From DEHolt01 at gwm.sc.edu Thu Dec 23 15:00:20 2004 From: DEHolt01 at gwm.sc.edu (D. Eric Holt) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:00:20 EST Subject: Historical Spanish OT Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Dear fellow list members, I'm compiling a bibliography of those published works that treat aspects of historical change in Spanish, and Hispano-Romance more broadly, within Optimality Theory. I append below those that I've collected so far (omitting my own work), and hoped that you would be able to help fill in any gaps. (Conference presentations are harder to track down, but would be welcome as well.) I'll post a summary. Many thanks, and Happy Holidays, Eric Holt -- Bradley, Travis G. and Ann Marie Delforge. To appear (2005). Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing. In Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospectives and Perspectives, ed. Deborah Arteaga and Randall Gess. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Hartkemeyer, Dale. 1997. Romancing the Vowels: An Optimality-Theoretic Account of Vowel Loss from Vulgar Latin to Early Western Romance. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 27.99-117. -. 2000. An Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Two Early W. Romance Grammars: A Contrastive Examination of Old French and Old Spanish. In New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics. Selected Papers from the LSRL XXIX Parasession, ed. Steven N. Dworkin & Dieter Wanner, 65-84. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Lleó, Conxita. 2003. Some Interactions between Word, Foot and Syllable Structure in the History of the Spanish Language. In Optimality Theory and Language Change, ed. D. Eric Holt, 249-283. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Martínez, Glenn A. Analogy and Optimality Theory in a Morphological Change of Southwest Spanish. In New Approaches To Old Problems: Issues In Romance Historical Linguistics, ed. Steven N. Dworkin and Dieter Wanner, 85-96. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Martínez-Gil, Fernando. 2003. Consonant Intrusion in Heterosyllabic Consonant-Liquid Clusters in Old Spanish and Old French: An Optimality Theoretical Account. In A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use, ed. Rafael Núñez-Cedeño, Luis López, and Richard Cameron, 39-58. Amsterdam: Benjamins. -. 2003. Resolving Rule-Ordering Paradoxes of Serial Deviations: An Optimality-Theoretic Account of the Interaction of Spirantization and Voicing Assimilation in Peninsular Spanish. In Theory, Practice and Acquisition, ed. Paula Kempchinsky and Carlos-Eduardo Piñeros, 40-67. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Morris, Richard E. 2005. Attraction to the Unmarked in Old Spanish Leveling. Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (University of New Mexico, October 16-18, 2003), ed. David Eddington, 180-191. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. I'm also aware of two dissertations (other than my own): Alers-Valentín, Hilton. 2000. The Prosodic Structure of the Spanish Verb: Evolution and Configuration. PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts. Baker, Gary K. 2004. Palatal Phenomena in Spanish Phonology. PhD dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville. _____________________________________________ D. Eric Holt Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Linguistics Program, Graduate Director University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (803) 777-0798 (office) (803) 777-7828 (fax) holt at sc.edu http://www.cla.sc.edu/DLLC/ http://www.cla.sc.edu/LING/ From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Thu Dec 23 15:00:33 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:00:33 EST Subject: Position available: Trainee Editor (Mouton de Gruyter) Message-ID: Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, is currently seeking a Trainee Editor (m/f) to join our Editorial department, for the period of March 2005 to February 2007. Our training program covers the whole spectrum of planning and managing editorial projects. Your training will focus on the following areas: * support and involvement on electronic projects (multimedia publications, maintaining web-based editorial systems); * project management of book and journal publications; * copyediting; * editing academic promotional texts (in English) for linguistics publications; * preparing and supervising the production of new publications catalogues and trade previews, managing deadlines; * preparing contracts; * after initial training, independent responsibility for projects. As the Editorial department is closely involved with other in-house departments, the training program will provide a very good overview of the publishing company's general mode of operation. It also includes a six-month period during which you will gain direct experience of other in-house departments. The person for this post will ideally have: * completed stage II of their studies (German Hauptstudium or equivalent) in linguistics or a related subject area; * excellent computer skills: confident use of standard programs (Word, Excel, databases, Internet); * practical experience of working on database publications or with editorial systems and knowledge of XHTML, XML, Unicode would be an advantage; * very good English and German language skills; * an eye for detail and the ability to keep to tight schedules; * a structured and pragmatic way of thinking; * the ability to work independently, on their own initiative; * flexibility in their approach to work; * the ability to work as part of a team. 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Systemic Contrast and the Diachrony of Spanish Sibilant Voicing. In Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospectives and Perspectives, ed. Deborah Arteaga and Randall Gess. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Hartkemeyer, Dale. 1997. Romancing the Vowels: An Optimality-Theoretic Account of Vowel Loss from Vulgar Latin to Early Western Romance. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 27.99-117. -. 2000. An Approach to Atonic Vowel Loss Patterns in Two Early W. Romance Grammars: A Contrastive Examination of Old French and Old Spanish. In New Approaches to Old Problems: Issues in Romance Historical Linguistics. Selected Papers from the LSRL XXIX Parasession, ed. Steven N. Dworkin & Dieter Wanner, 65-84. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Lle?, Conxita. 2003. Some Interactions between Word, Foot and Syllable Structure in the History of the Spanish Language. In Optimality Theory and Language Change, ed. D. Eric Holt, 249-283. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Mart?nez, Glenn A. Analogy and Optimality Theory in a Morphological Change of Southwest Spanish. In New Approaches To Old Problems: Issues In Romance Historical Linguistics, ed. Steven N. Dworkin and Dieter Wanner, 85-96. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Mart?nez-Gil, Fernando. 2003. Consonant Intrusion in Heterosyllabic Consonant-Liquid Clusters in Old Spanish and Old French: An Optimality Theoretical Account. In A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use, ed. Rafael N??ez-Cede?o, Luis L?pez, and Richard Cameron, 39-58. Amsterdam: Benjamins. -. 2003. Resolving Rule-Ordering Paradoxes of Serial Deviations: An Optimality-Theoretic Account of the Interaction of Spirantization and Voicing Assimilation in Peninsular Spanish. In Theory, Practice and Acquisition, ed. Paula Kempchinsky and Carlos-Eduardo Pi?eros, 40-67. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Morris, Richard E. 2005. Attraction to the Unmarked in Old Spanish Leveling. Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (University of New Mexico, October 16-18, 2003), ed. David Eddington, 180-191. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. I'm also aware of two dissertations (other than my own): Alers-Valent?n, Hilton. 2000. The Prosodic Structure of the Spanish Verb: Evolution and Configuration. PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts. Baker, Gary K. 2004. Palatal Phenomena in Spanish Phonology. PhD dissertation, University of Florida, Gainesville. _____________________________________________ D. Eric Holt Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Linguistics Program, Graduate Director University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 (803) 777-0798 (office) (803) 777-7828 (fax) holt at sc.edu http://www.cla.sc.edu/DLLC/ http://www.cla.sc.edu/LING/ From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Thu Dec 23 15:00:33 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:00:33 EST Subject: Position available: Trainee Editor (Mouton de Gruyter) Message-ID: Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, is currently seeking a Trainee Editor (m/f) to join our Editorial department, for the period of March 2005 to February 2007. Our training program covers the whole spectrum of planning and managing editorial projects. Your training will focus on the following areas: * support and involvement on electronic projects (multimedia publications, maintaining web-based editorial systems); * project management of book and journal publications; * copyediting; * editing academic promotional texts (in English) for linguistics publications; * preparing and supervising the production of new publications catalogues and trade previews, managing deadlines; * preparing contracts; * after initial training, independent responsibility for projects. As the Editorial department is closely involved with other in-house departments, the training program will provide a very good overview of the publishing company's general mode of operation. It also includes a six-month period during which you will gain direct experience of other in-house departments. The person for this post will ideally have: * completed stage II of their studies (German Hauptstudium or equivalent) in linguistics or a related subject area; * excellent computer skills: confident use of standard programs (Word, Excel, databases, Internet); * practical experience of working on database publications or with editorial systems and knowledge of XHTML, XML, Unicode would be an advantage; * very good English and German language skills; * an eye for detail and the ability to keep to tight schedules; * a structured and pragmatic way of thinking; * the ability to work independently, on their own initiative; * flexibility in their approach to work; * the ability to work as part of a team. Please submit written applications by January 17, 2005 to: MOUTON DE GRUYTER Dr. Anke Beck Genthiner Strasse 13 10785 Berlin Germany Please do not submit applications by e-mail. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegebenen Empfaenger und/oder die Empfaengergruppe bestimmt. Wenn Sie diese E-Mail versehentlich trotzdem erhalten haben, setzen Sie sich bitte mit dem Absender oder Ihrem Systembetreuer in Verbindung. Diese Fusszeile bestaetigt ausserdem, dass die E-Mail auf zum Pruefzeitpunkt bekannte Viren ueberprueft wurde. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender or the system manager. 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