N N L BBBB NN N L B B N N N L BBBB N N N L B B N NN LLLLL BBBB NORDIC LINGUISTIC BULLETIN - ELECTRONIC NEWS ______________________________________________________________________ October 10, 2001 ISSN 0804 0605 Volume 10: Number 06 ______________________________________________________________________ <<<<<< CONTENTS >>>>>> * EDITORIAL NOTE * JOBS - Professorship in North European & Baltic Languages * CONFERENCES and COURSES - EUROSLA12, European Second Language Association - 6TH TELRI Seminar Entitled "Mulitlingual Corpus Research" - THE Ninth Annual UTA Student Conference In Linguistics - GLIP-4 - Neurocognitive Bases OF Language - Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable - 18TH Conference on Baltic Studies--Linguistics Division, - LFG2002 - Workshop on Syntax of Predication - SALT 12, Semantics and Linguistics Theory - New Reflections on Grammaticalization 2 - Iinternational Conference on Architecture of Grammar - Acquisition of Verb Grammar and Verb Arguments * FUTURE EVENTS * BOOKS & JOURNALS - Werner Abraham and C. Jac Conradie, PRÄTERITUMSCHWUND UND DISKURSGRAMMATIK. PRÄTERITUMSCHWUND IN GESAMTEUROPÄISCHEN BEZÜGEN: AREALE AUSBREITUNG, HETEROGENE ENTSTEHUNG, PARSING SOWIE DISKURSGRAMMATISCHE GRUNDLAGEN UND ZUSAMMENHÄNGE. - Laurel J. Brinton (ed.), HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1999. - MODAL VERBS IN GERMANIC AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES. Johan van der Auwera, Patrick Dendale (eds.) - NEGOTIATION AND POWER IN DIALOGIC INTERACTION. Edda Weigand and Marcelo Dascal (eds.) - A MANUAL OF LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK AND STRUCTURES OF INDIAN LANGUAGES Anvita Abbi - VOGUL , Timoty Riese - AI*IA 2001: ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Proceedings Editor: Esposito, - POLYSEMY IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS. Hubert Cuyckens and Britta Zawada - NON-CANONICAL MARKING OF SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS. Alexandra Aikenvald, R.M.W.Dixon and Masayuki Onishi (eds.) - SENTENCE COMPREHENSION THE INTEGRATION OF HABITS AND RULES David J. Townsend and Thomas G. Bever - FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: HUMAN-COMPUTER COMMUNICATION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE, R. Hausser - APPROACHES TO BOOTSTRAPPING. PHONOLOGICAL, LEXICAL, SYNTACTIC AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EARLY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. J=FCrgen Weissenborn, Barbara Hohle (eds.) - CONSTRAINTS AND PREFERENCES, Edited by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk - Publication of the 7th issue of LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS Thami Benkirane and Moha Ennaji (eds.) - Gláucia V. Silva, WORD ORDER IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE- THE MINIMALIST PARAMETER, Galina M. Alexandrova , Olga Arnaudova (eds.) - FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE IN NOMINALS. NOMINALIZATION AND ERGATIVITY. Artemis Alexiadou - EMPTY CATEGORIES IN SENTENCE PROCESSING. Sam Featherston - Susanne Wurmbrand, INFINITIVES, RESTRUCTURING AND CLAUSE STRUCTURE - LINKING BY TYPES IN THE HIERARCHICAL LEXICON; Anthony R. Davis; - David Block and Deborah Cameron, GLOBALIZATION AND LANGUAGE TEACHING - AUDITORY RESPERATIONS IN PHONOLOGY, Edward S. Flemming - THE SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC PHONOLOGY OF EJECTIVES Paul D. Fallon, Howard University - THE LINGUISTICS ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2ND EDITION Kristen Malmkjaer -TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 18 WORD FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS by R. Harald Baayen - TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 17 ROBUSTNESS IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY edited by Jean-Claude Junqua & Gertjan van Noord - TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 16 ADVANCES IN PROBABILISTIC AND OTHER PARSING TECHNOLOGIES edited by Harry Bunt & Anton Nijholt - TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 15 INTONATION ANALYSIS, MODELLING AND TECHNOLOGY edited by Antonis Botinis - TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 14 PROSODY: THEORY AND EXPERIMENT edited by Merle Horne - TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 13 PARALLEL TEXT PROCESSING ALIGNMENT AND USE OF TRANSLATION CORPORA edited by Jean Véronis - The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Vol. 3:3, 2001 - STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, Volume 23 Issue 3 September 2001 - LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE, Volume 13 Issue 1 - APPLIED PSYCHOLINGUISTICS: Volume 22 Issue 2 June 2001 - THE LINGUISTIC REVIEW, Volume 18, Number 3, 2001 * THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE NORDIC ASSOCIATION OF LINGUISTS ====================================================================== <<<<<< EDITORIAL NOTE >>>>>> I would like to thank Dr. Diane Blakemore for the contribution to this volume of the NLB. As usual, any relevant information for the publication should be sent to either nlb@hit.uib.no or by snail mail to NLB,: Katrin Hiietam Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester M13 9PL U.K. Kind Regards, The Editor, Katrin Hiietam ====================================================================== <<<<<< JOBS >>>>>> Rank of Job: C 3 Professorship Areas Required: North European & Baltic Languages Other Desired Areas: Linguistics University or Organization: University of Mainz Department: General & Comparative Linguistics State or Province: Rhineland-Palatinate Country: Germany Final Date of Application: October 29, 2001 Contact: Stig Eliasson eliasson@mail.uni-mainz.de Address for Applications: Dekan, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Fachbereich 14:20, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18 Mainz D-55099 Germany The Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, invites applications for a tenured professorship in the Languages of the North European and Baltic Countries (Sprachen Nordeuropas und des Baltikums). Applicants should have a publication and research record in at least one of the following fields: Scandinavian linguistics, Baltic linguistics, or Baltic Finnic linguistics, and should be able to initiate and direct research in all three areas. Besides core components of language, special research and teaching emphases are linguistic typology, areal linguistics, language contact, and linguistic change in relation to languages of the North European and Baltic region. Teaching (8 hours per week) is in German, but may be conducted in English in the first one or two semesters. The appointment is scheduled to begin on April 1, 2002 (alternatively, on October 1, 2002). The Program of the Languages of the North European and Baltic Countries is housed within the Department of General and Comparative Linguistics. The City of Mainz is located in the Rhine Valley not far from the Frankfurt International Airport (15-25 minutes by direct train). Deadline for receipt of applications is October 29, 2001. Applications should be sent to: Dekan, Fachbereich 14 - Philologie II, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, D-55099 Mainz, Germany. Additional details are given in the official job announcement, which can be retrieved at: http://www.verwaltung.uni-mainz.de/dez2/personal/stellen/professoren/F B14a.htm Stig Eliasson Chair, Department of General and Comparative Linguistics Program Director, Languages of the North European and Baltic Countries ============================================================================= ======================================================================== <<<<<< CONFERENCES and COURSES >>>>>> Call for papers: EUROSLA12, European Second Language Association 18 - 21.Sept. 2002 Basel, Switzerland The conference is co-organized by the University of Basel and the Swiss Association of Applied Linguistics (VALS/ASLA). CALL FOR PAPERS PAPERS are invited on every aspect of empirical and theoretical second language acquisition research: INDIVIDUAL PAPERS : individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes of presentation plus 10 minutes for discussion. Submissions should include, in the following order, the title of the paper, name and affiliation of the author(s), an abstract of 300 words, followed by the author¹s postal and email addresses. PANELS : panels covering one or two 90 minutes time-slots and focussing on a specific topic can be proposed by a panel organizer. A panel can consist of closely related papers or be organized as a round table or a data session. Submissions should include, in the following order, the title of the panel, a 600 word abstract (which clearly points out the thematic coherence of the panel), the number of time-slots covered (1 or 2), the participants¹ names and affiliations plus the organizer¹s name, affiliation and postal and email addresses. DOCTORAL WORKSHOPS : doctoral workshops focus on problems of methodology with regard to either data analysis (interpretation of natural conversation, statistical data, interviews, etc.) or research design (experimental design, corpus design, issues of data collection, etc.). Each presentation lasts 20 minutes and will be followed by a 10 minute reaction by a senior researcher and 10 minutes of discussion. Submissions should follow the same formal conventions as individual papers (see above). State briefly the aim and the theoretical framework of your work and then raise the methodological problems you submit for discussion. If your presentation is accepted, you will be asked to send a more extensive summary to the discussant of your paper. EUROSLA12 will be a trilingual conference (English, German and French); presentations in one of these languages are particularly encouraged, though any European language is accepted. A selection of the most innovative papers will be included in the EUROSLA Yearbook, published in English by the John Benjamins Publishing Co. SUBMISSIONS: All submissions should be sent to Eurosla12-Romsem@unibas.ch. If email submission is not possible, please send a 3.5¹¹ floppy disk to our mailing address : EUROSLA12, Romanisches Seminar der Universität Basel, Stapfelberg 7/9, 4051 Basel, Switzerland. Submissions, whether per email or disk, should be made in either pdf or rich text format (rtf). All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific committee. IMPORTANT DATES - Deadline for panel submissions: 15 January 2002 - Deadline for all other submissions: 31 February 2002 - Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2002 GRANTS: The Swiss Association of Applied Linguistics (VALS/ASLA) offers 8 grants of 500.- Swiss francs (ca. 330 Euro) each, designed to encourage doctoral students and young researchers, who do not get support from their home institution, to attend the conference. For more details please refer to our website http://eurosla12.romsem.unibas.ch . Further information: http://eurosla12.romsem.unibas.ch Local organizers's email: Eurosla12-Romsem@unibas.ch; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for registration & timetable: 6TH TELRI SEMINAR ENTITLED "MULTILINGUAL CORPUS RESEARCH" November 9-11, 2001 Bansko, Bulgaria The registration fee for the conference is EURO 50/20* for academic partners, and EURO 100/30* for industrial partners. The * refers to fees for participants from the CEE/NIS. To register, please fill in the registration form found in the attachment and return it to: MattyLRI@hhs.bham.ac.uk or fax it +44 121 414 60 53. The registration form, timetable and further information about the seminar, can also be found on the Telri website http://www.telri.de/telri2/seminar/6th/6th-seminar.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers: THE NINTH ANNUAL UTA STUDENT CONFERENCE IN LINGUISTICS -UTASCIL February 22-23, 2002 6th Floor, Central Library, The University of Texas at Arlington Deadline for Abstracts: 5:00pm, December 3rd, 2001 Papers for this conference are invited in all areas of linguistics. Students from any educational institution are encouraged to submit their research and share insights they have discovered in the field. Presentations will last 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion and questions. This is a great opportunity to develop professional skills! The best-presented paper will be awarded the Yumi Nakamura Memorial Prize in Linguistics ($ 400.00 USD). The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday, December 3rd, 2001. Notifications of acceptance will be distributed in early January, 2001. Abstracts should be written on a single page with an (optional) additional page for graphs and/or references. Please provide 5 copies of your anonymous abstract with the title of the paper at the top and a 3" x 5" index card including the following information: 1. Your name 2. Affiliation 3. Address, phone number, and e-mail address 4. Title of paper Papers should be sent to the attention of: Daniel Yang, Program in Linguistics, Box 19559, University of Texas at Arlington, TX 76019-0559 by the deadline. Electronic submission in MS word format is also welcome. Please e-mail your abstract to Daniel at: uta_lingua@yahoo.com Further information: http://ling.uta.edu/~lingua ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers: GLIP-4, GENERATIVE LINGUISTICS IN POLAND. (MORPHO)PHONOLOGICAL ACQUISITION IN THE LIGHT OF CURRENT PHONOLOGICAL THEORIES DATE: 2 March 2002 LOCATION: Warszawa (Warsaw) We invite abstracts on the acquisition of phonology and morphophonology from the perspective of current adult-based theories. We welcome discussion of learnability issues as well as theoretically-oriented analyses of acquisitional data. Although the focus is on L1 phonology, abstracts concerning aspects of L2 acquisition will also be considered. The format of the workshop is 30 min for presentation + 15 min question time. The language of the conference is English. DATES: - --- - DEADLINE for receipt of abstracts: 13 January 2002 - Notification of acceptance: 28 January 2002 - Meeting: 2 March 2002 ABSTRACTS: - ------- Should be *anonymous* (i.e., they should contain no personal data or explicit self-references) and consist of up to 700 words, together with examples and references. Because abstract forwarding to referees will be done by e-mail exclusively, the following are the possible formats of attachments, in *descending* order of preference: (Plain Text) > Postscript > PDF > (La)TeX > Word for Windows '97 In cases when there is no need to use special phonetic symbols or phonological representations/rules, we strongly encourage PLAIN TEXT submissions. We regret to say that other formats will not be accepted. Should the electronic version of the abstract need special phonetic fonts apart from the SIL IPA fonts (http://www.sil.org/), please attach them as well. (We strongly discourage this practice though, and reserve the right to ask for a resubmission in a different format.) Those who submit abstracts in (*self-contained*!) (La)TeX should best use the tipa.sty package. See our web pages for pointers to the relevant web sites. Only one submission per person and one joint submission will be considered. Please note: do NOT send abstracts on diskettes. We will accept *e-mail* submissions *exclusively*. IMPORTANT: In the plain text part of your email, please supply the following information: - name, title, - title of the paper, - affiliation, - email address, - snail mail address. ADDRESSES: - ------- PLEASE NOTE: ONLY *E-MAIL* SUBMISSIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED Send your abstracts to: GLiP-4 Organizing Committee (glip@bigfoot.com) Please be so kind as to use zip, gzip, bzip2 or some other compression utility to COMPRESS the attachment. For MORE INFORMATION see: http://venus.ci.uw.edu.pl/~glip/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Calll for papers: NEUROCOGNITIVE BASES OF LANGUAGE On-line conference "Neurocognitive bases of language" is going to be held on December 10th to 20th 2001. The conference is organized by Kazan State University and "Web Journal of Formal, Computational & Cognitive Linguistics" (http://www.kcn.ru/tat_en/science/fccl/). Papers on all aspects of neurolinguistics and cognitive linguistics, modeling of development and language acquisition, neurophilosophy and brain-imaging studies of language processes are welcome. All the papers will be published on the Web site of the conference. Discussions and comments to the papers presented are also welcome. The proceedings of the conference will be available via Internet in the Journal and on CD. SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCEDURES Paper selection and review procedures are similar to those of a regular conference. Abstracts and papers must be posted by e-mail to . The first 3 lines of the message should consist of Your name Your email address The title of the paper in one line Attach a brief abstract up to 15 lines in plain ASCII code in English and a paper. A paper must be presented in plain ASCII, PDF, PostScript or MS Word RTF formats. Please, use standard font types, preferably Times New Roman, 12 is the recommended size. Length of the paper is not limited. The language of the conference is English. Our time-frame is: Deadline for papers: November 1, 2001 Final program announced: December, 1, 2001 The on-line conference will be carried out on the NEUROLING mailing list that has been created for that purpose. To subscribe to this list, send the following message to : SUBSCRIBE NEUROLING Your-email-address Once you have received confirmation of your subscription, you may send messages to . A record of all received messages will be maintained on a specific Web page at the conference site. Everyone subscribed to the list will receive these messages. If you wish to leave the list, send the following message to : UNSUBSCRIBE NEUROLING Your-email-address At the end of the conference participants will be automatically removed from the NEUROLING list. =============================== Valery Solovyev Editor of the "Web Journal of Formal, Computational & Cognitive Linguistics" Kazan State University, Dep. Computer Science, Kazan, 420008, Russia E-mail: solovyev@mi.ru ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: BERKELEY GERMANIC LINGUISTICS ROUNDTABLE Friday-Saturday, April 5-6, 2002 The Faculty Club University of California, Berkeley Invited Speakers: Caroline Fery, University of Potsdam Wayne Harbert, Cornell University Theo Vennemann, University of Munich Scholars (faculty and students) concentrating on Germanic Linguistics: diverse approaches, synchrony and/or diachrony, historical and/or contemporary language are invited to submit a one-page abstract (+ disk of abstract) of a twenty-minute paper by February 1, 2002 to the conference organizer: Irmengard Rauch Department of German University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 irauch@socrates.berkeley.edu Phone (510) 642-2003 phone/fax (707) 746-7480 Lodging: Reservations can be made at: The Faculty Club (510) 642-1993/ (510) 540-5678 UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 9472 or The Durant Hotel (510) 845-8981 2600 Durant Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704 The Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable is supported by the University of California Berkeley Center for German and European Studies and the Max Kade Foundation, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers: 18TH CONFERENCE ON BALTIC STUDIES--LINGUISTICS DIVISION, June 6-8, 2002 Johns Hopkins University (Homewood campus), Baltimore, MD. We invite proposals for papers dealing with any linguistic aspect of the languages spoken in the Baltic region. Papers have traditionally dealt with historical linguistic issues in Lithuanian/Latvian/Old Prussian and Balto-Slavic; and Estonian and Finnish. Please send proposals by December 14th, 2001 to: Steven Young, Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250. For more information, contact Steven Young , 410-455-2117 (voice mail). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers: LFG2002 3-5 July 2002 National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Abstract submission receipt deadline: 15 February 2002 Submissions should be sent to the LFG Program Committee (see addresses below) LFG-2002 welcomes work both within the formal architecture of Lexical-Functional Grammar and typological, formal, and computational work within the 'spirit of LFG', as a lexicalist approach to language employing a parallel, constraint-based framework. The conference aims to promote interaction and collaboration among researchers interested in nonderivational approaches to grammar, where grammar is seen as the interaction of (perhaps violable) constraints from multiple levels, including category information, grammatical relations, and semantic information. Further information about the syntactic theory LFG can be obtained from: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/ and http://www-lfg.stanford.edu/lfg/ SUBMISSIONS The conference will primarily involve 30-minute talks, poster/system presentations and workshops. Talks and poster presentations will focus on results from completed as well as ongoing research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. Presentations should describe original, unpublished work. POSTERS This year we're going to encourage an active poster session. All presenters will be invited to display posters and to have a chance to chat in more detail with participants about their work. In addition we will accept papers for poster presentation only. Poster presenters will be asked not to use their laptops in their presentations. WORKSHOPS Workshops are a small group of talks (2-4) on a coherent topic that can be expected to generate opposing views and discussion with the broader audience. Participants to workshops are usually invited. Workshop papers should be distributed in advance among participants and participants should refer to each others approaches. At this point in time, we welcome suggestions for workshops from potential organisers or people with certain interests. Suggestions for workshops should be sent to the local organizers at: marks@ilsp.gr. COMPLETED LFG-RELATED PHDS This year we are hoping to hold a special session consisting of presentations from students who have (or will have by the time of the conference) recently completed PhD dissertations involving some aspect of LFG. Such students (and/or their supervisors) are invited to contact the program committee chairs for further information (see the addresses below). TIMETABLE Deadline for receipt of talk submissions: 15 February 2002 Late deadline for poster-only submissions: 15 March 2002 Acceptances sent out: 31 March 2002 Deadline for workshop submissions: 15 January 2002 Workshop acceptances: 15 February 2002 Conference: 3-5 July 2002 SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS Abstracts for talks must be received by February 15, 2002, while poster-only abstracts will be accepted until March 15, 2002. All abstracts should be sent to the program committee chairs at the addresses given below. For workshops, further site information or offers of organisational help, contact the local organisers at the addresses below. Submissions should be in the form of abstracts only. In contrast to previous years, we are not acccepting the submission of full papers. Abstracts should be one A4 page in 10pt or larger type and include a title. Omit name and affiliation, and obvious self reference. A second page may be used for data, c-/f- and related structures, and references. Submissions should indicate whether they wish to be considered only as a talk, as either a talk or a poster, or only as a poster/demonstration. In the absence of specification, submissions will be considered for both classes, and the program chairs may decide that certain submissions are better as poster presentations than as read papers. Abstracts may be submitted by email or by regular mail (or by both means as a safety measure). Email submission is preferred. Regular Mail: Include: - Eight copies of the abstract/paper. - A card or cover sheet with the paper title, name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, address, phone/fax number, e-mail address, and whether the author(s) are students. Email: Include the paper title, name(s) of the author(s), address, phone/fax number, email address, and whether the author(s) are students in the body of your email message. Include or preferably attach your paper as either a plain ASCII text, PDF, HTML, or postscript file. Postscript files require special care to avoid problems: make sure your system is set to include all fonts (or at least all but the standard 13); if using a recent version of Word, make sure you click the printer Properties button and then the Postscript tab, and there choose Optimize for Portability; on all platforms make sure the system is not asking for a particular paper size or other device-specific configuration. It is your responsibility to send us a file that us and our reviewers can print. You can often test this by trying to look at the file in a screen previewer such as Ghostview. All abstracts will be reviewed by at least three people. Papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be published online by CSLI Publications. Selected papers may also appear in a printed volume published by CSLI Publications. ORGANISERS AND THEIR CONTACT ADDRESSES Send abstract submissions and inquiries about submissions to: Program Committee Chairs: Jonas Kuhn Rachel Nordlinger Mail: LFG2002 c/- Rachel Nordlinger Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics University of Melbourne VIC 3010 Australia Contact the local conference organisers at: Email: Yanis Maistros Stella Markantonatou Mail: Yiannis Maistros 9 Heroon Polytechniou St 15773 Zografou Greece Stella Markantonatou Institute for Language and Speech Processing Artemidos 6 & Epidavrou St 15125 Paradisos Amarousiou Greece Further information: http://thais.cs.ece.ntua.gr/LFG2002/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for participation: WORKSHOP ON SYNTAX OF PREDICATION Nov. 2 (Fri.) - 3 (Sat.), 2001 Berlin Organized by the Project Group of Syntax of Predication, ZAS, Berlin Program, abstracts and other information can be found at: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/predication/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for participation: CO-ORDINATION: SYNTAX, SEMANTICS & PRAGMATICS 16 - 18 November 2001 University of Salford, Greater Manchester Organized by Diane Blakemore (University of Salford) & Robyn Carston (University College London) With support from the British Academy and the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. KEY-NOTE SPEAKERS: Nicholas Asher (University of Austin Texas) Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) Rob Stainton (Carleton University , Ontario) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh) Further information and registration form ate available on: www.esri.salford.ac.uk/coordination/home.htm Or contact Mrs W. Dodgson --------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS: SALT 12, SEMANTICS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY March 8-10, 2002 University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University Invited speakers: Robyn Carston, Donka Farkas, Jeff Pelletier, and Roger Schwarzschild SALT 12 invites submissions for 30-minute presentations, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion, on any topic in the semantic analysis of natural language emphasizing the connection to linguistic theory. Abstracts must be no more than 2 pages long, and no more than 1200 words. Please leave at least a 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin on all four sides, and use at least a 12-pt font. In the interest of fairness, these limitations will be strictly enforced. Any person may submit at most one abstract as sole author, and at most two abstracts in total. Abstracts must arrive by December 10 (Monday), 2001; note that this deadline is SIGNIFICANTLY EARLIER than last year's deadline, in order to accommodate the earlier conference dates (traditional for West Coast editions of SALT). We will not be able to consider abstracts that arrive, for whatever reason, after the deadline. We strongly prefer ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS. Please use PDF whenever possible, but plain ASCII text and, if necessary, Microsoft Word are acceptable. In order to be counted as meeting the deadline, electronic submissions must be received on Monday 10 December 2001 by 11 PM Pacific Daylight time. Email submissions must include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact information, bearing in mind that the abstracts themselves must be STRICTLY ANONYMOUS. If you decide to send abstracts through the mail, in addition to a sheet giving names, affiliations, and contact information, please include 7 anonymous copies for refereeing. Abstracts should be sent to: email: salt@ling.ucsd.edu snail mail: SALT 12 Organizing Committee 0108 Dept. of Linguistics 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0108 USA For hotel and other information, check the SALT web page at http://ling.ucsd.edu/salt The web site also provides a PDF version of this call that is suitable for printing and posting--please post! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for papers: NEW REFLECTIONS ON GRAMMATICALIZATION 2 April 4-6, 2002 University of Amsterdam, The second international New Reflections on Grammaticalization conference will be held at the. Keynote speakers are Martin Haspelmath, Brian Joseph and Richard Janda. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for 40-minute papers (including 10 minute discussion time) on current topics in grammaticalization studies. Case studies examining the implications of particular data for theoretical issues are particularly welcome. Deadline for abstracts is NOVEMBER 1, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by January 1, 2002. Conference registration is 100 Euro until March 1, 2002. Late registration is 120 Euro. For preliminary registration, send an e-mail message to the address below. If you wish to present a paper, please provide us with a provisional title. Once you have registered, you will receive the second circular containing the registration form and information on the preliminary programme, submission of abstracts, payment of fees, travel to Amsterdam and accommodation. For more information you may also visit our website: http://www.hum.uva.nl/gramma/ The organizing committee: Harry Perridon, Olga Fischer and Muriel Norde Conference address: Organizers of "Gramma2" Scandinavian Department University of Amsterdam Spuistraat 134 1012 VB Amsterdam The Netherlands E-mail: gramma@hum.uva.nl Muriel Norde Skandinavistiek, Universiteit van Amsterdam Spuistraat 134 1012 VB Amsterdam The Netherlands tel.: +31 20 5252450 fax.: +31 20 5254625 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE OF GRAMMAR January 15-17, 2002 jointly organized by Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University, The Netherlands and School of Language Sciences, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Hyderabad The conference will be held from 15th to 17th January 2002 at CIEFL, Hyderabad. Keynote Speaker: Paul Kiparsky, Stanford University (Prof. Kiparsky will deliver a series of three lectures on Paninian Grammar) ======================================================================== * BOOKS & JOURNALS - Werner Abraham and C. Jac Conradie, PRÄTERITUMSCHWUND UND DISKURSGRAMMATIK. PRÄTERITUMSCHWUND IN GESAMTEUROPÄISCHEN BEZÜGEN: AREALE AUSBREITUNG, HETEROGENE ENTSTEHUNG, PARSING SOWIE DISKURSGRAMMATISCHE GRUNDLAGEN UND ZUSAMMENHÄNGE. - Laurel J. Brinton (ed.), HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1999. - MODAL VERBS IN GERMANIC AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES. Johan van der Auwera, Patrick Dendale (eds.) - NEGOTIATION AND POWER IN DIALOGIC INTERACTION. Edda Weigand and Marcelo Dascal (eds.) - A MANUAL OF LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK AND STRUCTURES OF INDIAN LANGUAGES Anvita Abbi - VOGUL , Timoty Riese - AI*IA 2001: ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Proceedings Editor: Esposito, - POLYSEMY IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS. Hubert Cuyckens and Britta Zawada - NON-CANONICAL MARKING OF SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS. Alexandra Aikenvald, R.M.W.Dixon and Masayuki Onishi (eds.) - SENTENCE COMPREHENSION THE INTEGRATION OF HABITS AND RULES David J. Townsend and Thomas G. Bever - FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: HUMAN-COMPUTER COMMUNICATION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE, R. Hausser - APPROACHES TO BOOTSTRAPPING. PHONOLOGICAL, LEXICAL, SYNTACTIC AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF EARLY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. J=FCrgen Weissenborn, Barbara Hohle (eds.) - CONSTRAINTS AND PREFERENCES, Edited by Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk - Publication of the 7th issue of LANGUAGES & LINGUISTICS Thami Benkirane and Moha Ennaji (eds.) - Gláucia V. Silva, WORD ORDER IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE - THE MINIMALIST PARAMETER, Galina M. Alexandrova , Olga Arnaudova (eds.) - FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE IN NOMINALS. NOMINALIZATION AND ERGATIVITY. Artemis Alexiadou - EMPTY CATEGORIES IN SENTENCE PROCESSING. Sam Featherston - Susanne Wurmbrand, INFINITIVES, RESTRUCTURING AND CLAUSE STRUCTURE - LINKING BY TYPES IN THE HIERARCHICAL LEXICON; Anthony R. Davis; - David Block and Deborah Cameron, GLOBALIZATION AND LANGUAGE TEACHING - AUDITORY RESPERATIONS IN PHONOLOGY, Edward S. Flemming - THE SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC PHONOLOGY OF EJECTIVES Paul D. Fallon, Howard University - THE LINGUISTICS ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2ND EDITION Kristen Malmkjaer - TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 18 WORD FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS by R. 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Jac Conradie (Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit Johannesburg) PRÄTERITUMSCHWUND UND DISKURSGRAMMATIK. PRÄTERITUMSCHWUND IN GESAMTEUROPÄISCHEN BEZÜGEN: AREALE AUSBREITUNG, HETEROGENE ENTSTEHUNG, PARSING SOWIE DISKURSGRAMMATISCHE GRUNDLAGEN UND ZUSAMMENHÄNGE. This work demonstrates that what is commonly called 'preterite decay in Upper German' (PS; cf. German Präteritumschwund) is in fact a phenomenon common to a great number of European languages, all of which are in areal con-tact. However, the conclusion that this is a phenomenon arising under areal influence appears clearly mistaken - not only so because it would no more than postpone the search for the real trigger of this development. It will be shown, first, that the preterite loss in the languages under inspection comes in different states of completion. It will be seen that the loss of the preterite, under this perspective, German is by no means a completed process. Second, and what is more, it will be argued that the trigger for this decay of the synthetic preterite and its replacement by analytic preterite forms is the specific criteria under which oral (as opposed to written) communication is executed. Counter to the rich, existing literature on the topic, a number of parsing principles will be claimed to be responsible for this diachronic development yielding different results due to a different execution of these principles. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurel J. Brinton (University of British Columbia) (ed.) HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS 1999. Selected papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, 9-13 August 1999. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 215 This is a selection of papers from the 14th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held August 9-13, 1999, at the University of British Columbia. From the rich program and the many papers given during this conference, the present twenty-three papers were carefully selected to display the state of current research in the field of historical linguistics. Contributions by: MINOJI AKIMOTO: How far has far from become grammaticalized?; GREGORY D.S. ANDERSON AND NORMAN H. ZIDE: Recent advances in the reconstruction of the Proto-Munda verb; JANICE M. ASKI: Multivariable analysis and phonological split; KRISTIN BECH: Are Old English conjunct clauses really verb-final?; DELIA BENTLEY AND THÓRHALLUR EYTHÓRSSON: Alternation according to person in Italo-Romance; VIT BUBENIK: On ablaut and aspect in the history of Aramaic; Young-mee Y. Cho: Language change and the phonological lexicon of Korean; Karen Dakin: Animals and vegetables, Uto-Aztecan noun derivation, semantic classification, and cultural history; DAVID DENISON: Gradience and linguistic change; RANDALL GESS: Distinctive vowel length in Old French: evidence and implications; GUNNAR ÓLAFUR HANSSON: Remains of a submerged continent: preaspiration in the languages of Northwest Europe; JACOB HOEKSEMA: Rapid change among expletive polarity items; MARIA M. MANOLIU: The conversational factor in language change: from prenominal to postnominal demonstratives; ANA MARIA MARTINS: On the origin of the Portuguese inflected infinitive: a new perspective on an enduring debate; D. GARY MILLER: Innovation of the indirect reflexive in Old French; MARIANNE MITHUN: Lexical forces shaping the evolution of grammar; JOHANNA NICHOLS: Why 'me' and 'thee'?; ANETTE ROSENBACH: The English s-genitive: animacy, topicality and possessive relationship in a diachronic perspective; GREGORY STUMP: Default inheritance hierarchies and the evolution of inflectional classes; MARIE-LUCIE TARPENT: On the eve of a new paradigm: the current challenges to comparative linguistics in a Kuhnian perspective; DONALD N. TUTEN: Modeling koineization; Annette Veerman-Leichsenring: Coreference in the Popolocan languages; THEO VENNEMANN: Atlantis Semitica: structural contact features in Celtic and English. John Benjamins Publishing Co. --------------------------------------------------------------------- MODAL VERBS IN GERMANIC AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES. Johan van der Auwera (University of Antwerp), Patrick Dendale (University of Antwerp) (eds.) Belgian Journal of Linguistics 14 The Belgian Journal of Linguistics is a yearly publication devoted to a specific theme determined by the topics of the meetings of the Linguistic Society of Belgium. Table of Contents: JOHAN VAN DER AUWERA AND PATRICK DENDALE: Introduction DELIA BENTLEY: Metonomy and Metaphor in the Evolution of Modal Verbs: Evidence from Italo-Romance GABRIELE DIEWALD: A Basic Semantic Template for Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses of the German Modals KLEANTHES K. GROHMANN: Null Modals in Germanic (and Romance): Infinitival Exclamatives JACQUELINE GUERON: From Need to Necessity: A Syntactic Path to Modality JAVIER GUTIERREZ-REXACH: The Semanitcs of Spanish Permission Sentences: A Dynamic Account PAUL LARREYA: Modal Verbs and the Expression of Futurity in English, French and Italian TANJA MORTELMANS: On the 'Evidential' Nature of the 'Epistemic' Use of the German Modals mussen and sollen VIRGINIA MOTOPANYANE AND LARISA AVRAM: The Syntax of putea and its Mixed Typology FATIMA OLIVEIRA: Some Issues about the Protuguese Modals dever and poder AURELIA USONIENE: On the Modality of the English Verbs of Seeming MIEKE VAN HERREWEGHE: *Motan in The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records MARIA EUGENIA VAZQUEZ-LASLOP: Epistemic prometer and Full Deontic Modal Verbs John Benjamins Co -------------------------------------------------------------------- NEGOTIATION AND POWER IN DIALOGIC INTERACTION. Edda Weigand and Marcelo Dascal (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 214 The topic of negotiation has turned out to be of crucial interdisciplinary interest for our understanding of what we are doing in language use. Are we exchanging meanings defined in advance and presupposing equal understanding on the basis of a rule-governed system, or are we negotiating meaning and understanding in the framework of an open dialogic universe? Negotiation, on the one hand, can be taken as the name of a specific dialogue type or action game of bargaining. On the other hand, it represents a methodological concept for describing and explaining dialogic interaction which replaces the orthodox view of pattern transference. The papers collected in this volume deal with both versions of the concept of negotiation. This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Pragmatics and Negotiation at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in June, 1999. The dialogic aspect was taken as the key concept to guide the present selection. Contributions by: Marcelo Dascal; Bruce Fraser; Ruth Wodak and Gilbert Weiss; Edda Weigand; Franz Hundsnurscher; Monika Dannerer; Giuseppe Mininnik; Elda Weizman; Andreea Ghita; Mirka Maraldi and Anna Orlandini; Michela Cortini; Martina Drescher; Gerda Lauerbach; Annely Rothkegel; Robert Maier; Frank Liedtke; Barbara A.Emmel; Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich. John Benjamins Publishing Co. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A MANUAL OF LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK AND STRUCTURES OF INDIAN LANGUAGES Anvita Abbi Center of Linguistics and English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi This is a manual on linguistic field methodology with special reference to Indian language structures. It covers all that one needs to know about eliciting data from native speaker informants of South Asian languages. The book contains step by step information about collection, collation, analysis, description, presentation and explanation of linguistic data. The author has drawn a large number of first-hand collected examples from lesser-known and 'tribal' languages of India to expose the readers to the variety and diversity of linguistic data available in the subcontinent. In addition to the discussion on elicitation of phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and sociolinguistic information, the author has discussed the linguistic characteristic features of each language family of India. The book makes the reader aware of areal features of the languages under consideration and the contact phenomena to facilitate fieldwork. Each topic is followed by the 'elicitation tips' and interrogation techniques for the field worker as well as practical issues, problems and solutions as regards collection of data. Sets of questionnaires on commonly investigated topics are included in the 'appendix' to facilitate field worker to come to grips with the theoretical and structural aspects of languages in general and Indian languages in specific. Numerous figures, maps and tables. Table of Contents: 1 Linguistic Fieldwork and the Indian Scene 1.1 All about Linguistic Field Research 1.1.1 Field Linguistics as an Input System to other fields 1.1.2 What does it involve? 1.1.3 Participatory in character 1.1.4 Theory independent 1.2 The Composition of the Language Scene in India 1.2.1. The Constitution 1.2.2. The Minority languages 1.3 The Hierarchical Structure of Indian Society 1.4 Bilingualism and Indian Society 1.4.1 The Rural Scene 1.4.2 The Urban Scene 1.4.3 The Cosmopolitan cities of India (The Mahanagar) 1.4.4 Bilingualism and Education 1.4.5 Language Loyalty, Language Shift And Language Adoption 1.5. The Contact Languages of India 1.5.1 All India 1.5.2 Our field experience 2 Language Families, Language Contact, and Areal Universals 2.1 Indian Language Features 2.1.1 Indo-Aryan 2.1.2 Dravidian 2.1.3 Austro-Asiatic 2.1.4 Tibeto-Burman 2.1.5 Andamanese 2.2 India as a Linguistic Area 2.2.1 The Sound System 2.2.2 The Morphological System 2.2.3 The Syntactic System 2.2.4 Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics 2.3 The Sub-linguistic Area 2.4 Contact and Convergence 2.4.1 Various Grammatical Levels 2.4.2. The Restructuring of Grammars 3 The Preparation 3.1. Budgeting and Reservation 3.1.l Travel 3.1.2 Board and Lodging 3.1.3 Remuneration for the Informants 3.1.4 Communication Network charges 3.1.5 Stationary 3.1.6 Equipment and Accessories 3.1.7 Data Processing 3.1.8 Word Processing/Typing 3.1.9 Reprographic Services/Xeroxing 3.1.10 Printing 3.1.11 Books and Journals 3.1.12 Contingencies 3.1.13 Overheads 3.2 Your Luggage 3.3 Status of the Informants/Area to be Studied 3.3.1 Literature study 3.3.2 Ethnology 3.3.3 Language study in big cities 3.4 Fieldwork in the Class room 3.5 Preparation of the Questionnaire 3.6 Contacts in the field 3.7 The Second Stage: In the field 3.7.1 What Language to Use for Eliciting Data? 3.8 Choosing Informants 3.8.1 Begin at School 3.8.2 Avoid a Language Teacher 3.8.3. Choose Both Male and Female Informants 3.8.4. Choose All Age Groups But Not Below Twelve 3.8.5. Choose All Sections of the Stratified Society 3.8.6 One Willing Informant is Better Than Ten Unwilling Ones 3.9 The Role of the Interpreter 3.10 Your Own Behaviour in the Field 3.11 Being a woman is a Blessing 4 Elicitation 4.1. Various Methods 4.1.1 Observation Method 4.1.2 Interview Method 4.1.3 Sending Questionnaire Method 4.1.4 Documentary Source Method 4.2 Interviewing Informants 4.3 Interrogation Techniques 4.3.1 Translation 4.3.2 Contact Language 4.3.3 Pictorial Representation 4.3.4 Substitution Interrogation 4.3.5 Associative Interrogation 4.3.6 Paraphrase 4.3.7 Cross Interrogation 4.3.8 Stimulus Interrogation 4.3.9 Examples and Illustrations 4.4 Transcription 4.4.1 Narrow or Broad 4.4.2 IPA or American 4.5 Data Collection: Various Stages 4.5.1 Stage I: Basic Word List 4.5.2 Stage II: 400 Word List 4.5.3 Stage III: Small Phrases 4.6. Morphological Topics 4.7. Dichotomy between Noun and Verb 5 Word formation Processes 5.0 General Remarks 5.1 Mostly Inflection 5.1.1 Noun Morphology 5.1.2 Pronoun Morphology 5.1.3 Case Markings and Postpositions 5.1.4 Morphology of Adjectives 5.1.5 Stage IV: Simple Sentences 5.1.6 Morphology and Syntax of Adverbs 5.1.7 Verb Morphology 5.1.8 Stage V: Complex Sentences 5.2 Derivation 5.2.1 Particle -wala 5.2.2 Morphological Causatives 5.3 Reduplication 5.3.1 Morphological 5.3.2 Lexical 5.4 Compounds 5.4.1 Endocentric 5.4.2 Exocentric 5.4.3 Appositional or Associative 6 Syntax and Semantics 6.1 Inquiring into Syntaxand Semantics 6.2 Word Order Typology 6.2.1 Characteristic Features of SOV 6.3 Topic and Focus 6.4 Interrogation 6.5 Negation 6.5.1 Salient Features 6.5.2 Negative Verbs 6.5.3 Deletion 6.5.4 Scope of Negation 6.5.5 Other Related Features 6.6 Complex Predicates 6.7 Explicator Compound Verbs 6.7.1 Aspectual 6.7.2 Adverbial 6.7.3 Attitudinal 6.8 Dative Subjects 6.8.1 Experiential 6.8.2 Non Experiential 6.8.3 Subject properties 6.9 Complementation 6.9.1 Types of Complements 6.10 Converbs/Conjunctive Participles 6.11 Anaphora 6.12 Coordination 6.13 Adjectival Clauses 7 Social Aspects 7.1 Kinship Terms 7.1.1 Non-Affinal 7.1.2 Affinal 7.2 Forms of Address and Terms of Reference 7.2.1 Forms of Address 7.2.2 Terms of Reference 7.3 Politeness Strategies 7.3.1 Lexical 7.3.2 Prosodic 7.3.3 Syntactic 7.4.4 Sociolinguistic 7.4 Language Shift, Retention, and Death 7.4.1 Language Shift and Retention 7.4.2 Language Death Appendices This will include various charts, blank phono-logical and morphological tables and different questionnaires mentioned in the text. It will include among others the following: IPA Charts for Consonants And Vowels [Including Blank Charts] The Basic Word List (Swadesh, Gudchinsky And Samarin) [A] The Basic Word List (300 Words) [B] The Basic Word List (400 Words) [C] The Basic Sentence List Cook's Case Frame Matrix Word Order/ Topic And Focus/ Scrambling Interrogation, Complementation Explicator Compound Verbs Dative Subjects Language Shift And Retention/ Attitudes Of The Speakers Language Death/ Obsolescence Complete Word Reduplication [Bilingual And Bi-Scriptal] Map: Hindi Speaking States Map: Distribution of Tribal Languages ISBN 3 89586 401 3. LINCOM Handbooks in Linguistics 17. http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA@t-online.de. --------------------------------------------------------------------- VOGUL Timoty Riese University of Vienna The Vogul language (endogenous name: Mansi) is spoken by approximately 3.000 speakers in northwestern Siberia. Together with Ostyak, it forms the Ob-Ugrian branch of the Finno-Ugrian language family and is generally considered to be closest relative of Hungarian. In the introductory section general information on the Vogul people and their sociolinguistic situation is given. The dialect described in the following sections on Vogul phonology, morphology, and syntax is the Northern one, spoken by the greatest majority of modern Voguls and forming the basis for the literary language. Vogul is in the most respects a typical agglutinative language and its grammar is relatively straightforward, i.e. unencumbered with major rules of inflection. In this study particular care is taken to place (Northern) Vogul in a general Finno-Ugrian and a complete Vogul context. This means that although the major emphasis lies on the synchronic description of (Northern) Vogul, the discussion is supplemented by obervations of a historical nature to show to which extent (Northern) Vogul has adhererd to general Finno-Ugrian patterns and to which extent it has diverged both from the related languages and other Vogul dialects. This study closes with a (Northern) Vogul folklore text with an interlinear transcription and translation ISBN 3 89586 231 2. Languages of the World/Materials 158. http://www.lincom-europa.com LINCOM.EUROPA@t-online.de. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AI*IA 2001: ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 7th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Bari, Italy, September 25-28, 2001. Proceedings Editor: Esposito, F., University of Bari, Italy (Ed.) 2001. XII, 396 pp. Softcover ISBN 3-540-42601-9, This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the scientific track of the 7th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, AI*IA 2001, held in Bari, Italy, in September 2001. The 25 revised long papers and 16 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine learning; automated reasoning; knowledge representation; multi-agent systems; natural language processing; perception, vision, and robotics; and planning and scheduling. Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Information Processing, Algorithmic Learning, Computational Linguistics, Theorem Proving, AI Logics, Knowledge Proces- sing, Agent-Based Systems, Robotics http://www.springer.de/cgi-bin/search_main.pl Springer-Verlag ----------------------------------------------------------------------- POLYSEMY IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS. Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997. Hubert Cuyckens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and Britta Zawada (University of South Africa) (eds.) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 177 United States and Canada: 1 55619 894 9 / USD 77.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 3683 6 / NLG 170.00 (Hardcover) In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and bearing family resemblance relations to one another. Under this polysemy = categorization view, the scope of investigation has been gradually broadened from categories in the lexical and lexico-grammatical domain to morphological, syntactic, and phonological categories. The papers in this volume illustrate the importance of polysemy in describing these various categories. A first set of papers analyzes the polysemy of such lexical categories as prepositions and scalar particles, and looks at the import of polysemy in frame-based dictionary definitions. A second set shows that noun classes, case, and locative prefixes constitute meaningful and polysemous categories. Three papers, then, pay attention to polysemy from a psychological perspective, looking for psychological evidence of polysemy in lexical categories. Contributions by: Hubert Cuyckens & Britta Zawada; Birgitta Meex; Tuomas Huumo; Willy Martin; Eugene H. Casad; Michael B. Smith; Kari-Anne Selvik; A.P. Hendrikse; Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. & Teenie Matlock; Dinara A. Beitel, Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. & Paul Sanders; Frank Brisard, Gert van Rillaer & Dominiek Sandra. John Benjamins Publishing Co. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NON-CANONICAL MARKING OF SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS. Alexandra Aikenvald (Research Centre for Linguistics Typology), R.M.W. Dixon (La Trobe University) and Masayuki Onishi (Meyo University, Okinawa) (eds.) Typological Studies in Language 46 United States and Canada: 1 58811 043 5 / USD 114.00 (Hardcover) 1 58811 044 3 / USD 49.95 (Paperback) Rest of world: 90 272 2949 X / NLG 250.00 (Hardcover) 90 272 2950 3 / NLG 110.00 (Paperback) In some languages every subject is marked in the same way, and also every object. But there are languages in which a small set of verbs mark their subjects or their objects in an unusual way. For example, most verbs may mark their subject with nominative case, but one small set of verbs may have dative subjects, and another small set may have locative subjects. Verbs with noncanonically marked subjects and objects typically refer to physiological states or events, inner feelings, perception and cognition. The Introduction sets out the theoretical parameters and defines the properties in terms of which subjects and objects can be analysed. Following chapters discuss Icelandic, Bengali, Quechua, Finnish, Japanese, Amele (a Papuan language), and Tariana (an Amazonian language); there is also a general discussion of European languages. This is a pioneering study providing new and fascinating data, and dealing with a topic of prime theoretical importance to linguists of many persuasions. Contributions by: A.Y. Aikhenvald; A.D. Andrews; L. Campbell; R.M.W. Dixon; M. Haspelmath; G. Hermon; M. Onishi; J. Roberts; A.K. Sands; M. Shibatani. John Benjamins Publishing Co. ------------------------------------------------------------------- SENTENCE COMPREHENSION THE INTEGRATION OF HABITS AND RULES David J. Townsend and Thomas G. Bever Using sentence comprehension as a case study for all of cognitive science, David Townsend and Thomas Bever offer an integration of two major approaches, the symbolic-computational and the associative-connectionist. The symbolic-computational approach emphasizes the formal manipulation of symbols that underlies creative aspects of language behavior. The associative-connectionist approach captures the intuition that most behaviors consist of accumulated habits. The authors argue that the sentence is the natural level at which associative and symbolic information merge during comprehension. The authors develop and support an analysis-by-synthesis model that integrates associative and symbolic information in sentence comprehension. This integration resolves problems each approach faces when considered independently. The authors review classic and contemporary symbolic and associative theories of sentence comprehension, and show how recent developments in syntactic theory fit well with the integrated analysis-by-synthesis model. They offer analytic, experimental, and neurological evidence for their model and discuss its implications for broader issues in cognitive science, including the logical necessity of an integration of symbolic and connectionist approaches in the field. David J. Townsend is Cognitive Science Coordinator, Department of Psychology, Montclair State University, New Jersey. Thomas G. Bever is Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of Arizona. ****************************************************************************** END NLB ELECTRONIC NEWS 10(06), 2001