From dwew2 at cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 1 15:19:08 2010 From: dwew2 at cam.ac.uk (David Willis) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:19:08 +0100 Subject: ICHL20 workshop proposal: Drift and long-term morphosyntactic change 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 johanna.barddal at uib.no Tue Oct 12 16:09:23 2010 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (johanna.barddal at uib.no) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:09:23 +0200 Subject: SECOND Call for papers: ICHL20 workshop on Reconstructing Syntax Message-ID: SECOND call for papers ICHL-20 in Osaka, Japan, 24-30 July 2011 Workshop title: Reconstructing Syntax Organizer: Jóhanna Barðdal, University of Bergen & Spike Gildea, University of Oregon Description: Historical-comparative reconstruction has traditionally been focused on lexical, morphological and phonological comparisons, while syntactic reconstruction has either been systematically left unattended, regarded as fruitless or uninteresting, or even rebuked (cf. Watkins 1964, Jeffers 1976, Lightfoot 1979, 2006, Harrison 2003, Pires & Thomason 2008, Mengden 2008, inter alia). The reason for this is that syntactic structures have been regarded as fundamentally different from, for instance, morphological structures, in several respects. That is, syntactic structures are larger and more complex units than morphological units. Semantically they have not been regarded on par with morphological units either, in that their meaning is regarded as the sum of the meaning of the lexical parts that instantiate them, and because of this semantic compositionality they have not been regarded as being arbitrary form?meaning correspondences like words. It has also been argued in the literature that syntactic structures are not inherited in the same way as the vocabulary (Lightfoot 1979 and later work), that there is no cognate material to compare when comparing sentences across daughter languages (Jeffers 1976), there is no regularity of syntactic change, as opposed to the regularity of phonological change (Lightfoot 2002, Pirus & Thomason 2008), and that there is no arbitrariness found in syntax (Harrison 2003), all of which render syntactic reconstruction fundamentally different from phonological reconstruction. Recent work within historical-comparative syntax takes issue with this view of syntactic reconstruction (Kikusawa 2003, Harris 2008, Bauern 2008, Barðdal & Eythórsson 2009, Barðdal 2010), arguing that the concepts of "cognate status," "arbitrariness" and "regularity" are non-problematic for syntactic reconstruction. This is so, first, because cognates are also found in syntax (Kikusawa 2003, Barðdal & Eythórsson 2009, Barðdal 2010). Second, because the arbitrariness requirement is simply not needed in syntax, as it's role is first and foremost to aid in deciding on genetic relatedness, which is usually not an issue when doing syntactic reconstruction (Harrison 2003, Barðdal & Eythórsson 2009, Barðdal 2010). And, third, because a) the sound laws are only regular by definition (Hoenigswald 1987), and b) the sound laws are basically stand-ins for a similarity metric when deciding upon cognate status (Harrison 2003). It has also recently been claimed (cf. Barðdal & Eythórsson 2009, Barðdal 2010) that Construction Grammar is more easily extendible to syntactic reconstruction than other frameworks, due to the basic status of form-meaning/function pairings in that framework. This creates a natural leap from synchronic form-meaning pairings to historical reconstruction, based on form-meaning pairings. This ICHL workshop aims at accommodating contributions including, but not limited to, the following: - The fundamental issues of reconstruction in general and syntactic reconstruction in particular - Individual case studies of syntactic reconstruction from different languages and language families - A comparison of how different theoretical frameworks may contribute to syntactic reconstruction Please send your abstracts of 500 words or less to Jóhanna Barðdal (Johanna.Barddal at uib.no), no later than November 15th 2010, preferably in pdf-format. A response on abstracts will be sent out on December 15th 2010. References: Barðdal, Jóhanna. 2010. Construction-Based Historical-Comparative Reconstruction. To appear in Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Eds. Graeme Trousdale & Thomas Hoffmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Barðdal, Jóhanna & Thórhallur Eythórsson. 2010. Reconstructing Syntax: Construction Grammar and the Comparative Method. To appear in Sign-Based Construction Grammar. Eds. Hans C. Boas & Ivan A. Sag. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Bowern, Claire. 2008. Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction in Generative Grammar. In Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Eds. Gisela Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach, 187-216. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Ferraresi, Gisella & Maria Goldbach (eds.). 2008. Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Harris, Alice C. 2008. Reconstruction in Syntax: Reconstruction of Patterns. In Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Eds. Gisela Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach, 73-95. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Harrison, S. P. 2003. On the Limits of the Comparative Method. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, eds. B. D. Joseph & R. D. Janda, 343-368. Oxford: Blackwell. Hoenigswald, H. M. 1987. The Annus Mirabilis 1876 and Posterity. Transactions of the Philological Society 76(1): 17-35. Jeffers, Robert J. 1976. Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction. In Current Progress in Historical Linguistics: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Historical Linguistics, ed. William M. Christie, Jr., 1-15, Amsterdam. Kikusawa, Ritsuko. 2003. The Development of Some Indonesian Pronominal Systems. Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected Papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13-17 August 2001, eds. Barry J. Blake, Kate Burridge & Jo Taylor, 237-268. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Lightfoot, David. 1979. Principles of Diachronic Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lightfoot, David W. 2002. Myths and the Prehistory of Grammars. Journal of Linguistics 38(1): 113-136. Lightfoot, David. 2006. How New Languages Emerge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mengden, Ferdinand von. 2008. Reconstructing Complex Structures: A Typological Perspective. In Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Eds. Gisela Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach, 97-119. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pires, Acrisio & Sarah G. Thomason. 2008. How Much Syntactic Reconstruction is Possible? In Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Eds. Gisela Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach, 27-72. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Watkins, Calvert. 1964. Preliminaries to the reconstruction of Indo-European sentence structure. In Proceedings of the IX International Congress of Linguists, ed. H.G. Lunt, 1035-1045. The Hague: Mouton. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 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://org.uib.no/iecastp/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be Wed Oct 13 07:06:08 2010 From: liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be (Liesbeth Degand) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:06:08 +0200 Subject: last-minute post-doc opportunity Message-ID: Last minute opportunity! Post-doc position: “Grammaticalization and Intersubjectification of discourse markers” Within the framework of the ongoing IUAP-project “Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification” (http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/) funded by the Belgian federal government, the Institute for Language and Communication (IL&C) from the University of Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) invites applications for one post-doc position. The position is available for one year as of November 1st 2010 and not later than January 1st 2011. Shorter periods are possible too. Description of the project: The project aims to contribute to current research efforts dealing with (the interaction between) the processes of grammaticalization (in the structural domain) and (inter)subjectification (in the semantic domain) in language change. It focuses on three major issues: 1) The precise nature of the semantic changes in subjectification and in intersubjectification, and their relationship with the structural developments in grammaticalization. 2) The teleology of the processes: are grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification unidirectional or not? 3) The ‘scope’ of these processes: how do grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification relate to other mechanisms of language change, notably, to analogy? In collaboration with research groups from the universities of Antwerp, Leuven, Ghent, and Hannover (Germany), and the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the Royal Museum of Central Africa, these foci are implemented in terms of work packages, dealing with different semantic and/or grammatical domains in which these issues can be raised and investigated from different angles. The task of the group in Louvain-la-Neuve is to work out the package on discourse markers (together with colleagues from Ghent and Hannover) (see work package description on http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/valibel/documents/workpackage4-web.pdf). The specific research area concerns the grammaticalization of (Dutch, French and English) discourse markers (where possible, in contrast to other languages). Essential requirements The position is reserved for international candidates or Belgian citizens who have not been employed in Belgium for more than two years during the 2008-2010 period. Applicants should have been awarded their doctorate within the last six years. Candidates must hold a PhD in the field of linguistics (pref. Dutch and/or French), with a primary specialization in discourse analysis. They should have experience of corpus linguistics, and ideally, have already published in the area of grammaticalization and/or typological language description. Expertise in the area of diachronic linguistics or willingness to gain such expertise is also required. Good knowledge of Dutch and French is an asset (with near-native command of one of the two languages). We especially welcome applications from candidates who share the research group’s interest in approaching language from a usage-based perspective with solid empirical grounding in primary data, especially approaches of a cognitive, social-interactional, and/or functional nature. Starting date: A soon as possible from November 1st Duration of the project: 1 year, monthly allowance: +/- 2000 EUR (tax-free including social security) Application Applications including letter, curriculum vitae, brief research proposal (max. 3 pages), copies of any relevant publications, and two academic references can be sent to the address below or by e-mail to: liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be Address for Applications: Prof. Liesbeth Degand Insitute for Language and Communication Université catholique de Louvain Place B. Pascal 1 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Application Deadline: 1 November 2010 (Open until filled) Liesbeth Degand Institute for Language and Communication (IL&C) VALIBEL - Discours et Variation Université catholique de Louvain Place B. Pascal, 1 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be http://www.uclouvain.be/304220.html T. +32 10 474982 F. +32 10 474942 bur. C.464 _______________________________________________ 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 18 09:45:44 2010 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:45:44 +0200 Subject: International Spring School - Europe beyond Europe: new horizons on pidgins and creoles - Italy, April 2011 Message-ID: ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------- INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL 2011 "Europe beyond Europe: new horizons on pidgins and creoles" LETiSS - Center for Postgraduate Education and Research Pavia, 18-22 April 2011 ------------------------- Dear list members, the Center for Postgraduate Education and Research on “Languages of Europe: Typology, History and Sociolinguistics” (LETiSS) ANNOUNCES its 2nd International Spring School on "Europe beyond Europe: new horizons on pidgins and creoles", to be held in Pavia (Italy), 18-22 April 2011. The LETISS Center has been 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: www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS 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 (see below), in order to facilitate interactions among them. WHEN AND WHERE: The Spring School will last one week, from Monday 18 until Friday 22 April 2011, at the IUSS Institute in Pavia (viale Lungo Ticino Sforza 56, 27100 Pavia, Italy – www.iusspavia.it). WHO AND WHAT: TEACHERS AND COURSES The everyday schedule, from Monday to Friday, will be as follows: 9-10.45: 1st course 11.15-13.00: 2nd course 15-16.45: 3rd course 17.15-19.00: 4th course Friday evening there will be a farewell dinner at 20.00 1st course – Margot van den Berg (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Creoles at birth? The role of nativization ------- 2nd course – Barbara Turchetta (Università della Tuscia): The contribution of Pidgin and Creole studies to the general theory of language change ------- 3rd course – Susanne Michaelis (University of Gießen/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig): Grammatical structures in creole language. First results from APiCS ------- 4th course – Bettina Migge (University College Dublin): The Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics of Creole languages THE STUDENTS: 20 advanced students in linguistics and related fields will be selected by the Scientific Committee of the School. 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 activities and publications that may be relevant for the admission; • applicants should also attach a short description of their past, ongoing and future research projects (up to three pages). APPLICATION GUIDELINES: Please send an e-mail to emanuele.miola at unipv.it with the following information: • Name • Contact info • Position and affiliation • CV (as a separate attachment) • Brief description of past, ongoing and future research projects (as a separate attachment). NO TUITION FEE IS REQUIRED!! LETiSS will even cover attendants’ accommodation expenses. IMPORTANT DATES 15th November: application deadline. 15th December: applicants who have been accepted will receive a communication with all relevant information. ORGANIZERS: Caterina Mauri, Emanuele Miola, Paolo Ramat, Andrea Sansò. Please send your application and any questions to: emanuele.miola at unipv.it LETiSS website: www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS LETiSS Spring School 2011 website: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS.springschool Caterina Mauri, Emanuele Miola, 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 g.j.rutten at hum.leidenuniv.nl Mon Oct 18 16:19:56 2010 From: g.j.rutten at hum.leidenuniv.nl (Rutten, G.J.) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:19:56 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers Historical Sociolinguistics, Leiden, June 2011 Message-ID: HiSoN Conference, 22-24 June 2011, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics 2nd Call for papers The research project "Brieven als Buit/ Letters as Loot" will be organising the next Historical Sociolinguistic Network Conference at the University of Leiden in June 2011. This time, the theme of the conference will be Touching the Past. (Ego)documents in a Linguistic and Historical Perspective. Plenary speakers will be Peter Burke (Cambridge), Anthony Lodge (St Andrews) and Laura Wright (Cambridge). Scholars interested in any aspect relating to this theme are invited to submit abstracts for papers. We are particularly interested in papers from any language area on topics on the language of ego documents in relation to literacy, corpus linguistics, text type analysis, linguistic norms, pragmatics and social networks. We invite suggestions for workshops or panel sessions to be held in the context of the conference. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 December 2010. Notification of acceptance will occur by mid-February 2011. Slots for papers will be 30 minutes, including time for questions; the language of the papers will be English. Abstract format: maximum length 350 words or one page A4, using Times New Roman font no smaller than 12 point, including references. Please send one document (name the WORD file: yournameHiSoN2011) with two versions of the abstract in WORD to hum-hison2011 at hum.leidenuniv.nl, one version with your name and affiliation appearing below the title, and one version without name and affiliation. The local organisers are Marijke van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten, Jos Schaeken and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. For further information, please contact Marijke van der Wal or Gijsbert Rutten at hum-hison2011 at hum.leidenuniv.nl. 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Fifty years ago UT, UNC, and Columbia had top notch programs in Historical Romance Linguistics; today that field is on life-support: generative grammar and the concept that the current spoken language is the only language worth studying have become a cancer on the field of linguistics. Perhaps some Historical Germanic Linguistics survive in the US. You may have better luck in Europe depending upon the languages in which you are fluent. I know the joke: Asking linguists how many languages they speak is comparable to asking economists how much money they make; however, a command of French, German, and Spanish will take you further than English and French alone. N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD Professor Emeritus history & languages -----Original Message----- From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of histling-l-request at mailman.rice.edu Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:01 PM To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 Today's Topics: 1. Study-Abroad, Undergraduate (Ross Clarke Kettleson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:58:45 -0400 From: Ross Clarke Kettleson Subject: [Histling-l] Study-Abroad, Undergraduate To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Not to disrupt the stream of conference calls, but I'm an undergrad in Linguistics at McGill University, 2nd year, looking for a Uni with a good Historical Linguistics or PIE-centred undergrad program to which I can transfer for a semester abroad. 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URL: ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l End of Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From olle at ling.su.se Tue Oct 19 12:55:26 2010 From: olle at ling.su.se (Olle Engstrand) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:55:26 -0400 Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: <30F8BA8D28544200A147A5866577EDBB@leordinateur> Message-ID: I have found that the University of Pisa, Italy - also La Spaienza in Rome - provide good academic environments for the study of historical linguistics. -------------------- Olle Engstrand PhD, Prof. em. http://www.ling.su.se/staff/olle/olle.html On 19 Oct 2010, at 08:13, Scott wrote: > I will wait to see who answers. Fifty years ago UT, UNC, and Columbia had > top notch programs in Historical Romance Linguistics; today that field is on > life-support: generative grammar and the concept that the current spoken > language is the only language worth studying have become a cancer on the > field of linguistics. Perhaps some Historical Germanic Linguistics survive > in the US. You may have better luck in Europe depending upon the languages > in which you are fluent. I know the joke: Asking linguists how many > languages they speak is comparable to asking economists how much money they > make; however, a command of French, German, and Spanish will take you > further than English and French alone. > > N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD > Professor Emeritus > history & languages > > > -----Original Message----- > From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu > [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of > histling-l-request at mailman.rice.edu > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:01 PM > To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Study-Abroad, Undergraduate (Ross Clarke Kettleson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:58:45 -0400 > From: Ross Clarke Kettleson > Subject: [Histling-l] Study-Abroad, Undergraduate > To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Not to disrupt the stream of conference calls, but I'm an undergrad in > Linguistics at McGill University, 2nd year, looking for a Uni with a good > Historical Linguistics or PIE-centred undergrad program to which I can > transfer for a semester abroad. The partner institutions offered at McGill > are a bit sparse on either the historical side or the Linguistics side > completely, and I thought that this would be the prime place to ask for > suggestions or advice. > Thanks; > Ross Kettleson > McGill University > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > 2a2022/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > > End of Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 > ***************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > 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 olle at ling.su.se Tue Oct 19 12:56:25 2010 From: olle at ling.su.se (Olle Engstrand) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:56:25 -0400 Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: <27B234E2-4341-4900-92C4-3A111D9004E8@ling.su.se> Message-ID: Sorry, it-s La Sapienza /OE On 19 Oct 2010, at 08:55, Olle Engstrand wrote: > I have found that the University of Pisa, Italy - also La Spaienza in Rome - provide good academic environments for the study of historical linguistics. > > -------------------- > Olle Engstrand > PhD, Prof. em. > http://www.ling.su.se/staff/olle/olle.html > > > On 19 Oct 2010, at 08:13, Scott wrote: > >> I will wait to see who answers. Fifty years ago UT, UNC, and Columbia had >> top notch programs in Historical Romance Linguistics; today that field is on >> life-support: generative grammar and the concept that the current spoken >> language is the only language worth studying have become a cancer on the >> field of linguistics. Perhaps some Historical Germanic Linguistics survive >> in the US. You may have better luck in Europe depending upon the languages >> in which you are fluent. I know the joke: Asking linguists how many >> languages they speak is comparable to asking economists how much money they >> make; however, a command of French, German, and Spanish will take you >> further than English and French alone. >> >> N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD >> Professor Emeritus >> history & languages >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu >> [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of >> histling-l-request at mailman.rice.edu >> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:01 PM >> To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu >> Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Study-Abroad, Undergraduate (Ross Clarke Kettleson) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:58:45 -0400 >> From: Ross Clarke Kettleson >> Subject: [Histling-l] Study-Abroad, Undergraduate >> To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu >> Message-ID: >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Not to disrupt the stream of conference calls, but I'm an undergrad in >> Linguistics at McGill University, 2nd year, looking for a Uni with a good >> Historical Linguistics or PIE-centred undergrad program to which I can >> transfer for a semester abroad. The partner institutions offered at McGill >> are a bit sparse on either the historical side or the Linguistics side >> completely, and I thought that this would be the prime place to ask for >> suggestions or advice. >> Thanks; >> Ross Kettleson >> McGill University >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> > 2a2022/attachment-0001.html> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Histling-l mailing list >> Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu >> https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l >> >> >> End of Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 >> ***************************************** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 caterina.mauri at unipv.it Tue Oct 19 16:22:25 2010 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:22:25 +0200 Subject: Call for papers - Pavia, May 2011 - Workshop on "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Message-ID: ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------ International workshop on: "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Pavia (Italy), 30-31 May 2011 Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/site/workshoppavia2011/ ------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the factors at play in diachronic change and to investigate the relationship between diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation, integrating the current views on linguistic variation and language use. Special attention will be devoted to theoretical and methodological issues concerning i) how the study of language change can benefit from the most recent achievements in linguistic theories and ii) how the explanations of synchronic variation may be found in diachronic processes, discussing whether diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation may be analyzed through the same lenses and by means of the same theoretical instruments. Furthermore, the workshop also wants to address the question of the impact of contact on linguistic change. Language contact may indeed be seen as a special type of synchronic phenomenon that may last in time and may gradually lead to diachronic change, triggering or influencing the development of particular constructions in neighbouring languages. INVITED SPEAKERS: Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam): ---- Topic: On the role of analogy in processes of language change Béatrice Lamiroy (University of Leuven): ---- Topic: The pace of grammaticalization in Romance languages Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh): ---- Topic: Diachronic construction grammar and gradualness in language change Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp): ----- Topic: On diachronic semantic maps The workshop will also accommodate four contributions from the project members (t.b.a) on the effects of contact and interference within the macro-geographic-area of the Mediterranean. CALL FOR PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract, keeping in mind that the slot for their communication will last 40 min. including discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as attachments in PDF format to: gradualness.workshop at gmail.com. Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be indicated in the corpus of the e-mail. The abstracts will be anonimously reviewed by two members of the Scientific Committee. Besides theoretical issues, the exam of specific examples and the description of general patterns will also be welcome. Topics of interest include: • what kind of factors trigger the grammaticalization processes • the relation of grammaticalization to other mechanisms of language change such as reanalysis and analogy • the relationship between synchronic variation and grammatical change • the interaction between frequency, entrenchment and use • the possibility of multiple source constructions in language change • the role of language contact in grammatical change • how particular diachronic phenomena may be analyzed in the light of the most recent linguistic theories (e.g. construction grammar) • diachronic explanations for synchronic patterns of variation • ….. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: 10 February 2010 Notification of acceptance 10 March 2010 ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT: Anna Giacalone Ramat - annaram (at) unipv.it Caterina Mauri - caterina.mauri (at) unipv.it Piera Molinelli - piera.molinelli (at) unibg.it For any questions and for submissions, please write to gradualness.workshop at gmail.com SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo), Chiara Fedriani (University of Pavia), Chiara Ghezzi (University of Pavia), Anna Giacalone Ramat (University of Pavia), Gianguido Manzelli (University of Pavia), Caterina Mauri (University of Pavia), Piera Molinelli (University of Bergamo), Paolo Ramat (IUSS Institute), Andrea Sansò (Insubria University - Como), Federica Venier (University of Bergamo) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I know that (as a graduate student) I very much benefitted from Don's teaching, and there is a steady stream of Historical Linguistics PhDs coming out of Penn, so there's clearly a great programme there at at least that level. Penn also has Tony Kroch and Beatrice Santorini, of course, who do (among other things) historical corpus work, on Middle English for example, and I know they have had undergraduate collaborators in that who have found the work interesting enough to go on and do PhDs in it. If you were only there a semester, you probably wouldn't get into it that deeply, but, again, it wouldn't hurt to ask! Damien -- Damien Hall University of York Department of Language and Linguistic Science Heslington YORK YO10 5DD UK Tel. (office) +44 (0)1904 432665 (mobile) +44 (0)771 853 5634 Fax +44 (0)1904 432673 http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb http://www.york.ac.uk/language/staff/academic-research/damien-hall/ DISCLAIMER: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From pompei at uniroma3.it Thu Oct 21 08:29:07 2010 From: pompei at uniroma3.it (Anna Pompei) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:29:07 +0200 Subject: II CfP - LCL Message-ID: LINGUITICS AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES. Second circular and Call for Papers Dear colleagues, We are sending you the second circular of the colloquium "Linguistics and Classical Languages", to be held at Rome (Univesità Roma Tre), in February 17th-19th, 2011. We want to remind you that the deadline for the submission of abstracts is October 31st, 2010. 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Online registration is now open! Meeting URL: http://www-slavistik.uni-r.de/gces Invited speakers: Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University) Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania) Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) David Willis (University of Cambridge) Conference topic: Diachronic grammatical change in the realm of subject expressions involves phenomena like the loss of pro-drop, alternations in thematic alignment, and the rise of various new passive and impersonal constructions. The conference seeks to bring together researchers working on these and closely related topics. Attention shall also be devoted to annotated historical corpora which facilitate the treatment of these issues. Topics to be discussed at GCES include - Diachronic development of null subjects - Changes in subject expletives - Diachrony of oblique and quirky subjects - History of impersonal constructions - Development of diatheses affecting the external argument - Change in unaccusatives - History of subjects in root infinitives and modal constructions - Empirical methodology in diachronic syntax - Historical and diachronic corpora annotated for syntactic structure and syntactic relations Preliminary program: Friday, 3 December: Keynote lecture: Anthony Kroch (Philadelphia) Carola Trips (Mannheim), Eric Fuss (Frankfurt): Why different types of subjects can have an effect on agreement marking: a case study on Northern Middle English varieties Susann Fischer (Hamburg): A diachronic comparative approach of expletives (and the definiteness effect) Anna Volodina, Helmut Weiss (Frankfurt): Zur Diachronie pronominaler Null-Subjekte im Deutschen Henrik Rosenkvist (Lund): Referential null subjects in Old and Modern Germanic – typological observations Keynote lecture: Elly van Gelderen (Tucson): Pro-drop, pronouns, and demonstratives: reanalyzing features in the history of English Jóhanna Barðdal (Bergen), Carlee Arnet (Davis), Tonya Kim Dewey (Berkeley), Thorhallur Eythorsson (Rejkyavik): Verbal semantics and subject case marking in Early Germanic Silvia Luraghi (Pavia): The extension of unaccusativity in Hittite Christine Grillborzer (Regensburg): Dative Subjects In Russian Modal Constructions – Synchronic and diachronic account Saturday, 4 December: Keynote lecture: Ian Roberts Charlotte Galves, Maria Clara Paixão de Sousa, Silvia Regina de Oliveira Cavalcante (Campinas): Topics, Subjects and Grammatical Change: From Classical to Modern European Portuguese Javier Elvira González (Madrid): Old Spanish impersonal sentences: demise and revival of an ancient construction Rossana di Gennaro (Pisa): Impersonal verbs in Latin: variations in subject detection and expression in the shift from active-stative to transitive syntax Pavel Grashchenkov (Moscow): Emergence of Functional Categories through Argument Suppression Keynote lecture: David Willis (Cambridge) Irina Monich (Storrs): Comparing subjects in Chichewa and Sesotho Nerea Madariaga (Vitoria-Gasteiz): Dative subjects in control clauses in the history of Russian Artemij Keidan (Rome): Development of Subject in Indo-Aryan: what Indian grammarians tell us about it Roland Meyer (Regensburg): The connection between null subject impersonals and pro-drop in the history of Slavic languages Local organisers: Roland Meyer (University of Regensburg) Björn Hansen (University of Regensburg) --- Dr. Roland Meyer Institut für Slavistik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg tel. +49(0)941-943 5303 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From crm5 at rice.edu Tue Oct 26 16:41:50 2010 From: crm5 at rice.edu (crm5 at rice.edu) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:41:50 -0500 Subject: Rice Working Papers in Linguistics: Second Call for papers Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The Rice Working Papers in Linguistics is currently soliciting submissions for its third volume (you can see published volumes at http://owling.blogs.rice.edu/rwpl-vol-1/ and http://owling.blogs.rice.edu/rwpl-vol-2/). The deadline is November 15th. Please see the guidelines below and consider submitting your work to rwpl at rice.edu. *** Rice Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 3 Deadline: **November 15th, 2010** The Rice Linguistics Society (RLS) solicits submissions from all subfields of linguistics (with the exception of ESL/TESOL and related areas of applied linguistics) for publication in the Rice Working Papers in Linguistics. Students and post-docs are strongly encouraged to submit. We especially welcome submissions in line with our department's focus on functional, usage-based approaches to language study using empirical data, including but not limited to the following: -cognitive/functional linguistics -typology and language universals -field studies in less commonly researched languages -sociolinguistics, including sociophonetics -phonetics and speech processing -laboratory phonology -forensic linguistics -corpus linguistics -discourse -neurolinguistics -psycholinguistics and language processing -language change and grammaticalization Submitted papers must meet the following minimum style requirements: -recommended length 15-25 pages (normally 5000-8000 words); significantly longer or shorter papers will be considered on a case-by-base basis (contact the editorial board) -For comprehensive details on format (such as font, margins, examples, references, etc.) please refer to the RWPL template available on the Style sheet link at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rls/files/Style_Sheet.dot -submit an abstract (maximum 500 words), including 3-5 keywords, as a separate Word file -submit two copies (in addition to your abstract): (1) one copy in Word (2003 or 2007) (2) in addition to the Word submission, you must send a PDF version to ensure fonts are preserved RLS accepts only electronic submissions for the working papers. These must be sent to rwpl at rice.edu, and the body of the e-mail should include: -title of paper -name of author(s) -affiliation -address -phone number -contact e-mail address The deadline for receipt of submissions is **November 15th, 2010**. Questions regarding the submissions process or style requirements may be addressed to the editorial board at rwpl at rice.edu. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From dwew2 at cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 1 15:19:08 2010 From: dwew2 at cam.ac.uk (David Willis) Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:19:08 +0100 Subject: ICHL20 workshop proposal: Drift and long-term morphosyntactic change 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 johanna.barddal at uib.no Tue Oct 12 16:09:23 2010 From: johanna.barddal at uib.no (johanna.barddal at uib.no) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:09:23 +0200 Subject: SECOND Call for papers: ICHL20 workshop on Reconstructing Syntax Message-ID: SECOND call for papers ICHL-20 in Osaka, Japan, 24-30 July 2011 Workshop title: Reconstructing Syntax Organizer: J?hanna Bar?dal, University of Bergen & Spike Gildea, University of Oregon Description: Historical-comparative reconstruction has traditionally been focused on lexical, morphological and phonological comparisons, while syntactic reconstruction has either been systematically left unattended, regarded as fruitless or uninteresting, or even rebuked (cf. Watkins 1964, Jeffers 1976, Lightfoot 1979, 2006, Harrison 2003, Pires & Thomason 2008, Mengden 2008, inter alia). The reason for this is that syntactic structures have been regarded as fundamentally different from, for instance, morphological structures, in several respects. That is, syntactic structures are larger and more complex units than morphological units. Semantically they have not been regarded on par with morphological units either, in that their meaning is regarded as the sum of the meaning of the lexical parts that instantiate them, and because of this semantic compositionality they have not been regarded as being arbitrary form?meaning correspondences like words. It has also been argued in the literature that syntactic structures are not inherited in the same way as the vocabulary (Lightfoot 1979 and later work), that there is no cognate material to compare when comparing sentences across daughter languages (Jeffers 1976), there is no regularity of syntactic change, as opposed to the regularity of phonological change (Lightfoot 2002, Pirus & Thomason 2008), and that there is no arbitrariness found in syntax (Harrison 2003), all of which render syntactic reconstruction fundamentally different from phonological reconstruction. Recent work within historical-comparative syntax takes issue with this view of syntactic reconstruction (Kikusawa 2003, Harris 2008, Bauern 2008, Bar?dal & Eyth?rsson 2009, Bar?dal 2010), arguing that the concepts of "cognate status," "arbitrariness" and "regularity" are non-problematic for syntactic reconstruction. This is so, first, because cognates are also found in syntax (Kikusawa 2003, Bar?dal & Eyth?rsson 2009, Bar?dal 2010). Second, because the arbitrariness requirement is simply not needed in syntax, as it's role is first and foremost to aid in deciding on genetic relatedness, which is usually not an issue when doing syntactic reconstruction (Harrison 2003, Bar?dal & Eyth?rsson 2009, Bar?dal 2010). And, third, because a) the sound laws are only regular by definition (Hoenigswald 1987), and b) the sound laws are basically stand-ins for a similarity metric when deciding upon cognate status (Harrison 2003). It has also recently been claimed (cf. Bar?dal & Eyth?rsson 2009, Bar?dal 2010) that Construction Grammar is more easily extendible to syntactic reconstruction than other frameworks, due to the basic status of form-meaning/function pairings in that framework. This creates a natural leap from synchronic form-meaning pairings to historical reconstruction, based on form-meaning pairings. This ICHL workshop aims at accommodating contributions including, but not limited to, the following: - The fundamental issues of reconstruction in general and syntactic reconstruction in particular - Individual case studies of syntactic reconstruction from different languages and language families - A comparison of how different theoretical frameworks may contribute to syntactic reconstruction Please send your abstracts of 500 words or less to J?hanna Bar?dal (Johanna.Barddal at uib.no), no later than November 15th 2010, preferably in pdf-format. A response on abstracts will be sent out on December 15th 2010. References: Bar?dal, J?hanna. 2010. Construction-Based Historical-Comparative Reconstruction. To appear in Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Eds. Graeme Trousdale & Thomas Hoffmann. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bar?dal, J?hanna & Th?rhallur Eyth?rsson. 2010. Reconstructing Syntax: Construction Grammar and the Comparative Method. To appear in Sign-Based Construction Grammar. Eds. Hans C. Boas & Ivan A. Sag. Stanford: CSLI Publications. Bowern, Claire. 2008. Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction in Generative Grammar. In Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Eds. Gisela Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach, 187-216. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Ferraresi, Gisella & Maria Goldbach (eds.). 2008. Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Harris, Alice C. 2008. Reconstruction in Syntax: Reconstruction of Patterns. In Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Eds. Gisela Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach, 73-95. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Harrison, S. P. 2003. On the Limits of the Comparative Method. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, eds. B. D. Joseph & R. D. Janda, 343-368. Oxford: Blackwell. Hoenigswald, H. M. 1987. The Annus Mirabilis 1876 and Posterity. Transactions of the Philological Society 76(1): 17-35. Jeffers, Robert J. 1976. Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction. In Current Progress in Historical Linguistics: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Historical Linguistics, ed. William M. Christie, Jr., 1-15, Amsterdam. Kikusawa, Ritsuko. 2003. The Development of Some Indonesian Pronominal Systems. Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected Papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13-17 August 2001, eds. Barry J. Blake, Kate Burridge & Jo Taylor, 237-268. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Lightfoot, David. 1979. Principles of Diachronic Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lightfoot, David W. 2002. Myths and the Prehistory of Grammars. Journal of Linguistics 38(1): 113-136. Lightfoot, David. 2006. How New Languages Emerge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Mengden, Ferdinand von. 2008. Reconstructing Complex Structures: A Typological Perspective. In Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Eds. Gisela Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach, 97-119. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Pires, Acrisio & Sarah G. Thomason. 2008. How Much Syntactic Reconstruction is Possible? In Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction. Eds. Gisela Ferraresi & Maria Goldbach, 27-72. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Watkins, Calvert. 1964. Preliminaries to the reconstruction of Indo-European sentence structure. In Proceedings of the IX International Congress of Linguists, ed. H.G. Lunt, 1035-1045. The Hague: Mouton. -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ 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://org.uib.no/iecastp/barddal _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be Wed Oct 13 07:06:08 2010 From: liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be (Liesbeth Degand) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:06:08 +0200 Subject: last-minute post-doc opportunity Message-ID: Last minute opportunity! Post-doc position: ?Grammaticalization and Intersubjectification of discourse markers? Within the framework of the ongoing IUAP-project ?Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification? (http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/) funded by the Belgian federal government, the Institute for Language and Communication (IL&C) from the University of Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) invites applications for one post-doc position. The position is available for one year as of November 1st 2010 and not later than January 1st 2011. Shorter periods are possible too. Description of the project: The project aims to contribute to current research efforts dealing with (the interaction between) the processes of grammaticalization (in the structural domain) and (inter)subjectification (in the semantic domain) in language change. It focuses on three major issues: 1) The precise nature of the semantic changes in subjectification and in intersubjectification, and their relationship with the structural developments in grammaticalization. 2) The teleology of the processes: are grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification unidirectional or not? 3) The ?scope? of these processes: how do grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification relate to other mechanisms of language change, notably, to analogy? In collaboration with research groups from the universities of Antwerp, Leuven, Ghent, and Hannover (Germany), and the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the Royal Museum of Central Africa, these foci are implemented in terms of work packages, dealing with different semantic and/or grammatical domains in which these issues can be raised and investigated from different angles. The task of the group in Louvain-la-Neuve is to work out the package on discourse markers (together with colleagues from Ghent and Hannover) (see work package description on http://www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/valibel/documents/workpackage4-web.pdf). The specific research area concerns the grammaticalization of (Dutch, French and English) discourse markers (where possible, in contrast to other languages). Essential requirements The position is reserved for international candidates or Belgian citizens who have not been employed in Belgium for more than two years during the 2008-2010 period. Applicants should have been awarded their doctorate within the last six years. Candidates must hold a PhD in the field of linguistics (pref. Dutch and/or French), with a primary specialization in discourse analysis. They should have experience of corpus linguistics, and ideally, have already published in the area of grammaticalization and/or typological language description. Expertise in the area of diachronic linguistics or willingness to gain such expertise is also required. Good knowledge of Dutch and French is an asset (with near-native command of one of the two languages). We especially welcome applications from candidates who share the research group?s interest in approaching language from a usage-based perspective with solid empirical grounding in primary data, especially approaches of a cognitive, social-interactional, and/or functional nature. Starting date: A soon as possible from November 1st Duration of the project: 1 year, monthly allowance: +/- 2000 EUR (tax-free including social security) Application Applications including letter, curriculum vitae, brief research proposal (max. 3 pages), copies of any relevant publications, and two academic references can be sent to the address below or by e-mail to: liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be Address for Applications: Prof. Liesbeth Degand Insitute for Language and Communication Universit? catholique de Louvain Place B. Pascal 1 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Application Deadline: 1 November 2010 (Open until filled) Liesbeth Degand Institute for Language and Communication (IL&C) VALIBEL - Discours et Variation Universit? catholique de Louvain Place B. Pascal, 1 B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve liesbeth.degand at uclouvain.be http://www.uclouvain.be/304220.html T. +32 10 474982 F. +32 10 474942 bur. C.464 _______________________________________________ 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 18 09:45:44 2010 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:45:44 +0200 Subject: International Spring School - Europe beyond Europe: new horizons on pidgins and creoles - Italy, April 2011 Message-ID: ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------- INTERNATIONAL SPRING SCHOOL 2011 "Europe beyond Europe: new horizons on pidgins and creoles" LETiSS - Center for Postgraduate Education and Research Pavia, 18-22 April 2011 ------------------------- Dear list members, the Center for Postgraduate Education and Research on ?Languages of Europe: Typology, History and Sociolinguistics? (LETiSS) ANNOUNCES its 2nd International Spring School on "Europe beyond Europe: new horizons on pidgins and creoles", to be held in Pavia (Italy), 18-22 April 2011. The LETISS Center has been 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: www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS 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 (see below), in order to facilitate interactions among them. WHEN AND WHERE: The Spring School will last one week, from Monday 18 until Friday 22 April 2011, at the IUSS Institute in Pavia (viale Lungo Ticino Sforza 56, 27100 Pavia, Italy ? www.iusspavia.it). WHO AND WHAT: TEACHERS AND COURSES The everyday schedule, from Monday to Friday, will be as follows: 9-10.45: 1st course 11.15-13.00: 2nd course 15-16.45: 3rd course 17.15-19.00: 4th course Friday evening there will be a farewell dinner at 20.00 1st course ? Margot van den Berg (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Creoles at birth? The role of nativization ------- 2nd course ? Barbara Turchetta (Universit? della Tuscia): The contribution of Pidgin and Creole studies to the general theory of language change ------- 3rd course ? Susanne Michaelis (University of Gie?en/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig): Grammatical structures in creole language. First results from APiCS ------- 4th course ? Bettina Migge (University College Dublin): The Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics of Creole languages THE STUDENTS: 20 advanced students in linguistics and related fields will be selected by the Scientific Committee of the School. 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 activities and publications that may be relevant for the admission; ? applicants should also attach a short description of their past, ongoing and future research projects (up to three pages). APPLICATION GUIDELINES: Please send an e-mail to emanuele.miola at unipv.it with the following information: ? Name ? Contact info ? Position and affiliation ? CV (as a separate attachment) ? Brief description of past, ongoing and future research projects (as a separate attachment). NO TUITION FEE IS REQUIRED!! LETiSS will even cover attendants? accommodation expenses. IMPORTANT DATES 15th November: application deadline. 15th December: applicants who have been accepted will receive a communication with all relevant information. ORGANIZERS: Caterina Mauri, Emanuele Miola, Paolo Ramat, Andrea Sans?. Please send your application and any questions to: emanuele.miola at unipv.it LETiSS website: www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS LETiSS Spring School 2011 website: http://www.iusspavia.it/eng/LETiSS.springschool Caterina Mauri, Emanuele Miola, 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 g.j.rutten at hum.leidenuniv.nl Mon Oct 18 16:19:56 2010 From: g.j.rutten at hum.leidenuniv.nl (Rutten, G.J.) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:19:56 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers Historical Sociolinguistics, Leiden, June 2011 Message-ID: HiSoN Conference, 22-24 June 2011, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics 2nd Call for papers The research project "Brieven als Buit/ Letters as Loot" will be organising the next Historical Sociolinguistic Network Conference at the University of Leiden in June 2011. This time, the theme of the conference will be Touching the Past. (Ego)documents in a Linguistic and Historical Perspective. Plenary speakers will be Peter Burke (Cambridge), Anthony Lodge (St Andrews) and Laura Wright (Cambridge). Scholars interested in any aspect relating to this theme are invited to submit abstracts for papers. We are particularly interested in papers from any language area on topics on the language of ego documents in relation to literacy, corpus linguistics, text type analysis, linguistic norms, pragmatics and social networks. We invite suggestions for workshops or panel sessions to be held in the context of the conference. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 1 December 2010. Notification of acceptance will occur by mid-February 2011. Slots for papers will be 30 minutes, including time for questions; the language of the papers will be English. Abstract format: maximum length 350 words or one page A4, using Times New Roman font no smaller than 12 point, including references. Please send one document (name the WORD file: yournameHiSoN2011) with two versions of the abstract in WORD to hum-hison2011 at hum.leidenuniv.nl, one version with your name and affiliation appearing below the title, and one version without name and affiliation. The local organisers are Marijke van der Wal, Gijsbert Rutten, Jos Schaeken and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. For further information, please contact Marijke van der Wal or Gijsbert Rutten at hum-hison2011 at hum.leidenuniv.nl. 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Fifty years ago UT, UNC, and Columbia had top notch programs in Historical Romance Linguistics; today that field is on life-support: generative grammar and the concept that the current spoken language is the only language worth studying have become a cancer on the field of linguistics. Perhaps some Historical Germanic Linguistics survive in the US. You may have better luck in Europe depending upon the languages in which you are fluent. I know the joke: Asking linguists how many languages they speak is comparable to asking economists how much money they make; however, a command of French, German, and Spanish will take you further than English and French alone. N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD Professor Emeritus history & languages -----Original Message----- From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of histling-l-request at mailman.rice.edu Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:01 PM To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 Today's Topics: 1. Study-Abroad, Undergraduate (Ross Clarke Kettleson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:58:45 -0400 From: Ross Clarke Kettleson Subject: [Histling-l] Study-Abroad, Undergraduate To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Not to disrupt the stream of conference calls, but I'm an undergrad in Linguistics at McGill University, 2nd year, looking for a Uni with a good Historical Linguistics or PIE-centred undergrad program to which I can transfer for a semester abroad. The partner institutions offered at McGill are a bit sparse on either the historical side or the Linguistics side completely, and I thought that this would be the prime place to ask for suggestions or advice. Thanks; Ross Kettleson McGill University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l End of Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From olle at ling.su.se Tue Oct 19 12:55:26 2010 From: olle at ling.su.se (Olle Engstrand) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:55:26 -0400 Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: <30F8BA8D28544200A147A5866577EDBB@leordinateur> Message-ID: I have found that the University of Pisa, Italy - also La Spaienza in Rome - provide good academic environments for the study of historical linguistics. -------------------- Olle Engstrand PhD, Prof. em. http://www.ling.su.se/staff/olle/olle.html On 19 Oct 2010, at 08:13, Scott wrote: > I will wait to see who answers. Fifty years ago UT, UNC, and Columbia had > top notch programs in Historical Romance Linguistics; today that field is on > life-support: generative grammar and the concept that the current spoken > language is the only language worth studying have become a cancer on the > field of linguistics. Perhaps some Historical Germanic Linguistics survive > in the US. You may have better luck in Europe depending upon the languages > in which you are fluent. I know the joke: Asking linguists how many > languages they speak is comparable to asking economists how much money they > make; however, a command of French, German, and Spanish will take you > further than English and French alone. > > N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD > Professor Emeritus > history & languages > > > -----Original Message----- > From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu > [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of > histling-l-request at mailman.rice.edu > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:01 PM > To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Study-Abroad, Undergraduate (Ross Clarke Kettleson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:58:45 -0400 > From: Ross Clarke Kettleson > Subject: [Histling-l] Study-Abroad, Undergraduate > To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Not to disrupt the stream of conference calls, but I'm an undergrad in > Linguistics at McGill University, 2nd year, looking for a Uni with a good > Historical Linguistics or PIE-centred undergrad program to which I can > transfer for a semester abroad. The partner institutions offered at McGill > are a bit sparse on either the historical side or the Linguistics side > completely, and I thought that this would be the prime place to ask for > suggestions or advice. > Thanks; > Ross Kettleson > McGill University > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > 2a2022/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > > > End of Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 > ***************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > 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 olle at ling.su.se Tue Oct 19 12:56:25 2010 From: olle at ling.su.se (Olle Engstrand) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:56:25 -0400 Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 In-Reply-To: <27B234E2-4341-4900-92C4-3A111D9004E8@ling.su.se> Message-ID: Sorry, it-s La Sapienza /OE On 19 Oct 2010, at 08:55, Olle Engstrand wrote: > I have found that the University of Pisa, Italy - also La Spaienza in Rome - provide good academic environments for the study of historical linguistics. > > -------------------- > Olle Engstrand > PhD, Prof. em. > http://www.ling.su.se/staff/olle/olle.html > > > On 19 Oct 2010, at 08:13, Scott wrote: > >> I will wait to see who answers. Fifty years ago UT, UNC, and Columbia had >> top notch programs in Historical Romance Linguistics; today that field is on >> life-support: generative grammar and the concept that the current spoken >> language is the only language worth studying have become a cancer on the >> field of linguistics. Perhaps some Historical Germanic Linguistics survive >> in the US. You may have better luck in Europe depending upon the languages >> in which you are fluent. I know the joke: Asking linguists how many >> languages they speak is comparable to asking economists how much money they >> make; however, a command of French, German, and Spanish will take you >> further than English and French alone. >> >> N. Scott Catledge, PhD/STD >> Professor Emeritus >> history & languages >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu >> [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of >> histling-l-request at mailman.rice.edu >> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 1:01 PM >> To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu >> Subject: Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Study-Abroad, Undergraduate (Ross Clarke Kettleson) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:58:45 -0400 >> From: Ross Clarke Kettleson >> Subject: [Histling-l] Study-Abroad, Undergraduate >> To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu >> Message-ID: >> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Not to disrupt the stream of conference calls, but I'm an undergrad in >> Linguistics at McGill University, 2nd year, looking for a Uni with a good >> Historical Linguistics or PIE-centred undergrad program to which I can >> transfer for a semester abroad. The partner institutions offered at McGill >> are a bit sparse on either the historical side or the Linguistics side >> completely, and I thought that this would be the prime place to ask for >> suggestions or advice. >> Thanks; >> Ross Kettleson >> McGill University >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> > 2a2022/attachment-0001.html> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Histling-l mailing list >> Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu >> https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l >> >> >> End of Histling-l Digest, Vol 41, Issue 9 >> ***************************************** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 caterina.mauri at unipv.it Tue Oct 19 16:22:25 2010 From: caterina.mauri at unipv.it (Caterina Mauri) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:22:25 +0200 Subject: Call for papers - Pavia, May 2011 - Workshop on "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Message-ID: ** WE APOLOGIZE FOR CROSS-POSTING ** ------------------------ International workshop on: "GRADUALNESS IN CHANGE AND ITS RELATION TO SYNCHRONIC VARIATION AND USE" Pavia (Italy), 30-31 May 2011 Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/site/workshoppavia2011/ ------------------------ DESCRIPTION: The workshop aims to contribute to the discussion on the factors at play in diachronic change and to investigate the relationship between diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation, integrating the current views on linguistic variation and language use. Special attention will be devoted to theoretical and methodological issues concerning i) how the study of language change can benefit from the most recent achievements in linguistic theories and ii) how the explanations of synchronic variation may be found in diachronic processes, discussing whether diachronic gradualness and synchronic variation may be analyzed through the same lenses and by means of the same theoretical instruments. Furthermore, the workshop also wants to address the question of the impact of contact on linguistic change. Language contact may indeed be seen as a special type of synchronic phenomenon that may last in time and may gradually lead to diachronic change, triggering or influencing the development of particular constructions in neighbouring languages. INVITED SPEAKERS: Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam): ---- Topic: On the role of analogy in processes of language change B?atrice Lamiroy (University of Leuven): ---- Topic: The pace of grammaticalization in Romance languages Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh): ---- Topic: Diachronic construction grammar and gradualness in language change Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp): ----- Topic: On diachronic semantic maps The workshop will also accommodate four contributions from the project members (t.b.a) on the effects of contact and interference within the macro-geographic-area of the Mediterranean. CALL FOR PAPERS: Authors are invited to submit a one-page abstract, keeping in mind that the slot for their communication will last 40 min. including discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and should be sent as attachments in PDF format to: gradualness.workshop at gmail.com. Author(s) name(s) and affiliation should be indicated in the corpus of the e-mail. The abstracts will be anonimously reviewed by two members of the Scientific Committee. Besides theoretical issues, the exam of specific examples and the description of general patterns will also be welcome. Topics of interest include: ? what kind of factors trigger the grammaticalization processes ? the relation of grammaticalization to other mechanisms of language change such as reanalysis and analogy ? the relationship between synchronic variation and grammatical change ? the interaction between frequency, entrenchment and use ? the possibility of multiple source constructions in language change ? the role of language contact in grammatical change ? how particular diachronic phenomena may be analyzed in the light of the most recent linguistic theories (e.g. construction grammar) ? diachronic explanations for synchronic patterns of variation ? ?.. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: 10 February 2010 Notification of acceptance 10 March 2010 ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT: Anna Giacalone Ramat - annaram (at) unipv.it Caterina Mauri - caterina.mauri (at) unipv.it Piera Molinelli - piera.molinelli (at) unibg.it For any questions and for submissions, please write to gradualness.workshop at gmail.com SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Pierluigi Cuzzolin (University of Bergamo), Chiara Fedriani (University of Pavia), Chiara Ghezzi (University of Pavia), Anna Giacalone Ramat (University of Pavia), Gianguido Manzelli (University of Pavia), Caterina Mauri (University of Pavia), Piera Molinelli (University of Bergamo), Paolo Ramat (IUSS Institute), Andrea Sans? (Insubria University - Como), Federica Venier (University of Bergamo) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I know that (as a graduate student) I very much benefitted from Don's teaching, and there is a steady stream of Historical Linguistics PhDs coming out of Penn, so there's clearly a great programme there at at least that level. Penn also has Tony Kroch and Beatrice Santorini, of course, who do (among other things) historical corpus work, on Middle English for example, and I know they have had undergraduate collaborators in that who have found the work interesting enough to go on and do PhDs in it. If you were only there a semester, you probably wouldn't get into it that deeply, but, again, it wouldn't hurt to ask! Damien -- Damien Hall University of York Department of Language and Linguistic Science Heslington YORK YO10 5DD UK Tel. (office) +44 (0)1904 432665 (mobile) +44 (0)771 853 5634 Fax +44 (0)1904 432673 http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb http://www.york.ac.uk/language/staff/academic-research/damien-hall/ DISCLAIMER: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From pompei at uniroma3.it Thu Oct 21 08:29:07 2010 From: pompei at uniroma3.it (Anna Pompei) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:29:07 +0200 Subject: II CfP - LCL Message-ID: LINGUITICS AND CLASSICAL LANGUAGES. Second circular and Call for Papers Dear colleagues, We are sending you the second circular of the colloquium "Linguistics and Classical Languages", to be held at Rome (Univesit? Roma Tre), in February 17th-19th, 2011. We want to remind you that the deadline for the submission of abstracts is October 31st, 2010. 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Online registration is now open! Meeting URL: http://www-slavistik.uni-r.de/gces Invited speakers: Elly van Gelderen (Arizona State University) Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania) Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) David Willis (University of Cambridge) Conference topic: Diachronic grammatical change in the realm of subject expressions involves phenomena like the loss of pro-drop, alternations in thematic alignment, and the rise of various new passive and impersonal constructions. The conference seeks to bring together researchers working on these and closely related topics. Attention shall also be devoted to annotated historical corpora which facilitate the treatment of these issues. Topics to be discussed at GCES include - Diachronic development of null subjects - Changes in subject expletives - Diachrony of oblique and quirky subjects - History of impersonal constructions - Development of diatheses affecting the external argument - Change in unaccusatives - History of subjects in root infinitives and modal constructions - Empirical methodology in diachronic syntax - Historical and diachronic corpora annotated for syntactic structure and syntactic relations Preliminary program: Friday, 3 December: Keynote lecture: Anthony Kroch (Philadelphia) Carola Trips (Mannheim), Eric Fuss (Frankfurt): Why different types of subjects can have an effect on agreement marking: a case study on Northern Middle English varieties Susann Fischer (Hamburg): A diachronic comparative approach of expletives (and the definiteness effect) Anna Volodina, Helmut Weiss (Frankfurt): Zur Diachronie pronominaler Null-Subjekte im Deutschen Henrik Rosenkvist (Lund): Referential null subjects in Old and Modern Germanic ? typological observations Keynote lecture: Elly van Gelderen (Tucson): Pro-drop, pronouns, and demonstratives: reanalyzing features in the history of English J?hanna Bar?dal (Bergen), Carlee Arnet (Davis), Tonya Kim Dewey (Berkeley), Thorhallur Eythorsson (Rejkyavik): Verbal semantics and subject case marking in Early Germanic Silvia Luraghi (Pavia): The extension of unaccusativity in Hittite Christine Grillborzer (Regensburg): Dative Subjects In Russian Modal Constructions ? Synchronic and diachronic account Saturday, 4 December: Keynote lecture: Ian Roberts Charlotte Galves, Maria Clara Paix?o de Sousa, Silvia Regina de Oliveira Cavalcante (Campinas): Topics, Subjects and Grammatical Change: From Classical to Modern European Portuguese Javier Elvira Gonz?lez (Madrid): Old Spanish impersonal sentences: demise and revival of an ancient construction Rossana di Gennaro (Pisa): Impersonal verbs in Latin: variations in subject detection and expression in the shift from active-stative to transitive syntax Pavel Grashchenkov (Moscow): Emergence of Functional Categories through Argument Suppression Keynote lecture: David Willis (Cambridge) Irina Monich (Storrs): Comparing subjects in Chichewa and Sesotho Nerea Madariaga (Vitoria-Gasteiz): Dative subjects in control clauses in the history of Russian Artemij Keidan (Rome): Development of Subject in Indo-Aryan: what Indian grammarians tell us about it Roland Meyer (Regensburg): The connection between null subject impersonals and pro-drop in the history of Slavic languages Local organisers: Roland Meyer (University of Regensburg) Bj?rn Hansen (University of Regensburg) --- Dr. Roland Meyer Institut f?r Slavistik, Universit?t Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg tel. +49(0)941-943 5303 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From crm5 at rice.edu Tue Oct 26 16:41:50 2010 From: crm5 at rice.edu (crm5 at rice.edu) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:41:50 -0500 Subject: Rice Working Papers in Linguistics: Second Call for papers Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The Rice Working Papers in Linguistics is currently soliciting submissions for its third volume (you can see published volumes at http://owling.blogs.rice.edu/rwpl-vol-1/ and http://owling.blogs.rice.edu/rwpl-vol-2/). The deadline is November 15th. Please see the guidelines below and consider submitting your work to rwpl at rice.edu. *** Rice Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 3 Deadline: **November 15th, 2010** The Rice Linguistics Society (RLS) solicits submissions from all subfields of linguistics (with the exception of ESL/TESOL and related areas of applied linguistics) for publication in the Rice Working Papers in Linguistics. Students and post-docs are strongly encouraged to submit. We especially welcome submissions in line with our department's focus on functional, usage-based approaches to language study using empirical data, including but not limited to the following: -cognitive/functional linguistics -typology and language universals -field studies in less commonly researched languages -sociolinguistics, including sociophonetics -phonetics and speech processing -laboratory phonology -forensic linguistics -corpus linguistics -discourse -neurolinguistics -psycholinguistics and language processing -language change and grammaticalization Submitted papers must meet the following minimum style requirements: -recommended length 15-25 pages (normally 5000-8000 words); significantly longer or shorter papers will be considered on a case-by-base basis (contact the editorial board) -For comprehensive details on format (such as font, margins, examples, references, etc.) please refer to the RWPL template available on the Style sheet link at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rls/files/Style_Sheet.dot -submit an abstract (maximum 500 words), including 3-5 keywords, as a separate Word file -submit two copies (in addition to your abstract): (1) one copy in Word (2003 or 2007) (2) in addition to the Word submission, you must send a PDF version to ensure fonts are preserved RLS accepts only electronic submissions for the working papers. These must be sent to rwpl at rice.edu, and the body of the e-mail should include: -title of paper -name of author(s) -affiliation -address -phone number -contact e-mail address The deadline for receipt of submissions is **November 15th, 2010**. Questions regarding the submissions process or style requirements may be addressed to the editorial board at rwpl at rice.edu. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l