From ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp Mon Sep 6 10:19:58 2010 From: ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp (robert ratcliffe) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:19:58 +0900 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL Message-ID: Proposal for a workshop at ICHL 20: Making explicit the mathematical basis of the Comparative Method The comparative method is traditionally based on common-sense intuitive, reasoning about probabilites, involving statements of the type "Such and such a cross-linguistic pattern cannot possibly be due to chance." Where we have abundant language data and large numbers of scholars qualified to evaluate it, as in Indo-European studies, this is fine as far as it goes. But as we try to reach back farther into the remote past, non-chance similarities become harder and harder to distinguish from random noise, and it becomes increasingly difficult to judge whether a pattern which one linguist claims to see as historically significant really is so or is merely accidental. This problem most obviously emerges in the case of proposed macro families. The Salmons and Joseph volume of a few years back to my mind showed one thing and one thing only. Except in cases where a proposal is obviously based on major errors in data handling, our current state of knowledge gives us no way to judge most proposed macro-families one way or the other. The fact that contradictory macro-groupings have been proposed and defended is also troubling to a neutral observer. The problem also emerges when we try to reconstruct generally acknowledged families which are more diverse and less well documented than Indo-European, such as Afroasiatic. Several detailed proposals have been made. But if we look closely we can see that they substantially contradict each other both in the proposed correspondences and proposed cognate sets. Here too different linguists see different patterns as significant, and the outside observer has little way to judge which if any is most plausible. I think that in order to advance our knowledge beyond impasses of this type, it is necessary to make the mathematical basis of the method explicit and objective. We need, for example, to be able to calculate a baseline of randomness for a given way of conducting a comparison, against which the significance of any pattern found can be evaluated. In dealing with groupings like Afroasiatic, and much more so for proposed macro-groupings, it is difficult or impossible for a single individual to control all of the primary data. Collaboration is the obvious answer. But this too can only work if we can agree upon clear and objective criteria for comparing and evaluating the data gathered by specialists in individual languages. I suspect that designing computer algorithms for conducting the actual comparison might be the best way forward. I realize that Ringe and Kessler and others have made important strides in this direction. But there is a lot more to do. I would like for example to get beyond reliance on Swadesh lists to look more realistically at what comparatists actually do, and to get beyond evaluation of proposed families to look also at problems involving proposed cognate sets or proposed correspondences for widely accepted families that have so far resisted reconstruction. These problems have been on my mind for a number of years. Is there anyone else in the world who is interested in them? If so would you be interested in participating a workshop on this at the next ICHL to be held in Osaka next July? Please contact me before Sept. 12. Best Wishes, Robert Ratcliffe Arabic and Linguistics Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (alternative e-mail raml4405 at yahoo.com) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From cea at carlaz.com Mon Sep 6 14:12:39 2010 From: cea at carlaz.com (Carl Edlund Anderson) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 09:12:39 -0500 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL In-Reply-To: <6BE53722-2CB5-490C-ACE7-F21113618E2D@tufs.ac.jp> Message-ID: About 10 years ago a colleague of mine at grad school was working on something like this, particularly in terms of improving on Swadesh list reliance: Lohr, Marisa (1999). Methods for the Genetic Classification of Languages, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. I am not entirely sure how to contact her, but the last I knew, she was lecturing with the Open University in the UK. Cheers, Carl On 06 Sep 2010, at 05:19 , robert ratcliffe wrote: > I realize that Ringe and Kessler and others have made important strides in this direction. But there is a lot more to do. I would like for example to get beyond reliance on Swadesh lists to look more realistically at what comparatists actually do, and to get beyond evaluation of proposed families to look also at problems involving proposed cognate sets or proposed correspondences for widely accepted families that have so far resisted reconstruction. > > These problems have been on my mind for a number of years. Is there anyone else in the world who is interested in them? If so would you be interested in participating a workshop on this at the next ICHL to be held in Osaka next July? Please contact me before Sept. 12. -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea at carlaz.com mailto:cea.unisabana at gmail.com mailto:carl.anderson at unisabana.edu.co http://unisabana.academia.edu/CarlAnderson http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/carl-edlund-anderson/ Department of Languages & Cultures UNIVERSITY OF THE SABANA Chía Campus Universitario, Puente del Común Bogotá, Colombia _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From mtb23 at cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 6 14:54:15 2010 From: mtb23 at cam.ac.uk (M.T. Biberauer) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 15:54:15 +0100 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL In-Reply-To: <2A8A64A2-2C9D-43C6-A599-0130BC4CA126@carlaz.com> Message-ID: April McMahon (who I *think* supervised Marisa Lohr's PhD) had a project on relevant aspects of this problem too. This ran 2001-2004 at the University of Sheffield, UK - title: 'Quantitative Methods for Language Classification', with Paul Heggarty, Rob McMahon and Natalia Slaska all being researchers involved in the project. Natalia completed a PhD in 2006, called "Meaning Lists in Lexicostatistical Studies: Evaluation, application, ramifications". The abstract can be found here on the Linguist List: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/diss/browse-diss-action.cfm?DissID=12760 (she's left Linguistics, though) The project produced numerous publications, including a special edition of the Transactions of the Philological Society (103(2) - "Quantitative Methods in Language Comparison") and a 2005 OUP volume, "Language Classification by Numbers", co-written by April and Rob McMahon. April, who's now in Edinburgh, would probably be a good person to contact in connection with others who have interests in this area. All the best with this Theresa -- Dr Theresa Biberauer Senior Research Associate: Linguistics Department Director of Studies: Corpus Christi, Lucy Cavendish, Magdalene, St Edmund's and St John's Colleges Bye-Fellow in English and Linguistics: Downing College Cambridge, U.K. Senior Lecturer Extraordinary General Linguistics Department Stellenbosch University, South Africa OFFICE: Room 145, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue TELEPHONE: +44 1223 763062 On Sep 6 2010, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote: > About 10 years ago a colleague of mine at grad school was working on > something like this, particularly in terms of improving on Swadesh list > reliance: > > Lohr, Marisa (1999). Methods for the Genetic Classification of Languages, > unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. > > I am not entirely sure how to contact her, but the last I knew, she was > lecturing with the Open University in the UK. > >Cheers, >Carl > >On 06 Sep 2010, at 05:19 , robert ratcliffe wrote: >> I realize that Ringe and Kessler and others have made important strides >> in this direction. But there is a lot more to do. I would like for >> example to get beyond reliance on Swadesh lists to look more >> realistically at what comparatists actually do, and to get beyond >> evaluation of proposed families to look also at problems involving >> proposed cognate sets or proposed correspondences for widely accepted >> families that have so far resisted reconstruction. >> >> These problems have been on my mind for a number of years. Is there >> anyone else in the world who is interested in them? If so would you be >> interested in participating a workshop on this at the next ICHL to be >> held in Osaka next July? Please contact me before Sept. 12. > >-- >Carl Edlund Anderson >mailto:cea at carlaz.com >mailto:cea.unisabana at gmail.com >mailto:carl.anderson at unisabana.edu.co >http://unisabana.academia.edu/CarlAnderson >http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/carl-edlund-anderson/ >Department of Languages & Cultures >UNIVERSITY OF THE SABANA >Chía Campus Universitario, Puente del Común >Bogotá, Colombia > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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 ellyvangelderen at asu.edu Mon Sep 6 14:59:10 2010 From: ellyvangelderen at asu.edu (Elly Van Gelderen) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:59:10 -0700 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: And a special issue of Diachronica will be out on Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh Special Issue of Diachronica 27:2 (2010) http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DIA%2027%3A2 Best, elly -----Original Message----- From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of M.T. Biberauer Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 7:54 AM To: Carl Edlund Anderson Cc: robert ratcliffe; histling-l at mailman.rice.edu Subject: Re: [Histling-l] idea for a workshop at next ICHL April McMahon (who I *think* supervised Marisa Lohr's PhD) had a project on relevant aspects of this problem too. This ran 2001-2004 at the University of Sheffield, UK - title: 'Quantitative Methods for Language Classification', with Paul Heggarty, Rob McMahon and Natalia Slaska all being researchers involved in the project. Natalia completed a PhD in 2006, called "Meaning Lists in Lexicostatistical Studies: Evaluation, application, ramifications". The abstract can be found here on the Linguist List: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/diss/browse-diss-action.cfm?DissID=12760 (she's left Linguistics, though) The project produced numerous publications, including a special edition of the Transactions of the Philological Society (103(2) - "Quantitative Methods in Language Comparison") and a 2005 OUP volume, "Language Classification by Numbers", co-written by April and Rob McMahon. April, who's now in Edinburgh, would probably be a good person to contact in connection with others who have interests in this area. All the best with this Theresa -- Dr Theresa Biberauer Senior Research Associate: Linguistics Department Director of Studies: Corpus Christi, Lucy Cavendish, Magdalene, St Edmund's and St John's Colleges Bye-Fellow in English and Linguistics: Downing College Cambridge, U.K. Senior Lecturer Extraordinary General Linguistics Department Stellenbosch University, South Africa OFFICE: Room 145, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue TELEPHONE: +44 1223 763062 On Sep 6 2010, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote: > About 10 years ago a colleague of mine at grad school was working on > something like this, particularly in terms of improving on Swadesh > list > reliance: > > Lohr, Marisa (1999). Methods for the Genetic Classification of > Languages, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. > > I am not entirely sure how to contact her, but the last I knew, she > was lecturing with the Open University in the UK. > >Cheers, >Carl > >On 06 Sep 2010, at 05:19 , robert ratcliffe wrote: >> I realize that Ringe and Kessler and others have made important >> strides in this direction. But there is a lot more to do. I would >> like for example to get beyond reliance on Swadesh lists to look more >> realistically at what comparatists actually do, and to get beyond >> evaluation of proposed families to look also at problems involving >> proposed cognate sets or proposed correspondences for widely accepted >> families that have so far resisted reconstruction. >> >> These problems have been on my mind for a number of years. Is there >> anyone else in the world who is interested in them? If so would you >> be interested in participating a workshop on this at the next ICHL to >> be held in Osaka next July? Please contact me before Sept. 12. > >-- >Carl Edlund Anderson >mailto:cea at carlaz.com >mailto:cea.unisabana at gmail.com >mailto:carl.anderson at unisabana.edu.co >http://unisabana.academia.edu/CarlAnderson >http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/carl-edlund-anderson/ >Department of Languages & Cultures >UNIVERSITY OF THE SABANA >Chía Campus Universitario, Puente del Común Bogotá, Colombia > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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 djh514 at york.ac.uk Mon Sep 6 17:09:26 2010 From: djh514 at york.ac.uk (Damien Hall) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:09:26 +0100 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Proposal for a workshop at ICHL 20: Making explicit the mathematical >basis of the Comparative Method This is an excellent idea. Don Ringe at Penn would also surely be an excellent contributor to such a workshop. I know I have found his teaching and work on the mathematical bases of historical reconstruction insightful, stimulating and persuasive. 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/depts/lang/people/pages/hall.htm 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 Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Tue Sep 7 13:14:24 2010 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:14:24 +0200 Subject: workshop proposal 'exaptation' at ICHL 20 Message-ID: Preliminary call for papers for a workshop at ICHL 20 (Osaka, 25-30 July 2011) Subject: Exaptation Convenors: Muriel Norde (University of Groningen) & Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven) Contact: freek.vandevelde at arts.kuleuven.be Deadline: 13 september 2010 (no specific title or abstract needed at this point. Just let us know whether you are interested in participating). Although some morphological changes seem to obey general tendencies, as formulated for instance by Kuryłowicz or Mańczak (see Hock 1986, ch.10) or Van Loon (2005), most of these tendencies can just as easily be violated. Diachronic morphology is largely idiosyncratic (Joseph 1998). Morphological paradigms appear to be ripped up at random in order to establish "local generalizations" (Joseph 1992). One particular way in which unpredictable changes come about is through 'bricolage' with junk morphology, which goes under the name of exaptation (Lass 1990, 1997: 316ff.). Exaptation is a concept that was first used in evolutionary biology, to refer to co-optation of a certain trait for a new function. A typical example is the use of feathers, originally serving a thermo-regulatory function, for flight. In linguistics, exaptation is defined as follows: "Say a language has a grammatical distinction of some sort, coded by means of morphology. Then say this distinction is jettisoned, PRIOR TO the loss of the morphological material that codes it. This morphology is now, functionally speaking, junk; and there are three things that can in principle be done with it: (i) it can be dumped entirely; (ii) it can be kept as marginal garbage or nonfunctional/nonexpressive residue (suppletion, 'irregularity'); (iii) it can be kept, but instead of being relegated as in (ii), it can be used for something else, perhaps just as systematic. (...) Option (iii) is linguistic exaptation." (Lass 1990: 81-82) Lass originally understood exaptation in a rather narrow sense. First, the term exaptation was reserved for changes affecting functionless (or 'junk') morphology. Second, in order to qualify as exaptation, the new function of a morpheme needed to be entirely novel. In Lass's own words: "Exaptation then is the opportunistic co-optation of a feature whose origin is unrelated or only marginally related to its later use. In other words (loosely) a 'conceptual novelty' or 'invention'." Both criteria have been criticized. With regard to the first criterion, Vincent (1995: 435), Giacalone Ramat (1998), Smith (2006) and Willis (ms.) pointed out difficulties with regard to the notion of junk. And indeed, Lass later stretched his notion of exaptation, admitting that linguistic exaptation - just like biological exaptation - could also affect non-junk morphology (see Lass 1997: 318), to the effect that the old and the new function may co-exist. Doubt has also been raised with regard to the second criterion, the novelty of the new function, which is central to the notion of exaptation according to Lass (1990: 82) (see also Norde 2001: 244, 2009: 117 and Traugott 2004). Some scholars have argued against the purported novelty of the function after exaptation (Vincent 1995: 436; Giacalone Ramat 1998, Hopper & Traugott 2003: 135-136). If this criterion is jettisoned, we arrive at a fairly broad definition of exaptation, like for instance in Booij (2010: 211), who defines it as "[t]he re-use of morphological markers". Such a broad conception of exaptation is in line with the notion in evolutionary biology, where neither of the two criteria is decisive for the application of the term to shifts in function, but the question then arises whether this does not make the concept vacuous (see De Cuypere 2005). Despite these criticisms, exaptation has been used as a convenient label for morphological changes that at first sight seem to proceed unpredictably, e.g. by running counter to grammaticalization clines (see Norde 2009: 115-118). It has been applied to various cases of morphological change, discussed in Lass (1990), Norde (2002), Fudeman (2004), Van de Velde (2005, 2006), Narrog (2007), Booij (2010, ms.), Willis (ms.) among others. In this workshop, we aim to come to terms with exaptation. Apart from specific case studies drawing on original data, we welcome papers that address the following issues: (1) Do we need exaptation in diachronic morphology, or does it reduce to more traditional mechanisms such as reanalysis and analogy, as e.g. De Cuypere (2005) argues? (2) Does exaptation only apply to morphology (Heine 2003: 173), or is it relevant to syntactic change as well, as Brinton & Stein (1995) have argued? (3) Does exaptation presuppose irregularity and unpredictability? If so, does this entail that exaptation is language-specific (as argued by Heine 2003: 173), and that cross-linguistics generalizations are not possible? See, however, Narrog (2007) for evidence to the contrary. (4) Does exaptation happen primarily in cases of 'system disruption', such as typological word order change or deflection (see Norde 2002: 49, 60, 61)? (5) How should we define the concept of 'novelty', and is it a useful criterion for a change to be qualified as exaptation? Currently, there seem to be different views in the literature on what is exactly understood by a 'new' function. Does this mean (a) an entirely new category in the grammar, (b) a function unrelated to the morpheme's old function, or (c) a different though perhaps not totally unrelated function from the old function? (6) Is exaptation infrequent (Heine 2003:174, Traugott 2004) and non-recurrent (as argued by Heine 2003: 172)? Or can one morpheme undergo several successive stages of exaptation (as argued by Giacalone Ramat 1998: 110-111 with regard to the -sk- suffix and by Van de Velde 2006 with regard to the Germanic adjective inflection)? (7) What is the relation between exaptation and grammaticalization? Do they refer to fundamentally different kinds of changes (Vincent 1995), is exaptation a final stage of grammaticalization (Greenberg 1991, Traugott 2004), or are exaptation and grammaticalization just two different labels for the same type of change? After all, both processes involve reanalysis (Narrog 2007), both processes can come about through pragmatic strengthening (see Croft 2000: 126-130). Furthermore, if the old and new function of the exaptatum co-exist (see above) and if the new function is related to the old one, then exaptation involves 'layering' and 'persistence', respectively (see Van de Velde 2006: 61-62), which are also key features of grammaticalization (see Hopper 1991). (8) What is the relation between exaptation and degrammaticalization? Does exaptation always entail some sort of 'degrammaticalization' (as argued by Heine 2003 and arguably Narrog 2007: 9, 18), or does exaptation often, but not always, go together with degrammaticalization (Norde 2009: 118)? (9) Is exaptation the same thing as what Greenberg (1991) understands by 'regrammaticalization' and as what Croft (2000) understands by 'hypoanalysis', or are there significant differences between these concepts? And what is the overlap with related concept such as 'functional renewal' (Brinton & Stein 1995)? References Booij, G. 2010 (to appear). Construction morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Booij, G. manuscript. Recycling morphology: Case endings as markers of Dutch constructions. . Brinton, L. & D. Stein. 1995. Functional renewal. In: H. Andersen (ed.), Historical Linguistics 1993. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 33-47. Croft, W. 2000. Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach. Harlow : Longman. De Cuypere, L. 2005. Exploring exaptation in language change. Folia Linguistica Historica 26: 13-26. Fudeman, K. 2004. Adjectival agreement vs. adverbal inflection in Balanta. Lingua 114: 105-23. Giacalone Ramat, A. 1998. Testing the boundaries of grammaticalization. In: A. Giacalone Ramat & P.J. Hopper (eds.), The limits of grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 227-270. Greenberg, J.H. 1991. The last stages of grammatical elements: Contractive and expansive desemanticization. In: E.C. Traugott & B. Heine (eds.), Approaches to grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 301-314. Heine, B. 2003. On degrammaticalization. In: B.J. Blake & K. Burridge (eds.), Historical linguistics 2001. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 163-179. Hock, H.H. 1986. Principles of historical linguistics. Berlin: de Gruyter. Hopper, P.J. 1991. On some principles of grammaticalization. In: E.C. Traugott & B. Heine (eds.), Approaches to grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 17-35. Hopper, P.J. & E.C. Traugott. 2003. Grammaticalization. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Joseph, B.D. 1992. Diachronic explanation: Putting the speaker back into the picture. In: G.W. Davis & G.K. Iverson (eds.), Explanations in historical linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 123-144. Joseph, B.D. 1998. Diachronic morphology. In: A. Spencer & A.M. Zwicky (eds.), Handbook of morphology. Oxford: Blackell. 351-373. Lass, R. 1990. How to do things with junk: Exaptation in language evolution. Journal of Linguistics 26: 79-102. Lass, R. 1997. Historical linguistics and language change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Narrog, H. 2007. Exaptation, grammaticalization, and reanalysis. California Linguistic Notes 32 (1). . Norde, M. 2001. Deflexion as a counterdirectional factor in grammatical change. Language Sciences 23: 231-264. Norde, M. 2002. The final stages of grammaticalization: Affixhood and beyond. In: I. Wischer & G. Diewald (eds.), New reflections on grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 45-81. Norde, M. 2009. Degrammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Smith, J.C. 2006. How to do things without junk: the refunctionalization of a pronominal subsystem between Latin and Romance. In: J.-P.Y. Montreuil (ed.), New perspectives on Romance linguistics. Volume II: Phonetics, phonology and dialectology. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 183-205. Traugott, E.C. 2004. Exaptation and grammaticalization. In: M. Akimoto (ed.), Linguistic studies based on corpora. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. 133-156. Van de Velde, F. 2005. Exaptatie en subjectificatie in de Nederlandse adverbiale morfologie [Exaptation and subjectification in Dutch adverbial morphology]. Handelingen der Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 58: 105-124. Van de Velde, F. 2006. Herhaalde exaptatie. Een diachrone analyse van de Germaanse adjectiefflexie [Iterative exaptation. A diachronic analysis of the Germanic adjectival inflection]. In: M. Hüning, A. Verhagen, U. Vogl & T. van der Wouden (eds.), Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels. Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden. 47-69. Van Loon, J. 2005. Principles of historical morphology. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Vincent, N. 1995. Exaptation and grammaticalization. In: H. Andersen (ed.), Historical linguistics 1993. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 433-445. Willis, D. Manuscript. Degrammaticalization and obsolescent morphology: Evidence from Slavonic. < http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dwew2/willis_degramm_berlin.pdf>. Freek Van de Velde Postdoctoral research fellow Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), University of Leuven Fac. of Arts, Dept. of Linguistics Blijde Inkomststraat 21, P.O. Box 3308 BE-3000 Leuven Tel. 0032 16 32 47 81 Fax 0032 16 32 47 67 http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/nedling/fvandevelde/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(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/depts/lang/people/pages/hall.htm DISCLAIMER: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wim Vandenbussche To: wvdbussc at vub.ac.be Subject: vacancy for PhD researcher in Brussels [via HiSoN mailing list] Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:37:08 +0200 *apologies for cross-postings* *please forward to potentially interested students/colleagues* The Centre for Linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) currently has a vacancy for PhD research on '200 years of Dutch philology in Flanders: the interplay between academia, social struggle and national identity building.' The project is part of ongoing historical-sociolinguistic research on language and society in Flanders during the long 19th century. The successful candidate should hold a Master's degree in philology/ linguistics but candidates from other disciplines with a strong interest in social history and sociolinguistics are welcome to apply (historical pedagogy, social history, ...). A sound knowledge of Dutch is essential. The candidate is expected to conduct research that will lead to a finished PhD dissertation after 4 years. Interested candidates can send a CV, a short text explaining their intended approach to the project and a copy of their Master's thesis to prof. dr. Wim Vandenbussche Vrije Universiteit Brussel Centrum voor linguïstiek Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussel Belgium email: wvdbussc at vub.ac.be All queries regarding the vacancy and the project can be sent to that same address. We offer a full PhD scholarship (for 4 years in principle, renewable every year); in addition, travel/project expenses can be covered. The position is vacant as of January 1st, 2011 (but an earlier starting date is possible). 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Historical linguistics: history, sources and resources Silvia Luraghi and Vit Bubenik \ Part I: Methodology \ 2. Sound change and the comparative method: the science of historical reconstruction John Hewson \ 3. Internal reconstruction Brian D. Joseph \ 4. Typology and universals Hans H. Hock\ 5. Internal language classification Søren Wichmann \ Part II: Phonological change \ 6. Segmental phonological change Joe Salmons \ 7. Suprasegmental and prosodic historical phonology Hans H. Hock \ Part III: Morphological and Grammatical change \ 8. From morphologization to demorphologization Henning Andersen \ 9. Analogical change Livio Gaeta\ 10. Change in grammatical categories Vit Bubenik Part IV: Syntactic change \ 11. Word order Jan Terje Faarlund \ 12. The rise (and possible downfall) of configurationality Silvia Luraghi \ 13. Subordination Dorothy Disterheft and Carlotta Viti \ 14. Alignment Geoffrey Haig \ Part V: Semantico-Pragmatic Change \ 15. Semantic change Eugenio R. Luján\ 16. Etymology Thomas Krisch \ 17. Grammaticalization Elizabeth Closs Traugott \ Part VI: Explanation of Language Change \ 18. Language contact Bridget Drinka\ 19. Regional and social dialectology J. K. Chambers\ 20. Causes of language change Silvia Luraghi \ Notes \ Glossary: A-Z Historical Linguistics \ References \ Notes on Contributors \ Index Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Università di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ICHL20 Organizing Committee http://www.ichl2011.com/ ************************************************************ KIKUSAWA, Ritsuko Ph.D. Research Department, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. Graduate University for Advanced Studies. 国立民族学博物館研究部 総合研究大学院大学 菊澤律子 ritsuko at minpaku.ac.jp ************************************************************ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From lfinn at cambridge.org Fri Sep 10 09:03:08 2010 From: lfinn at cambridge.org (Laura Finn) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:03:08 +0100 Subject: New Publication Message-ID: Cambridge University Press and Bjarke Frellesvig are proud to announce the publication of A History of the Japanese Language. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521653206 '... monumental ... it is likely to have an impact for decades to come ...' John Whitman, Cornell University Contents Introduction; Abbreviations; Part I. Old Japanese: 1. Early writing in Japan and Old Japanese sources; 2. Phonology; 3. Grammar; 4. Loan words; 5. Eastern Old Japanese; Part II. Early Middle Japanese: 6. Writing and sources; 7. Phonology; 8. Grammar; 9. The sinification of Japanese; Part III. Late Middle Japanese: 10. Sources; 11. Phonology; 12. Grammar; Part IV. Modern Japanese: 13. Varieties of Modern Japanese; 14. Phonology; 15. Grammar; 16. Eastern dialect features of the standard language; 17. The westernization of Japanese: loan words and other borrowings; Appendix; References. Exclusive 20% discount available to members of HistLing on orders until 1st October - simply enter promotional code HJL2010 when you 'add to basket'. Best wishes, Laura Finn Cambridge University Press -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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). 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 (see, for instance, recent claims by Barðdal & Eythórsson 2009 and 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. And that there is a natural leap from synchronic form?meaning pairings to historical reconstruction, based on form?meaning pairings). 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 Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Sun Sep 12 19:37:54 2010 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:37:54 +0200 Subject: Int'l Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification - Update Message-ID: Dear list-members, All information (program, abstracts, registration info, etc.) regarding the International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification, to be held in Brussels on November 11-13, 2010, is now available at the conference website at http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/conference/conference.html For the organizers, Hubert Cuyckens -------------- 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 evie.cousse at ugent.be Tue Sep 14 11:19:32 2010 From: evie.cousse at ugent.be (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Evie_Couss=E9?=) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:19:32 +0200 Subject: Workshop proposal "Usage-based approaches to language change" at ICHL 2010 Message-ID: Workshop proposal "Usage-based approaches to language change" at ICHL 2011 in Osaka (Japan). Subject: "Usage-based approaches to language change" Conveners: Evie Coussé (Ghent University, Belgium) and Ferdinand von Mengden (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Preliminary call for participation: deadline 15 November 2010 Workshop description Most approaches to language (change) have principally in common that they locate the main explanandum of language in the human mind and that they operate with categories. Change is, implicitly or explicitly, seen as a shift of a linguistic form from one category to another – whether across discrete or fuzzy boundaries. A well-know example of this view is the importance of reanalysis in explaining language change in mainstream historical linguistics. Reanalysis is considered to be the underlying mechanism that motivates changing patterns in usage such as contextual extension and increasing generalization / abstraction in meaning. However, alternative views have also been expressed, in which linguistic structure is seen as subject to constant negotiation in communication. Hopper’s (1998) Emergent Grammar or Keller’s (1994) Invisible Hand are prominent examples. Without denying the share that cognition has in the production of utterances and the usefulness of categories for linguistic description, structure is seen as epiphenomenal in these approaches. Structure is in a constant flux across time, area and social strata and, therefore, language use or actual communication are the loci of structure formation and hence of change. In line with this usage-based perspective of language and language change, an alternative for reanalysis has been proposed in which (changing) discourse patterns are directly related to meaning without referring to changes in abstract structures (e.g. Bybee e.a 1994, Haspelmath 1998, De Smet 2009). However, a larger coherent vision of the relation between language usage and language change is still largely missing. The workshop aims at discussing possibilities for such a usage-based framework on language change. We wish to combine case studies with theoretical contributions that help setting up a comprehensive model on language change, in which language use is in the focus and in which the core properties of language are seen in its dynamics rather than in its states. Call for participation At present, the workshop needs to be approved and accepted by the conference organizers of ICHL 2011. Deadline for submission of the workshop proposal is 15 October 2010. We invite interested speakers to send us before that deadline their interest for participation and a preliminary title of their potential contribution, that will be submitted along with the workshop proposal. Please, mail evie.cousse at ugent.be or f.vm at fu-berlin.de with your preliminary title. Upon notification of acceptance of the workshop by the ICHL organizers (expected shortly after 15 October 2010), we will launch the definitive call for papers as soon as possible. Submission of paper abstracts will go via the ICHL conference website http://www.ichl2011.com. Deadline for paper abstracts is set by the organizers on 15 January 2011. References Bybee, J., R. Perkins & W. Pagliuca (1994) The evolution of grammar. Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. De Smet, H. (2009) Analysing reanalysis. In: Lingua 119, 1728-1755. Haspelmath, M. (1998) Does grammaticalization need reanalysis? In: Studies in Language 22, 315-351. Hopper, P.J. (1998) Emergent grammar. In: M. Tomasello (ed.) The new psychology of grammar: cognitive and functional approaches to language structure. Mahwah: Erlbaum: 155-176. Keller, R. (1994) On language change. The invisible hand in language. London: Routlegde. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From luraghi at unipv.it Sun Sep 19 09:32:21 2010 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:32:21 +0200 Subject: WORKSHOP TO BE HELD AT ICHL 20 (Osaka) - SECOND PRELIMINARY CALL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Dear all, since the deadline for submission of workshop proposals has been moved to October 15, the deadline for manifestations of interest for the workshop "The diachrony of referential null arguments " (convenors: Silvia Luraghi and Dag Haug) is now October 13. Up to now, we received a number of reactions, mostly from colleagues who work on Indo-European languages; in order to stimulate discussion, we'd like to point out that our workshop is not limited to a specific language family. PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A WORKSHOP TO BE HELD AT ICHL 20 (Osaka) Workshop title: The diachrony of referential null arguments Convenors: Dag Haug (University of Oslo) / Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia) Contact: d.t.t.haug at ifikk.uio.no / silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Deadline for manifestation of interest: October 13, 2010 (we need a title and a couple of lines of description; the abstract must be submitted later directly to the ICHL. The final deadline for abstracts is November 15). Definite referential null objects are apparently one of the distinctive features of non-configurational languges, see Baker (2001). Even though descriptions are available for various genetically unrelated languages (see e.g. Austin 2001, Hale 1983, Chung 1984, Huang 1984, Raposo 1986), there are little if any accounts of their diachrony. Our workshop aims to bring together scholars working on different language families and on typologically different languages (e.g. head or dependent marking) who are interested in diachronic changes concerning the creation or disappearance of null arguments, with a focus on null objects or other types of null arguments not coreferenced on the verb. The occurrence of definite referential null objects has been observed in many ancient Indo-European languages, two examples are given below: (1) dverginn mælti, at sá baugri skyldi vera dwarf say.prf.3sg that dem.nom.sg.m ring(m) should.prf.3sg be.inf hverjum hofuðsbani, er atti Øi whosoever.dat.sg death rel have.prf.3sg “The dwarf said that that ring should bring death to anybody who possessed (it)” (Old Icelandic, from Sigurðsson, 1993, p. 248); (2) toîsi dè deksiòn hêken ero#diòni eggùs hodoîo Pallàs Athe#naíe:# toì d’ 3pl.dat ptc right send:aor.3sg heron:acc near road:gen P.:nom A.:nom 3pl.nom ptc ouk ídon Øi ophthalmoîsi núkta di’ orphnaíe#n allà Øi klágksantos not see:aor.3pl eyes:dat night:acc through dark:acc but scream:part.gen.sg.m ákousan hear:aor.3pl “Athena sent them an heron to the right of their route: they could not see it in the dark night, but heard it screaming.”, Hom. Il. 10.274-276 (Greek); In spite of this, and in spite of the long documented history of these languages, even in their case historical accounts are limited, as are detailed studies of the conditions licensing null objects (see Schäufele 1990 on Sanskrit; several studies have been devoted to null objects in Old Icelandic, see e.g. Sigurðsson 1993 and Rögnvaldsson 1995). At least in Latin and possibly in Greek, null objects seem to be obligatory in coordinated sentences, unless emphasis or disambiguation are involved (see Luraghi 1997, 1998a, b, 2003, Sznayder 1998; this is possibly a common phenomenon connected to coordination reduction and frequent in non-Indo-European languages as well, see Harris Delisle 1978, Luraghi 2004), as well as in answers to yes/no questions (see van der Wurff 1997, Luraghi 1997, 2003). Descriptions of increasing use of over objects in Latin and Germanic point to increasing transitivity or emerging configurationality (see e.g. Johnson 1991, Luraghi 2010). Papers presented at the workshop should aim to assess: a) the relation between null objects and other parameters of configurationality; b) the relation of null objects to other null argument, in particular to null subjects; c) the relation between null objects and the parameter of head/dependent marking (cf. Baker 2001); d) null objects and the grammaticalization of valency. Papers should have a diachronic orientation; research based on extensive corpora and quantitative approaches to language change are especially encouraged. Austin, Peter K. 2001 Word order in a free word order language: the case of Jiwarli. In Jane Simpson, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin and Barry Alpher (eds) Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, 305-324. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Baker, Mark (2001), ‘Configurationality and polysynthesis’, in M. Haspelmath, E. König, W. Oesterreicher, W. Raible (eds.), Language Typology and Language Universals . An International Handbook. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, vol. 2, pp. 1433-41. Chung, S. 1984. ‘Identifiability and null objects in Chamorro.’ BLS 10: 116–30. Hale, Kenneth. 1983. Warlpiri and the grammar of non­configurational languages. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 1:5­74. Harris Delisle, Helga 1978 Coordination reduction. In Universals of Human Language, ed. J. Greenberg. Stanford: UP. Pp. 515-583. Huang, C-T. James. 1984. On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns. Linguistic Inquiry, 15, 531-574. Johnson, Ruth Ann, 1991. The Direct Object Pronoun as a Marker of Transitivity in Latin. Ph. D. Diss. UCLA. Luraghi, Silvia 1997. Omission of the direct object in Classical Latin. Indogermanische Forschungen 102, 239-257. Luraghi, Silvia 1998a Omissione dell’oggetto diretto in frasi coordinate: dal latino all’italiano. In Sintassi storica. Atti del xxx Congresso SLI, ed. P. Ramat. Roma: Bulzoni, 183-196. Luraghi, Silvia 1998b Participant tracking in Tacitus. In Estudios de Lingüística Latina, ed. B. García-Hernandez. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 467-485. Luraghi, Silvia 2003, ‘Definite referential null objects in Ancient Greek’. Indogermanische Forschungen 108, 169-196. Luraghi, Silvia (2004), ‘Null Objects in Latin and Greek and the Relevance of Linguistic Typology for Language Reconstruction’, in Proceedings of the 15th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, JIES Monograph 49, pp.234-256. Luraghi, Silvia 2010. “The rise (and possible downfall) of configurationality”. In S. Luraghi and V. Bubenik, eds., Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, London/New York, Continuum, 212-229 Raposo, Eduardo. 1986. On the null object in European Portuguese. Studies in Romance linguistics, ed. by Osvaldo Jaeggli and Carmen Silva-Corvalán, 373-90. Dordrecht: Foris. Rögnvaldsson, Eiríkur (1995), ‘Old Icelandic: A Non-Configurational Language?’. North-Western European Language Evolution 26, 3-29. Schäufele, Steven (1990), Free Word-Order Syntax: the Challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to Contemporary Formal Syntactic Theory. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sigurðsson, Halldór A. (1993), ‘Argument-drop in Old Islandic’. Lingua 89, 247-280. Sznajder, Lyliane, 1998. “Conditions d’effacement des compléments d’objet et agencement des propositions en latin”. In Estudios de Lingüística Latina, ed. B. García-Hernandez. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas. Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Università di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Claire (with apologies to those who aren't using the textbook and for whom his email is therefore irrelevant) -- ----- Claire Bowern Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Yale University 370 Temple St New Haven, CT 06511 North American Dialects survey: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~clb3/NorthAmericanDialects/ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Thu Sep 23 07:26:02 2010 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:26:02 +0200 Subject: SLE 2011 (La Rioja): First call for papers Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please find attached the 1st CFP for the 2011 meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Best regards, Hubert Cuyckens Vice-President SLE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Book Title: Consonant Structure and Prevocalization Author: Natalie Operstein Publisher: John Benjamins Date of publication: 2010 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20312 The monograph provides the first systematic synchronic and diachronic study of Consonant Prevocalization and proposes a new interpretation of the intrasegmental structure of consonants. The proposed model makes strong predictions that are automatically relevant to phonological theory at both the diachronic and synchronic levels, and also to the phonetics of articulatory evolution. It also clearly demonstrates that a wide generalization of the notion of consonant prevocalization provides a uniform account for many well-known processes generally considered independent - from asynchronous palatalization in Polish to intrusive [r] in nonrhotic English, to vowel epentheses in Avestan, and to pre-/s/ vowel prothesis in Welsh and Western Romance. Consonant Prevocalization has not played a significant role in the development of modern phonological theory to date, and this work is the first to highlight its broad theoretical significance. It develops important theoretical insights, with a wealth of supporting data and a rich bibliography. The book will be of great interest to phonologists, phoneticians, typologists, and historical linguists. Sincerely, Natalie Operstein -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This conference aims to bring together linguists engaged in cognitively-oriented research with those working in a functional-typological framework on cross-linguistic variation and on language description. The emphasis will be on (1) language diversity of both spoken and signed languages; (2) inter- and intra-linguistic variation; (3) language change. The conference will bring together linguists working with various methodological approaches and using various kinds of spontaneous and elicited data, including spoken and written corpora, fieldwork data, and experimental data. Invited speakers Danièle DUBOIS (University of Paris 6, France) Nick EVANS (ANU College of Asia-Pacific, Australia) Harriet JISA (University of Lyon 2, France) Maarten LEMMENS (University of Lille 3, France) Laura MICHAELIS (University of Colorado, Boulder, United States) Ulrike ZESHAN (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom) Proposals are invited for workshops/thematic sessions, for general session papers, and for posters, on topics related to the theme, and on topics in Cognitive Linguistics generally. Papers that report empirically-grounded research on less-studied languages and on typologically, genetically and areally diverse languages will be particularly welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to: - methods and data in cognitive linguistics and in language typology and description - convergence and divergence between cognitive linguistics and functional-typological linguistics - studies from a cognitive and/or typological perspective in phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics - language variation within and across languages, both spoken and signed - language change from a cognitive and/or typological perspective - language acquisition - studies and advances in construction grammar - language and gesture in cross-linguistic perspective LANGUAGES OF THE CONFERENCE The languages of the conference are English and French. ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS Proposals are invited for 30-minute slots (20-minute presentation plus question time) in the general sessions and for posters (A1 size). WORKSHOPS, INCLUDING THEMATIC SESSIONS Proposals are invited for half-day or full-day workshops/thematic sessions. Each workshop proposal should contain the following information: - the names and contact details of two workshop organizers - the title of the proposed workshop - an overview of the topic and aims of the workshop (up to 2 pages) - an indication of the desired schedule (number of slots: 4, 6 or 10; half day or full day; number and nature of presentations, discussions, round tables, etc. that the workshop will comprise). Note that, within a workshop, each presentation, discussion or round table will occupy one 30-minute slot in parallel with one general session slot. - an abstract (consistent with the indications below under 'Submission procedure') for each proposed 30-minute presentation Workshop proposals will be refereed in the same way as general session and poster proposals. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Proposals should be submitted online following the instructions to be found at the following address: http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/colloques/AFLICO_IV/ Author information (name, affiliation, email address) will be required on the submission website. An author may submit a maximum of two abstracts, of which at least one must be co-authored. In the case of co-authored abstracts, the first-named author will be the contact person. Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent out from 25th February 2011. The anonymous abstracts must be in 12 point Times or Times New Roman font, formatted for A4 or US Letter size paper with margins of 2.5 cm or 1 inch. The maximum length for the text of the abstract is one page; a second page may be used only for figures, glossed examples and bibliographical references. Deadline for general session papers: 22nd December 2010 Deadline for workshops/thematic sessions: 18th December 2010 ******************************************************* ******************************************************* AFLiCo IV Quatrième Colloque International de l’Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive Lyon, France, 24-27 Mai 2011 THÈME DU COLLOQUE AFLiCo IV ‘Linguistique cognitive et typologie : diversité des langues, variation et changement’. L’objectif de ce colloque est de réunir des linguistes travaillant dans le domaine de la linguistique cognitive et/ou dans le domaine de la linguistique fonctionnelle-typologique sur la variation inter-linguistique et la description des langues. L’accent du colloque sera mis sur (1) la diversité des systèmes linguistiques aussi bien oraux que signés, (2) la variation qui s’opère sur les plans inter- et intra- linguistiques et (3) les changements des systèmes linguistiques. Dans cette perspective, le colloque rassemblera des chercheurs qui travaillent sur des terrains linguistiques variés, qui abordent leur objet d’étude dans une perspective synchronique et/ou diachronique et qui utilisent différentes méthodes et différents types de données telles que des données spontanées ou élicitées, y compris orales ou écrites, des données de terrain ou encore des données expérimentales. Conférenciers invités Danièle DUBOIS (Université Paris 6, France) Nick EVANS (ANU College of Asia-Pacific, Australie) Harriet JISA (Université Lyon 2, France) Maarten LEMMENS (Université Lille 3, France) Laura MICHAELIS (University of Colorado, Boulder, États-Unis) Ulrike ZESHAN (University of Central Lancashire, Royaume-Uni) Nous attendons des propositions de sessions thématiques, des propositions de présentations orales de sessions générales et de posters sur des problématiques en lien avec le thème du colloque et dans le domaine de la linguistique cognitive en général. Les propositions portant sur des langues moins bien décrites et des langues qui varient du point de vue typologique, génétique et aréal seront particulièrement appréciées. Les thématiques incluent, mais ne se limitent pas aux suivantes : - méthodes et données en linguistique cognitive, typologie et description des langues ; - convergence et divergence entre linguistique cognitive et linguistique fonctionnelle-typologique ; - études menées dans une perspective cognitive et/ou typologique dans les domaines de la phonétique, phonologie, morphosyntaxe, sémantique et pragmatique ; - variation inter- et intra-linguistique dans les langues parlées et les langues signées ; - changements linguistiques dans une perspective cognitive et/ou typologique ; - acquisition du langage ; - recherches et avancées dans le domaine de la grammaire des constructions ; - langue et geste dans une perspective inter-linguistique. LANGUES OFFICIELLES DU COLLOQUE Les deux langues du colloque sont le français et l’anglais. COMMUNICATIONS ET POSTERS Nous invitons des propositions de communication aux sessions générales de 30 minutes (20 minutes de présentation et 10 minutes de questions) et des propositions de posters (format A1). ATELIERS ET SESSIONS THÉMATIQUES Nous accueillons des propositions d’une demi-journée ou d’une journée entière pour des ateliers et/ou sessions thématiques. Ces ateliers/sessions thématiques doivent être proposés par deux organisateurs. Chaque proposition doit inclure les informations suivantes : - les noms et les coordonnées des deux organisateurs - le titre de la session - une présentation du thème et des objectifs de la session (2 pages maximum) - une précision concernant le temps souhaité (nombre de créneaux horaires : 4, 6 ou 10 ; une journée ou une journée entière ; nombre et nature des présentations, discussions, tables rondes, etc.). - un résumé d’une page pour chaque présentation (une deuxième page peut être utilisée pour des figures, exemples glosés et références bibliographiques) Les propositions d’ateliers et/ou de sessions thématiques seront soumises à la même procédure d’évaluation que les propositions pour les sessions générales et les posters. La notification d’acceptation sera envoyée aux deux organisateurs à partir du 25 février 2011. SOUMISSION DES PROPOSITIONS Les propositions seront soumises en ligne suivant les instructions indiquées à l’adresse suivante : http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/colloques/AFLICO_IV/ Un auteur ne peut soumettre que deux propositions de communication dont une au moins devrait être en co-auteur. Les informations concernant l’auteur (nom, affiliation, adresse email) seront requises lors de la soumission en ligne mais les propositions seront évaluées de façon anonyme. Dans le cas des propositions en co-auteur le premier auteur sera la personne référente/contact. Les propositions seront examinées de façon anonyme par 2 membres experts du comité scientifique. La notification d’acceptation sera envoyée aux auteurs à partir du 25 février 2011. Les propositions ne devront pas dépasser une page. Une deuxième page peut être utilisée pour des figures, exemples glosés et références bibliographiques. Format des propositions : papier A4, marges 2,5 cm, police Times ou Times New Roman. Date limite pour les sessions générales : 22 décembre 2010 Date limite pour les sessions thématiques : 18 décembre 2010 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp Mon Sep 6 10:19:58 2010 From: ratcliffe at tufs.ac.jp (robert ratcliffe) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:19:58 +0900 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL Message-ID: Proposal for a workshop at ICHL 20: Making explicit the mathematical basis of the Comparative Method The comparative method is traditionally based on common-sense intuitive, reasoning about probabilites, involving statements of the type "Such and such a cross-linguistic pattern cannot possibly be due to chance." Where we have abundant language data and large numbers of scholars qualified to evaluate it, as in Indo-European studies, this is fine as far as it goes. But as we try to reach back farther into the remote past, non-chance similarities become harder and harder to distinguish from random noise, and it becomes increasingly difficult to judge whether a pattern which one linguist claims to see as historically significant really is so or is merely accidental. This problem most obviously emerges in the case of proposed macro families. The Salmons and Joseph volume of a few years back to my mind showed one thing and one thing only. Except in cases where a proposal is obviously based on major errors in data handling, our current state of knowledge gives us no way to judge most proposed macro-families one way or the other. The fact that contradictory macro-groupings have been proposed and defended is also troubling to a neutral observer. The problem also emerges when we try to reconstruct generally acknowledged families which are more diverse and less well documented than Indo-European, such as Afroasiatic. Several detailed proposals have been made. But if we look closely we can see that they substantially contradict each other both in the proposed correspondences and proposed cognate sets. Here too different linguists see different patterns as significant, and the outside observer has little way to judge which if any is most plausible. I think that in order to advance our knowledge beyond impasses of this type, it is necessary to make the mathematical basis of the method explicit and objective. We need, for example, to be able to calculate a baseline of randomness for a given way of conducting a comparison, against which the significance of any pattern found can be evaluated. In dealing with groupings like Afroasiatic, and much more so for proposed macro-groupings, it is difficult or impossible for a single individual to control all of the primary data. Collaboration is the obvious answer. But this too can only work if we can agree upon clear and objective criteria for comparing and evaluating the data gathered by specialists in individual languages. I suspect that designing computer algorithms for conducting the actual comparison might be the best way forward. I realize that Ringe and Kessler and others have made important strides in this direction. But there is a lot more to do. I would like for example to get beyond reliance on Swadesh lists to look more realistically at what comparatists actually do, and to get beyond evaluation of proposed families to look also at problems involving proposed cognate sets or proposed correspondences for widely accepted families that have so far resisted reconstruction. These problems have been on my mind for a number of years. Is there anyone else in the world who is interested in them? If so would you be interested in participating a workshop on this at the next ICHL to be held in Osaka next July? Please contact me before Sept. 12. Best Wishes, Robert Ratcliffe Arabic and Linguistics Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (alternative e-mail raml4405 at yahoo.com) _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From cea at carlaz.com Mon Sep 6 14:12:39 2010 From: cea at carlaz.com (Carl Edlund Anderson) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 09:12:39 -0500 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL In-Reply-To: <6BE53722-2CB5-490C-ACE7-F21113618E2D@tufs.ac.jp> Message-ID: About 10 years ago a colleague of mine at grad school was working on something like this, particularly in terms of improving on Swadesh list reliance: Lohr, Marisa (1999). Methods for the Genetic Classification of Languages, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. I am not entirely sure how to contact her, but the last I knew, she was lecturing with the Open University in the UK. Cheers, Carl On 06 Sep 2010, at 05:19 , robert ratcliffe wrote: > I realize that Ringe and Kessler and others have made important strides in this direction. But there is a lot more to do. I would like for example to get beyond reliance on Swadesh lists to look more realistically at what comparatists actually do, and to get beyond evaluation of proposed families to look also at problems involving proposed cognate sets or proposed correspondences for widely accepted families that have so far resisted reconstruction. > > These problems have been on my mind for a number of years. Is there anyone else in the world who is interested in them? If so would you be interested in participating a workshop on this at the next ICHL to be held in Osaka next July? Please contact me before Sept. 12. -- Carl Edlund Anderson mailto:cea at carlaz.com mailto:cea.unisabana at gmail.com mailto:carl.anderson at unisabana.edu.co http://unisabana.academia.edu/CarlAnderson http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/carl-edlund-anderson/ Department of Languages & Cultures UNIVERSITY OF THE SABANA Ch?a Campus Universitario, Puente del Com?n Bogot?, Colombia _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From mtb23 at cam.ac.uk Mon Sep 6 14:54:15 2010 From: mtb23 at cam.ac.uk (M.T. Biberauer) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 15:54:15 +0100 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL In-Reply-To: <2A8A64A2-2C9D-43C6-A599-0130BC4CA126@carlaz.com> Message-ID: April McMahon (who I *think* supervised Marisa Lohr's PhD) had a project on relevant aspects of this problem too. This ran 2001-2004 at the University of Sheffield, UK - title: 'Quantitative Methods for Language Classification', with Paul Heggarty, Rob McMahon and Natalia Slaska all being researchers involved in the project. Natalia completed a PhD in 2006, called "Meaning Lists in Lexicostatistical Studies: Evaluation, application, ramifications". The abstract can be found here on the Linguist List: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/diss/browse-diss-action.cfm?DissID=12760 (she's left Linguistics, though) The project produced numerous publications, including a special edition of the Transactions of the Philological Society (103(2) - "Quantitative Methods in Language Comparison") and a 2005 OUP volume, "Language Classification by Numbers", co-written by April and Rob McMahon. April, who's now in Edinburgh, would probably be a good person to contact in connection with others who have interests in this area. All the best with this Theresa -- Dr Theresa Biberauer Senior Research Associate: Linguistics Department Director of Studies: Corpus Christi, Lucy Cavendish, Magdalene, St Edmund's and St John's Colleges Bye-Fellow in English and Linguistics: Downing College Cambridge, U.K. Senior Lecturer Extraordinary General Linguistics Department Stellenbosch University, South Africa OFFICE: Room 145, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue TELEPHONE: +44 1223 763062 On Sep 6 2010, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote: > About 10 years ago a colleague of mine at grad school was working on > something like this, particularly in terms of improving on Swadesh list > reliance: > > Lohr, Marisa (1999). Methods for the Genetic Classification of Languages, > unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. > > I am not entirely sure how to contact her, but the last I knew, she was > lecturing with the Open University in the UK. > >Cheers, >Carl > >On 06 Sep 2010, at 05:19 , robert ratcliffe wrote: >> I realize that Ringe and Kessler and others have made important strides >> in this direction. But there is a lot more to do. I would like for >> example to get beyond reliance on Swadesh lists to look more >> realistically at what comparatists actually do, and to get beyond >> evaluation of proposed families to look also at problems involving >> proposed cognate sets or proposed correspondences for widely accepted >> families that have so far resisted reconstruction. >> >> These problems have been on my mind for a number of years. Is there >> anyone else in the world who is interested in them? If so would you be >> interested in participating a workshop on this at the next ICHL to be >> held in Osaka next July? Please contact me before Sept. 12. > >-- >Carl Edlund Anderson >mailto:cea at carlaz.com >mailto:cea.unisabana at gmail.com >mailto:carl.anderson at unisabana.edu.co >http://unisabana.academia.edu/CarlAnderson >http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/carl-edlund-anderson/ >Department of Languages & Cultures >UNIVERSITY OF THE SABANA >Ch?a Campus Universitario, Puente del Com?n >Bogot?, Colombia > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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 ellyvangelderen at asu.edu Mon Sep 6 14:59:10 2010 From: ellyvangelderen at asu.edu (Elly Van Gelderen) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:59:10 -0700 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: And a special issue of Diachronica will be out on Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh Special Issue of Diachronica 27:2 (2010) http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=DIA%2027%3A2 Best, elly -----Original Message----- From: histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu [mailto:histling-l-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of M.T. Biberauer Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 7:54 AM To: Carl Edlund Anderson Cc: robert ratcliffe; histling-l at mailman.rice.edu Subject: Re: [Histling-l] idea for a workshop at next ICHL April McMahon (who I *think* supervised Marisa Lohr's PhD) had a project on relevant aspects of this problem too. This ran 2001-2004 at the University of Sheffield, UK - title: 'Quantitative Methods for Language Classification', with Paul Heggarty, Rob McMahon and Natalia Slaska all being researchers involved in the project. Natalia completed a PhD in 2006, called "Meaning Lists in Lexicostatistical Studies: Evaluation, application, ramifications". The abstract can be found here on the Linguist List: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/diss/browse-diss-action.cfm?DissID=12760 (she's left Linguistics, though) The project produced numerous publications, including a special edition of the Transactions of the Philological Society (103(2) - "Quantitative Methods in Language Comparison") and a 2005 OUP volume, "Language Classification by Numbers", co-written by April and Rob McMahon. April, who's now in Edinburgh, would probably be a good person to contact in connection with others who have interests in this area. All the best with this Theresa -- Dr Theresa Biberauer Senior Research Associate: Linguistics Department Director of Studies: Corpus Christi, Lucy Cavendish, Magdalene, St Edmund's and St John's Colleges Bye-Fellow in English and Linguistics: Downing College Cambridge, U.K. Senior Lecturer Extraordinary General Linguistics Department Stellenbosch University, South Africa OFFICE: Room 145, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue TELEPHONE: +44 1223 763062 On Sep 6 2010, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote: > About 10 years ago a colleague of mine at grad school was working on > something like this, particularly in terms of improving on Swadesh > list > reliance: > > Lohr, Marisa (1999). Methods for the Genetic Classification of > Languages, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Cambridge. > > I am not entirely sure how to contact her, but the last I knew, she > was lecturing with the Open University in the UK. > >Cheers, >Carl > >On 06 Sep 2010, at 05:19 , robert ratcliffe wrote: >> I realize that Ringe and Kessler and others have made important >> strides in this direction. But there is a lot more to do. I would >> like for example to get beyond reliance on Swadesh lists to look more >> realistically at what comparatists actually do, and to get beyond >> evaluation of proposed families to look also at problems involving >> proposed cognate sets or proposed correspondences for widely accepted >> families that have so far resisted reconstruction. >> >> These problems have been on my mind for a number of years. Is there >> anyone else in the world who is interested in them? If so would you >> be interested in participating a workshop on this at the next ICHL to >> be held in Osaka next July? Please contact me before Sept. 12. > >-- >Carl Edlund Anderson >mailto:cea at carlaz.com >mailto:cea.unisabana at gmail.com >mailto:carl.anderson at unisabana.edu.co >http://unisabana.academia.edu/CarlAnderson >http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/carl-edlund-anderson/ >Department of Languages & Cultures >UNIVERSITY OF THE SABANA >Ch?a Campus Universitario, Puente del Com?n Bogot?, Colombia > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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 djh514 at york.ac.uk Mon Sep 6 17:09:26 2010 From: djh514 at york.ac.uk (Damien Hall) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:09:26 +0100 Subject: idea for a workshop at next ICHL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Proposal for a workshop at ICHL 20: Making explicit the mathematical >basis of the Comparative Method This is an excellent idea. Don Ringe at Penn would also surely be an excellent contributor to such a workshop. I know I have found his teaching and work on the mathematical bases of historical reconstruction insightful, stimulating and persuasive. 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/depts/lang/people/pages/hall.htm 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 Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be Tue Sep 7 13:14:24 2010 From: Freek.VanDeVelde at arts.kuleuven.be (Freek Van de Velde) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:14:24 +0200 Subject: workshop proposal 'exaptation' at ICHL 20 Message-ID: Preliminary call for papers for a workshop at ICHL 20 (Osaka, 25-30 July 2011) Subject: Exaptation Convenors: Muriel Norde (University of Groningen) & Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven) Contact: freek.vandevelde at arts.kuleuven.be Deadline: 13 september 2010 (no specific title or abstract needed at this point. Just let us know whether you are interested in participating). Although some morphological changes seem to obey general tendencies, as formulated for instance by Kury?owicz or Ma?czak (see Hock 1986, ch.10) or Van Loon (2005), most of these tendencies can just as easily be violated. Diachronic morphology is largely idiosyncratic (Joseph 1998). Morphological paradigms appear to be ripped up at random in order to establish "local generalizations" (Joseph 1992). One particular way in which unpredictable changes come about is through 'bricolage' with junk morphology, which goes under the name of exaptation (Lass 1990, 1997: 316ff.). Exaptation is a concept that was first used in evolutionary biology, to refer to co-optation of a certain trait for a new function. A typical example is the use of feathers, originally serving a thermo-regulatory function, for flight. In linguistics, exaptation is defined as follows: "Say a language has a grammatical distinction of some sort, coded by means of morphology. Then say this distinction is jettisoned, PRIOR TO the loss of the morphological material that codes it. This morphology is now, functionally speaking, junk; and there are three things that can in principle be done with it: (i) it can be dumped entirely; (ii) it can be kept as marginal garbage or nonfunctional/nonexpressive residue (suppletion, 'irregularity'); (iii) it can be kept, but instead of being relegated as in (ii), it can be used for something else, perhaps just as systematic. (...) Option (iii) is linguistic exaptation." (Lass 1990: 81-82) Lass originally understood exaptation in a rather narrow sense. First, the term exaptation was reserved for changes affecting functionless (or 'junk') morphology. Second, in order to qualify as exaptation, the new function of a morpheme needed to be entirely novel. In Lass's own words: "Exaptation then is the opportunistic co-optation of a feature whose origin is unrelated or only marginally related to its later use. In other words (loosely) a 'conceptual novelty' or 'invention'." Both criteria have been criticized. With regard to the first criterion, Vincent (1995: 435), Giacalone Ramat (1998), Smith (2006) and Willis (ms.) pointed out difficulties with regard to the notion of junk. And indeed, Lass later stretched his notion of exaptation, admitting that linguistic exaptation - just like biological exaptation - could also affect non-junk morphology (see Lass 1997: 318), to the effect that the old and the new function may co-exist. Doubt has also been raised with regard to the second criterion, the novelty of the new function, which is central to the notion of exaptation according to Lass (1990: 82) (see also Norde 2001: 244, 2009: 117 and Traugott 2004). Some scholars have argued against the purported novelty of the function after exaptation (Vincent 1995: 436; Giacalone Ramat 1998, Hopper & Traugott 2003: 135-136). If this criterion is jettisoned, we arrive at a fairly broad definition of exaptation, like for instance in Booij (2010: 211), who defines it as "[t]he re-use of morphological markers". Such a broad conception of exaptation is in line with the notion in evolutionary biology, where neither of the two criteria is decisive for the application of the term to shifts in function, but the question then arises whether this does not make the concept vacuous (see De Cuypere 2005). Despite these criticisms, exaptation has been used as a convenient label for morphological changes that at first sight seem to proceed unpredictably, e.g. by running counter to grammaticalization clines (see Norde 2009: 115-118). It has been applied to various cases of morphological change, discussed in Lass (1990), Norde (2002), Fudeman (2004), Van de Velde (2005, 2006), Narrog (2007), Booij (2010, ms.), Willis (ms.) among others. In this workshop, we aim to come to terms with exaptation. Apart from specific case studies drawing on original data, we welcome papers that address the following issues: (1) Do we need exaptation in diachronic morphology, or does it reduce to more traditional mechanisms such as reanalysis and analogy, as e.g. De Cuypere (2005) argues? (2) Does exaptation only apply to morphology (Heine 2003: 173), or is it relevant to syntactic change as well, as Brinton & Stein (1995) have argued? (3) Does exaptation presuppose irregularity and unpredictability? If so, does this entail that exaptation is language-specific (as argued by Heine 2003: 173), and that cross-linguistics generalizations are not possible? See, however, Narrog (2007) for evidence to the contrary. (4) Does exaptation happen primarily in cases of 'system disruption', such as typological word order change or deflection (see Norde 2002: 49, 60, 61)? (5) How should we define the concept of 'novelty', and is it a useful criterion for a change to be qualified as exaptation? Currently, there seem to be different views in the literature on what is exactly understood by a 'new' function. Does this mean (a) an entirely new category in the grammar, (b) a function unrelated to the morpheme's old function, or (c) a different though perhaps not totally unrelated function from the old function? (6) Is exaptation infrequent (Heine 2003:174, Traugott 2004) and non-recurrent (as argued by Heine 2003: 172)? Or can one morpheme undergo several successive stages of exaptation (as argued by Giacalone Ramat 1998: 110-111 with regard to the -sk- suffix and by Van de Velde 2006 with regard to the Germanic adjective inflection)? (7) What is the relation between exaptation and grammaticalization? Do they refer to fundamentally different kinds of changes (Vincent 1995), is exaptation a final stage of grammaticalization (Greenberg 1991, Traugott 2004), or are exaptation and grammaticalization just two different labels for the same type of change? After all, both processes involve reanalysis (Narrog 2007), both processes can come about through pragmatic strengthening (see Croft 2000: 126-130). Furthermore, if the old and new function of the exaptatum co-exist (see above) and if the new function is related to the old one, then exaptation involves 'layering' and 'persistence', respectively (see Van de Velde 2006: 61-62), which are also key features of grammaticalization (see Hopper 1991). (8) What is the relation between exaptation and degrammaticalization? Does exaptation always entail some sort of 'degrammaticalization' (as argued by Heine 2003 and arguably Narrog 2007: 9, 18), or does exaptation often, but not always, go together with degrammaticalization (Norde 2009: 118)? (9) Is exaptation the same thing as what Greenberg (1991) understands by 'regrammaticalization' and as what Croft (2000) understands by 'hypoanalysis', or are there significant differences between these concepts? And what is the overlap with related concept such as 'functional renewal' (Brinton & Stein 1995)? References Booij, G. 2010 (to appear). Construction morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Booij, G. manuscript. Recycling morphology: Case endings as markers of Dutch constructions. . Brinton, L. & D. Stein. 1995. Functional renewal. In: H. Andersen (ed.), Historical Linguistics 1993. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 33-47. Croft, W. 2000. Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach. Harlow : Longman. De Cuypere, L. 2005. Exploring exaptation in language change. Folia Linguistica Historica 26: 13-26. Fudeman, K. 2004. Adjectival agreement vs. adverbal inflection in Balanta. Lingua 114: 105-23. Giacalone Ramat, A. 1998. Testing the boundaries of grammaticalization. In: A. Giacalone Ramat & P.J. Hopper (eds.), The limits of grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 227-270. Greenberg, J.H. 1991. The last stages of grammatical elements: Contractive and expansive desemanticization. In: E.C. Traugott & B. Heine (eds.), Approaches to grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 301-314. Heine, B. 2003. On degrammaticalization. In: B.J. Blake & K. Burridge (eds.), Historical linguistics 2001. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 163-179. Hock, H.H. 1986. Principles of historical linguistics. Berlin: de Gruyter. Hopper, P.J. 1991. On some principles of grammaticalization. In: E.C. Traugott & B. Heine (eds.), Approaches to grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 17-35. Hopper, P.J. & E.C. Traugott. 2003. Grammaticalization. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Joseph, B.D. 1992. Diachronic explanation: Putting the speaker back into the picture. In: G.W. Davis & G.K. Iverson (eds.), Explanations in historical linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 123-144. Joseph, B.D. 1998. Diachronic morphology. In: A. Spencer & A.M. Zwicky (eds.), Handbook of morphology. Oxford: Blackell. 351-373. Lass, R. 1990. How to do things with junk: Exaptation in language evolution. Journal of Linguistics 26: 79-102. Lass, R. 1997. Historical linguistics and language change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Narrog, H. 2007. Exaptation, grammaticalization, and reanalysis. California Linguistic Notes 32 (1). . Norde, M. 2001. Deflexion as a counterdirectional factor in grammatical change. Language Sciences 23: 231-264. Norde, M. 2002. The final stages of grammaticalization: Affixhood and beyond. In: I. Wischer & G. Diewald (eds.), New reflections on grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 45-81. Norde, M. 2009. Degrammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Smith, J.C. 2006. How to do things without junk: the refunctionalization of a pronominal subsystem between Latin and Romance. In: J.-P.Y. Montreuil (ed.), New perspectives on Romance linguistics. Volume II: Phonetics, phonology and dialectology. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 183-205. Traugott, E.C. 2004. Exaptation and grammaticalization. In: M. Akimoto (ed.), Linguistic studies based on corpora. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. 133-156. Van de Velde, F. 2005. Exaptatie en subjectificatie in de Nederlandse adverbiale morfologie [Exaptation and subjectification in Dutch adverbial morphology]. Handelingen der Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 58: 105-124. Van de Velde, F. 2006. Herhaalde exaptatie. Een diachrone analyse van de Germaanse adjectiefflexie [Iterative exaptation. A diachronic analysis of the Germanic adjectival inflection]. In: M. H?ning, A. Verhagen, U. Vogl & T. van der Wouden (eds.), Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels. Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden. 47-69. Van Loon, J. 2005. Principles of historical morphology. Heidelberg: Universit?tsverlag Winter. Vincent, N. 1995. Exaptation and grammaticalization. In: H. Andersen (ed.), Historical linguistics 1993. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 433-445. Willis, D. Manuscript. Degrammaticalization and obsolescent morphology: Evidence from Slavonic. < http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dwew2/willis_degramm_berlin.pdf>. Freek Van de Velde Postdoctoral research fellow Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), University of Leuven Fac. of Arts, Dept. of Linguistics Blijde Inkomststraat 21, P.O. Box 3308 BE-3000 Leuven Tel. 0032 16 32 47 81 Fax 0032 16 32 47 67 http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/nedling/fvandevelde/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(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/depts/lang/people/pages/hall.htm DISCLAIMER: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wim Vandenbussche To: wvdbussc at vub.ac.be Subject: vacancy for PhD researcher in Brussels [via HiSoN mailing list] Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:37:08 +0200 *apologies for cross-postings* *please forward to potentially interested students/colleagues* The Centre for Linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) currently has a vacancy for PhD research on '200 years of Dutch philology in Flanders: the interplay between academia, social struggle and national identity building.' The project is part of ongoing historical-sociolinguistic research on language and society in Flanders during the long 19th century. The successful candidate should hold a Master's degree in philology/ linguistics but candidates from other disciplines with a strong interest in social history and sociolinguistics are welcome to apply (historical pedagogy, social history, ...). A sound knowledge of Dutch is essential. The candidate is expected to conduct research that will lead to a finished PhD dissertation after 4 years. Interested candidates can send a CV, a short text explaining their intended approach to the project and a copy of their Master's thesis to prof. dr. Wim Vandenbussche Vrije Universiteit Brussel Centrum voor lingu?stiek Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussel Belgium email: wvdbussc at vub.ac.be All queries regarding the vacancy and the project can be sent to that same address. We offer a full PhD scholarship (for 4 years in principle, renewable every year); in addition, travel/project expenses can be covered. The position is vacant as of January 1st, 2011 (but an earlier starting date is possible). Please react before October 15th, 2010. -------------- 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 luraghi at unipv.it Thu Sep 9 07:39:58 2010 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:39:58 +0200 Subject: New publication In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear Colleagues, Vit Bubenik and I are happy to announce the publication of a new book: Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics Editors: Silvia Luraghi and Vit Bubenik Publisher: Continuum Date of publication: 2010 http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=132238&SntUrl=150439&SubjectId=989&Subject2Id=965 Table of contents: Editor?s Introduction \ 1. Historical linguistics: history, sources and resources Silvia Luraghi and Vit Bubenik \ Part I: Methodology \ 2. Sound change and the comparative method: the science of historical reconstruction John Hewson \ 3. Internal reconstruction Brian D. Joseph \ 4. Typology and universals Hans H. Hock\ 5. Internal language classification S?ren Wichmann \ Part II: Phonological change \ 6. Segmental phonological change Joe Salmons \ 7. Suprasegmental and prosodic historical phonology Hans H. Hock \ Part III: Morphological and Grammatical change \ 8. From morphologization to demorphologization Henning Andersen \ 9. Analogical change Livio Gaeta\ 10. Change in grammatical categories Vit Bubenik Part IV: Syntactic change \ 11. Word order Jan Terje Faarlund \ 12. The rise (and possible downfall) of configurationality Silvia Luraghi \ 13. Subordination Dorothy Disterheft and Carlotta Viti \ 14. Alignment Geoffrey Haig \ Part V: Semantico-Pragmatic Change \ 15. Semantic change Eugenio R. Luj?n\ 16. Etymology Thomas Krisch \ 17. Grammaticalization Elizabeth Closs Traugott \ Part VI: Explanation of Language Change \ 18. Language contact Bridget Drinka\ 19. Regional and social dialectology J. K. Chambers\ 20. Causes of language change Silvia Luraghi \ Notes \ Glossary: A-Z Historical Linguistics \ References \ Notes on Contributors \ Index Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Universit? di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ICHL20 Organizing Committee http://www.ichl2011.com/ ************************************************************ KIKUSAWA, Ritsuko Ph.D. Research Department, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. Graduate University for Advanced Studies. ??????????? ????????? ???? ritsuko at minpaku.ac.jp ************************************************************ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From lfinn at cambridge.org Fri Sep 10 09:03:08 2010 From: lfinn at cambridge.org (Laura Finn) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:03:08 +0100 Subject: New Publication Message-ID: Cambridge University Press and Bjarke Frellesvig are proud to announce the publication of A History of the Japanese Language. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521653206 '... monumental ... it is likely to have an impact for decades to come ...' John Whitman, Cornell University Contents Introduction; Abbreviations; Part I. Old Japanese: 1. Early writing in Japan and Old Japanese sources; 2. Phonology; 3. Grammar; 4. Loan words; 5. Eastern Old Japanese; Part II. Early Middle Japanese: 6. Writing and sources; 7. Phonology; 8. Grammar; 9. The sinification of Japanese; Part III. Late Middle Japanese: 10. Sources; 11. Phonology; 12. Grammar; Part IV. Modern Japanese: 13. Varieties of Modern Japanese; 14. Phonology; 15. Grammar; 16. Eastern dialect features of the standard language; 17. The westernization of Japanese: loan words and other borrowings; Appendix; References. Exclusive 20% discount available to members of HistLing on orders until 1st October - simply enter promotional code HJL2010 when you 'add to basket'. Best wishes, Laura Finn Cambridge University Press -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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). 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 (see, for instance, recent claims by Bar?dal & Eyth?rsson 2009 and 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. And that there is a natural leap from synchronic form?meaning pairings to historical reconstruction, based on form?meaning pairings). 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 Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Sun Sep 12 19:37:54 2010 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:37:54 +0200 Subject: Int'l Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification - Update Message-ID: Dear list-members, All information (program, abstracts, registration info, etc.) regarding the International Conference on Grammaticalization and (Inter)Subjectification, to be held in Brussels on November 11-13, 2010, is now available at the conference website at http://webh01.ua.ac.be/gramis/conference/conference.html For the organizers, Hubert Cuyckens -------------- 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 evie.cousse at ugent.be Tue Sep 14 11:19:32 2010 From: evie.cousse at ugent.be (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Evie_Couss=E9?=) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:19:32 +0200 Subject: Workshop proposal "Usage-based approaches to language change" at ICHL 2010 Message-ID: Workshop proposal "Usage-based approaches to language change" at ICHL 2011 in Osaka (Japan). Subject: "Usage-based approaches to language change" Conveners: Evie Couss? (Ghent University, Belgium) and Ferdinand von Mengden (Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany) Preliminary call for participation: deadline 15 November 2010 Workshop description Most approaches to language (change) have principally in common that they locate the main explanandum of language in the human mind and that they operate with categories. Change is, implicitly or explicitly, seen as a shift of a linguistic form from one category to another ? whether across discrete or fuzzy boundaries. A well-know example of this view is the importance of reanalysis in explaining language change in mainstream historical linguistics. Reanalysis is considered to be the underlying mechanism that motivates changing patterns in usage such as contextual extension and increasing generalization / abstraction in meaning. However, alternative views have also been expressed, in which linguistic structure is seen as subject to constant negotiation in communication. Hopper?s (1998) Emergent Grammar or Keller?s (1994) Invisible Hand are prominent examples. Without denying the share that cognition has in the production of utterances and the usefulness of categories for linguistic description, structure is seen as epiphenomenal in these approaches. Structure is in a constant flux across time, area and social strata and, therefore, language use or actual communication are the loci of structure formation and hence of change. In line with this usage-based perspective of language and language change, an alternative for reanalysis has been proposed in which (changing) discourse patterns are directly related to meaning without referring to changes in abstract structures (e.g. Bybee e.a 1994, Haspelmath 1998, De Smet 2009). However, a larger coherent vision of the relation between language usage and language change is still largely missing. The workshop aims at discussing possibilities for such a usage-based framework on language change. We wish to combine case studies with theoretical contributions that help setting up a comprehensive model on language change, in which language use is in the focus and in which the core properties of language are seen in its dynamics rather than in its states. Call for participation At present, the workshop needs to be approved and accepted by the conference organizers of ICHL 2011. Deadline for submission of the workshop proposal is 15 October 2010. We invite interested speakers to send us before that deadline their interest for participation and a preliminary title of their potential contribution, that will be submitted along with the workshop proposal. Please, mail evie.cousse at ugent.be or f.vm at fu-berlin.de with your preliminary title. Upon notification of acceptance of the workshop by the ICHL organizers (expected shortly after 15 October 2010), we will launch the definitive call for papers as soon as possible. Submission of paper abstracts will go via the ICHL conference website http://www.ichl2011.com. Deadline for paper abstracts is set by the organizers on 15 January 2011. References Bybee, J., R. Perkins & W. Pagliuca (1994) The evolution of grammar. Tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. De Smet, H. (2009) Analysing reanalysis. In: Lingua 119, 1728-1755. Haspelmath, M. (1998) Does grammaticalization need reanalysis? In: Studies in Language 22, 315-351. Hopper, P.J. (1998) Emergent grammar. In: M. Tomasello (ed.) The new psychology of grammar: cognitive and functional approaches to language structure. Mahwah: Erlbaum: 155-176. Keller, R. (1994) On language change. The invisible hand in language. London: Routlegde. _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From luraghi at unipv.it Sun Sep 19 09:32:21 2010 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:32:21 +0200 Subject: WORKSHOP TO BE HELD AT ICHL 20 (Osaka) - SECOND PRELIMINARY CALL In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Dear all, since the deadline for submission of workshop proposals has been moved to October 15, the deadline for manifestations of interest for the workshop "The diachrony of referential null arguments " (convenors: Silvia Luraghi and Dag Haug) is now October 13. Up to now, we received a number of reactions, mostly from colleagues who work on Indo-European languages; in order to stimulate discussion, we'd like to point out that our workshop is not limited to a specific language family. PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A WORKSHOP TO BE HELD AT ICHL 20 (Osaka) Workshop title: The diachrony of referential null arguments Convenors: Dag Haug (University of Oslo) / Silvia Luraghi (University of Pavia) Contact: d.t.t.haug at ifikk.uio.no / silvia.luraghi at unipv.it Deadline for manifestation of interest: October 13, 2010 (we need a title and a couple of lines of description; the abstract must be submitted later directly to the ICHL. The final deadline for abstracts is November 15). Definite referential null objects are apparently one of the distinctive features of non-configurational languges, see Baker (2001). Even though descriptions are available for various genetically unrelated languages (see e.g. Austin 2001, Hale 1983, Chung 1984, Huang 1984, Raposo 1986), there are little if any accounts of their diachrony. Our workshop aims to bring together scholars working on different language families and on typologically different languages (e.g. head or dependent marking) who are interested in diachronic changes concerning the creation or disappearance of null arguments, with a focus on null objects or other types of null arguments not coreferenced on the verb. The occurrence of definite referential null objects has been observed in many ancient Indo-European languages, two examples are given below: (1) dverginn m?lti, at s? baugri skyldi vera dwarf say.prf.3sg that dem.nom.sg.m ring(m) should.prf.3sg be.inf hverjum hofu?sbani, er atti ?i whosoever.dat.sg death rel have.prf.3sg ?The dwarf said that that ring should bring death to anybody who possessed (it)? (Old Icelandic, from Sigur?sson, 1993, p. 248); (2) to?si d? deksi?n h?ken ero#di?ni egg?s hodo?o Pall?s Athe#na?e:# to? d? 3pl.dat ptc right send:aor.3sg heron:acc near road:gen P.:nom A.:nom 3pl.nom ptc ouk ?don ?i ophthalmo?si n?kta di? orphna?e#n all? ?i kl?gksantos not see:aor.3pl eyes:dat night:acc through dark:acc but scream:part.gen.sg.m ?kousan hear:aor.3pl ?Athena sent them an heron to the right of their route: they could not see it in the dark night, but heard it screaming.?, Hom. Il. 10.274-276 (Greek); In spite of this, and in spite of the long documented history of these languages, even in their case historical accounts are limited, as are detailed studies of the conditions licensing null objects (see Sch?ufele 1990 on Sanskrit; several studies have been devoted to null objects in Old Icelandic, see e.g. Sigur?sson 1993 and R?gnvaldsson 1995). At least in Latin and possibly in Greek, null objects seem to be obligatory in coordinated sentences, unless emphasis or disambiguation are involved (see Luraghi 1997, 1998a, b, 2003, Sznayder 1998; this is possibly a common phenomenon connected to coordination reduction and frequent in non-Indo-European languages as well, see Harris Delisle 1978, Luraghi 2004), as well as in answers to yes/no questions (see van der Wurff 1997, Luraghi 1997, 2003). Descriptions of increasing use of over objects in Latin and Germanic point to increasing transitivity or emerging configurationality (see e.g. Johnson 1991, Luraghi 2010). Papers presented at the workshop should aim to assess: a) the relation between null objects and other parameters of configurationality; b) the relation of null objects to other null argument, in particular to null subjects; c) the relation between null objects and the parameter of head/dependent marking (cf. Baker 2001); d) null objects and the grammaticalization of valency. Papers should have a diachronic orientation; research based on extensive corpora and quantitative approaches to language change are especially encouraged. Austin, Peter K. 2001 Word order in a free word order language: the case of Jiwarli. In Jane Simpson, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin and Barry Alpher (eds) Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages, 305-324. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Baker, Mark (2001), ?Configurationality and polysynthesis?, in M. Haspelmath, E. K?nig, W. Oesterreicher, W. Raible (eds.), Language Typology and Language Universals . An International Handbook. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, vol. 2, pp. 1433-41. Chung, S. 1984. ?Identifiability and null objects in Chamorro.? BLS 10: 116?30. Hale, Kenneth. 1983. Warlpiri and the grammar of non?configurational languages. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 1:5?74. Harris Delisle, Helga 1978 Coordination reduction. In Universals of Human Language, ed. J. Greenberg. Stanford: UP. Pp. 515-583. Huang, C-T. James. 1984. On the distribution and reference of empty pronouns. Linguistic Inquiry, 15, 531-574. Johnson, Ruth Ann, 1991. The Direct Object Pronoun as a Marker of Transitivity in Latin. Ph. D. Diss. UCLA. Luraghi, Silvia 1997. Omission of the direct object in Classical Latin. Indogermanische Forschungen 102, 239-257. Luraghi, Silvia 1998a Omissione dell?oggetto diretto in frasi coordinate: dal latino all?italiano. In Sintassi storica. Atti del xxx Congresso SLI, ed. P. Ramat. Roma: Bulzoni, 183-196. Luraghi, Silvia 1998b Participant tracking in Tacitus. In Estudios de Ling??stica Latina, ed. B. Garc?a-Hernandez. Madrid: Ediciones Cl?sicas, 467-485. Luraghi, Silvia 2003, ?Definite referential null objects in Ancient Greek?. Indogermanische Forschungen 108, 169-196. Luraghi, Silvia (2004), ?Null Objects in Latin and Greek and the Relevance of Linguistic Typology for Language Reconstruction?, in Proceedings of the 15th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, JIES Monograph 49, pp.234-256. Luraghi, Silvia 2010. ?The rise (and possible downfall) of configurationality?. In S. Luraghi and V. Bubenik, eds., Continuum Companion to Historical Linguistics, London/New York, Continuum, 212-229 Raposo, Eduardo. 1986. On the null object in European Portuguese. Studies in Romance linguistics, ed. by Osvaldo Jaeggli and Carmen Silva-Corval?n, 373-90. Dordrecht: Foris. R?gnvaldsson, Eir?kur (1995), ?Old Icelandic: A Non-Configurational Language??. North-Western European Language Evolution 26, 3-29. Sch?ufele, Steven (1990), Free Word-Order Syntax: the Challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to Contemporary Formal Syntactic Theory. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sigur?sson, Halld?r A. (1993), ?Argument-drop in Old Islandic?. Lingua 89, 247-280. Sznajder, Lyliane, 1998. ?Conditions d?effacement des compl?ments d?objet et agencement des propositions en latin?. In Estudios de Ling??stica Latina, ed. B. Garc?a-Hernandez. Madrid: Ediciones Cl?sicas. Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata Universit? di Pavia Strada Nuova 65 I-27100 Pavia telef.: +39-0382-984685 fax: +39-0382-984487 silvia.luraghi at unipv.it http://lettere.unipv.it/diplinguistica/docenti.php?&id=68 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Claire (with apologies to those who aren't using the textbook and for whom his email is therefore irrelevant) -- ----- Claire Bowern Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Yale University 370 Temple St New Haven, CT 06511 North American Dialects survey: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~clb3/NorthAmericanDialects/ _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Thu Sep 23 07:26:02 2010 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:26:02 +0200 Subject: SLE 2011 (La Rioja): First call for papers Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Please find attached the 1st CFP for the 2011 meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Best regards, Hubert Cuyckens Vice-President SLE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Book Title: Consonant Structure and Prevocalization Author: Natalie Operstein Publisher: John Benjamins Date of publication: 2010 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20312 The monograph provides the first systematic synchronic and diachronic study of Consonant Prevocalization and proposes a new interpretation of the intrasegmental structure of consonants. The proposed model makes strong predictions that are automatically relevant to phonological theory at both the diachronic and synchronic levels, and also to the phonetics of articulatory evolution. It also clearly demonstrates that a wide generalization of the notion of consonant prevocalization provides a uniform account for many well-known processes generally considered independent - from asynchronous palatalization in Polish to intrusive [r] in nonrhotic English, to vowel epentheses in Avestan, and to pre-/s/ vowel prothesis in Welsh and Western Romance. Consonant Prevocalization has not played a significant role in the development of modern phonological theory to date, and this work is the first to highlight its broad theoretical significance. It develops important theoretical insights, with a wealth of supporting data and a rich bibliography. The book will be of great interest to phonologists, phoneticians, typologists, and historical linguists. Sincerely, Natalie Operstein -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This conference aims to bring together linguists engaged in cognitively-oriented research with those working in a functional-typological framework on cross-linguistic variation and on language description. The emphasis will be on (1) language diversity of both spoken and signed languages; (2) inter- and intra-linguistic variation; (3) language change. The conference will bring together linguists working with various methodological approaches and using various kinds of spontaneous and elicited data, including spoken and written corpora, fieldwork data, and experimental data. Invited speakers Dani?le DUBOIS (University of Paris 6, France) Nick EVANS (ANU College of Asia-Pacific, Australia) Harriet JISA (University of Lyon 2, France) Maarten LEMMENS (University of Lille 3, France) Laura MICHAELIS (University of Colorado, Boulder, United States) Ulrike ZESHAN (University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom) Proposals are invited for workshops/thematic sessions, for general session papers, and for posters, on topics related to the theme, and on topics in Cognitive Linguistics generally. Papers that report empirically-grounded research on less-studied languages and on typologically, genetically and areally diverse languages will be particularly welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to: - methods and data in cognitive linguistics and in language typology and description - convergence and divergence between cognitive linguistics and functional-typological linguistics - studies from a cognitive and/or typological perspective in phonetics, phonology, morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics - language variation within and across languages, both spoken and signed - language change from a cognitive and/or typological perspective - language acquisition - studies and advances in construction grammar - language and gesture in cross-linguistic perspective LANGUAGES OF THE CONFERENCE The languages of the conference are English and French. ORAL PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS Proposals are invited for 30-minute slots (20-minute presentation plus question time) in the general sessions and for posters (A1 size). WORKSHOPS, INCLUDING THEMATIC SESSIONS Proposals are invited for half-day or full-day workshops/thematic sessions. Each workshop proposal should contain the following information: - the names and contact details of two workshop organizers - the title of the proposed workshop - an overview of the topic and aims of the workshop (up to 2 pages) - an indication of the desired schedule (number of slots: 4, 6 or 10; half day or full day; number and nature of presentations, discussions, round tables, etc. that the workshop will comprise). Note that, within a workshop, each presentation, discussion or round table will occupy one 30-minute slot in parallel with one general session slot. - an abstract (consistent with the indications below under 'Submission procedure') for each proposed 30-minute presentation Workshop proposals will be refereed in the same way as general session and poster proposals. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Proposals should be submitted online following the instructions to be found at the following address: http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/colloques/AFLICO_IV/ Author information (name, affiliation, email address) will be required on the submission website. An author may submit a maximum of two abstracts, of which at least one must be co-authored. In the case of co-authored abstracts, the first-named author will be the contact person. Abstracts will be anonymously reviewed and notification of acceptance will be sent out from 25th February 2011. The anonymous abstracts must be in 12 point Times or Times New Roman font, formatted for A4 or US Letter size paper with margins of 2.5 cm or 1 inch. The maximum length for the text of the abstract is one page; a second page may be used only for figures, glossed examples and bibliographical references. Deadline for general session papers: 22nd December 2010 Deadline for workshops/thematic sessions: 18th December 2010 ******************************************************* ******************************************************* AFLiCo IV Quatri?me Colloque International de l’Association Fran?aise de Linguistique Cognitive Lyon, France, 24-27 Mai 2011 TH?ME DU COLLOQUE AFLiCo IV ‘Linguistique cognitive et typologie : diversit? des langues, variation et changement’. L’objectif de ce colloque est de r?unir des linguistes travaillant dans le domaine de la linguistique cognitive et/ou dans le domaine de la linguistique fonctionnelle-typologique sur la variation inter-linguistique et la description des langues. L’accent du colloque sera mis sur (1) la diversit? des syst?mes linguistiques aussi bien oraux que sign?s, (2) la variation qui s’op?re sur les plans inter- et intra- linguistiques et (3) les changements des syst?mes linguistiques. Dans cette perspective, le colloque rassemblera des chercheurs qui travaillent sur des terrains linguistiques vari?s, qui abordent leur objet d’?tude dans une perspective synchronique et/ou diachronique et qui utilisent diff?rentes m?thodes et diff?rents types de donn?es telles que des donn?es spontan?es ou ?licit?es, y compris orales ou ?crites, des donn?es de terrain ou encore des donn?es exp?rimentales. Conf?renciers invit?s Dani?le DUBOIS (Universit? Paris 6, France) Nick EVANS (ANU College of Asia-Pacific, Australie) Harriet JISA (Universit? Lyon 2, France) Maarten LEMMENS (Universit? Lille 3, France) Laura MICHAELIS (University of Colorado, Boulder, ?tats-Unis) Ulrike ZESHAN (University of Central Lancashire, Royaume-Uni) Nous attendons des propositions de sessions th?matiques, des propositions de pr?sentations orales de sessions g?n?rales et de posters sur des probl?matiques en lien avec le th?me du colloque et dans le domaine de la linguistique cognitive en g?n?ral. Les propositions portant sur des langues moins bien d?crites et des langues qui varient du point de vue typologique, g?n?tique et ar?al seront particuli?rement appr?ci?es. Les th?matiques incluent, mais ne se limitent pas aux suivantes : - m?thodes et donn?es en linguistique cognitive, typologie et description des langues ; - convergence et divergence entre linguistique cognitive et linguistique fonctionnelle-typologique ; - ?tudes men?es dans une perspective cognitive et/ou typologique dans les domaines de la phon?tique, phonologie, morphosyntaxe, s?mantique et pragmatique ; - variation inter- et intra-linguistique dans les langues parl?es et les langues sign?es ; - changements linguistiques dans une perspective cognitive et/ou typologique ; - acquisition du langage ; - recherches et avanc?es dans le domaine de la grammaire des constructions ; - langue et geste dans une perspective inter-linguistique. LANGUES OFFICIELLES DU COLLOQUE Les deux langues du colloque sont le fran?ais et l’anglais. COMMUNICATIONS ET POSTERS Nous invitons des propositions de communication aux sessions g?n?rales de 30 minutes (20 minutes de pr?sentation et 10 minutes de questions) et des propositions de posters (format A1). ATELIERS ET SESSIONS TH?MATIQUES Nous accueillons des propositions d’une demi-journ?e ou d’une journ?e enti?re pour des ateliers et/ou sessions th?matiques. Ces ateliers/sessions th?matiques doivent ?tre propos?s par deux organisateurs. Chaque proposition doit inclure les informations suivantes : - les noms et les coordonn?es des deux organisateurs - le titre de la session - une pr?sentation du th?me et des objectifs de la session (2 pages maximum) - une pr?cision concernant le temps souhait? (nombre de cr?neaux horaires : 4, 6 ou 10 ; une journ?e ou une journ?e enti?re ; nombre et nature des pr?sentations, discussions, tables rondes, etc.). - un r?sum? d’une page pour chaque pr?sentation (une deuxi?me page peut ?tre utilis?e pour des figures, exemples glos?s et r?f?rences bibliographiques) Les propositions d’ateliers et/ou de sessions th?matiques seront soumises ? la m?me proc?dure d’?valuation que les propositions pour les sessions g?n?rales et les posters. La notification d’acceptation sera envoy?e aux deux organisateurs ? partir du 25 f?vrier 2011. SOUMISSION DES PROPOSITIONS Les propositions seront soumises en ligne suivant les instructions indiqu?es ? l’adresse suivante : http://www.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/colloques/AFLICO_IV/ Un auteur ne peut soumettre que deux propositions de communication dont une au moins devrait ?tre en co-auteur. Les informations concernant l’auteur (nom, affiliation, adresse email) seront requises lors de la soumission en ligne mais les propositions seront ?valu?es de fa?on anonyme. Dans le cas des propositions en co-auteur le premier auteur sera la personne r?f?rente/contact. Les propositions seront examin?es de fa?on anonyme par 2 membres experts du comit? scientifique. La notification d’acceptation sera envoy?e aux auteurs ? partir du 25 f?vrier 2011. Les propositions ne devront pas d?passer une page. Une deuxi?me page peut ?tre utilis?e pour des figures, exemples glos?s et r?f?rences bibliographiques. Format des propositions : papier A4, marges 2,5 cm, police Times ou Times New Roman. Date limite pour les sessions g?n?rales : 22 d?cembre 2010 Date limite pour les sessions th?matiques : 18 d?cembre 2010 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l