From C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk Sat Sep 4 13:15:54 2004 From: C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk (Christian Kay) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:15:54 EDT Subject: TOE revision Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Members of the Historical Thesaurus team at Glasgow University are preparing an online version of A Thesaurus of Old English (Jane Roberts & Christian Kay with Lynne Grundy. Rodopi. 2000). We would be glad to hear from anyone who would like to suggest improvements to the paper version and ways in which the electronic medium can be exploited. A user questionnaire is available at http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/EngLang/thesaur/questionnaire-A.htm Thanks for your help. Christian Kay From Johanna.Barddal at NOR.UIB.NO Tue Sep 28 17:34:04 2004 From: Johanna.Barddal at NOR.UIB.NO (=?ISO-8859-1?B?SvNoYW5uYSBCYXLwZGFs?=) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:34:04 EDT Subject: CfP: Diachrony of morphological case Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- First call for papers: Workshop on the diachrony of morphological case (at ICHL-XVII in Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July-5 August 2005) Morphological case has been extensively studied for a wide array of languages from a synchronic perspective. On the other hand, the study of morphological case marking from a diachronic perspective has received less attention. The aim of this workshop is to establish greater awareness of the semantic development of case and the implications such development has for the syntax of languages with morphological case marking systems. Possible research problems may include but need not be limited to the following: - Changes in the form-meaning mapping of individual case markers. - System-wide reanalysis of the form-meaning mapping of case markers. - Changes to case marking in larger constructions such as comparatives or argument structure constructions. - The role of "functional equivalence" or "grammatical synonymy" for changes in case marking, in particular mergers or loss of case. - Discourse-based changes in the role and meaning of case markers. - Pragmatically-based changes in the role and meaning of case markers. Please send your abstracts of 500 words or less to both Jóhanna Barðdal (johanna.barddal at nor.uib.no) and Shobhana Chelliah (shobhana at unt.edu). Abstracts should be sent no later than 15 November 2004, preferably in pdf- format. Abstracts dealing with other aspects of the history of morphological case may also be appropriate for this panel. Please email your queries to Jóhanna Barðdal or Shobhana Chelliah. A response on abstracts will be sent out no later than 15 January, 2005. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Jóhanna Barðdal Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature Section of Scandinavian Linguistics University of Bergen Sydnesplassen 7 NO-5007 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at nor.uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589660 (work) http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Nordisk/ansatte/barddal From EvolPub at AOL.COM Tue Sep 28 17:44:02 2004 From: EvolPub at AOL.COM (Tony Schiavo) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:44:02 EDT Subject: Book Announcement: Castiglioni's Vocabulary of Cherokee (1790) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following volume from the American Language Reprint series: Volume 33: Castiglioni's Vocabulary of Cherokee Luigi Castiglioni (1790) This volume features one of the earliest published vocabularies of Cherokee. It was taken from "Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America Settentrionale" (1790), an account of the early American Republic written by Luigi Castiglioni following his tour of the United States. A Milanese gentleman and botanist, Castiglioni recorded nearly 170 words in the Western or Upper dialect of Cherokee, and this new edition is translated from the original Italian. The volume also contains contemporary remarks on the language by the naturalist William Bartram (1791) and includes a valuable list of the names of 43 Cherokee towns which were inhabited during the 1770s. August 2004 ~ 39 pp. ~ Clothbound ~ ISBN: 1-889758-59-0 ~ $26.00 Evolution Publishing is dedicated to preserving and consolidating early primary source records of Native and early colonial America with the goal of making them more accessible and readily available to the academic community and the public at large. For further information on this and other titles in the ALR series: http://www.evolpub.com/ALR/ALRbooks.html#ALR33 Evolution Publishing evolpub at aol.com From C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk Sat Sep 4 13:15:54 2004 From: C.Kay at englang.arts.gla.ac.uk (Christian Kay) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 09:15:54 EDT Subject: TOE revision Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Members of the Historical Thesaurus team at Glasgow University are preparing an online version of A Thesaurus of Old English (Jane Roberts & Christian Kay with Lynne Grundy. Rodopi. 2000). We would be glad to hear from anyone who would like to suggest improvements to the paper version and ways in which the electronic medium can be exploited. A user questionnaire is available at http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/EngLang/thesaur/questionnaire-A.htm Thanks for your help. Christian Kay From Johanna.Barddal at NOR.UIB.NO Tue Sep 28 17:34:04 2004 From: Johanna.Barddal at NOR.UIB.NO (=?ISO-8859-1?B?SvNoYW5uYSBCYXLwZGFs?=) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:34:04 EDT Subject: CfP: Diachrony of morphological case Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- First call for papers: Workshop on the diachrony of morphological case (at ICHL-XVII in Madison, Wisconsin, 31 July-5 August 2005) Morphological case has been extensively studied for a wide array of languages from a synchronic perspective. On the other hand, the study of morphological case marking from a diachronic perspective has received less attention. The aim of this workshop is to establish greater awareness of the semantic development of case and the implications such development has for the syntax of languages with morphological case marking systems. Possible research problems may include but need not be limited to the following: - Changes in the form-meaning mapping of individual case markers. - System-wide reanalysis of the form-meaning mapping of case markers. - Changes to case marking in larger constructions such as comparatives or argument structure constructions. - The role of "functional equivalence" or "grammatical synonymy" for changes in case marking, in particular mergers or loss of case. - Discourse-based changes in the role and meaning of case markers. - Pragmatically-based changes in the role and meaning of case markers. Please send your abstracts of 500 words or less to both J?hanna Bar?dal (johanna.barddal at nor.uib.no) and Shobhana Chelliah (shobhana at unt.edu). Abstracts should be sent no later than 15 November 2004, preferably in pdf- format. Abstracts dealing with other aspects of the history of morphological case may also be appropriate for this panel. Please email your queries to J?hanna Bar?dal or Shobhana Chelliah. A response on abstracts will be sent out no later than 15 January, 2005. =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J?hanna Bar?dal Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature Section of Scandinavian Linguistics University of Bergen Sydnesplassen 7 NO-5007 Bergen Norway johanna.barddal at nor.uib.no Phone +47-55582438 (work) Phone +47-55201117 (home) Fax +47-55589660 (work) http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Nordisk/ansatte/barddal From EvolPub at AOL.COM Tue Sep 28 17:44:02 2004 From: EvolPub at AOL.COM (Tony Schiavo) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:44:02 EDT Subject: Book Announcement: Castiglioni's Vocabulary of Cherokee (1790) Message-ID: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following volume from the American Language Reprint series: Volume 33: Castiglioni's Vocabulary of Cherokee Luigi Castiglioni (1790) This volume features one of the earliest published vocabularies of Cherokee. It was taken from "Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America Settentrionale" (1790), an account of the early American Republic written by Luigi Castiglioni following his tour of the United States. A Milanese gentleman and botanist, Castiglioni recorded nearly 170 words in the Western or Upper dialect of Cherokee, and this new edition is translated from the original Italian. The volume also contains contemporary remarks on the language by the naturalist William Bartram (1791) and includes a valuable list of the names of 43 Cherokee towns which were inhabited during the 1770s. August 2004 ~ 39 pp. ~ Clothbound ~ ISBN: 1-889758-59-0 ~ $26.00 Evolution Publishing is dedicated to preserving and consolidating early primary source records of Native and early colonial America with the goal of making them more accessible and readily available to the academic community and the public at large. For further information on this and other titles in the ALR series: http://www.evolpub.com/ALR/ALRbooks.html#ALR33 Evolution Publishing evolpub at aol.com