________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-651. Mon 06 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 89 Subject: 5.651 New Books: Historical ling, Arabic ling, Nchufie Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace ------------------------------- Note ------------------------------------------ Additional information on the following books, as well as a short backlist of the publisher's titles, may be available from the Listserv. Instructions for retrieving publishers' backlists appear at the end of this issue. ------------------------------New Books------------------------------------- HISTORICAL LING Fernandez, Francisco, Miguel Fuster, & Juan Jose Calvo (eds.) ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1992. PAPERS FROM THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS John Benjamins 1994 viii, 388 pp. HISTORICAL LING Cloth US: 1 55619 567 2/EUR: 90 272 3616 X US$95.00/Hfl. 170,-- Contributors: R. Hogg, E. Bernardez, R. Sell, N. Blake, J. Fisiak, F. Colman, T. Guzman, P. Lucas, L. Wright, M. Ogura, G. Bergh, A. Seppdnen, J. M. de la Cruz, G. Mazzon, C. Castillo, M. Kytv, T. Fanego, L. Moessner, H. J. Diller, V. Kniezsa, C. Dalton-Puffer, F. Rodriguez, G. Cannon, N. Pantaleo, H. Raumolin-Brunberg, L. Kahlas-Tarkka, T. Nevalainen, I. Taavitsainen, S. Louhivaara, I. Tieken-Boon von Ostade. ARABIC LING Eid, Mushira, Vincente Cantarino, & Keith Walters (eds.) PERSPECTIVES ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS VI. PAPERS FROM THE SIXTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARABIC LINGUISTICS John Benjamins 1994 viii, 238 pp. ARABIC LING Cloth US: 1 55619 569 9/EUR: 90 272 3618 6 US$68.00/Hfl. 120,-- Three areas of focus: I. Arabic in Contact: the Hispano-Arabic Connection; II. Other Connections; III. 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Mon 06 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 83 Subject: 5.652 New Books: Lang acquisition Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace ------------------------------- Note ------------------------------------------ Additional information on the following books, as well as a short backlist of the publisher's titles, may be available from the Listserv. Instructions for retrieving publishers' backlists appear at the end of this issue. ------------------------------New Books------------------------------------- CHILD LANG ACQUISITION Berman, Ruth A., & Slobin, Dan I. RELATING EVENTS IN NARRATIVE: A CROSSLINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENTAL STUDY Lawrence Erlbaum Associates US $45 prepaid (cloth) ISBN 0-8058-1435-3 xiv, 748 pp. The authors, with collaborators from several countries, explore uses of linguistic forms in narrative, in both a developmental and crosslinguistic framework. Contributors are psychologists and linguists, taking a functional typo- logical approach. The study is based on a large crosslinguistic corpus of narratives, all elicited by the same picture storybook, in English, German, Spanish, Hebrew, and Turkish, from preschool and school-age children, as well as adults. The findings deal with both universal and language-specific patterns of development, suggesting a new approach to questions of language and thought. LANG ACQUISITION Gass, Susan & Larry Selinker (eds.) LANGUAGE TRANSFER IN LANGUAGE LEARNING (rev. ed.) (new pb ed.) LANG ACQUISITION John Benjamins 1994 x, 236 pp. Cloth US: 1 55169 240 1/EUR: 90 272 2468 4 US$49.00/Hfl. 95,-- Paper US: 1 55619 248 7/EUR: 90 272 2476 5 US$24.95/Hfl. 50,-- The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. 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Mon 06 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 91 Subject: 5.653 TOC: Natural Language Semantics Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace ---------------------------Note---------------------------------------- Journal articles are excellent topics for discussion, and we encourage readers to post such commentary. We will publish the tables of contents of current journal issues if they are reduced to 20 lines or less; and we will maintain journal backlists on our listserv. Our resources, however, do not allow us to post the tables of contents of either working papers or books. 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Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 14:48:17 EST From: raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Victor Raskin) Subject: Vietnamese, Laotian, Khmer 2) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:26:12 -0500 (EST) From: robert n shull Subject: Job 3) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 11:27:09 +0200 From: " (NGUYEN Noel)" Subject: job: post-doc in psycholinguistics -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 14:48:17 EST From: raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Victor Raskin) Subject: Vietnamese, Laotian, Khmer I know of a nice job opportunity for a person or persons with linguistic expertise in Vietnamese, Laotian, and/or Cambodian (Khmer, I guess?). May I ask people who come under these categories to contact me privately by e-mail? Thank you! -- Victor Raskin raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu Professor of English and Linguistics (317) 494-3782 Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics 494-3780 fax Coordinator, Natural Language Processing Laboratory Purdue University W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1356 U.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 15:26:12 -0500 (EST) From: robert n shull Subject: Job The Department of Linguistics and the African Studies Program of Indiana University invite applications for a pre- or post-doctoral traineeship in African language pedagogy beginning this coming August, 1994. Fluency in Bambara and prior teaching experience are required. To express interest and request further information, contact Professor Paul Newman as soon as possible. Telephone: (812) 855-6459 Fax: (812) 855-6734 email: lingdept@indiana.edu Mail: Department of Linguistics Indiana University Bloomington IN 47405 USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 11:27:09 +0200 From: " (NGUYEN Noel)" Subject: job: post-doc in psycholinguistics Post-doctoral position in Geneva, Switzerland Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position to work on a Swiss Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) grant within the psycholinguistics laboratory of the Faculty of Psychology and Education (FPSE) at the University of Geneva. The successful candidate is expected to conduct research in the area of experimental and computational psycholinguistics on a project studying spoken word recognition. The main topics being addressed concern: the input representation(s) and units of speech processing, the mapping process between input and lexical representations, and the segmentation processes and the role played by prosodic information. A strong background in experimen- tation and a good knowledge of computational modelling and/or phonological theory are highly desirable. Native or near native fluency in French is required. The 2 1/2 year position starts on October 1, 1994 and continues through March 31, 1997. Remuneration will be approxi- mately 55,000 Fr./year (excluding taxes and social insurance). Interested candidates should send a letter of application stating past experience and current psycholinguistics interests, a curri- culum vitae, a copy of the highest degree (doctorate), and the names/(email) addresses of two references. In order to obtain a Swiss working permit, the successful candidates must enroll at the university as a student. Since the closing date for receipt of applications is June 15, candidates are encouraged to send their applications either by e-mail or FAX. Prof. Uli Frauenfelder Laboratoire de Psycholinguistique, FPSE 9 route de Drize, CH-1227 Carouge Suisse tel.: (+41) 22 705 97 40 - Fax: (+41) 22 300 14 80 e-mail: frauenfe@uni2a.unige.ch -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-655. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-656. Wed 08 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 154 Subject: 5.656 Sum: Spatial Descriptions Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 11:39:33 -0700 From: emmorey@salk-sc2.salk.edu (Karen Emmorey) Subject: Summary of Spatial Descriptions -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 11:39:33 -0700 From: emmorey@salk-sc2.salk.edu (Karen Emmorey) Subject: Summary of Spatial Descriptions Several months ago, I asked whether there are languages other than American Sign Language in which the Ground is described prior to the Figure in "simple sentence level descriptions" (such as "the cup is on the table" in English). I was curious whether ASL's Ground-Figure ordering might be due to the visual modality of signed languages. This query generated quite a bit of discussion on SL-LING (the sign language net) about spatial descriptions in general, but here I will just summarize responses directly related to Figure-Ground order of mention. Tomomi Okazaki (tomomi@essex.ac.uk) provided some examples from Chinese and from Japanese in which Ground precedes the Figure: [Japanese] J1. tsuke no ue ni hon ga arimasu. desk of top loc. a book nom. exists (the Ground-ni the Figure-ga verb) N.B. Both 'ni' and 'ga' in the above sentence are postpositions: 'ni' is a location marker and 'ga' is a subject marker. [Chinese] C1. chouzi shang you (yi ben) shu. desk top exists (one volume) book (the Ground verb the Figure) Okazaki also indicated that the Figure can be topicalized, creating a Figure-Ground order in both Japanese and Chinese. Korean exhibits the same pattern of ordering. Dan Slobin (slobin@cogsci.berkeley.edu) provided some interesting examples from Tzeltal, the Mayan language studied by Steve Levinson and Penelope Brown, in which a "positional" predicate specifies the shape and orientation properties of an object (which may serve as either Figure or Ground), while a single, empty preposition indicates that there is a relation between the Figure and Ground. In examples (1) and (2), the Ground precedes the Figure, and the initial predicate classifies a container-like object which can serve as either the Figure (1) or the Ground (2): (1) pachal ta mexa boch sits-bowlshape-container relation table gourd `The gourd is on the table.' (2) pachal ta boch ixim sits-bowlshape-container relation gourd corn `The corn is in the gourd.' Steve Levinson (levinson@mpi.kun.nl) suggests that Figure-Ground ordering may be a direct reflection of basic word order. In Tzeltal, the ordering is: Predicate - Object - Prepositional Phrase - Subject Sotaro Kita (kita@mpi.kun.nl) also suggests that the nature of Figure-Ground orderings may lie in the "basic word order" of a language, citing Kuno's (1973) hypothesis that at some level of derivation existential sentences have the locative [the Ground] preceding the subject. Liddell (1980) argues that the basic word order for ASL is SVO, but locatives exhibit an OSV order. Slobin warned that it may be a mistake to focus on "simple sentence-level descriptions," excluding "discourse level phenomena." He and Nini Hoiting argue that sign language narratives require advance stage-setting in order to move protagonists from place to place in a semantically structured signing space (in both ASL and Sign Language of the Netherlands). Similar stage-setting orderings (i.e. Ground-Figure) exist at the discourse level for spoken languages which are "verb-framed" according to Len Talmy's typology (e.g. Spanish, Turkish, Hebrew). With respect to the hypothesis that the Ground-Figure ordering in signed languages may be due to a modality constraint, Slobin agrees and points out that the same constraint occurs in drawing. For example, preschoolers will first draw a bed and then a girl lying on the bed (data from Lauren Silver, a graduate student at Berkeley). Finally, Steven Schaufele (fcosws@nytud.hu) suggested an interesting parallel between ASL and the jargon of Heraldry in Great Britain in which it is standard "to describe the field first, than anything 'lying' on the field itself, followed by anything lying on that, etc. Thus three green circles on a gold chevron in a blue field would be described as 'azure on a chevron on three rondels vert'." Schaufele suggests that this order of mention relates to "the hypothesis that ASL describes backgrounds before foregrounds in part because of the visual, as opposed to auditory, orientation of ASL. Heraldic jargon is, of course, a visual 'language' too, and the historical justification for describing 'fields' before 'charges' is that the former are visible from a greater distance, i.e., if someone is approaching you from a distance with the arms described above, you're going to register the blue field probably before you notice anything else, and certainly the gold chevron before the three little green circles. Hence in terms of hierarchical organization it makes sense to describe the more general field first, moving afterward to the smaller details in the 'foreground'." Thanks again to all who participated in this discussion, and I hope some of you find this summary useful. Karen Emmorey emmorey@sc2.salk.edu References: Kuno, S. (1973). The structure of the Japanese Language. MIT Press (see Chapter 28). Liddell, (1980). American Sign Language Syntax. Mouton Publishers: The Hague. Slobin, D. & Hoiting, N. (1994). Reference to movement in spoken and signed languages: Typological consderations. In Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. For Tzeltal: Working Papers of the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, PB 310, NL-6500 AH Nijmegen, Netherlands: 1. Stephen C. Levinson: Relativity in spatial conception and description 6. Penelope Brown: Spatial conceptualization in Tzeltal. 12. Stephen C. Levinson: Vision,, shape and linguistic description: Tzeltal body-part terminology and object description. Levinson, S. C. (in press). Vision, shape and linguistic description: Tzeltal body-part terminology and object-description. In J. Haviland & S. Levinson (Eds.), Space in Mayan Languages. Special issue of _Linguistics_. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-656. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-657. Wed 08 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 146 Subject: 5.657 Qs: Verb gender, Hypertext, Borrowing, Javanese font Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 5 Jun 94 16:43:12 EDT From: Elliott Moreton Subject: Query: "Verb gender"? 2) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:28:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrizia Magni Subject: Hypertext and lg learning 3) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 15:32:32 +0200 From: a.l.graedler@iba.uio.no (Anne-Line Graedler) Subject: Borrowing and lang. contact 4) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 11:20:41 EDT From: soemarmo@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu Subject: Javanese Font -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sun, 5 Jun 94 16:43:12 EDT From: Elliott Moreton Subject: Query: "Verb gender"? Lots of languages have some sort of noun gender system in which each noun belongs to one of a small number of classes, such that other sentence elements (pronouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. -- even complementizers!) must "agree" morphologically with the noun when they stand in certain structural or grammatical relations to it. (See Corbett's _Gender_ in the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series for more facts than you can shake a stick at.) Does something analogous exist for verbs? In other words, is there a language that divides all its verbs up into classes, such that a verb's class membership shows up morphologically on, say, its noun arguments, or its complementizer? Reply by email to elliott@psyche.mit.edu; I will post a summary. Thanks, Elliott Moreton -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:28:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrizia Magni Subject: Hypertext and lg learning I'm looking for a list of projects( names , contacts, universities etc) that are about developing Hypertext/hypermedia environments for foreign language and ESL learning . Can somebody help me? ^^^ o o \-/ Patrizia Magni > PM54@columbia.edu Applied Linguistics, Box 66 Teachers College, Columbia University New York, NY 10027 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 15:32:32 +0200 From: a.l.graedler@iba.uio.no (Anne-Line Graedler) Subject: Borrowing and lang. contact Hello, I am working on a dissertation on English borrowed material in Norwegian, with the working title "Morphological, Semantic and Functional Aspects of English Loanwords in Norwegian". As I am planning a trip to the U.S. this summer or fall, I would be interested in getting in touch with people working with related topics at U.S. universities. I am especially interested in any relevant conferences, seminars, workshops, etc. to be held in the period July to December 1994. Anne-Line Graedler -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 11:20:41 EDT From: soemarmo@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu Subject: Javanese Font Ohio University Electronic Communication Date: 07-Jun-1994 11:11am EST To: Remote Addressee ( _mx%"linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu" ) From: Marmo Soemarmo Dept: Linguistics SOEMARMO Tel No: (614) 593-4564 Subject: Javanese Font Hi, I got hold of a Javanese font for Mac. I understand somebody at Cornell developed it. I am developing a software to learn Javanese writing and want to use this font, but I could not find the author. I need to know if it is a freeware or if I need to pay royalty. Can anybody help? Thanks. FYI - I have been working on the decsription of Javanese language in a multimedia format, as part of my Preservation of Indonesian Languages project. The Learning Javanese Script and CALL of Javanese are some of the components of this Javanese description. Have a good summer! Marmo Received: 07-Jun-1994 11:20am -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-657. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-658. Wed 08 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 169 Subject: 5.658 Confs: Langues et Grammaire, Lang in Ireland, Athabaskan Lang Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 18:38:36 +0200 From: sdl@univ-paris8.fr Subject: Langues et Grammaire Conf. Practical Information 2) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 10:50 BST From: FEBH23@ujvax.ulst.ac.uk Subject: Language in Ireland Conference 3) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 11:07:13 -0700 From: Bill Poser Subject: Athabaskan Languages Conference Final Program -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 94 18:38:36 +0200 From: sdl@univ-paris8.fr Subject: Langues et Grammaire Conf. Practical Information Dear Colleagues, Here is some practical information about the conference. The Conference will be held at the University of Paris 8 at Saint Denis Acces: From Paris Metro line 13, direction SAINT DENIS BASILIQUE station SAINT DENIS BASILIQUE, then Bus No 255 stop Universite Paris-8. Accomodation : two Hotels near the University have set aside a block of rooms each: Hotel Campanile : Tel. +33+1+48.20.29.88 Fax +33+1+48.20.11.04 single room 372 FrF including Breakfast Double room 200 per person/night including Breakfast. Hotel Fimotel : Tel : +33+1+48.09.48.10 Fax : +33+1+48.09.85.14 Single room 330 FrF Double room (Twin beds) : 380 FrF To make a reservation : contact directly the hotels BEFORE JUNE 10. Registration Fees : 150FrF (+50 FRF For the proceedings, (optional)) Students 100 FrF (+50 FrF for the Proceedings, (optional)). For more information contact us at sdl@univ-paris8.fr. Information will also be sent out by regular mail. HOPE TO SEE YOU IN JUNE Georges Tsoulas Lea Nash. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 10:50 BST From: FEBH23@ujvax.ulst.ac.uk Subject: Language in Ireland Conference "International Conference on Language in Ireland, 22-25 June 1994" To be held at University of Ulster at Jordanstown. Keynote Speakers: Ken Hale (MIT), James McCloskey (UCSC), John Harris (UCL) Prospective delegates are urged to send in their booking forms as soon as possible. Anyone who has not received information, and requires details of booking, please e-mail to this address or fax +44 232 362806, mark "attn Dr M Ball, Dept Communication). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 11:07:13 -0700 From: Bill Poser Subject: Athabaskan Languages Conference Final Program Here is the final program for the Athabaskan Languages Conference to be held shortly in Stoney Creek, British Columbia. Thursday, June 16, 1994 10:00 a.m. Registration 10:45 Welcome 11:00-11:30 Mary Ann Willie, University of New Mexico and Eloise Jelinek, University of Arizona "Subjects in Navajo 'Psych' Verbs" 11:30-12:00 Elder - Mary John 12:00-1:30 Lunch Slide Presentation - Chunlac Village Massacre - George LaBrash 1:30-2:00 Ferninand deHaan, University of New Mexico "Negation and Scope in OV Languages: Evidence from Navajo" 2:00-2:30 Elder-Sophie Thomas 2:30-3:00 Alice Taff, University of Washington "Deg Xinag Verbs: Hypercard Language Learning Project" 3:00-3:30 Elder-Madeline Johnny 3:30-4:00 Leslie Saxon and Jacqueline deBruin, University of Victoria "Dogrib First Person dual Subject Inflection" 4:30-5:00 Elder-Alex Johnny 5:00-6:30 Dinner 6:30-7:00 Stoney Creek Dancers Friday, June 17, 1994 9:30-10:00 A.M. James Kari, Asaska Native Language Centre "Local vs. Regional Place Naming-Conventions in Athabaskan Languages" 10:00-10:30 Elder-Scott Antoine 10:30-11:00 Sharon Hargus, University of Washington "D-Classifiers in Witsusit'en" 11:00-11:30 Elder-Francisca Antoine 11:30-12:00 Bill Poser, Stanford University "The Latin Hymns in the Carrier Prayer Book" 12:00-12:30 Chris Gunlogson, University of Washington "A Comparative Look at Agreement in Athabaskan Language" 12:30-2:00 Lunch Jim Wilson - Software Demonstration 2:00-2:30 Elder 2:30-3:00 ? 3:00-3:30 Elder 3:30-4:00 Dagmar Jung, University of New Mexico "Functions of the Nominalizer -i in Jicarilla Apache" 4:00-4:30 Siri G. Tuttle, University of Washington "metrical Evidence for the Full-reduced Vowel Distinction in Galice Athabaskan" 4:30-5:30 Travel to Fort St. James 5:30-7:00 Supper 7:00-9:00 Tour of Fort St. James Historical Site For more information on housing etc., contact Alison McDonald (604)960-5517 or Marlene Erickson at (604)562-2131, extension 460. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-658. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-659. Wed 08 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 93 Subject: 5.659 Qs: Vowel shift, Mac software, Aussie ling, Sulawesi Indonesia Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 14:37:13 +0200 (SAST) From: Roy Dace Subject: Great Vowel Shift & South African English 2) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 12:17:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Roadkill on the information superhighway Subject: Query: Mac software for helping kids learn Russian 3) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 12:31:16 EDT From: Alicia B Cipria Subject: linguistics in australia 4) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 13:14:27 EDT From: Dan Finer -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 14:37:13 +0200 (SAST) From: Roy Dace Subject: Great Vowel Shift & South African English South African English (or at least some varieties of it) seems to be undergoing a process very like the Great Vowel Shift. Are there any other dialects in which this process seems to be repeating itself? I would be grateful for information (and particularly for any references). I believe that something similar is happening, or has happened, in New Zealand English, but I can only find one reference to it - by Roger Lass. Roy Dace -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 12:17:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Roadkill on the information superhighway Subject: Query: Mac software for helping kids learn Russian Does anyone know of Mac software for helping children (or adults) learn Russian? Fonts are not a problem. I'll be glad to post a summary if there is interest. Susan Fischer -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 12:31:16 EDT From: Alicia B Cipria Subject: linguistics in australia Hi. Could anyone tell me if there is any info. available on-line for job opportunities in spanish linguistics/linguistics/spanish at Australian universities? If not, what's a good place to find out? Thanks. Alicia -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 13:14:27 EDT From: Dan Finer Can anyone out there point me toward literature on the verbal morphology of some of the languages of South Sulawesi Indonesia, in particular Bugis, Makassar, or Toraja? I'm particularly interested in information on interactions between the agreement systems and topic/focus constructions. Also, does anyone know the current whereabouts of Barbara Friberg, and if so, does she have an e-mail address? Thanks. Dan Finer Dept of Linguistics SUNY-Stony Brook Stony Brook NY 11794-4376 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-659. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-660. Wed 08 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 190 Subject: 5.660 Calls: J/K Conference, Theory and Computing Culture, GURT 95 Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 03 Jun 94 21:18 PDT From: Shoichi Iwasaki (310) 206-9289 Subject: J/K Conference 2) Date: Wed, 8 JUN 94 11:42:31 BST From: N.Heather@rhbnc.ac.uk 3) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 16:31:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "D.Eric Holt" Subject: First Call For Abstracts for Spanish Lx Presession to GURT 95 -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Fri, 03 Jun 94 21:18 PDT From: Shoichi Iwasaki (310) 206-9289 Subject: J/K Conference CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference UCLA November 4-6, 1994 Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: July 31, 1994 Keynote Speakers Professor Mamoru Saito (University of Connecticut) Professor Ho-Min Sohn (University of Hawaii) Special Session: Contrastive Study of Japanese and Korean This year the conference committee again encourages presentations which take both languages into the domain of investigation and will set aside special slots for such comparative research. This conference aims to provide a forum for presenting research in Japanese and Korean linguistics, thereby facilitating efforts to deepen our understanding of these two languages which have striking typological similarities. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, pragmatics, historical linguistics, typology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and discourse. Presentations are 20 minutes long, and will be followed by a 10 minute question/answer period. Abstract submissions should be sent to one of the addresses below by July 31, 1994. The abstract should include: 1. Seven (7) copies of a one-page abstract (no more than 500 words) with a title; Omit your name and affiliation from the abstract. The one-page (500 word) limit should be strictly observed; a second page may be used only for data and citing references. 2. A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper, the name of the author(s), the mailing address of the author, and the author(s) affiliation, phone number and e-mail address. If your address, phone number and e-mail address will be different during the summer, be sure to include it as well. 3. A self-addressed, stamped postcard if you wish to be notified whether your abstract has been received. (A Very Good Idea!!) Mailing Address Syntax, Formal Semantics, Phonology, andMorphology Anoop Mahajan J/K CONFERENCE Dept. of Linguistics UCLA 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90024 Discourse/Functional linguistics oriented topics Akatsuka/Iwasaki/Sohn J/K CONFERENCE Dept. of East Asian Lgs. & Cultures UCLA 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90024 The proceedings of this conference will be published as Japanese/Korean Linguistics vol. 5 by CSLI (The Center for the Study of Language and Information). The proceedings of the pervious conferences can be ordered either directly from the University of Chicago Press, or through a local bookstore. UCP's address: 11030 S. Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628. Orders may also be placed by phone at 800-621-2736. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Wed, 8 JUN 94 11:42:31 BST From: N.Heather@rhbnc.ac.uk Conference on 'Theory and Computing Culture' A number of colleagues and I are organizing a one-day conference on 'Theory and Computing Culture' to take place on 13 January 1995 at the Centre for English Studies in London. We would be interested in hearing from potential contributors interested in relationships between (mainly) literary theory and current and emerging technologies. Noel Heather Lecturer in Arts Computing Dept.of English University of London Egham UK E-mail: n.heather@rhbnc.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Mon, 06 Jun 1994 16:31:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "D.Eric Holt" Subject: First Call For Abstracts for Spanish Lx Presession to GURT 95 ****************************************************************************** FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS SECOND PRESESSION ON SPANISH LINGUISTICS Georgetown University Round Table 1995 Georgetown University March 6-7, 1995 sponsored by the Georgetown University Spanish Department and the Spanish Department Graduate Student Organization (SDGSO), and organized by Hector Campos, Norma G. Catalan and Eric Holt. Abstracts are invited for 20 minute talks in all areas of Spanish Linguistics (History/Dialectology, Phonology, Syntax/Semantics, Applied, Sociolinguistics, etc.) Submissions are encouraged by e-mail. Also send one anonymous and one camara ready copy of a one-page abstract with one-inch margins with name and affiliation to Hector Campos, Norma G. Catalan and Eric Holt Presession organizers Spanish Department, ICC 4th Floor Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Also include an index card with your name, affiliation, title of paper, address, phone number and e-mail address. The final conference program and abstracts will be in hypertext form accessible online through the World Wide Web, as well as from an ftp site. Later postings will include more information and a preliminary program. For questions or more information, please contact the organizers at the above US mail address, or at the Spanish Department at (202) 687-6134, or at the following e-mail addresses: catalann@guvax.goergetown.edu (Over the Summer this is the best address) holtd@guvax.georgetown.edu hcampos@guvax.georgetown.edu Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thanks! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-660. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-661. Wed 08 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 165 Subject: 5.661 Confs: MALC Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 11:13:33 CDT From: Frances Ingemann Subject: MALC -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 11:13:33 CDT From: Frances Ingemann Subject: MALC Attention Africanists: You may not have received this announcement by mail. Please note that the Mid-America Linguistics Conference will have special sections on African languages, African American English, and creoles used by people of African descent. The plenary address will be by Salikoko Mufwene (University of Chicago), "On the genesis of African-American English, Caribbean English Creoles, and their North American Kin." MID-AMERICA LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE October 14-15, 1994 The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas The 1994 Mid-America Linguistics Conference will continue its 29-year tradition of accepting papers on all linguistic topics. The plenary speaker will be Stephen Anderson, Johns Hopkins University. This year there will be two special interest parallel sessions: - In conjunction with the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Kansas, sessions are planned on African languages, African- American English, and creoles used by people of African descent. - Parallel sessions on Muskogean, Caddoan, and other southeast Indian languages will also be held in recognition of the long-standing interest in Native American languages at the University of Kansas. Contributed papers will be allowed a maximum of 20 minutes for presentation. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings. Instructions for the preparation of manuscripts will be sent along with notification of acceptance. Abstracts are to be submitted in both a short and long version. The short abstract is to be prepared for photocopy reproduction in the meeting handbook. It must fit within a space 6.5" wide and 3" high. If you use proportional spacing, the font must be no smaller than 12 point. If you use fixed spacing, there should be no more than 12 characters per inch. On the same page, give your name and affiliation as you wish it to appear in the program. Also include your mailing address, telephone number, fax number and E-mail address where applicable. Each session room will be equipped with a chalkboard, an overhead projector, and a projection screen. If you need other audio/visual equipment, please request it when you submit your abstract. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday, August 29,1994. If you need earlier notification of acceptance in order to apply for travel funds, please indicate that at the time that you submit your abstract. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Faxed submissions to meet the deadline must be followed immediately by mailed abstracts on regular paper. Mail abstracts to the MALC Program Committee at the Linguistics Department address given below. For additional information about program content, contact: Frances Ingemann, The University of Kansas, Linguistics Department, Lawrence, KS 66045 Telephone: (913) 864 3450 Fax: (913)864-5208 E-mail: fing@ukanvm.bitnet or fing@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu Published proceedings of the conference will be available; ordering information will be provided in September. Refunds/Cancellation. A full refund of registration fees will be available if requested in writing and received by October 1,1994. No refunds will be made after October 1, 1994. The conference will be held in the Kansas Union (13th Street and Jayhawk Blvd.), The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence is located on I-70 about 45 miles west of Kansas City. Lawrence is served by shuttle van from the Kansas City International Airport. A-1 City Cab, Lawrence, offers shuttle van service daily from the airport to Lawrence. The price is $37/person, round trip, or $35/student. Reservations must be made at least 24 hours in advance by calling (913) 842-2432. Rental cars, taxis, and a campus bus service are available in Lawrence. Campus visitors may park at metered spaces; parking permits also are available. Please indicate your need for a parking permit on the registration form. Permits will be mailed, if requests are made by October 1, or will be available at the conference registration desk in the Kansas Union. A block of rooms has been reserved for conference participants at the Day's Inn, 2309 Iowa St., Lawrence, KS 66046 (913) 843-9100. Conference participants should make reservations directly with the motel before September 23, 1994. A list of other Lawrence motels is available on request from the KU Division of Continuing Education. Deadlines: Submission of Abstracts Aug. 29,1994 Early Registration Sept. 15,1994 Motel Reservations Sept. 23,1994 The University of Kansas is committed to providing programs and activities to all persons, regardless of race, religion, color, sex, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital or parental status and, to the extent covered by law, age or veteran status. We accommodate persons with disabilities. Please call (913) 864-3284 or mark the space indicated on the registration form and a Continuing Education representative will contact you to discuss your needs. In order to assure accommodation, please register at least two weeks before the start of the conference, or earlier if possible. ****************************************************************************** REGISTRATION FORM Mid-America Linguistics Conference Oct. 14-15, 1994 AA52020 Please register by October 1, 1994. By Mail: The University of Kansas, Cathy Dwigans- MALC, Division of Continuing Education, Continuing Education Building, Lawrence, KS 66045-2607 By Telephone: (913) 864-3284 By Fax: (913) 864-5074 Name______________________________________________________ Telephone __________________________ Address_____________________________________________________ City_________________________ State______ Zip________________ Registration Fee O $20 before 9/15/94 O S17 Student, after 9/15 O $22 after 9/15/94 O $15 Student, before 9/15 O $2 Visitor Parking Permit for Fri., Oct 14 Total Enclosed____________________ O Check payable to the University of Kansas O VISA O Master Card Expires_________________ Card number________________________________________ If you will need special accommodations, please mark the space below and you will be contacted personally by a member of the continuing education staff. O Information on an optional evening meal on Fri., Oct. 14 will be sent in September to registered participants. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-661. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-662. Wed 08 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 103 Subject: 5.662 FYI: Discourse List, Fonts, Dictionary of American Slang Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 14:23:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Elyse Abraham Subject: Info on a Discourse List 2) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 10:40:25 CST From: "T. J. Ray" Subject: Re: 5.620 FYI: Fonts 3) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 16:47:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bethany Dumas, UTK" Subject: Dictionary of American Slang -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 14:23:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Elyse Abraham Subject: Info on a Discourse List A few days ago Adam Karpinski posted a query asking if there was a discussion list for discourse related issues. I've responded privately to Adam, but I think I will also post the information here for anyone else interested in discourse. There is a listserver called Comserve that handles several communication related lists. Comserve works slightly differently from other listservers. To get info on how to subscribe (and details on comserve and the lists available, etc., etc.) send the message: show hotlines to: comserve@vm.its.rpi.edu The discourse list is called Ethno. It's "for discussion of issues in ethnomethodology, conversation and discourse analysis, etc.". As far as I know this is the *only* discourse list on the internet. If you know of any others perhaps you could post the information. :> Best regards, Elyse Elyse K. Abraham Dept. of Linguistics University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 10:40:25 CST From: "T. J. Ray" Subject: Re: 5.620 FYI: Fonts A former student of mine has developed his own set of fonts for the Macintosh. With these fonts the user can type any Indo-European language and several othe rs, including Vietnamese. The name of the font is MultiKeys. The creator is D avis Borwn BROWN. His address is 619 Van Buren Avenue, Oxford, Mississippi 386 55. Phone: 601-234-1359. This is a very exciting program that should elimaint e the need for more than one font for IE work. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | T. J. Ray Dept. of English | | Bitnet: EGRAY@UMSVM.BITNET University of Mississippi | | Internet: EGRAY@vm.cc.olemiss.edu Bishop Hall-Room 323 | | AppleLink: RAY.T@applelink.apple.com University, MS 38677 | | America OL: ENGDEPT Phone: (601) 232-7678 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 16:47:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bethany Dumas, UTK" Subject: Dictionary of American Slang I now have details of the publication of the first volume of Jon Lighter's dictionary of American slang on historical principles. The official date of publication is June 17. The title is "The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang," ed. J. E. Lighter. I saw an unbound copy of page proofs with cover, and John Fisher says he has seen the complete volume. It's very impressive. (Tom Clark, I lost your e-mail adr. Sorry.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-662. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-663. Thu 09 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 124 Subject: 5.663 Qs: Paperbacks, Parallel translations, Turn, Deontic modality Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 19:21:23 +0930 From: Penny Lee Subject: Paperbacks and hardcovers 2) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 17:13:18 +0100 (WET) From: Marion GUNN Subject: Parallel translations: ordering of adjectives 3) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 94 17:47:04 +0200 From: flingz6@emducms1.sis.ucm.es (Enrique L. Palancar Vizcaya) Subject: Turn as Becoming 4) From: aip@uwasa.fi (Aila Pesonen) Subject: Deontic modality in ordinary language Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 12:57:25 +0300 (EET DST) -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 19:21:23 +0930 From: Penny Lee Subject: Paperbacks and hardcovers When I was quite a bit younger than am now I held the belief that 'good' books were books which the publisher had seen fit to publish in hardcover format. Since paperbacks were just 'cheap' books, it followed that one couldn't expect a 'decent' academic book to be published in anything except hard covers. What is the current situation in the field of linguistics? Are libraries still automatically buying hardcover versions of books which come out? Is there any point in having particularly esoteric books which are never likely to be read (or more importantly, bought) by more than a few people, published in hard covers? Is there, for that matter, any point in having books which are likely to be popular published in hard covers? Will the academic book industry be affected by electronic publishing trends? If so, when and how? Penny Lee School of Education, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001. AUSTRALIA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 94 17:13:18 +0100 (WET) From: Marion GUNN Subject: Parallel translations: ordering of adjectives On translation from Gaelic to English, phrases such as "fia-mhadra mo/r allta" and "gasu/r beag mu/inte" come across something like "big bad wolf" and "good little boy". Can anyone explain why fluent English speakers feel uncomfortable if the order of adjectives in either of these examples is reversed to fit a more "logical" pattern, and supply further examples of adjectival ordering, where parallel machine translation could be affected? Please reply to address below, rather than to the list. If anything worth sharing emerges, I'll summarize the results. Marion Gunn MGUNN@IRLEARN.UCD.IE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 94 17:47:04 +0200 From: flingz6@emducms1.sis.ucm.es (Enrique L. Palancar Vizcaya) Subject: Turn as Becoming I am a graduate student from Madrid, Spain, who is doing a research on how verbs of circular spatial movement have a metaphorical extension to express processes of change in general. ModE. Spatial "turn" -- She turned to see who was behind her Metaphorical "turn" -- the boy turned pale. It turned into another thing. I would be very grateful if you could give some information about any other languages you may know or speak which may present the same uses as English "turn". I thank you very much Enrique Palancar email : flingz6@emducms1.sis.ucm.es -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: aip@uwasa.fi (Aila Pesonen) Subject: Deontic modality in ordinary language Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 12:57:25 +0300 (EET DST) Hello! Is there anybody out there doing research on deontic modality in legal texts? I am interested in deontic modality in Russian texts, and I would be thankful for some references concerning this subject. Aila -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-663. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-664. Thu 09 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 236 Subject: 5.664 Confs: COGNITIVE & LING UNIVERSALS, ALI-94, NEGATION & POLARITY Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 94 17:07:15 EDT From: "Rick Lewis" Subject: Mini-conference at Princeton, June 17-18 2) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 10:56:08 +1000 From: Australian Linguistic Institute - 1994 Subject: Please post on LINGUIST 3) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 12:02:34 +0200 (METDST) From: Jacob Hoeksema Subject: workshop announcement -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 94 17:07:15 EDT From: "Rick Lewis" Subject: Mini-conference at Princeton, June 17-18 Dear Colleagues: On June 17-18, 1994, the Human Information Processing Group and the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University, through the support of the McDonnell Foundation, are sponsoring a workshop/mini-conference entitled "Cognitive and Linguistic Universals: Computational Perspectives on Learning and Processing." The public is cordially invited; there will be no registration fee and all interested persons are welcome to join in the discussions. All talks will be held in McCormick Hall 106 (same entrance as the Princeton University Art Museum, near the center of campus). Hope to see you there! ============================================================================= COGNITIVE and LINGUISTIC UNIVERSALS: COMPUTATIONAL PERSPECTIVES on LEARNING and PROCESSING A mini-conference supported by the McDonnell Foundation Princeton University 106 McCormick Hall June 17-18, 1994 ============================================================================= Friday, June 17 1:30p Welcome and introduction ============================================================================= Learning I 1:45 Robin Clark "Descriptive complexity and the theory of parameters" (Penn) 2:35 Rolf Noyer "Unlearnable or ungrammatical? Paradigm structure (Princeton) constraints and morphological hypothesis spaces" 3:25 BREAK ============================================================================= Learning II 3:45 Geoff Towell "Learning contextual representations for word sense (Siemens & disambiguation" Princeton) 4:35 Eric Ristad "A universal model of handwriting" (Princeton) ================================================================================ Saturday, June 18 8:30a Continental breakfast ============================================================================= Processing I 9:00 Ted Gibson "Principles of language processing: Recency (MIT) preference and predicate proximity 9:50 Ed Stabler "Parsing for incremental interpretation" (UCLA) 10:40 BREAK 11:00 Mark Johnson "The use of knowledge of language" (Brown) 11:50 BREAK for lunch ============================================================================= Processing II 1:45 Rick Lewis "A theory of grammatical but unacceptable embeddings" (Princeton) 2:35 Karin Stromswold "A neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic investigation (Rutgers) of relative clauses" 3:25 Open discussion -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 10:56:08 +1000 From: Australian Linguistic Institute - 1994 Subject: Please post on LINGUIST AUSTRALIAN LINGUISTIC INSTITUTE ALI-94 LA TROBE UNIVERSITY MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 4th - 14th July 1994 La Trobe University is hosting the second Australian Linguistic Institute (ALI-94) from July 4-14, 1994. ALI provides a venue in Australia for internationally renowned local and overseas scholars to present their latest research findings. There will be 36 courses (ranging from introductory to advanced level), 7 workshops and 3 plenary sessions, involving 60 presenters. Courses cover a wide range of topics, including Australian Aboriginal languages, American Indian languages, Sino-Tibetan linguistics, Australian Sign Language, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Semantics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Systemic-Functional linguistics, Translation and interpreting, Language planning, Cross-cultural pragmatics, Computational linguistics, Pidgins and creoles, Second language acquisition. Overseas presenters include: Jean Aitchison, Ken Hale, Bernd Heine, Stephen Bird, Maria Bittner, Melissa Bowerman, Joan Bybee, Greville Corbett, Penny Eckert, Patsy Lighbown, Michael Long, James Matisoff, Marianne Mithun, Ivan Sag, Matt Shibatani, Richard Sproat, Elizabeth Traugott, and Nigel Vincent. For application details and further information contact: Peter Austin, Director ALI-94, School of Linguistics, La Trobe University, Bundoora. Vic 3083. Australia. Phone: +61-3-479 2338; Fax: +61-3-478 5814; E-mail: LINALI@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 12:02:34 +0200 (METDST) From: Jacob Hoeksema Subject: workshop announcement I'd like to announce to the LINGUIST-subscribers the following workshop program. For further information, contact hoeksema@let.rug.nl. --Jack Hoeksema University of Groningen PIONIER COLLLOQUIUM ON NEGATION AND POLARITY SPONSORED BY THE NWO PIONIER PROJECT 'REFLECTIONS OF LOGICAL PATTERNS IN LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE USE' UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN, 21-22 JUNE 1994 Tuesday, 21 June 10.00-10.45 Lucia Tovena (Edinburgh), `Negation and Ordering Relations: The Case of _Until_' 10.45-11.30 Joao Peres (Lisbon), `Negative concord, with a particular focus on (partially) bounded licensing' coffee break 11.45-12.30 Enric Vallduvi (Edinburgh), `Minimizers, negative concord, and negative polarity' lunch 14.00-14.45 Jay Atlas (Pomona), `Atlas Kids You Not: Neither Do I: Some Remarks about Fred Sommers's Term Logic and Larry Horn's Extended Term Logic' 14.45-15.30 Larry Horn (Yale), `ONLY and Negation: A Silver Anniversary Retrospective' tea break 16.00-16.45 Victor Sanchez Valencia (Groningen), `On predicates that license polarity items' 16.45-17.30 David Dowty (Ohio State), `Do Negative Polarity/Concord Serve as Explicit Indicators for Downward Monotone Inferences in a "Natural Logic"'? Wednesday, 22 June 9.15-10.00 Wojciech Buszkowski (Poznan), `Grammatical consequence' 10.00-10.45 Jack Hoeksema & Henny Klein (Groningen), `Negative predicates and their arguments' coffee break 11.00-11.45 Henk Verkuyl (Utrecht), `Negation, Distributivity, Collectivity' 11.45-12.30 Wim Klooster (Amsterdam), `Syntactic differentiation and polarity licensing' lunch 14.00-14.45 Bill Ladusaw (Santa Cruz), `Negative Concord: Categorical or Thetic?' 14.45-15.30 Hotze Rullmann (Groningen), `Negative nonislands' tea break 16.00-16.45 Frans Zwarts (Groningen), `Nonveridical contexts' 16.45-17.30 Pieter Seuren (Nijmegen), `How to say "no" in language' -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-664. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-665. Thu 09 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 235 Subject: 5.665 The popularization of linguistics Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 00:53:40 +0800 (WST) From: h9290030@hkusub.hku.hk (R.Y.L. TANG) Subject: Re: 5.588 Linguistics and popular publications (re-sent) 2) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 09:00:07 +0800 (SST) From: Anthea F Gupta Subject: The popularization of linguistics 3) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 13:33:48 -0400 (ADT) From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: 5.646 The popularization of linguistics 4) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 08:52:20 EST From: "George Fowler h(317)726-1482 o(812)855-2829" Subject: Popularization of linguistics: one pet peeve 5) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 17:27:39 -0700 (PDT) From: JFLEVIN@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU Subject: RE: 5.635 Linguistics and popular publications -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 00:53:40 +0800 (WST) From: h9290030@hkusub.hku.hk (R.Y.L. TANG) Subject: Re: 5.588 Linguistics and popular publications (re-sent) > > Date: Wed, 25 May 94 16:14 PDT > > From: benji wald > > Subject: Re: 5.603 The treatment of language in popular publications > > > > If you want to solve the misperception/ignorance of linguistics (and language) > > problem write COMPREHENSIBLE popular books. If you only have time for > > > [stuff deleted] > > disdains the desire to talk to the public (or is it an insecurity?), so > > that one who writes for a "popular" audience could fear being looked down > > upon and not taken seriously by colleagues. It's more complicated than that, > > but I don't want to go on at length here. I'd like to know > > whether and where this perception comes from, and/or if anyone agrees. My > > feeling is that linguists who don't want to "waste their time" talking to > > outsiders, shouldn't waste their time fretting over what outsiders think. > > Benji > > > dear Benji, > > Yes, I have this fear of {eing 'not serious enough' from the viewpoint of academic linguistics when writing my articles on English for a daily newspaper column.I do want to make my column look different from other similar ones on English byHong Kong Chine> se writers, and so I import concepts from linguistics in order topopularize those useful to L2 learners of English and the general public. Actually, many columnists often use semi-jargon from linguistics without explaining them in their articles (e.g. 'pi> an4yu3', = phrase/collocation, 'xiu1ci2', = rhetoric/stylistics). This will probably pose difficulties to the general reader (although s/he is not interested in the semi-jargon *themselves; they are most interested in the use of English *words*). Part of > my task is just to explain th > those semi-technical terms in my articles, apart from talking about popular topics on pronunciation, grammar and words, as most columnists do. > > And I won't forget those painful times when I had to look up bits and pieces of grammar in linguistics books in order to disseminate a 'professional' and 'correct' understanding of those technical notions to the public... Well, I could haveslacked on all > these but... I believe that it will be a most meritorious thing for a linguist to open up his/her world to the reader in a contributory way without losing the academic rigour s/he is *expected* to have. > > Best regards, > > Raymond Y.L. Tang > Dept. of English > University of Hong Kong > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 09:00:07 +0800 (SST) From: Anthea F Gupta Subject: The popularization of linguistics Celso Alvarez Caccamo drew attention to our inability to correct simple misconceptions about language, Dick Hudson called for linguistics to be taught in schools, and Paul T Kershaw asked why the Appeal to Authority doesn't work for linguists. It seems to me that the issue of authority is central in the debate, as there are competing authorities. Linguists were one of the groups recently castigated by the Prince of Wales for not understanding that there was right and wrong in grammar -- the social need to impose a spurious morality on language is a greater imperative than the granting of authority to linguists. Few people are ready to accept that correctness in language is comparable to correctness in dress or table manners. At best descriptive linguists seem amoral and at worst (sociolinguists) they seem to be promoting anarchy or revolution. So we are faced with popularizing and gaining Authority for a discipline whose central tenets are *anti-authoritarian*. Anthea Fraser GUPTA National University of Singapore -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 13:33:48 -0400 (ADT) From: Logical Language Group Subject: Re: 5.646 The popularization of linguistics Paul Kershaw writes: > An important distinction was made by another poster -- the linguist's > views are, in general, minority views. We are fighting against an > ethnocentric worldview which is reinforced (not always deliberately) > by the public education system. Prescriptivism has its strong points; > like it or not, in order to do business, there is an acceptable style > of speech which should be mastered. This is societal nonsense, to be > sure, just as much as hairlength and clothing is societal nonsense, > but it will only change when enough laypeople go out on a limb and > risk social acceptance in order to be themselves. So, for now, SAE > is taught in the schools, but doing so is NOT the same as saying that > SAE is superior to other dialects of English. But this is a difficult > concept to get across to people, and is also perhaps one of the more > deeply embedded beliefs held by the layperson. The more that they're > exposed to composition course requiring formal SAE, the more the belief > that SAE is "right" is reified, whether or not the teacher says it is. Kershaw here expresses views which I take to be typical of the posters on this thread: a) there exists a false morality (using the word broadly) among the populace which holds that there are better and worse varieties of English; b) linguists have an obligation to employ their special knowledge to overthrow this morality. On what grounds is this view founded? It seems to me that we have here a classic IS-OUGHT confusion. Linguistics claims to be an IS subject, one which describes the social/biological construct called "language" as she is spoke (and, secondarily, as she is written). As such, linguists have learned many facts about language and about particular languages. But in addition, since the days of Bloomfield, linguists-in-general (with exceptions) have carried an ideology as well: the claim that, because every dialect has equal claim to attention by the student of language, that society OUGHT to accept every dialect as socially equal. The characters of Miss Fidditch the schoolmarm, and her younger brother William Fidditch, the language columnist, are used as bogeymen in this propagandizing endeavor. Isn't it possible that there are reasons why SAE, as Kershaw calls the written standard English of the U.S., is superior for purposes of verbal exposition to other dialects of English? These are not linguistic reasons, to be sure, but rather belong to the subject of rhetoric (which I do not use as a term of abuse). As I understand the term, rhetoric addresses itself to the appropriate use of words for achieving specific purposes: to convince, to sway, to entertain, to manipulate, to argue, to threaten, to praise. As such, it has a great deal to say which linguistics-as-such does not address. Rhetoricians are in short supply these days, so perhaps there is an intellectual power vacuum of the kind discussed by Northrop Frye in his "Polemical Intro- duction" to >Anatomy of Criticism<: linguists are moving in, as are other groups. From this point of view, those much-abused courses in "English composition" are actually courses in applied rhetoric -- I myself have had some success presenting their material as such, and I would also point you to (parts of) >Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<, which concerns itself among other things with rhetoric and (an equally abused and abusive term) Sophism. Furthermore, the existence of standards, and the process whereby something becomes a standard, is itself a fit subject for investigation by students of language, whether they call themselves "linguists" or not. Yet many who do so call themselves act as if the subject matter of part of their discipline has no right to exist, as if physicists were to rule out the study of atomic fission because they did not like its applications. -- John Cowan sharing account for now e'osai ko sarji la lojban. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 08:52:20 EST From: "George Fowler h(317)726-1482 o(812)855-2829" Subject: Popularization of linguistics: one pet peeve This thread about the popularization of linguistics recalls to mind one of my pet peeves, which boils down to a popular misunderstanding of a linguistic concept. We've all heard people, in attempting to belittle someone else's arguments about a matter of dispute, say something like, "That's just semantics." Well, hell, semantics is important, while this expression attempts to claim that the statement being disputed isn't meaningful! I suppose what is meant is "that's just nit-picking" or "that's just a question of wording". No doubt this expression can never be uprooted from the language. But it strikes me as symptomatic of why linguistics isn't popular, and unlikely to be widely popularized. George Fowler GFowler@Indiana.Edu [Email] Dept. of Slavic Languages (812) 855-2829 [office] Ballantine 502 (317) 726-1482 [home] Indiana University (812) 855-2624/-2608/-9906 [dept.] Bloomington, IN 47405 USA (812) 855-2107 [dept. fax] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 17:27:39 -0700 (PDT) From: JFLEVIN@UCRAC1.UCR.EDU Subject: RE: 5.635 Linguistics and popular publications There is at least one country where the local linguists are known and appreciated by the general population, where they write columns for the mass press and are highly respected, and that country is Lithuania. As an American Baltic linguist who was a Fulbright lecturer at Vilnius State University (in Baltic linguistics), I can attest to the much higher prestige and general awareness linguistics and linguists have there. Why? One reason may be that the local linguists do not tell the populace some- thing that is counter-intuitive--that linguistic variations don't matter, that the notion of a "standard language" as opposed to a class or regional marker is merely a reflection of the public's ignorance, and so on. Once I remarked how different it was in Lithuania, where the leading Lithuanian linguists write articles for the press on "standard" usage, helping, as it were, to create a standard language from what was less than 100 years ago a collection of dialects. My colleague explained that of course they were familiar with the notion of "description" as opposed to "prescription" that Western linguists articulated, but that they--Lithuanian linguists--did not have that luxury--their standard language was being formed, and if they did not participate in developing it (and actually they have played the leading role), others, non-linguists, would. We linguists look at language from God's perspective, so to speak, and no doubt God does not take note of our regional, social, class, or ethnic dialect when we pray, but that human interlocutors DO, is a part of ling- uistics that cannot be sneered at, mocked, or ignored. It is a real part of language, and no larger public language columnist will be read who ignores it. Safire [whose last name must be a variant of Sapir!!!] will remain popular because he is filling a real (socio-, or psycho-)linguistic need. --Jules Levin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-665. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-666. Thu 09 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 121 Subject: 5.666 FYI: LSA Archives, Hypertext paper, Virus Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1994 10:51:36 -0500 (EST) From: ZZLSA@gallua.gallaudet.edu Subject: LSA Archives 2) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 09:44:44 -0400 From: "Ellen L. Contini-Morava" Subject: hypertext paper on semantics of Swahili noun classes 3) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 11:35:56 -0400 From: leroy@norcross.mcs.slb.com (Erick M. LEROY) Subject: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT! -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1994 10:51:36 -0500 (EST) From: ZZLSA@gallua.gallaudet.edu Subject: LSA Archives For the past decade, the American Philosophical Society Library has served as the repository of the records of the Linguistic Society of America. Unfortunately, space and staff limitations at APS have necessitated a request that the LSA identify a new repository and move our holdings by year's end. Your suggestion of institutions which might be interested in the Society's archives are most welcome. Please send them to M. Reynolds, zzlsa@gallua.gallaudet.edu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 09:44:44 -0400 From: "Ellen L. Contini-Morava" Subject: hypertext paper on semantics of Swahili noun classes For those interested in cognitive grammar and/or noun classification, I have a hypertext paper on the semantic structure of noun classes in Swahili on the World Wide Web. It is a preliminary report on an ongoing investigation of noun class and grammatical agreement in Swahili, which has included putting all the nouns from the Standard Swahili-English Dictionary into a database, where they are tagged for a large number of semantic features. The paper includes semantic networks for two of the noun classes (3 and 7). Since the paper contains some graphic images, the best access is via Mosaic or equivalent: URL =http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/home.html; select Publications of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.. The paper can also be read from a conventional text-only terminal, including dial-up modems, via gopher: gopher jefferson.village.virginia.edu; select "Lynx session to IATH's web server", then Publications of the I.A.T.H. Further instructions are provided there. Comments are welcome. I would also be interested in knowing about any other hypertext linguistics papers that may be out there. Hypertext is a nuisance to prepare, but it is a useful way of displaying more data than will fit on a conventional page (or screen). Ellen Contini-Morava -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 11:35:56 -0400 From: leroy@norcross.mcs.slb.com (Erick M. LEROY) Subject: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT! I got this virus alert off a French lest. some of you may find it helpful. Dorine Houston ===========================+++++++++++++++++++=========================== | | | DORINE HOUSTON V2188G@TEMPLEVM | | TEMPLE UNIVERSITY V2188G@VM.TEMPLE.EDU | | 1420 LOCUST ST., 17-R (215) 732-0367 | | PHILADELPHIA, PA 19102 USA | ===========================+++++++++++++++++++=========================== ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- VOICI UN E-MAIL QUE JE VIENS DE RECEVOIR QUI PEUT VOUS CONCERNER Forwarded frorm: BRITISH HCI GROUP Via EACE/MCI To all PC users, please be aware of the following... A Virus has been discovered on Internet that is disguised as CD-ROM shareware. Unknown hackers have illegally put the Chinon name on a destructive shareware file and released it on the Internet. This catastrophic virus is named "CD-IT". -- DO NOT DOWNLOAD. IT WILL CORRUPT YOUR HARD DRIVE. The program, allegedly a shareware PC utility that will convert an ordinary CD-ROM drive into a CD-Recordable (CD-R) device, which is technically impossible, instead destroys critical system files on a user's hard drive. The program also immediately crashes the CPU, forces the user to reboot and stays in memory. Widest dissemination is requested. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-666. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-667. Thu 09 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 153 Subject: 5.667 Sum: Singular they, English Morphology Texts Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: 9 Jun 1994 10:56:28+1200 From: Kon Kuiper Subject: Summary of discussion on singular they 2) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 14:48:06 CST From: chris@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx (Christopher Hall) Subject: Summary: English Morphology Texts -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: 9 Jun 1994 10:56:28+1200 From: Kon Kuiper Subject: Summary of discussion on singular they Thankyou to those people who responded to my query on the use of singular 'they' with gendered antecedents. Here is a summary of the responses: 1. Works referring to singular 'they': Barlow, Michael (1992) A Situated Theory of Agreement. Garland Series of Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. Bodine, Ann (1975) Androcentrism in prescriptive grammar: he, she, and singular 'they'. Language and society article. Also to be found in Deborah Cameron's book, The Feminist Critique of Language, Routledge, 1990. Corbett, Greville (1993) Gender. CUP. Hook, Donald (1991) Toward an English Epicene Pronoun. IRAL, XXIX/4, pp. 331-339 Lagunoff, Rachel (1992) A description of 'they' as a singular pronoun. Unpublished MA thesis. UCLA. Newman, Michael (1993a) The stubborn problem of pronominal disagreement. Language in Society. (1993b) MA thesis. Ohio State. Available through UMI. Wang, Jenny (1992 or 1993 ?) MA thesis. Contact Prof. Wayne Herbert, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Morrill Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-4701. 2. Several respondents mentioned that they used singular 'they' in their academic writing, giving as justification the awkwardness of 's/he', 'he/she', etc. This is an interesting development as singular 'they' is often considered to be unacceptable in formal writing. 3. Most of the examples supplied did not have a gendered antecedent. Two interesting exceptions were: (a) The trouble with a girl like Kathy is that they don't listen. (b) ? I talked to a boy recently. They'd like to meet you. The query judgement was the respondent's, not mine. She noted that the doubt might be due to oddness rather than ungrammaticality per se. I would be very interested in collecting judgements on the two sentences above - so feel free to post your response! 5. College English ran an article that generated several letters. The article was in the September 1993 issue and the responses are in the April 1994 issue. There's no doubt that prescriptivism is alive and well! Just a note concerning my own research: I am currently working on a structural model that will take care of the agreement problem. I am also very interested in attitudes to the agreement problem among academics. Keep me posted, if you would. Thanks heaps. Brenda Zanetti -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 14:48:06 CST From: chris@udlapvms.pue.udlap.mx (Christopher Hall) Subject: Summary: English Morphology Texts SUMMARY: ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY TEXTS Thank you to the following who replied to my enquiry about texts on English Morphology for a course for TEFL M.A. students: Nick Reid, Laurie Bauer, Wander Lowie, Mihoko Kubota, Jacob Caflisch, and Mark Sebba. Below I have compiled a list of the texts recommended, with excerpts from respondents' comments. Personally, I would have thought that Lieber's (and probably Scalise's) book would be beyond the beginning applied linguistics students I have in mind. Bauer's book is the one I have been using up until now, and, although rich in data and useful in its discussion, is not very current (as the author admits). Time for a new edition! The other multi-recommended work is Katamba (1993) which I have not yet seen (linguistics books still _dribble_ into Mexico, despite the influence of NAFTA). Bauer, Laurie (1983) _English Word-formation_, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Recommended three times. "Rather out of date; not much about inflection."] Bogdan, Szymanek (1989) _Introduction to Morphological Analysis_, Warsaw. ["Makes comparison with Polish, German, etc."] Carstairs McCarthy, Andrew (1992) _Current Morphology_, London: Routledge. ["Very good."] Katamba, Francis (1993) _Morphology_, London: MacMillan. ISBN: 0-312-10356-5. [Recommended three times. "Fairly traditional but quite complete." " 'Standard' (data in all langs), but it goes into Amorphous morphology and discusses several viewpoints concerning solutions to data."] Katamba, Francis (to appear) _English Words_, London: Routledge. Lieber, Rochelle (1992) _Deconstructing Morphology_, Chicago: Chicago University Press. Lipka, L. (1990) _An Outline of English Lexicology_, Tuebingen: Niemeyer. ["Contains a lot of material on lexical semantics and dictionaries."] Matthews, P. H. (1974) _Morphology_, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ["An old one, but still going strong."] Scalise, Sergio (1984) _Generative Morphology_, Dordrecht: Foris. ["Mainly on English, but includes examples from some other languages."] Sloat, C. and Sh. Taylor (1985) _The Structure of English Words_ (3rd ed.), Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, Inc. ISBN: 0-8403-4316-7. ["A workbook-like format ... very attractive."] Spencer (1991) _Morphological Theory_, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. ["Very good (the best?); includes many other languages (simply because English does not happen to be very interesting morphologically speaking)."] Taylor, A. (1989) paper in _Journal of Memory and Language_. !=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=! !=!=!=!=! Dr. Christopher J. Hall !=!=!=! Professor of Linguistics !=!=! !=! Departamento de Lenguas ! Universidad de las Americas, Puebla A.P. 100, Sta. Catarina Martir 72820 Puebla ! Mexico !=! Tel: +52 (22) 29 20 53 !=!=! Tel: +52 (22) 29 26 23 !=!=!=! Fax: +52 (22) 29 20 96 !=!=!=!=! !=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=!=! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-667. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-668. Thu 09 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 158 Subject: 5.668 Sum: Translation Software for English - Mandarin, Russian, Greek Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 19:58:18 EDT From: Ellen Ricca Subject: SUMMARY: Translation Software for English <-> Mandarin, Russian, Greek -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 19:58:18 EDT From: Ellen Ricca Subject: SUMMARY: Translation Software for English <-> Mandarin, Russian, Greek As promised, below is my question and a summary of the responses received. Thanks to Ben Petre, Wenchao Li, Da Jun, and Mark Verhijde. I asked, >Does anyone know of any commercial or free translation >software (for Windows, preferably) that will convert a >document (Word for Windows, preferably) from English to >Mandarin, English to Russian, and English to Greek? >[...] >A second question, assuming the first doesn't pan out: >Does anyone know where I could get a TrueType Mandarin >font and a TrueType Greek font? >I already have one for Cyrillic. >Thanks in advance for any assistance! >Ellen Ricca >=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= >\ Ellen Ricca |"I had no shoes, and I pitied / >/ MCC, I.T. Dept, Lowell MA 01852 | myself. Then I met a man who \ >\ work phone: 508-656-3306 | had no feet, so I took his / >/ e-mail: ricca@admin.mcc.mass.edu | shoes." - Dave Barry \ >=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= The replies: date: Sat, 14 May 1994 11:13:34 AEST+1000 from: Ben Petre If you do find something like this for Greek I'd be VERY surprised (and very interested). TT Greek and Hebrew fonts (with all necessary accents) for MS Windows are contained in the WinGreek program developed by Andrew Fountain (UK) and Peter Gentry (Canada). Below is a copy of the information file "readme.txt" included in the package: ______________________________________________________________________ WinGreek Version 1.9 WinGreek - Greek and Hebrew Package for Windows 3.0 and 3.1 Shareware Package for using Greek and Hebrew in Windows. Includes: -Screen Fonts for Hercules, EGA, VGA & 8514 -Printer fonts for 9-Pin & 24-Pin Printers, HP Desk/LaserJets & Postscript. -Utilities for Entering Accents (European Languages & Greek) and Converting between File Formats (WinGreek <=> CCAT). NEW IN VERSION 1.9 Maintenance Release Fixing Many Minor Bugs. NEW IN VERSION 1.8: New Greek Font and New Versions of Utilities. NEW IN VERSION 1.7: Coptic / Greek / Hebrew TrueType Font for Windows 3.1! TrueType For All Printers Supported by Windows 3.1. If You Receive WinGreek in PKZIP Files, PKUNZIP will produce the following AUTHENTICATION MESSAGE: Authentic files Verified! # EMK287 PETER J GENTRY More info from Peter Gentry at OR ______________________________________________________________________ Regards, Ben Petre (Grad student, Monash Linguistics) ============================================================================ date: Sat, 14 May 1994 09:48:43 +0100 from: wcli@vax.ox.ac.uk Hi Ellen, I think I've come across English - Mandarin translation software someware, although I remember it being somewhat costly. I can look it up for you if you're interested. Also, about Mandarin truetype fonts, you can get them from a number of sources, which again I'll have to look up the addresses for, but off-hand I can remember (1) Ecological linguistics, Washington DC (about $60) (2) Linguists' Software, Seattle (about $60) (3) 4 TT fonts come with Apple's CHinese Language Kit ($180) (4) The company that sells the translation stuff also has a TT font package for about $1000 (one thousand -- not a typing error) (5) Pacific Rim Connections, San Francisco (6) Tseng and Tsui COmpany, Boston (7) Another company in Hong Kong Other people on the net will probably send you the addresses for 1 and 2, but if you need more details do let me know, and I'll look 'em up for you. you can also get Greek TT fonts from Ecological linguistics and Linguists' Software. Wenchao Li Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University =========================================================================== date: Sat, 14 May 1994 15:09:44 -0400 from: Jun Da Hi, there: For commonly used Mandarin fonts, you can ftp cnd.org under the directory /pub/software. You will find many common fonts available for Mandarin processing. As a rule of thumb, you will need Chinese word processors such as Nanji Star to use those fonts. Da Jun Department of Linguistics University of Texas at Austin email: lifq301@orange.cc.utexas.edu or jda@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu ============================================================================= date: Mon, 16 May 1994 19:27:43 +0000 (GMT) from: Mark.M.Verhyde@let.ruu.nl Dear Ellen Rica, Perhaps you could try to get the pProgram WinGreek (Shareware) with great fonts of Greek, Hebrew and (I believe) Coptic. WinGreek is a windows application and should work fine with Word for Windows 6. Greetings, Mark Verhijde Research Institute for Language and Speech Utrecht, The Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-668. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-669. Thu 09 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 101 Subject: 5.669 Qs: Order of conjuncts, MT software, Corpora,"Another one spoon" Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 08 Jun 94 13:32 EDT From: "Barbara.Abbott" Subject: Order of conjuncts 2) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 12:58:41 BST From: Andy.Way@compapp.dcu.ie Subject: Machine Translation Software 3) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 18:30:01 +0200 From: joakim@ling.gu.se (Joakim Nivre) Subject: Q: Old American English corpora 4) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 11:46 EST From: HORNING@argo.acs.oakland.edu Subject: Query: "Another one spoon" -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 08 Jun 94 13:32 EDT From: "Barbara.Abbott" Subject: Order of conjuncts Can anybody give me recent references on the order of items in conjunctions like "peanut butter and jelly" (?"jelly and peanut butter")? I have the Cooper and Ross 1975 CLS Functionalism volume paper, but nothing more recent than that. Please reply to me and I'll post a summary. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 12:58:41 BST From: Andy.Way@compapp.dcu.ie Subject: Machine Translation Software There's been a fair amount of information on this subject in the past, but I think this is a new request: I'm looking for MT s/w for PC's *which can be networked*. I'm well aware of dongle protected packages, but they're not what I'm after. Any help greatly appreciated. Will summarise for the net at a suitable date. Andy Way, School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 18:30:01 +0200 From: joakim@ling.gu.se (Joakim Nivre) Subject: Q: Old American English corpora Does anyone know of available machine readable corpora of American English from the 18th and 19th century? A student in my department wants to do a historical study of the concepts 'freedom', 'liberty' and 'independence' in American English. Replies can be sent directly to me. I'll post a summary if there is any interest. Joakim Nivre University of Goteborg Department of Linguistics E-mail: joakim@ling.gu.se -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 11:46 EST From: HORNING@argo.acs.oakland.edu Subject: Query: "Another one spoon" I would be grateful to anyone who can give me a print reference to the exchange in the child language acquisition literature that includes the expression "another one spoon" despite correction by a parent. Thanks Alice S. Horning Horning@argo.acs.oakland.edu Department of Linguistics Oakland University Rochester, MI 48309-4401 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-669. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-670. Fri 10 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 157 Subject: 5.670 Qs: Algonquian, Body parts, Collective numerals, French corpora Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 16:20:04 -0500 (EST) From: LROSENWALD@wellesley.edu Subject: query 2) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 11:14:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Suzanne Fleischman" Subject: metaphors for body parts 3) Date: 9 Jun 94 14:06:33 BST From: TONY HALL Subject: Re: Collective Numerals/Quantifiers 4) From: rousse@isis.u-strasbg.fr Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 18:00:33 +0200 Subject: collecting french corpora -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 16:20:04 -0500 (EST) From: LROSENWALD@wellesley.edu Subject: query Hi - I need either bibliographic or personal help. I'm working on James Fenimore Cooper's representation of Native American languages; in the course of reading around I've come across a couple of Lewis Cass's polemics against the John Heckewelder's accounts of the language of the Delaware Indians. (Heckewelder was one of Cooper's sources.) What I need help with, basically, is figuring out where Cass is right and where Heckewelder is. It's not exactly easy to read contemporary accounts of Algonquian languages and figure out what implications they have for judging Cass and Heckewelder. So my question is, 1) are there some accounts of the history of American Indian linguistics that could help me here? (I've read Jarry Joijer's sketch in _Native Languages of the Americas_ - and obviously that should be "Harry Hoijer") or 2) if the answer to 1) is "no," is there someone versed in these questions who'd be willing to let me ask him or her a few questions about the terms and arguments Cass and Heckewelder use for describing Delaware? Thanks very much - Larry Rosenwald (lrosenwald@wellesley.edu) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 11:14:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Suzanne Fleischman" Subject: metaphors for body parts Could anyone point me in the direction of information on the metaphorical associations that have come to attach to body parts (e.g., heart, blood, gut) in the popular imagination, synchronically or diachronically. This is not about the metaphorical use of body parts as, e.g, sources for grammaticalization, but rather about the associations/mythology that has come to surround certain body parts in particular cultures or cross-culturally. Thanks, Suzanne Fleischman UC Berkeley suzanne@garnet.berkeley.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: 9 Jun 94 14:06:33 BST From: TONY HALL Subject: Re: Collective Numerals/Quantifiers I posted this message a few months ago but received no replies of any great use. Could you please post it once again. I am interested in those languages that have both CARDINAL numerals [NumK] and COLLECTIVE numerals [NumColl] (however they may be defined) and the different (or matching) syntactic scope of each. I am familiar with the Slavonic languages (which I teach) and some of the linguistic theory attached to them; I have also encountered studies carried out in Maltese, Georgian, Irish, and Arabic. (References can be supplied) I should like examples of the following: - where a language has the option of CARDINAL vs. COLLECTIVE - A. collocations that FORCE [NumColl] B. collocations that BLOCK [NumColl] C. collocations that FAVOUR [NumColl] D. collocations that FAVOUR [NumK] The results I shall post once the data have been received. Please reply to me directly at: A.R.Hall@uk.ac.bham Thanking you all in anticipation for your help. Tony Hall. ********************************************************************** *** Tony Hall *** Department of Russian Language *** University of Birmingham *** Edgbaston Tel: +44 (0)21 414 3227 *** Birmingham B15 2TT Fax: +44 (0)21 414 5966 *** United Kingdom Email: A.R.Hall@bham.ac.uk ********************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) From: rousse@isis.u-strasbg.fr Date: Thu, 9 Jun 94 18:00:33 +0200 Subject: collecting french corpora It seems that there are not many French language corpora available on ftp. Some professionals I talked with have pointed out that a special collection of texts would be very useful, among other things, to compare various computer linguistics tools. I am working on knowledge acquisition, and I am trying to impulse in my laboratory the collection of such corpora, to make them freely accessible to all. Before actually starting this project I want to collect as much information and advice as possible. In particular, I want to avoid undue competition with similar initiatives. I have heard about the ELSNET European initiative, in which French texts are available for sale on CD, but there are rather few, and cover only general knowledge, not specialized domains. My goal is different: I would like to have French native speakers to organize the collecting, to and make the texts available by ftp at no cost. Contact me if you are interested or can provide advice, information, help, and corpora. Technical/scientific texts are welcome. F. ROUSSELOT director, ERIC (Equipe de Recherche en Ingenierie des Connaissances) ENSAIS 22,bd de la Victoire 67087 Strasbourg-Cedex FRANCE rousse@steinway.u-strasbg.fr tel (33) 88 14 47 53 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-670. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-671. Fri 10 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 207 Subject: 5.671 Jobs: Phonologist, Roehampton Institute, Computational Ling Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 14:19:42 -0700 From: mjschleppegrell@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu Subject: Phonologist job opening 2) Date: Wed, 08 Jun 94 23:43:35 +0100 From: ucleaar Subject: JOB (Roehampton Institute, London) 3) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 18:44:49 EST From: raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Victor Raskin) Subject: Computational Linguistics jobs -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 14:19:42 -0700 From: mjschleppegrell@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu Subject: Phonologist job opening ANNOUNCEMENT OF ONE-YEAR REPLACEMENT POSITION FOR 1994-95 ACADEMIC YEAR Pending final approval of funds, the Linguistics Program at the University of California, Davis, has been authorized to advertise for a one-year replacement position in phonetics and phonology. Candidates must have completed or be near the completion of their Ph.D. and must demonstrate effective teaching in the above areas. Courses to be taught will include: Phonetics, Advanced Phonetics, Phonological Analysis, and Phonological Theory. The service periods for this position are as follows -- Fall Quarter 1994: September 26 - December 17; Winter Quarter 1995: January 3 - March 24; Spring Quarter 1995: March 30 - June 16. The anticipated salary range runs from $17,102 - $25,000, depending on candidate's training, experience, and number of courses taught. Interested parties should send a letter of application, a current C.V., evidence of teaching experience, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of three references to: Linguistics Search Committee, Linguistics Program, University of California, Davis, CA 95616. Application deadline: June 15, 1994, or until the position is filled. The Linguistics Department at UC Davis is committed to building a more diverse faculty, staff and student body as it responds to the changing population and educational needs of California and the nation. As a consequence, we are especially interested in attracting persons from groups currently underrepresented on the campus. As an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, we will pay special attention to applications from women, persons of color, persons with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans, and special disabled veterans. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Wed, 08 Jun 94 23:43:35 +0100 From: ucleaar Subject: JOB (Roehampton Institute, London) A one-year fixed-term lectureship in English Language & Linguistics at Roehampton Institute (in SW London) has just been advertised. The teaching involves taking responsibility for a course in the history of the English language, plus a moderate amount of teaching on sundry other courses. Salary is (in pounds) 13140-19362 + 1830 London allowance. The deadline for applications is June 23 1994. Applications & formal enquiries to: Roehampton Institute Human Resources Officer Senate House Roehampton Lane London SW15 5PU telephone is: (0)81 392 3644 The official job description is: Lectureship in English Language & Linguistics. Ref. HR11 I'd be happy to answer any informal enquiries. ---- And Rosta (ucleaar@ucl.ac.uk) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 18:44:49 EST From: raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Victor Raskin) Subject: Computational Linguistics jobs I am mailing this at the request of Dr. Sergei Nirenburg, Director, Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, N.M. 88003 (505-646-5466, sergei@nmsu.edu). COMPUTING RESEARCH LABORATORY New Mexico State University Visiting Research Scientist / Mikrokosmos The Mikrokosmos NLP project needs 2 specialists to join an existing research team to design and develop a number of "microtheories" of lexical-semantic and related phenomena in Spanish, Japanese and English for the eventual use in a knowledge-based machine translation system. In practice, the work will involve building semantic lexicon entries in any or all the above languages as well as augmenting an existing world model, or "ontology." The successful candidates will have excellent skills in generating lexical-semantic descriptions using large text corpora, machine-readable dictionaries and other computational lexicographic resources, and formulating these descriptions in the terms of an AI-style, processing-oriented, ontology-based computational model for meaning extraction, representation and use. Requirements include a Ph.D. or equivalent in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics or a closely related field. User-level competence in Unix, X windows and GUIs is essential. Programming skills in C and/or Lisp and good knowledge of Japanese or Spanish will be a serious plus. Remuneration will depend on experience within the range of $40,000 to $60,000 per annum. The projected starting date is September 15, 1994. These positions are for one year with a possibility of extension. The probability of such an extension will increase if the candidates are willing and capable of contributing to the ongoing effort to generate research funds for the laboratory. ********************************************************* Visiting Research Scientist / Temple ********************************************************* Computational Lexicographer / Arabic The Temple NLP project needs a computational linguist to develop lexical support for an Arabic - English and English - Arabic translator's workstation. The work will include developing and adapting bilingual phrasal glossaries, formulating linguistic knowledge to support morphological analysis and synthesis programs and similar text processing utilities. An additional type of work will involve preparing language materials for an example-based machine translation system from Arabic into English as well as testing and improving it. Fluency in reading and writing Modern Standard Arabic is a requirement. User-level competence in Unix, X windows and GUIs is essential. Programming skills in C and/or Lisp will be a serious plus. A B.A. or B.Sc. is essential, preferably in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics or Modern Languages. Remuneration will depend on experience within the range of $25,000 to $30,000 per annum. The projected starting date is September 15, 1994. This position is for one year with a possibility of extension. ********************************************************* Computational Lexicographer / Japanese The Temple NLP project needs a computational linguist to develop lexical support for an Japanese - English and English - Japanese translator's workstation. The work will include developing and adapting bilingual phrasal glossaries, formulating linguistic knowledge to support morphological analysis and synthesis programs and similar text processing utilities. An additional type of work will involve preparing language materials for an example-based machine translation system from Japanese into English as well as testing and improving it. Fluency in reading and writing Standard Japanese is a requirement. User-level competence in Unix, X windows and GUIs is essential. Programming skills in C and/or Lisp will be a serious plus. A B.A. or B.Sc. is essential, preferably in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics or Modern Languages. Remuneration will depend on experience within the range of $25,000 to $30,000 per annum. The projected starting date is September 15, 1994. This position is for one year with a possibility of extension. ********************************************************* -- Victor Raskin raskin@mace.cc.purdue.edu Professor of English and Linguistics (317) 494-3782 Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics 494-3780 fax Coordinator, Natural Language Processing Laboratory Purdue University W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1356 U.S.A. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-671. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-672. Fri 10 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 94 Subject: 5.672 Qs: Norwegian text, IPA font, Rap, Applied Linguistics Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 94 10:03:43 EDT From: CirNoet@aol.com Subject: Norwegian text 2) Date: Sun, 29 May 94 18:28:49 CDT From: david nelson Subject: IPA font for Windows 3) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 09:10:36 -0400 From: "Ellen L. Contini-Morava" Subject: query: linguistically-oriented studies on rap poetry? 4) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 17:02:17 METDST From: Carlos Ruiz Anton Subject: Query about Applied Linguistics Mailing Lists -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 94 10:03:43 EDT From: CirNoet@aol.com Subject: Norwegian text Does anyone know of any large corpus of Norwegian text - for sale, for research, for free, or otherwise? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please send responses to me at: CirNoet@AOL.com and I will gladly post a summary within a week. Thanks from Gillian Smith -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Sun, 29 May 94 18:28:49 CDT From: david nelson Subject: IPA font for Windows Is there available an IPA font for Windows (TrueType preferred)? Whether it is Shareware, Freeware or For Cost is fine. Thank you. David N. Nelson 409-845-1342 (office) Head, Cataloging 409-845-6238 (FAX) Evans Library, Texas A&M davidnelson@tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-5000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 1994 09:10:36 -0400 From: "Ellen L. Contini-Morava" Subject: query: linguistically-oriented studies on rap poetry? On behalf of a student, does anyone know of work on rap poetry that has a linguistic angle (phonology, syntax, ethnopoetic...)? Please respond to this address and I'll post a summary. Thanks, Ellen C-M -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4) Date: Tue, 7 Jun 94 17:02:17 METDST From: Carlos Ruiz Anton Subject: Query about Applied Linguistics Mailing Lists I am posting this message on behalf of a colleague of mine. He is interested in mailing lists discussing applied linguistics topics (in particular, discourse analysis, lexicography, SL teaching and learning). He would be very grateful if he could obtain some listserver addresses in order to eventually subscribe them. J. Carlos Ruiz ------------------------------- | Area de Linguistica General | | Universitat Jaume I | | Castells (SPAIN) | ------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-672. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-673. Fri 10 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 149 Subject: 5.673 Calls: SCA '94, SST94 Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 17:35:44 +0800 (PST) From: alan harris Subject: call for submissions: Language, Manipulation, Power:SCA '94 2) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 16:23:48 +0800 From: Jim Blevins Subject: Call for Papers: SST94 -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 1994 17:35:44 +0800 (PST) From: alan harris Subject: call for submissions: Language, Manipulation, Power:SCA '94 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL: SEMINAR AT THE SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION, NEW ORLEANS Friday, November 18, 1994, 9:30 am- 5:30 pm. "Language, Manipulation, and Power at the End of the Millenium" The focus of this seminar is on language in the context of the social, political, and ethical dilemmas present in the culture at the end of this millenium. In the seminar, sociolinguistic, semiolinguistic, structuralist, and poststructuralist perpectives are encouraged. Issues to be addressed include: How do theories of language conceptualize power? What sense might it make to talk about an "ethics of language manipulation?" How might we talk about this set of ethics? Leaders: Alan C. Harris, CSU, Northridge and Jacqueline M. Martinez, Purdue U. Anyone wishing to participate should send a letter of self-nomination to Alan C. Harris, Prof. SPCH, CSUN, Northridge, CA 91330-8257 (see FAX etc. info' below) to arrive by July 1, 1994. The letter should include a short academic vita and a one-two page position statement on the topic. The leaders will select and inform participants about the form of the final papers, scheduling, paper circulation, future plans for submissions, distribution and the like. =============================================================== [Please bear with me while using this temporary HUEY system] =============================================================== Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. TELNOS: main off: 818-885-2853 Professor, Communication/Linguistics direct off: 818-885-2874 Speech Communication Department California State University, Northridge home: 818-366-3165 SPCH CSUN FAX: 818-885-2663 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 Internet email: AHARRIS@HUEY.CSUN.EDU =============================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 1994 16:23:48 +0800 From: Jim Blevins Subject: Call for Papers: SST94 Fifth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology SST94 ****** SST94 ****** SST94 December 6-8, 1994 CALL FOR PAPERS PERTH,WESTERN AUSTRALIA ============================================================================ The SST-94 conference is organized with a multidisciplinary per- spective to provide excellent opportunities for the exchange of ideas and facilitate the interaction between professionals from many diverse areas of expertise. General topics of interest in- clude but are not limited to: Speech Synthesis Text-to-Speech Synthesis Acoustic Phonetics and Prosody Speech Signal Analysis Speech Databases Voice Response Systems Speech Coding and Encryption Spoken Language Modelling Speaker Identification / Verification Speaker Characteristics Speech Production Speech Recognition Speech Disorders Human-Machine Speech Interfaces Aids for the Speech/Hearing Impaired Speech Technology Applications Speech Processing using AI, ANN and advanced techniques Human Audition, Perception and Cognition This ensures that SST-94 is a true reflection of the interdisci- plinary nature of speech as an area of scientific and industrial endeavour. A Tutorial Day will be held on Monday, December 5 as an introduction to the important concepts in speech science and technology research. Keynote addresses will be given by Prof. Bob Linggard from the University of East Anglia and Dr. Anne Cutler from the Max-Planck-Institute in the Netherlands. =========================================================================== Prospective delegates should contact the secretariat for more in- formation. Three copies of the summary and a covering letter showing the corresponding author's name and address (also email address if possible) should be sent by July 8, 1994 to: Dr. Roberto Togneri, Secretary SST-94, CIIPS, Dept. of E&E Engineering, The University of Western Australia, NEDLANDS 6009, AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 9 380 2535/3897 Fax: +61 9 380 1101 Email: sst94@ee.uwa.edu.au ************************************************************************** For more information and to subscribe to the sst94 email list, send email to: sst94-request@ee.uwa.edu.au Subject: help ************************************************************************** The conference will held in Perth -- capital city of the State of Western Australia. The conference venue is at The University of Western Australia which is within a 10 minute drive from the city centre with frequent bus service. Schedule of Events July 8, 1994 Submission of 1 page summary August 12, 1994 Notification of acceptance October 7, 1994 Receipt of photo-ready paper and deadline for advanced registration =========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-5-673. ________________________________________________________________ LINGUIST List: Vol-5-674. Fri 10 Jun 1994. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 97 Subject: 5.674 Sum: Representing dialects and languages, Discourse lists Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. Asst. Editors: Ron Reck Brian Wallace -------------------------Directory------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 16:12:25 -0500 (EST) From: LROSENWALD@wellesley.edu Subject: summary of responses on representing dialects and languages 2) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 94 10:44:16 CET From: Adam Karpinski Subject: discourse analysis lists -------------------------Messages-------------------------------------- 1) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1994 16:12:25 -0500 (EST) From: LROSENWALD@wellesley.edu Subject: summary of responses on representing dialects and languages I offer here a much belated summary, mostly bibliographical, of the many helpful responses to my query last November re the representation of dialects and languages. 1) from Jane Edwards (edwards@cogsci.berkeley.edu) a reference to her article "Transcription and Discourse" in _The Oxford International Encylcopedia of Linguistics_, and to her and Martin D. Lampert's _Talking Data: Transcription and Coding in Discourse Research_. 2) from Michael Kac (kac@cs.umn.edu) a reference to an unpublished talk by William Labov comparing representations of Black English by Mark Twain and Alice Walker; I've written Labov about this and was happyt hear that the plans at some point to revise this talk for publication. 3) from Nancy Frishberg (nancyf@seiden.com) some fascinating references to the literary depiction of signing, among them Gil Eastman's _Sign Me Alice_, Bernard Bragg and Eugene Bergman's _Tales from a Clubroom_, Lou Ann Walker's _A Loss for Words_ and one by Eve Dicker. 4) from Linda Coleman (Linda_K_Coleman@umailsrv0.EMD.EDU), references to literary works by Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy Parker, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, and Hyman Kaplan, and to Valerie Shepherd's _Language Variety and the Art of the Everyday_. 5) from Susan Fischer (SDFNCR@ritvax.isc.rit.edu), a reference to work by Elizabeth Traugott that I haven't tracked down yet. 6) from David Solnit (David.Solnit@um.cc.umich.edu) some ideas about how authors like Hemingway depict Spanish and French. 7) from Mark Sebba (eia023@cent1.lancs.ac.uk) a reference to Frank Bullen's _The Cruise of the Cachalot_, a literary source for the depiction of dialect. 8) from Bruce Southard (ENSOUTHA@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU), a reference to Sumner Ives' "A Theory of Literary Dialect," which I'd read, and to its convenient republication in Virginia Burke and Juanita Williamson's _A Various Language_, which I didn't know about. 9) from I. Shaw (ISHAW@VM1.NoDak.EDU), references to Walt Wolfram's _Dialects and American English_, to both ERIC journals, and to E. Chaika's _Language: The Social Mirror_. 10) from Bethany Dumas (dumasb@utkvx.edu) reference to, then later a copy of, her very interes