From kemmer at eva.mpg.de Sat Jun 10 12:48:47 2000 From: kemmer at eva.mpg.de (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:48:47 EDT Subject: New Book: Usage-Based Models of Language Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- **NEW BOOK ** NEW BOOK ** NEW BOOK ** NEW BOOK ** NEW BOOK** CSLI Publications, Stanford, announces: USAGE-BASED MODELS OF LANGUAGE Edited by Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer Department of Linguistics, Rice University This book brings together papers by the foremost representatives of a range of theoretical and empirical approaches converging on a common goal: to account for language USE, or how speakers actually speak and understand language. Crucial to a usage-based approach are frequency, statistical patterns, and, most generally, linguistic experience. Linguistic competence is not seen as cognitively- encapsulated and divorced from performance, but as a system continually shaped, from inception, by linguistic usage events. The authors represented here were among the first to leave behind rule-based linguistic representations in favor of constraint-based systems whose structural properties actually emerge from usage. Such emergentist systems evince far greater cognitive and neurological plausibility than algorithmic, generative models. Approaches represented here include Cognitive Grammar, the Lexical Network Model, Competition Model, Relational Network Model, and Accessibility Theory. The empirical data come from phonological variation, syntactic change, psycholinguistic experiments, discourse, connectionist modeling of language acquisition, and linguistic corpora. USAGE-BASED MODELS OF LANGUAGE Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, May 2000 Paperback, ISBN 1-57586-220-4, USD $24.95 Cloth, ISBN 1-57586-219-0, USD $64.95 Questions: pubs at csli.stanford.edu (650) 723-1839. To order: please note that all CSLI Publications' titles are distributed by the Cambridge University Press and should be ordered directly from them. You can order online at http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/ or in North America, http://www.cup.org/ . CONTENTS Introduction: A Usage-Based Conception of Language (21 pp.) SUZANNE KEMMER AND MICHAEL BARLOW A Dynamic Usage-Based Model (63 pp.) RONALD W. LANGACKER The Phonology of the Lexicon: Evidence From (20 pp.) Lexical Diffusion JOAN L. BYBEE Bidirectional Processing in Language and (32 pp.) Related Cognitive Systems SYDNEY LAMB Connectionism and Language Learning (28 pp.) BRIAN MACWHINNEY The Effect of the Interlocutor on Episodic Recall: (45 pp.) An Experimental Study CONNIE DICKINSON AND T. GIVoN The Development of Person Agreement Markers: (63 pp.) >From Pronouns to Higher Accessibility Markers MIRA ARIEL Interpreting Usage: Construing the History of (25 pp.) Dutch Causal Verbs ARIE VERHAGEN Investigating Language Use through Corpus-Based (25 pp.) Analyses of Association Patterns DOUGLAS BIBER Usage, Blends and Grammar (30 pp.) MICHAEL BARLOW Subject and Author Index From Roger.Wright at liverpool.ac.uk Mon Jun 12 20:09:11 2000 From: Roger.Wright at liverpool.ac.uk (Roger Wright) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:09:11 EDT Subject: J'ozsef Herman, "Vulgar Latin" (fwd) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Historical Linguists, Announcing this new book just out: "Vulgar Latin" by J'ozsef Herman, translated into English by Roger Wright. Penn State Press. Paperback. xiv + 130 pp. ISBN 0-271-02001-6. $17.95. Originally published in French in 1967, J'ozsef Herman's "Latin Vulgar" became the standard student text on the topic. It was recently revised, updated and expanded by about 50% in a Spanish version ("El lat'in vulgar", Barcelona, Ariel, 1997). The expanded version is the basis for this new English translation, where the text is made user-friendly for English readers, including non-specialists, with updated bibliography. "Vulgar Latin" is not a separate language; the term is used collectively to refer to all those aspects of Latin language which we can tell did exist, but which were not recommended in the Grammars. Thus it includes developments in pronunciation, inflections, syntax and vocabulary, many of which are illuminated by the subsequent Romance languages. There are also sections on more general problems, such as the sociolinguistics of the Latin-speaking world and the chronology of the "end" of Latin. This translation will thus be a valuable guide for all English-speaking scholars interested in Latin, in Romance languages, in Historical Linguistics, and in the editing of Late Antique and Early Mediaeval texts, who can here tell if a strange reading in a manuscript text compiled by an Early Romance speaker might in fact attest some aspect of his native speech rather than just being an error. It is also cheap; $17.95. "Vulgar Latin" can be ordered from Penn State University Press, University Support Building 1, Suite C, University Park, Pennsylvania PA 16802-1003, U.S.A.; or via the web-site, http://www.psu.edu/psupress. From lsa at lsadc.org Tue Jun 13 18:32:40 2000 From: lsa at lsadc.org (LSA) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:32:40 EDT Subject: June 2000 LSA Bulletin Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The June 2000 LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA web site: http://www.lsadc.org From linkb at lurac.latrobe.edu.au Mon Jun 19 12:10:41 2000 From: linkb at lurac.latrobe.edu.au (Kate Burridge) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:10:41 EDT Subject: ICHL Downunder Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ICHL 2001 The 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics Convened by the Department of Linguistics, La Trobe University will be held 13th - 17th August 2001 at the Hotel Ibis 15 Therry Street Melbourne Plenary Speakers: Cindy Allen Sasha Aikhenvald Lyle Campbell Bob Dixon Susan Herring Nigel Vincent All enquiries: Conference Director Barry Blake (b.blake at latrobe.edu.au) or Department of Linguistics La Trobe University Bundoora VIC 3083 Australia telephone: 61 (0)3 9479 2338 fax: 61 (0)3 9479 1520 linguistics at latrobe.edu.au http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/linguistics/conferences.html Kate Burridge Associate Professor, Linguistics La Trobe University Bundoora, 3083 Vic From kemmer at eva.mpg.de Sat Jun 10 12:48:47 2000 From: kemmer at eva.mpg.de (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:48:47 EDT Subject: New Book: Usage-Based Models of Language Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- **NEW BOOK ** NEW BOOK ** NEW BOOK ** NEW BOOK ** NEW BOOK** CSLI Publications, Stanford, announces: USAGE-BASED MODELS OF LANGUAGE Edited by Michael Barlow and Suzanne Kemmer Department of Linguistics, Rice University This book brings together papers by the foremost representatives of a range of theoretical and empirical approaches converging on a common goal: to account for language USE, or how speakers actually speak and understand language. Crucial to a usage-based approach are frequency, statistical patterns, and, most generally, linguistic experience. Linguistic competence is not seen as cognitively- encapsulated and divorced from performance, but as a system continually shaped, from inception, by linguistic usage events. The authors represented here were among the first to leave behind rule-based linguistic representations in favor of constraint-based systems whose structural properties actually emerge from usage. Such emergentist systems evince far greater cognitive and neurological plausibility than algorithmic, generative models. Approaches represented here include Cognitive Grammar, the Lexical Network Model, Competition Model, Relational Network Model, and Accessibility Theory. The empirical data come from phonological variation, syntactic change, psycholinguistic experiments, discourse, connectionist modeling of language acquisition, and linguistic corpora. USAGE-BASED MODELS OF LANGUAGE Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, May 2000 Paperback, ISBN 1-57586-220-4, USD $24.95 Cloth, ISBN 1-57586-219-0, USD $64.95 Questions: pubs at csli.stanford.edu (650) 723-1839. To order: please note that all CSLI Publications' titles are distributed by the Cambridge University Press and should be ordered directly from them. You can order online at http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/ or in North America, http://www.cup.org/ . CONTENTS Introduction: A Usage-Based Conception of Language (21 pp.) SUZANNE KEMMER AND MICHAEL BARLOW A Dynamic Usage-Based Model (63 pp.) RONALD W. LANGACKER The Phonology of the Lexicon: Evidence From (20 pp.) Lexical Diffusion JOAN L. BYBEE Bidirectional Processing in Language and (32 pp.) Related Cognitive Systems SYDNEY LAMB Connectionism and Language Learning (28 pp.) BRIAN MACWHINNEY The Effect of the Interlocutor on Episodic Recall: (45 pp.) An Experimental Study CONNIE DICKINSON AND T. GIVoN The Development of Person Agreement Markers: (63 pp.) >From Pronouns to Higher Accessibility Markers MIRA ARIEL Interpreting Usage: Construing the History of (25 pp.) Dutch Causal Verbs ARIE VERHAGEN Investigating Language Use through Corpus-Based (25 pp.) Analyses of Association Patterns DOUGLAS BIBER Usage, Blends and Grammar (30 pp.) MICHAEL BARLOW Subject and Author Index From Roger.Wright at liverpool.ac.uk Mon Jun 12 20:09:11 2000 From: Roger.Wright at liverpool.ac.uk (Roger Wright) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:09:11 EDT Subject: J'ozsef Herman, "Vulgar Latin" (fwd) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Historical Linguists, Announcing this new book just out: "Vulgar Latin" by J'ozsef Herman, translated into English by Roger Wright. Penn State Press. Paperback. xiv + 130 pp. ISBN 0-271-02001-6. $17.95. Originally published in French in 1967, J'ozsef Herman's "Latin Vulgar" became the standard student text on the topic. It was recently revised, updated and expanded by about 50% in a Spanish version ("El lat'in vulgar", Barcelona, Ariel, 1997). The expanded version is the basis for this new English translation, where the text is made user-friendly for English readers, including non-specialists, with updated bibliography. "Vulgar Latin" is not a separate language; the term is used collectively to refer to all those aspects of Latin language which we can tell did exist, but which were not recommended in the Grammars. Thus it includes developments in pronunciation, inflections, syntax and vocabulary, many of which are illuminated by the subsequent Romance languages. There are also sections on more general problems, such as the sociolinguistics of the Latin-speaking world and the chronology of the "end" of Latin. This translation will thus be a valuable guide for all English-speaking scholars interested in Latin, in Romance languages, in Historical Linguistics, and in the editing of Late Antique and Early Mediaeval texts, who can here tell if a strange reading in a manuscript text compiled by an Early Romance speaker might in fact attest some aspect of his native speech rather than just being an error. It is also cheap; $17.95. "Vulgar Latin" can be ordered from Penn State University Press, University Support Building 1, Suite C, University Park, Pennsylvania PA 16802-1003, U.S.A.; or via the web-site, http://www.psu.edu/psupress. From lsa at lsadc.org Tue Jun 13 18:32:40 2000 From: lsa at lsadc.org (LSA) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:32:40 EDT Subject: June 2000 LSA Bulletin Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The June 2000 LSA Bulletin is now available on the LSA web site: http://www.lsadc.org From linkb at lurac.latrobe.edu.au Mon Jun 19 12:10:41 2000 From: linkb at lurac.latrobe.edu.au (Kate Burridge) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 08:10:41 EDT Subject: ICHL Downunder Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ICHL 2001 The 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics Convened by the Department of Linguistics, La Trobe University will be held 13th - 17th August 2001 at the Hotel Ibis 15 Therry Street Melbourne Plenary Speakers: Cindy Allen Sasha Aikhenvald Lyle Campbell Bob Dixon Susan Herring Nigel Vincent All enquiries: Conference Director Barry Blake (b.blake at latrobe.edu.au) or Department of Linguistics La Trobe University Bundoora VIC 3083 Australia telephone: 61 (0)3 9479 2338 fax: 61 (0)3 9479 1520 linguistics at latrobe.edu.au http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/linguistics/conferences.html Kate Burridge Associate Professor, Linguistics La Trobe University Bundoora, 3083 Vic