From francisco.santibanez at dfm.unirioja.es Tue Jul 16 00:42:55 2002 From: francisco.santibanez at dfm.unirioja.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Francisco_Santib=E1=F1ez_S=E1enz?=) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:42:55 EDT Subject: 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- [Please, circulate. We apologize for multiple postings] 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) "Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common Ground and New Directions" July 20-25, 2003 University of La Rioja, Spain ===================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== The ICLC is the biannual meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. This is the first call for abstracts for the GENERAL, POSTER, and THEME sessions. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES A) GENERAL SESSIONS: ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. B) THEME SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS Organizers of theme sessions should be prepared to submit the following information: a) A short description of their session topic (300-500 words) b) An indication of the structure proposed for the whole session: order of presentations, discussant contributions, breaks, and general discussion by the audience. c) The abstracts from all of their speakers, accompanied by all the information requested in the abstract specifications below. d) The names of discussants plus an indication of their discussion assignments. e) The length of each of the oral presentations. These should not exceed 20 minutes. f) The time assigned to discussants (it should range between 15 and 20 minutes). g) The amount of time for general discussion by the audience. ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS FOR GENERAL AND THEME SESSIONS: All abstracts should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including references, and they should specify research question(s), approach/ method/data, and (expected) results. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by three members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 2003. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. The body of your email message should contain the following information: - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - full mailing address - telephone number - fax number - email address - title of presentation - (three or four) keywords - presenter(s) name (person/s who will be making the presentation) - preferred format: a) oral presentation b) poster c) preference for oral presentation but willing to do a poster (time slots for spoken presentations may be limited) The abstract should be anonymous. Please, send title and abstract in an attached file (MS Word, RTF). Submit your proposal to the following email address: francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send 3 high-quality anonymous copies of your abstract and the keywords, accompanied by 1 high-quality copy of the rest of the information (name, affiliation, address, etc.) to the following address: Francisco J. RUIZ DE MENDOZA Universidad de La Rioja Departamento de Filologías Modernas Edificio de Filología c/San José de Calasanz s/n Campus Universitario 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain Tel.: +34 (941) 299430 FAX.: +34 (941) 299419 Only those proposals following the abstract specifications will be considered. SUBMISSION DEADLINES -For GENERAL and POSTER sessions: November 15, 2002 -For THEME sessions: October 1, 2002 CONTACT INFORMATION For up-to-date information on all matters, check the ICLC website: http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dfm/sub/congresos/LingCog/ICLC_2003.html Further information on the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA): See the ICLA homepage at http://www.siu.edu/~icla/ If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organizers. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, University of La Rioja (francisco.ruiz@ dfm.unirioja.es) Javier Martín Arista, University of La Rioja. (javier.martin@ dfm.unirioja.es) Lorena Pérez Hernández, University of La Rioja (lorena.perez@ dfm.unirioja.es) Sandra Peña Cervel, UNED, Madrid (spena at flog.uned.es) Francisco Santibáñez Saénz, University of La Rioja (francisco.santibanez@ dfm.unirioja.es) Olga Díez Velasco, University of La Rioja (olgadiez at email.com) Nuria Alfaro, University of La Rioja (nuria.alfaro at dfm.unirioja.es) ADVISORY COMMITTEE Antonio Barcelona, University of Murcia (abs at um.es) René Dirven, Duisburg (rene.dirven at pandora.be) Carlos Inchaurralde, Zaragoza University (inchaur at posta.unizar.es) Juana Marín, Complutense University (juana at filol.ucm.es) Jan Nuyts, Antwerp University (Jan.Nuyts at ua.ac.be) Klaus-Uwe Panther, Hamburg University (panther at uni-hamburg.de) Jesús Sánchez, Córdoba University (ff1sagaj at lucano.uco.es) Gerard Steen, Vrije University (gj.steen at LET.VU.NL) From dgw at MIT.EDU Thu Jul 18 00:37:58 2002 From: dgw at MIT.EDU (David Weininger) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:37:58 EDT Subject: book announcement--Frank Message-ID: I thought readers of the Historical Linguistics List might be interested in this book. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262062291 Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies Robert Frank In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the minimalist framework. The TAG formalism has been extensively studied both for its mathematical properties and for its usefulness in computational linguistics applications. Frank shows that incorporating TAG's formally restrictive operations for structure building considerably simplifies the model of grammatical competence, particularly in the components concerned with syntactic movement and locality. The empirical advantages of the resulting model, illustrated with extensive case studies of subject-raising constructions and wh-questions, point toward a conception of grammar that is sharply limited in its computational power. Robert Frank is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. 6 x 9, 340 pp. 4 illus. cloth 0-262-06229-1 Current Studies in Linguistics 38 ______________________ David Weininger Associate Publicist The MIT Press 5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 617 253 2079 617 253 1709 fax http://mitpress.mit.edu From l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz Fri Jul 19 00:30:11 2002 From: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (Lyle Campbell) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:30:11 EDT Subject: Historical linguistics at the International Congress of Linguists, July 24-29, 2003 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Historical Linguists, I would like to draw your attention to the session called “Comparative Linguistics” (which is intended to mean “historical linguistics and language change generally”) at the XVII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LINGUISTS, Prague, Czech Republic, July 24-29, 2003. I hope we will have a most rewarding meeting, and so encourage participation. The deadline for submitting an abstract is October 1, 2002. Details are found on the website http://www.cil17.org/ (including information on registration and accommodation). The CALL FOR PAPERS reads: Three-page abstracts of papers (both for the regular sessions and for the workshops) and poster descriptions should be sent (preferably electronically, or in four hard copies) to the organizer of the session (or workshop) relevant for the topic of the paper (see list of sessions and list of workshops [on the website]) [i.e. to me for this, as the session organizer for the session on historical linguistics]; in case of uncertainty about the appropriate session, the abstract may be sent to the address of the Chair of the Scientific Committee (see below). The authors should clearly indicate whether they submit an abstract of a full paper or a description of a poster. Authors of the accepted papers will be asked to send in a one-page summary of the paper in a camera-ready format (the instructions will be sent to the authors together with the information of acceptance), and this summary will be printed in the volume of abstracts. The slot for paper presentation will be 30 min long (incl. discussion). Languages: Papers can be delivered in English, German, French or Russian; summaries published in the volume of abstracts should be written in English or French. Important DATES for submission of abstracts of papers, workshop contributions and poster descriptions: 3-page abstracts: October 1, 2002 Information of acceptance/rejection will be sent out before: December 31, 2002 1-page summary for publication in the proceedings: March 31, 2003 Each abstract should contain: a separate page with the title of the paper/poster, the author's name, and affiliation, postal address, e-mail address and fax. The author's name should not be written on the abstract itself. There is a panel of some 15 internationally known historical linguist who judge the abstracts. As session organizer, I will be happy to try to answer questions (though I know little more than what is on the website at the moment). My address (for abstract submissiosns, and matters concerning this session) is: e-mail: l.campbell at canterbury.ac.nz or Prof.Lyle Campbell Department of Linguistics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch, New Zeeland (Telephone: 64-3-364-2242 [office], Fax: 64-3-364-2969) The address of the Chair of the Scientific Committee is: Prof. Ferenc Kiefer Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian academy of Sciences Benczur u. 33 H-1068 Budapest, Hungary e-mail: kiefer at nytud.hu Best regards, Lyle From EvolPub at aol.com Wed Jul 24 16:40:14 2002 From: EvolPub at aol.com (Tony Schiavo) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:40:14 EDT Subject: Now Available: Observations on the Mahican Language (1788) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following volume from the American Language Reprint (ALR) series: Volume 25: Observations on the Mahican Language Jonathan Edwards, 1788 "Perhaps the most significant grammar of a North American language published in the eighteenth century was a sketch of Mahican by Jonathan Edwards, Jr., who as the son of a missionary grew up at Stockbridge with a native speaker's command of the language." --Ives Goddard in "The Description of the Native Languages of North America before Boas," Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 17, pg. 23. One of the most interesting linguistic records from the 1700s is Jonathan Edwards' "Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians" (1788), recorded in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. While not a complete grammatical treatment of Mahican, his text is one of the best works of the era, as it was compiled by an individual who spoke the language fluently, and took the additional step of having the text approved by members of the tribe. This new edition reprints the original book in full, and also features separate bidirectional Mahican-English and English-Mahican indexes for the approximately 150 Mahican words cited. July 2002 ~ 47 pp. ~ clothbound ~ ISBN 1-889758-23-X ~ $28.00 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 erickson at piercingsuit.com Fri Jul 26 12:27:06 2002 From: erickson at piercingsuit.com (Blaine Erickson) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:27:06 EDT Subject: Obituary: Stanley Starosta Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Stanley Starosta, professor of linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, died July 18, 2002, in Honolulu, from heart disease. He was 62. He is survived by his wife, Aleli; their son, Stuart; a grandson; and two brothers, Noel and Bill. No services were held. Born in Wisconsin, he received a B.A. in Physics (1961) and Ph.D. in Linguistics (1967) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Starosta spent extended periods doing research, teaching, and field work in East, Southeast, and South Asia, and Western Europe. His primary area of research was Lexicase, a highly-constrained dependency grammar he developed. He also worked on natural language processing; morphological theory; and the synchronic analysis and historical reconstruction of languages of East, Southeast, and South Asia and the Pacific. An expert in Austronesian linguistics, he wrote countless papers and gave innumerable presentations on Formosan languages; much of his work was based on his own field work in Taiwan. In addition to his work on Proto-Austronesian, he also did research on the prehistory of other languages of E/SE/S Asia and the Pacific. Additionally, he had considerable expertise in Chinese languages, German, Japanese, and Thai. He devoted much of his effort to issues in syntactic theory, such as case relations, ergativity and transitivity, and focus. His morphological theory, also highly constrained, holds that words have no internal structure, and, in essence, that the only morphological rule is analogy. Professor Starosta, know as "Stan" to his students, colleagues, and friends, was also possessed of a razor-sharp wit. He composed several humorous songs and countless limericks, and was found of telling jokes at Friday afternoon gatherings at a local bar in Honolulu, where linguistics students and faculty alike would come together to talk and joke over peanuts and beer. Some of Professor Starosta's works can be accessed from the following site: http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Estanley/ From francisco.santibanez at dfm.unirioja.es Tue Jul 16 00:42:55 2002 From: francisco.santibanez at dfm.unirioja.es (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Francisco_Santib=E1=F1ez_S=E1enz?=) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:42:55 EDT Subject: 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- [Please, circulate. We apologize for multiple postings] 8th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC 2003) "Cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common Ground and New Directions" July 20-25, 2003 University of La Rioja, Spain ===================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== The ICLC is the biannual meeting of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association. This is the first call for abstracts for the GENERAL, POSTER, and THEME sessions. Papers in all areas of Cognitive Linguistics are welcome. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES A) GENERAL SESSIONS: ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS: Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. B) THEME SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS Organizers of theme sessions should be prepared to submit the following information: a) A short description of their session topic (300-500 words) b) An indication of the structure proposed for the whole session: order of presentations, discussant contributions, breaks, and general discussion by the audience. c) The abstracts from all of their speakers, accompanied by all the information requested in the abstract specifications below. d) The names of discussants plus an indication of their discussion assignments. e) The length of each of the oral presentations. These should not exceed 20 minutes. f) The time assigned to discussants (it should range between 15 and 20 minutes). g) The amount of time for general discussion by the audience. ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS FOR GENERAL AND THEME SESSIONS: All abstracts should be maximum 500 words (about one page), including references, and they should specify research question(s), approach/ method/data, and (expected) results. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by three members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by February 15, 2003. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged. The body of your email message should contain the following information: - author name(s) - affiliation(s) - full mailing address - telephone number - fax number - email address - title of presentation - (three or four) keywords - presenter(s) name (person/s who will be making the presentation) - preferred format: a) oral presentation b) poster c) preference for oral presentation but willing to do a poster (time slots for spoken presentations may be limited) The abstract should be anonymous. Please, send title and abstract in an attached file (MS Word, RTF). Submit your proposal to the following email address: francisco.ruiz at dfm.unirioja.es Should you be unable to submit your abstract electronically, send 3 high-quality anonymous copies of your abstract and the keywords, accompanied by 1 high-quality copy of the rest of the information (name, affiliation, address, etc.) to the following address: Francisco J. RUIZ DE MENDOZA Universidad de La Rioja Departamento de Filolog?as Modernas Edificio de Filolog?a c/San Jos? de Calasanz s/n Campus Universitario 26004, Logro?o, La Rioja, Spain Tel.: +34 (941) 299430 FAX.: +34 (941) 299419 Only those proposals following the abstract specifications will be considered. SUBMISSION DEADLINES -For GENERAL and POSTER sessions: November 15, 2002 -For THEME sessions: October 1, 2002 CONTACT INFORMATION For up-to-date information on all matters, check the ICLC website: http://www.unirioja.es/dptos/dfm/sub/congresos/LingCog/ICLC_2003.html Further information on the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA): See the ICLA homepage at http://www.siu.edu/~icla/ If the information you need is not yet available, feel free to contact the organizers. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ib??ez, University of La Rioja (francisco.ruiz@ dfm.unirioja.es) Javier Mart?n Arista, University of La Rioja. (javier.martin@ dfm.unirioja.es) Lorena P?rez Hern?ndez, University of La Rioja (lorena.perez@ dfm.unirioja.es) Sandra Pe?a Cervel, UNED, Madrid (spena at flog.uned.es) Francisco Santib??ez Sa?nz, University of La Rioja (francisco.santibanez@ dfm.unirioja.es) Olga D?ez Velasco, University of La Rioja (olgadiez at email.com) Nuria Alfaro, University of La Rioja (nuria.alfaro at dfm.unirioja.es) ADVISORY COMMITTEE Antonio Barcelona, University of Murcia (abs at um.es) Ren? Dirven, Duisburg (rene.dirven at pandora.be) Carlos Inchaurralde, Zaragoza University (inchaur at posta.unizar.es) Juana Mar?n, Complutense University (juana at filol.ucm.es) Jan Nuyts, Antwerp University (Jan.Nuyts at ua.ac.be) Klaus-Uwe Panther, Hamburg University (panther at uni-hamburg.de) Jes?s S?nchez, C?rdoba University (ff1sagaj at lucano.uco.es) Gerard Steen, Vrije University (gj.steen at LET.VU.NL) From dgw at MIT.EDU Thu Jul 18 00:37:58 2002 From: dgw at MIT.EDU (David Weininger) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:37:58 EDT Subject: book announcement--Frank Message-ID: I thought readers of the Historical Linguistics List might be interested in this book. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262062291 Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies Robert Frank In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism with the minimalist framework. The TAG formalism has been extensively studied both for its mathematical properties and for its usefulness in computational linguistics applications. Frank shows that incorporating TAG's formally restrictive operations for structure building considerably simplifies the model of grammatical competence, particularly in the components concerned with syntactic movement and locality. The empirical advantages of the resulting model, illustrated with extensive case studies of subject-raising constructions and wh-questions, point toward a conception of grammar that is sharply limited in its computational power. Robert Frank is Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. 6 x 9, 340 pp. 4 illus. cloth 0-262-06229-1 Current Studies in Linguistics 38 ______________________ David Weininger Associate Publicist The MIT Press 5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 617 253 2079 617 253 1709 fax http://mitpress.mit.edu From l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz Fri Jul 19 00:30:11 2002 From: l.campbell at ling.canterbury.ac.nz (Lyle Campbell) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:30:11 EDT Subject: Historical linguistics at the International Congress of Linguists, July 24-29, 2003 Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear Historical Linguists, I would like to draw your attention to the session called ?Comparative Linguistics? (which is intended to mean ?historical linguistics and language change generally?) at the XVII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LINGUISTS, Prague, Czech Republic, July 24-29, 2003. I hope we will have a most rewarding meeting, and so encourage participation. The deadline for submitting an abstract is October 1, 2002. Details are found on the website http://www.cil17.org/ (including information on registration and accommodation). The CALL FOR PAPERS reads: Three-page abstracts of papers (both for the regular sessions and for the workshops) and poster descriptions should be sent (preferably electronically, or in four hard copies) to the organizer of the session (or workshop) relevant for the topic of the paper (see list of sessions and list of workshops [on the website]) [i.e. to me for this, as the session organizer for the session on historical linguistics]; in case of uncertainty about the appropriate session, the abstract may be sent to the address of the Chair of the Scientific Committee (see below). The authors should clearly indicate whether they submit an abstract of a full paper or a description of a poster. Authors of the accepted papers will be asked to send in a one-page summary of the paper in a camera-ready format (the instructions will be sent to the authors together with the information of acceptance), and this summary will be printed in the volume of abstracts. The slot for paper presentation will be 30 min long (incl. discussion). Languages: Papers can be delivered in English, German, French or Russian; summaries published in the volume of abstracts should be written in English or French. Important DATES for submission of abstracts of papers, workshop contributions and poster descriptions: 3-page abstracts: October 1, 2002 Information of acceptance/rejection will be sent out before: December 31, 2002 1-page summary for publication in the proceedings: March 31, 2003 Each abstract should contain: a separate page with the title of the paper/poster, the author's name, and affiliation, postal address, e-mail address and fax. The author's name should not be written on the abstract itself. There is a panel of some 15 internationally known historical linguist who judge the abstracts. As session organizer, I will be happy to try to answer questions (though I know little more than what is on the website at the moment). My address (for abstract submissiosns, and matters concerning this session) is: e-mail: l.campbell at canterbury.ac.nz or Prof.Lyle Campbell Department of Linguistics University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch, New Zeeland (Telephone: 64-3-364-2242 [office], Fax: 64-3-364-2969) The address of the Chair of the Scientific Committee is: Prof. Ferenc Kiefer Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian academy of Sciences Benczur u. 33 H-1068 Budapest, Hungary e-mail: kiefer at nytud.hu Best regards, Lyle From EvolPub at aol.com Wed Jul 24 16:40:14 2002 From: EvolPub at aol.com (Tony Schiavo) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:40:14 EDT Subject: Now Available: Observations on the Mahican Language (1788) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following volume from the American Language Reprint (ALR) series: Volume 25: Observations on the Mahican Language Jonathan Edwards, 1788 "Perhaps the most significant grammar of a North American language published in the eighteenth century was a sketch of Mahican by Jonathan Edwards, Jr., who as the son of a missionary grew up at Stockbridge with a native speaker's command of the language." --Ives Goddard in "The Description of the Native Languages of North America before Boas," Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 17, pg. 23. One of the most interesting linguistic records from the 1700s is Jonathan Edwards' "Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians" (1788), recorded in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. While not a complete grammatical treatment of Mahican, his text is one of the best works of the era, as it was compiled by an individual who spoke the language fluently, and took the additional step of having the text approved by members of the tribe. This new edition reprints the original book in full, and also features separate bidirectional Mahican-English and English-Mahican indexes for the approximately 150 Mahican words cited. July 2002 ~ 47 pp. ~ clothbound ~ ISBN 1-889758-23-X ~ $28.00 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 erickson at piercingsuit.com Fri Jul 26 12:27:06 2002 From: erickson at piercingsuit.com (Blaine Erickson) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:27:06 EDT Subject: Obituary: Stanley Starosta Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Stanley Starosta, professor of linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, died July 18, 2002, in Honolulu, from heart disease. He was 62. He is survived by his wife, Aleli; their son, Stuart; a grandson; and two brothers, Noel and Bill. No services were held. Born in Wisconsin, he received a B.A. in Physics (1961) and Ph.D. in Linguistics (1967) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Starosta spent extended periods doing research, teaching, and field work in East, Southeast, and South Asia, and Western Europe. His primary area of research was Lexicase, a highly-constrained dependency grammar he developed. He also worked on natural language processing; morphological theory; and the synchronic analysis and historical reconstruction of languages of East, Southeast, and South Asia and the Pacific. An expert in Austronesian linguistics, he wrote countless papers and gave innumerable presentations on Formosan languages; much of his work was based on his own field work in Taiwan. In addition to his work on Proto-Austronesian, he also did research on the prehistory of other languages of E/SE/S Asia and the Pacific. Additionally, he had considerable expertise in Chinese languages, German, Japanese, and Thai. He devoted much of his effort to issues in syntactic theory, such as case relations, ergativity and transitivity, and focus. His morphological theory, also highly constrained, holds that words have no internal structure, and, in essence, that the only morphological rule is analogy. Professor Starosta, know as "Stan" to his students, colleagues, and friends, was also possessed of a razor-sharp wit. He composed several humorous songs and countless limericks, and was found of telling jokes at Friday afternoon gatherings at a local bar in Honolulu, where linguistics students and faculty alike would come together to talk and joke over peanuts and beer. Some of Professor Starosta's works can be accessed from the following site: http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Estanley/