LINGUIST List 7.1741

Mon Dec 9 1996

FYI: Humor Studies, Null Arguments, Language Games

Editor for this issue: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar <aristarlinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • Amy Carrell, 2nd Humor Studies Seminar
  • Sharon Cote, Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Arguments in English
  • Marmo Soemarmo, Language Games at the LSA Meeting

    Message 1: 2nd Humor Studies Seminar

     Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 18:52:30 -0600 (CST)
    From: Amy Carrell <acarrellaix1.ucok.edu>
    Subject: 2nd Humor Studies Seminar


    Seminar Announcement

    The second International Humor Studies Seminar will be held at the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) from July 14 until July 25, 1997, immediately following the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) conference. The Seminar features two two-week courses: Psychological Approaches to Sense of Humor, taught by Rod A. Martin of the University of Western Ontario, and How Could a Human Survive without a Sense of Humor? taught by William F. Fry. Classes will meet for three hours each weekday morning (9:00-noon) and afternoon (1:30-4:30 p.m.).

    Academic credit at both the undergraduate and graduate levels is available for students admissable to UCO. Upon successful completion of the Seminar, participants will receive a certificate of endorsement from the Seminar Director and the International Society for Humor Studies.

    The first day of the Seminar, July 14, will be an all-day colloquium of humor scholars including Don L. F. Nilsen (Arizona State University), Victor Raskin (Purdue University), Willibald Ruch (University of Duesseldorf), and others.

    UCO is located in Edmond, OK, on the outskirts of Oklahoma City, and is serviced by Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. UCO enrolls approximately 15,500 students and is the third largest four-year institution of higher education in the state.

    The Seminar is endorsed by the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) and the American Association for Therapeutic Humor (AATH).

    For more information, please contact

    Amy Carrell, Seminar Director Department of English University of Central Oklahoma 100 N. University Drive Edmond, OK 73034-0184 USA acarrellaix1.ucok.edu (405) 341-2980, ext. 5609 fax: (405) 330-3823

    Message 2: Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Arguments in English

     Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 14:58:09 -0500 (EST)
    From: Sharon Cote <cotelinc.cis.upenn.edu>
    Subject: Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Arguments in English


    In Vol-7-1633, Dawn Harvie mentioned my dissertation on "Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Arguments in English."

    I would just like to add that this work is available (not a draft) as postscript files accessible from http://babel.ling.upenn.edu/~cote/.

    Thank you,

    Sharon Cote University of Pennsylvania cotelinc.cis.upenn.edu

    Message 3: Language Games at the LSA Meeting

     Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 14:36:26 -0800
    From: Marmo Soemarmo <soemarmooak.cats.ohiou.edu>
    Subject: Language Games at the LSA Meeting


    I created "Language Games" that is ready for beta testing. If you are attending the LSA Annual Meeting in Chicago in January, 1997 and interested in beta testing the games, try to catch me there. I will be attending the following sessions: Endangered Languages (Friday morning), Linguistic Enterprise and Linguistics and Education (Friday afternoon), and Semantics (Saturday morning). I will be staying at the Sheraton.

    The "manual" is on the web: http://ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu/~soemarmo/games/menu.htm

    Marmo Soemarmo soemarmooak.cats.ohiou.edu