N N L BBBB NN N L B B N N N L BBBB N N N L B B N NN LLLLL BBBB NORDIC LINGUISTIC BULLETIN - ELECTRONIC NEWS _____________________________________________________________________________ June 12, 1998 ISSN 0804 0605 Volume 7: Number 6 _____________________________________________________________________________ <<<<<< CONTENTS >>>>>> * EDITORIAL NOTE * MISCELLANEOUS - Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) på Internet - The NAL studentships 1998 - How to join the Nordic Association of Linguists * JOBS - Visiting positions at UCLA (98-99) * CONFERENCES and COURSES - Early registration COLING-ACL'98 - Reminder: ConSOLE 7, Bergen - Forskerkurs i fonetikk og fonologi, Trondheim - Translation and Cognition, Savonlinna - Change in Prosodic Systems, Konstanz * FUTURE EVENTS * BOOKS & JOURNALS - Call for papers: Nordic Journal of Linguistics - Call for submissions: Machine Translation. Special Issue on Spoken Language Translation - New books from Routledge: historical linguistics, language instruction - New books from Longman: 2nd language acquisition - Review of Sampson: Educating Eve - Understanding Phonology - Understanding Pragmatics - Understanding Syntax - New books from Oxford University Press - A Theory of Predicates * THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORDIC ASSOCIATION OF LINGUISTS ============================================================================= <<<<<< EDITORIAL NOTE >>>>>> Dear subscribers, The present issue of NLB Electronic News is the last issue before our summer break in July. The next issue will appear on August 12 1998. Meanwhile, if you have information about any kind of linguistic events, resources, vacant jobs, or new publications, I hope you will send it to the newsletter, via e-mail to nlb@hd.uib.no, or via regular mail to the editor's address given under the Executive Committee. Many thanks to the contributors! With best wishes for the summer, The Editor Martha Thunes ============================================================================= <<<<<< MISCELLANEOUS >>>>>> Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) på Internet ============================================ Adress: En prototypversion av Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) på Internet kommer att vara fritt tillgänglig under en testperiod, troligen t.o.m. oktober 1998. En abonnemangsavgift i någon form kommer att tas ut efter detta datum. Tills vidare är endast uppslagsorden sökbara (inkl. sammansättningar, avledningar och s.k. särskilda förbindelser). I nästa steg kommer etymologierna att göras sökbara. Vi vill naturligvis gärna ha synpunkter på systemet under denna period. Vi är också tacksamma om ni skriver till OSA-projektet om det är något som inte fungerar. Delar av ordboken är ännu inte färdigstrukturerade, så vi ber er ha šverseende med vissa ojämnheter i materialet. Yvonne Cederholm OSA-projektet Språkdata, Inst. för svenska språket Göteborgs universitet Box 200 SE-405 30 GÖTEBORG Cederholm@svenska.gu.se tel: +46 31 773 47 52, fax: +46 31 773 44 55 _____________________________________________________________________________ THE NAL STUDENTSHIPS 1998 The Nordic Association of Linguists offers two studentships of NOK 5000,- annually as an encouragement to talented language and linguistics students. In 1998 the studentships were granted to: Kaja Borthen, Trondheim Åshild Næss, Oslo Kaja Borthen has finished her "hovedfag" and is preparing a doctoral project on the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of NPs in Norwegian. Åshild Næss is a "hovedfag" student writing about the Polynesian outlier language Pilani. The winners in 1997 were: Åsa Nordqvist, Göteborg Henrik Rosenkvist, Lund Both were doctoral students, Åsa Nordqvist studying non-verbal communication and Henrik Rosenkvist theoretical syntax. In 1997 and 1998 all applications came from Sweden or Norway. NAL would be happy to see a higher number of applications and all Nordic countries represented among them in the future. Helge Dyvik _____________________________________________________________________________ HOW TO JOIN THE NORDIC ASSOCIATION OF LINGUISTS Membership in NAL includes a subscription to the Nordic Journal of Linguistics (NJL). You will also receive the Nordic Linguistic Bulletin every three months (an electronic version appears monthly). Members are entitled to paying reduced conference fees at the NAL conferences, i.e., Nordic Languages and General Linguistics (traditionally with an emphasis on the study of Nordic Languages, as the title indicates), and the series called the Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (or Det nordiske lingvistm¿te), traditionally with more of a bias towards general linguistics. The first of these conferences is organised approximately every third year, whereas the second one happens about every one-and-a-half years. The NAL Business Meeting takes place in connection with the latter conference (which this year is organised in Odense, Denmark); membership gives you a right to vote there. The Scandinavian University Press in Oslo, who publish NJL, handle our membership fees. To become a member of the Nordic Association of Linguists, please fill in the form below and send it to the address indicated. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ORDER FORM Send to: Scandinavian University Press, P.O. Box 2959 Tøyen, N-0608 Oslo, Norway. Email: subscription@scup.no U.S. address: Scandinavian University Press North America, 875-84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Please enter my subscription to Nordic Journal of Linguistics, starting with No. 1. 1998, at the rate checked below. 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Date:................................................................ ============================================================================= <<<<<< JOBS >>>>>> VISITING POSITIONS AT UCLA (98-99) The UCLA Department of Linguistics expects to have several SHORT-TERM jobs available teaching various courses in the coming academic year (1998-99). These are all replacement positions for faculty who are on leave. There is no realistic prospect of any of them developing into permanent positions. We are particularly interested in faculty from other institutions who would like to visit our department for part (or all) of the academic year and who would want to teach one or two courses (We are on a quarter system; a course is of 10 weeks of lecture plus one week for final exams). Courses (all undergraduate) that need to be taught are: 1. Ling. 1: Intro. to Language (Fall Quarter: begins Sept 28) 2. Ling 10: Structure of English Words (Winter Quarter: begins Jan 6) (Spring Quarter: begins March 31) 3. Ling 165B: Advanced (Undergraduate) Syntax: Winter Quarter 4. Ling 110: Historical Linguistics: Spring Quarter Salary for a single one quarter course is typically between $7,000 and $10,000 depending on rank. In addition, we will have openings for some intensive courses at an advanced graduate level in SOME of the following areas: phonology, phonetics, psycholinguistics, computational ling., syntax, semantics, specific language areas (such as African, American Indian). For these courses, we are primarily interested scholars with established reputations (e.g. people who are on leave and who are interested in visiting UCLA), though more junior applicants will also be considered. Applicants should send a letter of application, including a CV, a statement of previous teaching experience, as well as the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three recommenders to: Edward Keenan (Chair), Department of Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543. email: ekeenan@ucla.edu (Actual letters of recommendation should NOT be sent at thistime; likewise candidates should not send voluminous dossiers of publications, etc.) Applications for fall quarter courses should be received by July 1, 1998, and applications for winter and spring quarter courses should be received by Sept. 10 1998, though late applications will also be considered as long as the positions remain unfilled. Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to inform us by e-mail, as soon as possible, of their intention to apply for these positions. UCLA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Ed Keenan Chair, UCLA Department of Linguistics 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543 USA Phone: 1-310-825-0634 Fax: 1-310-206-5743 E-mail: ekeenan@ucla.edu ============================================================================= <<<<<< CONFERENCES and COURSES >>>>>> COLING-ACL'98 Register Now! Registration is now open for the upcoming Coling-ACL'98 conference, to be held 10-14 August 1998, at the Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Those who register early (before July 1) will benefit from substantial savings. The registration and hotel reservation forms are available on the Web at the following URL: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/ For your convenience, we provide for online registration (though your payment slip must faxed or mailed). Please use this method of registration if at all possible. Otherwise, you may contact one of the following for an email or hardcopy version of the registration forms: Coling-ACL'98 Priscilla Rasmussen RALI, DIRO Coling-ACL'98 Universite de Montreal ACL P. O. Box 6128, Succ. Centre-ville 75 Paterson Street, Suite 9 Montreal (Quebec) CANADA H3C 3J7 New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA coling-acl98@iro.umontreal.ca acl@aclweb.org or Tel: +1-514-343-6111 ext. 4104 rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu Fax: +1-514-343-2496 +1-732-873-3898 +1-732-873-0014 We look forward to seeing you in Montreal! -- COLING-ACL'98 Organizing Committee 26 May 1998 _____________________________________________________________________________ Reminder: ConSOLE 7 at the University of Bergen The seventh meeting of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will be held at the University of Bergen, Norway, from 9 to 11 December 1998. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 August, 1998. Further information at: http://www.ling.uib.no/ConSOLE-7 _____________________________________________________________________________ LINGVISTISK INSTITUTT 19.05.1998 NTNU, 7034 TRONDHEIM FORSKERKURS I FONETIKK OG FONOLOGI 30. September - 2. oktober 1998 Lingvistisk institutt ved NTNU innbyr til et 3-dagers forskerkurs i fonetikk og fonologi i tidsrommet onsdag-fredag 30.09-02.10, 1998, på Universitetssentret pŒ Dragvoll, NTNU. Kurset er hovedsakelig finansiert av De Nasjonale Forskerutdanningskurs i Humanistiske fag (NFU-H), og arrangeres i regi av Fagrådet for lingvistikk, i samarbeid med Lingvistisk institutt ved NTNU. Kurset er åpent for doktorgradsstudenter (prim3/4rt), hovedfagstudenter og ansatte, med en oppad grense på 20 deltakere, og omfatter både fonetikk og fonologi, slik at deltakerne forutsettes å følge forelesningsseriene i begge disipliner. Oppgaveløsning og -gjennomgŒelse vil inngŒ i begge seriene. Lærere er John Kingston, University of Massachusetts, i fonetikk, og Marc van Oostendorp, University of Amsterdam og University of Leiden, i fonologi. De to forelesningsseriene vil utgjøre ca. 10 timer hver. En tentativ profil for de to kursene er som følger: Fonetikk: Often it is useful or even necessary to disturb a system in order to understand how it works. This is the case with speech perception, where it has been very useful to use stimuli which in one way or another disturb the workings of the system. The two most widely used stimuli of this kind are nonspeech analogues of speech sounds and foreign speech sounds. Nonspeech analogues are stimuli that aren't identified as speech by the listener but which nonetheless vary acoustically along dimensions analogous to those of the speech sounds they mimic. They have been used both to study the psychoacoustic mechanisms that underlie speech perception and in the great debate about whether special mechanisms are required for the perception of speech. Foreign speech sounds have been used instead to study how the phonology of the listener's native language influences the perception of the sounds s/he hears. In this course, I will present the results of experiments using these two kinds of stimuli in our laboratory, as well as in others, to uncover the mechanisms of speech perception. Fonologi: If we find a schwa in the vowel inventory of a language, this schwa almost invariably has a special role to play. It is often stressless, it often acts as an epenthetic vowel, it is often the target of reduction, and it often can occur in a very simple type of syllable (e.g. the 'core syllable') only. Because it has all this special properties, schwa provides a unique testcase for any theory of phonology. In this course we will investigate what the specific conditions on the appearance of the schwa are, and how we can account for them in a constrained theory of phonology. We focus on facts of (dialects of) French, Norwegian, Indonesian and Yupik. Tentativ timeplan: Fonetikk: Ons.: 11-13 To.: 9-12, 17.30-19.30 Fre.: 12.30-15.30 Fonologi: Ons.: 14.30-17.30 To.: 13.30-16.30 Fre.: 9-11, 16.30- 18.30 PŒmelding til kurset skjer løpende, med løpende tilbakemelding om opptak. Et begrenset antall rom på gjestehusene på Dragvoll er disponible, til rimelig leie, for de som melder seg på først. Et mer detaljert program vil komme i begynnelsen av september. Påmelding, og eventuelle spørsmål, rettes til Wim van Dommelen, Lingvistisk institutt, NTNU, 7034 Trondheim, tel. 73- 596527 (wim.van.dommelen@hf.ntnu.no), eller Lars Hellan, Lingvistisk institutt, NTNU, 7034 Trondheim, tel. 73-596526 (lars.hellan@hf.ntnu.no) _____________________________________________________________________________ University of Joensuu Savonlinna School of Translation Studies To celebrate its 30th anniversary, the Savonlinna School of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Joensuu, will organise an interdisciplinary colloquium on TRANSLATION AND COGNITION 2-3 October, 1998 Research dealing with the processes of translating and interpreting is one of the central areas of descriptive translation studies. This research draws on a variety of different disciplines and theoretical frameworks. The aim of the colloquium is to bring together different approaches to the process and to encourage discussion between them. PROGRAMME The invited speakers are Sandra Halverson (University of Bergen), William Isham (University of New Mexico), Alan Melby (Brigham Young University), and Miriam Shlesinger (Bar-Ilan University). In addition, the programme contains about twenty section papers. Their topics range from different methodological approaches (e.g. computer tools, thinking aloud) to the study of the processes of translating and interpreting to the application of cognitive linguistics to translation research. REGISTRATION The registration fee is 600 FIM and includes the programme, abstracts, lunch and afternoon coffee on Friday and morning and afternoon coffee and lunch on Saturday. Lunches and coffees will be served at the campus restaurant Vesta. The City of Savonlinna invites conference participants to a reception on Friday evening. The registration fee is payable to the postgiro account (PSP 800012-14588; the payment slip must include the message: 3011 B2100 35) or in cash on arrival. TRAVEL Savonlinna can be reached by buses, trains, or airplanes. Transportation from the airport is organised by airport taxis ("Finnair Ground Service") which can take you directly to your hotel (the charge is 35 to 45 FIM). Please note that the participants are requested to make their own travel arrangements. ACCOMMODATION Please note that the participants are requested to make their own reservations at the hotels. The preliminary programme, further information on accommodation, and the registration form are available at the following web-site: http://www.hd.uib.no/nordlingnet/1996-3/0103.html Please send the registration form to Ms Riitta Jaaskelainen by 31 August, 1998 by mail: University of Joensuu Savonlinna School of Translation Studies P.O.Box 48 FIN-57101 SAVONLINNA Finland or by fax: +358-15-515 096 We look forward to meeting you in Savonlinna! For more information contact the organisers: Riitta Jaaskelainen Phone +358-15-5759 740 E-mail Riitta.Jaaskelainen@joensuu.fi Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit Phone +358-15-5759 720 E-mail Sonja.Tirkkonen-Condit@joensuu.fi Pekka Kujamaki=20 Phone +358-15-5759 721 E-mail Pekka.Kujamaki@joensuu.fi _____________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS CHANGE IN PROSODIC SYSTEMS University of Konstanz, Germany February 24-26, 1999 Invited speakers: Elan Dresher (University of Toronto) Carlos Gussenhoven (University of Nijmegen) Tomas Riad (University of Stockholm) We are pleased to announce the workshop 'Change in Prosodic Systems' as part of the 21st annual meeting of the German Society of Linguistics (DGfS) in Konstanz, Germany. This workshop addresses various aspects of change in prosodic systems with the aim to enlarge our understanding of the range of variation and the types of change that are attested in languages. We organise three subsections, which are closely related and investigate the topic of change in prosodic systems from a different perspective. (a) Stress, tone and stress-related phenomena This section discusses the changing prosodic systems of languages, not only with respect to stress and syllable structure, but also quantity, syncope, epenthesis, the domain of segmental rules, etc. (b) Evidence from Metrics The study of metrical systems also provides insight into issues like the prosodic structure of complex words, loans, the way in which weight and quantity are reflected in metrical structure, etc. (c) Sources of Change: Analogy, Loans etc. The main focus of the third subsection is on the source of change and variation in prosodic systems, and addresses questions like the following. What leads to variation and or change? What triggers change in a prosodic system? Can language contact directly influence prosodic systems? What is the role of analogy? Which paradigms resist analogical change more than others? What is the role of morphology? PAPERS are invited on any of the three topics above. Send a one-page abstract (preferably by email) to: Paula Fikkert Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft, Universitaet Konstanz Postfach D186 D-78457 Konstanz Germany email: Paula.Fikkert@uni-konstanz.de DEADLINE for receipt of abstracts: AUGUST 15, 1998 Workshop Organisers: Paula Fikkert Haike Jacobs er leicht zugänglichen Text der ============================================================================= <<<<<< FUTURE EVENTS >>>>>> Our list of future conferences now includes references to web-sites for several of the conferences. It is our intention to let this practice gradually take over the mail-based information retrieval service which has been offered for some time by the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities. Meanwhile, it is still possible to retrieve information on specific conferences from the NCCH server nora.hd.uib.no. References to the available files are included in the conference list below, where the file names are entered in parentheses under the specific conference entries. To retrieve a file send an e-mail analogous to the following example: To: FILESERV@hd.uib.no Subj: whatever send konferanser itallc-3.kon 98-06-16 Third International Conference on Information-Theoretic Approaches to Logic, Language, and Computation. Hsi-tou, Taiwan. (ITALLC-3.KON) 98-06-22 Languages, Minds, and Brains, the Mekrijarvi Research Station, University of Joensuu, Ilomantsi, Finland. (LMB-98.KON) 98-06-29 FSMNLP'98, International Workshop on FINITE STATE METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/fsmnlp98 98-06-30 LFG98, 1998 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. (LFG-98.KON) http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/LFG98/ Enquiries: lfg98@sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au 98-07-02 XI. INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM OF THE STUDIENKREIS 'GESCHICHTE DER SPRACHWISSENSCHAFT' (The History of Linguistic and Grammatical Praxis) Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-532.html 98-07-02 The Sixth Conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of York http://www.york.ac.uk/~lang15/labphon.html 98-07-05 JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLC/ACH '98, "VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES" LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN, HUNGARY. (ALLC-ACH.KON) 98-07-06 EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands). (GRAMMER9.KON) 98-07-19 INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE Reims, Capital of the Champagne Region, France. (IPC6-98.KON) 98-07-24 TALC 98 - Teaching And Language Corpora 1998 Keble College, Oxford, 24 - 27 July 1998 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98/ talc98@oucs.ox.ac.uk 98-07-28 TAG TUTORIALS & TAG+ WORKSHOP Philadelphia, PA, USA http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/tag98.html 98-08-05 9th International Workshop on NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada. (INLG-98.KON) http://logos.uwaterloo.ca/~inlg98 98-08-10 COLING/ACL, 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'98), Universite de Montreal (Quebec, Canada). (ACL-98.KON) http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MainPage.html 98-08-14 FHCG-98, JOINT CONFERENCE ON FORMAL GRAMMAR, HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR, AND CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR http://www.dfki.de/events/hpsg98/ 98-08-14 NEW TRENDS IN VARIATIONIST LINGUISTICS: FROM ATTITUDES TO GRAMMAR University of Oulu, Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/variation.html 98-08-15 CVIR'98 Content Visualization and Intermedia Representations Coling-ACL'98 Workshop http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~jamesp/CVIR/ 98-08-15 COMPUTERM'98 First Workshop on Computational Terminology Coling-ACL'98 Workshop http://tornade.ERE.UMontreal.CA:80/~lhommem/coling/computerm.html 98-08-15 Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers - Coling/ACL 98 workshop http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~marker/aclcolingws.html 98-08-15 Processing of Dependency-based Grammars Coling-ACL'98 Workshop http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~polguera/Eng/DGworkshop.html 98-08-15 SIGPHON98 The Computation of Phonological Constraints The 4th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Phonology http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~sigphon/98) Montreal, Canada 98-08-15 SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://www.hd.uib.no/corpora/1998-2/0049.html 98-08-16 Coling-ACL'98 Workshops: - The Computational Treatment of Nominals - Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Syst (ACL98W.KON) 98-08-16 Coling-ACL'98 Workshop: - Evolutionary Computational Linguistics (EVCL98.KON) 98-08-16 Coling-ACL'98 Workshop: TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/translingual.html 98-08-16 Coling-ACL'98 Workshop: PARTIALLY AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES FOR TRANSCRIBING NATURALLY OCCURRING, CONTINUOUS SPEECH http://www.hd.uib.no/corpora/1998-1/0200.html 98-08-17 ESSLLI X, the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/ Information on workshops: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html 98-08-18 NLP+IA 98 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications, Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-440.html#1 http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-652.html#2 98-08-20 17th SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE OF LINGUISTICS, FYN, DENMARK (NLM-98.KON) http://www.ou.dk/hum/konf/index 98-08-23 ECAI-98 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence August 23rd - 28th, 1998, Brighton, UK http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98 98-08-25 Second Multilinguality in the Lexicon Workshop August 25th 1998 A workshop held as part of the ECAI-98. http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/tw/W13.html 98-08-26 Societas Linguistica Europaea XXXIST Annual Meeting St Andrews, Scotland http://www.st-and.ac.uk/academic/modlangs/SLE98/SLE98.html 98-08-28 EFFECTS OF MORPHOLOGICAL CASE, Workshop to be held at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University. (MORPHO98.KON) 98-09-02 Workshop "SENSEVAL AND THE LEXICOGRAPHY LOOP" Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, UK http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/senseval/exp-interest.html 98-09-03 FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE MENTAL LEXICON University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://www.ualberta.ca/~linguis/lexiconf.html 98-09-04 The 1998 Child Language Seminar at the University of Sheffield, UK http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/spsu/conf.html 98-09-07 SECOND WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql 98-09-16 THE HENRY SWEET SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC IDEAS FIFTEENTH ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM, AMSTERDAM Second Circular with provisional programme available at http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-630.html#1 98-09-17 The Convergence and Divergence of Dialects in a Changing Europe, University of Reading, UK. (CDDCE-98.KON) http://www.linguistics.reading.ac.uk/research/seminars/dialect/ 98-09-21 Minority Languages in Context: Diversity and Standardisation 'Colloque 1998 de la VALS/ASLA', Chur, Switzerland http://www.romsem.unibas.ch/vals_asla/Colloque98/colloque98eng.htm 98-09-23 Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOG (TSD'98) Brno, Czech Republic http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd98/ 98-09-24 SPoSS Workshop on Sound Patterns of Spontaneous Speech: Production and Perception, Aix en Provence www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/sposs 98-09-25 The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age: Problems and perspectives for humanities education and research, Bergen http://www.futurehum.uib.no/ 98-09-25 Workshop on Endangered Languages - Edinburgh, 25-27 Sept 98 (ENDANG.KON) 98-09-25 The Fourth International Conference on GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IV Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA http://verb.linguist.pitt.edu/~gasla/ 98-10-02 TRANSLATION AND COGNITION Savonlinna School of Translation Studies, University of Joensuu http://www.hd.uib.no/nordlingnet/1996-3/0103.html 98-10-02 Workshop on Ellipsis in Conjunction Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) Berlinn http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de 98-10-05 KONVENS 98: Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech 4th Conference on Natural Language Processing http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 98-10-10 4th conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language (CSDL-4) Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/LINGUISTICS/CSDL/ 98-10-16 AiML'98 Advances in Modal Logic'98 Uppsala, Sweden Email enquiries: Krister.Segerberg@filosofi.uu.se http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mdr/AiML 98-10-16 NELS 29 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Linguistic Society University of Delaware, Newark, DE http://sun.ling.udel.edu/nels-29 98-10-19 The Utrecht Congress on "Storage and Computation in Linguistics" http://www-uilots.let.ruu.nl/UiL-OTS/Conferences/sc_home.htm 98-10-28 Association for Machine Translation in the Americas AMTA-98 Conference, Langhorne, Pennsylvania http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html 98-11-09 Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 13 November 9-20, 1998 The Vilem Mathesius Centre for Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/vmc/ 98-11-12 TISLR 6 The Sixth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research http://www.gallaudet.edu/~aslweb/tislr98/ For info by email: info_tislr@gallua.gallaudet.edu 98-11-26 1998 NIC SYMPOSIUM ON INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, Gothenburg, Sweden. (NIC98.KON) 98-11-30 The 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing Sydney http://cslab.anu.edu.au/icslp98 98-12-04 Fifth Meeting of the ADL (Atelier des Doctorants de Linguistique) University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~leglise/adlp7/adlp7.htm 98-12-09 ConSOLE 7 at the University of Bergen http://www.ling.uib.no/ConSOLE-7 98-12-10 GOING ROMANCE 1998 Twelfth Symposium on Romance Linguistics Utrecht University http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-697.html#1 98-12-11 Modal verbs in Germanic and Romance languages International Conference of the Linguistic Society of Belgium http://rom-www.uia.ac.be/u/pdendale/colleng.html 98-12-11 SINN UND BEDEUTUNG 1998 3rd annual meeting of the GESELLSCHAFT FUER SEMANTIK, University of Leipzig http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~asw/sinn98/index_eg.htm 98-12-14 International Symposium on Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching, Hong Kong http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/ETAN/CECL/cecl.html 98-12-14 LACL98 Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, Grenoble http://www-bshm.upmf-grenoble.fr/LACL98/ 99-01-08 14TH COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX WORKSHOP Lund, Sweden Enquiries: christer.platzack@nordlund.lu.se 99-02-24 CHANGE IN PROSODIC SYSTEMS University of Konstanz, Germany http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-799.html 99-04-14 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON BILINGUALISM University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK http://www.ncl.ac/~nspeech 99-04-15 XIth international conference "Acquisition of a foreign language: perspectives and research" PRAGMATIC USES & ACQUISITION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES Universite de la Sorbonne nouvelle-Paris III. Call for papers at http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-640.html 99-06-13 PRAGMA99 International Pragmatics Conference on PRAGMATICS AND NEGOTIATION Tel Aviv University & Hebrew University of Jerusalem http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-835.html 99-06-17 New Reflections on Grammaticalization An International Symposium at Potsdam University Call for Papers available at http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-637.html 99-06-21 The Summer Linguistic Institute 1999, Illinois. "Linguistics for the 21st Century: Form and Function from Western and Nonwestern Perspectives" http://cogsci.uiuc.edu/~linginst/1999/page.html. 99-07-10 ICLC'99 International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics http://www.iclc99.su.se./iclc99 Stockholm University 99-07-12 International Congress for the Study of Child Language University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain http://www.vc.ehu.es/iascl99/iascl.htm 99-08-09 Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/folli/ ============================================================================= <<<<<< BOOKS & JOURNALS >>>>>> NORDIC JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS Vol. (22) 1999 Call for papers The second issue of Vol. (22) 1999 of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics is being devoted to "Optimality theory" and is being edited by Dr Kersti Börjars (Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom). We hereby invite articles on the application of the principles of optimality theory on any linguistic material, but particularly to the languages of the Nordic countries. Send papers either to the editor (Urpo Nikanne, University of Oslo, Dept. of East European and Oriental Studies P.O. Box 1030 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway) or directly to Dr Börjars by 31 January 1999. For more information, please contact either Kersti Börjars (k.borjars@man.ac.uk) or Urpo Nikanne (urpon@hedda.uio.no). Urpo Nikanne _____________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS MACHINE TRANSLATION SPECIAL ISSUE ON SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION Guest editor: Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) Guest editorial board: Doug Arnold (University of Essex) Pascale Fung (HKUST, Hong Kong) Walter Kasper (DFKI, Saarbrucken) Alon Lavie (CMU, Pittsburgh) Lori Levin (CMU, Pittsburgh) Hermann Ney (RWTH, Aachen) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) ... we feel that the time has come to dedicate a special issue of the journal Machine Translation to this topic, and we are inviting high-quality, previously unpublished research papers addressing problems in the whole field of spoken language translation. (Note: authors who had papers accepted for the Madrid workshop are especially encouraged to submit papers which have developed out of their workshop contributions, though they should note that we do not intend simply to reprint the workshop papers in their original form.) We are especially interested in papers addressing problems or solutions that are typical for spoken language translation (as opposed to written language translation). FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Please consult the journal's web pages: home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0922-6567 Instructions for Authors: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA0922-6567 LaTeX style files: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/jrnlstyle.htm/0922-6567 Articles should be submitted DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLISHERS, either by e-mail to ELLEN.KLINK@wkap.nl, with the subject header "Submission to COAT Speech special issue", or in hard-copy to either of the following addresses: Machine Translation Editorial Office, Machine Translation Editorial Office Kluwer Academic Publishers Kluwer Academic Publishers P.O. Box 990, P.O. Box 230 3300 AZ Dordrecht, Accord, MA 02018-023 The Netherlands U.S.A. The journal is typeset using LaTeX, so the preferred medium for submission of articles in electronic format is LaTeX source (using the Kluwer style file) or gzipped postscript. If submitting hard-copy, four copies of the paper are required. The length of the papers should be approximately 10-20 pages if using the Kluwer style file (around 20k words). Authors are requested to send a copy of an Abstract of not more than 200 words to the guest editor Steven.Krauwer@let.ruu.nl or in hard-copy to Steven Krauwer, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Submissions and abstracts should be received by July 1 1998. Papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the editorial board. We are aiming for publication as issue 3 or 4 of volume 13 (Autumn or Winter, 1998). _____________________________________________________________________________ New books from Routledge: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Anna Giacalone Ramat and Paolo Ramat, eds. THE INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGES Not since 1937 has a classic reference work appeared for Indo-European. This new work, however, steps forth to fill a major gap in this rapidly changing field by making full use of the recent achievements in linguistic theory. Useful as both an introductory survey and a reference for advanced students and scholars, the volume provides insight into the variations in the way Indo- European is studied while at the same time presenting a unified overview of Indo-European. The only work available which combines the historical understanding of Indo-European with a survey of its various sub-groups, this volume will be useful to a broad range of readers including students of historical linguistics and comparative philology, modern language students interested in the background on the languages they are studying, and anyone interested in the processes of language change and evolution. Routledge Language Family Descriptions Routledge: 1998: 552 pp CL: 0 415 06449 X: #C0977: $160.00: 95.00 LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION Daniel Abondolo, COLLOQUIAL FINNISH The Complete Course for Beginners Colloquial Finnish is easy to use and completely up-to-date. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Finnish. Colloquial Series Routledge: 1998: 0 pp 0 415 11391 1: #D3439: $44.99: 25.76 CS: 0 415 11390 3: #D3338: $27.99: 12.76 These cassettes are recorded by native Finnish speakers and can be used on their own or to accompany the book, helping you with pronunciation and listening skills. For more information on these and other titles from: ROUTLEDGE London * New York in North America: www.routledge-ny.com elsewhere: www.routledge.com Tom McGeveran _____________________________________________________________________________ NEW BOOKS FROM LONGMAN: 2ND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION STRATEGIES IN LEARNING AND USING A SECOND LANGUAGE ANDREW D. COHEN Professor in the Department of English as a Second Language, University of Minnesota. Paper 0-582-30588-8 312 pages 1998 Applied Linguistics and Language Study Series. Longman 'Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language' explores the topic of learner strategies - the ways in which language learners engage with the process of learning and communicating in a new language. The introduction to the book sets out the main theoretical issues, distinguishing language learning from language use strategies, and describing the main research methods for their investigation. The author presents innovative research linking the use of task-specific strategies with language performance. The volume then presents empirical research investigating the languages multilinguals select for their verbalized thoughts during language learning and language use. Finally, the author presents empirical research focusing on the strategies learners use in language test-taking contexts. The volume is intended primarily for language teachers and researchers, as well as for administrators of second language programs. It is also highly suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students of applied linguistics and will be of interest to foreign language students, stimulating them to reflect on their strategies for learning and using a second language. The chapters present questions and raise areas for further discussion and study, making the book suitable for those new to the field. At the same time, the provision of important new research will appeal to those with more advanced knowledge in the field. ERRORS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND USE CARL JAMES Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at the University of Wales, Bangor. Paper 0-582-25763-8 320 pages 1998 Applied Linguistics and Language Study Series. Longman 'Errors in Language Learning and Use' is an up-to-date introduction and guide to the study of errors in language, and is also a critical survey of previous work. Error Analysis occupies a central position within Applied Linguistics, and seeks to clarify questions such as `Does correctness matter?', `Is it more important to speak fluently and write imaginatively or to communicate one's message?' This book provides a scholarly and well-illustrated theoretical and historical background to the field of Error Analysis. A range of relevant questions is addressed such as whether native speakers make errors, and whether `good English' for the native speaker is also good for the foreign learner. The reader is led from definitions of error and related concepts, to categorization of types of linguistic deviance, discussion of error gravities, the utility of teacher correction and towards writing learner profiles. Throughout, the book is guided by considerable practical experience in language education in a range of classroom contexts worldwide. Further information on the books published in this series, and the table of contents for these titles can be viewed at the Longman Linguistics on-line catalogue at: http://www.awl-he.com/linguistics _____________________________________________________________________________ REVIEW OF G. Sampson, (1997) Educating Eve: the language instinct debate, Cassell, London, 184pp. Reviewed by Feargal Murphy, Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University College Dublin. http://www.ucd.ie/~linguist/gogs2.html Review in Linguist List Vol. 9.734 May 18 1998 available at http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-734.html _____________________________________________________________________________ UNDERSTANDING PHONOLOGY Gussenhoven, Carlos (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) and Jacobs, Haike (University of Nijmegen and the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands); Understanding Phonology; Publication March 1998 304pp PB 0 340 69218 9 14.99 HB 0 340 69217 0 40.00 Arnold Publishing 'This book gives a clear and accurate picture of current phonological theory in a small number of pages.' John Goldsmith, University of Chicago This skilfully written new text provides a broad, yet up-to-date, introduction to phonology. Assuming no previous knowledge of phonology or linguistic theory, the authors introduce the basic concepts and build on these progressively, discussing the main theories and illustrating key points with carefully chosen examples. A wide range of phenomena are covered: speech production, segmental contrasts, tone, quality, prosodic structure, metrical relations and intonation. The main theories are introduced and their contributions to our understanding of phonology, as well as their shortcomings, are discussed objectively. Contents: The production of speech / Some typology: sameness and difference / Making the form fit / Two levels of representation / Distinctive Features / Ordered rules / The diminutive suffix in Dutch / Levels of representation / Representing tone / Skeletal slots and moras / Feature geometry / Complex segments / Stress / Iambic and Trochambic rhythm in Optimality Theory. Readership: Students of linguistics. Available on inspection for lecturers (quote linglist598) Tel: +44 (0) 171 873 6355 Fax: +44 (0) 171 873 6325 E-mail: milly.neate@hodder.co.uk _____________________________________________________________________________ UNDERSTANDING PRAGMATICS Verschueren, Jef (Belgian National Science Foundation, Belgium); Understanding Pragmatics; Publication September 1998 c.288pp PB 0 340 64623 3 c.13.99 HB 0 340 64624 1 c.40.00 Arnold Publishing This is the most comprehensive and current introduction to pragmatics. Presupposing no background in pragmatics, the author sketches out the theoretical basis of the subject and systematically develops the major theoretical perspectives, to provide a full description of pragmatics as a coherent field of inquiry. The text explores methodological issues, guiding the reader into the existing spectrum of pragmatics-related work. Focusing on pragmatics in its broadest sense, the book covers the whole range of social, cultural and cognitive aspects of pragmatics. Contents: Introduction / Overview / The pragmatic perspective / Aspects of the meaningful functioning of language / Topics and trends. Readership: Students of linguistics/English language. Available on inspection for lecturers (quote linglist598) Tel: +44 (0) 171 873 6355 Fax: +44 (0) 171 873 6325 E-mail: milly.neate@hodder.co.uk _____________________________________________________________________________ UNDERSTANDING SYNTAX Tallerman, Maggie (University of Durham, UK); Understanding Syntax; Published September 1998 c.192pp PB 0 340 60377 1 c.12.99 HB 0 340 70000 9 c.35.00 Arnold Publishing Provides a complete introduction to the main categories and constructions associated with sentence structure - the syntactic component of the grammar of human language. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the book discusses and illustrates all the major terms and concepts. Contents: What is syntax? / Words belong to different classes / Looking inside sentences / Head words and phrases / How do we identify constituents? / Relationship within the clause / Syntactic processes. Readership: Undergraduates in Linguistics Tel: +44 (0) 171 873 6355 Fax: +44 (0) 171 873 6325 E-mail: milly.neate@hodder.co.uk _____________________________________________________________________________ New books from Oxford University Press: SPONTANEOUS SPOKEN LANGUAGE: Syntax and Discourse Jim Miller, University of Edinburgh, and Regina Weinert, University of Sheffield The authors examine the types of clauses used by people when they are speaking off the cuff. They also analyze the devices speakers use when organizing larger chunks of language, such as conversations. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight cross-language properties. They argue that there are major and systematic differences between spoken and written language, and conclude by exploring the implications of their findings for typology, first-language acquisition, and education. May 1998 472 pp.; 1 linecut 0-19-823656-5 $115.00 Oxford University Press COORDINATION Janne Bondi Johannessen, University of Oslo (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) Johannessen focuses on coordination, i.e. structures with conjunctions such as and, but, and or. These are important words in their constructions because they have many properties in common with categories like verbs and prepositions. She has analyzed thirty-three languages and has found many striking similarities, presenting the first study of coordination from a cross-linguistic perspective. Her theory of syntactic coordination aims to be general and universal, and is broadly compatible with Chomsky's minimalist framework. June 1998 304 pp. 0-19-823772-3 paper $35.00 0-19-823709-X cloth $85.00 Oxford University Press For more information about Linguistics titles from Oxford University Press: Visit the Oxford University Press USA web site at http://www.oup-usa.org or e-mail: linguistics@oup-usa.org _____________________________________________________________________________ A THEORY OF PREDICATES Ackerman, Farrell (University of California, San Diego) and Webelhuth, Gert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); A THEORY OF PREDICATES; ISBN: 1-57586-087-2 (cloth), 1-57586-086-4 (paper); 402 pp. CSLI Publications 1998: http://csli-www.stanford.edu/publications/ email: pubs@roslin.stanford.edu In this work two linguists from different theoretical paradigms develop a new general theory of natural language predicates. This theory is capable of addressing a broad range of issues concerning (complex) predicates, many of which remain unresolved in previous theoretical proposals. Grounded in empirical evidence from a wide variety of genetically and geographically unrelated languages (German, Hungarian, Fox, Nenets, Tzotzil, Malayalam, among others), this new theory synthesizes conceptual and representational assumptions from several different theoretical traditions. The authors focus on cross-linguistically recurring patterns of predicate formation where identical contentive notions (i.e., lexical semantic, grammatical function, and morphosyntactic information) are expressed by predicates consisting of a single morphological word or by combinations of independent words that need not form a single syntactic unit. They provide a detailed implementation of their theory for German tense-aspect, passive, causative, and verb-particle predicates. In addition, the authors discuss extensions of these representative analyses to the same predicate constructions in other languages. Beyond providing a formalism for the analysis of language- particular predicates, they demonstrate how the basic theoretical mechanisms they develop can be employed to explain universal tendencies of predicate formation. For this purpose, Ackerman and Webelhuth introduce the construct `grammatical archetype' into linguistic theory, relating universal patterns of predicate formation to language-particular patterns in a principled fashion. This book will be of interest to linguists and grammarians from any generative, cognitive/functional, or traditional perspective. In addition, it is accessible to interested philosophers, psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, computational linguists, anthropological linguists, and philologists. 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