13.2405, Calls: Internet & Lang, Comparative Diachronic Syntax
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Subject: 13.2405, Calls: Internet & Lang, Comparative Diachronic Syntax
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:12:14 +0200
From: Santiago Posteguillo Gómez <postegui at fil.uji.es>
Subject: Internet and Language conference
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:19:45 +0200
From: "Jeroen van de Weijer" <weijer at nias.knaw.nl>
Subject: Comparative Diachronic Syntax
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 17:12:14 +0200
From: Santiago Posteguillo Gómez <postegui at fil.uji.es>
Subject: Internet and Language conference
Dear Colleagues,
We are organising the 1st International Conference on Internet and Language.
This is intended as a forum of discussion for linguists and researchers in
areas such as Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Literary Studies or
Translation, among other disciplines, who are involved in the use or study of
Internet, either as a research or teaching resource or as a linguistic
phenomenon in itself. We welcome papers in relation to the panels listed below:
1. Internet and Literary Studies
2. Internet and Translation
3. Internet and Language Use / Linguistics and digital genres
4. Internet and Languages for Specific Purposes
5. Internet and Foreign Language Teaching / Second Language Acquisition
English, Spanish and Catalan are the official languages of the conference.
Papers in other languages may be considered depending on their interest in
relation to the topic of the conference.
Our intention is to receive full papers by February 2003 so as to be able to
edit Conference Proceedings in the second semester and then distribute the
published proceedings in the conference in September 2003.
Venue
The Conferece will be held at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón (http://www.uji.es).
Conference Dates
The Conference is to take place on the 18th, 19th and 20th of September 2003.
Important dates for submission of abstracts and papers
December 20 100-200 word abstracts submitted to the above mentioned email
and mail addresses. PLEASE INDICATE THE PANEL IN WHICH YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE.
February 5 Full papers are to be sent to the above mentioned addresses.
February 20 Authors receive referee's comments.
March 5 Authors are to submit the final version of their papers.
March 10 Deadline for Conference fee payment. Late payments will be
charged 20 euro extra.
Sept. 18-20 Conference Proceedings are distributed among participants.
Abstracts and full papers are to be emailed to one of the following addresses:
postegui at fil.uji.es
resteve at fil.uji.es
and mailed (two copies and a floppy disk version) to the following regular
address:
Santiago Posteguillo Gómez
Dept. de Filologia
Universitat Jaume I
Castellón, 12080, España / Spain
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ADDRESS MAY CHANGE IN OCTOBER 2002 SINCE WE ARE MOVING TO
A NEW CAMPUS. WE'LL KEEP YOU UP-TO-DATE IN RELATION TO THIS NEW ADDRESS.
Plenary speakers
The following speakers have confirmed their participation in the Conference:
Prof. Santiago González Fernández Corugedo (Universidad de Oviedo)
Professor Santiago González Fernández Corugedo has published many books and
articles on a number of different topics in the area of English Studies on such
fields as literature or the history of English Language. Lately, he has
combined this on-going research with several lectures on the relevance of
Internet and computer resources for English Philology studies in the
universities of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Valladolid, Jaume I de Castelló, La
Laguna, La Rioja, Sevilla or Salamanca, among others. He has also given
graduate courses on this same topic, and has special interest on the following
subjects: the epistemological influence of computer science on critical
editions, the use of computer tools for English philologists and for linguistic
research, hypertext, and the specific use of computing tools for Mediaeval
studies.
Prof. Naomi S.Baron (American University, Washington, DC)
Professor Naomi S. Baron is interested in the effects of technology on
language. Her current research program includes such questions as: the
source of email style, the effect of notions of privacy and public face on
the way we write, the impact of social attitudes and of digital technology on
copyright, the influence of mobile phone technology on interpersonal
communication, the fate of handwriting in a digital age, and the future of
written culture. She has published many books and articles on these and
other topics related to language acquisition, computers and language, and
linguistic theory. Recently, her book Alphabet to Email: How Written
English Evolved and Where It's Heading (Routledge, 2000) was "Highly
Commended" in the English Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh English
Language Award Competition.
Dr Francisco Yus (Universidad de Alicante)
Dr Francisco Yus is Senior lecturer at Universidad de Alicante. He has been
teaching and investigating on a variety of linguistic aspects focussing on
theoretical linguistics, relevance theory, and pragmatics, among other topics.
Dr Yus has published many papers on these subjects and more recently he has
published Ciberpragmática (Ariel, 2001) where he explores different linguistic
and pragmalinguistic aspects of Internet communication.
Dr Rafael Alejo (Universidad de Extremadura)
Dr Rafael Alejo is Senior Lecturer at Universidad de Extremadura. He has been
researching in different areas within linguistics and languages for specific
purposes, with a special focus on cultural differences in language
communication and the specificity of business and economics discourse. Dr Alejo
has published many papers on these and other subjects. He has also investigated
the applicability of Internet resources for English language teaching and is co-
author of Aprender Inglés en Internet (Universidad de Extremadura, 1997).
Conference fee
Participants in the conference presenting a paper are to pay a fee of 120 euro.
This fee includes registration and a copy of the Conference Proceedings edited
in two volumes.
Other participants attending the conference are to pay 80 euro. Students' fee
is 40 euro.
Further information will be forwarded in relation to:
a) the official website of the conferences which is to be found in
Internet shortly,
b) information on accommodation and travel
c) information on excursions and official conference dinner
d) full program of the conference
For information regarding the conference you may contact:
Santiago Posteguillo at postegui at fil.uji.es or María José Esteve at
resteve at fil.uji.es or any other member in the Scientific & Organising
Committee.
We all look forward to seeing you at Universitat Jaume I and making your stay a
pleasant and rewarding one next September.
Kind regards,
The Scientific and Organising Committee
Amparo Alcina (Universitat Jaume I)
Alicia Bolaños (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria)
María José Esteve (Universitat Jaume I)
Mónica Moro (Universitat Jaume I)
Elena Ortells (Universitat Jaume I)
Jordi Piqué (Universitat de València)
Santiago Posteguillo (Universitat Jaume I
José Ramón Prado (Universitat Jaume I)
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:19:45 +0200
From: "Jeroen van de Weijer" <weijer at nias.knaw.nl>
Subject: Comparative Diachronic Syntax
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference on Comparative Diachronic Syntax
University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics (ULCL), 29-30 August 2003
Description of Conference Topic
In the synchronic study of syntax, the comparative approach has been
highly successful in uncovering insights into the nature of syntactic
principles and the variation that they allow. In fact, it may not be
an overstatement to say that modern syntax is to a large extent based
on comparative work. It is certainly true that any analysis of
language-specific data will not be considered successful if it cannot
be made responsive to data from other languages.
In the diachronic study of syntax, the role of cross-linguistic
comparative concerns is somewhat less clear. While diachronic
investigation focusing on typology and grammaticalisation has
produced an important body of comparative work, it is sometimes
rough-grained and often neglects issues of syntactic structure.
Diachronic study from other perspectives, while it may be more
fine-grained and structure-conscious, tends to ignore questions of
cross-linguistic comparison.
It therefore appears that there is still a need to explore the
implications of a principled comparative stance to historical
syntactic change. This conference hopes to stimulate discussion of
the possibilities and problems that such a stance would create, with
reference to specific case histories or more general issues in the
study of syntactic change. Among the questions that could be
addressed are the following:
· what can a comparative perspective contribute to our
understanding of some specific syntactic change or set of changes
in a language?
· what is the exact contribution that models of comparative
synchronic syntax can make to the study of diachrony?
· are there types of diachronic syntactic phenomena that may be
particularly well or ill suited to comparative analysis?
· does comparative diachronic analyis place special demands on the
kinds of data that are required?
Call for papers
Key-note speaker at the conference will be Professor Ian Roberts
(University of Cambridge; confirmed). There are ten to twelve slots
for further papers on the conference topic.
Abstracts are invited for 40-minute papers (followed by 15 minutes
discussion). The abstract should have a maximum length of two pages,
including any references, and should reach the address below before 1
January 2003, preferably in the form of an e-mail message or
attachment. Notification of acceptance will be sent by e-mail by 1
March 2003.
Contact address
Conference on Comparative Diachronic Syntax
Dr. Wim van der Wurff
Department of English
P.O. Box 9515
NL-2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
e-mail: w.a.van.der.wurff at let.leidenuniv.nl
For all further information, see the ULCL website at
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/compdiachr/
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