13.2466, FYI: Summer School,CENTENFolha, MacArthur Fellowship

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Subject: 13.2466, FYI: Summer School,CENTENFolha, MacArthur Fellowship

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1)
Date:  Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:35:59 +0200
From:  Bruno Moretti <bruno.moretti at rom.unibe.ch>
Subject:  Summer School on Sociolinguistics (Swiss Linguistics Society)

2)
Date:  Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:05:10 +0000
From:  Paulo Alexandre Rocha <Paulo.Rocha at di.uminho.pt>
Subject:  Corpus CETENFolha (Brazilian Portuguese)

3)
Date:  Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:27:05 -0600 (MDT)
From:  Fox Barbara <bfox at spot.colorado.edu>
Subject:  Dan Jurafsky wins MacArthur Fellowship

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

Date:  Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:35:59 +0200
From:  Bruno Moretti <bruno.moretti at rom.unibe.ch>
Subject:  Summer School on Sociolinguistics (Swiss Linguistics Society)

6th Summer School of the Swiss Linguistics Society
Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Change
Bern, September 15 - 19


Since 1993 the Swiss Linguistics Society (SSG/SSL) has been organisin
g a biennial Summer School on linguistic issues for Ph.D. students s.
 The next one is scheduled for September 15 to 19, 2003 in Bern. The
general topic is: "Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Change".


Subject Framework

The relationship between language variation and language change clear
ly constitutes a central theme of linguistics. 2003 marks the 35th an
niversary of the publication of Weinreich, Labov and Herzog's seminal
 article "Empirical foundations for a theory of language change", in
which the newly established sociolinguistic school of thought made at
tempts at systematically approaching this relationship. The approache
s in the '90s brought about more in-depth analyses of this relationsh
ip and led to new perspectives. New and fruitful impulses arose from
research into language typology and bilingualism. Such impulses can b
e integrated into sociolinguistics, but these fields in turn can bene
fit from findings in sociolinguistics.



Speakers Profile

The SSG/SSL Summer School has invited well-known sociolinguists and r
esearchers on language change. There will be six keynote speakers: Pe
ter Auer (Universität Freiburg), Gaetano Berruto (Université di T
orino), Penelope Eckert (Stanford University), Françoise Gadet (Uni
versité  de Paris X), Paul Kerswill (University of Reading), April
McMachon (University of Sheffield).


Participants Profile

The Summer School is open for students working towards their Ph.D. in
 linguistics or similar disciplines at Swiss universities. Applicatio
ns for admission should be accompanied by a summary of the Ph.D. diss
ertation (project) and a letter of reference from the supervisor of t
he dissertation. The topic of the dissertation need not be the same a
s the theme of the summer school.

On condition that the Suisse National Research Foundation gives its c
onsent, no contributions are required for participation. Successful a
pplicants will be reimbursed for travel costs, accommodation and meal
s.

Ph.D. students from abroad may also apply. However, they will have to
 pay the costs themselves. For such students the same requirements ho
ld true: all applications must be accompanied by a summary of the dis
sertation research project and a reference from the supervisor of the
ir dissertation.

Students requiring support to meet costs should submit a formal reque
st (stating specific reasons) to the SSG/SSL.

Post-doctoral students are invited to apply as well as any other inte
rested parties, especially members of SSG/SSL, who are welcome to att
end provided there is enough space. However, these individuals must c
over costs themselves.

Application deadline is January 31, 2003.


General Information:

Universiät Bern

Professor Dr. Bruno Moretti, Institut für Italienische Sprach- und
Literaturwissenschaft, Länggassstrasse 49, 3000 Bern 9, CH (Switzer
land)

e-mail: bruno.moretti at rom.unibe.ch



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

Date:  Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:05:10 +0000
From:  Paulo Alexandre Rocha <Paulo.Rocha at di.uminho.pt>
Subject:  Corpus CETENFolha (Brazilian Portuguese)

Dear colleagues,
We are happy to inform that the CETENFolha corpus is finally available:

CETENFolha (Corpus de Extractos de Textos Electrónicos NILC/Folha de São
Paulo) is a corpus containing some 24 million words in Brazilian Portuguese, built by the project Computational Processing of Portuguese from the texts of Folha de S. Paulo belonging to the corpus NILC/São Carlos, compiled by Núcleo Interinstitucional de Lingüística computacional (NILC).

http://acdc.linguateca.pt/cetenfolha

(To get it it is enough to register in the form at the botom of the above
Webpage.)

We are grateful to NILC and the newspaper for giving us permission.

We also use this opportunity to inform that the resource centre that the Computational Processing of Portuguese project has been slowly building has now the name Linguateca, with corresponding URLs. We will try to migrate to this new namespace with minimal inconvenience to users.

Saudações,
Diana Santos & Paulo Rocha
www.linguateca.pt
projecto at informatics.sintef.no

Subject-Language: Portuguese; Code: POR


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 27 Sep 2002 09:27:05 -0600 (MDT)
From:  Fox Barbara <bfox at spot.colorado.edu>
Subject:  Dan Jurafsky wins MacArthur Fellowship


Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I am delighted to be able to tell you--although perhaps many
of you have already heard--that my colleague here at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, Dan Jurafsky, has been
awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called "genius" award).

The fellwship is tremendous acknowledgement of the creativity
and importance of Dan's work.  We also think it is recognition
of what a kind, generous, giving and just plain great person he is.

Sincerely,

Barbara Fox
Chair
Linguistics
University of Colorado, Boulder


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