LINGUIST List, December 1996

December 1996 Issues

7.1699 Qs: Zapotec, Machine readable Chinese, Komi stress
1. Phoebe Hensen Vitharana, question about Zapotec
2. Paul Woods, Machine Readable Chinese Stuff
3. "Paul de Lacy", Komi Stress
7.1700 Qs: Right-dislocation in English, Pronunciation of bury
1. "Rosa Perez Rodriguez", Right-dislocation in English
2. Mary Ellen Ryder, Pronunciation of bury
7.1701 Qs: Arabic speakers of English, Noun number categories
1. pappzsm@osiris.elte.hu, Vowel problems of Arabic speakers of English
2. alexandra schaffert, Noun number categories
7.1702 Qs: CD Indonesian lang course, Charles de Brosses
1. Guenter Plum, CD Indonesian lang course
2. Robin Allott, Charles de Brosses
7.1703 Confs: 7th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference, ConSOLE 5
1. Norbert Cyffer, 7th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference
2. Joao Costa ConSOLE 5 - program
7.1704 All: Report on LINGUIST on-line conference
1. Daniel Seely, On-line Conference Report
7.1705 All: Introductions and Thanks
1. The LINGUIST List, Introductions and Thanks
7.1706 All: Call for Conference Topics
1. The LINGUIST List, Call for Conference Topics
7.1707 Jobs: English/Applied Lx, Assistant Professor of Lx (Boston)
1. i22535@cctu.cc.tohoku.ac.jp, Faculty Position at Miyagi Gakuin Women's College
2. Carol Neidle, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Boston University
7.1708 Sum: Linguistically significant films
1. "steven h. weinberger", SUM: linguistically significant films
7.1709 Sum: Language of blind people
1. "A.T.C.Fox", Language of blind people
7.1710 Qs: Mexican prosody, Bib info, Mysterious symbol
1. Peter Farruggio, help with Mexican prosody
2. Aya Matsuda, Bib info
3. Atsushi Fukada, Q: mysterious symbol
7.1711 Qs: Hebrew, Software, Ambiguity test, French
1. Vincent DeCaen, Hebrew ki-clauses?
2. ferre.g@humana.univ-nantes.fr ( =?iso-88, Looking for software
3. MNadman@aol.com, Ambiguity Tests
4. "j. magierowicz", graded reading passage: french
7.1712 Confs: Morphology-Workshop/University of Potsdam
1. Jens Michaelis, Morphology-Workshop/University of Potsdam
7.1713 Jobs: Computational, Translator, Syntax
1. Karen Wallace, Computational lexicographer
2. Klaus Schubert, JOB OPENING IN TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN GERMANY
3. Gregory Ward, Syntax position at Northwestern University
7.1714 Qs: Internet, English, Books, Applied Linguistics
1. Ingrid Kristine Hasund, Communication on the Internet
2. Birgit Kellner, English easiest language?
3. pages selena, book out of print
4. lopez_carmen@trad.upf.es, asla, applied linguistics
7.1715 Calls: Cognitive Science Conference, Mathematics of Language
1. Pat Langley, 1997 Cognitive Science Conference
2. Susan Deysher, CALL FOR PAPERS - Mathematics of Language 5 (MOL5)
7.1716 FYI: Book for review, New web site, Dec. Conference list
1. FRAFICI@CESIT1.UNIFI.IT, Definitite - Indefinite in Slavic
2. Lauri Karttunen, New web site for Xerox linguistic research in Europ
3. Peter White, December Conference list
7.1717 Qs: Dhivehi program, Yiddish sayings, Possession and articles
1. Joseph Ling dhivehi program
2. SNGolden@aol.com, Yiddish Sayings
3. "DGOHRE" possession and articles
7.1718 Qs: Verb classes, Hebrew statives, dictionary, Russian change
1. Adrian Clynes, Verb classes
2. Vincent DeCaen, Q? Hebrew statives?
3. Marion Gunn, dictionary (definition)
4. Volkmar Engerer, Communication in Russian enterprises
7.1719 Jobs: TEFL, Psychology of Language, French, Visiting
1. schiess@stud.uni-frankfurt.de, TEFL: Frankfurt, Germany
2. Amy Weinberg, Psychology/Neuropsychology of Language
3. Gavin Burnage, Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in French, Cambridge
4. Mike Flynn, visiting position at Carleton College
7.1720 Jobs: Postdoc, Japanese
1. Gregory Ward, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University
2. MAKI@SALEM.WVNET.EDU, Japanese (Revised)
7.1721 Sum: Creolistics
1. rowe@isis.unc.edu, Summary: creolistics queries
7.1722 All: New Editorial Address for LINGUIST
1. The LINGUIST LIST, New Editorial Address for LINGUIST
7.1723 Calls: XXII Congres Linguistique Romane, Postgraduate Conf
1. congres romane (Annick Englebert), XXII Congres Linguistique Romane
2. Matthew John Absalom, Calls: Postgraduate Conference
7.1724 Calls: English lang and ling, Languages of the Americas
1. "Jerzy Wojcik", English lang and ling
2. Shanley Allen, Languages of the Americas
7.1725 Calls: Knowledge retrieval, Human-computer miscommunication
1. Guy Mineau, call for papers KRUSE-97
2. Susan McRoy, Special Issue of IJHCS: Detecting and Preventing Miscommunication
7.1726 Confs: Lang acquisition, Language change, Going Romance
1. "Jeannette C. Schaeffer", Acquisition Workshop MIT
2. "Organisator", Literacy, Media, and Language Change
3. "M. de Wind", ***** Going Romance 1996 (FINAL PROGRAM!!) *****
7.1727 Qs: Benefective causative construction, Brand names, Mandarin
1. "Beatriz Juacaba", Benefective causative construction
2. Brent Scarcliff, Brand Names
3. Jean Wang, Mandarin vowel system
7.1728 Qs: Intonation studies, Cardinaletti, Oral approximants
1. yystud@ibmstone.pku.edu.cn, queries about intonation studies
2. elisa vazquez iglesias, Cardinaletti's article
3. jose.diaz@siur.unirioja.es, Question:Devoicing of oral approximants
7.1729 Qs: Comprehension/communication, Bible, HTML for Middle Engl
1. "S.Goodman (Sharon Goodman)", Comprehension/communication - book suggestions?
2. Alberto Alvarez Lugris, Bible on net
3. Mark Davies, HTML for Middle English "yogh"
7.1730 FYI: New SignWriter Newsletter, Degas exhibit update
1. SignWriting, New SignWriter Newsletter Posted
2. Gregory Ward, Degas exhibit update
7.1731 FYI: Linguistik at Uni Goettingen.de, New list -- FLING
1. Joachim Becker, FYI: Linguistik at Uni Goettingen.de
2. Megan Crowhurst, New list -- FLING
7.1732 FYI: European summer school on lg acq
1. Sven Stroemqvist, European summer school on lg acq
7.1733 Jobs: EFL/Socioling, Basque, History & sociology of texts
1. Mark Sawyer, Job: EFL/EAP/Sociolinguistics at Kwansei Gakuin University
2. Dennis Merritt, Looking for Basque translators and interpreters
3. Frank Schumacher, History and sociology of texts
7.1734 TOC: International Journal Of Bilingualism
1. "Li Wei", International Journal Of Bilingualism
7.1735 Disc: Tonkawa, Zuni & Vocabulary Comparison
1. John E. Koontz, Re: 7.1654, Disc: Tonkawa, Zuni & Vocabulary Comparison
7.1736 FYI: Doctoral student position(Goeteborg), Fellowship(Rice)
1. Joakim Nivre, Job: Position for doctoral student in linguistics
2. Suzanne E Kemmer, doct. fellowship competition
7.1737 Books: Concise Encyclopedia Of Syntactic Theories
1. Lesley Williams, NEW BOOK - CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SYNTACTIC THEORIES
7.1738 Sum: Phonological phrase
1. D.B. den Ouden, summary phonological phrase
7.1739 Qs: English in China, Arabic, _tries and_+finite verb, Quasi-modals
1. HSINTL, Teaching English in China
2. Jose R. Alvarez (LUZ), Arabica
3. Scriff Biff, _tries and_+finite verb
4. Dick Norwood, Quasi-modals in English
7.1740 Calls: Fleat 3, CLS, Chinese Dialectology
1. Mary Sanseverino, Fleat 3 Conference Information
2. randall henry eggert, CLS-33
3. David Prager Branner, Correction! and Call: Chinese Dialectology conference
7.1741 FYI: Humor Studies, Null Arguments, Language Games
1. Amy Carrell, 2nd Humor Studies Seminar
2. Sharon Cote, Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Arguments in English
3. Marmo Soemarmo, Language Games at the LSA Meeting
7.1742 Disc: Analogy
1. Michael Israel, Re: 7.1692, Disc: Analogy
2. James L. Fidelholtz, Re: 7.1692, Disc: Analogy
3. Daniel L. Everett, Re: 7.1692, Disc: Analogy
7.1743 Jobs: 2nd Language Acquisition/TESL, Summer Employment
1. Frank Li, 2nd Language Acquisition/TESL
2. Minchew, 1997 Summer Employment at the World Bank, Washington, DC
7.1744 Qs: Modern Greek, Free web space, Teacher survey
1. Nikos Sarantakos, Proverbial expressions in Modern Greek
2. Stefania Spina, query: free web space
3. F. Timothy Walsh, Structure of English Teacher Survey
7.1745 Qs: App psycholing meeting, Mai mai, Chinese ling
1. Sergey Avrutin, Applied Psycholinguistics meeting
2. Joyce Neu, Mai mai
3. kate, Chinese linguistics
7.1746 Sum: Generativity
1. N. Chipere, SUM: Generativity
7.1747 Sum: "Impossible that" construction
1. hiro-t, Summary: impossible that
7.1748 Confs: ELECTROLARYNGOGRAPHY/ELECTROPALATOGRAPHY conference
1. Moray Nairn, ELECTROLARYNGOGRAPHY/ELECTROPALATOGRAPHY conference
7.1749 Jobs: NLP (SHARP Laboratories of Europe), Albanian
1. Antonio Sanfilippo, NLP Job, SHARP Laboratories of Europe, UK
2. MRM, Inc., Re: Part-time language consulting
7.1750 Jobs: Research Position in German Ling, TESOL Job
1. Joerg Wagner, Job: Research Position in German Linguistics (Halle, Germany)
2. antony kunnan 10-07-92, Re: TESOL Job
7.1751 Disc: Linguistically significant other films
1. benji wald, Linguistically significant other films
7.1752 Calls: Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese, Genetic Programming-97
1. Yuki Johnson, Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese
2. John Koza, CFP for Genetic Programming-97
7.1753 Calls: Celtic Language Learning, Semiotics & Communication
1. Jim/Roz Ladrew, 3rd Celtic Language Learning Conference
2. alan harris, Commission On Semiotics And Communication
7.1754 Confs: Langue Naturelle et Document
1. Thierry Bulot, Journee thematique GRCE-TAE : "Langue Naturelle et Document"
7.1755 Jobs: Semantics, Theoretical, Slavic, Japanese
1. Sam Wang, Semantics
2. Ziv Yael, Theoretical Linguistics
3. Ellen L. Contini-Morava, Slavic Linguistics
4. Yuki Johnson, Lecturer in Japanese
7.1756 Qs: Introductory syntax, Loanwords, Phonetics software
1. Nkonko Kamwangamalu, introductory textbook:syntax
2. Paul de Lacy, QUERY: LOANWORDS
3. saida, Phonetics software
7.1757 Qs: Invented Languages, Dative shift, Contact info
1. Lisa Stevenson, Invented Languages
2. Centro Multimediale Fac. Lingue/U. di Ge, dative shift
3. Greville Corbett, Contact info
7.1758 Calls: Orthography, Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy
1. Alexandra M. Jaffe, CFP: AAA panel on orthography
2. William J. Rapaport, Pragmatics in Contemporary Philosophy
7.1759 Jobs: Kindergarten teacher in Japan, Theoretical ling at Hebrew U
1. A. Spignesi, Japan: Kindergarten teacher for International Pre-School
2. Ziv Yael, Theoretical linguistics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
7.1760 FYI: Survey of speech research, Ling resources on net
1. PONeillBrown, Survey of Speech Research in Japan
2. Roland Polzer, New linguistic resources on the net
7.1761 Calls: Lg Origins, Pidgin/Creole
1. Bernard H. Bichakjian, Language Origins Society
2. Linguist%ling%SSA, Pidgin/Creole
7.1762 Jobs: Motorola Corporate Research Lab
1. Dale Russell, Motorola Corporate Research Lab
7.1763 Calls: DIALOG'97, Conference on Computational Linguistics
1. Serge Sharoff, CFP: DIALOG'97, Conference on Computational Linguistics
7.1764 FYI: Bad Writing is rewarding!
1. alan harris, 10.0506 Bad Writing is rewarding! (fwd)
7.1765 Disc: Analogy
1. pmfarrell, Re: Disc: Analogy
7.1766 Calls: CLIC, Mathematics of Language
1. Center for Language, Interaction, and Cu, CLIC call for papers
2. Susan Deysher, CALL FOR PAPERS - MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE (MOL5)
7.1767 Sum: Asian Word Frequency
1. Peter.Ross, Asian Word Frequency
7.1768 FYI: Web Sites, Collecting NLP references
1. Peter White, ALAA Web site
2. Bradley Music, collecting CL/NLP bibl. references
3. Jacques Francois, URA 1035 LanDisCo Nancy2
7.1769 Qs: Japanese, Will/shall, Creole
1. ue303fd, Japanese: phonotactics and segmenat reduction
2. M.Shuib, Question: will and shall in journal writing
3. Philippe GUIOUGOU, creole des antilles francaise
7.1770 TOC: ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS, Volume 38
1. ,
7.1771 Jobs: Speech recognition, Applied linguistics
1. Mark Mandel, Job: foreign lang. speech recognition
2. i22535, Applied linguistics: Deadline Extension
7.1772 Calls: African linguistics, SIGIR '97
1. Justin Spence, reminder: African linguistics (ACAL 28) deadline
2. David Lewis, Call For Papers: SIGIR '97 hapax8r8f2l8kj
7.1773 FYI: Liverpool Working Papers in Applied Lx
1. Mr A.P. Berber Sardinha, Liverpool Working Papers in Applied Linguistics
7.1774 Sum: Free web space
1. Stefania Spina, SUM: free web space
7.1775 Confs: Malay/Indonesian Symposium, Lang acq
1. David Gil, Malay/Indonesian Symposium: Programme
2. Jeannette C. Schaeffer, URGENT: PROGRAM LANG. ACQ. WORKSHOP MIT
7.1776 Sum: Copulas from Pronouns
1. Nick Nicholas, Copulas from Pronouns
7.1777 Calls: Amer. Dialect Soc., Digital Resources
1. Mary Morzinski, American Dialect Society
2. Lou Burnard, Digital Resources in the Humanities
7.1778 Disc: Analogy
1. Daniel L. Everett, Re: 7.1765, Disc: Analogy
7.1779 Disc: Analogy
1. Stirling Newberry, Re: 7.1778, Disc: Analogy
7.1780 Sum: Verb Classes
1. Adrian Clynes, Summary of responses: 12,000 verb classes
7.1781 Jobs: Phonology, French linguistics
1. Ursula Kleinhenz, Phonology
2. Colette_Sauro, French linguistics
7.1782 Jobs: Educational Testing Service
1. tim habick, Jobs - Educational Testing Service
7.1783 Qs: Moraic theory, Headlines lg, Persian
1. Paul de Lacy, QUERY: Variably-Weighted CVCs
2. Jenny Halliday, Language of newspaper headlines
3. A A Jabbari, Persian verb classes
7.1784 Disc: Analogy
1. Esa Itkonen, analogy
2. RPetterson, Re: 7.1765, Disc: Analogy
7.1785 Jobs: Position at U. of Marburg
1. Ingo Plag, Position at U. of Marburg
7.1786 Books: Semantics, Phonology
1. ,
7.1787 Confs: EPG/ELG-Correction, LSRL-27
1. Moray Nairn, EPG / ELG conference CORRECTION
2. Linguistic Symposium, Information about LSRL-27
7.1788 Qs: Bilabial trill, Translation on-line
1. cpeust, Qs: bilabial trill
2. :-) Verena Freire, Translation on-line
7.1789 Qs: Greater/lesser plurals,Chimpanzee WH-qs
1. Greville Corbett, Query: Greater/lesser plurals
2. yjkim@wow.hongik.ac.kr, Wh-questions by chimpanzees
7.1790 FYI: Italian ling, OTS Dissertation Series
1. Stefania Spina, New web page on italian linguistics
2. LOT (Annette Nijstad), OTS Dissertation Series
7.1791 Calls: CALL, Lexical-Functional Grammar
1. jager, 2nd CFP - Language Teaching and Language Technology
2. Yvonne Franklin, LFG97 Information
7.1792 Qs: Holiday words, Algonquian, North Korea
1. doctor, Holiday words
2. Kip Knight, Algonquian
3. yunomi, North Korean texts
7.1793 Jobs: Teaching in Japan, Teaching in S. Korea
1. N o s t a l g i a, Teaching position
2. DAE JIN KIM, Teaching position available in South Korea
7.1794 Disc: Analogy
1. Geoffrey S. Nathan, Re: 7.1784, Disc: Analogy
2. Stirling Newberry, Re: 7.1784, Disc: Analogy
3. benji wald, Analogy: synchronic and historical
7.1795 Qs: Pidgin/creole, Schwa, Malay, ATN parser
1. Ad Neeleman, African refugees speaking English-lexifier pidgins/creoles
2. Gabriele Azzaro, Two variants of schwa
3. IDRISSI ALI, Malay
4. Gayatri (Dr.SR), request for ATN parser in C
7.1796 Calls: Japanese/Korean, Scottish, Hypertext
1. David Silva, Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
2. J. Derrick McClure, Scottish linguistic conference in Aberdeen.
3. Maria Milosavljevic, CFP: Flexible Hypertext Workshop
7.1797 FYI: Kluwer New Title Information
1. Wilco Scheffers at Kluwer, Kluwer New Title Information to Linguist Server
7.1798 Jobs: Speech recognition positions
1. Mark Mandel, Jobs: speech recognition (revised post)
7.1799 FYI: LSA Jam Session, WWW Semiotics Course
1. Daniel L. Everett, Room for LSA Jam Session
2. Simpkins Scott Keith, WWW Semiotics Course
7.1800 FYI: Postdoc in Cognitive Science
1. Chris Sandy, IRCS Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Information
7.1801 Qs: Child lg data, English texts on Spanish
1. Dick Hudson, Child language data
2. snjst1!wmbeanj, English texts on Spanish
7.1802 Calls: Language and cognition in lang.acq.
1. Dorthe Bleses, conf.: Language and cognition in lang.acq.
7.1803 Calls: Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft
1. Markus Hiller, Call: Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (German)
7.1804 Sum: Evaluative verbs
1. Jeff Turley, evaluative verbs
7.1805 Qs: Loanword, Survey, Translators, Pomak
1. Oleg Barshay, Japanese loanwords
2. hiro-t, an eager/easy man to do
3. Ronald Ross, Translators' list
4. HOWARD GREGORY, Pomak
7.1806 Jobs: TESL & Applied Linguistics
1. Ronald W. Long, Assistant Prof of TESL & Applied Linguistics
7.1807 Calls: Postgrad Ling Conf, Seoul International
1. Evelien P Pennings, ManchesterPostgradLinguisticsConference
2. Yongsoon Kang, Seoul International Conf on Linguistics
7.1808 Calls: IBEROAMERICAN CONF ON AI
1. Gabriel Pereira Lopes, IBEROAMERICAN CONF ON AI
7.1809 Qs: Speech Analysis Tool, Shoebox for Win
1. Lin Chien-Jer, Q:Speech Analysis Tool
2. Ari Solovyova, Please Help Me Get Shoebox!
7.1810 Calls: Context'97 Workshop, Text and Discourse
1. Boicho Kokinov, Context'97 Workshop - CFP
2. Wilbert Spooren, Call: Society for Text and Discourse '97
7.1811 Disc: Analogy
1. George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin, analogy
2. Ellen F. Prince, analogy
7.1812 Disc: Analogy
1. G.J. VANDEN WYNGAERD, Re: 7.1794, Disc: Analogy
2. Deborah Schmidt, analogy
3. Patrick Farrell, Re: 7.1778, Disc: Analogy
4. neulin!neulin.fmed.uba.ar!postmast@ccc.u, Analogy
7.1813 Jobs: Communication Studies
1. Robinson, Position announcement/Communication Studies
7.1814 All: LINGUIST on vacation
1. The LINGUIST List, LINGUIST on vacation
7.1815 Confs: Correction, Computational semantics
1. Dorthe Bleses, Revision: Conf. Language and cognition in Lang.acq.
2. Leen Kievit, Second International Workshop on Computational Semantics
7.1816 Qs: Parsers, Discourse lists, PIE /a/
1. Anne Sing, parser addresses
2. pkbdg, wanted maillists for CA, discourse analysis, ethnomethodology
3. Steven Schaufele, presence/absence of /a/ in PIE
7.1817 Calls: Minimalism, Symposium, HPSG-4
1. G. Alexandrova, Challenges of Minimalism
2. FRAJZYNGIER ZYGMUNT, Symposium
3. Jean-Pierre A Koenig, HPSG-4 abstracts deadline extension
7.1818 Calls: Engineering of Complex Computer Systems
1. NESI, CFP: ICECCS'97
7.1819 Calls: Digital Libraries
1. Fern E Brody, REMINDER - Call for Participation - ACM Digital Libraries
7.1820 Books: Second Language Acquisition
1. ,
7.1821 Calls: LINKS & LETTERS Issue 5: englishes
1. ilfib, CALL FOR ARTICLES: LINKS & LETTERS Issue 5: englishes
7.1822 Calls: Student Conf in Lx 9, EUROSPEECH'97
1. SCIL 9, Student Conference in Linguistics 9
2. Michael Scordilis, EUROSPEECH'97 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
7.1823 All: 1996 Contributors
1. LINGUIST Network, 1996 Contributors
7.1824 All: LINGUIST Fellowships for 1997-98
1. LINGUIST Network, 1997-98 LINGUIST Fellowships
7.1825 Disc: Ebonics
1. Peter Farruggio, ebonics
7.1826 Disc: Analogy
1. benji wald, analogy blues
2. George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin, analogy
7.1827 Disc: Verb Classes
1. Jules Levin, Re: 7.1780, Sum: Verb Classes
7.1828 Calls: Applying Historical Linguistics
1. Niki Ritt, Applying Historical Linguistics
7.1829 Confs: Sentence Processing, Romance
1. Joe Allen, CUNY 97
2. Linguistic Symposium, Information about LSRL-27
7.1830 Disc: Signed-lg
1. Sherman Wilcox, Re: 7.1757, Qs: Invented Languages, Dative shift, Contact info