8.1411, Confs: Dutch Linguistics, Text Encoding

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-8-1411. Thu Oct 2 1997. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 8.1411, Confs: Dutch Linguistics, Text Encoding

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1)
Date:  Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:57:29 -0800
From:  tshannon at socrates.berkeley.edu (Thomas F. Shannon)
Subject:  Berkeley Dutch Linguistics Conference

2)
Date:  Wed, 1 Oct 97 14:05:55 EDT
From:  "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject:  Text Encoding Initiative 10th Anniversary Conference

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:57:29 -0800
From:  tshannon at socrates.berkeley.edu (Thomas F. Shannon)
Subject:  Berkeley Dutch Linguistics Conference


        The Berkeley Conference on Dutch Linguistics 1997
             Dutch Linguistics at the Millennium
        Organized by the Dutch Studies Program of the
              University of California at Berkeley
                        October 16-18  1997
           Location: The Seaborg Room, The Faculty Club
                 University of California at Berkeley


Registration and other information:
* Attendees can register at the opening of the conference. There are no
registration costs. Registration can also be done ahead by sending e-mail
to:
Siska Phlips <indutch at socrates.berkeley.edu>
or calling her at 510-642-7445

* UC Berkeley lies in the vicinity of the Oakland and San Francisco
airports. However, Oakland is considerably closer to Berkeley.

* A number of good, conveniently located hotels are to be found close to
campus. Contact us for more information.


                Program

Thursday, October 16: Morning Session

9:30    Coffee

10:00   Welcome and Opening

10:30   Robert S. Kirsner, UCLA
        "On getting up out of one's armchair:
        Towards an empirical linguistics of Dutch
        utterance-final pragmatic particles"

11:15   Thomas F. Shannon & Kevin P. Moriarty
        University of California, Berkeley
        "Constituent ordering in Dutch and German:
        Empirical observations and theoretical explanation"

12:00   Lunch


Thursday, October 16: Afternoon Session

2:15    Wim Klooster, University of Amsterdam:
        "er: information structure and specificity"

2:30    Jan Renkema, Tilburg University
        "Clause order as a discourse marker"

3:15    Break

3:30    Arie Verhagen, Utrecht University
        "'The girl that promised to become something':
        Diachronic subjectification in Dutch"

4:15    Wine and Cheese



Friday, October 17: Morning Session

10:30   Jan Goossens,
        University of Munster & University of Leuven
        "Dutch historical linguistic geography"

11:15   Stanislaw Predota, Wroclaw University
        "Dutch and Polish in multilingual dictionaries
        of the 16th to 18th century"

12:00   Lunch


Friday, October 17: Afternoon Session

2:15    Sieb G. Nooteboom, University of Utrecht
        "Heads and tails of Dutch spoken words.
        Some experiments on the relative contribution
        of word beginnings and endings to word recognition"

3:00    Henk Verkuyl, University of Utrecht
        "Stereotyping and prototyping:
        Towards a proper treatment of two semantic notions"


Friday, October 17: Evening Program

8:00    The Mariska Huynen Memorial Lecture
        Sponsored by the Netherlands America University League

        George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics,
        University of California at Berkeley
        "Metaphor Systems:
        Are English and Dutch Different and How?"

        Reception following the lecture



Saturday, October 18: Morning Session

9:30    Jennifer Boyce Hendriks & Robert B. Howell
        University of Wisconsin, Madison
        "On the use and abuse of social history
        in the history of the Dutch language"

10:15   Klaus-Peter Lange, Leiden University
        "Are the so-called German-colored Middle Dutch texts
        in fact written in a variety of East Middle Dutch?"

11:00   Coffee

11:15   Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl,
        University of California, Berkeley
       "Language, linguistics, and ideology:
        a sociolinguistic perspective on
       the role of Afrikaans after apartheid"

12:00   Lunch


Saturday, October 18: Afternoon Session


2:00    Willy van Langendonck, University of Leuven
        "Semantic role configurations and
        syntactic patterns of the Dutch indirect object"

2:45    Reinier Salverda, University College London
        "Topicalization, sign act, and
        presentation strategies in Modern Dutch"

3:30    Break

3:45    Roel Vismans, University of Hull
        "The order of constituents:
        deviance in Dutch declaratives and
        non-declaratives in Functional Grammar"

4:30    Closing of the Conference



-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 1 Oct 97 14:05:55 EDT
From:  "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject:  Text Encoding Initiative 10th Anniversary Conference


     *****************************************************************
           Text Encoding Initiative 10th Anniversary Conference
                         November 14-16, 1997
               Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
     *****************************************************************

            General conference and registration information:
                 http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/


                         CONFERENCE PROGRAM
                         ==================


Friday, November 14
- -----------------

12:00-1:00pm
BOX LUNCH

1:00-2:30pm
OPENING SESSION

  Opening Remarks

  Keynote Address
    Andy van Dam (Brown University)


2:30-3:00pm
COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS


3:00-5:00pm
PAPER SESSION

  TEI and the Encoding of the Physical Structure of Books
    Syd Bauman (Brown University)
    Terry Catapano (Rutgers College)

  Textual Variation and Version Control in the TEI
    David A. Smith (Tufts University)

  Using Architectural Forms to Map TEI Data into an Object-oriented
  System
    Gary Simons (Summer Institute of Linguistics)

  Representing TEI Documents in the CLASSIC Knowledge Representation
  System
    Nancy Ide, Tim McGraw and Chris Welty (Vassar College)


6:00-8:00pm
OPENING RECEPTION




Saturday, November 15
- -------------------

9:00-10:30am
PAPER SESSION

  Delivering Electronic Texts Over the Web
    Alan Morrison and Jakob Fix (Oxford University)

  An SGML/HTML Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library
    Janet Erickson (University of Michigan)

  Do Digital Libraries Need the TEI? A View From the Trenches
    LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress)


10:30-11:00am
COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS


11:00-12:30pm
PAPER SESSION

  Metadata, TEI, and the Academic Library Community: An Update
    Brad Eden (North Harris Montgomery Community College District)

  Putting our Headers Together
    Michael Popham and Lou Burnard (Oxford University)

  The TEI Header - a Metadata Package?
    Daniel Greenstein (Kings College, London)


12:30-2:00pm
LUNCH


2:00-3:30pm
PAPER SESSION

  Creating a Parallel Corpus from the Book of 2000 Tongues
    Philip Resnik, Mari Broman Olsen, Mona Diab (University of
Maryland)

  TEI Encoding and Syntacting Tagging of an Old French Text
    Dominique Estival and Nick Nicholas (The University of Melbourne)

  A TEI Extension for the Description of Medieval Manuscripts
    Richard Gartner and Lou Burnard (Oxford University)


2:30-3:00pm
COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS


4:00-5:30pm
PAPER SESSION

  Keying <name>s: The Women Writers Project Approach
    Syd Bauman (Brown University)

  Using the TEI Writing System Declaration
    David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
    Mavis Cournane (University College Cork)

  TEI and XML
    Steven DeRose (INSO Corporation)


2:00-6:00pm
SOFTWARE AND PROJECT DEMOS


6:00-8:00pm
SPECIAL SESSION : The Future of the TEI




Sunday, November 16
- -----------------

9:00-10:30am
SESSION 6A

  The Text Encoding Initiative and the Model Editions Partnership
    David Chesnutt (University of South Carolina)

  TEI Extensions for Legal Text
    Nick Finke (Center for Electronic Text in the Law)

  What Not to Tag
    John Lavagnino (Brown University)


9:00-10:30am
SESSION 6B

  Taking Snapshots of the Web with a TEI Camera
    Derek Walker (Queens University)

  Silfide: A System for Open Access and Distributed Delivery of TEI
  Encoded Documents
    Laurent Romary (CRIN-CNRS & INRIA Lorraine)

  Independent Links: A Maintenance Advantage?
    Erik van den Hout (Groningen University)


10:30-11:00am
COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS


11:00-12:30pm
CLOSING SESSION

  Keynote Address
    Jon Bosak (Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Chair, W3C XML Work Group)

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