From y.matras at man.ac.uk Mon Feb 4 16:20:52 2002 From: y.matras at man.ac.uk (Yaron Matras) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:20:52 EST Subject: Conference on Linguistic Areas Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 'Linguistic areas, convergence and language change' Call for Papers Annual Conference of the North West Centre for Linguistics (NWCL) University of Manchester, England 22-23 November, 2002 Speakers include: Lyle Campbell (Canterbury) Walter Bisang (Mainz) Peter Bakker (Aarhus) April McMahon (Sheffield) R. L. Trask (Sussex) Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations on aspects related to areal convergence and language change. Preference will be given to papers that survey one or more linguistic areas and assess its theoretical implications for historical lingusitics and contact linguistics. Abstracts (of no more than 400 words) can be sent by mail or email attachment (in Word or RTF) to the organiser, Yaron Matras, email: y.matras at man.ac.uk, Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom. The deadline for abstract submissions is April 30, 2002. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by a panel of referees. ---------------------------------------------------- Yaron Matras Department of Linguistics University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL, UK Phone 44 161 2753975 Fax 44 161 2753187 e-mail y.matras at man.ac.uk http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/YM/default.html Romani Project: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Html/RMS/proj.html From paul at benjamins.com Thu Feb 7 23:46:56 2002 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:46:56 EST Subject: New Book: Dahl/Koptjeska Tamm Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- John Benjamins Publishing announces a new work of interest to historical linguists: Circum-Baltic Languages. A two volume set Östen DAHL and Maria KOPTJEVSKAJA TAMM (Stockholm University) (eds.) The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origin. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European -- Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. Volume 1: Past and Present. Studies in Language Companion Series 54 2001. xx, 382 pp. Hardcover US & Canada: 1 58811 020 6 / USD 118.00 Rest of world: 90 272 3057 9 / EUR 130.00 In volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts. Contributions by: L. Balode; V. Cekmonas; E.A. Csató; Ö. Dahl; A. Holvoet; N.G. Jacobs; M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm; J. Laakso; L.-G. Larsson; A.-C. Rendahl; A.Y. Rusakov. Volume 2: Grammar and Typology Studies in Language Companion Series 55 2001. xx, 423 pp. Hardcover US & Canada: 1 58811 042 7 / USD 127.00 Rest of world: 90 272 3059 5 / EUR 140.00 In volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective. Contributions by: V. Ambrazas; K. Boiko; S. Christen; A. Holvoet; M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm; H. Metslang; B. Metuzale-Kangere; L. Stassen; T. Stolz; B. Wälchli. From csanders at es.unizh.ch Thu Feb 7 17:45:21 2002 From: csanders at es.unizh.ch (Caren Sanders) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:45:21 EST Subject: looking for a book Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear list members, I am looking for the following book which seems to be out of print: "Doherty, Francis. 1992. A Study in 18th century advertising methods. The anodyne necklace. Edwin Mellen." Does anyone know how to get a copy of this book, or how I could find the author of it? I am grateful for any suggestions. Caren Sanders ======================= csanders at es.unizh.ch PhD student from Switzerland From vine at humnet.ucla.edu Fri Feb 8 13:05:11 2002 From: vine at humnet.ucla.edu (Brent Vine) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:05:11 EST Subject: 14th UCLA IE Conference Message-ID: >> >>ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL for PAPERS >> >>The FOURTEENTH ANNUAL UCLA INDO-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE >> >>...will be held on November 8-9, 2002 on the campus of the >>University of California at Los Angeles. We invite papers on any >>aspect of Indo-European studies: linguistics, archaeology, >>comparative mythology, culture. Papers on both interdisciplinary >>and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology, reconstruction, >>the relation of Indo-European to other language groups, the >>interpretation of material culture, etc.) are welcome. A period of >>twenty minutes will be allotted for each paper, followed by a >>ten-minute discussion period. Abstracts* must be received by June >>17, 2002. >> >>* We ask that those contemplating submission of an abstract please >>pay careful attention to the following guidelines: >> >>--Abstracts should be no more than 1-2 pages typewritten (about 700 >>words maximum). >> >>--Please attach a cover sheet, with name, institutional >>affiliation, and accurate contact information (mailing address and >>e-mail address) for the summer and fall of 2002. >> >>--Abstracts should indicate the precise topic to be treated, the >>author's contribution to the problem, the relationship of the work >>to previous scholarship on the topic, the author's specific >>conclusions and their relevance for the field of Indo-European >>Studies. >> >>--Only one abstract may be submitted per person. >> >>--If an abstract is accepted: >> >>--the author must submit a revised abstract in an electronic format >>(e.g. Rich Text Format [RTF] or Portable Document Format [PDF], >>etc.) by September 1, 2002 for publication on line >> >>--the final version of the paper must be read at the conference by >>the author of the abstract. (In the case of a co-authored abstract, >>the final version must be presented by one or more of the >>co-authors.) >> >>Address all abstracts and inquiries to: >> >>IE Conference Committee >>100 Dodd Hall, UCLA >>405 Hilgard Avenue >>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 >> >>e-mail: Prof. Brent Vine >> >>fax: 1 (310) 206-1903 >> >>For further information, please call the Program's main office at 1 >>(310) 825-4171 (weekdays, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time). >> >>Visit the Program's website: >>. The most current >>conference information can be accessed from the Program's >>"Indo-European Conference" page: >>. >> >>Through the generosity of its donors, the Friends and Alumni of >>Indo-European Studies (FAIES) will offer a prize for the best paper >>by a current student or recent Ph.D. (received 1997 or later). >>Please indicate your current status and year of Ph.D. with your >>abstract if you qualify. Eligible presenters should contact Dr. >>Karlene Jones-Bley, 2143 Kelton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90025; >>. >> >>---------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz Sat Feb 9 16:50:35 2002 From: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (Lyle Campbell) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:50:35 EST Subject: Hervas y Panduro and Vater as finders of language families Message-ID: Does anyone know the answer to the following questions: Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1800) made several successful family classifications involving languages of Latin America, plus he repeated several others in the Americas which at the time were known but not yet fully established. My question is, did he discover/find/formulate/prove/make known for the first time any languages families from other parts of the world in his massive survey? [Hervás y Panduro, [Don] Lorenzo. 1784-87. Idea dell'universo: che contiene la storia della vita dell'uomo, elementi cosmografici, viaggio estatico al mondo planetario, e storia de la terra e delle lingue. Cesena: Biasini. _____. 1800-1805. Catálogo de las lenguas de las naciones conocidas y numeracion, division, y clases de estas segun la diversidad de sus idiomas y dialectos. Volumen I (1800): Lenguas y naciones Americanas. Madrid: Administracion del Real Arbitrio de Beneficencia. Hess, Thom. 1979. Central Coast Salish words for deer: their wavelike distribution. IJAL 45.5-16.] Next, I would like to ask the same question about Johann Severin Vater (cf. Vater 1810; also Adelung and Vater 1816). Volume three of Adelung and Vater (1816), written mostly by Vater, recognized the genetic relationship among several Mayan languages, including Huastec, for the first time, as well as several Uto-Aztecan relationships with accurate cognates. The question is, did he find/discover/formuate/prove any others as well for language families anywhere else? [Adelung, Johann Christoph and Johann Severin Vater. 1816. Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in bey nahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten. (Dritten Theil, dritte Abtheilung.) Berlin: Voss.] Many thanks, Lyle -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: l.campbell.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 422 bytes Desc: Card for Lyle Campbell URL: From paoram at unipv.it Tue Feb 12 13:12:30 2002 From: paoram at unipv.it (Paolo Ramat) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:12:30 EST Subject: R: Hervas y Panduro and Vater as finders of language families Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Lyle, I have no answer to your query concerning Hervàs, but E. Coseriu has written at least three valuable articles on Hervàs where it might be you can find an answer: -Lo que se dice de Hervàs. Estudios ofrecidos a E.A.Llorach, III, Univ. de Oviedo 1978 - Hervàs und das Substrat, "Studii si cercetari de lingvistice", 19/1978:523-30 and also -Das Rumaenische im 'Vocabolario' von H.y P.,"Zeitschr.f.Roman.Philol." 92/1976:394-407 I hope this indication may help you. Best, Paolo ----- Original Message ----- From: Lyle Campbell To: Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 5:50 PM Subject: Hervas y Panduro and Vater as finders of language families Does anyone know the answer to the following questions: Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1800) made several successful family classifications involving languages of Latin America, plus he repeated several others in the Americas which at the time were known but not yet fully established. My question is, did he discover/find/formulate/prove/make known for the first time any languages families from other parts of the world in his massive survey? [Hervás y Panduro, [Don] Lorenzo. 1784-87. Idea dell'universo: che contiene la storia della vita dell'uomo, elementi cosmografici, viaggio estatico al mondo planetario, e storia de la terra e delle lingue. Cesena: Biasini. _____. 1800-1805. Catálogo de las lenguas de las naciones conocidas y numeracion, division, y clases de estas segun la diversidad de sus idiomas y dialectos. Volumen I (1800): Lenguas y naciones Americanas. Madrid: Administracion del Real Arbitrio de Beneficencia. Hess, Thom. 1979. Central Coast Salish words for deer: their wavelike distribution. IJAL 45.5-16.] Next, I would like to ask the same question about Johann Severin Vater (cf. Vater 1810; also Adelung and Vater 1816). Volume three of Adelung and Vater (1816), written mostly by Vater, recognized the genetic relationship among several Mayan languages, including Huastec, for the first time, as well as several Uto-Aztecan relationships with accurate cognates. The question is, did he find/discover/formuate/prove any others as well for language families anywhere else? [Adelung, Johann Christoph and Johann Severin Vater. 1816. Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in bey nahe fünfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten. (Dritten Theil, dritte Abtheilung.) Berlin: Voss.] Many thanks, Lyle From sschool at mail.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de Fri Feb 15 15:19:32 2002 From: sschool at mail.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de (Summer School) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:19:32 EST Subject: LSA / DGfS Summer School 2002 Message-ID: First Special Linguistic Summer Program hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft and co-sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America FORMAL AND FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS at Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf 14 July - 3 August 2002 The event will offer basic and advanced specialized credit courses on the model of the Summer Schools of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft and the Linguistic Institutes of the LSA. There will be a range of special events on the state of the art in formal and functional lines of inquiry that have dominated general linguistics, as well as on the relevance of these two approaches to specialized disciplines like language acquisition, language change, and language contact. An optional program in German language and culture, focusing on the Rhinelands (the Duesseldorf and Cologne area) will be offered for foreign participants. Director: Dieter Stein, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Associate Director: Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania Contact: Summer Program Anglistik III Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Universitaetsstr. 1 D-40225 Düsseldorf Germany email: summerschool at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/summerschool2002/ Fon: +49 211 81-12963 Fax: +49 211 81-15292 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sschool at mail.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de Fri Feb 15 15:19:16 2002 From: sschool at mail.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de (Summer School) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:19:16 EST Subject: Call For Papers Message-ID: LSA / DGfS Summer School - Duesseldorf 2002 CALL FOR PAPERS STUDENT EVENING SESSIONS Students (undergraduates and Ph.D. students) participating in the special DGfS/LSA Summer School in Duesseldorf are invited to present a paper in student evening sessions. There will be two sessions, each consisting of two thirty-minute talks, followed by a discussant's comment and further discussion from the floor. We invite anonymous abstracts for papers that (a) present new empirical data from any field of linguistics, and (b) discuss to what extent these data call for a functional or formal explanation. Abstracts must not exceed one page in length (11 point font, 2cm margins, single-spaced). A second page is allowed for data and references. Authors may submit no more than one individual or joint abstract. Joint abstracts should designate one address for communication with the organizers. Programm committee: Barbara Stiebels (Chair, Duesseldorf, Ger), Kai von Fintel (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA), Martin Haspelmath (MPI, Leipzig, Ger), Richard Wiese (Marburg, Ger), Ellen Prince (UPennsylvania, USA) The anonymous abstract should preferably be sent as an e-mail attachment in one of the following formats: pdf, rtf, postscript, or plain text. For any unusual fonts, please attach the font file. No other formats will be accepted, electronic submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address: sschool at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de When writing to our postal address (cf. below), please add the keyword "Student Sessions" to the address. Please use "Abstract for Student Session" as the subject header and include, besides the attached abstract, the following information in the body of the message: 1.Name(s) of author(s) 2.Title of talk 3.Area of specialization 4.Affiliation(s) 5.E-mail address(es) 6.Postal address(es) The deadline for receipt of abstracts is March 31, 2002, 6p.m. (CET). The receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged by e-mail. Notification of acceptance will be received by May 31, 2002. The final version of the paper, which is sent to the discussant, must reach us by July 1, 2002. The discussant will be selected from the teacher's panel of the Summer School according to the paper's area of specialization. This is a rare and perfect opportunity for students to present their own research. We hope that lots of you will take advantage of this. Contact: Summer Program Anglistik III Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstr. 1 D-40225 Düsseldorf Germany email: summerschool at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/summerschool2002/ Fon: +49 211 81-12963Fax: +49 211 81-15292 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Susan.Fitzmaurice at NAU.EDU Sat Feb 16 14:29:45 2002 From: Susan.Fitzmaurice at NAU.EDU (Susan M. Fitzmaurice) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:29:45 EST Subject: Historical Pragmatics Workshop at ICEHL 12 Message-ID: Call for papers for the Workshop on Historical Pragmatics at ICEHL 12 Susan Fitzmaurice, Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen Glasgow, August 21-26, 2002. Abstracts for contributions to the workshop must be submitted before March 31, 2002 Background In her plenary address to the first meeting of the conference on Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL-1) at UCLA in May 2000, Elizabeth Traugott drew particular attention to the changes in methodologies and approaches used to study the history of the English language over the past century. Her talk was entitled, �From Etymology to historical pragmatics�, a title that recalls Eve Sweetser�s (1990) book, From Etymology to Pragmatics at the same time as inserting the historical into Pragmatics. On one local level, she demonstrated the extent to which processes of grammaticalization might be approached as semantic-pragmatic processes. On another more general level, she indicated the extent to which the new field of historical pragmatics promises to provide the source of more nuanced, fine-grained kinds of explanation for linguistic changes than have traditionally been offered. She also set a number of challenges and tasks for those working in English studies and the history of the English language; tasks that involve venturing across usual disciplinary and sub-disciplinary boundaries within English studies. Such challenges provide the context for the workshop at ICEHL 12 on historical pragmatics, which will focus on discourse features, stylistics or genre description. The aim of the workshop on Historical Pragmatics is to provide a setting in which participants begin to address some challenges posed by the work on the history of the English language that identifies itself as historical pragmatic in approach. The range of work that falls within the parameters of pragmatics has begun to exert considerable pressure on the designator �pragmatic�, to the extent that workers in the field really need to search for fresh terminology to convey a better sense of the more fine-grained analysis actually being conducted (Fitzmaurice, 2000). It seems timely to use this pressure as occasion for collective investigation in the forum of a research workshop. To this end, participants in the workshop may assess the body of research conducted on the history of the English language within what we might loosely identify as the framework of historical pragmatics. At the same time, it will provide the opportunity to explore some topics and questions of common interest to fields outside historical pragmatics. Increasingly, these questions have to do with the ways in which we approach the analysis of historical discourses, discourses that have their own cultural settings, historical codes, circumstances of production and transmission, and attendant language practices. The questions raised concern the ways in which we identify, read and account for rhetorical functions such as information, explication, persuasion, strategic interaction, and rhetorical force. Approaches that share the domain of historical discourse as a field of enquiry are historical stylistics, corpus linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. The concerns of historical pragmatics also overlap with those of disciplines that now lie outside the domain of language and linguistics studies, like rhetoric and literary history. This workshop will provide a forum for examining how the connections among such approaches or perspectives to some of the issues outlined above may be mutually enriching References: Fitzmaurice, Susan. 2000. �Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics�. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1 (1):1-6. Sweetser, Eve V. 1990. From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2000. �From etymology to historical pragmatics�. Plenary paper, presented at the conference on Studies in English Historical Linguistics, UCLA, May 27th, 2000. http://www.stanford.edu/~traugott/ect-papersonline.html Format of workshop The nature of the format and the associated procedures for the workshop are designed to ensure that scholars who have not hitherto considered their work relevant to historical pragmatics and those who may be new to the field have the opportunity to share their work with each other and with scholars who may be more well-established figures in the field. We invite scholars to submit proposals for papers that consider key topics and questions in the history of the English language from a perspective in English historical linguistics that chimes with or indeed competes with an account from the perspective of historical pragmatics, for example, studies in the role of politeness theory in the pragmatic (re)construction of meaning in letters between mistresses and servants in early modern English. Abstracts for contributions to the workshop may be submitted before March 31, 2002, to Susan Fitzmaurice. Two weeks after the deadline participants will be informed whether their paper has been accepted for the workshop, and the abstracts will be distributed among the participants. To ensure as much early collaboration as possible, participants are invited to send each other comments and suggestions through email; this way it should be possible to set up a discussion of topics relevant to the main subject of the workshop well beforehand. At the same time, participants will be requested to send titles of relevant publications to Susan Fitzmaurice, who will compile a bibliography and provide regular updates of this bibliography for mutual benefit by the workshop participants. Papers (max. length 15pp., line space 1.5) should be distributed among the participants before July 20, 2002, so that they can all be read in the month before the conference workshop. For discussion during the workshop, each author will be asked to compile a list of topics/questions for discussion based on one of the other papers submitted. These topics/questions will be collected by the first organizer and distributed well before the conference. During the workshop, the topics will be the focus of the discussion, which will be conducted against the background of the papers submitted and read by all participants. Organizers: Susan Fitzmaurice Department of English, Box 6032 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ 86011-6032 USA T: (001) 928 523-9649, F: (001) 928 523-7074 Email: susan.fitzmaurice at nau.edu Andreas H. Jucker Justus Liebig University Department of English Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 D-35394 Giessen, Germany T: (49) 641/99 30150, F: (49) 641/99 30159 Email: Andreas.Jucker at anglistik.uni-giessen.de Irma Taavitsainen Department of English P.O. Box 4 (Yliopistonkatu 3) 00014 University of Helsinki Finland T: (358)9 19123516 F: (358)9 19123072 Email: Irma.Taavitsainen at Helsinki.FI Susan M. Fitzmaurice Associate Professor and Associate Chair English Department, Box 6032 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ 86011-6032 tel: (520) 523-9649 fax: (520) 523-7074 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bhk at hd1.vsnl.net.in Sat Feb 16 14:31:47 2002 From: bhk at hd1.vsnl.net.in (Bh. Krishnamurti) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:31:47 EST Subject: Summary of observations on my posting Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Iam submitting a summary of the comments received on my posting �Typology and regular sound change�, which was circulated on Histling on January 28/29. Joel Rini gave me the reference of an article by Etnst Pulgram. Kevin Tuite agreed with the hypothesis and wondered if it fell under the dichotomy of Labov�s �Neogrammarian change vs. lexical diffusion�. I have explained to him that, for me, the neogrammarian regularity is the end result of several processes like lexical diffusion, typological triggering and not a process by itself. Betty Phillips referred me to her discussion of the unrounding of high and mid front rounded vowels in two of her papers (1984, 2001) within the framework of lexical diffusion in terms of the phenomenon of frequency of text occurrence. After some discussion, I noticed that it is a good example in support of my hypothesis, since the marked segments are replaced by unmarked ones without residue, over a period of about three or four centuries. [I am indebted to her sending me an offprint of her 2001 paper]. I have independently discussed the issue with other members of the list: my teacher Henry Hoenigswald, David Stampe, Mieko Ogura and Robert Blust. I am grateful to all those who have participated in the discussion and enlightened me. Many thanks to Dorothy Disterheft for approving my abstract for posting on the list. Krishnamurti Bh. Krishnamurti H.No. 12-13-1233, "Bhaarati" Street 9, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500017 (A.P.) India Telephone (R): 40-7019665 From EvolPub at aol.com Mon Feb 18 23:43:44 2002 From: EvolPub at aol.com (Tony Schiavo) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:43:44 EST Subject: Now Available - Handy's Vocabulary of Miami (1856) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following volume from the American Language Reprint (ALR) series: Volume 24: Handy's Vocabulary of Miami Charles N. Handy, 1856 Collected by Indian agent Charles N. Handy, this vocabulary of about 300 words draws from a questionnaire prepared by Henry Schoolcraft and was subsequently published in his Indian Tribes (1851-1857). It was most likely recorded at the Miami reservation in eastcentral Kansas along the Osage River. December 2001 ~ clothbound ~ 37pp. ~ ISBN 1-889758-22-1 ~ US$26.00 Evolution Publishing is dedicated to preserving and consolidating early primary source records of native and early colonial America with the goal of making them more accessible and readily available to the academic community and the public at large. For further information on this and other titles in the ALR series: http://www.evolpub.com/ALR/ALRhome.html Evolution Publishing evolpub at aol.com From schoesl at hum.ku.dk Wed Feb 20 17:33:25 2002 From: schoesl at hum.ku.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lene_Sch=F8sler?=) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:33:25 EST Subject: ICHL2003 Message-ID: Colleagues, Lene Schloessler has asked me to post the following information. I have now established a website for ICHL 2003 at the following address: http://www.hum.ku.dk/romansk/ then go to "Forskningsprojekter", choose no 8: ICHL2003 Lene From johncharles.smith at st-catherines.oxford.ac.uk Thu Feb 21 13:39:10 2002 From: johncharles.smith at st-catherines.oxford.ac.uk (John Charles Smith) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:39:10 EST Subject: Oxford-Kobe Seminar: Final CIrcular Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- OXFORD-KOBE SEMINAR ON LANGUAGE CHANGE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS FINAL CIRCULAR A final reminder that an Oxford-Kobe Seminar on Language Change and Historical Linguistics will be held at the Kobe Institute of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, in Kobe, Japan, from 7-10 April 2002. Speakers will include: Henning Andersen, Lyle Campbell, William Croft, Bjarke Frellesvig, Susan Herring, Yasuhiro Kondo, William Labov, Martin Maiden, Kenjiro Matsuda, Akiko Matsumori, April McMahon, Marianne Mithun, Ian Roberts, Suzanne Romaine, Malcolm Ross, Masayoshi Shibatani, and John Charles Smith. Full details, including a downloadable registration form, are available on the Institute's web site, at: http://www1.biz.biglobe.ne.jp/~kobeinst/1lg01.htm All enquiries about local arrangements should be made to the Bursar of the Institute, Kaizaburo Saito, at: kaizas at msa.biglobe.ne.jp The deadline for registration is 18 March. We continue to welcome proposals for poster presentations, which should be submitted by email to: johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk by 15 March. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + + John Charles Smith + + Official Fellow and Tutor College Phone +44 1865 271700 + + St. Catherine's College Direct Line +44 1865 271748 + + Oxford OX1 3UJ UK College Fax +44 1865 271768 + + + + johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk http://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/ + + + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk Thu Feb 28 22:11:50 2002 From: Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk (Nils Langer) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:11:50 EST Subject: call for papers Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages University of Bristol, UK 9-11 April 2003 Studies on linguistic purism commonly concentrate on one particular aspect of the field, be it a specific language, region or type of purism. Little research has attempted to provide a more unified account of purism, combining description of the phenomena with an explanation of why purism comes / came about. In this conference we want to bring together scholars from a broad range of areas in order to initiate a dialogue between different aspects, fields and theoretical models. The aim is to provide a platform where a wide range of accounts of and approaches to puristic ideas can be discussed in order to detect common patterns across languages, periods, regions and types. Guest Speakers: James Milroy University of Michigan Klaus Mattheier University of Heidelberg Oskar Reichmann University of Heidelberg Nancy Niedzielski Rice University, Houston Dieter Stein University of Düsseldorf Papers (25-30 minutes) are invited on any of the following fields: Folk Linguistics Attitudes towards and perceptions of dialects and minority languages Standardization of Germanic languages Stigmatization of non-standard varieties History of puristic ideas Modern purism by institutions or individuals Please submit an abstract of 300 words by June 1st 2002 either by email (preferred) or post to: Contact: Dr Nils Langer Dept of German University of Bristol 21 Woodland Road Bristol, BS8 1TE United Kingdom Email: nils.langer at bris.ac.uk Conference Website: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~gexnl Organizers: Nils Langer (nils.langer at bris.ac.uk) Winifred Davies (wvd at aber.ac.uk) Maria Barbara Lange (m.b.lange at bris.ac.uk) ---------------------- Dr Nils Langer Lecturer in German Linguistics Dept of German University of Bristol Bristol, England BS8 1TE 0044-(0)117-928 9841 Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk homepage: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~gexnl From brita.warvik at abo.fi Thu Feb 28 18:56:28 2002 From: brita.warvik at abo.fi (Brita Warvik) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:56:28 EST Subject: Organization in Discourse II: The Historical Perspective Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Organization in Discourse II: The Historical Perspective University of Turku, Finland, 7-11 August, 2002 SECOND CIRCULAR The OID organising committee is pleased to update our conference information. For more details, visit our web-site: http://www.utu.fi/hum/engfil/oid2002.html Plenary speakers: Laurel BRINTON (development of pragmatic markers), Andreas JUCKER (news discourse 17th-21st centuries), Françoise SALAGER-MEYER (English, French, and Spanish academic conflict, 1810-1999), Irma TAAVITSAINEN (genres and text types in early vernacular medical writing), Barbara WEHR (focussing strategies in medieval French and Irish), and Laura WRIGHT (medieval mixed-language business texts). Conference workshops: EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION 1450-1850 (Terttu Nevalainen & Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, conveners); HISTORICAL STUDIES OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE (Françoise Salager-Meyer & Ellen Valle, conveners); and COURT TRIAL DISCOURSE (Daniel Collins & Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky, conveners). All abstracts have now been evaluated. But there is still time to submit workshop paper proposals, as well posters, before the deadline of March 31. Our social programme continues the scholarly and historical themes of the conference, with a conference banquet at Panimoravintola Koulu, a recently-renovated traditional school building, and a guided excursion to Old Rauma, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The regular conference fee is 170 EUR per person, if paid by 15 May. Reduced rates are available for students, day delegates, and accompanying guests. A registration form is available on our web-site, as is information on travel and accommodation. We look forward to seeing you in Turku in August. With warm regards, The Organizing Committee -------------- 'Organization in Discourse II: The Historical Perspective' Conference Turku, Finland, 7-11 August, 2002 http://www.utu.fi/hum/engfil/oid2002.html email: oid2002 at utu.fi -------------- -- Brita Warvik, FL Donner Lecturer in Text and Corpus Linguistics Department of English tel. + 358 2 215 4360 Abo Akademi University fax + 358 215 4436 FIN - 20500 Turku http://www.abo.fi/~bwarvik From y.matras at man.ac.uk Mon Feb 4 16:20:52 2002 From: y.matras at man.ac.uk (Yaron Matras) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:20:52 EST Subject: Conference on Linguistic Areas Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 'Linguistic areas, convergence and language change' Call for Papers Annual Conference of the North West Centre for Linguistics (NWCL) University of Manchester, England 22-23 November, 2002 Speakers include: Lyle Campbell (Canterbury) Walter Bisang (Mainz) Peter Bakker (Aarhus) April McMahon (Sheffield) R. L. Trask (Sussex) Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations on aspects related to areal convergence and language change. Preference will be given to papers that survey one or more linguistic areas and assess its theoretical implications for historical lingusitics and contact linguistics. Abstracts (of no more than 400 words) can be sent by mail or email attachment (in Word or RTF) to the organiser, Yaron Matras, email: y.matras at man.ac.uk, Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom. The deadline for abstract submissions is April 30, 2002. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by a panel of referees. ---------------------------------------------------- Yaron Matras Department of Linguistics University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL, UK Phone 44 161 2753975 Fax 44 161 2753187 e-mail y.matras at man.ac.uk http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/YM/default.html Romani Project: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/Html/RMS/proj.html From paul at benjamins.com Thu Feb 7 23:46:56 2002 From: paul at benjamins.com (Paul Peranteau) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:46:56 EST Subject: New Book: Dahl/Koptjeska Tamm Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- John Benjamins Publishing announces a new work of interest to historical linguists: Circum-Baltic Languages. A two volume set ?sten DAHL and Maria KOPTJEVSKAJA TAMM (Stockholm University) (eds.) The area around the Baltic Sea has for millennia been a meeting-place for people of different origin. Among the circum-Baltic languages, we find three major branches of Indo-European -- Baltic, Germanic, and Slavic, the Baltic-Finnic languages from the Uralic phylum and several others. The circum-Baltic area is an ideal place to study areal and contact phenomena in languages. The present set of two volumes look at the circum-Baltic languages from a typological, areal and historical perspective, trying to relate the intricate patterns of similarities and dissimilarities to the societal background. Volume 1: Past and Present. Studies in Language Companion Series 54 2001. xx, 382 pp. Hardcover US & Canada: 1 58811 020 6 / USD 118.00 Rest of world: 90 272 3057 9 / EUR 130.00 In volume I, surveys of dialect areas and language groups bear witness to the immense linguistic diversity in the area with special attention to less well-known languages and language varieties and their contacts. Contributions by: L. Balode; V. Cekmonas; E.A. Csat?; ?. Dahl; A. Holvoet; N.G. Jacobs; M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm; J. Laakso; L.-G. Larsson; A.-C. Rendahl; A.Y. Rusakov. Volume 2: Grammar and Typology Studies in Language Companion Series 55 2001. xx, 423 pp. Hardcover US & Canada: 1 58811 042 7 / USD 127.00 Rest of world: 90 272 3059 5 / EUR 140.00 In volume II, selected phenomena in the grammars of the circum-Baltic languages are studied in a cross-linguistic perspective. Contributions by: V. Ambrazas; K. Boiko; S. Christen; A. Holvoet; M. Koptjevskaja-Tamm; H. Metslang; B. Metuzale-Kangere; L. Stassen; T. Stolz; B. W?lchli. From csanders at es.unizh.ch Thu Feb 7 17:45:21 2002 From: csanders at es.unizh.ch (Caren Sanders) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 12:45:21 EST Subject: looking for a book Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear list members, I am looking for the following book which seems to be out of print: "Doherty, Francis. 1992. A Study in 18th century advertising methods. The anodyne necklace. Edwin Mellen." Does anyone know how to get a copy of this book, or how I could find the author of it? I am grateful for any suggestions. Caren Sanders ======================= csanders at es.unizh.ch PhD student from Switzerland From vine at humnet.ucla.edu Fri Feb 8 13:05:11 2002 From: vine at humnet.ucla.edu (Brent Vine) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:05:11 EST Subject: 14th UCLA IE Conference Message-ID: >> >>ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL for PAPERS >> >>The FOURTEENTH ANNUAL UCLA INDO-EUROPEAN CONFERENCE >> >>...will be held on November 8-9, 2002 on the campus of the >>University of California at Los Angeles. We invite papers on any >>aspect of Indo-European studies: linguistics, archaeology, >>comparative mythology, culture. Papers on both interdisciplinary >>and specific topics (e.g., typology, methodology, reconstruction, >>the relation of Indo-European to other language groups, the >>interpretation of material culture, etc.) are welcome. A period of >>twenty minutes will be allotted for each paper, followed by a >>ten-minute discussion period. Abstracts* must be received by June >>17, 2002. >> >>* We ask that those contemplating submission of an abstract please >>pay careful attention to the following guidelines: >> >>--Abstracts should be no more than 1-2 pages typewritten (about 700 >>words maximum). >> >>--Please attach a cover sheet, with name, institutional >>affiliation, and accurate contact information (mailing address and >>e-mail address) for the summer and fall of 2002. >> >>--Abstracts should indicate the precise topic to be treated, the >>author's contribution to the problem, the relationship of the work >>to previous scholarship on the topic, the author's specific >>conclusions and their relevance for the field of Indo-European >>Studies. >> >>--Only one abstract may be submitted per person. >> >>--If an abstract is accepted: >> >>--the author must submit a revised abstract in an electronic format >>(e.g. Rich Text Format [RTF] or Portable Document Format [PDF], >>etc.) by September 1, 2002 for publication on line >> >>--the final version of the paper must be read at the conference by >>the author of the abstract. (In the case of a co-authored abstract, >>the final version must be presented by one or more of the >>co-authors.) >> >>Address all abstracts and inquiries to: >> >>IE Conference Committee >>100 Dodd Hall, UCLA >>405 Hilgard Avenue >>Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417 >> >>e-mail: Prof. Brent Vine >> >>fax: 1 (310) 206-1903 >> >>For further information, please call the Program's main office at 1 >>(310) 825-4171 (weekdays, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. U.S. Pacific Time). >> >>Visit the Program's website: >>. The most current >>conference information can be accessed from the Program's >>"Indo-European Conference" page: >>. >> >>Through the generosity of its donors, the Friends and Alumni of >>Indo-European Studies (FAIES) will offer a prize for the best paper >>by a current student or recent Ph.D. (received 1997 or later). >>Please indicate your current status and year of Ph.D. with your >>abstract if you qualify. Eligible presenters should contact Dr. >>Karlene Jones-Bley, 2143 Kelton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90025; >>. >> >>---------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz Sat Feb 9 16:50:35 2002 From: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (Lyle Campbell) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:50:35 EST Subject: Hervas y Panduro and Vater as finders of language families Message-ID: Does anyone know the answer to the following questions: Lorenzo Herv?s y Panduro (1800) made several successful family classifications involving languages of Latin America, plus he repeated several others in the Americas which at the time were known but not yet fully established. My question is, did he discover/find/formulate/prove/make known for the first time any languages families from other parts of the world in his massive survey? [Herv?s y Panduro, [Don] Lorenzo. 1784-87. Idea dell'universo: che contiene la storia della vita dell'uomo, elementi cosmografici, viaggio estatico al mondo planetario, e storia de la terra e delle lingue. Cesena: Biasini. _____. 1800-1805. Cat?logo de las lenguas de las naciones conocidas y numeracion, division, y clases de estas segun la diversidad de sus idiomas y dialectos. Volumen I (1800): Lenguas y naciones Americanas. Madrid: Administracion del Real Arbitrio de Beneficencia. Hess, Thom. 1979. Central Coast Salish words for deer: their wavelike distribution. IJAL 45.5-16.] Next, I would like to ask the same question about Johann Severin Vater (cf. Vater 1810; also Adelung and Vater 1816). Volume three of Adelung and Vater (1816), written mostly by Vater, recognized the genetic relationship among several Mayan languages, including Huastec, for the first time, as well as several Uto-Aztecan relationships with accurate cognates. The question is, did he find/discover/formuate/prove any others as well for language families anywhere else? [Adelung, Johann Christoph and Johann Severin Vater. 1816. Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in bey nahe f?nfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten. (Dritten Theil, dritte Abtheilung.) Berlin: Voss.] Many thanks, Lyle -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: l.campbell.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 422 bytes Desc: Card for Lyle Campbell URL: From paoram at unipv.it Tue Feb 12 13:12:30 2002 From: paoram at unipv.it (Paolo Ramat) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:12:30 EST Subject: R: Hervas y Panduro and Vater as finders of language families Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Lyle, I have no answer to your query concerning Herv?s, but E. Coseriu has written at least three valuable articles on Herv?s where it might be you can find an answer: -Lo que se dice de Herv?s. Estudios ofrecidos a E.A.Llorach, III, Univ. de Oviedo 1978 - Herv?s und das Substrat, "Studii si cercetari de lingvistice", 19/1978:523-30 and also -Das Rumaenische im 'Vocabolario' von H.y P.,"Zeitschr.f.Roman.Philol." 92/1976:394-407 I hope this indication may help you. Best, Paolo ----- Original Message ----- From: Lyle Campbell To: Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 5:50 PM Subject: Hervas y Panduro and Vater as finders of language families Does anyone know the answer to the following questions: Lorenzo Herv?s y Panduro (1800) made several successful family classifications involving languages of Latin America, plus he repeated several others in the Americas which at the time were known but not yet fully established. My question is, did he discover/find/formulate/prove/make known for the first time any languages families from other parts of the world in his massive survey? [Herv?s y Panduro, [Don] Lorenzo. 1784-87. Idea dell'universo: che contiene la storia della vita dell'uomo, elementi cosmografici, viaggio estatico al mondo planetario, e storia de la terra e delle lingue. Cesena: Biasini. _____. 1800-1805. Cat?logo de las lenguas de las naciones conocidas y numeracion, division, y clases de estas segun la diversidad de sus idiomas y dialectos. Volumen I (1800): Lenguas y naciones Americanas. Madrid: Administracion del Real Arbitrio de Beneficencia. Hess, Thom. 1979. Central Coast Salish words for deer: their wavelike distribution. IJAL 45.5-16.] Next, I would like to ask the same question about Johann Severin Vater (cf. Vater 1810; also Adelung and Vater 1816). Volume three of Adelung and Vater (1816), written mostly by Vater, recognized the genetic relationship among several Mayan languages, including Huastec, for the first time, as well as several Uto-Aztecan relationships with accurate cognates. The question is, did he find/discover/formuate/prove any others as well for language families anywhere else? [Adelung, Johann Christoph and Johann Severin Vater. 1816. Mithridates oder allgemeine Sprachenkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in bey nahe f?nfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten. (Dritten Theil, dritte Abtheilung.) Berlin: Voss.] Many thanks, Lyle From sschool at mail.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de Fri Feb 15 15:19:32 2002 From: sschool at mail.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de (Summer School) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:19:32 EST Subject: LSA / DGfS Summer School 2002 Message-ID: First Special Linguistic Summer Program hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft and co-sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America FORMAL AND FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS at Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf 14 July - 3 August 2002 The event will offer basic and advanced specialized credit courses on the model of the Summer Schools of the Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Sprachwissenschaft and the Linguistic Institutes of the LSA. There will be a range of special events on the state of the art in formal and functional lines of inquiry that have dominated general linguistics, as well as on the relevance of these two approaches to specialized disciplines like language acquisition, language change, and language contact. An optional program in German language and culture, focusing on the Rhinelands (the Duesseldorf and Cologne area) will be offered for foreign participants. Director: Dieter Stein, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Associate Director: Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania Contact: Summer Program Anglistik III Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Universitaetsstr. 1 D-40225 D?sseldorf Germany email: summerschool at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/summerschool2002/ Fon: +49 211 81-12963 Fax: +49 211 81-15292 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sschool at mail.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de Fri Feb 15 15:19:16 2002 From: sschool at mail.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de (Summer School) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:19:16 EST Subject: Call For Papers Message-ID: LSA / DGfS Summer School - Duesseldorf 2002 CALL FOR PAPERS STUDENT EVENING SESSIONS Students (undergraduates and Ph.D. students) participating in the special DGfS/LSA Summer School in Duesseldorf are invited to present a paper in student evening sessions. There will be two sessions, each consisting of two thirty-minute talks, followed by a discussant's comment and further discussion from the floor. We invite anonymous abstracts for papers that (a) present new empirical data from any field of linguistics, and (b) discuss to what extent these data call for a functional or formal explanation. Abstracts must not exceed one page in length (11 point font, 2cm margins, single-spaced). A second page is allowed for data and references. Authors may submit no more than one individual or joint abstract. Joint abstracts should designate one address for communication with the organizers. Programm committee: Barbara Stiebels (Chair, Duesseldorf, Ger), Kai von Fintel (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA), Martin Haspelmath (MPI, Leipzig, Ger), Richard Wiese (Marburg, Ger), Ellen Prince (UPennsylvania, USA) The anonymous abstract should preferably be sent as an e-mail attachment in one of the following formats: pdf, rtf, postscript, or plain text. For any unusual fonts, please attach the font file. No other formats will be accepted, electronic submissions should be sent to the following e-mail address: sschool at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de When writing to our postal address (cf. below), please add the keyword "Student Sessions" to the address. Please use "Abstract for Student Session" as the subject header and include, besides the attached abstract, the following information in the body of the message: 1.Name(s) of author(s) 2.Title of talk 3.Area of specialization 4.Affiliation(s) 5.E-mail address(es) 6.Postal address(es) The deadline for receipt of abstracts is March 31, 2002, 6p.m. (CET). The receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged by e-mail. Notification of acceptance will be received by May 31, 2002. The final version of the paper, which is sent to the discussant, must reach us by July 1, 2002. The discussant will be selected from the teacher's panel of the Summer School according to the paper's area of specialization. This is a rare and perfect opportunity for students to present their own research. We hope that lots of you will take advantage of this. Contact: Summer Program Anglistik III Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf Universit?tsstr. 1 D-40225 D?sseldorf Germany email: summerschool at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/summerschool2002/ Fon: +49 211 81-12963Fax: +49 211 81-15292 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Susan.Fitzmaurice at NAU.EDU Sat Feb 16 14:29:45 2002 From: Susan.Fitzmaurice at NAU.EDU (Susan M. Fitzmaurice) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:29:45 EST Subject: Historical Pragmatics Workshop at ICEHL 12 Message-ID: Call for papers for the Workshop on Historical Pragmatics at ICEHL 12 Susan Fitzmaurice, Andreas H. Jucker, Irma Taavitsainen Glasgow, August 21-26, 2002. Abstracts for contributions to the workshop must be submitted before March 31, 2002 Background In her plenary address to the first meeting of the conference on Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL-1) at UCLA in May 2000, Elizabeth Traugott drew particular attention to the changes in methodologies and approaches used to study the history of the English language over the past century. Her talk was entitled, ?From Etymology to historical pragmatics?, a title that recalls Eve Sweetser?s (1990) book, From Etymology to Pragmatics at the same time as inserting the historical into Pragmatics. On one local level, she demonstrated the extent to which processes of grammaticalization might be approached as semantic-pragmatic processes. On another more general level, she indicated the extent to which the new field of historical pragmatics promises to provide the source of more nuanced, fine-grained kinds of explanation for linguistic changes than have traditionally been offered. She also set a number of challenges and tasks for those working in English studies and the history of the English language; tasks that involve venturing across usual disciplinary and sub-disciplinary boundaries within English studies. Such challenges provide the context for the workshop at ICEHL 12 on historical pragmatics, which will focus on discourse features, stylistics or genre description. The aim of the workshop on Historical Pragmatics is to provide a setting in which participants begin to address some challenges posed by the work on the history of the English language that identifies itself as historical pragmatic in approach. The range of work that falls within the parameters of pragmatics has begun to exert considerable pressure on the designator ?pragmatic?, to the extent that workers in the field really need to search for fresh terminology to convey a better sense of the more fine-grained analysis actually being conducted (Fitzmaurice, 2000). It seems timely to use this pressure as occasion for collective investigation in the forum of a research workshop. To this end, participants in the workshop may assess the body of research conducted on the history of the English language within what we might loosely identify as the framework of historical pragmatics. At the same time, it will provide the opportunity to explore some topics and questions of common interest to fields outside historical pragmatics. Increasingly, these questions have to do with the ways in which we approach the analysis of historical discourses, discourses that have their own cultural settings, historical codes, circumstances of production and transmission, and attendant language practices. The questions raised concern the ways in which we identify, read and account for rhetorical functions such as information, explication, persuasion, strategic interaction, and rhetorical force. Approaches that share the domain of historical discourse as a field of enquiry are historical stylistics, corpus linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. The concerns of historical pragmatics also overlap with those of disciplines that now lie outside the domain of language and linguistics studies, like rhetoric and literary history. This workshop will provide a forum for examining how the connections among such approaches or perspectives to some of the issues outlined above may be mutually enriching References: Fitzmaurice, Susan. 2000. ?Some remarks on the rhetoric of historical pragmatics?. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 1 (1):1-6. Sweetser, Eve V. 1990. From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Traugott, Elizabeth C. 2000. ?From etymology to historical pragmatics?. Plenary paper, presented at the conference on Studies in English Historical Linguistics, UCLA, May 27th, 2000. http://www.stanford.edu/~traugott/ect-papersonline.html Format of workshop The nature of the format and the associated procedures for the workshop are designed to ensure that scholars who have not hitherto considered their work relevant to historical pragmatics and those who may be new to the field have the opportunity to share their work with each other and with scholars who may be more well-established figures in the field. We invite scholars to submit proposals for papers that consider key topics and questions in the history of the English language from a perspective in English historical linguistics that chimes with or indeed competes with an account from the perspective of historical pragmatics, for example, studies in the role of politeness theory in the pragmatic (re)construction of meaning in letters between mistresses and servants in early modern English. Abstracts for contributions to the workshop may be submitted before March 31, 2002, to Susan Fitzmaurice. Two weeks after the deadline participants will be informed whether their paper has been accepted for the workshop, and the abstracts will be distributed among the participants. To ensure as much early collaboration as possible, participants are invited to send each other comments and suggestions through email; this way it should be possible to set up a discussion of topics relevant to the main subject of the workshop well beforehand. At the same time, participants will be requested to send titles of relevant publications to Susan Fitzmaurice, who will compile a bibliography and provide regular updates of this bibliography for mutual benefit by the workshop participants. Papers (max. length 15pp., line space 1.5) should be distributed among the participants before July 20, 2002, so that they can all be read in the month before the conference workshop. For discussion during the workshop, each author will be asked to compile a list of topics/questions for discussion based on one of the other papers submitted. These topics/questions will be collected by the first organizer and distributed well before the conference. During the workshop, the topics will be the focus of the discussion, which will be conducted against the background of the papers submitted and read by all participants. Organizers: Susan Fitzmaurice Department of English, Box 6032 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ 86011-6032 USA T: (001) 928 523-9649, F: (001) 928 523-7074 Email: susan.fitzmaurice at nau.edu Andreas H. Jucker Justus Liebig University Department of English Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10 D-35394 Giessen, Germany T: (49) 641/99 30150, F: (49) 641/99 30159 Email: Andreas.Jucker at anglistik.uni-giessen.de Irma Taavitsainen Department of English P.O. Box 4 (Yliopistonkatu 3) 00014 University of Helsinki Finland T: (358)9 19123516 F: (358)9 19123072 Email: Irma.Taavitsainen at Helsinki.FI Susan M. Fitzmaurice Associate Professor and Associate Chair English Department, Box 6032 Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ 86011-6032 tel: (520) 523-9649 fax: (520) 523-7074 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bhk at hd1.vsnl.net.in Sat Feb 16 14:31:47 2002 From: bhk at hd1.vsnl.net.in (Bh. Krishnamurti) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 09:31:47 EST Subject: Summary of observations on my posting Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Iam submitting a summary of the comments received on my posting ?Typology and regular sound change?, which was circulated on Histling on January 28/29. Joel Rini gave me the reference of an article by Etnst Pulgram. Kevin Tuite agreed with the hypothesis and wondered if it fell under the dichotomy of Labov?s ?Neogrammarian change vs. lexical diffusion?. I have explained to him that, for me, the neogrammarian regularity is the end result of several processes like lexical diffusion, typological triggering and not a process by itself. Betty Phillips referred me to her discussion of the unrounding of high and mid front rounded vowels in two of her papers (1984, 2001) within the framework of lexical diffusion in terms of the phenomenon of frequency of text occurrence. After some discussion, I noticed that it is a good example in support of my hypothesis, since the marked segments are replaced by unmarked ones without residue, over a period of about three or four centuries. [I am indebted to her sending me an offprint of her 2001 paper]. I have independently discussed the issue with other members of the list: my teacher Henry Hoenigswald, David Stampe, Mieko Ogura and Robert Blust. I am grateful to all those who have participated in the discussion and enlightened me. Many thanks to Dorothy Disterheft for approving my abstract for posting on the list. Krishnamurti Bh. Krishnamurti H.No. 12-13-1233, "Bhaarati" Street 9, Tarnaka Hyderabad 500017 (A.P.) India Telephone (R): 40-7019665 From EvolPub at aol.com Mon Feb 18 23:43:44 2002 From: EvolPub at aol.com (Tony Schiavo) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:43:44 EST Subject: Now Available - Handy's Vocabulary of Miami (1856) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following volume from the American Language Reprint (ALR) series: Volume 24: Handy's Vocabulary of Miami Charles N. Handy, 1856 Collected by Indian agent Charles N. Handy, this vocabulary of about 300 words draws from a questionnaire prepared by Henry Schoolcraft and was subsequently published in his Indian Tribes (1851-1857). It was most likely recorded at the Miami reservation in eastcentral Kansas along the Osage River. December 2001 ~ clothbound ~ 37pp. ~ ISBN 1-889758-22-1 ~ US$26.00 Evolution Publishing is dedicated to preserving and consolidating early primary source records of native and early colonial America with the goal of making them more accessible and readily available to the academic community and the public at large. For further information on this and other titles in the ALR series: http://www.evolpub.com/ALR/ALRhome.html Evolution Publishing evolpub at aol.com From schoesl at hum.ku.dk Wed Feb 20 17:33:25 2002 From: schoesl at hum.ku.dk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lene_Sch=F8sler?=) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:33:25 EST Subject: ICHL2003 Message-ID: Colleagues, Lene Schloessler has asked me to post the following information. I have now established a website for ICHL 2003 at the following address: http://www.hum.ku.dk/romansk/ then go to "Forskningsprojekter", choose no 8: ICHL2003 Lene From johncharles.smith at st-catherines.oxford.ac.uk Thu Feb 21 13:39:10 2002 From: johncharles.smith at st-catherines.oxford.ac.uk (John Charles Smith) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:39:10 EST Subject: Oxford-Kobe Seminar: Final CIrcular Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- OXFORD-KOBE SEMINAR ON LANGUAGE CHANGE AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS FINAL CIRCULAR A final reminder that an Oxford-Kobe Seminar on Language Change and Historical Linguistics will be held at the Kobe Institute of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, in Kobe, Japan, from 7-10 April 2002. Speakers will include: Henning Andersen, Lyle Campbell, William Croft, Bjarke Frellesvig, Susan Herring, Yasuhiro Kondo, William Labov, Martin Maiden, Kenjiro Matsuda, Akiko Matsumori, April McMahon, Marianne Mithun, Ian Roberts, Suzanne Romaine, Malcolm Ross, Masayoshi Shibatani, and John Charles Smith. Full details, including a downloadable registration form, are available on the Institute's web site, at: http://www1.biz.biglobe.ne.jp/~kobeinst/1lg01.htm All enquiries about local arrangements should be made to the Bursar of the Institute, Kaizaburo Saito, at: kaizas at msa.biglobe.ne.jp The deadline for registration is 18 March. We continue to welcome proposals for poster presentations, which should be submitted by email to: johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk by 15 March. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + + John Charles Smith + + Official Fellow and Tutor College Phone +44 1865 271700 + + St. Catherine's College Direct Line +44 1865 271748 + + Oxford OX1 3UJ UK College Fax +44 1865 271768 + + + + johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk http://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/ + + + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk Thu Feb 28 22:11:50 2002 From: Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk (Nils Langer) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:11:50 EST Subject: call for papers Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages University of Bristol, UK 9-11 April 2003 Studies on linguistic purism commonly concentrate on one particular aspect of the field, be it a specific language, region or type of purism. Little research has attempted to provide a more unified account of purism, combining description of the phenomena with an explanation of why purism comes / came about. In this conference we want to bring together scholars from a broad range of areas in order to initiate a dialogue between different aspects, fields and theoretical models. The aim is to provide a platform where a wide range of accounts of and approaches to puristic ideas can be discussed in order to detect common patterns across languages, periods, regions and types. Guest Speakers: James Milroy University of Michigan Klaus Mattheier University of Heidelberg Oskar Reichmann University of Heidelberg Nancy Niedzielski Rice University, Houston Dieter Stein University of D?sseldorf Papers (25-30 minutes) are invited on any of the following fields: Folk Linguistics Attitudes towards and perceptions of dialects and minority languages Standardization of Germanic languages Stigmatization of non-standard varieties History of puristic ideas Modern purism by institutions or individuals Please submit an abstract of 300 words by June 1st 2002 either by email (preferred) or post to: Contact: Dr Nils Langer Dept of German University of Bristol 21 Woodland Road Bristol, BS8 1TE United Kingdom Email: nils.langer at bris.ac.uk Conference Website: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~gexnl Organizers: Nils Langer (nils.langer at bris.ac.uk) Winifred Davies (wvd at aber.ac.uk) Maria Barbara Lange (m.b.lange at bris.ac.uk) ---------------------- Dr Nils Langer Lecturer in German Linguistics Dept of German University of Bristol Bristol, England BS8 1TE 0044-(0)117-928 9841 Nils.Langer at bristol.ac.uk homepage: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~gexnl From brita.warvik at abo.fi Thu Feb 28 18:56:28 2002 From: brita.warvik at abo.fi (Brita Warvik) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:56:28 EST Subject: Organization in Discourse II: The Historical Perspective Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Organization in Discourse II: The Historical Perspective University of Turku, Finland, 7-11 August, 2002 SECOND CIRCULAR The OID organising committee is pleased to update our conference information. For more details, visit our web-site: http://www.utu.fi/hum/engfil/oid2002.html Plenary speakers: Laurel BRINTON (development of pragmatic markers), Andreas JUCKER (news discourse 17th-21st centuries), Fran?oise SALAGER-MEYER (English, French, and Spanish academic conflict, 1810-1999), Irma TAAVITSAINEN (genres and text types in early vernacular medical writing), Barbara WEHR (focussing strategies in medieval French and Irish), and Laura WRIGHT (medieval mixed-language business texts). Conference workshops: EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION 1450-1850 (Terttu Nevalainen & Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, conveners); HISTORICAL STUDIES OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE (Fran?oise Salager-Meyer & Ellen Valle, conveners); and COURT TRIAL DISCOURSE (Daniel Collins & Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky, conveners). All abstracts have now been evaluated. But there is still time to submit workshop paper proposals, as well posters, before the deadline of March 31. Our social programme continues the scholarly and historical themes of the conference, with a conference banquet at Panimoravintola Koulu, a recently-renovated traditional school building, and a guided excursion to Old Rauma, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The regular conference fee is 170 EUR per person, if paid by 15 May. Reduced rates are available for students, day delegates, and accompanying guests. A registration form is available on our web-site, as is information on travel and accommodation. We look forward to seeing you in Turku in August. With warm regards, The Organizing Committee -------------- 'Organization in Discourse II: The Historical Perspective' Conference Turku, Finland, 7-11 August, 2002 http://www.utu.fi/hum/engfil/oid2002.html email: oid2002 at utu.fi -------------- -- Brita Warvik, FL Donner Lecturer in Text and Corpus Linguistics Department of English tel. + 358 2 215 4360 Abo Akademi University fax + 358 215 4436 FIN - 20500 Turku http://www.abo.fi/~bwarvik