LINGUIST List 11.2351

Tue Oct 31 2000

Calls: Language/Society/SALSA, Truths About Pronouns

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Kate Hickerson, Symposium About Language and Society- Austin (SALSA 2001)
2. Elena Filimonova, TRUTHS ABOUT PRONOUNS AND HOW TRUE THEY ARE

Call For Papers

SALSA 2001 

20-22 April 2001

Keynote Speakers:
Mary Bucholtz Texas A&M University
Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles 
George Lakoff University of California, Berkeley 
Gerry Philipsen University of Washington

The Symposium About Language and Society- Austin is pleased to annouce its 9th
annual meeting to be held at the University of Texas at Austin. We encourage
the submission of abstracts on research that addresses the relationship of
language to culture and society. Desired frameworks include but are not
limited
to: 
Linguistic Anthropology 
Sociolinguistics 
Ethnography Of Communication 
Language And Identity 
Speech Play, Verbal Art, And Poetics 
Language And Media 
Political Economy Of Language 
Language And Social Interaction 
Discourse Analysis 
Language Vitality 

Speakers will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.
Abstracts are due no later than January 23, 2001. Please visit our website for
submission guidelines: 

http://www.utexas.edu/students/salsa

or contact us at:

SALSA 
Department of Linguistics 
University of Texas at Austin 
Austin, TX 78712 
email: utsalsauts.cc.utexas.edu 

Workshop
TRUTHS ABOUT PRONOUNS AND HOW TRUE THEY ARE.
within the framework of the DFG-funded Project "Sprachbaupl�ne" 
http://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/proj/sprachbau.htm

December 15-16, 2000 University of Konstanz, Germany

Workshop organizers:
Elena Filimonova (Uni Konstanz)
Michael Cysouw (ZAS, Berlin)

The aim of the workshop is to exchange research results and stimulate
further work in the field of language universals, focusing on personal
pronouns.

Chief among the issues discussed will be generalizations, previously
suggested or new, about phonological, morphological and syntactic
properties of personal pronouns, especially those of 1st and 2nd
person. We are planning a special section on the inclusive/exclusive
opposition.

We especially welcome contributions to the following topics:
- Inclusive and Dual.
- Inclusive and 2Pl. 
- Incl/Excl and Gender.
- Inclusive und Associative.
- Incl/Excl and homophony in pronominal paradigm: synchronic and 
diachronic aspects.
- Incl/Excl and free vs. bound morphology.

Further topics:
- Incl/Excl and extra-linguistic aspects: Cultural and interactive meaning 
of the Incl/Excl opposition. Honorific usage of Incl/Excl.
- Diachrony of the Incl/Excl oppostion: Its origin and disapperance. Pidgins 
and Creoles.

In this workshop we will attempt to bring together typological,
historical and theoretical insights, in order to gain a better
understanding of personal pronouns.

Visit the Universals Archive at
http://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/proj/sprachbau.htm 
to familiarize yourselves with pronoun truths on record.

Those interested in participating are asked to send a short abstract
to one of the following addresses (preferably by e-mail) by 10
November 2000. Papers may be presented in English or German.

Accomodation: Some information about hotels in Konstanz can be found under:
http://www.fmi.uni-konstanz.de/~luethke/hotels.html OR
http://www.konstanz-tourismus.de/

You can get a 10% discount booking the room in the city hotels
Barbarossa (Tel. 49 7531 128990, Fax: +49-7531-27630) and Deutsches
Haus (Tel. +49 7531 1333 0, Fax +49 7531 1333 70). You should specify
that you are booking the room for the conference at the university
(Department of Lingustics, Prof. Plank).

Elena Filimonova
e-mail: elena.filimonovauni-konstanz.de
Universitaet Konstanz
Sprachwissenschaft
Fach D 186
78457 Konstanz
Tel. +49 7531 884287
Fax +49 7531 882741

Michael Cysouw
e-mail: cysouwzas.gwz-berlin.de
Zentrum fuer allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
J�gerstrasse 10/11
10117 Berlin
Tel. +49-30-20192-564
Fax: +49-30-20192-402