LINGUIST List, August 1996

August 1996 Issues

7.1093 Confs: Old English Seminar
1. Marc Fryd, Old English Seminar
7.1094 Books: Finno-Ugric Languages
1. Helena Valtanen, Finnish and Estonian
7.1095 Confs: Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing
1. AMLaP-96 Conference, Conference: "ARCHITECTURES AND MECHANISMS FOR LANGUAGE PROCESSING"
7.1096 FYI: Ricerche piy rapide nel Word Exchange Forum
1. The LOGOS Dictionary, Ricerche piy rapide nel Word Exchange Forum
7.1097 Disc: Multilinguality
1. Dick Hudson, multilingualism
2. Karl Teeter, Re: 7.1083, Disc: Multilinguality
3. LVN, Re: 7.1083, Disc: Multilinguality
4. Rick Mc Callister, Re: 7.1083, Disc: Multilinguality
5. Deborah D K Ruuskanen, Re: 7.1083, Disc: Multilinguality
7.1098 Calls: Computer-mediated conversation analysis
1. Susan Herring, call for manuscripts: Computer-mediated conversation analysis
7.1099 Jobs: Two positions in French Department,Postdoc-HMM analysis
1. Jeff Tennant, Two positions in our French Department
2. Alex Monaghan, Postdoctoral Position (HMM analysis)
7.1100 FYI: Conference Index, O-Hayo Sensei #13 Now Available
1. Peter White, Conference Index
2. editor@ohayosensei.com, O-Hayo Sensei #13 Now Available (Teaching in Japan)
7.1101 Disc: Arabic sign language
1. Sxren Harder, re: 7.1087 Tunesian Sign Language
7.1102 Disc: Child `case' Re: vol-7-1062
1. Ted Harding, Re: 7.1080, Disc: Child `case' Re: vol-7-1062
2. Karl Teeter, Re: 7.1080, Disc: Child `case' Re: vol-7-1062
7.1103 Confs: COGNITIVE SCIENCE of NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
1. Alex Monaghan, CSNLP '96
7.1104 Sum: race and accent
1. Larry Rosenwald, summary on race and accent
7.1105 Disc: Multilinguality
1. Karen Davis, Multilinguality
2. "Victoria A. Fromkin", Re: 7.1097, Disc: Multilinguality
3. Peter Daniels, Re: 7.1097, Disc: Multilinguality
4. Charles Rowe, re: 7.1083 disc: multilinguality
5. Lynne Hewitt, multilinguality
7.1106 Disc: Race and accent
1. Charlie Rowe, re:; 7.1090 Race and accent
7.1107 Calls: Natural Lg Engineering, Chinese Linguistics
1. Susann LuperFoy, CFP, FLAIRS-97 Special Track on NL Engineering
2. Hua LIN, NACCL-9 Call for Papers
7.1108 Sum: th-substitution
1. cpeust@gwdg.de, Sum: th-substitution
2. cpeust@gwdg.de, sum: th-substitution part 2
7.1109 Qs: K Hyltenstam, Yucatecan reduplication, Argot vs jargon
1. Aimen Maghrabi, Re: Hyltenstam's email ?
2. martin kraemer, Q:Yucatecan Reduplication
3. caroline nachman, buzz word list vs argot vs jargon -- am i missing something?
7.1110 Disc: Arabic sign language
1. "Carolyn L. Ostrander", Re: 7.1101, Disc: Arabic sign language
2. Chris Miller, Re: 7.1101, Disc: Arabic sign language
7.1111 Disc: Non-standard grammar
1. Ronald Cosper, Re: 7.1089, Disc: Non-standard grammar
2. Rick Mc Callister, Re: 7.1089, Disc: Non-standard grammar
7.1112 Qs: Cognitive Semantics, Language Change, Mandarin Phonemes
1. Otto Lassen, cognitive semantics
2. Chuck Coker, Language Change (EX-06-01)
3. Mark Sitkowski, Mandarin Phonemes
7.1113 Disc: Case Re: vol-7-1102
1. Peter Daniels, Re: 7.1102, Disc: Child `case' Re: vol-7-1062
2. Debra.Ziegeler@arts.monash.edu.au, Re: 7.1062, Qs: Child's ergativity
3. Dick Hudson, case and coordination
7.1114 Sum: Merry X-mas in Hawaiian
1. Jakob Ladefoged, Merry X-mas in Hawaiian
7.1115 Qs: Minimalist program, Relevance theory, Software package
1. J Kalita, The minimalist program and SOV languages
2. Murray Garde, Ethnography and Relevance Theory
3. Kirk Sullivan, software package for linguistic analysis
7.1116 Qs: Final consonants, Pinker interview, Specific/generic ref.
1. cpeust@gwdg.de, Qu: final consonants only?
2. Deborah Schmidt, Q: Pinker interview video
3. Deborah Schmidt, Specific/generic reference
7.1117 Jobs: Speech consultant position, Chair in Asian Studies
1. Kamal Kirpalani/Voice Processing Corp, Speech consultant position in Hong Kong
2. Alan Dench, Job: CHAIR IN ASIAN STUDIES (UWA)
7.1118 Sum: Pronunciation of AAVE
1. Rachel Lagunoff, Sum: Pronunciation of AAVE
7.1119 Qs: Estuary English, Initial vowels, Tagged Brown Corpus
1. Pia Kohlmyr, Estuary English
2. John Atkinson, Query: Initial vowels
3. "Bethany K. Dumas", Tagged Brown Corpus
7.1120 Sum: References on Japanese phonology and loanwords
1. ayumi kimura, References on Japanese phonology and loanword
7.1121 FYI: Linguistic legislation in the USA
1. Johanna Rubba, Linguistic legislation in the USA
7.1122 Disc: Arabic Sign Language
1. Dave Harris, Arabic Sign Language
2. DWILMSEN@auc-acs.eun.eg, RE: 7.1110, Disc: Arabic sign language
7.1123 Jobs: Arabic & Semitic Linguistics
1. Georgia Green, ARABIC & SEMITIC LINGUISTICS
7.1124 Qs: Hebrew modals, Grammaticalization, Chance correspondences
1. "B. Koole", Hebrew modals
2. Frederick Newmeyer, Grammaticalization
3. ICASULE@ocs1.ocs.mq.edu.au, chance correspondences
7.1125 Confs: Conference on Guan(1)hua(4)
1. Hua LIN, Conference on Guan(1)hua(4)
7.1126 Sum: Word association tests
1. "M. Lynne Murphy", sum: word association tests
7.1127 Qs: Arabic, Missionary, Hebrew, Applied ling
1. Mark Mandel, Spoken Modern Standard Arabic
2. Szymon Grzelak, Language of Jehovah's Witnesses.
3. BrownDeb@aol.com, Q: Hebrew linguistics
4. John Dienhart, Q: AAAL
7.1128 Disc: Race and accent
1. Peter Daniels, Re: 7.1104, Sum: race and accent
7.1129 Disc: Multilinguality
1. Dick Hudson, Multilinguality
2. Juergen Bohnemeyer, Re: 71105 Disc: Multilinguality
3. Antonio Mariscal, multilinguality/Mezzofanti
4. Robert Early, linguality
7.1130 Sum: Working Dialogue Systems
1. Nicholas Ostler, Working Dialogue Systems: Summary
7.1131 Disc: Arabic Sign Language
1. hendrik@uvic.ca, Arabic Sign Language
2. Wendy Sandler, (Sign) Language Instinct
3. Dan&Alysse, ArabicSL
7.1132 Calls: Natural Lg Processing, Humanities computing
1. Stefan Langer, Workshop on NLP&AAC
2. Greg Lessard, CFP: Humanities computing
7.1133 FYI: Linguistic Enterprises, Conf List Update
1. Janet Fodor, Linguistic Enterprises, LSA workshop
2. "Roy F. Cochrun", Conference List Update
7.1134 Qs: Obligatory subjects & Case, Racism, Sociolx &Ling Theory
1. Gisbert Fanselow, Obligatory subjects + Case questions
2. "Daisy,Daisy", Racism
3. Stefan Martin, Sociolinguistics and linguistic theory; NSE syntax
7.1135 Jobs: Knowledge Engineer, South African language speaker
1. Missy Wolff, Knowledge Engineer job offered: Mountain View, California
2. David Zorc, Position open for South African language speaker
7.1136 TOC: U. of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics v.5
1. LAURENCO@UConnVM.UConn.Edu, U. of Connecticut Working Papers in Lx v.5
7.1137 Confs: History of Sinology, Orientalism
1. David Prager Branner, Announcement of panels on History of Sinology, Orientalism
7.1138 Disc: Multilinguality
1. AP GRANT, Re: Multilinguality: a note
2. Karl Teeter, Re: 7.1129, Disc: Multilinguality
7.1139 Qs: Relative pronoun, Iconicity in spoken lgs, Bunny Bread ad
1. Luis Alberto Gonzalez, Relative Pronoun
2. Linda Flack, Iconicity in Spoken Languages
3. Lee Hartman, Bunny Bread
7.1140 FYI: PhD scholarships, Queensland lang and law, Frisian
1. Laurie Bauer, PhD Scholarships
2. Jeff Siegel, Report on aboriginal witnesses in Queensland
3. Henk Wolf, Frisian
7.1141 Qs: Circumfixes, Case attraction, Pleasure reading list
1. "Paul de Lacy", Q: Circumfixes
2. Matthias Schlesewsky, case attraction
3. Johanna Rubba, Pleasure reading list
7.1142 FYI: Oekobase electronic database in Germany, LaTeX Macros
1. lenz@mx300e.ids-mannheim.de, Oekobase electronic database in Germany
2. Michael Covington, LaTeX Macros for Linguists
7.1143 FYI: LANGUAGE Book notices list -- August 1996
1. "Ed Battistella", LANGUAGE Book notices list -- August 1996
7.1144 Sum: Structures cognitives de _mettre_, _placer_, _poser_
1. Otto Lassen, sommaire:semantique
7.1145 Disc: Arabic Sign Language
1. Dave Harris, Arabic Sign Language
2. Mahdi Alosh, Re: 7.1131, Disc: Arabic Sign Language
7.1146 Qs: Semiotics, Word meaning, Mayan decipherment
1. J M Pepper, Re: semiotics
2. Mike Josephson, Word meaning
3. "John O'Meara", Mayan Decipherment
7.1147 Calls: Computational Semantics 2
1. Harry C. Bunt, ITK, Computational Semantics 2
7.1148 Jobs: NLP, Computational lx, Child Lg Acq, Speech Perception
1. Amy Babson, Microsoft Jobs in the Natural Language Processing Group
2. cptsai@cc.nctu.edu.tw (NCTU DFLL)ge-Id:, Computational lx, Child Lg Acquisition, Speech Perception
7.1149 FYI: Postgraduate Studentship, Back issues of Language
1. NICOLE MUELLER, Postgraduate Research Studentship in Language and Communication
2. "David Bergdahl (614) 593-2752", back issues of Language
7.1150 FYI: A tool for computational semantics
1. Holger Maier, CLEARS - educational and research tool for computational semantics
7.1151 FYI: BAAL book prize, LDC-Online, References on Hebrew
1. David Graddol, BAAL Book Prize Shortlist
2. LDC Office, LDC-Online
3. Peter Daniels, References on Hebrew
7.1152 Disc: Arabic Sign Language
1. hendrik@uvic.ca, Disc: Arabic Sign Language
2. TWRIGHT@ACCDVM.ACCD.EDU, Arabic Sign Language
7.1153 Calls: Contrastive ling, Historical ling (ICHL 1997)
1. Paul Bennett, Contrastive ling
2. Organisator, Historical ling--ICHL 1997
7.1154 Qs: Nasal vowels, Differential substitution, Apostrophes
1. robert boivin, Borrowing nasal vowels
2. Allison Mary Teasdale, Qs: Phonetics of differential substitution of fricatives
3. Jonathan Swift, Apostrophe s plurals
7.1155 Qs: Active learning in ling, Engl grammar, Small talk
1. Michael Newman, active learning
2. Kutz Arrieta, Engl grammar
3. Roger Harris, 'Smalltalk' questionnaire
7.1156 Sum: Predicate nominals
1. Deborah Schmidt, Sum: predicate nominals
7.1157 Jobs: Japanese at Ohio Univ, National Chiao Tung Univ
1. Penny Forsyth, FWD: Japanese at Ohio University
2. NCTU DFLL, National Chiao Tung University
7.1158 Sum: Grammaticalization
1. Frederick Newmeyer, Grammaticalization: Summary and discussion
7.1159 Disc: Addendum to query on circumfixes
1. "Paul de Lacy", Addendum to Q: Circumfixes
7.1160 Disc: Multilinguality
1. Karl Teeter, Re: 7.1138, Disc: Multilinguality
2. Waruno Mahdi, Re: 7.1138, Disc: Multilinguality
3. Deborah D K Ruuskanen, Re: 7.1138, Disc: Multilinguality
7.1161 Jobs: Job opening in S. Korea
1. jackie davis, Job opening in S. Korea
7.1162 TOC: SIL Journals
1. Janice_Cooper@sil.org, SIL Journals
7.1163 Qs: Full/Empty categories, Epistemic Use of _shall_, Varbrul
1. "PXX06625@niftyse", full/empty delayed
2. "M.Shuib"To: linguist@tam2000.tamu.edu, Epistemic Use of _shall_
3. abdou razky, varbrul program?
7.1164 Sum: TH-substitution
1. cpeust@gwdg.de, TH-substitution
7.1165 Sum: More on predicate nominals
1. Deborah Schmidt, sum: more on predicate nominals
7.1166 Sum: Whistled speech
1. George Huttar 709 2400, whistled speech
7.1167 Sum: Operational definition of "style"
1. Ebrahim Khodadady, Operational definition of "style"
7.1168 Confs: Negation in Groningen, Spoken lg processing (ICSLP 96)
1. Jacob Hoeksema, Negation Conference in Groningen: Final Program
2. "Tim Bunnell", Spoken Language Processing ICSLP 96
7.1169 Calls: Lg/lit in age of multimedia, Lg assessment and policy
1. "Rosalind De Sailly", Language and literature in the age of multimedia- AULLA XXIX
2. Bernard Spolsky, Language assessment and policy- ACROLT 1997
7.1170 Disc: Grammaticalization
1. Martin Haspelmath, Disc: Grammaticalization
2. Oesten Dahl, Re: 7.1158, Sum: Grammaticalization
7.1171 FYI: Japanese Job-list, List of Language Lists
1. editor@ohayosensei.com, O-Hayo Sensei #14 Available
2. Michael Everson, List of Language Lists
7.1172 Sum: Final consonants
1. cpeust@gwdg.de, Sum: final consonants
7.1173 Sum: Indic scripts in SE Asia
1. "david b. solnit", Sum: Indic scripts in SE Asia
7.1174 Qs: Comp lit, Port Royale, Grammar dev environment, Actually
1. Juan Bernardo Llanos Lamarque, Seeking resources on comparative literature and info on Port Royale
2. Paul Bennett, Grammar development environments
3. Lynne Hewitt, actually
7.1175 Qs: Teaching Vocabulary, Cohesion&Coherence, Second Lg
1. tariqsaeed, Teaching Vocabulary Building.
2. 68321009, cohesion and coherence
3. "Tanja Langhorst", Query:Second Language Instruction
7.1176 Sum: Initial vowels
1. John Atkinson, Sum: Initial vowels
7.1177 Sum: The @ sign: addendum
1. "Karen S. Chung", The @ sign: addendum
7.1178 FYI: LSA Web Page, New LDC Search and Retrieval Service
1. LSA, LSA Web page and abstracts
2. wzb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu, LDC-Online: a new search and retrieval service from the LDC
7.1179 Qs: Optimality & Syllables, Spatio-Temporal Metaphors
1. "A.E Parrondo", Optimality
2. Lera Boroditsky, QS: Spatio-temporal Metaphors
7.1180 All: LINGUIST on vacation
1. The LINGUIST List, LINGUIST on vacation
7.1181 Calls: Pacific Asia conf, Chinese dialectology
1. PACLIC 11, 11th Pacific Asia Conference
2. David Prager Branner, Call: Chinese Dialectology conference
7.1182 Qs: Preparing papers, Graduate programs, Complementizers
1. Teresa A. Ehling, Preparing papers
2. Elizabeth Lynn, Seek help identifying graduate programs
3. Guy Deutscher, Qs: Complementizers from 'like/be like'
7.1183 Disc: Multilinguality, Grammaticalization
1. Stavros Macrakis, Multilinguality
2. David Pesetsky, Re: 7.1170, Disc: Grammaticalization
7.1184 Disc: Guanhua
1. Hua Lin, Re: Conference on Guan(1)hua(4)
7.1185 Disc: Arabic Sign Language
1. Dave Harris, Re: Arabic Sign Language
7.1186 Qs: Software, Schemata, Linguists' dates, Dialect in L2 class
1. "Rafal Zuchowski", Software
2. "R.Y.L. TANG", Q: Schemata through lexical cues
3. "Larry Trask", Q: linguists' dates
4. Rebecca Larche Moreton, Dialects in the foreign language classroom
7.1187 Calls: Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Call for photos from COSWL
1. Mimi Lipson, Penn Linguistics Colloquium
2. David Silva, Call for Photos from COSWL
7.1188 Jobs: Academia Sinica, ESL in Taegu, Korea
1. HSCYT@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw, Academia Sinica
2. Park, Sang Jin, ESL at YES branches in Taegu, Korea
7.1189 Qs: Preparing papers (Correction of Vol-7-1182)
1. Teresa A. Ehling, Preparing papers
7.1190 Sum: "my own ones"
1. Kutz Arrieta, "my own ones" summary
7.1191 Qs: L2 acquisition, Clinical ling textbook, Round vowels
1. clr@maties.sun.ac.za, Second language acquisition as pidginisation
2. David Gil, Clinical Linguistics textbook?
3. Rachel Walker, round vowels
7.1192 Sum: Macintosh version of Varbrul
1. abdou razky, Varbrul Macintosh (sum)
7.1193 FYI: Nat'l Science Foundation, SWOT II proceedings, ELT url
1. pchapin@nsf.gov, Program Director for Linguistics at the National Science Foundation
2. Irvine Linguistics Students Association, UCIWPL-2 (SWOT II proceedings)
3. KENJI KITAO, useful resources for ELT teachers
7.1194 Confs: KONVENS 96 Registration and Program
1. "Konvens", KONVENS 96, 7.-9.07.96: Anmeldung/Registration
2. "Konvens", KONVENS 96, 7.-9.07.96: PROGRAMM (Stand 2. Juli 1996)
7.1195 Qs: "unsubscribe",Cross-cultural communication,"direct object"
1. Charlie Rowe, Q: usage: unsubscribe TO or FROM?
2. "Douglas C. Walker", Query: Programmes in Cross-cultural Communication
3. "Dr. Elke Hentschel", Qs: term "direct object"
7.1196 Qs: Readability, Non-restrictive relatives, Verb aspect
1. Le destin des fees, Q: Readability in French and Spanish
2. Tom Mylne, `That' in non-restrictive relatives
3. spitz, verb aspect
7.1197 Jobs: TESOL at Central Connecticut, Ling at Dartmouth
1. OSBURNEA@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU, TESOL at Central Connecticut State University
2. Lenore A. Grenoble, Visiting position at Dartmouth
7.1198 FYI: FY97 Grants from Office of Postsecondary Education
1. Minchew@act.org, FY97 Grants from Office of Postsecondary Education
7.1199 Qs: Engl grammar, Ukrainian discourse, Romance adverbs
1. Ronald Schilling, Engl grammar
2. kristoffer greaves, Ukrainian Discourse and Culture
3. cwhiteley@tyco.geis.com, Romance adverbs
7.1200 Disc: Guanhua
1. wcli@vax.ox.ac.uk, Mandarin (guanhua)
7.1201 All: Reading LINGUIST at the Rochester Site
1. Anthony M Aristar, Reading LINGUIST at Rochester Site
7.1202 Jobs: TESL at East Carolina U, Engl ling in Lille, France
1. Bruce Southard, Assistant Professor of English, TESL specialization, East Carolina University
2. Philip H. Miller, English Linguistics position in Lille, France
7.1203 Qs: Proverbial sayings, Metaphors, Ambiguous sentences
1. Bert Peeters, Connotations of proverbial sayings
2. Mark O Sondrol, Metaphors
3. Eung-Cheon Hah, Ambiguous or unambiguous ?
7.1204 Sum: Pleasure reading
1. jrubba@harp.aix.calpoly.edu, Pleasure reading
7.1205 FYI: Indo-European course register, Text corpus of Dutch
1. "Fco. Javier Martnez Garca", TITUS: Indo-European Course Register
2. Rob van Strien, Text Corpus of Dutch
7.1206 FYI: Url for ling resources, Archive of unpublished papers
1. KENJI KITAO, resources for linguistics
2. Dick Hudson, unpublished papers
7.1207 Calls: Workshop on dialogue, Pragmatics workshop
1. Jaeger Gerhard, Calls: Workshop on Dialogue
2. Martin Hartung, Call: 3. Pragmatic Workshop
7.1208 Disc: Grammaticalization
1. Martin Haspelmath, Disc: Grammaticalization
2. Bill Croft, Grammaticalization
3. "Larry Trask", Disc: grammaticalization
7.1209 Disc: Operational definition of "style"
1. Peter Daniels, Re: 7.1167, Sum: Operational definition of "style"
7.1210 Qs: Implicatures, Tests for interpreters, Lang in the media
1. PIERRE LARRIVEE, implicatures
2. "Marcus W. Dickson", Hiring tests for interpreters
3. Luis Silva-Villar, Language in the media
7.1211 Confs: Formal description of Slavic langs, NELS 27 program
1. Peter Kosta, Second European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages in Potsdam\n 1997
2. Tony PI, NELS 27 PROGRAM
7.1212 Sum: Circumfixes
1. "Paul de Lacy", SUM: Circumfixes