From johanna.barddal at uib.no Thu Oct 2 19:16:40 2008 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (J=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B3hanna_Bar=C3=B0dal?=) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:16:40 +0200 Subject: Cfp: Theme session: Cognitive and construction-based approaches to syntactic evolution Message-ID: DEADLINE for submitting abstracts has been extended to October 28th! x.x.x.x.x.x Call for papers for a Theme Session at ICLC 11, Berkeley, CA (July 28-August 3, 2009) Title: Cognitive and construction-based approaches to syntactic evolution Organizers: Jóhanna Barðdal & Gard B. Jenset (University of Bergen) Aim: The theme session focuses on cognitive or construction-based approaches to changes in syntactic structures, in spoken, written and/or signed languages. It aims at bringing together researchers working on syntax in different modalities and with different methodological approaches, ranging from corpus-based methods, statistical modeling, sociolinguistic, or psycholinguistic methods. This may include a discussion on larger systemic changes (cf. Haig 2008), individual case studies, or a discussion on how cognitive and constructional approaches contribute to the study of syntactic evolution. Discussion: The study of diachronic data and evolutionary perspectives of syntax in different modalities presents unique challenges to the research community (cf. e.g. Comrie and Kuteva 2005 and Croft 2000). Studying diachronic syntax often requires the use of corpora, thus forcing researchers to face the questions discussed in Gries (2006) and Grondelaers et al. (2007) on how to incorporate empirical corpus-based methods in the various cognitive-functional approaches to linguistics. A number of problems present themselves when turning a cognitive-oriented research program towards diachronic questions, as discussed in e.g. Stefanowitsch (2006). However, there are also a number of statistical methods available to overcome some of these difficulties (cf. McMahon and McMahon 2006) and Pagel et al. 2007). With its special emphasis on empirical methods, diachronic cognitive linguistics and diachronic construction grammar are particularly well suited for participation in the further development of empirical methodology in cognitive linguistics, as discussed in Geeraerts (2006). As such, the workshop will contribute to a commencing discussion on how to develop and refine empirical methods for the study of syntactic evolution. Submission procedure: *Abstract to be sent as .pdf or .rtf file *Maximum 500 words *Please include your name(s), title of paper, affiliation and contact information in the body of the email *E-mail to Johanna.Barddal at uib.no and Gard.Jenset at uib.no, with the heading "ICLC theme session" *No later than October 28, 2008. Please note that all submitted abstracts as well as the proposed theme session itself will undergo an independent review by the ICLC program committee. Participants are therefore required to also submit their abstracts through the ordinary submission channels of the conference which has a deadline in the beginning of November. References Comrie, B., and Kuteva, T. (2005). The evolution of grammatical structures and 'functional need' explanations. In: Language origins: Perspectives on evolution, pages 185-207, edited by Maggie Tallermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Croft, W. (2000). Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach. London: Longman. Geeraerts, D. (2006). Methodology in cognitive linguistics. In: Cognitive linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives, pages 21-49, edited by Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, René Dirven and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Gries, S.T. (2006). Introduction. In: Corpora in cognitive linguistics: Corpus-based approaches to syntax and lexis, pages 1-18, edited by Stefan Th. Gries and Anatol Stefanowitsch. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Grondelaers, S., Geeraerts, D., and Speelman, D. (2007). A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics. In: Methods in cognitive linguistics, pages 149-169, edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Haig, Geoffrey L.J. (2008). Alignment change in Iranian languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. McMahon, A., and McMahon R. (2005). Language classification by numbers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q.D., and Meade, A. (2007). Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature 449, 717-721. Stefanowitsch, A. (2006). Distinctive collexeme analysis and diachrony: A comment. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2(2), 257-262. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Jóhanna Barðdal Research Associate Professor 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 +47-55589660 (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 A.v.Kemenade at let.ru.nl Thu Oct 16 17:27:56 2008 From: A.v.Kemenade at let.ru.nl (Ans van Kemenade) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:27:56 +0200 Subject: Call for papers: the 19th international conference on historical linguistics Message-ID: The XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics 10-15 August 2009 Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies Invited speakers Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) Michael Dunn (MPI Nijmegen) Russell Gray (The University of Auckland) Giuseppe Longobardi (Università degli studi di Trieste) Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen) Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa) Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) John Whitman (Cornell University) Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) First circular and call for papers Abstracts are invited for papers of 30 minutes including discussion. Please send in an abstract of no more than 300 words, including your most important literature references. The deadline for abstracts is 10 January 2009. The conference will host a number of workshops and thematic sessions, which are listed below. Abstracts for these sessions are submitted, like those for the general sessions, to a separate abstract submission website. The second circular will also contain more detailed about registration and accommodation. Note the conference e-mail address: ICHL19 at let.ru.nl. The conference URL is: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/ Registration The registration fee will be Euro 200/100 for students until 1 May 2009 After 1 May 2009, the fee will be Euro 250/125 Practical details concerning registration (through a separate website supporting credit card payment) will be linked to the conference webpage soonest. Accommodation We have made block bookings against reduced prices in the major hotels in and around Nijmegen, in various price ranges. Accommodation can be booked through our website. Details will be linked to this website soonest. Social programme The social programme will include two receptions, excursions on Wednesday afternoon 12 August, the conference dinner on Thursday 13 August, and a post-conference excursion on Saturday 15 August. Details will be posted soonest. Local committee: Ans van Kemenade, with Griet Coupé, Marion Elenbaas (Leiden), Nynke de Haas, Haike Jacobs, Bettelou Los, Margit Rem and Angela Terrill Workshops and thematic sessions The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European Convener: Jóhanna Barðdal (Bergen) E-mail: johanna.barddal at uib.no So just what IS sound change anyway? Definitional, conceptual, and empirical issues in the study of change in sound. Convener: Brian Joseph (Ohio State). E-mail: Bjoseph at ling.ohio-state.edu Spatial dynamics of language change Conveners: Roeland van Hout (Nijmegen), Gertjan Postma (Meertensinstituut), Giuseppe Longobardi (Trieste). E-mail: Gertjanpostma at mac.com Kinship terminologies:change and reconstruction Conveners: Patrick McConvell (Australian National University) and Jeff Marck (Cairo) E-mail: Patrick.mcconvell at anu.edu.au Language and Migration Convener: Rob Howell (Madison) E-mail: rbhowell at wisc.edu Grammaticalization in East Asia Convener: Kazuha Watanabe (Cal State Fullerton) E-mail: kwatanabe at Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU Information structure in historical linguistics Conveners: Kristine Eide (Oslo), Roland Hinterhölzl (HU Berlin), Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge) E-mail: k.g.eide at ilos.uio.no New perspectives on Baltic, Slavic and Balto-Slavic Conveners: Imke Mendoza (Salzburg), Eugen Hill (München). E-mail: eugen.hill at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Procedural meanings in diachrony Conveners: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester) & Jacqueline Visconti (Genoa) Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Gender marking Convener: Gunther de Vogelaer and Mark Janse(Ghent) E-mail: gunther.devogelaer at ugent.be Complementation In Diachrony Conveners: Dr. Theodore Markopoulos (Uppsala) and Dr. Christina Sevdali (Ulster) E-mail: C.Sevdali at ulster.ac.uk Making the best of bad data in historical contact linguistics Convener: Margot vd Berg (Nijmegen). E-mail: M.v.d.Berg at let.ru.nl Diachrony in Clause Linkage Convener: Ulrike Demske (Saarbrücken). E-mail: u.demske at mx.uni-saarland.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We welcome abstracts on well-studied language families like Indo-European, abstracts on oral languages without a recorded history, and everything in between, aiming to highlight different kinds of reconstruction problems. We also welcome papers on changes in alignment systems, papers addressing the issue of how different theoretical frameworks can contribute to reconstruction, as well as papers concerned with the more general implications of alignment changes for diachronic typology. Please send a one page abstract in pdf format to Thomas Smitherman (Thomas.Smitherman at uib.no) no later than December 1st. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on December 15th. The workshop is hosted by the University of Bergen and the research team of the project, Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective (IECASTP): http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/index.htm Location: University of Bergen Vilvite Bergen Vitensenter AS (Auditorium) Thormøhlengate 51 5006 Bergen _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From caterina.mauri at unipv.it Mon Oct 20 14:38:58 2008 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:38:58 +0200 Subject: REMINDER: International Spring School - Standard and non-standard languages in Europe Message-ID: ************* REMINDER, DEADLINE APPROACHING **************** ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------- INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL 2009 "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe" LETiSS - Center for Postgraduate Education and Research Pavia, 6-10 April 2009 ------------------------- Dear list members, the newborn Center for Postgraduate Education and Research on “Languages of Europe: Typology, History and Sociolinguistics” (LETiSS) ANNOUNCES the International Spring School 2009 on "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe", to be held in Pavia (Italy), 6-10 April 2009. The LETISS Center has been launched within the frame of an institute for advanced studies called IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori - http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/index.php). It is the first center in Italy (and in Europe) specifically dedicated to the linguistic situation of Europe, approached from a variety of perspectives. More information on the aims, the research topics and the activities of the Center can be found at the following URL: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETISS The first activity organized by LETiSS is the Spring School on "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe". The aim of the spring school is to enhance dialogue among young linguists interested in the topics announced in the title, under the guide of leading specialists. This is why the number of participants has been limited to 20, in order to facilitate interactions among them. The Spring School will last one week, from Monday the 6th until Friday the 10th of April 2009, at the IUSS Institute in Pavia. The school will offer four courses that will last five days, according to the (provisional) timetable provided below. The courses will be taught by four scientists who have specific expertise in the topics of the school. The everyday schedule, from Monday to Friday, will be as follows: 9-11: 1st course 11.15-13.15: 2nd course 15-17: 3rd course 17.15-19.15: 4th course Thursday evening there will be a farewell dinner at 20.00. THE COURSES: 1st course – Bernd Kortmann (Universität Freiburg i.Br.) topic: Dialectology and Typology ------- 2nd course – Thomas Stolz (Universität Bremen) topic: Standard Average European ------- 3rd course – Davide Ricca (Università di Torino) topic: Dialects as Endangered languages ------- 4th course – Suzanne Romaine (University of Oxford) topic: Endangered languages and varieties in Europe The exact titles and a preliminary bibliography will be online approximately next October. APPLICATIONS 20 advanced students in linguistics and related fields will be selected by the Scientific Committee of the School (see LETiSS website). The main criterion will be the degree of relatedness/ pertinence of their research interests with the topics of the School. In particular: * applicants must have achieved at least the B.A. + M.A. level (= a five years cycle); therefore the students may be Ph.D. students, Post- docs, and young researchers; * in the CV applicants should indicate any research activity and publication that may be relevant for the admission; * applicants should also attach a short description (one/two pages) of their past and ongoing research projects. APPLICATION GUIDELINES Please send an e-mail to letiss (at) iusspavia.it with the following information: * Name * Contact info * Position and affiliation * Motivation for application (max 500 words) * CV (as a separate attachment) * Brief description of past and ongoing research projects (as a separate attachment). NO TUITION FEE IS REQUIRED!! Each participant will receive 250 Euros as partial refund for his/her travel and accommodation expenses, and a certificate of attendance will be issued at the end of the school. IMPORTANT DATES - 31st October 2008: application deadline. Applications must be sent to letiss at iusspavia.it by the 31st October - 30th November 2008: notification of acceptance. The applicants who have been accepted will receive a communication with all the relevant informations. - 15th December 2008: the list of the accepted participants will be online. ORGANIZERS: Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sansò, Paolo Ramat Please send your application and any questions to: letiss at iusspavia.it More information can be found on the following websites: LETiSS Center: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS International Spring School 2009: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS.springschool Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sansò, Paolo Ramat -------------- 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 ilja.serzants at uib.no Wed Oct 22 15:41:56 2008 From: ilja.serzants at uib.no (Ilja Serzants) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:41:56 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <20081022173923.hthrg8p4gsog88gw@webmail.uib.no> Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP) (http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009, Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/), devoted on the origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European. The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden) Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants (Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the same time Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like) argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006), hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic subjects already in Old Germanic (Eythórsson and Barðdal 2005). This raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Barðdal and Eythórsson 2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European. The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical linguistics, and Indo-European studies. Location: Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space Please check the website of the host conference for issues like registration, conference fee, social program, etc. http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Thu Oct 23 12:16:41 2008 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (J=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B3hanna_Bar=C3=B0dal?=) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:16:41 +0200 Subject: Last cpf: Cognitive and construction-based approaches to syntactic evolution Message-ID: Due to an extended deadline from behalf of the conference organizers has the deadline for submitting abstracts been extended to October 28th! x.x.x.x.x.x Call for papers for a Theme Session at ICLC 11, Berkeley, CA (July 28-August 3, 2009) Title: Cognitive and construction-based approaches to syntactic evolution Organizers: Jóhanna Barðdal & Gard B. Jenset (University of Bergen) Aim: The theme session focuses on cognitive or construction-based approaches to changes in syntactic structures, in spoken, written and/or signed languages. It aims at bringing together researchers working on syntax in different modalities and with different methodological approaches, ranging from corpus-based methods, statistical modeling, sociolinguistic, or psycholinguistic methods. This may include a discussion on larger systemic changes (cf. Haig 2008), individual case studies, or a discussion on how cognitive and constructional approaches contribute to the study of syntactic evolution. Discussion: The study of diachronic data and evolutionary perspectives of syntax in different modalities presents unique challenges to the research community (cf. e.g. Comrie and Kuteva 2005 and Croft 2000). Studying diachronic syntax often requires the use of corpora, thus forcing researchers to face the questions discussed in Gries (2006) and Grondelaers et al. (2007) on how to incorporate empirical corpus-based methods in the various cognitive-functional approaches to linguistics. A number of problems present themselves when turning a cognitive-oriented research program towards diachronic questions, as discussed in e.g. Stefanowitsch (2006). However, there are also a number of statistical methods available to overcome some of these difficulties (cf. McMahon and McMahon 2006) and Pagel et al. 2007). With its special emphasis on empirical methods, diachronic cognitive linguistics and diachronic construction grammar are particularly well suited for participation in the further development of empirical methodology in cognitive linguistics, as discussed in Geeraerts (2006). As such, the workshop will contribute to a commencing discussion on how to develop and refine empirical methods for the study of syntactic evolution. Submission procedure: *Abstract to be sent as .pdf or .rtf file *Maximum 500 words *Please include your name(s), title of paper, affiliation and contact information in the body of the email *E-mail to Johanna.Barddal at uib.no and Gard.Jenset at uib.no, with the heading "ICLC theme session" *No later than October 28, 2008. Please note that all submitted abstracts as well as the proposed theme session itself will undergo an independent review by the ICLC program committee. Participants are therefore required to also submit their abstracts through the ordinary submission channels of the conference which has a deadline in the beginning of November. References Comrie, B., and Kuteva, T. (2005). The evolution of grammatical structures and 'functional need' explanations. In: Language origins: Perspectives on evolution, pages 185-207, edited by Maggie Tallermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Croft, W. (2000). Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach. London: Longman. Geeraerts, D. (2006). Methodology in cognitive linguistics. In: Cognitive linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives, pages 21-49, edited by Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, René Dirven and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Gries, S.T. (2006). Introduction. In: Corpora in cognitive linguistics: Corpus-based approaches to syntax and lexis, pages 1-18, edited by Stefan Th. Gries and Anatol Stefanowitsch. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Grondelaers, S., Geeraerts, D., and Speelman, D. (2007). A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics. In: Methods in cognitive linguistics, pages 149-169, edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Haig, Geoffrey L.J. (2008). Alignment change in Iranian languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. McMahon, A., and McMahon R. (2005). Language classification by numbers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q.D., and Meade, A. (2007). Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature 449, 717-721. Stefanowitsch, A. (2006). Distinctive collexeme analysis and diachrony: A comment. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2(2), 257-262. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Jóhanna Barðdal Research Associate Professor 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 +47-55589660 (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 johanna.barddal at uib.no Thu Oct 2 19:16:40 2008 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (J=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B3hanna_Bar=C3=B0dal?=) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 21:16:40 +0200 Subject: Cfp: Theme session: Cognitive and construction-based approaches to syntactic evolution Message-ID: DEADLINE for submitting abstracts has been extended to October 28th! x.x.x.x.x.x Call for papers for a Theme Session at ICLC 11, Berkeley, CA (July 28-August 3, 2009) Title: Cognitive and construction-based approaches to syntactic evolution Organizers: J?hanna Bar?dal & Gard B. Jenset (University of Bergen) Aim: The theme session focuses on cognitive or construction-based approaches to changes in syntactic structures, in spoken, written and/or signed languages. It aims at bringing together researchers working on syntax in different modalities and with different methodological approaches, ranging from corpus-based methods, statistical modeling, sociolinguistic, or psycholinguistic methods. This may include a discussion on larger systemic changes (cf. Haig 2008), individual case studies, or a discussion on how cognitive and constructional approaches contribute to the study of syntactic evolution. Discussion: The study of diachronic data and evolutionary perspectives of syntax in different modalities presents unique challenges to the research community (cf. e.g. Comrie and Kuteva 2005 and Croft 2000). Studying diachronic syntax often requires the use of corpora, thus forcing researchers to face the questions discussed in Gries (2006) and Grondelaers et al. (2007) on how to incorporate empirical corpus-based methods in the various cognitive-functional approaches to linguistics. A number of problems present themselves when turning a cognitive-oriented research program towards diachronic questions, as discussed in e.g. Stefanowitsch (2006). However, there are also a number of statistical methods available to overcome some of these difficulties (cf. McMahon and McMahon 2006) and Pagel et al. 2007). With its special emphasis on empirical methods, diachronic cognitive linguistics and diachronic construction grammar are particularly well suited for participation in the further development of empirical methodology in cognitive linguistics, as discussed in Geeraerts (2006). As such, the workshop will contribute to a commencing discussion on how to develop and refine empirical methods for the study of syntactic evolution. Submission procedure: *Abstract to be sent as .pdf or .rtf file *Maximum 500 words *Please include your name(s), title of paper, affiliation and contact information in the body of the email *E-mail to Johanna.Barddal at uib.no and Gard.Jenset at uib.no, with the heading "ICLC theme session" *No later than October 28, 2008. Please note that all submitted abstracts as well as the proposed theme session itself will undergo an independent review by the ICLC program committee. Participants are therefore required to also submit their abstracts through the ordinary submission channels of the conference which has a deadline in the beginning of November. References Comrie, B., and Kuteva, T. (2005). The evolution of grammatical structures and 'functional need' explanations. In: Language origins: Perspectives on evolution, pages 185-207, edited by Maggie Tallermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Croft, W. (2000). Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach. London: Longman. Geeraerts, D. (2006). Methodology in cognitive linguistics. In: Cognitive linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives, pages 21-49, edited by Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, Ren? Dirven and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Gries, S.T. (2006). Introduction. In: Corpora in cognitive linguistics: Corpus-based approaches to syntax and lexis, pages 1-18, edited by Stefan Th. Gries and Anatol Stefanowitsch. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Grondelaers, S., Geeraerts, D., and Speelman, D. (2007). A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics. In: Methods in cognitive linguistics, pages 149-169, edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Haig, Geoffrey L.J. (2008). Alignment change in Iranian languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. McMahon, A., and McMahon R. (2005). Language classification by numbers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q.D., and Meade, A. (2007). Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature 449, 717-721. Stefanowitsch, A. (2006). Distinctive collexeme analysis and diachrony: A comment. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2(2), 257-262. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J?hanna Bar?dal Research Associate Professor 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 +47-55589660 (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 A.v.Kemenade at let.ru.nl Thu Oct 16 17:27:56 2008 From: A.v.Kemenade at let.ru.nl (Ans van Kemenade) Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:27:56 +0200 Subject: Call for papers: the 19th international conference on historical linguistics Message-ID: The XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics 10-15 August 2009 Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies Invited speakers Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) Michael Dunn (MPI Nijmegen) Russell Gray (The University of Auckland) Giuseppe Longobardi (Universit? degli studi di Trieste) Pieter Muysken (Radboud University Nijmegen) Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa) Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh) John Whitman (Cornell University) Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) First circular and call for papers Abstracts are invited for papers of 30 minutes including discussion. Please send in an abstract of no more than 300 words, including your most important literature references. The deadline for abstracts is 10 January 2009. The conference will host a number of workshops and thematic sessions, which are listed below. Abstracts for these sessions are submitted, like those for the general sessions, to a separate abstract submission website. The second circular will also contain more detailed about registration and accommodation. Note the conference e-mail address: ICHL19 at let.ru.nl. The conference URL is: http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/ Registration The registration fee will be Euro 200/100 for students until 1 May 2009 After 1 May 2009, the fee will be Euro 250/125 Practical details concerning registration (through a separate website supporting credit card payment) will be linked to the conference webpage soonest. Accommodation We have made block bookings against reduced prices in the major hotels in and around Nijmegen, in various price ranges. Accommodation can be booked through our website. Details will be linked to this website soonest. Social programme The social programme will include two receptions, excursions on Wednesday afternoon 12 August, the conference dinner on Thursday 13 August, and a post-conference excursion on Saturday 15 August. Details will be posted soonest. Local committee: Ans van Kemenade, with Griet Coup?, Marion Elenbaas (Leiden), Nynke de Haas, Haike Jacobs, Bettelou Los, Margit Rem and Angela Terrill Workshops and thematic sessions The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European Convener: J?hanna Bar?dal (Bergen) E-mail: johanna.barddal at uib.no So just what IS sound change anyway? Definitional, conceptual, and empirical issues in the study of change in sound. Convener: Brian Joseph (Ohio State). E-mail: Bjoseph at ling.ohio-state.edu Spatial dynamics of language change Conveners: Roeland van Hout (Nijmegen), Gertjan Postma (Meertensinstituut), Giuseppe Longobardi (Trieste). E-mail: Gertjanpostma at mac.com Kinship terminologies:change and reconstruction Conveners: Patrick McConvell (Australian National University) and Jeff Marck (Cairo) E-mail: Patrick.mcconvell at anu.edu.au Language and Migration Convener: Rob Howell (Madison) E-mail: rbhowell at wisc.edu Grammaticalization in East Asia Convener: Kazuha Watanabe (Cal State Fullerton) E-mail: kwatanabe at Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU Information structure in historical linguistics Conveners: Kristine Eide (Oslo), Roland Hinterh?lzl (HU Berlin), Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge) E-mail: k.g.eide at ilos.uio.no New perspectives on Baltic, Slavic and Balto-Slavic Conveners: Imke Mendoza (Salzburg), Eugen Hill (M?nchen). E-mail: eugen.hill at lrz.uni-muenchen.de Procedural meanings in diachrony Conveners: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Manchester) & Jacqueline Visconti (Genoa) Maj-Britt.MosegaardHansen at manchester.ac.uk Gender marking Convener: Gunther de Vogelaer and Mark Janse(Ghent) E-mail: gunther.devogelaer at ugent.be Complementation In Diachrony Conveners: Dr. Theodore Markopoulos (Uppsala) and Dr. Christina Sevdali (Ulster) E-mail: C.Sevdali at ulster.ac.uk Making the best of bad data in historical contact linguistics Convener: Margot vd Berg (Nijmegen). E-mail: M.v.d.Berg at let.ru.nl Diachrony in Clause Linkage Convener: Ulrike Demske (Saarbr?cken). E-mail: u.demske at mx.uni-saarland.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We welcome abstracts on well-studied language families like Indo-European, abstracts on oral languages without a recorded history, and everything in between, aiming to highlight different kinds of reconstruction problems. We also welcome papers on changes in alignment systems, papers addressing the issue of how different theoretical frameworks can contribute to reconstruction, as well as papers concerned with the more general implications of alignment changes for diachronic typology. Please send a one page abstract in pdf format to Thomas Smitherman (Thomas.Smitherman at uib.no) no later than December 1st. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on December 15th. The workshop is hosted by the University of Bergen and the research team of the project, Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective (IECASTP): http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/index.htm Location: University of Bergen Vilvite Bergen Vitensenter AS (Auditorium) Thorm?hlengate 51 5006 Bergen _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From caterina.mauri at unipv.it Mon Oct 20 14:38:58 2008 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:38:58 +0200 Subject: REMINDER: International Spring School - Standard and non-standard languages in Europe Message-ID: ************* REMINDER, DEADLINE APPROACHING **************** ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------- INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL 2009 "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe" LETiSS - Center for Postgraduate Education and Research Pavia, 6-10 April 2009 ------------------------- Dear list members, the newborn Center for Postgraduate Education and Research on ?Languages of Europe: Typology, History and Sociolinguistics? (LETiSS) ANNOUNCES the International Spring School 2009 on "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe", to be held in Pavia (Italy), 6-10 April 2009. The LETISS Center has been launched within the frame of an institute for advanced studies called IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori - http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/index.php). It is the first center in Italy (and in Europe) specifically dedicated to the linguistic situation of Europe, approached from a variety of perspectives. More information on the aims, the research topics and the activities of the Center can be found at the following URL: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETISS The first activity organized by LETiSS is the Spring School on "Standard and non-standard languages in Europe: future and vitality of dialects, language contacts and new linguistic scenarios in today's Europe". The aim of the spring school is to enhance dialogue among young linguists interested in the topics announced in the title, under the guide of leading specialists. This is why the number of participants has been limited to 20, in order to facilitate interactions among them. The Spring School will last one week, from Monday the 6th until Friday the 10th of April 2009, at the IUSS Institute in Pavia. The school will offer four courses that will last five days, according to the (provisional) timetable provided below. The courses will be taught by four scientists who have specific expertise in the topics of the school. The everyday schedule, from Monday to Friday, will be as follows: 9-11: 1st course 11.15-13.15: 2nd course 15-17: 3rd course 17.15-19.15: 4th course Thursday evening there will be a farewell dinner at 20.00. THE COURSES: 1st course ? Bernd Kortmann (Universit?t Freiburg i.Br.) topic: Dialectology and Typology ------- 2nd course ? Thomas Stolz (Universit?t Bremen) topic: Standard Average European ------- 3rd course ? Davide Ricca (Universit? di Torino) topic: Dialects as Endangered languages ------- 4th course ? Suzanne Romaine (University of Oxford) topic: Endangered languages and varieties in Europe The exact titles and a preliminary bibliography will be online approximately next October. APPLICATIONS 20 advanced students in linguistics and related fields will be selected by the Scientific Committee of the School (see LETiSS website). The main criterion will be the degree of relatedness/ pertinence of their research interests with the topics of the School. In particular: * applicants must have achieved at least the B.A. + M.A. level (= a five years cycle); therefore the students may be Ph.D. students, Post- docs, and young researchers; * in the CV applicants should indicate any research activity and publication that may be relevant for the admission; * applicants should also attach a short description (one/two pages) of their past and ongoing research projects. APPLICATION GUIDELINES Please send an e-mail to letiss (at) iusspavia.it with the following information: * Name * Contact info * Position and affiliation * Motivation for application (max 500 words) * CV (as a separate attachment) * Brief description of past and ongoing research projects (as a separate attachment). NO TUITION FEE IS REQUIRED!! Each participant will receive 250 Euros as partial refund for his/her travel and accommodation expenses, and a certificate of attendance will be issued at the end of the school. IMPORTANT DATES - 31st October 2008: application deadline. Applications must be sent to letiss at iusspavia.it by the 31st October - 30th November 2008: notification of acceptance. The applicants who have been accepted will receive a communication with all the relevant informations. - 15th December 2008: the list of the accepted participants will be online. ORGANIZERS: Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sans?, Paolo Ramat Please send your application and any questions to: letiss at iusspavia.it More information can be found on the following websites: LETiSS Center: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS International Spring School 2009: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS.springschool Caterina Mauri, Andrea Sans?, Paolo Ramat -------------- 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 ilja.serzants at uib.no Wed Oct 22 15:41:56 2008 From: ilja.serzants at uib.no (Ilja Serzants) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:41:56 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <20081022173923.hthrg8p4gsog88gw@webmail.uib.no> Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: The origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European The research team of the project ?Indo-European Case and Argument Structure from a Typological Perspective? (IECASTP) (http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP) is organizing a workshop at the XIXth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (10-15 August 2009, Nijmegen, http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/), devoted on the origin of non-canonical subject marking in Indo-European. The URL of the workshop is: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop5.htm Invited speaker: Leonid Kulikov (University of Leiden) Please send a 300-word abstract in pdf format to Ilja Serzants (Ilja.Serzants at uib.no) no later than January 10th. Notification of acceptance will be sent out no later than January 25th. The abstract also has to be submitted through the main conference website at the same time Several of the Modern Indo-European languages that have maintained morphological case exhibit structures where the subject(-like) argument is not canonically case marked. These are found amongst the Modern Germanic languages, Modern Russian, the Modern Baltic languages and the Modern Indo-Aryan languages, to mention some. It is traditionally assumed in the literature that these have developed from objects to subjects (see, for instance, Hewson and Bubenik 2006), hence the case marking. Recently, however, it has been argued for Germanic that oblique subjects in the modern languages were syntactic subjects already in Old Germanic (Eyth?rsson and Bar?dal 2005). This raises the question whether these non-canonically case-marked subject(-like) arguments were objects in Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European, or whether they may have been syntactic subjects all along, given an assumption of the alignment system in Proto-Indo-European being a Fluid-S system (cf. Bar?dal and Eyth?rsson 2008). It is, moreover, possible that the case marking patterns of different predicate types have different origins in Indo-European. The aim of this workshop is therefore to gather researchers who work on case marking in Indo-European, and case marking in general, to a forum where the more general topic of the origin of this non-canonical case marking can be discussed. By doing that, we hope to shed light on this important issue within case marking and alignment, historical linguistics, and Indo-European studies. Location: Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Language Studies/Language in Time and Space Please check the website of the host conference for issues like registration, conference fee, social program, etc. http://www.ru.nl/cls/ichl19/) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Thu Oct 23 12:16:41 2008 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (J=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B3hanna_Bar=C3=B0dal?=) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:16:41 +0200 Subject: Last cpf: Cognitive and construction-based approaches to syntactic evolution Message-ID: Due to an extended deadline from behalf of the conference organizers has the deadline for submitting abstracts been extended to October 28th! x.x.x.x.x.x Call for papers for a Theme Session at ICLC 11, Berkeley, CA (July 28-August 3, 2009) Title: Cognitive and construction-based approaches to syntactic evolution Organizers: J?hanna Bar?dal & Gard B. Jenset (University of Bergen) Aim: The theme session focuses on cognitive or construction-based approaches to changes in syntactic structures, in spoken, written and/or signed languages. It aims at bringing together researchers working on syntax in different modalities and with different methodological approaches, ranging from corpus-based methods, statistical modeling, sociolinguistic, or psycholinguistic methods. This may include a discussion on larger systemic changes (cf. Haig 2008), individual case studies, or a discussion on how cognitive and constructional approaches contribute to the study of syntactic evolution. Discussion: The study of diachronic data and evolutionary perspectives of syntax in different modalities presents unique challenges to the research community (cf. e.g. Comrie and Kuteva 2005 and Croft 2000). Studying diachronic syntax often requires the use of corpora, thus forcing researchers to face the questions discussed in Gries (2006) and Grondelaers et al. (2007) on how to incorporate empirical corpus-based methods in the various cognitive-functional approaches to linguistics. A number of problems present themselves when turning a cognitive-oriented research program towards diachronic questions, as discussed in e.g. Stefanowitsch (2006). However, there are also a number of statistical methods available to overcome some of these difficulties (cf. McMahon and McMahon 2006) and Pagel et al. 2007). With its special emphasis on empirical methods, diachronic cognitive linguistics and diachronic construction grammar are particularly well suited for participation in the further development of empirical methodology in cognitive linguistics, as discussed in Geeraerts (2006). As such, the workshop will contribute to a commencing discussion on how to develop and refine empirical methods for the study of syntactic evolution. Submission procedure: *Abstract to be sent as .pdf or .rtf file *Maximum 500 words *Please include your name(s), title of paper, affiliation and contact information in the body of the email *E-mail to Johanna.Barddal at uib.no and Gard.Jenset at uib.no, with the heading "ICLC theme session" *No later than October 28, 2008. Please note that all submitted abstracts as well as the proposed theme session itself will undergo an independent review by the ICLC program committee. Participants are therefore required to also submit their abstracts through the ordinary submission channels of the conference which has a deadline in the beginning of November. References Comrie, B., and Kuteva, T. (2005). The evolution of grammatical structures and 'functional need' explanations. In: Language origins: Perspectives on evolution, pages 185-207, edited by Maggie Tallermann. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Croft, W. (2000). Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach. London: Longman. Geeraerts, D. (2006). Methodology in cognitive linguistics. In: Cognitive linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives, pages 21-49, edited by Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, Ren? Dirven and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Gries, S.T. (2006). Introduction. In: Corpora in cognitive linguistics: Corpus-based approaches to syntax and lexis, pages 1-18, edited by Stefan Th. Gries and Anatol Stefanowitsch. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Grondelaers, S., Geeraerts, D., and Speelman, D. (2007). A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics. In: Methods in cognitive linguistics, pages 149-169, edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Haig, Geoffrey L.J. (2008). Alignment change in Iranian languages. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. McMahon, A., and McMahon R. (2005). Language classification by numbers. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q.D., and Meade, A. (2007). Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature 449, 717-721. Stefanowitsch, A. (2006). Distinctive collexeme analysis and diachrony: A comment. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 2(2), 257-262. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J?hanna Bar?dal Research Associate Professor 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 +47-55589660 (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