From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Fri Feb 1 09:37:27 2008 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:37:27 +0100 Subject: Workshop Program: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC), February 5-6, 2008, Vienna, Austria Message-ID: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC) A Related Workshop of the 13th International Morphology Meeting (IMM13), February 3-6, 2008, Vienna, Austria Website of IMM13: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/roman/imm13 Reference website for the workshop: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Nino.Amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html Invited Speakers: Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook) Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley) Venue: Centre of Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Gymnasiumstrasse 50, A- 1190 Vienna, Austria PROGRAM Tuesday, February 5, 2008. 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk. Proving that Change is Induced by Contact: Examples from the Caucasus. Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook) 11:00-11:30 Coffee break. 11:30-12:00 Typology of Morphosyntactic Variations of Ergative Constructions in the Batsbi and the Georgian Languages. Rusudan Asatiani and Marina Ivanishvili (Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences). 12:00-12:30 Person agreement and cliticization of personal pronouns in Batsbi. Yasuhiro Kojima (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). 12:30-13:00 On Possible West-Caucasian Influence on Possession Marking in Ossetic. David Erschler (The Independent University of Moscow, Russia) and Arseny Vydrin (The Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sceinces). 13:00-14:30 Lunch break. 14:30-15:00 Variation of oblique noun stem markers in Daghestanian languages. Aleksandr Kibrik (Moscow State University). 15:00-15:30 Diachronic and dialectological variation of verb morphology in Armenian: Internal and/or contact-induced changes? Anaid Donabedian-Demopoulos (INALCO) and Agnes Ouzounian (INALCO; Institut Catholique de Paris). 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-16:30 The factors of variation in de¯niteness marking in the history of Georgian. Albert Ortmann and Tinatin Kiguradze (University of Duesseldorf). 16:30-17:00 Loss of morphological complexity under language contact. The case of Georgian. Nino Amiridze (Utrecht University). 17:00-17:30 The loss of case system in Ardesheni Laz and its morpho-syntactic consequences. Balkiz Ozturk (Bogazici University). 17:30-17:50 Khinalug 2007. Creating a digital portrait of an endangered language. A film. 17:50-18:10 Eastern Armenian National Corpus: A tool for linguists/typologists. Wednesday, February 6, 2008. 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk. Variation in the Distribution of Source Gender in Nakh-Daghestanian. Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley). 11:00-11:30 Coffee break. 11:30-12:00 Contact-induced morphological change in the Agul dialects. Dmitry Ganenkov and Timur Maisak (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sceinces). 12:00-12:30 Contact-Induced Uses of Volitive Moods in Daghestanian. Nina Dobrushina (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow) 12:30-13:00 On the way to Evidentiality: Some observations on Georgian Perfect. Manana Topadze (University of Pavia). 13:00-14:30 Lunch break. 14:30-15:00 Short-term morphological changes in Archi. Marina Chumakina (University of Surrey). 15:00-15:30 Inclusive in Archi. Michael Daniel (Moscow State University). 15:30-16:00 Mehweb: Archaic or innovative? Nina Sumbatova (Russian State University for the Humanities). _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Sat Feb 2 09:34:39 2008 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (J=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B3hanna_Bar=C3=B0dal?=) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:34:39 +0100 Subject: CFP for ICCG-5 Message-ID: Second Call for Papers (extended submission deadline): Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5) Conference Dates: September 26-28, 2008 Conference Location: University of Texas at Austin Conference Website: http://gmc.utexas.edu/iccg5/ The Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5) will be held at the University of Texas at Austin, September 26-28, 2008. In line with the previous International Conferences on Construction Grammar, ICCG-5 will continue to serve as an international forum for promoting discussion and collaboration among linguists interested in Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, as well as in related constructional research in its various models and applications. Further information about Construction Grammar can be found here: http://constructiongrammar.org Former conferences took place in Berkeley (2001), Helsinki (2002), Marseille (2004), and Tokyo (2006). ICCG-5 Guest Speakers: * Johanna Barðdal, University of Bergen * Charles Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley * Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado at Boulder * Paul Kay, University of California, Berkeley * Gert Webelhuth, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Abstract Submission Abstracts must be uploaded as PDF files to the online submission system at http://gmc.utexas.edu/papers/. No emailed abstracts will be accepted. The submission system will require you to register and will prompt you to include all necessary information about your submission. Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations as well as poster presentations. We invite abstract submissions on synchronic analysis of individual languages, as well as historical, typological, and contrastive analysis of all kinds. Abstracts should be no more than one page (single-spaced, 12 pt font, 1-inch margin). Please note that the number of abstracts per author is limited to one singly-authored and one co- authored abstract per author. If you have questions about the submission of abstracts, or the program, please email them to: iccg5program at gmail.com For general questions about ICCG-5, please write to:iccg5organization at gmail.com Important Dates * Extended deadline for Abstract Submission: March 15, 2008 * Abstract Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2008 * Program Announcement: May 25, 2008 * Deadline for Early Registration: August 15, 2008 Conference Organization Chair: Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin Local Organizing Committee * John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin * Lars Hinrichs, University of Texas at Austin * Knud Lambrecht, University of Texas at Austin * Marc Pierce, University of Texas at Austin International Advisory Committee * Jóhanna Barðdal, University of Bergen * Benjamin Bergen, University of Hawaii * Alex Bergs, University of Osnabrück * Kerstin Fischer, University of Bremen * Mirjam Fried, Princeton University * Seiko Fujii, University of Tokyo * Stefan T. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara * Martin Hilpert, ICSI, University of California, Berkeley * Seizi Iwata, Osaka City University * Jaakko Leino, University of Helsinki * Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado at Boulder * Jan-Ola Östman, University of Helsinki * Kyoko Ohara, Keio University * Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Bremen Conference Website: http://gmc.utexas.edu/iccg5/ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Jóhanna Barðdal Senior Research Fellow Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies 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 nagaya at rice.edu Fri Feb 8 06:08:20 2008 From: nagaya at rice.edu (Naonori Nagaya) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:08:20 -0600 Subject: Symposium on Syntactic Complexity Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language, to be held at Rice University, Texas, on March 27th-29th,2008. The program and the abstracts of the plenary papers are now available at: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eivs/sympo/ Registration is free; please preregister at this website. The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Program ****THURSDAY, MARCH 27**** Morning session (9am–12noon): Diachrony-I Opening remarks: T. Givón Bernd Heine (Köln) "A grammaticalization perspective on the rise of syntactic complexity" Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara) "Re(e)volving complexity: adding intonation" Matt Shibatani (Rice) "Elements of complex structures , where recursion isn't" Afternoon session (2pm–5–pm): Child Language Holger Diessel (Jena) "The emergence of relative clauses in early child language" Cecilia Rojas (UNAM, Mexico) "Starting small' processes in the acquisition of early relative clauses in Spanish" T. Givón (Oregon "The acquisition of complex VPs: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire" ****FRIDAY, MARCH 28***** Morning session (9am–12noon): Diachrony-II Guy Deutscher (Leiden) "Nominalization and the origin of subordination" Martin Hilpert (UC Berkeley) and Christian Koops (Rice) "The rise of pragmatic complexity: Diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudo-clefts" T. Givón (Oregon) "Toward a diachronic typology of relative clauses" Afternoon session (2pm–6pm): Cognition-Neurology Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon) "The emergence of linguistic complexity through catalysis and usage" Eric Pederson & Mitzi Barker (Oregon) "Syntactic complexity and coordination in a verbal production task" Diego Fernandez-Duque (Villa Nova) "Cognitive underpinning of syntactic complexity: A possible role for 'chunking'?" ****SATURDAY, MARCH 29**** Morning session (9am-12noon): Diachrony-III Östen Dahl (Stockholm) "Two pathways of grammatical evolution" Andrew Pawley (Canberra) "On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam" Claire Bowern (Rice) "Defining complexity: Arguments from historical reconstruction" Afternoon session (2pm–5pm): Biology and Evolution Nathan Tublitz (Oregon) "Neural plasticity: A window into the complexity of the brain" Don Tucker (Oregon) "Neural mechanisms of the language process" Derek Bickerton (Hawaii) "How central is recursivity?" We look forward to seeing you at the symposium. Matt Shibatani Department of Linguistics Rice University _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk Fri Feb 8 12:42:33 2008 From: Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk (N Langer, German) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:42:33 +0000 Subject: Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics, Aug 2008, Bristol, UK Message-ID: Announcement 2nd HiSoN summer school in Historical Sociolinguistics Aug 7-13, 2008, University of Bristol "History and Language, Linguists and Historians" - a summer school on methodologies, unanswered questions, research outcomes, taught by leading historians and linguists! £150/£180 for accommodation, teaching, and excursion supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) some bursaries available for further info, please visit http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool nils langer ---------------------- Dr Nils Langer Senior Lecturer in German School of Modern Languages University of Bristol Bristol, England BS8 1TE 0044-(0)117-928 9841 Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk http://www.bris.ac.uk/german member of Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON) http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison/ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From logan.merril at gmail.com Fri Feb 8 20:20:03 2008 From: logan.merril at gmail.com (Logan Merrill) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:20:03 -0500 Subject: Fascinating historical site Message-ID: Have any of you had a look at the online library of historical hypotheses that LinguistList is building? The weird thing is I've never seen it advertised anywhere: LL seems to be sort of keeping it a secret. I stumbled across it in Google, and it really has the most amazing interface I've ever seen for displaying family trees. I couldn't stop playing with it. It looks like it's part of an NSF project, and it's far from finished, but they have hundreds of trees in it already, and apparently the aim is to have every single tree-based hypothesis in the database eventually, even those we all love to hate. That's a pretty ambitious project. The interface is at the URL: http://linguistlist.org/multitree/ Don't forget to click on options in the upper right corner. It's fun! Logan. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Glad you like it! ~Claire (who's on the advisory board for the project) Logan Merrill wrote: > Have any of you had a look at the online library of historical > hypotheses that LinguistList is building? > The weird thing is I've never seen it advertised anywhere: LL seems to > be sort of keeping it a secret. > I stumbled across it in Google, and it really has the most amazing > interface I've ever seen for > displaying family trees. I couldn't stop playing with it. It looks > like it's part of an NSF project, > and it's far from finished, but they have hundreds of trees in it > already, and apparently the aim is to > have every single tree-based hypothesis in the database eventually, even > those we all love to hate. > That's a pretty ambitious project. The interface is at the URL: > > http://linguistlist.org/multitree/ > > Don't forget to click on options in the upper right corner. It's fun! > > Logan. > !DSPAM:4134,47acb9b8153654064910857! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > > !DSPAM:4134,47acb9b8153654064910857! _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Fri Feb 8 20:43:05 2008 From: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de (Wolfgang Schulze) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 21:43:05 +0100 Subject: Fascinating historical site In-Reply-To: <47ACBAF2.8090003@rice.edu> Message-ID: Dear Claire and Logan, yes, it's fun indeed. However, it also is somewhat suggestive. For instance, it proposes a common North Caucasian language family that, however, is far from being proved. It is just a (in my eyes rather problematic) hypothesis. So, wouldn't it make sense to mark those instances in which a common node is at least controversial? Also: Is there an option to - say - revise data through input from users (for instance, Udi has proven to be what is called in MultiTree a 'Nuclear Lezgic > East Lezgic' (that is, in my terms Eastern Samur) language, hence is no longer to be classified as a separate offspring of Lezgic....)? [Sorry for these details, I just wanted to illustrate the problem/question. I guess many users will come across analogous problems when looking at 'their' languages].... Very best wishes and compliments for this ambitious project, Wolfgang Claire Bowern wrote: > The reason it's a "secret" is that it's still in beta testing at the > moment. There will be an announcement when testing is complete and > more trees are uploaded. Glad you like it! > ~Claire (who's on the advisory board for the project) > -- ---------------------------------------------------------- *Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulze * ---------------------------------------------------------- /Primary contact: / Institut für Allgemeine & Typologische Sprachwissenschaft Dept. II / F 13 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 D-80539 München Tel.: 0049-(0)89-2180-2486 (Secretary) 0049-(0)89-2180-5343 (Office) Fax: 0049-(0)89-2180-5345 Email: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de /// Wolfgang.Schulze at lmu.de Web: http://www.als.lmu/de/mitarbeiter/index.php Personal homepage: http://www.wolfgangschulze.in-devir.com ---------------------------------------------------------- /Second contact: / Katedra Germanistiký Fakulta humanitných vied Univerzita Mateja Béla / Banská Bystrica Tajovského 40 SK-97401 Banská Bystrica Tel: (00421)-(0)48-4465108 Fax: (00421)-(0)48-4465512 Email: Schulze at fhv.umb.sk Web: http://www.fhv.umb.sk/app/user.php?user=schulze ---------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- 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 bowern at rice.edu Fri Feb 8 20:57:23 2008 From: bowern at rice.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:57:23 -0600 Subject: Fascinating historical site In-Reply-To: <47ACBED9.6040208@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> Message-ID: Gotta run to admissions meeting, but very quickly: The site will eventually be a collection of hypotheses [good and bad]; it makes no particular claims about relationships itself (this has come up several times in the board discussions, since none of the board members are long-rangers). We know these trees don't represent best practice. Claire Wolfgang Schulze wrote: > Dear Claire and Logan, > yes, it's fun indeed. However, it also is somewhat suggestive. For > instance, it proposes a common North Caucasian language family that, > however, is far from being proved. It is just a (in my eyes rather > problematic) hypothesis. So, wouldn't it make sense to mark those > instances in which a common node is at least controversial? Also: Is > there an option to - say - revise data through input from users (for > instance, Udi has proven to be what is called in MultiTree a 'Nuclear > Lezgic > East Lezgic' (that is, in my terms Eastern Samur) language, > hence is no longer to be classified as a separate offspring of > Lezgic....)? [Sorry for these details, I just wanted to illustrate the > problem/question. I guess many users will come across analogous problems > when looking at 'their' languages].... > Very best wishes > and compliments for this ambitious project, > Wolfgang > > Claire Bowern wrote: >> The reason it's a "secret" is that it's still in beta testing at the >> moment. There will be an announcement when testing is complete and >> more trees are uploaded. Glad you like it! >> ~Claire (who's on the advisory board for the project) >> > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > *Prof. Dr. Wolfgang > Schulze > * > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > /Primary contact: > > / > > Institut für Allgemeine & Typologische Sprachwissenschaft > > Dept. II / F 13 > > > > Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München > > > Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 > > > D-80539 München > > > > Tel.: 0049-(0)89-2180-2486 > (Secretary) > > 0049-(0)89-2180-5343 > (Office) > > Fax: 0049-(0)89-2180-5345 > > > Email: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de > /// Wolfgang.Schulze at lmu.de > > > Web: http://www.als.lmu/de/mitarbeiter/index.php > > Personal homepage: http://www.wolfgangschulze.in-devir.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > /Second > contact: > / > > Katedra Germanistiký > > > > Fakulta humanitných > vied > > > Univerzita Mateja Béla / Banská > Bystrica > > Tajovského > 40 > > > SK-97401 Banská > Bystrica > > > Tel: > (00421)-(0)48-4465108 > > > Fax: (00421)-(0)48-4465512 > > > Email: Schulze at fhv.umb.sk > > > > Web: http://www.fhv.umb.sk/app/user.php?user=schulze > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > !DSPAM:4134,47acbf55153651972116596! _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de Tue Feb 12 14:33:17 2008 From: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de (Bjoern Wiemer) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:33:17 +0100 Subject: new address Message-ID: Please redirect e-mails to my new address: wiemerb at uni-mainz.de Best regards, Björn Wiemer. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Tue Feb 12 18:49:23 2008 From: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:49:23 +0000 Subject: Graduate Teaching Fellowships available for prospective Ph.D.-students, University of Manchester, UK Message-ID: Generator Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium) The University of Manchester School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures Postgraduate Funding Opportunities 2008-9 GUIDELINES FOR APPLICANTS The School' s postgraduate community is one of the UK's largest and most diverse in the UK, enjoying state-of-the-art facilities and excellent support within a high-quality research environment. In step with our continuing expansion, we are enhancing our support for students registering for a research degree (PhD) in 2008-9. In addition to our current 20 Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTFs), we are offering: Graduate Teaching Fellowships (Full and Part-time) in: Arabic (Full-time) Film Studies (Full-time) French (Full-time) German (Full-time) Spanish (Full-time) Translation Studies: Greek (Part-time) Please note, the GTF must be undertaken in conjunction with a PhD programme of study at the University of Manchester and applicants for the GTF MUST possess relevant teaching experience. The full-time GTF will be required to teach for 6 hours per week and the part-time GTF will be required to teach for 3 hours per week. The full-time GTF is open to Home/EU and International applicants and comprises three elements: the payment of full Home/EU or International fees [2008-9 academic session £3300 per annum (Home/EU) or £10500 per annum (International)], which is paid directly to the University, a monthly salary for teaching (2007-8 academic session: £5806.92 per annum), which is paid directly into your bank account in 10 monthly instalments and a bursary (£6754.80 per annum) paid in quarterly instalments by bank transfer (by arrangement with the Student Services Centre) or by cheque, which is normally collected the first week of October, January, April and July. The part-time GTF will be paid pro-rata, ie. the above amounts will be halved. The application criteria for the GTF are as follows: 1. You must apply and have been accepted for a PhD programme of study in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures. Applicants must be holding an offer of a place by the closing date specified below in order to be included in the competition. 2. You must possess previous teaching experience. For further information regarding the teaching element of the Arabic, French*, German and Spanish GTFs, please contact Mr John Morley, Director, University-wide Language Programmes, University Language Centre, email john.morley at manchester.ac.uk *Please note that the holder of the French GTF will be required to register for a PhD in the area of French Linguistics under the supervision of Professor Maj-Britt Hansen, email Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk For further information regarding the teaching element of the Film Studies GTF ONLY, please contact Dr Núria Triana Toribio, email nuria.triana at manchester.ac.uk For further information regarding the teaching element of the Translation Studies (Greek) GTF ONLY, please contact Dr Maeve Olohan, email maeve.olohan at manchester.ac.uk For general information and guidance regarding entry requirements and applying for a PhD programme of study, please contact Michelle Fenlon, the Postgraduate Admissions Officer; telephone +44 (0)161 275 3559, email michelle.fenlon at manchester.ac.uk The closing date for receipt of the GTF Application Form is Friday 16 May 2008. 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Modern English Syntax: Historical and Comparative Approaches Syntactic changes that have occurred in English over the past 1500 years have affected both clausal and nominal domains. Some of these changes have occurred in other languages and language families, some have not. Many Romance languages and non-standard varieties of English have multiple negation; standard English does not. Most Germanic languages have developed a dedicated definite article; most Slavic languages have not. This workshop invites comparative approaches (e.g. between English and other languages or between different stages within English) to these and other changes, for example: group genitives, the syntax of numerals, changes involving the verb-second constraint, OV-VO word order, and main verb movement. General Information: Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to both conveners of the seminar in question before 1 March 2008. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008. Please note that authors of seminar papers will be expected to give an oral presentation of not more than 15 minutes' duration, rather than simply reading their papers aloud. Convenors should ensure that reduced versions of the papers are circulated among all speakers in advance of the seminar in question. There will be a maximum of 5 papers in each two-hour seminar session, and convenors should plan so that there is time for discussion between speakers and with the audience. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Johanna L. 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl Fri Feb 1 09:37:27 2008 From: Nino.Amiridze at let.uu.nl (Amiridze, Nino) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:37:27 +0100 Subject: Workshop Program: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC), February 5-6, 2008, Vienna, Austria Message-ID: Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus (MVCLC) A Related Workshop of the 13th International Morphology Meeting (IMM13), February 3-6, 2008, Vienna, Austria Website of IMM13: http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/inst/roman/imm13 Reference website for the workshop: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Nino.Amiridze/personal/organization/mvclc.html Invited Speakers: Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook) Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley) Venue: Centre of Translation Studies, University of Vienna, Gymnasiumstrasse 50, A- 1190 Vienna, Austria PROGRAM Tuesday, February 5, 2008. 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk. Proving that Change is Induced by Contact: Examples from the Caucasus. Alice C. Harris (SUNY Stony Brook) 11:00-11:30 Coffee break. 11:30-12:00 Typology of Morphosyntactic Variations of Ergative Constructions in the Batsbi and the Georgian Languages. Rusudan Asatiani and Marina Ivanishvili (Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences). 12:00-12:30 Person agreement and cliticization of personal pronouns in Batsbi. Yasuhiro Kojima (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies). 12:30-13:00 On Possible West-Caucasian Influence on Possession Marking in Ossetic. David Erschler (The Independent University of Moscow, Russia) and Arseny Vydrin (The Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sceinces). 13:00-14:30 Lunch break. 14:30-15:00 Variation of oblique noun stem markers in Daghestanian languages. Aleksandr Kibrik (Moscow State University). 15:00-15:30 Diachronic and dialectological variation of verb morphology in Armenian: Internal and/or contact-induced changes? Anaid Donabedian-Demopoulos (INALCO) and Agnes Ouzounian (INALCO; Institut Catholique de Paris). 15:30-16:00 Coffee break. 16:00-16:30 The factors of variation in de?niteness marking in the history of Georgian. Albert Ortmann and Tinatin Kiguradze (University of Duesseldorf). 16:30-17:00 Loss of morphological complexity under language contact. The case of Georgian. Nino Amiridze (Utrecht University). 17:00-17:30 The loss of case system in Ardesheni Laz and its morpho-syntactic consequences. Balkiz Ozturk (Bogazici University). 17:30-17:50 Khinalug 2007. Creating a digital portrait of an endangered language. A film. 17:50-18:10 Eastern Armenian National Corpus: A tool for linguists/typologists. Wednesday, February 6, 2008. 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk. Variation in the Distribution of Source Gender in Nakh-Daghestanian. Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley). 11:00-11:30 Coffee break. 11:30-12:00 Contact-induced morphological change in the Agul dialects. Dmitry Ganenkov and Timur Maisak (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sceinces). 12:00-12:30 Contact-Induced Uses of Volitive Moods in Daghestanian. Nina Dobrushina (State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow) 12:30-13:00 On the way to Evidentiality: Some observations on Georgian Perfect. Manana Topadze (University of Pavia). 13:00-14:30 Lunch break. 14:30-15:00 Short-term morphological changes in Archi. Marina Chumakina (University of Surrey). 15:00-15:30 Inclusive in Archi. Michael Daniel (Moscow State University). 15:30-16:00 Mehweb: Archaic or innovative? Nina Sumbatova (Russian State University for the Humanities). _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Sat Feb 2 09:34:39 2008 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (J=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B3hanna_Bar=C3=B0dal?=) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:34:39 +0100 Subject: CFP for ICCG-5 Message-ID: Second Call for Papers (extended submission deadline): Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5) Conference Dates: September 26-28, 2008 Conference Location: University of Texas at Austin Conference Website: http://gmc.utexas.edu/iccg5/ The Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-5) will be held at the University of Texas at Austin, September 26-28, 2008. In line with the previous International Conferences on Construction Grammar, ICCG-5 will continue to serve as an international forum for promoting discussion and collaboration among linguists interested in Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics, as well as in related constructional research in its various models and applications. Further information about Construction Grammar can be found here: http://constructiongrammar.org Former conferences took place in Berkeley (2001), Helsinki (2002), Marseille (2004), and Tokyo (2006). ICCG-5 Guest Speakers: * Johanna Bar?dal, University of Bergen * Charles Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley * Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado at Boulder * Paul Kay, University of California, Berkeley * Gert Webelhuth, Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen Abstract Submission Abstracts must be uploaded as PDF files to the online submission system at http://gmc.utexas.edu/papers/. No emailed abstracts will be accepted. The submission system will require you to register and will prompt you to include all necessary information about your submission. Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations as well as poster presentations. We invite abstract submissions on synchronic analysis of individual languages, as well as historical, typological, and contrastive analysis of all kinds. Abstracts should be no more than one page (single-spaced, 12 pt font, 1-inch margin). Please note that the number of abstracts per author is limited to one singly-authored and one co- authored abstract per author. If you have questions about the submission of abstracts, or the program, please email them to: iccg5program at gmail.com For general questions about ICCG-5, please write to:iccg5organization at gmail.com Important Dates * Extended deadline for Abstract Submission: March 15, 2008 * Abstract Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2008 * Program Announcement: May 25, 2008 * Deadline for Early Registration: August 15, 2008 Conference Organization Chair: Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin Local Organizing Committee * John Beavers, University of Texas at Austin * Lars Hinrichs, University of Texas at Austin * Knud Lambrecht, University of Texas at Austin * Marc Pierce, University of Texas at Austin International Advisory Committee * J?hanna Bar?dal, University of Bergen * Benjamin Bergen, University of Hawaii * Alex Bergs, University of Osnabr?ck * Kerstin Fischer, University of Bremen * Mirjam Fried, Princeton University * Seiko Fujii, University of Tokyo * Stefan T. Gries, University of California, Santa Barbara * Martin Hilpert, ICSI, University of California, Berkeley * Seizi Iwata, Osaka City University * Jaakko Leino, University of Helsinki * Laura Michaelis, University of Colorado at Boulder * Jan-Ola ?stman, University of Helsinki * Kyoko Ohara, Keio University * Anatol Stefanowitsch, University of Bremen Conference Website: http://gmc.utexas.edu/iccg5/ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J?hanna Bar?dal Senior Research Fellow Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies 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 nagaya at rice.edu Fri Feb 8 06:08:20 2008 From: nagaya at rice.edu (Naonori Nagaya) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:08:20 -0600 Subject: Symposium on Syntactic Complexity Message-ID: (apologies for cross-postings) Dear Colleagues, You are cordially invited to The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language, to be held at Rice University, Texas, on March 27th-29th,2008. The program and the abstracts of the plenary papers are now available at: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~eivs/sympo/ Registration is free; please preregister at this website. The 12th Biennial Rice University Symposium on Language The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Program ****THURSDAY, MARCH 27**** Morning session (9am?12noon): Diachrony-I Opening remarks: T. Giv?n Bernd Heine (K?ln) "A grammaticalization perspective on the rise of syntactic complexity" Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara) "Re(e)volving complexity: adding intonation" Matt Shibatani (Rice) "Elements of complex structures , where recursion isn't" Afternoon session (2pm?5?pm): Child Language Holger Diessel (Jena) "The emergence of relative clauses in early child language" Cecilia Rojas (UNAM, Mexico) "Starting small' processes in the acquisition of early relative clauses in Spanish" T. Giv?n (Oregon "The acquisition of complex VPs: How children learn to negotiate fact and desire" ****FRIDAY, MARCH 28***** Morning session (9am?12noon): Diachrony-II Guy Deutscher (Leiden) "Nominalization and the origin of subordination" Martin Hilpert (UC Berkeley) and Christian Koops (Rice) "The rise of pragmatic complexity: Diachronic and cross-linguistic aspects of pseudo-clefts" T. Giv?n (Oregon) "Toward a diachronic typology of relative clauses" Afternoon session (2pm?6pm): Cognition-Neurology Brian MacWhinney (Carnegie Mellon) "The emergence of linguistic complexity through catalysis and usage" Eric Pederson & Mitzi Barker (Oregon) "Syntactic complexity and coordination in a verbal production task" Diego Fernandez-Duque (Villa Nova) "Cognitive underpinning of syntactic complexity: A possible role for 'chunking'?" ****SATURDAY, MARCH 29**** Morning session (9am-12noon): Diachrony-III ?sten Dahl (Stockholm) "Two pathways of grammatical evolution" Andrew Pawley (Canberra) "On the origins of serial verb constructions in Kalam" Claire Bowern (Rice) "Defining complexity: Arguments from historical reconstruction" Afternoon session (2pm?5pm): Biology and Evolution Nathan Tublitz (Oregon) "Neural plasticity: A window into the complexity of the brain" Don Tucker (Oregon) "Neural mechanisms of the language process" Derek Bickerton (Hawaii) "How central is recursivity?" We look forward to seeing you at the symposium. Matt Shibatani Department of Linguistics Rice University _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk Fri Feb 8 12:42:33 2008 From: Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk (N Langer, German) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:42:33 +0000 Subject: Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics, Aug 2008, Bristol, UK Message-ID: Announcement 2nd HiSoN summer school in Historical Sociolinguistics Aug 7-13, 2008, University of Bristol "History and Language, Linguists and Historians" - a summer school on methodologies, unanswered questions, research outcomes, taught by leading historians and linguists! ?150/?180 for accommodation, teaching, and excursion supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) some bursaries available for further info, please visit http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool nils langer ---------------------- Dr Nils Langer Senior Lecturer in German School of Modern Languages University of Bristol Bristol, England BS8 1TE 0044-(0)117-928 9841 Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk http://www.bris.ac.uk/german member of Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HISON) http://www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/hison/ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From logan.merril at gmail.com Fri Feb 8 20:20:03 2008 From: logan.merril at gmail.com (Logan Merrill) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:20:03 -0500 Subject: Fascinating historical site Message-ID: Have any of you had a look at the online library of historical hypotheses that LinguistList is building? The weird thing is I've never seen it advertised anywhere: LL seems to be sort of keeping it a secret. I stumbled across it in Google, and it really has the most amazing interface I've ever seen for displaying family trees. I couldn't stop playing with it. It looks like it's part of an NSF project, and it's far from finished, but they have hundreds of trees in it already, and apparently the aim is to have every single tree-based hypothesis in the database eventually, even those we all love to hate. That's a pretty ambitious project. The interface is at the URL: http://linguistlist.org/multitree/ Don't forget to click on options in the upper right corner. It's fun! Logan. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Glad you like it! ~Claire (who's on the advisory board for the project) Logan Merrill wrote: > Have any of you had a look at the online library of historical > hypotheses that LinguistList is building? > The weird thing is I've never seen it advertised anywhere: LL seems to > be sort of keeping it a secret. > I stumbled across it in Google, and it really has the most amazing > interface I've ever seen for > displaying family trees. I couldn't stop playing with it. It looks > like it's part of an NSF project, > and it's far from finished, but they have hundreds of trees in it > already, and apparently the aim is to > have every single tree-based hypothesis in the database eventually, even > those we all love to hate. > That's a pretty ambitious project. The interface is at the URL: > > http://linguistlist.org/multitree/ > > Don't forget to click on options in the upper right corner. It's fun! > > Logan. > !DSPAM:4134,47acb9b8153654064910857! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > > !DSPAM:4134,47acb9b8153654064910857! _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Fri Feb 8 20:43:05 2008 From: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de (Wolfgang Schulze) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 21:43:05 +0100 Subject: Fascinating historical site In-Reply-To: <47ACBAF2.8090003@rice.edu> Message-ID: Dear Claire and Logan, yes, it's fun indeed. However, it also is somewhat suggestive. For instance, it proposes a common North Caucasian language family that, however, is far from being proved. It is just a (in my eyes rather problematic) hypothesis. So, wouldn't it make sense to mark those instances in which a common node is at least controversial? Also: Is there an option to - say - revise data through input from users (for instance, Udi has proven to be what is called in MultiTree a 'Nuclear Lezgic > East Lezgic' (that is, in my terms Eastern Samur) language, hence is no longer to be classified as a separate offspring of Lezgic....)? [Sorry for these details, I just wanted to illustrate the problem/question. I guess many users will come across analogous problems when looking at 'their' languages].... Very best wishes and compliments for this ambitious project, Wolfgang Claire Bowern wrote: > The reason it's a "secret" is that it's still in beta testing at the > moment. There will be an announcement when testing is complete and > more trees are uploaded. Glad you like it! > ~Claire (who's on the advisory board for the project) > -- ---------------------------------------------------------- *Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulze * ---------------------------------------------------------- /Primary contact: / Institut f?r Allgemeine & Typologische Sprachwissenschaft Dept. II / F 13 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 D-80539 M?nchen Tel.: 0049-(0)89-2180-2486 (Secretary) 0049-(0)89-2180-5343 (Office) Fax: 0049-(0)89-2180-5345 Email: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de /// Wolfgang.Schulze at lmu.de Web: http://www.als.lmu/de/mitarbeiter/index.php Personal homepage: http://www.wolfgangschulze.in-devir.com ---------------------------------------------------------- /Second contact: / Katedra Germanistik? Fakulta humanitn?ch vied Univerzita Mateja B?la / Bansk? Bystrica Tajovsk?ho 40 SK-97401 Bansk? Bystrica Tel: (00421)-(0)48-4465108 Fax: (00421)-(0)48-4465512 Email: Schulze at fhv.umb.sk Web: http://www.fhv.umb.sk/app/user.php?user=schulze ---------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- 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 bowern at rice.edu Fri Feb 8 20:57:23 2008 From: bowern at rice.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:57:23 -0600 Subject: Fascinating historical site In-Reply-To: <47ACBED9.6040208@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> Message-ID: Gotta run to admissions meeting, but very quickly: The site will eventually be a collection of hypotheses [good and bad]; it makes no particular claims about relationships itself (this has come up several times in the board discussions, since none of the board members are long-rangers). We know these trees don't represent best practice. Claire Wolfgang Schulze wrote: > Dear Claire and Logan, > yes, it's fun indeed. However, it also is somewhat suggestive. For > instance, it proposes a common North Caucasian language family that, > however, is far from being proved. It is just a (in my eyes rather > problematic) hypothesis. So, wouldn't it make sense to mark those > instances in which a common node is at least controversial? Also: Is > there an option to - say - revise data through input from users (for > instance, Udi has proven to be what is called in MultiTree a 'Nuclear > Lezgic > East Lezgic' (that is, in my terms Eastern Samur) language, > hence is no longer to be classified as a separate offspring of > Lezgic....)? [Sorry for these details, I just wanted to illustrate the > problem/question. I guess many users will come across analogous problems > when looking at 'their' languages].... > Very best wishes > and compliments for this ambitious project, > Wolfgang > > Claire Bowern wrote: >> The reason it's a "secret" is that it's still in beta testing at the >> moment. There will be an announcement when testing is complete and >> more trees are uploaded. Glad you like it! >> ~Claire (who's on the advisory board for the project) >> > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > *Prof. Dr. Wolfgang > Schulze > * > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > /Primary contact: > > / > > Institut f?r Allgemeine & Typologische Sprachwissenschaft > > Dept. II / F 13 > > > > Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen > > > Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 > > > D-80539 M?nchen > > > > Tel.: 0049-(0)89-2180-2486 > (Secretary) > > 0049-(0)89-2180-5343 > (Office) > > Fax: 0049-(0)89-2180-5345 > > > Email: W.Schulze at lrz.uni-muenchen.de > /// Wolfgang.Schulze at lmu.de > > > Web: http://www.als.lmu/de/mitarbeiter/index.php > > Personal homepage: http://www.wolfgangschulze.in-devir.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > /Second > contact: > / > > Katedra Germanistik? > > > > Fakulta humanitn?ch > vied > > > Univerzita Mateja B?la / Bansk? > Bystrica > > Tajovsk?ho > 40 > > > SK-97401 Bansk? > Bystrica > > > Tel: > (00421)-(0)48-4465108 > > > Fax: (00421)-(0)48-4465512 > > > Email: Schulze at fhv.umb.sk > > > > Web: http://www.fhv.umb.sk/app/user.php?user=schulze > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > !DSPAM:4134,47acbf55153651972116596! _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de Tue Feb 12 14:33:17 2008 From: Bjoern.Wiemer at uni-konstanz.de (Bjoern Wiemer) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:33:17 +0100 Subject: new address Message-ID: Please redirect e-mails to my new address: wiemerb at uni-mainz.de Best regards, Bj?rn Wiemer. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Tue Feb 12 18:49:23 2008 From: Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk (Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:49:23 +0000 Subject: Graduate Teaching Fellowships available for prospective Ph.D.-students, University of Manchester, UK Message-ID: Generator Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium) The University of Manchester School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures Postgraduate Funding Opportunities 2008-9 GUIDELINES FOR APPLICANTS The School' s postgraduate community is one of the UK's largest and most diverse in the UK, enjoying state-of-the-art facilities and excellent support within a high-quality research environment. In step with our continuing expansion, we are enhancing our support for students registering for a research degree (PhD) in 2008-9. In addition to our current 20 Graduate Teaching Fellowships (GTFs), we are offering: Graduate Teaching Fellowships (Full and Part-time) in: Arabic (Full-time) Film Studies (Full-time) French (Full-time) German (Full-time) Spanish (Full-time) Translation Studies: Greek (Part-time) Please note, the GTF must be undertaken in conjunction with a PhD programme of study at the University of Manchester and applicants for the GTF MUST possess relevant teaching experience. The full-time GTF will be required to teach for 6 hours per week and the part-time GTF will be required to teach for 3 hours per week. The full-time GTF is open to Home/EU and International applicants and comprises three elements: the payment of full Home/EU or International fees [2008-9 academic session ?3300 per annum (Home/EU) or ?10500 per annum (International)], which is paid directly to the University, a monthly salary for teaching (2007-8 academic session: ?5806.92 per annum), which is paid directly into your bank account in 10 monthly instalments and a bursary (?6754.80 per annum) paid in quarterly instalments by bank transfer (by arrangement with the Student Services Centre) or by cheque, which is normally collected the first week of October, January, April and July. The part-time GTF will be paid pro-rata, ie. the above amounts will be halved. The application criteria for the GTF are as follows: 1. You must apply and have been accepted for a PhD programme of study in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures. Applicants must be holding an offer of a place by the closing date specified below in order to be included in the competition. 2. You must possess previous teaching experience. For further information regarding the teaching element of the Arabic, French*, German and Spanish GTFs, please contact Mr John Morley, Director, University-wide Language Programmes, University Language Centre, email john.morley at manchester.ac.uk *Please note that the holder of the French GTF will be required to register for a PhD in the area of French Linguistics under the supervision of Professor Maj-Britt Hansen, email Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk For further information regarding the teaching element of the Film Studies GTF ONLY, please contact Dr N?ria Triana Toribio, email nuria.triana at manchester.ac.uk For further information regarding the teaching element of the Translation Studies (Greek) GTF ONLY, please contact Dr Maeve Olohan, email maeve.olohan at manchester.ac.uk For general information and guidance regarding entry requirements and applying for a PhD programme of study, please contact Michelle Fenlon, the Postgraduate Admissions Officer; telephone +44 (0)161 275 3559, email michelle.fenlon at manchester.ac.uk The closing date for receipt of the GTF Application Form is Friday 16 May 2008. 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Modern English Syntax: Historical and Comparative Approaches Syntactic changes that have occurred in English over the past 1500 years have affected both clausal and nominal domains. Some of these changes have occurred in other languages and language families, some have not. Many Romance languages and non-standard varieties of English have multiple negation; standard English does not. Most Germanic languages have developed a dedicated definite article; most Slavic languages have not. This workshop invites comparative approaches (e.g. between English and other languages or between different stages within English) to these and other changes, for example: group genitives, the syntax of numerals, changes involving the verb-second constraint, OV-VO word order, and main verb movement. General Information: Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to both conveners of the seminar in question before 1 March 2008. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted no later than 21 March 2008. Please note that authors of seminar papers will be expected to give an oral presentation of not more than 15 minutes' duration, rather than simply reading their papers aloud. Convenors should ensure that reduced versions of the papers are circulated among all speakers in advance of the seminar in question. There will be a maximum of 5 papers in each two-hour seminar session, and convenors should plan so that there is time for discussion between speakers and with the audience. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Johanna L. 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