11.1205, Calls: Language Contact, FoLLI Dissertation award
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:30:13 +0000
From: Martin Haspelmath <haspelmath at eva.mpg.de>
Subject: Language Contact/Areal Convergence, Leipzig 2001
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:57:14 +0200
From: Christof Monz <christof at wins.uva.nl>
Subject: FoLLI Dissertation award
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:30:13 +0000
From: Martin Haspelmath <haspelmath at eva.mpg.de>
Subject: Language Contact/Areal Convergence, Leipzig 2001
Call for papers
LANGUAGE CONTACT AND AREAL CONVERGENCE
(Sprachkontakt und areale Konvergenz),
a workshop as part of the 2001 annual meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche
Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft), Leipzig, 28 Feb - 2 Mar 2001
Workshop organizers:
Walter Bisang (Uni Mainz) and
Martin Haspelmath (MPI Leipzig)
Contact is a well-known source of language change. Contact-induced
structural convergence of languages from different families within a
coherent geographic area often results in a linguistic area or
Sprachbund. Finally, Dryer (1989, 1992) discusses large linguistic areas
of continental size in the context of word-order typology. If there
exist large zones of convergence such as those discussed by Dryer, the
next question is to what extent it is possible to draw conclusions about
universals given the actual statistical distribution of the structural
features of the world's languages.
The workshop deals with the areal distribution of one or more
linguistic phenomena and their interrelations. Moreover, we wish to
discuss the following motivations for structural convergence:
Sociolinguistics: Which sociolinguistic conditions favour the
propagation of linguistic structures? The following sociolinguistic
motivations are often discussed in the literature: Maxims of linguistic
activities, constellations of political dominance (substrate,
superstrate, adstrate), social networks. After Thomason & Kaufman (1988)
as well as in recent findings on language intertwining, it has also
been shown that in extreme contact situations language change does not
only affect the lexicon but also central parts of morphosyntax.
Cognition: Are there structures of particular cognitive
attractiveness which are recurrent in a number of contact areas? If one
understands grammaticalization as part of language change, the
considerable degree of unidirectionality as observed in paths of
grammaticalization may hint at cognitive factors determining language
change.
Discourse pragmatics: Elements of higher structural levels seem
to be borrowed more easily than those of lower levels. Thus, the
connector 'but' is borrowed more frequently than adverbial subordinators
such as 'because' or 'if'.
Send an abstract of 200 to 400 words to one of the following addresses
(preferably by e-mail) by 15 August 2000:
Walter Bisang
e-mail: wbisang at mail.uni-mainz.de
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende
Sprachwissenschaft
D-55099 Mainz
Tel./Fax: +49 6131 39-22778/39-23836
Martin Haspelmath
e-mail: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionaere Anthropologie
Inselstr. 22
D-04103 Leipzig
Tel.: +49 341 9952 307, Fax +49 341 9952 119
(The DGfS annual meeting consists of 12 parallel thematic workshops,
each of which has room for up to 20 30-minute papers. In addition, there
will be plenary talks, this time on the general theme of "language and
cognition".)
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:57:14 +0200
From: Christof Monz <christof at wins.uva.nl>
Subject: FoLLI Dissertation award
2000 FoLLI Dissertation Award
Call for Nominations
The European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI)
is inviting nominations for the 2000 edition of the FoLLI Dissertation
Award to be awarded annually to an outstanding dissertation in the
fields of Language, Logic and Computation.
FoLLI gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of this prize by funds from
the Spinoza Prize awarded to Johan van Benthem. We are happy to
announce that an amount of 1000 EURO will be allocated to one or more
award recipients.
It is at the discretion of the Prize Committee to allocate the prize
money to a single nominee or to divide the prize among two recipients.
Eligibility
Ph.D. theses in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation by authors
who completed the Ph.D. degree between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99.
Submission Details
1. A letter of nomination by the thesis supervisor. (N.B.
Self-applications by Ph.D. holders are not possible. Each
application must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor.)
The letter from the student's Ph.D. advisor should verify that the
degree was conferred between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99.
2. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from
a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the
Ph.D. degree.
3. An abstract of the thesis, prepared by the author of the thesis and
not to exceed five pages in length
4. A hard copy of the dissertation
All materials have to be sent as hard-copy to Mr. Marco de Vries, FoLLI
Secretary, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Authors are advised to have their Ph.D.thesis available on the Web, if
possible.
Submissions Deadline
All materials have to be received by June 10, 2000.
Prize Committee
Anne Abeille
Natasha Alechina
Patrick Blackburn
Nissim Francez
Paul Gochet (chair)
Valentin Goranko
Markus Kracht
Larry Moss
Francesco Orilia
Manfred Pinkal
Christian Retore
Rob van der Sandt
Further Details
Please consult the FoLLI web site at http://www.folli.uva.nl for further
details.
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