LINGUIST List 8.1230

Tue Aug 26 1997

Confs: Australian Linguistics Institute 1998

Editor for this issue: Anita Huang <anitalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Peter White, Australian Linguistics Institute 1998

The 1998 Australian Linguistics Institute will be held at The University of
Queensland, Brisbane Australia between 6-16 July 1998. The courses
currently available are:

Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages 
 ---- The Grammar of Kinship in Central Australia: Gavan Breen 
 ---- Languages of Queensland and the Torres Strait: Bruce Rigsby 
 ---- Morphology-Syntax Interactions in Australian languages: Joan
	 Bresnan & Rachel Nordlinger 
Asian Languages 
 ---- Chinese Classifiers - a Cognitive Interpretation: Kit-Ken Loke 
 ---- Topics in Japanese Linguistics: Anthony Backhouse 
 ---- Morphosyntactic Typology and Grammaticalization in Sino-Tibetan:
	 Randy LaPolla 
 ---- The Tai and Lao languages: Anthony Diller & Wilaiwan Khanittanan
Austronesian Languages 
 ---- Aspects of Eastern Polynesian Grammar (Maori): Ray Harlow 
 ---- Serialising and non-serialising verbs in Oceanic: Terry Crowley 
English Language 
 ---- Descriptive Grammar of English - the Verb: Rodney Huddleston 
 ---- Historical Syntax in an English Context: Cynthia Allen 
 ---- Variation and Change in present-day British English grammar:
	 Jennifer Cheshire 
Romance Languages 
 ---- Romance Syntax & Linguistic Theory: Luigi Rizzi & Adriana
	 Belletti 
Languages in Contact 
 ---- Language Contact Phenomena with Special Reference to
	 Codeswitching: Carol Myers-Scotton 
 ---- Pidgins, creoles and other language contact varieties: Claire
	 Lefebvre & Jeff Siegel 
 ---- The Interplay of Internal & External Factors in Code-switching -
	 the Case of Linguistic Minority Groups in Spain: Teresa Turell
Anthropological Linguistics 
 ---- Topics in Anthropological Linguistics: William Foley 
Cognitive Linguistics 
 ---- Approaches to Grammar in Cognitive Linguistics: Arie Verhagen 
 ---- Chinese Classifiers - a Cognitive Interpretation: Kit-Ken Loke 
 ---- Discourse of the Mind: Shi-Xu 
 ---- Metaphor, Mental Spaces and Discourse: Eve Sweetser 
 ---- Speaking & Thinking: Wallace Chafe 
Comparative Historical Linguistics 
 ---- Language Change & Linguistic Reconstruction: Harold Koch 
 ---- Computational Linguistics Corpus Linguistics: Chris Manning 
 ---- Generating Natural Language: Robert Dale 
 ---- Grammatical Formalisms and Grammar Engineering: Dominique Estival
Discourse Analysis 
 ---- Discourse of the Mind: Shi-Xu 
 ---- Speaking & Thinking: Wallace Chafe 
Language Acquisition 
 ---- Investigations in Universal Grammar: Research Methods in the
	 Study of the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics: Stephen Crain
 ---- Second Language Acquisition: Michael Harrington 
Language in Education 
 ---- Assessment of bilingual/bicultural school age students for
	 possible language disorders: Alejandro Brice & Judy Montgomery
 ---- Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA):Anna Uhl
	 Chamot 
 ---- Focusing on Form in Communicative Language Teaching: Diane
	 Larsen-Freeman 
 ---- Grammar as Science - from curiosity to science through linguistic
	 inquiry: Wayne O'Neil & Maya Honda
Phonetics & Phonology 
 ---- Practical speechwave and spectrogram reading for
	 non-phoneticians: Helen Fraser 
 ---- The phonology and phonetics of prosodic structure: Mary Beckman 
	 Semantics 
 ---- Event Conceptualization and Verb Meanings: Beth Levin 
 ---- Metaphor, Mental Spaces and Discourse: Eve Sweetser 
Socio-linguistics 
 ---- Language & Gender: Janet Holmes, Anne Pauwels & Jennifer Coates 
Syntax and Morphology 
 ---- Advanced Morphology: K.P. Mohanan & Tara Mohanan 
 ---- Approaches to Grammar in Cognitive Linguistics: Arie Verhagen 
 ---- Morphological Productivity: Laurie Bauer 
 ---- Morphology-Syntax Interactions in Australian languages: Joan
	 Bresnan & Rachel Nordlinger 
 ---- Romance Syntax & Linguistic Theory: Luigi Rizzi & Adriana
	 Belletti 
Workshops 
 ----Ethnosyntax (Convenor: Nick Enfield) July 11 
 ----Language & Gender (Convenors: Janet Holmes, Anne Pauwels &
	 Jennifer Coates) July 11 
 ----Language & the Law (Convenors: Diana Eades & Michael Cook) July 10
 ----Machine Translation (Convenor: Francis Bond) July 11 
 ----Research Issues for Cognitive Linguistics (Convenor: June
	 Luchjenbroers) July 10 
 ----Symposium on Language Contact and Language Contact Induced
	 Linguistic Change Convenors:
 	 Patrick McConvell & Jeff Siegel) July 10-11 

Details of the courses and the presenters, plus information about:
	* Brisbane and Queensland
	* Some other linguistics gatherings in Brisbane in 1998
	* Details on fees for ALI 98 and
	* a registration form for ALI 98, ALAA 98, ALS 98, Australex 98
	 and Lexical Functional Grammar 98
are all available at the Web site http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au:8000/ali98

Please contact the relevant people mentioned in the Web site for further
details, and not me. 

Regards
Peter White
peterwlingua.cltr.uq.edu.au