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 ________________________________________________________________________ October 10, 2002 ISSN 0804 0605 Volume 11: Nr 07 ________________________________________________________________________ <<<<<< CONTENTS >>>>>> * EDITORIAL NOTE * CONFERENCES and COURSES - 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - 5TH MEETING ON TERMINOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - EUROSLA 2003 - WH-MOVEMENT - WORKSHOP ON THE SYNTAX OF VERB INITIAL LANGUAGES - LFG 2003 - THE 30TH FINNISH CONFERENCE OF LINGUISTICS * FUTURE EVENTS : November 2002 - April 2003 * BOOKS & JOURNALS - Cfp: NORTH HOLLAND LINGUISTIC SERIES: LINGUISTIC VARIATIONS - ADJECTIVES, NUMBER AND INTERFACES: WHY LANGUAGES VARY D. Bouchard - IMPLEMENTING TYPED FEATURE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS. A. Copestake - COMPLEX SENTENCES IN GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE J.L. Bybee, M. Noonan - THE GRAMMAR OF CAUSATION AND INTERPERSONAL MANIPULATION M. Shibatani (ed.) - Cfp: THE MULTILINGUAL INTERNET: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN INSTANT MESSAGING, EMAIL AND CHAT Co-editors: B. Danet, S. Herring - THE LANGUAGE ORGAN.LINGUISTICS AS COGNITIVE PHYSIOLOGY S. R. Anderson, D. W. Lightfoot - TYPOLOGY AND UNIVERSALS, Second Edition W. Croft - TONE. M. Yip - FROM THE COLT'S MOUTH ... AND OTHERS'. LANGUAGE CORPORA STUDIES: In honour of Anna-Brita Stenström. Breivik & Hasselgren (eds). - NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY. Vol.20:4 - Cfp: NORDIC JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS VOL. 26 (2003): Special Issue on LANGUAGE CHANGE. C. Falk and T. Riad (Eds.) - LANGUAGE SCIENCES. VOL. 25: 3 * THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORDIC ASSOCIATION OF LINGUISTS ======================================================================== <<<<<< EDITORIAL NOTE >>>>>> And needless to say, the NLB is happy to receive any contributions. This information may be sent to the following address: nlb@hit.uib.no or by snail mail to NLB: Katrin Hiietam Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester M13 9PL U.K. Kind Regards, The Editor, Katrin Hiietam ======================================================================== <<<<<< CONFERENCES and COURSES >>>>>> CFP:16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Szczyrk, Poland 22-May-2003 - 24-May-2003 http://www.us.edu.pl/uniwersytet/konferencje/2003/icfsla/firstcircular.htm Contact Person: Janusz Arabski Meeting Email: enoffice@ares.fils.us.edu.pl Meeting Description: Traditionally, this conference focuses on research in foreign language learning. Although all contributions related to the field are welcome, in the next year's Conference we would like to pay special attention to broadly understood language contact and language transfer in SLA. Linguistic Subfield(s): Applied Linguistics Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2003 An all-inclusive conference fee of approximately PLN 500 ($125) will be collected on arrival at the conference desk. Paper abstracts should be sent before January 31, 2003 to the Institute of English. The registration form, including the paper abstract, may be posted or sent by fax or e-mail. You will be allowed a 20 minute presentation, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. For conference-related matters, contact Professor Janusz Arabski, or Conference Organisers, at the following address, or visit our website. Institute of English, University of Silesia ul. Eytnia 10 41-205 Sosnowiec POLAND tel/fax: (48 32) 291 74 17 e-mail: enoffice@ares.fils.us.edu.pl webpages: http://www.us.edu.pl/uniwersytet/konferencje/2003/icfsla/firstcircular.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- CFP: 5TH MEETING ON TERMINOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Strasbourg, France 31-Mar-2003 - 01-Apr-2003 http://u2.u-strasbg.fr/spiral/TIA2003 Contact Person: Farid Cerbah Meeting Email: farid.cerbah@dassault-aviation.fr Meeting Description: Due to the ever-increasing amount of Machine-readable information, institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full range of tasks, from (cross-lingual ) information retrieval to extraction of structured information from texts, could highly benefit from the availability of semantically structured terminological resources, extracted from specialized corpora. As a result, to bring out innovative solutions, terminology as a disciplin has to enrich and strengthen its links with related areas, including linguistics and computational linguistics, knowledge engineering and information sciences. More particularly, the links between the goals and methods of this pluridisciplinary approach to terminology and knowledge engineering should be emphasized: - Intensive use of corpus-based processing methods - Modeling of technical and scientific domains through the analysis of terminological networks identified in corpora - Definition and elaboration of terminological knowledge that could be used to improve major applications, such as computer-aided translation, document indexing and filtering, or corporate memory management. The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a systematic basis. The 5th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data. Linguistic Subfield(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 09-Dec-2002 You are invited to submit a paper on the following topics: - Meaning theories and terminology - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction - Methods for automatic terminology structuring - Use of terminological resources for building ontologies - Terminology and semantic web - Terminological resources for information retrieval - Problems of multilingual terminology; - Reusability and Standardization - Terminology and hypertext construction - New applications of computer-based terminology This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse), TIA'99 (Nantes), and TIA '01 (Nancy) is organized by the TIA Working Group (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the TIA Working Group and of invited experts. Program Committee - ------------ Chair: Farid Cerbah (Dassault Aviation, Paris, France) - Sofia Ananiadou (,U.K.) - Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France) - Roberto Basili (University of Rome, Italy) - Didier Bourigault (ERSS, Toulouse, France) - Stephane Chaudiron (Ministry of research, university Paris 10, France) - Anne Condamines (ERSS, Toulouse, France) - Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) - Ulrich Heid (University of Stuttgart, Germany) - Claude de Loupy (Sinequa, Paris, France) - Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France) - Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University, Ireland) - Francois Rastier (INALF, Paris, France) - Francois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg, France) - Jean Royaute (INIST, Nancy, France) - Monique Slodzian (Crim-Inalco, Paris, France) - Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/AP-HP, Paris, France) Organizing Committee - -------------- Organizing chair: Francois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAIS, Strasbourg) - Francois de Bertrand de Beuvron (LIIA-ENSAIS, Strasbourg) - Pierre Frath (EA 1339 LDL UniversitŽ Marc Bloch Strasbourg) - Nicolas Gagean (LIIA-ENSAIS et SCOLIA-UniversitŽ Marc Bloch Strasbourg) - Georges Kleiber (EA 1339 LDL SCOLIA-UniversitŽ Marc Bloch Strasbourg) Contact : Rousselot@liia.u-strasbg.fr Submission procedure - ------------- The papers should be written in French or English. They must not exceed 10 pages (about 3000 pages), in times 12, single spaced, including figures and references. A separate page should contain the following information: - Author name(s) - Address(es) - title of the paper - keywords - abstract It is highly recommended to use TIA formatting styles: - Latex : http://u2.u-strasbg.fr/spiral/TIA2003/style-tia2003.zip - MS-Word : http://u2.u-strasbg.fr/spiral/TIA2003/style-tia-2003.doc Electronic submissions should be sent to: Farid Cerbah (farid.cerbah@dassault-aviation.fr) if electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard copies of the papers should be sent to the following address: Farid Cerbah DGT/DPR 78, quai Marcel Dassault 92552 Saint-Cloud Cedex 300 FRANCE Important dates - --------- - Submission deadline: December 9, 2002 - Notification of acceptance : January 20, 2003 - Camera-ready paper: February 14, 2003 Web Site:http://u2.u-strasbg.fr/spiral/TIA2003 ------------------------------------------------------------- Cfp: EUROSLA 2003 Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association Edinburgh, UK, 19-21 September 2003 Organized by the University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University Theme: Formal and Functional Approaches to Second Language Acquisition PLENARY SPEAKERS: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig (Indiana University) Roger Hawkins (University of Essex) Wolfgang Klein (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Ianthi Tsimpli (University of Thessaloniki) PANELS (organisers): Child L2 acquisition (Juergen Meisel Implicit knowledge (John Williams) L2 attrition (Kees de Bot) Near-nativeness (Donna Lardiere) PAPERS are invited on empirical and theoretical second language acquisition research. The selection of papers will be carried out anonymously and priority will be given to abstracts that can be identified with the conference theme "Formal and Functional Approaches to SLA", although other topics are also very welcome. Each author may submit no more than one individual and one co-authored abstract. The paper must not have been previously published. - Deadline for abstract submissions: 31 January 2002 - Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2002 Submission of abstracts should be by email to eurosla@ling.ed.ac.uk. The text of the abstract should be in an attachment (MS Word or rtf format). In the body of the e-mail message, include (1) the title of the paper, (2) name and affiliation of the author(s), and (2) the first author's postal and email addresses. The title of the paper (or a short running title) should be repeated in the subject heading. Please specify one session in which you wish to present: (a) the general session, (b) a panel (select one) or (c) the doctoral workshop. GENERAL SESSION: Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes of presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion. PANELS: There will be 4 thematic panels this year as listed above. Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes of presentation plus 10 minutes of discussion. Presenter are also expected to participate in a general discussion session led by the panel organiser, following the paper presentations. DOCTORAL WORKSHOP: This will focus on methodology with regard to either data analysis or research design or the goodness of fit between theory and method. Each presentation lasts 20 minutes and will be followed by a 10 minute reaction by a senior researcher and 10 minutes of discussion. Submissions should follow the same formal conventions as individual papers (see above). State briefly the aim and the theoretical framework of your work and then raise the methodological problems you submit for discussion. If your presentation is accepted, you will be asked to send a more extensive summary to the discussant of your paper. Following association policy, EUROSLA 2003 will be a multilingual conference: presentation in any European language is acceptable although presenters should bear in mind the usefulness of attracting a wide audience for their ideas. A selection of the most innovative papers will be included in the EUROSLA Yearbook, published in English by the John Benjamins Publishing Co. CONTACTS: For more details concerning the conference venue, travel, and accommodation please refer to our website: http://www.hw.ac.uk/langWWW/eurosla/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Antonella Sorace, Mits Ota (University of Edinburgh) Mike Sharwood Smith (Heriot Watt University) *-*-*-*-*-*-* Mitsuhiko Ota Theoretical & Applied Linguistics University of Edinburgh Edinburgh EH8 9LL, UK Tel: +44 (0)131-650-3949 Fax: +44 (0)131-650-3962 E-mail: mits@ling.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~mits ------------------------------------------------------- Workshop: WH-MOVEMENT Location: Leiden and Utrecht, The Netherlands Date: 12-Dec-2002 - 13-Dec-2002 Web Site: http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/events/events.htm Contact Person: Norbert Corver Meeting Email: Norbert.Corver@let.uu.nl Meeting Description: The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics-OTS and the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics (ULCL) jointly organize a workshop on Wh-movement. Linguistic Subfield(s): Syntax ---------------------------------------------------------- Cfp: WORKSHOP ON THE SYNTAX OF VERB INITIAL LANGUAGES University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. February 21,22,23, 2003 Partly supported by the Dept of Linguistics, University of Arizona and the National Science Foundation. Invited Speakers (Partial List -- more speakers will be announced later) James McCloskey, UCSC Sandra Chung, UCSC Judith Aissen, UCSC Jamal Ouhalla, UC Dublin Lisa deMena Travis, McGill Felicia Lee, UBC Henry Davis, UBC Diane Massam, Toronto Arthur Holmer, Lund U. The syntax of many unrelated verb initial languages are surprisingly similar in ways that might have an explanation in terms of Universal Grammar. In this workshop, we bring together researchers who work on a wide variety of verb initial languages to consider such questions as: Is there a universal derivation of V-initial order? Are there any true syntactic correlates to the order? What explains these correlates? While the workshop will focus on theoretical explanations for typological properties, papers on any aspect of the syntax of verb initial languages are welcome. Call for papers We have a limited number of slots available for 30min talks (+15 for discussion). 5 copies of anonymous abstracts, of no more than 1 page, + 1 page for data/references (12 point font, 1 inch margins) should be submitted to: Verb Initial Syntax Workshop, Program Committee Department of Linguistics Douglass 200E University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721 USA Authors should also include a separate page with address and contact information. Deadline: October 31, 2002. Electronic submissions must arrive before 5pm PST. They must be in PDF format (Sorry no other formats are acceptable), and should be sent to carnie@u.arizona.edu. Pending budgetary availablity, we may have some travel funds for abstract-selected speakers. Andrew Carnie, Sheila Dooley Collberg, Heidi Harley Organizers, Verb Initial Syntax Workshop. ---------------------------------------------------------- Cfp: LFG 2003 .2003 INTERNATIONAL LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE DATES 16-18 July 2003 Saratoga Springs, NY Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2003 Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee (see addresses below) The 8th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference will be held by the Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, SUNY in Saratoga Springs, NY from 16 to 18 July 2003. A pre-conference gathering and, possibly, a tutorial are planned for 15 July. (This is a short version of this CFP, for the full version see: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~jonask/lfg03-cfp.html) SUBMISSIONS: TALKS AND POSTERS The main conference sessions will involve 40-minute talks (30 min. + 10 min. discussion period), and poster/system presentations. Contributions should focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. DISSERTATION SESSION Like in the previous year, we are hoping to hold a special session that will give students the chance to present recent PhD dissertations (or other student research dissertations). The dissertations must be completed by the time of the conference; the 30-minute talks in this session should provide an overview of the contents of the dissertation. WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS We also invite proposals for workshops and/or tutorials. They should be sent to the local organizers at: g.broadwell@albany.edu TIMETABLE Deadline for receipt of paper submissions: 15 February 2003 Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2003 Deadline for workshop submissions: 15 January 2003 Workshop acceptances: 15 February 2003 Conference: 16-18 July 2003 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS Abstracts for talks, posters and the dissertation session must be received by February 15, 2003. For the specification details: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~jonask/lfg03-cfp.html ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to: Program Committee: Jonas Kuhn - jonask@mail.utexas.edu Tara Mohanan - elltaram@nus.edu.sg Mail: LFG 2003 c/o Jonas Kuhn Department of Linguistics 1 University Station, B5100 University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1196 USA Contact the local conference organisers at: Email: George Aaron Broadwell - g.broadwell@albany.edu Mail: George Aaron Broadwell Department of Anthropology Arts & Sciences Building, Room 237 University at Albany, SUNY 1400 Washington Ave. Albany, NY 12222 USA LOCATION Saratoga Springs is a resort town in upstate New York, famous for its mineral waters, spas, and horse racing. It has maintained and restored a beautiful, pedestrian-oriented downtown full of 19th century architecture. During the summer Saratoga Springs is also home to the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York City Ballet. LFG 2003 sessions will be held at Empire State College, SUNY, located in downtown Saratoga Springs. Saratoga Springs is thirty miles north of Albany, NY, which is also the location of the nearest airport. Saratoga Springs is also serviced by Amtrak, Greyhound, and Trailways. The Adirondack Mountains begin about fifteen miles north of Saratoga Springs, at Lake George. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Cfp: THE 30TH FINNISH CONFERENCE OF LINGUISTICS Joensuu (Finland) May 15-16 2003. The abstract (one-page, email) submission deadline will be February 1, 2003. For preliminary information, please contact: KTP2003@joensuu.fi, or jussi.niemi@joensuu.fi. ==================================================================== <<<<<< FUTURE EVENTS (Nov. 2002- April. 2003) >>>>>> NOVEMBER 2002 1.-2.11. Riga, Latvia, 3rd Riga Symposium on Pragmatic Aspects of Translation Contact: Veneta Zigure 1.-2.11. Albuquerque, NM High Desert Linguistics Conference www: http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/call.htm *1.-3.11. Boston, MA B.U. Conference on Language Development www: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/APPLIED/BUCLD 1.-3.11. Wien, Austria 9th International Phonology Meeting www: http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics/conferences/phon02 1.-3.11. Vancouver, BC, Canada Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) www: http://www.linguistics.ubc.ca/wecol2002.htm 1.-3.11. New York, NY 12th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Symposium www: http://kotoba.qc.edu/jk/jk12.html *1.-3.11. Indianapolis, IN 4th North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching www: http://w3.liberalarts.iupui.edu/aaacl/index.html 2.-4.11. Graz, Austria Graz Conference on Reduplication Contact: Bernhard Hurch 6.-9.11. Atlanta Annual Conference of the American Translators Association www: http://www.atanet.org/conference/futuresites.htm *7.-9.11. Frascati, Italy Assessment in Europe: Working Together Towards Understanding www: http://www.eae-europe.net/ 7.-10.11. Tempe, AZ Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics www: http://www.asu.edu/icstll35 7.-10.11. Linköping, Sweden NorFA Workshop on Activity Type Analysis www: http://www.nordiska.uu.se/convnet/calendar/NORFA_Linkoping.html *8.-9.11. Vaasa, Finland AFinLA:n syyssymposiumi www: http://www.uwasa.fi/hut/afinla 8.-9.11. Bern, Switzerland 2. Tage der Schweizer Linguistik www: http://www.isw.unibe.ch/chling02 *8.-10.11. St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada APLA 26: Linguistic Approaches to Literacy Contact: Organizers 8.-10.11. Cambridge, MA Conference of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 33) www: http://linguistics-philosophy.mit.edu/nels 8.-10.11. Taipei, Taiwan Chinese Language and Linguistics (IsCLL VIII) Contact: Academia Sinica *8.-10.11. Hsinchu, Taiwan ELT in Asian Context www: http://mx.nthu.edu.tw/~katchen/pac4.htm *11.-12.11. Nicosia, Cyprus Construction of the Self and of the Other in Tourist Discourse Contact: Fabienne Baider 13.-16.11. Atlanta, GA International Dyslexia Association Annual Conference www: http://interdys.org/servlet/home 14.-15.11. Manchester, UK 6th EAMT Workshop: Teaching Machine Translation www: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/eamt-bcs/cfp.html 14.-15.11. Granada, Spain Foro sobre Direccionalidad en Traducción e Interpretación www: http://www.ugr.es/~forodir 14.-16.11. Chambery, France Litterature et linguistique: diachronie / synchronie Contact: Dominique Lagorgette 15.-16.11. Helsinki, Finland International Symposium "Reconnecting Finnic" www: http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/sugl/proj/recfin *15.-16.11. Brest, France Aspect linguistiques du texte de propagande www: http://www.univ-brest.fr/erla/journees3 15.-16.11. Stuttgart, Germany Information Structure in Context www: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~hans/ws.html 15.-17.11. Berlin, Germany EXPOLINGUA Berlin www: http://www.expolingua.com 15.-17.11. Paris, France TESOL France www: http://www.tesol france.org 15.-17.11.Baltimore, MD SECOL LXVII & SAMLA www: http://www.samla.org 16.11. Portsmouth, UK Quality Issues in Translation www: http://www.hum.port.ac.uk/slas/translationconference 20.-22.11. Hamilton, New Zealand Language and Society Conference www: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/ling *20.-23.11. Bajadoz, Spain International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education www: http://www.formatex.org/congreso.html 21.-24.11. Atlanta, GA National Council of Teachers of English www: http://www.ncte.org *22.-23.11. Rome, Italy TESOL Italy www: http://www.tesol.it 22.-23.11. Manchester, UK Linguistic Areas, Convergence and Language Change www: http://www.nwcl.salford.ac.uk/confs.htm *22.-24.11. Shizuoka, Japan Japan Association for Language Teaching www: http://jalt.org/jalt2002 *22.-24.11. Salt Lake City, UT American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages www: http://www.actfl.org *25.-27.11. Rönneby, Sweden Netlearning 2002 www: http://netlearning2002.org/net.nsf *25.-27.11. Abakan, Russia Urgent Problems in Linguistics and Literary Studies www: http://lib.khsu.ru/272/2955.html 26.-28.11. Pamplona, Spain Congreso Internacional sobre Análisis del discurso www: http://www.unav.es/linguis/actividades.htm 26.-28.11. Mysore, India 25th All India Conference on Linguistics www: http://www.ciil.org/announcement/25lsi.html 27.-29.11. Berlin, Germany Online Educa Berlin www: http://www.online-educa.com 27.-30.11. Evora, Portugal Language - Communication - Culture Contact: Luis Guerra 28.11. Oslo, Norway The Grammar of Gender / Genus i grammatikken Contact: Hans-Olav Enger 28.-29.11. Groningen, The Netherlands Going Romance 2002 www: http://www.let.rug.nl/~going/call32002.htm 28.-30.11. Moscow, Russia Russia and the West: Dialogue of Cultures Contact: Organizers *28.-30.11. Brussels, Belgium New Perspectives in Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching www: http://www.ulb.ac.be/philo/langlitt/BAAHE2002.html 30.11. Groningen, The Netherlands Going Romance Workshop on Acquisition www: http://www.let.rug.nl/~going/call42002.htm 30.11.-1.12. Warsaw, Poland Generative Linguistics in Poland (GLiP-5) www: http://venus.ci.uw.edu.pl/~glip/ DECEMBER 2002 2.12. Canberra, Australia 5th Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop www: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Conferences/anlp2002 3.-6.12. Auckland, New Zealand Computers in Education (ICCE 2002) www: http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz 4.-6.12. Padua, Italy 11th Meeting of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe Contact: Federico Damonte 5.-7.12. Brussels, Belgium 2nd International Workshop 'r-atics2' Contact: Hans Van de Velde *5.-7.12. Paris, France Colloque "La didactique des langues face aux cultures linguistiques et éducatives" www: http://www.indiana.edu/~ssla/didactique.html 6.-7.12. München, Germany Das zweite Symposium des Münchner Promotionsstudiengang 'Literaturwissenschaft' www: http://www.promotion-lit.uni-muenchen.de 6.-7.12. Mannheim, Germany IDS Kolloquium "Brücken schlagen - Zur Semantik der Konnektoren" www: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/gra/konnektoren/Kolloquium-hdk.htm *6.-8.12. Linz, Austria 3rd Annual IALIC Conference www: http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/langcom/ialic/conference/index.html *6.-8.12. Hong Kong 7th English in Southeast Asia Conference www: http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~lcesea *9.-11.12. Manila, The Philippines Applied Linguistics and Language Education: Theory and Practice www: http://www.lsp.i-p.com/ 10.-12.12. Vancouver, Canada Neural Information Processing Systems www: http://nips.cc/ 11.-13.12. Ljouwert, The Netherlands Frisian Philologists Congress Contact: P. Boersma 12.-13.12. Leiden, The Netherlands Workshop "On Wh-Movement" www: http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/conferences/WH-movement/wh-movement.htm *12.-13.12. Perth, Australia 7th CALLR Round Table Conference "Freedom through Knowledge" www: http://www.ecu.edu.au/ses/research/CALLR/RTcall2002.html *12.-16.12. Hong Kong 21st Language Testing Research Colloquium www: http://www.engl.polyu.edu.hk/ACLAR/ltrc.htm *13.-15.12. Singapore Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics www: http://pc171115.pc.waseda.ac.jp/ccdl/paal_index.html *16.-21.12. Singapore AILA 2002 www: http://www.aila2002.org *16.-21.12. Singapore CETaLL Symposium on Online Learning Environments www: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/LangCent/forlang/german/cetall.htm *16.-21.12. Singapore AILA Scientific Commission on Language and the Media Contact: Prof. Ulrike H. Meinhof *16.-21.12.Singapore AILA Symposium on Lingua Franca Communication Contact: Dr. Christiane Meierkord *16.-21.12. Singapore AILA Scientific Commision on Learner Autonomy in Language Learning Contact: Terry Lamb *16.-21.12. Singapore AILA Symposium on Language Contact, Variation and Change Contact: Dr. Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain 18.-21.12. Mumbai, India Knowledge Based Computer Systems www: http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs2002 *27.-30.12. New York, NY Modern Language Association of America www: http://www.mla.org 2003 JANUARY 2003 2.-5.1. Atlanta, GA Linguistic Society of America (LSA) www: http://www.lsadc.org 2.-5.1. Atlanta, GA NAAHoLS 2003 www: http://linguistlist.org/~naahols/ 3.-5.1. London, UK Joint Meeting of the Forum for Germanic Studies and the Society of Germanic Linguistics Contact: Dr. Klaus Fischer 5.-7.1. Delhi, India Conference on Argument Structure www: http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uclyara/argument1.htm 9.-11.1. Leiden, The Netherlands Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP 1) www: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/ocp1 12.-15.1. Honolulu, Hawai'i International Conference on Arts and Humanities www: http://www.hichumanities.org/ 15.-17.1. Tilburg, The Netherlands 5th International Workshop on Computational Semantics www: http://let.kub.nl/research/TI/sigsem/iwcs/iwcs5/index.htm *20.-24.1. Santiago, Cuba 8th International Symposium on Social Communication www: http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba *24.-27.1. Jackson Hole, WY Annual Winter Conference on Discourse, Text and Cognition www: http://www.uic.edu/depts/psch/cog/wintertext *30.1.-1.2. Barcelona, Spain 6th International Conference on Languages for Specific Purposes www: http://www.upc.es/eupvg/cilfe6/index.htm FEBRUARY 2003 *7.-9.2. Bielefeld, Germany ESP and Testing, Evaluation and Assessment Contact: Wolfgang Ridder 8.-9.2. Vaasa, Finland XXIII VAKKI-symposiumi: "Diakronia synkroniassa" Contact: Johanna Ketola www: http://www.uwasa.fi/hut/vakki 13.-15.2. Urbino, Italy XXIX Incontro di grammatica generativa Contact: Caterina Donati 15.-17.2. Washington, DC Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics www: http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt 15.-17.2. Washington, DC Conference on Lavender Languages and Linguistics www: http://www.american.edu/lavenderlanguages 16.-22.2. Mexico City, Mexico International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics www: http://www.CICLing.org/2003 19.-21.2. Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 12. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen Contact: Dr. Jana Korcakova *26.-28.2. München, Germany Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) www: http://www.dgfs-home.de *26.-28.2. München, Germany DGfS Workshop "Utterance Meanings at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface" www: http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/dgfs-2003 26.-28.2. München, Germany DGfS Workshop "Ontological Knowledge and Linguistic Coding" www: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~andrea/DGfS2003 26.-28.2. München, Germany DGfS Workshop"Event Arguments in Syntax, Semantics and Discourse" Contact: Angelika Wöllstein-Leisten *26.-28.2. München, Germany DGfS Workhop "Linguistic Knowledge and Language Acquisition" Contact: Heike Behrens MARCH 2003 5.-8.3. Marburg, Germany The Inaugural International Dialectologist Congress of IGDD www: http://www.igdd.gwdg.de *6.-8.3. Minneapolis, MN Central States Language Conference www: http://www.centralstates.cc 6.-8.3. Paris, France 2nd Person Pronouns and Forms of Address in European Languages Contact: Secretariat *9.-11.3. Arlington, VA Language Instruction for Diverse Learners www: http://www.langinnovate.msu.edu/conference-instruction.html 11.-13.3. Mannheim, Germany Wortverbidungen - mehr oder weniger fest - IDS Jahrestagung 2003 www: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/org/tagungen/tagung2003.html 13.-15.3. Aarhus, Denmark Knowledge Systems in Text and Translation www: http://www.euroconferences.info/aarhus.htm 13.-16.3. Oslo, Norway First International Conference on Missionary Linguistics www: http://www.hf.uio.no/kri/mlc *13.-16.3. Denver, TX Southwest Conference on Language Teaching www: http://www.learnalanguage.org/SWCOLT 20.-23.3. Frankfurt am Main, Germany Communication - Media - Intimacy www: http://www.unizh.ch/~elwyss/Symposion_CFP.html 21.-23.3. San Diego, CA West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics www: http://ling.ucsd.edu/wccfl-22 *22.-25.3. Arlington, VA American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) www: http://www.aaal.org/aaal2003 *22.-25.3. Arlington, VA AAAL Panel on Second Language Acquisition and Emotions www: http://www.aaal.org/aaal2003 24.-26.3. Palo Alto, CA AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Natural Language Generation in Spoken and Written Dialogue www: http://www.cs.niu.edu/~nlgdial *25.-26.3. Lunteren, The Netherlands Sociolinguistische Conferentie www: http://www.anela.nl/lunteren4 *25.-29.3. Baltimore, MD Annual TESOL Convention www: http://www.tesol.org 27.-28.3. Uppsala, Sweden Första svenska lingvistikkonferensen www: http://www.ling.uu.se/sling 27.-29.3. Louvain-la-Neuve, Switzerland Iconicity in Language and Literature www: http://home.hum.uva.nl/iconicity 27.-29.3. Nantes, France International AAAI Workshop on Prosodic Interfaces Contact: Amina Mettouchi 29.-31.3. Cambridge, UK British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies www: http://www.basees.org.uk 31.3.-3.4. Zaragoza, Spain Discourse and Society: Identifying Self and the Other in/through Language Contact: M. J. Luzón APRIL 2003 4.-5.4. Turku, Finland, KŠŠntŠmisen ja tulkkauksen tutkimuksen symposiumi Contact: Jarmo Jantunen 4.-6.4. Lodz, Poland, Practical Applications in Language Corpora Contact: Organizers 4.-6.4. Bath, UK, Language World Conference and Exhibition www: http://www.languagelearn.co.uk/language_world_conf.htm 4.-8.4. Nashville, TN, Chinese Dialect and Historical Linguistics www: http://www.yuenrensociety.com/nextmeeting.html 7.-11.4. Ile de Porquerolles, France, Ecole thŽmatique de phonologie et phonŽtique, www: http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~etpp03 8.-10.4. Belfast, Northern Ireland, CAL '03 - 21st Century Learning www: http://www.cal2003.com 9.-11.4. Bristol, UK, Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages www: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~gexnl *9.-11.4. Bangkok, Thailand, International Conference "Research in ELT" www: http://arts.kmutt.ac.th/research_in_elt *10.-12.4. Southampton, UK, BALEAP 2003: Developing Academic Literacy www: http://www.baleap.org.uk/content/conferences/index.htm *10.-12.4. Santiago de Compostela, Spain, XXI Congreso de AESLA www: http://www.aesla.uji.es/Congreso/lugo.htm *10.-13.4. Washington, DC, The Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, www: http://www.dickinson.edu/nectfl 11.-12.4. Freiburg, Switzerland, Lektoren und Lektorinnen Deutsch als Fremdsprache, www: http://www.ledafids.ch/index.htm 12.-17.4. Budapest, Hungary, European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, www: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/ 12.-17.4. Budapest, Hungary, Student Research Workshop at EACL'03 www: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/conf/eacl03-student 22.-24.4. Brighton, UK, IATEFL Annual Conference www: http://www.iatefl.org/ 22.-24.4. Bloomington, IN, French in the United States www: http://www.indiana.edu/~creole/french_in_the_united_states.htm *23.-26.4. Brighton, UK, IATEFL's 37th International Conference and Exhibition, www: http://www.iatefl.org 24.-27.4. Bloomington, IN, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 33), www: http://www.indiana.edu/~lsrl33/ 24.-27.4. Buenos Aires, Argentina, IV Congreso Latinoamericano de Traducci-n e Interpretaci-n, www: http://www.traductores.org.ar/des.html 26.-27.4. Leiden, The Netherlands, 2nd Holland-York Symposium on the History of English Syntax www: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/hollandyork 30.4.-2.5. St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, First Conference of The International Society for Language Studies, www: http://home.earthlink.net/~isls/call.htm *30.4.-3.5. Tempe, AZ, 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism www: http://isb4.asu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Proposals: NORTH HOLLAND LINGUISTIC SERIES: LINGUISTIC VARIATIONS The goal of this new and provocative collection is to put at the disposal of the linguistic community studies which contribute to a deeper understanding of the nature of linguistic variation within the generative tradition that has been developing since the middle of the twentieth century. The series pays particular attention to the tension between descriptive and explanatory adequacy more accurately reformulated as a tension between the simplicity of the language faculty and its apparent complexity. Volumes cover the traditional domain of syntactic studies, but will also include related areas such as semantics, morphology, phonology, and the lexicon. The series also aims at distributing studies which constitute important contributions to the field, in particular to the domain of micro- and macro- variation, which are currently difficult to access. Although the main focus will be on generative linguistics, it does not exclude studies of a more general nature or from different schools of thought, insofar as they contribute to the advancement of the generative program. Previous titles in the series and forthcoming volumes include: Volume 62 (forthcoming) L. Jenkins Ed "Variation and Universals in Biolinguistics" Volume 61 D. Bouchard "Adjectives, Number and Interfaces: Why Languages Vary". Volume 60 Z. Boskovic "On the Nature of the Syntax-Phonology Interface: Cliticization and Related Phenomena". Volume 59 G. Cinque & G. Salvi Eds. "Current Studies in Italian Syntax: Essays Offered to Lorenzo Renzi." Volume 58 V. Motapanyane Ed. "Comparative Studies in Romanian Syntax". Projects or manuscripts for the series are most welcome and should be sent to one of the series editors: Johan Rooryck Department of French, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 71 527 2049 Email: J.E.C.V.rooryck@let.leidenuniv.nl Pierre Pica Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 9 rue de Quatrefages 75005 Paris, France. Tel: +33 1 43 36 49 65. Email: pica@msh-paris.fr For more information on the NORTH HOLLAND LINGUISTIC SERIES: LINGUISTIC VARIATIONS, visit http://www.socscinet.com/linguistics/nhls -------------------------------------------------------------------- ADJECTIVES, NUMBER AND INTERFACES: WHY LANGUAGES VARY By: D. Bouchard, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Canada Volume 61 in the series North-Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variations Publication date: October 2002 Hardbound ISBN: 0-08-044055-X 460 pages Price: USD 94/EUR 94 * Imprint: NORTH HOLLAND * This study explains why languages vary the way they do in the domain of adjectival modification in French as contrasted with other Indo-European languages. The author rejects previous well known analyses in terms of syntactic movement to various functional heads and proposes a model in which external properties of interfaces are the foundations from which the variation is derived. Limiting severely the technical apparatus of syntax, the author argues that the properties of Number at the interfaces are shown to provide a simple and precise solution for longstanding problems of compositionality raised by adjectival modification. There is also a unified analysis of the many other properties involved. The model provides a principled explanation of the variation concerning nominals without determiners (Bare NPs) and determiners without nominals (clitics). For further information on this book and ordering details, please see: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/008044055X --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPLEMENTING TYPED FEATURE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS Author: Ann Copestake 2002 University of Chcago Press http://www.journals.uchicago.edu Book URL: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu Hardback: ISBN: 1575862611, Pages: 244, Price: USD 62.00 Paperback: ISBN: 1575862603, Pages: 244, Price: USD 22.00 Abstract: Typed feature structure formalisms allow linguistically precise and theoretically motivated descriptions of human languages to be used in real-world applications such as email response, spoken dialogue systems, and machine translation. This book provides a theoretical and practical introduction to typed feature structures and their use in computational linguistics. Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars includes informal, yet rigorous, descriptions of typed feature structure logic as well as formal definitions. This presentation covers the basics of grammar development, introducing the reader to treatments of syntax, morphology, and semantics and discussing the computational issues involved in parsing and generation. This book also acts as a user manual for the Linguistic Knowledge Building (LKB) system, which was developed by the author and her colleagues. The LKB system is a grammar and lexicon development environment that allows the reader to experiment with the various grammars described in the book and learn the details of the formalism. However it is also powerful and efficient enough to support development of large-scale grammars. The LKB system is freely available as Open Source and is compatible with Windows, Linux, and Solaris. [To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature to locate the book, then order).] Lingfield(s): Computational Linguistics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) --------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPLEX SENTENCES IN GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE Subtitle: Essays in honor of Sandra A. Thompson Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Author: Joan L. Bybee Author: Michael Noonan Hardback: ISBN: 9027225850, Pages: viii, 363 pp., Price: EUR 110.00 Hardback: ISBN: 1588111172, Pages: viii, 363 pp., Price: USD 100.00 Abstract: The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career. Table of Contents Introduction Joan L. Bybee and Michael Noonan vii - viii Main clauses are innovative, subordinate clauses are conservative: Consequences for the nature of constructions Joan L. Bybee 1 - 17 Participles in Tsez: An emergent word class? Bernard Comrie 19 - 30 Mini-grammars of some time-when expressions in English Charles J. Fillmore 31 - 59 Denial and the construction of conversational turns Cecilia E. Ford 61 - 78 On the embodied nature of grammar: Embodied being-in-the-world Barbara A. Fox 79 - 99 The symmetry of counterfactuals John Haiman and Tania A. Kuteva 101 - 124 Note on the grammar of Turkish nominalizations Pelin Engin Hennesy and T. Giv—n 125 - 144 Hendiadys and auxiliation in English Paul J. Hopper 145 - 173 "Sentence" in spontaneous spoken Japanese discourse Shoichi Iwasaki and Tsuyoshi Ono 175 - 202 Some issues concerning the origin of language Charles N. Li 203 - 221 Are subordinate clauses more difficult? Carol Lord 223 - 233 Combining clauses into clause complexes: A multi-faceted view Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen 235 - 319 Overwrought utterances: "Complex sentences" in a different sense Emanuel A. Schegloff 321 - 336 Publications by Sandra A. Thompson 337 - 345 Name index 351 - 355 Subject index 357 - 363 Lingfield(s): Functional & Systemic Ling (Linguistic Theories) Linguistic Theories Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) -------------------------------------------------------------- THE GRAMMAR OF CAUSATION AND INTERPERSONAL MANIPULATION Series Title: Typological Studies in Language Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Editor: Masayoshi Shibatani Hardback: ISBN: 902722952X, Pages: xviii, 551 pp., Price: EUR 145.00 Hardback: ISBN: 1588111199, Pages: xviii, 551 pp., Price: USD 132.00 Paperback: ISBN: 1588111202, Pages: xviii, 551 pp., Price: USD 58.95 Paperback: ISBN: 9027229538, Pages: xviii, 551 pp., Price: EUR 65.00 Abstract: This volume presents fifteen original papers dealing with various aspects of causative constructions ranging from morphology to semantics with emphasis on language data from Central and South America. Informed by a better understanding of how different constructions are positioned both synchronically (e.g., on a semantic map) and diachronically (e.g., through grammaticalization processes), the volume affords a comprehensive up-to-date perspective on the perennial issues in the grammar of causation such as the distribution of competing causative morphemes, the meaning distinctions among them, and the overall form-meaning correlation. Morphosyntactic interactions of causatives with other phenomena such as incorporation and applicativization receive focused attention as such basic issues as the semantic distinction between direct and indirect causation and the typology of causative constructions. Table of Contents Preface ix Appreciation Philip W. Davis xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction: Some basic issues in the grammar of causation Masayoshi Shibatani 1 Cooperation and interpersonal manipulation in the society of intimates T. Giv—n and Phil Young 23 Verbs of interpersonal causality and the folk theory of mind and behavior Bertram F. Malle 57 The causative continuum Masayoshi Shibatani and Prashant Pardeshi 85 Causation, constructions, and language ecology: An example from French Michel Achard 127 Tarascan causatives and event complexity Ricardo Maldonado and E. Fernando Nava 157 Some constraints on Cora causative constructions Ver—nica V‡zquez Soto 197 Olutec causatives and applicatives Roberto Zavala 245 On some causative doublets in Classical Nahuatl Michel Launey 301 The notion of transfer in Sikuani causatives Francisco Queixal̸s 319 Causative constructions in Akawaio Anatol Stefanowitsch 341 Causation in Matses (Panoan, Amazonian Peru) David W. Fleck 373 Causativization and transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo Pilar M. Valenzuela 417 Causatives in Asheninka: The case for a sociative source David Payne 485 Guaran’ - causative constructions Maura Vel‡zquez-Castillo 507 Index 535 Lingfield(s): Functional & Systemic Ling (Linguistic Theories) Linguistic Theories Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Call For Papers: THE MULTILINGUAL INTERNET: LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION IN INSTANT MESSAGING, EMAIL AND CHAT Co-editors: Brenda Danet Susan Herring Hebrew University of Jerusalem Indiana University and Yale University Bloomington brenda.danet@yale.edu herring@indiana.edu In today's multilingual, global world, hundreds of millions of people are communicating on the Internet not only in its established lingua franca, English, but also in many other languages. To date, the research literature in English on the features of computer-mediated communication has focused almost exclusively on emergent practices in English, neglecting developments within populations communicating online in other languages. This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, a peer-reviewed online journal. We may also edit a follow-up book on the same theme, containing a wider selection of papers, with a major publisher. Papers may relate to instant messaging, private email, postings to listserv lists and newsgroups, text-only chat, e.g., on IRC or MOOs, visually enhanced chat, or SMS (short message service) in mobile phone use. We invite papers on topics such as: - The influence of the local language on the use of a medium, e.g., the distinctive features of email or chat in languages with specific font-related requirements (e.g., French, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, Korean, Chinese). - Cultural constraints on the use of the medium, e.g., how traditional requirements for deference in Japanese language and culture are realized or modified in online communication; Italian non-verbal and verbal expressivity as realized in typed chat. - Comparison of the distinctive features of email or chat in two or more language-culture groups or sub-groups with differing cultural orientations, e.g., Austrian German versus German German. - Chat in situations of diglossia--differentiation between spoken and written languages and dialects (e.g., Moroccan spoken Arabic and how it is being realized in typed chat). - Code-switching in bilingual or multilingual online communication. - The clash between requirements of formality in the letter-writing tradition in a given language-culture constellation and the trend toward speech-like patterns in online textual communication. - Language and play with culture, including play with identity (e.g., via nicknames). - A comparison of online communication within the same language- culture group but in different languages, e.g., Israeli chat in English versus Hebrew. - The effects of the English language or global "netspeak" (Crystal, 2001) on email and chat in the local language. - Online communication in English by non-native speakers, focusing on language and culture issues. Submission procedures: Potential authors should submit a preliminary proposal of 500-1000 words by November 30, 2002 (earlier submissions are encouraged). The proposal should describe the research question, the data and methods of analysis, preliminary findings/observations and their broader significance, and should include selected references. The proposal should also include a tentative paper title. Authors whose proposals are accepted for inclusion will be invited to submit a full paper of roughly 7,000-10,000 words by April 15, 2003. Since JCMC is an interdisciplinary journal, authors should plan for papers that will be accessible to non-specialists. If you have a potentially suitable paper that is already published or slated for publication elsewhere, we would also like to hear from you, as it might be possible to republish high quality articles in the follow-up book. Questions? Proposal ideas? Please address all correspondence electronically to both co-editors: Brenda Danet (brenda.danet@yale.edu) and Susan Herring (herring@indiana.edu). A Web version of this Call for Papers is available at: http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/cfpmultilingual.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LANGUAGE ORGAN LINGUISTICS AS COGNITIVE PHYSIOLOGY Stephen R. Anderson, Yale University David W. Lightfoot, Georgetown University, Washington DC Cambridge University Press This study treats human language as the manifestation of a faculty of the mind, which is seen as a mental organ whose nature is determined by human biology and whose functional properties should be explored as physiology explores the functional properties of physical organs. The book surveys the nature of the language faculty in its various aspects: the systems of sounds, words, and syntax, the development of language in the child and historically, what is known about its relation to the brain. Contents: Introduction 1. Studying the human language faculty 2. Language as amental organ 3. Syntax 4. Sound patterns to language 5. Describing linguistic knowledge 6. Phonetics and the I-linguistics of speech 7. Morphology 8. Language change 9. 'Growing' a language 10. The organic basis of language 2002/284 pp./2 halftones 052180994-0/Hb/List: $65.00 052100783-6/Pb/List: $24.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------ TYPOLOGY AND UNIVERSALS, Second Edition William Croft, University of Manchester Cambridge University Press The second edition of this essential textbook has been thoroughly rewritten and updated to reflect advances in typology and universals over the past decade. It reviews new methodologies such as the semantic map model and questions of syntactic argumentation; discussion of current debates over explanations for specific classes of universals; and comparison of the typological and generative approaches to language. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Typological classification 3. Implicational universals and competing motivations 4. Grammatical categories: typological markedness 5. Grammatical hierarchies and the semantic map model 6. Prototypes and the interaction of typological patterns 7. Syntactic argumentation and syntactic structure in typology 8. Diachronic typology 9. Typology as an approach to language Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics 2002/c. 320 pp./23 figures/1 map/16 tables 052180884-7/Hb/List: $65.00 052100499-3/Pb/List: $23.00 -------------------------------------------------------------------- WORD. A CROSS-LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY Editor R.M.W. Dixon, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Cambridge University Press A distinguished international group of scholars analyze the concept of "word" and its applicability in a range of typologically diverse languages. The languages include Amazonian, Australian Aboriginal, Eskimo, Native North American, West African, Balkan, Caucasian and Indo-Pakistani Sign Language. They exhibit a great range of phonological, morphological and grammatical characteristics, enabling the contributors to refine the definition of a "word" against this broad linguistic landscape. The book is of interest to scholars of linguistic typology and of morphology. Contributors: R.M.W. Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Anthony C. Woodbury, John Henderson, Ulrike Zeshan, Robert Rankin, John Boyle, Randolph Graczyk, John Koontz, Knut J. Olawksy, Alice C. Harris; Brian Joseph, P.H. Matthews 1. Word: a typological framework R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 2. Typological parameters for the study of clitics, with special reference to Tariana Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 3. The word in Cup'ik Anthony C. Woodbury 4. The word in Eastern/Central Arrernte John Henderson 5. The eclectic morphology of Jarawara, and the status of word R. M. W. Dixon 6. Towards a notion of 'word' in sign languages Ulrike Zeshan 7. Synchronic and diachronic perspective on 'word' in Siouan Robert Rankin, John Boyle, Randolph Graczyk and John Koontz; 8. What is a word in Dagbani Knut J.Olawksy 9. The word in Georgian Alice C. Harris 10. The word in Modern Greek Brian Joseph 11. What can we conclude? P. H. Matthews. 2002/c. 280 pp. 052181899-0/Hb/List: $65.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------- TONE Moira Yip, University of London, UK Cambridge University Press The sounds of language can be divided into consonants, vowels, and tones--the use of pitch to convey meaning. Seventy percent of the world's languages use pitch in this way. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of the topic, this textbook provides a clearly organized introduction to tone and tonal phonology. Comprehensive in scope, it examines the main types of tonal systems found in Africa, the Americas, and Asia, using examples from the widest- possible range of tone languages. Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Contrastive tone; 3. Tonal features; 4. The autosegmental nature of tone, and its analysis in Optimality Theory; 5. Tone in morphology and in syntax; 6. African languages; 7. Asian and Pacific languages; 8. The Americas; 9. Tone, stress, accent and intonation; 10. Perception and acquisition of tone. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics 2002/376 pp./13 figures/9 maps 052177314-8/Hb/List: $70.00* 052177445-4/Pb/List: $24.00* ------------------------------------------------------------- FROM THE COLT'S MOUTH ... AND OTHERS'. LANGUAGE CORPORA STUDIES: . In honour of Anna-Brita Stenström. Breivik & Hasselgren (eds). Series Title: Language and Computers Vol. 40 2002 Publisher: Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Editor: Leiv Egil Breivik Editor: Angela Hasselgren Hardback: ISBN: 9042014792, Pages: 270, Price: USD 65 Comment: Also available online Abstract: Contents Acknowledgements Preface Jan Aarts: Does corpus linguistics exist? Some old and new issues Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg: Zero translations and cross-linguistic equivalence: Evidence from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus Gisle Andersen: Corpora and the double copula Pieter de Haan: The non-nominal character of spoken English Eli-Marie Drange: Teenage slang in Norway Thorstein Fretheim and Stig Johansson: The semantics and pragmatics of the Norwegian concessive marker likevel: Evidence from the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus Angela Hasselgren: Sounds a bit foreign Ingrid Kristine Hasund: Congratulations, like! - Gratulerer, liksom! Pragmatic particles in English and Norwegian John M. Kirk: Applications of the Stenström model of discourse structure Göran Kjellmer: The Britain: An unexpected case of article usage in present-day English Magnus Ljung: What vocabulary tells us about genre differences: A study of lexis in five newspaper genres Dieter Mindt: What is a grammatical rule? David Minugh: 'Her COLTISH energy notwithstanding': An examination of the adposition notwithstanding Gunnel Tottie and Hans Martin Lehmann: As and other relativizers after same in present-day standard English Anne Wichmann: Looking for attitudes in corpora Lingfield(s): Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (Language code: ENG) Norwegian, Bokmaal (Language code: NRR) Swedish (Language code: SWD) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) ----------------------------------------------------------------- NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY. November 2002, Volume 20 (Issue: 4) ISSN: 0167-806X http://kluwer.m0.net/m/s.asp?HB7045666791X1585499X130834XLINGUIST%40linguistlist.org CONTENTS: To be an Oblique Subject: Russian Vs. Icelandic HALLDîR çRMANN SIGUR-DSSON, 691 Romance Enclisis, Prepositions, and Aspect CHRISTINA TORTORA, 725 Raised Possessors and Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic VEERLE VAN GEENHOVEN, 759 Clitic Placement after Syntax: Evidence from Wolof Person and Locative Markers, ANNE ZRIBI-HERTZ, LAMINE DIAGNE, 823 Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Lars Hellan (eds.), Topics in South Slavic Syntax and Semantics, Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 172, Series IV. ABIGAIL W. KONOPASKY, 885 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers: NORDIC JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS VOL. 26 (2003): Special Issue on LANGUAGE CHANGE Edited by Cecilia Falk and Tomas Riad. This topic ranges over a wide variety of questions of both empirical and theoretical interest. Language change affects all linguistic domains: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. Within the history of the languages spoken in the Nordic countries, some changes are well documented and well described, others less well so; some changes are well attested across Germanic and beyond (development of V2, quantity shift), others are rare and claimed to be exceptional (e.g. suffixed definite article, development of tonal accents). Old as well as new data can contribute to a better understanding of language structure at different levels and the (possible) interaction between different levels of language, synchronically as well as diachronically. Other relevant questions concern the relation between language change on the one hand and language acquisition, language contact, etc. on the other. One much debated question concerns the possible triggers of change: can one change trigger another change, or should two closely related changes be seen as one (in some sense more abstract) change? To what extent and in what sense is language change predictable? New data and/or reinterpreted old data can shed new light on the supposed mechanisms of change, such as reanalysis, analogy, grammaticalization, sound shift, etc. Also, new theories and methodologies often recast the old questions in a productive manner. Another topic of interest is how language change is reflected synchronically. What kind of data (historical or contemporary) can reveal ongoing change? Vowel shifts have recently been investigated in this manner, but what about e.g. syntactic change? To what extent can we infer change in a certain direction from extant language variation at a certain point in time? Indeed, can variation remain stable over time? We invite papers which address these and other issues relating to the theme. The deadline is January 31, 2003, and papers should be sent to either of the two guest editors: Cecilia Falk Department of Scandinavian Languages University of Lund, Helgonabacken 14, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden Cecilia.Falk@nordlund.lu.se Tomas Riad Department of Scandinavian Languages University of Stockholm, UniversitetsvŠgen 10 D SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Tomas.Riad@nordiska.su.se ---------------------------------------------------------------- Journal: LANGUAGE SCIENCES ISSN : 0388-0001 Volume : 25 Issue : 3 Date : May-2003 Elsevier Science For more information about this journal visit: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jnlnr/00867 If you are interested in submitting a paper to this journal visit: http://authors.elsevier.com/jnlnr/867 Table of Contents: Editorial Board pp CO2 The functional-pragmatic field of possibility in Russian: meaning and structure, Y. BELYAEVA-STANDEN pp 239-262 Near synonyms as co-extensive categories: 'high' and 'tall' revisited J.R. TAYLOR pp 263-284 Vantages on the category of vertical extent: John R. Taylor's ''high'' and ''tall'' R.E. MACLAURY pp 285-288 Putting apes (body and language) together again S. COWLEY, D. 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