LINGUIST List 12.1625

Wed Jun 20 2001

Calls: Iconicity, Scandinavian/Linguistics

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

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1. Zylogy, Iconicity Workshop at the 2001 Linguistic Institute in Santa Barbara
2. Peter Svenonius, Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics: SCL 19

I'm happy to announce that there will be a workshop on iconicity issues at 
the upcoming LSA Linguistic Institute in Santa Barbara. Starting the second 
week of the Institute the workshop will meet Tuesday mornings (between 8am 
and 11:30am) at the University Center. Confirmed speakers include John Ohala, 
Linda Waugh, Masako Hiraga, and Sarah Taub. A workshop page will be going up 
linked to the Institute webpages. Institute attendees who might be interested 
in giving a short presentation are invited to write to me at the e-mail 
address below. Hope to see you there.

Jess Tauber
zylogyaol.com

The 19th SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE OF LINGUISTICS
will take place at the University of Tromsoe, Norway, on January 10-12 2002.

Abstracts are invited for 30 minute papers (plus discussion) on all
subfields of linguistics.

Invited speakers (subject to financing):

Paula Fikkert (University of Nijmegen)
John A. Hawkins (University of Southern California)
Kyle Johnson (UMass Amherst)
Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University)
Christer Platzack (University of Lund)
Bonnie Schwartz (Durham)

Abstract Deadline: October 1, 2001

The conference will consist of a general session plus workshops on specific
themes. Abstracts for the main session and for the workshops should be one
page in length and should include the speaker's name, affiliation, and
contact address (e-mail preferred).

Abstracts for the main session should be sent to:

	SCLabstracthum.uit.no

They should contain the expression "Abstract" in the subject line and
should be in one of the following formats: pdf, rtf, MS Word, or plain text
in the body of the e-mail. Abstracts for the workshops should be sent to
the individual addresses given below under each workshop description.


WORKSHOP: GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO FINNIC LANGUAGES
Organized by Katrin Hiietam (University of Manchester) and Elsi Kaiser
(University of Pennsylvania)

The aims are to investigate and increase general awareness of the
structure of Finnic languages (Finnish, Estonian, Sami, Veps,
Livonian, etc.) from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, to
present new data on the topic, and to bring together scholars working
on issues on Finnic linguistics.

We welcome typological descriptive papers as well as papers from any
theoretical framework.

Address abstracts to: Finnic_workshophotmail.com
Abstracts should be one page, but a second page is permitted for examples
and references.
The abstracts should preferably be sent as Word attachments.

Abstracts must be received by October 1st.

WORKSHOP: FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Organized by Marit Richardsen Westergaard, University of Troms�

The workshop will cover several aspects of first language acquisition.
Abstracts dealing with the acquisition of syntax, phonology, morphology,
semantics and pragmatics will be considered, as well as topics such as
as well as topics such as bilingual acquisition, language disorders, the
significance of the input, and the role of language acquisition in language
change.

Address abstracts to: L1abstracthum.uit.no
Abstracts should otherwise follow the guidelines for the main session
Abstracts must be received by October 1st

WORKSHOP: BILINGUAL BEHAVIOR IN TEENAGE GROUPS
Organized by Jens Normann J�rgensen, K�benhavns Universitet

The study af teenage language has been gaining momentum in Scandinavia
over the past couple of years. Particularly studies of teenagers' use
of second languages (e.g. Norwegian L1 speaking teenagers salting
their speech with English expressions, or Turkish speaking minority
teenagers mixing with Danish). In this workshop I propose that
specific studies of bilingual behavior be presented and discussed. I
plan to invite Emel T�rker, Oslo, Kari Fraurud, Bergen, Jacob
Cromdal, Link�ping, Sally Boyd, Gothenburg, Lian Madsen, Janus
M�ller, Trine Esdahl, all Copenhagen.

Persons wishing to submit abstracts should contact the organizer at
normannhum.ku.dk

WORKSHOP: SYNTACTIC VARIATION ACROSS LINGUISTIC REGISTERS OF CORPORA
Organized by Jos� Deulofeu, Dept. of French Linguistics, Universit�
Aix-Marseille I

The workshop welcomes papers relevant to syntactic variation in the
sense explored by D. Biber. According to this approach, it has been
shown in many cases syntactic constructions which could be considered
mere syntactic variants (e.g. relative clauses with and without
complementizers in English) are not randomly distributed in samples of
corpora belonging to different linguistic registers
(e.g. conversation, scientific prose, news, fiction).

Appropriate papers might present broad data patterns from corpora or
focus more narrowly on individual constructions.

Abstracts should be sent to jose.deulofeuwanadoo.fr
For permissible file formats, see the conference website (URL below)
Abstracts must be received by October 1st

See the conference website for updates:
http://www.hum.uit.no/arrangementer/19-SCL/19th_SCL.html
The conference organizers:
Anders Holmberg, Mona Markussen, Peter Svenonius, Wilma ter Haar
19-SCLhum.uit.no