LINGUIST List 8.1171

Tue Aug 12 1997

FYI: GAILA Inst., ASLLRP, Sem. Tocharian

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

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1. ALEOFER, New Research Institute
2. Carol Neidle, ASLLRP / SignStream
3. Javier Martinez Garcia, Sem: TOCHARIAN

 G . A . I . L . A .
 _________________________
 Grupo Autonomo de Investigaciones en Linguistica Aplicada
 San Juan - Argentina

Dear fellow Linguists;
 
It is a great honor to introduce you to a new research institute that
has its headquarters in San Juan, a province in the north-west of
Argentina, South America.

We are concerned mainly with problems of Teaching English as a Foreign
Language (TEFL). We do research on Foreign Language Learning and
coordinate courses and debates on different topics within this general
subject.

A lot of information as regards the current state of the art is
available to all those who are interested. Also, it would be
interesting to carry out joint ventures as regards research with other
people around the world.

Please, feel free to contact us through my email address:
 
 Leo Ferres
 email: aleoferffha.unsj.edu.ar

Thank you very much, and we sincerely hope that we can share
information and stregthen communication.

 
 Grupo G.A.I.L.A

The American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project involves
researchers from Boston University, Gallaudet University, and Rutgers
University working together on the syntax of ASL. In addition, in
collaboration with Dartmouth College, we are developing a tool called
SignStream for the coding and analysis of video-based data.

General information about this project is available at our Web site:
<http://www.bu.edu/ASLLRP/;.
 
A number of reports and doctoral dissertations are now available in
portable document format (pdf) and can be downloaded from this site:

Bahan, B. (1996) Non-Manual Realization of Agreement in American Sign
 Language. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston University, Boston, MA.

MacLaughlin, D. (1997) The Structure of Determiner Phrases: Evidence
 from American Sign Language. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston
 University, Boston, MA.

MacLaughlin, D., C. Neidle, and R.G. Lee (1996) Design Specifications
 for SignStream, A Multimedia Database Tool for Language Research. 
 ASLLRP Report No. 3.

Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, R.G. Lee, and J. Kegl (1997)
 The SignStream Project. ASLLRP Report No. 5. 

Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, J. Kegl, and B. Bahan (1996) Non-Manual
 Correlates of Syntactic Agreement in American Sign Language. 
 ASLLRP Report No. 2.
 
 *Note that digitized movies demonstrating the grammatical examples
 are provided.

Neidle, C., D. MacLaughlin, and R.G. Lee, eds. (1997) Syntactic
 Structure and Discourse Function: An Examination of Two 
 Constructions in American Sign Language. ASLLRP Report 
 No. 4. [Contents: Hoza, Neidle, MacLaughlin, Kegl, and Bahan, A
 Unified Syntactic Account of Rhetorical Questions in American Sign
 Language; and Lee, Neidle, MacLaughlin, Bahan, and Kegl, Role
 Shift in ASL: A Syntactic Look at Direct Speech.]


With respect to the SignStream project
<http://www.bu.edu/ASLLRP/SignStream>;, we would be especially
interested to receive feedback as to features that potential users
(linguists working with video-based data) might find useful, to assist
us with ongoing design and development.

Blockseminar:
 G. Pinault (Professeur ` l'Universiti de Clermont-Ferrand -
Directeur ` l'IPHI IVe )
 Einf|hrung TOCHARISCH
 FU Berlin, 22.-26.Sept.1997

http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/colloq.htm#berlin97