News No. 30

Mon Jul 8 18:57:59 UTC 2002

ALT News No. 30
July 2002

1. ALT V - Call for papers
2. Summer School
3. Recently Published

Attachment: Mouton discount rates for ALT members

1. ALT V - Call for papers

The fifth International Conference of the Association for
Linguistic Typology (ALT V) will be held at the Universit
 di
Cagliari, Sardinia, from Monday September 15 to Thursday
September 18, 2003. The conference will follow the Summer
School in Linguistic Typology, also at the Universit
 di
Cagliari, from Monday September 1 to Friday September 12 2003.
The local organizer for ALT V will be Ines Loi Corvetto.

Members and non-members wishing to present a paper at ALT V
are asked to send six copies of a one-page abstract to the
chair of the program committee, Walter Bisang, to reach him no
later than January 1, 2003. A second page (six copies) may be
attached to the abstract listing data.  The abstract itself
should contain no identification of the author. A separate
sheet should be included which contains the title of the
abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one mailing
address, with telephone, fax, and e-mail address as available.

The committee accepts submission via fax or e-mail (with the
abstract as part of the message rather than by attachment),
but abstracts may be sent by regular mail as well.

The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 30
minutes. Members may also submit abstracts for symposia,
including the names of participants and the amount of time
requested. Participants may not be involved in more than two
abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored.
English is the preferred language at the conference.

Address for mailing ALT abstracts:

Walter Bisang
Institut fuer Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Johannes-Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz
Jakob-Welder-Weg 18
D-55099 Mainz
Germany

Fax: +49-6131-392-3836
wbisang at mail.uni-mainz.de

By February 15, 2003 the program committee will convey its
decision on acceptance of papers to those submitting
abstracts. The committee consists of Balthasar Bickel, Walter
Bisang (chair), Oesten Dahl, Aditi Lahiri, Vera Podlesskaya, and
Lindsay Whaley.

Details concerning registration and accommodation for the
conference will follow.

2. Typology Summer School

A two-week Typology Summer School under the auspices of ALT
will take place in Cagliari (capital of Sardinia, Italy), 1-12
September 2003. The local organizer is Ines Loi Corvetto (head
of the Department of Linguistics and Stylistics, University of
Cagliari), and the scientific coordinator is Martin Haspelmath
(MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig). In September
2001, a Program Committee was constituted, consisting of Paolo
Ramat, Edith Moravcsik, Walter Bisang, the local organizer and
the scientific coordinator, as well as two members appointed
by two co-sponsoring Italian linguistics associations, Pier
Marco Bertinetto and Pierluigi Cuzzolin. By the autumn of
2002, the program will be finalized and registration will
begin. There will be 15-18 two-week courses on various topics
relating to language typology. Courses will be taught, for
instance, by Melissa Bowerman, Bernard Comrie, Greville
Corbett, Pierluigi Cuzzolin & Paolo Ramat, Wolfgang Dressler,
Nicholas Evans, Claude Hag ge, Larry Hyman, Michele Loporcaro,
John McWhorter, and Marianne Mithun. The summer school will be
supported financially by the European Science Foundation, so
that participation fees can be kept reasonably low. Affordable
on-campus accommodation for students will be available.

3. Recently Published

Here is our regular listing of recent publications which wear
their typological credentials on their sleeves.  Don't be
misled, though:  there are few books in linguistics (titles
supplied on request) which do NOT bear, in one way or another,
on the question of diversity and unity.  Since this what
typology is about, the attempt is futile to categorise titles
as typological and non-typological.  For purposes of book
reviewing in LT, what matters is that REVIEWS are done from a
distinctively typological angle.  Reviewers so intentioned,
whatever they'd like to take on, please get in touch with
frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de

Also please drop me (frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de) a line with
bibliographical particulars if you want to make sure your own
relevant publications will be included in the next listing.

Abbi, Anvita (2001). A Manual of Linguistic Field Work and
Structures of Indian Languages. (LINCOM Handbooks in
Linguistics, 17.) Mnchen: LINCOM Europa.

Arcaini, Enrico (2000). Italiano e francese: Un'analisi
comparativa. Torino: Paravia Scriptorium.

Baker, Mark (2002). The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden
Rules of Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Baron, Irene, Michael Herslund, & Finn S›rensen (eds.) (2001).
Dimensions of Possession. (TSL, 47.) Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Booij, Geert & Jaap van Marle (eds.) (2001). Yearbook of
Morphology 2000. Dordrecht: Kluwer.  [Mediterranean
morphology, Austronesian morphosyntax, Dalabon syncretism]

Bublitz, Wolfram, Manfred von Roncador, & Heinz Vater (eds.)
(2002). Philology, Typology and Language Structure:
Festschrift for Winfried Boeder on the Occasion of his 65th
Birthday. Frankfurt am Main: Lang.

Bybee, Joan & Paul Hopper (eds.) (2002). Frequency and the
Emergence of Linguistic Structure. (TSL, 45.) Amsterdam:
Benjamins.

Corbett, Greville G. (2000). Number. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

Chappell, Hilary (ed.) (2001). Sinitic Grammar: Synchronic and
Diachronic Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Croft, William (2001). Radical Construction Grammar: Syntactic
Theory in Typological Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.

Dahl, ™sten & Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.) (2001).
Circum-Baltic Languages. Vol. 1: Past and Present. Vol. 2:
Grammar and Typology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Davidse, Kristin & B‚atrice Lamiroy (eds.) (2002). The
Nominative & Accusative and their Counterparts. (Case and
Grammatical Relations across Languages, 4.) Amsterdam:
Benjamins.

Emmorey, Karen (ed.) (2002). Perspectives on Classifier
Constructions in Sign Language. London: Erlbaum.

Evans, Nicholas & Hans-Jrgen Sasse (eds.) (2002). Problems of
Polysynthesis. (Studia typologica, 4.) Berlin: Akademie
Verlag.

Faarlund, Jan Terje (ed.) (2001). Grammatical Relations in
Change. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Garry, J. & Carl Rubino (eds.) (2001). Facts about the World's
Languages: An Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages Past
and Present. New York: H. W. Wilson/New England Publishing
Associates.

Grandi, Nicola (2002). Morfologie in contatto: Le costruzioni
valutative nelle lingue del Mediterraneo. Milano: Franco
Angeli.

Haarmann, Harald (2002). Sprachenalmanach: Zahle und Fakten zu
allen Sprachen der Welt. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

Haarmann, Harald (ed.) (2002). Lexikon der untergegangenen
Sprachen. Mnchen: Beck.

Hall, T. Alan (2001). Distinctive Feature Theory. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter.

Heine, Bernd & Tania Kuteva (2002). World Lexicon of
Grammaticalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hunyadi, L szl¢ (2002). Hungarian Sentence Prosody and
Universal Grammar: On the Phonology-Syntax Interface.
Frankfurt am Main: Lang.

Janson, Tore (2002). Speak: A Short History of Languages.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Johanson, Lars (2002). Structural Factors in Turkic Language
Contacts. London: Curzon.

Katzner, Kenneth (2001). The Languages of the World. (New
edition.) London: Routledge.

McGregor, William (2002). Verb Classification in Australian
Languages. (EALT, 25). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Nocentini, Alberto (2002). L'Europa linguistica: Profilo
storico e tipologico. Firenze: Le Monnier.

Ono, Yoshiko (2002). Typologische Zge des Japanischen.
Tbingen: Niemeyer.

Oresnik, Janez (2001). A Predictable Aspect of
(Morpho)Syntactic Variants. (Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in
Umetnosti, Razred za Filoloske in Literarne Vede, Dela, 2.)
Ljubljana.

Pottier, Bernard (2002). Repr‚sentations mentales et
cat‚gorisations linguistiques. (Biblioth que de l'Information
Grammaticale, 47.) Louvain: Peeters.

Ramat, Paolo & Thomas Stolz (eds.) (2002). Mediterranean
Languages. (Diversitas Linguarum, 1.) Bochum: Brockmeyer.

Richards, Norvin (2001). Movement in Language: Interactions
and Architectures. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Shibatani, Masayoshi (ed.) (2002). The Grammar of Causation
and Interpersonal Manipulation. (TSL, 48.) Amsterdam:
Benjamins.

Stadnik, Elena (2002). Die Palatalisierung in den Sprachen
Europas und Asiens: Eine areal-typologische Untersuchung.
Tbingen: Narr.

Stump, Gregory T. (2001). Inflectional Morphology: A Theory of
Paradigm Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wagner, Heinrich (2002). Beitr„ge zur Typologischen
Sprachgeographie / Essays to a Geographic Typology of
Languages. Edited by Brigit Benes, Uta Fromherz, & Fredy
Gr”bli. Frankfurt am Main: Lang.

Werlen, Iwar (2002). Sprachliche Relativit„t. Tbingen:
Francke.

Wouk, Fay & Malcolm Ross (eds.) (2001). The History and
Typology of Western Austronesian Voice Systems. (Pacific
Linguistics, 518.) Canberra: Australian National University.

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Marianne Mithun [President]
Department of Linguistics UCSB
University of California                 tel: + 1-805-893-4058
Santa Barbara, California 93106               + 1-805-563-1152
USA                                      fax: + 1-805-563-1948
E-mail:                            mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu

Frans Plank [Editor-in-chief, Linguistic Typology]
Sprachwissenschaft
Universitaet Konstanz
D-78457 Konstanz                        tel + 49 7531 88 26 56
Germany                                 fax + 49 7531 88 27 41
E-mail:                            frans.plank at uni-konstanz.de

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Linguistiek (GER)
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Belgium                                   fax + 32 3 820 27 62
E-mail:                                    auwera at uia.ua.ac.be

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