LINGUIST List 11.2304

Wed Oct 25 2000

Calls: Berkeley Ling Society, Structure/Constituency

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  • andrew k simpson, Berkeley Linguistics Society - BLS 27
  • Carrie Dyck, Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas

    Message 1: Berkeley Linguistics Society - BLS 27

     Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:02:50 -0700 (PDT)
    From: andrew k simpson <aksimpsosocrates.Berkeley.EDU>
    Subject: Berkeley Linguistics Society - BLS 27


    BLS 27 CALL FOR PAPERS

    The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting, to be held February 16-18, 2001. The conference will consist of a General Session and a Parasession.

    Parasession: Language and Gesture

    The Parasession invites papers on all aspects of the interaction of gesture and language (both signed and spoken). We also welcome work dealing with related issues in acquistion, psycholinguistics and cognitive science, as well as papers with historical and sociolinguistic perspectives.

    Invited Speakers:

    SUSAN DUNCAN, University of Chicago

    SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW, University of Chicago

    SCOTT LIDDELL, Gallaudet University

    General Session

    The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic interest. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and also welcome papers on language related topics from disciplines such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Literature, Neuroscience and Psychology.

    Invited Speakers:

    ELISABETH SELKIRK, University of Massachussetts, Amherst

    LEONARD TALMY, State University of New York at Buffalo

    SARAH THOMASON, Univeristy of Michigan

    GUIDELINES

    Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide camera-ready copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 2001. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.

    Your abstract should be as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. Please send 10 copies of an anonymous one-page (8 1/2" x 11") abstract. Abstracts may be at most four hundred words. The reverse side of the single page may be used for data and references only. Along with the abstracts send a 3" x 5" card listing:

    (1) paper title

    (2) session (General Session / Parasession)

    (3) name(s) of author(s)

    (4) affiliation(s) of author(s)

    (5) address to which notification of acceptance or rejection should be mailed (Nov-Dec 2001)

    (6) contact phone number for each author

    (7) email address for each author

    **for General Session submissions only: (8) subfield (Syntax, Phonology, etc.)

    An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS.

    Send abstracts to: BLS 27 Abstracts Committee, 1203 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720

    Alternatively, we will accept abstracts submitted via e-mail. Only those abstracts formatted as ASCII text or as a Microsoft Word (Mac version strongly preferred) attachment will be accepted. The text of the message must contain the information requested in (1)-(8) above. Electronic submissions may be sent to blssocrates.berkeley.edu.

    Abstracts must be received in our office (not postmarked) by 4:00 p.m., November 24, 2000. We cannot accept faxed abstracts.



    Registration Fees: For advance registration we can only accept checks in US dollars drawn on US banks. Please make the checks payable to Berkeley Linguistics Society, and send them to: BLS 27 Organizing Committee Department of Linguistics 1203 Dwinelle Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 USA

    Received in our office by February 2, 2001: Students $20 Non-students $40

    After February 2, 2001: Students $25 Non-students $40

    ***Accommodations: BLS will arrange for ASL interpretation if services are requested through blssocrates.berkeley.edu before January 22, 2000.***

    We may be contacted by e-mail at blssocrates.berkeley.edu.

    Information about transportation to the conference, hotels, and restaurants in the Berkeley area will be posted on our website shortly.

    http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/

    .............................. Berkeley Linguistics Society 1203 Dwinelle Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 Phone/Fax: 510-642-5808

    find information on BLS meetings and availability of proceedings at: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/ ..............................

    Message 2: Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas

     Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:07:26 -0230
    From: Carrie Dyck <cdyckmun.ca>
    Subject: Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas


    Information on the 6th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas is presented below. The website is located at:

    http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wscla6/

    WSCLA 6 - Call for Papers March 23-25, 2001 Contact the organizers: wscla6mun.ca

    The main goal of this workshop is to bring together linguists working, together on formal analyses of indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. We invite papers which address the theme of this year's conference:

    The Role of Hierarchies in Linguistic Analysis.

    Among the typological properties which distinguish many languages of the Americas from the Indo-European type is the apparent use of grammatical 'hierarchies' as a basis for sentence grammar. Some of the better known examples of such phenomena include the Algonquian 'participant hierarchy' and the Athapaskan 'animacy hierarchy', both of which influence the use of verbal voice and inflection by speakers of languages in these families. Typically, the effects of these grammatical hierarchies are pervasive in the grammars of the languages in which they are found. Linguistic theory has not yet provided a clear picture of the foundation on which such hierarchies are constructed, or of the way that use of grammatical hierarchies and the hierarchies themselves may differ across languages. Several alternatives have been considered in the literature: the hierarchies might be based in lexical semantics, in morphology, in morpho-semantic features, in phrase structure, in constraint rankings and/or alignment, in pragmatics/deference customs, or in mapping relations which connect disparate modules of the grammar. It is also possible that the hierarchies themselves arise epiphenomenally from the interactions of more fundamental constraints located in one or more of these areas of the grammar. Evaluating these various alternatives involves broader theoretical questions as well, concerning the role of competing constraints in grammatical derivations. Such questions are in fact central to recent debates concerning abstractness and economy in Optimality Theory and in Minimalist Syntax. This is an opportune moment to bring together these theoretical issues with the range of data familiar to linguists who work on languages of the Americas. The theme of this conference will be: "What is the role of hierarchies in linguistic analysis?".

    We will invite papers dealing with the foundations and functions of hierarchies in analysis of languages of the Americas, including all aspects of the grammar: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and language acquisition and language use.

    Invited speakers: * Judith Aissen, University of California at Santa Cruz * Julie Brittain, MIT * Alana Johns, University of Toronto

    Invited student speaker: * Doug Wharram, University of Connecticut

    Papers in the core areas of formal linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) within any formal theoretical framework will also be considered.

    Following the tradition of this workshop, we dedicate the final day to a linking between our research and important work being done on language preservation and revitalization. This year the session will be on incorporating linguistic knowledge into Native language curriculum. Invited speaker: * Robert Leavitt, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick

    This talk will be followed by a roundtable discussion on this topic by all workshop participants.

    Please submit a one page abstract (a second page with references and extra examples may be included). Abstracts should be submitted in four copies, at least one of which should be camera-ready. Abstracts may be submitted by e-mail, but these must not contain diacritics that e-mail cannot handle.

    Abstracts being submitted by email should be sent as attachments, preferably in Word, Rich Text Format, or WordPerfect formats, in descending order of preference.

    All submissions should provide the following items of information on a card separate from the abstract itself: i. name ii. address iii. affiliation iv. telephone number v. e-mail address vi. faculty/graduate student/postdoctoral fellow/independent scholar status

    Abstracts should be sent by snail-mail to: WSCLA6 Department of Linguistics Memorial University of Newfoundland Box 4200 St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5S7 or by e-mail to: wscla6mun.ca

    The deadline for abstracts to be received is Friday January 12, 2001. The program will be announced in mid February.

    Proceedings (preliminary information):

    The proceedings of WSCLA 6 will be published by the University of British Columbia WP in Linguistics. For further information, look for updates on this site, or e-mail the UBCWPL editors (Eun-Sook Kim or Suzanne Gessner). (See the website, http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wscla6/ for their e-mail addresses.)

    One-time-only arrangements have been made to produce a thematic issue of Linguistica Atlantica, the journal of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (APLA). Selected papers on the theme of WSCLA6 will be published in this refereed venue. Further information and a style sheet will be forthcoming.

    ___________________________

    Carrie Dyck Department of Linguistics Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's NF A1B 3X9

    My office: SN-3041 My office phone: 709-737-8170 My home phone: 709-726-8817 Department office phone: 709-737-8134 Department fax: 709-737-4000