LINGUIST List 13.2466

Fri Sep 27 2002

FYI: Summer School,CENTENFolha, MacArthur Fellowship

Editor for this issue: James Yuells <jameslinguistlist.org>

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1. Bruno Moretti, Summer School on Sociolinguistics (Swiss Linguistics Society)
2. Paulo Alexandre Rocha, Corpus CETENFolha (Brazilian Portuguese)
3. Fox Barbara, Dan Jurafsky wins MacArthur Fellowship

6th Summer School of the Swiss Linguistics Society
Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Change
Bern, September 15 - 19


Since 1993 the Swiss Linguistics Society (SSG/SSL) has been organisin
g a biennial Summer School on linguistic issues for Ph.D. students s.
 The next one is scheduled for September 15 to 19, 2003 in Bern. The 
general topic is: "Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language Change".


Subject Framework

The relationship between language variation and language change clear
ly constitutes a central theme of linguistics. 2003 marks the 35th an
niversary of the publication of Weinreich, Labov and Herzog's seminal
 article "Empirical foundations for a theory of language change", in 
which the newly established sociolinguistic school of thought made at
tempts at systematically approaching this relationship. The approache
s in the '90s brought about more in-depth analyses of this relationsh
ip and led to new perspectives. New and fruitful impulses arose from 
research into language typology and bilingualism. Such impulses can b
e integrated into sociolinguistics, but these fields in turn can bene
fit from findings in sociolinguistics.



Speakers Profile

The SSG/SSL Summer School has invited well-known sociolinguists and r
esearchers on language change. There will be six keynote speakers: Pe
ter Auer (Universit�t Freiburg), Gaetano Berruto (Universit� di T
orino), Penelope Eckert (Stanford University), Fran�oise Gadet (Uni
versit� de Paris X), Paul Kerswill (University of Reading), April 
McMachon (University of Sheffield).


Participants Profile

The Summer School is open for students working towards their Ph.D. in
 linguistics or similar disciplines at Swiss universities. Applicatio
ns for admission should be accompanied by a summary of the Ph.D. diss
ertation (project) and a letter of reference from the supervisor of t
he dissertation. The topic of the dissertation need not be the same a
s the theme of the summer school.

On condition that the Suisse National Research Foundation gives its c
onsent, no contributions are required for participation. Successful a
pplicants will be reimbursed for travel costs, accommodation and meal
s.

Ph.D. students from abroad may also apply. However, they will have to
 pay the costs themselves. For such students the same requirements ho
ld true: all applications must be accompanied by a summary of the dis
sertation research project and a reference from the supervisor of the
ir dissertation.

Students requiring support to meet costs should submit a formal reque
st (stating specific reasons) to the SSG/SSL.

Post-doctoral students are invited to apply as well as any other inte
rested parties, especially members of SSG/SSL, who are welcome to att
end provided there is enough space. However, these individuals must c
over costs themselves.

Application deadline is January 31, 2003.


General Information:

Universi�t Bern

Professor Dr. Bruno Moretti, Institut f�r Italienische Sprach- und 
Literaturwissenschaft, L�nggassstrasse 49, 3000 Bern 9, CH (Switzer
land)

e-mail: bruno.morettirom.unibe.ch

Dear colleagues,
We are happy to inform that the CETENFolha corpus is finally available:

CETENFolha (Corpus de Extractos de Textos Electr�nicos NILC/Folha de S�o
Paulo) is a corpus containing some 24 million words in Brazilian Portuguese, built by the project Computational Processing of Portuguese from the texts of Folha de S. Paulo belonging to the corpus NILC/S�o Carlos, compiled by N�cleo Interinstitucional de Ling��stica computacional (NILC). 

http://acdc.linguateca.pt/cetenfolha

(To get it it is enough to register in the form at the botom of the above
Webpage.)

We are grateful to NILC and the newspaper for giving us permission.

We also use this opportunity to inform that the resource centre that the Computational Processing of Portuguese project has been slowly building has now the name Linguateca, with corresponding URLs. We will try to migrate to this new namespace with minimal inconvenience to users.

Sauda��es,
Diana Santos & Paulo Rocha
www.linguateca.pt
projectoinformatics.sintef.no 

Subject-Language: Portuguese; Code: POR 

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I am delighted to be able to tell you--although perhaps many
of you have already heard--that my colleague here at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, Dan Jurafsky, has been
awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (the so-called "genius" award).

The fellwship is tremendous acknowledgement of the creativity
and importance of Dan's work. We also think it is recognition
of what a kind, generous, giving and just plain great person he is.

Sincerely,

Barbara Fox
Chair
Linguistics
University of Colorado, Boulder