From EvolPub at AOL.COM Tue Jun 1 01:10:05 2004 From: EvolPub at AOL.COM (Tony Schiavo) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:10:05 EDT Subject: Book Announcement: Minor Vocabularies of Huron Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following volume from the American Language Reprints (ALR) series: Volume 32: Minor Vocabularies of Huron Jean de Brébeuf, Louis Armand de la Lahontan, et al. Here are collected various short but important works on the Huron language, including Brébeuf's grammatical remarks in the Jesuit Relation of 1636. Several other wordlists from the Jesuit Relations of the mid-17th century are also included, as well as Lahontan's 50-word vocabulary of 1704. The volume also includes three words of Neutral—the only actual fragments of the language of this important nation that was wiped out by Iroquois attacks in the early 1650s. April 2004 ~ 69 pp. ~ clothbound ~ ISBN 1-889758-40-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 constructions at PHIL-FAK.UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE Tue Jun 1 01:14:46 2004 From: constructions at PHIL-FAK.UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE (Constructions) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:14:46 EDT Subject: New Journal CONSTRUCTIONS and Call for Papers Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- We are pleased to announce the launch of the new e-journal “Constructions”. CONSTRUCTIONS offers a forum for linguistic research concerned with the structure, use, function, and development of ‘constructions’ in language and linguistics. The journal aims at a balanced integration of both notional, informal approaches to constructions in general and more formal treatments, as for example, within the framework of construction grammar. One of the long-term goals is to establish contact between researchers from various perspectives. The term ‘construction’ as understood in this journal is deliberately chosen to have a broad extension and not be limited to any specific definition or linguistic orientation. Constructions is not restricted to any particular language or language family, and aims at combining theoretical, empirical, and applied issues. CONSTRUCTIONS is published as an open access, peer-reviewed electronic journal. As such, it departs from traditional print journals in at least three important ways: 1) Online availability: Constructions will only be available online, through a freely accessible online content system. Articles may be printed by subscribers for private use only. Copyright generally remains with the author(s). 2) Speedy publication: To ensure a timely publication of current research, Constructions aims at publishing submitted manuscripts within a period of no more than six months. It will not be published in volume and issue form, but throughout the year, as articles become ready for publication. Constructions is part of a large scale project launched by the Ministry of Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to establish digital peer publishing as an alternative to print journals (http://www.dipp.nrw.de). Full publishing services, including citability, archival storage, and copyright management will be provided by the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum NRW ‘Centre of University Libraries’ in Cologne (www.hbz-nrw.de). These services also include the provision of professional software for handling the whole publication process from submission to final publication in an efficient standardized format. 3) Innovative formats: The online platform will also allow for new and innovative publication formats, as for example the publication of research materials and comprehensive data sets in digital format, including audio-visual material, online presentations, and electronic data bases. Constructions works with a high-class specialised editorial board. All submitted articles will be subjected to the usual multiple blind peer reviewing process. General Editors Alexander BERGS and Anette ROSENBACH Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Editorial Assistant Susan DOSTERT, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Editorial Board Hans C. BOAS University of Texas Austin Joan BYBEE University of New Mexico Sonja EISENBEISS University of Essex Charles FILLMORE University of California Berkeley Kerstin FISCHER Universitaet Bremen Olga FISCHER University of Amsterdam Adele GOLDBERG University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Birgit HELLWIG School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London Paul KAY University of California Berkeley Tania KUTEVA Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Laura MICHAELIS University of Colorado Boulder Ivan SAG Stanford University Anatol STEFANOWITSCH Universitaet Bremen Dieter STEIN Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf John TAYLOR University of Otago Dunedin Michael TOMASELLO Max Plank Institut fuer Evolutionaere Anthropologie Leipzig Alison WRAY Cardiff University Arnold ZWICKY Stanford University, Ohio State University *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** CONSTRUCTIONS invites original, hitherto unpublished high-quality papers of any length that explicitly deal with the structure, use, and function of constructions (however defined) in language and linguistics. While there is in principle no length restriction on papers, authors should bear in mind that length should positively correlate with relevant content and quality. Given the explicit goal of Constructions to bring together research from all linguistic perspectives, submissions should be accessible for a general audience. Authors are also encouraged to consult the “Guidelines for reviewers”, available online at http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/constructions/guidelines.pdf Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format (as an MS Word document, or compatible file with minimal formatting) to constructions at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de. The multiple blind peer reviewing process requires anonymous manuscripts. Authors should provide their name, address, title of the paper, and a short abstract (no more than 500 words) in their cover email. Publication languages are English and German. *** ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE *** CONSTRUCTIONS Anglistik III – English Language and Linguistics Universitaetsstr. 1 D-40225 Duesseldorf Germany Phone +49 211 81-12963 Fax +49 211 81-15649 constructions at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/constructions --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.677 / Virus Database: 439 - Release Date: 04.05.2004 From jsalmons at wisc.edu Fri Jun 25 14:21:18 2004 From: jsalmons at wisc.edu (Joseph Salmons) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:21:18 EDT Subject: ICHL XVII, July 31-August 5, 2005, Madison, Wisconsin Message-ID: Dear Dorothy, Below is an announcement for the upcoming ICHL for HistLing. Hope you're doing well. Joe The 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics will be held July 31 - August 5, 2005 in the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, overlooking Lake Mendota. Abstracts: The deadline for submission of abstracts for papers (20 min. + 10 min. for discussion) is March 1, 2005, and decisions will be emailed to authors by April 1. Those who need an earlier decision on abstract should contact the conference organizers (see below). Abstracts (no more than 250 words) can be submitted on our website; for those who lack access to the internet, please send your abstract to: ICHL Organizing Committee Department of German, 818 Van Hise Hall University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A. Special sessions: In addition to broad general sessions, ICHL will include several special topics: * Native American historical linguistics * Linguistic theory and language change * Socio-historical linguistics * Immigration and language change Invited speakers B. Elan Dresher, University of Toronto Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem William Labov, University of Pennsylvania Michele Loporcaro, University of Zurich Keren Rice, University of Toronto Ans van Kemenade, University of Nijmegen For additional details (including on travel, lodging and registration), please visit http://csumc.wisc.edu/news_files/ICHL.htm or contact the organizers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From horst.simon at UNIVIE.AC.AT Sat Jun 26 03:00:29 2004 From: horst.simon at UNIVIE.AC.AT (Horst Simon) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:00:29 EDT Subject: exceptions in grammar - call for papers Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ********************* Call for Papers: EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED: EXCEPTIONS IN GRAMMAR Workshop as part of the 26th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) University of Cologne, Germany 23rd-25th February, 2005 Organizers: Horst Simon & Heike Wiese (Humboldt-University Berlin) Keynote speakers: Frans Plank (University of Konstanz) Marga Reis (University of Tuebingen) Tom Wasow (Stanford University) A general goal of scientific theories is to systematise data from a particular field as completely and as elegantly as possible; ideally, all phenomena should be accounted for within a simple system. Is such a methodological aim also adequate for human language? In the analysis of linguistic data, one frequently faces phenomena that pose a problem for systematisation because they do not follow the standard patterns one observes otherwise. There are various ways to deal with this problem; possible options, as realised in different frameworks, include: - ignoring special cases and concentrating on abstract model building instead, - reserving a specialised part of the model (the 'lexicon') for idiosyncrasies, - dispensing with generalisations altogether and concentrating on in-depth analyses of case studies. In addition, some approaches favour 'softer' grammatical models (such as Prototype Theory or Stochastic Optimality Theory) that can integrate 'exceptions' without bestowing them a special theoretical status. Finally, for some models of language change (e.g. those based on evolutionary theory), the existence of exceptions is an integral and constitutive part of the theory. Exceptions can be defined both inter- and intra-linguistically. First, typologically, exceptions can represent counter-examples to cross-linguistically formulated general regularities, while they might constitute a systematic phenomenon in the individual language in which they occur (cf. e.g. the cases collected in the Constance Raritaetenkabinett). Second, in a particular language, exceptions can represent an idiosyncratic phenomenon that cannot be captured by intra-linguistic grammatical generalisations and therefore requires special descriptive efforts. In the workshop, we want to explore the theoretical and practical problems that such intra- and inter-linguistic exceptions pose for grammatical modelling. In particular, the workshop will be dedicated to the following questions: - How can exceptions be identified? In how far is their special status tied to the particular grammatical model used? - Do exceptions constitute sub-systems? Are there special areas in grammar where exceptions abound? - How do exceptions emerge diachronically? How are they levelled out again? - Are there special acquisitional patterns for exceptions? How are they affected in situations of language loss? What is their status in language processing? - Are exceptions also a part of communication systems of other species, or are they a species-specific characteristic of the human language faculty? Do they play a role in language evolution? We invite linguists from all persuasions who work on grammatic modelling and who reflect on methodological issues, in particular those working in the fields of grammatical theory, typology, historical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, and computer linguistics. General theoretical discussions and analyses of case studies are equally welcome. Talks will be 20 minutes each, with 10 minutes of discussion. Please send an anonymous abstract of max. 500 words, as a text file or Word file, to exceptions at staff.hu-berlin.de DEADLINE: August 15th, 2004 Notification of acceptance will be sent by email in September. For further enquiries please contact: Horst Simon or Heike Wiese, Institut fuer deutsche Sprache und Linguistik Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany horst.simon at univie.ac.at (until Sept 20th) / horst.simon at rz.hu-berlin.de (from Oct 1st) heike.wiese at rz.hu-berlin.de From EvolPub at AOL.COM Tue Jun 1 01:10:05 2004 From: EvolPub at AOL.COM (Tony Schiavo) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:10:05 EDT Subject: Book Announcement: Minor Vocabularies of Huron Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following volume from the American Language Reprints (ALR) series: Volume 32: Minor Vocabularies of Huron Jean de Br?beuf, Louis Armand de la Lahontan, et al. Here are collected various short but important works on the Huron language, including Br?beuf's grammatical remarks in the Jesuit Relation of 1636. Several other wordlists from the Jesuit Relations of the mid-17th century are also included, as well as Lahontan's 50-word vocabulary of 1704. The volume also includes three words of Neutral?the only actual fragments of the language of this important nation that was wiped out by Iroquois attacks in the early 1650s. April 2004 ~ 69 pp. ~ clothbound ~ ISBN 1-889758-40-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 constructions at PHIL-FAK.UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE Tue Jun 1 01:14:46 2004 From: constructions at PHIL-FAK.UNI-DUESSELDORF.DE (Constructions) Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:14:46 EDT Subject: New Journal CONSTRUCTIONS and Call for Papers Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- We are pleased to announce the launch of the new e-journal ?Constructions?. CONSTRUCTIONS offers a forum for linguistic research concerned with the structure, use, function, and development of ?constructions? in language and linguistics. The journal aims at a balanced integration of both notional, informal approaches to constructions in general and more formal treatments, as for example, within the framework of construction grammar. One of the long-term goals is to establish contact between researchers from various perspectives. The term ?construction? as understood in this journal is deliberately chosen to have a broad extension and not be limited to any specific definition or linguistic orientation. Constructions is not restricted to any particular language or language family, and aims at combining theoretical, empirical, and applied issues. CONSTRUCTIONS is published as an open access, peer-reviewed electronic journal. As such, it departs from traditional print journals in at least three important ways: 1) Online availability: Constructions will only be available online, through a freely accessible online content system. Articles may be printed by subscribers for private use only. Copyright generally remains with the author(s). 2) Speedy publication: To ensure a timely publication of current research, Constructions aims at publishing submitted manuscripts within a period of no more than six months. It will not be published in volume and issue form, but throughout the year, as articles become ready for publication. Constructions is part of a large scale project launched by the Ministry of Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to establish digital peer publishing as an alternative to print journals (http://www.dipp.nrw.de). Full publishing services, including citability, archival storage, and copyright management will be provided by the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum NRW ?Centre of University Libraries? in Cologne (www.hbz-nrw.de). These services also include the provision of professional software for handling the whole publication process from submission to final publication in an efficient standardized format. 3) Innovative formats: The online platform will also allow for new and innovative publication formats, as for example the publication of research materials and comprehensive data sets in digital format, including audio-visual material, online presentations, and electronic data bases. Constructions works with a high-class specialised editorial board. All submitted articles will be subjected to the usual multiple blind peer reviewing process. General Editors Alexander BERGS and Anette ROSENBACH Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Editorial Assistant Susan DOSTERT, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Editorial Board Hans C. BOAS University of Texas Austin Joan BYBEE University of New Mexico Sonja EISENBEISS University of Essex Charles FILLMORE University of California Berkeley Kerstin FISCHER Universitaet Bremen Olga FISCHER University of Amsterdam Adele GOLDBERG University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Birgit HELLWIG School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London Paul KAY University of California Berkeley Tania KUTEVA Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Laura MICHAELIS University of Colorado Boulder Ivan SAG Stanford University Anatol STEFANOWITSCH Universitaet Bremen Dieter STEIN Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf John TAYLOR University of Otago Dunedin Michael TOMASELLO Max Plank Institut fuer Evolutionaere Anthropologie Leipzig Alison WRAY Cardiff University Arnold ZWICKY Stanford University, Ohio State University *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** CONSTRUCTIONS invites original, hitherto unpublished high-quality papers of any length that explicitly deal with the structure, use, and function of constructions (however defined) in language and linguistics. While there is in principle no length restriction on papers, authors should bear in mind that length should positively correlate with relevant content and quality. Given the explicit goal of Constructions to bring together research from all linguistic perspectives, submissions should be accessible for a general audience. Authors are also encouraged to consult the ?Guidelines for reviewers?, available online at http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/constructions/guidelines.pdf Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic format (as an MS Word document, or compatible file with minimal formatting) to constructions at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de. The multiple blind peer reviewing process requires anonymous manuscripts. Authors should provide their name, address, title of the paper, and a short abstract (no more than 500 words) in their cover email. Publication languages are English and German. *** ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE *** CONSTRUCTIONS Anglistik III ? English Language and Linguistics Universitaetsstr. 1 D-40225 Duesseldorf Germany Phone +49 211 81-12963 Fax +49 211 81-15649 constructions at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/constructions --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.677 / Virus Database: 439 - Release Date: 04.05.2004 From jsalmons at wisc.edu Fri Jun 25 14:21:18 2004 From: jsalmons at wisc.edu (Joseph Salmons) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:21:18 EDT Subject: ICHL XVII, July 31-August 5, 2005, Madison, Wisconsin Message-ID: Dear Dorothy, Below is an announcement for the upcoming ICHL for HistLing. Hope you're doing well. Joe The 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics will be held July 31 - August 5, 2005 in the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, overlooking Lake Mendota. Abstracts: The deadline for submission of abstracts for papers (20 min. + 10 min. for discussion) is March 1, 2005, and decisions will be emailed to authors by April 1. Those who need an earlier decision on abstract should contact the conference organizers (see below). Abstracts (no more than 250 words) can be submitted on our website; for those who lack access to the internet, please send your abstract to: ICHL Organizing Committee Department of German, 818 Van Hise Hall University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A. Special sessions: In addition to broad general sessions, ICHL will include several special topics: * Native American historical linguistics * Linguistic theory and language change * Socio-historical linguistics * Immigration and language change Invited speakers B. Elan Dresher, University of Toronto Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem William Labov, University of Pennsylvania Michele Loporcaro, University of Zurich Keren Rice, University of Toronto Ans van Kemenade, University of Nijmegen For additional details (including on travel, lodging and registration), please visit http://csumc.wisc.edu/news_files/ICHL.htm or contact the organizers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From horst.simon at UNIVIE.AC.AT Sat Jun 26 03:00:29 2004 From: horst.simon at UNIVIE.AC.AT (Horst Simon) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:00:29 EDT Subject: exceptions in grammar - call for papers Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ********************* Call for Papers: EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED: EXCEPTIONS IN GRAMMAR Workshop as part of the 26th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) University of Cologne, Germany 23rd-25th February, 2005 Organizers: Horst Simon & Heike Wiese (Humboldt-University Berlin) Keynote speakers: Frans Plank (University of Konstanz) Marga Reis (University of Tuebingen) Tom Wasow (Stanford University) A general goal of scientific theories is to systematise data from a particular field as completely and as elegantly as possible; ideally, all phenomena should be accounted for within a simple system. Is such a methodological aim also adequate for human language? In the analysis of linguistic data, one frequently faces phenomena that pose a problem for systematisation because they do not follow the standard patterns one observes otherwise. There are various ways to deal with this problem; possible options, as realised in different frameworks, include: - ignoring special cases and concentrating on abstract model building instead, - reserving a specialised part of the model (the 'lexicon') for idiosyncrasies, - dispensing with generalisations altogether and concentrating on in-depth analyses of case studies. In addition, some approaches favour 'softer' grammatical models (such as Prototype Theory or Stochastic Optimality Theory) that can integrate 'exceptions' without bestowing them a special theoretical status. Finally, for some models of language change (e.g. those based on evolutionary theory), the existence of exceptions is an integral and constitutive part of the theory. Exceptions can be defined both inter- and intra-linguistically. First, typologically, exceptions can represent counter-examples to cross-linguistically formulated general regularities, while they might constitute a systematic phenomenon in the individual language in which they occur (cf. e.g. the cases collected in the Constance Raritaetenkabinett). Second, in a particular language, exceptions can represent an idiosyncratic phenomenon that cannot be captured by intra-linguistic grammatical generalisations and therefore requires special descriptive efforts. In the workshop, we want to explore the theoretical and practical problems that such intra- and inter-linguistic exceptions pose for grammatical modelling. In particular, the workshop will be dedicated to the following questions: - How can exceptions be identified? In how far is their special status tied to the particular grammatical model used? - Do exceptions constitute sub-systems? Are there special areas in grammar where exceptions abound? - How do exceptions emerge diachronically? How are they levelled out again? - Are there special acquisitional patterns for exceptions? How are they affected in situations of language loss? What is their status in language processing? - Are exceptions also a part of communication systems of other species, or are they a species-specific characteristic of the human language faculty? Do they play a role in language evolution? We invite linguists from all persuasions who work on grammatic modelling and who reflect on methodological issues, in particular those working in the fields of grammatical theory, typology, historical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, and computer linguistics. General theoretical discussions and analyses of case studies are equally welcome. Talks will be 20 minutes each, with 10 minutes of discussion. Please send an anonymous abstract of max. 500 words, as a text file or Word file, to exceptions at staff.hu-berlin.de DEADLINE: August 15th, 2004 Notification of acceptance will be sent by email in September. For further enquiries please contact: Horst Simon or Heike Wiese, Institut fuer deutsche Sprache und Linguistik Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany horst.simon at univie.ac.at (until Sept 20th) / horst.simon at rz.hu-berlin.de (from Oct 1st) heike.wiese at rz.hu-berlin.de