From e.pascual at rug.nl Fri Jan 3 15:58:14 2014 From: e.pascual at rug.nl (E.Pascual) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 16:58:14 +0100 Subject: CfP: Language Under Discussion In-Reply-To: <7780c65e312397.52c6dddc@rug.nl> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Language Under Discussion has just published its first issue (see table of contents below). The focus article for this issue is "Small Model Languages as Tools for Reflection", by Paul Rastall: http://www.ludjournal.org/index.php?journal=LUD&page=issue&op=current Language Under Discussion issues remain open for one year so that readers may send in discussion notes in response to the focus article the issue features. Notes accepted for publication after peer review will be published in the same issue in the course 2014; the author of the focus article will close the issue with a response to the published notes. All articles published in Language Under Discussion are also open to comments by registered readers. We encourage you to take part in the discussion or to start a new one by submitting a lose paper! Best wishes for a good year, Esther Pascual, Marla Perkins and Sergeiy Sandler, Co-editors editors at ludjournal.org Table of contents: Language Under Discussion Vol 1, No 1 (2013) Editorial: Let the discussion begin (i-ii) Esther Pascual, Marla Perkins, Sergeiy Sandler Focus Article: Small Model Languages as Tools for Reflection (1-23) Paul Rastall Language Under Discussion http://ludjournal.org From e.pascual at rug.nl Fri Jan 3 16:25:49 2014 From: e.pascual at rug.nl (E.Pascual) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 17:25:49 +0100 Subject: Language, Culture and Mind VI: extended deadline (Jan 20) In-Reply-To: <76008fcf311657.52c6e46a@rug.nl> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please notice the extension of the deadline of submissions of individual papers and posters for the Language, Culture and Mind VI conference to *Jan 20, 2014* (http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/2013/12/27/extended-deadline-jan-20/). We're looking forward to your contributions! Thank you, Esther Pascual *** Sixth International Conference on *Language, Culture and Mind* June 24-26, Lublin, Poland http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/ Contact: info at lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl Deadline for *abstract submission* of individual papers and posters: *Jan 20, 2014*. The Sixth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM VI) will be held on *24-26 June 2014* at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. It will be preceded by a *Young Researchers Workshop* on 23 June 2014 (same venue), where young researchers will present their ongoing dissertation projects and other work. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, semiotics and related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. Confirmed plenary speakers: Nancy *Budwig* (Clark University, Psychology) Henryk *Kardela* (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Linguistics) Alan *Rumsey* (Australian National University, School of Culture, History & Language) Farzad *Sharifian* (Monash University, Language and Society Centre) Beata *Stawarska* (University of Oregon, Philosophy) The theme for LCM VI is: *Inside/Out: Practice and Representation* While some focus on the representational nature of language and mind, others regard them as socially embedded and embodied practices. We encourage submissions that further investigate the dynamic between practice and representation and critically examine stereotypical or mainstream conceptions of representations as internal and practices as external. We invite abstract submissions for oral presentations, posters and symposia. (Please clearly indicate your chosen format with your submission.) Submission guidelines and formats: • Oral presentations Title, name, affiliation, 400 word abstract 20 min presentation + 10 minute discussion • Posters Title, name, affiliation, 100 word abstract 1 minute oral presentation in the main lecture hall, preceding the poster session • Symposia (submissions closed) Symposium title, name and affiliation of symposium convener, an introduction of up to 400 words explaining the theme, all symposium abstracts, in suitable order. 90-minute symposia of 3 papers, allowing time for discussion. Up to two 90-minute symposia may be merged for proposals with 5-6 participants. Papers in each symposium should be thematically linked. Symposium proposers should indicate whether, if a symposium is not accepted as a whole, they wish the individual abstracts to be considered as individual presentations (oral or poster) Deadline for abstract submission of symposia: Nov 30, 2013 (closed) Deadline for abstract submission of individual papers and posters: *Jan 20, 2014* Abstracts should be submitted as .rtf, .odt or .doc attachments using EasyChair:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcm6. In order to submit an abstract you have to use your existing EasyChair account or register using the link above. Detailed instructions can be found on the Language Culture and Mind VI conference website: http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/participation/.(http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/participation/)” Important dates: • Deadline for abstract submission (symposia): 30 Nov 2013 (*closed*) • Deadline for abstract submission (papers, posters): *20 Jan 2014* • Notification of acceptance (symposia): 15 Jan 2014 • Notification of acceptance (papers, posters): *28 Feb 2014* • Last date for early registration: 30 Mar 2014 • Last date for participant registration: 1 May 2014 • Final program publication: 31 May 2014 ****Young Researchers Workshop**** The LCM VI Young Researchers Workshop is a satellite event of the LCM VI conference, aimed at graduate students and junior scholars conducting theoretical or empirical research in language and communication including, but not limited to cognitive, social, affective, embodied and/or cultural perspectives. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting results and foster interaction and debate in the context of interdisciplinary collaboration. Young researchers in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience are invited to share, and thereby enrich, their study of human natural language and communication. A specialist’s comment on each accepted contribution makes the workshop a unique opportunity to receive expert feedback. Contact: Roberto *Bottini* – lcm6.workshop at gmail.com Abstract specifications: 1 page, 400 words, single-spaced, font size 12 pt, Times New Roman, 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Diagrams must fit in the page. Heading should include: - Title of the paper - Author(s) name - Author(s) affiliation - E-mail address of principal author Deadline for abstract submission: *Jan 20, 2014* Abstracts for the Young Researchers Workshop presentations should be submitted as .rtf, .pdf or .doc attachments using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcm6. A special track for YRW has been created within LCM6 EasyChair account. LCM VI Local organization · Piotr Konderak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Cognitive Science · Piotr Giza, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Philosophy · Marcin Krawczyk, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Philosophy · Monika Malmon, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Philosophy · Przemyslaw Sotowski, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Law *International LCM organizing committee* · Ana Margarida *Abrantes*, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture · Roberto *Bottini*, University of Milan-Bicocca, Cognitive Science · Barbara *Fultner*, Denison University, Philosophy and Women’s Studies · Peter *Hanenberg*, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture · John *Lucy*, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology · Aliyah *Morgenstern*, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics · Esther *Pascual*, University of Groningen, Communication Studies · Victor *Rosenthal*, Institut Marcel Mauss-EHESS, Paris, Anthropology · Chris *Sinha*, Lund University, Linguistics From danjiesu at gmail.com Fri Jan 3 21:05:56 2014 From: danjiesu at gmail.com (Danjie Su) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 13:05:56 -0800 Subject: Call-for-papers: 3rd International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! Please see below a call for the 3rd International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse (ISCLD3) forwarded by Professor Hongyin Tao. The deadline is approaching (*Friday 10th January, 2014)*. Please feel free to forward it to anyone you think may be interested in. Thank you! Best, Daisy _______________________ Danjie Su PhD Student Asian Languages and Cultures UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 danjiesu at gmail.com www.danjiesu.com *The Third International Symposium on * *Chinese Language and Discourse (ISCLD3) 第三届汉语语言与话语国际研讨会第三屆漢語語言與話語國際研討會* 11-13 June, 2014 London, UK *CALL FOR PAPERS* The International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse is a biennial symposium that advances the exchange of scholarship in discourse functional studies of the Chinese language, emphasizing an empirical orientation and encompassing such fields as discourse and grammar, variation and change, language contact, language and society, language and culture, and language and social interaction. The third symposium will be held at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. The working language of the symposium will be English. Abstracts are invited for oral presentations (25 minutes, plus 5 minutes for discussion) to showcase latest advancements in broadly-defined discourse functional studies of the Chinese language. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: Corpora and Chinese language studies Language variation, change and development Language acquisition Language contact and diversity Language and interaction Language and society Language and culture Language and cognition An abstract of no more than 500 but no fewer than 300 words in English should be submitted to: roundtable at bbk.ac.uk. Please also include (i) author(s)’ name(s); (ii) affiliation; and (iii) email address. *Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday 10th January, 2014* Notification of acceptance: February, 2014 Conference Dates 11-13 June, 2014 Keynote speakers: Rint Sybesma (University of Leiden, The Netherlands) Richard Xiao (University of Lancaster, UK) Boping Yuan (University of Cambridge, UK) There will be a Round Table on the teaching and learning of Chinese in the era of Globalization on Wednesday 11th June, 2014. Invited Speakers for the Round Table: Katherine Carruthers (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) Amy Stambach (University of Oxford, UK) Don Starr (University of Durham, UK) Chun Zhang (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Zhu Hua (Convenor, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) Journal: Chinese Language and Discourse (ISSN 1877-7031 | E-ISSN 1877-8798), Benjamins (http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/cld/main). Executive Editor Hongyin Tao; Co-Editors: K.K. Luke, and Li Wei Book series: Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse (ISSN 1879-5382), Benjamins (http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/scld/main). Executive Editor Hongyin Tao; Co-Editors: K.K. Luke, and Li Wei Birkbeck College is located at the heart of Bloomsbury, a historical and fashionable area in the centre of London where numerous cultural, educational and health institutions are located. The British Museum is next to Birkbeck buildings, and Oxford Street is within walking distance. It is accessible by several underground lines, with a direct line to Heathrow airport. There are abundant hotels and restaurants in the neighbourhood. Participants are asked to book their own accommodation, as the university does not have accommodation during term time. Registration Fee: The registration fee to cover lunches, tea/coffee, and the delegate’s pack is £85 (eighty-five pounds) before 1st April 2014. We have kept it to the minimum and therefore there is no student discount or day rate. Late (after 1st April 2014) or on-site registrations will be charged at £120 (one hundred and twenty pounds). Credit card payment can be made at roundtable at bbk.ac.uk. From elc9j at cms.mail.virginia.edu Fri Jan 3 22:41:57 2014 From: elc9j at cms.mail.virginia.edu (Ellen Contini-Morava) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 17:41:57 -0500 Subject: new publications on nominal classification Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please see the abstracts below of two recent publications on nominal classification systems. In the paper "Functions of Nominal Classification" [Language Sciences 40 (2013): 263-299, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000113000399] we propose a functional typology for nominal classification systems. Thosewho don't have access to the journal can get a copy of the paper by contacting one of the authors (Ellen Contini-Morava, contini at virginia.edu or Marcin Kilarski, kilarski at amu.edu.pl). Abstract: Nominal classification systems are generally categorized on the basis of morphosyntactic criteria. However, the functional motivations for these phenomena do not coincide directly with their morphosyntactic properties: some functions are shared by diverse systems, and each morphosyntactic type may serve diverse communicative functions. We provide a functional typology for nominal classification, including both noun class and classifier systems. We focus on two types of functions: semantic, i.e., the use of classification markers to expand the referential power of the lexicon, and discourse/pragmatic, i.e., the use of classification markers to establish and manipulate the status of discourse referents. We identify functions that are shared by formally diverse systems as well as functions that depend on means of expression. We also review psycholinguistic evidence for the role of nominal classification in language comprehension and production. In his book, "Nominal Classification: A history of its study from the classical period to the present" (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2013, https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/sihols.121/main), Marcin traces the evolution of approaches to gender/noun classes and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. The book appears in the Studies in the History of the Language Sciences series. Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in fact a central role in the lexicon, grammar and the organization of discourse. As a result, the often contradictory approaches to their functionality and semantic motivation encapsulate the evolving conceptions of such issues as cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure, the diverse functions of grammatical categories, linguistic complexity, agreement phenomena and the interplay between lexicon and grammar. The combination of a typological and historiographic perspective adopted here allows the reader to appreciate the detail and insight of earlier, supposedly 'prescientific' accounts in light of the data now available and to examine contemporary discussions in the context of prevailing conceptions in the study of language at different points in its history since antiquity. With best wishes for the New Year, Ellen and Marcin ---- Marcin Kilarski Assistant professor Faculty of English Adam Mickiewicz University Al. Niepodleglosci 4 61-874 Poznan, Poland -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ellen Contini-Morava Professor Department of Anthropology University of Virginia P.O. Box 400120 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4120 USA phone: +1 (434) 924-6825 fax: +1 (434) 924-1350 From martin.hilpert at frias.uni-freiburg.de Tue Jan 7 20:32:46 2014 From: martin.hilpert at frias.uni-freiburg.de (martin.hilpert at frias.uni-freiburg.de) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:32:46 +0100 Subject: Richard M. Hogg Prize 2014 - call for submissions Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, if you know of young researchers who might be interested, I'd be happy if you could forward this call to them. Best wishes, --Martin The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) has been awarding a young researchers' award, the Richard M. Hogg Prize, annually since 2008. The prestigious prize goes to the best paper on the English language by a researcher who has not yet received his or her Ph.D. or who is within two years' of having received the doctorate. Submitting researchers must be members of ISLE. Membership is free for students and very affordable for postdoc and faculty members. You can join at http://isle-linguistics.org/join/. The winner will receive a cash prize of £500, and the winning paper will be published on the ISLE website. In addition, English Language and Linguistics, the official journal of ISLE, offers to publish the paper in an expedited peer-review process. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2014. For more information on the prize, including length requirements, style sheet and previous winning papers,seehttp://www.isle-linguistics.org/prize/. NB: ISLE-3, the third biennial Conference which is open to all members, will be held in Zurich 24-27 Aug. 2014. --------------------------------------------------- Asst. Prof. Dr. Martin Hilpert Université de Neuchâtel Institut de langue et littérature anglaises Espace Louis-Agassiz 1 CH-2000 Neuchâtel Phone + 41 32 718 19 31 Fax +41 32 718 17 01 Web http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert http://unine.academia.edu/MartinHilpert Out now - Constructional Change in English: http://www.cambridge.org/de/knowledge/isbn/item7071828/Constructional%20Change%20in%20English/?site_locale=de_DE From thhoffma at uni-osnabrueck.de Fri Jan 10 11:33:07 2014 From: thhoffma at uni-osnabrueck.de (Thomas Hoffmann) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:33:07 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers: Eighth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-8/3.9-6.9.2014) Message-ID: Call for Papers Eighth International Conference on Construction Grammar (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 second 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. 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, we are proud to announce that the conference will also 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). 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) 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 Constructionist Resources Organizers: Ellen Dodge, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Kyoko Ohara, Miriam R. L. Petruck & Tiago Torrent Modelling Genre/Register in Grammar:Constructions, Frames or Both? Organizers: Kerstin Fischer & 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. Abstracts should not be longer than 1 page and should not exceed 400 words. 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 *********************************************** From v.ferreira at gmx.de Tue Jan 14 11:20:22 2014 From: v.ferreira at gmx.de (Vera Ferreira) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:20:22 +0000 Subject: Summer school: Community-Driven Language Documentation (CDLC 2014) - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CIDLeS Summer School 2014: "Community-driven Language Documentation" (CDLD 2014) CIDLeS invites students and researchers in linguistics and related fields, language workers and speakers of endangered languages to participate in the Summer School on "Community-driven Language Documentation". The summer school will take place from Monday, 18th August to Saturday, 23rd August 2014 in Minde (Portugal). Deadline for application: *May 31st, 2014* Date and venue August 18th -- 23rd | The Summer School will take place in Minde, Portugal. Website: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/ About the Summer School The field of language documentation has matured over the last 15 years. With several funding initiatives running out, community-driven language documentation ensures sustainable documentation. This summer school is designed to encourage community-driven interdisciplinary language documentation. It will bring together speakers of endangered languages, local language workers, students and researchers of linguistics and related fields. The summer school is intended to be a space for engagement and exchange between community members, language workers and students and provide an environment for learning about each other's interests and requirements. The curriculum is developed to be in accordance with the needs and interests of the speech communities. It aims at empowering the speech communities to participate in the definition and implementation of research projects and sensitise students of linguistic for the needs of the communities. Thus, the major goal of this summer school is to introduce the participants into the theory and methods of language documentation. The goal is to acquire the knowledge and competence to conduct one's own documentation projects with regard to endangered language. This summer school is part of a larger event. The week before CDLD 2014 there will be another one-week summer school on Coding for Language Communities (http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-coding-for-language-communities-2014/). Topics of lectures and courses Audio and video recording & processing Annotations (transcription, translation, GRAID) Lexicography Ethnobotany Ethnomusicology Language maintenance and revitalization Invited lecturers Ben Levine (Speaking Place, USA) Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) Julia Schulz (Speaking Place, USA) Ulrike Mosel (University of Kiel) /other lecturers to be announced/ Application Participants have to apply by filling out the application form providing information on their background and interest in the area of language documentation and revitalization. Deadline for application is *May 31^st , 2014*.The number of participants is limited to 30. Admission will be based on the track record and a motivational statement that are part of the application form. Apply here: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/ Costs The summer school costs*250 Euros for the whole week*. The fee includes summer school materials, all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and a place to sleep. Depending on availability, the beds will be in a shared room for 2-4 people. You can pay by bank transfer or Paypal (including credit cards). You will receive more details in a confirmation mail, as soon as we processed your application. We plan to provide*scholarships for students* to participate in the summer school. The scholarship will cover the fee of 250 Euros and travel costs up to 1.000 Euros. We still do not know if the scholarship will be available, and when. If you need a scholarship then you may already fill in and send the application form and specifically describe why you need a scholarship in the application form. Organizing team Vera Ferreira(CIDLeS) Peter Bouda (CIDLeS) Rita Pedro(CIDLeS) Felix Rau(University of Cologne) Ingrid Scholz (CIDLeS / University of Porto) For more information, please contact cdld2014 at cidles.eu . -- Summer school "Community-driven language documentation" August 18th-23rd, 2014 Minde, Portugal Web:http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/ Email:cdld2014 at cidles.eu From v.ferreira at gmx.de Tue Jan 14 15:25:02 2014 From: v.ferreira at gmx.de (Vera Ferreira) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:25:02 +0000 Subject: Coding for Language Communities (Summer school, Minde /Portugal) Message-ID: Please pass on to interested parties.* CID**LeS Summer School: **CODING FOR LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES (CLC 2014)* *Date and venue**:* August 11th - 15th | The Summer School will take place within the "Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros" in or near Minde, Portugal. *Website:* http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-coding-for-language-communities-2014/ *About the Summer School* There are currently around 7.000 languages spoken all over the world - but each month a language dies. In general we see a strong tendency to learn and use only the major languages such as English, German, French, etc., especially in electronic communication. This is partly caused by the lack of hardware (e.g. keyboards) and software (for transliteration, text completion, etc.) for under-resourced languages, which constrain the natural usage of people's own language in many tasks. The Summer School "Coding for Language Communities" is about ongoing research and development to turn that process in exactly the other direction: every successful technology can also be used to teach, revitalize and therefore boost the use of regional languages. This technology should also assist the renewal of local languages and cultures by allowing people to actively teach, learn, extend, and spread their language in their community. Our aim is to give people the ability to use their mother tongue in everyday electronic communication, no matter where they are or what language they speak. What will we do? The Summer School "Coding for Language Communites" aims to bring together three groups: - Speakers of languages that are currently not supported by language technologies and that want to use their language on electronic devices; - Students of linguistics and language-related disciplines interested in learning about software development; - Software developers and students of computational sciences that are interested in supporting under-resourced languages by technological means. During an exciting and exhausting week we will work together to develop new software and tools for under-resourced languages. We will create five interdisciplinary teams to tackle real-world problems in ongoing or new open source projects. Each team will consist of five members, with at least one participant of each of the groups mentioned above. Each team will have an expert as mentor to guide and supervise the progress, in addition to three senior software developers that will be available to support all the teams in the implementation of the solution. At the end of the week there will be prizes for the most creative solutions. Each day we start with a theoretical talk by one of the mentors, which complements the practical experience of developing language technologies as a team within an open source project. This summer school is the first part of a larger event. There will be a second summer school the week after this one about Community-driven Language Documentation (http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/). *Mentors* Kevin Scannell Bruce Birch Dorothee Beermann Peter Bouda other mentors to be announced *Application* Deadline for application is May 31st, 2014. The number of participants is limited to 25. Admission will be based on the track record and a motivational statement that is part of the application form. Apply here: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/apply/ *Costs* The summer school costs 250 Euros for the whole week. The fee includes summer school materials, all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and a place to sleep. We plan to provide scholarships for students to participate in the summer school. If possible, the scholarship will cover the fee of 250 Euros and travel costs up to 1.000 Euros. Describe in the application form why you need a scholarship. *Organizing team* Vera Ferreira Peter Bouda Rita Pedro Felix Rau Kevin Scannell Dorothee Beermann Eva Schinzel For more information please contact clc2014 at cidles.eu. -- Vera Ferreira Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social / Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation Rua do Remexido, Loja 15 2395-174 Minde Portugal Tel.: +351249849123 Email:vferreira at cidles.eu Web:http://www.cidles.eu From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Wed Jan 15 14:04:58 2014 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:04:58 +0000 Subject: Final CfP: IACS-2014 Message-ID: Third and final Call for Papers 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): 1 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 Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Sweden Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS), Deputy research director http://project.sol.lu.se/en/ccs/ The Public Journal of Semiotics (PJOS), Editor-in-Chief http://pjos.org International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), President From benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se Thu Jan 16 10:47:53 2014 From: benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se (Benjamin Lyngfelt) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:47:53 +0000 Subject: Extended deadline: Workshop on Constructionist resources at ICCG-8 Message-ID: The deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 16. Workshop: Constructionist resources Organizers: Ellen Dodge, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Kyoko Ohara, Miriam R. L. Petruck & Tiago Torrent Construction Grammar has not only generated a wealth of linguistic research but also inspired the development of a number of linguistically motivated knowledge bases, which serve as resources for linguistics, language technology, and language pedagogy. The most well-known and long established of these databases is FrameNet, a large-scale and elaborate instantiation of Frame Semantics (e.g. Fillmore & Baker 2009). The first FrameNet was developed for English in Berkeley, and there are now FrameNets for quite a few languages. A complementary development are constructicons (e.g. Fillmore et al. 2012). In constructionist theory, a constructicon is the inventory of constructions that a language presumably consists of; as a practical application, a constructicon is a corresponding collection of construction descriptions. A third kind of resource is MetaNet (Dodge et al. 2013), a multilingual metaphor repository, based on the notion of conceptual metaphor, and organized according to the principles of Frame Semantics (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010) and Embodied Construction Grammar (Feldman et al. 2010). Both MetaNet and the constructicons build on FrameNet methodology and are intended to be compatible tools. We now invite papers on these and other construction related resources to a workshop at ICCG-8 (the 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar) in Osnabrück, Germany, September 3–6 2014.This workshop will include both presentations of project-particular developments and discussions of how to connect the various resources in useful ways. Key topics are the relations between Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Conceptual Metaphors, as well as cross-linguistic applications of the resources. The deadline for abstract submission is February 16. Abstracts should not be longer than 1 page and should not exceed 400 words. Since all submissions will be reviewed anonymously, all author-specific information must be avoided. The time allotted for each presentation is 20 minutes plus a 10 minute discussion. Abstract reviewing is handled via EasyAbs, so please submit your abstract online to http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/cxnrec Information about the general conference can be found at http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/ References Boas, Hans C. (ed.) (2009). Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Dodge, Ellen, Jisup Hong, Elise Stickles & Oana David (2013). The MetaNet Wiki: A collaborative online resource for metaphor and image schema analysis. Talk presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Edmonton, Alberta. Feldman, Jerome, Ellen Dodge & John Bryant (2010). Embodied Construction Grammar. In Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, pp. 111–138. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. Fillmore, Charles J. & Collin F. Baker (2009). A Frames Approach to Semantic Analysis. In Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, pp. 313–339. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. Fillmore, Charles J., Russell Lee-Goldman & Russell Rhomieux (2012). The FrameNet Constructicon. In Hans C. Boas & Ivan A. Sag (eds.), Sign-based Construction Grammar, pp. 309–372. Stanford: CSLI. FrameNet. > Lyngfelt, Benjamin, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Julia Prentice, Rudolf Rydstedt, Emma Sköldberg & Sofia Tingsell (2012). Adding a Constructicon to the Swedish resource network of Språkbanken. Proceedings of KONVENS 2012 (LexSem 2012 workshop), pp. 452–461. Vienna. Ohara, Kyoko Hirose (2013). Toward Constructicon Building for Japanese in Japanese FrameNet. Veredas 17: 11–27. Ruppenhofer, Josef, Michael Ellsworth, Mirian R. L. Petruck, Christopher R. Johnson & Jan Scheffczyk (2010). FrameNet II: Extended theory and practice. Berkeley: ICSI. Sköldberg, Emma, Linnéa Bäckström, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Leif-Jöran Olsson, Julia Prentice, Rudolf Rydstedt, Sofia Tingsell & Jonatan Uppström (2013). Between Grammars and Dictionaries: a Swedish Constructicon. Proceedings of eLex 2013, pp. 310–327. Tallinn. Torrent, Tiago Timpani & Michael Ellsworth (2013). Behind the Labels: Criteria for Defining Analytical Categories in FrameNet Brasil. Veredas 17: 44–65. From sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it Mon Jan 27 00:40:07 2014 From: sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it (Sonia Cristofaro) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:40:07 +0000 Subject: Final call for papers - Syntax of the World's Languages VI (SWL6), Pavia, Italy, 8-10 September 2014 Message-ID: ***Apologies for cross-posting*** *SWL6 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS* Dear list members, this is to remind you that the conference `Syntax of the World's Languages 6' (SWL6) will be held in Pavia (Italy) on September 8-10, 2014. Abstracts of no more than one page (plus possibly one additional page for examples) should be sent in PDF format to swl6.conference at gmail.com by* **January 31, 2014***, with ``SWL6 abstract'' in the subject line (authors will receive notification of acceptance by March 31, 2014). Abstracts will be reviewed by an abstract reading committee including members of the organizing committee as well as several linguists working in typology and language documentation (the full list of members of the abstract reading committee and the organizing committee is available on the conference website). Submissions should be anonymous and refrain from self-reference. Please provide contact details and the title of your presentation in the body of the email. Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. The conference will be held in English and abstracts must be submitted in English. In the same spirit as previous conferences in this series (SWL I - Leipzig 2004, SWL II - Lancaster 2006, SWL III - Berlin 2008, SWL IV - Lyon 2010, and SWL V - Dubrovnik 2012), the conference will provide a forum for linguists working on the syntax of less widely studied languages from a variety of perspectives. The main purpose of the conference is to enlarge our knowledge and understanding of syntactic diversity. Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. The discussion of theoretical issues is appreciated to the extent that it helps to elucidate the data and is understandable without prior knowledge of the relevant theory. All theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, and papers that adopt a diachronic or comparative perspective are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role. Invited speakers: Bjarke Frellesvig, University of Oxford http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/ea/japanese/bfrellesvig.html Mauro Tosco, University of Turin http://www.maurotosco.net/maurotosco/Home.html The University of Pavia will also host three workshops held in connection with the conference on September 11, 2014: Ditranitive constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective Organizers: Agnes Korn and Carina Jahani http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/2trans/ East Caucasian preverb and the compounding-inflection- derivation continuum Organizer: Gilles Authier http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/cauc-pre.htm Voice systems in diachrony: a comparative perspective Organizer: Michela Cennamo http://voice-systems-workshop.wikidot.com Pavia is within easy reach of Milan, which has excellent flight connections to/from all major and many smaller European cities, as well as several other destinations in the world. Participants can be accommodated at moderate prices in several university colleges. For updated information on the conference program, registration, adjacent workhops and practicalities, please refer to the conference website: http://swl-6.wikidot.com/ -- -- Sonia Cristofaro Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Sezione di Linguistica Universita' di Pavia Strada Nuova, 65 I-27100 Pavia Italia Tel. +390382984484 Fax +390382984487 E-mail: sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Mon Jan 27 14:59:37 2014 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:59:37 +0000 Subject: CILC2014 Abstract Submission extended - International Conference on Corpus Linguistics Message-ID: Dear colleagues, It is our pleasure to inform you that, in response to a number of entreaties from prospective participants, we have extended the paper submission deadline for the CILC2014 (International Conference on Corpus Linguistics) until February 6th, 2014. Note that there will be no more deadline extensions after this date. Please recall that the CILC2014 will be held at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, May 22 – May 24, 2014. The Call for Submissions is here: http://www.congresos.ulpgc.es/cilc6/page4/index.html Best wishes Francisco Alonso On behalf of the Organizing Committee AELINCO (Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics) ___________ Queridos compañeros y compañeras: Por la presente, les comunico que el plazo de recepción de propuestas para participar en el VI Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus, CIL2014, se amplía hasta el próximo 6 de febrero de 2014. Encontrarán información al respecto en el vínculo siguiente: http://www.congresos.ulpgc.es/cilc6/page6/index.html Un saludo cordial, Francisco Alonso AELINCO (Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus) From mcarrete at filol.ucm.es Thu Jan 30 16:55:01 2014 From: mcarrete at filol.ucm.es (MARTA BEGONA CARRETERO LAPEYRE) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:55:01 +0100 Subject: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 2014 (EMEL'14) Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The Department of English Philology I (English Language and Linguistics) of the Complutense University of Madrid is pleased to announce the International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages 2014 (EMEL'14), which will take place at the Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 6-8 October 2014. EMEL'14 invites you to submit abstracts for general session or poster papers on evidentiality and modality in European languages. The conference also welcomes proposals for workshop sessions. The conference aims to cover a broad range of research concerned with the domains of evidentiality and modality, with special interest in empirical work and crosslinguistic studies. Some proposed research areas include: - Epistemicity: relation between evidentiality and epistemic modality - Cross-linguistic and typological studies on evidentiality - Interactional approaches to evidentiality and/or epistemic modality - Epistemic stance and inter/subjectivity in discourse - Evidential constructions and grammaticalization of evidential expressions - Types of evidentiality: Direct vs. Indirect - Reported speech and reportative evidentiality - Corpus-based studies on evidentiality and/or epistemic modality A selection of papers based on contributions presented in this conference will be published in a special issue of an international journal and/or a prestigious academic publisher. PLENARY SPEAKERS Rebecca Clift (University of Essex) Ronald W. Langacker (University of California, San Diego) Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp) GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: GENERAL SESSION PAPERS AND POSTERS Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will also be a poster session. The language of the conference for the plenaries and the general session is English. An anonymous copy of your abstract (max. 500 words, excl. references), in Word or PDF format, should be submitted via email to: emel14 at ucm.es Please include your name, affiliation and contact details in the text of the e-mail message. Participants may submit a maximum of two abstracts, that is, no more than one single-authored paper and one joint-authored paper, or two joint-authored papers. All abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed. They should include research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Abstract submission deadline: 1 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 26 April 2014 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: WORKSHOP SESSIONS Proposals for workshops should include the name(s) of the convenor(s), title and a 1000-word description of the topic (see instructions for paper abstracts above), and a list of workshop participants, including 300 word abstracts of their papers. Workshop convenors are encouraged to distribute an open call for papers on the Linguist List, or other distribution lists. The workshop sessions will consist of a maximum of 10 slots, each with the same time format as the general session papers (20 min. + 10 min. discussion). Each workshop session should include an introductory paper by a key-note speaker, and an additional 30-minute slot for final discussion on the topic, further issues and questions for future research. The languages for the theme sessions may be: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Proposals should be sent by e-mail to: emel14 at ucm.es Deadline for submission of proposals: 1 April 2014. Theme session organisers will be notified by 26 April REGISTRATION Early bird registration opens: 1 June 2014 Registration (full fee): 1 July 2014 Registration closes: 7 October 2014 Conference fees (including coffee breaks, Wi-Fi access, and a conference pack): (a) Early bird registration (from 1 June to June 30 2014): - Regular participants: 120 Euros - Students (with valid ID): 70 Euros (b) Late registration: - Regular participants: 150 Euros - Students (with valid ID): 100 Euros ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jorge Arús, Marta Carretero (Secretary), Karlos Cid Abasolo, Bert Cornillie, Elena Domínguez, Julia Lavid, Carmen Maíz Arévalo, Juana I. Marín Arrese (Chair), Mª Victoria Martín de la Rosa, Juan Rafael Zamorano CONTACT E-mail: emel14 at ucm.es Postal address: EMEL'14 Organizing committee Departamento de Filología Inglesa I Facultad de Filología Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria, s/n E-28040 Madrid Spain Dr Marta Carretero https://portal.ucm.es/web/filologia_inglesa_i/marta-carretero From dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com Fri Jan 31 14:52:49 2014 From: dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com (Denis Donovan) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:52:49 -0500 Subject: searching for Ph.D. thesis Message-ID: I realize that, because of the date, the odds are slim, but does anyone have an ELECTRONIC (txt, pdf) copy of this Cornell Ph.D. thesis. David Bellinger, the author, does not have a copy and has shifted the focus of his work dramatically. Bellinger, David Chudleigh (1978). The structure of maternal speech acts. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University (Cornell Uris Library call number BF30 1977 B444). With sincere advance thanks, Denis Donovan - - - Denis M. Donovan, M.D., M.Ed., F.A.P.S. Director, EOCT Institute Medical Director, 1983 - 2006 The Children's Center for Developmental Psychiatry St. Petersburg, Florida P.O Box 47576 St. Petersburg, FL 33743-7576 Phone: 727-641-8905 DenisDonovan at EOCT-Institute.org dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com Please reply to: dmdonovan1937 at gamail.com From kesmith at cambridge.org Fri Jan 31 14:59:45 2014 From: kesmith at cambridge.org (Katie Smith) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:59:45 +0000 Subject: UK-CLA and Language and Cognition Offer Message-ID: We are delighted to announce that Language and Cognition will be published by Cambridge from 2014 Subscribe to Language and Cognition by joining the UK-CLA. Membership is open to all, regardless of geographical location and/or institutional affiliation. Subscription will also include electronic access to all back content of the journal. To mark this new arrangement with Cambridge a 2014 subscription is on offer at a special discount of half price: Individual Membership (print and online) £25.00 Individual Membership (online only) £15.00 Discover more here: http://journals.cambridge.org/UKCLA Activate the membership offer by 31st July to qualify. From e.pascual at rug.nl Fri Jan 3 15:58:14 2014 From: e.pascual at rug.nl (E.Pascual) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 16:58:14 +0100 Subject: CfP: Language Under Discussion In-Reply-To: <7780c65e312397.52c6dddc@rug.nl> Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Language Under Discussion has just published its first issue?(see table of contents below). The focus article for this issue is "Small Model Languages as Tools for Reflection", by Paul Rastall:?http://www.ludjournal.org/index.php?journal=LUD&page=issue&op=current Language Under Discussion issues remain open for one year so that readers may send in discussion notes in response to the focus article the issue features. Notes accepted for publication after peer review will be published in the same issue in the course 2014; the author of the focus article will close the issue with a response to the published notes. All articles published in Language Under Discussion are also open to comments by registered readers. We encourage you to take part in the discussion or to start a new one by submitting a lose paper! Best wishes for a good year, Esther Pascual, Marla Perkins and Sergeiy Sandler, Co-editors editors at ludjournal.org Table of contents: Language Under Discussion Vol 1, No 1 (2013) Editorial: Let the discussion begin (i-ii) Esther Pascual, Marla Perkins, Sergeiy Sandler Focus Article: Small Model Languages as Tools for Reflection (1-23) Paul Rastall Language Under Discussion http://ludjournal.org From e.pascual at rug.nl Fri Jan 3 16:25:49 2014 From: e.pascual at rug.nl (E.Pascual) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 17:25:49 +0100 Subject: Language, Culture and Mind VI: extended deadline (Jan 20) In-Reply-To: <76008fcf311657.52c6e46a@rug.nl> Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please notice the extension of the deadline of submissions?of individual papers and posters for the?Language, Culture and Mind VI conference to?*Jan?20, 2014* (http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/2013/12/27/extended-deadline-jan-20/). We're looking forward to your contributions! Thank you, Esther Pascual *** Sixth International Conference on?*Language, Culture and Mind* June 24-26, Lublin, Poland http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/ Contact: info at lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl Deadline for *abstract submission* of individual papers and posters: *Jan?20, 2014*. The Sixth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM VI) will be held on *24-26 June 2014* at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. It will be preceded by a *Young Researchers Workshop* on 23 June 2014 (same venue), where young researchers will present their ongoing dissertation projects and other work. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, semiotics and related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language. Confirmed plenary speakers: Nancy *Budwig* (Clark University, Psychology) Henryk *Kardela* (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Linguistics) Alan *Rumsey* (Australian?National University, School of Culture, History & Language) Farzad *Sharifian* (Monash University, Language and Society Centre) Beata *Stawarska* (University of Oregon, Philosophy) The theme for LCM VI is: *Inside/Out: Practice and Representation* While some focus on the representational nature of language and mind, others regard them as socially embedded and embodied practices. We encourage submissions that further investigate the dynamic between practice and representation and critically examine stereotypical or mainstream conceptions of representations as internal and practices as external. We invite abstract submissions for oral presentations, posters and symposia. (Please clearly indicate your chosen format with your submission.) Submission guidelines and formats: ? Oral presentations Title, name, affiliation, 400 word abstract 20 min presentation + 10 minute discussion ? Posters Title, name, affiliation, 100 word abstract 1 minute oral presentation in the main lecture hall, preceding the poster?session ? Symposia (submissions closed) Symposium title, name and affiliation of symposium convener, an introduction of up to 400 words explaining the theme, all symposium abstracts, in suitable order. 90-minute symposia of 3 papers, allowing time for discussion. Up to two 90-minute symposia may be merged for proposals with 5-6 participants. Papers in each symposium should be thematically linked. Symposium proposers should indicate whether, if a symposium is not accepted as a whole, they wish the individual abstracts to be considered as individual presentations (oral or poster) Deadline for abstract submission of symposia: Nov 30, 2013 (closed) Deadline for abstract submission of individual papers and posters: *Jan 20,?2014* Abstracts should be submitted as .rtf, .odt or .doc attachments using EasyChair:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcm6.?In order to submit an abstract you have to use your existing EasyChair account or register using the link above. Detailed instructions can be found on the Language Culture and Mind VI conference website: http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/participation/.(http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/participation/)? Important dates: ? Deadline for abstract submission (symposia): 30 Nov 2013 (*closed*) ? Deadline for abstract submission (papers, posters): *20 Jan 2014* ? Notification of acceptance (symposia): 15 Jan 2014 ? Notification of acceptance (papers, posters): *28 Feb 2014* ? Last date for early registration: 30 Mar 2014 ? Last date for participant registration: 1 May 2014 ? Final program publication: 31 May 2014 ****Young Researchers Workshop**** The LCM VI Young Researchers Workshop is a satellite event of the LCM VI conference, aimed at graduate students and junior scholars conducting theoretical or empirical research in language and communication including, but not limited to cognitive, social, affective, embodied and/or cultural perspectives. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting results and foster interaction and debate in the context of interdisciplinary collaboration. Young researchers in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience are invited to share, and thereby enrich, their study of human natural language and communication. A specialist?s comment on each accepted contribution makes the workshop a unique opportunity to receive expert feedback. Contact: Roberto *Bottini* ? lcm6.workshop at gmail.com Abstract specifications: 1 page, 400 words, single-spaced, font size 12 pt, Times New Roman, 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Diagrams must fit in the page. Heading should include: - Title of the paper - Author(s) name - Author(s) affiliation - E-mail address of principal author Deadline for abstract submission: *Jan 20, 2014* Abstracts for the Young Researchers Workshop presentations should be submitted as .rtf, .pdf or .doc attachments using EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcm6. A special track for YRW has been created within LCM6 EasyChair account. LCM VI Local organization ? Piotr Konderak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Cognitive Science ? Piotr Giza, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Philosophy ? Marcin Krawczyk, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Philosophy ? Monika Malmon, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Philosophy ? Przemyslaw Sotowski, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Law *International LCM organizing committee* ? Ana Margarida *Abrantes*, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture ? Roberto *Bottini*, University of Milan-Bicocca, Cognitive Science ? Barbara *Fultner*, Denison University, Philosophy and Women?s Studies ? Peter *Hanenberg*, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture ? John *Lucy*, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology ? Aliyah *Morgenstern*, Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics ? Esther *Pascual*, University of Groningen, Communication Studies ? Victor *Rosenthal*, Institut Marcel Mauss-EHESS, Paris, Anthropology ? Chris *Sinha*, Lund University, Linguistics From danjiesu at gmail.com Fri Jan 3 21:05:56 2014 From: danjiesu at gmail.com (Danjie Su) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 13:05:56 -0800 Subject: Call-for-papers: 3rd International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Happy New Year! Please see below a call for the 3rd International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse (ISCLD3) forwarded by Professor Hongyin Tao. The deadline is approaching (*Friday 10th January, 2014)*. Please feel free to forward it to anyone you think may be interested in. Thank you! Best, Daisy _______________________ Danjie Su PhD Student Asian Languages and Cultures UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 danjiesu at gmail.com www.danjiesu.com *The Third International Symposium on * *Chinese Language and Discourse (ISCLD3) ??????????????????????????????* 11-13 June, 2014 London, UK *CALL FOR PAPERS* The International Symposium on Chinese Language and Discourse is a biennial symposium that advances the exchange of scholarship in discourse functional studies of the Chinese language, emphasizing an empirical orientation and encompassing such fields as discourse and grammar, variation and change, language contact, language and society, language and culture, and language and social interaction. The third symposium will be held at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. The working language of the symposium will be English. Abstracts are invited for oral presentations (25 minutes, plus 5 minutes for discussion) to showcase latest advancements in broadly-defined discourse functional studies of the Chinese language. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: Corpora and Chinese language studies Language variation, change and development Language acquisition Language contact and diversity Language and interaction Language and society Language and culture Language and cognition An abstract of no more than 500 but no fewer than 300 words in English should be submitted to: roundtable at bbk.ac.uk. Please also include (i) author(s)? name(s); (ii) affiliation; and (iii) email address. *Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday 10th January, 2014* Notification of acceptance: February, 2014 Conference Dates 11-13 June, 2014 Keynote speakers: Rint Sybesma (University of Leiden, The Netherlands) Richard Xiao (University of Lancaster, UK) Boping Yuan (University of Cambridge, UK) There will be a Round Table on the teaching and learning of Chinese in the era of Globalization on Wednesday 11th June, 2014. Invited Speakers for the Round Table: Katherine Carruthers (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) Amy Stambach (University of Oxford, UK) Don Starr (University of Durham, UK) Chun Zhang (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Zhu Hua (Convenor, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) Journal: Chinese Language and Discourse (ISSN 1877-7031 | E-ISSN 1877-8798), Benjamins (http://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/cld/main). Executive Editor Hongyin Tao; Co-Editors: K.K. Luke, and Li Wei Book series: Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse (ISSN 1879-5382), Benjamins (http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/scld/main). Executive Editor Hongyin Tao; Co-Editors: K.K. Luke, and Li Wei Birkbeck College is located at the heart of Bloomsbury, a historical and fashionable area in the centre of London where numerous cultural, educational and health institutions are located. The British Museum is next to Birkbeck buildings, and Oxford Street is within walking distance. It is accessible by several underground lines, with a direct line to Heathrow airport. There are abundant hotels and restaurants in the neighbourhood. Participants are asked to book their own accommodation, as the university does not have accommodation during term time. Registration Fee: The registration fee to cover lunches, tea/coffee, and the delegate?s pack is ?85 (eighty-five pounds) before 1st April 2014. We have kept it to the minimum and therefore there is no student discount or day rate. Late (after 1st April 2014) or on-site registrations will be charged at ?120 (one hundred and twenty pounds). Credit card payment can be made at roundtable at bbk.ac.uk. From elc9j at cms.mail.virginia.edu Fri Jan 3 22:41:57 2014 From: elc9j at cms.mail.virginia.edu (Ellen Contini-Morava) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 17:41:57 -0500 Subject: new publications on nominal classification Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, Please see the abstracts below of two recent publications on nominal classification systems. In the paper "Functions of Nominal Classification" [Language Sciences 40 (2013): 263-299, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0388000113000399] we propose a functional typology for nominal classification systems. Thosewho don't have access to the journal can get a copy of the paper by contacting one of the authors (Ellen Contini-Morava, contini at virginia.edu or Marcin Kilarski, kilarski at amu.edu.pl). Abstract: Nominal classification systems are generally categorized on the basis of morphosyntactic criteria. However, the functional motivations for these phenomena do not coincide directly with their morphosyntactic properties: some functions are shared by diverse systems, and each morphosyntactic type may serve diverse communicative functions. We provide a functional typology for nominal classification, including both noun class and classifier systems. We focus on two types of functions: semantic, i.e., the use of classification markers to expand the referential power of the lexicon, and discourse/pragmatic, i.e., the use of classification markers to establish and manipulate the status of discourse referents. We identify functions that are shared by formally diverse systems as well as functions that depend on means of expression. We also review psycholinguistic evidence for the role of nominal classification in language comprehension and production. In his book, "Nominal Classification: A history of its study from the classical period to the present" (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins 2013, https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/sihols.121/main), Marcin traces the evolution of approaches to gender/noun classes and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. The book appears in the Studies in the History of the Language Sciences series. Abstract: This book offers the first comprehensive survey of the study of gender and classifiers throughout the history of Western linguistics. Based on an analysis of over 200 genetically and typologically diverse languages, the author shows that these seemingly arbitrary and redundant categories play in fact a central role in the lexicon, grammar and the organization of discourse. As a result, the often contradictory approaches to their functionality and semantic motivation encapsulate the evolving conceptions of such issues as cognitive and cultural correlates of linguistic structure, the diverse functions of grammatical categories, linguistic complexity, agreement phenomena and the interplay between lexicon and grammar. The combination of a typological and historiographic perspective adopted here allows the reader to appreciate the detail and insight of earlier, supposedly 'prescientific' accounts in light of the data now available and to examine contemporary discussions in the context of prevailing conceptions in the study of language at different points in its history since antiquity. With best wishes for the New Year, Ellen and Marcin ---- Marcin Kilarski Assistant professor Faculty of English Adam Mickiewicz University Al. Niepodleglosci 4 61-874 Poznan, Poland -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ellen Contini-Morava Professor Department of Anthropology University of Virginia P.O. Box 400120 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4120 USA phone: +1 (434) 924-6825 fax: +1 (434) 924-1350 From martin.hilpert at frias.uni-freiburg.de Tue Jan 7 20:32:46 2014 From: martin.hilpert at frias.uni-freiburg.de (martin.hilpert at frias.uni-freiburg.de) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:32:46 +0100 Subject: Richard M. Hogg Prize 2014 - call for submissions Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, if you know of young researchers who might be interested, I'd be happy if you could forward this call to them. Best wishes, --Martin The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) has been awarding a young researchers' award, the Richard M. Hogg Prize, annually since 2008. The prestigious prize goes to the best paper on the English language by a researcher who has not yet received his or her Ph.D. or who is within two years' of having received the doctorate. Submitting researchers must be members of ISLE. Membership is free for students and very affordable for postdoc and faculty members. You can join at http://isle-linguistics.org/join/. The winner will receive a cash prize of ?500, and the winning paper will be published on the ISLE website. In addition, English Language and Linguistics, the official journal of ISLE, offers to publish the paper in an expedited peer-review process. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2014. For more information on the prize, including length requirements, style sheet and previous winning papers,seehttp://www.isle-linguistics.org/prize/. NB: ISLE-3, the third biennial Conference which is open to all members, will be held in Zurich 24-27 Aug. 2014. --------------------------------------------------- Asst. Prof. Dr. Martin Hilpert Universit? de Neuch?tel Institut de langue et litt?rature anglaises Espace Louis-Agassiz 1 CH-2000 Neuch?tel Phone + 41 32 718 19 31 Fax +41 32 718 17 01 Web http://members.unine.ch/martin.hilpert http://unine.academia.edu/MartinHilpert Out now - Constructional Change in English: http://www.cambridge.org/de/knowledge/isbn/item7071828/Constructional%20Change%20in%20English/?site_locale=de_DE From thhoffma at uni-osnabrueck.de Fri Jan 10 11:33:07 2014 From: thhoffma at uni-osnabrueck.de (Thomas Hoffmann) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:33:07 +0100 Subject: Call for Papers: Eighth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-8/3.9-6.9.2014) Message-ID: Call for Papers Eighth International Conference on Construction Grammar (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 second 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. 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, we are proud to announce that the conference will also 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). 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) 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 Constructionist Resources Organizers: Ellen Dodge, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Kyoko Ohara, Miriam R. L. Petruck & Tiago Torrent Modelling Genre/Register in Grammar:Constructions, Frames or Both? Organizers: Kerstin Fischer & 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. Abstracts should not be longer than 1 page and should not exceed 400 words. 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 *********************************************** From v.ferreira at gmx.de Tue Jan 14 11:20:22 2014 From: v.ferreira at gmx.de (Vera Ferreira) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:20:22 +0000 Subject: Summer school: Community-Driven Language Documentation (CDLC 2014) - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION CIDLeS Summer School 2014: "Community-driven Language Documentation" (CDLD 2014) CIDLeS invites students and researchers in linguistics and related fields, language workers and speakers of endangered languages to participate in the Summer School on "Community-driven Language Documentation". The summer school will take place from Monday, 18th August to Saturday, 23rd August 2014 in Minde (Portugal). Deadline for application: *May 31st, 2014* Date and venue August 18th -- 23rd | The Summer School will take place in Minde, Portugal. Website: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/ About the Summer School The field of language documentation has matured over the last 15 years. With several funding initiatives running out, community-driven language documentation ensures sustainable documentation. This summer school is designed to encourage community-driven interdisciplinary language documentation. It will bring together speakers of endangered languages, local language workers, students and researchers of linguistics and related fields. The summer school is intended to be a space for engagement and exchange between community members, language workers and students and provide an environment for learning about each other's interests and requirements. The curriculum is developed to be in accordance with the needs and interests of the speech communities. It aims at empowering the speech communities to participate in the definition and implementation of research projects and sensitise students of linguistic for the needs of the communities. Thus, the major goal of this summer school is to introduce the participants into the theory and methods of language documentation. The goal is to acquire the knowledge and competence to conduct one's own documentation projects with regard to endangered language. This summer school is part of a larger event. The week before CDLD 2014 there will be another one-week summer school on Coding for Language Communities (http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-coding-for-language-communities-2014/). Topics of lectures and courses Audio and video recording & processing Annotations (transcription, translation, GRAID) Lexicography Ethnobotany Ethnomusicology Language maintenance and revitalization Invited lecturers Ben Levine (Speaking Place, USA) Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) Julia Schulz (Speaking Place, USA) Ulrike Mosel (University of Kiel) /other lecturers to be announced/ Application Participants have to apply by filling out the application form providing information on their background and interest in the area of language documentation and revitalization. Deadline for application is *May 31^st , 2014*.The number of participants is limited to 30. Admission will be based on the track record and a motivational statement that are part of the application form. Apply here: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/ Costs The summer school costs*250 Euros for the whole week*. The fee includes summer school materials, all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and a place to sleep. Depending on availability, the beds will be in a shared room for 2-4 people. You can pay by bank transfer or Paypal (including credit cards). You will receive more details in a confirmation mail, as soon as we processed your application. We plan to provide*scholarships for students* to participate in the summer school. The scholarship will cover the fee of 250 Euros and travel costs up to 1.000 Euros. We still do not know if the scholarship will be available, and when. If you need a scholarship then you may already fill in and send the application form and specifically describe why you need a scholarship in the application form. Organizing team Vera Ferreira(CIDLeS) Peter Bouda (CIDLeS) Rita Pedro(CIDLeS) Felix Rau(University of Cologne) Ingrid Scholz (CIDLeS / University of Porto) For more information, please contact cdld2014 at cidles.eu . -- Summer school "Community-driven language documentation" August 18th-23rd, 2014 Minde, Portugal Web:http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/ Email:cdld2014 at cidles.eu From v.ferreira at gmx.de Tue Jan 14 15:25:02 2014 From: v.ferreira at gmx.de (Vera Ferreira) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:25:02 +0000 Subject: Coding for Language Communities (Summer school, Minde /Portugal) Message-ID: Please pass on to interested parties.* CID**LeS Summer School: **CODING FOR LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES (CLC 2014)* *Date and venue**:* August 11th - 15th | The Summer School will take place within the "Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros" in or near Minde, Portugal. *Website:* http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-coding-for-language-communities-2014/ *About the Summer School* There are currently around 7.000 languages spoken all over the world - but each month a language dies. In general we see a strong tendency to learn and use only the major languages such as English, German, French, etc., especially in electronic communication. This is partly caused by the lack of hardware (e.g. keyboards) and software (for transliteration, text completion, etc.) for under-resourced languages, which constrain the natural usage of people's own language in many tasks. The Summer School "Coding for Language Communities" is about ongoing research and development to turn that process in exactly the other direction: every successful technology can also be used to teach, revitalize and therefore boost the use of regional languages. This technology should also assist the renewal of local languages and cultures by allowing people to actively teach, learn, extend, and spread their language in their community. Our aim is to give people the ability to use their mother tongue in everyday electronic communication, no matter where they are or what language they speak. What will we do? The Summer School "Coding for Language Communites" aims to bring together three groups: - Speakers of languages that are currently not supported by language technologies and that want to use their language on electronic devices; - Students of linguistics and language-related disciplines interested in learning about software development; - Software developers and students of computational sciences that are interested in supporting under-resourced languages by technological means. During an exciting and exhausting week we will work together to develop new software and tools for under-resourced languages. We will create five interdisciplinary teams to tackle real-world problems in ongoing or new open source projects. Each team will consist of five members, with at least one participant of each of the groups mentioned above. Each team will have an expert as mentor to guide and supervise the progress, in addition to three senior software developers that will be available to support all the teams in the implementation of the solution. At the end of the week there will be prizes for the most creative solutions. Each day we start with a theoretical talk by one of the mentors, which complements the practical experience of developing language technologies as a team within an open source project. This summer school is the first part of a larger event. There will be a second summer school the week after this one about Community-driven Language Documentation (http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/). *Mentors* Kevin Scannell Bruce Birch Dorothee Beermann Peter Bouda other mentors to be announced *Application* Deadline for application is May 31st, 2014. The number of participants is limited to 25. Admission will be based on the track record and a motivational statement that is part of the application form. Apply here: http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/apply/ *Costs* The summer school costs 250 Euros for the whole week. The fee includes summer school materials, all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and a place to sleep. We plan to provide scholarships for students to participate in the summer school. If possible, the scholarship will cover the fee of 250 Euros and travel costs up to 1.000 Euros. Describe in the application form why you need a scholarship. *Organizing team* Vera Ferreira Peter Bouda Rita Pedro Felix Rau Kevin Scannell Dorothee Beermann Eva Schinzel For more information please contact clc2014 at cidles.eu. -- Vera Ferreira Centro Interdisciplinar de Documenta??o Lingu?stica e Social / Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation Rua do Remexido, Loja 15 2395-174 Minde Portugal Tel.: +351249849123 Email:vferreira at cidles.eu Web:http://www.cidles.eu From jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se Wed Jan 15 14:04:58 2014 From: jordan.zlatev at ling.lu.se (Jordan Zlatev) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:04:58 +0000 Subject: Final CfP: IACS-2014 Message-ID: Third and final Call for Papers 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): 1 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 Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Sweden Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS), Deputy research director http://project.sol.lu.se/en/ccs/ The Public Journal of Semiotics (PJOS), Editor-in-Chief http://pjos.org International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS), President From benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se Thu Jan 16 10:47:53 2014 From: benjamin.lyngfelt at svenska.gu.se (Benjamin Lyngfelt) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:47:53 +0000 Subject: Extended deadline: Workshop on Constructionist resources at ICCG-8 Message-ID: The deadline for abstracts has been extended to February 16. Workshop: Constructionist resources Organizers: Ellen Dodge, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Kyoko Ohara, Miriam R. L. Petruck & Tiago Torrent Construction Grammar has not only generated a wealth of linguistic research but also inspired the development of a number of linguistically motivated knowledge bases, which serve as resources for linguistics, language technology, and language pedagogy. The most well-known and long established of these databases is FrameNet, a large-scale and elaborate instantiation of Frame Semantics (e.g. Fillmore & Baker 2009). The first FrameNet was developed for English in Berkeley, and there are now FrameNets for quite a few languages. A complementary development are constructicons (e.g. Fillmore et al. 2012). In constructionist theory, a constructicon is the inventory of constructions that a language presumably consists of; as a practical application, a constructicon is a corresponding collection of construction descriptions. A third kind of resource is MetaNet (Dodge et al. 2013), a multilingual metaphor repository, based on the notion of conceptual metaphor, and organized according to the principles of Frame Semantics (Ruppenhofer et al. 2010) and Embodied Construction Grammar (Feldman et al. 2010). Both MetaNet and the constructicons build on FrameNet methodology and are intended to be compatible tools. We now invite papers on these and other construction related resources to a workshop at ICCG-8 (the 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar) in Osnabr?ck, Germany, September 3?6 2014.This workshop will include both presentations of project-particular developments and discussions of how to connect the various resources in useful ways. Key topics are the relations between Frame Semantics, Construction Grammar, and Conceptual Metaphors, as well as cross-linguistic applications of the resources. The deadline for abstract submission is February 16. Abstracts should not be longer than 1 page and should not exceed 400 words. Since all submissions will be reviewed anonymously, all author-specific information must be avoided. The time allotted for each presentation is 20 minutes plus a 10 minute discussion. Abstract reviewing is handled via EasyAbs, so please submit your abstract online to http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/cxnrec Information about the general conference can be found at http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/iccg8/ References Boas, Hans C. (ed.) (2009). Multilingual FrameNets in Computational Lexicography: Methods and Applications. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Dodge, Ellen, Jisup Hong, Elise Stickles & Oana David (2013). The MetaNet Wiki: A collaborative online resource for metaphor and image schema analysis. Talk presented at the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Edmonton, Alberta. Feldman, Jerome, Ellen Dodge & John Bryant (2010). Embodied Construction Grammar. In Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, pp. 111?138. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. Fillmore, Charles J. & Collin F. Baker (2009). A Frames Approach to Semantic Analysis. In Bernd Heine & Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, pp. 313?339. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. Fillmore, Charles J., Russell Lee-Goldman & Russell Rhomieux (2012). The FrameNet Constructicon. In Hans C. Boas & Ivan A. Sag (eds.), Sign-based Construction Grammar, pp. 309?372. Stanford: CSLI. FrameNet. > Lyngfelt, Benjamin, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Julia Prentice, Rudolf Rydstedt, Emma Sk?ldberg & Sofia Tingsell (2012). Adding a Constructicon to the Swedish resource network of Spr?kbanken. Proceedings of KONVENS 2012 (LexSem 2012 workshop), pp. 452?461. Vienna. Ohara, Kyoko Hirose (2013). Toward Constructicon Building for Japanese in Japanese FrameNet. Veredas 17: 11?27. Ruppenhofer, Josef, Michael Ellsworth, Mirian R. L. Petruck, Christopher R. Johnson & Jan Scheffczyk (2010). FrameNet II: Extended theory and practice. Berkeley: ICSI. Sk?ldberg, Emma, Linn?a B?ckstr?m, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Benjamin Lyngfelt, Leif-J?ran Olsson, Julia Prentice, Rudolf Rydstedt, Sofia Tingsell & Jonatan Uppstr?m (2013). Between Grammars and Dictionaries: a Swedish Constructicon. Proceedings of eLex 2013, pp. 310?327. Tallinn. Torrent, Tiago Timpani & Michael Ellsworth (2013). Behind the Labels: Criteria for Defining Analytical Categories in FrameNet Brasil. Veredas 17: 44?65. From sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it Mon Jan 27 00:40:07 2014 From: sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it (Sonia Cristofaro) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 00:40:07 +0000 Subject: Final call for papers - Syntax of the World's Languages VI (SWL6), Pavia, Italy, 8-10 September 2014 Message-ID: ***Apologies for cross-posting*** *SWL6 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS* Dear list members, this is to remind you that the conference `Syntax of the World's Languages 6' (SWL6) will be held in Pavia (Italy) on September 8-10, 2014. Abstracts of no more than one page (plus possibly one additional page for examples) should be sent in PDF format to swl6.conference at gmail.com by* **January 31, 2014***, with ``SWL6 abstract'' in the subject line (authors will receive notification of acceptance by March 31, 2014). Abstracts will be reviewed by an abstract reading committee including members of the organizing committee as well as several linguists working in typology and language documentation (the full list of members of the abstract reading committee and the organizing committee is available on the conference website). Submissions should be anonymous and refrain from self-reference. Please provide contact details and the title of your presentation in the body of the email. Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. The conference will be held in English and abstracts must be submitted in English. In the same spirit as previous conferences in this series (SWL I - Leipzig 2004, SWL II - Lancaster 2006, SWL III - Berlin 2008, SWL IV - Lyon 2010, and SWL V - Dubrovnik 2012), the conference will provide a forum for linguists working on the syntax of less widely studied languages from a variety of perspectives. The main purpose of the conference is to enlarge our knowledge and understanding of syntactic diversity. Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. The discussion of theoretical issues is appreciated to the extent that it helps to elucidate the data and is understandable without prior knowledge of the relevant theory. All theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, and papers that adopt a diachronic or comparative perspective are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role. Invited speakers: Bjarke Frellesvig, University of Oxford http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/ea/japanese/bfrellesvig.html Mauro Tosco, University of Turin http://www.maurotosco.net/maurotosco/Home.html The University of Pavia will also host three workshops held in connection with the conference on September 11, 2014: Ditranitive constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective Organizers: Agnes Korn and Carina Jahani http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/2trans/ East Caucasian preverb and the compounding-inflection- derivation continuum Organizer: Gilles Authier http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/cauc-pre.htm Voice systems in diachrony: a comparative perspective Organizer: Michela Cennamo http://voice-systems-workshop.wikidot.com Pavia is within easy reach of Milan, which has excellent flight connections to/from all major and many smaller European cities, as well as several other destinations in the world. Participants can be accommodated at moderate prices in several university colleges. For updated information on the conference program, registration, adjacent workhops and practicalities, please refer to the conference website: http://swl-6.wikidot.com/ -- -- Sonia Cristofaro Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Sezione di Linguistica Universita' di Pavia Strada Nuova, 65 I-27100 Pavia Italia Tel. +390382984484 Fax +390382984487 E-mail: sonia.cristofaro at unipv.it From falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es Mon Jan 27 14:59:37 2014 From: falonso at dfm.ulpgc.es (Francisco Alonso Almeida) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:59:37 +0000 Subject: CILC2014 Abstract Submission extended - International Conference on Corpus Linguistics Message-ID: Dear colleagues, It is our pleasure to inform you that, in response to a number of entreaties from prospective participants, we have extended the paper submission deadline for the CILC2014 (International Conference on Corpus Linguistics) until February 6th, 2014. Note that there will be no more deadline extensions after this date. Please recall that the CILC2014 will be held at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, May 22 ? May 24, 2014. The Call for Submissions is here: http://www.congresos.ulpgc.es/cilc6/page4/index.html Best wishes Francisco Alonso On behalf of the Organizing Committee AELINCO (Spanish Association of Corpus Linguistics) ___________ Queridos compa?eros y compa?eras: Por la presente, les comunico que el plazo de recepci?n de propuestas para participar en el VI Congreso Internacional de Ling??stica de Corpus, CIL2014, se ampl?a hasta el pr?ximo 6 de febrero de 2014. Encontrar?n informaci?n al respecto en el v?nculo siguiente: http://www.congresos.ulpgc.es/cilc6/page6/index.html Un saludo cordial, Francisco Alonso AELINCO (Asociaci?n Espa?ola de Ling??stica de Corpus) From mcarrete at filol.ucm.es Thu Jan 30 16:55:01 2014 From: mcarrete at filol.ucm.es (MARTA BEGONA CARRETERO LAPEYRE) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:55:01 +0100 Subject: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 2014 (EMEL'14) Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The Department of English Philology I (English Language and Linguistics) of the Complutense University of Madrid is pleased to announce the International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages 2014 (EMEL'14), which will take place at the Facultad de Filolog?a, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 6-8 October 2014. EMEL'14 invites you to submit abstracts for general session or poster papers on evidentiality and modality in European languages. The conference also welcomes proposals for workshop sessions. The conference aims to cover a broad range of research concerned with the domains of evidentiality and modality, with special interest in empirical work and crosslinguistic studies. Some proposed research areas include: - Epistemicity: relation between evidentiality and epistemic modality - Cross-linguistic and typological studies on evidentiality - Interactional approaches to evidentiality and/or epistemic modality - Epistemic stance and inter/subjectivity in discourse - Evidential constructions and grammaticalization of evidential expressions - Types of evidentiality: Direct vs. Indirect - Reported speech and reportative evidentiality - Corpus-based studies on evidentiality and/or epistemic modality A selection of papers based on contributions presented in this conference will be published in a special issue of an international journal and/or a prestigious academic publisher. PLENARY SPEAKERS Rebecca Clift (University of Essex) Ronald W. Langacker (University of California, San Diego) Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp) GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: GENERAL SESSION PAPERS AND POSTERS Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will also be a poster session. The language of the conference for the plenaries and the general session is English. An anonymous copy of your abstract (max. 500 words, excl. references), in Word or PDF format, should be submitted via email to: emel14 at ucm.es Please include your name, affiliation and contact details in the text of the e-mail message. Participants may submit a maximum of two abstracts, that is, no more than one single-authored paper and one joint-authored paper, or two joint-authored papers. All abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed. They should include research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Abstract submission deadline: 1 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 26 April 2014 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: WORKSHOP SESSIONS Proposals for workshops should include the name(s) of the convenor(s), title and a 1000-word description of the topic (see instructions for paper abstracts above), and a list of workshop participants, including 300 word abstracts of their papers. Workshop convenors are encouraged to distribute an open call for papers on the Linguist List, or other distribution lists. The workshop sessions will consist of a maximum of 10 slots, each with the same time format as the general session papers (20 min. + 10 min. discussion). Each workshop session should include an introductory paper by a key-note speaker, and an additional 30-minute slot for final discussion on the topic, further issues and questions for future research. The languages for the theme sessions may be: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Proposals should be sent by e-mail to: emel14 at ucm.es Deadline for submission of proposals: 1 April 2014. Theme session organisers will be notified by 26 April REGISTRATION Early bird registration opens: 1 June 2014 Registration (full fee): 1 July 2014 Registration closes: 7 October 2014 Conference fees (including coffee breaks, Wi-Fi access, and a conference pack): (a) Early bird registration (from 1 June to June 30 2014): - Regular participants: 120 Euros - Students (with valid ID): 70 Euros (b) Late registration: - Regular participants: 150 Euros - Students (with valid ID): 100 Euros ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jorge Ar?s, Marta Carretero (Secretary), Karlos Cid Abasolo, Bert Cornillie, Elena Dom?nguez, Julia Lavid, Carmen Ma?z Ar?valo, Juana I. Mar?n Arrese (Chair), M? Victoria Mart?n de la Rosa, Juan Rafael Zamorano CONTACT E-mail: emel14 at ucm.es Postal address: EMEL'14 Organizing committee Departamento de Filolog?a Inglesa I Facultad de Filolog?a Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria, s/n E-28040 Madrid Spain Dr Marta Carretero https://portal.ucm.es/web/filologia_inglesa_i/marta-carretero From dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com Fri Jan 31 14:52:49 2014 From: dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com (Denis Donovan) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:52:49 -0500 Subject: searching for Ph.D. thesis Message-ID: I realize that, because of the date, the odds are slim, but does anyone have an ELECTRONIC (txt, pdf) copy of this Cornell Ph.D. thesis. David Bellinger, the author, does not have a copy and has shifted the focus of his work dramatically. Bellinger, David Chudleigh (1978). The structure of maternal speech acts. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University (Cornell Uris Library call number BF30 1977 B444). With sincere advance thanks, Denis Donovan - - - Denis M. Donovan, M.D., M.Ed., F.A.P.S. Director, EOCT Institute Medical Director, 1983 - 2006 The Children's Center for Developmental Psychiatry St. Petersburg, Florida P.O Box 47576 St. Petersburg, FL 33743-7576 Phone: 727-641-8905 DenisDonovan at EOCT-Institute.org dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com Please reply to: dmdonovan1937 at gamail.com From kesmith at cambridge.org Fri Jan 31 14:59:45 2014 From: kesmith at cambridge.org (Katie Smith) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:59:45 +0000 Subject: UK-CLA and Language and Cognition Offer Message-ID: We are delighted to announce that Language and Cognition will be published by Cambridge from 2014 Subscribe to Language and Cognition by joining the UK-CLA. Membership is open to all, regardless of geographical location and/or institutional affiliation. Subscription will also include electronic access to all back content of the journal. 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