From mpentrel at uos.de Tue Nov 6 08:21:46 2012 From: mpentrel at uos.de (Meike Pentrel) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:21:46 +0100 Subject: CfP: Workshop "Music, Poetics and Cognition" (Cognition and Poetics Conference 2012) Message-ID: *Workshop "Music, Poetics and Cognition" *Call for Papers** We invite 20-minute paper submissions for the workshop on *Music, Poetics and Cognition* which will be part of the first international conference on Cognition and Poetics (CaP-12) held at the University of Osnabrueck. The conference will take place from the 25 -- 27 April 2013 at the Institute of English and American Studies of the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. The conference is part of the UOS Research Cluster on Cognition and Poetics. Topics for papers dealing with music, poetics and cognition may include but are not limited to: ·Aesthetics of musicalized fiction ·From sentence to movement: musical grammar ·Universals and specifics in cognition and musical (reading and listening) experience ·Musical semantics ·Literature and musical experience ·Musical text types / genres from a cognitive perspective ·The evolution of music and language ·Musical semiotics and communication ·Cognitive approaches to a musicalization of fiction ·Music in text: translation, transfer, alienation Abstracts (250 words) should be sent as anonymized attachments in MS-Word or PDF format to workshop organizer Nadja Hekal (nhekal at uni-osnabrueck.de ) by 15 December 2012. In your email text you need to specify: ·your name, ·affiliation ·email address ·title of workshop ·title of your talk Acceptance of papers will be sent out by 31 January 2013. *STIPENDS & WAIVERS* Graduate students and PhD Candidates are particularly invited to send paper and workshop proposals. The conference as a whole offers fifteen (15) grants for graduate students which cover the conference fee and accommodation. These grants will be awarded for the fifteen best proposals. General information about the conference, registration and the venue can be found here: http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/cap12/. For further details about the conference please contact Professor Alexander Bergs (abergs at uos.de), Professor Peter Schneck (pschneck at uos.de), or Ms Meike Pentrel, who is in charge of organizing the conference (mpentrel at uos.de). Workshop details are available from Nadja Hekal (nhekal at uos.de). ________________________________________ Meike Pentrel English Linguistics Universität Osnabrück Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Neuer Graben 40 49069 Osnabrück phone: +49-(0)541-969-4446 -------------- 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 wvdbussc at vub.ac.be Thu Nov 15 16:35:05 2012 From: wvdbussc at vub.ac.be (Wim Vandenbussche) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:35:05 +0100 Subject: Announcement 7th summer school on historical sociolinguistics Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-postings] 7th HiSoN Summer School 
in Historical Sociolinguistics 3.–10. August, 2013 Metochi, Kalloni, Lesbos, Greece This is the seventh summer school organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) and it will offer seven courses by leading experts on modern and historical sociolinguistics, aimed at postgraduate students and young researchers. The venue is the monastery of Metochi-Kalloni on the island of Lesbos (Greece). Classes will take place in the morning and early evening and you will have the opportunity to present your own research at a special session. Our teachers and modules in 2013 will be • Peter Trudgill (Agder)
on Contact-related Processes of Change in the History of English • Joseph Salmons (UW Madison) on the Historical Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages • Doris Stolberg (IDS Mannheim)
on Language and Colonialism: German in the Pacific • Peter Bakker (Århus)
on Distinct Men’s and Women’s Languages: When, Where, What & Why? • Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden)
on Dutch in Modern Times: Historical Sociolinguistic Perspectives • Michael Schulte (Agder)
on Historical Language Contact in Western Scandinavian: Icelandic - Faroese - West Norwegian - Shetland and Orkney Norn • Raymond Hickey (Duisburg-Essen)
on Phonological Typology in English The school will last for one week and will cost £475 (if registered by May 1st or £575, if you register thereafter), which includes accommodation, three meals per day, tuition, and an excursion. There is space for only 40 students, so secure your place with a £100 deposit now! For further information and registration, visit www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2013.html sml-hison at bris.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: HiSoN2013_Flyer.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 287570 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Papers from any area of linguistics or philology and from any theoretical perspective are welcome. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts. All abstracts will undergo anonymous review. Please submit abstracts online at: https://www.ubevents.org/event/glacpapers Abstracts should be uploaded in pdf format. The length should not exceed 1 page in a standard 12 point font. The page should be headed only by the title of the paper and should contain no self-identification. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by e-mail by February 15, 2013. The Linguistic Society of America provides tips for writing a good abstract at: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/model-abstracts -- David Fertig Associate Professor Department of Linguistics 609 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo (SUNY) Buffalo, NY 14260 716-645-0129 fertig at buffalo.edu _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Nov 21 20:31:28 2012 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:31:28 +0000 Subject: New Issue Alert - The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 57:3, November 2012 Message-ID: Now available on Project MUSE The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 57(3), November/novembre 2012 This issue contains: Copular sentences expressing Kimian states in Irish and Russian pp. 341-358 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0039 Gréte Dalmi Abstract: The central claim of this article is that the D(avidsonian)-state vs. K(imian)-state distinction established for German and Spanish by Maienborn is of wider crosslinguistic relevance. Stage-level and individual-level secondary predicates are both viewed here as K-states as they contain only a Kimian temporal variable but no Davidsonian event variable. Secondary predicates expressing a K-state may acquire the temporary/ actual property interpretation when an alternative state entailment is added to them. In such cases the functional layer of the be-predicate contains a syntactic operator (OPalt) that can bind the Kimian temporal variable in accessible worlds. If no such entailment is added, the same temporal variable is bound by the T0 functional head of the BE-predicate in the actual world. The auxiliary tá/bhí ‘be’ in Irish imposes the semantic restriction that its secondary predicate must contain the alternative state entailment. The copula is/ba ‘be’, on the other hand, is used in the absence of such an entailment. Case obviation on the secondary predicate head in Russian copular sentences signals alternative state entailment, while case agreement on the secondary predicate appears in the absence of this entailment. Résumé: Cet article propose que la distinction entre l’état-D(avidsonien) et l’état-K(imien) établie pour l’allemand et l’espagnol par Maienborn est pertinente pour d’autres langues. Les prédicats secondaires d’individu ou épisodiques sont tous les deux considérés comme des états-K puisqu’ils ne contiennent qu’une variable temporelle kimienne mais aucune variable d’événement davidsonienne. Les prédicats secondaires qui expriment un état-K peuvent acquérir l’interprétation de propriété temporelle/ réelle dès qu’une conséquence nécessaire d’état alternatif s’y ajoute. Dans de tels cas, le niveau fonctionnel du prédicat être contient un opérateur syntaxique (OPalt) qui peut lier la variable temporelle kimienne dans des mondes accessibles. Lorsqu’une telle conséquence ne s’ajoute pas, la même variable temporelle est liée par la tête fonctionnelle T0 du prédicat être dans le monde réel. L’auxiliaire tá/bhí ‘être’ en irlandais impose la restriction sémantique selon laquelle son prédicat secondaire doit contenir la conséquence d’état alternatif. La copule is/ba ‘être’, par contre, est utilisée en l’absence d’une telle conséquence. L’obviation du cas sur la tête du prédicat secondaire dans des phrases copulatives en russe signale une conséquence d’état alternatif, alors que l’accord de cas sur le prédicat secondaire apparaît en l’absence de cette conséquence. Tenetehára: A predicate-fronting language pp. 359-386 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0042 Fábio Bonfim Duarte Abstract: This article investigates whether Tenetehára is a predicate-raising language. The purpose is to determine whether VSO order results from verb movement to the heads T0 or C0 only, or whether Tenetehára exhibits VP remnant movement, similarly to languages like Niuean, Chol, Malagasy, and Seediq. The analysis concludes that Tenetehára does allow predicate movement, to Spec-CP or Spec-TP. Either option depends on particles related to tense and complementation, in sentence-final position. Additionally, assuming Kayne’s antisymmetry theory, in which all movement occurs to the left, and the predicate-raising hypothesis, it is proposed that final tense particle orders are derived from the basic word order [Tense [SVO] ]. To derive the fact that T0 can be head-final, the analysis holds that the predicate, represented by the v- VP complex, must move to the specifier position of TP. Finally, it is proposed that the syntactic trigger for predicate-raising is the presence of a [+PRED] feature both in the head C0 and in the head T0, a fact that explains why Tenetehára grammar systematically strands tense and complementizer particles in clause-final position. Résumé: Cet article tente de déterminer si la langue tenetehára est une langue à prédicat à montée. Le but de l’étude est de vérifier si l’ordre VSO résulte du mouvement du verbe vers les têtes T0 ou C0, ou s’il s’agit du mouvement d’un constituant vestige, comme en niuéen, chol, malgache et seediq. L’analyse conclut que le tenetehára autorise le mouvement du prédicat aussi bien vers Spéc-CP que vers Spéc-TP. Ces options dépendent de particules en position finale de phrase et qui se rapportent au temps ou à la complémentation. En outre, compte tenu de la théorie antisymétrique de Kayne selon laquelle tout mouvement se réalise vers la gauche, et de l’hypothèse du prédicat à montée, on propose que l’ordre final des particules de temps résulte de l’ordre fondamental [Temps [SVO] ]. Ainsi, pour conclure que T0 peut être tête finale en tenetehára, l’analyse présume que le prédicat, représenté par le complexe v- VP, doit se déplacer vers la position de spécifieur du TP. L’article propose enfin que le déclencheur syntaxique qui force le prédicat à monter est la présence d’un trait [+PRED] aussi bien dans la tête de C0 que dans celle de T0, ce qui explique pourquoi les particules du temps et du complémenteur se retrouvent systématiquement dans la position finale de la phrase. The T-Extension Condition pp. 387-426 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0044 Ivona Kučerová Abstract: This article presents a case study of Czech that opens the possibility of unifying various second-position phenomena as instances of an interface condition on head extension. The condition requires a head to undergo at least two instances of merge within its phase. The core of the article explores properties of T0. It is shown that any merge (external or internal, merge of a head or a phrase) yields a well-formed structure. Since it does not matter to the requirement what category merges to T0, the condition must be stated as a general requirement on what category may be the root. Résumé: Cet article présente une étude de cas du tchèque qui rend possible une analyse unifiée de divers phénomènes de deuxième position selon laquelle ils sont tous le résultat d’une condition d’interface sur l’extension d’une tête. La condition exige qu’une tête doit subir au moins deux occurrences de fusion à l’intérieur de sa phase. La partie centrale de l’article étudie les propriétés de T0. Il est démontré que n’importe quelle occurrence de fusion (externe ou interne, fusion d’une tête ou d’un syntagme) crée une structure bien formée. Puisque la catégorie de l’élément qui fusionne à T0 n’est pas importante, la condition doit être formulée comme une exigence générale sur la catégorie de la racine. Transitive be perfect: An experimental study of Canadian English pp. 427-457 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0046 Yuri Yerastov Abstract: This article investigates exemplars of the transitive be perfect in Canadian English, such as I am done dinner and I am finished my homework. I report on an experimental study of acceptability judgments of this construction, given by speakers of Canadian English primarily recruited from the Calgary area. I claim that the construction [be done NP] is characterized by preference for the animacy of the subject, preference for definiteness of the direct object, open-endedness of the direct object slot, and limited variability of the participle. I conclude that [be done NP] is a partially schematic construction that is close to a “prefab”. Résumé: Cet article étudie des exemples du parfait transitif avec l’auxiliaire be en anglais canadien, comme dans I am done dinner et I am finished my homework. L’article rend compte d’une étude expérimentale dans laquelle étaient sollicités des jugements d’acceptabilité portant sur des exemples de cette construction fournis par des locuteurs d’anglais canadien recrutés surtout dans la région de Calgary. Sur la base de cette étude, j’affirme que la construction [be done SN] est caractérisée par une préférence pour un sujet animé, une préférence pour la définitude du complément d’objet direct, le caractère ouvert du complément d’objet direct et la variabilité limitée du participe. Je tire la conclusion que [be done SN] est une construction partiellement schématique qui ressemble plutôt à une construction “toute faite”. Reviews / Comptes Rendus Dialects of English: Newfoundland and Labrador English (review) pp. 459-461 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0034 Gordon Alley-Young Event representation in language and cognition (review) pp. 461-464 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0036 Engin Arik Dictionary of American Regional English (review) pp. 464-467 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0038 J.K. Chambers Cyclical change (review) pp. 467-470 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0041 Ailís Cournane Parametric variation: Null subject in Minimalist Theory (review) pp. 470-473 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0043 Gréte Dalmi The handbook of phonetic sciences (review) pp. 474-477 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0045 Zahir Mumin Language, usage and cognition (review) pp. 477-480 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0047 Mohammad Rasekh Mahand Second dialect acquisition (review) pp. 480-483 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0035 Karim Sadeghi ________________________________ Books Received / Livres reçus pp. 491-493 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0037 Thanks to Reviewers Remerciements aux évaluateurs p. 494 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0040 The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. 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Courses and instructors: Course 1 = Albanian (Brian Joseph, Columbus Ohio) Course 2 = Mycenaean (Eugenio Lujan, Madrid) Course 3 = Armenian (Hrach Martirosyan, Leiden) Course 4 = Avestan (Alberto Cantera, Salamanca) Course 5 = Evolutionary approaches to Indo-European linguistics (Michael Dunn, Nijmegen) Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers. Advanced MA students will also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. As all courses will be taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Deadline for applications: June 1, 2013 Fees: There will be a 70 euros registration fee, which will cover lunches and course materials. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Cardano; information regarding prices will be given at a later date. 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This book series is aimed at sociolinguists and social historians who are keen to publish studies on the social history of languages, the interaction of linguistic practices and society, and the sociological significance of linguistic variation with a historical dimension. The purpose of the series is to provide empirically supported studies that will challenge and advance current language historiographies, which often continue to present the history of particular languages as necessarily leading to the creation of a standard or prestige variety. Of particular interest are topics such as the following: language myths and language ideology, historical multilingualism and the formation of nation-states, the sociolinguistics of minority and regional languages, the rise of urban vernaculars, immigrants and their languages, the role of prescriptive grammarians, and the social history of pidgins and creoles. Book proposals from historians and linguists working on any language in any period are welcome, in particular those that include a comparative dimension as well as those with a strong empirical foundation. The preferred language of publication is English. All publications will be peer reviewed; the four series editors and twenty-five members of the advisory board are all members of the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) . Advisory Board Anita Auer (Utrecht), Jack Chambers (Toronto), Steffan Davies (Bristol), Ana Deumert (Cape Town), Jose del Valle (CUNY), Martin Durrell (Manchester), Robert Evans (Oxford), Kristine Horner (Sheffield), Elin Fredsted (Flensburg), Roisin Healy (Galway), Juan Hernandez-Campoy (Murcia), Robert Howell (Wisconsin-Madison), Ernst Hakon Jahr (Agder), Mari Jones (Cambridge), Andrew Linn (Sheffield), Anthony Lodge (St Andrews), Nicola McLelland (Nottingham), Miriam Meyerhoff (Auckland), Agnete Nesse (Bergen), Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki), Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden), Joachim Scharloth (Dresden), Peter Trudgill (Agder), Marijke van der Wal (Leiden), Laura Wright (Cambridge) Peter Lang www.peterlang.com For more information, please contact Dr Laurel Plapp, Commissioning Editor, Peter Lang Ltd, 52 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU, UK. Email: l.plapp at peterlang.com. Tel: +44(0)1865 514160. Prof. dr. 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My neogrammarian heart tells me that sound changes are aware of phonetic environments only and not part of speech categories. Such a thing is thus only possible if verbs are phonetically different than nouns in a systematic way (which is of course possible). Anyhow, a reviewer tells me that proto-Uto-Aztecan initial *p becomes zero in Nahuatl nouns but is preserved in verbs and cites the pair (.-tl "water" vs -p.ca "to wash"). The reviewer does not cite a discussion of this and I am totally at sea in the Uto-Aztecan literature. But, if this is an uncontroversial part of Uto-Aztecan historical phonology surely it has given rise to the same methodological concerns that I raise (sound change should apply blindly). I would be very grateful for any discussion of this or advice on treatments of this question in literature. with gratitude, Nathan _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jhewson at mun.ca Fri Nov 30 13:48:12 2012 From: jhewson at mun.ca (John Hewson) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:18:12 -0330 Subject: conditioning of Uto-Aztecan *p in Nahuatl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This is an interesting question which should indeed be discussed. There is, in the tradition, the observed phenomenon of paradigmatic resistance to sound change which affects only paradigms. And there is change of paradigmatic elements such as the 3rd sing verb inflection -th of Old and Middle English becoming -s in Early Modern, a change still not complete in Shakespeare's day: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. (from Portia's court speech in the Merchant of Venice). There may be a justification for this change, but if there is, it must be a very subtle one! John Hewson On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Nathan Hill wrote: > Dear Historical Linguists, > > In a paper about Tibetan I am criticizing someone for proposing that > the same segment became one thing in nouns and another thing in verbs. > My neogrammarian heart tells me that sound changes are aware of > phonetic environments only and not part of speech categories. Such a > thing is thus only possible if verbs are phonetically different than > nouns in a systematic way (which is of course possible). > > Anyhow, a reviewer tells me that proto-Uto-Aztecan initial *p becomes > zero in Nahuatl nouns but is preserved in verbs and cites the pair > (.-tl "water" vs -p.ca "to wash"). The reviewer does not cite a > discussion of this and I am totally at sea in the Uto-Aztecan > literature. But, if this is an uncontroversial part of Uto-Aztecan > historical phonology surely it has given rise to the same > methodological concerns that I raise (sound change should apply > blindly). > > I would be very grateful for any discussion of this or advice on > treatments of this question in literature. > > with gratitude, > Nathan > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > ******************************************************************************* John Hewson, FRSC tel: (709)753-8434 Henrietta Harvey Professor Emeritus fax: (709)737-4000 Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's NF, CANADA A1B 3X9 ******************************************************************************* This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From pk299 at cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 30 14:20:57 2012 From: pk299 at cam.ac.uk (Petros Karatsareas) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:20:57 +0000 Subject: conditioning of Uto-Aztecan *p in Nahuatl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It would be helpful to know what the original segment and the two subsequent ‘things’ are in your Tibetan case, especially if the developments involve retaining the original segment in some environments but not in others – say, in nouns but not in verbs. In many cases, sounds may resist – or, fail to undergo – change in order to preserve structural disambiguation. Here is a relevant example from the history of Greek: In the Medieval period, many varieties of Greek underwent a very widespread loss of word-final [-n]. -n was, however, retained in quite a few environments, and especially before vowels and stops, to avoid morphosyntactic ambiguity. The case of Ancient/Hellenistic Greek mɛːlo-n ‘apple’ is quite telling, in that connection: notice in (1) how the change affects the nominative/accusative singular forms but not the genitive plural form. (1) Hellenistic Greek Medieval Greek SG NOM/ACC mɛːlon milo∅ GEN mɛːluː milu PL NOM/ACC mɛːla mila GEN meːlɔːn milon If the change had affected the genitive plural form, we would have had an instance of trans-number syncretism: meːlɔːn ‘apple.GEN.PL’ > milo∅ = milo∅ ‘apple.NOM/ACC.SG’. As a matter of fact, the genitive plural morpheme -ɔːn > -on is one of the environments that have retained word-final -n across the board in many Greek varieties to block this from happening. Hope this helps a little bit. Petros Karatsareas On 30 Nov 2012, at 13:48, John Hewson wrote: > > This is an interesting question which should indeed be discussed. > > There is, in the tradition, the observed phenomenon of paradigmatic resistance to sound change which affects only paradigms. And there is change of paradigmatic elements such as the 3rd sing verb inflection -th of Old and Middle English becoming -s in Early Modern, a change still not complete in Shakespeare's day: > > It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. > > (from Portia's court speech in the Merchant of Venice). > > There may be a justification for this change, but if there is, it must be a very subtle one! > > John Hewson > > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Nathan Hill wrote: > >> Dear Historical Linguists, >> >> In a paper about Tibetan I am criticizing someone for proposing that >> the same segment became one thing in nouns and another thing in verbs. >> My neogrammarian heart tells me that sound changes are aware of >> phonetic environments only and not part of speech categories. Such a >> thing is thus only possible if verbs are phonetically different than >> nouns in a systematic way (which is of course possible). >> >> Anyhow, a reviewer tells me that proto-Uto-Aztecan initial *p becomes >> zero in Nahuatl nouns but is preserved in verbs and cites the pair >> (.-tl "water" vs -p.ca "to wash"). The reviewer does not cite a >> discussion of this and I am totally at sea in the Uto-Aztecan >> literature. But, if this is an uncontroversial part of Uto-Aztecan >> historical phonology surely it has given rise to the same >> methodological concerns that I raise (sound change should apply >> blindly). >> >> I would be very grateful for any discussion of this or advice on >> treatments of this question in literature. >> >> with gratitude, >> Nathan >> _______________________________________________ >> Histling-l mailing list >> Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu >> https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l >> > > > ******************************************************************************* > John Hewson, FRSC tel: (709)753-8434 > Henrietta Harvey Professor Emeritus fax: (709)737-4000 > Memorial University of Newfoundland > St. John's NF, CANADA A1B 3X9 > ******************************************************************************* > > This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at > http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Topics for papers dealing with music, poetics and cognition may include but are not limited to: ?Aesthetics of musicalized fiction ?From sentence to movement: musical grammar ?Universals and specifics in cognition and musical (reading and listening) experience ?Musical semantics ?Literature and musical experience ?Musical text types / genres from a cognitive perspective ?The evolution of music and language ?Musical semiotics and communication ?Cognitive approaches to a musicalization of fiction ?Music in text: translation, transfer, alienation Abstracts (250 words) should be sent as anonymized attachments in MS-Word or PDF format to workshop organizer Nadja Hekal (nhekal at uni-osnabrueck.de ) by 15 December 2012. 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August, 2013 Metochi, Kalloni, Lesbos, Greece This is the seventh summer school organised by the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) and it will offer seven courses by leading experts on modern and historical sociolinguistics, aimed at postgraduate students and young researchers. The venue is the monastery of Metochi-Kalloni on the island of Lesbos (Greece). Classes will take place in the morning and early evening and you will have the opportunity to present your own research at a special session. Our teachers and modules in 2013 will be ? Peter Trudgill (Agder) on Contact-related Processes of Change in the History of English ? Joseph Salmons (UW Madison) on the Historical Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages ? Doris Stolberg (IDS Mannheim) on Language and Colonialism: German in the Pacific ? Peter Bakker (?rhus) on Distinct Men?s and Women?s Languages: When, Where, What & Why? ? Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden) on Dutch in Modern Times: Historical Sociolinguistic Perspectives ? 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Papers from any area of linguistics or philology and from any theoretical perspective are welcome. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts. All abstracts will undergo anonymous review. Please submit abstracts online at: https://www.ubevents.org/event/glacpapers Abstracts should be uploaded in pdf format. The length should not exceed 1 page in a standard 12 point font. The page should be headed only by the title of the paper and should contain no self-identification. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be sent out by e-mail by February 15, 2013. The Linguistic Society of America provides tips for writing a good abstract at: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/model-abstracts -- David Fertig Associate Professor Department of Linguistics 609 Baldy Hall University at Buffalo (SUNY) Buffalo, NY 14260 716-645-0129 fertig at buffalo.edu _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca Wed Nov 21 20:31:28 2012 From: agreenwood at utpress.utoronto.ca (Greenwood, Audrey) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 20:31:28 +0000 Subject: New Issue Alert - The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 57:3, November 2012 Message-ID: Now available on Project MUSE The Canadian Journal of Linguistics 57(3), November/novembre 2012 This issue contains: Copular sentences expressing Kimian states in Irish and Russian pp. 341-358 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0039 Gr?te Dalmi Abstract: The central claim of this article is that the D(avidsonian)-state vs. K(imian)-state distinction established for German and Spanish by Maienborn is of wider crosslinguistic relevance. Stage-level and individual-level secondary predicates are both viewed here as K-states as they contain only a Kimian temporal variable but no Davidsonian event variable. Secondary predicates expressing a K-state may acquire the temporary/ actual property interpretation when an alternative state entailment is added to them. In such cases the functional layer of the be-predicate contains a syntactic operator (OPalt) that can bind the Kimian temporal variable in accessible worlds. If no such entailment is added, the same temporal variable is bound by the T0 functional head of the BE-predicate in the actual world. The auxiliary t?/bh? ?be? in Irish imposes the semantic restriction that its secondary predicate must contain the alternative state entailment. The copula is/ba ?be?, on the other hand, is used in the absence of such an entailment. Case obviation on the secondary predicate head in Russian copular sentences signals alternative state entailment, while case agreement on the secondary predicate appears in the absence of this entailment. R?sum?: Cet article propose que la distinction entre l??tat-D(avidsonien) et l??tat-K(imien) ?tablie pour l?allemand et l?espagnol par Maienborn est pertinente pour d?autres langues. Les pr?dicats secondaires d?individu ou ?pisodiques sont tous les deux consid?r?s comme des ?tats-K puisqu?ils ne contiennent qu?une variable temporelle kimienne mais aucune variable d??v?nement davidsonienne. Les pr?dicats secondaires qui expriment un ?tat-K peuvent acqu?rir l?interpr?tation de propri?t? temporelle/ r?elle d?s qu?une cons?quence n?cessaire d??tat alternatif s?y ajoute. Dans de tels cas, le niveau fonctionnel du pr?dicat ?tre contient un op?rateur syntaxique (OPalt) qui peut lier la variable temporelle kimienne dans des mondes accessibles. Lorsqu?une telle cons?quence ne s?ajoute pas, la m?me variable temporelle est li?e par la t?te fonctionnelle T0 du pr?dicat ?tre dans le monde r?el. L?auxiliaire t?/bh? ??tre? en irlandais impose la restriction s?mantique selon laquelle son pr?dicat secondaire doit contenir la cons?quence d??tat alternatif. La copule is/ba ??tre?, par contre, est utilis?e en l?absence d?une telle cons?quence. L?obviation du cas sur la t?te du pr?dicat secondaire dans des phrases copulatives en russe signale une cons?quence d??tat alternatif, alors que l?accord de cas sur le pr?dicat secondaire appara?t en l?absence de cette cons?quence. Teneteh?ra: A predicate-fronting language pp. 359-386 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0042 F?bio Bonfim Duarte Abstract: This article investigates whether Teneteh?ra is a predicate-raising language. The purpose is to determine whether VSO order results from verb movement to the heads T0 or C0 only, or whether Teneteh?ra exhibits VP remnant movement, similarly to languages like Niuean, Chol, Malagasy, and Seediq. The analysis concludes that Teneteh?ra does allow predicate movement, to Spec-CP or Spec-TP. Either option depends on particles related to tense and complementation, in sentence-final position. Additionally, assuming Kayne?s antisymmetry theory, in which all movement occurs to the left, and the predicate-raising hypothesis, it is proposed that final tense particle orders are derived from the basic word order [Tense [SVO] ]. To derive the fact that T0 can be head-final, the analysis holds that the predicate, represented by the v- VP complex, must move to the specifier position of TP. Finally, it is proposed that the syntactic trigger for predicate-raising is the presence of a [+PRED] feature both in the head C0 and in the head T0, a fact that explains why Teneteh?ra grammar systematically strands tense and complementizer particles in clause-final position. R?sum?: Cet article tente de d?terminer si la langue teneteh?ra est une langue ? pr?dicat ? mont?e. Le but de l??tude est de v?rifier si l?ordre VSO r?sulte du mouvement du verbe vers les t?tes T0 ou C0, ou s?il s?agit du mouvement d?un constituant vestige, comme en niu?en, chol, malgache et seediq. L?analyse conclut que le teneteh?ra autorise le mouvement du pr?dicat aussi bien vers Sp?c-CP que vers Sp?c-TP. Ces options d?pendent de particules en position finale de phrase et qui se rapportent au temps ou ? la compl?mentation. En outre, compte tenu de la th?orie antisym?trique de Kayne selon laquelle tout mouvement se r?alise vers la gauche, et de l?hypoth?se du pr?dicat ? mont?e, on propose que l?ordre final des particules de temps r?sulte de l?ordre fondamental [Temps [SVO] ]. Ainsi, pour conclure que T0 peut ?tre t?te finale en teneteh?ra, l?analyse pr?sume que le pr?dicat, repr?sent? par le complexe v- VP, doit se d?placer vers la position de sp?cifieur du TP. L?article propose enfin que le d?clencheur syntaxique qui force le pr?dicat ? monter est la pr?sence d?un trait [+PRED] aussi bien dans la t?te de C0 que dans celle de T0, ce qui explique pourquoi les particules du temps et du compl?menteur se retrouvent syst?matiquement dans la position finale de la phrase. The T-Extension Condition pp. 387-426 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0044 Ivona Ku?erov? Abstract: This article presents a case study of Czech that opens the possibility of unifying various second-position phenomena as instances of an interface condition on head extension. The condition requires a head to undergo at least two instances of merge within its phase. The core of the article explores properties of T0. It is shown that any merge (external or internal, merge of a head or a phrase) yields a well-formed structure. Since it does not matter to the requirement what category merges to T0, the condition must be stated as a general requirement on what category may be the root. R?sum?: Cet article pr?sente une ?tude de cas du tch?que qui rend possible une analyse unifi?e de divers ph?nom?nes de deuxi?me position selon laquelle ils sont tous le r?sultat d?une condition d?interface sur l?extension d?une t?te. La condition exige qu?une t?te doit subir au moins deux occurrences de fusion ? l?int?rieur de sa phase. La partie centrale de l?article ?tudie les propri?t?s de T0. Il est d?montr? que n?importe quelle occurrence de fusion (externe ou interne, fusion d?une t?te ou d?un syntagme) cr?e une structure bien form?e. Puisque la cat?gorie de l??l?ment qui fusionne ? T0 n?est pas importante, la condition doit ?tre formul?e comme une exigence g?n?rale sur la cat?gorie de la racine. Transitive be perfect: An experimental study of Canadian English pp. 427-457 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0046 Yuri Yerastov Abstract: This article investigates exemplars of the transitive be perfect in Canadian English, such as I am done dinner and I am finished my homework. I report on an experimental study of acceptability judgments of this construction, given by speakers of Canadian English primarily recruited from the Calgary area. I claim that the construction [be done NP] is characterized by preference for the animacy of the subject, preference for definiteness of the direct object, open-endedness of the direct object slot, and limited variability of the participle. I conclude that [be done NP] is a partially schematic construction that is close to a ?prefab?. R?sum?: Cet article ?tudie des exemples du parfait transitif avec l?auxiliaire be en anglais canadien, comme dans I am done dinner et I am finished my homework. L?article rend compte d?une ?tude exp?rimentale dans laquelle ?taient sollicit?s des jugements d?acceptabilit? portant sur des exemples de cette construction fournis par des locuteurs d?anglais canadien recrut?s surtout dans la r?gion de Calgary. Sur la base de cette ?tude, j?affirme que la construction [be done SN] est caract?ris?e par une pr?f?rence pour un sujet anim?, une pr?f?rence pour la d?finitude du compl?ment d?objet direct, le caract?re ouvert du compl?ment d?objet direct et la variabilit? limit?e du participe. Je tire la conclusion que [be done SN] est une construction partiellement sch?matique qui ressemble plut?t ? une construction ?toute faite?. Reviews / Comptes Rendus Dialects of English: Newfoundland and Labrador English (review) pp. 459-461 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0034 Gordon Alley-Young Event representation in language and cognition (review) pp. 461-464 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0036 Engin Arik Dictionary of American Regional English (review) pp. 464-467 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0038 J.K. Chambers Cyclical change (review) pp. 467-470 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0041 Ail?s Cournane Parametric variation: Null subject in Minimalist Theory (review) pp. 470-473 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0043 Gr?te Dalmi The handbook of phonetic sciences (review) pp. 474-477 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0045 Zahir Mumin Language, usage and cognition (review) pp. 477-480 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0047 Mohammad Rasekh Mahand Second dialect acquisition (review) pp. 480-483 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0035 Karim Sadeghi ________________________________ Books Received / Livres re?us pp. 491-493 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0037 Thanks to Reviewers Remerciements aux ?valuateurs p. 494 | DOI: 10.1353/cjl.2012.0040 The Canadian Journal of Linguistics publishes articles of original research in linguistics in both English and French. 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Courses and instructors: Course 1 = Albanian (Brian Joseph, Columbus Ohio) Course 2 = Mycenaean (Eugenio Lujan, Madrid) Course 3 = Armenian (Hrach Martirosyan, Leiden) Course 4 = Avestan (Alberto Cantera, Salamanca) Course 5 = Evolutionary approaches to Indo-European linguistics (Michael Dunn, Nijmegen) Admission: We invite PhD students, as well as Postdocs and other young researchers. Advanced MA students will also be considered for admission, based on a written statement of their motivation for attending the school. As all courses will be taught in English, a good knowledge of English is a basic requirement. Deadline for applications: June 1, 2013 Fees: There will be a 70 euros registration fee, which will cover lunches and course materials. We have reserved single rooms for participants at the Collegio Cardano; information regarding prices will be given at a later date. 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This book series is aimed at sociolinguists and social historians who are keen to publish studies on the social history of languages, the interaction of linguistic practices and society, and the sociological significance of linguistic variation with a historical dimension. The purpose of the series is to provide empirically supported studies that will challenge and advance current language historiographies, which often continue to present the history of particular languages as necessarily leading to the creation of a standard or prestige variety. Of particular interest are topics such as the following: language myths and language ideology, historical multilingualism and the formation of nation-states, the sociolinguistics of minority and regional languages, the rise of urban vernaculars, immigrants and their languages, the role of prescriptive grammarians, and the social history of pidgins and creoles. Book proposals from historians and linguists working on any language in any period are welcome, in particular those that include a comparative dimension as well as those with a strong empirical foundation. The preferred language of publication is English. All publications will be peer reviewed; the four series editors and twenty-five members of the advisory board are all members of the Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) . Advisory Board Anita Auer (Utrecht), Jack Chambers (Toronto), Steffan Davies (Bristol), Ana Deumert (Cape Town), Jose del Valle (CUNY), Martin Durrell (Manchester), Robert Evans (Oxford), Kristine Horner (Sheffield), Elin Fredsted (Flensburg), Roisin Healy (Galway), Juan Hernandez-Campoy (Murcia), Robert Howell (Wisconsin-Madison), Ernst Hakon Jahr (Agder), Mari Jones (Cambridge), Andrew Linn (Sheffield), Anthony Lodge (St Andrews), Nicola McLelland (Nottingham), Miriam Meyerhoff (Auckland), Agnete Nesse (Bergen), Terttu Nevalainen (Helsinki), Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden), Joachim Scharloth (Dresden), Peter Trudgill (Agder), Marijke van der Wal (Leiden), Laura Wright (Cambridge) Peter Lang www.peterlang.com For more information, please contact Dr Laurel Plapp, Commissioning Editor, Peter Lang Ltd, 52 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LU, UK. Email: l.plapp at peterlang.com. Tel: +44(0)1865 514160. Prof. dr. 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My neogrammarian heart tells me that sound changes are aware of phonetic environments only and not part of speech categories. Such a thing is thus only possible if verbs are phonetically different than nouns in a systematic way (which is of course possible). Anyhow, a reviewer tells me that proto-Uto-Aztecan initial *p becomes zero in Nahuatl nouns but is preserved in verbs and cites the pair (.-tl "water" vs -p.ca "to wash"). The reviewer does not cite a discussion of this and I am totally at sea in the Uto-Aztecan literature. But, if this is an uncontroversial part of Uto-Aztecan historical phonology surely it has given rise to the same methodological concerns that I raise (sound change should apply blindly). I would be very grateful for any discussion of this or advice on treatments of this question in literature. with gratitude, Nathan _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From jhewson at mun.ca Fri Nov 30 13:48:12 2012 From: jhewson at mun.ca (John Hewson) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:18:12 -0330 Subject: conditioning of Uto-Aztecan *p in Nahuatl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This is an interesting question which should indeed be discussed. There is, in the tradition, the observed phenomenon of paradigmatic resistance to sound change which affects only paradigms. And there is change of paradigmatic elements such as the 3rd sing verb inflection -th of Old and Middle English becoming -s in Early Modern, a change still not complete in Shakespeare's day: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. (from Portia's court speech in the Merchant of Venice). There may be a justification for this change, but if there is, it must be a very subtle one! John Hewson On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Nathan Hill wrote: > Dear Historical Linguists, > > In a paper about Tibetan I am criticizing someone for proposing that > the same segment became one thing in nouns and another thing in verbs. > My neogrammarian heart tells me that sound changes are aware of > phonetic environments only and not part of speech categories. Such a > thing is thus only possible if verbs are phonetically different than > nouns in a systematic way (which is of course possible). > > Anyhow, a reviewer tells me that proto-Uto-Aztecan initial *p becomes > zero in Nahuatl nouns but is preserved in verbs and cites the pair > (.-tl "water" vs -p.ca "to wash"). The reviewer does not cite a > discussion of this and I am totally at sea in the Uto-Aztecan > literature. But, if this is an uncontroversial part of Uto-Aztecan > historical phonology surely it has given rise to the same > methodological concerns that I raise (sound change should apply > blindly). > > I would be very grateful for any discussion of this or advice on > treatments of this question in literature. > > with gratitude, > Nathan > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l > ******************************************************************************* John Hewson, FRSC tel: (709)753-8434 Henrietta Harvey Professor Emeritus fax: (709)737-4000 Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's NF, CANADA A1B 3X9 ******************************************************************************* This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From pk299 at cam.ac.uk Fri Nov 30 14:20:57 2012 From: pk299 at cam.ac.uk (Petros Karatsareas) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:20:57 +0000 Subject: conditioning of Uto-Aztecan *p in Nahuatl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It would be helpful to know what the original segment and the two subsequent ?things? are in your Tibetan case, especially if the developments involve retaining the original segment in some environments but not in others ? say, in nouns but not in verbs. In many cases, sounds may resist ? or, fail to undergo ? change in order to preserve structural disambiguation. Here is a relevant example from the history of Greek: In the Medieval period, many varieties of Greek underwent a very widespread loss of word-final [-n]. -n was, however, retained in quite a few environments, and especially before vowels and stops, to avoid morphosyntactic ambiguity. The case of Ancient/Hellenistic Greek m??lo-n ?apple? is quite telling, in that connection: notice in (1) how the change affects the nominative/accusative singular forms but not the genitive plural form. (1) Hellenistic Greek Medieval Greek SG NOM/ACC m??lon milo? GEN m??lu? milu PL NOM/ACC m??la mila GEN me?l??n milon If the change had affected the genitive plural form, we would have had an instance of trans-number syncretism: me?l??n ?apple.GEN.PL? > milo? = milo? ?apple.NOM/ACC.SG?. As a matter of fact, the genitive plural morpheme -??n > -on is one of the environments that have retained word-final -n across the board in many Greek varieties to block this from happening. Hope this helps a little bit. Petros Karatsareas On 30 Nov 2012, at 13:48, John Hewson wrote: > > This is an interesting question which should indeed be discussed. > > There is, in the tradition, the observed phenomenon of paradigmatic resistance to sound change which affects only paradigms. And there is change of paradigmatic elements such as the 3rd sing verb inflection -th of Old and Middle English becoming -s in Early Modern, a change still not complete in Shakespeare's day: > > It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. > > (from Portia's court speech in the Merchant of Venice). > > There may be a justification for this change, but if there is, it must be a very subtle one! > > John Hewson > > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2012, Nathan Hill wrote: > >> Dear Historical Linguists, >> >> In a paper about Tibetan I am criticizing someone for proposing that >> the same segment became one thing in nouns and another thing in verbs. >> My neogrammarian heart tells me that sound changes are aware of >> phonetic environments only and not part of speech categories. Such a >> thing is thus only possible if verbs are phonetically different than >> nouns in a systematic way (which is of course possible). >> >> Anyhow, a reviewer tells me that proto-Uto-Aztecan initial *p becomes >> zero in Nahuatl nouns but is preserved in verbs and cites the pair >> (.-tl "water" vs -p.ca "to wash"). The reviewer does not cite a >> discussion of this and I am totally at sea in the Uto-Aztecan >> literature. But, if this is an uncontroversial part of Uto-Aztecan >> historical phonology surely it has given rise to the same >> methodological concerns that I raise (sound change should apply >> blindly). >> >> I would be very grateful for any discussion of this or advice on >> treatments of this question in literature. >> >> with gratitude, >> Nathan >> _______________________________________________ >> Histling-l mailing list >> Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu >> https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l >> > > > ******************************************************************************* > John Hewson, FRSC tel: (709)753-8434 > Henrietta Harvey Professor Emeritus fax: (709)737-4000 > Memorial University of Newfoundland > St. John's NF, CANADA A1B 3X9 > ******************************************************************************* > > This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at > http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php > _______________________________________________ > Histling-l mailing list > Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu > https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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