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June 12, 1999             ISSN 0804 0605               Volume 8 Number 6
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                   <<<<<<    CONTENTS    >>>>>>

     *  MISCELLANEOUS
        - 'Nordic Journal of Linguistics' online

     *  JOBS
        - Computational Linguistics Position (PostDoc), University of Tübingen
        - Two job vacancies, University of Tübingen

     *  CONFERENCES and COURSES
        - Reminder International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Stockholm
        - Reminder European Summer School on Language and Speech
          Communication, Stockholm
        - Reminder International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
          Stockholm
        - Dyslexia Workshop, September 9-11, Cambridge
        - Language and Gender, November 5-6, Aalborg
        - 8. møte om norsk språk (MONS), 18.-20. november, Tromsø

     *  FUTURE EVENTS

     *  BOOKS & JOURNALS
        - Per Linell APPROACHING DIALOGUE
        - FINNISCH-UGRISCHE FORSCHUNGEN, Vol. 55
        - Andreas H. Jucker & Yael Ziv DISCOURSE MARKERS
        - Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, NTNU, Trondheim
                 VERB SEMANTICS, DIATHESIS AND ASPECT
        - Anna Lindström LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL ACTION. Grammar, prosody, and 
                interaction in Swedish conversation (PhD Dissertation)
        - Una Cunningham-Andersson, Staffan Andersson
             GROWING UP WITH TWO LANGUAGES A Practical Guide
        - Johan van der Auwera & Ekkehard Konig THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES
        - Daniel Abondolo THE URALIC LANGUAGES

     *  THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORDIC ASSOCIATION OF LINGUISTS


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                   <<<<<<    MISCELLANEOUS    >>>>>>


Scandinavian University Press is Scandinavia's leading publisher of scholarly 
and scientific journals and books, and has 'Nordic Journal of Linguistics' 
among its publications.

In 1999 Scandinavian University Press will continue to offer free electronic 
access to institutional and private subscribers of the print versions of 
selected journals.

For more information, see http//www.scup.no/online

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                        <<<<<<    JOBS    >>>>>>


                        Position Announcement


University of Tübingen
Dept. of Linguistics
Division of Computational Linguistics


The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics at the 
University of Tübingen, Germany is seeking applications for a postdoctoral 
position (possibly extendable to pre-doctoral candidates) to work in the area 
of automated language acquisition. Special consideration will be given to 
applicants whose research involves combining statistically-based and corpus-
based methods with feature structure-based grammars. Applicants working in 
other areas of computational language learning are also encouraged to apply. 
The position is to last until 4/2001.

This position is sponsored by the European Commission Training and Mobility 
of Researchers (TMR) and is part of the project ³Extending Computational 
Grammars by Learning², coordinated by Prof. John Nerbonne at the University
of Groningen. The successful candidate will be expected to interact with the 
postdoctoral researchers at the other participating sites University of 
Groningen, SRI Cambridge, University of Antwerp, Trinity College Dublin,
ISSCO Geneva and Rank Xerox Grenoble. For details of the project see

http//lcg-www.uia.ac.be/lcg/

The European Commision imposed funding restrictions on TMR postdoctoral 
positions The postdoc must be 35 or younger and a European citizen, and must 
"cross a border" to accept the position.  This last point means must not
have worked more than 18 of the last 24 months in the country in which they 
accept the position. They further may not be a citizen of the country in which 
they accept the award. The salary is based on the Marie Curie Rates, for 
which see

        http//www.cordis.lu/tmr/src/quest;an.htm#q14

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests,
up to three representative publications, and the names and addresses (electronic 
and mail) of three references (whom we will contact for letters, as needed), 
to

Dr. Dale Gerdemann                       dg@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
Dept. of Linguistics                     Tel +49 7071-29-74967
Section for Computational Linguistics     Fax +49 7071-550520
University of Tübingen
Kl. Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tübingen, Germany

Applications should be submitted before June 30, 1999.
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The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics at the 
University of Tübingen, Germany announces TWO JOB VACANCIES to be filled 
immediately.  We are searching for

              TWO THEORETICAL or COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS

to conduct research in a project of the Sonderforschungsbereich 340 
"Theoretische Grundlagen der Computerlinguistik". The project is concerned 
with the development, formalization, and implementation of a large syntax 
fragment for German in combination with a constraint logic programming 
language for this purpose.  It continues the work carried out in the projects 
B4 and B8; more detailed information about these projects is available at


   http//www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/en_nf_asc_b8.shtml
   http//www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/controll/

Applicants should have one of the following qualifications
1. theoretical and practical experience in logic programming and
   an interest in applying this knowledge to the design and implementation
   of a computational system for processing HPSG grammars.

2. strong background in the syntax of German, good knowledge of HPSG,
   and an interest in the formalization and implementation of
   a large German syntax fragment.

The positions are at the rank of "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (M.A. or 
Ph.D. required).  The salary is on the German payscale of BAT IIa/2 (with
M.A. in hand; min. 35.000DM/year) or BATIIa (with Ph.D. in hand; min. 
70.000DM/year).  The positions are funded until December 31, 2000.

Applications should include CV, an outline of research experience/interests, 
and names and addresses of two referees. A sample publication representative 
of the applicant's research expertise would be helpful. Applications should
be sent by mail or email to the address below. 

Kordula De Kuthy and Erhard W. Hinrichs
Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Abt. Computerlinguistik
Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen
Wilhelmstr. 113
D-72074 Tübingen, Germany

Email kdk@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

Although interviews may start at any time, applications received by June
20th, 1999 will receive full consideration.

In case of equal qualifications, preference will be given to persons with 
disabilities.

The University of Tübingen strives to increase the representation of female 
scientists. Women are, therefore, especially encouraged to apply.

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REMINDER
The 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC -99) in 
Stockholm, Sweden, will be hosted by the Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm 
University. The conference will start at 6pm on Saturday, July 10, 1999 and 
end after lunch (officially 230 pm) on Friday, July 16, 1999. The conference 
is a primary venue for presentation of new work in all aspects of cognitive 
linguistics and related disciplines.

(For further information  http//www.iclc99.su.se/iclc99/)

______________________________________________________________________________

REMINDER
7th European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication, July 
12. - 23. 1999, at the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing and the Centre 
for Speech Technology at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Stockholm. The 
central theme of the summer school will be Multilmodality in Language and 
Speech Systems.

For further information http//www.speech.kth.se/milass/
______________________________________________________________________________

REMINDER
        16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
         (IJCAI) will be held at the City Conference Center, Stockholm,
         Sweden, from July 31. - August 6. 1999.

For further information http//www.dsv.su.se/ijcai-99/
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          Learning Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development
                      COST A8 FINAL WORKSHOP
          St John's College, Cambridge,  9 - 11 September 1999


The final meeting of the European Concerted Action (COST-A8) on Learning 
Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development with special reference to
dyslexia will be held in Cambridge, England, at St. John's College, 
from 9 - 10 September 1999.  The final meeting is intended to inform a 
wider audience about the achievements of the Action, and there are places 
for 50 non-COST delegates to attend.  As significant interest is expected, 
places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The meeting 
will comprise presentations from COST delegates from across Europe on research 
carried out within the Action, complemented by presentations from key 
researchers outside the Action who are addressing similar research issues. 
Speakers include Heikki Lyytinen, Heinz Wimmer, Philip Seymour, Uta Frith, 
Peter Bryant, Carsten Elbro, Sven Strömquist, Rebecca Treiman, Keith Stanovich, 
Åke Olofsson, Joseph Torgesen, Dorothy Bishop and Susan Gathercole. 
The meeting will adopt a workshop format, as we would like to involve the 
audience in informal discussion concerning the themes of the Action outside 
of the presentations themselves. Prospective delegates are thus asked to attend 
the entire workshop. We apologise for the fact that, due to our accommodation 
being College-based, payment for the workshop must be made in full when a place 
is reserved, and credit cards cannot be accepted. Further details can be
obtained from Jennifer Smith, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St., London WC1N 
1EH, e-mail j.smith@ich.ucl.ac.uk, tel. 0171 831 0975.

Provisional programme at http//linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-797.html
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                ******** 1st CALL FOR PAPERS *******

         T A L K I N G   G E N D E R   &   S E X U A L I T Y

                          5-6 November 1999

                 Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

                        Plenary speakers
                    Marjorie H. Goodwin, UCLA
            Celia Kitzinger, Loughborough University
                Don Kulick, Stockholm University

Abstract submission deadline 1 August 1999

In the 1990s there has been much debate about the best way to approach the 
study of language and gender. The traditional divisions between the deficit, 
the cultural difference and the dominance models have been disputed. One 
consequence is that the profound theoretical challenge to how we understand 
and account for gender - as a dynamic, performative engagement which is never 
complete - matches with the rich set of tools that have been developed for 
analysing the complexities of everyday language use, agency and identity in 
talk-in-interaction. Also, a new domain has opened up that is ripe for study 
the relationship of sexuality to social interaction and language use. Recent 
edited book collections such as 'Language and Masculinity', 'Language and 
Desire', 'Queerly Phrased', 'Language & Gender', 'Rethinking Language and 
Gender Research', 'Feminism and Discourse', and 'Gender Articulated'
suggest a flourishing research enterprise, but one which has yet to be 
fully explored.

Attendees of the symposium are invited to present parallel session papers, to 
organise panel sessions or to conduct workshops on the theory and/or practice 
of analysing verbal and non-verbal social interaction in a diversity of 
settings in which participants constitute themselves as gendered and sexed 
persons or communities. 

Presentations of research on the following settings are welcome everyday 
conversation, institutional talk, talk in the media, computer-mediated 

communication, and dialogue in popular culture, fiction and written texts.
We desire to achieve a relaxed forum for discussion and debate, so accepted 
presentations will be grouped into thematic sections under the guidance of a 
section chair and/or discussant. Presenters will be allotted 20 minutes plus 
20 minutes for discussion.

Abstracts of max. 300 words in English should be sent with your full contact 
details by August 1st, 1999 to Paul McIlvenny (see the address below). 
Electronic submissions are welcome. Notification of acceptance will be by 
August 15th. The language of the symposium is English. Please redistribute 
this call for papers to interested parties.

For further information, and to pre-register, please see the symposium web 
site http//www.sprog.auc.dk/~paul/conf99/ or contact

        Paul McIlvenny (paul@sprog.auc.dk)
        Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies 
        Kroghstraede 3 
        Aalborg University 
        DK-9220 Aalborg         
        DENMARK 
        Tel +45 9635 9169 
        Fax +45 9815 7887 

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                                MONS 8
                        8. møte om norsk språk
                        Universitetet i Tromsø
                        18.-20. november 1999
                http//www.hum.uit.no/mons8/index.html
                       mailtomons@hum.uit.no


Vi vil minne om 8. møte om norsk språk på Universitetet i Tromsø 18.-20. 
november 1999 og gi noen utfyllende opplysninger.

Først og fremst har vi gleden av å tilby følgende dugnadsgrupper. Fristen for 
påmelding og innsending av sammendrag av foredrag er 1. september, og den 
gjelder også for dugnadsgruppene.

DUGNADSGRUPPER

Metaforer i sakprosa og skjønnlitteratur
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Aktuelle emner for dugnadsgruppa er bl.a. Hva er en metafor? Tradisjonelt og 
nyere syn på metaforer. Metaforer og idiomatiske uttrykk. Finnes det "døde 
mataforer"? Universielle og kulturspesifikke metaforer. Gjør bruk av
metaforer teksten vanskeligere eller lettere å forstå? Innbyr noen temaer mer 
for metaforer enn andre? Alle typer innlegg om metaforer og metaforteori 
(maksimalt 20 minutter) er med andre ord velkomne.

Kontaktperson Anne Golden (Institutt for lingvistiske fag, Universitetet i 
Oslo, Pb. 1102 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, tlf. 22 85 42 91, faks 22 85 69 19, 
mailtoanne.golden@ilf.uio.no)

Metoder i språkvitenskapen
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tema for denne dugnadsgruppa er hvordan språkforskere går fram for å få 
empirisk kunnskap om språklige emner, f.eks. innenfor talemål, syntaks eller 
navnegransking. Målsetningen er å ta pulsen på metodedebatten i språkfagene
og belyse hvilket vitenskapsteoretisk ståsted metodedebatten har. Dugnaden
tenkes organisert med 20 minutter innlegg og 10 minutter diskusjon etter hvert 
innlegg. Om du kan tenke deg andre organiseringsformer, så må du gjerne melde 
tilbake til kontaktpersonen om dette. Bidragsytere fra alle retninger innen 
språkvitenskapen inviteres til å bidra.


Kontaktperson Hilde Nilsen (Det humanistiske fakultet, Universitetet i 
Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, faks 77 64 42 39, mailtoHilde.Nilsen@hum.uit.no)

Norsk språkteknologi
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I løpet av de siste par år har vi sett en økende interesse for norsk 
språkteknologi, dels i form av reportasjer i aviser, radio og fjernsyn,
dels i form av konferanser der språkteknologi har vært tema, og dels i form 
av at enkelte private bedrifter har signalisert betydelig interesse for norsk 
og nordisk språkteknologi. Språkforskere har ikke i særlig grad markert sine 
synspunkter på den voksende språkteknologien. Et klart relevant spørsmål er 
språklig mangfold i vid forstand, mer konkret hvordan dialektvariasjon kan 
bevares i taleteknologi, samt hvilke muligheter eller begrensninger 
språkteknologien skaper for nynorsk. Og hva med den unike norske 
skriftspråksituasjonen - vi har ikke bare to offisielle språkformer, men rik 
variasjon innenfor hver - som er noe importert språkteknologi ikke kan ventes 
å ha tatt høyde for. Vil språkteknologien "snikinnføre" en klarere 
skriftnormering? Her er det behov for prinsipielle diskusjoner der norske 
språkforskere deltar. I denne dugnaden om norsk språkteknologi søkes det både 
etter kortere presentasjoner av anven-delser for norsk språk (både ferdige 
produkter og mer eksperimentelle systemer) og innlegg som tar opp relevante 
aspekter for norsk språk i eksisterende og kommende språkteknologi. Det blir 
satt av god tid til diskusjon.

Kontaktperson Torbjørn Nordgård (Lingvistisk institutt, NTNU, 7491
Trondheim, tlf. 73 59 63 01, faks 73 59 61 19, 
mailto Torbjorn.Nordgard@hf.ntnu.no)

Språktilegnelse
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Formålet med dugnadsgruppa er å drøfte resultater fra forskning i tilegnelse 
av norsk språk og behov for slik forskning. Det er flere som driver med 
språktilegnelsesforskning i Norge, men mye av denne forskningen tar for seg 
andre språk enn norsk. I denne dugnadsgruppen vil vi invitere til innlegg 
(maksimalt 20 minutter) fra dem som holder på med forskning i tilegnelse av 
norsk (både som L1 og L2). Innlegg om tospråklig tilegnelse og andre
relaterte emner er også aktuelle. Forskning om tilegnelse av andre språk 
enn norsk kan inkluderes i den grad den kan kaste lys over temaer som gjelder 
norsk.

Kontaktperson Curt Rice (Det humanistiske fakultet, Universitetet i Tromsø, 
9037 Tromsø, tlf. 77 64 42 61, faks 77 64 42 39, mailtocurt.rice@hum.uit.no)
Medarrangører Tove Dahl (Universitetet i Tromsø), Hanne Gram Simonsen 
(Universitetet i Oslo), Marit Richardsen Westergaard (Universitetet i Tromsø)

Talemål/sosiolingvistikk
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Emne for duganden vil vere
o Kort presentasjon av prosjektet Talemålsendring i Noreg (TEIN)
o Presentasjon av delprosjekt innom TEIN (ved studentar, stipendiatar og 
andre)
o Diskusjon omkring teoretiske modellar
o Diskusjon omkring metode
Vi ber om at alle som vil ta del i dugnaden, melder frå til kontaktpersonen
på førehand.
Informasjon om TEIN finst under nett-adressa 

http//studier.uib.no/tein/index.nsf

Kontaktperson Gunnstein Akselberg (Nordisk institutt, Universitetet i
Bergen, Sydnesplassen 7, 5007 Bergen, tlf. 55 58 24 06, faks. 55 59 96 60, 

mailtogunnstein.akselberg@nor.uib.no)

* * *

Ytterligere opplysninger om konferansen og påmeldingsskjema fins på
konferansens hjemmeside http//www.hum.uit.no/mons8/index.html

Vennlig hilsen arrangementskomiteen

Ove Lorentz, Endre Mørck, Toril Swan og Olaf M. Jansen Westvik

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                   <<<<<<    FUTURE EVENTS    >>>>>>


99-06-13 PRAGMA99 International Pragmatics Conference on Pragmatics and 
         Negotiation. Tel Aviv University & Hebrew University of Jerusalem
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-1266.html#2
99-06-14 ICAIL-99 7th Int'l Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
         Oslo, Norway    http//nathan.gmd.de/iaail/icail/icail.html
99-06-17 New Reflections on Grammaticalization. An International Symposium at
         Potsdam University   http//linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-637.html#1
99-06-21 The Summer Linguistic Institute 1999, Illinois.
         "Linguistics for the 21st Century Form and Function from Western and
         Nonwestern Perspectives"   http//www.beckman.uiuc.edu/linginst
99-06-22 ACL-99 the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
         Linguistics, University of Maryland
         http//www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99/
99-06-21 (EMNLP/VLC-99) Joint Sigdat Conference on Empirical Methods in 
         Natural Language Processing And Very Large Corpora, University of 
         Maryland   http//www.hit.uib.no/corpora/1999-2/0075.html
         http//www.hit.uib.no/corpora/1999-2/0076.html
99-06-24 JILA '99 International Conference on Applied Linguistics
         Nice, France.   http//lilla2.unice.fr/jila/jila.htm
99-06-29 The 1999 International Humor Conference, Oakland, California
         http//www.hnc.edu/events/humor99
99-07-05 II International Summer School of Terminology, Universitat Pompeu 
         Fabra, Barcelona   http//www.iula.upf.es
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
99-07-12 RECITAL'99 Young Researchers Conference on Data Processing for 
         Automatic Treatment of Natural Language, Corsica, France
         http//www.info.unicaen.fr/Recital99
99-07-12 Sixth Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN99), Corsica,
         France   http//talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99
99-07-12 7th European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication 
         Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems (MiLaSS), Stockholm
         http//www.speech.kth.se/milass
99-07-19 International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG99)
         The University of Manchester   http//lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/
99-07-19 Linguistics Summer School, Potsdam, Germany
         http//wwwlot.let.uu.nl/zs99.html
99-07-19 EUROLAN Summer School ³Lexical Semantics and Multilinguality²,
         Iasi, Rumania   http//www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan99/
99-07-27 Second International Conference on Cognitive Science, Tokyo, Japan
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-3.html
99-07-29 6th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation Meets
         Databases (KRDB'99), Linkoeping, Sweden 
         http//www.cs.man.ac.uk/img/krdb99/
99-07-30 DL'99 International Workshop on Description Logics, Linkoeping, 
         Sweden   http//www.ida.liu.se/labs/iislab/DL99/
99-08-01 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco
         http//trill.linguistics.berkeley.edu/ICPhS/
99-08-02 IJCAI-99 Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue
         Systems, Stockholm   http//www.ida.liu.se/~nlplab/ijcai-ws.html
99-08-03 IJCAI'99 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
         Stockholm, Sweden   http//www.dsv.su.se/ijcai-99/
99-08-04 HPSG-99 6th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure
         Grammar, University of Edinburgh  http//www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~hpsg99/
99-08-07 Formal Grammar Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands
         http//ufal.mff.cuni.cz/fg.html
99-08-09 Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
         (ESSLLI'99) August 9-20, Utrecht, The Netherlands
         http//esslli.let.uu.nl/
99-08-23 TKE '99 5th International Congress on Terminology and Knowledge 
         Engineering, Innsbruck, Austria   http//gtw-org.uibk.ac.at/tke.html
99-08-23 TMI-99 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological
         Issues in Machine Translation, Chester, UK
         http//www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/
99-08-26 3rd meeting of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT III)
         Amsterdam   http//www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/alt/news/98-21.htm
99-09-01 Esca Tutorial and Research Workshop on Dialogue and Prosody
         Eindhoven, The Netherlands   http//www.tue.nl/ipo/sli/etrw.html
99-09-02 Child Language Seminar 1999, City University, London, UK
         http//www.city.ac.uk/ccs/cls99.htm
99-09-02 The Relationship Between Syntax and Semantics in the Analysis of
         Linguistic Structure, University of Helsinki
         http//www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/synsem.html
99-09-07 34th Colloquium of Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet
         Mainz, Germany   http//www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/
99-09-09 2nd International Conference on Major Varieties of English - MAVEN 2
         Lincoln University, England  pnayar@ulh.ac.uk, ljohnson@lincoln.ac.uk
99-09-09 The Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on
         Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'99) Trento, Italy
         http//www.cs.unitn.it/CONTEXT-99/
99-09-10 GALA'99 Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition 1999, 
         University of Potsdam, Germany  http//www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/gala99
99-09-12 The Third International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and 
         Computation, Batumi, Georgia.   http//www.illc.uva.nl/Batumi/
99-09-13 Machine Translation Summit VII, National University of Singapore
         http//www.krdl.org.sg/mts99   http//www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html
99-09-13 Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialog (TSD'99) Plzen, Czech Republic
         http//www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd99 
99-09-14 Third International School in Lexicography "Dictionary in the 
         Contemporary World", Ivanovo State University
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-207.html#1
99-09-16 International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and 
         Trilingualism, University of Innsbruck, Austria
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-1736.html
99-09-17 Endangered Languages and Education, Maynooth, Ireland
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-262.html#1
99-10-06 SINN & BEDEUTUNG 1999, Düsseldorf University
         http//www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/asw/SuB99/Homepage.html
99-10-07 CSSP 1999 The Paris Syntax and Semantics Conference, Paris, France
         http//cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr
99-10-08 Recent Developments in Generative Metrics, Toronto, Canada
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-763.html
99-10-22 NELS 30 Conference of the Northeastern Linguistic Society
         Rutgers, New Jersey   http//ling.rutgers.edu/nels30/
99-11-04 Language/Thought Symbiosis in Linguistic Discourse, Minneapolis
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-146.html
99-11-12 Questions. The 2nd International Conference of the North-West Centre
         for Linguistics, Liverpool, UK
         http//www.liv.ac.uk/~ssharief/questions/index.html
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-266.html
99-11-18 8. møte om norsk språk, Universitetet i Tromsø
         http//www.hum.uit.no/mons8/index.html
99-11-23 Second International Symposium on Language Policy Language Policy at
         the Millennium, Bar-Ilan University, Israel  http/www.biu.il/HU/lprc
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-1735.html#2
99-11-25 Conference on Languages in Contact, Groningen, the Netherlands
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-378.html
00-03-27 28th LAUD SYMPOSIUM 'Ten Years After' Cognitive Linguistics,
         University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
         http//linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-882.html
00-04-27 Sociolinguistics Symposium 2000 The Interface between Linguistics 
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Per Linell (Linköping University, Sweden)

                           APPROACHING DIALOGUE
            Talk, interaction and contexts in dialogical perspectives


Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding 
and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction. It deals with conversation in 
general as well as talk within institutions against a backdrop of
Conversation Analysis, context-based discourse analysis, social pragmatics, 
socio-cultural theory and interdisciplinary dialogue analysis.

People's communicative projects, and the structures and functions of talk-in-
interaction, are analyzed from the most local sequences to the comprehensive 
communicative activity types and genres. A second aim of the book is to 
explore the possibilities and limitations of dialogism as a general 
epistemology for cognition and communication. On this point, it portrays the 
dialogical approach as a major alternative to the mainstream theories of 
cognition as individually-based information processing, communication as 
information transfer, and language as a code. Stressing aspects of 
interaction, joint construction and cultural embeddedness, and drawing upon 
extensive theoretical and empirical research carried out in different 
traditions, this book aims at an integrating synthesis. It is largely 
interdisciplinary in nature, and has been written in such a way that it can
be used at advanced undergraduate courses in linguistics, sociopragmatics of 
language, communication studies, sociology, social psychology and cognitive 
science.

"Linell offers a clear and comprehensive account of the differences between 
monologism and dialogism as competing epistemologies in the language
sciences. 
[...] I can think of no other monograph length text which does this."

"Linell has played an important role in developing the theoretical framework 
for studying discourse and communication, and in arguing for the significance 
of discourse studies for traditional areas in linguistics and pragmatics." 

Paul Drew (University of York)

John Benjamins Publishing Co., IMPACT Studies in Language and Society 3

______________________________________________________________________________

FINNISCH-UGRISCHE FORSCHUNGEN, Vol. 55 

Karoly Redei Zu den uralisch-jukagirischen Sprachkontakten
Katalin Sipocz The semantic study of body-part terminology in Uralic 
languages Tapani Lehtinen Imperfekt, Analogie und die Entstehung der 
Reflexivkonjugation der ostseefinnischen Sprachformen Ingermanlands

Ca. 100 pages of book reviews, including among others
- the anthologies of Finno-Ugrian (folk) poetry by Raija Bartens (Hannu 
Launonen)
- the dialect atlas of Karelian (Anneli Sarhimaa)
- two first volumes of the new series "Studia historica Fenno-Ugrica" (Riho 
Grunthal, Kaisa Hakkinen)
- the new German translation of "Kanteletar" (Richard Semrau)
- new books on Hungarian ethnography (Ildiko Lehtinen)
- the new biographies of G. J. Ramstedt and Nicholas Poppe (Juha Janhunen)

Helsinki 1999, 262 pp., ISBN 952-5150-29-1. Price 150 FIM.

(The English summaries of the articles can be found at FUF's homepage -
http//www.helsinki.fi/jarj/sus/fuf.html)

_____________________________________________________________________________

Andreas H. Jucker (Justus Liebig University, Giessen) and Yael Ziv (The
Hebrew 
University of Jerusalem) (eds.)

                DISCOURSE MARKERS - descriptions and theory


Studies of Discourse Markers so far have concentrated on either the 
descriptive or the theoretical parameter. This book brings together thirteen 
papers concerning aspects of lexical instantiations of Discourse Marking 
devices, ranging from functional descriptions along cognitive, attitudinal, 
interactive and structure signalling lines to theoretical issues arising from 
various properties discourse markers display cross-linguistically. Data from 
English, Finnish, Hebrew, Korean, and Japanese are examined. Also addressed 
are questions concerning overall accounts, potential sub-classifications, 
possible form-function correlations and the appropriateness of such
frameworks as Relevance Theory for their description. Interestingly, features 
evident in the distribution and use of lexical discourse markers are shown 
to affect the assessment of such theoretical constructs as the distinction 
between conceptual and procedural meaning. A more sophisticated picture emerges
than a simple dichotomy between the two. Studies of the grammar of Discourse 
Markers hence would have to take the observations and suggestions raised in this 
collection of papers into account.

Contributions by Andreas H. Jucker and Yael Ziv; Yael Maschler; Shelley 
Shloush; Auli Hakulinen; Villy Rouchota; Anna-Brita Stenström; Gisle
Andersen; Andreas H. Jucker and Sara W. Smith; Yael Ziv; Mira Ariel; Satoko Suzuki; 
Yong-Yae Park; Bruce Fraser; Paul O. Takahara.

Publisher John Benjamins, 1998, 363 pp., ISBN 90 272 5071 5.

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Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, NTNU, Trondheim
VERB SEMANTICS, DIATHESIS AND ASPECT 

This work addresses issues of the interface between the lexical specification 
of verbs and the level of Morpho-syntactic structure and verbal Aspect. The 
main claim is that the properties of constructions are largely predictable 
from the semantic properties of the head verb. This claim also extends to 
predictions concerning the aspectual properties of constructions. The 
languages on which this study is based include Germanic (English, Norwegian 
and German) and Slavic (Bulgarian and Russian). The analysis is carried out 
within a framework of grammar called 'The Sign Model', currently under 
development. The discussion focuses on a number of aspectual processes 
attested cross-linguistically and the problems they pose for a unified 
treatment. In the course of presentation an illustration is given of the 
systematic interrelation between the morpho-syntactic realization of 
constructions and their aspectual properties. While providing a discussion of 
the relevant existing proposals for the treatment of Aspect (Aspectuality) in 
view of the syntactic properties of constructions, the work also indicates a 
system geared towards a unified analysis. 

A considerable part of the book is devoted to the implementation of the Sign 
Model to the analysis of passive constructions based on a notional definition 
of PASSIVE. A number of construction types cross-linguistically are matched 
against this definition, such as middles in English, impersonals in Germanic, 
and the Bulgarian constructions involving the reflexive clitic se. An attempt 
is made at defining the constraints for each of the above construction types 
which arise from the lexical specification of the head verbs. The book also 
includes a proposal concerning the aspectual properties of passives and
the role palyed by passive morphology in aspect construal. 

LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 08. 
Ca. 200 pp. USD 68 / DM 102 / pound sterling 38, ISBN 3 89586 572 9.

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Anna Lindström LANGUAGE AS SOCIAL ACTION. Grammar, prosody, and 
                interaction in Swedish conversation
                (Språk som sosial handling. Grammatik, prosodi och
                 interaktion i svenska samtal.)

Abstract

This study contributes to a larger research program that links grammar and 
prosody on the one hand with talk-in-interaction on the other. An underlying 
assumption of this study is that language is key to the organization of
social action. Language is shaped by the fact that it is used by interactants to 
engage in a range of social activities whilst at the same time it also shapes 
these activities. Grammar and prosody are important resources for both the 
production and understanding of social action.
  The data consists of recordings of naturally occuring mundane Swedish 
conversation. Using conversation analysis (CA), the author describes and 
analyzes the interactants¹ orientations as sicplayed through their turns-at-
talk. Three phenomena are introduced that can be identified by and are 
constituted through aspects of grammar or prosody. The first of these is the 

or-enquiry. This is a yes/no-question that ends with the Swedish conjunction 
eller "or". It is argued that this syntactic construction marks the action
the turn otherwise engages in as problematic. Second the sequential environment
of deferred action requests, invitations, and proposals is examined. A deferred 
action is one that cannot be immediately satisfied. The study demonstrates 
that an affirmative response token is insufficient to agree with or accept a 
deferred, invitation or proposal. An additional unit of talk is required
where the recipient makes a commitment to satisfy the deferred action in the
future. 
Third, the study focuses on a prosodic variant of the Swedish affirmative 
response token ja. The analysis suggests that ja projects non-alignment when 
it is produced with a stretch and rising pitch contour in the turn-initial 
position of a responsive action. This provides a resource for the 
interactional negotiation of alignment or agreement. The three phenomena that 
the study introduces may be of relevance for languages other than Swedish.

Key words Conversation analysis, grammar, prosody, interaction, preference 
organization, affiliation, disaffiliation, or-inquiry, deferred actions, 
response tokens, Swedish conversation.

Skrifter utgivna av Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet 
46, 1999. 198 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-506-1339-1. (PhD Dissertation)

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Una Cunningham-Andersson, Staffan Andersson
             GROWING UP WITH TWO LANGUAGES A Practical Guide 

This is the book for anyone - parents, teachers, language professionals - 
needing advice on how children can get the most from a bilingual situation.
In Growing up With Two Languages the authors provide a highly accessible account 
of the stages of language development, describe and evaluate the various 
systems and strategies that can be adopted and look at the problems that can 
occur when a child is exposed to two languages and cultures. Una Cunningham-
Andersson, a lecturer in linguistics, and Staffan Andersson are the parents
of four children who have grown up speaking English and Swedish. Growing up with 
two languages is based on their personal experience and extensive research 
into the trials and rewards of life with two languages. The book is 
illustrated throughout with the real life experiences of fifty families
around the world and concludes with clear practical advice on how to support and 
document a child's bilingual development and how to make the most of the 
internet.

Publisher Routledge, 1999, 200 pp., ISBN 0-415-21257-X

______________________________________________________________________________

Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp 
Ekkehard Konig, Free University
                                  THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES
                                  (Routledge Language Family Descriptions)

The Germanic Languages provides a unique, up-to-date survey of twelve
Germanic 
languages from English and German to Faroese and Yiddish. Spoken by more than 
450 million native speakers worldwide, the Germanic languages have unrivalled 
cultural and social significance. This important new work provides a chapter-
length description of each language focusing on the structure of the
languages as they are spoken today, but also giving an analysis of language 
history and development. Based on the most recent scholarship available, The 
Germanic Languages is fully comprehensive, presenting both detailed research on 
the major Germanic languages and rarely-covered minor languages such as Yiddish, 
Faroese, Afrikaans, Pennsylvanian German and the Germanic Creoles. Each 
chapter is written by an expert in the field, in a format designed for 
comparative study; information on each language includes an introductory 
description of social context and the development of the language; extensive 
discussions of phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, the main dialects and a 
bibliography with sources in English and other languages.

Special Features * The only fully comprehensive work on the Germanic 
languages available in English
                  * Written by an international team of 23 specialists
                  * Drawing on the best recent theory and research, without 
the use of theory-specific jargon
                  * Comprehensive index, bibliographies and maps of language 
distribution and development

Contributors include Winfred P. Lehmann University of Texas at Austin,
                      Ans van Kemenade Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
                      John Ole Askedal Universitetet i Oslo,
                      Erik Andersson Svenska Institutionen,
                      Neil Jacobs Ohio State University,
                      Silke Van Ness, State University of New York at Albany,
                      Suzanne Romaine Merton, College Oxford 

Table of Contents

1. The Germanic Languages 2. Gothic and the Reconstruction of Proto-German
3. Old and Middle Scandinavian 4. Old and Middle Continental West Germanic
5. Old and Middle English 6. Icelandic 7. Faroese 8. Norwegian 9. Swedish
10. Danish 11. German 12. Yiddish 13. Pennysylvanian German 14. Dutch
15. Afrikaans 16. English 17. Frisian 18. Germanic Creoles 

Publisher Routledge, 1994, 648 pp., ISBN 0-415-05768-X

______________________________________________________________________________

Daniel Abondolo, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of 
London
                 THE URALIC LANGUAGES
                 (Routledge Language Family Descriptions)

The Uralic Languages provides a unique, up-to-date survey of the nineteen 
Uralic languages from Hungarian and Finnish to Ostyak and Lapp. Spoken by
more than 25 million native speakers, the Uralic languages have important 
cultural and social significance in Northern and Eastern Europe as well as 
in immigrant communities throughout Europe and North America. This outstanding 
project provides a chapter-length description of each language focusing on the 
structure of the languages as they are today, but also giving an analysis of 
language history and development. Written by internationally-recognized 
experts and based on the most recent scholarship available, the Uralic 
Languages is fully comprehensive. The volume includes detailed research on
the major languages, including the official languages of Estonia, Finland and 
Hungary and rarely-covered minor languages such as Lapp, Mordvinian (Volga 
River valley) and Zyrian (Northern and Eastern European Russian). Each
chapter is written in a format designed for comparative study. Information on 
each language includes an introductory description of the social context and the 
development of the language, and extensive discussions of phonology, 
morphology, syntax, lexis and the main dialects. In addition, there are 
chapters on the history of the field and area typology.

Special Features * The only fully comprehensive book on the Uralic languages 
available in English
                  * the authors of each chapter are leading linguistic 
authorities on the languages discussed, as well as native speakers in many 
cases
                  * examines in length and in depth the history and structure 
of all the languages in the Uralic family
                  * includes an exhaustive index, bibliographies of the major 
references in each language, and maps of language distribution and
development 

Table of Contents

Introductory Chapter (Daniel Abondolo, SSEES, University of London)
1. Saamic languages (Pekka Sammallahti, Finland) 2. Baltic-Fennic languages 
(Tiit-Rein Viitso, Estonia) 3. Estonian (Tiit-Rein Viitso, Estonia) 4.
Finnish (Daniel Abondolo, SSEES, University of London) 5. Mordva (Gabor Zaicz, 
Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Science) 6. Mari (Cheremis) (Eeva 
Kangasmaa-Minn) 7. Permian languages (Timothy Riese, Austria) 8. Udmurt 
(Votyak) (Csucs Sandor, Hungary) 9. Komi (Zyrian) (Anne-Reet Hausenberg, 
Estonia) 10. ObUgrian (Laszlo Honti, Netherlands) 11. Khanty (Ostyak) (Daniel 
Abondolo SSEES, University of London) 12. Mansi (Vogul) (Laszlo Keresztes, 
Hungary) 13. Hungarian (Danial Abondolo, SSEES, University of London)
14. Samoyedic languages (Jaha Janhunen, Finland) 15. Nganasan (Eugene 
Helimski, Russia) 16. Nenets (Tapani Salminen, Finland) 17. Selkup (Eugene 
Helimski, Russia) 18. Kamas (Peter Simoncsis, Denmark)  Index 

Publisher Routledge, 1997, 648 pp., ISBN 0-415-08198-X

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