From dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com Mon Sep 1 22:19:59 2014 From: dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com (Denis Donovan) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 18:19:59 -0400 Subject: the term 'encoding' again ... In-Reply-To: <221B7B64-7081-4B4C-AB8B-5F3D5660CEE1@gmail.com> Message-ID: Well, some of you must have thought that Luria should have stayed around my place longer. Actually, the message went out with only the first sentence ... My question is much more specifically this: When did encoding/decoding become common -- and was the appearance of that notion related to the publication of Shannon's information theory in 1949? Sorry about the apparent mindlessness of the question. On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Denis Donovan wrote: > Can anyone indicate publications documenting the use of the concept "encoding/decoding" in linguistics? > > Denis M. Donovan, M.D., M.Ed., F.A.P.S. > Director, EOCT Institute > > Medical Director, 1983 - 2006 > The Children's Center for Developmental Psychiatry > St. Petersburg, Florida > > P.O Box 47576 > St. Petersburg, FL 33743-7576 > Phone: 727-641-8905 > DenisDonovan at EOCT-Institute.org > dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com > > Please reply to: dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com > > - - - > Времена сложные, дураков много. > — Алексaндр Романович Лурия > > These are complex times, many fools around. > > Alexandr Romanovich Luria in: > Goldberg, Elkhanon (2001). The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. > New York: Oxford University Press, p. 16. > > Perhaps Goldberg should have listened to Luria . . . > > > > > From tono at ualberta.ca Mon Sep 1 21:50:43 2014 From: tono at ualberta.ca (Yoshi Ono) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 14:50:43 -0700 Subject: Short language documentat=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=8Bion_?=training on Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan; Apply by 9/13/2014 Message-ID: *Short language documentation training on Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan (Apply by 9/13/2014)* We will be conducting a short language documentation training workshop focusing on one of the Ryukyuan languages, Miyako, on Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan. This workshop has been planned as part of the activity of the Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy) at ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, to stimulate and support research in language documentation. The main target of the workshop is advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, and we plan to cover the basics of working on an endangered language in the community where it is still spoken. Both linguistics and people skills are emphasized. If you would like to participate in the workshop, apply at by September 13, 2014. We can only accommodate a limited number of participants, and applicants will be notified of the outcome immediately after the closing date. If you have questions, please direct them to Toshihide Nakayama< nakayama at aa.tufs.ac.jp>. *Target participants:* Advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students without fieldwork experience or knowledge of Miyako and other Ryukyuan languages. We are targeting 5 to 10 total participants. A good command of Japanese is required. *Conducted by:* Professor Toshihide Nakayama (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) *Where:* Miyakojima, Japan *When:* December 17th-22nd (need to arrive at Miyako Island by the evening of Dec. 16 and stay at least till the evening of Dec. 22). We are prepared to assist with travel arrangements. *Fees:* no registration fee; no tuition required *Cost:* You are responsible for the transportation cost to Miyako Island and lodging and food costs. We will, however, try to keep the lodging and food costs reasonable by making arrangements for shared lodging and self-cooking. From dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr Tue Sep 2 13:30:11 2014 From: dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr (Dylan Glynn) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 15:30:11 +0200 Subject: CfP Corpus Methods in Cognitive Linguistics - Theme Session (ICLC 2015) In-Reply-To: <5405C4CF.2080706@univ-paris8.fr> Message-ID: **Call for Papers - Corpus Methods in Cognitive Linguistics** Theme Session at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13 (apologies for crossposting) This is a call for submissions for a theme session at the International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics (ICLC-13, 20-25 July 2015, Newcastle, UK). Building on the tradition developed by Dirven/et al./ (1982), Schmid (1993), Geeraerts/et al./ (1994) and Gries (2003), the theme session will focus on usage-based approaches in Cognitive Linguistics. More specifically, the session has two aims: 1. Develop corpus methods for attaining descriptive adequacy. 2. Develop corpus methods for attaining explanatory adequacy. 1. Description and social variation Given the theoretical assumptions of the Cognitive Linguistics model of language, sociolinguistic variation is integral to structure. Therefore, accounting for this complexity in language description is necessary for descriptive accuracy. This aim continues the line of research represented in Dirven & Kristiansen (2008), Geeraerts/et al/. (2010), Pütz/et al./ (2012), and Reif/et al./ (2013). 2. Explanation and hypothesis testing Proposals such as (but not restricted to) prototype effects in categorisation, force dynamics in causation, metaphor and metonymy in conceptualisation, frame semantic structuring of argument structure or grounding in construal are central to the paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics. These theories and those like them seek to explain how language production is possible. Examples of recent contributions in this line of research include Gries & Stefanowitsch (2006), Stefanowitsch & Gries (2006), Glynn & Fischer (2010), Glynn & Robinson (2014). Although these two aims, description and explanation, are inherently related, the theme session hopes to highlight specifically their place in the development of corpus methodology. Studies employing corpora / natural language production that seek to develop the field, in either or both these ways, are invited for submission. *Submission Guidelines* Abstracts not strictly adhering to submission guidelines will not be considered. *Abstracts* Abstracts should be clearly structured: question / problem answer / solution data / method conclusions / results (expected) *Formatting* Abstracts should be formatted following the guidelines set by the conference: length: 1 A4 page (including title, name, affiliation, data, figures, references) typeface: 10 point Arial, single-spaced margins: 2.5 cm format: files should be prepared in .doc, .docx, or .odt file: title of the file should be: CMCL_AUTHOR_NAME *Session Submission* Date: 20 October 2014 Address: dglynn at univ-paris8.fr Email subject: CMCL Theme session *Conference Submission* After acceptance to the theme session, the abstracts must be reviewed again, following the process for abstract reviewing for general session papers. This second stage will be anonymous, organised by the conference and will involve uploading the abstract to the conference site. This must be done by the 3^rd November. The link to the conference site with further information is: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/ *Organisers* Dylan Glynn, University of Paris VIII Nele Põldvere, Lund University Jaroslaw Jozefowski, University of Sheffield Karolina Krawczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan' *Website* http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/cmcl_iclc.html *References* Dirven, R., Goossens, L., Putseys, Y., & Vorlat, E. (1982). /The scene of linguistic action and its perspectivization by speak, talk, say, and tell/. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. // Geeraerts, D., Grondelaers, S., & Bakema, P. (1994). /The structure of lexical variation. Meaning, naming, and context/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.// Geeraerts, D., Kristiansen, G., & Piersman, Y. (Eds.). (2010). /Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Glynn, D. & Robinson, J. (Eds.). (2014). /Corpus Methods for Semantics Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy/. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Glynn, D., & Fischer, K. (Eds.) (2010). /Quantitative Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-driven approaches/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter Gries, St. Th. (2003). /Multifactorial analysis in corpus linguistics: A study of particle placement/. London & New York: Continuum Press. Gries, St. Th., & Stefanowitsch, A. (Eds.). (2006). /Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-based approaches to syntax and lexis/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.// Kristiansen, G., & Dirven, R. (Eds.). (2008). /Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language variation, cultural models, social systems/. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.// Pu?tz, M., Robinson, J. A., & Reif, M. (Eds.). (2012a). Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Variation in cognition and language use. Special issue of /Review of Cognitive Linguistics/, 10(2). Reif, M., Robinson, J. A., & Pu?tz, M. (Eds.). (2013). /Variation in language and language use: Sociolinguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives/. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.// Schmid, H.-J. (1993). /Cottage and co., idea, start vs. begin. Die Kategorisierung als Grundprinzip einer differenzierten Bedeutungsbeschreibung/. Tu?bingen: Max Niemeyer. // Stefanowitsch, A., & Gries, St. Th. (Eds.). (2006). /Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Hearsay and reported speech: Evidentiality in Romance From geoffnathan at wayne.edu Wed Sep 3 18:55:22 2014 From: geoffnathan at wayne.edu (Geoffrey Steven Nathan) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:55:22 -0400 Subject: **Call for Papers - Language and Music: Parallels and Intersections** In-Reply-To: <1913959785.16018950.1409770437352.JavaMail.root@wayne.edu> Message-ID: **Call for Papers - Language and Music: Parallels and Intersections** (apologies for tight deadline) Apologies for cross-posting. Theme session at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 13, 20- 25 July 2015 , Newcastle, UK) In the past fifteen years the field of music and cognition has exploded. A number of landmark books (Huron (2006), Patel (2008), Levitin (2006), Zbikowski (2002), Snyder (2000)) have explored ways in which humans perceive, store and recognize music. Several of these authors (Snyder, Patel, and much earlier, Lerdahl & Jackendoff, (1983)) looked at ways in which similar cognitive mechanisms govern both music and language. From within a formalist framework Orwin, Howes & Kempson (2013) have been seeking parallels on various levels as well . Two years ago ICLC sponsored a theme session on various aspects of the interactions between music and language, and we propose a similar theme session for Northumbria. Several of the participants from the previous session have agreed to participate, but we are seeking others who would like to participate in this proposed event. Papers in the previous session dealt with metaphors for talking about music, parallels in perception of grouping in music and language and the relationship between message and melody in songs. Other topics might include the relationship between linguistic rhythm (stress) and musical (and other) rhythm (preliminary explorations can be found in (Nathan, in preparation; Nathan, 2008) as well as (Chatzikyriakidis, 2013) from a more formal perspective. Abstracts should be sent to geoffnathan at wayne.edu by no later than September 15, 2014 . They should include - Title - Name(s) of author(s) - Affiliation(s) - Contact email address(es) - Abstract: 1 page, A4 or US Letter, 11 point Times New Roman, single-spaced, margins 1 inch (2.54cm) all around. - Keywords: Please list five keywords that describe the research at the top of the abstract. If they are accepted for the theme session submission, they will also need to be submitted to the conference as a whole at the following website https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/ The deadline for submission to the conference website is 3 November 2014 . REFERENCES Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios, 2013. “Underspecification Restrictions in Poly-Rhythmic Processing,” in Language and Music as Mechanisms for Interaction., Ruth Kempson and Martin Orwin. London: Academic Publishers. Huron, David, 2006. Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Lerdahl, Fred, and Ray S. Jackendoff, 1983. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, The MIT Press series on cognitive theory and mental representation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Levitin, Daniel J., 2006. This is Your Brain on Music. New York: Dutton. Nathan, Geoffrey S., in preparation. “Phonology,” in Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, in Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, Ewa Dąbrowska and Dagmar Divjak. Berlin--New York: Mouton deGruyter. ______, 2008. Phonology: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. Orwin, Martin, Christine Howes, and Ruth Kempson, 2013. Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications. Patel, Aniruddh D., 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain. New York: Oxford University Press. Snyder, Bob, 2000. Music and Memory: An Introduction. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Zbikowski, Lawrence M., 2002. Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory and Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Geoffrey S. Nathan Faculty Liaison, C&IT and Professor, Linguistics Program http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/ +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT) Nobody at Wayne State will EVER ask you for your password. Never send it to anyone in an email, no matter how authentic the email looks. From cbutler at ntlworld.com Mon Sep 8 12:48:18 2014 From: cbutler at ntlworld.com (Chris Butler) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 13:48:18 +0100 Subject: New book Message-ID: List members might be interested to know of the following recent publication, which discusses and compares a wide range of functional and/or cognitive/constructionist approaches to language: Butler, Christopher S. and Francisco Gonzálvez-García. 2014. Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Details are available at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/slcs.157/main Chris Butler and Francisco Gonzálvez García From amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk Tue Sep 9 15:38:08 2014 From: amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk (Amanda Patten) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:38:08 +0000 Subject: Reminder: ICLC-13 Theme Session Proposal Deadline =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=September 15, 2014 Message-ID: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC13) http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13 20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK REMINDER The deadline for organisers to submit proposals for Theme Sessions at ICLC-13 is September 15, 2014. Theme session organisers should submit theme session titles and proposals (up to 500 words) directly to the conference organisers (by email: ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk) along with the names of the authors and the titles of the individual papers. We will consider sessions of varying lengths and formats (with or without an allocated “discussion” slot). However, we would like to note that the conference schedule particularly suits sessions comprised of 6 slots (of 25 minutes each). The maximum length for theme sessions is 12 slots (of 25 minutes each). Theme session authors will still need to submit their abstracts for review (see http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13 for guidelines) and should make sure to note the title of the theme session at the top of their abstracts. Important Dates: Abstract submission becomes available on EasyAbs: 1 August 2014 Deadline for theme session proposals: 15 September 2014 Deadline for abstract submission: 3 November 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2015 Dates of conference: 20-25 July 2015 Please direct all enquiries to ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk From rjl at ehop.com Sun Sep 14 12:47:35 2014 From: rjl at ehop.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9-Joseph_Lavie?=) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:47:35 +0200 Subject: Whether integrativity bears on agreement categories only Message-ID: Hello everybody! In the Latin word _dôna_ (gifts, neuter, accusative, plural), the inflectional morpheme _-a_ marks at once the neuter gender, the accusative case and the plural number; for this, it is said to be 'integrative'. Gender, case and number are agreement categories. I have the following conjecture. Conjecture C: the categories that can be integrated into one (integrative) inflectional morpheme necessarily are agreement categories. Conjecture C is one way only, the reverse implication does not hold: the marks of agreement categories do not necessarily get integrated together in one morpheme. A counter-example can be the French sentence elles sont jolies (they are nice, feminine, plural), in which -e- marks the feminine and -s is the mark of the plural. This French morphology bears indeed on agreement categories (gender and number) but it is agglutinative, not integrative. I have not been able to falsify C with the (limited number of) languages I know or for which I have documentation. I have not seen C stated in the literature I read on agreement or on inflectional morphology. So I stay with these questions: Is conjecture C verified? If so, why should C be necessary? Any publication some of you could be aware of? Thanks in advance for any help. -- René-Joseph Lavie MoDyCo (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense et CNRS) rjl at ehop.com http://rjl.ehop.com [1] 33 (0)9 8065 6722 ---- 33 (0)6 0818 6973 Links: ------ [1] http://rjl.ehop.com From Giovanni.Rossi at mpi.nl Tue Sep 16 08:33:31 2014 From: Giovanni.Rossi at mpi.nl (Giovanni Rossi) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:33:31 +0200 Subject: Pragmatic typology - Panel at IPrA 2015 Message-ID: Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting) This is a call for contributions to a panel at the 14th IPrA conference, 26-31 July 2015, Antwerp, Belgium. PRAGMATIC TYPOLOGY: NEW METHODS, CONCEPTS AND FINDINGS IN THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGE IN USE Typology is the comparative study of linguistic systems. Just like one can develop typologies of sound systems, syntax, and semantics, so one can typologise pragmatic and conversational structure. This panel focuses on new methods, concepts and findings in the domain of pragmatic typology: the comparative study of language use and the principles that shape it. Pragmatics has long had a comparative outlook, and some of its important results have come from major cross-linguistic studies of politeness (Brown and Levinson 1987) and speech acts such as requests and apologies (Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper 1989). Recent developments in this domain have been characterized by a renewed interest in the study of naturally occurring face-to-face interaction, resulting in an upsurge of comparative research focusing on pragmatic phenomena in conversation (e.g. Ochs, Schegloff, and Thompson 1996; Luke and Pavlidou 2002; Enfield and Stivers 2007; Sidnell 2009; Stivers et al. 2009; Sidnell and Enfield 2012; Zinken and Ogiermann 2013; Dingemanse, Blythe, and Dirksmeyer 2014; Nuckolls and Michael 2014). Comparative work on pragmatics has grown to encompass a diverse set of methods and has already generated exciting new findings. This panel aims to bring together international experts to discuss recent work in this emerging field, with a special focus on fundamental research questions and methods to address them. The growing availability of rich records of language usage enables us to address long-standing questions, but also to pose new ones. How general are proposed pragmatic universals? How do the exigencies of conversation shape and constrain the evolution of linguistic systems? How are systems of language use inflected by differences in the lexico-grammatical resources of typologically different languages? If systems of language use form paradigms, how are these paradigms to be compared across languages? How do different modes of social interaction (e.g., technology-mediated forms of communication) influence linguistic choices and pragmatic affordances? We invite contributions to the field of pragmatic typology, broadly conceived, focussing on topics such as the systematic comparison of action sequences, systems of linguistic practices, and pragmatic principles across different situations, settings, and societies. Contributions should be primarily data-driven, and should present findings as well as address one or more of the following methodological challenges: How do we achieve high standards of comparability, accountability and replicability? How do we compare like with like in conversation? What are promising baseline contexts for comparison across languages and societies? How do we build a cumulative set of findings that can serve as stepping stones for new research? How do we deal with the distortion that comparison of distinct social and linguistic systems inevitably brings? How do we construct corpora and databases that can serve similar functions as the dictionaries and grammars of traditional typology? The current panellists are Mark Dingemanse, Giovanni Rossi, Sandra Thompson and Yoshi Ono, Jörg Zinken. We invite those interested in participating to send a 350-word abstract describing their data, research questions and methods to mark.dingemanse at mpi.nl and giovanni.rossi at mpi.nl. Please include title of paper, author name and affiliation, and contact details. Mark Dingemanse Giovanni Rossi Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics REFERENCES Blum-Kulka, Shoshana, Juliane House, and Gabriele Kasper, eds. 1989. Cross-Ultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation. Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson. 1987. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dingemanse, Mark, Joe Blythe, and Tyko Dirksmeyer. 2014. “Formats for Other-Initiation of Repair across Languages: An Exercise in Pragmatic Typology.” Studies in Language 31(1):5–43. Enfield, Nicholas J., and Tanya Stivers, eds. 2007. Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Luke, Kang Kwong, and Theodossia Pavlidou, eds. 2002. Telephone Calls: Unity and Diversity in Conversational Structure across Languages and Cultures. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Nuckolls, Janis B., and Lev Michael, eds. 2014. Evidentiality in Interaction. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Ochs, Elinor, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. 1996. Interaction and Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sidnell, Jack, ed. 2009. Conversation Analysis. Comparative Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Sidnell, Jack, and Nicholas J. Enfield. 2012. “Language Diversity and Social Action: A Third Locus of Linguistic Relativity.” Current Anthropology 53(3):302–33. Stivers, Tanya et al. 2009. “Universals and Cultural Variation in Turn-Taking in Conversation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(26):10587–92. Zinken, Jörg, and Eva Ogiermann. 2013. “Responsibility and Action: Invariants and Diversity in Requests for Objects in British English and Polish Interaction.” Research on Language and Social Interaction 46(3):256–76. From vferreira at cidles.eu Mon Sep 22 08:49:29 2014 From: vferreira at cidles.eu (Vera Ferreira) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:49:29 +0100 Subject: CIDLeS - Word-to-LaTex Conversion Message-ID: Dear colleagues, you probably already have had the necessity of converting one of your Word or Open Office documents to LaTex in order to publish a paper or a book. This is not always very easy task. CIDLeS offers to handle the full conversion process for you so that you can just send the resulting LaTex file to a publisher. 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This scientific collaboration continues with the organisation of a double event,Sénélangues 2015, which consists of a Colloquium on the description of West African languages, and a thematic school with the same topic. The Colloque Sénélangues 2015 Langues d’Afrique de l’Ouest will take place on 24 and 25 April 2015 at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar. Topics of the colloquium In the last decades, the description of African languages benefited a lot from the recent developments of good practices in the areas of information technology and of linguistic analysis including typology and language documentation. These developments have been stimulated by various collaborative projects and funding schemes. The aim of the Colloquium is to gather linguists working in West Africa so that they can share each other’s scientific results, insights, know-how and research questions in order to increase our understanding of the languages of the region. We welcome contributions on the analysis of West African languages including Creole languages, as well as on phenomena of language contact with other language families. Contributions in all sub-disciplines of linguistic analysis are welcome, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Plenary speakers Denis Creissels, University of Lyon 2 Felix Ameka, Universityof Leiden How to submit a contribution Contributions can either be in the form of an oral presentation of 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion or in the form of a poster presentation (poster format A0, 120 by 80 cm). Presenters may indicate their preference (oral presentation or poster) but the selection committee reserves the right to do otherwise. For both types of presentation the abstract should adhere to the following instructions: - Maximum one page including title, examples and references, using a Times 12 point font. - Send an anonymous version of your abstract in both rtf and pdf formats as an attachment to an email message to senelangues2015call at gmail.com - Use some key words of your title in the name of your pdf-file. - Mention “communication Senelangues 2015” in the subject line of the email message - Indicate in the body of your message: surname, first name, affiliation, email address, title of your paper, preferred presentation (poster or oral) - The language of presentation should be either French, English or Portuguese. Address for submissions and any contact senelangues2015call at gmail.com Important dates Deadline for submitting abstracts:15 November 2014 Notification of decision of acceptance : 15 January 2015 Conference venue Faculté de Lettres, Université de Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal Scientific Committee Felix Ameka University of Leiden Larry Hyman U.C. Berkeley Valentin Vydrine INALCO, LLACAN, Paris Martine Vanhove LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Koen Bostoen University of Ghent Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan Universityof Cocody Organizing Committee Sylvie Voisin DDL, CNRS & University of Aix-Marseille Stéphane Robert LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Alain-Christian Bassène FLSH UCAD, Dakar Denis Creissels DDL, CNRS & Lyon 2 Thierno Cissé FLSH UCAD, Dakar Noël Bernard Biagui CLAD UCAD, Dakar Nicolas Quint LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Jeanne Zerner LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Anna Marie Diagne IFAN UCAD, Dakar El Hadji Dièye FLSH UCAD, Dakar Dame Ndao FLSH UCAD, Dakar __________________________________________________________________________ Conferência Sénélangues 2015 Línguas da África Ocidental Chamada para comunicação Versão portuguesa 1eira chamada para comunicação Conferência Sénélangues 2015 "Línguas da África Ocidental" 24-25 Abril 2015 Dakar, Senegal Prazo de entrega das submissões: 15 Novembro 2014 Web: http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn/ Contacto: senelangues2015call at gmail.com O projecto Senelangues, financiado pela Agência Nacional [Francesa] para a Pesquisa, reuniu durante quarto anos, linguistas das unidades de pesquisa LLACAN e DDL do CNRS [Centro Nacional [Francês] de Pesquisa Científica] em parceria com a Universidade Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar no âmbito dum ambicioso projecto de descrição e documentação das línguas de Senegal (http://senelangues.huma-num.fr/ ). Na continuidade desta colaboração científica, os membros de Sénélangues decidiram organizar em Abril de 2015 um duplo evento, Sénélangues 2015, que combinará uma conferência sobre a descrição das línguas da África Ocidental com um minicurso dedicado ao mesmo tema. A conferência Sénélangues 2015 Línguas da África Ocidental terá lugar a 24 e 25 de Abril na Universidade Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. Temática da conferência Graças ao estímulo de vários projectos colaborativos apoiados por diversas agências ou fundações, a descrição das línguas africanas tem vindo a beneficiar, ao longo das últimas décadas, dos desenvolvimentos recentes das boas práticas e dos recursos informáticos no que tange aos processos de análise de cariz linguístico, tipológico e documental. Ao abrir a problemática da descrição linguística ao conjunto da África Ocidental, esta conferência tem como objectivo permeter aos linguistas que trabalham sobre as línguas dessa área encontrarem-se para fazer o balanço dos seus avances científicos, compartilharem os seus respectivos conhecimentos, as suas experiências e dúvidas, assim como favorecer o aumento dos conhecimentos globais disponíveis sobre as línguas da África Ocidental. Esperamos contribuições que tratem das línguas vernáculas da África Ocidental (inclusive os crioulos) e também estamos interessados na descriç?ão dos fenómenos de contactos que se produzem entre estas línguas e idomas de outras familhas. Todos os níveis da análise linguística (fonologia, morfologia, sintaxe, semântica, enunciação e pragmática) serão contemplados. Conferências plenárias Denis Creissels, Universidade de Lyon 2 Felix Ameka, Universidadede Leiden Modo de submissão das comunicações Conforme o gosto dos conferencistas ou a decisão dos membros do comité de selecção, as comunicações far-se-ão de forma oral (20 mn mais 10 mn de perguntas) ou sob forma de póster (tamanho recomendado A0, H: 1,20 m - L: 0,80 m) no quadro de uma sessão especial. Em ambos os casos, as consignas para o envio das propostas são as seguintes: - o resumo não deve exceder uma página (título, exemplos e referências incluídos), em Times 12 (intervalo entre linhas simples) - será enviado (versão anonimizada) em formato rtf e pdf para o endereço seguinte: senelangues2015call at gmail.com - o nome do ficheiro pdf constará simplesmente de algumas palavras-chaves do título da comunicação - assunto da mensagem: “communication Senelangues 2015” - mencione no texto da mensagem: o seu apelido, nome, afiliação (universitária), endereço electrónico (e-mail), título da proposta, formato desejado (póster vs. oral) - as línguas da conferência são o francês, o inglês e o português Contacto parasubmissão de resumos - informações senelangues2015call at gmail.com Calendário Submissão dos resumos: até ao 15 de Novembro 2014 Notificação aos autores: 15 Janeiro 2015 Lugar da conferência Universidade Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal Comité Científico Felix Ameka Universidadede Leiden Larry Hyman U.C. Berkeley Valentin Vydrine INALCO, LLACAN, Paris Martine Vanhove LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Koen Bostoen Universidade de Ghent Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan Universitade de Cocody Comité de organização Sylvie Voisin DDL, CNRS & Universidade de Aix-Marseille Stéphane Robert LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Alain-Christian Bassène FLSH UCAD, Dakar Denis Creissels DDL, CNRS & Lyon 2 Thierno Cissé FLSH UCAD, Dakar Noël-Bernard Biagui CLAD UCAD, Dakar Nicolas Quint LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Jeanne Zerner LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Anna Marie Diagne IFAN UCAD, Dakar El Hadji Dieye FLSH UCAD, Dakar Dame Ndao FLSH UCAD, Dakar _______________________________________________________________________ Colloque Sénélangues 2015 Langues d’Afrique de l’Ouest Appel à communications Version française 1er appel à communications Colloque Sénélangues 2015 Langues d’Afrique de l’ouest 24-25 avril 2015 Dakar, Sénégal Date limitede soumission: 15 novembre 2014 Site: http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn/ Contact: senelangues2015call at gmail.com Le projet Sénélangues, financé par l’Agence Nationale de la Recherche française, a réuni pendant quatre ans des linguistes des laboratoires LLACAN et DDL du CNRS dans une collaboration avec l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar autour d’un ambitieux projet de description et de documentation des langues du Sénégal (http://senelangues.huma-num.fr/ ). Dans la continuité de cette collaboration scientifique, les membres de Sénélangues organisent en avril 2015 un double événement, Sénélangues 2015, qui articulera un colloque sur la description des langues d’Afrique de l’ouest avec une école thématique sur le même thème. Le colloque Sénélangues 2015- Langues d’Afrique de l’ouest se tiendra les 24 et 25 avril à l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. Thématique du colloque Stimulée par divers projets collaboratifs soutenus par différentes agences ou fondations, la description des langues d’Afrique a pu bénéficier, au cours des dernières décennies, des développements récents des bonnes pratiques et des ressources informatiques en matière d’analyse linguistique, typologique et documentaire. En ouvrant la problématique de la description linguistique à toute l’Afrique de l’ouest, l’objectif de ce colloque est de permettre aux linguistes qui travaillent sur les langues de cette région de se rencontrer pour faire le point sur leurs avancées scientifiques, partager leurs connaissances, leur savoir-faire et leurs interrogations, et d’accroître ainsi les connaissances sur les langues de cette région. Les contributions attendues doivent porter sur des langues vernaculaires d’Afrique de l’ouest (créoles inclus), sans exclure toutefois la description des phénomènes de contact avec des langues d’autres familles. Tous les niveaux de l’analyse linguistique (phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique, énonciation et pragmatique) pourront être abordés. Conférences plénières Denis Creissels, Université Lumière Lyon 2 Felix Ameka, Universitéde Leiden Modalités de soumission des communications Les communications pourront se faire sous forme orale (durée 20mn suivies de 10mn de discussion) ou sous forme de poster (dimensions recommandées Format A0, H : 1,20 m - L : 0.80 m) dans le cadre d’une session spéciale (par choix des proposants ou décision des membres du comité de sélection). Dans les deux cas, les consignes pour l’envoi des propositions sont les suivantes: - le résumé doit faire un maximum d’une page (titre, exemples et références compris), en Times 12 (simple interligne) - il doit être envoyé anonymisé et aux formats rtf et pdf à l’adresse suivante: senelangues2015call at gmail.com - le nom du fichier pdf comportera simplement quelques mots clefs du titre de la communication - sujet du message: communication Senelangues 2015 - dans le corps du texte du message, indiquer: nom, prénom, affiliation, adresse mail, titre de la proposition, format souhaité (poster vs. oral) - les langues de la conférence sont le français, l’anglais et le portugais Adresse pour les soumissions et contact senelangues2015call at gmail.com Calendrier Date limite d’envoi des résumés : 15 novembre 2014 Notification aux auteurs : 15 janvier 2015 Lieu de la conférence Université de Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal Comité Scientifique Felix Ameka Université de Leiden Larry Hyman U.C. Berkeley Valentin Vydrine INALCO, LLACAN, Paris Martine Vanhove LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Koen Bostoen Ghent University Jérémie Kouadio N'Guessan Université de Cocody Comité d’organisation Sylvie Voisin DDL, CNRS & Université d’Aix Marseille Stéphane Robert LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Alain-Christian Bassène FLSH UCAD, Dakar Denis Creissels DDL, CNRS & Lyon 2 Thierno Cissé FLSH UCAD, Dakar Noël Bernard Biagui CLAD UCAD, Dakar Nicolas Quint LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Jeanne Zerner LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Anna Marie Diagne IFAN UCAD, Dakar El Hadji Dièye FLSH UCAD, Dakar Dame Ndao FLSH UCAD, Dakar From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Wed Sep 24 12:17:37 2014 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:17:37 +0000 Subject: Just Published: The Language Myth In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The Language Myth: Why Language is Not an Instinct By Vyvyan Evans Published by Cambridge University Press Sample chapter available on author’s website: http://www.vyvevans.net Description: Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human ‘instinct’ pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language is related to other animal forms of communication; that languages exhibit staggering diversity; that we learn our mother tongue drawing on general properties and abilities of the human mind, rather than an inborn ‘universal’ grammar; that language is not autonomous but is closely related to other aspects of our mental lives; and that, ultimately, language and the mind reflect and draw upon the way we interact with others in the world. Compellingly written and drawing on cutting-edge research, The Language Myth sets out a forceful alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work. Endorsements: ‘A much-needed, comprehensive critique of universal grammar. Vyvyan Evans builds a compelling case that will be difficult to refute.’ David Crystal, author of The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language, 3rd Edition. ‘Evans’ rebuttal of Chomsky’s Universal Grammar from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics provides an excellent antidote to popular textbooks where it is assumed that the Chomskyan approach to linguistic theory (in one avatar or another) has somehow been vindicated once and for all.’ Michael Fortescue, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen ‘The Language Myth builds a compelling case that there is no innate Universal Grammar. Evans's work is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the origin, nature, and use of human language.’ Daniel L. Everett, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley University Table of Contents: 1. Language and mind rethought Taking stock of language Myths and realities A straw man? Lessons from evolution 2. Is human language unrelated to animal communication systems? From busy bees to startling starlings Communication in the wild Talking animals Design features for language But wherefore “design features”? All in the mind of the beholder Of chimps and men 3. Are there language universals? Linguistic diversity: A whistle-stop tour Universal Grammar meets (linguistic) reality Lessons from linguistic typology So, how and why does language change? The myth of proto-world Adieu, Universal Grammar 4 . Is language innate? An instinct for language? Arguments for the language instinct Lessons from neurobiology Lessons from language learning So how do children learn language? Towards a theory of language learning Learning what to say…from what isn’t said But couldn’t language emerge all at once? It’s all about language use! 5 . Is language a distinct module in the mind? On grammar genes and chatterboxes The chatterbox fallacy Alas, poor Darwin So, what’s the alternative to modularity? What’s all the fuss anyway? 6. Is there a universal Mentalese? Mentalese and the computational mind Wherefore meaning? Fodor’s retort Intelligent bodies, embodied minds Metaphors we live by Embodiment effects in the brain So, where does this leave us? 7. Is thought independent of language? Who’s afraid of the big bad Whorf? The rise of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Born to colour the world? The neo-Whorfian critique Lessons from Rossel Island Colour through the eyes of a child Pinker’s broadside Greek blues All about sex On time and space What is linguistic relativity anyway? 8. Language and mind regained Cultural intelligence and the ratchet effect The human interaction engine The rise of language What does our mental grammar look like? Universal scenes of experience Why are there so many languages? One final reflection… Professor/Yr Athro Vyv Evans Professor of/Yr Athro Linguistics/Ieithyddiaeth www.vyvevans.net Prifysgol Bangor University General Editor of Language & Cognition A Cambridge University Press Journal http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=LCO The UK Cognitive Linguistics Association http://www.uk-cla.org.uk Rhif Elusen Gofrestredig 1141565 - Registered Charity No. 1141565 Gall y neges e-bost hon, ac unrhyw atodiadau a anfonwyd gyda hi, gynnwys deunydd cyfrinachol ac wedi eu bwriadu i'w defnyddio'n unig gan y sawl y cawsant eu cyfeirio ato (atynt). Os ydych wedi derbyn y neges e-bost hon trwy gamgymeriad, rhowch wybod i'r anfonwr ar unwaith a dilewch y neges. Os na fwriadwyd anfon y neges atoch chi, rhaid i chi beidio a defnyddio, cadw neu ddatgelu unrhyw wybodaeth a gynhwysir ynddi. Mae unrhyw farn neu safbwynt yn eiddo i'r sawl a'i hanfonodd yn unig ac nid yw o anghenraid yn cynrychioli barn Prifysgol Bangor. 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Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. From sylvie.voisin at univ-amu.fr Fri Sep 26 11:39:34 2014 From: sylvie.voisin at univ-amu.fr (Sylvie Voisin) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:39:34 +0200 Subject: Fwd: Thematic school - Senelangues2015 - 2nd Announcement Message-ID: Thematic school « Description of West African languages » http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn 2nd call French version below 2d call Thematic school « Description of West African languages » http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn As a follow up to the Senelangues project (http://senelangues.huma-num.fr/), the CNRS laboratories LLACAN and DDL, and the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar are pleased to announce the 2015 thematic school, "Senelangues 2015 - Description of West African Languages". This two weeks event will take place from April 20 to May 1st 2015 in Dakar, Senegal. The aim of this thematic school is to bring together students and scholars from the field of descriptive and typological linguistics with a focus on West African languages in order to provide an updated training on the theoretical, methodological and technological tools for collecting and analysing data of languages spoken in West Africa (mainly Atlantic and Mande languages but also, Creoles and local varieties of French). This program is designed to permit the trainees to acquire an overview of the diverse tasks to be undertaken, as well as the methods and tools which are available when one engages in the description of a West African language. The program will also provide an initiation into basic field practice. The training is structured along three lines corresponding to (1) basic knowledge of general linguistics and structural properties of African languages, (2) the specific practices of field linguistics, and (3) tools, techniques and methods of exploiting field data. A strong emphasis will be placed on languages of the Atlantic family, but specialists of Mande languages, and French- and Portuguese-based African creoles will round out the program. Practical training sessions are included in the program.
 Fees Students, without pension 30 000 F CFA / 46 € / 60 $ Students, with pension 150 000 F CFA / 230 € / 296 $ Payment terms will be announced at the time of notification of acceptance. For more information, including a detailed program of sessions, notes on the venue, see our homepage: http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn Submitting Your Application Complete the application form online at http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn/index.php/formulaire-d-inscription-et before the 15 November 2014. The school will be held in French (except for one course cf. below) Courses : Axe1. Basics Semantics (2 sessions x 1h30) * in English, interactions in French or English Typology (1 session x 2h) Morphosyntax (2 sessions x 1h30) Tonology (2 sessions x 1h30) Phonology (2 sessions x 1h30) Sociolinguistics (2 sessions x 1h30) Axe1.Atlantic languages Nouns classes in Atlantic languages (1 session x 2h) Atlantic languages: classification and reconstruction (1 session x 2h) Verbal inflection in Atlantic languages (1 session x 2h) Verbal extensions and valency in Atlantic languages (1 session x 2h= Axe1. Specific courses to the region African French / Français d’Afrique (1 session x 2h) Creoles (1 session x 1h30) Description and endangered languages in West Africa (1 session x 2h) Mande Languages (2 sessions x 1h30) Axe2. Fieldwork Recording Techniques (1 session x 1h30) Field practices and surveys (1 session x 1h30, 2 groups) Ethnolinguistics (1 session x 1h30) The researcher in fieldwork (1 session x 1h30) Axe3. Data ELAN (software) (2 sessions x 1h30) Metadata (ArBIL) (1 session x 1h30) How to write a descriptive grammar? (1 session x 1h30) Lexicography (2 sessions x 1h30) Teachers F. Ameka (Pr., Leiden University) C. Chanard (Ingenieur, LLACAN) D. Creissels (Pr. émérite, Université Lyon2) A. M. Diagne (Researcher, IFAN, Dakar) J. Kouadio (MCF, Université Cocody, Abidjan) L-M. Perrin (MCF, INALCO) M. Mous (Pr., Leiden University) P. A. Ndao (Pr., UCAD, Dakar) K. Pozdniakov (IUF - Pr., INALCO) N. Quint (DR, LLACAN) S. Robert (DR, LLACAN) P. Roulon-Doko (DR, LLACAN) S. Voisin (MCF, Aix Marseille Université) V. Vydrine (Pr., INALCO) Important dates Deadline for application submission: 15 November 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2015 Thematic school: 20 April to 1st May 2015 Ecole thématique «Description des langues d’Afrique de l’Ouest» -Sénélangues 2015 - Dates: du 20 avril au 1er mai 2015 - Lieu : Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal - Site: http ://senelangues2015.ucad.sn 2eme appel - Attention la date limite de soumission des candidatures a été prolongée au 15 novembre 2014 L’école thématique s’étendra sur deux plages de quatre jours chacune (semaine 1: 20-23 avril 2015; semaine 2: 27 avril 1er mai 2015), entre lesquelles sera inséré un colloque international sur la description des langues de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (24-25 avril 2014). Cette formation de deux semaines, qui entend compléter les formations de Master et de Doctorat existantes, doit permettre aux stagiaires d’avoir une vue d’ensemble des différents enjeux scientifiques et cadres d’analyses existants, des diverses tâches à entreprendre, ainsi que des méthodes et outils à disposition lorsque l’on se lance dans la description d’une langue parlée en Afrique de l’Ouest. Elle doit également leur donner une première initiation à la pratique de terrain. La perspective de travail sera avant tout descriptive et typologique et la formation sera axée essentiellement sur des langues parlées en Afrique de l’Ouest (langues atlantiques, langues mandé, créoles, mais aussi français d’Afrique). Tarifs, contenu des enseignements, liste des cours et des enseignants, modalités de candidature : voir infra Affiche et présentation détaillée ci-joint en fichiers attachés, voir aussi le site web : http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn Contenu des enseignements La formation représente un volume total de 53h d’enseignement. Tous les cours sont obligatoires. Ils seront dispensés en français, à l’exception du cours de sémantique qui sera donné en anglais mais les interactions pourront se faire en français. La plupart des cours sont des cours magistraux, complétés par plusieurs séances de travaux dirigés (organisées en sous-groupes) pour permettre l’entraînement, en conditions d’enquête de terrain, à l’analyse morphosyntaxique, à la perception et à la transcription des tons, ou encore l’utilisation des logiciels de traitement. La formation est articulée autour de 3 axes correspondant (1) aux connaissances de base en linguistique générale et aux particularités structurelles des langues africaines, (2) aux spécificités de la pratique de linguistique de terrain et (3) aux outils, techniques et méthodes d’exploitation des données de terrain. Un accent particulier sera donné aux langues de la famille atlantique, mais des spécialistes de langues mandé, de créoles à base portugaise et du français d’Afrique compléteront la formation. Les résumés des cours seront disponibles prochainement sur le site de l’école http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn Liste des enseignants F. Ameka (Pr., Université de Leiden) C. Chanard (IE, LLACAN) D. Creissels (Pr. émérite, Université Lyon2) A. M. Diagne (Chercheur, IFAN, Dakar) J. Kouadio (MCF, Université Cocody, Abidjan) M. Mous (Pr., Leiden) P. A. Ndao (Pr., UCAD, Dakar) L.M. Perrin (MC, INALCO) K. Pozdniakov (IUF - Pr., INALCO) N. Quint (DR, LLACAN) S. Robert (DR, LLACAN) P. Roulon-Doko (DR, LLACAN) S. Voisin (MCF, Aix Marseille Université) V. Vydrine (Pr., INALCO) Liste des cours : Axe1. Fondamentaux Sémantique (2 sessions de 1h30) Typologie (1 session de 2h) Morphosyntaxe (2 sessions de 1h30) Tonologie (2 sessions de 1h30) Phonologie (2 sessions de 1h30) Sociolinguistique (2 sessions de 1h30) Axe1. Langues atlantiques Les classes nominales des langues atlantiques (1 session de 2h) Les langues atlantiques : connaissances et reconstruction (1 session de 2h) La flexion verbale dans les langues atlantiques (1 session de 2h) Extension verbale et valence dans les langues atlantiques (1 session de 2h= Axe1. Cours spécifiques à la région Français d’Afrique (1 session de 2h) Les créoles (1 session de 1h30) Description et langues en danger en Afrique de l’Ouest (1 session de 2h) Langues mandé (2 sessions de 1h30) Axe2. Terrain Techniques d’enregistrement (1 session de 1h30) Pratiques de terrain et enquêtes (1 session de 1h30 pour 2 sous-groupes) Ethnolinguistique (1 session de 1h30) Le chercheur sur le terrain (1 session de 1h30) Axe3. Exploitation des données ELAN (Logiciel) (2 sessions de 1h30) Les métadonnées (ArBIL) (1 session de 1h30) Comment écrire une grammaire (1 session de 1h30) Lexicographie (2 sessions de 1h30) Un certificat de participation (comprenant la liste des enseignements reçus et le nombre de crédits équivalents) sera délivré à tous les participants pour permettre une validation de la formation, comme stage ou autre selon les universités concernées. Public concerné et critères d’admissibilité L’école thématique doit permettre d’accueillir 70 stagiaires. Elle est ouverte à tous ceux qui désirent acquérir des connaissances sur les langues d’Afrique de l’Ouest, prioritairement les étudiants de Master 1 et 2, doctorants, post-doctorants ou jeunes chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs de sciences du langage qui souhaitent effectuer un travail de description sur une langue parlée en Afrique de l’Ouest. Niveau d’études minimum requis : Licence de Sciences du langage (ou niveau équivalent en linguistique). Modalité de soumission des candidatures (en ligne) : Pour le 15 novembre 2014 au plus tard, remplir le formulaire de candidature en ligne sur le site : http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn/index.php/formulaire-d-inscription-et La notification d’acceptation parviendra aux candidats le 15 janvier. Les modalités d’inscription leur seront précisées à cette occasion. Tarifs Stagiaire sans pension 30 000 F CFA / 46 € / 60 $ Stagiaire avec pension 150 000 F CFA / 230 € / 296 $ Les modalités de paiement seront communiquées en même temps que la notification d’acceptation. Pour plus d’information sur les tarifs et l’hébergement : voir le site web. Site web : http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn Contact : senelangues2015et at gmail.com From jscheibm at odu.edu Mon Sep 29 17:59:02 2014 From: jscheibm at odu.edu (Scheibman, Joanne) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:59:02 +0000 Subject: Job notice: Assistant Professor, Linguistics Message-ID: Assistant Professor, Linguistics. The Department of English at Old Dominion University invites applications for a tenure track appointment in linguistics to teach a range of undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. courses. The program specializes in empirical and usage-based approaches in the study of language. Minimum qualifications include Ph.D. in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, or Linguistic Anthropology by August 2015; qualified to teach courses in language and culture, linguistics, and the ability to supervise TESOL practicum students. The ability to teach phonology is strongly preferred. Evidence of scholarly productivity and good teaching required. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to Dr. Dana Heller, Chair, Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529. Review of applicants will begin November 1, 2014. Old Dominion University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action institution and requires compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. ________________________ Joanne Scheibman English and Applied Linguistics Old Dominion University 5028 Batten Arts & Letters Norfolk, VA 23529 USA 757-683-3879 From grvsmth at panix.com Tue Sep 30 06:40:08 2014 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus B. Grieve-Smith) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 02:40:08 -0400 Subject: Fwd: appel: Les Constructions comme unit=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9s_?=fondamentales de la langue In-Reply-To: <20140930082054.805e1f04daedff4c57e93951@unicaen.fr> Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [clcs-sdl-chercheurs] appel Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:20:54 +0200 From: dominique Legallois Reply-To: dominique Legallois To: clcs-sdl-chercheurs at univ-lorraine.fr Bonjour est-il possible de diffuser cet appel à communication ? merci à vous Dominique Legallois et Adeline Patard Université de Caen Crisco Journée d'étude : Les Constructions comme unités fondamentales de la langue Dominique Legallois et Adeline Patard Université de Caen Crisco lieu : Université de Caen, 21 avril 2015 La notion de Construction a émergé du paradigme de la linguistique cognitive il y a une vingtaine d'années, principalement aux États-Unis. Depuis, le succès des Grammaires de Construction a été grandissant, jusqu'à la parution en 2013 du Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar, venant en quelque sorte consacrer dans le champ de la linguistique les apports des approches constructionnelles. Dans le domaine de la linguistique française, les études sur les constructions restent encore peu visibles (cependant, Lambrecht 2008). Les raisons de cette discrétion est sans doute à chercher en partie dans l'aspiration de ces études à préserver une certaine indépendance face à la linguistique cognitive qui n'a pas eu en France, le même succès que dans les autres pays européens. La journée d’étude, qui aura lieu à l'Université de Caen, a pour objectif d’explorer les nouvelles perspectives offertes par la notion de Construction dans divers domaines de la linguistique française. Elle permettra de rendre plus visible l'ensemble des recherches menées autour de cette unité, que ce soit en diachronie ou en synchronie, sur la langue parlée ou écrite. On considérera, entre autres, que : • une construction est un appariement d'une forme et d'une signification (ou d'une fonction pragmatique). Cette relation s'observe bien sûr dès le niveau morphémique mais, et c’est là l'originalité de l'approche constructionnelle, elle concerne également les schémas syntaxiques lexicalement sous-déterminés, dotés de propriétés sémantiques ou pragmatiques (voire prosodiques) propres ; par exemple : GnS V GnO (construction transitive), GnS V GnO à GnOI (construction ditransitive), Adj comme Gn (comparaison avec parangon), le Gn est que P (construction spécificationnelle), L'année X a vu Gn Inf. (par ex. L'année 2013 a vu l'économie enregistrer de nombreux soubresauts), etc. • une construction constitue un attracteur pour des classes d’éléments lexicaux, et peut, de ce fait, exercer une coercition sur des éléments a priori non prédestinés à intégrer la construction (par exemple, Elle me gazouille un petit rire cristallin (San Antonio, Mange et tais-toi !). • une construction peut être appréhendée à différents niveaux de spécificité ou de schématicité (Gn1 empêcher Gn2 de Inf. // Gn1 V Gn2 de Inf. ) • une construction possède des propriétés grammaticales ou sémantiques qui lui sont en partie propres (par ex. la notion générale de sujet s'applique-t-elle aux Gn des constructions spécificationnelles?). Les contributions aborderont des questions telles que : • les traits définitoires ; par exemple, le trait de la non-compositionnalité est-il suffisant ? Si les constructions ont une validité psycholinguistique, des critères autres qu'exclusivement linguistiques peuvent-ils intervenir dans leur définition ? • La didactisation des constructions ; de nouvelles propositions se font jour en didactique, qui tentent à appliquer des principes issus de la linguistique cognitive à l'enseignement des langues (cf. Holme 2010). Parmi ces principes, les constructions ont une place privilégiée : leur enseignement se substituerait (ou deviendrait complémentaire) à celui de la combinatoire règles – lexique, et trouverait une place naturelle dans les perspectives actionnelles. • L'acquisition des constructions ; si le modèle des « exemplaires » concrets possède une validité, comment s'opèrent les processus de schématisation (ou d'abstraction) ? Quelles constructions bénéficient en premier de ces processus ? • La notion de construction et sa compatibilité avec les modèles non cognitifs ; si la notion de construction préexiste aux « Grammaires de construction » (cf. Bouveret et Legallois 2012), dans ce cas, on peut envisager sa pertinence dans diverses approches non spécifiquement cognitives. • La place de la constructionnalisation (constructionalization) en linguistique diachronique ; Les études diachroniques sur les Constructions se développent et mettent en relief les facteurs de grammaticalisation ou pragmaticalisation (cf. D. Noël 2007, Traugott et Trousdale 2013). • La sémantique / pragmatique des constructions ; si les constructions sont des unités qui s'apparentent en partie aux lexèmes, les linguistes constructionnalistes sont alors confrontés aux mêmes enjeux théoriques qui animent les débats en sémantique lexicale : approches polysémiques vs réductionnistes, sens prototypique vs abstrait, etc. D'autres questions sont évidemment envisageables ; on évitera cependant les thèmes centrés exclusivement sur les méthodologies statistiques. Dates importantes Fin septembre : appel à communication 30 novembre : transmission des intentions de communication 15 janvier 2015 : soumission des propositions 31 janvier 2015 : notification des décisions 21 avril 2015 : journée d’étude Les propositions de communication devront être développées (minimum 2 pages, avec bibliographie). Elles porteront sur le français (des comparaisons avec d'autres langues sont envisageables). Les propositions devront être envoyées avant le 15 décembre 2014 à Adeline Patard et Dominique Legallois (en même temps que les vœux de bonne année) aux adresses adeline.patard at unicaen.fr et dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr On indiquera dans l'objet du message : journée Constructions Bibliographie indicative Boas H. et F. Gonzálvez García (éds.) (2014) Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar, Benjamins Bouveret M. et Legallois D. (éds) (2012). Constructions in French. John Benjamins Pub Co, 2012 François J. (2008) « La Grammaire de Construction, un bâtiment ouvert aux quatre vents », Cahiers du Crisco 26. Holme, R. (2010). « Construction grammars: towards a pedagogical model. » AILA Review, 23, 1, 115-133. Lambrecht K. (2008) « Contraintes cognitives sur la syntaxe de la phrase en français parlé » in Van Raemdonck D. Modèles syntaxiques, la syntaxe à l'aube du XXIe siècle, Peter Lang, 247-278 Noël D. (2007) « Diachronic construction grammar and grammaticalization theory » In: Functions of Language 14:2. iv, 148 pp. (pp. 177–202) Traugott E. & Graeme Trousdale (2013 ) Constructionalization and Constructional Changes. Oxford: OUP Trousdale G. & Hoffmann Th. (eds.) (2013) The Oxford handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford University Press From dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com Mon Sep 1 22:19:59 2014 From: dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com (Denis Donovan) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 18:19:59 -0400 Subject: the term 'encoding' again ... In-Reply-To: <221B7B64-7081-4B4C-AB8B-5F3D5660CEE1@gmail.com> Message-ID: Well, some of you must have thought that Luria should have stayed around my place longer. Actually, the message went out with only the first sentence ... My question is much more specifically this: When did encoding/decoding become common -- and was the appearance of that notion related to the publication of Shannon's information theory in 1949? Sorry about the apparent mindlessness of the question. On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Denis Donovan wrote: > Can anyone indicate publications documenting the use of the concept "encoding/decoding" in linguistics? > > Denis M. Donovan, M.D., M.Ed., F.A.P.S. > Director, EOCT Institute > > Medical Director, 1983 - 2006 > The Children's Center for Developmental Psychiatry > St. Petersburg, Florida > > P.O Box 47576 > St. Petersburg, FL 33743-7576 > Phone: 727-641-8905 > DenisDonovan at EOCT-Institute.org > dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com > > Please reply to: dmdonovan1937 at gmail.com > > - - - > ??????? ???????, ??????? ?????. > ? ?????a??? ????????? ????? > > These are complex times, many fools around. > > Alexandr Romanovich Luria in: > Goldberg, Elkhanon (2001). The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. > New York: Oxford University Press, p. 16. > > Perhaps Goldberg should have listened to Luria . . . > > > > > From tono at ualberta.ca Mon Sep 1 21:50:43 2014 From: tono at ualberta.ca (Yoshi Ono) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 14:50:43 -0700 Subject: Short language documentat=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=8Bion_?=training on Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan; Apply by 9/13/2014 Message-ID: *Short language documentation training on Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan (Apply by 9/13/2014)* We will be conducting a short language documentation training workshop focusing on one of the Ryukyuan languages, Miyako, on Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan. This workshop has been planned as part of the activity of the Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy) at ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, to stimulate and support research in language documentation. The main target of the workshop is advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, and we plan to cover the basics of working on an endangered language in the community where it is still spoken. Both linguistics and people skills are emphasized. If you would like to participate in the workshop, apply at by September 13, 2014. We can only accommodate a limited number of participants, and applicants will be notified of the outcome immediately after the closing date. If you have questions, please direct them to Toshihide Nakayama< nakayama at aa.tufs.ac.jp>. *Target participants:* Advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students without fieldwork experience or knowledge of Miyako and other Ryukyuan languages. We are targeting 5 to 10 total participants. A good command of Japanese is required. *Conducted by:* Professor Toshihide Nakayama (ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) *Where:* Miyakojima, Japan *When:* December 17th-22nd (need to arrive at Miyako Island by the evening of Dec. 16 and stay at least till the evening of Dec. 22). We are prepared to assist with travel arrangements. *Fees:* no registration fee; no tuition required *Cost:* You are responsible for the transportation cost to Miyako Island and lodging and food costs. We will, however, try to keep the lodging and food costs reasonable by making arrangements for shared lodging and self-cooking. From dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr Tue Sep 2 13:30:11 2014 From: dylan.glynn at univ-paris8.fr (Dylan Glynn) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 15:30:11 +0200 Subject: CfP Corpus Methods in Cognitive Linguistics - Theme Session (ICLC 2015) In-Reply-To: <5405C4CF.2080706@univ-paris8.fr> Message-ID: **Call for Papers - Corpus Methods in Cognitive Linguistics** Theme Session at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13 (apologies for crossposting) This is a call for submissions for a theme session at the International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics (ICLC-13, 20-25 July 2015, Newcastle, UK). Building on the tradition developed by Dirven/et al./ (1982), Schmid (1993), Geeraerts/et al./ (1994) and Gries (2003), the theme session will focus on usage-based approaches in Cognitive Linguistics. More specifically, the session has two aims: 1. Develop corpus methods for attaining descriptive adequacy. 2. Develop corpus methods for attaining explanatory adequacy. 1. Description and social variation Given the theoretical assumptions of the Cognitive Linguistics model of language, sociolinguistic variation is integral to structure. Therefore, accounting for this complexity in language description is necessary for descriptive accuracy. This aim continues the line of research represented in Dirven & Kristiansen (2008), Geeraerts/et al/. (2010), P?tz/et al./ (2012), and Reif/et al./ (2013). 2. Explanation and hypothesis testing Proposals such as (but not restricted to) prototype effects in categorisation, force dynamics in causation, metaphor and metonymy in conceptualisation, frame semantic structuring of argument structure or grounding in construal are central to the paradigm of Cognitive Linguistics. These theories and those like them seek to explain how language production is possible. Examples of recent contributions in this line of research include Gries & Stefanowitsch (2006), Stefanowitsch & Gries (2006), Glynn & Fischer (2010), Glynn & Robinson (2014). Although these two aims, description and explanation, are inherently related, the theme session hopes to highlight specifically their place in the development of corpus methodology. Studies employing corpora / natural language production that seek to develop the field, in either or both these ways, are invited for submission. *Submission Guidelines* Abstracts not strictly adhering to submission guidelines will not be considered. *Abstracts* Abstracts should be clearly structured: question / problem answer / solution data / method conclusions / results (expected) *Formatting* Abstracts should be formatted following the guidelines set by the conference: length: 1 A4 page (including title, name, affiliation, data, figures, references) typeface: 10 point Arial, single-spaced margins: 2.5 cm format: files should be prepared in .doc, .docx, or .odt file: title of the file should be: CMCL_AUTHOR_NAME *Session Submission* Date: 20 October 2014 Address: dglynn at univ-paris8.fr Email subject: CMCL Theme session *Conference Submission* After acceptance to the theme session, the abstracts must be reviewed again, following the process for abstract reviewing for general session papers. This second stage will be anonymous, organised by the conference and will involve uploading the abstract to the conference site. This must be done by the 3^rd November. The link to the conference site with further information is: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/ *Organisers* Dylan Glynn, University of Paris VIII Nele P?ldvere, Lund University Jaroslaw Jozefowski, University of Sheffield Karolina Krawczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan' *Website* http://www.dsglynn.univ-paris8.fr/cmcl_iclc.html *References* Dirven, R., Goossens, L., Putseys, Y., & Vorlat, E. (1982). /The scene of linguistic action and its perspectivization by speak, talk, say, and tell/. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. // Geeraerts, D., Grondelaers, S., & Bakema, P. (1994). /The structure of lexical variation. Meaning, naming, and context/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.// Geeraerts, D., Kristiansen, G., & Piersman, Y. (Eds.). (2010). /Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Glynn, D. & Robinson, J. (Eds.). (2014). /Corpus Methods for Semantics Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy/. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Glynn, D., & Fischer, K. (Eds.) (2010). /Quantitative Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-driven approaches/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter Gries, St. Th. (2003). /Multifactorial analysis in corpus linguistics: A study of particle placement/. London & New York: Continuum Press. Gries, St. Th., & Stefanowitsch, A. (Eds.). (2006). /Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-based approaches to syntax and lexis/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.// Kristiansen, G., & Dirven, R. (Eds.). (2008). /Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Language variation, cultural models, social systems/. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.// Pu?tz, M., Robinson, J. A., & Reif, M. (Eds.). (2012a). Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Variation in cognition and language use. Special issue of /Review of Cognitive Linguistics/, 10(2). Reif, M., Robinson, J. A., & Pu?tz, M. (Eds.). (2013). /Variation in language and language use: Sociolinguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives/. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.// Schmid, H.-J. (1993). /Cottage and co., idea, start vs. begin. Die Kategorisierung als Grundprinzip einer differenzierten Bedeutungsbeschreibung/. Tu?bingen: Max Niemeyer. // Stefanowitsch, A., & Gries, St. Th. (Eds.). (2006). /Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy/. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Hearsay and reported speech: Evidentiality in Romance From geoffnathan at wayne.edu Wed Sep 3 18:55:22 2014 From: geoffnathan at wayne.edu (Geoffrey Steven Nathan) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:55:22 -0400 Subject: **Call for Papers - Language and Music: Parallels and Intersections** In-Reply-To: <1913959785.16018950.1409770437352.JavaMail.root@wayne.edu> Message-ID: **Call for Papers - Language and Music: Parallels and Intersections** (apologies for tight deadline) Apologies for cross-posting. Theme session at the 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 13, 20- 25 July 2015 , Newcastle, UK) In the past fifteen years the field of music and cognition has exploded. A number of landmark books (Huron (2006), Patel (2008), Levitin (2006), Zbikowski (2002), Snyder (2000)) have explored ways in which humans perceive, store and recognize music. Several of these authors (Snyder, Patel, and much earlier, Lerdahl & Jackendoff, (1983)) looked at ways in which similar cognitive mechanisms govern both music and language. From within a formalist framework Orwin, Howes & Kempson (2013) have been seeking parallels on various levels as well . Two years ago ICLC sponsored a theme session on various aspects of the interactions between music and language, and we propose a similar theme session for Northumbria. Several of the participants from the previous session have agreed to participate, but we are seeking others who would like to participate in this proposed event. Papers in the previous session dealt with metaphors for talking about music, parallels in perception of grouping in music and language and the relationship between message and melody in songs. Other topics might include the relationship between linguistic rhythm (stress) and musical (and other) rhythm (preliminary explorations can be found in (Nathan, in preparation; Nathan, 2008) as well as (Chatzikyriakidis, 2013) from a more formal perspective. Abstracts should be sent to geoffnathan at wayne.edu by no later than September 15, 2014 . They should include - Title - Name(s) of author(s) - Affiliation(s) - Contact email address(es) - Abstract: 1 page, A4 or US Letter, 11 point Times New Roman, single-spaced, margins 1 inch (2.54cm) all around. - Keywords: Please list five keywords that describe the research at the top of the abstract. If they are accepted for the theme session submission, they will also need to be submitted to the conference as a whole at the following website https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2015/07/iclc-13-the-13th-international-cognitive-linguistics-conference/ The deadline for submission to the conference website is 3 November 2014 . REFERENCES Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios, 2013. ?Underspecification Restrictions in Poly-Rhythmic Processing,? in Language and Music as Mechanisms for Interaction., Ruth Kempson and Martin Orwin. London: Academic Publishers. Huron, David, 2006. Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Lerdahl, Fred, and Ray S. Jackendoff, 1983. A Generative Theory of Tonal Music, The MIT Press series on cognitive theory and mental representation. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Levitin, Daniel J., 2006. This is Your Brain on Music. New York: Dutton. Nathan, Geoffrey S., in preparation. ?Phonology,? in Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, in Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics, Ewa D?browska and Dagmar Divjak. Berlin--New York: Mouton deGruyter. ______, 2008. Phonology: A Cognitive Grammar Introduction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. Orwin, Martin, Christine Howes, and Ruth Kempson, 2013. Language, Music and Interaction. London: College Publications. Patel, Aniruddh D., 2008. Music, Language, and the Brain. New York: Oxford University Press. Snyder, Bob, 2000. Music and Memory: An Introduction. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Zbikowski, Lawrence M., 2002. Conceptualizing Music: Cognitive Structure, Theory and Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Geoffrey S. Nathan Faculty Liaison, C&IT and Professor, Linguistics Program http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/ +1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT) Nobody at Wayne State will EVER ask you for your password. Never send it to anyone in an email, no matter how authentic the email looks. From cbutler at ntlworld.com Mon Sep 8 12:48:18 2014 From: cbutler at ntlworld.com (Chris Butler) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 13:48:18 +0100 Subject: New book Message-ID: List members might be interested to know of the following recent publication, which discusses and compares a wide range of functional and/or cognitive/constructionist approaches to language: Butler, Christopher S. and Francisco Gonz?lvez-Garc?a. 2014. Exploring Functional-Cognitive Space. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Details are available at https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/slcs.157/main Chris Butler and Francisco Gonz?lvez Garc?a From amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk Tue Sep 9 15:38:08 2014 From: amanda.patten at northumbria.ac.uk (Amanda Patten) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:38:08 +0000 Subject: Reminder: ICLC-13 Theme Session Proposal Deadline =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=93_?=September 15, 2014 Message-ID: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC13) http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13 20-25 July 2015, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK REMINDER The deadline for organisers to submit proposals for Theme Sessions at ICLC-13 is September 15, 2014. Theme session organisers should submit theme session titles and proposals (up to 500 words) directly to the conference organisers (by email: ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk) along with the names of the authors and the titles of the individual papers. We will consider sessions of varying lengths and formats (with or without an allocated ?discussion? slot). However, we would like to note that the conference schedule particularly suits sessions comprised of 6 slots (of 25 minutes each). The maximum length for theme sessions is 12 slots (of 25 minutes each). Theme session authors will still need to submit their abstracts for review (see http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/iclc13 for guidelines) and should make sure to note the title of the theme session at the top of their abstracts. Important Dates: Abstract submission becomes available on EasyAbs: 1 August 2014 Deadline for theme session proposals: 15 September 2014 Deadline for abstract submission: 3 November 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2015 Dates of conference: 20-25 July 2015 Please direct all enquiries to ICLC13 at northumbria.ac.uk From rjl at ehop.com Sun Sep 14 12:47:35 2014 From: rjl at ehop.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Ren=C3=A9-Joseph_Lavie?=) Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:47:35 +0200 Subject: Whether integrativity bears on agreement categories only Message-ID: Hello everybody! In the Latin word _d?na_ (gifts, neuter, accusative, plural), the inflectional morpheme _-a_ marks at once the neuter gender, the accusative case and the plural number; for this, it is said to be 'integrative'. Gender, case and number are agreement categories. I have the following conjecture. Conjecture C: the categories that can be integrated into one (integrative) inflectional morpheme necessarily are agreement categories. Conjecture C is one way only, the reverse implication does not hold: the marks of agreement categories do not necessarily get integrated together in one morpheme. A counter-example can be the French sentence elles sont jolies (they are nice, feminine, plural), in which -e- marks the feminine and -s is the mark of the plural. This French morphology bears indeed on agreement categories (gender and number) but it is agglutinative, not integrative. I have not been able to falsify C with the (limited number of) languages I know or for which I have documentation. I have not seen C stated in the literature I read on agreement or on inflectional morphology. So I stay with these questions: Is conjecture C verified? If so, why should C be necessary? Any publication some of you could be aware of? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Ren?-Joseph Lavie MoDyCo (Universit? Paris Ouest Nanterre la D?fense et CNRS) rjl at ehop.com http://rjl.ehop.com [1] 33 (0)9 8065 6722 ---- 33 (0)6 0818 6973 Links: ------ [1] http://rjl.ehop.com From Giovanni.Rossi at mpi.nl Tue Sep 16 08:33:31 2014 From: Giovanni.Rossi at mpi.nl (Giovanni Rossi) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:33:31 +0200 Subject: Pragmatic typology - Panel at IPrA 2015 Message-ID: Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting) This is a call for contributions to a panel at the 14th IPrA conference, 26-31 July 2015, Antwerp, Belgium. PRAGMATIC TYPOLOGY: NEW METHODS, CONCEPTS AND FINDINGS IN THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGE IN USE Typology is the comparative study of linguistic systems. Just like one can develop typologies of sound systems, syntax, and semantics, so one can typologise pragmatic and conversational structure. This panel focuses on new methods, concepts and findings in the domain of pragmatic typology: the comparative study of language use and the principles that shape it. Pragmatics has long had a comparative outlook, and some of its important results have come from major cross-linguistic studies of politeness (Brown and Levinson 1987) and speech acts such as requests and apologies (Blum-Kulka, House, and Kasper 1989). Recent developments in this domain have been characterized by a renewed interest in the study of naturally occurring face-to-face interaction, resulting in an upsurge of comparative research focusing on pragmatic phenomena in conversation (e.g. Ochs, Schegloff, and Thompson 1996; Luke and Pavlidou 2002; Enfield and Stivers 2007; Sidnell 2009; Stivers et al. 2009; Sidnell and Enfield 2012; Zinken and Ogiermann 2013; Dingemanse, Blythe, and Dirksmeyer 2014; Nuckolls and Michael 2014). Comparative work on pragmatics has grown to encompass a diverse set of methods and has already generated exciting new findings. This panel aims to bring together international experts to discuss recent work in this emerging field, with a special focus on fundamental research questions and methods to address them. The growing availability of rich records of language usage enables us to address long-standing questions, but also to pose new ones. How general are proposed pragmatic universals? How do the exigencies of conversation shape and constrain the evolution of linguistic systems? How are systems of language use inflected by differences in the lexico-grammatical resources of typologically different languages? If systems of language use form paradigms, how are these paradigms to be compared across languages? How do different modes of social interaction (e.g., technology-mediated forms of communication) influence linguistic choices and pragmatic affordances? We invite contributions to the field of pragmatic typology, broadly conceived, focussing on topics such as the systematic comparison of action sequences, systems of linguistic practices, and pragmatic principles across different situations, settings, and societies. Contributions should be primarily data-driven, and should present findings as well as address one or more of the following methodological challenges: How do we achieve high standards of comparability, accountability and replicability? How do we compare like with like in conversation? What are promising baseline contexts for comparison across languages and societies? How do we build a cumulative set of findings that can serve as stepping stones for new research? How do we deal with the distortion that comparison of distinct social and linguistic systems inevitably brings? How do we construct corpora and databases that can serve similar functions as the dictionaries and grammars of traditional typology? The current panellists are Mark Dingemanse, Giovanni Rossi, Sandra Thompson and Yoshi Ono, J?rg Zinken. We invite those interested in participating to send a 350-word abstract describing their data, research questions and methods to mark.dingemanse at mpi.nl and giovanni.rossi at mpi.nl. Please include title of paper, author name and affiliation, and contact details. Mark Dingemanse Giovanni Rossi Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics REFERENCES Blum-Kulka, Shoshana, Juliane House, and Gabriele Kasper, eds. 1989. Cross-Ultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation. Brown, Penelope, and Stephen C. Levinson. 1987. Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Dingemanse, Mark, Joe Blythe, and Tyko Dirksmeyer. 2014. ?Formats for Other-Initiation of Repair across Languages: An Exercise in Pragmatic Typology.? Studies in Language 31(1):5?43. Enfield, Nicholas J., and Tanya Stivers, eds. 2007. Person Reference in Interaction: Linguistic, Cultural and Social Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Luke, Kang Kwong, and Theodossia Pavlidou, eds. 2002. Telephone Calls: Unity and Diversity in Conversational Structure across Languages and Cultures. Amsterdam?; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Nuckolls, Janis B., and Lev Michael, eds. 2014. Evidentiality in Interaction. Amsterdam?; Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Ochs, Elinor, Emanuel A. Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. 1996. Interaction and Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Sidnell, Jack, ed. 2009. Conversation Analysis. Comparative Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Sidnell, Jack, and Nicholas J. Enfield. 2012. ?Language Diversity and Social Action: A Third Locus of Linguistic Relativity.? Current Anthropology 53(3):302?33. Stivers, Tanya et al. 2009. ?Universals and Cultural Variation in Turn-Taking in Conversation.? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(26):10587?92. Zinken, J?rg, and Eva Ogiermann. 2013. ?Responsibility and Action: Invariants and Diversity in Requests for Objects in British English and Polish Interaction.? Research on Language and Social Interaction 46(3):256?76. From vferreira at cidles.eu Mon Sep 22 08:49:29 2014 From: vferreira at cidles.eu (Vera Ferreira) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:49:29 +0100 Subject: CIDLeS - Word-to-LaTex Conversion Message-ID: Dear colleagues, you probably already have had the necessity of converting one of your Word or Open Office documents to LaTex in order to publish a paper or a book. This is not always very easy task. CIDLeS offers to handle the full conversion process for you so that you can just send the resulting LaTex file to a publisher. It's really simple: send us your .doc, .docx or .odt file and you will get back a .tex file that you can use in your LaTex environment. To learn more about this service take a look at http://media.cidles.eu/services/word-to-latex-conversion/ For more information about our offer and to order our conversion service please send a mail to pbouda at cidles.eu Best regards, Vera Ferreira -- Vera Ferreira Centro Interdisciplinar de Documenta??o Lingu?stica e Social / Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation Rua do Remexido, Loja 15 2395-174 Minde Portugal Tel.: +351249849123 Email:vferreira at cidles.eu Web:http://www.cidles.eu From robert at vjf.cnrs.fr Tue Sep 23 18:04:36 2014 From: robert at vjf.cnrs.fr (Stephane Robert) Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:04:36 +0200 Subject: Colloquium West African Languages Senelangues 2015 - 2nd CfP Message-ID: Colloquium Senelangues 2015 West African Languages 24-25 April 2015 Dakar, Senegal web site: http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn/ contact: senelangues2015call at gmail.com SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for submission: 15 November 2014 Vers?o portuguesa : veja abaixo / Version fran?aise en fin de message The Senelangues project (http://senelangues.huma-num.fr/ ), which aimed at the description and documentation of the languages of Senegal, was financed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche fran?aise for a period of 4 years, involving linguists from the CNRS laboratories LLACAN and DDL in collaboration with the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar. This scientific collaboration continues with the organisation of a double event,S?n?langues 2015, which consists of a Colloquium on the description of West African languages, and a thematic school with the same topic. The Colloque S?n?langues 2015 Langues d?Afrique de l?Ouest will take place on 24 and 25 April 2015 at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar. Topics of the colloquium In the last decades, the description of African languages benefited a lot from the recent developments of good practices in the areas of information technology and of linguistic analysis including typology and language documentation. These developments have been stimulated by various collaborative projects and funding schemes. The aim of the Colloquium is to gather linguists working in West Africa so that they can share each other?s scientific results, insights, know-how and research questions in order to increase our understanding of the languages of the region. We welcome contributions on the analysis of West African languages including Creole languages, as well as on phenomena of language contact with other language families. Contributions in all sub-disciplines of linguistic analysis are welcome, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. Plenary speakers Denis Creissels, University of Lyon 2 Felix Ameka, Universityof Leiden How to submit a contribution Contributions can either be in the form of an oral presentation of 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion or in the form of a poster presentation (poster format A0, 120 by 80 cm). Presenters may indicate their preference (oral presentation or poster) but the selection committee reserves the right to do otherwise. For both types of presentation the abstract should adhere to the following instructions: - Maximum one page including title, examples and references, using a Times 12 point font. - Send an anonymous version of your abstract in both rtf and pdf formats as an attachment to an email message to senelangues2015call at gmail.com - Use some key words of your title in the name of your pdf-file. - Mention ?communication Senelangues 2015? in the subject line of the email message - Indicate in the body of your message: surname, first name, affiliation, email address, title of your paper, preferred presentation (poster or oral) - The language of presentation should be either French, English or Portuguese. Address for submissions and any contact senelangues2015call at gmail.com Important dates Deadline for submitting abstracts:15 November 2014 Notification of decision of acceptance : 15 January 2015 Conference venue Facult? de Lettres, Universit? de Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal Scientific Committee Felix Ameka University of Leiden Larry Hyman U.C. Berkeley Valentin Vydrine INALCO, LLACAN, Paris Martine Vanhove LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Koen Bostoen University of Ghent J?r?mie Kouadio N'Guessan Universityof Cocody Organizing Committee Sylvie Voisin DDL, CNRS & University of Aix-Marseille St?phane Robert LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Alain-Christian Bass?ne FLSH UCAD, Dakar Denis Creissels DDL, CNRS & Lyon 2 Thierno Ciss? FLSH UCAD, Dakar No?l Bernard Biagui CLAD UCAD, Dakar Nicolas Quint LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Jeanne Zerner LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Anna Marie Diagne IFAN UCAD, Dakar El Hadji Di?ye FLSH UCAD, Dakar Dame Ndao FLSH UCAD, Dakar __________________________________________________________________________ Confer?ncia S?n?langues 2015 L?nguas da ?frica Ocidental Chamada para comunica??o Vers?o portuguesa 1eira chamada para comunica??o Confer?ncia S?n?langues 2015 "L?nguas da ?frica Ocidental" 24-25 Abril 2015 Dakar, Senegal Prazo de entrega das submiss?es: 15 Novembro 2014 Web: http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn/ Contacto: senelangues2015call at gmail.com O projecto Senelangues, financiado pela Ag?ncia Nacional [Francesa] para a Pesquisa, reuniu durante quarto anos, linguistas das unidades de pesquisa LLACAN e DDL do CNRS [Centro Nacional [Franc?s] de Pesquisa Cient?fica] em parceria com a Universidade Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar no ?mbito dum ambicioso projecto de descri??o e documenta??o das l?nguas de Senegal (http://senelangues.huma-num.fr/ ). Na continuidade desta colabora??o cient?fica, os membros de S?n?langues decidiram organizar em Abril de 2015 um duplo evento, S?n?langues 2015, que combinar? uma confer?ncia sobre a descri??o das l?nguas da ?frica Ocidental com um minicurso dedicado ao mesmo tema. A confer?ncia S?n?langues 2015 L?nguas da ?frica Ocidental ter? lugar a 24 e 25 de Abril na Universidade Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. Tem?tica da confer?ncia Gra?as ao est?mulo de v?rios projectos colaborativos apoiados por diversas ag?ncias ou funda??es, a descri??o das l?nguas africanas tem vindo a beneficiar, ao longo das ?ltimas d?cadas, dos desenvolvimentos recentes das boas pr?ticas e dos recursos inform?ticos no que tange aos processos de an?lise de cariz lingu?stico, tipol?gico e documental. Ao abrir a problem?tica da descri??o lingu?stica ao conjunto da ?frica Ocidental, esta confer?ncia tem como objectivo permeter aos linguistas que trabalham sobre as l?nguas dessa ?rea encontrarem-se para fazer o balan?o dos seus avances cient?ficos, compartilharem os seus respectivos conhecimentos, as suas experi?ncias e d?vidas, assim como favorecer o aumento dos conhecimentos globais dispon?veis sobre as l?nguas da ?frica Ocidental. Esperamos contribui??es que tratem das l?nguas vern?culas da ?frica Ocidental (inclusive os crioulos) e tamb?m estamos interessados na descri???o dos fen?menos de contactos que se produzem entre estas l?nguas e idomas de outras familhas. Todos os n?veis da an?lise lingu?stica (fonologia, morfologia, sintaxe, sem?ntica, enuncia??o e pragm?tica) ser?o contemplados. Confer?ncias plen?rias Denis Creissels, Universidade de Lyon 2 Felix Ameka, Universidadede Leiden Modo de submiss?o das comunica??es Conforme o gosto dos conferencistas ou a decis?o dos membros do comit? de selec??o, as comunica??es far-se-?o de forma oral (20 mn mais 10 mn de perguntas) ou sob forma de p?ster (tamanho recomendado A0, H: 1,20 m - L: 0,80 m) no quadro de uma sess?o especial. Em ambos os casos, as consignas para o envio das propostas s?o as seguintes: - o resumo n?o deve exceder uma p?gina (t?tulo, exemplos e refer?ncias inclu?dos), em Times 12 (intervalo entre linhas simples) - ser? enviado (vers?o anonimizada) em formato rtf e pdf para o endere?o seguinte: senelangues2015call at gmail.com - o nome do ficheiro pdf constar? simplesmente de algumas palavras-chaves do t?tulo da comunica??o - assunto da mensagem: ?communication Senelangues 2015? - mencione no texto da mensagem: o seu apelido, nome, afilia??o (universit?ria), endere?o electr?nico (e-mail), t?tulo da proposta, formato desejado (p?ster vs. oral) - as l?nguas da confer?ncia s?o o franc?s, o ingl?s e o portugu?s Contacto parasubmiss?o de resumos - informa??es senelangues2015call at gmail.com Calend?rio Submiss?o dos resumos: at? ao 15 de Novembro 2014 Notifica??o aos autores: 15 Janeiro 2015 Lugar da confer?ncia Universidade Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, S?n?gal Comit? Cient?fico Felix Ameka Universidadede Leiden Larry Hyman U.C. Berkeley Valentin Vydrine INALCO, LLACAN, Paris Martine Vanhove LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Koen Bostoen Universidade de Ghent J?r?mie Kouadio N'Guessan Universitade de Cocody Comit? de organiza??o Sylvie Voisin DDL, CNRS & Universidade de Aix-Marseille St?phane Robert LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Alain-Christian Bass?ne FLSH UCAD, Dakar Denis Creissels DDL, CNRS & Lyon 2 Thierno Ciss? FLSH UCAD, Dakar No?l-Bernard Biagui CLAD UCAD, Dakar Nicolas Quint LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Jeanne Zerner LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Anna Marie Diagne IFAN UCAD, Dakar El Hadji Dieye FLSH UCAD, Dakar Dame Ndao FLSH UCAD, Dakar _______________________________________________________________________ Colloque S?n?langues 2015 Langues d?Afrique de l?Ouest Appel ? communications Version fran?aise 1er appel ? communications Colloque S?n?langues 2015 Langues d?Afrique de l?ouest 24-25 avril 2015 Dakar, S?n?gal Date limitede soumission: 15 novembre 2014 Site: http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn/ Contact: senelangues2015call at gmail.com Le projet S?n?langues, financ? par l?Agence Nationale de la Recherche fran?aise, a r?uni pendant quatre ans des linguistes des laboratoires LLACAN et DDL du CNRS dans une collaboration avec l?Universit? Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar autour d?un ambitieux projet de description et de documentation des langues du S?n?gal (http://senelangues.huma-num.fr/ ). Dans la continuit? de cette collaboration scientifique, les membres de S?n?langues organisent en avril 2015 un double ?v?nement, S?n?langues 2015, qui articulera un colloque sur la description des langues d?Afrique de l?ouest avec une ?cole th?matique sur le m?me th?me. Le colloque S?n?langues 2015- Langues d?Afrique de l?ouest se tiendra les 24 et 25 avril ? l?Universit? Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar. Th?matique du colloque Stimul?e par divers projets collaboratifs soutenus par diff?rentes agences ou fondations, la description des langues d?Afrique a pu b?n?ficier, au cours des derni?res d?cennies, des d?veloppements r?cents des bonnes pratiques et des ressources informatiques en mati?re d?analyse linguistique, typologique et documentaire. En ouvrant la probl?matique de la description linguistique ? toute l?Afrique de l?ouest, l?objectif de ce colloque est de permettre aux linguistes qui travaillent sur les langues de cette r?gion de se rencontrer pour faire le point sur leurs avanc?es scientifiques, partager leurs connaissances, leur savoir-faire et leurs interrogations, et d?accro?tre ainsi les connaissances sur les langues de cette r?gion. Les contributions attendues doivent porter sur des langues vernaculaires d?Afrique de l?ouest (cr?oles inclus), sans exclure toutefois la description des ph?nom?nes de contact avec des langues d?autres familles. Tous les niveaux de l?analyse linguistique (phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe, s?mantique, ?nonciation et pragmatique) pourront ?tre abord?s. Conf?rences pl?ni?res Denis Creissels, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 Felix Ameka, Universit?de Leiden Modalit?s de soumission des communications Les communications pourront se faire sous forme orale (dur?e 20mn suivies de 10mn de discussion) ou sous forme de poster (dimensions recommand?es Format A0, H : 1,20 m - L : 0.80 m) dans le cadre d?une session sp?ciale (par choix des proposants ou d?cision des membres du comit? de s?lection). Dans les deux cas, les consignes pour l?envoi des propositions sont les suivantes: - le r?sum? doit faire un maximum d?une page (titre, exemples et r?f?rences compris), en Times 12 (simple interligne) - il doit ?tre envoy? anonymis? et aux formats rtf et pdf ? l?adresse suivante: senelangues2015call at gmail.com - le nom du fichier pdf comportera simplement quelques mots clefs du titre de la communication - sujet du message: communication Senelangues 2015 - dans le corps du texte du message, indiquer: nom, pr?nom, affiliation, adresse mail, titre de la proposition, format souhait? (poster vs. oral) - les langues de la conf?rence sont le fran?ais, l?anglais et le portugais Adresse pour les soumissions et contact senelangues2015call at gmail.com Calendrier Date limite d?envoi des r?sum?s : 15 novembre 2014 Notification aux auteurs : 15 janvier 2015 Lieu de la conf?rence Universit? de Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, S?n?gal Comit? Scientifique Felix Ameka Universit? de Leiden Larry Hyman U.C. Berkeley Valentin Vydrine INALCO, LLACAN, Paris Martine Vanhove LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Koen Bostoen Ghent University J?r?mie Kouadio N'Guessan Universit? de Cocody Comit? d?organisation Sylvie Voisin DDL, CNRS & Universit? d?Aix Marseille St?phane Robert LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Alain-Christian Bass?ne FLSH UCAD, Dakar Denis Creissels DDL, CNRS & Lyon 2 Thierno Ciss? FLSH UCAD, Dakar No?l Bernard Biagui CLAD UCAD, Dakar Nicolas Quint LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Jeanne Zerner LLACAN, CNRS & INALCO, Paris Anna Marie Diagne IFAN UCAD, Dakar El Hadji Di?ye FLSH UCAD, Dakar Dame Ndao FLSH UCAD, Dakar From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Wed Sep 24 12:17:37 2014 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 12:17:37 +0000 Subject: Just Published: The Language Myth In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The Language Myth: Why Language is Not an Instinct By Vyvyan Evans Published by Cambridge University Press Sample chapter available on author?s website: http://www.vyvevans.net Description: Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human ?instinct? pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language is related to other animal forms of communication; that languages exhibit staggering diversity; that we learn our mother tongue drawing on general properties and abilities of the human mind, rather than an inborn ?universal? grammar; that language is not autonomous but is closely related to other aspects of our mental lives; and that, ultimately, language and the mind reflect and draw upon the way we interact with others in the world. Compellingly written and drawing on cutting-edge research, The Language Myth sets out a forceful alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work. Endorsements: ?A much-needed, comprehensive critique of universal grammar. Vyvyan Evans builds a compelling case that will be difficult to refute.? David Crystal, author of The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Language, 3rd Edition. ?Evans? rebuttal of Chomsky?s Universal Grammar from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics provides an excellent antidote to popular textbooks where it is assumed that the Chomskyan approach to linguistic theory (in one avatar or another) has somehow been vindicated once and for all.? Michael Fortescue, Professor Emeritus, University of Copenhagen ?The Language Myth builds a compelling case that there is no innate Universal Grammar. Evans's work is a welcome contribution to our understanding of the origin, nature, and use of human language.? Daniel L. Everett, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley University Table of Contents: 1. Language and mind rethought Taking stock of language Myths and realities A straw man? Lessons from evolution 2. Is human language unrelated to animal communication systems? From busy bees to startling starlings Communication in the wild Talking animals Design features for language But wherefore ?design features?? All in the mind of the beholder Of chimps and men 3. Are there language universals? Linguistic diversity: A whistle-stop tour Universal Grammar meets (linguistic) reality Lessons from linguistic typology So, how and why does language change? The myth of proto-world Adieu, Universal Grammar 4 . Is language innate? An instinct for language? Arguments for the language instinct Lessons from neurobiology Lessons from language learning So how do children learn language? Towards a theory of language learning Learning what to say?from what isn?t said But couldn?t language emerge all at once? It?s all about language use! 5 . Is language a distinct module in the mind? On grammar genes and chatterboxes The chatterbox fallacy Alas, poor Darwin So, what?s the alternative to modularity? What?s all the fuss anyway? 6. Is there a universal Mentalese? Mentalese and the computational mind Wherefore meaning? Fodor?s retort Intelligent bodies, embodied minds Metaphors we live by Embodiment effects in the brain So, where does this leave us? 7. Is thought independent of language? Who?s afraid of the big bad Whorf? The rise of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Born to colour the world? The neo-Whorfian critique Lessons from Rossel Island Colour through the eyes of a child Pinker?s broadside Greek blues All about sex On time and space What is linguistic relativity anyway? 8. Language and mind regained Cultural intelligence and the ratchet effect The human interaction engine The rise of language What does our mental grammar look like? Universal scenes of experience Why are there so many languages? One final reflection? 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Unless expressly stated in the body of the text of the email, this email is not intended to form a binding contract - a list of authorised signatories is available from the Bangor University Finance Office. From sylvie.voisin at univ-amu.fr Fri Sep 26 11:39:34 2014 From: sylvie.voisin at univ-amu.fr (Sylvie Voisin) Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 13:39:34 +0200 Subject: Fwd: Thematic school - Senelangues2015 - 2nd Announcement Message-ID: Thematic school ? Description of West African languages ? http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn 2nd call French version below 2d call Thematic school ? Description of West African languages ? http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn As a follow up to the Senelangues project (http://senelangues.huma-num.fr/), the CNRS laboratories LLACAN and DDL, and the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar are pleased to announce the 2015 thematic school, "Senelangues 2015 - Description of West African Languages". This two weeks event will take place from April 20 to May 1st 2015 in Dakar, Senegal. The aim of this thematic school is to bring together students and scholars from the field of descriptive and typological linguistics with a focus on West African languages in order to provide an updated training on the theoretical, methodological and technological tools for collecting and analysing data of languages spoken in West Africa (mainly Atlantic and Mande languages but also, Creoles and local varieties of French). This program is designed to permit the trainees to acquire an overview of the diverse tasks to be undertaken, as well as the methods and tools which are available when one engages in the description of a West African language. The program will also provide an initiation into basic field practice. The training is structured along three lines corresponding to (1) basic knowledge of general linguistics and structural properties of African languages, (2) the specific practices of field linguistics, and (3) tools, techniques and methods of exploiting field data. A strong emphasis will be placed on languages of the Atlantic family, but specialists of Mande languages, and French- and Portuguese-based African creoles will round out the program. Practical training sessions are included in the program. Fees Students, without pension 30 000 F CFA / 46 ? / 60 $ Students, with pension 150 000 F CFA / 230 ? / 296 $ Payment terms will be announced at the time of notification of acceptance. For more information, including a detailed program of sessions, notes on the venue, see our homepage: http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn Submitting Your Application Complete the application form online at http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn/index.php/formulaire-d-inscription-et before the 15 November 2014. The school will be held in French (except for one course cf. below) Courses : Axe1. Basics Semantics (2 sessions x 1h30) * in English, interactions in French or English Typology (1 session x 2h) Morphosyntax (2 sessions x 1h30) Tonology (2 sessions x 1h30) Phonology (2 sessions x 1h30) Sociolinguistics (2 sessions x 1h30) Axe1.Atlantic languages Nouns classes in Atlantic languages (1 session x 2h) Atlantic languages: classification and reconstruction (1 session x 2h) Verbal inflection in Atlantic languages (1 session x 2h) Verbal extensions and valency in Atlantic languages (1 session x 2h= Axe1. Specific courses to the region African French / Fran?ais d?Afrique (1 session x 2h) Creoles (1 session x 1h30) Description and endangered languages in West Africa (1 session x 2h) Mande Languages (2 sessions x 1h30) Axe2. Fieldwork Recording Techniques (1 session x 1h30) Field practices and surveys (1 session x 1h30, 2 groups) Ethnolinguistics (1 session x 1h30) The researcher in fieldwork (1 session x 1h30) Axe3. Data ELAN (software) (2 sessions x 1h30) Metadata (ArBIL) (1 session x 1h30) How to write a descriptive grammar? (1 session x 1h30) Lexicography (2 sessions x 1h30) Teachers F. Ameka (Pr., Leiden University) C. Chanard (Ingenieur, LLACAN) D. Creissels (Pr. ?m?rite, Universit? Lyon2) A. M. Diagne (Researcher, IFAN, Dakar) J. Kouadio (MCF, Universit? Cocody, Abidjan) L-M. Perrin (MCF, INALCO) M. Mous (Pr., Leiden University) P. A. Ndao (Pr., UCAD, Dakar) K. Pozdniakov (IUF - Pr., INALCO) N. Quint (DR, LLACAN) S. Robert (DR, LLACAN) P. Roulon-Doko (DR, LLACAN) S. Voisin (MCF, Aix Marseille Universit?) V. Vydrine (Pr., INALCO) Important dates Deadline for application submission: 15 November 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2015 Thematic school: 20 April to 1st May 2015 Ecole th?matique ?Description des langues d?Afrique de l?Ouest? -S?n?langues 2015 - Dates: du 20 avril au 1er mai 2015 - Lieu : Universit? Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, S?n?gal - Site: http ://senelangues2015.ucad.sn 2eme appel - Attention la date limite de soumission des candidatures a ?t? prolong?e au 15 novembre 2014 L??cole th?matique s??tendra sur deux plages de quatre jours chacune (semaine 1: 20-23 avril 2015; semaine 2: 27 avril 1er mai 2015), entre lesquelles sera ins?r? un colloque international sur la description des langues de l?Afrique de l?Ouest (24-25 avril 2014). Cette formation de deux semaines, qui entend compl?ter les formations de Master et de Doctorat existantes, doit permettre aux stagiaires d?avoir une vue d?ensemble des diff?rents enjeux scientifiques et cadres d?analyses existants, des diverses t?ches ? entreprendre, ainsi que des m?thodes et outils ? disposition lorsque l?on se lance dans la description d?une langue parl?e en Afrique de l?Ouest. Elle doit ?galement leur donner une premi?re initiation ? la pratique de terrain. La perspective de travail sera avant tout descriptive et typologique et la formation sera ax?e essentiellement sur des langues parl?es en Afrique de l?Ouest (langues atlantiques, langues mand?, cr?oles, mais aussi fran?ais d?Afrique). Tarifs, contenu des enseignements, liste des cours et des enseignants, modalit?s de candidature : voir infra Affiche et pr?sentation d?taill?e ci-joint en fichiers attach?s, voir aussi le site web : http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn Contenu des enseignements La formation repr?sente un volume total de 53h d?enseignement. Tous les cours sont obligatoires. Ils seront dispens?s en fran?ais, ? l?exception du cours de s?mantique qui sera donn? en anglais mais les interactions pourront se faire en fran?ais. La plupart des cours sont des cours magistraux, compl?t?s par plusieurs s?ances de travaux dirig?s (organis?es en sous-groupes) pour permettre l?entra?nement, en conditions d?enqu?te de terrain, ? l?analyse morphosyntaxique, ? la perception et ? la transcription des tons, ou encore l?utilisation des logiciels de traitement. La formation est articul?e autour de 3 axes correspondant (1) aux connaissances de base en linguistique g?n?rale et aux particularit?s structurelles des langues africaines, (2) aux sp?cificit?s de la pratique de linguistique de terrain et (3) aux outils, techniques et m?thodes d?exploitation des donn?es de terrain. Un accent particulier sera donn? aux langues de la famille atlantique, mais des sp?cialistes de langues mand?, de cr?oles ? base portugaise et du fran?ais d?Afrique compl?teront la formation. Les r?sum?s des cours seront disponibles prochainement sur le site de l??cole http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn Liste des enseignants F. Ameka (Pr., Universit? de Leiden) C. Chanard (IE, LLACAN) D. Creissels (Pr. ?m?rite, Universit? Lyon2) A. M. Diagne (Chercheur, IFAN, Dakar) J. Kouadio (MCF, Universit? Cocody, Abidjan) M. Mous (Pr., Leiden) P. A. Ndao (Pr., UCAD, Dakar) L.M. Perrin (MC, INALCO) K. Pozdniakov (IUF - Pr., INALCO) N. Quint (DR, LLACAN) S. Robert (DR, LLACAN) P. Roulon-Doko (DR, LLACAN) S. Voisin (MCF, Aix Marseille Universit?) V. Vydrine (Pr., INALCO) Liste des cours : Axe1. Fondamentaux S?mantique (2 sessions de 1h30) Typologie (1 session de 2h) Morphosyntaxe (2 sessions de 1h30) Tonologie (2 sessions de 1h30) Phonologie (2 sessions de 1h30) Sociolinguistique (2 sessions de 1h30) Axe1. Langues atlantiques Les classes nominales des langues atlantiques (1 session de 2h) Les langues atlantiques : connaissances et reconstruction (1 session de 2h) La flexion verbale dans les langues atlantiques (1 session de 2h) Extension verbale et valence dans les langues atlantiques (1 session de 2h= Axe1. Cours sp?cifiques ? la r?gion Fran?ais d?Afrique (1 session de 2h) Les cr?oles (1 session de 1h30) Description et langues en danger en Afrique de l?Ouest (1 session de 2h) Langues mand? (2 sessions de 1h30) Axe2. Terrain Techniques d?enregistrement (1 session de 1h30) Pratiques de terrain et enqu?tes (1 session de 1h30 pour 2 sous-groupes) Ethnolinguistique (1 session de 1h30) Le chercheur sur le terrain (1 session de 1h30) Axe3. Exploitation des donn?es ELAN (Logiciel) (2 sessions de 1h30) Les m?tadonn?es (ArBIL) (1 session de 1h30) Comment ?crire une grammaire (1 session de 1h30) Lexicographie (2 sessions de 1h30) Un certificat de participation (comprenant la liste des enseignements re?us et le nombre de cr?dits ?quivalents) sera d?livr? ? tous les participants pour permettre une validation de la formation, comme stage ou autre selon les universit?s concern?es. Public concern? et crit?res d?admissibilit? L??cole th?matique doit permettre d?accueillir 70 stagiaires. Elle est ouverte ? tous ceux qui d?sirent acqu?rir des connaissances sur les langues d?Afrique de l?Ouest, prioritairement les ?tudiants de Master 1 et 2, doctorants, post-doctorants ou jeunes chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs de sciences du langage qui souhaitent effectuer un travail de description sur une langue parl?e en Afrique de l?Ouest. Niveau d??tudes minimum requis : Licence de Sciences du langage (ou niveau ?quivalent en linguistique). Modalit? de soumission des candidatures (en ligne) : Pour le 15 novembre 2014 au plus tard, remplir le formulaire de candidature en ligne sur le site : http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn/index.php/formulaire-d-inscription-et La notification d?acceptation parviendra aux candidats le 15 janvier. Les modalit?s d?inscription leur seront pr?cis?es ? cette occasion. Tarifs Stagiaire sans pension 30 000 F CFA / 46 ? / 60 $ Stagiaire avec pension 150 000 F CFA / 230 ? / 296 $ Les modalit?s de paiement seront communiqu?es en m?me temps que la notification d?acceptation. Pour plus d?information sur les tarifs et l?h?bergement : voir le site web. Site web : http://senelangues2015.ucad.sn Contact : senelangues2015et at gmail.com From jscheibm at odu.edu Mon Sep 29 17:59:02 2014 From: jscheibm at odu.edu (Scheibman, Joanne) Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:59:02 +0000 Subject: Job notice: Assistant Professor, Linguistics Message-ID: Assistant Professor, Linguistics. The Department of English at Old Dominion University invites applications for a tenure track appointment in linguistics to teach a range of undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. courses. The program specializes in empirical and usage-based approaches in the study of language. Minimum qualifications include Ph.D. in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, or Linguistic Anthropology by August 2015; qualified to teach courses in language and culture, linguistics, and the ability to supervise TESOL practicum students. The ability to teach phonology is strongly preferred. Evidence of scholarly productivity and good teaching required. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to Dr. Dana Heller, Chair, Department of English, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529. Review of applicants will begin November 1, 2014. Old Dominion University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action institution and requires compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. ________________________ Joanne Scheibman English and Applied Linguistics Old Dominion University 5028 Batten Arts & Letters Norfolk, VA 23529 USA 757-683-3879 From grvsmth at panix.com Tue Sep 30 06:40:08 2014 From: grvsmth at panix.com (Angus B. Grieve-Smith) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 02:40:08 -0400 Subject: Fwd: appel: Les Constructions comme unit=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9s_?=fondamentales de la langue In-Reply-To: <20140930082054.805e1f04daedff4c57e93951@unicaen.fr> Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [clcs-sdl-chercheurs] appel Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 08:20:54 +0200 From: dominique Legallois Reply-To: dominique Legallois To: clcs-sdl-chercheurs at univ-lorraine.fr Bonjour est-il possible de diffuser cet appel ? communication ? merci ? vous Dominique Legallois et Adeline Patard Universit? de Caen Crisco Journ?e d'?tude : Les Constructions comme unit?s fondamentales de la langue Dominique Legallois et Adeline Patard Universit? de Caen Crisco lieu : Universit? de Caen, 21 avril 2015 La notion de Construction a ?merg? du paradigme de la linguistique cognitive il y a une vingtaine d'ann?es, principalement aux ?tats-Unis. Depuis, le succ?s des Grammaires de Construction a ?t? grandissant, jusqu'? la parution en 2013 du Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar, venant en quelque sorte consacrer dans le champ de la linguistique les apports des approches constructionnelles. Dans le domaine de la linguistique fran?aise, les ?tudes sur les constructions restent encore peu visibles (cependant, Lambrecht 2008). Les raisons de cette discr?tion est sans doute ? chercher en partie dans l'aspiration de ces ?tudes ? pr?server une certaine ind?pendance face ? la linguistique cognitive qui n'a pas eu en France, le m?me succ?s que dans les autres pays europ?ens. La journ?e d??tude, qui aura lieu ? l'Universit? de Caen, a pour objectif d?explorer les nouvelles perspectives offertes par la notion de Construction dans divers domaines de la linguistique fran?aise. Elle permettra de rendre plus visible l'ensemble des recherches men?es autour de cette unit?, que ce soit en diachronie ou en synchronie, sur la langue parl?e ou ?crite. On consid?rera, entre autres, que : ? une construction est un appariement d'une forme et d'une signification (ou d'une fonction pragmatique). Cette relation s'observe bien s?r d?s le niveau morph?mique mais, et c?est l? l'originalit? de l'approche constructionnelle, elle concerne ?galement les sch?mas syntaxiques lexicalement sous-d?termin?s, dot?s de propri?t?s s?mantiques ou pragmatiques (voire prosodiques) propres ; par exemple : GnS V GnO (construction transitive), GnS V GnO ? GnOI (construction ditransitive), Adj comme Gn (comparaison avec parangon), le Gn est que P (construction sp?cificationnelle), L'ann?e X a vu Gn Inf. (par ex. L'ann?e 2013 a vu l'?conomie enregistrer de nombreux soubresauts), etc. ? une construction constitue un attracteur pour des classes d??l?ments lexicaux, et peut, de ce fait, exercer une coercition sur des ?l?ments a priori non pr?destin?s ? int?grer la construction (par exemple, Elle me gazouille un petit rire cristallin (San Antonio, Mange et tais-toi !). ? une construction peut ?tre appr?hend?e ? diff?rents niveaux de sp?cificit? ou de sch?maticit? (Gn1 emp?cher Gn2 de Inf. // Gn1 V Gn2 de Inf. ) ? une construction poss?de des propri?t?s grammaticales ou s?mantiques qui lui sont en partie propres (par ex. la notion g?n?rale de sujet s'applique-t-elle aux Gn des constructions sp?cificationnelles?). Les contributions aborderont des questions telles que : ? les traits d?finitoires ; par exemple, le trait de la non-compositionnalit? est-il suffisant ? Si les constructions ont une validit? psycholinguistique, des crit?res autres qu'exclusivement linguistiques peuvent-ils intervenir dans leur d?finition ? ? La didactisation des constructions ; de nouvelles propositions se font jour en didactique, qui tentent ? appliquer des principes issus de la linguistique cognitive ? l'enseignement des langues (cf. Holme 2010). Parmi ces principes, les constructions ont une place privil?gi?e : leur enseignement se substituerait (ou deviendrait compl?mentaire) ? celui de la combinatoire r?gles ? lexique, et trouverait une place naturelle dans les perspectives actionnelles. ? L'acquisition des constructions ; si le mod?le des ? exemplaires ? concrets poss?de une validit?, comment s'op?rent les processus de sch?matisation (ou d'abstraction) ? Quelles constructions b?n?ficient en premier de ces processus ? ? La notion de construction et sa compatibilit? avec les mod?les non cognitifs ; si la notion de construction pr?existe aux ? Grammaires de construction ? (cf. Bouveret et Legallois 2012), dans ce cas, on peut envisager sa pertinence dans diverses approches non sp?cifiquement cognitives. ? La place de la constructionnalisation (constructionalization) en linguistique diachronique ; Les ?tudes diachroniques sur les Constructions se d?veloppent et mettent en relief les facteurs de grammaticalisation ou pragmaticalisation (cf. D. No?l 2007, Traugott et Trousdale 2013). ? La s?mantique / pragmatique des constructions ; si les constructions sont des unit?s qui s'apparentent en partie aux lex?mes, les linguistes constructionnalistes sont alors confront?s aux m?mes enjeux th?oriques qui animent les d?bats en s?mantique lexicale : approches polys?miques vs r?ductionnistes, sens prototypique vs abstrait, etc. D'autres questions sont ?videmment envisageables ; on ?vitera cependant les th?mes centr?s exclusivement sur les m?thodologies statistiques. Dates importantes Fin septembre : appel ? communication 30 novembre : transmission des intentions de communication 15 janvier 2015 : soumission des propositions 31 janvier 2015 : notification des d?cisions 21 avril 2015 : journ?e d??tude Les propositions de communication devront ?tre d?velopp?es (minimum 2 pages, avec bibliographie). Elles porteront sur le fran?ais (des comparaisons avec d'autres langues sont envisageables). Les propositions devront ?tre envoy?es avant le 15 d?cembre 2014 ? Adeline Patard et Dominique Legallois (en m?me temps que les v?ux de bonne ann?e) aux adresses adeline.patard at unicaen.fr et dominique.legallois at unicaen.fr On indiquera dans l'objet du message : journ?e Constructions Bibliographie indicative Boas H. et F. Gonz?lvez Garc?a (?ds.) (2014) Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar, Benjamins Bouveret M. et Legallois D. (?ds) (2012). Constructions in French. John Benjamins Pub Co, 2012 Fran?ois J. (2008) ? La Grammaire de Construction, un b?timent ouvert aux quatre vents ?, Cahiers du Crisco 26. Holme, R. (2010). ? Construction grammars: towards a pedagogical model. ? AILA Review, 23, 1, 115-133. Lambrecht K. (2008) ? Contraintes cognitives sur la syntaxe de la phrase en fran?ais parl? ? in Van Raemdonck D. Mod?les syntaxiques, la syntaxe ? l'aube du XXIe si?cle, Peter Lang, 247-278 No?l D. (2007) ? Diachronic construction grammar and grammaticalization theory ? In: Functions of Language 14:2. iv, 148 pp. (pp. 177?202) Traugott E. & Graeme Trousdale (2013 ) Constructionalization and Constructional Changes. Oxford: OUP Trousdale G. & Hoffmann Th. (eds.) (2013) The Oxford handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford University Press