From kariri at gmail.com Sat Dec 5 06:13:00 2009 From: kariri at gmail.com (Eduardo Ribeiro) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 01:13:00 -0500 Subject: Asymmetry in voiceless stop lenition Message-ID: Dear colleagues, A comparison between Karajá (Macro-Jê stock, Central Brazil) and related languages (such as Proto-Jê) reveals that Karajá underwent a pervasive diachronic process of voiceless-stop lenition; in CrV clusters, voiceless stops were thoroughly eliminated; in other positions, *p appears as /w/ and *t as /r/. *k, however, still occurs as /k/, but with a twist: in male speech, it may be eliminated altogether (kòhã 'armadillo' > òhã, etc.). Thus, it seems likely that the genesis of male vs. female speech distinctions in Karajá may be somehow related to such tendency towards stop lenition. Notice that if lenition treated all voiceless stops the same way, *k would show up as a velar approximant in Karajá (a very marked, unstable phoneme cross-linguistically, as far as I know). I would appreciate any examples of similar asymmetries in the diachronic and synchronic behavior of voiceless stops. Examples illustrating differing reflexes of a sound change between male and female speakers would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Eduardo http://wado.us _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk Sat Dec 5 18:35:38 2009 From: wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk (Professor Wendy Bennett) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:35:38 +0000 Subject: Language, text and history: 19-20 March 2010 Message-ID: ++++++++++++++++ The Philological Society www.philsoc.org.uk LANGUAGE, TEXT & HISTORY: Linguistics and Philology in the 21st Century A Symposium sponsored by the Philological Society, to be held on Friday 19th-Saturday 20th March, 2010, in Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Call for Papers For much of the 20th century it was common to figure Linguistics and Philology as rivals or even antagonists in the field of language-study. More recently, the border barriers have started to come down as researchers on both sides have increasingly recognised the complex interdependencies between code and context, synchrony and diachrony. The aim of our symposium is to celebrate this new spirit of partnership and to showcase some of the new research and researchers it will bring to the fore in the 21st century. We therefore invite offers of papers from doctoral students and early career researchers working on topics which link language-structure to language history or textual practice. The two-day event will also feature a hands-on workshop exploring ways in which philological and linguistic approaches can enrich each other and a panel discussion and Q&A session led by members of the Society representing work across a range of language-families. The workshop will be led by Professor Andrew Garrett of the University of California at Berkeley, who will also give the concluding paper of the symposium on Saturday 20th March. An outline programme is given below as well as details of grants offered by the Society for student paper givers and for student associate members of the Society participating in the symposium workshop. Offers of papers, accompanied by an abstract of not more than 150 words, should be sent to Professor Sylvia Adamson at president at philsoc.org.uk by Monday 14 December 2009. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From spike at uoregon.edu Sat Dec 5 19:05:12 2009 From: spike at uoregon.edu (Spike Gildea) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:05:12 -0800 Subject: Asymmetry in voiceless stop lenition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From natacha at ucla.edu Sun Dec 6 00:52:01 2009 From: natacha at ucla.edu (natacha at ucla.edu) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 16:52:01 -0800 Subject: Asymmetry in voiceless stop lenition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Eduardo: High German Consonant Shift seems to show a similar asymmetry with respect to place of articulation of voiceless stops. As part of the shift, some voiceless dentals and labials became affricated, cf. English ?two? - German Zwei and English ?pepper? - German Pfeffer. Voiceless velars, on the other hand, were affricated only in a restricted area; cf. English ?corn? - German Korn and English ?cat? - German Katze. The failure of velars to undergo the change to the same extent as dentals and labials is attributed to the chronology of the shift, the assumption being that dentals were the first to undergo it, labials next, and velars last. This pattern seems to match the diachronic place of articulation asymmetry of voiceless stops in Karajá. Best regards, Natalie > Dear colleagues, > > A comparison between Karajá (Macro-Jê stock, Central Brazil) and > related languages (such as Proto-Jê) reveals that Karajá underwent a > pervasive diachronic process of voiceless-stop lenition; in CrV > clusters, voiceless stops were thoroughly eliminated; in other > positions, *p appears as /w/ and *t as /r/. > > *k, however, still occurs as /k/, but with a twist: in male speech, it > may be eliminated altogether (kòhã 'armadillo' > òhã, etc.). Thus, it > seems likely that the genesis of male vs. female speech distinctions > in Karajá may be somehow related to such tendency towards stop > lenition. Notice that if lenition treated all voiceless stops the > same way, *k would show up as a velar approximant in Karajá (a very > marked, unstable phoneme cross-linguistically, as far as I know). > > I would appreciate any examples of similar asymmetries in the > diachronic and synchronic behavior of voiceless stops. Examples > illustrating differing reflexes of a sound change between male and > female speakers would also be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Eduardo > http://wado.us > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From francois at vjf.cnrs.fr Sun Dec 6 02:46:28 2009 From: francois at vjf.cnrs.fr (Alex Francois) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 13:46:28 +1100 Subject: Asymmetry in voiceless stop lenition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I do look forward to hearing from others though -- I'd love to find that I'm wrong and that there IS a course out there! priamel at iname.com Sent by: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu 12/08/2009 01:53 PM To histling-l at mailman.rice.edu cc Subject [Histling-l] masters: statistical approaches to historical linguistics/philology Dear Histling, Does anyone know of a Master's course (or similar) that covers statistical approaches to problems in historical linguistics/philology in reasonable depth (let's not worry about location to start off with)? I've tried the Internet and Internet-based course catalogues at some length and without success so far, so may be asking the wrong question (or for something that doesn't exist!) I'll be very grateful for any information! Howard PS Since I'm approaching this from the statistical rather than linguistic side, do feel free to put me right if I'm on the wrong list/asking a stupid question..._______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l -------------- 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 gschaar at uvic.ca Wed Dec 9 15:26:53 2009 From: gschaar at uvic.ca (Gunter Schaarschmidt) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 07:26:53 -0800 Subject: masters: statistical approaches to historical linguistics/philology In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I only know of the regular workshops in lexicography (probably also historical). The next one will be in scenic Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2010. See http://www.lexmasterclass.com/people_ak GS Sheila Embleton wrote: > This is one of my long-standing areas of research, and I do not know of > such a course. There are of course some courses on statistics for > linguists at the graduate level, but I don't know of any devoted to such > approaches to historical linguistics. I do look forward to hearing from > others though -- I'd love to find that I'm wrong and that there IS a > course out there! > > > > > > priamel at iname.com > Sent by: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu > 12/08/2009 01:53 PM > > To > histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > cc > > Subject > [Histling-l] masters: statistical approaches to historical > linguistics/philology > > > > > > > Dear Histling, > > Does anyone know of a Master's course (or similar) that covers statistical > approaches to problems in historical linguistics/philology in reasonable > depth (let's not worry about location to start off with)? I've tried the > Internet and Internet-based course catalogues at some length and without > success so far, so may be asking the wrong question (or for something that > doesn't exist!) > > I'll be very grateful for any information! > > Howard > > PS Since I'm approaching this from the statistical rather than linguistic > side, do feel free to put me right if I'm on the wrong list/asking a > stupid question..._______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Wed Dec 9 22:49:24 2009 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (johanna.barddal at uib.no) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 23:49:24 +0100 Subject: Final cfp: Variation and Change in Argument Realization Message-ID: Finall call for papers: Workshop on "Variation and Change in Argument Realization" organized by Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) and Michela Cennamo (University of Naples Federico II) Location: Capri and Naples, 28-30 May 2010 Invited speakers - Balthasar Bickel (University of Leipzig) - Miriam Fried (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) - Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge) - Ranko Matasovic (University of Zagreb) - Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester) URL: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop6.htm Research on the nature of argument structure and the factors determining its encoding and representation has highlighted the complex interplay of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic factors that determine argument realization within and across languages (cf. Cennamo 2003, Levin and Rappaport Hovav 2005, Bentley 2006, Goldberg 2006, Barðdal 2006, 2008, Ramchand 2008, Van Valin 2009, among others). The consensus view emerging from a large body of synchronic research acknowledges the key roles played by event-based notions such as aspect (e.g., telicity, incremental theme) and control, and inherent features of argument fillers, such as animacy and definiteness, in determining the mapping from the lexical semantic to the morphosyntactic planes. The existence of non-event based aspects in the encoding of arguments has also prompted current investigation of the contribution of the idiosyncratic (the root) and structural facets (the event-structure templates) of the meaning of verbs to argument realization, and the principles governing their integration (Rappaport Hovav 2008). This workshop aims at exploring these issues from a diachronic and variational perspective (cf. Barðdal and Chelliah 2009, Cennamo 2009), bringing together different strands of research on event/argument structure, as reflected in the choice of invited speakers, and focusing on: a) the applicability of current models, whether typological, projectionist, constructional, neo-constructional, co-compositional, and others, on actual diachronic changes and variational data from different domains, such as auxiliary selection, argument marking and linking, ditransitives, the conative, locative, (anti)causative alternation, etc. b) the predictions they make as to the progression and actualization of change, for instance whether syntactic aspects are affected earlier by change than lexical aspects, the role played by pragmatic notions, frequency, etc. c) the generalizations offered for recurrent patterns of variation and change, and the uniformity encountered. Contributions are invited from scholars of different theoretical persuasions for discussion on the general and specific implications of different theoretical models on argument/event structure in a diachronic and/or variational perspective, including, but not limited to, the following: - voice - case-marking and grammatical relations - (in)transitive alternations - split intransitivity - existential/presentative constructions Please send your abstracts of 500 words or less to the workshop's contact person: Eystein Dahl (Eystein.Dahl @ uib.no). Abstracts should be sent no later than 15 December 2009, preferably in pdf-format. A response on abstracts will be sent out no later than 20 January 2010. References Barðdal, J. 2006. Construction-specific properties of syntactic subjects in Icelandic and German. Cognitive Linguistics 17 (1): 39-106. Barðdal, J. 2008. Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Barðdal, J. and S. L. Chelliah (eds.). 2009. The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Bentley, D. 2006. Split intransitivity in Italian. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Cennamo, M. 2003. (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues. In G. Fiorentino (ed.), Romance Objects, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 49-104. Cennamo, M. 2009. Argument structure and alignment variations and changes in Late Latin. In Barðdal, J. and S. L. Chelliah (eds.), 307-346. Goldberg, A. E. 2006. Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Levin, B. and M. Rappaport Hovav. 2005. Argument Realization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ramchand, G. C. 2008. Verb Meaning and the Lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rappaport Hovav, M. 2008. Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events. In Rothstein (ed.), Crosslinguistic and Theoretical Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 13-42. Van Valin, R. D. 2009. Lexical representation, co-composition, and linking syntax and semantics. J. Pustejovsky & P. Bullion (eds.), New Developments in the Generative Lexicon. Dordrecht: Kluwer. To appear. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 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://ling.uib.no/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From claire.bowern at yale.edu Thu Dec 10 13:13:01 2009 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:13:01 -0500 Subject: masters: statistical approaches to historical linguistics/philology In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I don't know of any courses, but there are chapters in a couple of books that deal with some of the methods. Keith Johnson's Quantitative Methods in Linguists has a chapter on historical. If I remember right it focuses on the Ringe, Warnow and Taylor-type maximum parsimony method. Emmanuel Paradis' book on Evolution and Phylogenetics using R has relevant material. Harald Baayen's Analyzing Linguistic Data with R has a chapter on clustering and tree-inference methods. My forthcoming edition of Terry Crowley's Historical Linguistics has a chapter on Computational Methods, with a bit about NeighborNets and Bayesian methods (but it's more about issues in how to code the data and less about the mathematics), (These are just the textbook treatments; there are other articles that would also serve as good introductions to the methods.) Claire -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Presentations are 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion. Abstracts of max. 4000 characters (i.e. app. 500 words; including references) should be submitted via the conference website. Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance: late March, 2010 Information regarding registration, accommodation and other practical matters will be provided in the second circular, to be distributed early 2010, and will be posted on the conference website as soon as they are available. Plenary speakers: Kasper Boye/Peter Harder Hilary Chappell Bernd Heine Heiko Narrog Muriel Norde Organizers: Johan van der Auwera & Jan Nuyts (Antwerp) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From kariri at gmail.com Sat Dec 5 06:13:00 2009 From: kariri at gmail.com (Eduardo Ribeiro) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 01:13:00 -0500 Subject: Asymmetry in voiceless stop lenition Message-ID: Dear colleagues, A comparison between Karaj? (Macro-J? stock, Central Brazil) and related languages (such as Proto-J?) reveals that Karaj? underwent a pervasive diachronic process of voiceless-stop lenition; in CrV clusters, voiceless stops were thoroughly eliminated; in other positions, *p appears as /w/ and *t as /r/. *k, however, still occurs as /k/, but with a twist: in male speech, it may be eliminated altogether (k?h? 'armadillo' > ?h?, etc.). Thus, it seems likely that the genesis of male vs. female speech distinctions in Karaj? may be somehow related to such tendency towards stop lenition. Notice that if lenition treated all voiceless stops the same way, *k would show up as a velar approximant in Karaj? (a very marked, unstable phoneme cross-linguistically, as far as I know). I would appreciate any examples of similar asymmetries in the diachronic and synchronic behavior of voiceless stops. Examples illustrating differing reflexes of a sound change between male and female speakers would also be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Eduardo http://wado.us _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk Sat Dec 5 18:35:38 2009 From: wmb1001 at cam.ac.uk (Professor Wendy Bennett) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:35:38 +0000 Subject: Language, text and history: 19-20 March 2010 Message-ID: ++++++++++++++++ The Philological Society www.philsoc.org.uk LANGUAGE, TEXT & HISTORY: Linguistics and Philology in the 21st Century A Symposium sponsored by the Philological Society, to be held on Friday 19th-Saturday 20th March, 2010, in Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Call for Papers For much of the 20th century it was common to figure Linguistics and Philology as rivals or even antagonists in the field of language-study. More recently, the border barriers have started to come down as researchers on both sides have increasingly recognised the complex interdependencies between code and context, synchrony and diachrony. The aim of our symposium is to celebrate this new spirit of partnership and to showcase some of the new research and researchers it will bring to the fore in the 21st century. We therefore invite offers of papers from doctoral students and early career researchers working on topics which link language-structure to language history or textual practice. The two-day event will also feature a hands-on workshop exploring ways in which philological and linguistic approaches can enrich each other and a panel discussion and Q&A session led by members of the Society representing work across a range of language-families. The workshop will be led by Professor Andrew Garrett of the University of California at Berkeley, who will also give the concluding paper of the symposium on Saturday 20th March. An outline programme is given below as well as details of grants offered by the Society for student paper givers and for student associate members of the Society participating in the symposium workshop. Offers of papers, accompanied by an abstract of not more than 150 words, should be sent to Professor Sylvia Adamson at president at philsoc.org.uk by Monday 14 December 2009. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From spike at uoregon.edu Sat Dec 5 19:05:12 2009 From: spike at uoregon.edu (Spike Gildea) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:05:12 -0800 Subject: Asymmetry in voiceless stop lenition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From natacha at ucla.edu Sun Dec 6 00:52:01 2009 From: natacha at ucla.edu (natacha at ucla.edu) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 16:52:01 -0800 Subject: Asymmetry in voiceless stop lenition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dear Eduardo: High German Consonant Shift seems to show a similar asymmetry with respect to place of articulation of voiceless stops. As part of the shift, some voiceless dentals and labials became affricated, cf. English ?two? - German Zwei and English ?pepper? - German Pfeffer. Voiceless velars, on the other hand, were affricated only in a restricted area; cf. English ?corn? - German Korn and English ?cat? - German Katze. The failure of velars to undergo the change to the same extent as dentals and labials is attributed to the chronology of the shift, the assumption being that dentals were the first to undergo it, labials next, and velars last. This pattern seems to match the diachronic place of articulation asymmetry of voiceless stops in Karaj?. Best regards, Natalie > Dear colleagues, > > A comparison between Karaj? (Macro-J? stock, Central Brazil) and > related languages (such as Proto-J?) reveals that Karaj? underwent a > pervasive diachronic process of voiceless-stop lenition; in CrV > clusters, voiceless stops were thoroughly eliminated; in other > positions, *p appears as /w/ and *t as /r/. > > *k, however, still occurs as /k/, but with a twist: in male speech, it > may be eliminated altogether (k?h? 'armadillo' > ?h?, etc.). Thus, it > seems likely that the genesis of male vs. female speech distinctions > in Karaj? may be somehow related to such tendency towards stop > lenition. Notice that if lenition treated all voiceless stops the > same way, *k would show up as a velar approximant in Karaj? (a very > marked, unstable phoneme cross-linguistically, as far as I know). > > I would appreciate any examples of similar asymmetries in the > diachronic and synchronic behavior of voiceless stops. Examples > illustrating differing reflexes of a sound change between male and > female speakers would also be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Eduardo > http://wado.us > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From francois at vjf.cnrs.fr Sun Dec 6 02:46:28 2009 From: francois at vjf.cnrs.fr (Alex Francois) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 13:46:28 +1100 Subject: Asymmetry in voiceless stop lenition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I do look forward to hearing from others though -- I'd love to find that I'm wrong and that there IS a course out there! priamel at iname.com Sent by: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu 12/08/2009 01:53 PM To histling-l at mailman.rice.edu cc Subject [Histling-l] masters: statistical approaches to historical linguistics/philology Dear Histling, Does anyone know of a Master's course (or similar) that covers statistical approaches to problems in historical linguistics/philology in reasonable depth (let's not worry about location to start off with)? I've tried the Internet and Internet-based course catalogues at some length and without success so far, so may be asking the wrong question (or for something that doesn't exist!) I'll be very grateful for any information! Howard PS Since I'm approaching this from the statistical rather than linguistic side, do feel free to put me right if I'm on the wrong list/asking a stupid question..._______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l -------------- 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 gschaar at uvic.ca Wed Dec 9 15:26:53 2009 From: gschaar at uvic.ca (Gunter Schaarschmidt) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 07:26:53 -0800 Subject: masters: statistical approaches to historical linguistics/philology In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I only know of the regular workshops in lexicography (probably also historical). The next one will be in scenic Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 2010. See http://www.lexmasterclass.com/people_ak GS Sheila Embleton wrote: > This is one of my long-standing areas of research, and I do not know of > such a course. There are of course some courses on statistics for > linguists at the graduate level, but I don't know of any devoted to such > approaches to historical linguistics. I do look forward to hearing from > others though -- I'd love to find that I'm wrong and that there IS a > course out there! > > > > > > priamel at iname.com > Sent by: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu > 12/08/2009 01:53 PM > > To > histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > cc > > Subject > [Histling-l] masters: statistical approaches to historical > linguistics/philology > > > > > > > Dear Histling, > > Does anyone know of a Master's course (or similar) that covers statistical > approaches to problems in historical linguistics/philology in reasonable > depth (let's not worry about location to start off with)? I've tried the > Internet and Internet-based course catalogues at some length and without > success so far, so may be asking the wrong question (or for something that > doesn't exist!) > > I'll be very grateful for any information! > > Howard > > PS Since I'm approaching this from the statistical rather than linguistic > side, do feel free to put me right if I'm on the wrong list/asking a > stupid question..._______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From johanna.barddal at uib.no Wed Dec 9 22:49:24 2009 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (johanna.barddal at uib.no) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 23:49:24 +0100 Subject: Final cfp: Variation and Change in Argument Realization Message-ID: Finall call for papers: Workshop on "Variation and Change in Argument Realization" organized by J?hanna Bar?dal (University of Bergen) and Michela Cennamo (University of Naples Federico II) Location: Capri and Naples, 28-30 May 2010 Invited speakers - Balthasar Bickel (University of Leipzig) - Miriam Fried (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) - Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge) - Ranko Matasovic (University of Zagreb) - Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester) URL: http://ling.uib.no/IECASTP/Workshop6.htm Research on the nature of argument structure and the factors determining its encoding and representation has highlighted the complex interplay of semantic, syntactic and pragmatic factors that determine argument realization within and across languages (cf. Cennamo 2003, Levin and Rappaport Hovav 2005, Bentley 2006, Goldberg 2006, Bar?dal 2006, 2008, Ramchand 2008, Van Valin 2009, among others). The consensus view emerging from a large body of synchronic research acknowledges the key roles played by event-based notions such as aspect (e.g., telicity, incremental theme) and control, and inherent features of argument fillers, such as animacy and definiteness, in determining the mapping from the lexical semantic to the morphosyntactic planes. The existence of non-event based aspects in the encoding of arguments has also prompted current investigation of the contribution of the idiosyncratic (the root) and structural facets (the event-structure templates) of the meaning of verbs to argument realization, and the principles governing their integration (Rappaport Hovav 2008). This workshop aims at exploring these issues from a diachronic and variational perspective (cf. Bar?dal and Chelliah 2009, Cennamo 2009), bringing together different strands of research on event/argument structure, as reflected in the choice of invited speakers, and focusing on: a) the applicability of current models, whether typological, projectionist, constructional, neo-constructional, co-compositional, and others, on actual diachronic changes and variational data from different domains, such as auxiliary selection, argument marking and linking, ditransitives, the conative, locative, (anti)causative alternation, etc. b) the predictions they make as to the progression and actualization of change, for instance whether syntactic aspects are affected earlier by change than lexical aspects, the role played by pragmatic notions, frequency, etc. c) the generalizations offered for recurrent patterns of variation and change, and the uniformity encountered. Contributions are invited from scholars of different theoretical persuasions for discussion on the general and specific implications of different theoretical models on argument/event structure in a diachronic and/or variational perspective, including, but not limited to, the following: - voice - case-marking and grammatical relations - (in)transitive alternations - split intransitivity - existential/presentative constructions Please send your abstracts of 500 words or less to the workshop's contact person: Eystein Dahl (Eystein.Dahl @ uib.no). Abstracts should be sent no later than 15 December 2009, preferably in pdf-format. A response on abstracts will be sent out no later than 20 January 2010. References Bar?dal, J. 2006. Construction-specific properties of syntactic subjects in Icelandic and German. Cognitive Linguistics 17 (1): 39-106. Bar?dal, J. 2008. Productivity: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Bar?dal, J. and S. L. Chelliah (eds.). 2009. The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Bentley, D. 2006. Split intransitivity in Italian. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Cennamo, M. 2003. (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues. In G. Fiorentino (ed.), Romance Objects, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 49-104. Cennamo, M. 2009. Argument structure and alignment variations and changes in Late Latin. In Bar?dal, J. and S. L. Chelliah (eds.), 307-346. Goldberg, A. E. 2006. Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Levin, B. and M. Rappaport Hovav. 2005. Argument Realization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ramchand, G. C. 2008. Verb Meaning and the Lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rappaport Hovav, M. 2008. Lexicalized meaning and the internal temporal structure of events. In Rothstein (ed.), Crosslinguistic and Theoretical Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 13-42. Van Valin, R. D. 2009. Lexical representation, co-composition, and linking syntax and semantics. J. Pustejovsky & P. Bullion (eds.), New Developments in the Generative Lexicon. Dordrecht: Kluwer. To appear. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 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://ling.uib.no/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From claire.bowern at yale.edu Thu Dec 10 13:13:01 2009 From: claire.bowern at yale.edu (Claire Bowern) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:13:01 -0500 Subject: masters: statistical approaches to historical linguistics/philology In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I don't know of any courses, but there are chapters in a couple of books that deal with some of the methods. Keith Johnson's Quantitative Methods in Linguists has a chapter on historical. If I remember right it focuses on the Ringe, Warnow and Taylor-type maximum parsimony method. Emmanuel Paradis' book on Evolution and Phylogenetics using R has relevant material. Harald Baayen's Analyzing Linguistic Data with R has a chapter on clustering and tree-inference methods. My forthcoming edition of Terry Crowley's Historical Linguistics has a chapter on Computational Methods, with a bit about NeighborNets and Bayesian methods (but it's more about issues in how to code the data and less about the mathematics), (These are just the textbook treatments; there are other articles that would also serve as good introductions to the methods.) Claire -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Presentations are 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion. Abstracts of max. 4000 characters (i.e. app. 500 words; including references) should be submitted via the conference website. Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance: late March, 2010 Information regarding registration, accommodation and other practical matters will be provided in the second circular, to be distributed early 2010, and will be posted on the conference website as soon as they are available. Plenary speakers: Kasper Boye/Peter Harder Hilary Chappell Bernd Heine Heiko Narrog Muriel Norde Organizers: Johan van der Auwera & Jan Nuyts (Antwerp) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l