From chiara.cappellaro at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk Sun May 6 09:37:19 2012 From: chiara.cappellaro at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk (Chiara Cappellaro) Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 09:37:19 +0000 Subject: OxMorph3 Message-ID: Third Oxford Morphology Workshop (OxMorph3) – The morphological expression of number Date: 29-May-2012 Venue: Danson Room - Trinity College, Oxford Contact: chiara.cappellaro at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk Registration fee: £15 Registration deadline: 15-May-2012 Programme: 8.30 – 8.45 Registration and welcome 8.45 – 9.25 Martin Maiden Clubbing together. On number suppletion in Megleno-Romanian (and Mainland Scandinavian) adjectives 9.35 – 10.15 Chiara Cappellaro Plurality and gender in a central Calabrian dialect 10.25 – 11.05 JC Smith Towards a typology of plural formation in Gallo-Romance coffee break 11.30 – 12.10 Hans-Olav Enger Number, definiteness and irregularity in East Norwegian body part nouns 12.20 – 13.00 Greville Corbett Number splits and morphological complexity 13.00 – 14.30 lunch break 14.30 - 15.10 Paolo Acquaviva Number, nominality, and the structure of DP 15.20 – 16.00 Tania Paciaroni Number in Maceratese and other central Italo-Romance dialects coffee break 16.25 – 17.05 Anna M. Thornton Italian braccia/bracci and the like: a corpus-based complement – and a compliment – to Acquaviva's analysis 17.15 – 17.55 Vincenzo Faraoni The origin of the Italian plurals between phonetics and morphosyntax 18.05 – 18.45 Francesco Gardani Why languages don't like to borrow inflection but prefer to borrow plural 20.00 workshop dinner at Al-Andalus Restaurant -------------- 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 kariri at gmail.com Sun May 6 18:42:18 2012 From: kariri at gmail.com (Eduardo Ribeiro) Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 14:42:18 -0400 Subject: wholesale metathesis? Message-ID: Hello, I was wondering if there are documented cases of historical change in which all final consonants in a language would become non-final, by an overall, sweeping process of metathesis. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Best, Eduardo -- Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro http://etnolinguistica.org/perfil:9 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be Mon May 7 20:45:58 2012 From: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be (Torsten Leuschner) Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 22:45:58 +0200 Subject: ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3: UGent (Belgium), July 10-13, 2013 Message-ID: Ghent University (UGent) and University College Ghent (HoGent) are pleased to announce ICLC 7 – UCCTS 3, an international conference combining in a single venue the latest editions of two series: - the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), and - the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS). Between them, ICLC7 and UCCTS3 encompass the full range of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based interpreting studies. Given the complementary nature of these fields of study, and the methodological overlap between them, the primary aim of ICLC7-UCCTS3 is to bring together people and create theoretical and empirical synergies across disciplinary boundaries. Date: 10-13 July, 2013 Location: Ghent (Belgium), “Het Pand” Contact: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be URL: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be Invited Speakers: - Volker Gast (Jena) - Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens) - Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Anna Mauranen (Helsinki) - Sandra Halverson (Bergen) Call for Papers: Papers are invited on a broad range of themes in the areas of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, provided they address one or more of the following issues: - The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistics; its relationship with neighbouring disciplines such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics - The aims, objectives and scope of corpus-based translation studies, in particular the ongoing debate about so-called translation universals: criticism and explanation (regarding e.g. the role of 'risk aversion'), the 'dominance' of the source language, interaction between universals (e.g. explicitation v. normalisation), effects of genre and other external variables - Corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with translation research - The role of theoretical frameworks; comparability, incommensurability and the tertium comparationis; the necessity and significance of the 'socio-cultural link' - Types, uses and mutual limitations of corpus data; the benefits of combining parallel and comparable corpora and their methodological relationship; the benefits of combining different methodologies, including multivariate statistics, distinctive collexeme analysis, etc. - The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and general interface issues on the other (e.g. syntax/morphology, syntax/pragmatics) - Contrasts between languages at the levels of text, register, discourse, and information structure - The effect of the source language or of particular language pairs on translation and how to factor it into quantificational analyses Papers will last 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions will be anonymously evaluated by members of the scientific committee with the relevant expertise, and the conference programme will combine mixed sessions with sessions focusing on contrastive linguistics or translation/interpreting studies, as appropriate. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system, which may be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc7uccts3. Abstracts must be anonymous throughout, written in English, and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. Submissions are limited to two per individual, at least one of which must be co-authored. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2012 Notifications of acceptance: December 15, 2012 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jess Tauber goldenratio at earthlink.net _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From luraghi at unipv.it Sat May 19 18:26:16 2012 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 20:26:16 +0200 Subject: job announcement: post-doc in Pavia Message-ID: Research Fellow in Linguistics Department of Humanities, University of Pavia (Italy) The Department of Humanities, University of Pavia, invites applications for a full-time, fixed term Research Fellow position on the project Argument Structure in Texts A Typological and Diachronic Research [Argumentstruktur in Texten. Typologische und diachrone Korpusuntersuchungen ]' funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung. The project aims to compare argument structure in typologically different languages, and to develop tools for a quantitative analysis of the data regarding argument structure. It is part of a joint venture with the University of Erfurt. The part of the project to be developed in Pavia consists in extending computational resources for Ancient Greek in collaboration with other existing projects, and carrying out the statistical evaluation of the data. In particular, current goals include: 1. Expanding the Ancient Greek Treebank made available by the long-term project Perseus. 2. Acquiring other Treebanks by converting them into the Perseus standard of annotation 3. Studying the frequency and distribution of argument structure patterns through time (from Homer to the New Testament). The web page of the project is at: https://sites.google.com/site/argumentstructureintexts/home The successful candidate should hold a PhD. Thorough understanding of the Ancient Greek language, as well as basic knowledge of German and Italian are required, as well as some experience with natural language processing techniques and possibly some practical experience with annotation. There may also be an opportunity to collaborate with the Department’s staff as teaching assistant, if this is jointly considered desirable. The start date will be 01 September 2012. The post is available for up to two years. The salary for the first year is 19,367.00 Euros. Informal enquiries about this position should be made to Prof. Silvia Luraghi (luraghi at unipv.it) The full anouncement and the application form can be downloaded at: http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ricerca/assegni-di-ricerca.html (Fluency in Italian is not a requirement, nevertheless the application must be written in Italian.) Deadline for application: 14 June 2011 (the application must be received by the administrative office at the University of Pavia by this date). Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica 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... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From kariri at gmail.com Thu May 31 18:56:52 2012 From: kariri at gmail.com (Eduardo Ribeiro) Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:56:52 -0400 Subject: Whatever happened to Mashubi? Taking a new look at Fawcett=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=vocabulary (Voort 2012) Message-ID: Dear all, Cadernos de Etnolingüística, an electronic journal on South American languages, has just published an article by Hein van der Voort (a leading expert on Rondonian languages) investigating the linguistic affiliation of the "Mashubi," an Amazonian tribe visited by British adventurer Percy Fawcett in 1914 (please see abstract and link below). Confirming ethnographer Franz Caspar's (1955) suggestion, the article demonstrates that the "Mashubi" were the ancestors of the present-day Arikapú (Jabutí family, Macro-Jê stock), whose language is now down to one speaker. As with previous issues of the "Cadernos," the article is enriched with links to a number of freely-available original sources ("EtnoLinks"), including Caspar's 1955 article and Fawcett's paper on the Mashubi. Best, Eduardo R. Ribeiro (co-editor, Cadernos de Etnolingüística) --- Whatever happened to Mashubi? Taking a new look at Fawcett’s vocabulary by Hein van der Voort In this article, the earliest documentation of a Jabuti language is analyzed and identified. In 1914, the British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett visited the headwaters of the Colorado, Branco and Mekens Rivers, where he met a group of Indians he called Mashubi. He took down a list of approximately 100 words, which was published in 1953 by Paul Rivet. At the present, the received classification of Mashubi is as a third language of the Jabuti (Macro-Jê) linguistic family, along with Arikapu and Djeoromitxi. However, the indigenous peoples of the Guaporé region have never heard of a group called Mashubi. Furthermore, linguists tend to be unaware of the hypothesis published in 1955 by Franz Caspar that Mashubi in fact is Arikapu. Until recently, our ideas about the Jabuti languages could not be verified for lack of data. In the present article Fawcett’s Mashubi word list is held up to the light of abundant new data on the Jabuti languages. It turns out that Caspar was right. http://www.etnolinguistica.org/issue:vol4n1 -- Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro, lingüista http://etnolinguistica.org/perfil:9 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From chiara.cappellaro at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk Sun May 6 09:37:19 2012 From: chiara.cappellaro at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk (Chiara Cappellaro) Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 09:37:19 +0000 Subject: OxMorph3 Message-ID: Third Oxford Morphology Workshop (OxMorph3) ? The morphological expression of number Date: 29-May-2012 Venue: Danson Room - Trinity College, Oxford Contact: chiara.cappellaro at ling-phil.ox.ac.uk Registration fee: ?15 Registration deadline: 15-May-2012 Programme: 8.30 ? 8.45 Registration and welcome 8.45 ? 9.25 Martin Maiden Clubbing together. On number suppletion in Megleno-Romanian (and Mainland Scandinavian) adjectives 9.35 ? 10.15 Chiara Cappellaro Plurality and gender in a central Calabrian dialect 10.25 ? 11.05 JC Smith Towards a typology of plural formation in Gallo-Romance coffee break 11.30 ? 12.10 Hans-Olav Enger Number, definiteness and irregularity in East Norwegian body part nouns 12.20 ? 13.00 Greville Corbett Number splits and morphological complexity 13.00 ? 14.30 lunch break 14.30 - 15.10 Paolo Acquaviva Number, nominality, and the structure of DP 15.20 ? 16.00 Tania Paciaroni Number in Maceratese and other central Italo-Romance dialects coffee break 16.25 ? 17.05 Anna M. Thornton Italian braccia/bracci and the like: a corpus-based complement ? and a compliment ? to Acquaviva's analysis 17.15 ? 17.55 Vincenzo Faraoni The origin of the Italian plurals between phonetics and morphosyntax 18.05 ? 18.45 Francesco Gardani Why languages don't like to borrow inflection but prefer to borrow plural 20.00 workshop dinner at Al-Andalus Restaurant -------------- 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 kariri at gmail.com Sun May 6 18:42:18 2012 From: kariri at gmail.com (Eduardo Ribeiro) Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 14:42:18 -0400 Subject: wholesale metathesis? Message-ID: Hello, I was wondering if there are documented cases of historical change in which all final consonants in a language would become non-final, by an overall, sweeping process of metathesis. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Best, Eduardo -- Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro http://etnolinguistica.org/perfil:9 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be Mon May 7 20:45:58 2012 From: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be (Torsten Leuschner) Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 22:45:58 +0200 Subject: ICLC 7 - UCCTS 3: UGent (Belgium), July 10-13, 2013 Message-ID: Ghent University (UGent) and University College Ghent (HoGent) are pleased to announce ICLC 7 ? UCCTS 3, an international conference combining in a single venue the latest editions of two series: - the 7th edition of the International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC), and - the 3rd edition of Using Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies (UCCTS). Between them, ICLC7 and UCCTS3 encompass the full range of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation studies, including corpus-based interpreting studies. Given the complementary nature of these fields of study, and the methodological overlap between them, the primary aim of ICLC7-UCCTS3 is to bring together people and create theoretical and empirical synergies across disciplinary boundaries. Date: 10-13 July, 2013 Location: Ghent (Belgium), ?Het Pand? Contact: Torsten.Leuschner at UGent.be URL: http://www.iclc7-uccts3.ugent.be Invited Speakers: - Volker Gast (Jena) - Giannoula Giannoulopoulou (Athens) - Sylviane Granger (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Anna Mauranen (Helsinki) - Sandra Halverson (Bergen) Call for Papers: Papers are invited on a broad range of themes in the areas of contrastive linguistics and corpus-based translation/interpreting studies, provided they address one or more of the following issues: - The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistics; its relationship with neighbouring disciplines such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics - The aims, objectives and scope of corpus-based translation studies, in particular the ongoing debate about so-called translation universals: criticism and explanation (regarding e.g. the role of 'risk aversion'), the 'dominance' of the source language, interaction between universals (e.g. explicitation v. normalisation), effects of genre and other external variables - Corpus-based interpreting research and its relationship with translation research - The role of theoretical frameworks; comparability, incommensurability and the tertium comparationis; the necessity and significance of the 'socio-cultural link' - Types, uses and mutual limitations of corpus data; the benefits of combining parallel and comparable corpora and their methodological relationship; the benefits of combining different methodologies, including multivariate statistics, distinctive collexeme analysis, etc. - The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and general interface issues on the other (e.g. syntax/morphology, syntax/pragmatics) - Contrasts between languages at the levels of text, register, discourse, and information structure - The effect of the source language or of particular language pairs on translation and how to factor it into quantificational analyses Papers will last 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for discussion. All submissions will be anonymously evaluated by members of the scientific committee with the relevant expertise, and the conference programme will combine mixed sessions with sessions focusing on contrastive linguistics or translation/interpreting studies, as appropriate. Submissions must be made through the EasyChair system, which may be accessed at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc7uccts3. Abstracts must be anonymous throughout, written in English, and should not exceed 500 words, excluding references. Submissions are limited to two per individual, at least one of which must be co-authored. Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2012 Notifications of acceptance: December 15, 2012 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jess Tauber goldenratio at earthlink.net _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From luraghi at unipv.it Sat May 19 18:26:16 2012 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 20:26:16 +0200 Subject: job announcement: post-doc in Pavia Message-ID: Research Fellow in Linguistics Department of Humanities, University of Pavia (Italy) The Department of Humanities, University of Pavia, invites applications for a full-time, fixed term Research Fellow position on the project Argument Structure in Texts A Typological and Diachronic Research [Argumentstruktur in Texten. Typologische und diachrone Korpusuntersuchungen ]' funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung. The project aims to compare argument structure in typologically different languages, and to develop tools for a quantitative analysis of the data regarding argument structure. It is part of a joint venture with the University of Erfurt. The part of the project to be developed in Pavia consists in extending computational resources for Ancient Greek in collaboration with other existing projects, and carrying out the statistical evaluation of the data. In particular, current goals include: 1. Expanding the Ancient Greek Treebank made available by the long-term project Perseus. 2. Acquiring other Treebanks by converting them into the Perseus standard of annotation 3. Studying the frequency and distribution of argument structure patterns through time (from Homer to the New Testament). The web page of the project is at: https://sites.google.com/site/argumentstructureintexts/home The successful candidate should hold a PhD. Thorough understanding of the Ancient Greek language, as well as basic knowledge of German and Italian are required, as well as some experience with natural language processing techniques and possibly some practical experience with annotation. There may also be an opportunity to collaborate with the Department?s staff as teaching assistant, if this is jointly considered desirable. The start date will be 01 September 2012. The post is available for up to two years. The salary for the first year is 19,367.00 Euros. Informal enquiries about this position should be made to Prof. Silvia Luraghi (luraghi at unipv.it) The full anouncement and the application form can be downloaded at: http://www.unipv.eu/site/home/ricerca/assegni-di-ricerca.html (Fluency in Italian is not a requirement, nevertheless the application must be written in Italian.) Deadline for application: 14 June 2011 (the application must be received by the administrative office at the University of Pavia by this date). Silvia Luraghi Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Sezione di Linguistica 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... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From kariri at gmail.com Thu May 31 18:56:52 2012 From: kariri at gmail.com (Eduardo Ribeiro) Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:56:52 -0400 Subject: Whatever happened to Mashubi? Taking a new look at Fawcett=?windows-1252?Q?=92s_?=vocabulary (Voort 2012) Message-ID: Dear all, Cadernos de Etnoling??stica, an electronic journal on South American languages, has just published an article by Hein van der Voort (a leading expert on Rondonian languages) investigating the linguistic affiliation of the "Mashubi," an Amazonian tribe visited by British adventurer Percy Fawcett in 1914 (please see abstract and link below). Confirming ethnographer Franz Caspar's (1955) suggestion, the article demonstrates that the "Mashubi" were the ancestors of the present-day Arikap? (Jabut? family, Macro-J? stock), whose language is now down to one speaker. As with previous issues of the "Cadernos," the article is enriched with links to a number of freely-available original sources ("EtnoLinks"), including Caspar's 1955 article and Fawcett's paper on the Mashubi. Best, Eduardo R. Ribeiro (co-editor, Cadernos de Etnoling??stica) --- Whatever happened to Mashubi? Taking a new look at Fawcett?s vocabulary by Hein van der Voort In this article, the earliest documentation of a Jabuti language is analyzed and identified. In 1914, the British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett visited the headwaters of the Colorado, Branco and Mekens Rivers, where he met a group of Indians he called Mashubi. He took down a list of approximately 100 words, which was published in 1953 by Paul Rivet. At the present, the received classification of Mashubi is as a third language of the Jabuti (Macro-J?) linguistic family, along with Arikapu and Djeoromitxi. However, the indigenous peoples of the Guapor? region have never heard of a group called Mashubi. Furthermore, linguists tend to be unaware of the hypothesis published in 1955 by Franz Caspar that Mashubi in fact is Arikapu. Until recently, our ideas about the Jabuti languages could not be verified for lack of data. In the present article Fawcett?s Mashubi word list is held up to the light of abundant new data on the Jabuti languages. It turns out that Caspar was right. http://www.etnolinguistica.org/issue:vol4n1 -- Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro, ling?ista http://etnolinguistica.org/perfil:9 _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l