Please see the attached documents for the official call for papers and abstract submission guidelines. Sincerely, Jackelyn Van Buren HDLS President University of New Mexico Please see the attached document for the call for papers and abstract submission guidelines. *Call for papers ? 11th High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference:* *Cognition, Culture and Discourse in signed, spoken, and indigenous languages* with a special emphasis this year on *Language Evolution and Grammaticalization* University of New Mexico November 13-15, 2014 *Keynote speakers:* Joan Bybee ? University of New Mexico (Morphology, Typology, and Phonology) Salikoko Mufwene ? University of Chicago (Language Evolution & Creolization) Carol Padden ? UC San Diego (Signed Language Morphology and Syntax) *Call for Papers: * We invite proposals for talks or poster presentations at the 11th HDLS Conference. General presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions. We welcome research that takes into account *functional*, *usage-based approaches* to language including but not limited to: ? Cognitive linguistics ? Discourse analysis ? Linguistic typology ? Gesture and signed languages ? Indigenous language endangerment, revitalization, and description ? Sociolinguistics and bilingualism ? Language change & variation Finally, we also invite speakers to propose *themed panels**, *which will consist of three presenters. Each presenter will be responsible for a 20-minute presentation, for a combined total of 60-minutes per panel, followed by 30 minutes for discussion and questions addressed to the panel. Speakers who propose a panel topic are responsible for arranging who will participate in the proposed panel. Only one abstract should be submitted per topic. The abstract should include the proposed panel topic (300-word abstract), and how each speaker will contribute to the proposed theme (500-word abstract each). HDLS Officers President: Jackelyn Van Buren Vice president: Deborah Wager Secretary: Ricardo Napole?o de Souza Treasurer: Pavlina Peskova HDLS Liaison to the Faculty: Aubrey Healey Liaison to Educational Linguistics: Moses Allen High Desert Linguistics Society Department of Linguistics The University of New Mexico hdls at unm.edu From amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk Mon Aug 11 10:19:46 2014 From: amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk (Amanda Patten) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 10:19:46 +0000 Subject: ICLC-13 Second Call for Papers Message-ID: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13) http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13 20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We invite a broad range of papers taking a cognitive, functional, typological, and discourse approach to the study of language and cognition in relation to body, culture, and context of use. The special theme of ICLC-13 is ?bringing together theory and method?. We welcome papers that demonstrate, or reflect upon, the successful union of modern empirical methods with sound theory. Potential Topics: The range of topics at past ICLCs has typically included (but is not limited to): Categorization, prototypes, and polysemy; Cognitive and Construction Grammars; cognitive corpus linguistics; cognitive phonology; cognitive semantics; discourse and grammar, text and discourse; domains and frame semantics; embodiment and situated cognition; empirical methods in cognitive linguistics; grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; image schemas and force dynamics; language development, impairment, attrition, and loss; linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; metaphor and metonymy; mental spaces and conceptual blending; neural models of language; signed languages, gesture, and modality; usage-based approaches. General Session and Poster Session: The language of the conference is English. General (parallel) session talks will be allocated 25 minutes, which includes questions and discussion. Posters will stay up for a day and will be allocated to dedicated, timetabled sessions. Theme Session: Theme sessions will be integrated into the conference schedule. We encourage theme session organisers to submit theme session titles and proposals (up to 500 words) directly to the conference organisers (by email: ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk) along with the names of authors and titles of the individual papers. We will consider sessions of varying lengths and formats (with or without an allocated ?discussion? slot). However, we would like to note that the conference schedule particularly suits sessions comprised of 6 slots (of 25 minutes each). The maximum length for theme sessions is 12 slots (of 25 minutes each). Theme session authors will still need to submit their abstracts for review (following the guidelines below) and should make sure to note the title of the theme session at the top of their abstracts. The deadline for organisers to submit proposals for Theme Sessions is September 15, 2014. Abstract Submission: Each author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper, regardless of whether they are intended for the general or a special theme session. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through EasyAbs: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/iclc13 The submission period is 1 August ? 3 November 2014. Abstracts must not exceed 1 page of A4 (including title, data, figures and references), and should be formatted in the following way. Please use 10 point Arial (Unicode) font, single-spaced and set margins to 1 inch (2.54cm) all around. Abstracts will be subjected to blind review by a minimum of two referees from an international Scientific Committee, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Please include a list of five keywords that describe the research at the top of the abstract to assist the reviewing process. Authors must include the following information on the EasyAbs web page: (1) name(s) of author(s); (2) affiliation(s); (3) email address; and (4) preference for oral or poster presentation. Authors should upload .pdf versions of their abstracts to preserve special formatting or fonts. Abstracts must be submitted through EasyAbs starting on 1 August 2014. Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of scope, relevance, originality, methodology, and strength of conclusions. It is possible that we will require authors submitting papers to ICLC-13 to assist in the reviewing process. Please note that submitting an abstract constitutes an agreement to reviewing a maximum of 5 other abstracts. ICLA Membership: ICLC is the biennial conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA, http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org). There is no requirement to be an ICLA member to submit an abstract. Participation in the ICLC conference will require standard ICLA membership (at a revised rate of approximately 25? to 30?), which also gives ICLC participants access to several member benefits. Important Dates: Abstract submission becomes available on EasyAbs: 1 August 2014 Deadline for theme session proposals: 15 September 2014 Deadline for abstract submission: 3 November 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2015 Dates of conference: 20-25 July 2015 Please direct all enquiries to ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk From tpayne at uoregon.edu Tue Aug 12 02:33:56 2014 From: tpayne at uoregon.edu (Thomas E. Payne) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:33:56 -0700 Subject: Books available for review. Message-ID: Qualified reviewers are sought for books relating to typological linguistics, linguistic theory and closely related sub-disciplines. And updated list of Books available for review in Studies in Language is now posted at: http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/Booksavailable-2014.pdf Please contact the Review Editor, Thomas E. Payne (tpayne at uoregon.edu), if you are interested in reviewing one or more of these books for Studies in Language. In your request, please include a brief statement of why you want to review a particular book, a link to a CV or other web page that indicates your qualifications as a reviewer, and a postal address where I may send the book. Format and content guidelines for Book Reviews can be found at http://pages.uoregon.edu/tpayne/SLstylesheet.pdf. Reviews will be due five months after receipt of the book. However, publication is not automatic. 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While several papers offer a typological and comparative perspective, most contributions provide detailed descriptions of the numeral systems, universal quantifiers, classifiers, and the expression of nominal and verbal number in individual languages. Languages featuring in this volume include the Austronesian languages Sumbawa, Tolaki, Helong, Uab Meto, and Papuan Malay; the Timor-Alor-Pantar languages Abui, Bunaq, Kamang, Makalero, Sawila, and Western Pantar, and the West-Papuan language Tobelo. The entire book is freely available for download under the Creative Commons license from the following website: http://pacling.anu.edu.au/materials/SAL/APL012-SAL001 With kind regards, Franti?ek and Marian ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY:This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged.If you are not the intended recipient,please delete it,notify us and do not copy,use,or disclose its contents. Towards a sustainable earth:Print only when necessary.Thank you. From weilunlu at gmail.com Tue Aug 12 09:54:13 2014 From: weilunlu at gmail.com (Wei-lun Lu) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:54:13 +0200 Subject: CfP: Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Information Structure and Information Flow (ICLC-13) Message-ID: *Call for Papers for the Theme Session for ICLC-13* *?Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Information Structure and Information Flow?* Since the pioneering contributions of Vil?m Mathesius (e.g. 1929) and other Prague School scholars, the study of Information Structure has generally been considered an inseparable part of research into language communication. Representing a concept which goes beyond the bounds of a sentence (clause) structure, it is not surprising that this topic has been considered a promising area of study even for cognitive linguists, as suggested for example by Sperber-Wilson (1995). Nevertheless, the latest contributions to the field of Cognitive Linguistics, as evidenced for example in Croft-Cruse (2004) or Geeraerts-Cuyckens (2007), seem to have left the topic largely untouched. We thus propose a theme session which would (re)-establish the connection between the study of information structure and cognitive-pragmatic aspects of language communication. This theme session is open to researchers applying various approaches to the cognitive and pragmatic aspects of Information Structure and Information Flow, for example the approaches developed by Wallace L. Chafe, Franti?ek Dane?, Jan Firbas, Eva Haji?ov? and Petr Sgall, Janet K. Gundel, Michael A. K. Halliday, Knud Lambrecht, Ellen F. Prince, and Enric Vallduv?, among others. We welcome proposals for presentations of approximately 250 words excluding references. Please send your proposal to us at cog_is at phil.muni.cz by 10 September. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 September. Please note that accepted authors will still need to follow up with a full abstract for review as a general policy of the conference ( https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/call-for-papers/ ). Organizers: Jana Chamonikolasov? Martin Dr?pela Wei-lun Lu References Chafe, W. L. (1994) *Discourse, consciousness, and time*, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Croft, W. and D. Alan Cruse (2004) *Cognitive Linguistics*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dane?, F. (1974) ?Functional sentence perspective and the organization of the text? IN F. Dane? (Ed.): *Papers on Functional Sentence Perspective*, Prague: Academia, pp. 106-128. Firbas, J. (1992) *Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Geeraerts, D. and H. Cuyckens (eds.) (2007) *The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics*, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Gundel, J. (2003) ?Information Structure and Referential Givenness/Newness: How Much Belongs in the Grammar?? IN S. M?ller (Ed.): *Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar*, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pp. 122-142. Halliday, M. A. K. (1994) *An Introduction to Functional Grammar*, London: Edward Arnold. Lambrecht, K. (1994) *Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus and the Mental Representation of Discourse Referents*, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Langacker, R. W. (2009) *Investigations in Cognitive Grammar*, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter. Mathesius V. (1929) ?Zur Satzperspektive im modernen Englisch?, *Archiv f?r das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen* 84, pp. 202-210. Mathesius, V. (1964) ?On linguistic characterology with illustrations from Modern English? IN J. Vachek (Ed.): *A Prague School Reader in Linguistic*s, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 59-67. Prince, E. F. (1981) ?Towards a taxonomy of given-new information? IN P. Cole (Ed.): *Radical Pragmatics*, New York: Academic Press, pp. 223-255. Sgall, P., E. Haji?ov? and J. Panevov? (1986) *The Meaning of the Sentence in Its Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects*, Prague/Dordrecht: Academia/Reidel. Sperber, D. and D. Wilson (1995) *Relevance*, Oxford: Blackwell. Vallduv?, E. (1992) *The Informational Component*, New York: Garland. -- Wei-lun LU Postdoc Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics Masaryk University Gorkeho 7/Arna Novaka 1, 60200 Brno, Czech Public Phone: +420 549 49 6824 http://is.muni.cz/osoba/232873?lang=en From weilunlu at gmail.com Wed Aug 20 16:53:32 2014 From: weilunlu at gmail.com (Wei-lun Lu) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:53:32 +0200 Subject: CfP: Use of Parallel Texts in Cognitive Linguistics Research (ICLC-13, 20-25 July) Message-ID: We propose a theme session at ICLC-13 (20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University, UK) that addresses the usefulness of parallel texts as research material in all subfields of cognitive linguistics, including cognitive semantics/pragmatics, construction grammar, metaphor/metonymy and stylistics/cognitive poetics. This session is expected to include scholars interested not only in cognitive linguistics but also in contrastive linguistics, linguistic typology, corpus linguistics, and translation studies. Different languages provide their users with different words and constructions for different construals in the same usage event. For research into cross-linguistic universals and similarities on the one hand, and language dependent variation on the other, the use of parallel texts (translations) would seem to constitute an excellent methodological opportunity: while keeping the usage event the same, we can investigate differences in construals. Perhaps surprisingly, however, the systematic use of parallel texts has not received much attention in the field, unlike other empirical approaches such as monolingual corpus research and experimentation. There are some fine exceptions (e.g. Rojo and Ibarretxe-Antu?ano 2013; Muskat-Tabakowska 2014; Slobin 1996, 2003; Tabakowska 1993) which show the promise of this approach, but together these do not yet constitute a body of knowledge approaching a coherent insight into what can and cannot be done with parallel texts in cognitive linguistics. On the other hand, translation corpora have also received increasing interest in neighboring disciplines, such as linguistic typology (Cysouw and W?lchli 2007; Van der Auwera et. al 2005; Verkerk 2014) and corpus linguistics (Barlow 2008; Xiao and Dai 2014). Therefore, there seems to be quite some potential in exploring this methodology that cognitive linguistics can take advantage of, in empirical coverage, in linguistic theorizing and in connecting to other parts of the field. The questions that we are interested in include, but are by no means limited to: 1. 1. Does use of parallel texts enjoy an advantage over other approaches in answering any theoretically relevant questions in CL? What are the strengths and weaknesses of using parallel texts? 2. 2. What kind of insight can parallel texts bring to CL that other types of methodologies cannot? 3. 3. In cases where a functional category (or, to construe it in another way, a functionally relevant family of constructions) is available in all the languages involved but mismatches of distribution among the texts are found, can these be taken as indicative for differences in construal? How can hypotheses in this area be tested? 4. 4. In cases where a functional category is absent in one of the languages involved, do we still find a pattern of correspondence in the texts? How can such patterns be established and validated? 5. 5. How do we account for the level of correspondence in the texts? We invite proposals of ca. 250 words (excluding references) for theme session presentations. If interested, please send your proposal to Dr. Wei-lun Lu (weilunlu at gmail.com) by 10 September. Notification of selection will be communicated by 15 September. Be advised that accepted authors will still have to submit their abstracts to the main conference for review. For more information of the main conference, visit https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/ . Organizers Michael BARLOW (University of Auckland) Wei-lun LU (Masaryk University) Arie VERHAGEN (Leiden University) *Selected bibliography* Aijmer, K. 2008. Parallel and comparable corpora. In: L?deling, A. and M. Kyt? (eds.), Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook. Vol. I., 275?291. Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton. Barlow, Michael. 2008. Parallel texts and corpus-based contrastive analysis, In: G?mez Gonz?lez, M. Mackenzie, L. and Gonzlez Alvarez, E. (eds.), Current Trends in Contrastive Linguistics: Functional and Cognitive Perspectives., Benjamins, 101-121. Cysouw, Michael, and Bernhard W?lchli. (eds.), 2007. Parallel Texts. Using Translational Equivalents in Linguistic Typology. Theme issue in Sprachtypologie & Universalienforschung STUF 60.2. Rojo, Ana and Iraide Ibarretxe-Antu?ano (ed.) 2013. Cognitive Linguistics and Translation Advances in Some Theoretical Models and Applications. Berlin: De Gruyter. Slobin, D. I. 1996. Two ways to travel: Verbs of motion in English and Spanish. In M. Shibatani & S. A. Thompson (Eds.), Grammatical constructions: Their form and meaning (pp. 195-220). Oxford: Clarendon Press. Slobin, Dan I. 2003. Language and thought online: Cognitive consequences of linguistic relativity. Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought, D. Gentner and S. Goldin-Meadow eds., 157-192. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Tabakowska, El?bieta. 1993. Cognitive Linguistics and poetics of translation. T?bingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Muskat-Tabakowska, El?bieta. 2014. Lewis Carroll?s *Alice* in grammatical wonderlands. Cognitive Grammar in Literature, Harrison, Chloe, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan (eds.), 101?116. Amsterdam: John Benjamin. Van der Auwera, Johan, E. Schalley and Jan Nuyts. 2005. Epistemic possibility in a Slavonic parallel corpus - a pilot study. Modality in Slavonic Languages, New Perspectives. ed. by B. Hansen & P. Karlik. M?nchen: Sagner, 201-17. Verkerk, Annemarie. 2014. The evolutionary dynamics of motion event encoding. Nijmegen: MPI Series in Psycholinguistics. Xiao, Richard, and Dai Guangrong. 2014. Lexical and grammatical properties of Translational Chinese: translation universal hypotheses reevaluated from the Chinese perspective. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 10 (1), 11-55. From kittila at mappi.helsinki.fi Thu Aug 21 04:20:56 2014 From: kittila at mappi.helsinki.fi (Seppo Kittil=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=83=C2=A4?=) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:20:56 +0300 Subject: Second call for papers: Expression of evidentiality in Uralic languages In-Reply-To: <20140821071223.Horde.TMKUzsyysj8SarfOkgZckw1@webmail.helsinki.fi> Message-ID: (the call can be forwarded to anyone potentially interested in the topic) Symposium: Expressions of evidentiality in Uralic languages At the XII International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Oulu from August 17 to August 21, 2015 (see: http://www.oulu.fi/suomenkieli/fuxii/englanti/etusivu). Language: English, Organized by Evidego project (Seppo Kittil? & Lotta Jalava) Call for papers Evidentiality as a linguistic notion refers to the source of information speakers have for their statements. The statements can be based on, for example, direct sensory evidence, hearsay, inference, or on shared or private information. All languages can refer to the source of information somehow, but languages differ according to whether evidentiality is an obligatory category or not. In Uralic languages evidentiality is usually not an obligatory category, i.e. many of these languages lack grammaticalized evidentials. However, in Uralic languages lexical elements such as specialized particles (such as 'n?k?j??n' (based on the verb 'see') and kuulemma (based on the verb 'hear') of Finnish) or verbs of sensory perception ('see', 'hear', 'taste' etc,) may be used to indicate the kind of evidence the speaker has for her/his statement. In some of the Uralic languages indirect evidence may be expressed as part of the modal system of the language, or, as secondary use of other verbal categories such as tense and aspect (e.g. perfects or resultatives), while in others there are also grammatical evidentials for hearsay or non-visual sensory evidence, that is, elements that indicate source of information as their primary function. In recent years, evidentiality has been a popular topic also in research of languages lacking obligatory evidentiality, especially when it comes to (Indo-)European languages. As for Uralic languages, expressions of evidentiality are much less studied. This theme session aims to explore how source of information is expressed in Uralic languages. It brings together scholars studying evidentiality and related phenomena in different Uralic languages/language groups and in their contact languages. The main focus is on the analysis of evidential strategies/expression in Uralic languages, especially from a typological perspective (or from the viewpoint of what Uralic data can provide for our understanding of evidentiality). We encourage contributors to take any descriptive, theoretical, comparative or historical perspective on the topic. Specific topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to: - Description/analysis of evidentiality system/of a particular evidential expression in one or more Uralic languages - Evidentiality as secondary function of other (verbal) categories, or, evidential expressions in relation to other linguistic categories - Lexical vs. grammatical evidentiality - Evidentiality in context: encoding source of information in different genres of text and types of discourse - Evidentiality and interaction: evidentiality and intersubjectivity; the effect of personal knowledge or involvement - History/grammaticalization/etymology/change of one or more particular evidential expressions in one or more Uralic languages (and their contact languages) Please submit an abstract of a maximum of 3000 characters (including references, data, etc.) by September 30, 2014, following the guidelines of The XII International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies. The abstract must be submitted through EasyChair, see the conference site http://www.oulu.fi/suomenkieli/fuxii/englanti/abstraktit. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by October 31, 2014. The organizers of the symposium Seppo Kittil? (kittila (at) mappi.helsinki.fi) and Lotta Jalava (lotta.jalava (at) helsinki.fi) are happy to answer any questions regarding the symposium. From eep at hum.ku.dk Tue Aug 26 10:53:18 2014 From: eep at hum.ku.dk (Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:53:18 +0000 Subject: Workshop on substance and structure in linguistics - final call Message-ID: FINAL CALL Workshop on substance and structure in linguistics University of Copenhagen, February 27-28, 2015 Workshop description For the old structuralists (especially the European variety), the distinction between substance and structure (or form) served two important purposes. Firstly, it provided a means for simultaneously allowing for language-particular and universal aspects of language: structural properties were seen as language-particular modulations of substance, which was taken to be at least potentially universal (e.g. Hjelmslev 1943). Secondly, it made possible a definition of linguistics as an autonomous discipline dealing with an area of phenomena that are specifically properties of languages: according to structuralism, structure (and thus language-particular issues) were taken to be the central concern of linguists, rather than substance (and universal issues) (e.g. de Saussure 1916). >>From the beginning, then, substance played a marginal role in 20th century linguistics, and with the fading of structuralist frameworks such as Hjelmslev?s and Ulldal?s Glossematics and the rise and increasing dominance of generative grammar in the 1950?s and 1960?s, the distinction between substance and structure fell into almost complete oblivion. In two respects, the notion of substance would in fact seem useful to Chomsky. Firstly, like the structuralists, Chomsky and his followers had the ambition of defining linguistics (at least, grammar) as an autonomous discipline. Secondly, unlike the structuralists, they took an interest in universal issues. However, the idea of Universal Grammar and thus universal linguistic structure left little need and room for substance in the theory. Still, the distinction between structure and substance was not entirely forgotten. It lived on in some individual linguists and scholarly environments that did not follow the Chomskyan way, and did not reject structuralist ideas en bloc. As one example, Danish Functional Linguistics ? a research community established around Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Lisbeth Falster Jacobsen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder and Lars Heltoft in the 1990?s (cf. Engberg-Pedersen & al. 1996) ? adopted (in modified form) Hjelmslev?s version of the distinction, and in this community it continues to play a central role (especially, Harder 1996). Other examples are found in linguistic typology, where Gilbert Lazard has stressed the importance of distinguishing between structure and substance (e.g. Lazard 2005), and Bybee has discussed grammaticalization and semantic change in terms of the distinction (e.g. Bybee 1988, Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca 1994). Recent years have witnessed a revitalization of the distinction within functional typology and cognitive linguistics. Haspelmath has explicitly invoked the notion of substance in his discussions of the basis of crosslinguistic comparison and categorization (e.g. Haspelmath 2007, 2010), and Croft has used a similar notion, conceptual space, to point out the common ground of semantic mapping and multidimensional scaling (e.g. Croft 2001, 2003). In connection with the issue of linguistic relativity, Slobin?s work on ?Thinking for Speaking? (e.g. Slobin 1996) may be seen as an argument that it is not a one-way issue of substance constraining structure ? the way we form substance for the purpose of linguistic formulation may have an impact on the conceptual substance itself, i.e. on how speakers conceptualize the world around them. In a similar vein, Levinson (2003) makes a distinction between semantic structure (language-particular) and conceptual structure (potentially universal), and simultaneously argues that there is an interface between the two. All these scholars ? including those affiliated with Danish Functional Linguistics ? seem to converge in stressing the importance of the structuralist distinction between substance and structure, while at the same diverging from the old structuralists by including substance in the focus of linguistics. Aim The aim of this workshop is to discuss the distinction between substance and structure itself and linguistic phenomena and problems that can fruitfully be approached in terms of the distinction. Specific areas of interest include (but are not restricted to) the following: Crosslinguistic comparison How is substance-based crosslinguistic comparison carried out in practice? Are Haspelmath?s (2010) ?comparative concepts? necessarily entirely subjective, or can they be objectified? Crosslinguistic categorization What are the criteria for identifying substance-based descriptive categories like Tense, Aspect, and Modality? Linguistic relativity In what respects does substance constrain structure, and in what respects may structure influence on substance? Can a strict distinction between substance and structure always be maintained? The nature of substance What is substance, conceptual structure, functional-communicative potential, both or neither? Substance and structure in semantics How do we tell substance from structure in semantics, and how is the distinction relevant? Substance and structure in phonology and phonetics How do we tell substance from structure in phonetics and phonology, and when is it at all relevant? Conceptual dependency and layered structure? Is it possible to distinguish between Langackerian conceptual dependency (as substance) and layered structure (as structure)? References Bybee, Joan L. 1988. ?Semantic substance vs. contrast in the development of grammatical meaning.? Berkeley Linguistics Society 14: 247-64. Bybee, J., R. Perkins & W. Pagliuca. 1994. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Croft, W. 2001. Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Croft, W. 2003. Typology and universals, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft & Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.). 1996. Content, expression and structure: Studies in Danish Functional Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Harder, P. 1996. Functional semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Haspelmath, M. 2007. ?Pre-established categories don?t exist: Consequences for language description and typology?. Linguistic Typology 11 (1): 119-132. Haspelmath, M. 2010. ?Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in cross-linguistic studies?. Language 86 (3): 663-687. Hjelmslev, L. 1943. Omkring sprogteoriens grundl?ggelse. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen. Lazard, G. 2005. ?What are typologists doing??. Z. Frajzyngier, A. Hodges & D. S. Rod (eds.). Linguistic diversity and language theories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-24. Levinson, S. C. 2003. ?Language and mind: Let?s get the issues straight!?. D. Gentner & S. Goldin-Meadow (eds.). Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. 25-46. Saussure, F. de. 1916. Cours de linguistique g?n?rale. Lausanne: Payot. Slobin, D. I. 1996. ?From ?thought and language? to ?thinking for speaking??. J. J. Gumperz & S. C. Levinson (eds.). Rethinking linguistic relativity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 70-96. Invited speakers Confirmed invited speakers: William Croft Peter Harder Martin Haspelmath Venue University of Copenhagen, Denmark Time February 27-28, 2015 Call We invite papers which discuss aspects of the substance-structure distinction as indicated above. Submission procedure Abstracts not exceeding 500 words (exclusive of references) for 20 minutes oral presentations are to be submitted electronically no later than October 1, 2014, to eep at hum.ku.dk. Notification of acceptance will be given no later than November 1st, 2014. Organizers Kasper Boye (boye at hum.ku.dk) Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen (eep at hum.ku.dk) Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen