From h.m.eckhoff at ifikk.uio.no Mon Mar 2 09:00:16 2009 From: h.m.eckhoff at ifikk.uio.no (Hanne Martine Eckhoff) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 10:00:16 +0100 Subject: Call for papers: Workshop on Indo-European Syntax and Pragmatics, extended deadline Message-ID: *Workshop on Indo-European Syntax and Pragmatics, extended deadline* Date: 13-May-2009 - 15-May-2009 Location: Athens, GA, USA Contact Person: Dag Haug Meeting Email: daghaug(at)ifikk.uio.no Web Site: http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/proiel/events/georgiaworkshop.html Professor Jared Klein and his research group at the University of Georgia and the PROIEL project at the University of Oslo are arranging a workshop on the pragmatics and syntax of early Indo-European languages in Athens, GA on May, 13-15. This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on the syntax and pragmatics of early IE languages, and we invite papers on any subject of Indo-European syntax. A special session will be devoted to the comparative syntax of the New Testament translations (Gothic, Old Church Slavic and Classical Armenian, as well as Latin and Greek). Confirmed Invited Speakers: - Mark Hale, Concordia - Paul Kiparsky, Stanford - Tony Kroch, UPenn Abstracts of up to one A4 page should be submitted to daghaug(at)ifikk.uio.no Deadline for abstracts submission: March, 15 Notification: March, 30 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From gradeast at hum.ku.dk Tue Mar 17 12:28:18 2009 From: gradeast at hum.ku.dk (=?US-ASCII?Q?Forskerskole_Ost?=) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:28:18 +0100 Subject: SUMMER SCHOOL IN GRAMMATICALIZATION Message-ID: INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN GRAMMATICALIZATION Date: 18-21 August, 2009 Venue: University of Copenhagen Organizer: GradEast Graduate School in Linguistics Summer School website: http://english.gradeast.dk/courses/summerschool2009/ Deadline for application: Before June 1st, 2009. Please fill out the registration form at http://english.gradeast.dk/courses/summerschool2009/. We accept applications from PhD students, i.e. graduate students who have finished an MA and are working on a PhD project. Participants should include a one page abstract of their project. Information about admittance will be sent out to applicants no later than June 15th, 2009. Course fee: Participation is free of charge. GradEast will pay for all meals during the course (cf. the programme) and lodging at a hostel. However, participants will have to cover their travel costs and meals in connection with arrival and departure. Course description: The Summer School presents different views on grammaticalization and illustrates how grammaticalization can be applied in morphology, word order studies and syntax (with a focus on constructions). Referring to a wide range of different languages, the lecturers, who are all leading specialists in grammaticalization, will discuss fundamental issues of grammaticalization on the basis of prevailing theories within the field. Readings: A selection of works on grammaticalization (about 300 pages) will be distributed to the participants upon acceptance. Participants are expected to read these works before the course. For additional readings see the abstracts of the presentations. PhD project presentations: The participating PhD students will have the opportunity to present their own projects and discuss them with the lecturers and fellow students. Participants should prepare a presentation of 20 minutes, which will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Lecturers: Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University Henning Andersen, the University of California Brian D. Joseph, the Ohio State University Lene Schoesler, the University of Copenhagen Lars Heltoft, Roskilde University Jens Noergaard-Soerensen, the University of Copenhagen Contact: Katrine Reiff Sano GradEast Graduate School in Linguistics University of Copenhagen gradeast at hum.ku.dk www.gradeast.dk -------------- 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 pepps at mail.utexas.edu Wed Mar 18 17:29:38 2009 From: pepps at mail.utexas.edu (Pattie Epps) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:29:38 -0500 Subject: conference announcement Message-ID: Conference announcement: 'Dynamics of Hunter-Gatherer Language Change' Place: University of Texas at Austin All are welcome to attend the talks listed below. There is no registration fee. Program: For updates, locations, etc. please see http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/linguistics/events/dhglc/ Thurs March 26 9:30-10:15 Jane Hill (University of Arizona): Becoming Hunter-Gatherers? Uto-Aztecans in California and the Great Basin 10:30-11:15 John Ives (University of Alberta): Archaeological, Linguistic and Genetic Evidence for Apachean Migration from the Canadian Subarctic 11:15-12:00 Patience Epps and Cynthia Hansen (University of Texas at Austin): Amazonian numeral systems: language contact and socio-economic parameters 3-3:45 Claire Bowern (Yale University) Flora and fauna reconstruction from Dampier land languages Fri March 27 9:45-10:45 Keith Hunley (University of New Mexico): Genetic and linguistic coevolution in Native America and Island Melanesia and implications for prehistoric reconstruction 2-2:45 Russell Gray (University of Auckland): What does evolutionary biology have to offer historical linguistics? 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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 johanna.barddal at uib.no Sat Mar 21 12:20:10 2009 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (J=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C3=B3hanna_Bar=C3=B0dal?=) Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:20:10 +0100 Subject: New Book: The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case Message-ID: Title: The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 108 Publication Year: 2009 Publisher: John Benjamins Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS%20108 Editors: Jóhanna Barðdal (University of Bergen) and Shobhana L. Chelliah (University of North Texas) Blurb: The aim of this volume is to bring non-syntactic factors in the development of case into the eye of the research field, by illustrating the integral role of pragmatics, semantics, and discourse structure in the historical development of morphologically marked case systems. The articles represent fifteen typologically diverse languages from four different language families: (i) Indo-European: Vedic Sanskrit, Russian, Greek, Latin, Latvian, Gothic, French, German, Icelandic, and Faroese; (ii) Tibeto-Burman, especially the Bodic languages and Meithei; (iii) Japanese; and (iv) the Pama-Nyungan mixed language Gurindji Kriol. The data also show considerable diversity and include elicited, archival, corpus-based, and naturally occurring data. Discussions of mechanisms where change is obtained include semantically and aspectually motivated synchronic case variation, discourse motivated subject marking, reduction or expansion of case marker distribution, case syncretism motivated by semantics, syntax, or language contact, and case splits motivated by pragmatics, metonymy, and subjectification. Hardback: ISBN: 978 90 272 0575 9 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00 Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Linguistics Discourse studies Historical linguistics Morphology Pragmatics Semantics Syntax Theoretical linguistics Typology -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 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) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l