From paul at benjamins.com Sat Apr 1 19:36:52 2000 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 14:36:52 EST Subject: Two New Books in Historical Linguistics Message-ID: For HISTLING John Benjamins Publishing announce the availability of two new works in Historical Linguistics: LANGUAGE HISTORY. An introduction Andrew L. Sihler University of Wisconsin, Madison Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 191. xvi, 298 pp. US & Canada: 1 55619 968 6 / USD 70.00 (Hardcover) 1 55619 969 4 / USD 29.95 (Paperback) Rest of world: 90 272 3697 6 / NLG 140.00 (Hardcover) 90 272 3698 4 / NLG 60.00 (Paperback) [Textbook Examination copies available - contact customer service] This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries. This book should be a useful guide for anyone unfamiliar with (historical) linguistics who is studying the history of a language, and also for those who are enrolled in courses devoted to reading texts in old languages. Contents: Introduction 1. Changes in Pronunciation: Assimilation; Dissimilation; Addition of segments; Loss of segments; Metathesis; Other interactions between segments; Changes in manner of articulation. 2. Sound Laws: Merger; Primary split (conditioned merger); Secondary split (phonolo-gization); Sound laws; Efficient causes of sound change; Patternless changes. 3. Analogy: Leveling analogy; Recomposition; Contamination; Portmanteau words; Folk etymology; Morphological analogy; Hypercorrection. 4. Semantic Change: Changes in the number of features; Pejoration and melioration; Foregrounding of connotations; Figurative meanings (metaphor, metonymy); Changes resulting from changes in the structure of language, reinterpretation of ambiguities, and changes in the physical or social environment; Calques; The etymological fallacy. 5. Reconstruction: The comparative method; Reconstruction of features of morphology, semantics, and syntax; Internal reconstruction; The relationship between phonological restructuring and internal reconstruction. 6. External Aspects of Language: Language and dialect; Differentiation of languages; Languages in contact. 7. Written Records: The interpretation of written records; Transliteration; Borrowing; Multiple values of symbols; Chronology; Borrowing symbols; Comparative evidence; Typology, parallelism; Statements by contemporaneous authorities; Poetry. Appendix: Phonetics the mechanisms of speech and the classifications of speech sounds. Glossary; Glossary of Terms in German Bibliography Index Historical Linguistics 1995, Volume 1. General issues and non-Germanic Languages. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995. John Charles SMITH (St. Catherine's College, Oxford) and Delia BENTLEY (University of Manchester) (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 161 90 272 3666 6 / NLG 200.00 (Hardcover) 1 55619 877 9 / USD 100.00 (Hardcover) This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, will contain papers on Germanic. Contributions by: Jean-Luc Azra; Vit Bubeník; Michela Cennamo; Alan Dench; Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis & Mireille Tremblay; Denis Dumas; Anthony Fox; Bjarke Frellesvig; Peter Hendriks; Alan Hyun-Oak Kim;Leonid I. Kulikov; Christopher Lyons; Silvia Luraghi; Maria M. Manoliu; Marianne Mithun; Christopher J. Pountain; Tim Pulju; Anna Giacalone Ramat; Anju Saxena; Paul Sidwell; Anna Siewierska; Ann Taylor; Tandy Warnow; Don Ringe; Pieter van Reenen; Lene Schøsler. Paul Peranteau (paul at benjamins.com) P O Box 27519 Ph: 215 836-1200 Philadelphia PA 19118-0519 Fax: 215 836-1204 John Benjamins Publishing Co. website: http://www.benjamins.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To subscribe to the DIGS email list, send a msg. with subject 'SUBSCRIBE DIGS' to Acrisio Pires . Include name/mail address in the msg. For other questions email Cilene Rodrigues . DIGS VI - Conference Schedule: Monday, May 22nd - Atrium, Stamp Student Union 8:45 - Opening Remarks: Dean James Harris, David Lightfoot 9:00 - Invited speaker: Ian Roberts (U. Stuttgart) The history of the future Discussant: Lila Gleitman (U. Pennsylvania) 10:15- Break 10:30 - Anna Roussou (U. Cyprus) The grammaticalization of future in Greek: A formal approach 11:00 - Charles D. Yang (MIT) Grammar competition and language change: The loss of V2 in Old French 11:30 - Dirk Bury (U. College London) A reinterpretation of the loss of verb-second in Welsh 12:00 - Lunch 2:00 - Invited speaker: Susan Pintzuk (U. York) Verb-complement order in Old English: Variation as grammatical competition Discussant: Jairo Nunes (U. Connecticut & UNICAMP) 3:15 - Break 3:30 - Acrisio Pires (U. Maryland) Infinitives, control as movement and the loss of inflection in Portuguese 4:00 - Cilene Rodrigues (U. Maryland) Loss of verbal agreement and the null subject parameter 4:30 - Lucia Lobato (U. Brasilia) Causes and consequences in linguistic change: The case of Portuguese subject position Tuesday, May 23rd - Maryland Room, 1100 Marie Mount Hall 9:00 - Invited speaker: Cynthia L. Allen (Australian National U., Canberra) Case and Middle English genitive Noun Phrases Discussant: Zeljko Boskovic (U. Connecticut) 10:15 - Break 10:30 - Ans van Kemenade (U. Nijmegen) Modeling the relation between syntax and morphology in FPs: V2, modals, lexical verbs, do-support, negation 11:00 - Georg A. Kaiser (U. Hamburg, SFT 'Multilingualism'/U. Konstanz) Dialect contact as a prerequisite for parametric change. A case study on French word order change 11:30 - Chiara Polo (U. Padua) On the relationship between word order, inflectional case and syntactic Case from Old to Middle and Modern English 12:00 - Lunch 2:00 - Invited speaker: Ted Briscoe (U. Cambridge) Logistic patterns of language change Discussant: Partha Niyogi( Bell Labs) 3:15 - Break 3:30 - Irene Philippaki-Warburton & Vassilios Spyropoulos (U. Reading) A change of mood: The evolution of the Greek mood system 4:00 - Marie-Therese Vinet (U. Sherbrooke) Language change and aspect: The case of a Swiss French deficient object ça 4:30 - Douglas Wharram (U. Connecticut & Memorial U. Newfoundland) On certain differences between French and French: A study in diachronic and microparametric syntax of 'ECM' 5:00 - Tony Kroch ( U. Pennsylvania) Introduction to the second edition of the Penn-Helsinki Middle English corpus 5:30 - Break 7:00 - Conference Dinner - Inn and Conference Center/Univ. of Maryland University College Wednesday, May 24th - Atrium, Stamp Student Union 9:00 - Invited speaker: Dianne Jonas (Yale U.) Residual V-to-I Discussant: Stephen R. Anderson (Yale U.) 10:15 - Break 10:30 - Thorhallur Eythorsson (U. Manchester) Dative vs. nominative: Changes in quirky subjects in Icelandic 11:00 - John D. Sundquist (Indiana U.) Object shift and Holmberg's generalization in the history of Norwegian 11:30 - Eric Haeberli (U. Geneva) Agreement and the loss of V2 in English 12:00 - Lunch 2:00 - Akira Watanabe (U. Tokyo) Loss of overt Wh-movement in Old Japanese and demise of "Kakarimusubi" 2:30 - Cathal Doherty (U. College Dublin) Verb movement and clause structure in Early Irish 3:00 - Paul Hirschbuhler (U. Ottawa) & Marie Labelle (UQAM) Clitic placement in imperatives: from Old to Contemporary French 3:30 - Break 4:00 - Susana Bejar (U. Toronto) Movement, morphology and learnability: The loss of inherent Case in Old English 4:30 - Ana Maria Martins (U. Lisbon) The loss of OV/VO in Portuguese: Considerations on clause structure, word order variation and change 5:00 - Thomas McFadden (U. Pennsylvania) The rise of the to dative in Middle English Alternates: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (Pennsylvania State U.) Inflectional variation and syntactic innovation: A Synchronic perspective Richard Ingham (U. of Reading) Expletive negatives and Neg movement in Middle English ---end of message----- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Depuis Perlmutter (1971) et Chomsky (1981) on postule que cette distinction reflhte les deux riglages possible d'un paramhtre inni: les grammaires humaines doivent jtre soit [-sujet nul] comme le frangais, soit [+sujet nul] comme l'italien. Les variitis non standard itudiies ici, cependant, incluent des grammaires qui ne peuvent pas se ranger facilement dans ces deux catigories, et reprisentent donc un nouveau difi ` plus de vingt ans de recherches en syntaxe ginirative. Aprhs des considirations ginirales concernant l'importance de la variation dans la thiorie linguistique, nous diveloppons une mithodologie pour utiliser des donnies des atlas linguistiques traditionnels. Bien que ignoris presque complhtement par la linguistique 'thiorique', l'Atlas linguistique de la France (Gilliiron & Edmont 1902-11908) et le Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der S|dschweiz (Jaberg & Jud 1928-1940) fournissent des donnies pricieuses pour les recherches sur la variation morphosyntaxique. Nous dipouillons des donnies d'un total de 438 points sur 101 cartes de chacun des atlas. Ces donnies sont ensuite prisenties de fagon synthitique sur 15 cartes thimatiques, selon la personne grammaticale et d'autres facteurs linguistiques. L'analyse quantitative de cette base de donnies nous permet igalement de formuler certaines giniralisations ` propos des systhmes des sujets pronominaux. Premihrement, les donnies n'indiquent pas une transition abrupte, comme pridirait l'hypothhse paramitrique, mais pluttt une zone de transition graduelle. Deuxihmement, la typologie des systhmes de sujets pronominaux n'est pas complhtement sans contraintes, puisque des tendances claires apparaissent parmi ces variitis intermidiaires. Les sujets pronominaux sont plus rares ` la premihre personne du singulier ou du pluriel, et ` la deuxihme personne du pluriel, alors qu'ils sont plus friquents ` la troisihme personne du singulier ou du pluriel, et surtout ` la deuxihme personne du singulier. Il est difficile de reprisenter ce type d'asymitrie morphologique en termes syntaxiques ou en traits, ou encore en thiorie paramitrique. Plusieurs facteurs linguistiques, dont le type et le temps du verbe, le type et la position de la proposition, et la prisence d'autres pronoms ou de la nigation, contribuent au conditionnement de l'emploi des sujets pronominaux. Ces faits sugghrent que les paradigmes des pronoms sujet reflhtent des phinomhnes complexes qui auraient lieu aux 'interfaces' (Chomsky 1995) pluttt qu'un simple paramhtre syntaxique. ISBN 3 89586 939 2. LINCOM Studies in Romance Lingustics 11. Ca. 250pp. EUR 44.99 / USD 56 / DM 88 / # 30. Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard no. / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers. Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 18 & 19 are now available from LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269404; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. From LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de Sun Apr 2 23:34:25 2000 From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:34:25 EDT Subject: New book: Romance linguistics Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The French Language in Canada JOHN HEWSON, Memorial University of Newfoundland Canadian French has had a long and remarkable history; it has been at home upon this continent for almost 400 years. From 1763 until recent times it survived upon its own, without substantial input from the mother country, France, which gave up its North American colonies at the Treaty of Paris. Because of its remarkable history Canadian French has several outstanding features. One of these is the existence of archaisms, of old words and expressions that have disappeared or died out in France, such as the old weights and measures that were in use before the coming of the metrical system at the time of the French Revolution of 1789. The Revolution, coming a quarter of a century after the Treaty of Paris, was largely irrelevant to Canada. Another was the borrowing of Amerindian terms for the different life experiences of the New World. Some of these, such as 'caribou', found their way into international French, others remain purely local borrowings. Then there is the development of a distinctive regional accent, which other speakers of French recognize as "Canadian". There is also the development of a distinctive form of expressive language that has led to Canadian francophones on holiday in Mexico being nicknamed 'los Tarbanacos' by the Mexicans. Finally there is the influence of English, since the francophone population in Canada, largely centred in the Province of Quebec, is surrounded by a continental sea of English. Canadian French is, consequently, a vast and fascinating tableau of infinite detail, a subject matter with which the Canadian student of French can become totally engrossed. This brief volume is designed as an introduction to the subject, with the understanding that the proper way to approach such complexity is to provide a guide through the maze of resources so the the students can inform themselves by their own researches rather than being provided with second hand information. CONTENTS: Ch.1: Regional Language and Standard Language - Exercises. Ch.2: Commentaries: from the earliest travellers to the Atlas Linguistique de l'Est du Canada - Exercises. Ch.3: The cultural matrix: the pioneer life - Exercises. Ch.4: Phonology of Canadian French - Exercises. Ch.5: Morphology and Syntax - Exercises. Ch.6: Expressive language - Exercises. Ch.7: The parameters of linguistic variation: historical, geographical, social - Exercises. Ch.8: Anglicisms - Exercises. ISBN 3 89586 571 0. LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics 07. Ca. 100pp. EUR 26.59 / USD 28 / DM 52 / # 19. Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard no. / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers. Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 18 & 19 are now available from LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269404; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. From LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de Sun Apr 2 23:34:46 2000 From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:34:46 EDT Subject: New book: Uralic linguistics Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Contact-induced Perspectives in Uralic Languages AGO K\NNAP, University of Tartu The author of the book would make an attempt to outline a few features of a recent significant paradigm change in the Uralic (Finno-Ugric and Samoyed) linguistics. The main factor of linguistic processes is supposed to be language contacts, not so much a spontaneous change of languages, although the latter should also be borne in mind. The concept of linguistic affinity has also been subjected to criticism. The common features of Uralic languages developed thanks to various contacts among different languages whereby a language of the lingua franca type could operate as an intermediary. Thus any Uralic language could always differ from other languages of this group, partly retaining its origin from source language(s), unknown us to date. Later on it could also, additionally, become more similar to other Uralic languages thanks to language contacts or, on the other hand, it could become more different as a result of contacts with others than Uralic languages. The role of a language prestige in the process of language changes through history is being emphasized at present. The similarities between Finnic-Lapp and Samoyed languages have earlier been regarded as a result of a better survival of the Proto-Uralic heritage at the extreme peripheries of the expansive zone of occurance of Uralic languages. But the Finnic-Lapp--Samoyed similarities may hypothetically be regarded as ontime areal-typological (contact) similarities. Northern Indo-European languages - Germanic, Baltic and Slavic - are supposed to have developed so that the speakers of Uralic language form learned to speak that of the Indo-European. Ago K|nnap is Professor of Uralic Languages of the University of Tartu. ISBN 3 89586 964 3. LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 39. Ca. 120pp. Ca. EUR 35 / DM 68 / USD 35 / # 24. Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard no. / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers. Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 18 & 19 are now available from LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269404; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. From C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk Mon Apr 3 21:10:23 2000 From: C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk (Christian J Kay) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:10:23 EDT Subject: mailing list Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Subscription Offer Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies in honour of Jane Roberts This volume of essays on medieval word and text studies will be published by Rodopi in July 2000. It reflects Jane Roberts' longstanding contribution to medieval language and literature, and especially her pioneering work in "A Thesaurus of Old English". If anyone would like to be listed in the Tabula Gratulatoria, and take advantage of the special pre-publication price of GBP 22/ USD 36, please send postal address to c.kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Professor Christian Janet Kay, Department of English Language, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)141 330 4150 fax: +44 (0)141 330 3531 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/EngLang/ From LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de Wed Apr 5 16:50:40 2000 From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:50:40 EDT Subject: New book: Greek Linguistics Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Introduzione alla linguistica greca MORENO MORANI, Universit` degli Studi di Genova L'Introduzione alla linguistica greca intende offrire una breve guida per lo studio della lingua greca in una prospettiva di linguistica storica. La lingua greca presenta due singolari caratteristiche: la durata della sua attestazione (tre millenni e mezzo di storia) e la presenza di numerose variet` dialettali. Tenendo conto di questa premessa, il volume fornisce una panoramica generale delle problematiche fonda-mentali attinenti alla formazione e allo sviluppo storico della lingua, a partire dalla documentazione micenea: la lingua greca h esaminata nel quadro della famiglia linguistica indeuropea, e vengono analizzati, alla luce delle principali teorie proposte dagli studiosi, i rapporti tra la lingua greca e l'indeuropeo ricostruito, le relazioni con le altre lingue indeuropee, la presenza di elementi non indeuropei nel greco. Per il secondo aspetto, si presentano le principali questioni relative alla classificazione dei dialetti greci, dei quali si fornisce anche una sommaria descrizione. Per quanto l'interesse fondamentale della trattazione riguardi il greco antico nelle sue principali manifestazioni letterarie, lo sviluppo della lingua h seguito dalla documentazione micenea fino al periodo bizantino e moderno. Il manuale h destinato agli studenti universitari e agli insegnanti di lingue e letterature classiche, e contiene quelle nozioni fondamentali di grammatica comparata e di storia della lingua che lo possono rendere utile per un primo orientamento in problematiche complesse che formano oggetto di discussioni complesse e talvolta secolari. Indice: PREMESSA - ABBREVIAZIONI CAPITOLO PRIMO: Il greco e le lingue indeuropee I. Le lingue indeuropee. II. Metodo, obiettivi e limiti della ricostruzione. III. Cenni di fonetica indeuropea. IV. Dall'indeuropeo al greco. CAPITOLO SECONDO : I dialetti greci e il miceneo I. I dialetti greci. II. Il miceneo. CAPITOLO TERZO: La formazione del greco I. Teorie a confronto. II. Greco e altre lingue indeuropee. III. Elementi non indeuropei nel greco. CAPITOLO QUARTO: Lineamenti di cronologia del greco I. Omero. II. La lingua della lirica. III. Il dramma attico. IV. La lingua della prosa. V. La koini. VI. Verso il greco moderno. Bibliografia INDICE ISBN 3 89586 949 X. LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 09. Ca. 240 pp. EUR 61.36 / DM 120 / USD 65 / # 40. May 2000. Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard no. / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers. Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 18 & 19 are now available from LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269494 or +4989 3148909; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. From nbvint at nessie.mcc.ac.uk Wed Apr 5 12:56:37 2000 From: nbvint at nessie.mcc.ac.uk (nigel vincent) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:56:37 EDT Subject: new job Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK Lectureship in Historical Linguistics (Ref. no. 317/00) Applications will be considered from those specializing in any branch of historical linguistics. A strong research record is essential, and a completed PhD is desirable. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an interest both in the theoretical study of language change and in the history of one or more languages and language families. Preference may be given to candidates whose research relates to the history of a language or languages other than English. An ability to contribute to the teaching of either syntax or sociolinguistics would also be an advantage. The starting date is 1 September 2000 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary in the Lecturer A range, i.e £17,328 - £22,579 p.a. Closing date for applications: 13 May 2000. Applications forms are available from and applications should be submitted to: Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. Tel: ++44 (0)161 275 2028; Fax: ++44 (0)161 275 2221; Minicom (for the hearing impaired): ++44 (0)161 275 7889. Email: personnel at man.ac.uk Website: http://www.man.ac.uk Applications should quote the above reference number and contain the names of three referees. It is the responsibility of applicants to ensure that supporting letters of reference are sent to the same address by the closing date for applications. It is expected that interviews for this post will be conducted in the week beginning 5 June 2000. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a talk based on their current research. Applicants who require further information are invited to contact either Prof Nigel Vincent (nigel.vincent at man.ac.uk, +44-(0)161-275-3194/3187) or the Chair of the Department, Dr Kersti Börjars (kersti.borjars at man.ac.uk, +44 (0)61-275-3042/3187). Person Description Candidates should possess a strong research record, including a PhD or equivalent publications, in any area of historical linguistics. They must be able to demonstrate an interest both in the theoretical study of language change and in the history of one or more languages and language families. Preference may be given to candidates whose research relates to the history of a language or languages other than English. An ability to contribute to the teaching of either syntax or sociolinguistics would also be an advantage. Candidates will need to have or acquire the presentational skills necessary for lectures, seminars and small group teaching, and the IT and organizational skills appropriate to departmental teaching and administration. Job Description The appointed candidate will be expected to contribute to the research, teaching (both undergraduate and postgraduate) and administration of the Department of Linguistics. Staff are required to follow an induction course prior to starting their duties if they have not taken a similar course in another institution. General particulars of appointment to posts of Lecturer refer to the duty to undertake research. In the Faculty of Arts it is a matter of policy that the capacity to fulfil that duty requires that care be taken by Heads of School to ensure that the opportunity exists for staff to undertake research. Newly appointed staff in particular, serving a period of probation (normally up to four years), may expect to establish with their Head of School and with their Departmental Chair appropriate arrangements for undertaking research activity and for publishing their results. A mentoring system also exists for new staff. In addition, reports on research activity undertaken by probationary Lecturers, compiled by various means including periodic appraisal by or for the Head of Department, will form a significant part of the information to be taken into account by the Faculty Review Committee and the Academic Promotions Committee in determining progress in probation, and in formulating their recommendations regarding the completion of probation. ******** Nigel Vincent Tel: +44-(0)161-275 3194 Department of Linguistics Fax: +44-(0)161-275 3187 University of Manchester e-mail: nigel.vincent at man.ac.uk Manchester M13 9PL http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Html/NBV/ UK Visit our web-page: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/ From kjohnson at ling.ohio-state.edu Thu Apr 6 02:13:42 2000 From: kjohnson at ling.ohio-state.edu (Keith Johnson) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:13:42 EDT Subject: Summer School - Ohio State University Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Second Notice Updated information available on the website. --------------------------- Summer 2000 at Ohio State University Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models During July of 2000, the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University will be offering a unique combination of short courses aimed at exploring spoken language, with a particular focus on the empirical study of naturally-occurring speech through various instrumental, quantitative, and analytic means. Scholars, researchers (industry or academic), and students are invited to join us for an intense and rewarding summer session. Course offerings: Laboratory Phonology - Mary Beckman Quantitative Methods - Michael Broe Field Phonetics - Keith Johnson Historical Phonology - Brian Joseph & Richard Janda Practicum in English Intonation - Julia McGory The Pragmatics of Focus - Craige Roberts For more information see the website: http://ling.ohio-state.edu/SU2000 From kjohnson at ling.ohio-state.edu Thu Apr 20 23:32:33 2000 From: kjohnson at ling.ohio-state.edu (Keith Johnson) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:32:33 EDT Subject: XML at OSU Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Announcing a 5-day workshop associated with "Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models" July 3-7, 2000 (see http://ling.ohio-state.edu/SU2000 for further information) XML and Linguistic Annotation Chris Brew Department of Linguistics Ohio State University Corpora of spoken and written language are crucial to much of linguistics, providing both quantitive and qualitative data which informs and grounds our work. Much of the material which is available is raw text, but this is complemented by a substantial and increasing number of annotated corpora. It is important to ensure that such annotated corpora are reliable, re-usable and maximally informative, but it is not immediately obvious how this is to be achieved, not least because the corpus data often stimulates research which was not envisaged at the time that the data was collected. XML(the eXtensible Markup Language) provides a standardized vehicle for the generation, processing and exchange of arbitrary structured data, including, but not limited to, texts marked up with linguistic information. Many, but no means all, corpus creation initiatives have chosen to adopt the XML route. This means that researchers who want to use (and perhaps add to) the products of these efforts need to understand something of what XML is and how it can be used. Non-linguistic applications of XML will be covered only tangentially. This workshop introduces XML as a means for creating and using linguistic annotations, gives hands-on experience of both corpus annotation and corpus use, and discusses its strengths and weaknesses as a research tool. There will be five 105 minute sessions, one per day, spread over a week, along with practical sessions covering the use of text and speech data. Students should expect to spend approximately 60 minutes per day on the practicals. The only prerequisite is a very basic training in any of the language sciences. It should therefore be accessible to all participants in "Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models". From polikarp at philol.msu.ru Thu Apr 27 20:59:44 2000 From: polikarp at philol.msu.ru (Anatoly Polikarpov) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:59:44 EDT Subject: Renewal of the site "Human Language" (HumLang)!!! Message-ID: [This message consists of two parts - English and Russian/V etom pis'me dve chasti - angl. i russkaja] Dear colleagues, Please, find attached a letter on renewed site of a list "Human Language" (HumLang). Among others this electronic bulletin contains some new publications on unresolved problems in the theory of language evolution (both in English and Russian) and on some new lexicographic projects in Russia. Good luck! Editor of the Humlang - Anatoliy A. Polikarpov polikarp at philol.msu.ru ----------------------------------------- Дорогие коллеги! Сообщаю Вам о значительном обновлении сайта бюллетеня (листа) "Язык Человека" (HumLang). Среди прочего Вы сможете найти на сайте новые публикации по некоторым спорным вопросам теории эволюции языка (как по-английски, так и по-русски) и по новым лексикографическим проектам, реализованным или реализуемым в России. Подробнее о листе в целом и о его обновлении можно прочитать в прикрепленном файле Всего доброго! 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Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (pp. 7­25) Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact Noriko O. Onodera (pp. 27­55) Development of demo type connectives and na elements: Two extremes of Japanese discourse markers Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (pp. 57­66) Is a diachronic speech act theory possible? Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen (pp. 67­95) Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from flyting to flaming Jonathan Culpeper and Elena Semino (pp. 97­116) Constructing witches and spells: Speech acts and activity types in Early Modern England Thomas Honegger (pp. 117­150) ‘But-þat þou louye me, Sertes y dye fore loue of þe’: Towards a typology of opening moves in Courtly Amorous Interaction Book Reviews Gerd Fritz: Historische Semantik (Brigitte Nerlich) Forthcoming Papers Authors in this Issue ABSTRACTS: Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact Scott A. Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott The discourse contexts are analyzed in which clause-internal in fact developed pragmaticalized meanings and came to invoke scalarity in two domains: epistemic sentence adverb (IPAdv), and additive discourse marker (DM). In both these uses, in fact tightens word to world fit (Powell 1992): the world of epistemic belief in the case of the IPAdv, the world of evaluative, rhetorical perspective in the case of the DM. The analysis therefore provides further evidence for (i) pragmatic ambiguities across these worlds (Sweetser 1990), (ii) subjectification that shifts perspectives from interpersonal (adversative) to personal evaluation (Traugott 1989), (iii) the pragmatic relationship between scalarity, adversativity and additivity (Schwenter 1999). The different orientations of the two uses suggest they are polysemous, not contextually bound. Development of demo type connectives and na elements: Two extremes of Japanese discourse markers Noriko O. Onodera This paper suggests the independence of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization processes. These two processes are originally and self-evidently autonomous evolutionary paths that occur independently of each other. However, grammaticalization is often discussed, indeed in the majority of the recent studies, in correlation to some unidirectional features that co-occur with grammaticalization. Such features include, structurally, for example, “bondedness” and “structural scope” (Lehmann 1995), and functionally, for example, “increase in abstraction” and “pragmaticalization”. These unidirectional features are at times even considered too authoritatively criterial to judge a given language change as an instance of grammaticalization.This study illustrates a piece of evidence for the asymmetric relationship of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization. That is, the two groups of Japanese discourse markers — (1) demo type connectives and (2) na elements — experience quite different historical changes. The group (1) undergoes both grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, but the group (2) undergoes pragmaticalization without involving grammaticalization. Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from flyting to flaming Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen In this paper we want to develop a model for the diachronic analysis of speech acts by tracing one particular speech act through the history of English, viz. insults. Speech acts are fuzzy concepts which show both diachronic and synchronic variation. We therefore propose a notion of a multidimensional pragmatic space in which speech acts can be analyzed in relation to neighboring speech acts.Against this background we discuss both the changing cultural grounding in which insults occur and the changing ways in which they are realized. Our data is drawn from the Old English poem Beowulf and the Finnsburh fragment, from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and from Shakespeare’s plays, and from a variety of non-literary sources such as personal letters, court records and an internet discussion group. The scale ranges from everyday communication to ritualized behavior. When written materials of the past periods are analyzed, the bias towards the conventionalized insults is evident. Most early examples are found in literary texts and seem to reflect generic conventions of the time and the culture that gave rise to these literary forms. Constructing witches and spells: Speech acts and activity types in Early Modern England Jonathan Culpeper and Elena Semino In this paper, we highlight the centrality of verbs relating to verbal activities in witchcraft narratives in the Early Modern English period, and focus on speech act verbs used to refer to witches’ curses. In the first part, we refer to various classifications of speech act verbs and to Searle’s felicity conditions for speech acts, in order to describe the different meanings of verbs such as to curse, and to show how their central meaning has shifted over time. In the second part, we show how the speech act verbs form a structured set, which — in appropriate circumstances — could be used as an interpretative frame to create witchcraft events out of relatively trivial arguments within village communities. Here, we refer to Levinson’s notion of activity types as a possible explanatory framework. ‘But-þat þou louye me, Sertes y dye fore loue of þe’: Towards a typology of opening moves in Courtly Amorous Interaction Thomas Honegger In this paper, I look at how medieval and early modern poets present and exploit the potential inherent in opening moves in (love) relationships for the purpose of plot motivation and protagonist characterisation. The depiction of the opening moves depends on three interrelated pairs of variables: 1) legalistic tradition (marriage as the reason for initiating a relationship) vs emotional tradition (focus is on the beloved person’s affection), 2) plot motivation vs protagonist characterisation, and 3) brevity vs length. Longer texts that focus on the lovers’ feelings and that pay some attention to protagonist characterisation are more likely to feature relatively complex linguistic strategies presented in a basically realistic interactional manner. In shorter texts of the emotional tradition, the complexity is reduced, and poets working in the legalistic tradition often pay hardly any attention at all to the finer points of opening moves in love interaction. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From paul at benjamins.com Thu Apr 27 19:02:14 2000 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:02:14 EDT Subject: Four Books on Historical Linguistic topics Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- These are four recently published books on historical linguistic topics not yet announced to the list: Diachronic Pragmatics. Seven case studies in English illocutionary development. Leslie ARNOVICK (University of British Columbia) Pragmatics & Beyond NS 68 US & Canada: 1 55619 946 5 / USD 65.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 5083 9 / NLG 130.00 (Hardcover) The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function mapping, can be used to trace pragmatic developments within the English language. Through a set of case studies it explores the evolution of such speech acts as promises, curses, blessings, and greetings and such speech events as flyting and sounding. Collectively these "illocutionary biographies" manifest the workings of several important pragmatic processes and trends: increased epistemicity, subjectification, and discursization (a special kind of pragmaticalization). It also establishes the centrality of cultural traditions in diachronic reconstruction, examining various de-institutionalizations of extra-linguistic context and their affect on speech act performance. Taken together, the case studies presented in Diachronic Pragmatics highlight the complex interactions of formal, semantic, and pragmatic processes over time. Illustrating the possibilities of historical pragmatic pursuit, this book stands as an invitation to further research in a new and important discipline. Chinese Dialect Classification. A comparative approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu. Richard VanNess SIMMONS (Rutgers University) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 188 US & Canada: 1 55619 965 1 / USD 90.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3694 1 / NLG 180.00 (Hardcover) This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects and propose a comprehensive comparative framework as a more successful alternative. Arguing that dialect affiliation is best determined through analysis of dialect correspondence to common phonological systems, the author develops a taxonomic analysis that definitively distinguishes Common Northern Wu and Mandarin dialects. By clarifying dialect affiliation in the Wu and Mandarin border region, this volume makes significant contributions to our understanding of the true nature of the region's dialects and their history. Using primarily data drawn from the author's own fieldwork, the volume contains copious comparative examples and an extensive lexicon of the Old Jintarn dialect. Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish. Joel RINI (University of Virginia) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 179 US & Canada: 1 55619 956 2 / USD 74.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3685 2 / NLG 148.00 (Hardcover) After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult problems of Spanish historical grammar and explores the extent to which various types of morphological processes may have operated in a given change. Selected problems are examined in light of abundant textual evidence. Some include: the resistance to change of Sp. dormir 'to sleep', morir 'to die', the vocalic sequence /ee/, the reduction of the OSp. verbal suffixes -ades, -edes, -ides, -odes, and the uncertain origin of Sp. eres 'you are'. Important notions such as the directionality of leveling, phonological vs. morphological change in the nominal and verbal paradigms, the morphological spread of sound change, and the role of morphological factors in apparent syntactic change are discussed. The Roots of Old Chinese. Laurent SAGART (C. R. L. A. O., Paris) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 184 US & Canada: 1 55619 961 9 / USD 85.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3690 9 / NLG 170.00 (Hardcover) The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume. It is argued that a proper understanding of Old Chinese morphology is essential in correctly reconstructing the phonology. Based on evidence from word-families, modern dialects and related words in neighboring languages, Old Chinese words are claimed to consist of a monosyllabic root, to which a variety of derivational affixes attached. This made Old Chinese typologically more like modern languages such as Khmer, Gyarong or Atayal, than like Middle and modern Chinese, where only faint traces of the old morphology remain. In the first part of the book, the author proposes improvements to Baxter's system of reconstruction, regarding complex initials and rhymes, and then reviews in great detail the Old Chinese affixal morphology. New proposals on phonology and morphology are integrated into a coherent reconstruction system. The second part of the book consists of etymological studies of important lexical items in Old Chinese. The author demonstrates in particular the role of proportional analogy in the formation of the system of personal pronouns. Special attention is paid to contact phenomena between Chinese and neighboring languages, and - unlike most literature on Sino-Tibetan - the author identifies numerous Chinese loanwords into Tibeto-Burman. The book, which contains a lengthy list of reconstructions, an index of characters and a general index, is intended for linguists and cultural historians, as well as advanced students. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu Thu Apr 27 15:36:25 2000 From: jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu (Joseph Salmons) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:36:25 EDT Subject: TOC: American J. of Germanic Linguistics, 11.2 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 11.2 of the American Journal of Germanic Linguistics has now appeared. Starting with volume 13 (2001) the _American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures_ will be renamed the _Journal of Germanic Linguistics_ and will be published quarterly (March, June, September, December) by Cambridge University Press. Submissions may be directed to: Mark L. Louden (louden at mail.utexas.edu), JGL, Dept. of German, 818 Van Hise Hall, UW-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. For subscription information, contact Robert B. Howell (rbhowell at facstaff.wisc.edu), Dept. of German, 818 Van Hise Hall, UW-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. _American Journal of Germanic Linguistics_, 11.2: ARTICLE Studies in runic origins 2: From gods to men Tom Markey DISCUSSION NOTES On identifying laryngeal reflexes in Germanic=09 Leo A. Connolly A reply to Professor Connolly's "On identifying laryngeal reflexes in Germanic" Joseph B. Voyles REVIEWS S. Suzuki, The metrical organization of Beowulf: Prototype and isomorphism Thomas Cable B. Donaldson, Dutch: A comprehensive grammar Robert B. Howell S. Bartke, Experimentelle Studien zur Flexion und Wortbildung Martin Durrell From Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au Fri Apr 28 11:58:55 2000 From: Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au (Malcolm Ross) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:58:55 EDT Subject: New book: Proto South Bahnaric Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Pacific Linguistics is happy to announce the publication of the following book: -------------------------- Proto South Bahnaric: A reconstruction of a Mon-Khmer language of Indo-China PL 501 Paul J. Sidwell The present volume is a reconstruction of the phonology and lexicon of Proto South Bahnaric, based on a detailed comparison of three languages, Chrau, Stieng and Köho. These Mon-Khmer (Austroasiatic) languages are spoken north and northwest of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and in neighbouring areas of Cambodia. The comparative vocabulary presents 829 etymologies with reconstructions, phonemic analyses and external comparisons. 2000 ISBN 0 85883 444 8 ix + 225pp $57.00 Available from: Pacific Linguistics RSPAS Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Tel: (02) 6249 2742 Fax: (02) 6249 4896 Email: jmanley at coombs.anu.edu.au ----------------------------------------- Publications Administrator Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Tel: +61 (0)2 6249 2742 Fax: +61 (0)2 6249 4896 http://pacling.anu.edu.au (under construction) From paul at benjamins.com Sat Apr 1 19:36:52 2000 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 14:36:52 EST Subject: Two New Books in Historical Linguistics Message-ID: For HISTLING John Benjamins Publishing announce the availability of two new works in Historical Linguistics: LANGUAGE HISTORY. An introduction Andrew L. Sihler University of Wisconsin, Madison Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 191. xvi, 298 pp. US & Canada: 1 55619 968 6 / USD 70.00 (Hardcover) 1 55619 969 4 / USD 29.95 (Paperback) Rest of world: 90 272 3697 6 / NLG 140.00 (Hardcover) 90 272 3698 4 / NLG 60.00 (Paperback) [Textbook Examination copies available - contact customer service] This classroom-tested volume aspires to be a brief but technically and factually accurate exposition of linguistic description and history. Whether studied as prime subject or as background information, it should help students understand the assumptions and reasoning that underlie the contents of their handbooks and etymological dictionaries. This book should be a useful guide for anyone unfamiliar with (historical) linguistics who is studying the history of a language, and also for those who are enrolled in courses devoted to reading texts in old languages. Contents: Introduction 1. Changes in Pronunciation: Assimilation; Dissimilation; Addition of segments; Loss of segments; Metathesis; Other interactions between segments; Changes in manner of articulation. 2. Sound Laws: Merger; Primary split (conditioned merger); Secondary split (phonolo-gization); Sound laws; Efficient causes of sound change; Patternless changes. 3. Analogy: Leveling analogy; Recomposition; Contamination; Portmanteau words; Folk etymology; Morphological analogy; Hypercorrection. 4. Semantic Change: Changes in the number of features; Pejoration and melioration; Foregrounding of connotations; Figurative meanings (metaphor, metonymy); Changes resulting from changes in the structure of language, reinterpretation of ambiguities, and changes in the physical or social environment; Calques; The etymological fallacy. 5. Reconstruction: The comparative method; Reconstruction of features of morphology, semantics, and syntax; Internal reconstruction; The relationship between phonological restructuring and internal reconstruction. 6. External Aspects of Language: Language and dialect; Differentiation of languages; Languages in contact. 7. Written Records: The interpretation of written records; Transliteration; Borrowing; Multiple values of symbols; Chronology; Borrowing symbols; Comparative evidence; Typology, parallelism; Statements by contemporaneous authorities; Poetry. Appendix: Phonetics the mechanisms of speech and the classifications of speech sounds. Glossary; Glossary of Terms in German Bibliography Index Historical Linguistics 1995, Volume 1. General issues and non-Germanic Languages. Selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Manchester, August 1995. John Charles SMITH (St. Catherine's College, Oxford) and Delia BENTLEY (University of Manchester) (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 161 90 272 3666 6 / NLG 200.00 (Hardcover) 1 55619 877 9 / USD 100.00 (Hardcover) This volume contains papers on general issues of language change, as well as specific studies of non-Germanic languages, including Romance, Slavonic, Japanese, Australian languages, and early Indo-European. A second volume, edited by Richard M. Hogg and Linda van Bergen, will contain papers on Germanic. Contributions by: Jean-Luc Azra; Vit Buben?k; Michela Cennamo; Alan Dench; Monique Dufresne, Fernande Dupuis & Mireille Tremblay; Denis Dumas; Anthony Fox; Bjarke Frellesvig; Peter Hendriks; Alan Hyun-Oak Kim;Leonid I. Kulikov; Christopher Lyons; Silvia Luraghi; Maria M. Manoliu; Marianne Mithun; Christopher J. Pountain; Tim Pulju; Anna Giacalone Ramat; Anju Saxena; Paul Sidwell; Anna Siewierska; Ann Taylor; Tandy Warnow; Don Ringe; Pieter van Reenen; Lene Sch?sler. 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Hotel reservations should be made as early as possible, given that DIGS VI coincides with the University Commencement week. People willing to attend the conference dinner ($ 20) should also register in advance, given that the number of seats is limited. To subscribe to the DIGS email list, send a msg. with subject 'SUBSCRIBE DIGS' to Acrisio Pires . Include name/mail address in the msg. For other questions email Cilene Rodrigues . DIGS VI - Conference Schedule: Monday, May 22nd - Atrium, Stamp Student Union 8:45 - Opening Remarks: Dean James Harris, David Lightfoot 9:00 - Invited speaker: Ian Roberts (U. Stuttgart) The history of the future Discussant: Lila Gleitman (U. Pennsylvania) 10:15- Break 10:30 - Anna Roussou (U. Cyprus) The grammaticalization of future in Greek: A formal approach 11:00 - Charles D. Yang (MIT) Grammar competition and language change: The loss of V2 in Old French 11:30 - Dirk Bury (U. College London) A reinterpretation of the loss of verb-second in Welsh 12:00 - Lunch 2:00 - Invited speaker: Susan Pintzuk (U. York) Verb-complement order in Old English: Variation as grammatical competition Discussant: Jairo Nunes (U. Connecticut & UNICAMP) 3:15 - Break 3:30 - Acrisio Pires (U. Maryland) Infinitives, control as movement and the loss of inflection in Portuguese 4:00 - Cilene Rodrigues (U. Maryland) Loss of verbal agreement and the null subject parameter 4:30 - Lucia Lobato (U. Brasilia) Causes and consequences in linguistic change: The case of Portuguese subject position Tuesday, May 23rd - Maryland Room, 1100 Marie Mount Hall 9:00 - Invited speaker: Cynthia L. Allen (Australian National U., Canberra) Case and Middle English genitive Noun Phrases Discussant: Zeljko Boskovic (U. Connecticut) 10:15 - Break 10:30 - Ans van Kemenade (U. Nijmegen) Modeling the relation between syntax and morphology in FPs: V2, modals, lexical verbs, do-support, negation 11:00 - Georg A. Kaiser (U. Hamburg, SFT 'Multilingualism'/U. Konstanz) Dialect contact as a prerequisite for parametric change. A case study on French word order change 11:30 - Chiara Polo (U. Padua) On the relationship between word order, inflectional case and syntactic Case from Old to Middle and Modern English 12:00 - Lunch 2:00 - Invited speaker: Ted Briscoe (U. Cambridge) Logistic patterns of language change Discussant: Partha Niyogi( Bell Labs) 3:15 - Break 3:30 - Irene Philippaki-Warburton & Vassilios Spyropoulos (U. Reading) A change of mood: The evolution of the Greek mood system 4:00 - Marie-Therese Vinet (U. Sherbrooke) Language change and aspect: The case of a Swiss French deficient object ?a 4:30 - Douglas Wharram (U. Connecticut & Memorial U. Newfoundland) On certain differences between French and French: A study in diachronic and microparametric syntax of 'ECM' 5:00 - Tony Kroch ( U. Pennsylvania) Introduction to the second edition of the Penn-Helsinki Middle English corpus 5:30 - Break 7:00 - Conference Dinner - Inn and Conference Center/Univ. of Maryland University College Wednesday, May 24th - Atrium, Stamp Student Union 9:00 - Invited speaker: Dianne Jonas (Yale U.) Residual V-to-I Discussant: Stephen R. Anderson (Yale U.) 10:15 - Break 10:30 - Thorhallur Eythorsson (U. Manchester) Dative vs. nominative: Changes in quirky subjects in Icelandic 11:00 - John D. Sundquist (Indiana U.) Object shift and Holmberg's generalization in the history of Norwegian 11:30 - Eric Haeberli (U. Geneva) Agreement and the loss of V2 in English 12:00 - Lunch 2:00 - Akira Watanabe (U. Tokyo) Loss of overt Wh-movement in Old Japanese and demise of "Kakarimusubi" 2:30 - Cathal Doherty (U. College Dublin) Verb movement and clause structure in Early Irish 3:00 - Paul Hirschbuhler (U. Ottawa) & Marie Labelle (UQAM) Clitic placement in imperatives: from Old to Contemporary French 3:30 - Break 4:00 - Susana Bejar (U. Toronto) Movement, morphology and learnability: The loss of inherent Case in Old English 4:30 - Ana Maria Martins (U. Lisbon) The loss of OV/VO in Portuguese: Considerations on clause structure, word order variation and change 5:00 - Thomas McFadden (U. Pennsylvania) The rise of the to dative in Middle English Alternates: Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (Pennsylvania State U.) Inflectional variation and syntactic innovation: A Synchronic perspective Richard Ingham (U. of Reading) Expletive negatives and Neg movement in Middle English ---end of message----- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Depuis Perlmutter (1971) et Chomsky (1981) on postule que cette distinction reflhte les deux riglages possible d'un paramhtre inni: les grammaires humaines doivent jtre soit [-sujet nul] comme le frangais, soit [+sujet nul] comme l'italien. Les variitis non standard itudiies ici, cependant, incluent des grammaires qui ne peuvent pas se ranger facilement dans ces deux catigories, et reprisentent donc un nouveau difi ` plus de vingt ans de recherches en syntaxe ginirative. Aprhs des considirations ginirales concernant l'importance de la variation dans la thiorie linguistique, nous diveloppons une mithodologie pour utiliser des donnies des atlas linguistiques traditionnels. Bien que ignoris presque complhtement par la linguistique 'thiorique', l'Atlas linguistique de la France (Gilliiron & Edmont 1902-11908) et le Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der S|dschweiz (Jaberg & Jud 1928-1940) fournissent des donnies pricieuses pour les recherches sur la variation morphosyntaxique. Nous dipouillons des donnies d'un total de 438 points sur 101 cartes de chacun des atlas. Ces donnies sont ensuite prisenties de fagon synthitique sur 15 cartes thimatiques, selon la personne grammaticale et d'autres facteurs linguistiques. L'analyse quantitative de cette base de donnies nous permet igalement de formuler certaines giniralisations ` propos des systhmes des sujets pronominaux. Premihrement, les donnies n'indiquent pas une transition abrupte, comme pridirait l'hypothhse paramitrique, mais pluttt une zone de transition graduelle. Deuxihmement, la typologie des systhmes de sujets pronominaux n'est pas complhtement sans contraintes, puisque des tendances claires apparaissent parmi ces variitis intermidiaires. Les sujets pronominaux sont plus rares ` la premihre personne du singulier ou du pluriel, et ` la deuxihme personne du pluriel, alors qu'ils sont plus friquents ` la troisihme personne du singulier ou du pluriel, et surtout ` la deuxihme personne du singulier. Il est difficile de reprisenter ce type d'asymitrie morphologique en termes syntaxiques ou en traits, ou encore en thiorie paramitrique. Plusieurs facteurs linguistiques, dont le type et le temps du verbe, le type et la position de la proposition, et la prisence d'autres pronoms ou de la nigation, contribuent au conditionnement de l'emploi des sujets pronominaux. Ces faits sugghrent que les paradigmes des pronoms sujet reflhtent des phinomhnes complexes qui auraient lieu aux 'interfaces' (Chomsky 1995) pluttt qu'un simple paramhtre syntaxique. ISBN 3 89586 939 2. LINCOM Studies in Romance Lingustics 11. Ca. 250pp. EUR 44.99 / USD 56 / DM 88 / # 30. Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard no. / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers. Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 18 & 19 are now available from LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269404; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. From LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de Sun Apr 2 23:34:25 2000 From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:34:25 EDT Subject: New book: Romance linguistics Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The French Language in Canada JOHN HEWSON, Memorial University of Newfoundland Canadian French has had a long and remarkable history; it has been at home upon this continent for almost 400 years. From 1763 until recent times it survived upon its own, without substantial input from the mother country, France, which gave up its North American colonies at the Treaty of Paris. Because of its remarkable history Canadian French has several outstanding features. One of these is the existence of archaisms, of old words and expressions that have disappeared or died out in France, such as the old weights and measures that were in use before the coming of the metrical system at the time of the French Revolution of 1789. The Revolution, coming a quarter of a century after the Treaty of Paris, was largely irrelevant to Canada. Another was the borrowing of Amerindian terms for the different life experiences of the New World. Some of these, such as 'caribou', found their way into international French, others remain purely local borrowings. Then there is the development of a distinctive regional accent, which other speakers of French recognize as "Canadian". There is also the development of a distinctive form of expressive language that has led to Canadian francophones on holiday in Mexico being nicknamed 'los Tarbanacos' by the Mexicans. Finally there is the influence of English, since the francophone population in Canada, largely centred in the Province of Quebec, is surrounded by a continental sea of English. Canadian French is, consequently, a vast and fascinating tableau of infinite detail, a subject matter with which the Canadian student of French can become totally engrossed. This brief volume is designed as an introduction to the subject, with the understanding that the proper way to approach such complexity is to provide a guide through the maze of resources so the the students can inform themselves by their own researches rather than being provided with second hand information. CONTENTS: Ch.1: Regional Language and Standard Language - Exercises. Ch.2: Commentaries: from the earliest travellers to the Atlas Linguistique de l'Est du Canada - Exercises. Ch.3: The cultural matrix: the pioneer life - Exercises. Ch.4: Phonology of Canadian French - Exercises. Ch.5: Morphology and Syntax - Exercises. Ch.6: Expressive language - Exercises. Ch.7: The parameters of linguistic variation: historical, geographical, social - Exercises. Ch.8: Anglicisms - Exercises. ISBN 3 89586 571 0. LINCOM Studies in Romance Linguistics 07. Ca. 100pp. EUR 26.59 / USD 28 / DM 52 / # 19. Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard no. / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers. Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 18 & 19 are now available from LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269404; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. From LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de Sun Apr 2 23:34:46 2000 From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:34:46 EDT Subject: New book: Uralic linguistics Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Contact-induced Perspectives in Uralic Languages AGO K\NNAP, University of Tartu The author of the book would make an attempt to outline a few features of a recent significant paradigm change in the Uralic (Finno-Ugric and Samoyed) linguistics. The main factor of linguistic processes is supposed to be language contacts, not so much a spontaneous change of languages, although the latter should also be borne in mind. The concept of linguistic affinity has also been subjected to criticism. The common features of Uralic languages developed thanks to various contacts among different languages whereby a language of the lingua franca type could operate as an intermediary. Thus any Uralic language could always differ from other languages of this group, partly retaining its origin from source language(s), unknown us to date. Later on it could also, additionally, become more similar to other Uralic languages thanks to language contacts or, on the other hand, it could become more different as a result of contacts with others than Uralic languages. The role of a language prestige in the process of language changes through history is being emphasized at present. The similarities between Finnic-Lapp and Samoyed languages have earlier been regarded as a result of a better survival of the Proto-Uralic heritage at the extreme peripheries of the expansive zone of occurance of Uralic languages. But the Finnic-Lapp--Samoyed similarities may hypothetically be regarded as ontime areal-typological (contact) similarities. Northern Indo-European languages - Germanic, Baltic and Slavic - are supposed to have developed so that the speakers of Uralic language form learned to speak that of the Indo-European. Ago K|nnap is Professor of Uralic Languages of the University of Tartu. ISBN 3 89586 964 3. LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics 39. Ca. 120pp. Ca. EUR 35 / DM 68 / USD 35 / # 24. Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard no. / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers. Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 18 & 19 are now available from LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269404; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. From C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk Mon Apr 3 21:10:23 2000 From: C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk (Christian J Kay) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:10:23 EDT Subject: mailing list Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Subscription Offer Lexis and Texts in Early English: Studies in honour of Jane Roberts This volume of essays on medieval word and text studies will be published by Rodopi in July 2000. It reflects Jane Roberts' longstanding contribution to medieval language and literature, and especially her pioneering work in "A Thesaurus of Old English". If anyone would like to be listed in the Tabula Gratulatoria, and take advantage of the special pre-publication price of GBP 22/ USD 36, please send postal address to c.kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* Professor Christian Janet Kay, Department of English Language, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)141 330 4150 fax: +44 (0)141 330 3531 http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/EngLang/ From LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de Wed Apr 5 16:50:40 2000 From: LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de (LINCOM EUROPA) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:50:40 EDT Subject: New book: Greek Linguistics Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Introduzione alla linguistica greca MORENO MORANI, Universit` degli Studi di Genova L'Introduzione alla linguistica greca intende offrire una breve guida per lo studio della lingua greca in una prospettiva di linguistica storica. La lingua greca presenta due singolari caratteristiche: la durata della sua attestazione (tre millenni e mezzo di storia) e la presenza di numerose variet` dialettali. Tenendo conto di questa premessa, il volume fornisce una panoramica generale delle problematiche fonda-mentali attinenti alla formazione e allo sviluppo storico della lingua, a partire dalla documentazione micenea: la lingua greca h esaminata nel quadro della famiglia linguistica indeuropea, e vengono analizzati, alla luce delle principali teorie proposte dagli studiosi, i rapporti tra la lingua greca e l'indeuropeo ricostruito, le relazioni con le altre lingue indeuropee, la presenza di elementi non indeuropei nel greco. Per il secondo aspetto, si presentano le principali questioni relative alla classificazione dei dialetti greci, dei quali si fornisce anche una sommaria descrizione. Per quanto l'interesse fondamentale della trattazione riguardi il greco antico nelle sue principali manifestazioni letterarie, lo sviluppo della lingua h seguito dalla documentazione micenea fino al periodo bizantino e moderno. Il manuale h destinato agli studenti universitari e agli insegnanti di lingue e letterature classiche, e contiene quelle nozioni fondamentali di grammatica comparata e di storia della lingua che lo possono rendere utile per un primo orientamento in problematiche complesse che formano oggetto di discussioni complesse e talvolta secolari. Indice: PREMESSA - ABBREVIAZIONI CAPITOLO PRIMO: Il greco e le lingue indeuropee I. Le lingue indeuropee. II. Metodo, obiettivi e limiti della ricostruzione. III. Cenni di fonetica indeuropea. IV. Dall'indeuropeo al greco. CAPITOLO SECONDO : I dialetti greci e il miceneo I. I dialetti greci. II. Il miceneo. CAPITOLO TERZO: La formazione del greco I. Teorie a confronto. II. Greco e altre lingue indeuropee. III. Elementi non indeuropei nel greco. CAPITOLO QUARTO: Lineamenti di cronologia del greco I. Omero. II. La lingua della lirica. III. Il dramma attico. IV. La lingua della prosa. V. La koini. VI. Verso il greco moderno. Bibliografia INDICE ISBN 3 89586 949 X. LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 09. Ca. 240 pp. EUR 61.36 / DM 120 / USD 65 / # 40. May 2000. Ordering information for individuals: Please give us your creditcard no. / expiry date. Prices in this information include shipment worldwide by airmail. A standing order for this series is available with special discounts offered to individual subscribers. Free copies of LINCOM'S newsflashes 18 & 19 are now available from LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. LINCOM EUROPA, Freibadstr. 3, D-81543 Muenchen, Germany; FAX +49 89 62269494 or +4989 3148909; http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de. From nbvint at nessie.mcc.ac.uk Wed Apr 5 12:56:37 2000 From: nbvint at nessie.mcc.ac.uk (nigel vincent) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 08:56:37 EDT Subject: new job Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK Lectureship in Historical Linguistics (Ref. no. 317/00) Applications will be considered from those specializing in any branch of historical linguistics. A strong research record is essential, and a completed PhD is desirable. Applicants must be able to demonstrate an interest both in the theoretical study of language change and in the history of one or more languages and language families. Preference may be given to candidates whose research relates to the history of a language or languages other than English. An ability to contribute to the teaching of either syntax or sociolinguistics would also be an advantage. The starting date is 1 September 2000 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary in the Lecturer A range, i.e ?17,328 - ?22,579 p.a. Closing date for applications: 13 May 2000. Applications forms are available from and applications should be submitted to: Office of the Director of Personnel, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. Tel: ++44 (0)161 275 2028; Fax: ++44 (0)161 275 2221; Minicom (for the hearing impaired): ++44 (0)161 275 7889. Email: personnel at man.ac.uk Website: http://www.man.ac.uk Applications should quote the above reference number and contain the names of three referees. It is the responsibility of applicants to ensure that supporting letters of reference are sent to the same address by the closing date for applications. It is expected that interviews for this post will be conducted in the week beginning 5 June 2000. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a talk based on their current research. Applicants who require further information are invited to contact either Prof Nigel Vincent (nigel.vincent at man.ac.uk, +44-(0)161-275-3194/3187) or the Chair of the Department, Dr Kersti B?rjars (kersti.borjars at man.ac.uk, +44 (0)61-275-3042/3187). Person Description Candidates should possess a strong research record, including a PhD or equivalent publications, in any area of historical linguistics. They must be able to demonstrate an interest both in the theoretical study of language change and in the history of one or more languages and language families. Preference may be given to candidates whose research relates to the history of a language or languages other than English. An ability to contribute to the teaching of either syntax or sociolinguistics would also be an advantage. Candidates will need to have or acquire the presentational skills necessary for lectures, seminars and small group teaching, and the IT and organizational skills appropriate to departmental teaching and administration. Job Description The appointed candidate will be expected to contribute to the research, teaching (both undergraduate and postgraduate) and administration of the Department of Linguistics. Staff are required to follow an induction course prior to starting their duties if they have not taken a similar course in another institution. General particulars of appointment to posts of Lecturer refer to the duty to undertake research. In the Faculty of Arts it is a matter of policy that the capacity to fulfil that duty requires that care be taken by Heads of School to ensure that the opportunity exists for staff to undertake research. Newly appointed staff in particular, serving a period of probation (normally up to four years), may expect to establish with their Head of School and with their Departmental Chair appropriate arrangements for undertaking research activity and for publishing their results. A mentoring system also exists for new staff. In addition, reports on research activity undertaken by probationary Lecturers, compiled by various means including periodic appraisal by or for the Head of Department, will form a significant part of the information to be taken into account by the Faculty Review Committee and the Academic Promotions Committee in determining progress in probation, and in formulating their recommendations regarding the completion of probation. ******** Nigel Vincent Tel: +44-(0)161-275 3194 Department of Linguistics Fax: +44-(0)161-275 3187 University of Manchester e-mail: nigel.vincent at man.ac.uk Manchester M13 9PL http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Html/NBV/ UK Visit our web-page: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/ From kjohnson at ling.ohio-state.edu Thu Apr 6 02:13:42 2000 From: kjohnson at ling.ohio-state.edu (Keith Johnson) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 22:13:42 EDT Subject: Summer School - Ohio State University Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Second Notice Updated information available on the website. --------------------------- Summer 2000 at Ohio State University Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models During July of 2000, the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University will be offering a unique combination of short courses aimed at exploring spoken language, with a particular focus on the empirical study of naturally-occurring speech through various instrumental, quantitative, and analytic means. Scholars, researchers (industry or academic), and students are invited to join us for an intense and rewarding summer session. Course offerings: Laboratory Phonology - Mary Beckman Quantitative Methods - Michael Broe Field Phonetics - Keith Johnson Historical Phonology - Brian Joseph & Richard Janda Practicum in English Intonation - Julia McGory The Pragmatics of Focus - Craige Roberts For more information see the website: http://ling.ohio-state.edu/SU2000 From kjohnson at ling.ohio-state.edu Thu Apr 20 23:32:33 2000 From: kjohnson at ling.ohio-state.edu (Keith Johnson) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:32:33 EDT Subject: XML at OSU Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Announcing a 5-day workshop associated with "Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models" July 3-7, 2000 (see http://ling.ohio-state.edu/SU2000 for further information) XML and Linguistic Annotation Chris Brew Department of Linguistics Ohio State University Corpora of spoken and written language are crucial to much of linguistics, providing both quantitive and qualitative data which informs and grounds our work. Much of the material which is available is raw text, but this is complemented by a substantial and increasing number of annotated corpora. It is important to ensure that such annotated corpora are reliable, re-usable and maximally informative, but it is not immediately obvious how this is to be achieved, not least because the corpus data often stimulates research which was not envisaged at the time that the data was collected. XML(the eXtensible Markup Language) provides a standardized vehicle for the generation, processing and exchange of arbitrary structured data, including, but not limited to, texts marked up with linguistic information. Many, but no means all, corpus creation initiatives have chosen to adopt the XML route. This means that researchers who want to use (and perhaps add to) the products of these efforts need to understand something of what XML is and how it can be used. Non-linguistic applications of XML will be covered only tangentially. This workshop introduces XML as a means for creating and using linguistic annotations, gives hands-on experience of both corpus annotation and corpus use, and discusses its strengths and weaknesses as a research tool. There will be five 105 minute sessions, one per day, spread over a week, along with practical sessions covering the use of text and speech data. Students should expect to spend approximately 60 minutes per day on the practicals. The only prerequisite is a very basic training in any of the language sciences. It should therefore be accessible to all participants in "Spoken Language in Context: Methods and Models". From polikarp at philol.msu.ru Thu Apr 27 20:59:44 2000 From: polikarp at philol.msu.ru (Anatoly Polikarpov) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:59:44 EDT Subject: Renewal of the site "Human Language" (HumLang)!!! Message-ID: [This message consists of two parts - English and Russian/V etom pis'me dve chasti - angl. i russkaja] Dear colleagues, Please, find attached a letter on renewed site of a list "Human Language" (HumLang). Among others this electronic bulletin contains some new publications on unresolved problems in the theory of language evolution (both in English and Russian) and on some new lexicographic projects in Russia. Good luck! Editor of the Humlang - Anatoliy A. Polikarpov polikarp at philol.msu.ru ----------------------------------------- ??????? ???????! ??????? ??? ? ???????????? ?????????? ????? ????????? (?????) "???? ????????" (HumLang). ????? ??????? ?? ??????? ????? ?? ????? ????? ?????????? ?? ????????? ??????? ???????? ?????? ???????? ????? (??? ??-?????????, ??? ? ??-??????) ? ?? ????? ?????????????????? ????????, ????????????? ??? ??????????? ? ??????. ????????? ? ????? ? ????? ? ? ??? ?????????? ????? ????????? ? ????????????? ????? ????? ???????! ???????? ????? 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Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (pp. 7?25) Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact Noriko O. Onodera (pp. 27?55) Development of demo type connectives and na elements: Two extremes of Japanese discourse markers Marcella Bertuccelli Papi (pp. 57?66) Is a diachronic speech act theory possible? Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen (pp. 67?95) Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from flyting to flaming Jonathan Culpeper and Elena Semino (pp. 97?116) Constructing witches and spells: Speech acts and activity types in Early Modern England Thomas Honegger (pp. 117?150) ?But-?at ?ou louye me, Sertes y dye fore loue of ?e?: Towards a typology of opening moves in Courtly Amorous Interaction Book Reviews Gerd Fritz: Historische Semantik (Brigitte Nerlich) Forthcoming Papers Authors in this Issue ABSTRACTS: Invoking scalarity: The development of in fact Scott A. Schwenter and Elizabeth Closs Traugott The discourse contexts are analyzed in which clause-internal in fact developed pragmaticalized meanings and came to invoke scalarity in two domains: epistemic sentence adverb (IPAdv), and additive discourse marker (DM). In both these uses, in fact tightens word to world fit (Powell 1992): the world of epistemic belief in the case of the IPAdv, the world of evaluative, rhetorical perspective in the case of the DM. The analysis therefore provides further evidence for (i) pragmatic ambiguities across these worlds (Sweetser 1990), (ii) subjectification that shifts perspectives from interpersonal (adversative) to personal evaluation (Traugott 1989), (iii) the pragmatic relationship between scalarity, adversativity and additivity (Schwenter 1999). The different orientations of the two uses suggest they are polysemous, not contextually bound. Development of demo type connectives and na elements: Two extremes of Japanese discourse markers Noriko O. Onodera This paper suggests the independence of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization processes. These two processes are originally and self-evidently autonomous evolutionary paths that occur independently of each other. However, grammaticalization is often discussed, indeed in the majority of the recent studies, in correlation to some unidirectional features that co-occur with grammaticalization. Such features include, structurally, for example, ?bondedness? and ?structural scope? (Lehmann 1995), and functionally, for example, ?increase in abstraction? and ?pragmaticalization?. These unidirectional features are at times even considered too authoritatively criterial to judge a given language change as an instance of grammaticalization.This study illustrates a piece of evidence for the asymmetric relationship of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization. That is, the two groups of Japanese discourse markers ? (1) demo type connectives and (2) na elements ? experience quite different historical changes. The group (1) undergoes both grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, but the group (2) undergoes pragmaticalization without involving grammaticalization. Diachronic speech act analysis: Insults from flyting to flaming Andreas H. Jucker and Irma Taavitsainen In this paper we want to develop a model for the diachronic analysis of speech acts by tracing one particular speech act through the history of English, viz. insults. Speech acts are fuzzy concepts which show both diachronic and synchronic variation. We therefore propose a notion of a multidimensional pragmatic space in which speech acts can be analyzed in relation to neighboring speech acts.Against this background we discuss both the changing cultural grounding in which insults occur and the changing ways in which they are realized. Our data is drawn from the Old English poem Beowulf and the Finnsburh fragment, from Chaucer?s Canterbury Tales and from Shakespeare?s plays, and from a variety of non-literary sources such as personal letters, court records and an internet discussion group. The scale ranges from everyday communication to ritualized behavior. When written materials of the past periods are analyzed, the bias towards the conventionalized insults is evident. Most early examples are found in literary texts and seem to reflect generic conventions of the time and the culture that gave rise to these literary forms. Constructing witches and spells: Speech acts and activity types in Early Modern England Jonathan Culpeper and Elena Semino In this paper, we highlight the centrality of verbs relating to verbal activities in witchcraft narratives in the Early Modern English period, and focus on speech act verbs used to refer to witches? curses. In the first part, we refer to various classifications of speech act verbs and to Searle?s felicity conditions for speech acts, in order to describe the different meanings of verbs such as to curse, and to show how their central meaning has shifted over time. In the second part, we show how the speech act verbs form a structured set, which ? in appropriate circumstances ? could be used as an interpretative frame to create witchcraft events out of relatively trivial arguments within village communities. Here, we refer to Levinson?s notion of activity types as a possible explanatory framework. ?But-?at ?ou louye me, Sertes y dye fore loue of ?e?: Towards a typology of opening moves in Courtly Amorous Interaction Thomas Honegger In this paper, I look at how medieval and early modern poets present and exploit the potential inherent in opening moves in (love) relationships for the purpose of plot motivation and protagonist characterisation. The depiction of the opening moves depends on three interrelated pairs of variables: 1) legalistic tradition (marriage as the reason for initiating a relationship) vs emotional tradition (focus is on the beloved person?s affection), 2) plot motivation vs protagonist characterisation, and 3) brevity vs length. Longer texts that focus on the lovers? feelings and that pay some attention to protagonist characterisation are more likely to feature relatively complex linguistic strategies presented in a basically realistic interactional manner. In shorter texts of the emotional tradition, the complexity is reduced, and poets working in the legalistic tradition often pay hardly any attention at all to the finer points of opening moves in love interaction. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From paul at benjamins.com Thu Apr 27 19:02:14 2000 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:02:14 EDT Subject: Four Books on Historical Linguistic topics Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- These are four recently published books on historical linguistic topics not yet announced to the list: Diachronic Pragmatics. Seven case studies in English illocutionary development. Leslie ARNOVICK (University of British Columbia) Pragmatics & Beyond NS 68 US & Canada: 1 55619 946 5 / USD 65.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 5083 9 / NLG 130.00 (Hardcover) The purpose of Diachronic Pragmatics is to exemplify historical pragmatics in its twofold sense of constituting both a subject matter and a methodology. This book demonstrates how diachronic pragmatics, with its complementary diachronic function-to-form mapping and diachronic form-to-function mapping, can be used to trace pragmatic developments within the English language. Through a set of case studies it explores the evolution of such speech acts as promises, curses, blessings, and greetings and such speech events as flyting and sounding. Collectively these "illocutionary biographies" manifest the workings of several important pragmatic processes and trends: increased epistemicity, subjectification, and discursization (a special kind of pragmaticalization). It also establishes the centrality of cultural traditions in diachronic reconstruction, examining various de-institutionalizations of extra-linguistic context and their affect on speech act performance. Taken together, the case studies presented in Diachronic Pragmatics highlight the complex interactions of formal, semantic, and pragmatic processes over time. Illustrating the possibilities of historical pragmatic pursuit, this book stands as an invitation to further research in a new and important discipline. Chinese Dialect Classification. A comparative approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu. Richard VanNess SIMMONS (Rutgers University) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 188 US & Canada: 1 55619 965 1 / USD 90.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3694 1 / NLG 180.00 (Hardcover) This volume is an investigation and classification of dialects along the Wu and Jiang-Hwai Mandarin border in China's eastern Yangtze Valley. It is the first monograph-length study to critically question the traditional single criterion of initial voicing for the classification of Wu dialects and propose a comprehensive comparative framework as a more successful alternative. Arguing that dialect affiliation is best determined through analysis of dialect correspondence to common phonological systems, the author develops a taxonomic analysis that definitively distinguishes Common Northern Wu and Mandarin dialects. By clarifying dialect affiliation in the Wu and Mandarin border region, this volume makes significant contributions to our understanding of the true nature of the region's dialects and their history. Using primarily data drawn from the author's own fieldwork, the volume contains copious comparative examples and an extensive lexicon of the Old Jintarn dialect. Exploring the Role of Morphology in the Evolution of Spanish. Joel RINI (University of Virginia) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 179 US & Canada: 1 55619 956 2 / USD 74.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3685 2 / NLG 148.00 (Hardcover) After a brief survey of the perception of morphological change in the standard works of the Hispanic tradition in the 20th century, the author first attempts to refine concepts such as analogy, leveling, blending, contamination, etc. as they have been applied to Spanish. He then revisits difficult problems of Spanish historical grammar and explores the extent to which various types of morphological processes may have operated in a given change. Selected problems are examined in light of abundant textual evidence. Some include: the resistance to change of Sp. dormir 'to sleep', morir 'to die', the vocalic sequence /ee/, the reduction of the OSp. verbal suffixes -ades, -edes, -ides, -odes, and the uncertain origin of Sp. eres 'you are'. Important notions such as the directionality of leveling, phonological vs. morphological change in the nominal and verbal paradigms, the morphological spread of sound change, and the role of morphological factors in apparent syntactic change are discussed. The Roots of Old Chinese. Laurent SAGART (C. R. L. A. O., Paris) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 184 US & Canada: 1 55619 961 9 / USD 85.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3690 9 / NLG 170.00 (Hardcover) The phonology, morphology and lexicon of late Zhou Chinese are examined in this volume. It is argued that a proper understanding of Old Chinese morphology is essential in correctly reconstructing the phonology. Based on evidence from word-families, modern dialects and related words in neighboring languages, Old Chinese words are claimed to consist of a monosyllabic root, to which a variety of derivational affixes attached. This made Old Chinese typologically more like modern languages such as Khmer, Gyarong or Atayal, than like Middle and modern Chinese, where only faint traces of the old morphology remain. In the first part of the book, the author proposes improvements to Baxter's system of reconstruction, regarding complex initials and rhymes, and then reviews in great detail the Old Chinese affixal morphology. New proposals on phonology and morphology are integrated into a coherent reconstruction system. The second part of the book consists of etymological studies of important lexical items in Old Chinese. The author demonstrates in particular the role of proportional analogy in the formation of the system of personal pronouns. Special attention is paid to contact phenomena between Chinese and neighboring languages, and - unlike most literature on Sino-Tibetan - the author identifies numerous Chinese loanwords into Tibeto-Burman. The book, which contains a lengthy list of reconstructions, an index of characters and a general index, is intended for linguists and cultural historians, as well as advanced students. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Offices: Philadelphia Amsterdam: Websites: http://www.benjamins.com http://www.benjamins.nl E-mail: service at benjamins.com customer.services at benjamins.nl Phone: +215 836-1200 +31 20 6762325 Fax: +215 836-1204 +31 20 6739773 From jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu Thu Apr 27 15:36:25 2000 From: jsalmons at facstaff.wisc.edu (Joseph Salmons) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:36:25 EDT Subject: TOC: American J. of Germanic Linguistics, 11.2 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 11.2 of the American Journal of Germanic Linguistics has now appeared. Starting with volume 13 (2001) the _American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures_ will be renamed the _Journal of Germanic Linguistics_ and will be published quarterly (March, June, September, December) by Cambridge University Press. Submissions may be directed to: Mark L. Louden (louden at mail.utexas.edu), JGL, Dept. of German, 818 Van Hise Hall, UW-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. For subscription information, contact Robert B. Howell (rbhowell at facstaff.wisc.edu), Dept. of German, 818 Van Hise Hall, UW-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. _American Journal of Germanic Linguistics_, 11.2: ARTICLE Studies in runic origins 2: From gods to men Tom Markey DISCUSSION NOTES On identifying laryngeal reflexes in Germanic=09 Leo A. Connolly A reply to Professor Connolly's "On identifying laryngeal reflexes in Germanic" Joseph B. Voyles REVIEWS S. Suzuki, The metrical organization of Beowulf: Prototype and isomorphism Thomas Cable B. Donaldson, Dutch: A comprehensive grammar Robert B. Howell S. Bartke, Experimentelle Studien zur Flexion und Wortbildung Martin Durrell From Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au Fri Apr 28 11:58:55 2000 From: Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au (Malcolm Ross) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:58:55 EDT Subject: New book: Proto South Bahnaric Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Pacific Linguistics is happy to announce the publication of the following book: -------------------------- Proto South Bahnaric: A reconstruction of a Mon-Khmer language of Indo-China PL 501 Paul J. Sidwell The present volume is a reconstruction of the phonology and lexicon of Proto South Bahnaric, based on a detailed comparison of three languages, Chrau, Stieng and K?ho. These Mon-Khmer (Austroasiatic) languages are spoken north and northwest of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and in neighbouring areas of Cambodia. The comparative vocabulary presents 829 etymologies with reconstructions, phonemic analyses and external comparisons. 2000 ISBN 0 85883 444 8 ix + 225pp $57.00 Available from: Pacific Linguistics RSPAS Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Tel: (02) 6249 2742 Fax: (02) 6249 4896 Email: jmanley at coombs.anu.edu.au ----------------------------------------- Publications Administrator Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia Tel: +61 (0)2 6249 2742 Fax: +61 (0)2 6249 4896 http://pacling.anu.edu.au (under construction)