LINGUIST List 11.1239

Fri Jun 2 2000

FYI: New Journal, NSF Grants, Conf List Update

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • Margaret Magnus, LIA
  • Catherine N. Ball, NSF: Dissertation research grants, CAREER, and other funding opps.
  • Peter White, Latest conference list

    Message 1: LIA

     Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 19:36:43 -0400
    From: Margaret Magnus <mmagnusconknet.com>
    Subject: LIA


    This letter is to announce that we have founded an academic journal entitled Linguistic Iconicity under the auspices of the Linguistic Iconism Association (http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/LIA/) and to invite your submissions.

    The journal will primarily be an online journal published initially free of charge on the Internet in both html and pdf formats. However, if you do not have access to the Internet or if you for some other reason prefer to receive a paper copy of the journal, we will charge a $20 subscription fee to cover printing, postage and handling.

    If you have a PhD and some background in iconism and would like to join our staff of reviewers or if you would like to subscribe to the journal, please contact Margaret Magnus at:

    e-mail: mmagnusconknet.com. mailing: 28 Mountainside Lane, #2, Francestown, NH 03043. phone: 603/588-3147. fax: 603/588-8068. Web Site: http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/

    Please also consider posting an announcement of the journal at your bulletin board. It can be downloaded from the Internet at http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/LIAnnounce.pdf or posted to the Web at http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/LIAnnounce.html

    Margaret Magnus

    *******

    Current Reviewer List:

    �sa Abelin (sound symbolism, Swedish, G�teborg University)

    Bob Blust (University of Hawaii, Austronesian)

    Tucker Childs (Portland State University)

    Catherine Chvany (Slavic, Professor Emerita, MIT)

    Richard Cureton (Poetics, prof., U. of Michigan)

    Sean A. Day (President of the American Synesthesia Association, prof., National Central University, Taiwan)

    Franz Dotter (prof., Klagenfurt, Austria, sign language, morphosyntax)

    Wolfgang Dressler (prof., phonology, phonetics, Vienna)

    Stefan Etzel (sound symbolist, linguist, Germany, student of Suitbert Ertel)

    James Fidelholtz (prof., Beneme'rita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico)

    Olga Fischer (Professor of Germanic languages, University of Amsterdam)

    John Haiman (syntactic iconicity, Macalester College)

    William Herlofsky (sound symbolist, Nagoya Gakuin University, Japan)

    Vimala Herman (Reader in Linguistics and Literary Studies, University of Nottingham)

    Masako Hiraga (poetics, professor of English and Linguistics, St. Paul's (Rikkyo) University, Tokyo)

    Melvin Hoffmann (SUNY College at Buffalo, phonosymbolism)

    Sharon S. Hutchins (Department of Psychology, Denison University)

    Leslie Jeffries (Head of English, University of Huddersfield, author of two book published on poetics by Macmillan)

    John Lawler (prof., University of Michigan, sound symbolism, semantics, metaphor)

    Scott Liddell (ASL, Galaudet University)

    Terry Mansfield (iconism of prominence, manages data retrieval and cognitive imagery projects at International Neural Machines)

    Jason Martineau (music composition, synaesthesia)

    Brian McPherson (Compuware, PhD in psychology from Tufts, synaesthesia, sound symbolism)

    Brian McVeigh (anthropology, metaphor, Toyo Gakuen University, University of Tokyo)

    Charles Pyle (former prof. of linguistics, U. of Michigan, C.S.Peirce)

    Lauri Ramey, Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer, Head of Creative Writing Programme, University of Luton, black American and British literary studies)

    John Robert Ross (prof., University of North Texas, formerly MIT, poetics, syntax)

    Stephanie Smolinsky (sound symbolism, English, Spanish)

    Andrei Stabrovsky (U. of Washington, student of S. Voronin)

    Eve Sweetser (prof. of linguistics, Berkeley, gesture, syntax)

    Linda Waugh (prof., Arizona, iconicity, sound symbolism, coauthor with Roman Jakobson of "Sound Shape of Language")

    Cynthia Whissel (sound symbolism)

    Caroline Wiltshire (prof., linguistics, U. of Florida)

    Message 2: NSF: Dissertation research grants, CAREER, and other funding opps.

     Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 00:06:47 -0400
    From: Catherine N. Ball <cballgusun.georgetown.edu>
    Subject: NSF: Dissertation research grants, CAREER, and other funding opps.


    Dear Students and Colleagues at US institutions,

    I'd like to remind you about regular funding opportunities for linguists and language scientists at the National Science Foundation (next target date: July 15), call your attention to revised guidelines for CAREER proposals (deadline: July 27), and mention a few other opportunities. Links are on the NSF Linguistics webpage, at http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/ling/.

    1. For doctoral students Dissertation research grants cover up to $12,000 of dissertation research costs. They are submitted by the faculty supervisor (PI) on behalf of the doctoral student (co-PI), and are generally a concise version of the student's dissertation proposal (the project description is just 10 pages). Past budget items have included video cameras and tape recorders; special software and corpora; travel and subsistence for field research; payments to subjects, consultants or informants. Target dates are July 15 and Jan. 15 each year, for start dates about 6 months later. There are no citizenship restrictions. This is a nice program with a success rate of about 40%.

    2. International postdocs; minority postdocs NSF's International Division supports postdoctoral fellowships abroad (deadline: Nov. 1), and the Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences has a minority postdoctoral fellowship program (deadline: first Friday in December). These programs receive very few applications from linguists.

    3. For junior faculty The NSF CAREER program has been substantially revised. Highlights of this year's competition: application deadline for linguistics is July 27th; minimum award is $250,000; duration is 5 years; applicants must have earned their first doctorate after October 1, 1992, have entered their first tenure-track position after October 1 1996, be untenured as of July 24, and as of Oct. 1 2001 be employed in a tenure-track position at an institution in the U.S., its territories or possessions, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, that awards baccalaureate or advanced degrees in a field supported by NSF. Please read the guidelines at http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf0089. The Linguistics program receives few CAREER proposals, and I'd like to see many more. Success rate this year was about 50%.

    4. Regular research, workshops, SGER, MRPG For faculty and researchers beyond the doctorate, the Linguistics program accepts regular research proposals and proposals for workshops, small conferences and symposia. Target dates are July 15 and Jan. 15 each year, with possible start dates 6 months later. Small Grants for Exploratory Research (SGER) proposals to explore new ideas may be submitted at any time; please contact me to discuss before submitting. The Linguistics program also supports Minority Research Planning Grants ($18,000), which can be submitted at any time; I'd like to receive more proposals.

    -- Cathy Ball - -------------------------------------------------------- Catherine N. Ball, Ph.D. Program Director, Linguistics Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences National Science Foundation Rm. 995, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington VA 22230 Phone: 703-306-1731 Fax: 703-306-0485 cballnsf.gov http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/bcs/ling/ Attn PIs: FastLane submission req'd as of Oct. 1 2000! - ---------------------------------------------------------

    Message 3: Latest conference list

     Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 14:37:15 +1000 (EST)
    From: Peter White <peterwlingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
    Subject: Latest conference list


    The latest edition (June 2000) of the Conference List of Linguistics and Related Topics is now available at http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/conf.html A total of 53 new conferences and workshops have been included. Thanks to all who provided details. Please let me know if there are any errors.

    Regards Peter White

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