From dlight at Glue.umd.edu Mon Jan 24 16:29:46 2000 From: dlight at Glue.umd.edu (David Lightfoot) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:29:46 EST Subject: Reading ads (fwd) Message-ID: The Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, U.K., is seeking to fill the following posts: Lectureship in Language Pathology The person appointed must have a higher degree, good teaching skills and be able to contribute to the department's research profile. A clinical qualification in speech and language therapy is essential. Applicants with an interest in paediatric speech and language disorders and a commitment to high quality clinical teaching will be especially welcome. The appointment will be made on the Lecturer B scale according to experience and qualification. Closing date for applications: 28th February. Post ref: AC0003 Lectureships in Language Acquisition and in Language Change Following the appointment of Professor David Lightfoot to the Chair of Linguistic Science, two new Lecturer posts have been created. In both cases, applicants should be interested in grammatical theory. The Language Acquisition post will be filled by someone experimenting with the language of young children. The Language Change post will be filled by somebody investigating language change and variation in the context of current grammatical theory. Both posts will in the first instance be for a fixed term of three years. Applicants should have experience of research and teaching in these areas, a PhD in a relevant field, and publications likely to enhance the department's research profile. Applicants should send a cv, a sample of their work, and arrange to have three letters of reference sent. Closing date for applications is 21 Feb 2000. The language acquisition post will be on lectureship A/B; reference is AC0004a. The language change post will be lectureship A; reference is AC0004b. Further information about the department can be found at http://www.linguistics.reading.ac.uk For further particulars and application form, please contact the Personnel Office, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AH. Telephone: 0118 931 6771. e-mail personnel at reading.ac.uk For any other enquiries, please contact the Head of Department, Professor Peter Roach, email: p.j.roach at reading.ac.uk From Frans.Plank at uni-konstanz.de Thu Jan 27 16:31:45 2000 From: Frans.Plank at uni-konstanz.de (Frans Plank) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:31:45 EST Subject: predoc position at Konstanz Message-ID: There is a three-year half-time research position available in the Linguistics Dept at the Universitaet Konstanz (Germany), beginning 1 February 2000 or asap thereafter. The successful candidate will be expected to work half of her/his time on her/his PhD and the other half on a research project on the typology and change of form classes (lexical to grammatical and the other way round), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. A solid background in linguistic theory and historical linguistics and some genetic or areal specialisation are desirable. Payment according to the BAT IIa/2 scale (around DM 2,500 p.m. before taxes). Further particulars from Frans Plank at the addresses below. Send applications and summary of MA thesis or the like by the end of January. Frans Plank Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Konstanz D-78457 Konstanz Germany E-mail: frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de Tel: +49-(0)7531-88 2656, home +49-(0)7531-57450 Fax: +49-(0)7531-88 4190 From embleton at yorku.ca Sun Jan 30 19:43:26 2000 From: embleton at yorku.ca (Sheila Embleton) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 14:43:26 EST Subject: ILA program, April 7-8, Georgetown Univ, Washington DC Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The International Linguistic Association will be meeting Friday April 7 and Saturday April 8 (2000) at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. The preliminary program is included below. The organizer of one of the panels has set up a web-site, and that web-site has links to housing and registration information. The address is http://www.cla.sc.edu/SIP/faculty/Holt/ILA2000/schedule.htm. Sheila Embleton embleton at yorku.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:52:09 -0500 From: Johanna Woltjer Subject: (Revised) Preliminary Program ILA 2000 - Preliminary Program Georgetown University (All activities will be held in the ICC--Intercultural Center, unless noted.) Friday, April 7, 2000 1-1.30 Registration, Entrance to Room 115 1.30-5 p.m. Session I: Room 115 Language Contact I: a.. Intrasentential Codeswitching as Language Contact in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon, Longxing Wei, Montclair State University b.. The Evolution of Actant Agreement Patterns in Russian Loan Verbs in Ket, Edward Vajda. Western Washington University c.. Dutch and English in Contact: 'Low Dutch' versus American Dutch, Jaap van Marle, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam d.. The Ethiopian Sabaean Inscriptions: Language Transmission or Language Contact?,David Elias, Harvard University e.. Internal Development and External Influence: Phonological Change in Zerq' Chechen, Paul D. Fallon, Howard University f.. The Remnants of Germanic-Slavic Linguistic Borderland in Poland, Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University g.. How Numerals Came About in Language Contact Situations: The Case of the Number Seven in Eurasia Penglin Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Session II: Whitegravenor, Room 203 (next building to ICC) Optimality Theory Aproaches I a.. The Odds of Eternal Optimization in OT, Paul Boersma b.. Constraint Re-Ranking in Phonological Change, Randall Gess, University of Utah c.. Catastrophes at 1000 Grammars/Hour on the 'S'-Curve, Benjamin Slade, Johns Hopkins University d.. The Northern Greek Dialects Revisited: An OT Approach to the Diachronic Vowel Deletion and Raising Facts, Dale Hartkemeyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign e.. Language Change in OT: The Great Vowel Shift, Viola Miglio, University of Iceland, and Bruce Moren, Georgetown University f.. English Vowel Shifts and "Optimal" Diphthongs: Is there a Logical Link?, Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, University of California at Los Angeles g.. Moroccan Arabic: Vowel Mutations in Optimality Theory: the Case of the TAZA dialect, Samira Rguibi, Hassan II University, Casablanca 5-6 P.M. Plenary Session I , Room 115 Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania Saturday, April 8, 2000 (Late registration during breaks in corridor outside of Room 105) Coffee and Book Displays in Linguistics & Languages Department Conference Room #462. 8:30-10.30 a.m. Session III: Room 105 Language Contact II: a.. The Structural Transparency of Modern Cham: the Effects of Long-term SLA., Graham Thurgood, California State University at Chico b.. Areal Development in Standard Average European: Evidence from the Perfect, Bridget Drinka, University of Texas at San Antonio c.. An Anatomy of Multilingualism: Cohesion of Thought among Moroccan University Students, Linda Stump Rashidi, Mansfield University d.. Native or Borrowed, or Both - is it Possible to have Many Mothers?, Johanna Laakso, University of Helsinki Session IV: Room 202 Optimality Theory Approaches II: a.. Some Interactions between Foot Structure and Syllable Structure in the History of the Spanish Language, Conxita Ll�o, University of Hamburg b.. Is Spanish Quantity-Sensitive?, Alfonso Morales-Front, Georgetown University c.. Baba Malay Word Stress in Optimality Theory - a Look at Language Shift, Elzbieta Thurgood, California State University at Chico d.. Manner-Sensitive Laryngeal Faithfulness in Proto-Indo-European: an OT perspective, Olga Petrova, University of Iowa e.. Statistics of Cooccurrence Relationships of Consonantal Verbal Roots in Classical Arabic: Representation and Analysis, Mustapha Rhoula, Universit� Sidi Mohammed f.. The Substructure of Old English Lexicon: The Stress Pattern of Latin Loan Names and Native Words, An-nah Moon, Seoul National University Session V: Room 113 Language Change I a.. Chinese Women in the Ancient and Modern Language World, Ganzhi Di, CUNY Hostos Community College b.. An Evaluation of Mayan Etymologies, John R. Costello, New York University c.. Cross-Linguistic Levels of Intertextual Allusion, Walter Petrovitz, St. John's University d.. Complements of "Forbear" over Three Centuries, Juhani Rudanko, University of Tampere, Finland Session VI: Room 213 Grammar/Semantics/Metaphor a.. Grammaticalization of Japanese Case-Marking Particles, Mieko Banno, University of California at Santa Barbara b.. Perspective and Linguistics in Auden's "The Watershed", Helen Chau Hu, University of California at Long Beach c.. Different Views of the City and the Building: A Study of Metaphors Used by European Architects when Talking about their Projects, Paloma Ubeda-Mansilla, Universidad Politecnica, Madrid d.. Linguistic Change in Specialised Language: An Example From Urban Planning, Ana Roldan Riejos, Universidad Politecnica, Madrid 10.30-11.00 a.m. Coffee, Room 462 11.00 a.m, Plenary Session II, Room, 105 Sally Thomason, University of Michigan 12.00-1.00 Lunch (Book display in Room #462 will remain open) 1.00-3.00 p.m. Session VII, Room 105 Language Contact III a.. The Effect of Language Contact on Noun and Verb Inflection in Immigrant Languages in the US, Anna Fenyvesi, University of Szeged, Hungary b.. Preverbs in Language Contact: Evidence from American Hungarian among Bilingual Children, Agnes Bolonyai, East Carolina University c.. The Influence of Intent on the Formal Characteristics of Code-Switching, John Wolff, Cornell University d.. Contact-Induced Change in the Case Systems of American Finnish and American Hungarian, Pekka Hirvonen, University of Joensuu, Finland, and Anna Fenyvesi, University of Szeged, Hungary Session VIII, Room 113 American Dialect Society Studies a.. Mill Villagers and Farmers: Dialect and Economics in a Small Southern Town, Elizabeth McNair-Du Pree, University of Chicago b.. Chinook Jargon Redivivus, Barbara Harris, UVIC, CA c.. Adjective Placement in Spanish: Patterns, Approximations, Anomalies, Maurice Westmoreland, SUNY at Albany d.. Absence of Distinctive Agreement: Language Change?, Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson, College of Charleston Session IX Room 213 Historical-Comparative Studies I a.. Latin /a/ from Zero Grade Before a Syllable Containing a Laryngeal, Julius Purczinsky, Hunter College, CUNY b.. Indoeuropean Complementisers: Evidence for Parameterised Lexicalisation and Feature Syncretism, Peter Oehl, University of Stuttgart c.. The Grammaticalization Chain from Classical Latin illi(s) to Modern Spanish le(s), Jose Carrasquel, Northern Illinois University d.. The Derivational Suffixes and Suffixoids of Old Saxon: A Panchronic Approach to Linguistic Categories of Old Saxon, Christopher M. Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles 3-3.30 Coffee, Room 462 3:30- 6:00 p.m Session X Room 105 Language Contact IV a.. Karelian in Russian Style: Observations on Codeswitching and Mixed Codes in a Minority/Majority Language Contact Situation in Northwest Russia, Anneli Sarhimaa, University of Helsinki b.. Language Contact and Language Loss, Agurtzane Elordui, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitaea c.. Dialectal Issues of a Contact Variety: The Spanish of Catalonia, Robert E. Vann, Western Michigan University d.. Language Change Observed in a Linguistic Continuum, Maria Ibba, Universita Cattolica del Santo Cuore e.. Extralinguistic Factors for a Language Change in an Italian Dialect, Francesco D'Introno, University of Massachusetts f.. Arabic Borrowing in Hindi, Shaligram Shukla and Solomon Sara, S.J., Georgetown University g.. Language-Contact Induced Change in Sorbian and German, Gunter Schaarschmidt, University of Victoria Session XI, Room 113 Miscellaneous (Discourse/Generative Grammar) a.. Linguistic And Culture-Specific Factors For Business English Curriculum Development, Lyudmila Bordyuk, Lviv Polytechnic State University (Ukraine) and San Diego State University b.. The Construction of Masculinity in Peruvian Spanish: the Use of Gossip, Expletives, Phatic Language and Slang to Create a Masculine Talk, Susana de los Heros, University of Rhode Island c.. The Right to Talk (or not): Different Enactments of Power in Modern Greek Discourse, Christina Kakava, Mary Washington College d.. Feature Analysis of Zibun, Yoshi Okamoto, University of Maryland at College Park e.. Variation in Spanish: The Realization of ???Phrase, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Pennsylvania State University Session XII, Room 213 Language Change #2 a.. 'Voy en el Mercado': Preposition 'en' with Verbs of Movement in Paraguayan Spanish, Jinny K. Choi, University of Texas, Arlington b.. Towards a Neurocognitive Understanding of Language Change , Hilke Elsen, Universit�t M�nchen & Universit�t Eichst�tt c.. Early Lexical Exponents and 'Related' Lexical Items as Manifestation of Conceptual/Semantic Primitives in Child Language, Adrian Tien, Australian National University d.. Linguistic Implications for Mathematics Education, Virginia Tong and Francis J. Gardella, Hunter College, CUNY e.. A HELLA: a New Specifier in San Francisco, Rachelle Waksler, San Francisco State University (END) From DEHolt01 at gwm.sc.edu Mon Jan 31 00:05:10 2000 From: DEHolt01 at gwm.sc.edu (D. Eric Holt) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:05:10 EST Subject: ILA panel Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: Apologies for the incorrect URL for the preliminary schedule of the 45th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, to be held April 7-8, 2000, at Georgetown University. The new/functioning address is: http://www.cla.sc.edu/SIP/faculty/Holt/ILA2000/mainschedule.html Sincerely, Eric Holt _____________________________________________ D. Eric Holt Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese and Program in Linguistics University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (803) 777-0798 (office) (803) 777-4884 (messages) (803) 777-7828 (fax) (803) 407-9706 (home) holt at sc.edu --NEW; PLEASE UPDATE http://www.cla.sc.edu/SIP/ From dlight at Glue.umd.edu Mon Jan 24 16:29:46 2000 From: dlight at Glue.umd.edu (David Lightfoot) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:29:46 EST Subject: Reading ads (fwd) Message-ID: The Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, U.K., is seeking to fill the following posts: Lectureship in Language Pathology The person appointed must have a higher degree, good teaching skills and be able to contribute to the department's research profile. A clinical qualification in speech and language therapy is essential. Applicants with an interest in paediatric speech and language disorders and a commitment to high quality clinical teaching will be especially welcome. The appointment will be made on the Lecturer B scale according to experience and qualification. Closing date for applications: 28th February. Post ref: AC0003 Lectureships in Language Acquisition and in Language Change Following the appointment of Professor David Lightfoot to the Chair of Linguistic Science, two new Lecturer posts have been created. In both cases, applicants should be interested in grammatical theory. The Language Acquisition post will be filled by someone experimenting with the language of young children. The Language Change post will be filled by somebody investigating language change and variation in the context of current grammatical theory. Both posts will in the first instance be for a fixed term of three years. Applicants should have experience of research and teaching in these areas, a PhD in a relevant field, and publications likely to enhance the department's research profile. Applicants should send a cv, a sample of their work, and arrange to have three letters of reference sent. Closing date for applications is 21 Feb 2000. The language acquisition post will be on lectureship A/B; reference is AC0004a. The language change post will be lectureship A; reference is AC0004b. Further information about the department can be found at http://www.linguistics.reading.ac.uk For further particulars and application form, please contact the Personnel Office, The University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AH. Telephone: 0118 931 6771. e-mail personnel at reading.ac.uk For any other enquiries, please contact the Head of Department, Professor Peter Roach, email: p.j.roach at reading.ac.uk From Frans.Plank at uni-konstanz.de Thu Jan 27 16:31:45 2000 From: Frans.Plank at uni-konstanz.de (Frans Plank) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:31:45 EST Subject: predoc position at Konstanz Message-ID: There is a three-year half-time research position available in the Linguistics Dept at the Universitaet Konstanz (Germany), beginning 1 February 2000 or asap thereafter. The successful candidate will be expected to work half of her/his time on her/his PhD and the other half on a research project on the typology and change of form classes (lexical to grammatical and the other way round), funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. A solid background in linguistic theory and historical linguistics and some genetic or areal specialisation are desirable. Payment according to the BAT IIa/2 scale (around DM 2,500 p.m. before taxes). Further particulars from Frans Plank at the addresses below. Send applications and summary of MA thesis or the like by the end of January. Frans Plank Sprachwissenschaft Universitaet Konstanz D-78457 Konstanz Germany E-mail: frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de Tel: +49-(0)7531-88 2656, home +49-(0)7531-57450 Fax: +49-(0)7531-88 4190 From embleton at yorku.ca Sun Jan 30 19:43:26 2000 From: embleton at yorku.ca (Sheila Embleton) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 14:43:26 EST Subject: ILA program, April 7-8, Georgetown Univ, Washington DC Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The International Linguistic Association will be meeting Friday April 7 and Saturday April 8 (2000) at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. The preliminary program is included below. The organizer of one of the panels has set up a web-site, and that web-site has links to housing and registration information. The address is http://www.cla.sc.edu/SIP/faculty/Holt/ILA2000/schedule.htm. Sheila Embleton embleton at yorku.ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:52:09 -0500 From: Johanna Woltjer Subject: (Revised) Preliminary Program ILA 2000 - Preliminary Program Georgetown University (All activities will be held in the ICC--Intercultural Center, unless noted.) Friday, April 7, 2000 1-1.30 Registration, Entrance to Room 115 1.30-5 p.m. Session I: Room 115 Language Contact I: a.. Intrasentential Codeswitching as Language Contact in the Bilingual Mental Lexicon, Longxing Wei, Montclair State University b.. The Evolution of Actant Agreement Patterns in Russian Loan Verbs in Ket, Edward Vajda. Western Washington University c.. Dutch and English in Contact: 'Low Dutch' versus American Dutch, Jaap van Marle, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam d.. The Ethiopian Sabaean Inscriptions: Language Transmission or Language Contact?,David Elias, Harvard University e.. Internal Development and External Influence: Phonological Change in Zerq' Chechen, Paul D. Fallon, Howard University f.. The Remnants of Germanic-Slavic Linguistic Borderland in Poland, Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University g.. How Numerals Came About in Language Contact Situations: The Case of the Number Seven in Eurasia Penglin Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Session II: Whitegravenor, Room 203 (next building to ICC) Optimality Theory Aproaches I a.. The Odds of Eternal Optimization in OT, Paul Boersma b.. Constraint Re-Ranking in Phonological Change, Randall Gess, University of Utah c.. Catastrophes at 1000 Grammars/Hour on the 'S'-Curve, Benjamin Slade, Johns Hopkins University d.. The Northern Greek Dialects Revisited: An OT Approach to the Diachronic Vowel Deletion and Raising Facts, Dale Hartkemeyer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign e.. Language Change in OT: The Great Vowel Shift, Viola Miglio, University of Iceland, and Bruce Moren, Georgetown University f.. English Vowel Shifts and "Optimal" Diphthongs: Is there a Logical Link?, Donka Minkova and Robert Stockwell, University of California at Los Angeles g.. Moroccan Arabic: Vowel Mutations in Optimality Theory: the Case of the TAZA dialect, Samira Rguibi, Hassan II University, Casablanca 5-6 P.M. Plenary Session I , Room 115 Lila Gleitman, University of Pennsylvania Saturday, April 8, 2000 (Late registration during breaks in corridor outside of Room 105) Coffee and Book Displays in Linguistics & Languages Department Conference Room #462. 8:30-10.30 a.m. Session III: Room 105 Language Contact II: a.. The Structural Transparency of Modern Cham: the Effects of Long-term SLA., Graham Thurgood, California State University at Chico b.. Areal Development in Standard Average European: Evidence from the Perfect, Bridget Drinka, University of Texas at San Antonio c.. An Anatomy of Multilingualism: Cohesion of Thought among Moroccan University Students, Linda Stump Rashidi, Mansfield University d.. Native or Borrowed, or Both - is it Possible to have Many Mothers?, Johanna Laakso, University of Helsinki Session IV: Room 202 Optimality Theory Approaches II: a.. Some Interactions between Foot Structure and Syllable Structure in the History of the Spanish Language, Conxita Ll?o, University of Hamburg b.. Is Spanish Quantity-Sensitive?, Alfonso Morales-Front, Georgetown University c.. Baba Malay Word Stress in Optimality Theory - a Look at Language Shift, Elzbieta Thurgood, California State University at Chico d.. Manner-Sensitive Laryngeal Faithfulness in Proto-Indo-European: an OT perspective, Olga Petrova, University of Iowa e.. Statistics of Cooccurrence Relationships of Consonantal Verbal Roots in Classical Arabic: Representation and Analysis, Mustapha Rhoula, Universit? Sidi Mohammed f.. The Substructure of Old English Lexicon: The Stress Pattern of Latin Loan Names and Native Words, An-nah Moon, Seoul National University Session V: Room 113 Language Change I a.. Chinese Women in the Ancient and Modern Language World, Ganzhi Di, CUNY Hostos Community College b.. An Evaluation of Mayan Etymologies, John R. Costello, New York University c.. Cross-Linguistic Levels of Intertextual Allusion, Walter Petrovitz, St. John's University d.. Complements of "Forbear" over Three Centuries, Juhani Rudanko, University of Tampere, Finland Session VI: Room 213 Grammar/Semantics/Metaphor a.. Grammaticalization of Japanese Case-Marking Particles, Mieko Banno, University of California at Santa Barbara b.. Perspective and Linguistics in Auden's "The Watershed", Helen Chau Hu, University of California at Long Beach c.. Different Views of the City and the Building: A Study of Metaphors Used by European Architects when Talking about their Projects, Paloma Ubeda-Mansilla, Universidad Politecnica, Madrid d.. Linguistic Change in Specialised Language: An Example From Urban Planning, Ana Roldan Riejos, Universidad Politecnica, Madrid 10.30-11.00 a.m. Coffee, Room 462 11.00 a.m, Plenary Session II, Room, 105 Sally Thomason, University of Michigan 12.00-1.00 Lunch (Book display in Room #462 will remain open) 1.00-3.00 p.m. Session VII, Room 105 Language Contact III a.. The Effect of Language Contact on Noun and Verb Inflection in Immigrant Languages in the US, Anna Fenyvesi, University of Szeged, Hungary b.. Preverbs in Language Contact: Evidence from American Hungarian among Bilingual Children, Agnes Bolonyai, East Carolina University c.. The Influence of Intent on the Formal Characteristics of Code-Switching, John Wolff, Cornell University d.. Contact-Induced Change in the Case Systems of American Finnish and American Hungarian, Pekka Hirvonen, University of Joensuu, Finland, and Anna Fenyvesi, University of Szeged, Hungary Session VIII, Room 113 American Dialect Society Studies a.. Mill Villagers and Farmers: Dialect and Economics in a Small Southern Town, Elizabeth McNair-Du Pree, University of Chicago b.. Chinook Jargon Redivivus, Barbara Harris, UVIC, CA c.. Adjective Placement in Spanish: Patterns, Approximations, Anomalies, Maurice Westmoreland, SUNY at Albany d.. Absence of Distinctive Agreement: Language Change?, Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson, College of Charleston Session IX Room 213 Historical-Comparative Studies I a.. Latin /a/ from Zero Grade Before a Syllable Containing a Laryngeal, Julius Purczinsky, Hunter College, CUNY b.. Indoeuropean Complementisers: Evidence for Parameterised Lexicalisation and Feature Syncretism, Peter Oehl, University of Stuttgart c.. The Grammaticalization Chain from Classical Latin illi(s) to Modern Spanish le(s), Jose Carrasquel, Northern Illinois University d.. The Derivational Suffixes and Suffixoids of Old Saxon: A Panchronic Approach to Linguistic Categories of Old Saxon, Christopher M. Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles 3-3.30 Coffee, Room 462 3:30- 6:00 p.m Session X Room 105 Language Contact IV a.. Karelian in Russian Style: Observations on Codeswitching and Mixed Codes in a Minority/Majority Language Contact Situation in Northwest Russia, Anneli Sarhimaa, University of Helsinki b.. Language Contact and Language Loss, Agurtzane Elordui, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitaea c.. Dialectal Issues of a Contact Variety: The Spanish of Catalonia, Robert E. Vann, Western Michigan University d.. Language Change Observed in a Linguistic Continuum, Maria Ibba, Universita Cattolica del Santo Cuore e.. Extralinguistic Factors for a Language Change in an Italian Dialect, Francesco D'Introno, University of Massachusetts f.. Arabic Borrowing in Hindi, Shaligram Shukla and Solomon Sara, S.J., Georgetown University g.. Language-Contact Induced Change in Sorbian and German, Gunter Schaarschmidt, University of Victoria Session XI, Room 113 Miscellaneous (Discourse/Generative Grammar) a.. Linguistic And Culture-Specific Factors For Business English Curriculum Development, Lyudmila Bordyuk, Lviv Polytechnic State University (Ukraine) and San Diego State University b.. The Construction of Masculinity in Peruvian Spanish: the Use of Gossip, Expletives, Phatic Language and Slang to Create a Masculine Talk, Susana de los Heros, University of Rhode Island c.. The Right to Talk (or not): Different Enactments of Power in Modern Greek Discourse, Christina Kakava, Mary Washington College d.. Feature Analysis of Zibun, Yoshi Okamoto, University of Maryland at College Park e.. Variation in Spanish: The Realization of ???Phrase, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Pennsylvania State University Session XII, Room 213 Language Change #2 a.. 'Voy en el Mercado': Preposition 'en' with Verbs of Movement in Paraguayan Spanish, Jinny K. Choi, University of Texas, Arlington b.. Towards a Neurocognitive Understanding of Language Change , Hilke Elsen, Universit?t M?nchen & Universit?t Eichst?tt c.. Early Lexical Exponents and 'Related' Lexical Items as Manifestation of Conceptual/Semantic Primitives in Child Language, Adrian Tien, Australian National University d.. Linguistic Implications for Mathematics Education, Virginia Tong and Francis J. Gardella, Hunter College, CUNY e.. A HELLA: a New Specifier in San Francisco, Rachelle Waksler, San Francisco State University (END) From DEHolt01 at gwm.sc.edu Mon Jan 31 00:05:10 2000 From: DEHolt01 at gwm.sc.edu (D. Eric Holt) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:05:10 EST Subject: ILA panel Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: Apologies for the incorrect URL for the preliminary schedule of the 45th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, to be held April 7-8, 2000, at Georgetown University. The new/functioning address is: http://www.cla.sc.edu/SIP/faculty/Holt/ILA2000/mainschedule.html Sincerely, Eric Holt _____________________________________________ D. Eric Holt Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese and Program in Linguistics University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (803) 777-0798 (office) (803) 777-4884 (messages) (803) 777-7828 (fax) (803) 407-9706 (home) holt at sc.edu --NEW; PLEASE UPDATE http://www.cla.sc.edu/SIP/