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Directory         1.    Leigh Garrison, 10th International Columbia School Conference Message 1: 10th International Columbia School Conference Date: 20-Sep-2010 From: Leigh Garrison <lgarrisongc.cuny.edu> Subject: 10th International Columbia School Conference E-mail this message to a friend 10th International Columbia School Conference Short Title: CSLS Date: 09-Oct-2010 - 11-Oct-2010 Location: New Brunswick, NJ, USA Contact: Joseph Davis Contact Email: jdavisccny.cuny.edu Meeting URL: http://www.csling.org Linguistic Field(s): Phonology; Semantics; Syntax Meeting Description: 10th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior Conference Theme: Grammatical Analysis and the Discovery of Meaning 10th International Columbia School Conference on the Interaction of Linguistic Form and Meaning with Human Behavior October 9-11, 2010 Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey Invited Speakers: Flora Klein-Andreu (Stony Brook University): Linguistics for Non-linguists Andrea Tyler (Georgetown University): Connecting Spatial Particles and Aspect Markers: Applying the Principled Polysemy Model to Russian za List of Presenters: Tanya Karoli Christensen (Copenhagen University): Sign Combinations in Context: Imperatives and Modal Particles in Danish Ellen Contini-Morava (University of Virginia): The Meaning(s?) of Non-animate Deictic Markers in Swahili Joseph Davis (The City College - CUNY): Diver's Latin Voice and Case Bob de Jonge (University of Groningen): Phonology as Human Behaviour Revisited: The Case of Romance Languages Thomas Eccardt (Independent scholar): Pitch and Aperture: Two Articulatory Scalars in Comparison Richard Epstein (Rutgers University): Some Discourse Uses of the Distal Demonstrative Determiner in Beowulf Elena Even-Simkin, Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): Internal Vowel Alternation as a Phonological-semantic Sign System in English According to the Sign-oriented Theory of the Columbia School Alan Huffman (The Graduate Center - CUNY): The Phonological Motivation for Verner's Law and Grimm's Law Robert Kirsner (University of California, Los Angeles): Minimal Units, their Context, and the Insufficiency of Conceptual Metaphor: Revisiting the Dutch Dismissive Idiom ho maar 'fuhgeddaboudit, of course not!' Robert Leonard (Hofstra University): Linguistic Meaning, Pragmatics and Context: Semantic Analysis of Evidence in a Double Homicide Trial Seeking to Weigh Intent Lin Lin (University of California, Los Angeles): Rethinking of the Chinese Demonstratives in the Columbia School Framework Carol Moder (Oklahoma State University): Dirty Hands, Dirty Work: Usage-based Noun Modification Ricardo Otheguy (The Graduate Center - CUNY): A Report on Current Research on Spanish in New York Wallis Reid (Rutgers University): English Verb Number: Syntactic or Semantic? Hidemi Riggs (Soka University of America): The Structure of Japanese Conditionals in Modern Japanese: A Grammatical Account from a Functional Linguistics Perspective Nancy Stern (The City College - CUNY): Ourself, Themself, and More: The Communicative Function of Number in -self Pronouns Lavi Wolf, Yishai Tobin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): Phonological Proclivities across Languages according to the Theory of Phonology as Human Behavior The Columbia School is a group of linguists developing the theoretical framework originally established by the late William Diver. Language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its human users. Grammatical analyses account for the distribution of linguistic forms as an interaction between linguistic meaning and pragmatic and functional factors such as inference, ease of processing, and iconicity. Phonological analyses explain the syntagmatic and paradigmatic distribution of phonological units within signals, also drawing on both communicative function and human physiological and psychological characteristics. The support of The Columbia School Linguistic Society is gratefully acknowledged www.csling.org Selected Columbia School bibliography: Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner, and Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller (eds.). 2005. Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Contini-Morava, Ellen, and Barbara Sussman Goldberg (eds.). 1995. Meaning as Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Davis, Joseph, Radmila Gorup, and Nancy Stern (eds.). 2006. Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Huffman, Alan. 1997. The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Huffman, Alan. 2001. 'The Linguistics of William Diver and the Columbia School.' WORD 52:1, 29-68. Reid, Wallis. 1991. Verb and Noun Number in English: A Functional Explanation. London: Longman. Reid, Wallis, Ricardo Otheguy, and Nancy Stern (eds.). 2002. Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on Sign-Based Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Tobin, Yishai. 1997. Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications. Durham: Duke U Press. For more information, please contact Joseph Davis at jdavisccny.cuny.edu Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 23-Sep-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.