________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1001. Sun 28 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 93 Subject: 4.1001 Confs: Spoken French Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 09:29:16 EST From: lessard@quvinci.francais.QueensU.CA (Greg Lessard) Subject: CFP: spoken French (ASCII format) -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 09:29:16 EST From: lessard@quvinci.francais.QueensU.CA (Greg Lessard) Subject: CFP: spoken French (ASCII format) APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS Colloque Langue parlee: stabilite, variation et representation Centre Donald Gordon Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada 3 - 5 mai 1994 Organisateurs: Departement d'etudes francaises, Queen's University Departement des lettres et communications, Universite de Sherbrooke Depuis quelques annees, on constate un interet croissant pour l'etude de la langue parlee, interet rendu possible, entre autres choses, par l'existence de corpus importants, par des moyens d'analyse informatisee et par des modeles theoriques plus orientes sur les realites de l'oralite. On voit maintenant dans la langue parlee, non pas une masse amorphe et mal structuree, mais plutot le produit d'un ensemble complexe de strategies et de contraintes. Le colloque se definit avant tout comme un lieu de rencontre pour ceux et celles qui se servent de corpus pour l'analyse du francais oral. Dans le but de fournir un forum commun pour les diverses orientations theoriques et methodologiques, nous invitons des propositions de communication portant sur les aspects phonetique, morphologique, lexical, syntaxique ou discursif de la langue parlee. Le colloque vise surtout le contexte quebecois et canadien; toutefois, des chercheurs travaillant sur d'autres varietes du francais sont invites a confronter leurs resultats avec les travaux canadiens et quebecois. Les propositions de communication, basees sur des recherches originales et non publiees, s'appuyeront sur des donnees empiriques, plutot que sur des exemples construits. Il n'y aura pas de seances paralleles. Nous prevoyons un maximum de 25 communications. Selon la formule consacree, les communications dureront 20 minutes chacune, plus 10 minutes pour les questions. Les propositions de communication d'une page, redigees en francais (sur papier, sur disquette en format WordPerfect ou ASCII, ou sous forme de courrier electronique) doivent parvenir aux responsables avant le 1er fevrier 1994. Toute proposition comprendra les nom, adresse, numero de telephone, numero de telecopieur et adresse electronique de l'auteur principal. Les reponses du comite d'evaluation seront envoyees avant le 1er mars 1994. Les auteurs retenus auront alors jusqu'au 1er avril 1994 pour soumettre le texte final d'un resume etendu (2000 mots). L'ensemble des resumes etendus sera distribue a tous les participants et participantes au colloque. Une selection des communications choisie par le comite d'evaluation sera publiee _in extenso_ dans un numero de la revue _Presence Francophone_. Adresse pour l'envoi des propositions de communication et pour renseignements supplementaires: Colloque ORALITE Departement d'etudes francaises Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Tel: 613-545-2088 Fax: 613-545-6522 Email: lessard@francais.queensu.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1001. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1002. Sun 28 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 83 Subject: 4.1002 Call: Symposium About Language and Society Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 01:32:19 -0600 (CST) From: jonathan loftin Subject: SALSA Call for Papers -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 01:32:19 -0600 (CST) From: jonathan loftin Subject: SALSA Call for Papers ************************* S A L S A ************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased to announce its Second Annual Meeting to be held April 15-17, 1994 at the University of Texas at Austin. Papers are invited on topics concerning the relationship between language, culture and society. These include but are not limited to: Linguistic Anthropology Variation and Social Networks Natural Discourse Ethnography of Communication Speech Play, Verbal Art, and Poetics Discourse-based Approaches to Language and Culture ********************* 1994 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS IAN HANCOCK--UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN CAROL MYERS-SCOTTON--UNIVERSITY OF S. CAROLINA KATHRYN WOOLARD--UC SAN DIEGO ********************* Papers delivered at the conference will be published in a special edition of the Texas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected based on the evaluation of an ANONYMOUS proposal which may not exceed one page (unreduced). The proposal should include a specific statement of the topic or issue, a brief description of the relevant data, and the conclusions. Please submit SIX (6) copies of the proposal, on 81/2x11 paper, to the address below. Proposals should be accompanied by a 3x5 card with the following information: 1) The title of the paper 2) Author's name(s) 3) Author's affiliation 4) Address and phone number at which the author wishes to be notified. In addition please submit a one hundred word abstract of the proposal, on a 3.5" disc, for publication in the conference program. Discs may be either IBM or Macintosh, in text-only or ASCII format. Please label your disc clearly. Submissions must be received by January 18. 1994. Late submissions will not be accepted, and we cannot accept papers which are to be published elsewhere. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent in early February, 1994. Registration fees will be $15 for students and $25 for non-students. Papers must be received by May 6, 1994 to be included in the published proceedings. Please send all correspondence to: SALSA Department of Linguistics UT Austin Austin, TX. 78712-1196. email: SALSA@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu *NOTE: We cannot accept abstracts sent via email. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1002. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1003. Mon 29 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 234 Subject: 4.1003 Sum: Genitive marker Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 93 17:33:00 PST From: Picus Sizhi Ding Subject: Sum: Genitive marker -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 93 17:33:00 PST From: Picus Sizhi Ding Subject: Sum: Genitive marker About a month ago I made a query about the function of genitive marker, and I got quite a number of responses. Thanks go to Kevin Donnelly (Irish Gaelic), Pamela Downing, Matthew Dryer, Hartmut Haberland (Danish), Jan Krister Lindstrom (Finnish), Debbie Mandelbaum, Siamak Rezaei (Persian), Tapani Salminen (Finnish), Martin Silverman, Masja Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Shu-huei Wang (Japanese), and Robert Westmoreland (Japanese). This summary is organized as follows: ^1. An abridged version of the original query ^2. Examples and languages given by the correspondents ^3. 'Genitive marker'?: A debatable issue ^4. References recommended by the correspondents ^1. An abridged version of the original query I am looking at the use of genitive marker beyond marking possession esp. in non-Sino-Tibetan languages, like the example below: (1) a year's study a three days' journey ... (more outside the time domain, English speakers?) This kind of modifying function is widely used in Chinese languages, Tibetan, and perhaps many other languages of this family or of the neighboring areas (e.g. Miao-Yao). Take Mandarin for example: (2) wo I ni you wo de my ni de your (3) wo xie de xin bu-jian le. I write letter Neg-see ASP 'I lost the letter that I wrote.' Can anybody point me to languages that use genitive marker in a way similar to those in (1) and/or (3)? It will be very helpful if references are provided along. ^2. Examples and languages given by the correspondents Almost all of the examples provided in the actual languages are parallel to those English examples in (1). Danish den gaml.e konge.s datter the old.DEF king.GEN daughter the old king's daughter en to uge.r.s ferie a two week.PLUR.GEN holiday a two weeks' holiday Finnish vuoden opiskelu 'a year's study' (-n is the genitive suffix) Kolmen vuoden opinnot. three(gen) year(gen) studies 'Three years' studies' Viikon ik{inen vauva. week(gen) old baby 'A week's old baby' H{n oli tuolloin viiden vanha. S/he was then five(gen) old 'S/he was then five's old (five years old)' Pojasta on jo kasvanut miehen mittainen. boy has already grown (into) man's length 'The boy is already in the length of a man' Irish Gaelic turas bliana journey year (GEN) "a year's journey" mo/ra/n airgid much money (GEN) "lots of money" tuilleadh spe/ise more interest (GEN) "more interest" Japanese ichi nen kan no bengyoo a year * 's study (* kan means period of time) baka no otto fool GEN husband "a husband of a fool" or "a fool of a husband" Persian ('-e' is called EZAFE marker) seab -e man apple I my apple modalea -e yek saleh study 1 year one year study seab -e sorkh apple red red apple Languages offered without specific examples include: 'There are some parallels with Tagalog and other Philippine languages, which has a linker particle which occurs between various modifiers and noun, including some genitives, though with nominal genitives and postnominal pronominal genitives, it has become grammaticized, though remains with prenominal pronominal genitives. ... As I recall, Hausa also has some sort of linker that occurs with genitives and some other modifiers.' 'In my target language (Nenets of NW SIberia), genitive is also used to form time adverbials, as if "night-GEN" 'at night', "this day-GEN" 'today', or manner adverbial, as if "axe-GEN" 'with an axe' etc.' 'I think that 1) is normally expressed by genitives in a number of Indo-European languages, like the Romance languages, Lithuanian, Latvian, etc. 3) is much more a Sino-Tibetan phenomenon (I remember reading Matisoff on this issue once), but occurs elsewhere, e.g., in some African languages (Kushitic, Nilo- Saharan).' 'I can also check some Daghhestanian languages for you: at least some of them seem to use the general marker of attribution across various predicate types (i.e., they form genitives and participles in the same way).' As the netters can see, these data are really interesting, though I cannot fully appreciate them with so little knowledge of them. ^3. 'Genitive marker'?: A debatable issue As it often happens in life, when you ask a question, instead of getting an answer, you get more questions. A debatable issue arose with the term 'genitive marker' I used in the query. First Tapani Salminen voices that: I am not quite sure whether it is a question of the use of genitive marker beyond marking possession in the examples (1)/(3)a, i.e. it depends how we choose to define 'possession'. The genitive case is certainly used in the Finnish translation, ..., but it appears to me just as another instance of more abstract "possessivity", examples of which abound in all languages. In other words, one should not eve try to equate the concepts of 'possession' and 'genitive'. Later Matthew Dryer points out that: Perhaps it is a terminological quibble, but I would not call the 'de' in Mandarin a genitive marker, but rather just a marker of certain modifier-head relations, one of which is the one with genitives. I meant that these particles should be examined in terms of some general modifying function rather than specifically indicating genitive. Basically I agree that all the functions of the marker in question (Shall we call it marker Q for the time being?) can be viewed as belonging to a group or set. But I wonder if there is not a distinction, say centralness, between the members of the group, i.e. what kind of relation can be unfolded? I am glad to hear from Masja Koptjevskaja-Tamm about her on-going research project, which undoubtedly will shed light on the marker Q. I am carrying on a cross-linguistic study of possessive NPs, mainly from the point of view of their patterns of polysemy (i.e., what other meaning relations, besides the purely possessive, can be expressed by the same construction). I am also trying to relate these patterns of polysemy to the structural characteristics of possessive NPs (e.g., whether the possessive marker is a kind of dependent- or head-marking). I hope that in the near future I will be able to propose some hypothesis with the information I got and, of course, more research on this subject. Until then, I think I will not say more about the query, except that I would like to thank all of the correspondents again. ^4. References recommended by the correspondents Aristar, Anthony. 1991. On diachronic sources and synchronic pattern: An investigation into the origin of linguistic universals. _Language_ v 67,1: 1-?. Kerstin Eksell Harning. 1980. The Development of the Analytical Genitive in Arabic, Stockholm. Kiki Nikiforidou (1991) "The meanings of the genitive" _Cognitive Linguistics_ 2:149-205. Vida Samiian. 1983. Structure of Phrasal Categories in Persian: An X-Bar analysis. UCLA PhD thesis. 'Schachter and Otanes is a good source on Tagalog.' Seiler, Hansjakob, 1983. Possession as an Operational Dimension of Language. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Seiler, Hansjakob, and Christian Lehmann, eds, 1982. Apprehension, Teil I, Teil II. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Seiler, Hansjakob, and Gunter Brettschneider, eds., 1985. Language Invariants and Mental Operations. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Mi/chea/l O/ Siadhail. 1989. "Modern Irish: Grammatical structure and dialectal variation". Cambridge University Press. -- Picus Ding Estu songhanto, sed faranto ankau. Department of Linguistics Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1003. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1004. Mon 29 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 203 Subject: 4.1004 Conf: CONSOLE II Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 15:21:34 +0100 (MET) From: Marcel den Dikken Subject: FOR THE LISTSERV -- CONSOLE II PROGRAM -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 15:21:34 +0100 (MET) From: Marcel den Dikken Subject: FOR THE LISTSERV -- CONSOLE II PROGRAM CONSOLE II (The Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe) December 10-12, 1993 Universitaet Tuebingen - Universitaet Stuttgart =============================================== Conference site --------------- University of Tuebingen Neuphilologie, Brecht-Bau Room 027 (ground floor) Wilhelmstrasse 50 Tuebingen Registration ------------ Thursday, 9th Dec., 17:00-20:00, at the Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft (SfS), Wilhelmstrasse 113, Tuebingen or Friday morning, 10th Dec., at the Neuphilologie, Wilhelmstr. 50 For further information please contact Jung-Goo Kang & Lisa Breidt Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Wilhelmstrasse 113 D-72074 Tuebingen email: console@arbuckle.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de fax: +49-7071-550520 phone: +49-7071-294279 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM =================== Thursday, December 9 -------------------- 17:00-20:00 Registration & Reception at the Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft, Wilhelmstrasse 113, 72074 Tuebingen Friday, December 10 ------------------- 9:15 Opening of the conference 9:30-10:15 On Wh-Movement and Focus-Movement in Bulgarian Roumyana Izvorski, University of Pennsylvania 10:15-11:00 The Disjoint Reference Requirement in Russian Subjunctive Clauses Sergey Avrutin and Maria Babyonyshev, MIT 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:15 A Unified Account of Restructuring in German, Polish and Spanish Joachim Sabel, Universitaet Frankfurt 12:15-13:00 A Minimalist View on Verb Raising Karen Lattewitz, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 13:00-15:00 Lunch 15:00-15:45 Tense in Complement Clauses in Germanic Languages Laura Joosten, University of Edinburgh 15:45-16:30 Aspect and Discourse Relations Mariana Damova, Universitaet Stuttgart 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-17:45 Verbal Case and the Nature of Polysynthetic Inflection Colin Phillips, MIT 17:45-18:30 Reconstruction and Mapping Jeffrey T. Runner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 19:15-20:15 Evening Lecture Tertiumne Datur? On the Referential Properties of Lexical Items Thomas Ede Zimmermann, Universitaet Stuttgart Saturday, December 11 --------------------- 9:30-10:15 Voice Heads and the Licensing of Subjects in Cebuano Emily Sityar, UCLA and University of Arizona, Tucson 10:15-11:00 On the Relevance of Split Complementizer Hypothesis to Case and Agreement in Standard Arabic Samir Khalaily, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden/HIL 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:15 Inflected Infinitival Clauses in Portuguese Ana Maria Madeira, University College London 12:15-13:00 Clitic Climbing in Causative Constructions Xavier Villalba, Universitat de Barcelona 13:00-15:00 Lunch 15:00-15:45 On the Distribution and Interpretation of "-ever" in English Free Relatives Victoria Tredinnick, University of Pennsylvania 15:45-16:30 Generalized Referential Dependencies Piroska Csuri, Brandeis University 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-17:45 On the Necessity of QR as a Syntactic Rule Cristina Schmitt, University of Maryland, College Park 17:45-18:30 Case Configuration and Referentiality Andre Meinunger, FAS Berlin 20:00- ... Party Sunday, December 12 ------------------- 10:00-10:45 Icelandic u-umlaut in Optimality Theory Thomas B. Klein, University of Delaware 10:45-11:30 Fast Speech Reduction in German Stefanie Jannedy, Ohio State University 11:30-12:15 The Processing of Definite Phrases with Extraposed Modifiers Susanne Tunstall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 12:15-14:00 Lunch offered by the CONSOLE II organizers 14:00-14:45 Quantification over Individuals and the Temporal Interpretation of NPs Renate Musan, MIT 14:45-15:30 Licensing Interactions at the Interface Maria Uribe-Etxebarria, University of Connecticut Alternates ---------- Temporal Paraphrases and Clitics in Advanced Romance Language Franco Benucci, Universita di Padova Relation between FT and ST: Mechanism for Verbal Aspectual as Viewpoints Minglang Zhou, Michigan State University and University of Oregon Nasal Spreading as a Non-Local Process Manuela Noske, University of Chicago -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1004. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1005. Mon 29 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 193 Subject: 4.1005 FYI: publication lists & CELEX-cd available Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 16:32:18 -0800 (PST) From: jcamacho@chaph.usc.edu (Jose Camacho) Subject: USC Linguistics dissertations available 2) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 18:35:29 -0400 From: glsa@linguist.umass.edu Subject:New GLSA Publications List Available! 3) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 14:55 +0100 (MET) From: Richard Piepenbrock Subject: CELEX English, German and Dutch lexical data on CD-ROM -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 16:32:18 -0800 (PST) From: jcamacho@chaph.usc.edu (Jose Camacho) Subject: USC Linguistics dissertations available GSIL Publications List Effective November 15, 1993 Graduates Students in Linguistics (G.S.I.L.) Department of Linguistics University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693 U.S.A. Titles available: Dissertations: 1 Authier, J-M. Syntax of unselective binding (1988) 2 Franco, J. On object agreement in Spanish (1993) 3 Heggie, L. Syntax of copular structures (1988) Titles available shortly: 4 Katada, F. The representation of anaphoric relations in logical form (1990) For e-mail information, please contact jcamacho@scf.usc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1993 18:35:29 -0400 From: glsa@linguist.umass.edu Subject:New GLSA Publications List Available! The updated publication list of the Graduate Linguistic Student Association (GLSA) of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is available online in three different ways: 1) A short version of the list (without full tables of contents) is available on the Linguist List Listserver; 2) A long version of the list (with tables of contents) is available by anonymous ftp to linguistics.archive.umich.edu in the directory /linguistics/papers/available 3) Both versions of the Publications List are available by emailing glsa@linguist.umass.edu --glsa@linguist.umass.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 14:55 +0100 (MET) From: Richard Piepenbrock Subject: CELEX English, German and Dutch lexical data on CD-ROM This message is posted to announce the release of a CD-ROM with lexical data by the Dutch Centre for Lexical Information which can be obtained from the Linguistic Data Consortium. CONTENTS AND AVAILABILITY OF THE CD-ROM --------------------------------------- The CD-ROM, which contains the CELEX lexical databases of English (version 2.5), Dutch (version 3.1) and German (version 2.0), is now available for research purposes from the Linguistic Data Consortium for $150. For each language, the CD-ROM contains detailed information on the orthography (variations in spelling, hyphenation), the phonology (phonetic transcriptions, variations in pronunciation, syllable structure, primary stress), the morphology (derivational and compositional structure, inflectional paradigms), the syntax (word class, word-class specific subcategorisations, argument structures), and word frequency (summed word and lemma counts, based on recent and representative text corpora) of both wordforms and lemmas (English: 52446 lemmas, 160594 wordforms; German: 50708 lemmas, 359611 wordforms; Dutch: 124136 lemmas, 381292 wordforms). Postscript files describe the available lexical information in detail. The original Celex databases can be consulted interactively either by using the SQL*PLUS query language within an ORACLE RDBMS environment, or by means of the specially designed user interface FLEX. The databases on this CD-ROM have not been tailored to fit any particular database management program. Instead, the information is presented in a series of plain ASCII files in a UNIX directory tree that can be queried with tools such as AWK or ICON. Unique identity numbers allow the linking of information from different files. As in the original databases, some kinds of information have to be computed on-line. Wherever necessary, AWK functions have been provided to recover this information. README files specify the details of their use. The CD-ROM is mastered using the ISO 9660 data format, with the Rock Ridge extensions, allowing it to be used in VMS, MS-DOS, Macintosh (*) and UNIX environments. Anyone who would like to purchase the CD-ROM should send a check or purchase order made payable to the "Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania" to Judith Storniolo Administrative Assistant, LDC Linguistic Data Consortium 441 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 storniol@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Tel: +1/215/898-0464 Fax: +1/215/573-2175 (*) If someone has a Mac with a cdrom drive that was obtained before 12/92, and has not installed any system upgrades since that date, then that system will not be able to read the CELEX CD-ROM. In such a case, all that is needed is to obtain the upgraded driver software (a very small amount of code), and copy it onto the system in place of the existing driver. The upgrade can be obtained as follows: Connect to ftp server: ftp.apple.com Go to directory: dts/mac/sys.soft/cdrom Get file: cd-rom-setup GETTING INRTODUCTORY INFORMATION ON THE CD-ROM ---------------------------------------------- Further details concerning the lexical databases can be obtained by anonymous ftp from the LDC as follows: connect to: ftp.cis.upenn.edu go to directory: pub/ldc set transfer mode: binary get file: celex.info.tar.Z This file, which corresponds to Chapter 1 of the CELEX User Guide written by Gavin Burnage and which is subject to CELEX copyright, can be decompressed and output to a postscript-capable printer. The content of this document should provide answers to most questions regarding the content and use of CELEX. Persons outside of Europe who are interested in CELEX, but are unable to retrieve and print the introductory text themselves, may request a hard copy of the document from the LDC. Persons in Europe who want a hard copy of the document mailed to them, and anyone who still has technical questions after reading the document, should direct their inquiries to: Richard Piepenbrock CELEX Project Manager Max-Planck-Institut fuer Psycholinguistik Wundtlaan 1 6525 XD NIJMEGEN The Netherlands Tel: (+31) (0)80 - 615797 Fax: (+31) (0)80 - 521213 EARN/BITNET: celex@hnympi51 Internet: celex@mpi.nl SURFNET: celex::celexmail JANET: celex%hnympi51@uk.ac.earn-relay Apart from making the introductory text freely available, the LDC is not equipped to provide detailed replies as to technical details of the CELEX CD-ROM. Please contact the LDC only if you need assistance in obtaining the document, or would like to purchase the disc. APPENDIX: A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE ENGLISH DATA ON THE CD-ROM ------------------------------------------------------------ When starting to use the English database, the user first has to choose between two so-called `lexicon types': - a lemma lexicon - a wordform lexicon Each lexicon type uses a specific kind of entry. The CELEX lemma lexicon is the one most similar to an ordinary dictionary since every entry in this lexicon represents a set of related inflected words. In a lexicon, a lemma can be represented by using a headword (cf. traditional dictionary entries) such as, for example, `call' or `cat'. The wordform lexicon yields all possible inflected words: every entry in the lexicon is an inflectional variant of the related headword or stem. So, a wordform lexicon contains words like `call', `calls', `calling', `called', `cat', `cats' and so on. For both types of lexicons, the user may subsequently select any number of columns -- from approximately 150 database columns -- combining information on the orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax and frequency of the entries. The information sheet `Lexical Data, English' summarizes the types of information available. An exhaustive overview of the columns available is given in the CELEX User Guide. LEXICAL DATA, ENGLISH The lexical data that can be selected for each entry in the different English lexicon types can be divided into five categories: orthography, phonology, morphology, syntax and frequency. In a separate section, example data are given for each of these categories. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Orthography - with or without diacritics (spelling) - with or without word division positions - alternative spellings - number of letters/syllables Phonology - phonetic transcriptions (using SAMPA notation or (pronunciation) Computer Phonetic Alphabet (CPA) notation) with: - syllable boundaries - primary and secondary stress markers - consonant-vowel patterns - number of phonemes/syllables - alternative pronunciations Morphology - Derivational/compositional: (word structure) - division into stems and affixes - flat or hierarchical representations - Inflectional: - stems and their inflections Syntax - word class (grammar) - subcategorisations per word class Frequency - COBUILD frequency(*) ------------------------------------------------------------------- (*)These frequency data are based on the COBUILD corpus (sized 18 million words) built up by the University of Birmingham, Great Britain. EXAMPLE DATA, ENGLISH An arbitrary query using a small English lemma lexicon (that is, one with very few columns) might yield the following result: ----------------------------------------------------------- Headword Pronunciation Morphology: M: Cl Freq Structure Cl ----------- ---------------- ------------------- -- -- ---- celebrant "sE-lI-br@nt ((celebrate),(ant)) Vx N 6 celebration %sE-lI-"breI-Sn, ((celebrate),(ion)) Vx N 201 cell "sEl (cell) N N 1210 cellar "sE-l@r* (cellar) N N 228 cellarage "sE-l@-rIdZ ((cellar),(age)) Nx N 0 cellist "tSE-lIst ((cello),(ist)) Nx N 5 cello "tSE-l@U (cello) N N 25 cellular "sEl-jU-l@r* ((cell),(ular)) Nx A 21 celluloid "sEl-jU-lOId ((cellulose),(oid)) Nx N 29 ----------------------------------------------------------- An example selection from a small English wordform lexicon, showing the inflectional variants of the headwords given in the previous example, is presented in the next table: ----------------------------------------------------------- Word Word division Pronunciation Cl Type Freq ------------ --------------- ----------------- -- ---- ---- celebrant cel-e-brant "sE-lI-br@nt N sing 2 celebrants cel-e-brants "sE-lI-br@nts N plu 4 celebration cel-e-bra-tion %sE-lI-"breI-Sn, N sing 144 celebrations cel-e-bra-tions %sE-lI-"breI-Sn,z N plu 57 cell cell "sEl N sing 655 cells cells "sElz N plu 555 cellar cel-lar "sE-l@r* N sing 187 cellars cel-lars "sE-l@z N plu 41 cellarage cel-lar-age "sE-l@-rIdZ N sing 0 cellarages cel-lar-ag-es "sE-l@-rI-dZIz N plu 0 cellist cel-list "tSE-lIst N sing 5 cellists cel-lists "tSE-lIsts N plu 0 cello cel-lo "tSE-l@U N sing 24 cellos cel-los "tSE-l@Uz N plu 1 cellular cel-lu-lar "sEl-jU-l@r* A pos 21 celluloid cel-lu-loid "sEl-jU-lOId N sing 29 ------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1005. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1006. Mon 29 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 72 Subject: 4.1006 New Books: Collections: NELS, Harvard Working Papers Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------- Note ------------------------------------------ Additional information on the following books, as well as a short backlist of the publisher's titles, may be available from the Listserv for some of the publishers listed here. To get this information, simply send a message to: Listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu (Internet) or Listserv@tamvm1 (Bitnet) The message should consist of the single line: get publishername lst linguist For example, to get more information on a book published by Mouton de Gruyter, send the message: get mouton lst linguist At the moment, the following lists are available: benjamin lst (John Benjamin) erlbaum lst (Lawrence Erlbaum) kluwer lst (Kluwer Academic Publishers) mouton lst (Mouton de Gruyter) oup lst (Oxford University Press) sil lst (Summer Institute of Linguistics) ucp lst (University of Chicago Press) uma-glsa lst (U. of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Association) ------------------------------New Books------------------------------ NELS 23: The proceedings of the 23rd meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (University of Ottawa, 1992); A. Schafer (ed.); Pb. 2 vols; $30 Graduate Linguistic Student Association (GLSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. glsa@linguist.umass.edu NELS 23 includes papers in many areas of syntax, phonology, psycholinguistics, and semantics. More information on the contents of NELS 23 is available from glsa@linguist.umass.edu UMOP 16; University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics, vol 16: Phonological Representations (1993); T. Sherer (ed.); Pb.; $15; Graduate Linguistic Student Association (GLSA), University of Massachusetts, Amherst. glsa@linguist.umass.edu UMOP 16 includes papers in phonology by J. N. Beckman; A. E. Gnanadesikan; J. Kingston; J. J. McCarthy; B. Rohrbacker; S. Rosenthall; J. Runner; A. J. Schafer; T. D. Sherer; R. Thorburn; S. C. Urbanczyk; L. J. Walsh. Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics, vols. 2 & 3. Harvard Ling. Dept., Grays Hall Basement, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. $14 each (plus $2 postage if mailed). Make checks to Dept. of Linguistics, Harvard University. Vol. 2 contains papers on phonology and historical linguistics (by Calabrese, Fortson, Nichols, Oliver, Peter, Pyatt, Reiss, Vaux). Vol. 3 contains papers on syntax (by Baptista, Bolotin, Epstein, Ferguson, Groat, Kim, Kitahara, O'Neill, Poole, Roegnvaldsson, Thrainsson). Exchange of similar publications desired. Contact Hoskuldur Thrainsson - or Steve Peter at address above. (e-mail: "thrainss@husc.harvard.edu", "peter1@husc.harvard.edu") -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1006. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1007. Mon 29 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 173 Subject: 4.1007 New Book Available for Discussion: Ling. & Philosophy Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------- Note ------------------------------------------ Additional information on the following books, as well as a short backlist of the publisher's titles, may be available from the Listserv for some of the publishers listed here. 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Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------- Note ------------------------------------------ Additional information on the following books, as well as a short backlist of the publisher's titles, may be available from the Listserv for some of the publishers listed here. To get this information, simply send a message to: Listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu (Internet) or Listserv@tamvm1 (Bitnet) The message should consist of the single line: get publishername lst linguist For example, to get more information on a book published by Mouton de Gruyter, send the message: get mouton lst linguist At the moment, the following lists are available: benjamin lst (John Benjamin) erlbaum lst (Lawrence Erlbaum) kluwer lst (Kluwer Academic Publishers) mouton lst (Mouton de Gruyter) oup lst (Oxford University Press) sil lst (Summer Institute of Linguistics) ucp lst (University of Chicago Press) uma-glsa lst (U. of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Association) ------------------------------New Books------------------------------ SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION GASS, Susan (Michigan State University, East Lansing), SELINKER, Larry (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; Lawrence Erlbaum Assocs. 0-8058-0493-5 [cloth] $79.95; 0-8058-0494-3 [cloth] $34.50; 368pp. This authored text was crafted to present the field of second language acquisition in an introductory fashion without sacrificing its richness or complexity. It will be useful in courses in psychology, linguistics, and education. Email: orders@leahq.mhs.compuserve.com COMPUTERS AND LINGUISTICS Fox, Barbara A. (University of Colorado, Boulder); The Human Tutorial Dialogue Project: Issues in the Design of Instructional Systems; 0-8058-08264 [cloth] $32.50, 0-8058-1072-2 [paper] $16.50; 144pp. Erlbaum. This authored book documents the dialogue processes in naturally occurring human tutoring, in the context of informing the design of intelligent tutoring systems, and of interactive systems in general. Email: orders@leahq.mhs.compuserve.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1008. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1009. Mon 29 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 67 Subject: 4.1009 New Books: Historical linguistics Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------- Note ------------------------------------------ Additional information on the following books, as well as a short backlist of the publisher's titles, may be available from the Listserv for some of the publishers listed here. To get this information, simply send a message to: Listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu (Internet) or Listserv@tamvm1 (Bitnet) The message should consist of the single line: get publishername lst linguist For example, to get more information on a book published by Mouton de Gruyter, send the message: get mouton lst linguist At the moment, the following lists are available: benjamin lst (John Benjamin) erlbaum lst (Lawrence Erlbaum) kluwer lst (Kluwer Academic Publishers) mouton lst (Mouton de Gruyter) oup lst (Oxford University Press) sil lst (Summer Institute of Linguistics) ucp lst (University of Chicago Press) uma-glsa lst (U. of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Association) ------------------------------New Books------------------------------ HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Aertsen, Henk & Robert J. Jeffers (eds.) HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1989. Papers from the 9th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Rutgers University, 14-18 August 1989. John Benjamins 1993 xvii, 538 pp. Historical Linguistics Cloth US:1 55619 560 5/EUR:90 272 3608 9 US$110.00/Hfl. ,-- Van Marle, Jaap (ed.) HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1991. Papers from the 10th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, August 12- 16 1991. John Benjamins 1993 xvii, 395 pp. Historical Linguistics Cloth US:1 55619 561 3/EUR:90 272 3609 7 US$90.00/Hfl. ,-- Lord, Carol HISTORICAL CHANGE IN SERIAL VERB CONSTRUCTION John Benjamins 1993 x, 270pp.+index Linguistic Theory, Historical Cloth US:1 55619 416 1/EUR:90 272 2913 9 US$60.00/Hfl. ,-- Paper US:1 55619 417 X/EUR:90 272 2914 7 US$24.95/Hfl. ,-- Contains cross-language descriptions and analyses which illustrate the true range of serial verb constructions as well as the linguistic structures which evolve from serial constructions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1009. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1010. Mon 29 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 100 Subject: 4.1010 FYI: National Software Registry Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 10:51:36 +0100 From: registry@dfki.uni-sb.de (The Software Registry) Subject: Natural Language Software Registry -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 93 10:51:36 +0100 From: registry@dfki.uni-sb.de (The Software Registry) Subject: Natural Language Software Registry LL L L LLLLLL LLLLLL L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L LLLLL LLLLLL L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L LL LLLLLLLLL LLLLLL L L Natural Language Software Registry ****************************** * 2nd EDITION NOW AVAILABLE * ****************************** The Registry team is proud to announce the 2nd edition of the Natural Language Software Registry. Its purpose is to facilitate the exchange and evaluation of natural language processing software within the research community. To this end, the Natural Language Software Registry is cataloging natural language software projects, both commercial and non- commercial. The new updated and enlarged version contains more than 100 descriptions of natural processing software. Registry listings include: + speech signal processors, such as the Computerized Speech Lab (Kay Electronics) + morphological analyzers, such as PC-KIMMO (Summer Institute for Linguistics) + parsers, such as Alveytools (University of Edinburgh) + semantic and pragmatic analyzer, such as NLL (University of the Saarland, Germany) + generation programs, such as FUF (Ben Gurion University of the Negev) + knowledge representation systems, such as Rhet (University of Rochester) + multicomponent systems, such as ELU (ISSCO), PENMAN (ISI), Pundit (UNISYS), SNePS (SUNY Buffalo), + NLP-Tools, such as GULP (University of Georgia) or Linguist (Kansai Research Laboratory) + applications programs (misc.) We are most thankful to these and other research teams who have taken the time to document their achievements. If you have developed a piece of software for natural language processing that other researchers might find useful, you can include it by returning the questionnaire available from the sources below. In the coming months, the Registry team will also be involved in a study of linguistic software repositories for the European Community. Researchers who regard their systems as potential EC resources are encouraged to contact us for consideration of their software in this pilot study. The document and the questionnaire can be obtained through ftp: Germany: ftp.dfki.uni-sb.de (134.96.188.252) (directory: pub/registry, password:anonymous) e-mail: registry@dfki.uni-sb.de post: Natural Language Software Registry Deutsches Forschungsinstitut fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbruecken Germany We are also grateful to the Center for Lexical Research and to the Design Research Institute for providing ftp service in the US: crlftp.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.33) The directory is pub/non-lexical/NL_Software_Registy dri.cornell.edu (128.84.180.39) The directory is /pub/Natural_Language_Software_Registry/ or /pub/NLSR -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1010. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1011. Mon 29 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 99 Subject: 4.1011 Qs: Canadian Languages, Context Free Grammar, Malay, Citation Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 93 14:09:43 EST From: Ron Smyth Subject: native studies/lg. acquisition 2) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 15:01:46 EST From: Alexis_Manaster_Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Q: Context free grammars with regular expressions 3) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 14:02:06+080 From: paulwu@iss.nus.sg (Paul Wu) Subject: Query: Malay Dictionary and Morphology 4) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 05:36 PST From: wardk@cse.ogi.edu (Karen Ward) Subject: Query: Morrow et al, 1991 -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 28 Nov 93 14:09:43 EST From: Ron Smyth Subject: native studies/lg. acquisition For our upcoming native studies week, I would like to present something in my language acquisition course on the acquisition of native languages that are spoken in Canada. Please send suggestions to smyth@lake.scar.utoronto.ca Ron Smyth -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 15:01:46 EST From: Alexis_Manaster_Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Q: Context free grammars with regular expressions Does anybody know who introduced regular expressions, such as the Kleene star (as in a rule like NP -> NP (CONJ NP)*) into context- free grammars? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 14:02:06+080 From: paulwu@iss.nus.sg (Paul Wu) Subject: Querry: Malay Dictionary and Morphology Hi, there, Anybody knows of work on machine readable/tractable dictionary and computational morphology for Malay? Thanks, Paul -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 05:36 PST From: wardk@cse.ogi.edu (Karen Ward) Subject: Query: Morrow et al, 1991 An anonymous reviewer has mentioned an analysis of Air Traffic Control (TRACON) conversations by "Morrow et al, 1991." I would very much like to find this study, but with only the above information our reference librarians have not been able to find anything plausible. Do any of you recognize this study? A full citation would be ideal, but at this point I'd be appreciative of even an additional clue: author's full name, co-authors' names, a vague recollection of where you might have seen this study, etc. Thanks! Karen Ward (wardk@cse.ogi.edu) Dept of Computer Science and Engineering Oregon Graduate Institute, Beaverton, OR USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1011. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1012. Tue 30 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 101 Subject: 4.1012 Qs: Part of speech, Subjective possessive, Punjabi, Philology Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 15:03:34 EST From: Alexis_Manaster_Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Q: Parts of Speech and Crossclassification 2) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 15:07:22 EST From: Alexis_Manaster_Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Q: Subjective and objective 3) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 16:00 CST From: Subject: query on Punjabi 4) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 11:57:13 +0200 From: "Dip.Linguistica" Subject: Germanic Philology -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 15:03:34 EST From: Alexis_Manaster_Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Q: Parts of Speech and Crossclassification Does anybody know who first realized that the traditional system of grammatical categories, such as parts of speech, is inadequate because of cross-classification (that is, the fact that, for example, there is not a single class of pronouns but rather pro-Ns, pro-NPs, pro-Adverbs, etc., and likewise no one class of adverbs bur rather ad-Vs, ad-VPs, ad-Adjs, etc.)? Also, would anybody know how the mistranslation "part of speech" got started for what should after all be "part of sentence"? I assume that this is due an ambiguity in the Latin "pars orationis", but what are the specifics? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 15:07:22 EST From: Alexis_Manaster_Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Q: Subjective and objective Does anybody know of references to languages (such as the Polynesian ones) which have distinct subjective and objective possessives? I am particularly interested in the history of the terms 'subjective' and 'objective' in this connection. Likewise, the history of the 'subjective genitive' and the 'objective genitive'. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 16:00 CST From: Subject: query on Punjabi I'm trying to find info on Punjabi, specifically, any P&P work dealing with verb raising in Punjabi. If anyone knows of any papers (published or not) or persons (living) of relevance, I'd appreciate hearing from you. Please post directly to my address: EUBANK@VAXB.ACS.UNT.EDU thanks, Lynn Eubank -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 11:57:13 +0200 From: "Dip.Linguistica" Subject: Germanic Philology I an trying to gather information on the history of Germanic Philology in the US. The areas of inquiry include any and all of the following: OE,OHG,ON,OS, etc., Gremanic Linguistics, Germanic languages and literaaatures, historical linguistics,etc., I need to know how the discipline id defined in the US, origins and affiliations, where the various subjects were first taught, main centers of study, etc. Anyone willing and able to answere a questionaire or offer pertinent info, please send me your snailmail or e-mail address. Thanks. Kathleen Parker DIPLIN@UNIPAD.UNIPD.IT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1012. ~h ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1013. Tue 30 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 157 Subject: 4.1013 Linguistics as Psychology Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 20:11:31 EST From: Jack Subject: Linguistics as Psychology 2) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 14:39:22 GMT+0200 From: Esa Itkonen Subject: (psycho-)linguistics -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 20:11:31 EST From: Jack Subject: Linguistics as Psychology The discussion of Bloomfield versus cognitive psychology is wildly anachronistic. M Haspelmeth has suggested, "The only anti-cognitive anti psychological school was Bloomfield and the post-Bloomfieldians." And R. Wojcik has added, "Altho the post-Bloomfieldians represented a rather extreme anti-cognitive position...." It is my suggestion that these people should first make themselves at home in the principal psychological enterprises of the 1930's before passing judgment on Bloomfield versus psychologists. Had Bloomfield decided to associate his linguistuc approaches with any dominant, accepted approach to "psychology" in his day, rather than sticking essentially to his last, we might find strong reason to take issue with his "psycholinguistics". Indeed we must remember that (aside from psycho-analytic approaches of one school and another) the "standard" view was a rather strictly behavioristic one, where S-O-R was the shibboleth, and any attempt to pry into the presumed inner workings of the "mind" while discussing human behavior was eschewed (above paranthesis excepted). It is silly to castigate important workers of the past for not basing their work on uhe theoretical approaches of this moment: and who knows where they will be in tomorrowns ten thousand years! An easy start can be made by looking up "cognitive psychology" (or even just "cognitive" in a desk dictionary of the early forties. Kentu konkaza, kentu beritaza! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 14:39:22 GMT+0200 From: Esa Itkonen Subject: (psycho-)linguistics Vicki Fromkin suggests (21 NOV) that it does not really matter whether or not linguistics is taken to be a branch of psychology. But of course it matters. Let's start by quoting Kiparsky 1993: "Modern lingustics acknowledges Panini's grammar as the most complete generative grammar of any language yet written, and continues to adopt technical ideas from it." However, Panini's grammar deserves such high praise only on condition that it is considered as a NON-psychological undertaking (a point which Kiparsky agreed to when I raised it at UCLA, May 1982). If Panini's grammar is considered as a psychological undertaking, i.e. as striving after psychological reality, then it is immediately falsified on a number of points (e.g. certain underlying forms in morphology and the strict rule-ordering in phonology). Similar comments apply, even more forcefully, to the Montague grammar. Now, it clearly MATTERS whether a theory is true or false. Therefore it also matters, contra Fromkin, whether or not linguistics is considered as just a branch of psychology. Anjum Saleemi claims (10 NOV) that "all evidence is external" (i.e. homogeneous). This is not true. A formal logician who constructs e.g. axiomatizations of deontic logic relies ONLY on his (logical) intuition, which means that he NEVER uses experimental evidence.While it is conceivable that one could try to practise psychology of logic without experimental evidence, it would be unreasonable to do so. (Thus both internal and external evidence is needed; it is never possible to use external evidence only.) And in any case, the resulting descriptions are quite different (witness Aristotle - or modern predicate logic - on syllogistics vs. Johnson-Laird on 'mental models' for syllogistic reasoning). Therefore the evidence is not homogeneous. I claim that similar comments apply to the linguistics/psycholinguistics divide (recall Panini & Montague). I agree with Richard Wojcik (19 NOV) that Trubetzkoy should not be considered a cognitivist. In this respect he was more consistent than e.g. Saussure or Sapir. According to Saussure, 'langue' qua system of linguistic signs is social; and yet linguistic signs themselves were defined in psychological terms. For Sapir, we should take language "as an institutional or cultural entity, leaving organic and psychological mechanisms back of it as something to be taken for granted" ('Language', p. 11); and yet he was ALSO striving after 'psychological reality', i.e. did NOT take the psychological mechanisms for granted (p. 33). As I said before, Trubetzkoy was more consistent. A Finnish phonetician Arvo Sotavalta had suggested that it might be possible to 'ascend' from particular occurrences of speech (= 'parole', 'Sprechakt') to the linguistic system (= 'langue', 'Sprachgebilde'). To this Trubetzkoy replied ('Grundzuge', pp. 15-16) that this kind of transition from particular to general, which is the method of the natural sciences, is not possible within linguistics, because linguistics is not a natural science. The linguistic system (= 'langue') is a social (and normative) institution, and an institution necessarily precedes, and is presupposed by, any particular actions performed within it. Trubetzkoy was right, of course. (To be sure, the institutional aspect can be complemented, but not replaced, by the psychological aspect; cf. above the impossibility of an exclusive use of external evidence.) It is interesting to note that more recently Bromberger and Halle (in 'The ontology of phonology', 1992) have tried to reimplement Sotavalta's program, in the following way. First, a generative phonological analysis is performed, i.e. an analysis based on nothing but intuitive evidence of 'our language'. (Notice how the reference to [the institution of] 'our language' takes for granted the easy identifiability of what is or is not a correct phonological sequence.) Second, this analysis is 'psychologized', by postulating a 'competence' (or 'I-language') identical with it. Third, the 'competence-type' analysis is made into an analysis of 'real-time processes', by postulating two types of intentions (i.e. word intentions and phonetic intentions) behind the descriptive units. All this presumably contains no reference to anything else than particular occurrences of speech, i.e. it is pure natural science. This is a nice example of what many of us regard as the pseudo-psychological attitude pervading the generative enterprise. That is, if you really want to construct a psychological theory of phonology (or of syntax), you have to use experimental evidence, and you are bound to come up with results that you could have not reached on the basis of (conscious) intuition alone. For instance, Kari Suomi (anothr Finnish phonetician, by the way) uses experimental evidence to construct a model where production and recognition deal with distinct types of units (phonemes and syllables vs. word-size gestalts); and assuming that this difference is psycholo- gically real, any model of real-time processes - and even any realistic model of competence - has to accommodate it (Journal of Phonetics, 1993). The existence of 'make-believe psychology' within linguistics, as well as the distinction between (autonomous) linguistics and psycholinguistics, was well known and well-established by the end of the seventies. Anjum Saleemi (10 NOV) disagrees with this assessment. According to him, "no wheel was invented" during the decade 1973-1983. I claim that Saleemi is wrong. The wheel was invented, but Saleemi just does not know it. It is conceivable, of course, that I am wrong. But this has to be proved. In order to prove me wrong, Saleemi cannot just rely on hear-say, but has actually to read the relevant literature. This may sound simple, but it isn't. It has turned out that, aspart of their biological endow- ment, some members of the field are innately predisposed not to read anything writen by the 'bad guys'. (I am referring to an expression that was in current use at MIT in the end of the sixties when I spent one academic year at the said institution.) Esa Itkonen -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1013. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1014. Tue 30 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 117 Subject: 4.1014 Sum: Diasystem Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 21:19:38 GMT From: enric@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: diasystem: summary of replies -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 21:19:38 GMT From: enric@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk Subject: diasystem: summary of replies last week i requested information about the use of the term "diasystem". thanks to the following people for their replies: Julie Auger, Arkady Borkovsky, Magnar Brekke, Dave Britain, Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Leo Connolly, Geert Craps, Helge Dyvik, Geoff Nathan, Bert Peeters, Mel Resnick, Carlos Ruiz, Steve Seegmiller, Larry Selinker, Tom Shannon, Larry Trask, Margaret Winters. two or three people requested that i post a summary. here it goes. ---- most people and sources, including the OED, agree that the term originated in weinreich's _word_ 1954 article (p. 390) (see references below): "a system of a higher level out of the discrete and homogeneous systems that are derived from description and that represent each a unique formal organization of the substance of expression and content" the term became run-of-the-mill in structural dialectology (it was apparently used in kurath's US dialect project) and is alive and kicking within that framework. it was imported to sociolinguistics by at least p. trudgill. also, the idea was basic to contrastive linguistics in the 1960s. apparently, the term is used in different ways by different authors. i'll leave it to whoever is interested to find out exactly how. 50s and 60s structural dialectology: - U. Weinreich, Is a structural dialectology possible ? In: Word 10(1954), 388-400. - G.R. Cochrane, The Australian English Vowels as a Diasystem. In: Word 15(1959), 69-88. - E. Stankiewiz, On Discreteness and Continuity in Structural Dialectology. In: Word 13(1957), 44-59. - W.G. Moulton, The Short Vowel Systems of Northern Switzerland: a study in structural dialectology. In: Word 16(1960), 155-182. - P. Ivi'c Importance des charact'eristiques structurales pour la description et la classification des dialectes. In: Orbis 12(1963), 117-131. - E. Pulgram, "Proto-languages as proto-diasystems: Proto-Romance" in Word 20:373-383 (1964). - E. Pulgram, Structural Comparison, Diasystems, and Dialectology. In: Linguistics 4(1964), 66-82. - G. Francescato, Structural Comparison, Diasystems and Dialectology. In: Zeitschrift fuer romanische Philologie 81(1965), 484-49. other references: - Andres Villena, Juan, 1988-89. Perspectivas y limites de la investigacion sociolinguistica contemporanea (reflexiones programaticas a proposito del proyecto de investigacion del sistema de variedades vernaculas malaguenas). _Estudios de Linguistica_ 5, 237-274. - Chambers, J.K. & P. Trudgill (1980) _Dialectology_. Cambridge: CUP. [p. 40-41] - Coseriu, E. 1973. _Sincronia, diacronia e historia_. Madrid: Gredos. [uses the term "archisistema"] - Douaud, Patrick C. 1985. Notes toward a holistic model of multilingual competence. National U of Ireland, University Coll, Dublin. Communication & Cognition. Vol 18(4) 393-398. [" ...configurational sets of a particular culture. The option of multilingualism is accounted for by a *diasystem* through which the speaker derives his/her codes from a master lexicon. ..."] - Dressler, Wolfgang U.; Moosmullerova, S. 1986. Standard, Substandard, and Diasystem of the National Language in Austria. Standard, substandard a diasystem narodneho jazyka v rakusku. CONTRIBUTOR(S): Horecky, J. Jazykovedny casopis, 37, 2, 166-171. - Faerch, Claus, 1979. Describing Interlanguage through Interaction: Problems of Systematicity and Permeability. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 19. Ontario Inst. for Studies in Education, Toronto. Bilingual Education Project. (Available from: Bilingual Education Project, OISE, Toronto) - Goossens, Jan. 1977. _Deutsche Dialektologie_. Berlin: de Gruyter. - Goossens, Jan. 1968. "Wat zijn Nederlandse Dialecten?". _Voordrachten gehouden voor de Gelderse Leergangen te Arnhem_ 22. - Hinskens, Frans. 1985-86. Some Thoughts on the Notion of Structural Distance. Enkele gedachten over de notie 'Structurele afstand'. Mededelingen van de Nijmeegse Centrale voor Dialect- en Naamkunde, 20, 89-100. - Kubczak, Hartmut, 1989. On the Relationship between "Langue" and "Idiolect". Zum Verhaltnis von 'Langue' und 'Idiolekt'. Zeitschrift fu romanische Philologie, 105, 1-2, 1-27. - Lopez Garcia, Angel. 1985-1986. Una vision integrada del diasistema fonologico catalan. Estudios de Linguistica, 3, 129-147. - Parks, Roger, 1990. The Historical-Comparative Classification of Colombian Inga (Quechua). Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics; v15 n2 p73-99. - Peeters, Bert. 1985. Paper in "Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuidneder- landse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis" 39. - Petyt, K.M. 1980. _The study of dialect_. London: Andre Deutsch. [chapter 5] - Resnick, Mel. 1989. "Structuralist theory and the study of pronunciation in American Spanish dialectology". In _American Spanish pronunciation: theoretical and practical perspectives_, 9-30. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ Press. [applied to spanish] - Selinker, Larry. 1992. _Rediscovering interlanguage_. London: Longman. [p. 83-9] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1014. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1015. 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Tue 30 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 236 Subject: 4.1016 Review: Syntax of Scope Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 10:22 CST From: bcj@tamuts.tamu.edu Subject: Review of The Syntax of Scope -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 93 10:22 CST From: bcj@tamuts.tamu.edu Subject: Review of The Syntax of Scope Book Editor's note: Book reviews on Linguist are intended to initiate discussion of books and/or of topics dealt with in them. We hope the review will make it clear enough what the book is about that people who have not yet had a chance to read it will be able to join in along with people who have. Please play by the normal scholarly rules; book discussions are occasions for exchanges of and about ideas rather than for carrying out personal vendettas, etc. We look forward to some lively discussion. If you are interested in writing reviews, stay tuned for our announcements of books available for review. ********************** Joseph Aoun and Yen-hui Audrey Li. 1993. SYNTAX OF SCOPE. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 21. Cambridge: MIT Press. Reviewed by A. Kroch:kroch@change.ling.upenn.edu This book is a comparative study of the syntax of quantifier and wh- operator scope in Chinese and English, written in the framework of transformational grammar as formulated in the late 1980's. The book's purpose is to develop, through the comparative analysis of English and Chinese, the theory of Logical Form (LF) as a syntactic level of representation. It follows a line of research initiated by Robert May in the middle 1970's and developed further by many others. As such, it should be of interest to a wide range of linguists, especially those working on the syntax-semantics interface; but the discussion on Linguist will benefit particularly from the comments of specialists in the syntax of Chinese and native speakers of the language who feel comfortable giving quantifier scope judgments. The analysis depends to a considerable extent on the accuracy of Aoun and Li's description of quantifier and wh- operator scope interaction in Chinese, which many readers, me among them, will be unable to evaluate. Also, a descriptive question of considerable complexity and interest that only experts in Chinese can hope to shed light on is the effect on scope interactions of the of the presence or absence of the mysterious adverb "dou". Beyond the domain of Chinese and English, it would be interesting to know how much variation in scope ambiguity behavior there is across languages generally; that is, what happens when the crucial examples discussed by A&L are translated into the languages that Linguist subscribers work on or speak natively. The SYNTAX OF SCOPE is an elaboration of earlier comparative studies of Chinese and English by the authors and others. The first chapter discusses the relative scope of quantifier phrases (QP's) in Chinese and English sentences with two such elements and the second the interaction between QP's and wh- phrases. The third chapter gives a unified account of the phenomena analyzed in the first two. Chapters 4 and 5 investigate the interaction between operators occurring within simple and complex noun phrases, respectively, and draw conclusions for the character of LF movement and the binding of variables. Finally, chapter 6 discusses the special properties of the interaction of wh- adjuncts and QP's, while chapter 7 extends the analysis to Japanese, a language superficially quite different from English or Chinese. The book covers a number of different, though related, phenomena; and I won't try to summarize it. Instead, I will discuss one of these phenomena, scope interactions between QP's, hoping that other readers will find it worthy of further comment. I also hope that others will bring up additional aspects of A&L's book in the discussion. A&L approach the analysis of quantifier scope interactions through the comparative study of similarities and differences in scope ambiguity in English and Chinese. Apparently, Chinese sentences with two quantifiers, like (1) below, are unambiguous in the scope of the universal and existential quantifiers; and in this regard they differ from their direct English translations, which are always ambiguous. [All of the examples I give below are from the book unless otherwise noted.] (1) Meige nanren dou xihuan yige nuren every man all like one woman "Every man loves a woman." This difference between English and Chinese, if it is real and stable across speakers, poses an important theoretical problem. Since the principles governing the construction of LF must be universal and the semantics of quantification must also be, it is not clear how the difference between the languages can be accommodated. One of A&L's central goals is to account for it in a way consistent with a strong and restrictive theory of Universal Grammar. They propose that quantifier scope is determined by two basic principles: (I) The Minimal Binding Requirement (MBR): Variables must be bound by the most local potential antecedent (A-bar binder). (II) The Scope Principle: A quantifier A may have scope over a quantifier B iff A c-commands a member of the chain containing B. I give here the version of these principles stated in chapter 1. Later in the book, A&L revise the Scope Principle and also their assumptions regarding the nature of LF movement in order to give a unified account of QP/QP scope interactions and QP/wh- scope interactions; but to avoid complicating and lengthening my introductory remarks, I am assuming the initial formulation. I think that what I have to say translates easily to the revised one. Given A&L's principles, the ambiguity of the English version of (1) depends on adopting the VP-internal subject hypothesis. The derived structure needed to support the two scope orders arises as follows: The subject starts out adjoined to VP and moves to [Spec, IP] position, creating a chain. Then at LF the QP's move to A-bar positions to create operator variable structures. The MBR requires that the object QP be adjoined no higher than VP, so as not to interfere with the binding of the subject position by its QP, which will adjoin to IP. The LF representation of the sentence, given in (2) below, is ambiguous under the Scope Principle because at the same time that the subject QP c-commands the object QP, the latter c-commands the trace of the former. (2) [IP everyone-i [IP x-i [I' I [VP-1 a woman-j [VP-1 t-i [VP-2 loves x-j ]]]]]] Why then is the Chinese sentence in (1) unambiguous? The answer, according to A&L, is not that the MBR or Scope Principle vary in their formulation across languages but rather that the phrase structure of the Chinese sentence differs from that of its English translation in a simple but crucial way. Chinese, they say, has a defective system of verbal inflection, entirely lacking agreement (and perhaps tense as well - AK). This defective inflection will not support V-to-I raising, and the absence of V-to-I raising prevents subjects from raising out of VP. As a result, no syntactic chain is formed by subject raising and the only LF structure consistent with the MBR has the subject QP adjoined to IP (or the higher VP) and the object QP adjoined to the lower VP. This structure is unambiguous in its interpretation under the Scope Principle. An interesting consequence of A&L's analysis is that can explain an otherwise surprising fact. Even though simple active sentences are unambiguous in scope interpretation in Chinese, passives like (3), whose LF is as in (4), are ambiguous, just as they are in English: (3) Meigeren dou bei yige nuren zhuazoule. everyone all by one woman arrested (4) [ meigeren-i [ x-i yige nuren-j [ dou bei x-j [ zhuazoule t-i ]]]] This ambiguity is, however, expected because the trace of the passive subject creates the syntactic chain needed to induce the subject/object scope ambiguity. Not surprisingly, many facts appear recalcitrant to A&L's analysis and deserve further discussion. For example, sentences with the Chinese equivalent of 'seem', which should induce ambiguity through subject raising in the same way that passives do, do not. A&L claim that reanalysis occurs between 'seem' and its complement predicate, removing or deactivating the relevant trace. We might ask how plausible this is. Problems also arise in English. Thus, A&L, following others, note that while a sentence like (5) is ambiguous in the scope of the direct and indirect object QP's, its near equivalent (6) is not: (5) John assigned every problem to one of the students. (6) John assigned one student every problem. In order to account for this difference, A&L adopt a version of Larson's analysis of the double object and dative constructions. This analysis is quite complex and would take too much space to discuss here; but if adopted, it correctly predicts the ambiguities in (5)/(6) and related sentences. The technical devices needed are, however, open to question. For instance, A&L assume that QP's can adjoin to non-maximal projections and also that the reanalysis of verb and indirect object required in the double object construction is undone at LF. Hence, such reanalysis is not equivalent to NP incorporation into verbs, which it superficially resembles. Furthermore, while LF movement out of the reanalyzed structure is allowed, they must require that the structure itself not be a possible adjunction site for the moved QP. This requirement strikes me as odd. Either the reanalyzed structure is really lexical, in which case extraction should be blocked, as in other cases of NP incorporation, or it is phrasal, in which case adjunction to it ought to be possible. Finally, we can note a fact that A&L do not mention, which may raise serious problems for an account of scope ambiguity in double object sentences based on Larson's analysis. Consider the sentences in (7) and (8): (7) Mary assigned one problem to every student. (8) Mary assigned every student one problem. Here my judgment is that both (7) and (8) are ambiguous. In particular, (8) can mean that there was a problem which Mary assigned to every student. That reading becomes more prominent if we give the indefinite added descriptive content, as in (9): (9) Mary assigned every student one problem that she particularly liked. Under A&L's analysis the wide scope reading of the indefinite should not be available. One way around the problem would be to say, as has been proposed, that indefinites have both quantificational and and referential readings. On their referential interpretation they behave like definites and aren't interpreted as being inside the scope of a quantifier. This solution deserves careful exploration but it raises difficult questions regarding A&L's analysis of these cases, since now the ambiguity in a sentence like (5) may no longer be a quantifier scope ambiguity. However, I myself doubt that this solution is correct because the scope ambiguity in (8)/(9) seems to persist in (10): (10) John may assign every student one problem. Here one reading of the sentence is that it may happen that there is a problem that John assigns to every student. Under this reading the indefinite is not referential, since it is interpreted as being within the scope of the modal operator. A definite NP would not be taken to be within the scope of the modal, as (11) makes clear: (11) John may assign every student the problem. We are thus left with the question of why (8)/(9) should be ambiguous, given that its phrase structure is the same as that of (5), which is unambiguous. The contrast threatens somewhat A&L's attempt to account for all scope ambiguity differences across sentence types and languages in terms of phrase structure differences. The remarks I have made here are only the briefest sketch of a discussion of one part of a very interesting book. I hope that they will stimulate others to read the book and share their reactions with the Linguist community. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1016. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1017. Tue 30 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 77 Subject: 4.1017 Qs: The origin of Case systems, Mahou Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. 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I would be interested in any thoughts or references on the subject. Thank you in advance. You may reply to me personally at: wjgriff@ukanvm.bitnet wjgriff@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Bill Griffiths -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 12:19:22 -0500 (EST) From: gb661@csc.albany.edu Subject: Mahou I would like to find a copy of a paper by Moussa Bamba entitled "La structure de Base en Mahou", dated 1982, cited as a manuscript at UQAM. The paper is cited in H. Koopman's 1983 book <>. Does anyone out there have a copy of this paper or know where I could get one? (Or any other papers by M. Bamba on the syntax of this language?) (Mahou is a northern Mande language spoken in Ivory Coast.) Thanks, ****************************************************************************** Aaron Broadwell | `To anyone who find that grammar is a Dept. of Anthropology | worthless finicking with trifles, I Dept. of Linguistics and | would reply that life consists of Cognitive Science | little things; the important matter is Albany, NY 12222 | to see them largely' -- Jespersen, 1925 gb661@thor.albany.edu | ****************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1017. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1018. Tue 30 Nov 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 67 Subject: 4.1018 Call: Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 14:32:25 -0500 (EST) From: "P.C. Groutka" Subject: GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 14:32:25 -0500 (EST) From: "P.C. Groutka" Subject: GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism GRAMMA Journal of Theory and Criticism CALL FOR PAPERS: The third issue of the journal, due to appear in early 1995, will be devoted to the topic of CROSSING BOUNDARIES We would welcome articles that focus on: Crossing boundaries between: -Genres -Ethnicities/races -Genders -Language-Culture-Translation -Temporal, spatial, and cultural structures -Disciplines Papers may be either in Greek or English, and should not exceed 7,000 words. Please submit two copies of your article (following the 1988 MLA style sheet) and abstract, together with a disc copy (written in Word 4.0 program for Apple Macintosh) to either of the editors of the third issue: Yiouli Theodosiadou Anargyros Heliotis Mailing address: Department of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki 540 06, Greece. Deadline for submissions of papers: May 31, 1994. First issue: The Gender of Reading Second issue: Theatre/Power/Culture ****************************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1018. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1019. Wed 01 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 132 Subject: 4.1019 Sum: Sterling professor, Morrow et al 1991, Farsi Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 15:27:25 MET From: savino@coli.uni-sb.de (Elina Savino) Subject: Sterling Professor 2) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 21:25 PST From: wardk@cse.ogi.edu (Karen Ward) Subject: Summary: Morrow et al, 1991 3) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 16:05:34 +0000 (GMT) From: M Perkins Subject: Summary: Farsi -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 15:27:25 MET From: savino@coli.uni-sb.de (Elina Savino) Subject: Sterling Professor A while ago a asked for explanations about the meaning of the title "Sterling Professor". As I received a lots of messages, also from people interested in knowing the answer, here is a brief (and historical) summary: In USA professorships are often "endowed", that is a wealthy person will give a sum of money to the university the interests of which pays the salary of the holder of the chair. In the case of the Sterling professorship (and Sterling library and a grat many of other Sterling entities) at Yale University, the wealthy donor was a very wealthy New York lawyer and alumnus of Yale and the Yale Law School named Sterling in the 19th century, who used some of the money from his very lucrative law practice to buy - up then - vacant farm land in Westchester County, New York, now the most expensive and prestigious suburb of the city of New York. Sterling firm, Shearman and Sterling, still survives in New York. Thanks a lot to: Alice Faber, Henry Rogers, Ed Finegan, Dave Kathman, Michael Covington, Michael Kac, Donald Freeman, Larry Horn, Penny Lee, Stephen Zhenqun Hsu, Leo Connolly, Rob Pensalfini, Steve Seegmiller, B.S. Rosner, Karl Teeter, and Brian Joseph. Elina Savino University of Saarland - Saarbruecken Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 21:25 PST From: wardk@cse.ogi.edu (Karen Ward) Subject: Summary: Morrow et al, 1991 Thanks to several helpful Linguist readers, my query is answered in less than a day! The "Morrow" of my mysterious "Morrow et al, 1991" cite is Dan Morrow of Stanford. He has replied to my email and promises to send the relevent papers. Clearly, I should have asked your help sooner. My deep thanks to Donna Cromer, John Nerbonne, Ivan Sag, and Linda Z. Suri. Karen Ward (wardk@cse.ogi.edu) Oregon Graduate Institute Beaverton, OR USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 16:05:34 +0000 (GMT) From: M Perkins Subject: Summary: Farsi I would like to thank the following people for responding to my request for information about research on the acquisition of Farsi (spoken Persian): Paul Hirschbuhler, Don Nilsen, Blake Bramhall, Alexandre Khalil, Beatrice Santorini, Dick Hudson and Ellen Kaisse. There appears to have been *no* published research on the acquisition of Farsi, but the following references on Farsi were supplied by the above: Dabir-Moghaddam, M. 1992: Syntax and semantics of causative constructions in Persian, U. of Illinois (should be in one of the 1982 volumes of DAI) Farahani, Khomeijani 1990, A syntactic and semantic study of the tense and aspect system of modern persian, U. of LEEDS, Great-Britain (in Index to theses in UK, vol. 40-3 (is part of DAI, but a separate volume; 40-4881) Frommer, Paul, 1981, Postverbal Phenomena in colloquial persian syntax, U. of Southern California (as was directed by Comrie,there is a summary in DAI 1981) Hajathi, A.-K, 1977 : Ke constructions in Persian: descriptive and theoretical aspects, U. of Illinois, Urbana Hashemipour, Margaret Marie, 1989, Pronominalization and control in modern Persian, U. Cal. San Diego, 336 p. (summary in Dissertation Abstract International, vol. 50 A9, p. 2879, order DA 9004104 Jahangiri, Nadir, 1980 "A sociolinguistic study of Persian in Tehran" London Univ PhD 1980. Jahangiri, N. & Hudson, R.A. 1982 Article in S. Romaine (ed.) Sociolinguistic Variation in Speech Communities, Arnold, 1982 Karimi, Simin, 1989, Aspects of Persian Syntax, specificity and the Theory of grammar, U. of Washington. (Sum in DAI vol. 50 A8, p. 2473, order DA 9000259 Soheili-Isfahani, A. 1976, Noun Phrase complementation in Persian (see one of the 1976 or 7 vol. of DAI) In addition, there are several graduate students currently studying Farsi.I will forward information to anyone interested. Mick Perkins -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1019. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1020. Wed 01 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 175 Subject: 4.1020 Jobs: Phonetics/phonology, General, Applied, Multimedia Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 1993 10:57:01 GMT+1200 From: "Claudia Brugman" Subject: Job: Phonetics/Phonology 2) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 14:21:41 +1100 From: Peter Peterson Subject: General Linguistics 3) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 09:23:29 -0600 From: Jon Jonz Subject: Applied Linguistics/ESL 4) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 11:06:22 -0500 (CDT) From: DEDDINGTON@ACAD1.MTSU.EDU Subject: Director of Foreign Languages Multi-media Center and Asst. Professor -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: 30 Nov 1993 10:57:01 GMT+1200 From: "Claudia Brugman" Subject: Job: Phonetics/Phonology University of Otago Te Whare Wananga o Otago Dunedin, New Zealand Applications are invited for the position of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Section of the School of Languages, University of Otago. [Lecturer is equivalent to US Assistant Prof.; Sr. Lecturer is equivalent to US Associate Prof.] Candidates should have a completed PhD in linguistics, and teaching experience at tertiary level. The successful applicant will be responsible for teaching core courses in phonetics and phonology and should have a demonstrated commitment to research in these areas. Secondary research or teaching expertise in one or more of the following areas will be an advantage: applied linguistics, educational linguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, or second language teaching. Field experience or specialization in a particular language or language family will be an additional advantage, and candidates should specify which language or language families they have worked on. The appointee will also play an active role in the future deveopment of the linguistics programme. Appointment will be limited to three years in the first instance [i.e. is expected to be converted to a permanent position], and will be at an appropriate step on the lecturer's scale $NZ37,440 - 45,448 per annum, or senior lecturer's scale, $NZ52,000 - 60,994 p/a. The position is available from 1 Feb. 1994. Specific inquiries may be directed to Prof. A. G. Fox, Head, School of Languages, University of Otago (Fax: (64) (3) 479-2305; Internet agfox@gandalf.otago.ac.nz) and further information is available from the Registrar, Mr D. W. Girvan, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, NZ (Fax: (64) (3) 474- 1607). Applications quoting reference number A93/134 close with the Registry on 28 January 1994. Equal opportunity in employment is University policy. A complete description of the conditions of employment and the structure of the linguistics programme at the University of Otago are available from Prof. Fox at the address above; or email me with your postal address at the Internet address below. Claudia Brugman English Dept. and Linguistics Programme University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin, New Zealand cbrugman@gandalf.otago.ac.nz -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 14:21:41 +1100 From: Peter Peterson Subject: General Linguistics The Department of Linguistics at the University of Newcastle, Australia, is seeking to fill two positions at the level of Associate Lecturer (commencing salary in the range $A28700 - $A38950). The positions are both tenurable, to start as early as possible in 1994. Applicants must have a substantial background in general linguistic theory, a higher degree in Linguistics (preferably a PhD), demonstrated research potential, and good communication skills. Experience in teaching at the tertiary level is desirable. Preference may be given to applicants with strengths in one or more of the following areas: semantics, phonetics, language acquisition, neurological foundations of language. However, applications are welcome from all qualified persons. Further information about the poositions may be obtained from Dr Peter Peterson, Head, Department of Linguistics, The University of Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia. FAX: (61)49 216933. Email: LNPGP@cc.newcastle.edu.au Applications should be sent to the same address, by Friday 21 January 1994. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 09:23:29 -0600 From: Jon Jonz Subject: Applied Linguistics/ESL East Texas State University. Applied Linguistics/ESL. Assistant Professor, tenure-track starting August 22, 1994, to teach and advise graduate and undergraduates in general linguistics, structure and history of English, language acquisition and processing, sociolinguistics, ESL principles and practices, and direct theses. Courses in Commerce and Dallas. Required: doctorate by June 1994 in Applied Linguistics or related field; teaching experience; demonstrated research commitment. Desirable: experience with in-service and pre-service teacher preparation; ability and experience in teaching English composition, or literature surveys, or introductory philosophy, or French. Submit letter of application, c.v., transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and supporting documents to Gerald Duchovnay, Head, Dept. Lit. and Langs., East Texas State University, Commerce, TX 75429. Open until filled. AA/EO Employer. Qualified women, minorities, and disabled persons are encouraged to apply. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 11:06:22 -0500 (CDT) From: DEDDINGTON@ACAD1.MTSU.EDU Subject: Director of Foreign Languages Multi-media Center and Asst. Professor Director of Foreign Languages Multi-media Center and Assistant Professor (position number 124110). Doctorate in a foreign language or in foreign language educational technology. Doctorate required by appointment date. This tenure-track position begins August 1994. Responsibilities: to manage the daily operations of our Department's Multi-media Center, to supervise student workers, to assist faculty and students in the use of equipment and software, to assist in the acquisition and use of the most current hardware and software; teaching duties include a foreign language and/or methods courses on technology in foreign language education. The successful candidate will have a knowledge of and expertise in CAI, multi-media, and other technologies for language learning and assist faculty in incorporating these into the foreign language learning experience. A commitment to innovative teaching, program development, research, and service is expected. Submit an application letter (referencing the above position number), resume, transcripts, and three letters of recommendation to: Chair, Search Committee Multi-media Center Director Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures Middle Tennessee State University Box 79 Murfreesboro, TN 37132 Review of applications will begin January 1, 1994, and will continue until the position is filled. MTSU is an equal opportunity, non-racially identifiable educational institution which does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1020. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1021. Wed 01 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 50 Subject: 4.1021 Word-classes Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 17:09:40 +0000 From: RichardHudson50 Subject: Word-classes and cross-classification -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 17:09:40 +0000 From: RichardHudson50 Subject: Word-classes and cross-classification Alexis Manaster-Ramer assumes that word-classes (aka parts of speech - a dreadful term!) are cross-classified, but it's an interesting and important question whether this is really true. In contrast with say phonemes, it's by no means obvious that they are. He quotes the range of pro-forms that can stand in for verbs, nouns an on, but why should we think that they constitute a word-class (rather than, say, sharing the property of involving identity-of-sense anaphora)? As for ad-X, where X ranges over various word- classes, it's true that there are differences, but why should these involve cross-classification, rather than a non-cross-classifying distinction between adjective and adverb? I notice that he doesn't assume the much more standard cross-classifying analysis of word classes in terms of +/- N and V, which also strikes me as not obviously true. My own conclusion, for what it's worth, is that word-classes are in fact hierarchical (in an inheritance hierarchy), just as in traditional grammar, in sharp contrast with morpho-syntactic features, which are truly cross- classificatory. Dick Hudson Dept of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (071) 387 7050 ext 3152 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1021. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1022. Wed 01 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 141 Subject: 4.1022 Qs: Scanners, Mayan, Native Languages, Lattice Corpus Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 18:11:07 -0230 From: gshorroc@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: scanners 2) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 15:02:01 EST From: seth@MIT.EDU Subject: Quiche-Maya 3) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 13:47 CDT From: Sheila M Shigley Subject: Native Language Revival 4) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 12:11:20 GMT From: E S Atwell Subject: Lattice Corpus training sets requested -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 18:11:07 -0230 From: gshorroc@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: scanners Do you or your readers have any knowledge of scanners that can read text containing phonetics? Sincerely, Graham Shorrocks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 15:02:01 EST From: seth@MIT.EDU Subject: Quiche-Maya I am studying binding phenomena in Quiche. I would greatly appreciate any information anyone has on work that has been done on this topic, or on binding in any other Mayan language. Thank you Seth Minkoff MIT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 13:47 CDT From: Sheila M Shigley Subject: Native Language Revival Hello All... This is an updated version of a query I posted earlier on Linguist. I am involved with a Native language salvage program here in Wisconsin and would very much like to get in touch with those involved currently in similar projects, or those who have experience (practical or theoretical) in techniques and strategies for such projects. What I am actually hoping for is open and continuous dialogue on this issue, and I wonder if this might be better accomplished on the Nat-Lang list rather than Linguist? I don't know how many here subscribe already, but here's the address: Nat-lang@tamvm1.tamu.edu or Nat-lang@tamvm1.bitnet (send subscriptions to listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu or listserv@tamvm1.bitnet) I posted the same query there and am looking forward to responses. There's little to no traffic on this list right now, so if you're worried about flooding your mailbox with Nat-lang traffic it shouldn't be a problem...at least not until we (hopefully) get a more active subscriber base going! Any responses to this query will be greatly appreciated, whether it be a lengthy project description or merely "the name of someone you know who might be interested." Thanks for your time, Sheila Shigley shigley@macc.wisc.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 12:11:20 GMT From: E S Atwell Subject: Lattice Corpus training sets requested Please reply direct to Dan Modd, csxdtm@scs.leeds.ac.uk - not me. Thanks. - Eric Atwell My Computer Science final year project involves collecting together a wide range of word-hypothesis recognition lattices, as output from large-vocabulary speech and handwriting recognition systems. These word-candidate lattices look something like this: stephen stiffen stiffens left lift school scowl scull lest last yearn your year The collected lattices will constitute a standard Lattice Corpus which, hopefully, could be used as an evaluation resource for research in linguistic constraint models for English speech and handwriting recognition systems. Initially, I need to compare the range of word-lattice formats used by language modelling researchers to arrive at a standard representation format. If your research is in this area, I would be very grateful if you could send me one or more example lattices (preferably as an ascii text file). Any information about the format of the lattices (e.g. documentation, references, e.t.c.) would also be welcome. Thanks for your help, Dan Modd Centre for Computer Analysis of Speech and Language, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds. csxdtm@scs.leeds.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1022. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1023. Wed 01 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 120 Subject: 4.1023 Qs: Montague, Non-Indo-European Phonology, ASL, Citations Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 10:04 GMT+0200 From: dahl_o@lingvistik.su.se Subject: Richard Montague 2) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 18:43:32 MET From: daan@let.vu.nl (Daan de Jong) Subject: Phonological variation in Non-Indo-European 3) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 12:39:28 -0600 (CST) From: Nancy J Stenson-1 Subject: ASL 4) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 20:09:51 EST From: Adriane Moser Subject: citation of foreign-language data -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 10:04 GMT+0200 From: dahl_o@lingvistik.su.se Subject: Richard Montague Can anyone tell me the correct year of birth of Richard Montague? Available sources are contradictory - 1930 or 1931. Information urgently needed for the Swedish National Encyclopedia. Answers to: dahl_o@lingvistik.su.se. Oesten Dahl -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 18:43:32 MET From: daan@let.vu.nl (Daan de Jong) Subject: Phonological variation in Non-Indo-European I am looking for data on phonological / morphophonological variation in non-indo-european languages for a paper I am currently preparing. What especially interests me are processes like schwa-epenthesis, consonant-cluster reduction / deletion and final-consonant deletion. Could anyone recommend me papers/books on that topic? I am working within a generative / sociolinguistic framework, but any kind of data is welcome (descriptive, theoretical). If you have any information you can send it to my E-mail adress below, and I'll post a summary to the List. Thanks in advance, Daan de Jong Dpt. of Linguistics Free University Amsterdam / Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics E-Mail: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 12:39:28 -0600 (CST) From: Nancy J Stenson-1 Subject: ASL I have a student, not on the net, who would like to find out if there has been any work done comparing the later language development and general educational success of deaf children exposed in infancy to ASL with that of children exposed to signed English. Actually, she'd probably be interested in anything at all on early ASL exposure, but is particularly interested in the ASL-Signed English distinction. Her name is Jolene Cassidy, and answers can be sent to her directly at CASS0013@gold.tc.umn.edu. Thanks. Nancy Stenson -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 20:09:51 EST From: Adriane Moser Subject: citation of foreign-language data I am an undergraduate student preparing a paper to be submitted only to my prof essor (not to be reproduced in a journal, etc.) My question is: when citing dat a from languages with non-roman alphabets, how do I represent them? In their al phabet, which is available to me? In IPA? In some sort of other romanization sy stem, like Romanji? What about near-Roman alphabets? (I'm not sure of the corre ct terminology, what I mean is languages like Russian and Vietnamese.) Please post to me directly, I don't want to bother the list with this informati on. Thank you for your time, Adriane Moser ....................................................................... Adriane Moser : "The horror of that moment," the king went on, amoser@ccvm.sunysb.edu : "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, State University of New : though," the queen said, "if you don't make York at Stony Brook : a memorandum of it." -Lewis Carroll ....................................................................... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1023. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1024. Wed 01 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 182 Subject: 4.1024 Calls: English and Greek, Japanese SLRF 94, Spanish Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 13:55:12 -0500 (EST) From: "P.C. Groutka" Subject: Symposium on English and Greek 2) Date: 1 Dec 1993 11:26:08 -0500 From: "SL-Library" Subject: JpL2 Papers for SLRF94 3) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 18:44:28 -0500 (CDT) From: DEDDINGTON@ACAD1.MTSU.EDU Subject: call for papers -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 13:55:12 -0500 (EST) From: "P.C. Groutka" Subject: Symposium on English and Greek 8th SYMPOSIUM ON ENGLISH AND GREEK DESCRIPTION AND/OR COMPARISON OF THE TWO LANGUAGES March 28-30, 1994 Organized by the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. CALL FOR PAPERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE A. Kakouriotis S. Efstathiadis L. Panagopoulos L. Panagopoulos A. Gogos A. Kakouriotis N. Kontos A. Gogos E. Mela-Athanasopoulou E. Kitis K. Bolla-Mavridou L. Antoniou Submission of Papers Copies of titles and abstracts should be submitted to: Organizing Committee 8th Symposium on English and Greek School of English Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece The Organizing Committee of the 8th Symposium invites abstracts from a wide area of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics which will include --apart from Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics-- fields like Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Contrastive Analysis, Foreign Language Teaching Methodology, the Teaching of Translation and Interpretation, Historical Linguistics, LSP, Lexicography, Lexicology, etc., etc.. Presentation duration 30min. to be followed by 15min. discussion. Style: Footnotes should be on a separate sheet. References should conform to the following models: Bloomfield, L. 1933. Language. NY: Holt (for books) Bowers, J. 1975. "Some Adjectival Nominalizations". Lingua 37, 341-361. (for articles in journals) Comrie, B. 1978. Ergativity. In Lehman, W. (ed.) Syntactic Typology. Sussex: The Harvester Press. (for contributions) Use 1 1/2 space. The abstract should not be longer than a page with a fairly wide margin, and should not be submitted later than March 1. The final camera ready paper should not be submitted later than March 28. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 1 Dec 1993 11:26:08 -0500 From: "SL-Library" Subject: JpL2 Papers for SLRF94 Call for JpL2 Papers for SLRF 94! To Japanese L2 Researchers: A symposium on 'ASPECTS OF JAPANESE L2 ACQUISITION' is being organized for the Oct. 6-9, 1994, Second Language Research Forum in Montreal, Canada. The Japanese L2 symposium will consist of four, thirty minute talks (plus a ten minute question period), followed by a thirty minute general discussion period. If interested in presenting your research, by *DECEMBER 15th*, send FIVE COPIES of an anonymous 500 word abstract of your talk, along with a 3x5 card containing your name, paper title, affiliation, address, e-mail address, phone number and audio-visual needs to: Margaret Thomas, Slavic & Eastern Languages, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 e-mail: Internet: thomas/sl@hermes.bc.edu, Bitnet: thomasm@bcvms.bc.edu **Volunteers to read abstracts and help put together symposium proposal also welcome! source: Ruth Kanagy, U Delaware or <70302.67@compuserve.com> For reference, the SLRF general call is appended to this message. ___________________________________ ****** CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS****** SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM 1994 Concordia University - McGill University Montreal, Canada October 6-9, 1994 SPECIAL THEME: Perspectives on Input in L2 Acquisition INVITED SPEAKERS: Elissa Newport, University of Rochester Neil Smith, University College London Merrill Swain, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Lydia White, McGill University PROPOSALS FOR SYMPOSIA MUST BE RECEIVED BY JANUARY 15, 1994 For more information: e-mail F3SL@musicb.mcgill.ca phone: (514) 398-4222 fax: (514) 398-7088 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 18:44:28 -0500 (CDT) From: DEDDINGTON@ACAD1.MTSU.EDU Subject: call for papers CALL FOR PAPERS _Experimental Studies in Spanish Linguistics_ We are in the initial stages of compiling a volume of experimental studies of Spanish. The focus of the book will be experimental studies which bear directly on questions of a theoretical nature. This may include experiments dealing with lexical retrieval, language processing, productivity of rules, language acquisition, aphasia, etc. This focus may exclude some sociolinguistic and phonetic studies. Please send a one page abstract of your study to: David Eddington P.O. Box 79 Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, TN 37132 or to: deddington@mtsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1024. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1025. Thu 02 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 240 Subject: 4.1025 Confs: TALC94, Georgetown, Logic Language and Computation Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [Moderators' note: we'd appreciate your limiting conference announcements to 150 lines, so that we can post more than 1 per issue. Please consider omitting information useful only to attendees, such as information on housing, transportation, or rooms and times of sessions. Thank you for your cooperation.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 03:30:41 GMT From: "Steve Fligelstone" Subject: Conference - TALC94 - Call for Participation 2) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 16:06:37 -0500 (EST) From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: Georgetown University Round Table 1994 3) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 12:15:35 PST From: Keith Devlin Subject: Information-Oriented approaches to Logic, Language and Computation -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 12 Nov 93 03:30:41 GMT From: "Steve Fligelstone" Subject: Conference - TALC94 - Call for Participation [EDITOR'S NOTE: A complete copy of this program schedule is available on the listserv. To retrieve the file send the message: get TALC94 CONF linguist to the following address: listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu ] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA (TALC94) Lancaster University 10 - 13th April 1994 AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE While the use of computer text corpora in research is now well established, they are now being used increasingly for teaching purposes. This includes the use of corpus data to inform and create teaching materials; it also includes the direct exploration of corpora by students, both in the study of linguistics and of foreign languages. Talc94 will bring together researchers and teachers who are involved - or who would like to be involved - in such work, to take part in an international exchange of current experience and expertise. DATE AND VENUE The conference will be held on the campus of Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, from 4.00 p.m. on Sunday 10th April to 4.00 p.m. on Wednesday, 13th April. Accommodation will be provided in high-standard student residences, with en suite facilities. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Steven Fligelstone (Lancaster University) Graeme Hughes (Lancaster University) Gerry Knowles (Lancaster University) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Anne Wichmann (University of Central Lancashire) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 16:06:37 -0500 (EST) From: GURT@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: Georgetown University Round Table 1994 [EDITOR'S NOTE: The complete schedule and program for this conference is available on the listserv. To retrieve the file send the message: get GURT CONF linguist to the following address: listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu ] Preliminary Announcement * Please Post Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994 March 13 - 16, 1994 Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Interdependence Chaired by James E. Alatis, Dean School of Languages and Linguistics Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Plenary Speakers Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University Braj Kachru, University of Illinois Stephen Krashen, University of Southern California Tom McArthur, Oxford University Jack C. Richards, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University Invited Speakers Ayo Bamgbose, University of Ibadan and University of Illinois Leslie Beebe, Columbia University Eyamba G. Bokamba, University of Illinois Jerry Cline-Bailey, Xavier University (Cincinnati) Nadine O'Connor Di Vito, University of Chicago Donald Freeman, School for International Training Rebecca Freeman, University of Pennsylvania Celeste Kinginger, University of Maryland at College Park Ronald Leow, Georgetown University Leo van Lier, Monterey Institute of International Studies Yu-Hwei Lii-Shih, National Taiwan Normal University Joan Morley, University of Michigan Anne Pakir, National University of Singapore Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania Ren Shaozeng, Hangzhou University (People's Republic of China) Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University (Israel) Larry E. Smith, East-West Center, University of Hawaii Zhuang Gen-Yuan, Hangzhou University (People's Republic of China) For more information, please contact Joan C. Cook, Coordinator * GURT 1994 Georgetown University * School of Languages and Linguistics 303 Intercultural Center * Washington, DC 20057-1067 e-mail: gurt@guvax.bitnet * gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu voice: 202/687-5726 * fax: 202/687-5712 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 12:15:35 PST From: Keith Devlin Subject: Information-Oriented approaches to Logic, Language and Computation [ EDITOR'S NOTE: The complete program schedule for this conference is available on the listserv. To retrieve the file send the message: get LLC CONF linguist to the following address: listserv@tamvm1.tamu.edu ] CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION-ORIENTED APPROACHES TO LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION (4th Conference on Situation Theory and its Applications) Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, California, USA Conference: June 12--15, 1994 Instructional workshops: June 8--11, 1994 In the past few years, there has been a growing sense of convergence in information-based work in the study of language and logic. Situation theory, domain theory, and linear logic, for example, are increasingly seen as having common underlying intuitions and motivations. For this reason, it has been decided to broaden the focus of the Situation Theory and its Applications conference from situation theory, per se, to the general study of logic, language and computation from an informational perspective. A special feature of this year's conference is a symposium on visual reasoning, organized by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy. ============================================================= PARTICIPANTS ============================================================= A preliminary list of participants at the conference includes, in addition to the conference organizers: P. Aczel (U Manchester) P. Agre (UC San Diego) J. Barwise (Indiana U, Bloomington) J. van Benthem (U Amsterdam) R. Cooper (U Edinburgh) J. Etchemendy (Stanford U) D. Israel (SRI, Menlo Park) Y. Katagiri (NTT, Tokyo) L. Moss (Indiana U, Bloomington) K. Mukai (Keio U, Fujisawa) D. Oehrle (U Arizona, Tuscon) J. Perry (Stanford U) S. Peters (Stanford U) C. Pollard (Ohio State U, Columbus) V. Pratt (Stanford U) W. Rounds (U Michigan, Ann Arbor) J. Sowa (SUNY, Binghampton) ============================================================= CONFERENCE TOPICS ============================================================= Contributions related to this theme are invited from researchers in logic, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, and related fields. Relevant areas include, but are not limited to: situation semantics information-based theories of grammar, semantics, and discourse dynamic semantics and logic situation theory and its applications theories of structured objects set-theoretic models of semantic theories of information proof theoretic approaches to information and semantics informational approaches to propositional attitudes situated automata applications of situation theory to knowledge representation, data processing, and systems design visual and multi-modal reasoning (special symposium) Program committee: Dag Westerstahl (chair, U Stockholm), Elisabet Engdahl (U Edinburgh), John Etchemendy (Stanford U), Jerry Seligman (U Amsterdam), Hidetosi Sirai (Chukyo U). Local organization: Keith Devlin (Saint Mary's College). email: devlin@stmarys-ca.edu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1025. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1026. Fri 03 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 232 Subject: 4.1026 Qs: Relative clauses, English dialects, Speaker, Classifiers Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 17:27:22 SST From: David Gil Subject: QUERY: RELATIVE CLAUSES 2) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 18:36:18 +0700 (GMT+0700) From: Gwyn Williams Subject: English dialects 3) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 9:38:45 CST From: jlilly@merle.acns.nwu.edu Subject: speaker needed 4) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 93 14:02:35 SST From: David Gil Subject: QUERY: CLASSIFIERS -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 93 17:27:22 SST From: David Gil Subject: QUERY: RELATIVE CLAUSES In some South-East Asian languages, a relative clause construction corresponding to, say, English (1) Mary ate the apple that John bought in the market with a knife has a structure of the following form: (2) JOHN BOUGHT APPLE IN MARKET, MARY ATE pro WITH KNIFE that is to say, it consists of two apparently complete clauses, the first corresponding to the embedded (relative) clause in (1) but without a gap, the second corresponding to the matrix clause in (1) but containing a pronoun referring back to an NP in the first clause. Syntactically, the two clauses appear to be of equal prominence, however the intonation contour is that of one sentence (not two), and semantically the first clause is clearly subordinated to the second, just as in (1). My query: has anybody encountered anything like this, either in "real life" or else in the literature? Any data, references, thoughts, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Some further comments. To the best of my knowledge, relative clause constructions come in 3 major structural varieties (abstracting away from word order): "ORDINARY" RELATIVES (EITHER POSTNOMINAL OR PRENOMINAL) [s ... [np NP (rp) [s ... (pro) ... ] ] ... ] Here the relative clause is adjacent to the head noun, except perhaps for an intervening relative pronoun. The relativized NP in the relative clause is either deleted, or else it leaves a resumptive pronoun behind. In some cases, the verb in the relative clause may have a special marking. CORELATIVES [s ... wh NP ... ] [s ... dem NP ... ] Here the relative clause may occur outside the matrix clause (typically in front). The relativized NP occurs twice: in the relative clause, with a WH-word, and in the matrix clause with a demonstrative. For example John bought which apple in market, Mary ate that apple with knife INTERNAL RELATIVES [s ... [ np [s ... (rel) NP ... ] ] ... ] Here the relative clause occurs instead of the relativized NP, in the position the latter would naturally occupy within the matrix clause. The relativized NP occurs only in the relative clause; in some cases it is marked with a relative marker. For example: John bought Mary ate apple with knife in market Now sentence (2), the one I'm interested in, has some properties of corelatives, and other properties of internal relatives. Under one analysis, it could be viewed as a corelative without the usual WH and demonstrative markings. Under an alternative analysis, it could be seen as an internal relative in which the relative clause has undergone left-dislocation, leaving a pronoun behind. Both analyses are problematical. Any ideas out there? David Gil ellgild@nusvm.bitnet -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 18:36:18 +0700 (GMT+0700) From: Gwyn Williams Subject: English dialects I am teaching a linguistics course on "Varieties of English" in Thailand. I am looking for word lists or texts that illustrate different (non-standard) dialects of English. Does anyone know of the existence of such material or a relevant database on the Net? Please reply to me privately. Any assistance most appreciated. Mr Gwyn Williams Department of Linguistics Thammasat University Bangkok -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 9:38:45 CST From: jlilly@merle.acns.nwu.edu Subject: speaker needed Hello from Northwestern! The Language and Cognition program has chosen "bilingualism" as its topic for the winter quarter colloquia. The program usually hosts four or five speakers during a quarter. We are interested in finding those who would be willing to present recent findings to students and faculty in the L&C program at Northwestern. Any suggestions by others for topics or speakers are welcome as well. Thanks in advance, Jacqueline L. Lilly jlilly@merle.acns.nwu.edu Michelle Weinberg shelli@babel.ling.nwu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 93 14:02:35 SST From: David Gil Subject: QUERY: CLASSIFIERS In languages with numeral classifiers, the most common construction is of the form (abstracting away from word order) (1) [NUM CL N] ie. a tripartite construction consisting of numeral, classifier and noun in some order. However, in some languages with numeral classifiers, there exists an alternative "bare classifier" construction of the form (2) [CL N] ie. a bipartite construction consisting only of classifier and noun. The purpose of this query is to solicit any information, data, thoughts or references that anybody out there may have on the bare classifier construction in (2). So far, I have come across bare classifier constructions in two languages. In Vietnamese they appear to be quite common; in all the examples I have seen cited, the interpretation of the resulting NP is singular, and in most or all of the examples it is also definite. For example "con cho" "CL dog" "the dog". In Mandarin they are much less frequent, and seem to be constrained in their distribution in various ways; from informant work here in Singapore, the interpretation of the resulting NP is singular (like Vietnamese) but invariably indefinite (unlike Vietnamese). (Note: for a construction to qualify as a bare-classifier construction, it is necessary that the numeral classifier not double as a member of some other category, eg. noun. For example, in Vietnamese, many classifiers are also nouns; however, some classifiers aren't, and it's the latter that provide the true examples of bare-classifier constructions.) So here are some more specific questions: (a) To speakers of Vietnamese: is it really the case that bare- classifier NPs are always singular and definite? (b) To speakers of (or linguists familiar with) numeral-classifier languages other than Vietnamese and Chinese: does your language have bare-classifier constructions? Please note that I would be equally appreciative of negative evidence (especially such that I could quote) to the effect that language X DOESN'T have bare- classifier constructions. So what about Japanese? Korean? Khmer? Thai? Any other numeral-classifier languages? (c) To speakers of languages with bare-classifier constructions: any examples, information, references, thoughts, etc. would be extremely welcome. Thanks, David Gil ellgild@nusvm.bitnet PS Thanks to all those who answered a previous query of mine on classifiers and constituency, and apologies for not having posted the summary yet; my current intention is to post a joint summary for that query and the present one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1026. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1027. Fri 03 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 180 Subject: 4.1027 FYI: LOLL 1.5, Indigenous language, New list, H.R. 123 Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 15:28:36 GMT From: Michael Everson Subject: LOLL 1.5 2) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 17:34:40 -0600 From: ormsby@redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx (Ormsby Lowry Harold-CELE) Subject: Indigenous-language Writers Assn 3) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 10:38:00 -0500 From: cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca (Christina Thiele) Subject: Announcing a new list: linguistics and TeX 4) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 13:58:29 CST From: Barbara Need Subject: H.R. 123 -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 15:28:36 GMT From: Michael Everson Subject: LOLL 1.5 The List of Language Lists has been updated, and is available by anonymous ftp from colossus.ucd.ie in the /everson directory. It's name is now LNGLST15.TXT, and future incarnations will have the current version number. Michael Everson School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire Phone: +353 1 706-2745 Fax: +353 1 283-8908 Home: +353 1 478-2597 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 93 17:34:40 -0600 From: ormsby@redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx (Ormsby Lowry Harold-CELE) Subject: Indigenous-language Writers Assn ******************** ANNOUNCEMENT ******************** On November 26th and 27th, at the "Nezahualcoyotl" cultural center, Texcoco, Mexico, sixty-four indigenous-language writers from thirty- five communities and eighteen states of the Republic held a national assembly to found the Indigenous-language Writers Association (Asociacion de Escritores en Lenguas Indigenas, A.C.). The association's existence has been limited to one 52-year cycle of the ancient calendar, during which time its objectives will be to encourage the development of Mexico's autocthonous languages; to underwrite the creation, development and publication of contemporary indigenous literature; to promote workshops in reading and writing in the various languages; and to establish contact with both Mexican and international governmental and non-governmental organizations that have already or may in the future act in favor of these languages. It will also endeavor to exchange information and experiences with many groups or organizations, establish collaboration agreements, and contribute to the founding of both an indigenous-language publishing house and a specialized national library. The association's newly-elected board of directors will seek to recover their ancestors' idea of governance, that is, "not to give orders, but to call to work." During 1994, the association will organize the Fourth National Meeting of Indigenous-language Writers (IV Encuentro Nacional de Escritores en Lenguas Indigenas), to be held in October or November. For the moment, the association can be contacted through Profr. Natalio Hernandez Hernandez Presidente Asociacion de Escritores en Lenguas Indigenas Programa de Apoyo a las Lenguas Indigenas Direccion General de Culturas Populares Avenida Revolucion 1877, Piso 4 01000 Mexico, D.F. Mexico FAX: +52+5+616-0128 or +52+5+550-4090 Temporarily, e-mail care of: ormsby@redvax1.dgsca.unam.mx or ormsby@redvax1.bitnet -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 10:38:00 -0500 From: cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca (Christina Thiele) Subject: Announcing a new list: linguistics and TeX Through the good graces of George Greenwade at Sam Houston State University, the following new forum for discussion has just been established: ling-tex@shsu.edu To subscribe, send this message: SUBSCRIBE Ling-TeX "Your Real Name in Quotes" to this address: LISTSERV@SHSU.edu (and *not* to ling-tex@shsu.edu) and an intro message will beam back to your account. Once you've subscribed (at the LISTSERV@SHSU.edu) address, you can post messages to the list address (ling-tex@shsu.edu). Here's what the list's about (well, you know how these descriptions-before-the-fact go ... ;-)): The concept behind Ling-TeX is straightforward -- this list is for people interested in typesetting linguistics material with TeX. We hope to use this list as a means of identifying, examining, testing, and comparing macros, fonts, style files, etc. It is meant to provide an avenue for the active exchange of information and experience. The list is aimed at both current and potential users of TeX for linguistics, providing a common area for questions and answers, suggestions, explanations, and samples of what can be done. Please note that Ling-TeX is intended to be a dynamic list, where we hope to not just answer questions, but to encourage testing and comparisons of various fonts, macros, and whatever else is ``testable''! It would be helpful if new subscribers could post a brief notice, if they wish to participate actively, indicating their specific use/non-use of TeX/LaTeX, their particular area of interest (fonts, macros, etc.), and a note about what they would like to lend a hand with: testing macros, writing new ones, modifying existing ones, testing fonts, writing documentation, proof-reading documentation ... and whatever else comes up. Christina Thiele %% END OF FILE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 13:58:29 CST From: Barbara Need Subject: H.R. 123 I recently saw a letter to editor about H.R. 123: the Language of Government Act of 1993 and thought to bring this piece of legislation to the attention of the list. The bill currently has 88 sponsors, and the text of the bill follows: The Language of Government Act of 1993 Declares English to be the official language of the U.S. Government, States that the Government has an affirmative obligation to preserve an enhance the role of English as the official language. Requires the government to conduct its offical business in English. Prohibits anyone from being denied Government services because they communicate in English. As far as I can tell, it is currently in the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education and Training (subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and Labor). Barbara Need University of Chicago--Linguistics -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1027. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1028. Fri 03 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 208 Subject: 4.1028 Review of "The Language of Judges" Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Review Editor: Barbara Johnstone: Texas A&M U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 14:18 CST From: bcj@tamuts.tamu.edu (Barbara Johnstone) Subject: Review of "The Language of Judges" -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 93 14:18 CST From: bcj@tamuts.tamu.edu (Barbara Johnstone) Subject: Review of "The Language of Judges" Review Editor's note: Book reviews on Linguist are intended to initiate discussion of books and/or of topics dealt with in them. We hope the review will make it clear enough what the book is about that people who have not yet had a chance to read it will be able to join in along with people who have. Please play by the normal scholarly rules; book discussions are occasions for exchanges of and about ideas rather than for carrying out personal vendettas, etc. We look forward to some lively discussion. If you are interested in writing reviews, stay tuned for our announcements of books available for review. ********** Lawrence M. Solan. _The Language of Judges_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xii+218pp. $45.00 cloth; $16.95 paper. Reviewed by Terry Gordon: WTGORDON@ac.dal.ca The purpose of this book is to give a general audience insights into the judicial system by examining typical instances where judges appropriate for themselves the role of linguist. In particular, the study focuses on such instances which are inconsistent with each other. Solan detects two forces contributing to the apparently widespread incoherence and idiosyncracy of legal decisions: pressure on judges to legitimize their power by speaking with an authoritative voice and the necessity of at least giving the appearance of adhering to the neutrality principle (rule of law). Into the considerable space left by what the author refers to as "a wedge driving apart decision making on the one hand and presentation on the other" comes a lot of bogus linguistics. Or maybe no linguistics at all - that, at least, is the conclusion one is tempted to draw after Solan's not altogether satisfying first example. (Scores of more satisfying examples follow.) The author summarizes the case by saying "Thus the court relied on the difference in meaning between 'open', an adjective, and 'opened', a participle, to decide the case." The facts of the case are that the Port Authority Police , who patrol facilities operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, searched a van for marijuana with no warrant, which is permissible under the 4th and 14th Amendments of the U. S. Constitution in exceptional circumstances. Whether such circumstances obtained in this case depends on whether the door to the van was already open, thus giving the police cause (and legal grounds) to search for marijuana which they could smell, or whether it was opened by the police because they suspected the van contained marijuana (illegal intrusion on private space). In the initial hearing of the case (in motion court) the judge ruled that the police had operated outside their jurisdiction and that as a result the drugs seizedfrom the van could not be used at trial. This decision was upheld on appeal, but a second appeal was launched by the prosecutor, and the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that the police were in fact within their jurisdiction but disallowed prosecution on the drug charges. It is at this point that the open/opened distinction comes into play. The Court held that an error in dictation or transcription had occurred at the original hearing, satisfying itself that testimony had disclosed that witnesses were in agreement that the door was opened either by the police or by the garage owner at their command. Solan finds the decision very unusual and detects a hidden agenda in the correction of the lower court transcript, namely allowing the Port Authority Police to maintain their jurisdiction but without rewarding them for their aggressive conduct in the matter. This dual objective which the author ascribes to the Court could only be achieved by ensuring that a new trial did not reveal that the van door was already open when the police decided to conduct their search, that is, by fiat in correcting the record, a procedure facilitated by the "linguistic argument" for the open/opened distinction. I am not convinced by Solan's views in this matter. The relevant portion of the motion judge's findings read in part "...when one of the officers walked over to the van a door was open; marijuana was smelled and a quantity of marijuana was found..." (p.4). What if the semi-colon is a a gratuitous piece of editing? Then the structure of the sequence suggests three actions following or resulting from the officer walking over to the van, and the expression of those actions in passives suggests that "was opened" may well have been intended. The author's summary, cited above, states that the case was decided on the basis of the contrast between (was) open and (was) opened. Though this contrast is the crux of the matter for the appellate court, it is not phrased in a manner which sharpens the distinction sufficiently to lend weight to the decision which reads in part "Our careful examination of the motion testimony discloses that all witnesses agreed that the door was affirmatively 'opened' rather than casually 'open'...(p.5). In this respect one might conclude with Solan that a shabby shred of a linguistic principle obfuscates the Court's true motivation. More charitably, one might conclude that judges are not and cannot be expected to be good at linguistics, practiced intuitively, and therein lies another of the author's worries. Precedents are set when judges invole invoke linguistic arguments: "Is it now the law in Newe Jersey that the word 'open' can be changed to 'opened' whenever a court decides that an error in dictation or transcription could be of some help?" (p.6) If Solan's fear seems unwarranted or exaggerated, it is well to remember that the "linguistic principle" in the case in question is no linguistic principle at all but the vestige of a naive belief that every word should have a unique and fixed meaning. It is a view that ignores both context and ambiguity (the author reminds us that 'was opened' remains potentially ambiguous even when the distinction between open and opened is allowed on the court's grounds). If specious and pseudo-linguistic arguments are used, and if their use is accepted, because they appeear to conform to the neutrality principle, then Solan's fears are very well founded. The state of affairs is all the more disturbing if one agrees that "at the root of the difficulty is the fact that there is no real relationship between these linguistic principles on the one hand and notions of justice on the other" (p.6). Presently the author states that linguistic arguments from the bench "can best be seen as window dressing, part of an effort to mask some other agenda" (p.11). It is little wonder that Solan does not recommend his own combined training in linguistics and the law (p.9), and that he still does not understand the view of friends who advised the combination because "the law is simply a matter of linguistics" (p.11). By now readers will understand that this book does not lend itself to succinct summary and comment, the author will be exasperated that I have not progressed beyond his introduction, and the LINGUIST editors may fear that I have a 50,000 word review in the making, so I shift gears. One of Solan's favorite examples (it recurs till the closing pages) is the case of Anderson vs. State Farm, in which the absence of a comma was decisive in the suit against the insurance company for refusing to honor Mrs. Anderson's claim for damages for which she was responsible, even though the car she was driving was not her own and she was driving it without permission (having mistaken it for another car which she intended to drive without the owner's knowledge or permission)! There is a little more to the deciding factor than a missing comma, namely an unfathomably perverse interpretation of the last antecedent rule in blatant disregard of both its natural reading and the proviso that it be interpreted in conformity with context. (The rule states that "a limiting clause is to be confined to the last antecedent, unless the context or evident meaning requires a different construction" (p.29) Strunk, thou shouldst be living at this hour. The case suits Solan's discussion well with respect to linguistics and allows him to launch into a discussion of the late closure strategy for sentence processing as discussed by Lyn Frazier (1978, 1985) and others. With respect to the law and the contingent nature of judgments, the case is even better suited to the author's main thesis than the Port Authority case, because there are instances where the courts have applied a principle just the opposite of the last antecedent rule (p.34). There is much of interest in this book for linguists: the law and adjectival scopoe ws scope (p.59), the lenity principle and the scope of adverbs (p.67), the plain language rule (p. 93), a case where the Supreme Court found language plain despite a structural ambiguity (p.99), statutory language which is undesirably clear (p.116), the syntax of the Fifth Amendment (p. 123), a remedy o for one type of ambiguity (p. 125), etc. Solan's own observations on legal language are of particular interest: "Nowhere have I encountered examples in which 'the party of the first part' occupies the position of a reflexive pronoun. This reflects a sensitivity to the difference between reference dictated by grammatical principles and reference established on the basis of context" (p.127). I find various points in Solan's work open to criticism: 1) the discussion of an example (p.52, #12) where DeMorgan's law for the relationship between conjunction and negation does not seem to apply overlooks implicit chronosemantc chronosemantic aspects of the example which allow a coherent disjunctive reading; 2) the persistence of multiple interpretation (p.131) seems like a lame argument against plain language; 3) the thesis that cognitive capacities limit precision in language (p.138) seems at least debatable; 4) the notion that knowledge of language makes many interpretive tasks automatic and "beyond dispute" (p. 186) is not itself beyond dispute, and dispute or not, how far does it advance a linguistic analysis? Solan's further observations on this matter do not provide a promising answer: "...enormous amounts of interpretation occur without our ever noticing it. No on one has ever argued that the Fifth Amendment really sets standards for the meat-packing industry, or that RICO [racketeering legislation] is really about the financing of schools" (ibid.). On my first reading of the second chapter I found the juxtaposition of the writings of Chomsky and Judge Benjamin Cardozo somewhat forced; on second reading however, it seemed not only a valid approach but that Solan might have made his point more forcefully and more appropriately for his intended audience of general readers by reference to the evolution iin in Chomsky's work from some relatively non-technical source such as the interview in _Radical Philosophy_ (1989) or various material from Otero (1988). Solan quotes only three passages from Chomsky in this chapter; given the disparaging references elsewhere to judges rendering decisions as though it could not be otherwise, Solan presumably intended no irony in quoting a passage from the 1988 Managua Lectures where Chomsky speaks as if it could not be otherwise.) Before Solan only one twentieth century scholar covered the same ground - C. K. Ogden. He was not a lawyer, but the strongest formative influence on Ogden was the 18th/19th century jurist and legal reformer Jeremy Bentham, whose _Theory of Legislation_ Ogden edited. Ogden's expository writings on Bentham range over his contributions to the law but focus on his vast implii implicit program for educational reform. That program begins with the identification of word magic (thought under the control of language, instead of language under the control of thought), and the social and operational contexts of language, progressing then to a theory of how symbols function and linguistic fictions (concrete qualities incorrectly imputed to the referents of words). All of these are directly relevant to the themes and preoccupations of Solan's book and provide a rich background against which to evaluate it. I think the author need not worry that the reception of his book will be the same as that given to Bentham, which Ogden reluctantly summarized saying "linguists will be the last to welcome him into their fold" (Ogden 1993[1932]:vii) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1028. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1029. Mon 06 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 150 Subject: 4.1029 Calls: SALT 4, ANLP-94 Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 15:40:45 EST From: SALT 4 Subject: SALT 4 - Call for Papers 2) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 20:59:04 EST From: pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Jacobs) Subject: ANLP-94 preliminary call for papers -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 15:40:45 EST From: SALT 4 Subject: SALT 4 - Call for Papers SALT 4 Call for Papers Semantics and Linguistic Theory Fourth Annual Meeting University of Rochester, Rochester, NY May 6-8, 1993 Invited Speakers: Emmon Bach Robin Cooper David Dowty Manfred Krifka Sally McConnell-Ginet SALT 4 welcomes submissions for 30-minute presentations (with 10 additional minutes for discussion) on any topic in the semantic analysis of natural language emphasizing the connection to linguistic theory. Authors should submit 10 copies of abstracts, no more than 2 pages (1000) words long. Authors' names, addresses, affiliation, phone numbers and e-mail address, and paper title should accompany the abstracts on a 3x5 card. E-mail submissions also accepted at the address listed below; e-mail submissions should be plain ASCII text. Abstract deadline: February 1, 1994 Send abstracts to: SALT 4 Committee Department of Linguistics 611 Hylan Building University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 USA The program will be completed by early March, at which time conference information will be made available. Inquiries welcome at the address above, or e-mail to: slt4@troi.cc.rochester.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 20:59:04 EST From: pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Jacobs) Subject: ANLP-94 preliminary call for papers PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing Stuttgart, Germany October 13-15, 1994 sponsored by Association for Computational Linguistics This conference will follow the theme and style of previous ACL Applied conferences. Specific areas of interest and other details will be provided in subsequent announcements. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Authors should submit, by 2 May 1994, a) six copies of a full-length paper (min 9, max 15 double-spaced pages, minimum font size 12, exclusive of references); and b) 16 copies of a 20-30 line abstract. A paper accepted for presentation at the meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Papers arriving after the deadline will be returned unopened. FAX papers will not be reviewed; however, electronic submissions will be allowed using the same guidelines as the 1994 ACL conference. Papers should be sent to the Program Chair: Paul Jacobs (ANLP-94) (215) 898-0332 Institute for Research in Cognitive Science 3401 Walnut St., Suite 400C, Rm. 420 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 5 July 1994. Full-length versions of accepted papers, prepared according to instructions, must be received, along with a signed copyright release statement, by 22 August 1994. TUTORIALS, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION The conference will have facilities for a variety of special events, including tutorials and workshops before the conference. For information regarding facilities and local arrangments, contact: Uwe Reyle and Sabine Schmidt Institut f"ur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universit"at Stuttgart Azenbergstr. 12 D-70174 Stuttgart Germany phone: +49-711-1211379 fax: +49-711-1211366 e-mail: sabine@ims.uni-stuttgart.de For other information on ACL, contact Judith Klavans (ACL), Columbia University, Computer Science, New York, NY 10027, USA; +1-914-478-1802 phone/fax; acl@cs.columbia.edu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1029. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1030. Mon 06 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 131 Subject: 4.1030 Sum: Albanian instruction in U.S., Native Languages of Canada Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 09:07:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert D. Rachlin" Subject: Summary: University Albanian Instruction 2) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 15:20:20 EST From: Ron Smyth Subject: Acquisition of native lgs. -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 09:07:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert D. Rachlin" Subject: Summary: University Albanian Instruction Several people were kind enough to respond to my inquiry about the availability of Albanian instruction in U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities, among them, Brad Coon, Stavros Macrakis, Barbara Need, Craig Melchert, Dave Kathman, Michael Kac, and Claudia Brugman. The modal response identified the University of Chicago (coincidentally my law school alma mater). At the U. of C. Albanian is taught on a moreor less regular basis by Kostas Kazazis in the Linguistics Department. Craig Melchert pointed out that the latest LSA Directory of Linguistics Programs lists the University of California at San Diego (Leonard Newmark), 1) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 09:07:02 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert D. Rachlin" Subject: Summary: University Albanian Instruction 2) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 15:20:20 EST From: Ron Smyth Subject: Acquisition of native lgs. University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (instructor unclear), Northeastern Illinois University (Gary Bevington) and a the University of North Carolina, which I understand is no longer correct. Evidently Professor Victor Friedman, formerly of UNC , is now at the University of Chicago. This inquiry was made on behalf of an English teacher from Albania who recently arrived in the U.S. and has brought her family while she takes the master's program (along with my wife) in TESL at St. Michael's College,Winooski, Vermont. She hopes to remain in the U.S., and one option is an instructorship or lectureship in Albanian at the university level. Thanks very much. *______________________________________________________________________ | Robert D. Rachlin Downs Rachlin & Martin Burlington, VT 05402-0190 | | rachlin@panix.com Compuserve: 72420,3350 MCI: 583-3818 | |................Tel: 802 863 2375 Fax: 802 863 2573..................| -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 15:20:20 EST From: Ron Smyth Subject: Acquisition of native lgs. Recently I asked subscribers for references on the acquisition of native languages of Canada. Thanks to Shanley Allen, Victor Golla, Lynne Hewitt, Kumiko Murasugi, David Parkinson, and Dean Mellow (I hope I've mentioned all of the respondents) for the following: 1. Allen, S. E. M. 1989. Acquisition of noun incorporation in Inuktitut. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 28: 49-56. 2. Allen, S. E. M. 1989. Preschool language acquisition of Inuktitut: a case study of one Inuk boy. Proceedings of the 2nd National Student Conference on Northern Studies, 159-167. 3. Allen, Shanley & Martha Crago. 1989. Acquisition of Noun Incorporation in Inuktitut. _PRCLD_ 28. 49-56. 4. Crago, M. B. 1988. Cultural Context in the Communicative Interaction of Inuktitut Children. Doctoral dissertation, McGill University. 5. Crago , Martha & Alice Eriks-Brophy, "Culture, Conversation, and Interaction: Implications for Intervention". In J. Duchan, L. Hewitt, & R. Sonnenmeier, Eds. (1994), Pragmatics: From Theory to Practice. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, pp. 43-58. 6. Crago Martha, & Cole, E. (1991). Using ethnography to bring children's communicative and cultural worlds into focus. In T. Gallagher (Ed.), Pragmatics of language: Clinical practice issues (pp. 99-132). San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group. 7. Feurer, Hanny. 1980. Morphological Development in Mohawk. _PRCLD_ 18. 25-42. 8. Fortescue, Michael & Lise Lennert Olsen. 1992. The acquisition of West Greenlandic. In: D. I. Slobin (ed.), The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition. Volume 3. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp.111-219. 9. Fortescue , Michael . Learning to speak Greenlandic: a case study of a two- year-old's morphology in a polysynthetic language", in First Language 5, 101-114. 10. Mellow, Dean. 1989. On Triggers: A Parameter-Setting Approach to the Acquisition of Cree, a Free Word Order Language. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 5.2 97-127. 11. Mithun, Marianne. 1989. The Acquisition of Polysynthesis. _Journal of Child Language_ 16(2). 285-312. 12. Upper, Mary. A study of Oji-Cree done at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1030. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1031. Tue 07 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 158 Subject: 4.1031 Calls: TAI-94 Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 23:13:24 EST From: manaris@fsu.fsufay.edu (Bill Z. Manaris) Subject: TAI-94 Call for Papers -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 23:13:24 EST From: manaris@fsu.fsufay.edu (Bill Z. Manaris) Subject: TAI-94 Call for Papers Operating System: DYNIX 3.1.0 Organization: Fayetteville State University Department: Mathematics & Computer Science Phone: (910)486-1666 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] CALL FOR PAPERS 6th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence November 6-9, 1994 Hotel Intercontinental New Orleans, Louisiana This conference is envisioned to foster the transfer of ideas relating to artificial intelligence among academics, industry, and government agencies. It focuses on methodologies which can aid the development of AI, as well as the demanding issues involved in turning these methodologies to practical tools. Thus, this conference encompasses the technical aspects of specifying, developing, and evaluating theoretical and applied mechanisms which can serve as tools for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. Focal topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Machine Learning, Computational Learning * Artificial Neural Networks * Uncertainty Management, Fuzzy Logic * Distributed and Cooperative AI, Information Agents * Knowledge Based Systems, Intelligent Data Bases * Intelligent Strategies for Scheduling and Planning * AI Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms * Expert Systems * Natural Language Processing * AI Applications (Vision, Robotics, Signal Processing, etc.) * Information Modeling, Reasoning Techniques * AI Languages, Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Systems * Logic and Constraint Programming * Strategies for AI development * AI tools for Biotechnology INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS There will be both academic and industry tracks. A one day workshop (November 6th) precedes the conference (November 7-9). Authors are requested to submit original papers to the program chair by April 20, 1994. Five copies (in English) of double-spaced typed manuscript (maximum of 25 pages) with an abstract are required. Please attach a cover letter indicating the conference track (academic/industry) and areas (in order of preference) most relevant to the paper. Include the contact author's postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Submissions in other audio-visual forms are acceptable only for the industry track, but they must focus on methodology and timely results on AI technological applications and problems. Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 15, 1994 and will be given instruc- tions for camera ready papers at that time. The deadline for camera ready papers will be August 19, 1994. Outstanding papers will be eli- gible for publication in the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. Submit papers and panel proposals by April 20, 1994 to the Program Chair: Cris Koutsougeras Computer Science Department Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: (504) 865-5840 e-mail: ck@cs.tulane.edu Potential panel organizers please submit a subject statement and a list of panelists. Acceptances of panel proposals will be announced by June 30, 1994. A computer account (tai@cs.tulane.edu) is running to provide automatic information responses. You can obtain the electronic files for the CFP, program, registration form, hotel reservation form, and general conference information. For more information please contact: Conference Chair Steering Committee Chair Jeffrey J.P. Tsai Nikolaos G. Bourbakis Dept. of EECS (M/C 154) Dept. of Electrical Engineering 851 S. Morgan Street SUNY at Binghamton University of Illinois Binghamton, NY 13902 Chicago, IL 60607-7053 Tel: (607)777-2165 (312)996-9324 e-mail: bourbaki@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (312)413-0024 (fax) tsai@bert.eecs.uic.edu Program Chair : Cris Koutsougeras, Tulane University Registration Chair : Takis Metaxas, (617) 283-3054, e-mail: takis@poobah.wellesley.edu Local Arrangements Chair : Akhtar Jameel, e-mail: jameel@cs.tulane.edu Workshop Organizing Chair : Mark Boddy, Honeywell Industrial Track Vice Chairs : Steven Szygenda, Raymond Paul Program Vice Chairs : Machine Learning: E. Kounalis Computational Learning: J. Vitter Uncertainty Management, Fuzzy Logic: R. Goldman Knowledge Based Systems, Intelligent Data Bases: M. Ozsoyoglu AI Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms: P. Marquis Natural Language Processing: B. Manaris Information Modeling, Reasoning Techniques: D. Zhang Logic and Constraint Programming: A. Bansal AI Languages, Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Systems: B. Bryant Artificial Neural Networks: P. Israel Distributed and Cooperative AI, Information Agents: C. Tsatsoulis Intelligent Strategies for Scheduling and Planning: L. Hoebel Expert Systems: F. Bastani AI Applications (Vision, Robotics, Signal Processing, etc.): C. T. Chen AI tools for Biotechnology: M. Perlin Strategies for AI development: U. Yalcinalp Publicity Chairs : R. Brause, Germany Mikio Aoyama, Japan Benjamin Jang, Taiwan Steering Committee : Chair: Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, SUNY-Binghamton John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada C. V. Ramamoorthy, University of California-Berkeley Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago Wei-Tek Tsai, University of Minnesota Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1031. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1032. Tue 07 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 181 Subject: 4.1032 Calls: Speech/handwriting recognition, GURT Greek, ANLP-94 Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 14:15:09 GMT From: Dr Tony Rose Subject: CfP: Workshop on Speech and Handwriting Recognition 2) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1993 16:52:38 -0500 (EST) From: PAVLOS@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: GURT Session on Greek Linguistics 3) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 20:59:04 EST From: pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Jacobs) Subject: ANLP-94 preliminary call for papers -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 14:15:09 GMT From: Dr Tony Rose Subject: CfP: Workshop on Speech and Handwriting Recognition Computational Linguistics for Speech and Handwriting Recognition ================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS =============== A one-day workshop organised by L.J. Evett & T.G. Rose as part of the AISB 1994 Workshop Series 12th April 1994 Leeds University, England ABSTRACT ======== Reliable speech and handwriting recognition cannot be achieved through pattern recognition techniques alone. Natural language input is notoriously ambiguous, and the application of higher level knowledge is necessary to cope with this and other difficulties. Previous attempts to implement linguistic knowledge have often employed a logic based approach, drawing on a lexicon of symbolic information. However, recent technological advances have allowed the development of large text corpora from which probabilistic linguistic data may be derived. Consequently, there has been a renewal of interest in techniques based upon such statistical information. This workshop aims to compare these two approaches, and evaluate their present (and potential) contribution to speech and handwriting recognition. The workshop will also consider related language processing problems, such as parsing, word class formation, part of speech tagging, sense disambiguation, discourse analysis, and the development of on-line lexical resources. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION =========================== Please submit an extended abstract (max. 500 words) to the address below. Email submissions are strongly encouraged. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to write a full paper for inclusion in the proceedings. DEADLINES ========= Abstracts due : 28th January, 1994 Acceptance notification : 4th February, 1994 Full paper due : 11th March, 1994 Please send submissions and correspondence to: L.J. Evett, Department of Computing, Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU England. Tel: 0602 418418 ext. 2158 Fax: 0602 486518 email: lje@uk.ac.ntu.doc -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1993 16:52:38 -0500 (EST) From: PAVLOS@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: GURT Session on Greek Linguistics For the Listserve--announcement follows: Papers are solicited for the Pre-session on Greek Linguistics to be held im- mediately preceding the Georgetown University Round Table on languages and linguistics, on Saturday, March 12, 1994. Papers on any area of Greek Linguistics will be considered. Presentations should be in English , 20- minute presentations, 10-minute discussions. Please send three copies of a one-page abstract by January 15, 1994 to: James Alatis, PhD and Pavlos Pavlou Greek Linguistics Presession Linguistics Department Georgetown University Washington, D.C. 20057-1068 or E-mail: pavlos@guvax.georgetown.edu To ensure impartiality, do not include your name on the abstract. Please enclose your name, address, title of abstract and E-mail address (if ap- plicable) on a 3 X 5 index card. For more information or if you have questions, write or E-mail to the above addresses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 20:59:04 EST From: pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Jacobs) Subject: ANLP-94 preliminary call for papers PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing Stuttgart, Germany October 13-15, 1994 sponsored by Association for Computational Linguistics This conference will follow the theme and style of previous ACL Applied conferences. Specific areas of interest and other details will be provided in subsequent announcements. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Authors should submit, by 2 May 1994, a) six copies of a full-length paper (min 9, max 15 double-spaced pages, minimum font size 12, exclusive of references); and b) 16 copies of a 20-30 line abstract. A paper accepted for presentation at the meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Papers arriving after the deadline will be returned unopened. FAX papers will not be reviewed; however, electronic submissions will be allowed using the same guidelines as the 1994 ACL conference. Papers should be sent to the Program Chair: Paul Jacobs (ANLP-94) (215) 898-0332 Institute for Research in Cognitive Science 3401 Walnut St., Suite 400C, Rm. 420 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 5 July 1994. Full-length versions of accepted papers, prepared according to instructions, must be received, along with a signed copyright release statement, by 22 August 1994. TUTORIALS, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOPS AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION The conference will have facilities for a variety of special events, including tutorials and workshops before the conference. For information regarding facilities and local arrangments, contact: Uwe Reyle and Sabine Schmidt Institut f"ur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universit"at Stuttgart Azenbergstr. 12 D-70174 Stuttgart Germany phone: +49-711-1211379 fax: +49-711-1211366 e-mail: sabine@ims.uni-stuttgart.de For other information on ACL, contact Judith Klavans (ACL), Columbia University, Computer Science, New York, NY 10027, USA; +1-914-478-1802 phone/fax; acl@cs.columbia.edu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1032. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1033. Tue 07 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 120 Subject: 4.1033 Jobs: Postdoc, Lectureship, Assistant professor Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 15:09:26 EST From: kroch@change.ling.upenn.edu Subject: Penn IRCS Postdocs for 1994-95 2) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 11:01:36 +1000 From: Laurie.Bauer@vuw.ac.nz (Laurie Bauer) Subject: Job, New Zealand 3) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 20:06:42 EST From: prince@ruccs.rutgers.edu (Alan Prince) Subject: Job at Rutgers -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 15:09:26 EST From: kroch@change.ling.upenn.edu Subject: Penn IRCS Postdocs for 1994-95 The Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) at the University of Pennsylvania provides opportunities for several postdoctoral positions in Cognitive Science. The deadline for applications is February 1, 1994. Decisions will be made by March 15, 1994. To apply, please send a cover letter indicating your proposed research, your resume, and have two or three referees send letters of reference directly to: Postdoctoral Fellow Selection Committee Institute for Research in Cognitive Science University of Pennsylvania 400C 3401 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 The University of Pennsylvania is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 11:01:36 +1000 From: Laurie.Bauer@vuw.ac.nz (Laurie Bauer) Subject: Job, New Zealand Position No: 362 December 1993 LECTURESHIP IN LINGUISTICS Applications are invited for the above post in the Department of Linguistics available from July 1994. The department is seeking to complement existing staff by appointing a person with evidence of excellence in teaching and research and able to contribute to a broad range of core areas of linguistics. A specialist interest in an area of psycholinguistics, linguistics in the educational domain or the sociology of language would be an advantage, but people with other specialisations should not be discouraged from applying. Further information of an academic nature can be obtained from Dr Laurie Bauer, Chairperson of the Department of Linguistics (tel: +64 4 472 1000, ext. 8800; email: Laurie.Bauer@vuw.ac.nz). The salary scale for Lecturers is currently NZ$37440-NZ$49088 per annum. Applications should be sent to the Appointments Administrator, Personnel Office, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand, to arrive by the closing date of 18 February 1994. Laurie.BAUER@vuw.ac.nz Department of Linguistics, Victoria University, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand Ph: +64 4 472 1000 x 8800 Fax: +64 4 471 2070 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 93 20:06:42 EST From: prince@ruccs.rutgers.edu (Alan Prince) Subject: Job at Rutgers The Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University (New Brunswick) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in theoretical linguistics, with the field of specialization open. Applicants should have the Ph.D. by June 30th 1994 and should be prepared to teach at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The deadline for applications is January 15, 1994. Applications should include a CV and one or two papers, and should be sent to Search Committee Linguistics Department Rutgers University 18 Seminary Place New Brunswick NJ 08903 Three letters of recommendation should be sent to the same address. Applicants should indicate in their letter whether they will be attending the LSA meeting in January. Linguistics Dept. phone is 908-932-7289, FAX 908-932-1370. Rutgers University is an AA/EEO employer -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1033. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1034. Tue 07 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 137 Subject: 4.1034 Qs: LAD, Folk etymology, OK, Manczak's review of Hock Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 93 12:29:39 EST From: mark Subject: LAD hypothesis citation? 2) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 22:01:48 +0100 From: reinpost@info.win.tue.nl (Reinier Post) Subject: any studies on folk etymology? 3) Date: 02 Dec 1993 12:33:38 -0500 (EST) From: Ali Aghbar Subject: Inquiry: "OK" Use Research 4) Date: 6 December 1993, 13:14:25 CST From: ga3704@siucvmb.siu.edu Subject: Query: book review -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 03 Dec 93 12:29:39 EST From: mark Subject: LAD hypothesis citation? When and where did Chomsky first hypothesize an innate "device" to constrain and support human first language acquisition, based on the apparent fact that the child's sample is inadequate to support correct extrapolation of the grammar of the language? Mark A. Mandel Dragon Systems, Inc. : speech recognition : +1 617 965-5200 320 Nevada St. : Newton, Mass. 02160, USA : mark@dragonsys.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 22:01:48 +0100 From: reinpost@info.win.tue.nl (Reinier Post) Subject: any studies on folk etymology? In etymological dictionaries and elsewhere, the term 'folk etymology' is often used to explain the form of a word or phrase; it is used to indicate a change of form due to reanalysis by the speaker community. I will take the liberty to quote from a recent contribution to the LINGUIST list: >Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 10:21:02 EDT >From: Larry Horn >Subject: Re reanalysis: the spittin' image > >The recent discussion of metathesis, metanalysis, and reanalysis evokes our >extended colloquy, almost exactly a year ago, on that subset of reanalysis >due to folk etymology--the category of "pullet surprises". One of >the all-time pullet surprise winners, along with the doggy dog world and the >devil-make-hair attitude, is 'spittin' image'. The standard story, as Mike >Kac mentioned during last year's exchange (citing William Safire), is that >the earlier 'spit and image' had become opaque with the loss of the relevant >meaning of the nominal 'spit', and speakers reanalyzed the expression as if >it >contained the participle, hence 'spittin(g) image', which is now frequently >seen in print. [remainder omitted] Is there any study which treats folk etymology as an interesting phenomenon in its own right? I am asking this question on behalf of someone who is doing linguistic investigations in which reanalysis plays an important role. Any pointers to literature, or even suggestions for keywords to use in searching, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, -- Reinier Post reinpost@win.tue.nl Eindhoven, the Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 02 Dec 1993 12:33:38 -0500 (EST) From: Ali Aghbar Subject: Inquiry: "OK" Use Research Does anyone know of completed or on-going research on the use of "OK"? Your response would be of great help to a graduate student of mine who has been exploring this topic. Please respond to me directly. If you are interested in getting a copy of what I receive, let me know. I will either forward everything to you OR, if there is great interest in the topic, I will cut and assemble highlights from the responses I receive and send the collection it to the entire list. Thanks. Ali ================================================================================ Ali-Asghar Aghbar, Dept. of English, Indiana U. of PA, Indiana, PA 15705 Bitnet: aaghbar@iup Internet: aaghbar@grove.iup.edu Phone: 357 2262 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: 6 December 1993, 13:14:25 CST From: ga3704@siucvmb.siu.edu Subject: Query: book review Can anyone point me to the review that W. Manczak wrote of H. Hock's "Principles of Historical Linguistics"? It has to be after 1986, publication date of the book, but I have thus far failed in tracking it down. Many thanks. Margaret Winters -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1034. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1035. Tue 07 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 117 Subject: 4.1035 Conf: 3rd International Maluku, NLLIA Language Expo 94 Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 14:25:41 GMT+0930 From: 2) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 15:29:37 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au (Peter White) -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 14:25:41 GMT+0930 From: The Third International Maluku Research Conference will be held at Pattimura University, Ambon, Indonesia from June 29 - July 4, 1994. Linguists who are undertaking research in the Maluku region of eastern Indonesia, or those interested in the languages of Maluku, are encouraged to attend. The academic program is being organized by the Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia, and scholars (including students) are invited to send expressions of interest together with the title of a paper to: Margaret Florey Centre for Southeast Asian Studies Northern Territory University PO Box 40146 Casuarina, NT 0811 Australia Fax: 61-89-410460 Email -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 15:29:37 +1000 From: peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au (Peter White) Conference announcement: NATIONAL LANGUAGES AND LITERACY INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA LTD PRESENTS: NLLIA LANGUAGE EXPO '94 21-23 July 1994 Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour Sydney, Australia The importance of language to Australia's future is recognised by the government through a national policy and funded initiatives - and now its major role in all facets of Australian life is confirmed by uhe country's only national language exposition to be held in Sydney. The first NLLIA Language Expo was held in Melbourne in 1992 and was an outstanding success. The second Expo in Sydney will have over 40 more exhibits and displays, and is expected to attract some 10,000 visitors from around Australia and the world. The estimated 160 exhibitors will be drawn from all areas of the languages sphere: language professionals, publishers, language schools, bilateral business councils, export education organisations and consultancies, international and national government representation, and many educational institutions. A seminar program will be a major part of Expo, offering an excellent opportunity for networking and discussion. Central to the seminar program will be discussions on essential language and business issues led by key business figures. Topics under consideration for seminars and symposia include: the role of language in Exporting Australia; language and literacy in the workplace; bilingualism and community languages; family literacy; technology in language learning; multimedia communications, and careers in languages. A cultural entertainment program featuring performers from Australia's diverse population and interest groups will be a feature of Expo. The NLLIA literacy networks (adult literacy and child ESL), are organising a Research Fair, in which recently completed and current research in these topical areas will be explored and discussed. A Business Breakfast, and "Language Excellence in Export" awards are also parts of Expo. All of these contribute to an event unprecedented in size and scale for the language industry - the only event on the calendar which will enable such wide access to business, government, education, research, and the general public under the one roof. For more information about NLLIA Language Expo '94, contact: Clare McAdam, Fauth Royale & Associates Tel: +61 3 509-4160 Fax: +61 3 509-9115 Email requests can be sent to Peter White, NLLIA/Language and Technology Centre peterw@lingua.cltr.uq.oz.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1035. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1036. Thu 09 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 125 Subject: 4.1036 Qs: Assyrian, Polish translation, German, G.K. Verner Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Dec 1993 08:51:08 GMT From: "JOAN C BIELLA" Subject: ASSYRIAN 2) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 93 14:34:58 CDT From: stan kulikowski ii Subject: polish --> english needed (kids rhymes) 3) Date: Wed Dec 8 14:57:13 CST 1993 From: mbalhorn@uwspmail.uwsp.edu Subject: German/grammaticality 4) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 13:42:37 MST From: martinha@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Martin Haspelmath) Subject: G. K. Verner (Ket specialist) -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: 08 Dec 1993 08:51:08 GMT From: "JOAN C BIELLA" Subject: ASSYRIAN I'm a libarian seeking the help of someone who knows the language called Modern Syriac or Assyrian. As a student of Old Syriac, I can read the script but have problems with the vocabulary. Can you, or do you know of someone who would be willing to, answer some questions via Internet? Thanks for your help-- Joan Biella Library of Congress biella@mail.loc.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 93 14:34:58 CDT From: stan kulikowski ii Subject: polish --> english needed (kids rhymes) i need some translation skills, polish to english. i have about 70 some kids' rhymes in polish and need someone who can give me an english gloss of them. these average about 4 lines each and none of them is very long. the file is 10K total. please contact me if you know someone who will render them into english. thanks, stan stankuli@UWF.bitnet . === we all help each other get a little further down the road, : : or be damned for the fools that we are. --- -- the motorcycle modificationist's motto -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Wed Dec 8 14:57:13 CST 1993 From: mbalhorn@uwspmail.uwsp.edu Subject: German/grammaticality Would any NATIVE speakers of German out there mind taking a few minutes to give me some grammaticality judgements? Here are the sentences. Just mark them (*) if they're clearly wrong. Mark them (?) if they're strange. Don't mark them at all if they're okay. I assume that some of them are ungrammatical, but I don't really know which ones. 1. a. Auf dem Tisch liegt ein Buch. b. Es liegt ein Buch auf dem Tisch. c. Ein Buch liegt auf dem Tisch. 2. a. Auf dem Tisch gibt ein Buch. b. Auf dem Tisch es gibt ein Buch. c. Auf dem Tisch gibt es ein Buch. d. Ein Buch gibt auf dem Tisch. e. Es gibt ein Buch auf dem Tisch. 3. a. Auf dem Tisch ist ein Buch. b. Auf dem Tisch es ist ein Buch. c. Auf dem Tisch ist es ein Buch. d. Ein Buch ist auf dem Tisch. e. Es ist ein Buch auf dem Tisch. Thanks a lot. Mark Balhorn mbalhorn@uwspmail.uwsp.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 13:42:37 MST From: martinha@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Martin Haspelmath) Subject: G. K. Verner (Ket specialist) Does anybody know the whereabouts of Genrix K. Verner (Heinrich Werner), the world's leading specialist of the Ket language (the western Siberian isolate, threatened with extinction)? Verner (Werner) was first in Tomsk, then in Taganrog. He is said to have emigrated to Germany a few years ago. I would be grateful for any hints. Martin Haspelmath (Free University of Berlin) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1036. >~v > ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1037. Thu 09 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 128 Subject: 4.1037 Qs: G. Lakoff, F. Choate, IPA font, French word list Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 93 20:55:35 -0500 From: james ross Subject: George Lakoff 2) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 93 01:48:47 +0300 (MSK) From: rykov@iling.msk.su (Vladimir Rykov) Subject: CALL FOR HELP 3) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 23:51:46 -0500 (EST) From: G_VACHON@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: IPA font for IBM? 4) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 17:51:55 +0100 (MET) From: Stephanie Bohnerth Subject: Q: Large list of French words -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 93 20:55:35 -0500 From: james ross Subject: George Lakoff I am currently studying the relationship between my students' conceptual framework of heat, and the metaphors that students use in their everyday speech about heat and related phenomena. It is my belief that the "image schemata" and the "Idealized Cognitive Models" used by George Lakoff to account for metaphors may also account for the conceptual structure of naive theories of heat among students. These folk theories of heat (as well as many other phenomena studied in science courses) appear to occur in similar forms all over the globe, and they are very resistant to instruction. The most interesting account of metaphors, and the one that led me in this direction, is George Lakoff's book, "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things". But I have some questions. First: I am an utter amateur in language studies, and while the idea of metaphor proposed by Lakoff is convincing to me, I do not know if it is anything like a sound theory of metaphors among linguists. Could you help me out with this? Are there any articles, books, or persons you could recommend who could give me either supporting or critical arguments about the validity of Lakoff's ideas? Second: How can I contact George Lakoff? I have searched several databases, and found nothing. Is he still pursuing this line of thinking? Thank you for all of your help. Jim Ross -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 93 01:48:47 +0300 (MSK) From: rykov@iling.msk.su (Vladimir Rykov) Subject: CALL FOR HELP Please - does anybody knows e-mail address of a Californian Slavist Fred Choate - or can help to find him other way ? Thank you Vladimir RYKOV RYKOV@ILING.MSK.SU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 23:51:46 -0500 (EST) From: G_VACHON@UNHH.UNH.EDU Subject: IPA font for IBM? For any of you who thought this was an announcement of the existence of an IPA font for IBM users, I apologize. I have recently switched from using a Macintosh, which was innately endowed with an IPA font, to using an IBM compatible computer. I am primarily using AmiPro (if that matters), a Windows based word processing program. It seems that there must be an IPA font out there. It can't be that all the linguists in the world are using Macintoshes. If anyone has any useful information, or even any wild suggestions (no, I will not switch back for the sake of one font) I would be grateful. Gene Vachon - University of New Hampshire g_vachon@unhh.unh.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 17:51:55 +0100 (MET) From: Stephanie Bohnerth Subject: Q: Large list of French words A colleague of mine at the Department of Romance Languages is looking for a large list of French word. This list is supposed to serve as basis for research in the field of phonetics. It would be useful (but not necessary) to have additional information on pronounciation etymology and grammatical categories. Thank you very much in advance, Please contact: P. Wandel, M.A. Dr. St. Bohnerth WINGS-PROJEKT Universitaet d. Saarlandes e-mail: dagmar@rz.uni-sb.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1037. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1038. Thu 09 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 199 Subject: 4.1038 Conf: Morphology-Syntax, Contrast in phonology, FOCUS & NLP Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 93 00:28:48 EST From: Colin Phillips Subject: Posting 2) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 11:12:15 -0500 (EST) From: cdyck@epas.utoronto.ca (C. Dyck) Subject: Phonology conf. on CONTRAST 3) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 18:31:29 +0100 (MET) From: ROB VAN DER SANDT Subject: focus conference -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 93 00:28:48 EST From: Colin Phillips Subject: Posting MORPHOLOGY-SYNTAX CONNECTION MIT, 4th-5th January 1993 ***NEW & CHANGED INFORMATION*** As a result of the unexpectedly high interest in the Morphology-Syntax Connection Workshop, we've been forced to make a couple of changes to the details posted to LINGUIST earlier. 1. The workshop has been moved to a new (larger) room: MIT Room 3-270. E-mail Heidi Harley, hharley@mit.edu for directions/map. 2. There will be an on-site registration fee. $5 for students, $10 for others. 3. The reason for talks not beginning until 3:30pm on the 5th is to minimize overlap with the Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop being held at Harvard on the 5th-6th. 4. Reduced rate rooms are available at the Harvard Manor House, 110 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, if booked by **December 14th**. $80 per room per night. Call (617)-864-5200, or toll-free 1-800-458-5886 Colin Phillips & Heidi Harley -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 11:12:15 -0500 (EST) From: cdyck@epas.utoronto.ca (C. Dyck) Subject: Phonology conf. on CONTRAST Announcing the MOT Conference on CONTRAST IN PHONOLOGY FEBRUARY 4-6, 1994 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SECOND NOTICE: PLEASE CIRCULATE FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4 6:30 Registration I. Opening session: Ed Burstynsky, Chair and Opening Remarks 7:00-7:45 Elan Dresher, (Toronto) Glyne Piggott (McGill), Keren Rice (Toronto): Overview paper 7:45-8:30 Donca Steriade (UCLA): On defining potentially contrastive gestures 8:45 Reception in Linguistics Department, Robarts Library SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5 8:30 Registration II. Contrast in the prosodic domain 9:00- 9:45 Patricia Shaw (UBC): The contrast between full and reduced vowels 9:45-10:30 Carrie Dyck (Toronto): Contrast and the interpretation of empty vowels in Spanish dialects 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-11:30 William Idsardi (Delaware): Prosodic contrasts and Optimality Theory 11:30-12:00 Joe Pater (McGill): Against the underlying specification of an TexceptionalU English stress pattern 12:00-12:30 Discussion: Henrietta Hung (Ottawa), moderator 12:30-2:15 Lunch III. Contrast in loan words 2:15-3:00 Carole Paradis & Caroline Lebel: Contrasts from segmental parameter settings: core and periphery in loan words IV. Contrast in sign language 3:00-3:45 Harry van der Hulst (Leiden): Head-dependent asymmetries in the phonology of two-handed signs 3:45-4:00 Break 4:00-4:45 Wendy Sandler (Haifa): On the role of the nondominant hand in sign language phonology 4:45-5:30 David Perlmutter (Rochester): The role of contrast in establishing phonological representations: segmental structure in American Sign Language 5:30-6:30 Discussion: Peter Avery, (York) moderator SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5 Supper and Party SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6 V. Contrast in the segmental domain 9:00- 9:45 Heather Goad (McGill): Front vowels are not coronal 9:45-10:30 Sharon Rose (McGill): Guttural contrasts 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45-11:30 Douglas Pulleyblank (UBC): Lexical specification of [ATR] in Optimality Theory 11:30-12:00 Hubert Truckenbrodt (MIT): Entailments and shadows of markedness: context-sensitive underspecification 12:00-12:45 Glyne Piggott (McGill): Meinhoff's Law and the determination of nasal- oral contrast 12:45-2:00 Pizza and Discussion: Greg Lamontagne (Toronto), moderator * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is the revised program of the MOT Conference on Contrast in Phonology. Any inquiries about the conference should be addressed to Keren Rice or Elan Dresher at lingdept@epas.utoronto.ca, or phone (416) 978-4029, fax (416) 978-8821. All talks will be held at St. Vladimir Institute, 620 Spadina Ave. A close hotel is the JourneyUs End Motel, 280 Bloor Street West, (416) 968-0010 or (800) 668-4200. The University of Toronto rate is $72.68 per night (tax included). Make your reservations early, and specify that you are with the University of Toronto conference on Contrast in Phonology. Limited crash space is available; contact cdyck@epas.utoronto.ca. Registration fee: $10.00 Canadian. Please register by January 28 (you can register by e-mail (lingdept@epas.utoronto.ca) and pay your registration fee on arrival). Sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1993 18:31:29 +0100 (MET) From: ROB VAN DER SANDT Subject: focus conference FOCUS AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Interdisciplinary Conference in Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Journal of Semantics Schloss Wolfsbrunnen, near Kassel, Germany 12th-15th June, 1994 Some of the more important developments in Natural Language Semantics during the last ten years have taken place in the study of discourse. This development has made clear, however, that the complexity and the amount of data relevant in processing discourse are greater than formal and computationally tractable approaches could cope with. There is a great need to find ways of partitioning the data according to the informational requirements of particular processing steps, i.e., for one or the other form of focusing. Focusing in this sense has probably first caught general attention in connection with presupposition and anaphora, but the phenomenon is much more widely spread. For no actual occurrence of a lexical item in a discourse do we need or want the full information that the lexicon and conceptual representation offer; the discourse context, together with the syntactic context, will rather focus on a particular subset of the available information. Similarly in the inferential processes required in text processing we will never want access to the entire database, but a theorem prover will need to be provided with just the right set of premises; not just in order to be more efficient, but merely to yield correct results. What makes focusing particularly promising is that it has fairly clear correlates in syntactic and phonological observations, as well as in cognitive processes. SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE We are interested in theoretical papers as well as in studies of specific data. Computational approaches are welcome, from Computational Linguistics as well as Artificial Intelligence; so are straightforward linguistic approaches and psycholinguistic work. TOPICS OF INTEREST accessibility of discourse entities structure of lexical information topic-comment structure presuppositional structure centering plans and goals in discourse point of view, relevance thematic discourse structure segmentation of discourse structuring and partitioning of conceptual representations intonation focus syntactic focus focus particles quantification and focus SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Intending participants are invited to submit a two to three page extended abstract, to arrive by 4th February 1994 to the Conference Chair. Email submission is welcome, but only in ASCII format. Papers are judged by the contribution they make to the understanding of focus structures and processes. Abstracts will be refereed by members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Semantics (i.e., Nicholas Asher, Renate Bartsch, Johan van Benthem, Bran Boguraev, Peter Bosch, David Bree, Herbert Brekle, Gillian Brown, Oesten Dahl, Simon Garrod, Bart Geurts, Michael Herweg, Paul Hopper, Larry Horn, Steven Isard, Phil Johnson-Laird, Hans Kamp, Tibor Kiss, Ewald Lang, Steve Levinson, Sebastian Loebner, Sir John Lyons, Alexis Manaster-Ramer, William Marslen-Wilson, Jim McCawley, Leo Noordman, Rob van der Sandt, Tony Sanford, Remko Scha, Helmut Schnelle, Pieter Seuren, Arnim von Stechow, Mark Steedman, Wolfgang Wahlster, Bonnie Webber, and Henk Zeevat). Notification of acceptance by 4th March, 1994. Publication of conference papers is planned for early 1995. INVITED GUEST SPEAKERS Nicholas Asher, Anton Batliner, Carlos Gussenhoven, Joachim Jacobs, Manfred Krifka, Barbara Partee, Ellen Prince, Mats Rooth, Arnim von Stechow, Mark Steedman (others not yet confirmed). CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Peter Bosch (IBM Germany) & Rob van der Sandt (University of Nijmegen) Correspondence to: Peter Bosch, Managing Editor, Journal of Semantics, IBM Germany, Scientific Centre, PO Box 103068,D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany fax: (+49-6221-)593500 phone: (+49-6221-)594251 email: bosch@vnet.ibm.com CONFERENCE SECRETARY Christine Harms c/o GMD, Schloss Birlinghoven D-53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany. fax:(+49-2241-) 142472 phone: (+49-2241-) 142473 email: christine.harms@gmd.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1038. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1039. Thu 09 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 101 Subject: 4.1039 In Memoriam: Donald E. Walker Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 10:44:35 -0500 From: Association of Computational Linguistics Subject: In Memoriam: Donald E. Walker -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 10:44:35 -0500 From: Association of Computational Linguistics Subject: In Memoriam: Donald E. Walker A memorial service for Donald E. Walker, Director of Language and Knowledge Resources Research at Bellcore, Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Secretary-Treasurer of IJCAII, will be held on Sunday December 19th from two to four PM at the Unitarian Fellowship Church in Summit, 4 Waldron Avenue, Summit, New Jersey. Don passed away peacefully with his wife Betty and all three daughters at his side on Friday November 26, 1993, after a long battle with cancer. Friends and colleagues of Don's who are unable to attend the service might want to send written reminiscences, photographs or other materials remembering him, for a booklet to be presented to his family. Please send these to: Kathy McKeown 20 Prospect Rd. Wayne, New Jersey 07470 USA In addition, any charitable contributions in his memory may be sent to: ACL Don and Betty Walker International Student Fund Association for Computational Linguistics c/o Judith Klavans Box 105 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 10706 Please forward this message. Thank you, Fernando Pereira ACL President Directions (please note: ON-STREET PARKING ONLY): >From New York City: Lincoln Tunnel to New Jersey Turnpike South. Take exit 14 for Route 24 West. [* Get off at Hobart Avenue exit. At 1st light turn left. Stay straight, up the hill to the first STOP sign. Turn right. Take your first left turn (Waldron Avenue). The church is at the end of the block on the right.] Garden State Parkway northbound: Take exit 142-A. Stay to the right. You will be on Route 78 West, which will become Route 24 West. Continue as in [*] above. Garden State Parkway southbound: Take exit 142. Stay in the right-hand lane and exit right away at the Hillside/Irvington exit but stay to the far right and continue to the STOP sign. Again turn right and go to the first right turn, crossing over the highway. There may or may not be a sign saying Route 78/24. You will be going in a circle to get onto Route 78 West which turns into Route 24 West. After the third consecutive right turn you will be on route 78 west. Look for Hobard Avenue exit, and proceed as in [*] above. >From points west: Take Route 78 east and get off at exit 45 (Glenside Avenue). Turn left at the light and go to the STOP sign. Go up the hill past OVerlook Hospital. At the 1st light turn right onto Summit Avenue. At the 2nd light turn right onto Springfield Avenue. The church is one block on the left. >From Route 22: Must be in the westbound lane in Springfield. Exit at Summit Road (Getty Station). Stay on Summit Road, turns into Baltusrol Road until you come to a fork, stay left -- do not go down the hill under the overpass. make a sharp left up the hill and pass Overlook Hospital on the right. At the first light make a right onto Summit Avenue. At the second light make another right onto Springfield Avenue. The church is 1 block on the left. >From Route 287: Take exit 37 (Springfield) to Route 24 East. Take exit 8 following sign to Summit Ave. Turn right at the first light. Stay on Summit Avenue for 0.8 mile turning left onto Whittredge Rd. Take the first right onto Waldron Ave. The church is at the end of the block on the right. Address any questions to: pereira@research.att.com or klavans@cs.columbia.edu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1039. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1040. Thu 09 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 107 Subject: 4.1040 Sum: L1-L2 Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 11:49:39 +0800 From: Ken Rose Subject: L1/L2 texts -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1993 11:49:39 +0800 From: Ken Rose Subject: L1/L2 texts A few weeks back, I sent out a posting concerning texts for two courses (one undergraduate, the other graduate) that cover L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, and bilingualism. I was surprised to hear that a number of people teach similar courses, but not surprised to hear that none have yet to find sufficient coverage in one book. Almost as many people asked for a summary as sent suggestions, so . . . I refrain from making any judgments concerning the texts below, and inclusion on this list is not equivalent to an endorsement. Note also the lack of comprehensiveness in the L2 category. In my posting I did not ask for suggestions on L2 texts, but was interested in texts that covered all three areas mentioned above and L1 texts. Anyway . . . It seems to me that there are obviously three distinct categories here: L1 texts, L2 texts, and texts on bilingualism. Some in the first two categories overlap slightly with other categories, but not enough to provide sufficient coverage on all three. Here are the suggestions I received: L1 TEXTS Foster, S. 1990. The communicative competence of young children. Longman. Goodluck, H. 1991. Language acquisition. Blackwell. Lindfors, J. 1991. Children's language and learning, 2nd ed. Allyn & Bacon. Piper, T. 1993. Language for all our children. Macmillan. L2 TEXTS Brown, D. 1986. Principles of language learning and teaching, 2nd ed. Prentice Hall. Ellis, R. 1986. Understanding second language acquisition. Oxford University Press. Gass, S, & Selinker, L. 1994. Second language acquisition: An introductory course. Lawrence Erlbaum. Larsen-Freeman, D., & Long, M. 1991. An introduction to second language acquisition research. Longman. Lightbown, P., & Spada, N. 1993. How languages are learned. Oxford University Press. BILINGUALISM Hamers, J., & Blanc, M. 1989. Bilinguality and bilingualism. Cambridge University Press. No one mentioned the texts below, but they should be included in this sort of summary. Fletcher, P., & Garman, M., eds. 1986. Language acquisition, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. Hoffman, C. 1991. An introduction to bilingualism. Longman. Hyltenstam, K., & Obler, L. 1989. Bilingualism across the lifespan. Cambridge University Press. Ingram, D. 1989. First language acquisition. Cambridge University Press. Menyuk, P. 1988. Language development. Scott, Foresman. Romaine, S. 1989. Bilingualism. Blackwell. Slobin, D., ed. 1986. The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition, vols. 1 & 2. Lawrence Erlbaum. Slosberg-Andersen, E. 1990. Speaking with style: The sociolinguistic skills of young children. Routledge. If I left out anyone's suggestions, I apologize. Please feel free to amend the list. And if anyone missed the first posting and has some good suggestions on texts that cover L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, and bilingualism, I'd still appreciate hearing from them. Thanks. Ken Rose krose@ctsc.hkbc.hk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1040. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1041. Thu 09 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 76 Subject: 4.1041 Sum: Acquisition of native languages of Canada Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 15:20:20 EST From: Ron Smyth Subject: Acquisition of native lgs. -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 15:20:20 EST From: Ron Smyth Subject: Acquisition of native lgs. Recently I asked subscribers for references on the acquisition of native languages of Canada. Thanks to Shanley Allen, Victor Golla, Lynne Hewitt, Kumiko Murasugi, David Parkinson, and Dean Mellow (I hope I've mentioned all of the respondents) for the following: 1. Allen, S. E. M. 1989. Acquisition of noun incorporation in Inuktitut. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 28: 49-56. 2. Allen, S. E. M. 1989. Preschool language acquisition of Inuktitut: a case study of one Inuk boy. Proceedings of the 2nd National Student Conference on Northern Studies, 159-167. 3. Allen, Shanley & Martha Crago. 1989. Acquisition of Noun Incorporation in Inuktitut. _PRCLD_ 28. 49-56. 4. Crago, M. B. 1988. Cultural Context in the Communicative Interaction of Inuktitut Children. Doctoral dissertation, McGill University. 5. Crago , Martha & Alice Eriks-Brophy, "Culture, Conversation, and Interaction: Implications for Intervention". In J. Duchan, L. Hewitt, & R. Sonnenmeier, Eds. (1994), Pragmatics: From Theory to Practice. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, pp. 43-58. 6. Crago Martha, & Cole, E. (1991). Using ethnography to bring children's communicative and cultural worlds into focus. In T. Gallagher (Ed.), Pragmatics of language: Clinical practice issues (pp. 99-132). San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group. 7. Feurer, Hanny. 1980. Morphological Development in Mohawk. _PRCLD_ 18. 25-42. 8. Fortescue, Michael & Lise Lennert Olsen. 1992. The acquisition of West Greenlandic. In: D. I. Slobin (ed.), The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition. Volume 3. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Pp.111-219. 9. Fortescue , Michael . Learning to speak Greenlandic: a case study of a two-year-old's morphology in a polysynthetic language", in First Language 5, 101-114. 10. Mellow, Dean. 1989. On Triggers: A Parameter-Setting Approach to the Acquisition of Cree, a Free Word Order Language. McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 5.2 97-127. 11. Mithun, Marianne. 1989. The Acquisition of Polysynthesis. _Journal of Child Language_ 16(2). 285-312. 12. Upper, Mary. A study of Oji-Cree done at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. ------------------------------------------------------------------ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1041. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1042. Sat 11 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 116 Subject: 4.1042 Qs: Modality, German Translators, AI, Wampanoag Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 06:19:30 EST From: FLCOLLEN@ECUVM1.bitnet Subject: Aspect & Modality 2) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 10:22:33 -0500 (EST) From: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca (Claire Smith) Subject: German Translators 3) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 13:43:58 -0500 From: Sara Elo Subject: Q: Contribution of AI to Cognitive Theory of Language Learning? 4) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 16:12:51 -0500 From: bnevin@BBN.COM Subject: Q: Wampanoag/Algonkian refs -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 06:19:30 EST From: FLCOLLEN@ECUVM1.bitnet Subject: Aspect & Modality I am currently working on a manuscript that involves a study of modality in Brazilian Portuguese. As a result, the distinction between 'aspectual' categories and those of 'modality' (cf. Palmer, 1986) are being blurred. Would someone please tell me if, and where, I can obtain literature/research that discusses the relationship between 'aspect' and 'modality'. Of course, please send your suggestions to me. I will then post a summary to the LINGUIST bulletin board for all to reference. Muito obrigado e boas festas! Joseph Collentine East Carolina University For. Langs. and Lits. FLCOLLEN@ECUVM1 FLCOLLEN@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 10:22:33 -0500 (EST) From: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca (Claire Smith) Subject: German Translators Does anyone know of any German translators (besides "Bi-directional Translation German: The Language Assistant Series)? E-dictionaries would also be of use. Thanks. Claire Smith University of Toronto E-mail: csmith@epas.utoronto.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 13:43:58 -0500 From: Sara Elo Subject: Q: Contribution of AI to Cognitive Theory of Language Learning? How much do you believe Artificial Intelligence research has been able to clarify or offer a new point of view to the cognitive theories of language learning? Are the necessary simplifications in modeling the processing or acquisition of 'non-context-free' Natural Language by computer too great to make contributions to the theory? Have systems such as Terry Winograd's SHRDLU or Roger Schank's Conceptual Dependency Representations (to name a few) been able to offer new insight into not only natural language understanding but language acquisition? Thank you for any ideas on the subject. If you reply directly to me, I will collect and post the replies. Sara Elo, Research Assistant, MIT media Laboratory elo@media.mit.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 16:12:51 -0500 From: bnevin@BBN.COM Subject: Q: Wampanoag/Algonkian refs Can anyone provide references to descriptive works on Wampanoag and (presuming that's sparsely documented) its closer congeners in Algonkian? Please reply to bn@bbn.com. (This will change to bn@lightstream.com in a week, but mail will be forwarded from bbn.com for a while.) Bruce -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1042. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1043. Mon 13 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 184 Subject: 4.1043 Calls: AAAI-94 Workshop Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 18:02:28 GMT From: Paul Mc Kevitt -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 18:02:28 GMT From: Paul Mc Kevitt Advance Announcement CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION AAAI-94 Workshop on the Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) Seattle, Washington, USA 2 days during July 31st-August 4th 1994 Chair: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION There has been a recent move towards considering the integration of perception sources in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (see Dennett 1991 and Mc Kevitt (Guest Ed.) 1994). This workshop will focus on research involved in the integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP). Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of NLP and VP there has been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not clear why there has not already been much activity in integrating NLP and VP. Is it because of the long-time reductionist trend in science up until the recent emphasis on chaos theory, non-linear systems, and emergent behaviour? Or, is it because the people who have tended to work on NLP tend to be in other Departments, or of a different ilk, to those who have worked on VP? We believe it is high time to bring together NLP and VP. Already we have advertised a call for papers for a special issue of the Journal of AI Review to focus on the integration of NLP and VP and we have had a tremendous response. There will be three special issues focussing on theory and applications of NLP and VP. Also, there will be an issue focussing on intelligent multimedia systems. The workshop is of particular interest at this time because research in NLP and VP have advanced to the stage that they can each benefit from integrated approaches. Also, such integration is important as people in NLP and VP can gain insight from each others' work. References Dennett, Daniel (1991) Consciousness explained Harmondsworth: Penguin Mc Kevitt, Paul (1994) (Guest Editor) Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing Special Volume (Issues 1,2,3) of AI Review Journal Dordrecht: Kluwer (forthcoming) WORKSHOP TOPICS: The workshop will focus on three themes: * Theoretical issues on integrated NLP and VP * Systems exhibiting integrated NLP and VP * Intelligent multimedia involving NLP and VP The following issues will be focussed upon during the workshop: * Common representations for NLP and VP * How does NLP help VP and vice-versa? * What does integration buy us? * Symbolic versus connectionist models * Varieties of communication between NLP and VP processors * Designs for integrating NLP + VP * Tools for integrating NLP + VP * Possible applications of integration WORKSHOP FORMAT: Our intention is to have as much discussion as possible during the workshop and to stress panel sessions and discussion rather than having formal paper presentations. We will also organize a number of presentations on Site Descriptions of ongoing work on NLP + VP. There may be a number of invited speakers. Day 1: Theory and modelling for integrated NLP and VP. Day 2: Systems for integrated NLP/VP, and intelligent multimedia. ATTENDANCE: We hope to have an attendance between 25-50 people at the workshop. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Papers of not more than 8 pages should be submitted by electronic mail to Paul Mc Kevitt at p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk. Preferred format is two columns with 3/4 " margins all round. Papers must be printed to 8 1/2" x 11" size. Double sided printing is encouraged. If you cannot submit your paper by e-mail please submit three copies by snail mail. *******Submission Deadline: March 18th 1994 *******Notification Date: April 8th 1994 *******Camera ready Copy: April 29th 1994 PUBLICATION: Workshop notes/preprints will be published by AAAI. If there is sufficient interest we will publish a book on the workshop with AAAI Press. WORKSHOP CHAIR: Paul Mc Kevitt Department of Computer Science Regent Court University of Sheffield 211 Portobello Street GB- S1 4DP, Sheffield England, UK, EC. e-mail: p.mckevitt@dcs.shef.ac.uk fax: +44 742 780972 phone: +44 742 825572 (office) 825590 (secretary) WORKSHOP COMMITTEE: Prof. Jerry Feldman (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Prof. John Frisby (Sheffield, England) Dr. Eduard Hovy (USC ISI, Los Angeles, USA) Dr. Mark Maybury (MITRE, Cambridge, USA) Dr. Ryuichi Oka (RWC, Tsukuba, Japan) Dr. Terry Reiger (ICSI, Berkeley, USA) Prof. Roger Schank (ILS, Illinois, USA) Dr. Oliviero Stock (IRST, Italy) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI, Germany) Prof. Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, England) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1043. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1044. Mon 13 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 164 Subject: 4.1044 Calls: ICCS'94 Final Call for Papers Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1993 08:54:42 -0500 From: Cecilia Kullman Subject: ICCS'94 Final Call for Papers -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1993 08:54:42 -0500 From: Cecilia Kullman Subject: ICCS'94 Final Call for Papers ICCS'94 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES August 16 - 20, 1994 University of Maryland - College Park, MD. Conceptual graphs are a logic-based formalism for knowledge representation based on the existential graphs of Charles S. Peirce and semantic networks. ICCS'94 marks their tenth anniversary. Over the past ten years, they have been widely used as a semantic representation for natural language and as a graphic system of logic for expert systems, theorem provers, and database design. Gains have been made in the storage and retrieval of DBMS information coupled with knowledge-based system problem solving capability. Researchers have developed a software base and continue to build upon it. A workshop devoted to conceptual graphs software will follow the conference, along with a workshop on enterprise modeling. Successful implementations include: rule-based systems, database systems, knowledge-based systems, knowledge engineering tools, enterprise modeling, management information systems, conceptual information retrieval and natural language applications, among others. Conceptual graphs are being proposed as a basis for the normative language for conceptual schemas by the ANSI X3H4 Committee on Information Resource Dictionary Systems. We encourage the submission of position papers in cognitive science regarding conceptualization, the formation of conceptual structures and conceptual modeling using conceptual graphs. ICCS'94 is the forum for discussion which will influence the direction of conceptual graphs development during the second, crucial decade. TOPICS Papers are invited on any aspect concept analysis, representation, or manipulation involving conceptual graphs. Theory Technical developments Natural language understanding Applications Graph notation PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are requested to submit five (5) copies of each paper along with an abstract of approximately 20 lines and a list of short phrases descriptive of the content. Each paper may not exceed 5,000 words and should have a title page which includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, FAX numbers and e-mail addresses. Shorter, substantive papers will be welcome. All papers must be double-spaced. Papers are to be submitted by December 15, 1993 to: ICCS'94 UMIACS A. V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline December 15, 1993. Notification of acceptance March 1, 1994 Camera-ready copy April 15, 1994 WORKSHOPS Two workshops will be held in conjunction with the Conference and information concerning those programs will be issued at a later date. PIERCE Workshop Chair Gerard Ellis August 19th-20th. ENTERPRISE MODELING Workshop Chair Alex Bejan August 19th. afternoon. CONFERENCE INFORMATION Honorary Chair: John F. Sowa, State Univ. of New York, sowa@turing.pacs.binghampton.edu General Chair: Judith P. Dick, Univ. of Maryland, dick@eng.umd.edu Program Committee Chairs: Pavel Kocura, Loughborough Univ. of Technology William Tepfenhart, AT&T Bell Laboratories Program Committee: Alex Bejan Barbara Brunson Michael Chein Peter Creasy Veronica Dahl Bonnie Dorr John Eddy Bruno Emond John Esch Jean Fargues Tim Finin Norman Foo Helen Gigley James Hampton John Heaton Jim Hendler Graeme Hirst Fritz Lehman Guy Mineau Bernard Moulin M.L. Mugnier Sung Myaeng Peter Oehrstroem Ghassan Qada Stephen Regoczei Doug Skuce Dagobert Soergel Eileen Way Amy Weinberg M.H. Williams LOCATION ICCS'94 will be held at the Center for Adult Education of the University of Maryland at College Park. The College Park campus is within the boundary of Metropolitan Washington, within the Beltway. Participants are invited to enjoy the advantages of proximity to the nation's capital, The Smithsonian Institution and other items of interest. Baltimore, Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay are within easy travel distance. Also, our famous Maryland crabs will be in season in August. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1044. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1045. Mon 13 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 75 Subject: 4.1045 Calls: Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 10:50:22 IST From: KARINA@BGUVM.bitnet Subject: corrected iatl call -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 10:50:22 IST From: KARINA@BGUVM.bitnet Subject: corrected iatl call CALL FOR PAPERS The Israel Association of Theoretical Linguistics will hold its Tenth Annual Meeting at Haifa University on June 12 - 13, 1994 Our guest speakers will be: John J. McCarthy III of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Shalom Lappin of the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Abstracts must be received by March 1, 1994. Abstracts should be no less than one full page, two pages maximum, apart from references and figures. Six copies of abstracts should be submitted anonymously, with an accompanying 3x5 card stating name, title of paper, affiliation, address, phone number and email address to: Karina Wilkinson Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beersheva, 84105, Israel abstracts may be faxed to: Anita Mittwoch at 972-2-322544 abstracts may also be emailed to: HCUMA@HUJIVM1.BITNET Support for the invitation of the second speaker is courtesy of the British Council. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1045. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1046. Mon 13 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 102 Subject: 4.1046 Qs: Leonard, TG Coordination, Russian _li_, Intervocalic /t/ Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 93 09:19:23 MST From: Mary Ellen Ryder Subject: Looking for Rosemary Leonard 2) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 09:32:08 EST From: Alexis_Manaster-Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Query: Coordination in early TG 3) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 09:42:24 EST From: Alexis_Manaster-Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Query: Russian _li_ 4) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1993 12:30:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Bethany Dumas, UTK" Subject: Intervocalic /t/ - /th/ variation in AAVE -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 93 09:19:23 MST From: Mary Ellen Ryder Subject: Looking for Rosemary Leonard I'm trying to get in touch with the Rosemary Leonard who wrote "The Interpretation of English Noun Sequences on the Computer", published 1984 by North-Holland. At that time she was in Stockport, Cheshire, England. E-mail address, phone number, fax number, or regular mail address would be greatly appreciated. Please send infor directly to me; my e-mail address is: renryder@idbsu (for bitnet users) renryder@idbsu.idbsu.edu (for internet users) Thanks! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 09:32:08 EST From: Alexis_Manaster-Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Query: Coordination in early TG In Syntactic Structures, Chomsky's rule for coordinate structures appears to generate binary coordinations only, e.g., (A and B), and also ((A and B) and C), but not the unbounded flat structures we have come to expect (e.g., (A and B and C)). Does anybody know specifically where the change to the flat structures was introduced? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 09:42:24 EST From: Alexis_Manaster-Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Query: Russian _li_ My recent query about analyses of Russian _li_ the yes/no question particle which appears inside the clause, usually in the second position, elicited a lot of mail questioning my reference to discontinuity in this case. What I meant was that it would be possible to analyze such sentences as Prishol-li Ivan 'Did Ivan come' as consisting of two constituents _Prishol Ivan_ 'Ivan came' and _li_, with the former constituent being discontinuous. My query then is: Has anybody proposed such an analysis either for Russian or for another language that has a clause-internal question marker? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1993 12:30:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Bethany Dumas, UTK" Subject: Intervocalic /t/ - /th/ variation in AAVE Does anyone know of a study of intervocalic /t/ - /th/ variation in AAVE? I am particularly interested in the medial consonant in the word "nothing." I would also be interested in knowing of ongoing or current research that is not yet published. Thanks. Bethany Dumas (in%"dumasb@utkvx.utk.edu") -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1046. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1047. Mon 13 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 106 Subject: 4.1047 Qs: Theories, Assyrian, Wampanoag/Algonkian, Film Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 08:09:52 -0600 (CST) From: shetzer heidi Subject: theories of grammar 2) Date: 06 Dec 1993 09:32:09 GMT From: JOAN C BIELLA Subject: ASSYRIAN 3) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 16:12:51 -0500 From: bnevin@BBN.COM Subject: Q: Wampanoag/Algonkian refs 4) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 93 13:37:23 CST From: ines shaw Subject: request for info. about film -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1993 08:09:52 -0600 (CST) From: shetzer heidi Subject: theories of grammar I received a BA in linguistics from a university in the United States. The only type of linguistic theory of grammar I have been exposed to is the Chomsky-GB type. What alternative theories of grammar exist out there besides the Chomsky-type stuff? For some reason I have only been exposed to this and I'd like to learn about alternatives. Thanks Heidi Shetzer -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: 06 Dec 1993 09:32:09 GMT From: JOAN C BIELLA Subject: ASSYRIAN Can anyone help Joan? Michael Everson School of Architecture, UCD; Richview, Clonskeagh; Dublin 14; E/ire Phone: +353 1 706-2745 Fax: +353 1 283-8908 Home: +353 1 478-2597 =========================================================================== Dear Michael: A brief query about another lesser-known language of the southern (well, eastern) shores of the Mediterranean. Do you know of a list devoted to, or a person fluent in, what the Library of Congress calls Modern Syriac and its speakers seem to call Assyrian? I am in mildly desperate need of an informant. Can you recommend a place to look for one? Qapla'--and thanks. | Joan Biella TELEPHONE: (202) 707-7499 | | COLL/RCCD/HB (4384) FAX: (202) 707-2824 | | Library of Congress INTERNET: biella@mail.loc.gov | | Washington, D.C. 20540 | | What is this, that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so | | full of little pieces of light? | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 16:12:51 -0500 From: bnevin@BBN.COM Subject: Q: Wampanoag/Algonkian refs Can anyone provide references to descriptive works on Wampanoag and (presuming that's sparsely documented) its closer congeners in Algonkian? Please reply to bn@bbn.com. (This will change to bn@lightstream.com in a week, but mail will be forwarded from bbn.com for a while.) Bruce -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 93 13:37:23 CST From: ines shaw Subject: request for info. about film Is there a video which shows the process of articulation inside the vocal tract? I remember an old film based on x-rays, but there must be more recent material than that. Info. about title, from where it can be rented, etc. would be appreciated. Please reply privately to ishaw@vm1.nodak.edu. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1047. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1048. Mon 13 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 94 Subject: 4.1048 Qs: Phonetics software, Overlapping speech, Wonk, COMIT Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 93 13:32:20 CST From: ines shaw Subject: phonetics software 2) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 10:23:59 -0500 From: meyer@umbsky.cc.umb.edu Subject: Overlapping Speech 3) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 16:15:10 CST From: "Jim Swanson" Subject: wonk 4) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 19:27:46 EST From: Alexis_Manaster-Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Q: COMIT -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Dec 93 13:32:20 CST From: ines shaw Subject: phonetics software Do you know of IBM software programs which help teach phonetics, such as a program which has an inventory of IPA symbols, exercises with features, even perhpas outlines or drawings of the vocal tract or airstream mechanisms? Please reply privately to ishaw@vm1.nodak.edu Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 10:23:59 -0500 From: meyer@umbsky.cc.umb.edu Subject: Overlapping Speech I've been studying overlapping speech in English and was wondering if people could point me to sources that discuss (1) overlapping speech in languages other than English, and (2) the equivalent of overlapping speech in sign language. Thanks. Charles Meyer Department of English University of Massachusetts at Boston Boston, MA 02125 meyer@umbsky.cc.umb.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 16:15:10 CST From: "Jim Swanson" Subject: wonk I have heard the word WONK bandied about lately, most often in connection with politics (political wonk). I would like to know what it specifically means and what connotations it carries. WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY defines it as a student who studies very hard, a grind. Two other desk dictionaries don't even have it. Is there some connection here? I would appreciate a reply. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 19:27:46 EST From: Alexis_Manaster-Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: Q: COMIT Does anybody have any info or references on a programming system called COMIT or maybe COMMIT which was used by Yngve and Matthews at MIT in the early 60s? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1048. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1049. Tue 14 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 124 Subject: 4.1049 Qs: Language origins, Heteronyms, Paper, MAC Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck REMINDER [We'd like to remind readers that the responses to queries are usually best posted to the individual asking the question. That individual is then strongly encouraged to post a summary to the list. This policy was instituted to help control the huge volume of mail on LINGUIST; so we would appreciate your cooperating with it whenever it seems appropriate.] -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: 13 Dec 93 09:19:53 EST From: Lindsay.J.Whaley@Dartmouth.EDU (Lindsay J. Whaley) Subject: Language origin myths 2) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 13:53:02 CST From: "Jim Swanson" Subject: need a word 3) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 09:21:08 +0100 From: ursula.doleschal@wu-wien.ac.at (ursula.doleschal) Subject: Query: D. G. Miller paper 4) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 11:26:24 GMT From: Dr Judy L Delin Subject: Mac 660AV and speech: repost -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: 13 Dec 93 09:19:53 EST From: Lindsay.J.Whaley@Dartmouth.EDU (Lindsay J. Whaley) Subject: Language origin myths I'm gathering references for religious and/or cultural myths on the origin of language. Please e-mail me personally if you are aware of any such myth(s). Even if you are unsure of where or whether a published version of the myth can be found, I'd still appreciate hearing from you. Lindsay Whaley Dartmouth College -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 13:53:02 CST From: "Jim Swanson" Subject: need a word I have recently been asked by no fewer than four people what one is to call pairs of words that are spelled identically but have different pronunciations and etymologies when capitalized. I think the source is a local radio station quiz. An example would be Polish and polish. Does it have a special designation (official or unofficial)? I would call these words a subset of heteronyms. Is there a special name? I think I may have seen these words (and the designation) in some popular magazine some years ago. What do you think? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 09:21:08 +0100 From: ursula.doleschal@wu-wien.ac.at (ursula.doleschal) Subject: Query: D. G. Miller paper Can anyone tell me WHERE the following paper has been published? I've got a xerox without the respective information. Miller, D. Gary. Is English A Sexist Language? (copyright):Academics Plus 1982 Ursula Doleschal Institut f. Slawische Sprachen Wirtschaftsuniv. Wien Augasse 9, 1090 Wien Tel.: ++43-1-31336 4115 Fax: ++43-1-31336 744 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 93 11:26:24 GMT From: Dr Judy L Delin Subject: Mac 660AV and speech: repost Apologies to those who have received this request before, but we had an ungraceful crash last week and I have lost some useful responses to my original message. I have a Mac Centris (now sold as Quadra) 660AV, and I am interested in doing some speech analysis on it -- particularly pitch tracking. I would like to hear from anyone who knows about speech tools for the Mac, and would be very grateful for pointers as to what software is good to buy. Although I'm interested in information on any tools for any Mac, as I can check them out myself for compatibility, I would be especially interested to hear from anyone with sound experience on AV Macs: apparently, they have sound hardware that may not work with some software. As a clue, SoundEdit simply causes the machine to hang. According to the technical spec, the processor is an AT&T DSP 3210 digital signal processor, 55.5 MHz clock frequency. Please send/resend if you have any clues! I will of course summarise to the net. Best wishes Judy Delin ========================================================================== English Studies, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland Tel. +44 786 473171 x7974 Fax. +44 786 451335 Email: J.L.Delin@stir.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1049. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1050. Tue 14 Dec 1993. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 185 Subject: 4.1050 Calls: ISFW6, GURT Student Session Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editor: Ron Reck -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 23:04:02 MET From: noel@banruc60.bitnet Subject: ISFW6: Discourse in Institutional Contexts 2) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 10:06:31 -0500 (EST) From: SKIESLING@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: GURT student session - discourse analysis -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 93 23:04:02 MET From: noel@banruc60.bitnet Subject: ISFW6: Discourse in Institutional Contexts The Centre for Applied Linguistics (ICTL) of the University of Antwerp (UFSIA) invites papers for the 6th INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL WORKSHOP: <> 8 - 11 August 1994 Workshop convenor: Ronald Geluykens (UFSIA) Workshop secretary: Katja Pelsmaekers (UFSIA) Organising committee: Chris Braecke (UFSIA), Pol Cuvelier (UFSIA), Kristin Davidse (KU Leuven), Steven Geukens (UFSIA), Dirk Noel (HIVT), Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen (Gent), Jo van den Hauwe (UFSIA), Marijke Van Remortel (UFSIA) Programme committee Margaret Berry (University of Nottingham), Angela Downing (Universidad Complutense Madrid), Louis Goossens (University of Antwerp), Caroline Stainton (Nottingham Trent University) CALL FOR PAPERS We invite papers dealing with functional approaches to spoken and written discourse in institutional contexts. The papers should report on empirical research (corpus-based or experi- mental), but need not apply the systemic-functional framework. Institutional contexts include the following: business (tele- phone conversations, informal talk, letters, meetings), education (academic language, classroom interaction), medicine, technology, the media, etc. Papers on more general topics will be welcome as well, insofar as they are in some way relevant to the general workshop theme. Since all sessions will be of a plenary nature, active participation will be limited to about 30 oral papers; limited space will be available for anyone wishing to attend without presenting a paper. In the event of an exceptionally large number of high quality papers being submitted, there will also be a poster session on 9 August. The deadline for the submission of a one-page abstract is 31 March 1994. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified before 15 May. PRACTICAL INFORMATION The registration fee for the workshop will be BEF 2,500 (approx. $75 or 50 Pounds Sterling) including lunches on 9, 10 and 11 August (BEF 3,000 for registration after 1 July). A choice of simple student hostel accommodation (at approx. BEF 700 ($20; 13 Pounds Sterling) per night incl. breakfast) or hotel accommodation (at approx. BEF 2,000 for a single, and BEF 2,500 for a double room) will be available within walking distance of the workshop. The workshop will be held at the UFSIA campus, one of the three confederate campuses of the University of Antwerp, which is situated right in the centre of Antwerp, within easy reach of the Central Railway Station. Antwerp is situated about 65 km from Ghent and 50 km from Brussels, with direct train and coach links from Brussels International Airport. We would like to draw attention to the fact that ISFW6 is scheduled right after ISFC94 in Ghent. For further information write to: Ronald Geluykens UFSIA (Room D-133) Centre for Applied Linguistics (ICTL) Prinsstraat 13, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium Tel.: +32 3 2204269 Fax: +32 3 2204420 E-mail: ronnie@prl.philips.nl or contact the workshop secretary: Katja Pelsmaekers UFSIA-TEW Prinsstraat 13, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium Tel.: +32 3 2204223 Fax: +32 3 2204420 E-mail: fte.pelsmaekers.k@alpha.ufsia.ac.be -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 10:06:31 -0500 (EST) From: SKIESLING@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu Subject: GURT student session - discourse analysis Call for Proposals Discourse Analysis: Works in Progress Special Student Session Presession Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1994 March 13, 1994 Scott F. Kiesling, Elif Tolga Rosenfeld, co-organizers Students are invited to submit proposals for presentations of discourse analytic work in progress. The workshop will be driven by the presentations, although students and professors who are not presenting are invited to participate in discussion. The workshop will provide an opportunity for students to get feedback on their work, to hear what other students are doing with discourse data, and to talk with people who have similar research interests. Proposals: (1) Two copies of a 150 word description of the data (NOT an abstract), one anonymous and one with your last name in the upper right hand corner. Include the data collection method/procedure, the medium (spoken, written, sign, electronic, etc.), as well as the speech events and/or genres on which you are focusing. (2) Two copies of a page of examples from your data which you would like to present for discussion, one anonymous and one with your last name in the upper right hand corner. If the proposal is accepted it will be included in a booklet of all the data for the workshop. To ease discussion we ask that you follow these formatting guidelines: lines should be numbered; one inch margins should be respected; if the language is other than English, provide an interlinear gloss and translation. On the reverse of this page please include three questions or points you would like to discuss with respect to your data. (3)A 3x5 index card including your name, affiliation, program/department, contact address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, student level (undergraduate, Master's, or Ph.D), and your progress in analysis (e.g. still gathering data, transcribing, analyzing, writing dissertation). Also, indicate if you are prepared and would be willing to play the audio or video tape of the data (if applicable). Proposals must be received by January 15, 1994. Proposals will be reviewed anonymously for originality, importance, and general interest. The format of the workshop will depend on the proposals received, but we will try to group projects by topic, medium, location, etc. Acceptance notification will be by February 1. Presenters must register for GURT presessins. ($20 before Feb. 21). Send to the organizers at: GURT 1994 Georgetown University School of Languages and Linguistics 303 Intercultural Center Washington, DC 20057-1067. Fax: (202) 687-5712 Or by e-mail (only one copy of the proposal need be sent): Scott Kiesling (skiesling@guvax.georgetown.edu) Elif Rosenfeld (rosenfeld@guvax.georgetown.edu) Students not presenting data are encouraged to attend the discussion. For a registration form, or further information, contact the organizers at the above addresses or Joan C. Cook, GURT Coordinator Phone: (202) 687-5726 E-mail: gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-4-1050.