From Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be Wed Oct 6 13:43:23 2004 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:43:23 EDT Subject: status of my posting "2nd CFP: From ideational to interpersonal..." Message-ID: FROM IDEATIONAL TO INTERPERSONAL: PERSPECTIVES FROM GRAMMATICALIZATION Leuven, 10-12 February 2005 SECOND CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS CONVENORS: Hubert Cuyckens (Functional Linguistics Research Group, University of Leuven) Kristin Davidse (Functional Linguistics Research Group, University of Leuven) Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (English Department, University of Ghent) MEETING DESCRIPTION: Since the 1980s, grammaticalization has taken up an important place in the research of linguists. Following Traugott, grammaticalization can be described as a robust tendency whereby "lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions or grammatical items develop new grammatical functions". Importantly, grammaticalization involves "a subset of crosslinguistically recurring changes that involve correlations across time between semantic, morphosyntactic (and sometimes also) phonological changes" (Elizabeth C. Traugott, 2001. "Legitimate counterexamples to unidirectionality"). As is well known, one tradition in grammaticalization studies has focused on explorations in morphosyntactic change, building on Lehmann's ([1982] 1995) seminal study on processes and parameters of grammaticalization. This type of grammaticalization research mainly focuses on the change of free syntactic units into highly constrained morphemes with a grammatical function. A more recent tradition, initiated by Traugott (1982) and elaborated, e.g., in Traugott (1989, 1995, 1996), focuses on semantic-pragmatic change in grammaticalization. Based on Halliday and Hasan's (1976) proposal that there are three functional domains of language, the ideational, the textual, and the interpersonal, she has proposed that semantic change in grammaticalization often proceeds along the following cline: Propositional > textual > expressive. This cline has been reformulated as three tendencies which involve (increasing) pragmatic strengthening, and in which the tendency towards expressiveness/subjectivity is the most prominent. The purpose of this conference is to bring together papers that examine various aspects of grammaticalization within the framework of the clines Ideational > textual > interpersonal and/or propositional > textual > expressive. As such, we welcome contributions addressing (by now) familiar issues in grammaticalization such as: *auxiliarization, the development of discourse markers, etc. *the importance of pragmatic strengthening/invited inferencing/subjectification, as they occur in the cognitive- functional context of speaker-hearer interaction. Furthermore, we encourage contributions which, within the framework outlined above, take up newer issue that may necessitate a broader definition of grammaticalization. These include: * the study of shifts such as those from head to modifier (Denison 2002) or modifier to intensifier (Adamson 2000) in the NP, a grammatical environment which has hitherto been relatively neglected in grammaticalization theory; * the interplay between grammaticalization and lexicalization, with the latter understood as the formation of a new lexical item by the combination of two formerly distinct lexical items (Fischer & Rosenbach 2000; Lehmann 2002; Van der Auwera 2002 ); * the question whether grammaticalization processes can be predicted to follow certain structurally determined paths, such as center-to- periphery directionality in the NP (Rijkhoff 2002); * the role played in the lexicogrammatical re-organization accompanying grammaticalization by syntagmatic relations between lexical items such as collocation (Sinclair 1991), semantic feature copying (Bublitz 1996), semantic prosody (Stubbs 1995), and pragmatic feature copying. Finally, we also seek contributions that highlight the importance of such usage-based factors as frequency and entrenchment for grammaticalization, and that, in general, give attention to quantitative data in support of grammaticalization processes. GUEST SPEAKERS Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela), Manfred Krug (Freiburg University), Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam), and Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University) have confirmed their participation as keynote speakers. CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the aspects of grammaticalization within the framework outlined above. Presentations will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes question time. Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (exclusive of references) and should state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Abstracts should be submitted as Word or as .RTF files. More information on how to submit abstracts can be found on the conference website under "Submit Abstract" The DEADLINE for the submission of abstracts is 1 November 2004. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15 November 2004. REGISTRATION In order to register for this conference, please complete the registration form at . The registration fee of 50 Euros should be paid in cash on site. Unfortunately, we will not be able to accept credit card payments or checks. ACCOMMODATION We have reserved blocks of rooms from 9 February until 13 February 2005 at selected Leuven hotels, at reduced conference rates. For detailed information on each of these hotels, see . In order to obtain the conferenence rates, conference participants need to make hotel room reservations directly with the hotels. Most hotels require a credit card number and expiry date when booking the room. The reserved blocks of rooms will be released anywhere in between Dec 1, 2004 and Jan 11 , 2005 (please check individual hotel information at . After the release date, rooms can still be booked at each of these hotels, but will be subject to availability. Payment is by conference participants upon departure. As we need to draw up guest lists for each of the hotels, we would be grateful if you let us know: (i) in which hotel you booked accommodation; (ii) your check-in date and check-out date. Please send this information to VENUE Thursday, February 10, 2005 The venue for the first day is the Faculty of Arts building (Blijde- Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven) It is situated in the centre of Leuven and within walking distance from the train station. Friday, February 11 and Saturday February 12, 2005 The venue for days two and three of the conference is the Faculty Club , the conference and meeting Center of the Catholic University of Leuven.More information on both conference sites can be found at SOCIAL PROGRAMME At the end of the first conference day (February 10), all participants are invited to a reception at the Faculty Club, which is the conference venue for the 2nd and 3rd day of the conference (). Please inform us by FEBRUARY 1, 2005 whether you will attend the reception or not by sending an email to The conference dinner will be organized on the evening of February 11. The cost of the conference dinner will come to approximately 40 Euros per person (four-course dinner, including wine, coffee/tea, water). Please inform us by FEBRUARY 1, 2005 whether you will attend the conference dinner or not by sending an email to . Early booking for the conference dinner is recommended as the seating capacity is limited to 45. Payment of the conference dinner is on site in cash. TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS Please consult From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Wed Oct 6 13:57:23 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:57:23 EDT Subject: New Publication: Darrell T. Tryon and Jean-Michel Charpentier, Pacific Pidgins and Creoles (2004) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Recently published Darrell T. Tryon and Jean-Michel Charpentier PACIFIC PIDGINS AND CREOLES Origin, Growth and Development 2004. xix, 559 pages. Cloth. EUR 88.00 / sFr 151.00 / approx. US$ 106.00 ISBN 3-11-016998-3 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 132) http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110169983-1&l=E Date of publication: 07/2004 Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama. The book details the central role of the port of Sydney and the linguistic synergies between Australia and the Pacific islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the role of Pacific islander plantation labor overseas, and the differentiation which has taken place in the pidgins spoken in the Melanesian island states in the 20th century. It also looks at the future of Pacific pidgins at a time of increasing vernacular language endangerment. Darrell T. Tryon is Professor at the Australian National University, Australia. Jean-Michel Charpentier researches at the LACITO (Laboratoire de Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France. >From the Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Present-day Pacific Pidgins Chapter 3: Previous theories of pidgin development Chapter 4: Early days: History of the contacts 1788-1863 Chapter 5: The beginnings: The language situation 1788-1863 Chapter 6: The plantations: History of contacts 1863-1906 Chapter 7: Jargon to pidgin: The language situation 1863-1906 Chapter 8: Colonial days: History of contacts 1906- 975 Chapter 9: Differentiation: The language situation 1906-1975 Chapter 10: Today's world: 1975 to the present TO ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT SFG Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada, Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. PO Box 960 Herndon, VA 20172-0960 Tel.: +1 (703) 661 1589 Tel. Toll-free +1 (800) 208 8144 Fax: +1 (703) 661 1501 e-mail: degruytermail at presswarehouse.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: www.mouton-publishers.com For free demo versions of Mouton de Gruyter's multimedia products, please visit www.mouton-online.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben 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. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From marc.vanoostendorp at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 6 13:59:00 2004 From: marc.vanoostendorp at GMAIL.COM (Marc van Oostendorp) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:59:00 EDT Subject: Synchrony vs. Diachrony in Phonology Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ====================== Phonology in GLOW 2005 ====================== SECOND CALL. PLEASE NOTE NEW DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2004 The 28th GLOW Colloquium will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in March/April 2005. The GLOW Main session will take place from March 31 to April 2, preceded by three workshops on March 29 and 30. One of these workshops will be specifically on phonology (Synchrony vs. Diachrony in Phonology, see below), and another one (on the Philosophy of Linguistics) might also be of interest to phonologists. Over the past few years, phonology in GLOW has grown again. The Main Session has one day of parallel sessions, and one of these is devoted to phonology. Together, the main session and the workshop therefore make up a small phonology conference of (at least) two days. Hopefully, this year there will again be many submissions from phonologists both for the main session, and for the workshop. You will find the calls for papers below. Please note that the deadline is one month earlier than it used to be, on Nov. 1, 2004. ====================== MAIN SESSION ====================== Date: March 31, 2005 - April 2, 2005 Location: Geneva, Switzerland Contact: glow05 at lettres.unige.ch Meeting URL: http://www.unige.ch/glow05 Call deadline: November 1, 2004 Abstracts are invited to the GLOW main session (March 31 - April 2, 2005) on any topic in generative grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics). There is no topic specified for this year's main session. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2004. (NOTE change from previous years!). Abstracts should be sent anonymously as virus-free attached files (the name(s) should be clearly mentioned in the email only) to glow05 at lettres.unige.ch, in PDF format. Only electronic submissions will be considered. Abstracts may not exceed two pages of text with at least a one-inch margin on all four sides (measured on A4 paper) and must employ a font not smaller than 12 point. Each page may include a maximum of 50 lines of text. Abstracts may include an extra page for references (not examples), but this third page will not be published in the Spring 2005 GLOW newsletter. Upon acceptance, authors will be further asked to submit a camera-ready original abstract with their name, address and affiliation. ====================== WORKSHOP: "Synchrony meets Diachrony in Phonology" ====================== Date: March 30, 2005 Location: Geneva, Switzerland Invited Speakers: Larry Hyman, University of Southern California, Berkeley Paula Fikkert, University of Nijmegen Session of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW), pre-conference workshop: "Synchrony meets Diachrony in Phonology" This workshop addresses the relative role of synchrony and diachrony in phonological explanation. Papers are invited from phonologists working from any theoretical conviction on any topic which may shed light on the question of what is the division of labour between diachronic and synchronic explanation. Following the rise of constraint-based frameworks, phonological theory has witnessed a recrudescence of the controversy between formalist, autonomous models of phonological competence on the one hand, and functionalist approaches grounded in phonetics and general cognition on the other. The two paradigms approach markedness generalizations and unnatural or opaque phenomena in diametrically opposed ways. In radically formalist models, markedness tends to be dismissed as an epiphenomenon of phonetically driven change; it is argued that the focus of synchronic phonological theory should be on arbitrary or unnatural phonological patterns, so as to achieve insights into autonomous phonological competence. In contrast, functionalist phonologists propound models in which phonological cognition is grounded on, and refers directly to, phonetic substance. In this view, grounded markedness patterns constitute the very matter of synchronic phonology; unnatural or opaque phenomena are regarded as the (morphologized or lexicalized) residue of accumulated change. Thus, paradoxically, formalist theories resort to diachronic explanations for natural patterns and markedness generalizations, whereas functionalist approches appeal to history to deal with the arbitrary and the opaque. Closely related to this question is the long-standing debate concerning how much of the inherent sequentiality of phonological history is reflected synchronically in terms of grammatical serialism. In classical Lexical Phonology, the several stages of the diachronic life-cycle of phonological patterns could be directly plotted onto the serially organized strata of the synchronic grammar. More recently, however, strictly parallel models have abandoned this view, whilst hybrid models like Stratal Optimality Theory have sought to recapture classical insights in a more constrained way. To what extent is it still possible to uphold the classical view that the synchronic derivation partially mirrors the diachrony? These problems received an early formulation in the work of the renowned Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Accordingly, the workshop, which takes place in the city where Saussure taught, is held in his honour. Abstracts of papers are invited for 40-minute talks. They should not exceed 1 pages and be sent as virus-free electronic attachments in PDF format to glow at lettres.unige.ch. The subject line of the message should read "Phonology workshop abstract submission" and the body of the message should include author name(s), and e-mail and postal addresses. The deadline for submission is November 1, 2004 (one month earlier than in previous years). Contact: Marc van Oostendorp, marc.van.oostendorp at meertens.knaw.nl Meeting URL: http://www.unige.ch/glow05 Linguistic subfield: Phonology Call deadline: November 1, 2004 Organizing committee: Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne Astrid Kraehenmann, University of Konstanz, Konstanz Marc van Oostendorp, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam From Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be Wed Oct 6 13:43:23 2004 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:43:23 EDT Subject: status of my posting "2nd CFP: From ideational to interpersonal..." Message-ID: FROM IDEATIONAL TO INTERPERSONAL: PERSPECTIVES FROM GRAMMATICALIZATION Leuven, 10-12 February 2005 SECOND CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS CONVENORS: Hubert Cuyckens (Functional Linguistics Research Group, University of Leuven) Kristin Davidse (Functional Linguistics Research Group, University of Leuven) Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (English Department, University of Ghent) MEETING DESCRIPTION: Since the 1980s, grammaticalization has taken up an important place in the research of linguists. Following Traugott, grammaticalization can be described as a robust tendency whereby "lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions or grammatical items develop new grammatical functions". Importantly, grammaticalization involves "a subset of crosslinguistically recurring changes that involve correlations across time between semantic, morphosyntactic (and sometimes also) phonological changes" (Elizabeth C. Traugott, 2001. "Legitimate counterexamples to unidirectionality"). As is well known, one tradition in grammaticalization studies has focused on explorations in morphosyntactic change, building on Lehmann's ([1982] 1995) seminal study on processes and parameters of grammaticalization. This type of grammaticalization research mainly focuses on the change of free syntactic units into highly constrained morphemes with a grammatical function. A more recent tradition, initiated by Traugott (1982) and elaborated, e.g., in Traugott (1989, 1995, 1996), focuses on semantic-pragmatic change in grammaticalization. Based on Halliday and Hasan's (1976) proposal that there are three functional domains of language, the ideational, the textual, and the interpersonal, she has proposed that semantic change in grammaticalization often proceeds along the following cline: Propositional > textual > expressive. This cline has been reformulated as three tendencies which involve (increasing) pragmatic strengthening, and in which the tendency towards expressiveness/subjectivity is the most prominent. The purpose of this conference is to bring together papers that examine various aspects of grammaticalization within the framework of the clines Ideational > textual > interpersonal and/or propositional > textual > expressive. As such, we welcome contributions addressing (by now) familiar issues in grammaticalization such as: *auxiliarization, the development of discourse markers, etc. *the importance of pragmatic strengthening/invited inferencing/subjectification, as they occur in the cognitive- functional context of speaker-hearer interaction. Furthermore, we encourage contributions which, within the framework outlined above, take up newer issue that may necessitate a broader definition of grammaticalization. These include: * the study of shifts such as those from head to modifier (Denison 2002) or modifier to intensifier (Adamson 2000) in the NP, a grammatical environment which has hitherto been relatively neglected in grammaticalization theory; * the interplay between grammaticalization and lexicalization, with the latter understood as the formation of a new lexical item by the combination of two formerly distinct lexical items (Fischer & Rosenbach 2000; Lehmann 2002; Van der Auwera 2002 ); * the question whether grammaticalization processes can be predicted to follow certain structurally determined paths, such as center-to- periphery directionality in the NP (Rijkhoff 2002); * the role played in the lexicogrammatical re-organization accompanying grammaticalization by syntagmatic relations between lexical items such as collocation (Sinclair 1991), semantic feature copying (Bublitz 1996), semantic prosody (Stubbs 1995), and pragmatic feature copying. Finally, we also seek contributions that highlight the importance of such usage-based factors as frequency and entrenchment for grammaticalization, and that, in general, give attention to quantitative data in support of grammaticalization processes. GUEST SPEAKERS Teresa Fanego (University of Santiago de Compostela), Manfred Krug (Freiburg University), Olga Fischer (University of Amsterdam), and Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford University) have confirmed their participation as keynote speakers. CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the aspects of grammaticalization within the framework outlined above. Presentations will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes question time. Abstracts should be between 400 and 500 words (exclusive of references) and should state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Abstracts should be submitted as Word or as .RTF files. More information on how to submit abstracts can be found on the conference website under "Submit Abstract" The DEADLINE for the submission of abstracts is 1 November 2004. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15 November 2004. REGISTRATION In order to register for this conference, please complete the registration form at . The registration fee of 50 Euros should be paid in cash on site. Unfortunately, we will not be able to accept credit card payments or checks. ACCOMMODATION We have reserved blocks of rooms from 9 February until 13 February 2005 at selected Leuven hotels, at reduced conference rates. For detailed information on each of these hotels, see . In order to obtain the conferenence rates, conference participants need to make hotel room reservations directly with the hotels. Most hotels require a credit card number and expiry date when booking the room. The reserved blocks of rooms will be released anywhere in between Dec 1, 2004 and Jan 11 , 2005 (please check individual hotel information at . After the release date, rooms can still be booked at each of these hotels, but will be subject to availability. Payment is by conference participants upon departure. As we need to draw up guest lists for each of the hotels, we would be grateful if you let us know: (i) in which hotel you booked accommodation; (ii) your check-in date and check-out date. Please send this information to VENUE Thursday, February 10, 2005 The venue for the first day is the Faculty of Arts building (Blijde- Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven) It is situated in the centre of Leuven and within walking distance from the train station. Friday, February 11 and Saturday February 12, 2005 The venue for days two and three of the conference is the Faculty Club , the conference and meeting Center of the Catholic University of Leuven.More information on both conference sites can be found at SOCIAL PROGRAMME At the end of the first conference day (February 10), all participants are invited to a reception at the Faculty Club, which is the conference venue for the 2nd and 3rd day of the conference (). Please inform us by FEBRUARY 1, 2005 whether you will attend the reception or not by sending an email to The conference dinner will be organized on the evening of February 11. The cost of the conference dinner will come to approximately 40 Euros per person (four-course dinner, including wine, coffee/tea, water). Please inform us by FEBRUARY 1, 2005 whether you will attend the conference dinner or not by sending an email to . Early booking for the conference dinner is recommended as the seating capacity is limited to 45. Payment of the conference dinner is on site in cash. TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS Please consult From Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM Wed Oct 6 13:57:23 2004 From: Julia.Ulrich at DEGRUYTER.COM (Julia Ulrich) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:57:23 EDT Subject: New Publication: Darrell T. Tryon and Jean-Michel Charpentier, Pacific Pidgins and Creoles (2004) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Recently published Darrell T. Tryon and Jean-Michel Charpentier PACIFIC PIDGINS AND CREOLES Origin, Growth and Development 2004. xix, 559 pages. Cloth. EUR 88.00 / sFr 151.00 / approx. US$ 106.00 ISBN 3-11-016998-3 (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 132) http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-3110169983-1&l=E Date of publication: 07/2004 Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama. The book details the central role of the port of Sydney and the linguistic synergies between Australia and the Pacific islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the role of Pacific islander plantation labor overseas, and the differentiation which has taken place in the pidgins spoken in the Melanesian island states in the 20th century. It also looks at the future of Pacific pidgins at a time of increasing vernacular language endangerment. Darrell T. Tryon is Professor at the Australian National University, Australia. Jean-Michel Charpentier researches at the LACITO (Laboratoire de Langues et Civilisations ? Tradition Orale), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France. >From the Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Present-day Pacific Pidgins Chapter 3: Previous theories of pidgin development Chapter 4: Early days: History of the contacts 1788-1863 Chapter 5: The beginnings: The language situation 1788-1863 Chapter 6: The plantations: History of contacts 1863-1906 Chapter 7: Jargon to pidgin: The language situation 1863-1906 Chapter 8: Colonial days: History of contacts 1906- 975 Chapter 9: Differentiation: The language situation 1906-1975 Chapter 10: Today's world: 1975 to the present TO ORDER, PLEASE CONTACT SFG Servicecenter-Fachverlage Postfach 4343 72774 Reutlingen, Germany Fax: +49 (0)7071 - 93 53 - 33 E-mail: deGruyter at s-f-g.com For USA, Canada, Mexico: Walter de Gruyter, Inc. PO Box 960 Herndon, VA 20172-0960 Tel.: +1 (703) 661 1589 Tel. Toll-free +1 (800) 208 8144 Fax: +1 (703) 661 1501 e-mail: degruytermail at presswarehouse.com Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter: www.mouton-publishers.com For free demo versions of Mouton de Gruyter's multimedia products, please visit www.mouton-online.com __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Diese E-Mail und ihre Dateianhaenge ist fuer den angegeben 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. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. From marc.vanoostendorp at GMAIL.COM Wed Oct 6 13:59:00 2004 From: marc.vanoostendorp at GMAIL.COM (Marc van Oostendorp) Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:59:00 EDT Subject: Synchrony vs. Diachrony in Phonology Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ====================== Phonology in GLOW 2005 ====================== SECOND CALL. PLEASE NOTE NEW DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1, 2004 The 28th GLOW Colloquium will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in March/April 2005. The GLOW Main session will take place from March 31 to April 2, preceded by three workshops on March 29 and 30. One of these workshops will be specifically on phonology (Synchrony vs. Diachrony in Phonology, see below), and another one (on the Philosophy of Linguistics) might also be of interest to phonologists. Over the past few years, phonology in GLOW has grown again. The Main Session has one day of parallel sessions, and one of these is devoted to phonology. Together, the main session and the workshop therefore make up a small phonology conference of (at least) two days. Hopefully, this year there will again be many submissions from phonologists both for the main session, and for the workshop. You will find the calls for papers below. Please note that the deadline is one month earlier than it used to be, on Nov. 1, 2004. ====================== MAIN SESSION ====================== Date: March 31, 2005 - April 2, 2005 Location: Geneva, Switzerland Contact: glow05 at lettres.unige.ch Meeting URL: http://www.unige.ch/glow05 Call deadline: November 1, 2004 Abstracts are invited to the GLOW main session (March 31 - April 2, 2005) on any topic in generative grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics). There is no topic specified for this year's main session. The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2004. (NOTE change from previous years!). Abstracts should be sent anonymously as virus-free attached files (the name(s) should be clearly mentioned in the email only) to glow05 at lettres.unige.ch, in PDF format. Only electronic submissions will be considered. Abstracts may not exceed two pages of text with at least a one-inch margin on all four sides (measured on A4 paper) and must employ a font not smaller than 12 point. Each page may include a maximum of 50 lines of text. Abstracts may include an extra page for references (not examples), but this third page will not be published in the Spring 2005 GLOW newsletter. Upon acceptance, authors will be further asked to submit a camera-ready original abstract with their name, address and affiliation. ====================== WORKSHOP: "Synchrony meets Diachrony in Phonology" ====================== Date: March 30, 2005 Location: Geneva, Switzerland Invited Speakers: Larry Hyman, University of Southern California, Berkeley Paula Fikkert, University of Nijmegen Session of Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW), pre-conference workshop: "Synchrony meets Diachrony in Phonology" This workshop addresses the relative role of synchrony and diachrony in phonological explanation. Papers are invited from phonologists working from any theoretical conviction on any topic which may shed light on the question of what is the division of labour between diachronic and synchronic explanation. Following the rise of constraint-based frameworks, phonological theory has witnessed a recrudescence of the controversy between formalist, autonomous models of phonological competence on the one hand, and functionalist approaches grounded in phonetics and general cognition on the other. The two paradigms approach markedness generalizations and unnatural or opaque phenomena in diametrically opposed ways. In radically formalist models, markedness tends to be dismissed as an epiphenomenon of phonetically driven change; it is argued that the focus of synchronic phonological theory should be on arbitrary or unnatural phonological patterns, so as to achieve insights into autonomous phonological competence. In contrast, functionalist phonologists propound models in which phonological cognition is grounded on, and refers directly to, phonetic substance. In this view, grounded markedness patterns constitute the very matter of synchronic phonology; unnatural or opaque phenomena are regarded as the (morphologized or lexicalized) residue of accumulated change. Thus, paradoxically, formalist theories resort to diachronic explanations for natural patterns and markedness generalizations, whereas functionalist approches appeal to history to deal with the arbitrary and the opaque. Closely related to this question is the long-standing debate concerning how much of the inherent sequentiality of phonological history is reflected synchronically in terms of grammatical serialism. In classical Lexical Phonology, the several stages of the diachronic life-cycle of phonological patterns could be directly plotted onto the serially organized strata of the synchronic grammar. More recently, however, strictly parallel models have abandoned this view, whilst hybrid models like Stratal Optimality Theory have sought to recapture classical insights in a more constrained way. To what extent is it still possible to uphold the classical view that the synchronic derivation partially mirrors the diachrony? These problems received an early formulation in the work of the renowned Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. Accordingly, the workshop, which takes place in the city where Saussure taught, is held in his honour. Abstracts of papers are invited for 40-minute talks. They should not exceed 1 pages and be sent as virus-free electronic attachments in PDF format to glow at lettres.unige.ch. The subject line of the message should read "Phonology workshop abstract submission" and the body of the message should include author name(s), and e-mail and postal addresses. The deadline for submission is November 1, 2004 (one month earlier than in previous years). Contact: Marc van Oostendorp, marc.van.oostendorp at meertens.knaw.nl Meeting URL: http://www.unige.ch/glow05 Linguistic subfield: Phonology Call deadline: November 1, 2004 Organizing committee: Ricardo Berm?dez-Otero, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne Astrid Kraehenmann, University of Konstanz, Konstanz Marc van Oostendorp, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam