LINGUIST List, September 1998

September 1998 Issues

9.1205 Sum: Capitalism in American English
1. Chang-Bong Lee, A Summary: Capitalism in AE
9.1206 Books: Pragmatics
1. Bernadette Martinez-Keck, New Books on Pragmatics
9.1207 Books: Cognitive Ling
1. Bernadette Martinez-Keck, New Books on Human Cognitive Processing
9.1208 Calls: Asian/African Langs, GLOW'99
1. Vadim B. Kassevitch, 5th Intl Conf on Asian/African Langs
2. glow99, GLOW'99
9.1209 Disc: Universal Grammar (Proof)
1. Dr. John Skoyles, S. Pinker's Response-Universal Grammar (Proof)
9.1210 Calls: Methods X
1. Methods 99 Conference, Methods X Conference
9.1211 Qs: Scope, Dialect database, Statistics programs
1. Vincent DeCaen, negative scope?
2. Daniel Long, dialect databases, computerized atlases
3. Viola L'Hommedieu, F1 and F2
9.1212 Calls: GLOW colloquium: Universals
1. glow99, GLOW colloquium 1999
9.1213 Jobs: Computational Linguistics, Microsoft NLP
1. Diego Molla-Aliod, Jobs: Two positions in Computational Linguistics
2. Veronica Hicks (Comforce/RhoTech), Job Postings for Microsoft
9.1214 Qs: Translation Majors, Adjectival Semantics
1. Deborah D K Ruuskanen, Query: Translation Major
2. Sren Harder, adjectival semantics
9.1215 Books: Semantics
1. Bernadette Martinez-Keck, New Reference Title
9.1216 Books: Translation
1. Bernadette Martinez-Keck, Books on Translation
9.1217 Books: General Ling
1. Linguistics Mailbox, New and Recent Titles in General Linguistics
9.1218 Books: Syntax & Morphology
1. Linguistics Mailbox, New and Recent Titles in Syntax & Morphology
9.1219 Books: Theoretical & Descriptive Ling
1. Linguistics Mailbox, Theoretical & Descriptive Linguistics
9.1220 Books: Socioling & Anthropological Ling
1. Linguistics Mailbox, Sociolinguistics & Anthropological Linguistics
9.1221 Books: Psycholing & Neuroling
1. Linguistics Mailbox, Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics
9.1222 Books: English Lang Studies
1. Linguistics Mailbox, The English Language
9.1223 Sum: Nominative Objects of Adpositions
1. lnarl, Nominative Objects of Adpositions
9.1224 All: This week's LINGUIST Notice Board
1. Linguist Notice Board, This week's LINGUIST Notice Board
9.1225 Books: available for review: Phonology
1. Andrew Carnie, Available for Review: Phonology
9.1226 Calls: TLS'99, 13th PACLIC
1. jocelyn cohan, 2nd Call, TLS 1999
2. wangjf, 13th PACLIC
9.1227 Jobs: Cog Sci, Speech Science
1. Jean Ann Linney, Cog Sci (Psychology)
2. Richard Eyraud, SRI Senior Project Asst
9.1228 TOC: Glot Intl 3.5
1. Rint Sybesma, Table of Contents Glot International 3-5
9.1229 FYI: TITUS, Ling Journals, TEI, Job Fair
1. agnes korn, TITUS
2. Carter Clare, Online Access for Linguistics Journals
3. C M Sperberg-McQueen, the future of the Text Encoding Initiative
4. amhvid, CAREER FORUM & JOB FAIR IN MOSCOW
9.1230 Books: Syntax
1. Rint Sybesma, New Book: Atomism and Binding
9.1231 Books: Avail for review: Semantics, Pragmatics
1. Andrew Carnie, Available for Review: Semantics, Pragmatics, Syntax
9.1232 Books: Avail. for review: Syntax, Morphology
1. Andrew Carnie, Available for Review: Syntax and Morphology
9.1233 Qs: Temporality, Wh-Qs, Consonants, BrE Phonology
1. eva born-rauchenecker, Qs: Textling. Confs, temporality in narr. texts
2. Miura Ikuo, Multiple wh-questions
3. Paul Sezonov, Consonants
4. John Wells, BrE Pronunciation Preferences
9.1234 Jobs: English Ling, Typology
1. A.G.B. ter Meulen, English Ling
2. Jennifer Elliott, LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
9.1235 Disc: POS is well-formed or not well-formed?
1. Ji Donghong, Disc: POS is well-formed or not well-formed?
9.1236 Confs: Storage & Computation in Linguistics 1998
1. UiL-OTS, Congress on Storage & Computation in Linguistics 1998
9.1237 All: In Memoriam: Charles Ferguson
1. Kimary Shahin, Charles Ferguson and Arabic
9.1238 Books: Lang acq, Ling anthropology
1. linguistlist.org, Universal grammar, Ling anthropology
9.1239 Books: Pidgins & creoles, Oceanic Ling
1. linguistlist.org, Books: Pidgins & creoles, Oceanic Ling
9.1240 Books: Phonetics (Intonation)
1. linguistlist.org, Book: Phonetics (Intonation)
9.1241 Disc: POS is well-formed or not well-formed?
1. Deborah D K Ruuskanen, Re: 9.1235, Disc: POS is well-formed or not well-formed?
2. Christopher A. Brewster, Re: 9.1235, Disc: POS is well-formed or not well-formed?
9.1242 Calls: Japanese/Korean
1. Craig Thiersch, Call for papers: 9th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
9.1243 Calls: TEFLIN'98, Feminism
1. Ahmad Sofwan, Re: TEFLIN98
2. Sadiqi, Feminist conference: Call for papers
9.1244 Calls: EuroGP'99, CL Journal
1. Bill Langdon, EuroGP'99
2. Kemal Oflazer, Special Issue CL Journal / Finite State Methods ...
9.1245 Jobs: Computational Ling, General Ling, Japanese
1. Graeme Hirst, Computational Linguistics position, University of Toronto
2. Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong, General Linguistics
3. Hiroko Yamashita, Japanese Language and Linguistics
9.1246 Confs: SPoSS
1. Marie Helene Casanova, SPoSS Program
9.1247 Sum: "UNIQUE NLP" (and CONCLUSION)
1. Anne Sing, "UNIQUE NLP" (and CONCLUSION)
9.1248 Sum: On/Off--Gradability of Non-Gradable Adjectives
1. Hiroaki Tanaka, On/Off--Gradability of Non-Gradable Adjectives
9.1249 Confs: Central Japan Language Education WS
1. Mark Peterson, Central Japan Language Education WS
9.1250 FYI: Corpus, Discussion List, Software
1. Corpus-Manager, Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English
2. taimi metzler, Invitation to Discussion in Virtual Recitation
3. Carol Neidle, New software release - SignStream version 1.0
9.1251 Calls: Chamito-semitic, Journees de Rochebrune'99
1. Ennaji, Chamito-semitic Conference
2. Christophe Parisse, Journees de Rochebrune 99
9.1252 Books: Phonology of Campidanian Sardinian
1. Rint Sybesma, New Book: Bolognesi: The phonology of Campidanian Sardinian
9.1253 Books: The iambic issue
1. Rint Sybesma, New Book: Van de Vijver: The iambic issue.
9.1254 TOC: Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 40, No. 2
1. john a. erickson, TOC: Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 40, No. 2
9.1255 Qs: Names, Classroom Disc, "Imaginarnity", Software
1. Emmanuel Aquino, Changes in naming patterns
2. shane.drews, Classroom Discourse
3. Raija S Solatie, [** ISO-8859-1 charset **] About "Imagin\228rit\228t"
4. Takame Ueki Sabine, System Commander Deluxe
9.1256 Qs: "It"/passives, Morph Tiers, Category Changes
1. Sylvie Hanote, It extraposition in passives
2. Neal R. Norrick, query: tiers in morphology
3. Mike O'Connell, category effects on language change
9.1257 Jobs: Reunion, Sociolinguistics, Indexer
1. Didier de Robillard, vacancy in Reunion
2. Catherine N. Ball, Sociolinguistics position, Georgetown University
3. Anne Mark, Recommendations re book indexers
9.1258 Calls: Weisgerber Colloq, GLOW Phon Workshop
1. Peter Schmitter, Calls: Weisgerber Colloquium
2. Rene Kager, Call: GLOW Phonology Workshop
9.1259 Books: 2nd Lang Acquisition
1. Robert Sidor, New book: Language Acquisition
9.1260 Books: Cognitive Ling
1. Robert Sidor, New book: Cognitive Linguistics
9.1261 Books: Socioling & Cognitive Ling
1. Robert Sidor, New book: Language Processes
9.1262 Review: (part 1): Beerman et al. Rightwards mvmt.
1. Steven Schaufele, _Rightward Movement_ review -- I
9.1263 Review: (part 2) Beerman et al. Rightwards mvmt.
1. Steven Schaufele, _Rightward Movement_ review -- II
9.1264 Confs: LP'98
1. Thomas Stewart, LP'98
9.1265 Qs: Negative complementizers, Metaphor in Chinese
1. Asya Pereltsvaig, Qs: negative complementizers
2. Susan Menke, Metaphor in Chinese language
9.1266 Calls: HIL Phonology 4, PRAGMA99
1. Jeroen van de Weijer, HIL Phonology 4
2. Ziv Yael, PRAGMA99
9.1267 Calls: Pragmatics, NYSTESOL Applied Ling
1. Larry Bouton, The 13th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning
2. Michael Newman, NYSTESOL Applied Ling
9.1268 Sum: Almost
1. Hiroaki Tanaka, Summary: almost
9.1269 FYI: National Institute of Health grant review panel
1. lsa, National Institutes of Health grant review panels
9.1270 Calls: Jornadas Internacionales de Alicante
1. Pierre-Yves Raccah, Jornadas Internacionales de Alicante: Lenguas, literatura y [iso-8859-1] traduccin
9.1271 Jobs: Professor of Spanish
1. Christopher J. Hall, Job Announcement: Professor of Spanish
9.1272 Calls: Penn Linguistics Colloquium
1. Cassandre Creswell, Penn Linguistics Colloquium
9.1273 TOC: Linguistics
1. Christoph Eyrich, TOC: Linguistics 36: 2 (1998), 36: 3 (1998)
9.1274 TOC: Cognitive Linguistics 9: 1
1. Christoph Eyrich, TOC: Cognitive Linguistics 9: 1 (1998)
9.1275 TOC: Intern. Journal of the Sociology of Language
1. Christoph Eyrich, TOC: Intern. Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) 128, 129, 130 (1998)
9.1276 TOC: The Linguistic Review
1. Christoph Eyrich, TOC: The Linguistic Review 15- 1 (1998)
9.1277 Qs: Word frequency, Czech, Dictionary software
1. Gwen Alexandra Frishkoff, word frequency database
2. Quentin Bailey, Czech pronunciation faults
3. Michal Lisecki, software for creating a dictionary
9.1278 Calls: Symposium of Chinese Characters
1. Huang Guoying, Symposium of Chinese Characters
9.1279 Jobs: Humanities Computing Specialist
1. ellyvangelderen, Humanities Computing Specialist
9.1280 Confs: AMTA-98
1. Eduard Hovy, AMTA-98
9.1281 Confs: B.U.--Language Development 1998
1. mco, B.U.Conf on Language Development 1998
9.1282 All: Wayne State U., New Moderator, New Editors
1. The LINGUIST List, Wayne State University, New Moderator, New Editor
9.1283 Jobs: Phonology, Syntax
1. Tony Woodbury, Phonology position, University of Texas at Austin
2. Tony Woodbury, Syntax position, University of Texas at Austin
9.1284 Calls: XXIX Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
1. Christina Tortora, The XXIX Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
9.1285 Jobs: Post Doc and PhD in Heidelberg
1. Jutta Pistor, Post Doc in Heidelberg
2. Jutta Pistor, PhD in Heidelberg
9.1286 Sum: Summary of 'I am hungry'
1. Sren Harder, Summary of 'I am hungry' (long!)
9.1287 Sum: Summary "Current Relevance"
1. Yoshioka Junko, SUM. "query" Any volunteers? "Current Relevance"
9.1288 Books: Comparative & General Grammar
1. Maureen Burke, new books: comparative and general grammar
9.1289 Books: Logic, Language, and Information
1. Maureen Burke, new books: Studies in Logic, Language and Information
9.1290 Books: Semantics
1. Maureen Burke, new books: semantics
9.1291 Books: Syntax & Semantics
1. Maureen Burke, new books: Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
2. Maureen Burke, new books: Comparative and General Grammar, Syntax and Semantics
9.1292 Books: Computational Linguistics
1. Maureen Burke, new books: Computational Linguistics
9.1293 Books: Japanese Linguistics
1. Maureen Burke, new book: Japanese Linguistics
9.1294 Books: Morphology
1. Maureen Burke, new book: Morphology
9.1295 Books: Bantu Languages
1. Maureen Burke, new book: Bantu Language
9.1296 Books: Australian Languages
1. Maureen Burke, new book: Australian Language
9.1297 Books: Discourse Analysis
1. Maureen Burke, New Book: Discourse analysis
9.1298 Sum: Go+AND+Verb Constructions
1. Anatol Stefanowitsch, Sum: GO+and+VERB constructions (long)
9.1299 Jobs: Cognitive Psych, Spanish Ling, Tech
1. Bill Merriman, Job in Cognitive Psychology
2. Elena Ruzickova, Job announcement:Spanish Linguistics/Miami University, Oxford, OH
3. Olivia Williamson, Academic Technology Specialist - Stanford University
9.1300 Confs: RIFRA' 98
1. Jean-Luc Minel, Announcing RIFRA' 98
9.1301 Calls: ADL5, ACL-99
1. Isabelle Leglise, 2nd call for papers : ADL5
2. Priscilla Rasmussen, ACL-99 Call for Theme Proposals
9.1302 Confs: ORAGE '98
1. Benoit Lagrue, ORAGE'98 : Preliminary Program / Programme Preliminaire
9.1303 FYI: Essay Prize, Semionics, CLS conf, ECDL98
1. Philip Resnik, Univ of Maryland Undergraduate Essay Prize in Linguistics
2. alan harris, SEMCOM:SEMIOTIC SOC. of AM.Toronto conference program URL (fwd)
3. aaron michael griffith, Upcoming CLS Conference
4. Stavros A. Papadakis, ECDL98 Sessions Broadcasted Live through MBONE
9.1304 TOC: Glot International
1. Rint Sybesma, ToC Glot International 3-6 (Helen Dry on the history of LINGUIST!)
9.1305 Calls: Computers, Linguistics, Humanities
1. Ellen L. Contini-Morava, conference announcement
9.1306 Jobs: Bell Labs, Visiting Lecturer
1. Richard Sproat, Job Advertisment: Bell Labs
2. Ruslan Mitkov, Temporary job
9.1307 Review: Ostertag: Definite Descriptions.
1. anne bezuidenhout, review of Ostertag
9.1308 Jobs: NLP, TESOL/SLA
1. Christy Cook, NLP
2. Sue Gass, Position in TESOL/SLA
9.1309 Jobs: French Ling, TESOL, Modern English
1. Fred Davidson, Two jobs at the University of Illinois
2. Patricia N. Sullivan, TESOL, Applied Linguistics, SLA
3. [** iso-8859-1 charset **] I. de M\246nn, Prof. of Modern English
9.1310 Jobs: Oral English, Theoretical Ling
1. Ives Trevian, Re: about message containing nothing but garble
2. Gwendolyn Weber, Theoretical Linguistics
9.1311 Calls: Chinese Dialectology, AiML '98
1. David Prager Branner, Chinese Dialectology
2. Maarten de Rijke, AiML'98: Final Call for Participation
9.1312 Qs: Usage, Lang Acquisition, Spectrum of Sibilants
1. manaster, Q: "Sexual relations"
2. Ronald Peereman, English and French children vocabulary
3. Simona Herdan, Q: acquisition of causative verbs
4. Jack Wiedrick, Spectral analysis of sibilant sounds
9.1313 Jobs: Germanic Ling, English for Academic Purposes
1. Carol Aldrich, Germanic/Linguistics Assistant Professor, U. of Michigan
2. Carol Aldrich, English Language Inst. Director, University of Michigan
9.1314 Books: Finno-Ugric Langs
1. Johanna Laakso, Books: Uralic
9.1315 Books: Indo-European Langs
1. Christoph Eyrich, New Book: Indo-European studies
9.1316 Books: SOCIOLINGUISTICS
1. Christoph Eyrich, New Book: Sociolinguistics
9.1317 Books: Anthropological Ling
1. Christoph Eyrich, New Book: Anthropological Linguistics
9.1318 Qs: Argument, Cognates, Negotiation, Gaps
1. AJDeFaz, Argument Structure
2. JPKIRCHNER, Cognate Block
3. Wilfried Oeller, Negotiation
4. Julie A Legate, Paradigmatic Gaps
9.1319 Sum: Word Frequency Databases
1. Gwen Alexandra Frishkoff, SUMMARY: Word Frequency Databases
9.1320 Jobs: Romance Linguistics: Machine Translation
1. jlubin, Romance Linguistics: Machine Translation Project
9.1321 Qs: Ling textbook reviews, Applied ling, VARBRUL
1. Duncan Markham, Text book reviews
2. Tessa Troughton, metalinguistic assessment query
3. Mario Cal Varela, VARBRUL
9.1322 Jobs: SLA sociolinguist, General & Applied linguist
1. James P. Lantolf, SLA/Spanish
2. Marianna Di Paolo, University of Utah linguistics
9.1323 Books: Computers & Ling
1. L. M. Schmitt, Book on SED and AWK in Language Research
9.1324 TOC: Intern. Journal of the Sociology
1. Christoph Eyrich, TOC: Intern. Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) 131 (1998)
9.1325 Jobs: Spanish/Applied Linguistics, Romance
1. Regina Roebuck, Spanish/Applied Linguistics
2. Frans Plank, Professor in Romance Linguistics
9.1326 Books: Syntax
1. Rint Sybesma, SYNTAX: J. Quer, Mood at the interface
9.1327 Qs: Chibchan, Phrasal Verbs, Celtic, Usage
1. ECOLING, Chibchan
2. Stefan Thomas Gries, Frequency of phrasal verbs
3. curtis gwinn, Continental Celtic Inscription -
4. Paulette B. Nolan, Usage: "Give us a call"
9.1328 Jobs: Germanic Ling, General Ling, Hispanic Ling
1. Frans Plank, Professor in German Linguistics
2. Shepard, Alan, Professor of English/General Linguistics
3. Carol A. Klee, Positions in Hispanic Linguistics
9.1329 Calls: Semantics & Ling Theory, Berkeley Ling Soc.
1. SALT 9, SALT 9 Call for Papers
2. Berkeley Linguistics Society, BLS Call for Papers
9.1330 Sum: Spanish Corpora
1. Eva Remberger, Spanish Corpora
9.1331 Sum: Negative Complementizers
1. Asya Pereltsvaig, Negative Complementizers
9.1332 Sum: Machine Translation of Prepositional Phrases
1. Keith J. Miller, Machine Translation of Prepositional Phrases
9.1333 Books: SYNTAX & SEMANTICS
1. Tony Gee, Comparative and General Grammar, Syntax and Semantics
9.1334 Qs: Parsing, Native Culture, Business Dictionary
1. Marius Doornenbal, Parsing incomplete data
2. David Hardisty, Cultural equivalent of 'native speaker'?
3. moubtassime, Business Dictionary
9.1335 Jobs: German, Korean SLA
1. Tom Lovik, German Second Lang Acquisition
2. Mitsuaki Shimojo, Korean language position
9.1336 Calls: CONTEXT'99, TMI'99 (MT)
1. Massimo Benerecetti, CONTEXT-99: CALL FOR PAPERS
2. Francis Bond, TMI-99
9.1337 Confs: Morphology syntax semantics of the French verb
1. Raphael Salkie, Conference on the French verb
9.1338 FYI: CSDL-4 abstracts, Endangered Language Fund
1. csdl-4, CSDL-4 abstracts online
2. whalen, Endangered Language Fund
9.1339 Jobs: Hispanic/Sociolx, Anglo-Saxon/Linguistics
1. Fernando Martinez-Gil, Hispanic/Sociolinguistics
2. M. Lynne Murphy, Asst Prof: Anglo-Saxon/Linguistics
9.1340 Jobs: Applied/2nd Lang.Acq., General
1. Carol Peper, Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition
2. James E Copeland, General Linguistics
9.1341 Confs: NACCL-11
1. whu, NACCL-11 Conference Announcement
9.1342 Books: Austronesian Langs
1. Christoph Eyrich, Austronesian Linguistics
9.1343 Books: Romance Ling
1. Christoph Eyrich, Grammaticalization/Romance Ling
9.1344 Books: Sociolinguistics
1. Christoph Eyrich, Sociolinguistics
9.1345 Qs: Applied Ling, Iraqi Arabic/Igbo, ESL Mags
1. Abdlehak Razky, EFL - Applied Ling Text
2. eric mathieu, Iraqi Arabic/Igbo native speakers
3. Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D., ESL Magazines
9.1346 Sum: Sibilant Acoustics
1. Jack Wiedrick, Summary of Sibilant Acoustics
9.1347 Qs: Usage Shifts, ESL errors, Language Policy & Lit
1. JPKIRCHNER, Usage Shifts
2. sburdine, ESL student production errors
3. Larry Rosenwald, American language policy and American literature
9.1348 Jobs: ESL/Linguistic Theory, General Ling/English
1. Richard Campbell, ESL/Linguistic theory at Oakland University
2. Gretchen Flesher Moon, Visiting Ass't Prof or Instructor, General Ling/English
9.1349 Confs: Second Language Teaching
1. Nick Noakes, Second Language Teaching: Reading, Writing & Discourse
9.1350 Confs: MidAmerica Ling Conf 98
1. Geoffrey S. Nathan, MidAmerica Ling Conf 98
9.1351 All: Hosting Lists on the LINGUIST Listserv
1. The LINGUIST List, Hosting Lists on the LINGUIST Listserv
9.1352 All: This week's LINGUIST Notice Board
1. Linguist Notice Board, This week's LINGUIST Notice Board
9.1353 Jobs: Syntax, Terminologist and translator
1. Gini Martens, Assistant Professor of English -Syntax, U of Wisconsin-Madison
2. [** iso-8859-1 charset **] Elisa Pi\241e, Terminologist and translator
9.1354 Confs: Konvens 98, TWLT14, Syntax
1. Bernhard Schroeder, Konvens98
2. Thijs Westerveld, TWLT14: Language technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval
3. Jessica Hamilton, Diachronic and Synchronic Studies of Syntax of East Asian languages
9.1355 FYI: LDC new corpus
1. LDC Office, 1997 Mandarin Broadcast News Speech and Transcripts
2. LDC Office, Voicemail Corpus - Part I
3. LDC Office, 1998 Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test-Set
4. LDC Office, JURIS (Justice Department Retrieval and Inquiry System) Text Corpus
9.1356 Jobs: Applied, Phonology, Semantics
1. Jenny Green, Associate Professor: Applied Linguistics
2. Cheryl Zoll, Phonology/Syntax-Semantics
3. Linda Culver, Semantics or computational linguistics
9.1357 Jobs: General ling, Phonology, Computational
1. LChacon1, Tenure-track assistant or associate professor. Ph.D.
2. Sumru Ozsoy, Temporary Phonology Lectureship
3. Whittemore, Greg, Computational Linguist
9.1358 Qs: uantifying metaphor, Phillipne Visayan dialect
1. k.auty, Quantifying metaphors
2. All Language Services, looking for interpreters, fluent in Phillipne Visayan dialect
9.1359 FYI: NEH Seminars, Conf. index, Forensic linguist
1. Arnold, Douglas, NEH Announcement: Summer Seminars and Institutes
2. Peter White, Latest conference index
3. DUBARTELL, forensic linguist needed
9.1360 Sum: Machine Translation of PP
1. Keith J. Miller, Machine Translation of prepositional phrases