LINGUIST List, December 1997

December 1997 Issues

8.1720 Qs: Language and Gender, Creoles, Japanese, Ebonics
1. Hadumod Bussmann, Language and gender
2. Martin Wynne, Panamanian creoles
3. Natasha Lynn Warner, Japanese online dictionary
4. Valencia Young, Ebonics
8.1721 Disc: Re: 8.1657: Prescriptivism
1. Di Kilpert, Re: 8.1657: Prescriptivism
8.1722 Disc: Re: 8.1705, Sum: First Person and Gender
1. Koontz John E, Re: 8.1705, Sum: First Person and Gender
8.1723 Confs: Negation-Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics
1. P.A.Rowlett, Negation Conference
8.1724 Jobs: Theoretical/Cognitive Ling,Syntax,General Ling
1. Colin Phillips, Compuational Ling/Semantics/Syntax/SLA
2. Alison Henry, Syntax
3. Simon Donnelly,
8.1725 Sum: Location of Person Features
1. Phoevos Panagiotidis, Location of Person Features
8.1726 Qs: Lang Analysis/Corpus Size,Gender,Speech/Hearing
1. David W. Smith, Language Analysis and Corpus Size
2. Gerhard Leitner, Language, Gender, Sexuality
3. Charles C-J Lin, Speech & Hearing Science Resources
8.1727 Qs: Dialects, Journal Address, Reflexives/Pronouns
1. TWRIGHT, Southern Dialectology
2. Dr. Azim S. Assaf, Journal Of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
3. C. Broccias, Reflexives and Pronouns
8.1728 All: Obituary: Helmut Feldweg
1. Miriam Butt, Helmut Feldweg --- Obituary
8.1729 Calls: UPDATE: GLOW'98-Canadian Subs, LREC-New Date
1. Craig Thiersch, Canadian submissions to GLOW'98
2. Malin Nilsson, LREC New Submission Date: December 8
8.1730 Confs: Dialect Convergence, Student Organization
1. Paul Kerswill, Dialect convergence/divergence in Europe conference
2. Joao Costa, Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe - ConSOLE 6 - Lisbon
8.1731 Calls: Computational Linguistics
1. Eduard Hovy,
8.1732 Calls: Polish Association for Studies of English
1. Andrzej #yda, Polish Association for Studies of English - PASE
8.1733 Qs: Language is Power,Coarticulation,Corpora,Debate
1. Alan Smith, _Language is Power_
2. Martin J Ball, Coarticulation
3. rochdi@eric.u-strasbg.fr, Acquisition or Extraction /from Corpora
4. Charles C-J Lin, Debating
8.1734 Sum: Pragmatic Ambiguity
1. Chen Hongbiao, Sum: Pragmatic Ambiguity
8.1735 Qs: Blends, Aphasic Speech, VOS Langs, Ethnobiology
1. Amalia Arvaniti, Research on Blends / Blends in Greek
2. Nicole Rosen, Aphasic Speech
3. Daniel L. Everett, VOS Languages
4. Jon Clenton, Regarding Ethnobiological Classification
8.1736 Jobs: General Ling, Sentence Processing, Translation
1. Alfred Bendixen, General Ling
2. Suzanne Stevenson, Sentence Processing job
3. birgit, Translation Studies/Linguistics
8.1737 Calls: German Ling., Computation/Metaphors/Analogy
1. Gregor Hens, Germanic Linguistics (GLAC 4)
2. Hartmut Haberland, Computation for Metaphors, Analogy and Agents
8.1738 Jobs: Professor, Tech.Assistant, Edo Speaker
1. Simon Donnelly,
2. Malin Nilsson, Technical Assistant--European Lang. Resources Association
3. Cynthia Swain, Edo speaker
8.1739 Calls: Lexical Semantics, Rules & Rule-Following
1. WLSS98, Workshop on Lexical Semantics Systems
2. Bocz Andras, Colloquium on Rules & Rule-Following
8.1740 Review: Simpson (1997) Language Through Literature
1. Dr Judy L Delin, Simpson Book Review
8.1741 Confs: Constructivism
1. am004, conference on constructivism
8.1742 Jobs: English Linguistics, Spanish Linguistics
1. Ute Smit, Job: temporary professorship in English linguistics
2. Claudia Borgonovo, Job: Spanish linguistics (correction II)
8.1743 Qs: Israel, Neuroling, Lang Index, Marriage Texts
1. Jan Otterbeen, language situation in Israel
2. Bahar Otcu, neurolinguistics
3. Victor Raskin, Index of Languages
4. Maria Wolters, Announcements of marriages in newspapers
8.1744 Books: Syntax-UCI Working Papers
1. Irvine Linguistics Students Association, NEW UCI Dissertations in Linguistics
8.1745 Books: Language & Culture
1. info, Language & Culture
8.1746 Confs: Spatial Cognition
1. Mary Hegarty, Spatial Cognition Conference, Dublin, August 1997
8.1747 Books: Available for Review: Mon-Khmer Studies
1. Andrew Carnie, Available for Review: Mon-Khmer Studies
8.1748 Disc: Disc: Re: 8.1657: Prescriptivism
1. Alan Smith, Disc: Re: 8.1657: Prescriptivism
2. bwald, Disc: Re: 8.1657: Prescriptivism
8.1749 Jobs: Computational, Applied Ling, Phonetics
1. Alexander Franz, Spoken Language Translation, Sony, CA
2. Lingnan College petergu, English/Applied Ling
3. Maria Wolters, Research Asst.-Phonetics (U. Bonn)
8.1750 Qs: Chomsky/Foucault,Spectrogram,Discourse,Lang Eng
1. Stuart Robinson, Chomsky/Foucault Debate
2. Marek Przezdziecki, Spectrogram Software for PC/Windows95
3. Carlos Rodrigues, Definition in discourse
4. Bilal Kirkici, Language Engineering
8.1751 Calls: Applied Semiotics, Morphological Case
1. Elena Suleymanova, Third Workshop on Applied Semiotics - CORRECTION
2. Olaf Koeneman, Effects of Morphological Case
8.1752 Qs: Dialect/Language, Swatow Dialect, Conversation
1. gmodica, Dialect or Language?
2. YEUNG YAT FAN, Swatow Dialect
3. Jonathan Klein, Conversational Style
8.1753 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. Scott M Stirling, Prescriptivism
2. manaster, Prescriptivism
8.1754 Confs: Chinese Languages (revised program)
1. Irvine Linguistics Students Association, revised program: On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages
8.1755 FYI: LSA Poetry-Reading
1. Dennis Holt, LSA Poetry-Reading
8.1756 Calls: Autralian Natural Language Processing
1. Sandra Williams, Blue Mountains Tutorials (natural language processing)
8.1757 Jobs: EFL in Taiwan
1. bcraig, Job opportunities at Tunghai University in Taiwan
8.1758 Disc: ASL as a foreign language
1. Ellen L. Contini-Morava, ASL as a foreign language (part n)
8.1759 Qs: Determiners and Quantifiers
1. Piroska Csuri, Determiners and Quantifiers
8.1760 Calls: WECOL '98, FG/HPSG/CG
1. Teresa, First CFP - WECOL '98
2. Gosse Bouma, FG/HPSG/CG - FCP
8.1761 Disc: Re: 8.1753, Disc: Prescriptivism
1. manaster, Re: 8.1753, Disc: Prescriptivism
8.1762 Qs: Relevance Theory, Trieste Dialect, Ellipsis
1. Yus Ramos, Francisco, Journal Volume on RT: Bibliography
2. Visnja Josipovic, Dictionary of the Trieste Dialect of Italin
3. Kathleen Therese O'Connor, Ellipsis in the Second Independent Clause
8.1763 Confs: Teaching and Language Corpora
1. Lou Burnard, Teaching and Language Corpora: First Call for Participation
8.1764 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. Dick Hudson, prescriptivism
2. Thomas E. Payne, Re: 8.1753, Disc: Prescriptivism
3. Joseph Goldberg, Re: 8.1753, Disc: Prescriptivism
4. bwald, Re: 8.1753, Disc: Prescriptivism
8.1765 Confs: South Asian Lang. Analysis Roundtable
1. K Bali, South Asian Lang. Analysis Roundtable-Additions
8.1766 Books: Available for Review: Philosophy of Linguistics
1. Andrew Carnie, Available for Review (fwd)
8.1767 Qs: ESL, Taiwanese, Anaphora
1. H Stephen Straight (Binghamton U/SUNY), ESL College-Level Vocabulary-Size Minima?
2. TONG MIU SIM MALINDY, Taiwanese (Min dialect)
3. Bart Geurts, 'and' and anaphora
8.1768 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. A.F. GUPTA, Prescriptivism
2. Stirling Newberry, Re: 8.1764, Disc: Prescriptivism
3. Sharon Shelly, Re: 8.1764, Disc: Prescriptivism
4. Mike_Maxwell, re: prescriptivism
8.1769 FYI: PALA Website, The Gadget Project, Confs List
1. Martin Wynne, Poetics & Linguistics Association website
2. MARC, THE GADGET PROJECT
3. Peter White, Latest Conferenct List
8.1770 Qs: Michael Townson, Apposition, Online Grad Course
1. RUTH KENNEDY (GERMAN) PG, Book Review Request
2. H.A. HAROON, apposition
3. Lonnie Turbee, seeking online graduate course in linguistics
8.1771 Calls: Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, NLP
1. Jong-Hyeok Lee, Final CFP (Special Issue of IR on Oriental Languages)
2. Kemal Oflazer, CALL FOR PAPERS - FSMNLP'98
8.1772 Confs: Human Sentence Processing
1. Suzanne Stevenson, Corrected CUNY Conference Announcement
8.1773 Jobs: Speech Pathology, Research Fellowship
1. Speech, Language and Literacy Centre, Fw: speech pathologist vacancy
2. Dr. K. K. Luke, Research Fellowship at Hong Kong University
8.1774 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. crwhiteley, Re: 8.1768, Disc: Prescriptiv
2. Robert Knippen, Re: 8.1764, Disc: Prescriptivism
3. Joseph Goldberg, Re: 8.1768, Disc: Prescriptivism
8.1775 TOC: Functions of Language
1. Dirk NOEL, TOC: Functions of Language 4, 2 (1997)
8.1776 FYI: Interdepartmental Programs, Interactive Spanish
1. Bethany K. Dumas, Interdepartmental Degree Programs in Linguistics
2. interactivespanish, Interactive Spanish
8.1777 Calls: Northwest Ling.Conf, Multilingual Processing
1. Krista Muller, Northwest Ling. Conference--Graduate Student Conference
2. Remi Zajac, Multilingual Processing--Special Issue--Extended deadline: CFP - TAL
8.1778 Jobs: Theoretical/Computational, French, Arabic
1. Detmar Meurers, Job openings at Univ. of Tuebingen
2. Beatrice C Dupuy, Jobs: Instructor positions in French
3. Remi Zajac, Jobs at CRL: Arabic Computational Linguistics
8.1779 Sum: Critical Period References
1. Martin Wynne, critical period summary
8.1780 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. manaster, Re: 8.1768, Disc: Prescriptivism
2. Stephen DeGiulio, Re: 8.1764, Disc: Prescriptivism
3. Dick Hudson, prescriptivism
4. Thomas Egan, Disc:Prescriptivism
8.1781 Qs: Nairobi, Chinese Riddles, Generative Ling
1. george_huttar, Sheng
2. Ruth Woods, Chinese Riddles
3. Luis Carlos Molina Acevedo, Tools of Generative Linguistics to the modeling of the Common Sense
8.1782 TOC: Linguistics 35: 5 (1997)
1. Christoph Eyrich, TOC: Linguistics 35: 5 (1997)
8.1783 Confs: Manchester Postgrad Conference
1. Aimee Ashbaugh, Manchester Postgrad Conference Announcement & Call for Papers
8.1784 Calls: Logic & Language, IR with Asian Languages
1. Theoretical Linguistic Project, Logic and Language
2. Theoretical Linguistic Project, Logic and Language: addition
3. Sung Hyon Myaeng, CFP for a Special Issue of IP&M
8.1785 All: Important Notice about Linguist Donations
1. The LINGUIST List, All: Important Notice about Linguist Donations
8.1786 Jobs: Communication Disorders,Phonology,Fellowships
1. Ronnie Wilbur, Communication Disorders and Sciences
2. Peter J. Binkert, Phonology and English Linguistics
3. h32140, Research Fellowships in Linguistics
8.1787 FYI: NLP Studentship, Fellowships, LSU URL, SLA
1. effie, STUDENTSHIP--NLP
2. Suzanne E Kemmer, Fellowships for doctoral study
3. Hugh Buckingham, LSU Interdepartmental Programs
4. Lynn Alan Eubank, What SLA is(n't)
8.1788 Qs: Romania, Mid-Vowels, Finno-Ugrian Fonts, Navajo
1. Radu Daniliuc, Romanian English Center
2. A.R, Mid-Vowels/Acoustics
3. Robert and Cheryl Hosken, Combined Finno-Ugrian Languages Font For Windows
4. George Elgin, Suzette Haden Elgin, Native or fluent speakers of Navajo and Wolof
8.1789 Qs: Pronouns, Quasi-Modals, Perceptual Test
1. Rosymar Pena, Resumptive Pronouns
2. Kenji Kashino, Q: have(got)to
3. Melissa Barkat, Perceptual test
8.1790 Jobs: Comp. Sci.-Grammar, Educational Testing Service
1. Dietmar Zaefferer, Computer Scientist for Grammar Databank
2. Timothy Habick, Educational Testing Service
8.1791 Calls: Special Issue of IP&M, Coling-98
1. Sung Hyon Myaeng, CFP for a Special Issue of IP&M
2. Federica Busa, CFP Coling-98 Workshop on Computational Treatment of Nominals
8.1792 Confs: Practical Linguistics of Japanese-SFSU
1. Yukiko S. Alam, Practical Linguistics of Japanese
8.1793 Calls: TwD'98, CTIS'98
1. Peter Cheng, CFP: TwD98 - Thinking with Diagrams: Is there a science of diagrams?
2. George Angelos Papadopoulos, CFP -- Coordination Technologies for Information Systems (CTIS'98)
8.1794 TOC: Text 17: 2 (1997)
1. Christoph Eyrich, TOC: Text 17: 2 (1997)
8.1795 FYI: HyperLex, TEXT conflict
1. Steven Bird, HyperLex: Virtual Fieldwork Online
2. Teun A. van Dijk, TEXT conflict
8.1796 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. Ivan A Derzhanski, Re: 8.1780, Disc: Prescriptivism
2. William Morris, Prescriptivism
3. Vsten Dahl, Prescriptivism
8.1797 All: Obituary--Roger Brown
1. Jean Berko Gleason, Obituary--Roger Brown
8.1798 Calls: Trends/Tendances 98, Tense and Mood Selection
1. Chantal Dion, Trends/Tendances 98
2. Pianesi Fabio, Tense and Mood Selection
8.1799 Qs: Predicates/Referents,False Friends,Romance Ling
1. Frederick Newmeyer, Squishy Predicates and Referents
2. Catarina Forslund FRA, False Friends
3. Jon Aske, Qn: Romance Linguistics Courses
8.1800 FYI: Lingua URL, Trans. Software, MA Program
1. Ethesis, Lingua URL (Suzette Elgin Site)
2. Nenad Koncar, Translation Software: New Speaking Edition of Word Translator
3. Lise Menn, New Linguistics MA: Teaching English to Speakers of East Asian Languages
8.1801 Calls: ECAI-98, NON-LEXICAL SEMANTICS
1. ecai98, ECAI-98: EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS
2. Richard Zuber, NON-LEXICAL SEMANTICS
8.1802 Books: Phonology
1. Kristi Long, New book: Phonology
8.1803 Books: Syntax
1. Jud Wolfskill, Book: The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation
8.1804 Calls: COLING-ACL'98, Functional Grammar
1. Congres COLING-ACL 98, COLING-ACL'98
2. mackenzi@let.vu.nl, 8th Intl. Conf. on Functional Grammar
8.1805 FYI: TEXT conflict
1. Mouton, TEXT: Reaction to Teun van Dijk's statement of December 16, 1997
8.1806 Confs: Natural Language Processing
1. Dominique Estival, ANLP Post Graduate Workshop
8.1807 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. David Harris, Re: 8.1796, Disc: Prescriptivism
2. David Harris, definition of infinitives
3. manaster, Re: 8.1796, Disc: Prescriptivism
8.1808 Calls: New Journal: ALSIC, Coling-ACL'98 Final Call
1. Thierry Selva, New Journal: ALSIC
2. Priscilla Rasmussen, Coling-ACL'98 Final Call for Papers
8.1809 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. manaster, Re: 8.1807, Disc: Prescriptivism
2. Dick Hudson, prescriptivism
3. bwald, Re: 8.1796, Disc: Prescriptivism
8.1810 Jobs: TESOL/Distance Ed, Sytax/Semantics, Programming
1. Marianna Di Paolo, TESOL/Distance Ed Job
2. Andrew Barss, Syntax/Semantics, Tenure-track, U Arizona
3. Thilo Goetz, Programming, IBM T.J. Watson Research
8.1811 All: LINGUIST on Vacation
1. The LINGUIST List, LINGUIST on Vacation
8.1812 All: LINGUIST and 1997
1. The LINGUIST List, LINGUIST and 1997
8.1813 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. Mike_Maxwell, Prescriptivism
2. manaster, Re: 8.1809, Disc: Prescriptivism
3. Gek Ling and Peter Tan, Prescriptivism in dictionaries
8.1814 FYI: Ling. Associations: Finland, ILFGA
1. Matti Miestamo, FYI: Ling. Assoc. of Finland WWW-pages
2. Tracy Holloway King, ILFGA (New Association)
8.1815 Qs: Reference, E-mail, "Faux Amis," Back-up on CD
1. Sakaedani, Article
2. Richard Coates, Sociolinguistics of E-mail
3. Catarina Forslund FRA, Query : false cognates, faux amis, etc.
4. N o s t a l g i a, Backing up fieldwork recordings on CDs
8.1816 TOC: The 13th Northwest Linguistics Conference
1. Elizabeth J. Currie, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Northwest Linguistics Conference
8.1817 Calls: Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Computation
1. Una-May O'Reilly, Genetic Programming Grad Student Workshop
2. Una-May O'Reilly, Canadian AI: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation
8.1818 Confs: Linguistics & Literature
1. LYNN EUBANK, 1998 Languaging Conference
8.1819 Books: Language Typology
1. Christoph Eyrich, New Books: Language Typology
8.1820 Books: Syntax
1. Sarah Hansen, Syntax(CORRECT VERSION)
8.1821 Books: Text, Speech & Language Technology
1. Sarah Hansen, Text, Speech & Language Technology
8.1822 FYI: Software for Corpus Searches
1. Lee Hartman, Software for Corpus Searches
8.1823 Confs: Turkish Linguistics
1. Asli Goksel, IXth International Conference on Turkish Linguistics
8.1824 Jobs: General English/Ling., ASL/English Interpreting
1. Michio FUNAKI, General English/Linguistics
2. Wayne Cowart, ASL & ASL/English Interpreting
8.1825 Qs: Enquete de l'acceptabilite,Italian,Text
1. NAGAHARA T., enquete de l'acceptabilite
2. Giampaolo Poletto, Prepositions in Italian
3. Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Looking for Source on Text Statistics
8.1826 Confs: Comparative Celtic Ling, Medieval Irish Studies
1. Javier Martinez Garcia,
8.1827 Confs: Linguistics & Literature
1. elaine, 1998 Languaging Conference
8.1828 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. Daniel Zimmerman, Re: 8.1813, Disc: Prescriptivism
2. Dick Hudson, prescriptivism
3. Karl V.(van Duyn) Teeter, Re: Disc: Prescriptivism
4. Karl V.(van Duyn) Teeter, Re: Discussion of Prescriptivism
8.1829 Calls: IsCLL 6, Cognitive & Functional Approaches
1. iscll, IsCLL6--New Submission Deadline
2. Jordan Lachler, First High Desert Student Conference in Linguistics
8.1830 Calls: Semantics/Pragmatics,Intermedia Representations
1. Joris Hulstijn, Twendial - Formal Semantics & Pragmatics of Dialogue
2. James Pustejovsky, Call for Papers for COLING/ACL 1998 WORKSHOP
8.1831 Calls: Creole, Computational Treatment of Nominals
1. Tometro Hopkins, Fourth Annual Creole Language Workshop
2. Priscilla Rasmussen, Coling-ACL'98 Workshop Call for Papers
8.1832 Disc: Prescriptivism
1. Tom Sawallis, Re: 8.1807, Disc: Prescriptivism
2. PBarr21106, Re:8.1813, Disc: Prescriptivism
8.1833 Sum: Christmas Wishes in Different Languages
1. Dr R Doctor, Christmas Wishes. Better Late Than Never
8.1834 Calls: Italian & German Language & Law
1. Veronesi Daniela, Italian and German Language and Law
8.1835 Confs: Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
1. Javier Martinez Garcia, Stellenauschreibung: BAT IIa 2/3: Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
8.1836 FYI: Transliteration, Chinese & Japanese
1. Donna Christian, International transliteration standards
2. writchie, Chinese and Japanese