From l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz Thu Jul 1 03:02:10 1999 From: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (Lyle Campbell) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:02:10 EDT Subject: books for trade or sale Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear all: The following is a list of books of which, for weird reasons of various sorts I have come to have more than one copy of. I would like either to trade these for other books (primarily on historical linguistics or specific languages and/or their history) or to sell them (cheap). Most are new or very nearly so. Please contact me if you are interested in any of these at: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (I'll send them free of postage charges.) Thanks, Lyle Aikhenvald, Alexandra. 1996. Amazonian Languages. Canberra: Australian National University. [Readings for her course at the Australian Linguistics Institute. Anttila, Raimo. 1989. Historical and Comparative Linguistics. (2nd edition.) Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Bell, Allan and Janet Holmes. 1990. New Zealand Ways of Speaking English. Clevedon Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters. Boas, Franz. 1922. Handbook of American Indian Languages, Part 2. Washington: Government Printing Office. Bonvillain, Nancy. 1993. Language, Culture, and Communicaton The Meaning of Messages. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. Company Company, Concepción (ed.). 1997. Cambios Diacrónicos en el Español.. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Crowley, Terry. 1992. An Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 2nd edition. Auckland: Oxford University Press. Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encylopedia of The English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. De Ara, Fr Domingo. 1986. Vocalulario de lengua tzeldal según el orden de Copanabastla. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Furst, Jill Leslie. 1978. Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I: A Commentary. Albany: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany. Gallardo, Pablo Velásquez. 1978. Diccionario de la Lengua Phorphepecha. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica. Girard, Victor. 1971. Proto-Takanan Phonology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Heine, Bernd. 1997. Cognitive Foundations of Grammar. New York: Oxford University Press. Hertzler, Joyce O. 1965. A Sociology of Language. New York: Random House. Hopkins, Nicholas A. and J. Kathryn Josserand (eds.). 1979. Estudios Linguisticos en Lenguas Otomangues. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Anthropología e Historia. Itkonen, Erkki. 1946. Struktur und Entwicklung der ostlappischen Quanatitätssystaeme. (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 88.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Jayaram, BD and KS Rajyashree (eds). 1998. Goals and Strategies of Development of Indian Languages. Mysore, India: Central Institute of Indian Languages. Joos, Martin (ed). 1963. Readings in Linguistics, 3rd edition. Washington DC: The Graphic Arts Press, Inc. Keller, Kathryn C and Plácido Luciano G. 1997. Dicconario Chontal de Tabasco (Mayense). Tucson: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Korhonen, Mikko. 1974. Die Konjugation im Lappischen: Morphologisch-historische Untersuchung II: Die nominalen Formkategorien. (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 155.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Kuusi, Matti. 1949. Sampo-eepso: typologinen analyysi. [Sampo epic: a typological analysis.] (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 96.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Lass, Roger. 1984. Phonology: An introduction to basic concepts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Laughlin, Robert M. 1988. The People of the Bat: Mayan Tales and Dreams from Zinacantán. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institute Press. Levy, Paulette. 1987. Fonología del Totonaco de Papantla, Veracruz. Mexico: Universidad Nacional, Autónoma de México. Lope Blanche, Juan M. 1985. El Habla de Diego de Ordaz. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Maldonado Andrés, Juan, Juan Ordóñez Domingo, and Juan Ortiz Domingo. 1986. Dicconario Mam. Guatemala: Centro de Reproducciones de la Universidad Rafael Landívar. Moziño, Joseph Mariano. 1913. Noticias de Nutka. Mexico: Imprenta y Fototipia De la Secretaria de Fomento. [Complete, but with no cover.] Paasonen, H. 1941. Mordwinische Volksdichtung. (Edited and translated by Paavo Ravila, vol. 3.) (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 84.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Pensinger, Brenda J. 1974. Diccionario Mixteco. Mexico: Dirección General de Educación Extrascolar. Pinker, Steven. 1995. The Language Instinct. London: Penguin Books. Rensch, Calvin Ross. 1968. Proto-Chinantec Phonology. (Papeles de la Chinantla, IV). Mexico: Museo Nacional de Antropología. Sandberg, Karl C. and Eddison C. Tatham. 1968. French for Reading. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Schele, Linda and David Freidel. 1990. A Forest of Kings - The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. Silva-Corvalán, Carmen. 1994. Language Contact and Change Spanish in Los Angeles. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Turunen, Aimo. 1946. Lyydiläismurteiden äännehistoria I: Konsonantit. [The phonological history of Ludian dialects.] (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 89.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Virtaranta, Pertti. 1983. Karjalan Kielen Sanakirja, kolmas osa L-N. [Dictionary of the Karelian language, part 3, L-N.] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae XVI, 3.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Voces Amicorum Sovijärvi: in Honorem Antti Sovijärvi. 1982. (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 181.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Whitney, William Dwight. 1898. The Life and Growth of Language. New York: Appleton. Wichmann, Yrjö. 1987. Wotjakischer Wortschatz. (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae, XXI). Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Wierzbicka, Anna. 1992. Semantics, Culture and Cognition. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Yasugi, Yoshiho. 1995. Native Middle American Languages An Areal-Typological Perspective. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. Issues of Journals: Anales de Antropologia. 1983. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Anthropological Linguistics, Volume 38, Number 1. Diachronica Vol xii, no 2, 1995. Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, volumes 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 74, 75, and 80. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 10th Volume, number II. 1880. (Contains articles on Sanskrit). Journal of Mayan Linguistics, volume 6. Language, Volume 59, Number 3, Volume 65, Number 1. Tlalocan, Volume 12. 1997. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Professor Lyle Campbell Dept. of Linguistics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch, New Zealand Fax: 64-3-364-2969 Phone: 64-3-364-2242 From rankin at lark.cc.ukans.edu Thu Jul 1 19:57:06 1999 From: rankin at lark.cc.ukans.edu (Robert L. Rankin) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:57:06 EDT Subject: Evolution and language. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This week's issue of _Science_ (vol. 284:2124-2128), the journal of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, has a review article by W. Ford Doolittle, entitled "Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree", which surveys current views of classification in Molecular Biology. Those interested particularly in linguistic classification might find the paper worth reading, although, as you might guess, no basic questions will be resolved, but some provocative ones are posed, including "What if Phylogenetic Classification is Just Let Go?" (pp. 2127f.). There are "synchronic thinkers" and "diachronic thinkers" among biologists too, and Linguists can probably expect to hear more of this sort of thing in the future. If you do not have access to the journal, it is possible that the article can be viewed at http://www.sciencemag.org Bob Rankin Dept. of Linguistics University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045-2140 USA From l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz Fri Jul 2 14:53:28 1999 From: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (Lyle Campbell) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:53:28 EDT Subject: books for trade or sale Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Thank you for your interest in the books I offered to trade or sell. Many more people responded to my message than I had expected, and most were asking to buy rather than trade. So, rather than answer each of the many message individually, I will simply add prices to the original list and then send this back to you all and ask you both to forgive this informality and to write me again to tell me whether the price is acceptable to you for the book(s) you wanted. I do prefere to trade, and so will give trade offers priority over sales offers, though there were very few offers of trade. (I'll add some annotations to the list to some of these about their condition. Most of the books are new, accept that some of these do have my name written on the first page.) In order to be fair, where more than one request for the same book was received, I'll give first who responded first chance to say whether he/she still wants the book at the price here; if he/she does not want it for that price, I'll give it to the next earliest request, and so on until it is sold. So, please let me know whether you want the book(s) you wrote about at the price here. Again, sorry for not responding to everyone individually. (Also, can you send your regular mailing address if you do want the book(s).) Thanks again, Lyle Books for Trade or for Sale Lyle Campbell (l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz) Aikhenvald, Alexandra. 1996. Amazonian Languages. Canberra: Australian National University. [Readings for her course at the Australian Linguistics Institute; 17 photocopied papers.] $5.00 Anttila, Raimo. 1989. Historical and Comparative Linguistics. (2nd edition.) Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. $15.00 Bell, Allan and Janet Holmes. 1990. New Zealand Ways of Speaking English. Clevedon Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters. $20.00 Boas, Franz. 1922. Handbook of American Indian Languages, Part 2. Washington: Government Printing Office. $60.00 Bonvillain, Nancy. 1993. Language, Culture, and Communicaton The Meaning of Messages. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. $5.00 Company Company, Concepción (ed.). 1997. Cambios Diacrónicos en el Español.. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. $16.00 Crowley, Terry. 1992. An Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 2nd edition. Auckland: Oxford University Press. $5.00 Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encylopedia of The English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [489pp. Absolutely new.] $35.00 De Ara, Fr Domingo. 1986[1571]. Vocalulario de lengua tzeldal según el orden de Copanabastla. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. [520pp., contains both facsimile of original 1571 ms plus typescript version.] $20.00 Furst, Jill Leslie. 1978. Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I: A Commentary. Albany: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany. $6.00 Girard, Victor. 1971. Proto-Takanan Phonology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. $6.00 Heine, Bernd. 1997. Cognitive Foundations of Grammar. New York: Oxford University Press. $17.00 Hertzler, Joyce O. 1965. A Sociology of Language. New York: Random House. $5.00 Hopkins, Nicholas A. and J. Kathryn Josserand (eds.). 1979. Estudios Linguisticos en Lenguas Otomangues. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Anthropología e Historia. $5.00 Itkonen, Erkki. 1946. Struktur und Entwicklung der ostlappischen Quanatitätssystaeme. (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 88.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $8.00 Jayaram, BD and KS Rajyashree (eds). 1998. Goals and Strategies of Development of Indian Languages. Mysore, India: Central Institute of Indian Languages. $6.00 Joos, Martin (ed). 1963. Readings in Linguistics, 3rd edition. Washington DC: The Graphic Arts Press, Inc. [Cover somewhat sun-faded, but otherwise in very good condition.] $6.00 Keller, Kathryn C and Plácido Luciano G. 1997. Dicconario Chontal de Tabasco (Mayense). Tucson: Summer Institute of Linguistics. $20.00 Korhonen, Mikko. 1974. Die Konjugation im Lappischen: Morphologisch-historische Untersuchung II: Die nominalen Formkategorien. (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 155.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $8.00 Kuusi, Matti. 1949. Sampo-eepso: typologinen analyysi. [Sampo epic: a typological analysis.] (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 96.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $4.00 Lass, Roger. 1984. Phonology: An introduction to basic concepts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Has some heavy underscoring in different colors on numerous pages.] $5.00 Laughlin, Robert M. 1988. The People of the Bat: Mayan Tales and Dreams from Zinacantán. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institute Press. $6.00 Levy, Paulette. 1987. Fonología del Totonaco de Papantla, Veracruz. Mexico: Universidad Nacional, Autónoma de México. $5.00 Lope Blanche, Juan M. 1985. El Habla de Diego de Ordaz. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. $3.00 Maldonado Andrés, Juan, Juan Ordóñez Domingo, and Juan Ortiz Domingo. 1986. Dicconario Mam. Guatemala: Centro de Reproducciones de la Universidad Rafael Landívar. [513pp.] $20.00 Moziño, Joseph Mariano. 1913. Noticias de Nutka. Mexico: Imprenta y Fototipia De la Secretaria de Fomento. [Complete, but with no cover; paper is turning brown. Pages in good shape except for 3 or 4 pages with pencil underlying; title page a bit roughed up.] $20.00 Paasonen, H. 1941. Mordwinische Volksdichtung. (Edited and translated by Paavo Ravila, vol. 3.) (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 84.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $6.00 Pensinger, Brenda J. 1974. Diccionario Mixteco. Mexico: Dirección General de Educación Extrascolar. $12.00 Pinker, Steven. 1995. The Language Instinct. London: Penguin Books. $5.00 Rensch, Calvin Ross. 1968. Proto-Chinantec Phonology. (Papeles de la Chinantla, IV). Mexico: Museo Nacional de Antropología. $5.00 Sandberg, Karl C. and Eddison C. Tatham. 1968. French for Reading. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. $3.00 Schele, Linda and David Freidel. 1990. A Forest of Kings - The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. [Paperback edition.] $10.00 Silva-Corvalán, Carmen. 1994. Language Contact and Change Spanish in Los Angeles. Oxford: Clarendon Press. $20.00 Turunen, Aimo. 1946. Lyydiläismurteiden äännehistoria I: Konsonantit. [The phonological history of Ludian dialects.] (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 89.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. [345pp.] $6.00 Velásquez Gallardo, Pablo. 1978. Diccionario de la Lengua Phorphepecha. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica. $8.00 Virtaranta, Pertti. 1983. Karjalan Kielen Sanakirja, kolmas osa L-N. [Dictionary of the Karelian language, part 3, L-N.] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae XVI, 3.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. [1-583pp.] [Note: this is only L-N; since I have two of this and no A-M section, I would prefer to trade.] $12.00 Voces Amicorum Sovijärvi: in Honorem Antti Sovijärvi. 1982. (Memoires de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, 181.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $6.00 Whitney, William Dwight. 1898. The Life and Growth of Language. New York: Appleton. [Hardcover. Cover dirty and faded, but otherwise in excellent condition.] $20.00 Wichmann, Yrjö. 1987. Wotjakischer Wortschatz. (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae, XXI). Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $25.00 Wierzbicka, Anna. 1992. Semantics, Culture and Cognition. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. $15.00 Yasugi, Yoshiho. 1995. Native Middle American Languages An Areal-Typological Perspective. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. [481pp.] $15.00 Issues of Journals: Anales de Antropologia. 1983, vol. II: Etnología y lingüística. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. $5.00 Anthropological Linguistics, Volume 38, Number 1. $3.00 Diachronica Vol xii, no 2, 1995. $3.00 Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne, volumes 52 [1943-4], 53 [1946-7], 54 [1948-50], 55 [1951], 56 [1952], 57 [1953-4], 58 [1955-6], 59 [1957], 60 [1958], 74 [1976], 75 [1977], and 80 [1986]. $5.00 each Journal of the American Oriental Society, 10th Volume, number II. 1880. [Avery, John, "Contributions to the history of verb-inflections in Sanskrit" pp.219-325; Lanman, Charles R., "Statistical account of noun-inflection in the Veda" pp.325-60]. $10.00 Journal of Mayan Linguistics, volume 6. $4.00 Language, Volume 59, Number 3 $3.00 Volume 65, Number 1. $3.00 Tlalocan, Volume 12. 1997. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. $10.00 Professor Lyle Campbell Dept. of Linguistics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch, New Zealand Fax: 64-3-364-2969 Phone: 64-3-364-2242 From LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de Tue Jul 6 19:57:21 1999 From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:57:21 EDT Subject: New book announcement/LINCOM Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- THE EVOLUTION OF FIXED STRESS IN SLAVIC Matthew Baerman, University of Surrey The Evolution of Fixed Stress in Slavic is the first book-length treatment of the development of fixed stress systems in the Slavic languages. The complex system of morphological stress found in the ancestral language has been replaced in a number of the contemporary languages by phonologically fixed stress (e.g. initial as in Czech, penultimate as in Polish or antepenultimate as in Macedonian). The details of this major morphological innovation have remained unclear, as there is no textual evidence. Instead, this book address this problem through dialect geography, looking at areas where the transition from free to fixed stress is still discernible as a dialect continuum. Three languages in which fixed stress arose independently are examined, namely Kashubian (West Slavic), Macedonian (South Slavic) and the Carpathian dialects of Ukrainian (East Slavic). Each area is treated as a separate case study, with the prosodic and morphological factors leading to fixed stress clearly distinguished. The formal analysis is in terms of Optimality Theory, which allows for a graphic portrayal of the interaction of prosody and morphology . It is evident that the decisive prosodic factor is a prosodically motivated ban on final stress, which triggers a chain of morphological innovations, remarkably similar in all three cases. 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From DISTERH at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU Mon Jul 12 17:47:32 1999 From: DISTERH at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU (Dorothy Disterheft) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:47:32 EDT Subject: ISHL Nominations Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: In accordance with the Constitution of the International Society for Historical Linguistics, new officers and committee members shall be elected at the Society's next regular business meeting at the Thirteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, August 9-13, 1999. At that time, the Nominating Committee will propose the following members for election: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Future Conference Director Lene Schossler, Denmark (2003) Secretary Dorothy Disterheft, U.S.A. (2001) Member Rosanna Sornicola, Italy (2005) NOMINATING COMMITTEE Harold Koch, Australia (2003) Ans van Kemenade, The Netherlands (2007) I draw your attention to Article 3, Section 6 of the Constitution regarding nominations from the membership at large. Letters of nomination should be received by the Secretary at the address below before August 5, 1999. Dorothy Disterheft Linguistics Program University of South Carolina Columlbia, SC 29209 From Barrett at deGruyter.com Wed Jul 14 14:42:34 1999 From: Barrett at deGruyter.com (Lisa Natascha Barrett) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:42:34 EDT Subject: New from Mouton de Gruyter: Historical Semantics and Cognition Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Historical Semantics and Cognition Edited by Andreas Blank and Peter Koch 1999. 23 x 15,5 cm. VIII, 336 pages. Cloth. DM 198,- /oeS 1445,- /sFr 176,- /approx. US$ 124.00 ISBN 3-11-016614-3 Cognitive Linguistics Research 13 The goal of this book is to reflect on a long-overdue dialogue between academics of two apparently incompatible bases of research: the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and Historical Linguistics. The basis of the collected volume was that the predominantly practical-based area of Historical Linguistics will profit from theoretical input, just as Cognitive Linguistics Research will be stimulated by the more practical perspective provided by Historical Linguistics. The result is this publication, the first of its kind to reflect such an overwhelming mutual feedback. The list of authors, representing the most highly qualified experts in their field, speaks for itself in describing the quality of the contents of this book. Contents Andreas Blank and Peter Koch, Introduction: Historical semantics and cognition; Section I: Theories and Models: John R. Taylor, Cognitive semantics and structural semantics; Helmut Luedtke, Diachronic semantics: towards a unified theory of language change? Andreas Blank, Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for lexical semantic change; Dirk Geeraerts, Diachronic prototype semantics. A digest; Francois Rastier, Cognitive semantics and diachronic semantics: the values and evolution of classes; Section II: Descriptive categories: Ronald W. Langacker, Losing control: grammaticization, subjectification, and transparency; Elizabeth Closs Traugott, The rhetoric of counter-expectation in semantic change: a study in subjectification; Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke, Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy; Beatrice Warren, Laws of thought, knowledge and lexical change; Section III: Case studies: Ekkehard Koenig and Peter Siemund, Intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change; Thomas Krefeld, Cognitive ease and lexical borrowing: the recategorisation of body parts in Romance; Peter Koch, Cognitive aspects of semantic change and polysemy: the semantic space have/be; List of contributors; Index. Prices subject to change without notice. For order information please contact: Mouton de Gruyter Genthiner Str. 13 10785 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 30 26005 222 e-mail: orders at degruyter.de For order information for the United States, Canada, and Mexico please contact: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY, 10532 USA Fax: 914 747-1326 e-mail: CustomerService at degruyterny.com Titles published by Mouton de Gruyter can be ordered via World Wide Web at: http://www.degruyter.com From a.korn at em.uni-frankfurt.de Wed Jul 28 14:45:38 1999 From: a.korn at em.uni-frankfurt.de (agnes korn) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:45:38 EDT Subject: TITUS news Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Colleagues TITUS, the Frankfurt-based server for Indo-European linguistics (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/), proudly presents some new pages: - courses in Indo-European linguistics fall/winter 99/00; - teaching material including language maps (by Jost Gippert / Frankfurt) and a course in Cimbrian (by Remigio Geiser / Salzburg). Those interested in Cimbrian are also invited to register with the Cimbrian mailing list run by Oliver Baumann / Frankfurt (mailto:Cimbrian-List-request at em.uni-frankfurt.de) and to visit the Cimbrian homepage at http://www.diens.de/Zimberland/. Your suggestions are always welcome. Best regards Agnes Korn -- ........................................................................ Agnes Korn Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft : Tel. + 49 - 69 - 798 22 847 Universitaet Frankfurt : Fax + 49 - 69 - 798 22 873 PF 11 19 32 : http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de D - 60054 Frankfurt : mailto:a.korn at em.uni-frankfurt.de From jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net Thu Jul 29 16:18:37 1999 From: jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net (JJB) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:18:37 EDT Subject: iGLOS - Glossario International Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- To: HISTLING at VM.SC.EDU Re: http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/ Le Glossario International - iGLOS Estimate e car collegas, Iste "Glossario International" es un projecto in construction. Il es offerite como tal e con le sperantia que le personas que lo usa poterrea voluntar correctiones a su entratas. Si, il pote haber multe correctiones necessitate, e isto es le ration pro facer lo disponibile al publico e que assi omne poterea beneficiar se e adjutar con su disveloppamento pro medio de constante revisiones e amelioramentos. Le ultime revision ha le data de 1999.07.26 - Iste revision include plus terminos in Anglese / Interlingua e alsi incorpora traductiones in francese, germano, espaniol, italiano e portugese. Le file es quasi 700k in forma zippate e plus de duo Mb. quando inflate. Le file es columnate e delimitate per tabulationes. Il es multo facil poter cambiar le formatto pro applicationes de base de datos e tal manipulationes de informatica, le uso de Excel o Lotus 123 es alsi un possibilitate. Sia assecurate que vos pote inviar me un message private si vos necessita adjuta con le transformation a altere formattos. E qualque offertas de adjuta o suggestiones son sempre benvenite. Sincer e amicalmente, Jay Bowks JayBowks at poboxes.com http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/ From l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz Thu Jul 1 03:02:10 1999 From: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (Lyle Campbell) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:02:10 EDT Subject: books for trade or sale Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear all: The following is a list of books of which, for weird reasons of various sorts I have come to have more than one copy of. I would like either to trade these for other books (primarily on historical linguistics or specific languages and/or their history) or to sell them (cheap). Most are new or very nearly so. Please contact me if you are interested in any of these at: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (I'll send them free of postage charges.) Thanks, Lyle Aikhenvald, Alexandra. 1996. Amazonian Languages. Canberra: Australian National University. [Readings for her course at the Australian Linguistics Institute. Anttila, Raimo. 1989. Historical and Comparative Linguistics. (2nd edition.) Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Bell, Allan and Janet Holmes. 1990. New Zealand Ways of Speaking English. Clevedon Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters. Boas, Franz. 1922. Handbook of American Indian Languages, Part 2. Washington: Government Printing Office. Bonvillain, Nancy. 1993. Language, Culture, and Communicaton The Meaning of Messages. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. Company Company, Concepci?n (ed.). 1997. Cambios Diacr?nicos en el Espa?ol.. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. Crowley, Terry. 1992. An Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 2nd edition. Auckland: Oxford University Press. Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encylopedia of The English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. De Ara, Fr Domingo. 1986. Vocalulario de lengua tzeldal seg?n el orden de Copanabastla. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. Furst, Jill Leslie. 1978. Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I: A Commentary. Albany: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany. Gallardo, Pablo Vel?squez. 1978. Diccionario de la Lengua Phorphepecha. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Econ?mica. Girard, Victor. 1971. Proto-Takanan Phonology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Heine, Bernd. 1997. Cognitive Foundations of Grammar. New York: Oxford University Press. Hertzler, Joyce O. 1965. A Sociology of Language. New York: Random House. Hopkins, Nicholas A. and J. Kathryn Josserand (eds.). 1979. Estudios Linguisticos en Lenguas Otomangues. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Anthropolog?a e Historia. Itkonen, Erkki. 1946. Struktur und Entwicklung der ostlappischen Quanatit?tssystaeme. (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 88.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Jayaram, BD and KS Rajyashree (eds). 1998. Goals and Strategies of Development of Indian Languages. Mysore, India: Central Institute of Indian Languages. Joos, Martin (ed). 1963. Readings in Linguistics, 3rd edition. Washington DC: The Graphic Arts Press, Inc. Keller, Kathryn C and Pl?cido Luciano G. 1997. Dicconario Chontal de Tabasco (Mayense). Tucson: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Korhonen, Mikko. 1974. Die Konjugation im Lappischen: Morphologisch-historische Untersuchung II: Die nominalen Formkategorien. (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 155.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Kuusi, Matti. 1949. Sampo-eepso: typologinen analyysi. [Sampo epic: a typological analysis.] (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 96.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Lass, Roger. 1984. Phonology: An introduction to basic concepts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Laughlin, Robert M. 1988. The People of the Bat: Mayan Tales and Dreams from Zinacant?n. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institute Press. Levy, Paulette. 1987. Fonolog?a del Totonaco de Papantla, Veracruz. Mexico: Universidad Nacional, Aut?noma de M?xico. Lope Blanche, Juan M. 1985. El Habla de Diego de Ordaz. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. Maldonado Andr?s, Juan, Juan Ord??ez Domingo, and Juan Ortiz Domingo. 1986. Dicconario Mam. Guatemala: Centro de Reproducciones de la Universidad Rafael Land?var. Mozi?o, Joseph Mariano. 1913. Noticias de Nutka. Mexico: Imprenta y Fototipia De la Secretaria de Fomento. [Complete, but with no cover.] Paasonen, H. 1941. Mordwinische Volksdichtung. (Edited and translated by Paavo Ravila, vol. 3.) (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 84.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Pensinger, Brenda J. 1974. Diccionario Mixteco. Mexico: Direcci?n General de Educaci?n Extrascolar. Pinker, Steven. 1995. The Language Instinct. London: Penguin Books. Rensch, Calvin Ross. 1968. Proto-Chinantec Phonology. (Papeles de la Chinantla, IV). Mexico: Museo Nacional de Antropolog?a. Sandberg, Karl C. and Eddison C. Tatham. 1968. French for Reading. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Schele, Linda and David Freidel. 1990. A Forest of Kings - The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. Silva-Corval?n, Carmen. 1994. Language Contact and Change Spanish in Los Angeles. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Turunen, Aimo. 1946. Lyydil?ismurteiden ??nnehistoria I: Konsonantit. [The phonological history of Ludian dialects.] (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 89.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Virtaranta, Pertti. 1983. Karjalan Kielen Sanakirja, kolmas osa L-N. [Dictionary of the Karelian language, part 3, L-N.] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae XVI, 3.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Voces Amicorum Sovij?rvi: in Honorem Antti Sovij?rvi. 1982. (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 181.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Whitney, William Dwight. 1898. The Life and Growth of Language. New York: Appleton. Wichmann, Yrj?. 1987. Wotjakischer Wortschatz. (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae, XXI). Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. Wierzbicka, Anna. 1992. Semantics, Culture and Cognition. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Yasugi, Yoshiho. 1995. Native Middle American Languages An Areal-Typological Perspective. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. Issues of Journals: Anales de Antropologia. 1983. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. Anthropological Linguistics, Volume 38, Number 1. Diachronica Vol xii, no 2, 1995. Journal de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, volumes 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 74, 75, and 80. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 10th Volume, number II. 1880. (Contains articles on Sanskrit). Journal of Mayan Linguistics, volume 6. Language, Volume 59, Number 3, Volume 65, Number 1. Tlalocan, Volume 12. 1997. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. Professor Lyle Campbell Dept. of Linguistics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch, New Zealand Fax: 64-3-364-2969 Phone: 64-3-364-2242 From rankin at lark.cc.ukans.edu Thu Jul 1 19:57:06 1999 From: rankin at lark.cc.ukans.edu (Robert L. Rankin) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:57:06 EDT Subject: Evolution and language. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This week's issue of _Science_ (vol. 284:2124-2128), the journal of the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science, has a review article by W. Ford Doolittle, entitled "Phylogenetic Classification and the Universal Tree", which surveys current views of classification in Molecular Biology. Those interested particularly in linguistic classification might find the paper worth reading, although, as you might guess, no basic questions will be resolved, but some provocative ones are posed, including "What if Phylogenetic Classification is Just Let Go?" (pp. 2127f.). There are "synchronic thinkers" and "diachronic thinkers" among biologists too, and Linguists can probably expect to hear more of this sort of thing in the future. If you do not have access to the journal, it is possible that the article can be viewed at http://www.sciencemag.org Bob Rankin Dept. of Linguistics University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045-2140 USA From l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz Fri Jul 2 14:53:28 1999 From: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (Lyle Campbell) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:53:28 EDT Subject: books for trade or sale Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Thank you for your interest in the books I offered to trade or sell. Many more people responded to my message than I had expected, and most were asking to buy rather than trade. So, rather than answer each of the many message individually, I will simply add prices to the original list and then send this back to you all and ask you both to forgive this informality and to write me again to tell me whether the price is acceptable to you for the book(s) you wanted. I do prefere to trade, and so will give trade offers priority over sales offers, though there were very few offers of trade. (I'll add some annotations to the list to some of these about their condition. Most of the books are new, accept that some of these do have my name written on the first page.) In order to be fair, where more than one request for the same book was received, I'll give first who responded first chance to say whether he/she still wants the book at the price here; if he/she does not want it for that price, I'll give it to the next earliest request, and so on until it is sold. So, please let me know whether you want the book(s) you wrote about at the price here. Again, sorry for not responding to everyone individually. (Also, can you send your regular mailing address if you do want the book(s).) Thanks again, Lyle Books for Trade or for Sale Lyle Campbell (l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz) Aikhenvald, Alexandra. 1996. Amazonian Languages. Canberra: Australian National University. [Readings for her course at the Australian Linguistics Institute; 17 photocopied papers.] $5.00 Anttila, Raimo. 1989. Historical and Comparative Linguistics. (2nd edition.) Amsterdam/Philadephia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. $15.00 Bell, Allan and Janet Holmes. 1990. New Zealand Ways of Speaking English. Clevedon Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters. $20.00 Boas, Franz. 1922. Handbook of American Indian Languages, Part 2. Washington: Government Printing Office. $60.00 Bonvillain, Nancy. 1993. Language, Culture, and Communicaton The Meaning of Messages. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. $5.00 Company Company, Concepci?n (ed.). 1997. Cambios Diacr?nicos en el Espa?ol.. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. $16.00 Crowley, Terry. 1992. An Introduction to Historical Linguistics, 2nd edition. Auckland: Oxford University Press. $5.00 Crystal, David. 1995. The Cambridge Encylopedia of The English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [489pp. Absolutely new.] $35.00 De Ara, Fr Domingo. 1986[1571]. Vocalulario de lengua tzeldal seg?n el orden de Copanabastla. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. [520pp., contains both facsimile of original 1571 ms plus typescript version.] $20.00 Furst, Jill Leslie. 1978. Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I: A Commentary. Albany: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, State University of New York at Albany. $6.00 Girard, Victor. 1971. Proto-Takanan Phonology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. $6.00 Heine, Bernd. 1997. Cognitive Foundations of Grammar. New York: Oxford University Press. $17.00 Hertzler, Joyce O. 1965. A Sociology of Language. New York: Random House. $5.00 Hopkins, Nicholas A. and J. Kathryn Josserand (eds.). 1979. Estudios Linguisticos en Lenguas Otomangues. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Anthropolog?a e Historia. $5.00 Itkonen, Erkki. 1946. Struktur und Entwicklung der ostlappischen Quanatit?tssystaeme. (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 88.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $8.00 Jayaram, BD and KS Rajyashree (eds). 1998. Goals and Strategies of Development of Indian Languages. Mysore, India: Central Institute of Indian Languages. $6.00 Joos, Martin (ed). 1963. Readings in Linguistics, 3rd edition. Washington DC: The Graphic Arts Press, Inc. [Cover somewhat sun-faded, but otherwise in very good condition.] $6.00 Keller, Kathryn C and Pl?cido Luciano G. 1997. Dicconario Chontal de Tabasco (Mayense). Tucson: Summer Institute of Linguistics. $20.00 Korhonen, Mikko. 1974. Die Konjugation im Lappischen: Morphologisch-historische Untersuchung II: Die nominalen Formkategorien. (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 155.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $8.00 Kuusi, Matti. 1949. Sampo-eepso: typologinen analyysi. [Sampo epic: a typological analysis.] (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 96.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $4.00 Lass, Roger. 1984. Phonology: An introduction to basic concepts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Has some heavy underscoring in different colors on numerous pages.] $5.00 Laughlin, Robert M. 1988. The People of the Bat: Mayan Tales and Dreams from Zinacant?n. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institute Press. $6.00 Levy, Paulette. 1987. Fonolog?a del Totonaco de Papantla, Veracruz. Mexico: Universidad Nacional, Aut?noma de M?xico. $5.00 Lope Blanche, Juan M. 1985. El Habla de Diego de Ordaz. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. $3.00 Maldonado Andr?s, Juan, Juan Ord??ez Domingo, and Juan Ortiz Domingo. 1986. Dicconario Mam. Guatemala: Centro de Reproducciones de la Universidad Rafael Land?var. [513pp.] $20.00 Mozi?o, Joseph Mariano. 1913. Noticias de Nutka. Mexico: Imprenta y Fototipia De la Secretaria de Fomento. [Complete, but with no cover; paper is turning brown. Pages in good shape except for 3 or 4 pages with pencil underlying; title page a bit roughed up.] $20.00 Paasonen, H. 1941. Mordwinische Volksdichtung. (Edited and translated by Paavo Ravila, vol. 3.) (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 84.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $6.00 Pensinger, Brenda J. 1974. Diccionario Mixteco. Mexico: Direcci?n General de Educaci?n Extrascolar. $12.00 Pinker, Steven. 1995. The Language Instinct. London: Penguin Books. $5.00 Rensch, Calvin Ross. 1968. Proto-Chinantec Phonology. (Papeles de la Chinantla, IV). Mexico: Museo Nacional de Antropolog?a. $5.00 Sandberg, Karl C. and Eddison C. Tatham. 1968. French for Reading. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. $3.00 Schele, Linda and David Freidel. 1990. A Forest of Kings - The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. [Paperback edition.] $10.00 Silva-Corval?n, Carmen. 1994. Language Contact and Change Spanish in Los Angeles. Oxford: Clarendon Press. $20.00 Turunen, Aimo. 1946. Lyydil?ismurteiden ??nnehistoria I: Konsonantit. [The phonological history of Ludian dialects.] (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 89.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. [345pp.] $6.00 Vel?squez Gallardo, Pablo. 1978. Diccionario de la Lengua Phorphepecha. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Econ?mica. $8.00 Virtaranta, Pertti. 1983. Karjalan Kielen Sanakirja, kolmas osa L-N. [Dictionary of the Karelian language, part 3, L-N.] (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae XVI, 3.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. [1-583pp.] [Note: this is only L-N; since I have two of this and no A-M section, I would prefer to trade.] $12.00 Voces Amicorum Sovij?rvi: in Honorem Antti Sovij?rvi. 1982. (Memoires de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, 181.) Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $6.00 Whitney, William Dwight. 1898. The Life and Growth of Language. New York: Appleton. [Hardcover. Cover dirty and faded, but otherwise in excellent condition.] $20.00 Wichmann, Yrj?. 1987. Wotjakischer Wortschatz. (Lexica Societatis Fenno-Ugricae, XXI). Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura. $25.00 Wierzbicka, Anna. 1992. Semantics, Culture and Cognition. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. $15.00 Yasugi, Yoshiho. 1995. Native Middle American Languages An Areal-Typological Perspective. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. [481pp.] $15.00 Issues of Journals: Anales de Antropologia. 1983, vol. II: Etnolog?a y ling??stica. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. $5.00 Anthropological Linguistics, Volume 38, Number 1. $3.00 Diachronica Vol xii, no 2, 1995. $3.00 Journal de la Soci?t? Finno-Ougrienne, volumes 52 [1943-4], 53 [1946-7], 54 [1948-50], 55 [1951], 56 [1952], 57 [1953-4], 58 [1955-6], 59 [1957], 60 [1958], 74 [1976], 75 [1977], and 80 [1986]. $5.00 each Journal of the American Oriental Society, 10th Volume, number II. 1880. [Avery, John, "Contributions to the history of verb-inflections in Sanskrit" pp.219-325; Lanman, Charles R., "Statistical account of noun-inflection in the Veda" pp.325-60]. $10.00 Journal of Mayan Linguistics, volume 6. $4.00 Language, Volume 59, Number 3 $3.00 Volume 65, Number 1. $3.00 Tlalocan, Volume 12. 1997. Mexico: Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico. $10.00 Professor Lyle Campbell Dept. of Linguistics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch, New Zealand Fax: 64-3-364-2969 Phone: 64-3-364-2242 From LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de Tue Jul 6 19:57:21 1999 From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 15:57:21 EDT Subject: New book announcement/LINCOM Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- THE EVOLUTION OF FIXED STRESS IN SLAVIC Matthew Baerman, University of Surrey The Evolution of Fixed Stress in Slavic is the first book-length treatment of the development of fixed stress systems in the Slavic languages. The complex system of morphological stress found in the ancestral language has been replaced in a number of the contemporary languages by phonologically fixed stress (e.g. initial as in Czech, penultimate as in Polish or antepenultimate as in Macedonian). The details of this major morphological innovation have remained unclear, as there is no textual evidence. Instead, this book address this problem through dialect geography, looking at areas where the transition from free to fixed stress is still discernible as a dialect continuum. Three languages in which fixed stress arose independently are examined, namely Kashubian (West Slavic), Macedonian (South Slavic) and the Carpathian dialects of Ukrainian (East Slavic). Each area is treated as a separate case study, with the prosodic and morphological factors leading to fixed stress clearly distinguished. The formal analysis is in terms of Optimality Theory, which allows for a graphic portrayal of the interaction of prosody and morphology . It is evident that the decisive prosodic factor is a prosodically motivated ban on final stress, which triggers a chain of morphological innovations, remarkably similar in all three cases. This book should be of interest to Slavists, and to all linguists interested in diachronic accentology. The author is a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey. ISBN 3 89586 630 X. LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 15. Ca. 200pp. USD 70 / DM 112 / pound sterling 41. July 1999. Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard no. / expiry date or send us a cheque. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers. LINCOM EUROPA, Paul-Preuss-Str. 25, D-80995 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 3148909; New titles: http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/new1.htm; LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. From DISTERH at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU Mon Jul 12 17:47:32 1999 From: DISTERH at UNIVSCVM.SC.EDU (Dorothy Disterheft) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:47:32 EDT Subject: ISHL Nominations Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: In accordance with the Constitution of the International Society for Historical Linguistics, new officers and committee members shall be elected at the Society's next regular business meeting at the Thirteenth International Conference on Historical Linguistics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, August 9-13, 1999. At that time, the Nominating Committee will propose the following members for election: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Future Conference Director Lene Schossler, Denmark (2003) Secretary Dorothy Disterheft, U.S.A. (2001) Member Rosanna Sornicola, Italy (2005) NOMINATING COMMITTEE Harold Koch, Australia (2003) Ans van Kemenade, The Netherlands (2007) I draw your attention to Article 3, Section 6 of the Constitution regarding nominations from the membership at large. Letters of nomination should be received by the Secretary at the address below before August 5, 1999. Dorothy Disterheft Linguistics Program University of South Carolina Columlbia, SC 29209 From Barrett at deGruyter.com Wed Jul 14 14:42:34 1999 From: Barrett at deGruyter.com (Lisa Natascha Barrett) Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 10:42:34 EDT Subject: New from Mouton de Gruyter: Historical Semantics and Cognition Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Historical Semantics and Cognition Edited by Andreas Blank and Peter Koch 1999. 23 x 15,5 cm. VIII, 336 pages. Cloth. DM 198,- /oeS 1445,- /sFr 176,- /approx. US$ 124.00 ISBN 3-11-016614-3 Cognitive Linguistics Research 13 The goal of this book is to reflect on a long-overdue dialogue between academics of two apparently incompatible bases of research: the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and Historical Linguistics. The basis of the collected volume was that the predominantly practical-based area of Historical Linguistics will profit from theoretical input, just as Cognitive Linguistics Research will be stimulated by the more practical perspective provided by Historical Linguistics. The result is this publication, the first of its kind to reflect such an overwhelming mutual feedback. The list of authors, representing the most highly qualified experts in their field, speaks for itself in describing the quality of the contents of this book. Contents Andreas Blank and Peter Koch, Introduction: Historical semantics and cognition; Section I: Theories and Models: John R. Taylor, Cognitive semantics and structural semantics; Helmut Luedtke, Diachronic semantics: towards a unified theory of language change? Andreas Blank, Why do new meanings occur? A cognitive typology of the motivations for lexical semantic change; Dirk Geeraerts, Diachronic prototype semantics. A digest; Francois Rastier, Cognitive semantics and diachronic semantics: the values and evolution of classes; Section II: Descriptive categories: Ronald W. Langacker, Losing control: grammaticization, subjectification, and transparency; Elizabeth Closs Traugott, The rhetoric of counter-expectation in semantic change: a study in subjectification; Brigitte Nerlich and David D. Clarke, Synecdoche as a cognitive and communicative strategy; Beatrice Warren, Laws of thought, knowledge and lexical change; Section III: Case studies: Ekkehard Koenig and Peter Siemund, Intensifiers as targets and sources of semantic change; Thomas Krefeld, Cognitive ease and lexical borrowing: the recategorisation of body parts in Romance; Peter Koch, Cognitive aspects of semantic change and polysemy: the semantic space have/be; List of contributors; Index. Prices subject to change without notice. For order information please contact: Mouton de Gruyter Genthiner Str. 13 10785 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 30 26005 222 e-mail: orders at degruyter.de For order information for the United States, Canada, and Mexico please contact: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 200 Saw Mill River Road Hawthorne, NY, 10532 USA Fax: 914 747-1326 e-mail: CustomerService at degruyterny.com Titles published by Mouton de Gruyter can be ordered via World Wide Web at: http://www.degruyter.com From a.korn at em.uni-frankfurt.de Wed Jul 28 14:45:38 1999 From: a.korn at em.uni-frankfurt.de (agnes korn) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:45:38 EDT Subject: TITUS news Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Colleagues TITUS, the Frankfurt-based server for Indo-European linguistics (http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/), proudly presents some new pages: - courses in Indo-European linguistics fall/winter 99/00; - teaching material including language maps (by Jost Gippert / Frankfurt) and a course in Cimbrian (by Remigio Geiser / Salzburg). Those interested in Cimbrian are also invited to register with the Cimbrian mailing list run by Oliver Baumann / Frankfurt (mailto:Cimbrian-List-request at em.uni-frankfurt.de) and to visit the Cimbrian homepage at http://www.diens.de/Zimberland/. Your suggestions are always welcome. Best regards Agnes Korn -- ........................................................................ Agnes Korn Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft : Tel. + 49 - 69 - 798 22 847 Universitaet Frankfurt : Fax + 49 - 69 - 798 22 873 PF 11 19 32 : http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de D - 60054 Frankfurt : mailto:a.korn at em.uni-frankfurt.de From jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net Thu Jul 29 16:18:37 1999 From: jjbowks at adam.cheshire.net (JJB) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:18:37 EDT Subject: iGLOS - Glossario International Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- To: HISTLING at VM.SC.EDU Re: http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/ Le Glossario International - iGLOS Estimate e car collegas, Iste "Glossario International" es un projecto in construction. Il es offerite como tal e con le sperantia que le personas que lo usa poterrea voluntar correctiones a su entratas. Si, il pote haber multe correctiones necessitate, e isto es le ration pro facer lo disponibile al publico e que assi omne poterea beneficiar se e adjutar con su disveloppamento pro medio de constante revisiones e amelioramentos. Le ultime revision ha le data de 1999.07.26 - Iste revision include plus terminos in Anglese / Interlingua e alsi incorpora traductiones in francese, germano, espaniol, italiano e portugese. Le file es quasi 700k in forma zippate e plus de duo Mb. quando inflate. Le file es columnate e delimitate per tabulationes. Il es multo facil poter cambiar le formatto pro applicationes de base de datos e tal manipulationes de informatica, le uso de Excel o Lotus 123 es alsi un possibilitate. Sia assecurate que vos pote inviar me un message private si vos necessita adjuta con le transformation a altere formattos. E qualque offertas de adjuta o suggestiones son sempre benvenite. Sincer e amicalmente, Jay Bowks JayBowks at poboxes.com http://adam.cheshire.net/~jjbowks/iglos/