From bowern at rice.edu Wed May 2 16:13:44 2007 From: bowern at rice.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:13:44 -0500 Subject: ICHL 2007 registration Message-ID: Dear all, just a note to those of you who've been looking out for the online registration for ICHL that it's now available. The early-bird rate closes May 10th. The link is http://www.ichl2007.uqam.ca/en/inscription.asp Claire _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Wed May 2 16:28:23 2007 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (=?ISO-8859-1?B?SvNoYW5uYSBCYXLwZGFs?=) Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:28:23 +0200 Subject: ICHL 2007 registration In-Reply-To: <4638B8B8.8010800@rice.edu> Message-ID: I just tried to register but the payment didn't include the conference fee, only the banquet, which I had selected. The conference fee disappeared in the process!?!?!?! Jóhanna > Dear all, > just a note to those of you who've been looking out for the online > registration for ICHL that it's now available. The early-bird rate > closes May 10th. The link is > http://www.ichl2007.uqam.ca/en/inscription.asp > Claire > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Jóhanna Barðdal Postdoctoral Research Fellow Coordinator of the Ph.D. Research School in Linguistics and Philology Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Linguistics Division University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589354 (work) http://www.hf.uib.no/i/lili/SLF/ans/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Fri May 4 12:26:06 2007 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:26:06 +0200 Subject: Post-doc or PhD position "Grammaticalization and Complementation" Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Thu May 24 05:14:09 2007 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 01:14:09 -0400 Subject: Comet, Native American linguistic relations Message-ID: Have any of you seen this or related stories? http://www.livescience.com/animals/070521_comet_climate.html The Yahgan have a myth about a giant rock crashing into and nearly destroying the world. I now hear that Hopi has something similar? Anybody else familiar with Native American mythology have anything to add in? I have to say that, if this bears up to scrutiny, it will add an entirely new facet to understood causes of language death- perhaps explaining some of the odder distributional features of American languages genetically. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jfleischer at access.unizh.ch Fri May 25 11:54:48 2007 From: jfleischer at access.unizh.ch (jfleischer at access.unizh.ch) Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:54:48 +0200 Subject: Comparing Diachronies (call for papers) Message-ID: Workshop as part of the 29th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) at the University of Bamberg, Germany (27th-29th February, 2008) Organizers: Jürg Fleischer (Humboldt-University Berlin) Horst Simon (King’s College London) Keynote speakers: Bernd Heine (University of Cologne) Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste) Assessing the relative importance of internal and external factors is of paramount importance for any theory of language change. While it is the aim of the study of internal factors to identify correlations between diachronic developments belonging to different subsystems (e.g., loss of case morphology entails fixation of word order), in studying external factors one tries to establish the influence of language contact, normative settings, etc. However, explanations of actual language change phenomena often stick to their particular problems. Only rarely do researchers attempt at generalizations that go beyond individual cases. Thus, in our view one central question for any theory of language change is: Couldn’t things have developed in an entirely different way? Our workshop “Comparing Diachronies” tries to fill a gap: By comparing various diachronic developments we hope to identify differences and divergences that allow for generalizable insights with respect to the functioning and implementation of linguistic change. In this perspective, research topics such as the following become interesting: – In the history of English (similar in French), older tendencies to use verb-second were given up, whereas in German the original tendency eventually led to the generalization of verb-second in main clauses. – In High German the tense system was reduced, whereas Low German reduced its mood system. – Only in High German do we find affricates, a class of phonemes foreign to other West Germanic languages. – In some Romance languages (e.g. Spanish), animate direct objects are marked with the preposition normally used with indirect objects, a development which is completely unknown in other Romance languages (e.g. French). – Punjabi and Marathi have reduced the original Indo-Aryan ergative marking on some personal pronouns (Bengali and Sinhala have done so completely), while in other languages (e.g. Hindi/Urdu and Nepali) these pronouns have retained their ergative morphology. – Some Nakh-Dagestan languages have a phoneme system with only three vowels (e.g. Avar dialects), whereas others display as many as 33 vowels (e.g. Chechen). We invite contributions discussing language change phenomena of all linguistic subsystems in a comparative perspective. Papers relating to different dialects of a single language or to different languages of a larger genetic entity are as welcome as work comparing developments in unrelated languages. Contributions focusing on theoretical accounts or on modeling language change are especially encouraged. There will be talks in 30 and 60 minute slots, including discussion time. Note that contributors can present only one paper at the DGfS Annual Meeting as a whole. Conference languages are English and German. Please send an anonymous abstract of max. 500 words, as a Word- or pdf- file, to germlingconf at kcl.ac.uk by Aug 20th, 2007. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by email in September. For further information please contact: Jürg Fleischer or Horst Simon _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From mariaivana.lorenzetti at univr.it Fri May 25 23:13:37 2007 From: mariaivana.lorenzetti at univr.it (Maria Ivana Lorenzetti) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 01:13:37 +0200 Subject: 1st CFP: GLOBENG. International Conference on Global English (14-16 February 2008, Verona, Italy) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. ******************************************************************************** FIRST CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS GlobEng. International Conference on Global English Dept. of English Studies, University of Verona, 14-16 February 2008 Verona, Italy Website: http://profs.lingue.univr.it/globeng/index.html The Department of English Studies of the University of Verona is proud to announce GlobEng: International Conference on Global English. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation of research discussing issues related to the role of English as a global language. The debate over the status of English as an International language has been flourishing in the last few decades and is still open to new prospective developments. Starting from the awareness of English undisputedly prominent role as a Lingua Franca in international communication, the fact that native speakers are currently a minority, compared to second-language users of the language has been repeatedly highlighted. The changing status of English has led to the emergence of a new linguistic scenery. On the one hand, the so-called native varieties have become highly differentiated and acquired greater autonomy, while on the other, the rapid growth of a community of non-native speakers, thanks to increasing international exchanges, has triggered reflection on the possible rise of a new International English, as opposed to the current native varieties. A wide range of issues are brought to the fore in this connection, especially focusing on the possible evolution of the current scenario, both in Europe and in the rest of the world, with a reflection on (and a possible revision of) the notion of Standard, and the crucial implications that prospective developments might have on English Language Teaching (ELT). The programme includes plenary lectures by renowned scholars in the field, such as David Crystal, Jennifer Jenkins, Adrian Holliday, Alan Maley, Barbara Seidlhofer and Simon Sweeney. Papers are encouraged which address the following topics: - Pronunciation Models: new vs. standard - Implications of new morphosyntactic models - Semantic and pragmatic implications of globalising English - Cultures, media and globalisation - Identities and international communication - Language policies in the European Community - English and other languages in the classroom - The teaching of English as a foreign/second language and as a specialised language - Terminological issues and new taxonomies Contributions are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus discussion). Abstracts should not exceed 300 words in length (references excluded). They should be anonymous and should be sent as email attachments (preferably .pdf or rtf format) to: globeng at lingue.univr.it Please conform to the following specifications: - Times New Roman pt.12 or equivalent font, single-spaced. - Please do not include your name or any obvious form of identifiers in the abstract. This is because the abstracts will be subject to anonymous peer-review. - In order to assist with the reviewing process, please also list up to 5 keywords in the email message Submission: Abstracts should be submitted as an attachment in .pdf or .rtf format; Subject line of the email should be GlobEng and abstract title; Email message should include: Talk Title, Author's Name(s), Title(s), Affiliation(s), Contact Info (email address, postal address, telephone number, fax number) Abstracts should be submitted via email to: globeng at lingue.univr.it Abstracts should reach us by 30 September 2007. For further information Web site: http://profs.lingue.univr.it/globeng/index.html E-mail: globeng at lingue.univr.it Important Dates: Submission deadline: 30 September 2007 Notification of acceptance: 30 November 2007 Early Registration: tba Late Registration: tba GlobEng: 14-15-16 February 2008 Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Cesare Gagliardi Scientific and Organizing Committee: Elisabetta Adami Anna Belladelli Roberto Cagliero Cristiana Chiarini Marta Degani Roberta Facchinetti Cristina Gatti Sharon Hartle Maria Ivana Lorenzetti Paola Vettorel Anna Zanfei Dr. Maria Ivana Lorenzetti, Ph.D. (University of Pisa) Assistant Professor in English Linguistics Dept. of English Studies University of Verona Lungadige di Porta Vittoria 41 37129 Verona (VR) ITALY E-mail: mariaivana.lorenzetti AT univr.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The link is http://www.ichl2007.uqam.ca/en/inscription.asp Claire _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Wed May 2 16:28:23 2007 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (=?ISO-8859-1?B?SvNoYW5uYSBCYXLwZGFs?=) Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:28:23 +0200 Subject: ICHL 2007 registration In-Reply-To: <4638B8B8.8010800@rice.edu> Message-ID: I just tried to register but the payment didn't include the conference fee, only the banquet, which I had selected. The conference fee disappeared in the process!?!?!?! J?hanna > Dear all, > just a note to those of you who've been looking out for the online > registration for ICHL that it's now available. The early-bird rate > closes May 10th. The link is > http://www.ichl2007.uqam.ca/en/inscription.asp > Claire > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J?hanna Bar?dal Postdoctoral Research Fellow Coordinator of the Ph.D. Research School in Linguistics and Philology Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Linguistics Division University of Bergen P.O. box 7805 NO-5020 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589354 (work) http://www.hf.uib.no/i/lili/SLF/ans/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Fri May 4 12:26:06 2007 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:26:06 +0200 Subject: Post-doc or PhD position "Grammaticalization and Complementation" Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Thu May 24 05:14:09 2007 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 01:14:09 -0400 Subject: Comet, Native American linguistic relations Message-ID: Have any of you seen this or related stories? http://www.livescience.com/animals/070521_comet_climate.html The Yahgan have a myth about a giant rock crashing into and nearly destroying the world. I now hear that Hopi has something similar? Anybody else familiar with Native American mythology have anything to add in? I have to say that, if this bears up to scrutiny, it will add an entirely new facet to understood causes of language death- perhaps explaining some of the odder distributional features of American languages genetically. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jfleischer at access.unizh.ch Fri May 25 11:54:48 2007 From: jfleischer at access.unizh.ch (jfleischer at access.unizh.ch) Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:54:48 +0200 Subject: Comparing Diachronies (call for papers) Message-ID: Workshop as part of the 29th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) at the University of Bamberg, Germany (27th-29th February, 2008) Organizers: J?rg Fleischer (Humboldt-University Berlin) Horst Simon (King?s College London) Keynote speakers: Bernd Heine (University of Cologne) Giuseppe Longobardi (University of Trieste) Assessing the relative importance of internal and external factors is of paramount importance for any theory of language change. While it is the aim of the study of internal factors to identify correlations between diachronic developments belonging to different subsystems (e.g., loss of case morphology entails fixation of word order), in studying external factors one tries to establish the influence of language contact, normative settings, etc. However, explanations of actual language change phenomena often stick to their particular problems. Only rarely do researchers attempt at generalizations that go beyond individual cases. Thus, in our view one central question for any theory of language change is: Couldn?t things have developed in an entirely different way? Our workshop ?Comparing Diachronies? tries to fill a gap: By comparing various diachronic developments we hope to identify differences and divergences that allow for generalizable insights with respect to the functioning and implementation of linguistic change. In this perspective, research topics such as the following become interesting: ? In the history of English (similar in French), older tendencies to use verb-second were given up, whereas in German the original tendency eventually led to the generalization of verb-second in main clauses. ? In High German the tense system was reduced, whereas Low German reduced its mood system. ? Only in High German do we find affricates, a class of phonemes foreign to other West Germanic languages. ? In some Romance languages (e.g. Spanish), animate direct objects are marked with the preposition normally used with indirect objects, a development which is completely unknown in other Romance languages (e.g. French). ? Punjabi and Marathi have reduced the original Indo-Aryan ergative marking on some personal pronouns (Bengali and Sinhala have done so completely), while in other languages (e.g. Hindi/Urdu and Nepali) these pronouns have retained their ergative morphology. ? Some Nakh-Dagestan languages have a phoneme system with only three vowels (e.g. Avar dialects), whereas others display as many as 33 vowels (e.g. Chechen). We invite contributions discussing language change phenomena of all linguistic subsystems in a comparative perspective. Papers relating to different dialects of a single language or to different languages of a larger genetic entity are as welcome as work comparing developments in unrelated languages. Contributions focusing on theoretical accounts or on modeling language change are especially encouraged. There will be talks in 30 and 60 minute slots, including discussion time. Note that contributors can present only one paper at the DGfS Annual Meeting as a whole. Conference languages are English and German. Please send an anonymous abstract of max. 500 words, as a Word- or pdf- file, to germlingconf at kcl.ac.uk by Aug 20th, 2007. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by email in September. For further information please contact: J?rg Fleischer or Horst Simon _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From mariaivana.lorenzetti at univr.it Fri May 25 23:13:37 2007 From: mariaivana.lorenzetti at univr.it (Maria Ivana Lorenzetti) Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 01:13:37 +0200 Subject: 1st CFP: GLOBENG. International Conference on Global English (14-16 February 2008, Verona, Italy) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. ******************************************************************************** FIRST CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS GlobEng. International Conference on Global English Dept. of English Studies, University of Verona, 14-16 February 2008 Verona, Italy Website: http://profs.lingue.univr.it/globeng/index.html The Department of English Studies of the University of Verona is proud to announce GlobEng: International Conference on Global English. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation of research discussing issues related to the role of English as a global language. The debate over the status of English as an International language has been flourishing in the last few decades and is still open to new prospective developments. Starting from the awareness of English undisputedly prominent role as a Lingua Franca in international communication, the fact that native speakers are currently a minority, compared to second-language users of the language has been repeatedly highlighted. The changing status of English has led to the emergence of a new linguistic scenery. On the one hand, the so-called native varieties have become highly differentiated and acquired greater autonomy, while on the other, the rapid growth of a community of non-native speakers, thanks to increasing international exchanges, has triggered reflection on the possible rise of a new International English, as opposed to the current native varieties. A wide range of issues are brought to the fore in this connection, especially focusing on the possible evolution of the current scenario, both in Europe and in the rest of the world, with a reflection on (and a possible revision of) the notion of Standard, and the crucial implications that prospective developments might have on English Language Teaching (ELT). The programme includes plenary lectures by renowned scholars in the field, such as David Crystal, Jennifer Jenkins, Adrian Holliday, Alan Maley, Barbara Seidlhofer and Simon Sweeney. Papers are encouraged which address the following topics: - Pronunciation Models: new vs. standard - Implications of new morphosyntactic models - Semantic and pragmatic implications of globalising English - Cultures, media and globalisation - Identities and international communication - Language policies in the European Community - English and other languages in the classroom - The teaching of English as a foreign/second language and as a specialised language - Terminological issues and new taxonomies Contributions are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus discussion). Abstracts should not exceed 300 words in length (references excluded). They should be anonymous and should be sent as email attachments (preferably .pdf or rtf format) to: globeng at lingue.univr.it Please conform to the following specifications: - Times New Roman pt.12 or equivalent font, single-spaced. - Please do not include your name or any obvious form of identifiers in the abstract. This is because the abstracts will be subject to anonymous peer-review. - In order to assist with the reviewing process, please also list up to 5 keywords in the email message Submission: Abstracts should be submitted as an attachment in .pdf or .rtf format; Subject line of the email should be GlobEng and abstract title; Email message should include: Talk Title, Author's Name(s), Title(s), Affiliation(s), Contact Info (email address, postal address, telephone number, fax number) Abstracts should be submitted via email to: globeng at lingue.univr.it Abstracts should reach us by 30 September 2007. For further information Web site: http://profs.lingue.univr.it/globeng/index.html E-mail: globeng at lingue.univr.it Important Dates: Submission deadline: 30 September 2007 Notification of acceptance: 30 November 2007 Early Registration: tba Late Registration: tba GlobEng: 14-15-16 February 2008 Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Cesare Gagliardi Scientific and Organizing Committee: Elisabetta Adami Anna Belladelli Roberto Cagliero Cristiana Chiarini Marta Degani Roberta Facchinetti Cristina Gatti Sharon Hartle Maria Ivana Lorenzetti Paola Vettorel Anna Zanfei Dr. Maria Ivana Lorenzetti, Ph.D. (University of Pisa) Assistant Professor in English Linguistics Dept. of English Studies University of Verona Lungadige di Porta Vittoria 41 37129 Verona (VR) ITALY E-mail: mariaivana.lorenzetti AT univr.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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