From DEVERETT at bentley.edu  Tue Jun  3 12:09:22 2014
From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:09:22 +0000
Subject: Parentheticals
Message-ID: <TUE.3.JUN.2014.120922.0000.DEVERETT@BENTLEY.EDU>

Is any reader of this list currently doing work on the syntax and prosody of parentheticals, especially in non-Indo European languages? I would be especially interested to know if there are any labs or working groups dedicated to this question.

A exemplar of the kind of work I am interested in is Nicole Dehé's forthcoming book: http://www.amazon.com/Parentheticals-Spoken-English-Syntax-Prosody-Relation/dp/0521761921

I am particularly interested in evidence for phonology-syntax misalignments.

Dan Everett
 

From john at research.haifa.ac.il  Tue Jun  3 12:20:18 2014
From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 15:20:18 +0300
Subject: Publishing a Bari-English dictionary
In-Reply-To: <E94C7730-47E9-4F94-A1BB-1335784E82D9@bentley.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.3.JUN.2014.152018.0300.JOHN@RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL>

 

Dear Funknetters, 

My colleague Laila Lokosang has written a
Bari-English dictionary (Bari is a Nilotic language of South Sudan,


spoken by about 600,000 people) which I've helped him in editing. Can
any of you suggest somewhere this 

might be published? 

Thanks for any
suggestions you may have, 

John 

 


From pbourdin at yorku.ca  Tue Jun  3 14:35:50 2014
From: pbourdin at yorku.ca (Philippe Bourdin)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 16:35:50 +0200
Subject: Publishing a Bari-English dictionary
In-Reply-To: <55647cdb7974fe9ef4d08f471e67059e@research.haifa.ac.il>
Message-ID: <TUE.3.JUN.2014.163550.0200.PBOURDIN@YORKU.CA>

Hi John,

Off the cuff I'd suggest Rüdiger Köppe, but you've probably thought 
about it (or rather him!).

Best wishes to you and Laila,

Philippe Bourdin
York U. (Toronto)

john wrote:
>  
>
> Dear Funknetters, 
>
> My colleague Laila Lokosang has written a
> Bari-English dictionary (Bari is a Nilotic language of South Sudan,
>
>
> spoken by about 600,000 people) which I've helped him in editing. Can
> any of you suggest somewhere this 
>
> might be published? 
>
> Thanks for any
> suggestions you may have, 
>
> John 
>
>  
>   


From ceford at wisc.edu  Tue Jun  3 14:46:00 2014
From: ceford at wisc.edu (Cecilia E. Ford)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 09:46:00 -0500
Subject: Parentheticals
In-Reply-To: <7580a6cddad1.538ddf9d@wiscmail.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.3.JUN.2014.094600.0500.CEFORD@WISC.EDU>

Hi Dan:

Richard Ogden (University of York) would also be a good source. 

 http://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/Richard-Ogden/#research

John Local (York, emeritus) has a great exploration of parentheticals -- "Continuing and restarting" in The Contextualization of Language, edited by Peter Auer, Aldo Di Luzio. It's on the phonetics/prosodics of parentheticals in interaction (English). 
 https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.22/main

Of course, both Ogden and Local use very different sorts of data than many phoneticians....

ceci 

On 06/03/14, "Everett, Daniel"  <DEVERETT at bentley.edu> wrote:
> Is any reader of this list currently doing work on the syntax and prosody of parentheticals, especially in non-Indo European languages? I would be especially interested to know if there are any labs or working groups dedicated to this question.
> 
> A exemplar of the kind of work I am interested in is Nicole Dehé's forthcoming book: http://www.amazon.com/Parentheticals-Spoken-English-Syntax-Prosody-Relation/dp/0521761921
> 
> I am particularly interested in evidence for phonology-syntax misalignments.
> 
> Dan Everett
>  
> 
--
Professor of English and Sociology
Hoefs Professor of English

__________________________________________________
http://english.wisc.edu/cecilia_e_ford/

UW Interaction Interest Group (UWIIG): http://uwiig.blogspot.com/


From Bernd.Heine at uni-koeln.de  Wed Jun  4 11:58:38 2014
From: Bernd.Heine at uni-koeln.de (Bernd Heine)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 13:58:38 +0200
Subject: Parentheticals
In-Reply-To: <76b0b5dadc81.538d9958@wiscmail.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.4.JUN.2014.135838.0200.BERND.HEINE@UNIKOELN.DE>

Hi Dan,
Thanks for raising this issue. Work on parentheticals has become a 
lively field of research over the last years. What some of this research 
suggests is, first, that parentheticals (or theticals, as our working 
group calls them) are not only a matter of phonetics/prosodics and 
syntax but also of discourse pragmatics/context, as pointed out by Ceci, 
and of semantics. And second, this research also suggests that 
(paren)theticals appear to be part of a more general phenomenon in the 
organization of linguistic discourse. An overview of this line of 
research can be found in the following papers:

Kaltenböck, Gunther, Bernd Heine, and Tania Kuteva 2011. On thetical 
grammar. /Studies in Language /35, 4: 848-893.

Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva, and Haiping Long 2013. An 
outline of discourse grammar. In Shannon Bischoff and Carmen Jany 
(eds.), /Functional Approaches to Language/. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. 
Pp. 175-233.

So far, most of this work has been concerned with European languages. We 
have now started extending the framework to some African languages, but 
this turns out to be more difficult than we had envisaged.
Bernd
> Hi Dan:
>
> Richard Ogden (University of York) would also be a good source.
>
>   http://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/Richard-Ogden/#research
>
> John Local (York, emeritus) has a great exploration of parentheticals -- "Continuing and restarting" in The Contextualization of Language, edited by Peter Auer, Aldo Di Luzio. It's on the phonetics/prosodics of parentheticals in interaction (English).
>   https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.22/main
>
> Of course, both Ogden and Local use very different sorts of data than many phoneticians....
>
> ceci
>
> On 06/03/14, "Everett, Daniel"<DEVERETT at bentley.edu>  wrote:
>> Is any reader of this list currently doing work on the syntax and prosody of parentheticals, especially in non-Indo European languages? I would be especially interested to know if there are any labs or working groups dedicated to this question.
>>
>> A exemplar of the kind of work I am interested in is Nicole Dehé's forthcoming book:http://www.amazon.com/Parentheticals-Spoken-English-Syntax-Prosody-Relation/dp/0521761921
>>
>> I am particularly interested in evidence for phonology-syntax misalignments.
>>
>> Dan Everett
>>   
>>
> --
> Professor of English and Sociology
> Hoefs Professor of English
>
> __________________________________________________
> http://english.wisc.edu/cecilia_e_ford/
>
> UW Interaction Interest Group (UWIIG):http://uwiig.blogspot.com/



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From DEVERETT at bentley.edu  Wed Jun  4 12:00:09 2014
From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 12:00:09 +0000
Subject: Parentheticals
In-Reply-To: <538F09EE.5050103@uni-koeln.de>
Message-ID: <WED.4.JUN.2014.120009.0000.DEVERETT@BENTLEY.EDU>

Many, many thanks, Bernd. Excellent references. 

Dan

On Jun 4, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Bernd Heine <Bernd.Heine at uni-koeln.de> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> Thanks for raising this issue. Work on parentheticals has become a lively field of research over the last years. What some of this research suggests is, first, that parentheticals (or theticals, as our working group calls them) are not only a matter of phonetics/prosodics and syntax but also of discourse pragmatics/context, as pointed out by Ceci, and of semantics. And second, this research also suggests that (paren)theticals appear to be part of a more general phenomenon in the organization of linguistic discourse. An overview of this line of research can be found in the following papers:
> 
> Kaltenböck, Gunther, Bernd Heine, and Tania Kuteva 2011. On thetical grammar. /Studies in Language /35, 4: 848-893.
> 
> Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva, and Haiping Long 2013. An outline of discourse grammar. In Shannon Bischoff and Carmen Jany (eds.), /Functional Approaches to Language/. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 175-233.
> 
> So far, most of this work has been concerned with European languages. We have now started extending the framework to some African languages, but this turns out to be more difficult than we had envisaged.
> Bernd
>> Hi Dan:
>> 
>> Richard Ogden (University of York) would also be a good source.
>> 
>>  http://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/Richard-Ogden/#research
>> 
>> John Local (York, emeritus) has a great exploration of parentheticals -- "Continuing and restarting" in The Contextualization of Language, edited by Peter Auer, Aldo Di Luzio. It's on the phonetics/prosodics of parentheticals in interaction (English).
>>  https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.22/main
>> 
>> Of course, both Ogden and Local use very different sorts of data than many phoneticians....
>> 
>> ceci
>> 
>> On 06/03/14, "Everett, Daniel"<DEVERETT at bentley.edu>  wrote:
>>> Is any reader of this list currently doing work on the syntax and prosody of parentheticals, especially in non-Indo European languages? I would be especially interested to know if there are any labs or working groups dedicated to this question.
>>> 
>>> A exemplar of the kind of work I am interested in is Nicole Dehé's forthcoming book:http://www.amazon.com/Parentheticals-Spoken-English-Syntax-Prosody-Relation/dp/0521761921
>>> 
>>> I am particularly interested in evidence for phonology-syntax misalignments.
>>> 
>>> Dan Everett
>>>  
>> --
>> Professor of English and Sociology
>> Hoefs Professor of English
>> 
>> __________________________________________________
>> http://english.wisc.edu/cecilia_e_ford/
>> 
>> UW Interaction Interest Group (UWIIG):http://uwiig.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> 
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From amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk  Thu Jun  5 15:03:31 2014
From: amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk (Amanda Patten)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 15:03:31 +0000
Subject: ICLC-13: call for papers
Message-ID: <THU.5.JUN.2014.150331.0000.AMANDA.PATTEN@NORTHUMBRIA.AC.UK>

13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13)
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13
20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite a broad range of papers taking a cognitive, functional, typological, and discourse approach to the study of language and cognition in relation to body, culture, and context of use. The special theme of ICLC-13 is “bringing together theory and method”. We welcome papers that demonstrate, or reflect upon, the successful union of modern empirical methods with sound theory.

Potential Topics:
The range of topics at past ICLCs has typically included (but is not limited to):

Categorization, prototypes, and polysemy; Cognitive and Construction Grammars; cognitive corpus linguistics; cognitive phonology; cognitive semantics; discourse and grammar, text and discourse; domains and frame semantics; embodiment and situated cognition; empirical methods in cognitive linguistics; grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; image schemas and force dynamics; language development, impairment, attrition, and loss; linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; metaphor and metonymy; mental spaces and conceptual blending; neural models of language; signed languages, gesture, and modality; usage-based approaches.

General Session and Poster Session:
The language of the conference is English. General (parallel) session talks will be allocated 25 minutes, which includes questions and discussion. Posters will stay up for a day and will be allocated to dedicated, timetabled sessions.

Theme Session:
Theme sessions will be integrated into the conference schedule. We encourage theme session organisers to submit theme session titles and proposals (up to 500 words) directly to the conference organisers (by email: ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk<mailto:ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk>) along with the names of authors and titles of the individual papers.

We will consider sessions of varying lengths and formats (with or without an allocated “discussion” slot). However, we would like to note that the conference schedule particularly suits sessions comprised of 6 slots (of 25 minutes each). The maximum length for theme sessions is 12 slots (of 25 minutes each). Theme session authors will still need to submit their abstracts for review (following the guidelines below) and should make sure to note the title of the theme session at the top of their abstracts.

The deadline for organisers to submit proposals for Theme Sessions is September 15, 2014.

Abstract Submission:
Each author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper, regardless of whether they are intended for the general or a special theme session. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through EasyAbs via the “Abstract Submissions” tab on the ICLC-13 homepage: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13.

The submission period is 1 August – 3 November 2014.

Abstracts must not exceed 1 page of A4 (including title, data, figures and references), and should be formatted in the following way. Please use 10 point Arial (Unicode) font, single-spaced and set margins to 1 inch (2.54cm) all around. Abstracts will be subjected to blind review by a minimum of two referees from an international Scientific Committee, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Please include a list of five keywords that describe the research at the top of the abstract to assist the reviewing process.

Authors must include the following information on the EasyAbs web page: (1) name(s) of author(s); (2) affiliation(s); (3) email address; and (4) preference for oral or poster presentation. Authors should upload .pdf versions of their abstracts to preserve special formatting or fonts. Abstracts must be submitted through EasyAbs starting on 1 August 2014.

Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of scope, relevance, originality, methodology, and strength of conclusions. It is possible that we will require authors submitting papers to ICLC-13 to assist in the reviewing process. Please note that submitting an abstract constitutes an agreement to reviewing a maximum of 5 other abstracts.

ICLA Membership:
ICLC is the biennial conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA, http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org). There is no requirement to be an ICLA member to submit an abstract. Participation in the ICLC conference will require standard ICLA membership (at a revised rate of approximately 25€ to 30€), which also gives ICLC participants access to several member benefits.

Important Dates:
Abstract submission becomes available on EasyAbs: 1 August 2014
Deadline for theme session proposals: 15 September 2014
Deadline for abstract submission (general and theme session): 3 November 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2015
Dates of conference: 20-25 July 2015

Please direct all enquiries to ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk<mailto:ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk>.


From naruadol at outlook.com  Sat Jun  7 14:08:38 2014
From: naruadol at outlook.com (James N. Chancharu)
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 14:08:38 +0000
Subject: Paid survey: Negation across languages
Message-ID: <SAT.7.JUN.2014.140838.0000.NARUADOL@OUTLOOK.COM>

Hello!
My name is James Chancharu, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. My
research project involves gathering comparative data from many languages. So,
I�m recruiting native speakers (preferably linguists) of the following
languages to help with paid translation/transcription tasks.



-Swedish

-Icelandic

-Polish

-Latvian

-Ossetic

-Finnish

-Lezgian

-Georgian

-Basque

-Maltese

-Hausa

-Kazakh

-ANY LANGUAGES OF AUSTRALIA

-ANY
LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS

-ANY
LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES



Main task: Translating 42 English sentences into your language, using either
the English transliteration or IPA transcription.

Optional,
additional task: Linguistic interlinear glosses for the translated sentences

Reimbursement: 20 pounds (=34 US dollars) for the main task, and another 20
pounds for the optional, additional task (=40 pounds in total), paid via Paypal

Examples of English sentences to be translated:



She has read the book.

She has not read the book.

We have a house.

We don�t have a house.

Read the book!

Don�t read the book!



If you are interested, please kindly let me know. Thank you very much.

nc368 at cam.ac.uk 

naruadol at outlook.com

  		 	   		  
From eusosa at ull.edu.es  Mon Jun  9 19:39:51 2014
From: eusosa at ull.edu.es (EULALIA SOSA ACEVEDO)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:39:51 +0100
Subject: MeLTExt-
 M=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A1ster_en_Ling=C3=BC=C3=ADstica_Aplicada_a_las_Tecnolog=C3?=
 =?utf-8?Q?=ADas_del_Lenguaje_y_Gesti=C3=B3n_?=de Textos
Message-ID: <MON.9.JUN.2014.203951.0100.EUSOSA@ULL.EDU.ES>

Dear colleagues,

We would be most obliged if you could send the following information to
your mail distribution lists and networks.

Thanks very much for your collaboration.


Yours Sincerely,

Eulalia Sosa Acevedo
Dpto. de Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Universidad de La Laguna

  ______________________

We are pleased to inform that the pre-registration period for the 2014-2015
edition of the *Máster Universitario en Lingüística Aplicada a las
Tecnologías del Lenguaje y Gestión de Textos* (MeLText) is now open at the
University of La Laguna.
*MeLText* is a bilingual (English and Spanish) ECTS course integrating
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Tfno. (+34) 922317653
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From weilunlu at gmail.com  Thu Jun 12 04:46:43 2014
From: weilunlu at gmail.com (Wei-lun Lu)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 06:46:43 +0200
Subject: Call for participation: Cog Ling in Brno 2014 (From Function to
 Cognition)
Message-ID: <THU.12.JUN.2014.064643.0200.WEILUNLU@GMAIL.COM>

*Cog Ling in Brno 2014: From Function to Cognition*



Cog Ling in Brno is a forum on Cognitive Linguistics organized by the
Department of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of
Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic). It aims to bring together
researchers interested in Cognitive Linguistics in Brno and is expected to
become a regular annual event and to expand to an international event
within five years.

The Department has a strong research tradition in Functional Linguistics,
with research specializations in Information Structure, Sociolinguistics,
Stylistics, Translation Studies, and Critical Discourse Analysis. In 2013,
we introduced Cognitive Linguistics into the curriculum with the generous
sponsorship from the European Social Fund and the Ministry of Education of
the Czech Republic (CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0037). In the past year, we have
witnessed an emerging synergy between Functional Linguistics and Cognitive
Linguistics in the research team of the Department.

The point of this forum is exactly to showcase our current achievements in
integrating CL into our existing research threads. We have invited three
internal members of the Department, one external member (Japanese Program)
and three outstanding students to share their ongoing projects and to
exchange ideas with people interested in CL in Brno and elsewhere. Everyone
is cordially invited to attend this event to share their ideas with us and
to discuss how to further develop CL in Brno.

If interested, please kindly contact Wei-lun Lu (weilunlu at gmail.com) to
register for attendance.

Date: 17 June 2014

Venue: G23 (Gorkeho 7)





Speaker

Chair

9:50

Registration

--

--

10:00

Opening and welcome

Jana Chamonikolasova

--

10:10

Use of parallel texts as a new methodology in viewpoint study

Wei-lun Lu

Jana Ch.

10:30

Subjecthood in Japanese

Jiri Matela

Jana Ch.

10:50

Pronouncing the Dreams by Foregrounding the Rhemes

Martin Drapela

Jana Ch.

11:10

Mimsy borogoves, or, the craft of word de/formation

Jiri Rambousek

Jana Ch.

11:30

Use of Parallel Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics

Magdalena Honcova

WL

11:50

Specialized Language and Cognitive Linguistics

Ivana Kralikova

WL

12:10

Revised approach to plus-minus parameter of image-schema theory for phrasal
verbs

with *up* and *down*

Alena Holubcova

WL

12:30

General Discussion

All


From jrubba at calpoly.edu  Fri Jun 13 17:51:57 2014
From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:51:57 -0700
Subject: Functional shift in other languages
Message-ID: <FRI.13.JUN.2014.105157.0700.JRUBBA@CALPOLY.EDU>

Hi, all,

I’m looking at John MacWhorter’s book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, wherein he claims that functional shift/conversion/zero derivation does not occur in other languages. Anyone know of counterexamples?

Thanks.


Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics       
Linguistics Minor Advisor
English Department
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
Tel. 805.756.2184
Dept. Tel 805.756.2596
E-mail:  jrubba at calpoly.edu
URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
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From grvsmth at panix.com  Fri Jun 13 23:10:39 2014
From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:10:39 -0400
Subject: Functional shift in other languages
In-Reply-To: <4F2B33BD-9CA0-4D31-AD2C-C68C7EC58FE9@calpoly.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.13.JUN.2014.191039.0400.GRVSMTH@PANIX.COM>

     Interesting, Johanna.  Can you give a page number?

On 6/13/2014 1:51 PM, Johanna Rubba wrote:
> I’m looking at John MacWhorter’s book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, wherein he claims that functional shift/conversion/zero derivation does not occur in other languages. Anyone know of counterexamples?


-- 
				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com


From john at research.haifa.ac.il  Sat Jun 14 06:43:34 2014
From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 09:43:34 +0300
Subject: Functional shift in other languages
In-Reply-To: <539B84EF.8040808@panix.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.14.JUN.2014.094334.0300.JOHN@RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL>

 

What exactly is he referring to? Could you give a few examples?


John 

On 14.06.2014 02:10, Angus Grieve-Smith wrote: 

> Interesting,
Johanna. Can you give a page number?
> 
> On 6/13/2014 1:51 PM, Johanna
Rubba wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking at John MacWhorter's book Our Magnificent
Bastard Tongue, wherein he claims that functional shift/conversion/zero
derivation does not occur in other languages. Anyone know of
counterexamples?

 


From grvsmth at panix.com  Mon Jun 16 15:42:44 2014
From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:42:44 -0400
Subject: Fwd: [clcs-sdl-chercheurs] annonce appel
 journ=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9e_?=Conscila
In-Reply-To: <20140615192555.54b837807153c54dd951fe8c@unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <MON.16.JUN.2014.114244.0400.GRVSMTH@PANIX.COM>

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[clcs-sdl-chercheurs] annonce appel journée Conscila
Date: 	Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:25:55 +0200
Reply-To: 	Dominique Legallois <dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr>
To: 	clcs-sdl-chercheurs at univ-lorraine.fr



Bonjour
pouvez-vous faire passer l'appel à communication pour une journée
Conscila ?
merci et cordialement
Dominique Legallois



Grammaire des genres et des styles : quelles approches  privilégier ?

Organisateurs : Thierry Charnois (Université de Paris 13, LIPN), Sascha
Diwersy (Université de Cologne), Meri Larjavaara (Åbo Akademi),
Dominique Legallois (Université de Caen, Crisco)


Journée ConSciLa (Confrontations en Sciences du Langage), Paris le 16
janvier 2015 (le lieu est à préciser)


Appel à communication

	La syntaxe moderne s'est généralement constituée autour
d'analyses orientées vers les propriétés formelles des phrases et de
leurs constituants. Les phrases sont souvent analysées indépendamment
de tout ancrage énonciatif et plus encore, générique. Forte de cette
perspective, la syntaxe ne considère pas comme centraux dans le champ
qu'elle occupe, les phénomènes de variations grammaticales, ni les
spécificités relatives à la nature différente des performances
linguistiques. De la même façon, les approches textuelles – dans la
tradition de la textométrie ou de l'analyse du discours - ont assez peu
pointé les caractéristiques syntaxiques propres aux genres qu'elles
étudient, étant plus attentives aux particularités lexicales ou
énonciatives. Il s'ensuit qu'un genre textuel est rarement caractérisé
par sa spécificité syntaxique. Quant à la stylistique, discipline la
plus à même d'étudier les particularités linguistiques, son ancrage
trop académique et son manque d'outillage l'obligent souvent à
circonscrire son analyse à des unités souvent pertinentes mais
restreintes et isolées. Les analyses automatisées permettent cependant
depuis quelques années de mieux identifier les spécificités
lexico-grammaticales des textes, et donc des genres. Il existe deux
grandes approches, la première étant largement plus développée que
l'autre :

1- l'approche « paradigmatique » reposant sur la quantification des
catégories morpho-syntaxiques employées. Par exemple, dans son analyse
du discours oral en milieu universitaire, Biber (2006) met en évidence
le sur-emploi (par rapport à l'écrit) des pronoms de premières
personnes, des expressions évaluatives (verbes « mentaux », adverbes
énonciatifs, etc.), des WH questions, etc. Par factorisation, il est
possible de dégager des faisceaux de propriétés génériques donnant la
cartographie d'un genre.

2- l'approche « syntagmatique »  privilégiant la
combinatoire des unités lexicales, le repérage des séquences
syntagmatiques préférées (ou évitées) par un genre. A titre d'exemple,
donnons un patron lexico-grammatical (Larjavaara et Legallois en prép.)
- que l'on désigne parfois par le terme de motif (Quiniou et al.2012,
Longrée et Mellet 2013) : ce N si ADJ et si ADJ. Ce motif,
sémantiquement évaluatif, est spécifique du genre « Mémoires » au 19e
siècle (comparé aux genres Récits de voyage, Romans, Correspondances,
Essais de la même époque) :

Oh ! Tant mieux, tant mieux de n' être pas bornés par ce temps si court
et si triste ! E. de Guérin, Journal (1834-1840)

Seulement, pour ne pas faire acte de désobéissance et de bravade envers
cette mère si tendre et si aimée, Maurice lui annonça […]  un petit
voyage au Blanc.  G. Sand, Histoire de ma vie, 1855

  On éprouve aujourd'hui encore, comme autrefois, une grande douceur
intérieure à voir ces lieux si bénis, et maintenant si abandonnés. Mgr
Dupanloup, Journal intime, 1876.



Cette journée Conscila consacrée à
l'analyse de la grammaire et de la stylistique des genres discursifs, a
pour objectif de réunir des chercheurs en linguistique ou en TAL dont
les travaux portent sur l'identification des caractéristiques
lexico-grammaticales des textes. Les travaux soumis devront prendre en
compte la contrainte de l'exhaustivité : on ne s'intéressera pas à un
seul type de formes, mais à maximum d'éléments spécifiques d'un genre.
Les points suivants pourront être abordés :
- les techniques d'identification des propriétés génériques ;
- la complémentarité ou compétitivité entre approches paradigmatiques
et syntagmatiques ;
- l'interprétation des données.

	Les propositions de communication porteront donc sur la
caractérisation des genres discursifs (littéraires ou non) ou des
styles, dans une perspective exhaustive ; elles aborderont les
méthodes, sans négliger la description linguistique. Elles peuvent être
étendues à la comparaison entre auteurs, ou porter sur des registres,
des pratiques discursives ou encore sur des formes telles que les
séquences textuelles (narrative argumentative, descriptive, etc.). Les
travaux peuvent porter sur toute langue, et les genres abordés peuvent
être oraux ou écrits. Les perspectives peuvent être variables :
informatiques, didactiques, stylistiques, discursives, syntaxiques. Les
communications se feront en français ou en anglais.


1- Une intention de communication sera envoyée mi-septembre aux
organisateurs à l'adresse :  dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr

2- Une proposition d'une page minimum devra être soumise pour le 1er
novembre 2014. La réponse aux auteurs sera transmise le 20 novembre
2014.


Biber D. (2006)  University language:  A corpus-based study of spoken
and written registers.  Amsterdam:  John Benjamins

Biber, D. & S. Conrad 2009: Register, genre and style. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Dorgeloh, H. & A. Wanner (eds) 2010: Syntactic variation and genre,
Berlin/New York:  De Gruyter Mouton.

Larjavaara M et Legallois D. (en prép.) « Les genres discursifs et leur
grammaire »

Longrée D. et Mellet S. (2013. « Le motif : une unité phraséologique
englobante ? Étendre le champ de la phraséologie de la langue au
discours », Langages 189 (D. Legallois & A. Tutin, coord.), p.68-80

Malrieu D. et Rastier F. (2001) Genres et variations morphosyntaxiques,
Traitements automatiques du langage, 42, 2, pp. 547-577.

Martin, J. R. & Rose, D. (2008) : Genre relations. Mapping culture.
London: Equinox.

Quiniou S., Cellier P.,  Charnois Th. et Legallois D. (2012)«  What
About Sequential Data Mining Techniques to Identify Linguistic Patterns
for Stylistics ? » in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Vol.
7181,  pp 166-177

Revue Linx, n°  64-65, « Les genres de discours vus par la grammaire »,
sous la direction de M. Krazem.
















-- 
Dominique Legallois <dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr>


From fjn at u.washington.edu  Mon Jun 16 20:31:48 2014
From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:31:48 -0700
Subject: diachronic development of grammatical relations
Message-ID: <MON.16.JUN.2014.133148.0700.FJN@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

Dear Funknetters,

I wonder if someone could help me out with a literature reference. I'm looking for a book, article, or handbook chapter that discusses the diachronic development of grammatical relations (subject, object, etc.). That is, how they originate, develop, and change over time and, in certain cases (e.g. Acehnese), they are lost. For example, is there a discussion somewhere of the factors that might lead a language to grammaticalize a subject position or a subject marker or (I assume more rarely) to degrammaticalize a subject position or marker?

Thanks!

--fritz


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


From randy.lapolla at gmail.com  Tue Jun 17 00:36:37 2014
From: randy.lapolla at gmail.com (Randy LaPolla)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:36:37 +0800
Subject: diachronic development of grammatical relations
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.01.1406161331480.32391@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.17.JUN.2014.083637.0800.RANDY.LAPOLLA@GMAIL.COM>

Dear Fritz,
I have two articles from 2006 that deal with aspects of this:

LaPolla, Randy J. 2006. On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identification. In Tasaku Tsunoda and Taro Kageyama (eds.), Voice and grammatical relations: Festschrift for Masayoshi Shibatani (Typological Studies in Language), 139-151. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
      http://tibeto-burman.net/rjlapolla/papers/LaPolla_2006_On_Grammatical_Relations_as_Constraints_on_Referent_Identification.pdf

LaPolla, Randy J. 2006. The how and why of syntactic relations. Invited plenary address and keynote of the Centre for Research on Language Change Workshop on Grammatical Change at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, University of Queensland, 7-9 July, 2006. To appear in Christian Lehmann, Stavros Skopeteas, Christian Marschke (eds.), Evolution of syntactic relations (Trends in Linguistics Series). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
http://tibeto-burman.net/rjlapolla/papers/LaPolla_Draft_The_how_and_why_of_syntactic_relations.pdf

All the best,
Randy
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 4:31 AM, Frederick J Newmeyer wrote:

> Dear Funknetters,
> 
> I wonder if someone could help me out with a literature reference. I'm looking for a book, article, or handbook chapter that discusses the diachronic development of grammatical relations (subject, object, etc.). That is, how they originate, develop, and change over time and, in certain cases (e.g. Acehnese), they are lost. For example, is there a discussion somewhere of the factors that might lead a language to grammaticalize a subject position or a subject marker or (I assume more rarely) to degrammaticalize a subject position or marker?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --fritz
> 
> 
> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
> [for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail]
> 
> 


From wolfgang_m_schulze at t-online.de  Tue Jun 17 05:49:10 2014
From: wolfgang_m_schulze at t-online.de (Wolfgang Schulze)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:49:10 +0200
Subject: diachronic development of grammatical relations
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.01.1406161331480.32391@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.17.JUN.2014.074910.0200.>

Dear Fritz,
let me humbly mention a paper of mine:

Schulze. W. (2011). The Grammaticalization of Antipassives 
(https://www.academia.edu/1802279/The_Grammaticalization_of_Antipassives)

Some theoretical aspects are described in:

Schulze, W. (2010) . Cognitive Transitivity 
(https://www.academia.edu/1802287/Cognitive_Transivity)

Note that I do not use the Subject/Object- etc. terminology. Instead, I 
refer to the SAO- (etc.) typology.

Best wishes,
Wolfgang


Am 16.06.2014 22:31, schrieb Frederick J Newmeyer:
> Dear Funknetters,
>
> I wonder if someone could help me out with a literature reference. I'm looking for a book, article, or handbook chapter that discusses the diachronic development of grammatical relations (subject, object, etc.). That is, how they originate, develop, and change over time and, in certain cases (e.g. Acehnese), they are lost. For example, is there a discussion somewhere of the factors that might lead a language to grammaticalize a subject position or a subject marker or (I assume more rarely) to degrammaticalize a subject position or marker?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --fritz
>
>
> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
> [for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail]
>
>
>

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From c.shank at bangor.ac.uk  Tue Jun 17 17:59:48 2014
From: c.shank at bangor.ac.uk (Christopher Clay Shank)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:59:48 +0000
Subject: Posts: Lecturer in Psycholinguistics & Lecturer in Language
 Acquisition
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Two permanent posts:  Lecturer in Psycholinguistics &  Lecturer in Language Acquisition.

At Bangor University - School of Linguistics & English Language.

As part of an exciting expansion of the School of Linguistics & English Language, applications are now invited for two posts: a permanent Lecturer in Psycholinguistics, and a permanent  Lecturer in Language Acquisition.  Closing date for applications: Wednesday, 2 July 2014. Both posts are available from 1st September 2014.

Information on Linguistics & English Language, including its staff and their research interests can be found at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/

Lecturer in Psycholinguistics

Ref: BU00623
30,728 - 36,661 p.a.  (Grade 7)

We are seeking applicants who have evidence of producing research output(s) that are judged to be internationally excellent and who have an emerging or established research programme in the field of linguistics that address mental aspects such as the comprehension, production, and development of language(s), with direct and demonstrable relevance to one of the School's research specialisms: bilingualism or Cognitive Linguistics (theoretical and/or applied or experimental approaches).

Educated to postgraduate degree level, applicants will be able to contribute to a wide range of undergraduate teaching in Linguistics, and English Language, as well as more specialist topics in one or more of the School's MA and MSc programmes. The ability to offer undergraduate teaching in the areas of psycholinguistics, language and cognition, language development and acquisition, and grammar will be important.

Full details, requirements, and terms for this position are available at:
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Ref: BU00620
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We are seeking applicants with a strong research profile in language acquisition with a particular interest in the study of the development of grammar in typical and/or atypical language populations. Applicants will have evidence of producing research output(s) that are judged to be internationally excellent, have an emerging or established research programme in the above area, and must be able to show direct and demonstrable relevance to the School's two research specialisms: Bilingualism or Cognitive Linguistics (theoretical and/or applied or experimental approaches).

Educated to postgraduate degree level, applicants will be expected to contribute to existing modules in Linguistics and English Language, including Syntax, Language Acquisition, and Bilingualism or Language Pathology.

Full details, requirements, and terms for this position are available at:
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From lambert_ren at hotmail.com  Tue Jun 17 19:10:44 2014
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Written in French, the reference grammar of the language of the Innus (also known as Montagnais) is the first substantial description of this Algonquian language spoken in Northeastern Quebec and Labrador, Canada. It is aimed not only at the international linguistic community, but also seeks to fill the needs of Innu speakers and language workers. The grammar provides a description of nominals (nouns, pronouns, demonstratives, possessive constructions), of the verb and its categories (voice, modalities), of sentence structure as well as word formation. The grammatical description is illustrated by examples from several dialects of the Innu language using the standard orthography implemented by the Tshakapesh Institute. A complete guide of verbal conjugations is provided.


Grammaire de la langue innueLynn DrapeauPresses de l’Université du Québec, 2014, 680 pagesISBN 978-2-7605-3960-058.00$ paper (hardcover)42.99$ e-bookOrder to : puq at puq.cahttp://www.puq.ca/catalogue/livres/grammaire-langue-innue-2589.html
 		 	   		  

From eep at hum.ku.dk  Wed Jun 25 10:12:51 2014
From: eep at hum.ku.dk (Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:12:51 +0000
Subject: Workshop on substance and structure in linguistics
Message-ID: <WED.25.JUN.2014.101251.0000.EEP@HUM.KU.DK>

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS

Workshop on substance and structure in linguistics
University of Copenhagen, February 27-28, 2015

Workshop description
For the old structuralists (especially the European variety), the distinction between substance and structure (or form) served two important purposes. Firstly, it provided a means for simultaneously allowing for language-particular and universal aspects of language: structural properties were seen as language-particular modulations of substance, which was taken to be at least potentially universal (e.g. Hjelmslev 1943). Secondly, it made possible a definition of linguistics as an autonomous discipline dealing with an area of phenomena that are specifically properties of languages: according to structuralism, structure (and thus language-particular issues) were taken to be the central concern of linguists, rather than substance (and universal issues) (e.g. de Saussure 1916).
>>From the beginning, then, substance played a marginal role in 20th century linguistics, and with the fading of structuralist frameworks such as Hjelmslev’s and Ulldal’s Glossematics and the rise and increasing dominance of generative grammar in the 1950’s and 1960’s, the distinction between substance and structure fell into almost complete oblivion. In two respects, the notion of substance would in fact seem useful to Chomsky. Firstly, like the structuralists, Chomsky and his followers had the ambition of defining linguistics (at least, grammar) as an autonomous discipline. Secondly, unlike the structuralists, they took an interest in universal issues. However, the idea of Universal Grammar and thus universal linguistic structure left little need and room for substance in the theory.
Still, the distinction between structure and substance was not entirely forgotten. It lived on in some individual linguists and scholarly environments that did not follow the Chomskyan way, and did not reject structuralist ideas en bloc. As one example, Danish Functional Linguistics – a research community established around Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Lisbeth Falster Jacobsen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder and Lars Heltoft in the 1990’s (cf. Engberg-Pedersen & al. 1996) – adopted (in modified form) Hjelmslev’s version of the distinction, and in this community it continues to play a central role (especially, Harder 1996). Other examples are found in linguistic typology, where Gilbert Lazard has stressed the importance of distinguishing between structure and substance (e.g. Lazard 2005), and Bybee has discussed grammaticalization and semantic change in terms of the distinction (e.g.  Bybee 1988, Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca 1994).
Recent years have witnessed a revitalization of the distinction within functional typology and cognitive linguistics. Haspelmath has explicitly invoked the notion of substance in his discussions of the basis of crosslinguistic comparison and categorization (e.g. Haspelmath 2007, 2010), and Croft has used a similar notion, conceptual space, to point out the common ground of semantic mapping and multidimensional scaling (e.g. Croft 2001, 2003). In connection with the issue of linguistic relativity, Slobin’s work on ‘Thinking for Speaking’ (e.g. Slobin 1996) may be seen as an argument that it is not a one-way issue of substance constraining structure – the way we form substance for the purpose of linguistic formulation may have an impact on the conceptual substance itself, i.e. on how speakers conceptualize the world around them. In a similar vein, Levinson (2003) makes a distinction between semantic structure (language-particular) and conceptual structure (potentially universal), and simultaneously argues that there is an interface between the two. All these scholars – including those affiliated with Danish Functional Linguistics – seem to converge in stressing the importance of the structuralist distinction between substance and structure, while at the same diverging from the old structuralists by including substance in the focus of linguistics.
Aim
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the distinction between substance and structure itself and linguistic phenomena and problems that can fruitfully be approached in terms of the distinction. Specific areas of interest include (but are not restricted to) the following:
Crosslinguistic comparison
How is substance-based crosslinguistic comparison carried out in practice? Are Haspelmath’s (2010) “comparative concepts” necessarily entirely subjective, or can they be objectified?
Crosslinguistic categorization
What are the criteria for identifying substance-based descriptive categories like Tense, Aspect, and Modality?
Linguistic relativity
In what respects does substance constrain structure, and in what respects may structure influence on substance? Can a strict distinction between substance and structure always be maintained?
The nature of substance
What is substance, conceptual structure, functional-communicative potential, both or neither?
Substance and structure in semantics
How do we tell substance from structure in semantics, and how is the distinction relevant?
Substance and structure in phonology and phonetics
How do we tell substance from structure in phonetics and phonology, and when is it at all relevant?
Conceptual dependency and layered structure?
Is it possible to distinguish between Langackerian conceptual dependency (as substance) and layered structure (as structure)?
References
Bybee, Joan L. 1988. “Semantic substance vs. contrast in the development of grammatical meaning.”
Berkeley Linguistics Society 14: 247-64.

Bybee, J., R. Perkins & W. Pagliuca. 1994. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Croft, W. 2001. Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Croft, W. 2003. Typology and universals, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft & Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.). 1996. Content, expression and structure: Studies in Danish Functional Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Harder, P. 1996. Functional semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Haspelmath, M. 2007. “Pre-established categories don’t exist: Consequences for language description and typology”. Linguistic Typology 11 (1): 119-132.
Haspelmath, M. 2010. “Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in cross-linguistic studies”. Language 86 (3): 663-687.
Hjelmslev, L. 1943. Omkring sprogteoriens grundlæggelse. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
Lazard, G. 2005. “What are typologists doing?”. Z. Frajzyngier, A. Hodges & D. S. Rod (eds.). Linguistic diversity and language theories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-24.
Levinson, S. C. 2003. “Language and mind: Let’s get the issues straight!”. D. Gentner & S. Goldin-Meadow (eds.). Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. 25-46.
Saussure, F. de. 1916. Cours de linguistique générale. Lausanne: Payot.
Slobin, D. I. 1996. “From ‘thought and language’ to ‘thinking for speaking’”. J. J. Gumperz & S. C. Levinson (eds.). Rethinking linguistic relativity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 70-96.
Invited speakers
Confirmed invited speakers:
William Croft
Peter Harder
Martin Haspelmath
Venue
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Time
February 27-28, 2015
Call
We invite papers which discuss aspects of the substance-structure distinction as indicated above.
Submission procedure
Abstracts not exceeding 500 words (exclusive of references) for 20 minutes oral presentations are to be submitted electronically no later than October 1, 2014, to eep at hum.ku.dk<mailto:eep at hum.ku.dk>. Notification of acceptance will be given no later than November 1st, 2014.
Organizers
Kasper Boye (boye at hum.ku.dk<mailto:boye at hum.ku.dk>)
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen (eep at hum.ku.dk<mailto:eep at hum.ku.dk>)
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen


From jaseleenruggles at gmail.com  Fri Jun 27 12:25:29 2014
From: jaseleenruggles at gmail.com (J Ruggles)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:25:29 -0400
Subject: Second Call For Papers CSLS 2015 Conference (Apologies for
 cross-posting)
Message-ID: <FRI.27.JUN.2014.082529.0400.JASELEENRUGGLES@GMAIL.COM>

The University Seminar on Columbia School Linguistics

 and the

Columbia School Linguistic Society

invite participation in the



*12th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of*

*Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior*

February 14 – 16, 2015

Columbia University



*CALL FOR PAPERS*



Papers are invited which propose language-specific analyses of natural
discourse data within any framework in which languages are viewed as
semiotic systems.   Particularly encouraged are submissions that advance
semantic hypotheses to account for the distribution of linguistic forms.

Abstracts should be sent as an email attachment to
conference at csling.org following these
guidelines: The subject of the email should be:  CS Abstract 2015.  In the
body of the email, please include:  (1) Author name(s) and affiliation(s);
(2) Title of the paper; (3) Email addresses and telephone numbers of all
authors.  The abstract, containing only the title of the paper and the text
of the abstract, should be sent as an attachment (PDF, RTF, or Word
format).  The abstract should be no more than 300 words, although
references and/or data may be added to that limit.

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:   Monday, November 3, 2014

The language of the conference is English.  Papers delivered in other
languages will also be considered.



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open, innovative, and collaborative, placing them among the best
contributions that the University makes to the intellectual community and
to the society at large.



The Columbia School of Linguistics is a group of linguists developing the
theoretical framework originally established by the late William Diver.
Language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its
communicative function and by the characteristics of its human users.
Grammatical analyses account for the distribution of linguistic forms as an
interaction between hypothesized linguistic meanings and pragmatic and
functional factors such as inference, ease of processing, and iconicity.
Phonological analyses explain the syntagmatic and paradigmatic distribution
of phonological units within signals, also drawing on both communicative
function and human physiological and psychological characteristics.


From DEVERETT at bentley.edu  Tue Jun  3 12:09:22 2014
From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 12:09:22 +0000
Subject: Parentheticals
Message-ID: <TUE.3.JUN.2014.120922.0000.DEVERETT@BENTLEY.EDU>

Is any reader of this list currently doing work on the syntax and prosody of parentheticals, especially in non-Indo European languages? I would be especially interested to know if there are any labs or working groups dedicated to this question.

A exemplar of the kind of work I am interested in is Nicole Deh?'s forthcoming book: http://www.amazon.com/Parentheticals-Spoken-English-Syntax-Prosody-Relation/dp/0521761921

I am particularly interested in evidence for phonology-syntax misalignments.

Dan Everett
 

From john at research.haifa.ac.il  Tue Jun  3 12:20:18 2014
From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 15:20:18 +0300
Subject: Publishing a Bari-English dictionary
In-Reply-To: <E94C7730-47E9-4F94-A1BB-1335784E82D9@bentley.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.3.JUN.2014.152018.0300.JOHN@RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL>

 

Dear Funknetters, 

My colleague Laila Lokosang has written a
Bari-English dictionary (Bari is a Nilotic language of South Sudan,


spoken by about 600,000 people) which I've helped him in editing. Can
any of you suggest somewhere this 

might be published? 

Thanks for any
suggestions you may have, 

John 

 


From pbourdin at yorku.ca  Tue Jun  3 14:35:50 2014
From: pbourdin at yorku.ca (Philippe Bourdin)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 16:35:50 +0200
Subject: Publishing a Bari-English dictionary
In-Reply-To: <55647cdb7974fe9ef4d08f471e67059e@research.haifa.ac.il>
Message-ID: <TUE.3.JUN.2014.163550.0200.PBOURDIN@YORKU.CA>

Hi John,

Off the cuff I'd suggest R?diger K?ppe, but you've probably thought 
about it (or rather him!).

Best wishes to you and Laila,

Philippe Bourdin
York U. (Toronto)

john wrote:
>  
>
> Dear Funknetters, 
>
> My colleague Laila Lokosang has written a
> Bari-English dictionary (Bari is a Nilotic language of South Sudan,
>
>
> spoken by about 600,000 people) which I've helped him in editing. Can
> any of you suggest somewhere this 
>
> might be published? 
>
> Thanks for any
> suggestions you may have, 
>
> John 
>
>  
>   


From ceford at wisc.edu  Tue Jun  3 14:46:00 2014
From: ceford at wisc.edu (Cecilia E. Ford)
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 09:46:00 -0500
Subject: Parentheticals
In-Reply-To: <7580a6cddad1.538ddf9d@wiscmail.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.3.JUN.2014.094600.0500.CEFORD@WISC.EDU>

Hi Dan:

Richard Ogden (University of York) would also be a good source. 

 http://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/Richard-Ogden/#research

John Local (York, emeritus) has a great exploration of parentheticals -- "Continuing and restarting" in The Contextualization of Language, edited by Peter Auer, Aldo Di Luzio. It's on the phonetics/prosodics of parentheticals in interaction (English). 
 https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.22/main

Of course, both Ogden and Local use very different sorts of data than many phoneticians....

ceci 

On 06/03/14, "Everett, Daniel"  <DEVERETT at bentley.edu> wrote:
> Is any reader of this list currently doing work on the syntax and prosody of parentheticals, especially in non-Indo European languages? I would be especially interested to know if there are any labs or working groups dedicated to this question.
> 
> A exemplar of the kind of work I am interested in is Nicole Deh?'s forthcoming book: http://www.amazon.com/Parentheticals-Spoken-English-Syntax-Prosody-Relation/dp/0521761921
> 
> I am particularly interested in evidence for phonology-syntax misalignments.
> 
> Dan Everett
>  
> 
--
Professor of English and Sociology
Hoefs Professor of English

__________________________________________________
http://english.wisc.edu/cecilia_e_ford/

UW Interaction Interest Group (UWIIG): http://uwiig.blogspot.com/


From Bernd.Heine at uni-koeln.de  Wed Jun  4 11:58:38 2014
From: Bernd.Heine at uni-koeln.de (Bernd Heine)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 13:58:38 +0200
Subject: Parentheticals
In-Reply-To: <76b0b5dadc81.538d9958@wiscmail.wisc.edu>
Message-ID: <WED.4.JUN.2014.135838.0200.BERND.HEINE@UNIKOELN.DE>

Hi Dan,
Thanks for raising this issue. Work on parentheticals has become a 
lively field of research over the last years. What some of this research 
suggests is, first, that parentheticals (or theticals, as our working 
group calls them) are not only a matter of phonetics/prosodics and 
syntax but also of discourse pragmatics/context, as pointed out by Ceci, 
and of semantics. And second, this research also suggests that 
(paren)theticals appear to be part of a more general phenomenon in the 
organization of linguistic discourse. An overview of this line of 
research can be found in the following papers:

Kaltenb?ck, Gunther, Bernd Heine, and Tania Kuteva 2011. On thetical 
grammar. /Studies in Language /35, 4: 848-893.

Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenb?ck, Tania Kuteva, and Haiping Long 2013. An 
outline of discourse grammar. In Shannon Bischoff and Carmen Jany 
(eds.), /Functional Approaches to Language/. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. 
Pp. 175-233.

So far, most of this work has been concerned with European languages. We 
have now started extending the framework to some African languages, but 
this turns out to be more difficult than we had envisaged.
Bernd
> Hi Dan:
>
> Richard Ogden (University of York) would also be a good source.
>
>   http://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/Richard-Ogden/#research
>
> John Local (York, emeritus) has a great exploration of parentheticals -- "Continuing and restarting" in The Contextualization of Language, edited by Peter Auer, Aldo Di Luzio. It's on the phonetics/prosodics of parentheticals in interaction (English).
>   https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.22/main
>
> Of course, both Ogden and Local use very different sorts of data than many phoneticians....
>
> ceci
>
> On 06/03/14, "Everett, Daniel"<DEVERETT at bentley.edu>  wrote:
>> Is any reader of this list currently doing work on the syntax and prosody of parentheticals, especially in non-Indo European languages? I would be especially interested to know if there are any labs or working groups dedicated to this question.
>>
>> A exemplar of the kind of work I am interested in is Nicole Deh?'s forthcoming book:http://www.amazon.com/Parentheticals-Spoken-English-Syntax-Prosody-Relation/dp/0521761921
>>
>> I am particularly interested in evidence for phonology-syntax misalignments.
>>
>> Dan Everett
>>   
>>
> --
> Professor of English and Sociology
> Hoefs Professor of English
>
> __________________________________________________
> http://english.wisc.edu/cecilia_e_ford/
>
> UW Interaction Interest Group (UWIIG):http://uwiig.blogspot.com/



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From DEVERETT at bentley.edu  Wed Jun  4 12:00:09 2014
From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel)
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 12:00:09 +0000
Subject: Parentheticals
In-Reply-To: <538F09EE.5050103@uni-koeln.de>
Message-ID: <WED.4.JUN.2014.120009.0000.DEVERETT@BENTLEY.EDU>

Many, many thanks, Bernd. Excellent references. 

Dan

On Jun 4, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Bernd Heine <Bernd.Heine at uni-koeln.de> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> Thanks for raising this issue. Work on parentheticals has become a lively field of research over the last years. What some of this research suggests is, first, that parentheticals (or theticals, as our working group calls them) are not only a matter of phonetics/prosodics and syntax but also of discourse pragmatics/context, as pointed out by Ceci, and of semantics. And second, this research also suggests that (paren)theticals appear to be part of a more general phenomenon in the organization of linguistic discourse. An overview of this line of research can be found in the following papers:
> 
> Kaltenb?ck, Gunther, Bernd Heine, and Tania Kuteva 2011. On thetical grammar. /Studies in Language /35, 4: 848-893.
> 
> Bernd Heine, Gunther Kaltenb?ck, Tania Kuteva, and Haiping Long 2013. An outline of discourse grammar. In Shannon Bischoff and Carmen Jany (eds.), /Functional Approaches to Language/. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 175-233.
> 
> So far, most of this work has been concerned with European languages. We have now started extending the framework to some African languages, but this turns out to be more difficult than we had envisaged.
> Bernd
>> Hi Dan:
>> 
>> Richard Ogden (University of York) would also be a good source.
>> 
>>  http://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/Richard-Ogden/#research
>> 
>> John Local (York, emeritus) has a great exploration of parentheticals -- "Continuing and restarting" in The Contextualization of Language, edited by Peter Auer, Aldo Di Luzio. It's on the phonetics/prosodics of parentheticals in interaction (English).
>>  https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/pbns.22/main
>> 
>> Of course, both Ogden and Local use very different sorts of data than many phoneticians....
>> 
>> ceci
>> 
>> On 06/03/14, "Everett, Daniel"<DEVERETT at bentley.edu>  wrote:
>>> Is any reader of this list currently doing work on the syntax and prosody of parentheticals, especially in non-Indo European languages? I would be especially interested to know if there are any labs or working groups dedicated to this question.
>>> 
>>> A exemplar of the kind of work I am interested in is Nicole Deh?'s forthcoming book:http://www.amazon.com/Parentheticals-Spoken-English-Syntax-Prosody-Relation/dp/0521761921
>>> 
>>> I am particularly interested in evidence for phonology-syntax misalignments.
>>> 
>>> Dan Everett
>>>  
>> --
>> Professor of English and Sociology
>> Hoefs Professor of English
>> 
>> __________________________________________________
>> http://english.wisc.edu/cecilia_e_ford/
>> 
>> UW Interaction Interest Group (UWIIG):http://uwiig.blogspot.com/
> 
> 
> 
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From amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk  Thu Jun  5 15:03:31 2014
From: amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk (Amanda Patten)
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 15:03:31 +0000
Subject: ICLC-13: call for papers
Message-ID: <THU.5.JUN.2014.150331.0000.AMANDA.PATTEN@NORTHUMBRIA.AC.UK>

13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13)
http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13
20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite a broad range of papers taking a cognitive, functional, typological, and discourse approach to the study of language and cognition in relation to body, culture, and context of use. The special theme of ICLC-13 is ?bringing together theory and method?. We welcome papers that demonstrate, or reflect upon, the successful union of modern empirical methods with sound theory.

Potential Topics:
The range of topics at past ICLCs has typically included (but is not limited to):

Categorization, prototypes, and polysemy; Cognitive and Construction Grammars; cognitive corpus linguistics; cognitive phonology; cognitive semantics; discourse and grammar, text and discourse; domains and frame semantics; embodiment and situated cognition; empirical methods in cognitive linguistics; grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; image schemas and force dynamics; language development, impairment, attrition, and loss; linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; metaphor and metonymy; mental spaces and conceptual blending; neural models of language; signed languages, gesture, and modality; usage-based approaches.

General Session and Poster Session:
The language of the conference is English. General (parallel) session talks will be allocated 25 minutes, which includes questions and discussion. Posters will stay up for a day and will be allocated to dedicated, timetabled sessions.

Theme Session:
Theme sessions will be integrated into the conference schedule. We encourage theme session organisers to submit theme session titles and proposals (up to 500 words) directly to the conference organisers (by email: ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk<mailto:ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk>) along with the names of authors and titles of the individual papers.

We will consider sessions of varying lengths and formats (with or without an allocated ?discussion? slot). However, we would like to note that the conference schedule particularly suits sessions comprised of 6 slots (of 25 minutes each). The maximum length for theme sessions is 12 slots (of 25 minutes each). Theme session authors will still need to submit their abstracts for review (following the guidelines below) and should make sure to note the title of the theme session at the top of their abstracts.

The deadline for organisers to submit proposals for Theme Sessions is September 15, 2014.

Abstract Submission:
Each author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper, regardless of whether they are intended for the general or a special theme session. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through EasyAbs via the ?Abstract Submissions? tab on the ICLC-13 homepage: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13.

The submission period is 1 August ? 3 November 2014.

Abstracts must not exceed 1 page of A4 (including title, data, figures and references), and should be formatted in the following way. Please use 10 point Arial (Unicode) font, single-spaced and set margins to 1 inch (2.54cm) all around. Abstracts will be subjected to blind review by a minimum of two referees from an international Scientific Committee, so author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Please include a list of five keywords that describe the research at the top of the abstract to assist the reviewing process.

Authors must include the following information on the EasyAbs web page: (1) name(s) of author(s); (2) affiliation(s); (3) email address; and (4) preference for oral or poster presentation. Authors should upload .pdf versions of their abstracts to preserve special formatting or fonts. Abstracts must be submitted through EasyAbs starting on 1 August 2014.

Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of scope, relevance, originality, methodology, and strength of conclusions. It is possible that we will require authors submitting papers to ICLC-13 to assist in the reviewing process. Please note that submitting an abstract constitutes an agreement to reviewing a maximum of 5 other abstracts.

ICLA Membership:
ICLC is the biennial conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA, http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org). There is no requirement to be an ICLA member to submit an abstract. Participation in the ICLC conference will require standard ICLA membership (at a revised rate of approximately 25? to 30?), which also gives ICLC participants access to several member benefits.

Important Dates:
Abstract submission becomes available on EasyAbs: 1 August 2014
Deadline for theme session proposals: 15 September 2014
Deadline for abstract submission (general and theme session): 3 November 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2015
Dates of conference: 20-25 July 2015

Please direct all enquiries to ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk<mailto:ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk>.


From naruadol at outlook.com  Sat Jun  7 14:08:38 2014
From: naruadol at outlook.com (James N. Chancharu)
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 14:08:38 +0000
Subject: Paid survey: Negation across languages
Message-ID: <SAT.7.JUN.2014.140838.0000.NARUADOL@OUTLOOK.COM>

Hello!
My name is James Chancharu, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. My
research project involves gathering comparative data from many languages. So,
I?m recruiting native speakers (preferably linguists) of the following
languages to help with paid translation/transcription tasks.



-Swedish

-Icelandic

-Polish

-Latvian

-Ossetic

-Finnish

-Lezgian

-Georgian

-Basque

-Maltese

-Hausa

-Kazakh

-ANY LANGUAGES OF AUSTRALIA

-ANY
LANGUAGES OF THE AMERICAS

-ANY
LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES



Main task: Translating 42 English sentences into your language, using either
the English transliteration or IPA transcription.

Optional,
additional task: Linguistic interlinear glosses for the translated sentences

Reimbursement: 20 pounds (=34 US dollars) for the main task, and another 20
pounds for the optional, additional task (=40 pounds in total), paid via Paypal

Examples of English sentences to be translated:



She has read the book.

She has not read the book.

We have a house.

We don?t have a house.

Read the book!

Don?t read the book!



If you are interested, please kindly let me know. Thank you very much.

nc368 at cam.ac.uk 

naruadol at outlook.com

  		 	   		  
From eusosa at ull.edu.es  Mon Jun  9 19:39:51 2014
From: eusosa at ull.edu.es (EULALIA SOSA ACEVEDO)
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 20:39:51 +0100
Subject: MeLTExt-
 M=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A1ster_en_Ling=C3=BC=C3=ADstica_Aplicada_a_las_Tecnolog=C3?=
 =?utf-8?Q?=ADas_del_Lenguaje_y_Gesti=C3=B3n_?=de Textos
Message-ID: <MON.9.JUN.2014.203951.0100.EUSOSA@ULL.EDU.ES>

Dear colleagues,

We would be most obliged if you could send the following information to
your mail distribution lists and networks.

Thanks very much for your collaboration.


Yours Sincerely,

Eulalia Sosa Acevedo
Dpto. de Filolog?a Inglesa y Alemana
Universidad de La Laguna

  ______________________

We are pleased to inform that the pre-registration period for the 2014-2015
edition of the *M?ster Universitario en Ling??stica Aplicada a las
Tecnolog?as del Lenguaje y Gesti?n de Textos* (MeLText) is now open at the
University of La Laguna.
*MeLText* is a bilingual (English and Spanish) ECTS course integrating
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Dpto. de Filolog?a Inglesa y Alemana
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Campus Guajara S/N
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From weilunlu at gmail.com  Thu Jun 12 04:46:43 2014
From: weilunlu at gmail.com (Wei-lun Lu)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 06:46:43 +0200
Subject: Call for participation: Cog Ling in Brno 2014 (From Function to
 Cognition)
Message-ID: <THU.12.JUN.2014.064643.0200.WEILUNLU@GMAIL.COM>

*Cog Ling in Brno 2014: From Function to Cognition*



Cog Ling in Brno is a forum on Cognitive Linguistics organized by the
Department of English and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of
Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic). It aims to bring together
researchers interested in Cognitive Linguistics in Brno and is expected to
become a regular annual event and to expand to an international event
within five years.

The Department has a strong research tradition in Functional Linguistics,
with research specializations in Information Structure, Sociolinguistics,
Stylistics, Translation Studies, and Critical Discourse Analysis. In 2013,
we introduced Cognitive Linguistics into the curriculum with the generous
sponsorship from the European Social Fund and the Ministry of Education of
the Czech Republic (CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0037). In the past year, we have
witnessed an emerging synergy between Functional Linguistics and Cognitive
Linguistics in the research team of the Department.

The point of this forum is exactly to showcase our current achievements in
integrating CL into our existing research threads. We have invited three
internal members of the Department, one external member (Japanese Program)
and three outstanding students to share their ongoing projects and to
exchange ideas with people interested in CL in Brno and elsewhere. Everyone
is cordially invited to attend this event to share their ideas with us and
to discuss how to further develop CL in Brno.

If interested, please kindly contact Wei-lun Lu (weilunlu at gmail.com) to
register for attendance.

Date: 17 June 2014

Venue: G23 (Gorkeho 7)





Speaker

Chair

9:50

Registration

--

--

10:00

Opening and welcome

Jana Chamonikolasova

--

10:10

Use of parallel texts as a new methodology in viewpoint study

Wei-lun Lu

Jana Ch.

10:30

Subjecthood in Japanese

Jiri Matela

Jana Ch.

10:50

Pronouncing the Dreams by Foregrounding the Rhemes

Martin Drapela

Jana Ch.

11:10

Mimsy borogoves, or, the craft of word de/formation

Jiri Rambousek

Jana Ch.

11:30

Use of Parallel Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics

Magdalena Honcova

WL

11:50

Specialized Language and Cognitive Linguistics

Ivana Kralikova

WL

12:10

Revised approach to plus-minus parameter of image-schema theory for phrasal
verbs

with *up* and *down*

Alena Holubcova

WL

12:30

General Discussion

All


From jrubba at calpoly.edu  Fri Jun 13 17:51:57 2014
From: jrubba at calpoly.edu (Johanna Rubba)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:51:57 -0700
Subject: Functional shift in other languages
Message-ID: <FRI.13.JUN.2014.105157.0700.JRUBBA@CALPOLY.EDU>

Hi, all,

I?m looking at John MacWhorter?s book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, wherein he claims that functional shift/conversion/zero derivation does not occur in other languages. Anyone know of counterexamples?

Thanks.


Dr. Johanna Rubba, Professor, Linguistics       
Linguistics Minor Advisor
English Department
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
Tel. 805.756.2184
Dept. Tel 805.756.2596
E-mail:  jrubba at calpoly.edu
URL: http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
*******************************************
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From grvsmth at panix.com  Fri Jun 13 23:10:39 2014
From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith)
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:10:39 -0400
Subject: Functional shift in other languages
In-Reply-To: <4F2B33BD-9CA0-4D31-AD2C-C68C7EC58FE9@calpoly.edu>
Message-ID: <FRI.13.JUN.2014.191039.0400.GRVSMTH@PANIX.COM>

     Interesting, Johanna.  Can you give a page number?

On 6/13/2014 1:51 PM, Johanna Rubba wrote:
> I?m looking at John MacWhorter?s book Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, wherein he claims that functional shift/conversion/zero derivation does not occur in other languages. Anyone know of counterexamples?


-- 
				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				grvsmth at panix.com


From john at research.haifa.ac.il  Sat Jun 14 06:43:34 2014
From: john at research.haifa.ac.il (john)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 09:43:34 +0300
Subject: Functional shift in other languages
In-Reply-To: <539B84EF.8040808@panix.com>
Message-ID: <SAT.14.JUN.2014.094334.0300.JOHN@RESEARCH.HAIFA.AC.IL>

 

What exactly is he referring to? Could you give a few examples?


John 

On 14.06.2014 02:10, Angus Grieve-Smith wrote: 

> Interesting,
Johanna. Can you give a page number?
> 
> On 6/13/2014 1:51 PM, Johanna
Rubba wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking at John MacWhorter's book Our Magnificent
Bastard Tongue, wherein he claims that functional shift/conversion/zero
derivation does not occur in other languages. Anyone know of
counterexamples?

 


From grvsmth at panix.com  Mon Jun 16 15:42:44 2014
From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:42:44 -0400
Subject: Fwd: [clcs-sdl-chercheurs] annonce appel
 journ=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9e_?=Conscila
In-Reply-To: <20140615192555.54b837807153c54dd951fe8c@unicaen.fr>
Message-ID: <MON.16.JUN.2014.114244.0400.GRVSMTH@PANIX.COM>

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[clcs-sdl-chercheurs] annonce appel journ?e Conscila
Date: 	Sun, 15 Jun 2014 19:25:55 +0200
Reply-To: 	Dominique Legallois <dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr>
To: 	clcs-sdl-chercheurs at univ-lorraine.fr



Bonjour
pouvez-vous faire passer l'appel ? communication pour une journ?e
Conscila ?
merci et cordialement
Dominique Legallois



Grammaire des genres et des styles : quelles approches  privil?gier ?

Organisateurs : Thierry Charnois (Universit? de Paris 13, LIPN), Sascha
Diwersy (Universit? de Cologne), Meri Larjavaara (?bo Akademi),
Dominique Legallois (Universit? de Caen, Crisco)


Journ?e ConSciLa (Confrontations en Sciences du Langage), Paris le 16
janvier 2015 (le lieu est ? pr?ciser)


Appel ? communication

	La syntaxe moderne s'est g?n?ralement constitu?e autour
d'analyses orient?es vers les propri?t?s formelles des phrases et de
leurs constituants. Les phrases sont souvent analys?es ind?pendamment
de tout ancrage ?nonciatif et plus encore, g?n?rique. Forte de cette
perspective, la syntaxe ne consid?re pas comme centraux dans le champ
qu'elle occupe, les ph?nom?nes de variations grammaticales, ni les
sp?cificit?s relatives ? la nature diff?rente des performances
linguistiques. De la m?me fa?on, les approches textuelles ? dans la
tradition de la textom?trie ou de l'analyse du discours - ont assez peu
point? les caract?ristiques syntaxiques propres aux genres qu'elles
?tudient, ?tant plus attentives aux particularit?s lexicales ou
?nonciatives. Il s'ensuit qu'un genre textuel est rarement caract?ris?
par sa sp?cificit? syntaxique. Quant ? la stylistique, discipline la
plus ? m?me d'?tudier les particularit?s linguistiques, son ancrage
trop acad?mique et son manque d'outillage l'obligent souvent ?
circonscrire son analyse ? des unit?s souvent pertinentes mais
restreintes et isol?es. Les analyses automatis?es permettent cependant
depuis quelques ann?es de mieux identifier les sp?cificit?s
lexico-grammaticales des textes, et donc des genres. Il existe deux
grandes approches, la premi?re ?tant largement plus d?velopp?e que
l'autre :

1- l'approche ? paradigmatique ? reposant sur la quantification des
cat?gories morpho-syntaxiques employ?es. Par exemple, dans son analyse
du discours oral en milieu universitaire, Biber (2006) met en ?vidence
le sur-emploi (par rapport ? l'?crit) des pronoms de premi?res
personnes, des expressions ?valuatives (verbes ? mentaux ?, adverbes
?nonciatifs, etc.), des WH questions, etc. Par factorisation, il est
possible de d?gager des faisceaux de propri?t?s g?n?riques donnant la
cartographie d'un genre.

2- l'approche ? syntagmatique ?  privil?giant la
combinatoire des unit?s lexicales, le rep?rage des s?quences
syntagmatiques pr?f?r?es (ou ?vit?es) par un genre. A titre d'exemple,
donnons un patron lexico-grammatical (Larjavaara et Legallois en pr?p.)
- que l'on d?signe parfois par le terme de motif (Quiniou et al.2012,
Longr?e et Mellet 2013) : ce N si ADJ et si ADJ. Ce motif,
s?mantiquement ?valuatif, est sp?cifique du genre ? M?moires ? au 19e
si?cle (compar? aux genres R?cits de voyage, Romans, Correspondances,
Essais de la m?me ?poque) :

Oh ! Tant mieux, tant mieux de n' ?tre pas born?s par ce temps si court
et si triste ! E. de Gu?rin, Journal (1834-1840)

Seulement, pour ne pas faire acte de d?sob?issance et de bravade envers
cette m?re si tendre et si aim?e, Maurice lui annon?a [?]  un petit
voyage au Blanc.  G. Sand, Histoire de ma vie, 1855

  On ?prouve aujourd'hui encore, comme autrefois, une grande douceur
int?rieure ? voir ces lieux si b?nis, et maintenant si abandonn?s. Mgr
Dupanloup, Journal intime, 1876.



Cette journ?e Conscila consacr?e ?
l'analyse de la grammaire et de la stylistique des genres discursifs, a
pour objectif de r?unir des chercheurs en linguistique ou en TAL dont
les travaux portent sur l'identification des caract?ristiques
lexico-grammaticales des textes. Les travaux soumis devront prendre en
compte la contrainte de l'exhaustivit? : on ne s'int?ressera pas ? un
seul type de formes, mais ? maximum d'?l?ments sp?cifiques d'un genre.
Les points suivants pourront ?tre abord?s :
- les techniques d'identification des propri?t?s g?n?riques ;
- la compl?mentarit? ou comp?titivit? entre approches paradigmatiques
et syntagmatiques ;
- l'interpr?tation des donn?es.

	Les propositions de communication porteront donc sur la
caract?risation des genres discursifs (litt?raires ou non) ou des
styles, dans une perspective exhaustive ; elles aborderont les
m?thodes, sans n?gliger la description linguistique. Elles peuvent ?tre
?tendues ? la comparaison entre auteurs, ou porter sur des registres,
des pratiques discursives ou encore sur des formes telles que les
s?quences textuelles (narrative argumentative, descriptive, etc.). Les
travaux peuvent porter sur toute langue, et les genres abord?s peuvent
?tre oraux ou ?crits. Les perspectives peuvent ?tre variables :
informatiques, didactiques, stylistiques, discursives, syntaxiques. Les
communications se feront en fran?ais ou en anglais.


1- Une intention de communication sera envoy?e mi-septembre aux
organisateurs ? l'adresse :  dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr

2- Une proposition d'une page minimum devra ?tre soumise pour le 1er
novembre 2014. La r?ponse aux auteurs sera transmise le 20 novembre
2014.


Biber D. (2006)  University language:  A corpus-based study of spoken
and written registers.  Amsterdam:  John Benjamins

Biber, D. & S. Conrad 2009: Register, genre and style. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Dorgeloh, H. & A. Wanner (eds) 2010: Syntactic variation and genre,
Berlin/New York:  De Gruyter Mouton.

Larjavaara M et Legallois D. (en pr?p.) ? Les genres discursifs et leur
grammaire ?

Longr?e D. et Mellet S. (2013. ? Le motif : une unit? phras?ologique
englobante ? ?tendre le champ de la phras?ologie de la langue au
discours ?, Langages 189 (D. Legallois & A. Tutin, coord.), p.68-80

Malrieu D. et Rastier F. (2001) Genres et variations morphosyntaxiques,
Traitements automatiques du langage, 42, 2, pp. 547-577.

Martin, J. R. & Rose, D. (2008) : Genre relations. Mapping culture.
London: Equinox.

Quiniou S., Cellier P.,  Charnois Th. et Legallois D. (2012)?  What
About Sequential Data Mining Techniques to Identify Linguistic Patterns
for Stylistics ? ? in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Vol.
7181,  pp 166-177

Revue Linx, n?  64-65, ? Les genres de discours vus par la grammaire ?,
sous la direction de M. Krazem.
















-- 
Dominique Legallois <dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr>


From fjn at u.washington.edu  Mon Jun 16 20:31:48 2014
From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:31:48 -0700
Subject: diachronic development of grammatical relations
Message-ID: <MON.16.JUN.2014.133148.0700.FJN@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

Dear Funknetters,

I wonder if someone could help me out with a literature reference. I'm looking for a book, article, or handbook chapter that discusses the diachronic development of grammatical relations (subject, object, etc.). That is, how they originate, develop, and change over time and, in certain cases (e.g. Acehnese), they are lost. For example, is there a discussion somewhere of the factors that might lead a language to grammaticalize a subject position or a subject marker or (I assume more rarely) to degrammaticalize a subject position or marker?

Thanks!

--fritz


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


From randy.lapolla at gmail.com  Tue Jun 17 00:36:37 2014
From: randy.lapolla at gmail.com (Randy LaPolla)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 08:36:37 +0800
Subject: diachronic development of grammatical relations
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.01.1406161331480.32391@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.17.JUN.2014.083637.0800.RANDY.LAPOLLA@GMAIL.COM>

Dear Fritz,
I have two articles from 2006 that deal with aspects of this:

LaPolla, Randy J. 2006. On grammatical relations as constraints on referent identification. In Tasaku Tsunoda and Taro Kageyama (eds.), Voice and grammatical relations: Festschrift for Masayoshi Shibatani (Typological Studies in Language), 139-151. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
      http://tibeto-burman.net/rjlapolla/papers/LaPolla_2006_On_Grammatical_Relations_as_Constraints_on_Referent_Identification.pdf

LaPolla, Randy J. 2006. The how and why of syntactic relations. Invited plenary address and keynote of the Centre for Research on Language Change Workshop on Grammatical Change at the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society, University of Queensland, 7-9 July, 2006. To appear in Christian Lehmann, Stavros Skopeteas, Christian Marschke (eds.), Evolution of syntactic relations (Trends in Linguistics Series). Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
http://tibeto-burman.net/rjlapolla/papers/LaPolla_Draft_The_how_and_why_of_syntactic_relations.pdf

All the best,
Randy
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On Jun 17, 2014, at 4:31 AM, Frederick J Newmeyer wrote:

> Dear Funknetters,
> 
> I wonder if someone could help me out with a literature reference. I'm looking for a book, article, or handbook chapter that discusses the diachronic development of grammatical relations (subject, object, etc.). That is, how they originate, develop, and change over time and, in certain cases (e.g. Acehnese), they are lost. For example, is there a discussion somewhere of the factors that might lead a language to grammaticalize a subject position or a subject marker or (I assume more rarely) to degrammaticalize a subject position or marker?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --fritz
> 
> 
> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
> [for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail]
> 
> 


From wolfgang_m_schulze at t-online.de  Tue Jun 17 05:49:10 2014
From: wolfgang_m_schulze at t-online.de (Wolfgang Schulze)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:49:10 +0200
Subject: diachronic development of grammatical relations
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.01.1406161331480.32391@hymn03.u.washington.edu>
Message-ID: <TUE.17.JUN.2014.074910.0200.>

Dear Fritz,
let me humbly mention a paper of mine:

Schulze. W. (2011). The Grammaticalization of Antipassives 
(https://www.academia.edu/1802279/The_Grammaticalization_of_Antipassives)

Some theoretical aspects are described in:

Schulze, W. (2010) . Cognitive Transitivity 
(https://www.academia.edu/1802287/Cognitive_Transivity)

Note that I do not use the Subject/Object- etc. terminology. Instead, I 
refer to the SAO- (etc.) typology.

Best wishes,
Wolfgang


Am 16.06.2014 22:31, schrieb Frederick J Newmeyer:
> Dear Funknetters,
>
> I wonder if someone could help me out with a literature reference. I'm looking for a book, article, or handbook chapter that discusses the diachronic development of grammatical relations (subject, object, etc.). That is, how they originate, develop, and change over time and, in certain cases (e.g. Acehnese), they are lost. For example, is there a discussion somewhere of the factors that might lead a language to grammaticalize a subject position or a subject marker or (I assume more rarely) to degrammaticalize a subject position or marker?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --fritz
>
>
> Frederick J. Newmeyer
> Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
> Adjunct Professor, U of British Columbia and Simon Fraser U
> [for my postal address, please contact me by e-mail]
>
>
>

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From c.shank at bangor.ac.uk  Tue Jun 17 17:59:48 2014
From: c.shank at bangor.ac.uk (Christopher Clay Shank)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:59:48 +0000
Subject: Posts: Lecturer in Psycholinguistics & Lecturer in Language
 Acquisition
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Two permanent posts:  Lecturer in Psycholinguistics &  Lecturer in Language Acquisition.

At Bangor University - School of Linguistics & English Language.

As part of an exciting expansion of the School of Linguistics & English Language, applications are now invited for two posts: a permanent Lecturer in Psycholinguistics, and a permanent  Lecturer in Language Acquisition.  Closing date for applications: Wednesday, 2 July 2014. Both posts are available from 1st September 2014.

Information on Linguistics & English Language, including its staff and their research interests can be found at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics/

Lecturer in Psycholinguistics

Ref: BU00623
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We are seeking applicants who have evidence of producing research output(s) that are judged to be internationally excellent and who have an emerging or established research programme in the field of linguistics that address mental aspects such as the comprehension, production, and development of language(s), with direct and demonstrable relevance to one of the School's research specialisms: bilingualism or Cognitive Linguistics (theoretical and/or applied or experimental approaches).

Educated to postgraduate degree level, applicants will be able to contribute to a wide range of undergraduate teaching in Linguistics, and English Language, as well as more specialist topics in one or more of the School's MA and MSc programmes. The ability to offer undergraduate teaching in the areas of psycholinguistics, language and cognition, language development and acquisition, and grammar will be important.

Full details, requirements, and terms for this position are available at:
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We are seeking applicants with a strong research profile in language acquisition with a particular interest in the study of the development of grammar in typical and/or atypical language populations. Applicants will have evidence of producing research output(s) that are judged to be internationally excellent, have an emerging or established research programme in the above area, and must be able to show direct and demonstrable relevance to the School's two research specialisms: Bilingualism or Cognitive Linguistics (theoretical and/or applied or experimental approaches).

Educated to postgraduate degree level, applicants will be expected to contribute to existing modules in Linguistics and English Language, including Syntax, Language Acquisition, and Bilingualism or Language Pathology.

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From lambert_ren at hotmail.com  Tue Jun 17 19:10:44 2014
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Written in French, the reference grammar of the language of the Innus (also known as Montagnais) is the first substantial description of this Algonquian language spoken in Northeastern Quebec and Labrador, Canada. It is aimed not only at the international linguistic community, but also seeks to fill the needs of Innu speakers and language workers. The grammar provides a description of nominals (nouns, pronouns, demonstratives, possessive constructions), of the verb and its categories (voice, modalities), of sentence structure as well as word formation. The grammatical description is illustrated by examples from several dialects of the Innu language using the standard orthography implemented by the Tshakapesh Institute. A complete guide of verbal conjugations is provided.


Grammaire de la langue innueLynn DrapeauPresses de l?Universit? du Qu?bec, 2014, 680 pagesISBN 978-2-7605-3960-058.00$ paper (hardcover)42.99$ e-bookOrder to : puq at puq.cahttp://www.puq.ca/catalogue/livres/grammaire-langue-innue-2589.html
 		 	   		  

From eep at hum.ku.dk  Wed Jun 25 10:12:51 2014
From: eep at hum.ku.dk (Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen)
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:12:51 +0000
Subject: Workshop on substance and structure in linguistics
Message-ID: <WED.25.JUN.2014.101251.0000.EEP@HUM.KU.DK>

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS

Workshop on substance and structure in linguistics
University of Copenhagen, February 27-28, 2015

Workshop description
For the old structuralists (especially the European variety), the distinction between substance and structure (or form) served two important purposes. Firstly, it provided a means for simultaneously allowing for language-particular and universal aspects of language: structural properties were seen as language-particular modulations of substance, which was taken to be at least potentially universal (e.g. Hjelmslev 1943). Secondly, it made possible a definition of linguistics as an autonomous discipline dealing with an area of phenomena that are specifically properties of languages: according to structuralism, structure (and thus language-particular issues) were taken to be the central concern of linguists, rather than substance (and universal issues) (e.g. de Saussure 1916).
>>From the beginning, then, substance played a marginal role in 20th century linguistics, and with the fading of structuralist frameworks such as Hjelmslev?s and Ulldal?s Glossematics and the rise and increasing dominance of generative grammar in the 1950?s and 1960?s, the distinction between substance and structure fell into almost complete oblivion. In two respects, the notion of substance would in fact seem useful to Chomsky. Firstly, like the structuralists, Chomsky and his followers had the ambition of defining linguistics (at least, grammar) as an autonomous discipline. Secondly, unlike the structuralists, they took an interest in universal issues. However, the idea of Universal Grammar and thus universal linguistic structure left little need and room for substance in the theory.
Still, the distinction between structure and substance was not entirely forgotten. It lived on in some individual linguists and scholarly environments that did not follow the Chomskyan way, and did not reject structuralist ideas en bloc. As one example, Danish Functional Linguistics ? a research community established around Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, Lisbeth Falster Jacobsen, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder and Lars Heltoft in the 1990?s (cf. Engberg-Pedersen & al. 1996) ? adopted (in modified form) Hjelmslev?s version of the distinction, and in this community it continues to play a central role (especially, Harder 1996). Other examples are found in linguistic typology, where Gilbert Lazard has stressed the importance of distinguishing between structure and substance (e.g. Lazard 2005), and Bybee has discussed grammaticalization and semantic change in terms of the distinction (e.g.  Bybee 1988, Bybee, Perkins & Pagliuca 1994).
Recent years have witnessed a revitalization of the distinction within functional typology and cognitive linguistics. Haspelmath has explicitly invoked the notion of substance in his discussions of the basis of crosslinguistic comparison and categorization (e.g. Haspelmath 2007, 2010), and Croft has used a similar notion, conceptual space, to point out the common ground of semantic mapping and multidimensional scaling (e.g. Croft 2001, 2003). In connection with the issue of linguistic relativity, Slobin?s work on ?Thinking for Speaking? (e.g. Slobin 1996) may be seen as an argument that it is not a one-way issue of substance constraining structure ? the way we form substance for the purpose of linguistic formulation may have an impact on the conceptual substance itself, i.e. on how speakers conceptualize the world around them. In a similar vein, Levinson (2003) makes a distinction between semantic structure (language-particular) and conceptual structure (potentially universal), and simultaneously argues that there is an interface between the two. All these scholars ? including those affiliated with Danish Functional Linguistics ? seem to converge in stressing the importance of the structuralist distinction between substance and structure, while at the same diverging from the old structuralists by including substance in the focus of linguistics.
Aim
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the distinction between substance and structure itself and linguistic phenomena and problems that can fruitfully be approached in terms of the distinction. Specific areas of interest include (but are not restricted to) the following:
Crosslinguistic comparison
How is substance-based crosslinguistic comparison carried out in practice? Are Haspelmath?s (2010) ?comparative concepts? necessarily entirely subjective, or can they be objectified?
Crosslinguistic categorization
What are the criteria for identifying substance-based descriptive categories like Tense, Aspect, and Modality?
Linguistic relativity
In what respects does substance constrain structure, and in what respects may structure influence on substance? Can a strict distinction between substance and structure always be maintained?
The nature of substance
What is substance, conceptual structure, functional-communicative potential, both or neither?
Substance and structure in semantics
How do we tell substance from structure in semantics, and how is the distinction relevant?
Substance and structure in phonology and phonetics
How do we tell substance from structure in phonetics and phonology, and when is it at all relevant?
Conceptual dependency and layered structure?
Is it possible to distinguish between Langackerian conceptual dependency (as substance) and layered structure (as structure)?
References
Bybee, Joan L. 1988. ?Semantic substance vs. contrast in the development of grammatical meaning.?
Berkeley Linguistics Society 14: 247-64.

Bybee, J., R. Perkins & W. Pagliuca. 1994. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Croft, W. 2001. Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic theory in typological perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Croft, W. 2003. Typology and universals, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, Michael Fortescue, Peter Harder, Lars Heltoft & Lisbeth Falster Jakobsen (eds.). 1996. Content, expression and structure: Studies in Danish Functional Grammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Harder, P. 1996. Functional semantics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Haspelmath, M. 2007. ?Pre-established categories don?t exist: Consequences for language description and typology?. Linguistic Typology 11 (1): 119-132.
Haspelmath, M. 2010. ?Comparative concepts and descriptive categories in cross-linguistic studies?. Language 86 (3): 663-687.
Hjelmslev, L. 1943. Omkring sprogteoriens grundl?ggelse. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
Lazard, G. 2005. ?What are typologists doing??. Z. Frajzyngier, A. Hodges & D. S. Rod (eds.). Linguistic diversity and language theories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-24.
Levinson, S. C. 2003. ?Language and mind: Let?s get the issues straight!?. D. Gentner & S. Goldin-Meadow (eds.). Language in mind: Advances in the study of language and thought. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. 25-46.
Saussure, F. de. 1916. Cours de linguistique g?n?rale. Lausanne: Payot.
Slobin, D. I. 1996. ?From ?thought and language? to ?thinking for speaking??. J. J. Gumperz & S. C. Levinson (eds.). Rethinking linguistic relativity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 70-96.
Invited speakers
Confirmed invited speakers:
William Croft
Peter Harder
Martin Haspelmath
Venue
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Time
February 27-28, 2015
Call
We invite papers which discuss aspects of the substance-structure distinction as indicated above.
Submission procedure
Abstracts not exceeding 500 words (exclusive of references) for 20 minutes oral presentations are to be submitted electronically no later than October 1, 2014, to eep at hum.ku.dk<mailto:eep at hum.ku.dk>. Notification of acceptance will be given no later than November 1st, 2014.
Organizers
Kasper Boye (boye at hum.ku.dk<mailto:boye at hum.ku.dk>)
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen (eep at hum.ku.dk<mailto:eep at hum.ku.dk>)
Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen
The Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen


From jaseleenruggles at gmail.com  Fri Jun 27 12:25:29 2014
From: jaseleenruggles at gmail.com (J Ruggles)
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:25:29 -0400
Subject: Second Call For Papers CSLS 2015 Conference (Apologies for
 cross-posting)
Message-ID: <FRI.27.JUN.2014.082529.0400.JASELEENRUGGLES@GMAIL.COM>

The University Seminar on Columbia School Linguistics

 and the

Columbia School Linguistic Society

invite participation in the



*12th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of*

*Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior*

February 14 ? 16, 2015

Columbia University



*CALL FOR PAPERS*



Papers are invited which propose language-specific analyses of natural
discourse data within any framework in which languages are viewed as
semiotic systems.   Particularly encouraged are submissions that advance
semantic hypotheses to account for the distribution of linguistic forms.

Abstracts should be sent as an email attachment to
conference at csling.org following these
guidelines: The subject of the email should be:  CS Abstract 2015.  In the
body of the email, please include:  (1) Author name(s) and affiliation(s);
(2) Title of the paper; (3) Email addresses and telephone numbers of all
authors.  The abstract, containing only the title of the paper and the text
of the abstract, should be sent as an attachment (PDF, RTF, or Word
format).  The abstract should be no more than 300 words, although
references and/or data may be added to that limit.

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:   Monday, November 3, 2014

The language of the conference is English.  Papers delivered in other
languages will also be considered.



The Columbia University Seminars bring together professors and other
experts, from Columbia and elsewhere, who gather to work on problems that
cross disciplinary and departmental boundaries. The Seminars have the
additional purpose of linking Columbia with the intellectual resources of
the surrounding communities. Since their founding by Frank Tannenbaum in
1944, the University Seminars have provided a means of exchanging,
recording, validating and responding to new ideas. As independent entities,
the Seminars encourage dialogue and intellectual risks in a culture that is
open, innovative, and collaborative, placing them among the best
contributions that the University makes to the intellectual community and
to the society at large.



The Columbia School of Linguistics is a group of linguists developing the
theoretical framework originally established by the late William Diver.
Language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its
communicative function and by the characteristics of its human users.
Grammatical analyses account for the distribution of linguistic forms as an
interaction between hypothesized linguistic meanings and pragmatic and
functional factors such as inference, ease of processing, and iconicity.
Phonological analyses explain the syntagmatic and paradigmatic distribution
of phonological units within signals, also drawing on both communicative
function and human physiological and psychological characteristics.