From langconf at bu.edu Mon Mar 3 15:14:52 2014 From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:14:52 -0500 Subject: BUCLD 39 Call for Papers Message-ID: THE 39th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 7-9, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Richard Aslin, University of Rochester “From sounds to words to grammatical categories: The role of distributional learning” Plenary Speaker: Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University “Prosodic effects on the emergence of grammatical morphemes: Evidence from perception and production” Submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks will be accepted beginning April 1 at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ DEADLINE. All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2014. Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Artificial Languages, Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production. A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld Questions about abstracts should be sent to langconf at bu.edu Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 244 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. From Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Tue Mar 4 10:50:00 2014 From: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 10:50:00 +0000 Subject: Mont Follick Chair, University of Manchester Message-ID: The University of Manchester is seeking to appoint a leading scholar in comparative linguistics, whether in synchronic or diachronic perspective, to the Mont Follick Chair. Click on the URL below for details: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=7555 _______________________________________________________________ Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Professor, cand.mag., Ph.D., dr.phil. Division of Linguistics and English Language, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom Academic profile Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Editor of Revue Romane and Studies in Pragmatics From amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk Tue Mar 4 16:29:31 2014 From: amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk (Amanda Patten) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:29:31 +0000 Subject: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 20-25 July 2015 Message-ID: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13 20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University We are pleased to announce the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13), which is being held 20-25 July 2015 in Northumbria University, Newcastle, England. ICLC is the biennial conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA, www.cognitivelinguistics.org). Confirmed plenary speakers are: - Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) - Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) - Mirjam Fried (Charles University in Prague) - Hans-Jörg Schmid (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) - Ronald Langacker (University of California, San Diego) - Gabriella Vigliocco (University College London) The special theme of this edition of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference is "bringing together theory and method". This reflects one of the main outcomes of ICLC-12, Alberta: that the future of cognitive linguistics lies in the successful union of a robust empirical approach with sound theory. Information about the conference can be found at http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13, which will be updated as more details become available. Amanda Patten (on behalf of the Organising Committee and the ICLA) ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk Conference Organisers: Dr Amanda Patten (chair) Prof Ewa Dąbrowska Dr Mimi Huang Dr James Street Sarah Duffy Rachel Ramsey From fjn at u.washington.edu Fri Mar 7 00:08:24 2014 From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:08:24 -0800 Subject: typology of topic and focus positioning Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, Does anybody know of a large-scale typological study -- i.e. one involving at least dozens of languages -- of the positioning of topic and focus within the clause? And also, if possible, on the use or not of topic- and focus-markers? One reads all the time that 'the tendency is for topic to precede focus' (or 'old information to precede new information'), but I have never seen such 'tendencies' quantified. I realize that one (of many) problems with what I am looking for is that there are several types of topics and several types of focuses, and that terminology is not used consistently from one researcher to another. Thanks. I'll summarize if there is enough interest. --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 stgries at gmail.com Sun Mar 9 18:27:53 2014 From: stgries at gmail.com (Stefan Th. Gries) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:27:53 -0700 Subject: CSDL 2014: call for papers Message-ID: CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language) 2014 is the 12th incarnation of a conference first hosted in 1994 by the University of California, San Diego. In 2000, CSDL 5 was hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara and it is with great pleasure that we are bringing CSDL 12 back to the University of California system and to Santa Barbara in particular. CSDL 12 is co-organized by Stefan Th. Gries (Dept. of Linguistics) and Viola G. Miglio (Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese) and will take place 4-6 November 2014 at the Hyatt Santa Barbara directly at East Beach, Santa Barbara. The conference website at < https://sites.google.com/site/csdl2014atucsb/> contains all information about the conference; if you have questions not addressed here, plz write to the conference email address at . Call for papers 1 Potential topics For CSDL 12 (2014), we are inviting a broad range of papers taking cognitive/psycholinguistic, functional, usage-/exemplar-based, or discourse-based approach to the study of language and its acquisition, processing, use, and change. Drawing from the range of topics listed by the organizers of the successful ICLC in Edmonton, topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: - linguistic categorization: prototype theory, radial categories, ...; - linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; - embodiment and language; - metaphor, metonymy, mental spaces, conceptual blending, ICMs, frame semantics, image schemas, force dynamics, ...; - cognitive phonology, semantics, grammar, and construction grammars; - discourse and grammar, text and discourse; - language acquisition and learning; - grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; - cognitive corpus linguistics; - empirical methods: data from observation, experimentation, computational simulation. 2 Format of abstract For full consideration, the abstract must be a PDF and meet the following specifications: - page format: Letter or A4, margins: 1 inch/2.5 cm all around - font: Times (New Roman) 12pt - paragraph format: single-spaced - length: max. 1 page (plus 1 page for figures, tables, references, if necessary) Note 1: Abstracts must be anonymous, which means author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Note 2: An author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Note 3: Abstracts will be subjected to a double-blind review by a minimum of two referees. Empirical papers and papers whose abstracts indicate that results are already available (rather than hoped for) will be given priority. Note 4: Submission of an abstract constitutes agreement to review maximally 5 abstracts yourself. 3 Submission of abstracts The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2014. We are using the LinguistList's EasyAbs system for abstract submission and reviewing; plz see the conference website for the relevant link. Pre-conference and conference schedule 1 February 2014: 1st call for papers/participation 1 February 2014: room registration at the Hyatt Santa Barbara opens 10 March 2014: 2nd call for papers/participation 21 February 2014: registration opens 24 March 2014: final call for papers/participation 31 March 2014: deadline for submission of abstracts May 2014: notifications of acceptance 15 July 2014: deadline for early-bird registration 4-6 November 2014: conference From mcarrete at filol.ucm.es Wed Mar 12 19:15:55 2014 From: mcarrete at filol.ucm.es (MARTA BEGONA CARRETERO LAPEYRE) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:15:55 +0100 Subject: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 2014 (EMEL'14) - SECOND CFP Message-ID: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 2014 (EMEL’14) http://www.ucm.es/emel14/ SECOND CIRCULAR & CALL FOR PAPERS The Department of English Philology I (English Language and Linguistics) of the Complutense University of Madrid, and the research project EUROEVIDMOD (FFI2011-23181), are pleased to announce the International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages 2014 (EMEL’14), which will take place at the Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 6-8 October 2014. EMEL’14 invites you to submit abstracts for general session or poster papers on evidentiality and modality in European languages. The conference also welcomes proposals for workshop sessions. The conference aims to cover a broad range of research concerned with the domains of evidentiality and modality, with special interest in empirical work and crosslinguistic studies. Some proposed research areas include: - Epistemicity: relation between evidentiality and epistemic modality - Cross-linguistic and typological studies on evidentiality - Evidential lexical units and constructions and their relation to evidential grammatical markers - Types of evidentiality: Direct vs. Indirect - Reported speech and reportative evidentiality - Epistemic stance and inter/subjectivity in discourse - Interactional approaches to evidentiality and/or epistemic modality - Corpus-based studies on evidentiality and/or epistemic modality A selection of papers based on contributions presented in this conference will be published in a special issue of an international journal and/or a prestigious academic publisher. PLENARY SPEAKERS Rebecca Clift (University of Essex) Ronald W. Langacker (University of California, San Diego) Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Bas Aarts (University College London), Francisco Alonso Almeida (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp), José Luis Berbeira (University of Cádiz), Marisa Blanco (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen), Jill Bowie (University College London), Frank Brisard (University of Antwerp), Pierre Busuttil (University of Pau), Piotr Cap (University of Lodz), Peter Collins (University of New South Wales), Bert Cornillie (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Nicole Delbecque (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Patrick Dendale (Universiteit Antwerpen), Ilse Depraetere (Lille III University), Angela Downing (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona), Teresa Fanego (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Laura Filardo-Llamas (Universidad de Valladolid), Ad Foolen (Radboud University Nijmegen), Francisco Garrudo (Universidad de Sevilla), Gaëtanelle Gilquin (Université Catholique de Louvain), María de los Ángeles Gómez González (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Montserrat González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Ramón González (Universidad de Navarra), Christopher Hart (University of Lancaster), Liesbet Heyvaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Laura Hidalgo Downing (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Dylan Glynn (University of Paris 8), Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany), Paul Larreya (University of Paris 13), Julia Lavid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Alexander Letuchiy (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Lucía Loureiro-Porto (Universitat de les Illes Balears), Javier Martin Arista (Universidad de La Rioja), Tanja Mortelmans (Antwerp University), Nicole Nau (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza), Dirk Noël (The University of Hong Kong), Begoña Núñez Perucha (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Ignacio Palacios (Universidad de Santiago), Paola Pietrandrea (Université François Rabelais de Tours & CNRS LLL), Vladimir Plungian (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences), Amalia Rodríguez Somolinos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Jesús Romero Trillo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Anna Ruskan (Vilnius University), Louis de Saussure Louis (Université de Neuchâtel), Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (University of Ghent), Jolanta Šinkūnienė (Vilnius University), Augusto Soares da Silva (Universidad Católica Portuguesa), Katerina Stathi (University of Hanover), Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Aurelija Usoniene (Vilnius University), An Van linden (University of Leuven), Björn Wiemer (Universität Mainz), Christopher Williams (University of Foggia), Astrid De Wit (University of Antwerp), Peter R.R. White (University of New South Wales), Debra Ziegeler (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3) GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: GENERAL SESSION PAPERS AND POSTERS Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will also be a poster session. The language of the conference for the plenaries and the general session is English. An anonymous copy of your abstract (max. 500 words, excl. references), in Word or PDF format, should be submitted via email to: emel14 at ucm.es Please include your name, affiliation and contact details in the text of the e-mail message. Participants may submit a maximum of two abstracts, that is, no more than one single-authored paper and one joint-authored paper, or two joint-authored papers. All abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed. They should include research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Abstract submission deadline: 1 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 26 April 2014 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: WORKSHOP SESSIONS Proposals for workshops should include the name(s) of the convenor(s), title and a 1000-word description of the topic (see instructions for paper abstracts above), and a list of workshop participants, including 300 word abstracts of their papers. Workshop convenors are encouraged to distribute an open call for papers on the Linguist List, or other distribution lists. The languages for the theme sessions may be: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The workshop sessions will consist of a maximum of 10 slots, each with the same time format as the general session papers (20 min. + 10 min. discussion). Each workshop session should include an introductory paper by a key-note speaker, and an additional 30-minute slot for final discussion on the topic, further issues and questions for future research. Proposals should be sent by e-mail to: emel14 at ucm.es Deadline for submission of proposals: 1 April 2014 Theme session organisers will be notified by 26 April REGISTRATION Early bird registration opens: 1 June 2014 Registration (full fee): 1 July 2014 Registration closes: 7 October 2014 Conference fees (including coffee breaks, Wi-Fi access, and a conference pack): (a) Early bird registration (from 1 June to June 30 2014): - Regular participants: 120 Euros - Students (with valid ID): 70 Euros (b) Late registration: - Regular participants: 150 Euros - Students (with valid ID): 100 Euros ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jorge Arús, Marta Carretero (Secretary), Karlos Cid Abasolo, Bert Cornillie, Elena Domínguez, Julia Lavid, Carmen Maíz Arévalo, Juana I. Marín Arrese (Chair), Mª Victoria Martín de la Rosa, Mª Ángeles Martínez Martínez, Juan Rafael Zamorano CONTACT E-mail: emel14 at ucm.es Postal address: EMEL’14 Organizing committee Departamento de Filología Inglesa I Facultad de Filología Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria, s/n E-28040 Madrid Spain Dr Marta Carretero https://portal.ucm.es/web/filologia_inglesa_i/marta-carretero From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Thu Mar 13 14:53:55 2014 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:53:55 +0000 Subject: International Simposium on Portuguese In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting: http://www.albdf.com This conference will involve educators, linguists, and literary theorists from the lusophone world. It is not strictly linguistic in nature, but should still interest linguists interested in Portuguese. Dan P.S. In my signature line you will see a reference to a new open-access, broad coverage linguistics journal. A call for papers will be coming out before long for the inaugural issue of the journal from myself and the other co-editor. ************************* Daniel L. Everett Dean of Arts and Sciences Bentley University – Morison 308 175 Forest Street Waltham, MA 02452 T: 781.891.2188 F: 781.819.2125 http://daneverettbooks.com Co-Editor in Chief, Open Linguistics http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Thu Mar 13 14:58:42 2014 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:58:42 +0000 Subject: International Simposium on Portuguese In-Reply-To: <87BD3295-D516-4EB3-9087-62F1D3E1E23D@bentley.edu> Message-ID: My mailer did something weird and (re)duplicated the url. Here it is again: http://www.albdf.com Dan On Mar 13, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Everett, Daniel wrote: > > > Apologies for cross-posting: http://www.albdf.com > > This conference will involve educators, linguists, and literary theorists from the lusophone world. It is not strictly linguistic in nature, but should still interest linguists interested in Portuguese. > > Dan > > P.S. In my signature line you will see a reference to a new open-access, broad coverage linguistics journal. A call for papers will be coming out before long for the inaugural issue of the journal from myself and the other co-editor. > > ************************* > Daniel L. Everett > Dean of Arts and Sciences > Bentley University – Morison 308 > 175 Forest Street > Waltham, MA 02452 > T: 781.891.2188 > F: 781.819.2125 > http://daneverettbooks.com > > Co-Editor in Chief, Open Linguistics > http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli > From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Tue Mar 18 12:16:24 2014 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:16:24 +0000 Subject: Debates in the Netherlands Message-ID: In case anyone is interested, there are a series of debates now up on youtube to launch the new multilingualism program in Leeuwarden. Debaters include Robert Phillipson vs. Abram de Swaan (Language Planning), Tove Skutnabb-Kangas vs. Sue Wright (Language Shift), Geoff Pullum vs. Guillaume Thierry (Language and Thought), Jan-Wouter Zwart vs. Dan Everett (Language Innateness). It was a great event and I wish the program organizers all the best. I learned a lot from each of the debates. Dan http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=multilingualism%20debates%20leeuwarden&sm=3 From collfitz at gmail.com Wed Mar 19 16:26:34 2014 From: collfitz at gmail.com (Colleen Fitzgerald) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:26:34 -0500 Subject: Linguistic Society of America scholarships for CoLang 2014 Message-ID: CoLang, the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, will take place at The University of Texas at Arlington from June 16 - 27, 2014, with the optional field methods/practicum courses running June 30 - July 25, 2014. CoLang 2014 is an internationally-recognized language documentation and revitalization institute, offering a major opportunity to work to stem the tide of language shift and endangerment, and to increase documentation on the world's underdocumented languages. This year's CoLang Institute is under the direction of Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald. Thanks to co-sponsorship by the Linguistic Society of America, the LSA will offer several student scholarships to CoLang 2014. The deadline for LSA scholarships is March 27, with recommendation letters due on March 31. The LSA scholarship application is now live, online for student members when they log into their accounts at the Linguistic Society of America website at: http://www.linguisticsociety.org. To apply, students login to their LSA account which should open to the Profile page. Under the Profile tab, click on the green button "Submit Fellowship Application". To complete the application, students will be asked for information about academic background and the names and email addresses for two recommenders. Complete information about CoLang 2014 scholarships, including the LSA, Endangered Language Fund and UT Arlington scholarship applications, appears online at http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/scholarships/ ******************************* Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald Professor Dept. of Linguistics & TESOL The University of Texas at Arlington Native American Languages Lab http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Native.American.Languages.Lab From grvsmth at panix.com Fri Mar 21 15:46:07 2014 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:46:07 -0400 Subject: Fwd: 28=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A8me_?=Colloque International du CerLiCO, 13-14 juin 2014, CRISCO In-Reply-To: <1382570740.4635722.1395404970776.JavaMail.zimbra@unicaen.fr> Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 28ème Colloque International du CerLiCO, 13-14 juin 2014, CRISCO Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:29:30 +0100 From: Pierre Larrivee Reply-To: Pierre Larrivee To: AFLS-NEWS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 28^ème Colloque International du CerLiCO Linéarité et interprétation (1) : Perception(s) de la linéarité : quelles interprétations ? Vendredi 13 et samedi 14 juin 2014 Amphithéâtre Vial, bâtiment B Université de Caen Basse-Normandie * * *Programme* *Vendredi 13 juin 2014, 9h* 9h-9h30 Accueil des participants 9h30 *Ouverture du colloque par * *Pierre SINEUX* *, Président de l’Université de Caen Basse-Normandie* *Présidente de séance : Emmanuelle ROUSSEL (CRISCO – Université de Caen)* 9h50-10h30 *Lise HAMELIN* (LDI - Cergy-Pontoise) & *Pauline SERPAULT* (CRISCO - Caen) *Position et valeur de l’adverbe en anglais* *: l'exemple de /yet/* 10h30-11h10 *Danh Thành DO-HURINVILLE* (SeDyl - INALCO) & *Huy Linh DAO* (LACITO – Sorbonne Nouvelle) *L’ordre des constituants dans le syntagme nominal vietnamien : /Cái /entre classificateur et focalisateur* /Pause / *11h30-12h30* *Conférence Invitée : * *Edy VENEZIANO* *(MoDyCo - Paris Descartes) Théorie de l'esprit et compétences pragmatiques chez l'enfant : Quelle place pour la linéarité dans leur développement ?* /Déjeuner 12h30-14h/ *Vendredi 13 juin 2014, 14h* *Président de séance : Pierre LARRIVEE (CRISCO – Université de Caen)* 14h-14h40 *Katja PLOOG* (LLC- Elliadd - Besançon) *La grammaire émergente dans le discours en temps réel. Enjeux syntaxiques et sémantiques * 14h40-15h10 *Cécile YOUFSI* **(SeSyLIA – Sorbonne Nouvelle)*Linéarité et compositionalité au sein des constructions prépositionnelles GN1 + PREP + GN2 en anglais contemporain* 15h10- 15h50 *Gabriela-Violeta ATHEA* (Libérale) *Regard sur la lecture des documents numériques* /Pause/ *Présidente de séance : Catherine COLLIN (LLING – Université de Nantes)* 16h20-17h00 *Augustin NDIONE* (L.L.L. - Tours) *De la linéarité dans les formes rédupliquées* 17h00- 17h40 *Yann PORTUGUES* (L.L.L. - Orléans) & François NEMO (L.L.L. - Orléans) *Non-linéarité syntaxique et caractère fractal de l’interprétation, approche en termes de contraintes contributionnelles* /18h00 Assemblée Générale du CerLiCO / /20h00 Dîner en ville/ *Samedi 14 juin 2014, 9h30* *Président de séance : Gilles COL (FoReLL – Université de Poitiers)* 9h30-10h10 *Sylvie HANCIL* (ERIAC - Rouen) */Perceiving and interpreting sentence-final adverbials: an iconic view/* 10h10-10h50 *Nathalie HERVE* (Centre d’Etudes Métriques - Nantes) *Perception(s) de la linéarité dans les textes poétiques.* /Pause/ 11h20-12h *Salam DIAB DURANTON* (SLE – Vincennes – Saint-Denis) *Linéarité et interprétation dans le lexique de l’arabe* /Déjeuner 12h-14h/ *Samedi 14 juin 2014, 14H* *Présidente de séance : Valérie AMARY-COUDREAU (CRISCO – Université de Caen)* 14h-15h *Conférence invitée : * *Ivanka STOÏANOVA* (MUSESCREA - Paris 8) *De la linéarité en musique : Ecriture et interprétation* 15h-15h40 *Mathilde PINSON* (SeSyLIA – Sorbonne nouvelle) *Linéarité et interprétation de /like/* 15h40-16h20 *Jan PEKELDER* (CeLiSo – Paris-Sorbonne) *Le Principe d'Inhérence revisité. Linéarisation des compléments d'objet direct et de direction en néerlandais contemporain.* 16h20 *Clôture du colloque par * *Frédéric LAMBERT* *, Président du CerLiCO* *Contact :* Valérie AMARY-COUDREAU & Emmanuelle ROUSSEL (crisco.cerlico at unicaen.fr ) *Renseignements pratiques* disponibles sur le site de l’université : http://www.unicaen.fr/: « se rendre à l’université » en bas de page ; puis « Caen » ; puis « Campus 1 » et « Accès aux campus ». *Ainsi que sur le site du CRISCO* http://www.crisco.unicaen.fr/pour la fiche d’inscription au colloque et la réservation des hôtels. From asanso at gmail.com Fri Mar 21 16:43:55 2014 From: asanso at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andrea_Sans=F2?=) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:43:55 +0100 Subject: CfP: Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers, and Modal Particles: What do we know and where do we go from here? Message-ID: International Workshop - Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: What do we know and where do we go from here? Università dell'Insubria, Como (Italy), 16-17 October 2014 Website: http://sites.google.com/site/pragmaworkshopcomo E-mail: workshopcomo (at) gmail (dot) com Description The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the emergence and use of pragmatic markers (PMs), discourse markers (DMs) and modal particles (MPs). Although terminologies and classifications dramatically diverge in this field, for the sake of clarity PMs can be broadly defined as markers of functions belonging to the domains of social cohesion (the hearer-speaker relationship, the social identity of H and S, the type of social act performed; e.g. please, danke, if I may interrupt, etc.), DMs as strategies to ensure textual cohesion (discourse planning, discourse managing, information status; e.g. utterance initial usages of but, anyway, still, etc.), and MPs as signals of personal stance (the speaker's perspective towards the discourse and the interlocutor; e.g. German ja, eben, doch etc.). In pragmatics and in grammaticalization studies PMs, DMs, and MPs have been the object of extensive investigation. However, their heterogeneous character - along with the fact that they derive from many different sources, and that these items are often multifunctional - has often resulted in fragmentary descriptions that fit well the facts of a given language or group of languages, but may be seriously challenged when one tries to apply the lessons learnt from the analysis of a single language to other languages. The workshop, organized as part of the Italian National Research Program "Linguistic Representations of Identity. Sociolinguistic Models and Historical Linguistics" (www.mediling.eu), welcomes papers providing new insights into classical issues such as the delimitation and categorization of the three categories of PMs, DMs and MPs, as well as papers exploring other crucial (but somewhat less discussed) issues, such as, for instance, the sociolinguistics of PMs, DMs and MPs. Particularly encouraged are cross-linguistic or contrastive studies that take into account the languages of the Mediterranean area, which are the focus of the Research Program, but contributions on other languages and language families (especially underdescribed ones) are equally welcome. The following is a non-exhaustive list of relevant questions, clustering around a few thematic foci: (i) Universality vs. language specificity: are PMs, DMs and MPs cross-linguistically relevant (universal) or language-specific categories? If they are universal, which are the criteria for their classification and for distinguishing them? Are these criteria formal or functional in nature? Are they onomasiological or semasiological? Do these criteria apply equally for the three classes? If they are not universal, which approach to grammar is the most suitable to model their behavior (e.g. constructionist approaches)? (ii) PMs, DMs and MPs and their functional equivalents: some of these categories are particularly easy to recognize in some languages. A case in point are MPs in Germanic languages. In other languages, it is more difficult to single out a class of MPs, DMs and/or PMs. How do these languages perform the functions carried out by MPs, DMs and PMs in other languages? Are there any universal tendencies in the (potentially open-ended) class of functional and formal equivalents of PMs, DMs and MPs? (iii) The sources of PMs, DMs and MPs: which are the most frequent sources for PMs, DMs and MPs? Are there any regularities across languages in the processes leading from definable sets of source items via comparable stages of development to these three types of markers? Through which path(s) do verbs (e.g. Italian guarda 'look!'), adverbs (well, eben) and other word classes develop into PMs? What do comparative diachronic data reveal about their emergence? Are their paths of development (partially) parallel, or do they display salient divergences in some cases? Are there any 'pragmatic cycles', comparable to Jespersen's cycles, that can account for the diachronic renewal of PMs, DMs and MPs? (iv) PMs, DMs and MPs in contact situations: how do these markers behave in contact situations? Are there any borrowability hierarchies among these types of markers? Are more hearer-sided markers (such as e.g. PMs as opposed to MPs) more prone to be borrowed in asymmetric contact situations? Or is borrowability simply a matter of (lack of) syntactic integration? (v) PMs, DMs and MPs as markers of sociolinguistic identity: to what extent can these markers function as signals of sociolinguistic identity? Is there any other type of social significance attached to variation in the use of PMs, DMs and MPs within a given linguistic community? (vi) PMs, DMs, and MPs as markers of subjectivity: when and how do they function to express the speaker's perspective towards the content s/he's conveying, towards the interlocutor, or towards the communicative situation? What do we know about markers that are used to build, refine, negotiate, compare or express the speaker's identity in discourse? Invited Speakers Kate Beeching (University of the West of England) Yael Maschler (University of Haifa) Mario Squartini (University of Turin) Call for papers Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract (with one additional page for examples), keeping in mind that the slot for their communication will last 30 min. including discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as attachments in PDF format to: workshopcomo at gmail.com Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be indicated in the body of the e-mail. The abstracts will be anonymously reviewed by two members of the Scientific Committee. The publication of a selection of the papers as a book or a special issue of an international journal is envisaged. Important dates: --- 30 May 2014: deadline for abstract submission --- 30 June 2014: notification of acceptance; (free) registration starts --- 9 October 2014: registration ends --- 16-17 October 2014: workshop Organizing Committee: Andrea Sansò (Università dell'Insubria) - andrea.sanso (at) uninsubria.it(contact person) Pierluigi Cuzzolin (Università di Bergamo) - pierluigi.cuzzolin (at) unibg.it Chiara Fedriani (Università di Bergamo) - chiara.fedriani (at) unibg.it Chiara Ghezzi (Università di Bergamo) - chiara.ghezzi (at) unibg.it Anna Giacalone Ramat (Università di Pavia) - annaram (at) unipv.it Caterina Mauri (Università di Pavia) - caterina.mauri (at) unipv.it Piera Molinelli (Università di Bergamo) - piera.molinelli (at) unibg.it Scientific Committee: Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo), Silvia Dal Negro (Free University of Bozen), Chiara Fedriani (University of Bergamo), Chiara Ghezzi (University of Bergamo), Anna Giacalone Ramat (University of Pavia), Gianguido Manzelli (University of Pavia), Caterina Mauri (University of Pavia), Piera Molinelli (University of Bergamo), Paolo Ramat (IUSS Institute), Andrea Sansò (Insubria University - Como), Federica Venier (University of Bergamo), Alessandro Vietti (Free University of Bozen). From jaseleenruggles at gmail.com Mon Mar 24 18:26:22 2014 From: jaseleenruggles at gmail.com (J Ruggles) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:26:22 -0400 Subject: CSLS 2015 Conference Call For Papers (Apologies for cross-posting) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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. From stgries at gmail.com Tue Mar 25 03:00:15 2014 From: stgries at gmail.com (Stefan Th. Gries) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:00:15 -0700 Subject: CSDL 2014: final call for papers Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - apologies for cross-posting CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language) 2014 is the 12th incarnation of a conference first hosted in 1994 by the University of California, San Diego. In 2000, CSDL 5 was hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara and it is with great pleasure that we are bringing CSDL 12 back to the University of California system and to Santa Barbara in particular. CSDL 12 is co-organized by Stefan Th. Gries (Dept. of Linguistics) and Viola G. Miglio (Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese) and will take place 4-6 November 2014 at the Hyatt Santa Barbara directly at East Beach, Santa Barbara. The conference website at contains all information about the conference; if you have questions not addressed here, plz write to the conference email address at . Call for papers 1 Potential topics For CSDL 12 (2014), we are inviting a broad range of papers taking cognitive/psycholinguistic, functional, usage-/exemplar-based, or discourse-based approach to the study of language and its acquisition, processing, use, and change. Drawing from the range of topics listed by the organizers of the successful ICLC in Edmonton, topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: - linguistic categorization: prototype theory, radial categories, ...; - linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; - embodiment and language; - metaphor, metonymy, mental spaces, conceptual blending, ICMs, frame semantics, image schemas, force dynamics, ...; - cognitive phonology, semantics, grammar, and construction grammars; - discourse and grammar, text and discourse; - language acquisition and learning; - grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; - cognitive corpus linguistics; - empirical methods: data from observation, experimentation, computational simulation. 2 Format of abstract For full consideration, the abstract must be a PDF and meet the following specifications: - page format: Letter or A4, margins: 1 inch/2.5 cm all around - font: Times (New Roman) 12pt - paragraph format: single-spaced - length: max. 1 page (plus 1 page for figures, tables, references, if necessary) Note 1: Abstracts must be anonymous, which means author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Note 2: An author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Note 3: Abstracts will be subjected to a double-blind review by a minimum of two referees. Empirical papers and papers whose abstracts indicate that results are already available (rather than hoped for) will be given priority. Note 4: Submission of an abstract constitutes agreement to review maximally 5 abstracts yourself. 3 Submission of abstracts The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2014. We are using the LinguistList's EasyAbs system for abstract submission and reviewing; plz see the conference website for the relevant link. Pre-conference and conference schedule 1 February 2014: 1st call for papers/participation 1 February 2014: room registration at the Hyatt Santa Barbara opens 10 March 2014: 2nd call for papers/participation 21 February 2014: registration opens 24 March 2014: final call for papers/participation 31 March 2014: deadline for submission of abstracts May 2014: notifications of acceptance 15 July 2014: deadline for early-bird registration 4-6 November 2014: conference -- Stefan Th. Gries ---------------------------------- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara http://tinyurl.com/stgries ---------------------------------- From danjiesu at gmail.com Sat Mar 29 00:16:24 2014 From: danjiesu at gmail.com (Danjie Su) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:16:24 -0700 Subject: AMPRA Call for Papers (Deadline approaching: 15 April 2014) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Thank you for your attention. Please allow me to bring to your kind attention the call-for-papers of the 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. (Abstract deadline: 15 April 2014) Thank you! Best, Daisy _______________________ Danjie Su PhD Student Asian Languages and Cultures UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 danjiesu at gmail.com www.danjiesu.com *Call for Papers2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association * *DEADLINE: 15 April 2014* The 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association will take place on October 17-19, 2014 at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California, USA. The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Three main topics of the conference are as follows: 1. Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, grammaticalization, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc. 2. Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one language, lingua franca, technologically mediated communication, bilinguals' and heritage speakers' language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict, etc. 3. Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc. *Conference website*: http://ampra.appling.ucla.edu/ AMPRA website: http://www.albany.edu/ampra/index.html Email address for inquiries: ampra14ucla at gmail.com Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication. When submitting the abstract the presenter should indicate which of the three main topics (1. Pragmatics theory, 2. Intercultural, cross-cultural, societal aspects of pragmatics, 3. Applications) s/he thinks the abstract belongs to. *Online submission *is at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/Ampra2014 *Abstract deadline:* 15 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2014 Please, include your name, affiliation and email address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English. Panels are welcome. Panel organizers should send an abstract of the panel (max. 300 words) and abstracts of the panel participants as an email attachment to ampra14ucla at gmail.com. The deadline for panels is the same as for papers: 15 April 2014. *Publication:* Tentative plans to publish one or two volumes of selected papers are in the working. From ENG_SHH at SHSU.EDU Sun Mar 30 04:06:35 2014 From: ENG_SHH at SHSU.EDU (Halmari, Helena) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 04:06:35 +0000 Subject: CfP American Studies Association of Texas 58th Annual Conference Message-ID: Colleagues: The American Studies Association of Texas will hold its 58th annual conference at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX. Sam Houston State is located an hour north of Houston and three hours south of Dallas, on Interstate 45. The conference is scheduled for November 13-15, 2014. The organizers of this interdisciplinary conference invite paper and panel proposals in the fields of language, linguistics, and rhetoric. Please see the attachment for details. Helena Halmari From reng at rice.edu Sun Mar 30 20:19:24 2014 From: reng at rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:19:24 -0500 Subject: Lecturer position at Rice University Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics at Rice University, located in Houston, Texas, is now accepting applications for a lecturer position in laboratory phonetics and phonology. The successful applicant will be asked to teach courses in both of these areas, an introductory linguistics course, and may teach additional courses in his or her subject area. S/he will also advise undergraduate and graduate students, and participate in departmental activities. This is a one year appointment and the course load is four courses for the year. Deadline for receipt of applications is May 1, 2014. PhD is required by time of appointment; position start date is July 1, 2014. We especially welcome applications from researchers who share the department’s interest in approaching language from a usage-based perspective with solid empirical grounding in primary data, especially approaches of a cognitive, social-interactional, and/or functional nature. See also our department website at http://ling.rice.edu. Application materials include: cover letter, CV, teaching statement, sample of written work, and names and contact information for three references. Past teaching evaluations and/or information about course topics the applicant could teach are also welcome but not required at this time. Rice University is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity in education and employment. Rice does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status. Rice University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Address for Applications: Search Committee Department of Linguistics, MS-23 Rice University 6100 Main Street Houston TX 77005 USA From langconf at bu.edu Mon Mar 3 15:14:52 2014 From: langconf at bu.edu (BUCLD) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:14:52 -0500 Subject: BUCLD 39 Call for Papers Message-ID: THE 39th ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT NOVEMBER 7-9, 2014 Keynote Speaker: Richard Aslin, University of Rochester ?From sounds to words to grammatical categories: The role of distributional learning? Plenary Speaker: Katherine Demuth, Macquarie University ?Prosodic effects on the emergence of grammatical morphemes: Evidence from perception and production? Submissions of abstracts for 20-minute talks will be accepted beginning April 1 at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-submission/ DEADLINE. All submissions must be received by 8:00 PM EST, May 15, 2014. Submissions that present research on any topic in the fields of first and second language acquisition from any theoretical perspectives will be fully considered, including: Artificial Languages, Bilingualism, Cognition & Language, Creoles & Pidgins, Dialects, Discourse and Narrative, Gesture, Hearing Impairment and Deafness, Input & Interaction, Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory, Neurolinguistics, Pragmatics, Pre-linguistic Development, Reading and Literacy, Signed Languages, Sociolinguistics, and Speech Perception & Production. A suggested format and style for abstracts is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld/abstracts/abstract-format/ FURTHER INFORMATION General conference information is available at: http://www.bu.edu/bucld Questions about abstracts should be sent to langconf at bu.edu Boston University Conference on Language Development 96 Cummington Street, Room 244 Boston, MA 02215 U.S.A. From Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Tue Mar 4 10:50:00 2014 From: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 10:50:00 +0000 Subject: Mont Follick Chair, University of Manchester Message-ID: The University of Manchester is seeking to appoint a leading scholar in comparative linguistics, whether in synchronic or diachronic perspective, to the Mont Follick Chair. Click on the URL below for details: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=7555 _______________________________________________________________ Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen Professor, cand.mag., Ph.D., dr.phil. Division of Linguistics and English Language, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom Academic profile Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Editor of Revue Romane and Studies in Pragmatics From amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk Tue Mar 4 16:29:31 2014 From: amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk (Amanda Patten) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:29:31 +0000 Subject: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, 20-25 July 2015 Message-ID: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13 20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University We are pleased to announce the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13), which is being held 20-25 July 2015 in Northumbria University, Newcastle, England. ICLC is the biennial conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA, www.cognitivelinguistics.org). Confirmed plenary speakers are: - Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) - Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) - Mirjam Fried (Charles University in Prague) - Hans-J?rg Schmid (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) - Ronald Langacker (University of California, San Diego) - Gabriella Vigliocco (University College London) The special theme of this edition of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference is "bringing together theory and method". This reflects one of the main outcomes of ICLC-12, Alberta: that the future of cognitive linguistics lies in the successful union of a robust empirical approach with sound theory. Information about the conference can be found at http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13, which will be updated as more details become available. Amanda Patten (on behalf of the Organising Committee and the ICLA) ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk Conference Organisers: Dr Amanda Patten (chair) Prof Ewa D?browska Dr Mimi Huang Dr James Street Sarah Duffy Rachel Ramsey From fjn at u.washington.edu Fri Mar 7 00:08:24 2014 From: fjn at u.washington.edu (Frederick J Newmeyer) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:08:24 -0800 Subject: typology of topic and focus positioning Message-ID: Dear Funknetters, Does anybody know of a large-scale typological study -- i.e. one involving at least dozens of languages -- of the positioning of topic and focus within the clause? And also, if possible, on the use or not of topic- and focus-markers? One reads all the time that 'the tendency is for topic to precede focus' (or 'old information to precede new information'), but I have never seen such 'tendencies' quantified. I realize that one (of many) problems with what I am looking for is that there are several types of topics and several types of focuses, and that terminology is not used consistently from one researcher to another. Thanks. I'll summarize if there is enough interest. --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 stgries at gmail.com Sun Mar 9 18:27:53 2014 From: stgries at gmail.com (Stefan Th. Gries) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 11:27:53 -0700 Subject: CSDL 2014: call for papers Message-ID: CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language) 2014 is the 12th incarnation of a conference first hosted in 1994 by the University of California, San Diego. In 2000, CSDL 5 was hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara and it is with great pleasure that we are bringing CSDL 12 back to the University of California system and to Santa Barbara in particular. CSDL 12 is co-organized by Stefan Th. Gries (Dept. of Linguistics) and Viola G. Miglio (Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese) and will take place 4-6 November 2014 at the Hyatt Santa Barbara directly at East Beach, Santa Barbara. The conference website at < https://sites.google.com/site/csdl2014atucsb/> contains all information about the conference; if you have questions not addressed here, plz write to the conference email address at . Call for papers 1 Potential topics For CSDL 12 (2014), we are inviting a broad range of papers taking cognitive/psycholinguistic, functional, usage-/exemplar-based, or discourse-based approach to the study of language and its acquisition, processing, use, and change. Drawing from the range of topics listed by the organizers of the successful ICLC in Edmonton, topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: - linguistic categorization: prototype theory, radial categories, ...; - linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; - embodiment and language; - metaphor, metonymy, mental spaces, conceptual blending, ICMs, frame semantics, image schemas, force dynamics, ...; - cognitive phonology, semantics, grammar, and construction grammars; - discourse and grammar, text and discourse; - language acquisition and learning; - grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; - cognitive corpus linguistics; - empirical methods: data from observation, experimentation, computational simulation. 2 Format of abstract For full consideration, the abstract must be a PDF and meet the following specifications: - page format: Letter or A4, margins: 1 inch/2.5 cm all around - font: Times (New Roman) 12pt - paragraph format: single-spaced - length: max. 1 page (plus 1 page for figures, tables, references, if necessary) Note 1: Abstracts must be anonymous, which means author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Note 2: An author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Note 3: Abstracts will be subjected to a double-blind review by a minimum of two referees. Empirical papers and papers whose abstracts indicate that results are already available (rather than hoped for) will be given priority. Note 4: Submission of an abstract constitutes agreement to review maximally 5 abstracts yourself. 3 Submission of abstracts The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2014. We are using the LinguistList's EasyAbs system for abstract submission and reviewing; plz see the conference website for the relevant link. Pre-conference and conference schedule 1 February 2014: 1st call for papers/participation 1 February 2014: room registration at the Hyatt Santa Barbara opens 10 March 2014: 2nd call for papers/participation 21 February 2014: registration opens 24 March 2014: final call for papers/participation 31 March 2014: deadline for submission of abstracts May 2014: notifications of acceptance 15 July 2014: deadline for early-bird registration 4-6 November 2014: conference From mcarrete at filol.ucm.es Wed Mar 12 19:15:55 2014 From: mcarrete at filol.ucm.es (MARTA BEGONA CARRETERO LAPEYRE) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:15:55 +0100 Subject: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 2014 (EMEL'14) - SECOND CFP Message-ID: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 2014 (EMEL?14) http://www.ucm.es/emel14/ SECOND CIRCULAR & CALL FOR PAPERS The Department of English Philology I (English Language and Linguistics) of the Complutense University of Madrid, and the research project EUROEVIDMOD (FFI2011-23181), are pleased to announce the International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages 2014 (EMEL?14), which will take place at the Facultad de Filolog?a, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 6-8 October 2014. EMEL?14 invites you to submit abstracts for general session or poster papers on evidentiality and modality in European languages. The conference also welcomes proposals for workshop sessions. The conference aims to cover a broad range of research concerned with the domains of evidentiality and modality, with special interest in empirical work and crosslinguistic studies. Some proposed research areas include: - Epistemicity: relation between evidentiality and epistemic modality - Cross-linguistic and typological studies on evidentiality - Evidential lexical units and constructions and their relation to evidential grammatical markers - Types of evidentiality: Direct vs. Indirect - Reported speech and reportative evidentiality - Epistemic stance and inter/subjectivity in discourse - Interactional approaches to evidentiality and/or epistemic modality - Corpus-based studies on evidentiality and/or epistemic modality A selection of papers based on contributions presented in this conference will be published in a special issue of an international journal and/or a prestigious academic publisher. PLENARY SPEAKERS Rebecca Clift (University of Essex) Ronald W. Langacker (University of California, San Diego) Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Bas Aarts (University College London), Francisco Alonso Almeida (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp), Jos? Luis Berbeira (University of C?diz), Marisa Blanco (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos), Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen), Jill Bowie (University College London), Frank Brisard (University of Antwerp), Pierre Busuttil (University of Pau), Piotr Cap (University of Lodz), Peter Collins (University of New South Wales), Bert Cornillie (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Nicole Delbecque (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Patrick Dendale (Universiteit Antwerpen), Ilse Depraetere (Lille III University), Angela Downing (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Roberta Facchinetti (University of Verona), Teresa Fanego (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Laura Filardo-Llamas (Universidad de Valladolid), Ad Foolen (Radboud University Nijmegen), Francisco Garrudo (Universidad de Sevilla), Ga?tanelle Gilquin (Universit? Catholique de Louvain), Mar?a de los ?ngeles G?mez Gonz?lez (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Montserrat Gonz?lez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Ram?n Gonz?lez (Universidad de Navarra), Christopher Hart (University of Lancaster), Liesbet Heyvaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Laura Hidalgo Downing (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid), Dylan Glynn (University of Paris 8), Istvan Kecskes (State University of New York, Albany), Paul Larreya (University of Paris 13), Julia Lavid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Alexander Letuchiy (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), Luc?a Loureiro-Porto (Universitat de les Illes Balears), Javier Martin Arista (Universidad de La Rioja), Tanja Mortelmans (Antwerp University), Nicole Nau (Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza), Dirk No?l (The University of Hong Kong), Bego?a N??ez Perucha (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Ignacio Palacios (Universidad de Santiago), Paola Pietrandrea (Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais de Tours & CNRS LLL), Vladimir Plungian (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences), Amalia Rodr?guez Somolinos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Jes?s Romero Trillo (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid), Anna Ruskan (Vilnius University), Louis de Saussure Louis (Universit? de Neuch?tel), Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (University of Ghent), Jolanta ?ink?nien? (Vilnius University), Augusto Soares da Silva (Universidad Cat?lica Portuguesa), Katerina Stathi (University of Hanover), Anastasios Tsangalidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Aurelija Usoniene (Vilnius University), An Van linden (University of Leuven), Bj?rn Wiemer (Universit?t Mainz), Christopher Williams (University of Foggia), Astrid De Wit (University of Antwerp), Peter R.R. White (University of New South Wales), Debra Ziegeler (Universit? Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3) GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: GENERAL SESSION PAPERS AND POSTERS Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. There will also be a poster session. The language of the conference for the plenaries and the general session is English. An anonymous copy of your abstract (max. 500 words, excl. references), in Word or PDF format, should be submitted via email to: emel14 at ucm.es Please include your name, affiliation and contact details in the text of the e-mail message. Participants may submit a maximum of two abstracts, that is, no more than one single-authored paper and one joint-authored paper, or two joint-authored papers. All abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed. They should include research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Abstract submission deadline: 1 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 26 April 2014 GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: WORKSHOP SESSIONS Proposals for workshops should include the name(s) of the convenor(s), title and a 1000-word description of the topic (see instructions for paper abstracts above), and a list of workshop participants, including 300 word abstracts of their papers. Workshop convenors are encouraged to distribute an open call for papers on the Linguist List, or other distribution lists. The languages for the theme sessions may be: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The workshop sessions will consist of a maximum of 10 slots, each with the same time format as the general session papers (20 min. + 10 min. discussion). Each workshop session should include an introductory paper by a key-note speaker, and an additional 30-minute slot for final discussion on the topic, further issues and questions for future research. Proposals should be sent by e-mail to: emel14 at ucm.es Deadline for submission of proposals: 1 April 2014 Theme session organisers will be notified by 26 April REGISTRATION Early bird registration opens: 1 June 2014 Registration (full fee): 1 July 2014 Registration closes: 7 October 2014 Conference fees (including coffee breaks, Wi-Fi access, and a conference pack): (a) Early bird registration (from 1 June to June 30 2014): - Regular participants: 120 Euros - Students (with valid ID): 70 Euros (b) Late registration: - Regular participants: 150 Euros - Students (with valid ID): 100 Euros ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jorge Ar?s, Marta Carretero (Secretary), Karlos Cid Abasolo, Bert Cornillie, Elena Dom?nguez, Julia Lavid, Carmen Ma?z Ar?valo, Juana I. Mar?n Arrese (Chair), M? Victoria Mart?n de la Rosa, M? ?ngeles Mart?nez Mart?nez, Juan Rafael Zamorano CONTACT E-mail: emel14 at ucm.es Postal address: EMEL?14 Organizing committee Departamento de Filolog?a Inglesa I Facultad de Filolog?a Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria, s/n E-28040 Madrid Spain Dr Marta Carretero https://portal.ucm.es/web/filologia_inglesa_i/marta-carretero From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Thu Mar 13 14:53:55 2014 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:53:55 +0000 Subject: International Simposium on Portuguese In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting: http://www.albdf.com This conference will involve educators, linguists, and literary theorists from the lusophone world. It is not strictly linguistic in nature, but should still interest linguists interested in Portuguese. Dan P.S. In my signature line you will see a reference to a new open-access, broad coverage linguistics journal. A call for papers will be coming out before long for the inaugural issue of the journal from myself and the other co-editor. ************************* Daniel L. Everett Dean of Arts and Sciences Bentley University ? Morison 308 175 Forest Street Waltham, MA 02452 T: 781.891.2188 F: 781.819.2125 http://daneverettbooks.com Co-Editor in Chief, Open Linguistics http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Thu Mar 13 14:58:42 2014 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:58:42 +0000 Subject: International Simposium on Portuguese In-Reply-To: <87BD3295-D516-4EB3-9087-62F1D3E1E23D@bentley.edu> Message-ID: My mailer did something weird and (re)duplicated the url. Here it is again: http://www.albdf.com Dan On Mar 13, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Everett, Daniel wrote: > > > Apologies for cross-posting: http://www.albdf.com > > This conference will involve educators, linguists, and literary theorists from the lusophone world. It is not strictly linguistic in nature, but should still interest linguists interested in Portuguese. > > Dan > > P.S. In my signature line you will see a reference to a new open-access, broad coverage linguistics journal. A call for papers will be coming out before long for the inaugural issue of the journal from myself and the other co-editor. > > ************************* > Daniel L. Everett > Dean of Arts and Sciences > Bentley University ? Morison 308 > 175 Forest Street > Waltham, MA 02452 > T: 781.891.2188 > F: 781.819.2125 > http://daneverettbooks.com > > Co-Editor in Chief, Open Linguistics > http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli > From DEVERETT at bentley.edu Tue Mar 18 12:16:24 2014 From: DEVERETT at bentley.edu (Everett, Daniel) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:16:24 +0000 Subject: Debates in the Netherlands Message-ID: In case anyone is interested, there are a series of debates now up on youtube to launch the new multilingualism program in Leeuwarden. Debaters include Robert Phillipson vs. Abram de Swaan (Language Planning), Tove Skutnabb-Kangas vs. Sue Wright (Language Shift), Geoff Pullum vs. Guillaume Thierry (Language and Thought), Jan-Wouter Zwart vs. Dan Everett (Language Innateness). It was a great event and I wish the program organizers all the best. I learned a lot from each of the debates. Dan http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=multilingualism%20debates%20leeuwarden&sm=3 From collfitz at gmail.com Wed Mar 19 16:26:34 2014 From: collfitz at gmail.com (Colleen Fitzgerald) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:26:34 -0500 Subject: Linguistic Society of America scholarships for CoLang 2014 Message-ID: CoLang, the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, will take place at The University of Texas at Arlington from June 16 - 27, 2014, with the optional field methods/practicum courses running June 30 - July 25, 2014. CoLang 2014 is an internationally-recognized language documentation and revitalization institute, offering a major opportunity to work to stem the tide of language shift and endangerment, and to increase documentation on the world's underdocumented languages. This year's CoLang Institute is under the direction of Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald. Thanks to co-sponsorship by the Linguistic Society of America, the LSA will offer several student scholarships to CoLang 2014. The deadline for LSA scholarships is March 27, with recommendation letters due on March 31. The LSA scholarship application is now live, online for student members when they log into their accounts at the Linguistic Society of America website at: http://www.linguisticsociety.org. To apply, students login to their LSA account which should open to the Profile page. Under the Profile tab, click on the green button "Submit Fellowship Application". To complete the application, students will be asked for information about academic background and the names and email addresses for two recommenders. Complete information about CoLang 2014 scholarships, including the LSA, Endangered Language Fund and UT Arlington scholarship applications, appears online at http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal/projects/CoLang/scholarships/ ******************************* Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald Professor Dept. of Linguistics & TESOL The University of Texas at Arlington Native American Languages Lab http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz/swnal http://www.uta.edu/faculty/cmfitz Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Native.American.Languages.Lab From grvsmth at panix.com Fri Mar 21 15:46:07 2014 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus Grieve-Smith) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:46:07 -0400 Subject: Fwd: 28=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A8me_?=Colloque International du CerLiCO, 13-14 juin 2014, CRISCO In-Reply-To: <1382570740.4635722.1395404970776.JavaMail.zimbra@unicaen.fr> Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 28?me Colloque International du CerLiCO, 13-14 juin 2014, CRISCO Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:29:30 +0100 From: Pierre Larrivee Reply-To: Pierre Larrivee To: AFLS-NEWS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK 28^?me Colloque International du CerLiCO Lin?arit? et interpr?tation (1) : Perception(s) de la lin?arit? : quelles interpr?tations ? Vendredi 13 et samedi 14 juin 2014 Amphith??tre Vial, b?timent B Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie * * *Programme* *Vendredi 13 juin 2014, 9h* 9h-9h30 Accueil des participants 9h30 *Ouverture du colloque par * *Pierre SINEUX* *, Pr?sident de l?Universit? de Caen Basse-Normandie* *Pr?sidente de s?ance : Emmanuelle ROUSSEL (CRISCO ? Universit? de Caen)* 9h50-10h30 *Lise HAMELIN* (LDI - Cergy-Pontoise) & *Pauline SERPAULT* (CRISCO - Caen) *Position et valeur de l?adverbe en anglais* *: l'exemple de /yet/* 10h30-11h10 *Danh Th?nh DO-HURINVILLE* (SeDyl - INALCO) & *Huy Linh DAO* (LACITO ? Sorbonne Nouvelle) *L?ordre des constituants dans le syntagme nominal vietnamien : /C?i /entre classificateur et focalisateur* /Pause / *11h30-12h30* *Conf?rence Invit?e : * *Edy VENEZIANO* *(MoDyCo - Paris Descartes) Th?orie de l'esprit et comp?tences pragmatiques chez l'enfant : Quelle place pour la lin?arit? dans leur d?veloppement ?* /D?jeuner 12h30-14h/ *Vendredi 13 juin 2014, 14h* *Pr?sident de s?ance : Pierre LARRIVEE (CRISCO ? Universit? de Caen)* 14h-14h40 *Katja PLOOG* (LLC- Elliadd - Besan?on) *La grammaire ?mergente dans le discours en temps r?el. Enjeux syntaxiques et s?mantiques * 14h40-15h10 *C?cile YOUFSI* **(SeSyLIA ? Sorbonne Nouvelle)*Lin?arit? et compositionalit? au sein des constructions pr?positionnelles GN1 + PREP + GN2 en anglais contemporain* 15h10- 15h50 *Gabriela-Violeta ATHEA* (Lib?rale) *Regard sur la lecture des documents num?riques* /Pause/ *Pr?sidente de s?ance : Catherine COLLIN (LLING ? Universit? de Nantes)* 16h20-17h00 *Augustin NDIONE* (L.L.L. - Tours) *De la lin?arit? dans les formes r?dupliqu?es* 17h00- 17h40 *Yann PORTUGUES* (L.L.L. - Orl?ans) & Fran?ois NEMO (L.L.L. - Orl?ans) *Non-lin?arit? syntaxique et caract?re fractal de l?interpr?tation, approche en termes de contraintes contributionnelles* /18h00 Assembl?e G?n?rale du CerLiCO / /20h00 D?ner en ville/ *Samedi 14 juin 2014, 9h30* *Pr?sident de s?ance : Gilles COL (FoReLL ? Universit? de Poitiers)* 9h30-10h10 *Sylvie HANCIL* (ERIAC - Rouen) */Perceiving and interpreting sentence-final adverbials: an iconic view/* 10h10-10h50 *Nathalie HERVE* (Centre d?Etudes M?triques - Nantes) *Perception(s) de la lin?arit? dans les textes po?tiques.* /Pause/ 11h20-12h *Salam DIAB DURANTON* (SLE ? Vincennes ? Saint-Denis) *Lin?arit? et interpr?tation dans le lexique de l?arabe* /D?jeuner 12h-14h/ *Samedi 14 juin 2014, 14H* *Pr?sidente de s?ance : Val?rie AMARY-COUDREAU (CRISCO ? Universit? de Caen)* 14h-15h *Conf?rence invit?e : * *Ivanka STO?ANOVA* (MUSESCREA - Paris 8) *De la lin?arit? en musique : Ecriture et interpr?tation* 15h-15h40 *Mathilde PINSON* (SeSyLIA ? Sorbonne nouvelle) *Lin?arit? et interpr?tation de /like/* 15h40-16h20 *Jan PEKELDER* (CeLiSo ? Paris-Sorbonne) *Le Principe d'Inh?rence revisit?. Lin?arisation des compl?ments d'objet direct et de direction en n?erlandais contemporain.* 16h20 *Cl?ture du colloque par * *Fr?d?ric LAMBERT* *, Pr?sident du CerLiCO* *Contact :* Val?rie AMARY-COUDREAU & Emmanuelle ROUSSEL (crisco.cerlico at unicaen.fr ) *Renseignements pratiques* disponibles sur le site de l?universit? : http://www.unicaen.fr/: ? se rendre ? l?universit? ? en bas de page ; puis ? Caen ? ; puis ? Campus 1 ? et ? Acc?s aux campus ?. *Ainsi que sur le site du CRISCO* http://www.crisco.unicaen.fr/pour la fiche d?inscription au colloque et la r?servation des h?tels. From asanso at gmail.com Fri Mar 21 16:43:55 2014 From: asanso at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andrea_Sans=F2?=) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:43:55 +0100 Subject: CfP: Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers, and Modal Particles: What do we know and where do we go from here? Message-ID: International Workshop - Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: What do we know and where do we go from here? Universit? dell'Insubria, Como (Italy), 16-17 October 2014 Website: http://sites.google.com/site/pragmaworkshopcomo E-mail: workshopcomo (at) gmail (dot) com Description The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the emergence and use of pragmatic markers (PMs), discourse markers (DMs) and modal particles (MPs). Although terminologies and classifications dramatically diverge in this field, for the sake of clarity PMs can be broadly defined as markers of functions belonging to the domains of social cohesion (the hearer-speaker relationship, the social identity of H and S, the type of social act performed; e.g. please, danke, if I may interrupt, etc.), DMs as strategies to ensure textual cohesion (discourse planning, discourse managing, information status; e.g. utterance initial usages of but, anyway, still, etc.), and MPs as signals of personal stance (the speaker's perspective towards the discourse and the interlocutor; e.g. German ja, eben, doch etc.). In pragmatics and in grammaticalization studies PMs, DMs, and MPs have been the object of extensive investigation. However, their heterogeneous character - along with the fact that they derive from many different sources, and that these items are often multifunctional - has often resulted in fragmentary descriptions that fit well the facts of a given language or group of languages, but may be seriously challenged when one tries to apply the lessons learnt from the analysis of a single language to other languages. The workshop, organized as part of the Italian National Research Program "Linguistic Representations of Identity. Sociolinguistic Models and Historical Linguistics" (www.mediling.eu), welcomes papers providing new insights into classical issues such as the delimitation and categorization of the three categories of PMs, DMs and MPs, as well as papers exploring other crucial (but somewhat less discussed) issues, such as, for instance, the sociolinguistics of PMs, DMs and MPs. Particularly encouraged are cross-linguistic or contrastive studies that take into account the languages of the Mediterranean area, which are the focus of the Research Program, but contributions on other languages and language families (especially underdescribed ones) are equally welcome. The following is a non-exhaustive list of relevant questions, clustering around a few thematic foci: (i) Universality vs. language specificity: are PMs, DMs and MPs cross-linguistically relevant (universal) or language-specific categories? If they are universal, which are the criteria for their classification and for distinguishing them? Are these criteria formal or functional in nature? Are they onomasiological or semasiological? Do these criteria apply equally for the three classes? If they are not universal, which approach to grammar is the most suitable to model their behavior (e.g. constructionist approaches)? (ii) PMs, DMs and MPs and their functional equivalents: some of these categories are particularly easy to recognize in some languages. A case in point are MPs in Germanic languages. In other languages, it is more difficult to single out a class of MPs, DMs and/or PMs. How do these languages perform the functions carried out by MPs, DMs and PMs in other languages? Are there any universal tendencies in the (potentially open-ended) class of functional and formal equivalents of PMs, DMs and MPs? (iii) The sources of PMs, DMs and MPs: which are the most frequent sources for PMs, DMs and MPs? Are there any regularities across languages in the processes leading from definable sets of source items via comparable stages of development to these three types of markers? Through which path(s) do verbs (e.g. Italian guarda 'look!'), adverbs (well, eben) and other word classes develop into PMs? What do comparative diachronic data reveal about their emergence? Are their paths of development (partially) parallel, or do they display salient divergences in some cases? Are there any 'pragmatic cycles', comparable to Jespersen's cycles, that can account for the diachronic renewal of PMs, DMs and MPs? (iv) PMs, DMs and MPs in contact situations: how do these markers behave in contact situations? Are there any borrowability hierarchies among these types of markers? Are more hearer-sided markers (such as e.g. PMs as opposed to MPs) more prone to be borrowed in asymmetric contact situations? Or is borrowability simply a matter of (lack of) syntactic integration? (v) PMs, DMs and MPs as markers of sociolinguistic identity: to what extent can these markers function as signals of sociolinguistic identity? Is there any other type of social significance attached to variation in the use of PMs, DMs and MPs within a given linguistic community? (vi) PMs, DMs, and MPs as markers of subjectivity: when and how do they function to express the speaker's perspective towards the content s/he's conveying, towards the interlocutor, or towards the communicative situation? What do we know about markers that are used to build, refine, negotiate, compare or express the speaker's identity in discourse? Invited Speakers Kate Beeching (University of the West of England) Yael Maschler (University of Haifa) Mario Squartini (University of Turin) Call for papers Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract (with one additional page for examples), keeping in mind that the slot for their communication will last 30 min. including discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as attachments in PDF format to: workshopcomo at gmail.com Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be indicated in the body of the e-mail. The abstracts will be anonymously reviewed by two members of the Scientific Committee. The publication of a selection of the papers as a book or a special issue of an international journal is envisaged. Important dates: --- 30 May 2014: deadline for abstract submission --- 30 June 2014: notification of acceptance; (free) registration starts --- 9 October 2014: registration ends --- 16-17 October 2014: workshop Organizing Committee: Andrea Sans? (Universit? dell'Insubria) - andrea.sanso (at) uninsubria.it(contact person) Pierluigi Cuzzolin (Universit? di Bergamo) - pierluigi.cuzzolin (at) unibg.it Chiara Fedriani (Universit? di Bergamo) - chiara.fedriani (at) unibg.it Chiara Ghezzi (Universit? di Bergamo) - chiara.ghezzi (at) unibg.it Anna Giacalone Ramat (Universit? di Pavia) - annaram (at) unipv.it Caterina Mauri (Universit? di Pavia) - caterina.mauri (at) unipv.it Piera Molinelli (Universit? di Bergamo) - piera.molinelli (at) unibg.it Scientific Committee: Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo), Silvia Dal Negro (Free University of Bozen), Chiara Fedriani (University of Bergamo), Chiara Ghezzi (University of Bergamo), Anna Giacalone Ramat (University of Pavia), Gianguido Manzelli (University of Pavia), Caterina Mauri (University of Pavia), Piera Molinelli (University of Bergamo), Paolo Ramat (IUSS Institute), Andrea Sans? (Insubria University - Como), Federica Venier (University of Bergamo), Alessandro Vietti (Free University of Bozen). From jaseleenruggles at gmail.com Mon Mar 24 18:26:22 2014 From: jaseleenruggles at gmail.com (J Ruggles) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:26:22 -0400 Subject: CSLS 2015 Conference Call For Papers (Apologies for cross-posting) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: 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. From stgries at gmail.com Tue Mar 25 03:00:15 2014 From: stgries at gmail.com (Stefan Th. Gries) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:00:15 -0700 Subject: CSDL 2014: final call for papers Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - apologies for cross-posting CSDL (Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language) 2014 is the 12th incarnation of a conference first hosted in 1994 by the University of California, San Diego. In 2000, CSDL 5 was hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara and it is with great pleasure that we are bringing CSDL 12 back to the University of California system and to Santa Barbara in particular. CSDL 12 is co-organized by Stefan Th. Gries (Dept. of Linguistics) and Viola G. Miglio (Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese) and will take place 4-6 November 2014 at the Hyatt Santa Barbara directly at East Beach, Santa Barbara. The conference website at contains all information about the conference; if you have questions not addressed here, plz write to the conference email address at . Call for papers 1 Potential topics For CSDL 12 (2014), we are inviting a broad range of papers taking cognitive/psycholinguistic, functional, usage-/exemplar-based, or discourse-based approach to the study of language and its acquisition, processing, use, and change. Drawing from the range of topics listed by the organizers of the successful ICLC in Edmonton, topics of papers may include, but are not limited to: - linguistic categorization: prototype theory, radial categories, ...; - linguistic relativity, culture, and ethnosyntax; - embodiment and language; - metaphor, metonymy, mental spaces, conceptual blending, ICMs, frame semantics, image schemas, force dynamics, ...; - cognitive phonology, semantics, grammar, and construction grammars; - discourse and grammar, text and discourse; - language acquisition and learning; - grammaticalization, language evolution, and change; - cognitive corpus linguistics; - empirical methods: data from observation, experimentation, computational simulation. 2 Format of abstract For full consideration, the abstract must be a PDF and meet the following specifications: - page format: Letter or A4, margins: 1 inch/2.5 cm all around - font: Times (New Roman) 12pt - paragraph format: single-spaced - length: max. 1 page (plus 1 page for figures, tables, references, if necessary) Note 1: Abstracts must be anonymous, which means author names should not appear anywhere on abstracts (you may cite yourself as [Author] or in the third person for previously published work). Note 2: An author may submit maximally one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Note 3: Abstracts will be subjected to a double-blind review by a minimum of two referees. Empirical papers and papers whose abstracts indicate that results are already available (rather than hoped for) will be given priority. Note 4: Submission of an abstract constitutes agreement to review maximally 5 abstracts yourself. 3 Submission of abstracts The deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 March 2014. We are using the LinguistList's EasyAbs system for abstract submission and reviewing; plz see the conference website for the relevant link. Pre-conference and conference schedule 1 February 2014: 1st call for papers/participation 1 February 2014: room registration at the Hyatt Santa Barbara opens 10 March 2014: 2nd call for papers/participation 21 February 2014: registration opens 24 March 2014: final call for papers/participation 31 March 2014: deadline for submission of abstracts May 2014: notifications of acceptance 15 July 2014: deadline for early-bird registration 4-6 November 2014: conference -- Stefan Th. Gries ---------------------------------- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara http://tinyurl.com/stgries ---------------------------------- From danjiesu at gmail.com Sat Mar 29 00:16:24 2014 From: danjiesu at gmail.com (Danjie Su) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:16:24 -0700 Subject: AMPRA Call for Papers (Deadline approaching: 15 April 2014) Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Thank you for your attention. Please allow me to bring to your kind attention the call-for-papers of the 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. (Abstract deadline: 15 April 2014) Thank you! Best, Daisy _______________________ Danjie Su PhD Student Asian Languages and Cultures UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095 danjiesu at gmail.com www.danjiesu.com *Call for Papers2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association * *DEADLINE: 15 April 2014* The 2nd Conference of the American Pragmatics Association will take place on October 17-19, 2014 at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California, USA. The goal of the joint conference is to promote both theoretical and applied research in pragmatics, and bring together scholars who are interested in different subfields of pragmatics (philosophical, linguistic, cognitive, social, intercultural, interlanguage, etc.). Three main topics of the conference are as follows: 1. Pragmatics theories: neo-Gricean approaches, relevance theory, theory of mind, meaning, role of context, grammaticalization, semantics-pragmatics interface, explicature, implicature, speech act theory, presuppositions, im/politeness, experimental pragmatics, etc. 2. Intercultural, cross-cultural and societal aspects of pragmatics: research involving more than one language and culture or varieties of one language, lingua franca, technologically mediated communication, bilinguals' and heritage speakers' language use, intercultural misunderstandings, effect of dual language and multilingual systems on the development and use of pragmatic skills, language of aggression and conflict, etc. 3. Applications: usage and corpus-based approaches, pragmatic competence, teachability and learnability of pragmatic skills, pragmatic variations within one language and across languages, developmental pragmatics, etc. *Conference website*: http://ampra.appling.ucla.edu/ AMPRA website: http://www.albany.edu/ampra/index.html Email address for inquiries: ampra14ucla at gmail.com Abstracts (max. 300 words) are invited for papers on any topic relevant to the fields of pragmatics and intercultural communication. When submitting the abstract the presenter should indicate which of the three main topics (1. Pragmatics theory, 2. Intercultural, cross-cultural, societal aspects of pragmatics, 3. Applications) s/he thinks the abstract belongs to. *Online submission *is at http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/Ampra2014 *Abstract deadline:* 15 April 2014 Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2014 Please, include your name, affiliation and email address. Abstracts will be double-blind peer-reviewed, and should include sufficient details to allow reviewers to judge the scientific merits of the work. Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for questions. All presentations will be in English. Panels are welcome. Panel organizers should send an abstract of the panel (max. 300 words) and abstracts of the panel participants as an email attachment to ampra14ucla at gmail.com. The deadline for panels is the same as for papers: 15 April 2014. *Publication:* Tentative plans to publish one or two volumes of selected papers are in the working. From ENG_SHH at SHSU.EDU Sun Mar 30 04:06:35 2014 From: ENG_SHH at SHSU.EDU (Halmari, Helena) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 04:06:35 +0000 Subject: CfP American Studies Association of Texas 58th Annual Conference Message-ID: Colleagues: The American Studies Association of Texas will hold its 58th annual conference at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX. Sam Houston State is located an hour north of Houston and three hours south of Dallas, on Interstate 45. The conference is scheduled for November 13-15, 2014. The organizers of this interdisciplinary conference invite paper and panel proposals in the fields of language, linguistics, and rhetoric. Please see the attachment for details. Helena Halmari From reng at rice.edu Sun Mar 30 20:19:24 2014 From: reng at rice.edu (Robert Englebretson) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:19:24 -0500 Subject: Lecturer position at Rice University Message-ID: The Department of Linguistics at Rice University, located in Houston, Texas, is now accepting applications for a lecturer position in laboratory phonetics and phonology. The successful applicant will be asked to teach courses in both of these areas, an introductory linguistics course, and may teach additional courses in his or her subject area. S/he will also advise undergraduate and graduate students, and participate in departmental activities. This is a one year appointment and the course load is four courses for the year. Deadline for receipt of applications is May 1, 2014. PhD is required by time of appointment; position start date is July 1, 2014. We especially welcome applications from researchers who share the department?s interest in approaching language from a usage-based perspective with solid empirical grounding in primary data, especially approaches of a cognitive, social-interactional, and/or functional nature. See also our department website at http://ling.rice.edu. Application materials include: cover letter, CV, teaching statement, sample of written work, and names and contact information for three references. Past teaching evaluations and/or information about course topics the applicant could teach are also welcome but not required at this time. Rice University is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity in education and employment. Rice does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status. Rice University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Address for Applications: Search Committee Department of Linguistics, MS-23 Rice University 6100 Main Street Houston TX 77005 USA