From silvia.cacchiani at unimore.it  Sun Feb  2 11:25:36 2014
From: silvia.cacchiani at unimore.it (Silvia CACCHIANI)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 12:25:36 +0100
Subject: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Non-word morphology; ESSE2014; 29 Aug 2014 - 2
 Sept 204, Kosice, Slovakia]]
Message-ID: <SUN.2.FEB.2014.122536.0100.SILVIA.CACCHIANI@UNIMORE.IT>

Dear Colleagues,

the deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 28.


ESSE 2014 Seminar – Linguistics strand (SLANG28)
29 August 2014 – 2 September 2014, Kosice, Slovakia
http://kaa.ff.upjs.sk/en/event/4/12th-esse-conference

Full title: Non-words, nonce-words and morphology teaching
Acronym: NWM: NON-WORD MORPHOLOGY


Call for papers

The seminar ‘Non-words, Nonce-words and Morphology Teaching’ will be held
within the 12th ESSE Conference in Košice, Slovakia.

Convenors
Silvia Cacchiani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Christoph Haase, Purkyně University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic


While psycho- and neurolinguistics (e.g. Marslen-Wilson 1987, 2007,
 Kielar et al. 2008, Rastle et al. 2008, Crepaldi 2010) have shown
increasing interest in the representation of non-words, nonce-words or
nonsensical words in the mental lexicon, their potential as a yardstick
for the morphological competence of L2 learners has not been widely
explored.
The aim of this seminar is to bring together theoretical and applied
research on non-words, nonce-words, and the teaching of English
morphology. Suggested topics include (but are not restricted to):

–	morphological processes in language comprehension, also models of word
recognition;
–	analogy in morphology and analogy in L2 learning;
–	best practice in morphology teaching;
–	learner access to lexical strata, feature percolation and
permissibility, and related performance.


Please send your abstract totaling no more than 300 words (including
references) by February 28th 2014 to the following addresses:
silvia.cacchiani at unimore.it, christoph.haase at ujep.cz.
Notifcation of acceptance: March 31st 2014.


From stgries at gmail.com  Sun Feb  2 16:37:38 2014
From: stgries at gmail.com (Stefan Th. Gries)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 08:37:38 -0800
Subject: CSDL 2014: call for papers
Message-ID: <SUN.2.FEB.2014.083738.0800.STGRIES@GMAIL.COM>

CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language) 2014 is the 12th
incarnation of a conference first hosted in 1994 by the University of
California, San Diego. In 2000, CSDL 5 was hosted by the University of
California, Santa Barbara and it is with great pleasure that we are
bringing CSDL 12 back to the University of California system and to
Santa Barbara in particular. CSDL 12 is co-organized by Stefan Th.
Gries (Dept. of Linguistics) and Viola G. Miglio (Dept. of
Spanish/Portuguese) and will take place at the Hyatt Santa Barbara
directly at East Beach, Santa Barbara 4-6 November 2014. The
conference website at <https://sites.google.com/site/csdl2014atucsb/>
contains all information about the conference; if you have questions
not addressed here, plz write to the conference email address at
<csdl2014 at gmail.com>.


Call for papers

1 Potential topics
For CSDL 12 (2014), we are inviting a broad range of papers taking
cognitive/psycholinguistic, functional, usage-/exemplar-based, or
discourse-based approach to the study of language and its acquisition,
processing, use, and change. Drawing from the range of topics listed
by the organizers of the successful ICLC in Edmonton, topics of papers
may include, but are not limited to:

- linguistic categorization: prototype theory, radial categories, ...;
- linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax;
- embodiment and language;
- metaphor, metonymy, mental spaces, conceptual blending, ICMs, frame
semantics, image schemas, force dynamics, ...;
- cognitive phonology, semantics, grammar, and construction grammars;
- discourse and grammar, text and discourse;
- language acquisition and learning;
- grammaticalization, language evolution, and change;
- cognitive corpus linguistics;
- empirical methods: data from observation, experimentation,
computational simulation.

2 Format of abstract
For full consideration, the abstract must be a PDF and meet the
following specifications:

- page format: Letter or A4, margins: 1 inch/2.5 cm all around
- font: Times (New Roman) 12pt
- paragraph format: single-spaced
- length: max. 1 page (plus 1 page for figures, tables, references, if
necessary)

Note 1: Abstracts must be anonymous, which means author names should
not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or
in the third person for previously published work).
Note 2: An author may submit maximally one single-authored and one
co-authored paper.
Note 3: Abstracts will be subjected to a double-blind review by a
minimum of two referees. Empirical papers and papers whose abstracts
indicate that results are already available (rather than hoped for)
will be given priority.
Note 4: Submission of an abstract constitutes agreement to review
maximally 5 abstracts yourself.

3 Submission of abstracts
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2014. We are
using the LinguistList's EasyAbs system for abstract submission and
reviewing; plz see the conference website for the relevant link.


Pre-conference and conference schedule

1 February 2014: 1st call for papers/participation
1 February 2014: room registration at the Hyatt Santa Barbara opens
21 February 2014: 2nd call for papers/participation
21 February 2014: registration opens
15 March 2014: final call for papers/participation
31 March 2014: deadline for submission of abstracts
May 2014: notifications of acceptance
15 July 2014: deadline for early-bird registration
4-6 November 2014: conference


From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se  Mon Feb  3 12:02:42 2014
From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:02:42 +0000
Subject: IACS-2014 Extended deadline
Message-ID: <MON.3.FEB.2014.120242.0000.JORDAN.ZLATEV@LING.LU.SE>

!!! Note: Extended Deadline: Feb 20, 2014 !!!

First Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS)
September 25-27, 2014
Lund, Sweden

http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014
IACS-2014 at semiotik.lu.se

Plenary speakers
* Søren Brier, Copenhagen Business School
* Merlin Donald, Queens University
* Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
* Cornelia Müller, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
* Raymond Tallis, University of Manchester

Theme: Establishing Cognitive Semiotics
Over the past two decades or so, a number of researchers from semiotics, linguistics, cognitive science and related fields, from several European and North American research centres, have experienced the need to combine theoretical knowledge and methodological expertise in order to tackle challenging questions concerning the nature of meaning, the role of consciousness, the unique cognitive features of mankind, the interaction of nature and nurture in development, and the interplay of biological and cultural evolution in phylogeny. The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) aims at the further establishment of Cognitive Semiotics as the trans-disciplinary study of meaning, combining concepts, theories and methods from the humanities and the social and natural sciences.

Abstracts
We invite the submission of 400 word abstracts (excluding title and references) for either an oral presentation (20 min presentation + 5 minute discussion) or poster (at a dedicated poster session), by uploading to the EasyChair website.
The abstracts can be related, though need not be restricted, to the following topics:
* Biological and cultural evolution of human cognitive specificity
* Cognitive linguistics and phenomenology
* Communication across cultural barriers
* Cross-species comparative semiotics
* Evolutionary perspectives on altruism
* Experimental semiotics
Iconicity in language and other semiotic resources
* Intersubjectivity and mimesis in evolution and development
* Multimodality
* Narrativity across different media
* Semantic typology and linguistic relativity
* Semiosis (sense-making) in social interaction
* Semiotic and cognitive development in children
* Sign use and cognition
* Signs, affordances, and other meanings
* Speech and gesture
* The comparative semiotics of iconicity and indexicality
* The evolution of language

Important dates
* Deadline for submission of theme sessions: 31 Dec 2013(past)
* Deadline for abstract submission (oral presentations, posters): 20 Feb 2014
* Notification of acceptance (oral presentations, posters): 1 April 2014
* Last date for early registration: 1 July 2014

Local organizing committee
* Mats Andrén
* Johan Blomberg
* Anna Redei Cabak
* Sara Lenninger
* Joel Parthemore
* Göran Sonesson
* Jordan Zlatev



***************************************
Jordan Zlatev
Professor of General Linguistics
Lund University
Centre for Languages and Literature
Box 201
221 00 Lund, Sweden

Deputy research director of Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS)
http://project.sol.lu.se/en/ccs/


From bischoff.st at gmail.com  Mon Feb  3 14:47:28 2014
From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. Bischoff)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:47:28 -0500
Subject: Add about D.C. football team
Message-ID: <MON.3.FEB.2014.094728.0500.BISCHOFF.ST@GMAIL.COM>

Hello all,

Here is a link to an add regarding the Washington D.C. football team that
may be of interest to some as well as useful in the classroom...

<goog_1896090758>
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/heres-an-ad-about-rskins-that-its-makers-dont-have-the-money-to-show-during-sundays-superbow<http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/heres-an-ad-about-rskins-that-its-makers-dont-have-the-money-to-show-during-sundays-superbowl/>

Regards,
Shannon


From danijela.trenkic at york.ac.uk  Tue Feb  4 17:10:08 2014
From: danijela.trenkic at york.ac.uk (Danijela Trenkic)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:10:08 -0000
Subject: EUROSLA 24: Second Call for papers
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.171008.0000.DANIJELA.TRENKIC@YORK.AC.UK>

*EUROSLA 24 - Second Call for Papers*



The *Centre for Language Learning Research* in the Department of Education,
University of York, is pleased to announce that it will host EUROSLA 24,
the 24th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association. You
are kindly invited to submit abstracts for papers, posters, thematic
colloquia and doctoral workshops on any domain and subdomain of second
language research.



The Conference will start in the morning of 4 September 2014 and close at
lunchtime on 6 September 2014. Preceding the Conference, there will be a
doctoral workshop and a *Language Learning* roundtable, both on 3
September. The theme of this year's roundtable is '*Language learning
theory and practice: Bridging the gap*'.

*Plenary speakers*



*Albert Costa*, Pompeu Fabra University

*Leah Roberts*, University of York
*Natasha Tokowicz*, University of Pittsburgh
*Sharon Unsworth*, Radboud University Nijmegen

*Key dates*



*28 February 2014:* abstract submission deadline
*25 April 2014:* notification of acceptance
*28 April 2014: *early bird registration starts

*15 June 2014:* registration closes for presenters

*25 June 2014:* early bird registration closes

*26 June 2014**:* full fee registration starts

*3 September 2014:* doctoral workshop and roundtable

*4-6 September 2014: *conference


*Abstract submission policy *



Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one co-authored
(i.e. not first-authored) abstract to be considered for oral presentations,
including colloquia and doctoral workshops. More than one abstract can be
submitted for poster presentations. Paper and poster proposals should not
have been previously published. All submissions will be reviewed
anonymously by the scientific committee and evaluated in terms of rigour,
clarity and significance of the contribution, as well as its relevance to
second language research. Abstracts should not exceed 450 words (excluding
the title, but including optional references).



*Individual papers and posters*



Papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for
discussion.
Poster sessions will be held in two 90-minute slots. In order to foster
interaction, all other sessions will be suspended during the poster
sessions.



*Thematic colloquia*



The Thematic colloquia will be organised in two-hour slots running in
parallel with other sessions. Each colloquium will focus on one specific
topic, and will bring together key contributions to the topic. Colloquium
convenors should allocate time for opening and closing remarks, individual
papers, discussants (if included) and general discussion.



*Doctoral student workshop*



The doctoral student workshop is intended to serve as a platform for
discussion of ongoing PhD research within any aspect of second language
research. PhD students are invited to submit an abstract for a 10-15-minute
presentation. The abstract and the presentation should include one or two
questions on which the student would like to receive audience feedback
(e.g. data collection, analysis, theoretical or methodological issues), and
sufficient background information for framing the questions. These sessions
are not intended as opportunities to present research results, but to
discuss future directions. Students whose abstracts are accepted will then
be required to send their paper to a discussant (a senior researcher). The
discussant will lead a 10-15-minute feedback/discussion session on their
work.



*Student stipends*


As in previous years, several student stipends will be available for
doctoral students.
If you wish to apply, please send the following information to
eurosla24 at york.ac.uk before 28 February 2014:



1. Name, institution, and address of institution;

2. Curriculum vitae (attached);

3. Official confirmation of a PhD student status;

4. Statement (email) from supervisor or head of Department that the
applicant's institution cannot (fully) cover the conference-related
expenses.



*Publication of papers*


A selection of papers presented at EUROSLA 2014 will be published in the
EUROSLA 24 Yearbook following a peer-review process. There is an annual
prize for the best EUROSLA Yearbook article. This includes a framed
certificate presented at the EUROSLA General Assembly, a fee waiver for the
following EUROSLA conference and conference dinner, and free EUROSLA
membership for a year.



*To submit an abstract please visit *



http://www.york.ac.uk/eurosla24





***
Danijela Trenkic, PhD (Cantab)
Department of Education

Centre for Language Learning Research
University of York
YO10 5DD

NEW ARTICLE: Trenkic, D., Mirkovic, J., & Altmann. G. Real-time grammar
processing by native and non-native speakers: Constructions unique to the
second language. *Bilingualism: Language and Cognition*
*(journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000321
<http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000321>)*



Tel: +44 (0)1904 323 461
http://www.york.ac.uk/education/our-staff/academic/danijela-trenkic/



EMAIL DISCLAIMER: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm


From langconf at bu.edu  Thu Feb  6 18:22:52 2014
From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:22:52 -0500
Subject: BUCLD39 Call for Symposium Proposals
Message-ID: <THU.6.FEB.2014.132252.0500.LANGCONF@BU.EDU>

THE 39th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 7-9

Keynote Speaker: Richard Aslin, University of Rochester

Plenary Speaker: Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University


CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS

We are soliciting proposals for 90-minute symposia for the Boston University Conference on Language Development on any topic likely to be of broad interest to the conference attendees.  The symposium format is open, but has frequently included 2-3 speakers presenting research from differing angles on a common theme.  We anticipate including two such symposia in the schedule, one being the Saturday lunchtime symposium, the other closing the conference on Sunday.  

 
Proposals should include a list of the participants and a specification of the format, and should name at least one organizer who will be able to work with the BUCLD organizing committee in setting up the symposium.  Submissions can be sent by email to langconf at bu.edu with "Symposium proposal" indicated in the subject line.  Please limit symposium proposals to 1000 words or fewer.

DEADLINE: April 15, 2014

Decisions on symposia will be made by June.

NOTE: Submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks and poster presentations are not being solicited at this time. The deadline for those will be 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2014.

FURTHER INFORMATION

General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld



Questions about symposia should be sent to langconf at bu.edu.

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.


From mcarrete at filol.ucm.es  Fri Feb  7 08:20:15 2014
From: mcarrete at filol.ucm.es (MARTA BEGONA CARRETERO LAPEYRE)
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:20:15 +0100
Subject: New publication - ENGLISH MODALITY: CORE,
 PERIPHERY AND EVIDENTIALITY
Message-ID: <FRI.7.FEB.2014.092015.0100.MCARRETE@FILOL.UCM.ES>

We are pleased to inform you about the book that we have published
with De Gruyter Mouton:

ENGLISH MODALITY: CORE, PERIPHERY AND EVIDENTIALITY (2013). Topics in
English Linguistics [TiEL] 81. Eds. Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Marta
Carretero, Jorge Arús Hita, Johan van der Auwera.

"The book presents new issues and areas of work in Modality and
Evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other languages. The
volume addresses issues such as the conceptual nature of modality, the
relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the
evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal
expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories
(TAM systems), and the variation in different discourse domains and
genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities." (Quoted from
back cover)

More information at
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/182779

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Core modality
Ronald Langacker - Modals: Striving for control
Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts - Contemporary change in modal usage
in spoken British English: mapping the impact of “genre”
Geoffrey Leech - Where have all the modals gone? An essay on the
declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard
English

Part II: Peripheral modality
Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Nöel and An van Linden - Had better, ’d
better and better: Diachronic and transatlantic variation
Peter Collins - Grammatical colloquialism and the English
quasi-modals: a comparative study
Lucía Loureiro-Porto - Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician
Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit - Modal uses of the English present progressive
Debra Ziegeler - On the generic argument for the modality of will

Part III: Evidentiality and Modality
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen - REALITY and related concepts: towards
a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs
Aurelija Usonienė and Jolanta Šinkūnienė - A cross-linguistic look at
the multifunctionality of the English verb seem
Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla - Annotating English
adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality

Part IV: Evidentiality and Modality in Discourse
Roberta Facchinetti - Modal verbs in news-related blogs: When the blogger counts
Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Begoña Núñez-Perucha - Modality and personal
pronouns as indexical markers of stance: Intersubjective positioning
and construction of public identity in media interviews
Juana I. Marín-Arrese Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq
Inquiry: Blair vs. Brown

Subject index

Best regards,
Marta Carretero


Dr Marta Carretero
https://portal.ucm.es/web/filologia_inglesa_i/marta-carretero


From randy.lapolla at gmail.com  Fri Feb  7 13:15:50 2014
From: randy.lapolla at gmail.com (Randy LaPolla)
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 21:15:50 +0800
Subject: Hangout On Air with Nobelist Randy Schekman,
 Inventor Jack Andraka, and Neuroscientist Jody Culham
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Message-ID: <FRI.7.FEB.2014.211550.0800.RANDY.LAPOLLA@GMAIL.COM>

FYI

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From fg-fgw at uva.nl  Sat Feb  8 14:22:32 2014
From: fg-fgw at uva.nl (fg-fgw)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 14:22:32 +0000
Subject: Reminder: Abstract deadline International Conference on
 Functional Discourse Grammar, Jaen, September 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.142232.0000.FGFGW@UVA.NL>

If you do not want to receive further messages concerning FDG events please let us know and we will remove you from our mailing list.


Dear colleagues,

This is to remind you of the upcoming deadline for the submission of abstracts for the International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar that will take place in Jaen, September 2014. If you intend to present a paper of poster please send us your abstract by February 15th, 2014 at the latest.

Full information on the conference and the accompanying preconference course can now be found at the events page of www.functionaldiscoursegrammar.info<http://www.functionaldiscoursegrammar.info>.

Looking forward to receiving your abstracts, with best wishes,

Kees Hengeveld,
on behalf of the FDG Foundation




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Functional Discourse Grammar Foundation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Department of Theoretical Linguistics
Spuistraat 210
NL-1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: fg-fgw at uva.nl

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From megan.lukaniec at gmail.com  Mon Feb 10 07:18:37 2014
From: megan.lukaniec at gmail.com (Megan Lukaniec)
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 23:18:37 -0800
Subject: Call for Papers
Message-ID: <SUN.9.FEB.2014.231837.0800.MEGAN.LUKANIEC@GMAIL.COM>

Hi,

I was wondering if it was possible to submit the following call for 
papers in the Funknet digest. The upcoming conference is the Workshop on 
American Indigenous Languages held by the UCSB Linguistics Department. 
The call can be found below in the body of email and as a .docx attachment.

Thanks so much,
Megan Lukaniec
WAIL Coordinator


CALL FOR PAPERS
17th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2014)
Santa Barbara, CA
May 2^nd - 3^rd , 2014

_Meeting Description:_

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa 
Barbara announces its 17^th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous 
Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of 
theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous 
languages of the Americas.

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for this year will 
be Lucy Thomason (Smithsonian Institution).

_General Information:_

Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Yñez 
Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. 
Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is 
approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run 
between LAX and Santa Barbara.

_Call for Papers: _

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the 
study of indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, 
followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or 
less (excluding examples and/or references).

Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one 
co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in 
the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, 
narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to 
present the paper as well as who will be in attendance.

Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format through the EasyAbs system 
found at the address below:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/wail2014

Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have 
internet access. Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 
3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; 
(3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; and (6) title 
of your paper.

Send hard copy submissions to:

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

Attn: Megan Lukaniec or Kayla Eisman

Department of Linguistics

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

*Deadline for receipt of abstracts: February 21, 2014 *

Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than March 14, 
2014.

For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, 
Megan Lukaniec or Kayla Eisman, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or check out our 
website at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/wail/. 
<http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/wail/>




From kittila at mappi.helsinki.fi  Mon Feb 10 08:08:03 2014
From: kittila at mappi.helsinki.fi (Seppo Kittil=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=83=C2=A4?=)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:08:03 +0200
Subject: CFP: Language Contact: The State of the Art
In-Reply-To: <B5713767-954C-4D50-AD9A-5C1519DAC2E3@unm.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.10.FEB.2014.100803.0200.>

Dear Colleagues,

I was asked to forward the CFP below to Funknet. Apologies for  
multiple postings.

All the best wishes,
Seppo

---
Meeting Description:

The Linguistic Association of Finland, Helsinki Area & Language  
Studies and the CROSSLING research network organize  together a  
symposium on Language Contact: The State of the Art in Helsinki,  
August 28-30, 2014.

The confirmed invited speakers of the symposium are:

Prof. Ad Backus (Tilburg University)
Dr. Petri Kallio (University of Helsinki)
Prof. Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Contact linguistics is a field of study which investigates various  
phenomena relating to the encounters between two or more languages or  
varieties and their speakers both in the past and the present. Its  
core is in historical linguistics, but it interfaces with several  
other fields of study, e.g. sociolinguistics, the study of bi- and  
multilingualism and the study of second language acquisition. In  
addition, its research topics intersect with psychology, sociology and  
anthropology, which are also interested in the processes and effects  
of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural encounters.

2nd Call for Papers:

Language Contact: The State of the Art
Helsinki, August 28-30, 2014

The goal of this symposium is to bring together linguists from  
different fields of study to discuss current developments and  
challenges in language contact research, whether in the past or the  
present. We encourage sociolinguistic papers relating to the processes  
and effects of language contact and papers advancing the  
psycholinguistic study of cross-linguistic influence in multilingual  
individuals. Papers investigating contact-induced language change and  
variation are equally welcome. The contact settings that are explored  
in the papers may range, e.g. from societal to individual  
multilingualism, from second language acquisition to first language  
attrition, from marriage to migration, and from military conflicts to  
institutional multilingualism. In sum, the symposium aims to offer a  
thematically broad forum for scholars interested in combining and  
learning about the viewpoints of various fields in the study of the  
multifaceted phenomenon of language contact.

Possible topics for talks may relate to (but are not restricted to)  
the following:

- The challenges of interdisciplinary research in historical linguistics
- Current developments in the study of contact-induced grammaticalization
  - Current issues in the study of lexical borrowing and code-switching
  - Collaboration between different fields of study, e.g. how  
historical linguistics can profit from the study of ongoing language  
contacts
  - Interfaces between the study of second language acquisition and  
societal language contact
  - Current developments in the study of the so far rather  
under-explored modes of language contact, e.g. translating,  
interpreting or the ways in which writing or written discourse behave  
in language contact situations
  - Language contact and first language attrition
  - Methodological issues in the investigation of historical multilingualism
- The mechanisms of interference/cross-linguistic influence
  - New developments in the study of contact languages, pidgins and creoles
  - Language contacts in urban super-diverse settings in the past and  
the present
  - Language policy and language ideology: ideological aspects of  
language contact

Please submit your abstract (max 500 words) by March 2, 2014 by:  
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/contact-2014.

For further information please see: http://www.linguistics.fi/contact/.

For all correspondence concerning the symposium, please contact:  
contact-2014 at helsinki.fi.


From grvsmth at panix.com  Fri Feb 14 16:41:51 2014
From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:41:51 -0500
Subject: Fwd: [clcs-sdl-chercheurs] Appel Colloque Langage et Analogie.
 Figement. Polys=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9mie.?=
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Subject: 	[clcs-sdl-chercheurs] Appel Colloque Langage et Analogie. 
Figement. Polysémie.
Date: 	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:09:22 +0100 (CET)
From: 	thomasverjans at free.fr
Reply-To: 	thomasverjans at free.fr
To: 	clcs-sdl-chercheurs at univ-lorraine.fr, parislinguists at yahoogroupes.fr
CC: 	Thomas Verjans <thomasverjans at free.fr>, Philippe MONNERET 
<philippe.monneret at u-bourgogne.fr>



Chères et chers collègues,

Veuillez trouver ci-joint l'appel à contribution pour le colloque Langage et analogie. Figement. Polysémie.
Il est organisé par:

Philippe Monneret (Université de Bourgogne)
Salah Mejri (Université de Paris XIII et Université de Manouba)
Antonio Pamies (Université de Grenade)

Il se tiendra à Grenade, du 17 au 19 septembre 2014.

Voici également le lien vers le site du colloque:
  
https://sites.google.com/site/colloquelangageetanalogie/accueil-grenade-2014-1
  
En vous priant de m'excuser pour les envois multiples et en vous remerciant par avance de bien vouloir relayer cette information auprès de qui pourrait être intéressé,

Bien à vous,

-- 
-- 
VERJANS Thomas (bureau 236)
Université de Bourgogne
UFR Lettres & Philosophie
2, Boulevard Gabriel ­ F-21000 Dijon
Homepage - http://sites.google.com/site/verjanst/home




From jef.verschueren at uantwerpen.be  Mon Feb 17 20:12:06 2014
From: jef.verschueren at uantwerpen.be (Verschueren Jef)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:12:06 +0000
Subject: 14th International Pragmatics Conference
Message-ID: <MON.17.FEB.2014.201206.0000.JEF.VERSCHUEREN@UANTWERPEN.BE>

!!! now open for submissions !!!
14th International Pragmatics Conference
Antwerp, Belgium, 26-31 July 2015
All info and call for papers at the IPrA website http://ipra.ua.ac.be (direct link: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1468&ct=1468)
Note the deadlines:
- 1 June 2014 deadline for panel proposals
- 15 October 2014, deadline for panel contributions, lectures, and posters
Please read the instructions in the ´Call for papers<http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1473>´ carefully well in advance of the deadlines.
The special theme of this edition is Language and adaptability. The notion of  adaptability is meant to capture a perspective on pragmatics that highlights language as a variable and dynamic resource for human communicative behavior. It covers a focus on the dynamic interplay between structural choices and context in the everyday practice of interactional language use, conversational or otherwise, private or public, informal or institutional. It also addresses the societal functioning of everyday language use in the wider context of linguistic diversity and change. (For more information, see 'Theme<http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1475>' on the website.)
As always, the conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication).
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:

  *   Walter Daelemans<http://www.clips.uantwerpen.be/~walter/home.html> (University of Antwerp)
  *   Gabriele Diewald<http://www.gabrielediewald.de/startseite.html> (Leibniz universität Hannover)
  *   Jürgen Jaspers<http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~jujasper/> (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  *   Salikoko Mufwene<http://mufwene.uchicago.edu/%20> (University of Chicago)
  *   Kiki Nikiforidou<http://en.enl.uoa.gr/human-resources/professorial-staff/language-and-linguistics/nikiforidou-vassiliki0.html> (University of Athens)
  *   Gunter Senft<http://www.mpi.nl/people/senft-gunter> (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen)
  *   Tanya Stivers<http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/professors/TANYA%20JEAN%20STIVERS/?id=55%20> (University of California at Los Angeles)
Two more to be added soon.
CONFERENCE CHAIR: Jef VERSCHUEREN (University of Antwerp)
LOCAL SITE COMMITTEE: The other members of the Local Site Committee are:  Frank BRISARD (Antwerp), Liesbeth DEGAND (Louvain-la-Neuve), Alex HOUSEN (Brussels) Hubert CUYCKENS (Leuven), Walter DE MULDER (Antwerp), Patrick DENDALE (Antwerp), Sigurd D'HONDT (Ghent), Michael MEEUWIS (Ghent), Steven GILLIS (Antwerp), Stef SLEMBROUCK (Ghent), Johan VAN DER AUWERA (Antwerp), Dieter VERMANDERE (Antwerp)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the Local Site Committee, the International Conference Committee includes: Keiko ABE (Tokyo, Japan), Charles ANTAKI (Loughborough, UK), Josie BERNICOT (Poitiers, France), Rukmini BHAYA NAIR (New Delhi, India), Winnie CHENG (Hong Kong, China), Helmut GRUBER (Vienna, Austria), Jenny COOK-GUMPERZ (Santa Barbara, USA),  Anita FETZER (Augsburg, Germany), Sachiko IDE (Tokyo, Japan), Cornelia ILIE (Malmö, Sweden), Dennis KURZON (Haifa, Israel), Sophia MARMARIDOU (Athens, Greece), Luisa MARTÍN ROJO (Madrid, Spain), Yoshiko MATSUMOTO (Stanford, USA), Bonnie McELHINNY (Toronto, Canada), Jacob MEY (Odense, Denmark), Maj-Britt MOSEGAARD HANSEN (Manchester, UK), Neal NORRICK (Saarbrücken, Germany), Jan-Ola ÖSTMAN (Helsinki, Finland), Tuija VIRTANEN (Abo, Finland), John WILSON (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)
Venue: Buildings K and R of the City Campus (Stadscampus) of the University of Antwerp<https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container1161/files/Kaartpdf_stadscampus.pdf>, Belgium.


From thhoffma at uni-osnabrueck.de  Tue Feb 18 10:59:11 2014
From: thhoffma at uni-osnabrueck.de (Thomas Hoffmann)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:59:11 +0100
Subject: 3rd Call for Papers: Eighth International Conference on
 Construction Grammar (ICCG-8/3.9-6.9.2014)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.115911.0100.THHOFFMA@UNIOSNABRUECK.DE>

3rd Call for Papers: ICCG-8 “Construction Sites ‑ Perimeters, Problems 
and Properties”

Full Title: Eighth International Conference on Construction Grammar
Short Title: ICCG-8
Date: 3-Sep-2014 - 6-Sep-2014
Location: Osnabrueck, Germany
Contact Person: Thomas Hoffmann
Meeting Email: thomas.hoffmann at uos.de

Web Site: http://www.blogs.uos.de/iccg8

We are pleased to announce the third call for papers for the Eighth 
International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-8), which will be 
held at the University of Osnabrück, Germany on September 3-6, 2014.

At this stage, we would particularly like to draw attention to our 
“Special session on Sign-Based Construction Grammar: A Tribute to Ivan 
A. Sag” (for more details see below and 
http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/special-sessions/sign-based-construction-grammar/) 
for which we still accept submissions of abstracts.

Over the last few decades, the view of grammar as a mental network of 
constructions has received great empirical support by independent 
research on first (e.g. Tomasello 2003; Diessel 2013) and second 
language acquisition (Ellis 2013), psycho- (Bencini 2013), as well as 
neurolinguistics (Pulvermüller, Shtyrov, Cappelle 2013). Moreover, 
constructional approaches have also provided important new insight into 
the diachronic evolution of languages (see Fried 2013; Barðdal 2013; 
Hilpert 2013), as well as sociolinguistic (Croft 2009; Hollmann 2013) 
and dialectal or discourse variation (Östman and Trousdale 2013). Yet, 
despite this wealth of previous research there is still much 
constructional work to be done and many questions to be addressed. Like 
all its predecessors (Berkeley, CA (2001), Helsinki (2002), Marseille 
(2004), Tokyo (2006), Austin, TX (2008), Prague (2010) and Seoul 
(2012)), the present conference is therefore going to provide an 
international forum for promoting discussion and collaboration among all 
linguists interested in constructional research and its various models 
and applications.

Furthermore, the conference will allow us to celebrate the publication 
of the first Handbook of Constructions Grammar (Oxford University Press 
2013) as well as the ten year anniversary of the open-access online 
journal Constructions 
(http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/constructions).

At the same time, it will also provide us with an opportunity to honour 
the life and achievements of two brilliant scholars and wonderful human 
beings: Charles J. Fillmore (1929-2014) and Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013). In 
honour of their life and work, ICCG8 will host two special sessions 
(http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/special-sessions/) dedicated 
to fields of constructional research that each of them initiated, shaped 
and defined:

- a FrameNet special session on “Constructionist Resources” in honour of 
Charles J. Fillmore
(click here for details: 
http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/workshops/workshops_resources/) 
[submissions closed]

- a SBCG special session on “Sign-Based Construction Grammar” in honour 
of Ivan A. Sag
(click here for details: 
http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/special-sessions/sign-based-construction-grammar/) 
[!SUBMISSIONS TO THIS SPECIAL SESSION ARE STILL OPEN!]

Conference organizers:
Thomas Hoffmann & Alexander Bergs (chairs)
Claudia Lehmann
Meike Pentrel
Nadja Hekal

Confirmed plenary speakers:
· Peter Auer (University of Freiburg)
· Hans Boas (University of Texas at Austin)
· William Croft (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque)
· Miriam Fried (Charles University in Prague)
· Laura Michaelis (University of Colorado Boulder)
· Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh University)
· Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University)

_________________________________________________________
Special Sessions

FrameNet special session on “Constructionist Resources” in honour of 
Charles J. Fillmore: Constructionist Resources

SBCG special session on “Sign-Based Construction Grammar” in honour of 
Ivan A. Sag

_________________________________________________________
Workshops

Category Change from a Constructional Perspective
Organizers: Muriel Norde & Kristel Van Goethem

Modelling the mechanisms: Challenges and aims for usage-based 
computational models of grammatical development
Organizers: Barend Beekhuizen, Stewart McCauley, Rens Bod, Morten 
Christiansen & Arie Verhagen

Construction Grammar and Language Contact
Organizers: Hans C. Boas & Steffen Höder

Computational Construction Grammar
Organizers: Remi van Trijp & Luc Steels

Modelling Genre/Register in Grammar:Constructions, Frames or Both?
Organizers: Kerstin Fischer and Kiki Nikiforidou

_________________________________________________________
Abstract submission
Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations (plus 10 minute 
discussion). We welcome papers on any aspect of linguistic analysis, 
synchronic or diachronic, that is concerned with grammatical 
constructions and/or semantic frames. These include papers on issues in 
all areas of constructional or frame-semantic research, including 
syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, cognitive and interactional 
aspects of linguistic structure, language variation and change, language 
typology, corpus linguistics, language acquisition and learning, etc.

Submissions to the special session on “Sign-Based Construction Grammar” 
in honour of Ivan A. Sag should include “SBCG special session” in their 
abstract title.

Abstracts should not be longer than 1 page and should not exceed 400 
words (excluding references). Since all submissions will be reviewed 
anonymously, all author-specific information must be avoided.

Abstract reviewing is handled via EasyAbs, so please submit your 
abstract online to

http://linguistlist.org/confservices/EasyAbs/

_________________________________________________________
Important dates
The new deadline for receipt of abstracts: March 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2014
Program announcement: April 1, 2014
Early registration deadline: July 15, 2014
_________________________________________________________
For general questions about the conference, please write to 
thomas.hoffmann at uos.de

-- 
***********************************************

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann

Editor of Constructions
http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/constructions/index

Latest Books:
T. Hoffmann and G. Trousdale, eds. 2013. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

T. Hoffmann. 2011. Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-based Approach. (Studies in English Language.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Address:
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (IfAA)
Fachbereich 7
Universitaet Osnabrueck
Neuer Graben 40
D-49069 Osnabrueck
Germany


Tel: +49 541 969 4067
Fax: +49 541 969 4738

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From collfitz at gmail.com  Mon Feb 24 23:36:26 2014
From: collfitz at gmail.com (Colleen Fitzgerald)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:36:26 -0600
Subject: CoLang 2014 Registration Now Open
Message-ID: <MON.24.FEB.2014.173626.0600.COLLFITZ@GMAIL.COM>

We are happy to announce that we have opened the registration site for
CoLang 2014, the Institute on Collaborative Language Research hosted this
year by the University of Texas at Arlington.  For those who are interested
in the training in language documentation, revitalization and more at
CoLang 2014, we have a registration 'early bird' special that will apply to
anyone who registers and pays in full by April 15, 2014.  As an added
bonus, the first 10 people who register and pay in full will receive a
CoLang water bottle for free.



Participants should pay in full by April 15 to avoid the price increase and
get the early registration price of $750.00 for the two week workshops
session (June 16, 2014) or $2250 in registration costs for the entire six
weeks of CoLang, including a field methods class.  (Room, board, and travel
costs are not reflected in the price of registration. Room and board are
both available as options; see the website or registration site for a
breakdown of prices.)  The online registration site will accommodate anyone
who is able to pay by credit card; a minimum deposit of $150 is required.
For who prefer to pay registration costs by other means, such as paying by
checks, money orders, or wire transfers, registration requires a paper
application which can be downloaded from either the CoLang website or the
registration website.



Please help us spread the word by forwarding this information on to your
students, colleagues language activists, and others who might e
interested.   To start the registration process, participants should go to
http://tinyurl.com/Register4CoLang



In addition, we have scholarship opportunities available; these include:

UT Arlington CoLang Scholarships  - deadline March 17, 2014

One Endangered Language Fund Native Voices Endowment CoLang Scholarship -
deadline April 1, 2014

Linguistic Society of America CoLang Scholarships - deadline to be
announced when scholarship application becomes active.



Full scholarship information (including the links and email addresses for
the scholarships) is online:

http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/scholarships/



Please help us spread the word that CoLang 2014 is now open for
registration.



For additional updates on CoLang 2014 as they occur, follow our page on
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From kesmith at cambridge.org  Thu Feb 27 13:47:06 2014
From: kesmith at cambridge.org (Katie Smith)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:47:06 +0000
Subject: New issue of Language and Cognition is available on Cambridge
 Journals Online
Message-ID: <THU.27.FEB.2014.134706.0000.KESMITH@CAMBRIDGE.ORG>

Language and Cognition 

Volume 6 / Issue 01 , March 2014, 1 - 180 

Research Articles 

Social context modulates the effect of physical warmth on perceived 
interpersonal kindness: a study of embodied metaphors 
FRANCESCA M. M. CITRON, ADELE E. GOLDBERG 

Individual differences in the scope of speech planning: evidence from 
eye-movements 
BENJAMIN SWETS, MATTHEW E. JACOVINA, RICHARD J. GERRIG 
 
Grammatical aspect influences motion event perception: findings from a 
cross- linguistic non-verbal recognition task 
MONIQUE FLECKEN, CHRISTIANE VON STUTTERHEIM, MARY CARROLL 

The whole is sometimes less than the sum of its parts: toward a theory of 
document acts 
TODD OAKLEY, VERA TOBIN 
 
Processing effects in linguistic judgment data: (super-)additivity and 
reading span scores 
PHILIP HOFMEISTER, LAURA STAUM CASASANTO, IVAN A. SAG 
 
Discourse Grammar, the dual process model, and brain lateralization: some 
correlations 
BERND HEINE, TANIA KUTEVA, GUNTHER KALTENBÖCK 
 
Access the latest issue here: http://journals.cambridge.org/LCO


From fjn at u.washington.edu  Thu Feb 27 20:22:07 2014
From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:22:07 -0800
Subject: formally-determined morpheme order
Message-ID: <THU.27.FEB.2014.122207.0800.FJN@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

Dear Funknetters,

I'm looking for an example where a language has three or more bound morphemes in a fixed order, but where the order among them cannot be characterized in semantic/pragmatic terms without loss of generalization. (I am including scope and notions such as 'relevance to the root' as part of 'semantic/pragmatic'.) Here is a hypothetical example of what I am looking for:

Some words in Language L consist of a root followed by three suffixes. The first suffix has to be bisyllabic, the second is pronounced [ka] and can be associated with a number of different meanings, and the third suffix has to be monosyllabic.

There is no language precisely like that, of course. But I am wondering if there are languages of roughly that sort, i.e., where the generalizations about morpheme position can be stated only in non-semantic, non-pragmatic, and non-discourse-related terms.

Thanks!

--fritz 


Frederick J. Newmeyer
Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
[for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail]


From jcgood at buffalo.edu  Thu Feb 27 22:39:55 2014
From: jcgood at buffalo.edu (Jeff Good)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:39:55 -0500
Subject: formally-determined morpheme order
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.01.1402271222070.29867@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.27.FEB.2014.173955.0500.JCGOOD@BUFFALO.EDU>

Dear Fritz,

I am not aware of a good case that closely matches your example language, that is where the constraints on ordering are stated in primarily phonological terms (though see one proposal below). However, Larry Hyman, in a number of papers, has argued that four of the Bantu valency-changing suffixes are subject to an ordering template by virtue of their morphological identity alone. A copy of the paper where this is argued for in most detail is here:
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/205/Readings/Hyman_SuffixOrderingInBantu_2002.pdf

If you accept his analysis, then I think it is the kind of case you are looking for.

You may also want to look at this dissertation by Mary Paster entitled, "Phonological Conditions on Affixation":
http://pages.pomona.edu/~mp034747/paster_dissertation.pdf

Her section 5.4, on possible cases of phonologically-conditioned affix order, would be most relevant. Of particular interest here is the Pulaar case, where it has been proposed that affix order is driven by a sonority condition describable as something like T > D > N > R, where the symbols correspond to suffixes containing those consonants (or something along those lines). There are alternative analyses (see Paster's dissertation), but this is probably the most striking proposal of formally-driven ordering for more than one or two affixes that I've seen. (Mary Paster's publication page also has relevant papers, http://pages.pomona.edu/~mp034747/papers.html.)

Best,
Jeff


On Feb 27, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Frederick J Newmeyer <fjn at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Dear Funknetters,
> 
> I'm looking for an example where a language has three or more bound morphemes in a fixed order, but where the order among them cannot be characterized in semantic/pragmatic terms without loss of generalization. (I am including scope and notions such as 'relevance to the root' as part of 'semantic/pragmatic'.) Here is a hypothetical example of what I am looking for:
> 
> Some words in Language L consist of a root followed by three suffixes. The first suffix has to be bisyllabic, the second is pronounced [ka] and can be associated with a number of different meanings, and the third suffix has to be monosyllabic.
> 
> There is no language precisely like that, of course. But I am wondering if there are languages of roughly that sort, i.e., where the generalizations about morpheme position can be stated only in non-semantic, non-pragmatic, and non-discourse-related terms.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --fritz 
> 
> 
> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
> [for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail]
> 
> 
> 


From markus.hamunen at helsinki.fi  Fri Feb 28 10:59:08 2014
From: markus.hamunen at helsinki.fi (markus.hamunen at helsinki.fi)
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:59:08 +0200
Subject: Cfp: SKY Journal of Linguistics (The Linguistic Association of
 Finland)
Message-ID: <FRI.28.FEB.2014.125908.0200.>

Dear Colleagues,

try something new:

SKY Journal of Linguistics is the annual publication of the Linguistic  
Association of Finland (SKY). SKY JoL welcomes linguistic research  
from all theoretical and methodological persuasions.
The submissions have to be unpublished original and high-quality work.  
Every manuscript is reviewed by at least two anonymous referees. In  
addition to papers on any linguistic topic, SKY JoL publishes short  
‘squibs’ (3–5 pages) and book reviews. The languages of publication  
are English, French and German. SKY JoL appears both in print and as a  
free-access web journal.

The deadline for initial submissions for the next volume (27, to  
appear in December 2014) is March 31, 2014. The deadline is strict.  
Submissions arriving after the deadline will be postponed to next  
year. Provided that a manuscript is accepted for publication without  
major revisions, it will in the normal course of events appear in  
December 2014.

For further information, visit our web pages at  
http://www.linguistics.fi/skyjol.shtml or contact the editors.

Editors’ E-mail: sky-journal at helsinki.fi

Editors’ Addresses:

Markus Hamunen
Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies
P.O. Box 3, Fabianinkatu 33
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland

Tiina Keisanen
Faculty of Humanities
P.O. Box 1000
FI-90014 University of Oulu

Veronika Laippala
French department
Koskenniemenkatu 4
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland

Hanna Lantto
Department of Modern languages
Unioninkatu 40
FI-00014 Helsinki
Finland

Lotta Lehti
French department
Koskenniemenkatu 4
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland

Saija Merke
Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies
P.O. Box 4, Vuorikatu 3A
FI-00014 University of Helsinki


From silvia.cacchiani at unimore.it  Sun Feb  2 11:25:36 2014
From: silvia.cacchiani at unimore.it (Silvia CACCHIANI)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 12:25:36 +0100
Subject: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Non-word morphology; ESSE2014; 29 Aug 2014 - 2
 Sept 204, Kosice, Slovakia]]
Message-ID: <SUN.2.FEB.2014.122536.0100.SILVIA.CACCHIANI@UNIMORE.IT>

Dear Colleagues,

the deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 28.


ESSE 2014 Seminar ? Linguistics strand (SLANG28)
29 August 2014 ? 2 September 2014, Kosice, Slovakia
http://kaa.ff.upjs.sk/en/event/4/12th-esse-conference

Full title: Non-words, nonce-words and morphology teaching
Acronym: NWM: NON-WORD MORPHOLOGY


Call for papers

The seminar ?Non-words, Nonce-words and Morphology Teaching? will be held
within the 12th ESSE Conference in Ko?ice, Slovakia.

Convenors
Silvia Cacchiani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Christoph Haase, Purkyn? University, ?st? nad Labem, Czech Republic


While psycho- and neurolinguistics (e.g. Marslen-Wilson 1987, 2007,
 Kielar et al. 2008, Rastle et al. 2008, Crepaldi 2010) have shown
increasing interest in the representation of non-words, nonce-words or
nonsensical words in the mental lexicon, their potential as a yardstick
for the morphological competence of L2 learners has not been widely
explored.
The aim of this seminar is to bring together theoretical and applied
research on non-words, nonce-words, and the teaching of English
morphology. Suggested topics include (but are not restricted to):

?	morphological processes in language comprehension, also models of word
recognition;
?	analogy in morphology and analogy in L2 learning;
?	best practice in morphology teaching;
?	learner access to lexical strata, feature percolation and
permissibility, and related performance.


Please send your abstract totaling no more than 300 words (including
references) by February 28th 2014 to the following addresses:
silvia.cacchiani at unimore.it, christoph.haase at ujep.cz.
Notifcation of acceptance: March 31st 2014.


From stgries at gmail.com  Sun Feb  2 16:37:38 2014
From: stgries at gmail.com (Stefan Th. Gries)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 08:37:38 -0800
Subject: CSDL 2014: call for papers
Message-ID: <SUN.2.FEB.2014.083738.0800.STGRIES@GMAIL.COM>

CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language) 2014 is the 12th
incarnation of a conference first hosted in 1994 by the University of
California, San Diego. In 2000, CSDL 5 was hosted by the University of
California, Santa Barbara and it is with great pleasure that we are
bringing CSDL 12 back to the University of California system and to
Santa Barbara in particular. CSDL 12 is co-organized by Stefan Th.
Gries (Dept. of Linguistics) and Viola G. Miglio (Dept. of
Spanish/Portuguese) and will take place at the Hyatt Santa Barbara
directly at East Beach, Santa Barbara 4-6 November 2014. The
conference website at <https://sites.google.com/site/csdl2014atucsb/>
contains all information about the conference; if you have questions
not addressed here, plz write to the conference email address at
<csdl2014 at gmail.com>.


Call for papers

1 Potential topics
For CSDL 12 (2014), we are inviting a broad range of papers taking
cognitive/psycholinguistic, functional, usage-/exemplar-based, or
discourse-based approach to the study of language and its acquisition,
processing, use, and change. Drawing from the range of topics listed
by the organizers of the successful ICLC in Edmonton, topics of papers
may include, but are not limited to:

- linguistic categorization: prototype theory, radial categories, ...;
- linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax;
- embodiment and language;
- metaphor, metonymy, mental spaces, conceptual blending, ICMs, frame
semantics, image schemas, force dynamics, ...;
- cognitive phonology, semantics, grammar, and construction grammars;
- discourse and grammar, text and discourse;
- language acquisition and learning;
- grammaticalization, language evolution, and change;
- cognitive corpus linguistics;
- empirical methods: data from observation, experimentation,
computational simulation.

2 Format of abstract
For full consideration, the abstract must be a PDF and meet the
following specifications:

- page format: Letter or A4, margins: 1 inch/2.5 cm all around
- font: Times (New Roman) 12pt
- paragraph format: single-spaced
- length: max. 1 page (plus 1 page for figures, tables, references, if
necessary)

Note 1: Abstracts must be anonymous, which means author names should
not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or
in the third person for previously published work).
Note 2: An author may submit maximally one single-authored and one
co-authored paper.
Note 3: Abstracts will be subjected to a double-blind review by a
minimum of two referees. Empirical papers and papers whose abstracts
indicate that results are already available (rather than hoped for)
will be given priority.
Note 4: Submission of an abstract constitutes agreement to review
maximally 5 abstracts yourself.

3 Submission of abstracts
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2014. We are
using the LinguistList's EasyAbs system for abstract submission and
reviewing; plz see the conference website for the relevant link.


Pre-conference and conference schedule

1 February 2014: 1st call for papers/participation
1 February 2014: room registration at the Hyatt Santa Barbara opens
21 February 2014: 2nd call for papers/participation
21 February 2014: registration opens
15 March 2014: final call for papers/participation
31 March 2014: deadline for submission of abstracts
May 2014: notifications of acceptance
15 July 2014: deadline for early-bird registration
4-6 November 2014: conference


From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se  Mon Feb  3 12:02:42 2014
From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 12:02:42 +0000
Subject: IACS-2014 Extended deadline
Message-ID: <MON.3.FEB.2014.120242.0000.JORDAN.ZLATEV@LING.LU.SE>

!!! Note: Extended Deadline: Feb 20, 2014 !!!

First Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS)
September 25-27, 2014
Lund, Sweden

http://conference.sol.lu.se/en/iacs-2014
IACS-2014 at semiotik.lu.se

Plenary speakers
* S?ren Brier, Copenhagen Business School
* Merlin Donald, Queens University
* Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
* Cornelia M?ller, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
* Raymond Tallis, University of Manchester

Theme: Establishing Cognitive Semiotics
Over the past two decades or so, a number of researchers from semiotics, linguistics, cognitive science and related fields, from several European and North American research centres, have experienced the need to combine theoretical knowledge and methodological expertise in order to tackle challenging questions concerning the nature of meaning, the role of consciousness, the unique cognitive features of mankind, the interaction of nature and nurture in development, and the interplay of biological and cultural evolution in phylogeny. The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) aims at the further establishment of Cognitive Semiotics as the trans-disciplinary study of meaning, combining concepts, theories and methods from the humanities and the social and natural sciences.

Abstracts
We invite the submission of 400 word abstracts (excluding title and references) for either an oral presentation (20 min presentation + 5 minute discussion) or poster (at a dedicated poster session), by uploading to the EasyChair website.
The abstracts can be related, though need not be restricted, to the following topics:
* Biological and cultural evolution of human cognitive specificity
* Cognitive linguistics and phenomenology
* Communication across cultural barriers
* Cross-species comparative semiotics
* Evolutionary perspectives on altruism
* Experimental semiotics
Iconicity in language and other semiotic resources
* Intersubjectivity and mimesis in evolution and development
* Multimodality
* Narrativity across different media
* Semantic typology and linguistic relativity
* Semiosis (sense-making) in social interaction
* Semiotic and cognitive development in children
* Sign use and cognition
* Signs, affordances, and other meanings
* Speech and gesture
* The comparative semiotics of iconicity and indexicality
* The evolution of language

Important dates
* Deadline for submission of theme sessions: 31 Dec 2013(past)
* Deadline for abstract submission (oral presentations, posters): 20 Feb 2014
* Notification of acceptance (oral presentations, posters): 1 April 2014
* Last date for early registration: 1 July 2014

Local organizing committee
* Mats Andr?n
* Johan Blomberg
* Anna Redei Cabak
* Sara Lenninger
* Joel Parthemore
* G?ran Sonesson
* Jordan Zlatev



***************************************
Jordan Zlatev
Professor of General Linguistics
Lund University
Centre for Languages and Literature
Box 201
221 00 Lund, Sweden

Deputy research director of Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS)
http://project.sol.lu.se/en/ccs/


From bischoff.st at gmail.com  Mon Feb  3 14:47:28 2014
From: bischoff.st at gmail.com (s.t. Bischoff)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:47:28 -0500
Subject: Add about D.C. football team
Message-ID: <MON.3.FEB.2014.094728.0500.BISCHOFF.ST@GMAIL.COM>

Hello all,

Here is a link to an add regarding the Washington D.C. football team that
may be of interest to some as well as useful in the classroom...

<goog_1896090758>
http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/heres-an-ad-about-rskins-that-its-makers-dont-have-the-money-to-show-during-sundays-superbow<http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/heres-an-ad-about-rskins-that-its-makers-dont-have-the-money-to-show-during-sundays-superbowl/>

Regards,
Shannon


From danijela.trenkic at york.ac.uk  Tue Feb  4 17:10:08 2014
From: danijela.trenkic at york.ac.uk (Danijela Trenkic)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 17:10:08 -0000
Subject: EUROSLA 24: Second Call for papers
Message-ID: <TUE.4.FEB.2014.171008.0000.DANIJELA.TRENKIC@YORK.AC.UK>

*EUROSLA 24 - Second Call for Papers*



The *Centre for Language Learning Research* in the Department of Education,
University of York, is pleased to announce that it will host EUROSLA 24,
the 24th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association. You
are kindly invited to submit abstracts for papers, posters, thematic
colloquia and doctoral workshops on any domain and subdomain of second
language research.



The Conference will start in the morning of 4 September 2014 and close at
lunchtime on 6 September 2014. Preceding the Conference, there will be a
doctoral workshop and a *Language Learning* roundtable, both on 3
September. The theme of this year's roundtable is '*Language learning
theory and practice: Bridging the gap*'.

*Plenary speakers*



*Albert Costa*, Pompeu Fabra University

*Leah Roberts*, University of York
*Natasha Tokowicz*, University of Pittsburgh
*Sharon Unsworth*, Radboud University Nijmegen

*Key dates*



*28 February 2014:* abstract submission deadline
*25 April 2014:* notification of acceptance
*28 April 2014: *early bird registration starts

*15 June 2014:* registration closes for presenters

*25 June 2014:* early bird registration closes

*26 June 2014**:* full fee registration starts

*3 September 2014:* doctoral workshop and roundtable

*4-6 September 2014: *conference


*Abstract submission policy *



Each author may submit no more than one single-authored and one co-authored
(i.e. not first-authored) abstract to be considered for oral presentations,
including colloquia and doctoral workshops. More than one abstract can be
submitted for poster presentations. Paper and poster proposals should not
have been previously published. All submissions will be reviewed
anonymously by the scientific committee and evaluated in terms of rigour,
clarity and significance of the contribution, as well as its relevance to
second language research. Abstracts should not exceed 450 words (excluding
the title, but including optional references).



*Individual papers and posters*



Papers will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for
discussion.
Poster sessions will be held in two 90-minute slots. In order to foster
interaction, all other sessions will be suspended during the poster
sessions.



*Thematic colloquia*



The Thematic colloquia will be organised in two-hour slots running in
parallel with other sessions. Each colloquium will focus on one specific
topic, and will bring together key contributions to the topic. Colloquium
convenors should allocate time for opening and closing remarks, individual
papers, discussants (if included) and general discussion.



*Doctoral student workshop*



The doctoral student workshop is intended to serve as a platform for
discussion of ongoing PhD research within any aspect of second language
research. PhD students are invited to submit an abstract for a 10-15-minute
presentation. The abstract and the presentation should include one or two
questions on which the student would like to receive audience feedback
(e.g. data collection, analysis, theoretical or methodological issues), and
sufficient background information for framing the questions. These sessions
are not intended as opportunities to present research results, but to
discuss future directions. Students whose abstracts are accepted will then
be required to send their paper to a discussant (a senior researcher). The
discussant will lead a 10-15-minute feedback/discussion session on their
work.



*Student stipends*


As in previous years, several student stipends will be available for
doctoral students.
If you wish to apply, please send the following information to
eurosla24 at york.ac.uk before 28 February 2014:



1. Name, institution, and address of institution;

2. Curriculum vitae (attached);

3. Official confirmation of a PhD student status;

4. Statement (email) from supervisor or head of Department that the
applicant's institution cannot (fully) cover the conference-related
expenses.



*Publication of papers*


A selection of papers presented at EUROSLA 2014 will be published in the
EUROSLA 24 Yearbook following a peer-review process. There is an annual
prize for the best EUROSLA Yearbook article. This includes a framed
certificate presented at the EUROSLA General Assembly, a fee waiver for the
following EUROSLA conference and conference dinner, and free EUROSLA
membership for a year.



*To submit an abstract please visit *



http://www.york.ac.uk/eurosla24





***
Danijela Trenkic, PhD (Cantab)
Department of Education

Centre for Language Learning Research
University of York
YO10 5DD

NEW ARTICLE: Trenkic, D., Mirkovic, J., & Altmann. G. Real-time grammar
processing by native and non-native speakers: Constructions unique to the
second language. *Bilingualism: Language and Cognition*
*(journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000321
<http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000321>)*



Tel: +44 (0)1904 323 461
http://www.york.ac.uk/education/our-staff/academic/danijela-trenkic/



EMAIL DISCLAIMER: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm


From langconf at bu.edu  Thu Feb  6 18:22:52 2014
From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD)
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 13:22:52 -0500
Subject: BUCLD39 Call for Symposium Proposals
Message-ID: <THU.6.FEB.2014.132252.0500.LANGCONF@BU.EDU>

THE 39th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
NOVEMBER 7-9

Keynote Speaker: Richard Aslin, University of Rochester

Plenary Speaker: Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University


CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS

We are soliciting proposals for 90-minute symposia for the Boston University Conference on Language Development on any topic likely to be of broad interest to the conference attendees.  The symposium format is open, but has frequently included 2-3 speakers presenting research from differing angles on a common theme.  We anticipate including two such symposia in the schedule, one being the Saturday lunchtime symposium, the other closing the conference on Sunday.  

 
Proposals should include a list of the participants and a specification of the format, and should name at least one organizer who will be able to work with the BUCLD organizing committee in setting up the symposium.  Submissions can be sent by email to langconf at bu.edu with "Symposium proposal" indicated in the subject line.  Please limit symposium proposals to 1000 words or fewer.

DEADLINE: April 15, 2014

Decisions on symposia will be made by June.

NOTE: Submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks and poster presentations are not being solicited at this time. The deadline for those will be 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2014.

FURTHER INFORMATION

General conference information is available at:
http://www.bu.edu/bucld



Questions about symposia should be sent to langconf at bu.edu.

Boston University Conference on Language Development
96 Cummington Street, Room 244
Boston, MA 02215
U.S.A.


From mcarrete at filol.ucm.es  Fri Feb  7 08:20:15 2014
From: mcarrete at filol.ucm.es (MARTA BEGONA CARRETERO LAPEYRE)
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 09:20:15 +0100
Subject: New publication - ENGLISH MODALITY: CORE,
 PERIPHERY AND EVIDENTIALITY
Message-ID: <FRI.7.FEB.2014.092015.0100.MCARRETE@FILOL.UCM.ES>

We are pleased to inform you about the book that we have published
with De Gruyter Mouton:

ENGLISH MODALITY: CORE, PERIPHERY AND EVIDENTIALITY (2013). Topics in
English Linguistics [TiEL] 81. Eds. Juana I. Mar?n-Arrese, Marta
Carretero, Jorge Ar?s Hita, Johan van der Auwera.

"The book presents new issues and areas of work in Modality and
Evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other languages. The
volume addresses issues such as the conceptual nature of modality, the
relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the
evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal
expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories
(TAM systems), and the variation in different discourse domains and
genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities." (Quoted from
back cover)

More information at
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/182779

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Core modality
Ronald Langacker - Modals: Striving for control
Jill Bowie, Sean Wallis and Bas Aarts - Contemporary change in modal usage
in spoken British English: mapping the impact of ?genre?
Geoffrey Leech - Where have all the modals gone? An essay on the
declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard
English

Part II: Peripheral modality
Johan van der Auwera, Dirk N?el and An van Linden - Had better, ?d
better and better: Diachronic and transatlantic variation
Peter Collins - Grammatical colloquialism and the English
quasi-modals: a comparative study
Luc?a Loureiro-Porto - Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician
Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit - Modal uses of the English present progressive
Debra Ziegeler - On the generic argument for the modality of will

Part III: Evidentiality and Modality
Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen - REALITY and related concepts: towards
a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs
Aurelija Usonien? and Jolanta ?ink?nien? - A cross-linguistic look at
the multifunctionality of the English verb seem
Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla - Annotating English
adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality

Part IV: Evidentiality and Modality in Discourse
Roberta Facchinetti - Modal verbs in news-related blogs: When the blogger counts
Laura Hidalgo-Downing and Bego?a N??ez-Perucha - Modality and personal
pronouns as indexical markers of stance: Intersubjective positioning
and construction of public identity in media interviews
Juana I. Mar?n-Arrese Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq
Inquiry: Blair vs. Brown

Subject index

Best regards,
Marta Carretero


Dr Marta Carretero
https://portal.ucm.es/web/filologia_inglesa_i/marta-carretero


From randy.lapolla at gmail.com  Fri Feb  7 13:15:50 2014
From: randy.lapolla at gmail.com (Randy LaPolla)
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 21:15:50 +0800
Subject: Hangout On Air with Nobelist Randy Schekman,
 Inventor Jack Andraka, and Neuroscientist Jody Culham
In-Reply-To: <3C2512A2-CF1D-428F-9845-966482E80FE6@ntu.edu.sg>
Message-ID: <FRI.7.FEB.2014.211550.0800.RANDY.LAPOLLA@GMAIL.COM>

FYI

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> Subject: Hangout On Air with Nobelist Randy Schekman, Inventor Jack Andraka, and Neuroscientist Jody Culham
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From fg-fgw at uva.nl  Sat Feb  8 14:22:32 2014
From: fg-fgw at uva.nl (fg-fgw)
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 14:22:32 +0000
Subject: Reminder: Abstract deadline International Conference on
 Functional Discourse Grammar, Jaen, September 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.8.FEB.2014.142232.0000.FGFGW@UVA.NL>

If you do not want to receive further messages concerning FDG events please let us know and we will remove you from our mailing list.


Dear colleagues,

This is to remind you of the upcoming deadline for the submission of abstracts for the International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar that will take place in Jaen, September 2014. If you intend to present a paper of poster please send us your abstract by February 15th, 2014 at the latest.

Full information on the conference and the accompanying preconference course can now be found at the events page of www.functionaldiscoursegrammar.info<http://www.functionaldiscoursegrammar.info>.

Looking forward to receiving your abstracts, with best wishes,

Kees Hengeveld,
on behalf of the FDG Foundation




++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Functional Discourse Grammar Foundation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Department of Theoretical Linguistics
Spuistraat 210
NL-1012 VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: fg-fgw at uva.nl

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From megan.lukaniec at gmail.com  Mon Feb 10 07:18:37 2014
From: megan.lukaniec at gmail.com (Megan Lukaniec)
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 23:18:37 -0800
Subject: Call for Papers
Message-ID: <SUN.9.FEB.2014.231837.0800.MEGAN.LUKANIEC@GMAIL.COM>

Hi,

I was wondering if it was possible to submit the following call for 
papers in the Funknet digest. The upcoming conference is the Workshop on 
American Indigenous Languages held by the UCSB Linguistics Department. 
The call can be found below in the body of email and as a .docx attachment.

Thanks so much,
Megan Lukaniec
WAIL Coordinator


CALL FOR PAPERS
17th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2014)
Santa Barbara, CA
May 2^nd - 3^rd , 2014

_Meeting Description:_

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa 
Barbara announces its 17^th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous 
Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of 
theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous 
languages of the Americas.

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for this year will 
be Lucy Thomason (Smithsonian Institution).

_General Information:_

Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Y?ez 
Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport. 
Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is 
approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run 
between LAX and Santa Barbara.

_Call for Papers: _

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the 
study of indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, 
followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or 
less (excluding examples and/or references).

Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one 
co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in 
the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, 
narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to 
present the paper as well as who will be in attendance.

Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format through the EasyAbs system 
found at the address below:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/wail2014

Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have 
internet access. Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 
3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; 
(3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; and (6) title 
of your paper.

Send hard copy submissions to:

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

Attn: Megan Lukaniec or Kayla Eisman

Department of Linguistics

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

*Deadline for receipt of abstracts: February 21, 2014 *

Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than March 14, 
2014.

For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, 
Megan Lukaniec or Kayla Eisman, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or check out our 
website at http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/wail/. 
<http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/wail/>




From kittila at mappi.helsinki.fi  Mon Feb 10 08:08:03 2014
From: kittila at mappi.helsinki.fi (Seppo Kittil=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=83=C2=A4?=)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:08:03 +0200
Subject: CFP: Language Contact: The State of the Art
In-Reply-To: <B5713767-954C-4D50-AD9A-5C1519DAC2E3@unm.edu>
Message-ID: <MON.10.FEB.2014.100803.0200.>

Dear Colleagues,

I was asked to forward the CFP below to Funknet. Apologies for  
multiple postings.

All the best wishes,
Seppo

---
Meeting Description:

The Linguistic Association of Finland, Helsinki Area & Language  
Studies and the CROSSLING research network organize  together a  
symposium on Language Contact: The State of the Art in Helsinki,  
August 28-30, 2014.

The confirmed invited speakers of the symposium are:

Prof. Ad Backus (Tilburg University)
Dr. Petri Kallio (University of Helsinki)
Prof. Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Contact linguistics is a field of study which investigates various  
phenomena relating to the encounters between two or more languages or  
varieties and their speakers both in the past and the present. Its  
core is in historical linguistics, but it interfaces with several  
other fields of study, e.g. sociolinguistics, the study of bi- and  
multilingualism and the study of second language acquisition. In  
addition, its research topics intersect with psychology, sociology and  
anthropology, which are also interested in the processes and effects  
of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural encounters.

2nd Call for Papers:

Language Contact: The State of the Art
Helsinki, August 28-30, 2014

The goal of this symposium is to bring together linguists from  
different fields of study to discuss current developments and  
challenges in language contact research, whether in the past or the  
present. We encourage sociolinguistic papers relating to the processes  
and effects of language contact and papers advancing the  
psycholinguistic study of cross-linguistic influence in multilingual  
individuals. Papers investigating contact-induced language change and  
variation are equally welcome. The contact settings that are explored  
in the papers may range, e.g. from societal to individual  
multilingualism, from second language acquisition to first language  
attrition, from marriage to migration, and from military conflicts to  
institutional multilingualism. In sum, the symposium aims to offer a  
thematically broad forum for scholars interested in combining and  
learning about the viewpoints of various fields in the study of the  
multifaceted phenomenon of language contact.

Possible topics for talks may relate to (but are not restricted to)  
the following:

- The challenges of interdisciplinary research in historical linguistics
- Current developments in the study of contact-induced grammaticalization
  - Current issues in the study of lexical borrowing and code-switching
  - Collaboration between different fields of study, e.g. how  
historical linguistics can profit from the study of ongoing language  
contacts
  - Interfaces between the study of second language acquisition and  
societal language contact
  - Current developments in the study of the so far rather  
under-explored modes of language contact, e.g. translating,  
interpreting or the ways in which writing or written discourse behave  
in language contact situations
  - Language contact and first language attrition
  - Methodological issues in the investigation of historical multilingualism
- The mechanisms of interference/cross-linguistic influence
  - New developments in the study of contact languages, pidgins and creoles
  - Language contacts in urban super-diverse settings in the past and  
the present
  - Language policy and language ideology: ideological aspects of  
language contact

Please submit your abstract (max 500 words) by March 2, 2014 by:  
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For all correspondence concerning the symposium, please contact:  
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From grvsmth at panix.com  Fri Feb 14 16:41:51 2014
From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:41:51 -0500
Subject: Fwd: [clcs-sdl-chercheurs] Appel Colloque Langage et Analogie.
 Figement. Polys=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9mie.?=
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Subject: 	[clcs-sdl-chercheurs] Appel Colloque Langage et Analogie. 
Figement. Polys?mie.
Date: 	Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:09:22 +0100 (CET)
From: 	thomasverjans at free.fr
Reply-To: 	thomasverjans at free.fr
To: 	clcs-sdl-chercheurs at univ-lorraine.fr, parislinguists at yahoogroupes.fr
CC: 	Thomas Verjans <thomasverjans at free.fr>, Philippe MONNERET 
<philippe.monneret at u-bourgogne.fr>



Ch?res et chers coll?gues,

Veuillez trouver ci-joint l'appel ? contribution pour le colloque Langage et analogie. Figement. Polys?mie.
Il est organis? par:

Philippe Monneret (Universit? de Bourgogne)
Salah Mejri (Universit? de Paris XIII et Universit? de Manouba)
Antonio Pamies (Universit? de Grenade)

Il se tiendra ? Grenade, du 17 au 19 septembre 2014.

Voici ?galement le lien vers le site du colloque:
  
https://sites.google.com/site/colloquelangageetanalogie/accueil-grenade-2014-1
  
En vous priant de m'excuser pour les envois multiples et en vous remerciant par avance de bien vouloir relayer cette information aupr?s de qui pourrait ?tre int?ress?,

Bien ? vous,

-- 
-- 
VERJANS Thomas (bureau 236)
Universit? de Bourgogne
UFR Lettres & Philosophie
2, Boulevard Gabriel ? F-21000 Dijon
Homepage - http://sites.google.com/site/verjanst/home




From jef.verschueren at uantwerpen.be  Mon Feb 17 20:12:06 2014
From: jef.verschueren at uantwerpen.be (Verschueren Jef)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:12:06 +0000
Subject: 14th International Pragmatics Conference
Message-ID: <MON.17.FEB.2014.201206.0000.JEF.VERSCHUEREN@UANTWERPEN.BE>

!!! now open for submissions !!!
14th International Pragmatics Conference
Antwerp, Belgium, 26-31 July 2015
All info and call for papers at the IPrA website http://ipra.ua.ac.be (direct link: http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1468&ct=1468)
Note the deadlines:
- 1 June 2014 deadline for panel proposals
- 15 October 2014, deadline for panel contributions, lectures, and posters
Please read the instructions in the ?Call for papers<http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1473>? carefully well in advance of the deadlines.
The special theme of this edition is Language and adaptability. The notion of  adaptability is meant to capture a perspective on pragmatics that highlights language as a variable and dynamic resource for human communicative behavior. It covers a focus on the dynamic interplay between structural choices and context in the everyday practice of interactional language use, conversational or otherwise, private or public, informal or institutional. It also addresses the societal functioning of everyday language use in the wider context of linguistic diversity and change. (For more information, see 'Theme<http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE14&n=1475>' on the website.)
As always, the conference is open to ALL OTHER PRAGMATICS-RELATED TOPICS as well (where pragmatics is conceived broadly as a cognitive, social, and cultural perspective on language and communication).
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS:

  *   Walter Daelemans<http://www.clips.uantwerpen.be/~walter/home.html> (University of Antwerp)
  *   Gabriele Diewald<http://www.gabrielediewald.de/startseite.html> (Leibniz universit?t Hannover)
  *   J?rgen Jaspers<http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~jujasper/> (Universit? Libre de Bruxelles)
  *   Salikoko Mufwene<http://mufwene.uchicago.edu/%20> (University of Chicago)
  *   Kiki Nikiforidou<http://en.enl.uoa.gr/human-resources/professorial-staff/language-and-linguistics/nikiforidou-vassiliki0.html> (University of Athens)
  *   Gunter Senft<http://www.mpi.nl/people/senft-gunter> (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen)
  *   Tanya Stivers<http://www.sociology.ucla.edu/professors/TANYA%20JEAN%20STIVERS/?id=55%20> (University of California at Los Angeles)
Two more to be added soon.
CONFERENCE CHAIR: Jef VERSCHUEREN (University of Antwerp)
LOCAL SITE COMMITTEE: The other members of the Local Site Committee are:  Frank BRISARD (Antwerp), Liesbeth DEGAND (Louvain-la-Neuve), Alex HOUSEN (Brussels) Hubert CUYCKENS (Leuven), Walter DE MULDER (Antwerp), Patrick DENDALE (Antwerp), Sigurd D'HONDT (Ghent), Michael MEEUWIS (Ghent), Steven GILLIS (Antwerp), Stef SLEMBROUCK (Ghent), Johan VAN DER AUWERA (Antwerp), Dieter VERMANDERE (Antwerp)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: In addition to the members of the Local Site Committee, the International Conference Committee includes: Keiko ABE (Tokyo, Japan), Charles ANTAKI (Loughborough, UK), Josie BERNICOT (Poitiers, France), Rukmini BHAYA NAIR (New Delhi, India), Winnie CHENG (Hong Kong, China), Helmut GRUBER (Vienna, Austria), Jenny COOK-GUMPERZ (Santa Barbara, USA),  Anita FETZER (Augsburg, Germany), Sachiko IDE (Tokyo, Japan), Cornelia ILIE (Malm?, Sweden), Dennis KURZON (Haifa, Israel), Sophia MARMARIDOU (Athens, Greece), Luisa MART?N ROJO (Madrid, Spain), Yoshiko MATSUMOTO (Stanford, USA), Bonnie McELHINNY (Toronto, Canada), Jacob MEY (Odense, Denmark), Maj-Britt MOSEGAARD HANSEN (Manchester, UK), Neal NORRICK (Saarbr?cken, Germany), Jan-Ola ?STMAN (Helsinki, Finland), Tuija VIRTANEN (Abo, Finland), John WILSON (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)
Venue: Buildings K and R of the City Campus (Stadscampus) of the University of Antwerp<https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container1161/files/Kaartpdf_stadscampus.pdf>, Belgium.


From thhoffma at uni-osnabrueck.de  Tue Feb 18 10:59:11 2014
From: thhoffma at uni-osnabrueck.de (Thomas Hoffmann)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:59:11 +0100
Subject: 3rd Call for Papers: Eighth International Conference on
 Construction Grammar (ICCG-8/3.9-6.9.2014)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.FEB.2014.115911.0100.THHOFFMA@UNIOSNABRUECK.DE>

3rd Call for Papers: ICCG-8 ?Construction Sites ? Perimeters, Problems 
and Properties?

Full Title: Eighth International Conference on Construction Grammar
Short Title: ICCG-8
Date: 3-Sep-2014 - 6-Sep-2014
Location: Osnabrueck, Germany
Contact Person: Thomas Hoffmann
Meeting Email: thomas.hoffmann at uos.de

Web Site: http://www.blogs.uos.de/iccg8

We are pleased to announce the third call for papers for the Eighth 
International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-8), which will be 
held at the University of Osnabr?ck, Germany on September 3-6, 2014.

At this stage, we would particularly like to draw attention to our 
?Special session on Sign-Based Construction Grammar: A Tribute to Ivan 
A. Sag? (for more details see below and 
http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/special-sessions/sign-based-construction-grammar/) 
for which we still accept submissions of abstracts.

Over the last few decades, the view of grammar as a mental network of 
constructions has received great empirical support by independent 
research on first (e.g. Tomasello 2003; Diessel 2013) and second 
language acquisition (Ellis 2013), psycho- (Bencini 2013), as well as 
neurolinguistics (Pulverm?ller, Shtyrov, Cappelle 2013). Moreover, 
constructional approaches have also provided important new insight into 
the diachronic evolution of languages (see Fried 2013; Bar?dal 2013; 
Hilpert 2013), as well as sociolinguistic (Croft 2009; Hollmann 2013) 
and dialectal or discourse variation (?stman and Trousdale 2013). Yet, 
despite this wealth of previous research there is still much 
constructional work to be done and many questions to be addressed. Like 
all its predecessors (Berkeley, CA (2001), Helsinki (2002), Marseille 
(2004), Tokyo (2006), Austin, TX (2008), Prague (2010) and Seoul 
(2012)), the present conference is therefore going to provide an 
international forum for promoting discussion and collaboration among all 
linguists interested in constructional research and its various models 
and applications.

Furthermore, the conference will allow us to celebrate the publication 
of the first Handbook of Constructions Grammar (Oxford University Press 
2013) as well as the ten year anniversary of the open-access online 
journal Constructions 
(http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/constructions).

At the same time, it will also provide us with an opportunity to honour 
the life and achievements of two brilliant scholars and wonderful human 
beings: Charles J. Fillmore (1929-2014) and Ivan A. Sag (1949-2013). In 
honour of their life and work, ICCG8 will host two special sessions 
(http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/special-sessions/) dedicated 
to fields of constructional research that each of them initiated, shaped 
and defined:

- a FrameNet special session on ?Constructionist Resources? in honour of 
Charles J. Fillmore
(click here for details: 
http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/workshops/workshops_resources/) 
[submissions closed]

- a SBCG special session on ?Sign-Based Construction Grammar? in honour 
of Ivan A. Sag
(click here for details: 
http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/special-sessions/sign-based-construction-grammar/) 
[!SUBMISSIONS TO THIS SPECIAL SESSION ARE STILL OPEN!]

Conference organizers:
Thomas Hoffmann & Alexander Bergs (chairs)
Claudia Lehmann
Meike Pentrel
Nadja Hekal

Confirmed plenary speakers:
? Peter Auer (University of Freiburg)
? Hans Boas (University of Texas at Austin)
? William Croft (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque)
? Miriam Fried (Charles University in Prague)
? Laura Michaelis (University of Colorado Boulder)
? Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh University)
? Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University)

_________________________________________________________
Special Sessions

FrameNet special session on ?Constructionist Resources? in honour of 
Charles J. Fillmore: Constructionist Resources

SBCG special session on ?Sign-Based Construction Grammar? in honour of 
Ivan A. Sag

_________________________________________________________
Workshops

Category Change from a Constructional Perspective
Organizers: Muriel Norde & Kristel Van Goethem

Modelling the mechanisms: Challenges and aims for usage-based 
computational models of grammatical development
Organizers: Barend Beekhuizen, Stewart McCauley, Rens Bod, Morten 
Christiansen & Arie Verhagen

Construction Grammar and Language Contact
Organizers: Hans C. Boas & Steffen H?der

Computational Construction Grammar
Organizers: Remi van Trijp & Luc Steels

Modelling Genre/Register in Grammar:Constructions, Frames or Both?
Organizers: Kerstin Fischer and Kiki Nikiforidou

_________________________________________________________
Abstract submission
Abstracts are invited for 20 minute presentations (plus 10 minute 
discussion). We welcome papers on any aspect of linguistic analysis, 
synchronic or diachronic, that is concerned with grammatical 
constructions and/or semantic frames. These include papers on issues in 
all areas of constructional or frame-semantic research, including 
syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, cognitive and interactional 
aspects of linguistic structure, language variation and change, language 
typology, corpus linguistics, language acquisition and learning, etc.

Submissions to the special session on ?Sign-Based Construction Grammar? 
in honour of Ivan A. Sag should include ?SBCG special session? in their 
abstract title.

Abstracts should not be longer than 1 page and should not exceed 400 
words (excluding references). Since all submissions will be reviewed 
anonymously, all author-specific information must be avoided.

Abstract reviewing is handled via EasyAbs, so please submit your 
abstract online to

http://linguistlist.org/confservices/EasyAbs/

_________________________________________________________
Important dates
The new deadline for receipt of abstracts: March 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2014
Program announcement: April 1, 2014
Early registration deadline: July 15, 2014
_________________________________________________________
For general questions about the conference, please write to 
thomas.hoffmann at uos.de

-- 
***********************************************

Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoffmann

Editor of Constructions
http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/constructions/index

Latest Books:
T. Hoffmann and G. Trousdale, eds. 2013. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

T. Hoffmann. 2011. Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-based Approach. (Studies in English Language.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Address:
Institut f?r Anglistik und Amerikanistik (IfAA)
Fachbereich 7
Universitaet Osnabrueck
Neuer Graben 40
D-49069 Osnabrueck
Germany


Tel: +49 541 969 4067
Fax: +49 541 969 4738

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From collfitz at gmail.com  Mon Feb 24 23:36:26 2014
From: collfitz at gmail.com (Colleen Fitzgerald)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:36:26 -0600
Subject: CoLang 2014 Registration Now Open
Message-ID: <MON.24.FEB.2014.173626.0600.COLLFITZ@GMAIL.COM>

We are happy to announce that we have opened the registration site for
CoLang 2014, the Institute on Collaborative Language Research hosted this
year by the University of Texas at Arlington.  For those who are interested
in the training in language documentation, revitalization and more at
CoLang 2014, we have a registration 'early bird' special that will apply to
anyone who registers and pays in full by April 15, 2014.  As an added
bonus, the first 10 people who register and pay in full will receive a
CoLang water bottle for free.



Participants should pay in full by April 15 to avoid the price increase and
get the early registration price of $750.00 for the two week workshops
session (June 16, 2014) or $2250 in registration costs for the entire six
weeks of CoLang, including a field methods class.  (Room, board, and travel
costs are not reflected in the price of registration. Room and board are
both available as options; see the website or registration site for a
breakdown of prices.)  The online registration site will accommodate anyone
who is able to pay by credit card; a minimum deposit of $150 is required.
For who prefer to pay registration costs by other means, such as paying by
checks, money orders, or wire transfers, registration requires a paper
application which can be downloaded from either the CoLang website or the
registration website.



Please help us spread the word by forwarding this information on to your
students, colleagues language activists, and others who might e
interested.   To start the registration process, participants should go to
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In addition, we have scholarship opportunities available; these include:

UT Arlington CoLang Scholarships  - deadline March 17, 2014

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Full scholarship information (including the links and email addresses for
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From kesmith at cambridge.org  Thu Feb 27 13:47:06 2014
From: kesmith at cambridge.org (Katie Smith)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:47:06 +0000
Subject: New issue of Language and Cognition is available on Cambridge
 Journals Online
Message-ID: <THU.27.FEB.2014.134706.0000.KESMITH@CAMBRIDGE.ORG>

Language and Cognition 

Volume 6 / Issue 01 , March 2014, 1 - 180 

Research Articles 

Social context modulates the effect of physical warmth on perceived 
interpersonal kindness: a study of embodied metaphors 
FRANCESCA M. M. CITRON, ADELE E. GOLDBERG 

Individual differences in the scope of speech planning: evidence from 
eye-movements 
BENJAMIN SWETS, MATTHEW E. JACOVINA, RICHARD J. GERRIG 
 
Grammatical aspect influences motion event perception: findings from a 
cross- linguistic non-verbal recognition task 
MONIQUE FLECKEN, CHRISTIANE VON STUTTERHEIM, MARY CARROLL 

The whole is sometimes less than the sum of its parts: toward a theory of 
document acts 
TODD OAKLEY, VERA TOBIN 
 
Processing effects in linguistic judgment data: (super-)additivity and 
reading span scores 
PHILIP HOFMEISTER, LAURA STAUM CASASANTO, IVAN A. SAG 
 
Discourse Grammar, the dual process model, and brain lateralization: some 
correlations 
BERND HEINE, TANIA KUTEVA, GUNTHER KALTENB?CK 
 
Access the latest issue here: http://journals.cambridge.org/LCO


From fjn at u.washington.edu  Thu Feb 27 20:22:07 2014
From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:22:07 -0800
Subject: formally-determined morpheme order
Message-ID: <THU.27.FEB.2014.122207.0800.FJN@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

Dear Funknetters,

I'm looking for an example where a language has three or more bound morphemes in a fixed order, but where the order among them cannot be characterized in semantic/pragmatic terms without loss of generalization. (I am including scope and notions such as 'relevance to the root' as part of 'semantic/pragmatic'.) Here is a hypothetical example of what I am looking for:

Some words in Language L consist of a root followed by three suffixes. The first suffix has to be bisyllabic, the second is pronounced [ka] and can be associated with a number of different meanings, and the third suffix has to be monosyllabic.

There is no language precisely like that, of course. But I am wondering if there are languages of roughly that sort, i.e., where the generalizations about morpheme position can be stated only in non-semantic, non-pragmatic, and non-discourse-related terms.

Thanks!

--fritz 


Frederick J. Newmeyer
Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
[for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail]


From jcgood at buffalo.edu  Thu Feb 27 22:39:55 2014
From: jcgood at buffalo.edu (Jeff Good)
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:39:55 -0500
Subject: formally-determined morpheme order
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.01.1402271222070.29867@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <THU.27.FEB.2014.173955.0500.JCGOOD@BUFFALO.EDU>

Dear Fritz,

I am not aware of a good case that closely matches your example language, that is where the constraints on ordering are stated in primarily phonological terms (though see one proposal below). However, Larry Hyman, in a number of papers, has argued that four of the Bantu valency-changing suffixes are subject to an ordering template by virtue of their morphological identity alone. A copy of the paper where this is argued for in most detail is here:
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/205/Readings/Hyman_SuffixOrderingInBantu_2002.pdf

If you accept his analysis, then I think it is the kind of case you are looking for.

You may also want to look at this dissertation by Mary Paster entitled, "Phonological Conditions on Affixation":
http://pages.pomona.edu/~mp034747/paster_dissertation.pdf

Her section 5.4, on possible cases of phonologically-conditioned affix order, would be most relevant. Of particular interest here is the Pulaar case, where it has been proposed that affix order is driven by a sonority condition describable as something like T > D > N > R, where the symbols correspond to suffixes containing those consonants (or something along those lines). There are alternative analyses (see Paster's dissertation), but this is probably the most striking proposal of formally-driven ordering for more than one or two affixes that I've seen. (Mary Paster's publication page also has relevant papers, http://pages.pomona.edu/~mp034747/papers.html.)

Best,
Jeff


On Feb 27, 2014, at 3:22 PM, Frederick J Newmeyer <fjn at u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Dear Funknetters,
> 
> I'm looking for an example where a language has three or more bound morphemes in a fixed order, but where the order among them cannot be characterized in semantic/pragmatic terms without loss of generalization. (I am including scope and notions such as 'relevance to the root' as part of 'semantic/pragmatic'.) Here is a hypothetical example of what I am looking for:
> 
> Some words in Language L consist of a root followed by three suffixes. The first suffix has to be bisyllabic, the second is pronounced [ka] and can be associated with a number of different meanings, and the third suffix has to be monosyllabic.
> 
> There is no language precisely like that, of course. But I am wondering if there are languages of roughly that sort, i.e., where the generalizations about morpheme position can be stated only in non-semantic, non-pragmatic, and non-discourse-related terms.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --fritz 
> 
> 
> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
> [for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail]
> 
> 
> 


From markus.hamunen at helsinki.fi  Fri Feb 28 10:59:08 2014
From: markus.hamunen at helsinki.fi (markus.hamunen at helsinki.fi)
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:59:08 +0200
Subject: Cfp: SKY Journal of Linguistics (The Linguistic Association of
 Finland)
Message-ID: <FRI.28.FEB.2014.125908.0200.>

Dear Colleagues,

try something new:

SKY Journal of Linguistics is the annual publication of the Linguistic  
Association of Finland (SKY). SKY JoL welcomes linguistic research  
from all theoretical and methodological persuasions.
The submissions have to be unpublished original and high-quality work.  
Every manuscript is reviewed by at least two anonymous referees. In  
addition to papers on any linguistic topic, SKY JoL publishes short  
?squibs? (3?5 pages) and book reviews. The languages of publication  
are English, French and German. SKY JoL appears both in print and as a  
free-access web journal.

The deadline for initial submissions for the next volume (27, to  
appear in December 2014) is March 31, 2014. The deadline is strict.  
Submissions arriving after the deadline will be postponed to next  
year. Provided that a manuscript is accepted for publication without  
major revisions, it will in the normal course of events appear in  
December 2014.

For further information, visit our web pages at  
http://www.linguistics.fi/skyjol.shtml or contact the editors.

Editors? E-mail: sky-journal at helsinki.fi

Editors? Addresses:

Markus Hamunen
Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies
P.O. Box 3, Fabianinkatu 33
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland

Tiina Keisanen
Faculty of Humanities
P.O. Box 1000
FI-90014 University of Oulu

Veronika Laippala
French department
Koskenniemenkatu 4
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland

Hanna Lantto
Department of Modern languages
Unioninkatu 40
FI-00014 Helsinki
Finland

Lotta Lehti
French department
Koskenniemenkatu 4
FI-20014 University of Turku
Finland

Saija Merke
Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies
P.O. Box 4, Vuorikatu 3A
FI-00014 University of Helsinki