From thawkic551 at rogers.com Mon Aug 18 14:50:01 2014 From: thawkic551 at rogers.com (UTP Journals) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 10:50:01 -0400 Subject: Recent additions to Lexicons of Early Modern English Message-ID: Recently added to Lexicons of Early Modern English http://bit.ly/_leme § Stephen Batman, "A note of Saxon wordes" (1581) § Edmund Bohun, Geographical Dictionary (1693): 11,681 word-entries § Richard Boothby, A Brief Discovery or Description of the Most Famous Island of Madagascar (1646) § Thomas Dekker, O per se O (1612) § John Heydon, "A Chymical Dictionary " (English; 1662): 70 word-entries. § Gregory Martin, The New Testament of the English College of Rheims (1582) § Gerhard Mercator, Historia Mundi Or Mercator's Atlas (1635) § Guy Miège, A New Dictionary French and English, with another English and French (1677): 18,376 word-entries, 73,641 sub-entries § John Ogilby, Asia, the First Part (1673) § John Rider, Bibliotheca Scholastica (English-Latin, 1589): 42,000 word-entries and sub-entries. § Richard Rowlands, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities (1605; Richard Verstegan; text replaced by an extended and analyzed version) § Nicholas Stone, Enchiridion of Fortification (1645) § John Thorie, The Theatre of the Earth (1601; place-names): 3,100 word-entries. § John Turner, A Book of Wines (1568) Coming soon to LEME § Ortus Vocabulorum (Latin-English, 1500): 25,500 word-entries. § Henry Hexham, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary (1647): 33,000 word-entries. Lexicons of Early Modern English is a growing historical database offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts documenting the growth and development of the English language. With more than 600,000 word-entries from 184 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and linguistic treatises, encyclopedic and other lexical works from the beginning of printing in England to 1702, as well as tools updated annually, LEME sets the standard for modern linguistic research on the English language. Use Modern Techniques to Research Early Modern English! 199 Searchable lexicons 148 Fully analyzed lexicons 664 546 Total word entries 444 971 Fully analyzed word entries 573 423 Total analyzed forms and subforms 444 972 Total analyzed forms 128 451 Total analyzed subforms 60 891 Total English modern headwords LEME provides exciting opportunities for research for historians of the English language. More than a half-million word-entries devised by contemporary speakers of early modern English describe the meaning of words, and their equivalents in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and Asia. University of Toronto Press Journals 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON, Canada M3H 5T8 Tel: (416) 667-7810 Fax: (416) 667-7881 journals at utpress.utoronto.ca www.utpjournals.com/leme http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ posted by T Hawkins -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If our proposal is accepted, you will have to send an abstract following the instructions in the ICHL web page: www.ichl22.unina.it Send your reactions to: Silvia Luraghi Tatiana Nikitina Important dates: Deadline for workshop proposals: 20 September 2014 Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals: 20 October 2014 Deadline for submission of abstracts for general sessions and workshops: 30 January 2015 Notification of acceptance of papers for general sessions and workshops: 30 March 2015 Workshop proposal for ICHL22, 27-31 July 2015, Naples Spatial relations in diachrony Convenors: Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia Tatiana Nikitina, CNRS Chiara Zanchi, University of Pavia The workshop addresses changes in the coding of spatial relations, with a focus on the coding of similarities and differences among spatial relations, or among variants of the same spatial relation. Topics that we would like to discuss include the source-goal asymmetry, differential marking of spatial relations, polysemy or lack of polysemy among markers of spatial relations, and the related diachronic developments. Asymmetries between goals and sources Recent research has demonstrated a number of differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion. In general, goals of motion are expressed more frequently and in more fine-grained ways than sources (Stefanowitsch & Rohde 2004; Regier & Zheng 2007, inter alia). The asymmetry also shows up in more subtle syntactic phenomena: unlike sources, which often behave as adjuncts, goals tend to share properties with verbal arguments, and they are also more likely than sources to be incorporated in the argument structure of verbal applicatives (Baker 1988; Filip 2003). Patterns of polysemy within systems of spatial marking also point in the same direction: static locations are commonly coded by the same markers as goals of motion, and in a way distinct from sources (Blake 1977, Noonan 2009, Nikitina 2009, Pantcheva 2010, Zwarts 2010). Not that this pattern of polysemy means that diachronic mergers of source and location are not attested; much to the contrary, many individual locative markers in European languages – such as French dedans ‘inside’ or Ancient Greek ópisthe(n) ‘behind’ – often go back to ablative expressions, suggesting an earlier ablative-locative transfer (Mackenzie 1978 with examples from the Indo-European language phylum, Israeli Hebrew, and two Austronesian languages, Fijian and Sonsorol-Tobi). What seems clear from the evidence adduced by Mackenzie, as well as from other instances of the semantic extension described above (cf., for example, Bennett 1989, Nikitina & Spano 2014, Luraghi 2009 and 2010a), is that once a marker acquires the locative meaning, it loses the original ablative meaning. Thus, while the extension from source to location is attested, possibly even more frequently than commonly believed, polysemy tends to be avoided. Note, however, that special types of landmarks (spatial referents, human beings) often allow some overlap in the use of ablative and locative encoding, and can be at the origin of ablative-locative transfers (Eckhoff, Thomason, de Swart 2013, Luraghi 2009 and 2014). What accounts for the difference between the observed synchronic patterns of spatial encoding, which tend to conflate static locations and goals, and the frequently attested individual instances of ablative-locative syncretism? How do ablative-locative transfers come about? How do different types of goal-source asymmetry develop historically? Differential marking of landmarks The encoding of certain spatial relations depends on the type of landmark, and non-conventional landmarks (e.g. human beings) often require special types of encoding (Luraghi 2011). With time, such differential marking may give rise to markers that are no longer obviously related to the original spatial concept. For example, the dative has been argued to be “genetically nothing else than an offshoot of the locative used with personal nouns” (Kurylowicz 1964: 190; cf. also Aristar 1996). How do patterns of differential marking of landmarks develop and what are their conditioning factors? What types of spatial relation are more likely to produce such asymmetries? What is the possible relation between the comitative, which implies the simultaneous involvement of two entities (often human beings) in a single event, and the locative, which implies physical coincidence or at least proximity? Diachronically, comitative markers seem to arise from markers of static location; however, synchronic locative-comitative polysemy seems to be avoided, just like the locative-ablative polysemy. More research is needed on the diachronic relation between spatial and comitative markers, as at present, most evidence comes from Indo-European languages (Stolz, Luraghi 2014). If location indeed functions as a source of comitatives cross-linguistically, what accounts for the virtual absence of synchronic polysemy between the two semantic roles? Asymmetries in the encoding of path As compared to sources and goals of motion, the role of path remains largely understudied. In the light of cross-linguistic coding tendencies, goal (allative), source/origin (ablative), and (static) location (locative) seem to be more ‘basic’ spatial relations than path. As argued in Stolz (1992: 30), there is a tendency for case marking related to spatial relations to exhibit ‘Dreigliedrigkeit’, i.e. a tripartite structure featuring dedicated coding devices for location, direction and source. Indeed, path can often be coded through cases/adpositions that usually indicate location, as in English Mary walks in the field. / The child is running in the street. How are different kinds of path encoded, and where does this encoding come from? How is the distinction between unidirectional and multidirectional paths represented in different languages, and how does it develop historically? The workshop addresses these and other issues in order to better understand the nature of asymmetries in the encoding of spatial relations and shed light on the diachronic relationship between goals, sources, paths, and static locations. List of possible participants with tentative titles References Aristar, Anthony Rodriguez. 1996. The relationship between dative and locative: Kurylowicz’s argument from a typological perspective. Diachronica 13: 207-224. Baker, Mark C. 1988. Incorporation: A theory of grammatical function changing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bennett, David C. 1989. Ablative-locative transfers: evidence from Slovene and Serbo-Croat. Oxford Slavonic Papers 22: 133-154. Blake, Barry J. 1977. Case marking in Australian languages. No. 23 in Linguistic Series. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Olga A. Thomason and Peter de Swart. 2013. Mapping out the Source domain. Studies in Language 37/2: 302–355. Filip, Hana. 2003. Prefixes and the delimitation of events. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 11: 55–101. Luraghi, Silvia 2009. A model for representing polysemy: The Italian preposition da. In Jacques François, Eric Gilbert, Claude Guimier, Maxi Krause, éds. Actes du Colloque “Autour de la préposition”, Caen, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 167-178. Luraghi, Silvia. 2010. Adverbial Phrases. In A New Historical Syntax of Latin, Ph. Baldi and P. Cuzzolin (eds.). Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 19-107. Luraghi, Silvia. 2011. Human landmarks in spatial expressions: from Latin to Romance. In S. Kittilä, K. Västi, J. Ylikoski (eds.), Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 207-234. Luraghi, Silvia. 2014. Plotting diachronic semantic maps. The role of metaphor. In S. Luraghi & H. Narrog, eds., Perspectives on Semantic Roles. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 99-150. Mackenzie, J. Lachlan. 1978. Ablative-locative transfers and their relevance for the theory of case-grammar. Journal of Linguistics 14: 129-375. Nikitina, Tatiana. 2009. Subcategorization pattern and lexical meaning of motion verbs: A study of the Source/Goal ambiguity. Linguistics 47: 1113-41. Nikitina, Tatiana and Marianna Spano. 2014. 'Behind' and 'in front' in Ancient Greek: A case study in orientation asymmetry. In On Ancient Grammars of Space: Linguistic research on the expression of spatial relations and motion in ancient languages, S. Kutscher & D. Werning (eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 67-82. Noonan, Michael. 2009. Patterns of development, patterns of syncretism of relational morphology in the Bodic languages. In The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case, J. Barðdal and S. Celliah (eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 261-282. Pantcheva, Marina. 2010. The syntactic structure of Locations, Goals, and Sources. Linguistics 48/5: 1043-1081. Regier, Terry & Mingyu Zheng. 2007. Attention to endpoints: A cross-linguistic constraint on spatial meaning. Cognitive Science 31: 705–719. Stefanowitsch, Anatol & Ada Rohde. 2004. The goal bias in the encoding of motion events. In Studies in Linguistic Motivation, G. Radden & K.-U.Panther (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 249-268. Stolz, Thomas, Cornelia Stroh and Aina Urdze. 2006. On comitatives and Related Categories. A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Stolz, Thomas. 1992. Lokalkasussysteme. Wilhelmsfeld: Gottfried Egert Verlag. Zwarts, Joost. 2010. A hierarchy of locations: Evidence from the encoding of direction in adpositions and cases. Linguistics 48: 983-1009. 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... 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Dissimilar pairs of terms. the research proves the viabilitity and profitability of about 15 bilingual dictionaries among European Languages arranged not only by alphabetical order, but also by means of morpho-semantic similarity and frequency of use, either on paper, digital or as an App. A. Therefore, i would suggest, first, complete this research with the comparison of other pairs languages, including pedagogical listings of modern Indo-European terms in all languages and the latest discoveries of cross-cognates in world languages. B. second, the design and implementation in Applied Linguistics and Bilinguals Lexicography of these investigations whether on paper, digital or as an App. i guess publishers and developers should be approached and copyright agreements reached with all parties involved. best wishes of success to everybody, [image: http://] Mingo Mendez [image: http://]about.me/mingomendez ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michela Cennamo Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:36 AM Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Workshop Proposals- ICHL22, 27-31 July 2015, Naples, Italy To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu Cc: Michela Cennamo *Call for Workshop Proposals* *The 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL22)* Date: 27-July 2015 - 31 July 2015 Location: Naples, Italy Contact Person: Michela Cennamo Email: micennam at unina.it Web Site: www.ichl22.unina.it (under construction) *Call deadline for workshop proposals: 20 September 2014* Meeting Description: The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is held every second year under the auspices of the International Society of Historical Linguistics. The most recent conferences took place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2009), Osaka, Japan (2011), Oslo, Norway (2013). *Call For Workshop proposals* Workshop proposals are invited on any aspect of Historical Linguistics, comprising (although not exclusively) the following topics: - Methods and models in Historical Linguistics (e.g., the comparative method, language phylogenies, areal-typological and formal approaches to language change) - Levels of analysis, e.g., phonetic/phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic change and reconstruction - Discourse/pragmatics and change - Contact-induced change - Language acquisition, language attrition, cognitive processes and change - Quantitative approaches to language change and diachronic corpus linguistics - Development of pidgins and creoles - Social and cultural dimensions of language change - In-depth studies of change in specific language families - Grammaticalization - Alia *Deadline for workshop proposals: 20 September 2014* *Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals: 20 October 2014* *Deadline for submission of abstracts for general sessions and workshops: 30 January 2015* *Notification of acceptance of papers for general sessions and workshops: 30 March 2015* ---- 5x1000 AI GIOVANI RICERCATORI DELL'UNIVERSITA' DI NAPOLI Codice Fiscale: 00876220633 www.unina.it/Vademecum5permille ­­ _______________________________________________ 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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John Heydon, "A Chymical Dictionary " (English; 1662): 70 word-entries. ? Gregory Martin, The New Testament of the English College of Rheims (1582) ? Gerhard Mercator, Historia Mundi Or Mercator's Atlas (1635) ? Guy Mi?ge, A New Dictionary French and English, with another English and French (1677): 18,376 word-entries, 73,641 sub-entries ? John Ogilby, Asia, the First Part (1673) ? John Rider, Bibliotheca Scholastica (English-Latin, 1589): 42,000 word-entries and sub-entries. ? Richard Rowlands, A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities (1605; Richard Verstegan; text replaced by an extended and analyzed version) ? Nicholas Stone, Enchiridion of Fortification (1645) ? John Thorie, The Theatre of the Earth (1601; place-names): 3,100 word-entries. ? John Turner, A Book of Wines (1568) Coming soon to LEME ? Ortus Vocabulorum (Latin-English, 1500): 25,500 word-entries. ? Henry Hexham, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary (1647): 33,000 word-entries. Lexicons of Early Modern English is a growing historical database offering scholars unprecedented access to early books and manuscripts documenting the growth and development of the English language. With more than 600,000 word-entries from 184 monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and linguistic treatises, encyclopedic and other lexical works from the beginning of printing in England to 1702, as well as tools updated annually, LEME sets the standard for modern linguistic research on the English language. Use Modern Techniques to Research Early Modern English! 199 Searchable lexicons 148 Fully analyzed lexicons 664 546 Total word entries 444 971 Fully analyzed word entries 573 423 Total analyzed forms and subforms 444 972 Total analyzed forms 128 451 Total analyzed subforms 60 891 Total English modern headwords LEME provides exciting opportunities for research for historians of the English language. More than a half-million word-entries devised by contemporary speakers of early modern English describe the meaning of words, and their equivalents in languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other tongues encountered then in Europe, America, and Asia. University of Toronto Press Journals 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON, Canada M3H 5T8 Tel: (416) 667-7810 Fax: (416) 667-7881 journals at utpress.utoronto.ca www.utpjournals.com/leme http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/ posted by T Hawkins -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: The diachrony of valence submission version 3-8-14_EL.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 341198 bytes Desc: 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 Aug 21 17:06:06 2014 From: luraghi at unipv.it (Silvia Luraghi) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:06:06 +0200 Subject: Workshop proposal for ICHL22, 27-31 July 2015, Naples - Spatial relations in diachrony In-Reply-To: Message-ID: >Dear Listers, we would like to call your attention on our proposal for a workshop at ICHL 22 in Naples (27-31 July 2015). The workshop hasn't been accepted yet, but for the proposal we need a list of possible titles. We invite to send us a title by September 10th if you are interested. If our proposal is accepted, you will have to send an abstract following the instructions in the ICHL web page: www.ichl22.unina.it Send your reactions to: Silvia Luraghi Tatiana Nikitina Important dates: Deadline for workshop proposals: 20 September 2014 Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals: 20 October 2014 Deadline for submission of abstracts for general sessions and workshops: 30 January 2015 Notification of acceptance of papers for general sessions and workshops: 30 March 2015 Workshop proposal for ICHL22, 27-31 July 2015, Naples Spatial relations in diachrony Convenors: Silvia Luraghi, University of Pavia Tatiana Nikitina, CNRS Chiara Zanchi, University of Pavia The workshop addresses changes in the coding of spatial relations, with a focus on the coding of similarities and differences among spatial relations, or among variants of the same spatial relation. Topics that we would like to discuss include the source-goal asymmetry, differential marking of spatial relations, polysemy or lack of polysemy among markers of spatial relations, and the related diachronic developments. Asymmetries between goals and sources Recent research has demonstrated a number of differences in the encoding of goals and sources of motion. In general, goals of motion are expressed more frequently and in more fine-grained ways than sources (Stefanowitsch & Rohde 2004; Regier & Zheng 2007, inter alia). The asymmetry also shows up in more subtle syntactic phenomena: unlike sources, which often behave as adjuncts, goals tend to share properties with verbal arguments, and they are also more likely than sources to be incorporated in the argument structure of verbal applicatives (Baker 1988; Filip 2003). Patterns of polysemy within systems of spatial marking also point in the same direction: static locations are commonly coded by the same markers as goals of motion, and in a way distinct from sources (Blake 1977, Noonan 2009, Nikitina 2009, Pantcheva 2010, Zwarts 2010). Not that this pattern of polysemy means that diachronic mergers of source and location are not attested; much to the contrary, many individual locative markers in European languages ? such as French dedans ?inside? or Ancient Greek ?pisthe(n) ?behind? ? often go back to ablative expressions, suggesting an earlier ablative-locative transfer (Mackenzie 1978 with examples from the Indo-European language phylum, Israeli Hebrew, and two Austronesian languages, Fijian and Sonsorol-Tobi). What seems clear from the evidence adduced by Mackenzie, as well as from other instances of the semantic extension described above (cf., for example, Bennett 1989, Nikitina & Spano 2014, Luraghi 2009 and 2010a), is that once a marker acquires the locative meaning, it loses the original ablative meaning. Thus, while the extension from source to location is attested, possibly even more frequently than commonly believed, polysemy tends to be avoided. Note, however, that special types of landmarks (spatial referents, human beings) often allow some overlap in the use of ablative and locative encoding, and can be at the origin of ablative-locative transfers (Eckhoff, Thomason, de Swart 2013, Luraghi 2009 and 2014). What accounts for the difference between the observed synchronic patterns of spatial encoding, which tend to conflate static locations and goals, and the frequently attested individual instances of ablative-locative syncretism? How do ablative-locative transfers come about? How do different types of goal-source asymmetry develop historically? Differential marking of landmarks The encoding of certain spatial relations depends on the type of landmark, and non-conventional landmarks (e.g. human beings) often require special types of encoding (Luraghi 2011). With time, such differential marking may give rise to markers that are no longer obviously related to the original spatial concept. For example, the dative has been argued to be ?genetically nothing else than an offshoot of the locative used with personal nouns? (Kurylowicz 1964: 190; cf. also Aristar 1996). How do patterns of differential marking of landmarks develop and what are their conditioning factors? What types of spatial relation are more likely to produce such asymmetries? What is the possible relation between the comitative, which implies the simultaneous involvement of two entities (often human beings) in a single event, and the locative, which implies physical coincidence or at least proximity? Diachronically, comitative markers seem to arise from markers of static location; however, synchronic locative-comitative polysemy seems to be avoided, just like the locative-ablative polysemy. More research is needed on the diachronic relation between spatial and comitative markers, as at present, most evidence comes from Indo-European languages (Stolz, Luraghi 2014). If location indeed functions as a source of comitatives cross-linguistically, what accounts for the virtual absence of synchronic polysemy between the two semantic roles? Asymmetries in the encoding of path As compared to sources and goals of motion, the role of path remains largely understudied. In the light of cross-linguistic coding tendencies, goal (allative), source/origin (ablative), and (static) location (locative) seem to be more ?basic? spatial relations than path. As argued in Stolz (1992: 30), there is a tendency for case marking related to spatial relations to exhibit ?Dreigliedrigkeit?, i.e. a tripartite structure featuring dedicated coding devices for location, direction and source. Indeed, path can often be coded through cases/adpositions that usually indicate location, as in English Mary walks in the field. / The child is running in the street. How are different kinds of path encoded, and where does this encoding come from? How is the distinction between unidirectional and multidirectional paths represented in different languages, and how does it develop historically? The workshop addresses these and other issues in order to better understand the nature of asymmetries in the encoding of spatial relations and shed light on the diachronic relationship between goals, sources, paths, and static locations. List of possible participants with tentative titles References Aristar, Anthony Rodriguez. 1996. The relationship between dative and locative: Kurylowicz?s argument from a typological perspective. Diachronica 13: 207-224. Baker, Mark C. 1988. Incorporation: A theory of grammatical function changing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bennett, David C. 1989. Ablative-locative transfers: evidence from Slovene and Serbo-Croat. Oxford Slavonic Papers 22: 133-154. Blake, Barry J. 1977. Case marking in Australian languages. No. 23 in Linguistic Series. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Eckhoff, Hanne Martine, Olga A. Thomason and Peter de Swart. 2013. Mapping out the Source domain. Studies in Language 37/2: 302?355. Filip, Hana. 2003. Prefixes and the delimitation of events. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 11: 55?101. Luraghi, Silvia 2009. A model for representing polysemy: The Italian preposition da. In Jacques Fran?ois, Eric Gilbert, Claude Guimier, Maxi Krause, ?ds. Actes du Colloque ?Autour de la pr?position?, Caen, Presses Universitaires de Caen, 167-178. Luraghi, Silvia. 2010. Adverbial Phrases. In A New Historical Syntax of Latin, Ph. Baldi and P. Cuzzolin (eds.). Berlin/ New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 19-107. Luraghi, Silvia. 2011. Human landmarks in spatial expressions: from Latin to Romance. In S. Kittil?, K. V?sti, J. Ylikoski (eds.), Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 207-234. Luraghi, Silvia. 2014. Plotting diachronic semantic maps. The role of metaphor. In S. Luraghi & H. Narrog, eds., Perspectives on Semantic Roles. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 99-150. Mackenzie, J. Lachlan. 1978. Ablative-locative transfers and their relevance for the theory of case-grammar. Journal of Linguistics 14: 129-375. Nikitina, Tatiana. 2009. Subcategorization pattern and lexical meaning of motion verbs: A study of the Source/Goal ambiguity. Linguistics 47: 1113-41. Nikitina, Tatiana and Marianna Spano. 2014. 'Behind' and 'in front' in Ancient Greek: A case study in orientation asymmetry. In On Ancient Grammars of Space: Linguistic research on the expression of spatial relations and motion in ancient languages, S. Kutscher & D. Werning (eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 67-82. Noonan, Michael. 2009. Patterns of development, patterns of syncretism of relational morphology in the Bodic languages. In The Role of Semantics and Pragmatics in the Development of Case, J. Bar?dal and S. Celliah (eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 261-282. Pantcheva, Marina. 2010. The syntactic structure of Locations, Goals, and Sources. Linguistics 48/5: 1043-1081. Regier, Terry & Mingyu Zheng. 2007. Attention to endpoints: A cross-linguistic constraint on spatial meaning. Cognitive Science 31: 705?719. Stefanowitsch, Anatol & Ada Rohde. 2004. The goal bias in the encoding of motion events. In Studies in Linguistic Motivation, G. Radden & K.-U.Panther (eds.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 249-268. Stolz, Thomas, Cornelia Stroh and Aina Urdze. 2006. On comitatives and Related Categories. A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. Stolz, Thomas. 1992. Lokalkasussysteme. Wilhelmsfeld: Gottfried Egert Verlag. Zwarts, Joost. 2010. A hierarchy of locations: Evidence from the encoding of direction in adpositions and cases. Linguistics 48: 983-1009. 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... 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Dissimilar pairs of terms. the research proves the viabilitity and profitability of about 15 bilingual dictionaries among European Languages arranged not only by alphabetical order, but also by means of morpho-semantic similarity and frequency of use, either on paper, digital or as an App. A. Therefore, i would suggest, first, complete this research with the comparison of other pairs languages, including pedagogical listings of modern Indo-European terms in all languages and the latest discoveries of cross-cognates in world languages. B. second, the design and implementation in Applied Linguistics and Bilinguals Lexicography of these investigations whether on paper, digital or as an App. i guess publishers and developers should be approached and copyright agreements reached with all parties involved. best wishes of success to everybody, [image: http://] Mingo Mendez [image: http://]about.me/mingomendez ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michela Cennamo Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 9:36 AM Subject: [Histling-l] Call for Workshop Proposals- ICHL22, 27-31 July 2015, Naples, Italy To: histling-l at mailman.rice.edu Cc: Michela Cennamo *Call for Workshop Proposals* *The 22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL22)* Date: 27-July 2015 - 31 July 2015 Location: Naples, Italy Contact Person: Michela Cennamo Email: micennam at unina.it Web Site: www.ichl22.unina.it (under construction) *Call deadline for workshop proposals: 20 September 2014* Meeting Description: The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is held every second year under the auspices of the International Society of Historical Linguistics. The most recent conferences took place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2009), Osaka, Japan (2011), Oslo, Norway (2013). *Call For Workshop proposals* Workshop proposals are invited on any aspect of Historical Linguistics, comprising (although not exclusively) the following topics: - Methods and models in Historical Linguistics (e.g., the comparative method, language phylogenies, areal-typological and formal approaches to language change) - Levels of analysis, e.g., phonetic/phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic change and reconstruction - Discourse/pragmatics and change - Contact-induced change - Language acquisition, language attrition, cognitive processes and change - Quantitative approaches to language change and diachronic corpus linguistics - Development of pidgins and creoles - Social and cultural dimensions of language change - In-depth studies of change in specific language families - Grammaticalization - Alia *Deadline for workshop proposals: 20 September 2014* *Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals: 20 October 2014* *Deadline for submission of abstracts for general sessions and workshops: 30 January 2015* *Notification of acceptance of papers for general sessions and workshops: 30 March 2015* ---- 5x1000 AI GIOVANI RICERCATORI DELL'UNIVERSITA' DI NAPOLI Codice Fiscale: 00876220633 www.unina.it/Vademecum5permille ?? _______________________________________________ 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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