LINGUIST List, May 2008

May 2008 Issues

19.1460 Books: Historical Linguistics: Laks (Ed)
1. Janet Joyce, Origin and Evolution of Languages: Laks (Ed)
19.1461 FYI: Christopher Brumfit Thesis Award 2008
1. Graeme Porte, Christopher Brumfit Thesis Award 2008
19.1462 FYI: NY Premiere of THE LINGUISTS
1. Daniel Miller, NY Premiere of THE LINGUISTS
19.1463 FYI: Opening Day of the National Museum of Language
1. Jill Robbins, Opening Day of the National Museum of Language
19.1464 FYI: New Book Series:Routledge Studies in Multimodality
1. Kay O'Halloran, New Book Series:Routledge Studies in Multimodality
19.1465 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Linguistic Content Analyst, SkyGrid
1. Johnson, Computational Linguistics: Linguistic Content Analyst, SkyGrid, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
19.1466 Qs: Conditionals Instead of Must/Should/May Modals
1. Stefan Knoob, Conditionals Instead of Must/Should/May Modals
19.1467 Confs: New Date: May 28th, 2008
1. Vassil Mostrov, La détermination côté définitude
19.1468 Confs: Sociolinguistics/USA
1. Alexis Lanham, SociolinguisticsFest
19.1469 Confs: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics/USA
1. Jessica Shepard, Tufts University - Music, Language, and the Mind
19.1470 Jobs: Semantics: Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University
1. Nikhila Pai, Semantics: Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, CA, USA
19.1471 Jobs: English & Sociolinguistics: Lecturer, Queen Mary, U London
1. J Evans, English & Sociolinguistics: Lecturer, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom
19.1472 Jobs: English & Natural Language Processing: Head of NLP, Spinvox
1. Rob Fox, English & Natural Language Processing: Computational Linguist / Head of NLP, Spinvox, Buckinghamshire, UK
19.1473 Jobs: Natural Language Processing: Engineer/Researcher, Alelo, Inc.
1. Andre Valente, Natural Language Processing: Engineer/Researcher, Alelo, Inc., Los Angeles, CA, USA
19.1474 Calls: General Ling,Typology/Brazil; General Ling/Belgium
1. W. Leo Wetzels, The Structure of the Amazonian Languages II
2. Valerie Wielemans, La scalarité dans tous ses aspects
19.1475 FYI: All-New SpecGram (May 2008) Online
1. Trey Jones, All-New SpecGram (May 2008) Online
19.1476 FYI: Call for Participation: INFILE
1. Helene Mazo, Call for Participation: INFILE
19.1477 FYI: MA in Language and Communication - Georgetown
1. Anna Marie Trester, MA in Language and Communication - Georgetown
19.1478 Qs: Non-Permanent Morpheme Deletion in German Dialect
1. Sabine Mayer-Saar, Non-Permanent Morpheme Deletion in German Dialect
19.1479 Jobs: Various Languages, Applied Ling: Lecturer, U Toronto Scarborough
1. William R. Bowen, Arabic, Standard; Sanskrit; Hindi; Chinese, Mandarin & Applied Linguistics: Lecturer, University of Toronto Scarborough, ON, Canada
19.1480 Calls: Computational Ling/UK; Applied Ling,Computational Ling/Belgium
1. Sabine Schulte im Walde, Coling 2008 Workshop on Human Judgements in CL
2. Sebastian Blohm, ECML PKDD High-level Information Extraction Workshop
19.1481 Diss: Lang Acq: Lambert: 'Issues in Family Language Planning and Tr...'
1. Brigitte Lambert, Issues in Family Language Planning and Transmission
19.1482 Confs: Guyanese Creole English, Jamaican Creole English/Jamaica
1. Jo-Anne Ferreira, CLLI 2008 Workshops
19.1483 Confs: Anthropological Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation/USA
1. Michael Hegarty, Symposium on Louisiana Dialects and Cultures
19.1484 Confs: Typology/Austria
1. Marianne Bakro-Nagy, Uralic Typology Database Conference
19.1485 Calls: General Ling/Germany; Applied Ling,Lang Acq/Brazil
1. Marco Garcia Garcia, Workshop on Transitivity
2. Custódio Martins, 1st World Simposium in Portuguese Language Studies
19.1486 All: Obituary: Gail Jefferson (1938-2008)
1. Susan Ervin-Tripp, Obituary: Gail Jefferson (1938-2008)
19.1487 Books: Lang Doc/Socioling/Anthropological Ling: Marsaja
1. Ulrik Zeshan, Desa Kolok: Marsaja
19.1488 Books: Applied Ling/Discipline of Ling/Socioling: Rau, Florey (Eds)
1. Akiemi Glenn, Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages: Rau, Florey (Eds)
19.1489 Review: Available for Review
1. Randall Eggert, Reviews: Available for Review
19.1490 TOC: Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17/2 (2008)
1. Jasper de Vaal, Journal of East Asian Linguistics Vol 17, No 2 (2008)
19.1491 TOC: Journal of East Asian Linguistics 17/1 (2008)
1. Jasper de Vaal, Journal of East Asian Linguistics Vol 17, No 1 (2008)
19.1492 TOC: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26/1 (2008)
1. Jasper de Vaal, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Vol 26, No 1 (2008)
19.1493 Calls: General Linguistics/Arena Romanistica (Jrnl)
1. Anje Müller Gjesdal, Arena Romanistica
19.1494 Calls: Anthropological Ling/General Ling/Language Meaning .. (Jrnl)
1. Chiho Inoue, Language Meaning and Society
19.1495 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Team Lead, Zi Corporation
1. Cassandra Gorski, Computational Linguistics: Team Lead, Zi Corporation, Telecommute
19.1496 Jobs: Spanish & Transcription: Translator, McNeil Technologies
1. Matthew Curis, Spanish & Transcription: Translator, McNeil Technologies, Chantilly, VA, USA
19.1497 Sum: Overt Markers on Mass Nouns
1. Michael Barrie, Overt Markers on Mass Nouns
19.1498 Qs: African Proverbs - Translations Needed
1. janet randall, African Proverbs - Translations Needed
19.1499 Qs: Specified Grammatical Features in CQP Form?
1. steve steinberg, Specified Grammatical Features in CQP Form?
19.1500 Diss: Applied Ling/Phonology/Psycholing: Sicola: 'No, they won't ...'
1. Laura Sicola, 'No, they won't 'just sound like each other': NNS-NNS negotiated interaction and attention to phonological form on targeted L2 pronunciation tasks
19.1501 Review: Sociolinguistics: Beswick (2007)
1. Maria Carmen Parafita Couto, Regional Nationalism in Spain
19.1502 Review: Pragmatics: Hedberg & Zacharski (2007)
1. Ahmad Lotfi, The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface
19.1503 Review: Cognitive Linguistics: Radden & Dirven (2007)
1. Jie Zhang, Cognitive English Grammar
19.1504 Review: Cognitive Linguistics: Duncan et al (2007)
1. Pentti Haddington, Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language
19.1505 Calls: Computational Linguistics/USA; Language Acquisition/China
1. Robert Ross, Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems
2. Densie Chan, Workshop on Sign Bilingualism in the Asia-Pacific
19.1506 Calls: General Ling/Croatia; Computational Ling/USA
1. Marko Tadić, Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages
2. Xingquan Zhu, The 2nd KDD Workshop on Mining Multiple Info. Sources
19.1507 Jobs: English & Experimental Phonetics: Researcher, U Oxford
1. Greg Kochanski, English & Experimental Phonetics: Researcher, The University of Oxford, UK
19.1508 Jobs: Various Langs & Gen Ling: Asst Prof/Lecturer, Utrecht University
1. Sergio Baauw, Various Languages & General Linguistics: Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Utrecht University, Netherlands
19.1509 Jobs: Phonetics / Phonology: Rank Open, Hankuk U of Foreign Studies
1. Jongsup Jun, Phonetics / Phonology: Rank Open, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea
19.1510 Support: Speech Recognition, NLP: PhD Student, University of Trento
1. Sebastian Varges, Speech Recognition, NLP: PhD Student, University of Trento, Italy
19.1511 Calls: General Ling/Germany; General Ling/USA
1. Markus Hiller, Prosodic Alignment at the Word Level
2. Sonia Barnes, 17th Coll. Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Lit & Linguistics
19.1512 Review: Sociolinguistics: Noy (2007)
1. Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay, Narrative Community
19.1513 Review: Typology: Malchukov (2007)
1. Antonis Polentas, Dependency Reversal in Noun-Attributive Constructions
19.1514 Diss: Comp Ling: Eisenstein: 'Gesture in Automatic Discourse Proces...'
1. Jacob Eisenstein, Gesture in Automatic Discourse Processing
19.1515 Jobs: Applied Linguistics: Consultant, Verilogue
1. Brett Collins, Applied Linguistics: Consultant, Verilogue, Telecommute
19.1516 FYI: Proceedings of SuB12
1. Kjell Johan Sæbø, Proceedings of SuB12
19.1517 Qs: Project of Research on Word-Formation
1. Pascal Biesenbach, Project of Research on Word-Formation
19.1518 Jobs: Semantics / Psycholinguistics: Post Doc, University of Goettingen
1. Regine Eckardt, Semantics / Psycholinguistics: Post Doc, University of Goettingen, Germany
19.1519 Jobs: Semantics: PostDoc / PhD Position, University of Goettingen
1. Magdalena Schwager, Semantics: PostDoc / PhD Position, University of Goettingen, Germany
19.1520 Diss: Socioling: Wagner: 'Linguistic Change and Stabilization in th...'
1. Suzanne Wagner, Linguistic Change and Stabilization in the Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood
19.1521 Diss: Semantics: Choi: 'Free Choice and Negative Polarity: A compos...'
1. Jinyoung Choi, Free Choice and Negative Polarity: A compositional analysis of Korean polarity sensitive items
19.1522 Diss: Comp Ling/Syntax: Spruit: 'Quantitative Perspectives on Synta...'
1. Marco Spruit, Quantitative Perspectives on Syntactic Variation in Dutch Dialects
19.1523 Jobs: English & Applied Ling: Voice User Interface Designer, Voxify Inc
1. Human Resources, English & Applied Linguistics: Voice User Interface Designer, Voxify Inc., Alameda, CA, USA
19.1524 Confs: General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics/Canada
1. Scott Catledge, 23rd Congress of Onomastic Sciences
19.1525 Confs: Cognitive Science, Discourse Analysis/China
1. Istvan Kecskes, Summer Institute 'Culture, Communication, Cognition'
19.1526 Confs: Sociolinguistics, French Language/France
1. Gilles Siouffi, Colloque 'Modes langagières dans l'histoire'
19.1527 Confs: Discourse Analysis/Finland
1. Fred Dervin, Living, Working and Studying in Vehicular Languages
19.1528 Confs: Computational Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Australia
1. Martin Forst, 13th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference
19.1529 Confs: General Ling, Catalonian Sign Lang, Spanish Sign Lang/Spain
1. Brendan Costello, 4th Sign Language Week
19.1530 Confs: Sociolinguistics/UK
1. Peter beim Graben, Workshop on Dynamical Systems in Language
19.1531 All: This week's LINGUIST Notice Board
19.1532 FYI: CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Open Information Manag
1. Samuli Niiranen, CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Open Information Manag
19.1533 Calls: Anthropological Ling/UK; General Ling/Egypt
1. Julia Snell, Advances in Ethnography, Language and Communication
2. Salwa Elramly, 8th Conference On Language Engineering
19.1534 Calls: General Ling,Lang Acq/Sweden; Applied Ling,Lang Acq/Romania
1. Nino Amiridze, 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics
2. Anisoara Pop, Challenges of European Integration
19.1535 Qs: Languages That Use Copies as Anaphors?
1. Felicia Lee, Languages That Use Copies as Anaphors?
19.1536 Diss: Pragmatics/Translation: Yeung: 'Pragmatics and Translation: W...'
1. Ka-wai Yeung, Pragmatics and Translation: With reference to English-Chinese and Chinese-English examples
19.1537 Jobs: French & Phonétique: Asst Prof, Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi
1. Gleider Hernandez, French & Phonétique, Linguistique Informatique, Socio Ou Psycholinguistique: Asst Prof, Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
19.1538 Jobs: Wiyot & Applied Linguistics: Manager, Wiyot Tribe
1. Helene Rouvier, Wiyot & Applied Linguistics: Manager, Wiyot Tribe, CA, USA
19.1539 Calls: General Ling/Hong Kong; Computational Ling,Psycholing/USA
1. Andy Chin, The 13th Int'l Conference on Cantonese & Yue Dialects
2. William Sakas, Psychocomputational Models of Language Acquisition
19.1540 Jobs: English & General Linguistics: Lecturer, University of Sydney
1. Kirsty Adam, English & General Linguistics: Lecturer, University of Sydney, Australia
19.1541 FYI: Seminar Series at Aston U: Cycles of Grammaticalization
1. Pierre Larrivee, Seminar Series at Aston U: Cycles of Grammaticalization
19.1542 FYI: How to Use MICASE Online -- Video Demo Available!
1. Ute Römer, How to Use MICASE Online -- Video Demo Available!
19.1543 FYI: New Guidelines and Application Instructions
1. Helen Agera, New Guidelines and Application Instructi