LINGUIST List 9.1420

Sun Oct 11 1998

FYI: Journal "Morphe", New Prog, Finno-Ugrian List

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

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  • James L. Fidelholtz, Call for the journal "Morphe"
  • Annette Burton, Program announcement, Brown Univ.
  • Johanna Laakso, NEW LIST for Finno-Ugrian Lang

    Message 1: Call for the journal "Morphe"

     Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:37:23 -0500 (CDT)
    From: James L. Fidelholtz <jfidelsiu.buap.mx>
    Subject: Call for the journal "Morphe"


    Dear colleagues:

    We cordially invite you to contribute materials to the journal MORPHE (Language, Discourse, Culture and Cognition). _Morphe'_ is a firmly established (15 issues), international, refereed publication, edited by the Language Sciences Department of the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades at the Universidad Auto'noma de Puebla, in Puebla, Me'xico. We accept manuscripts in the major European languages. We are currently undergoing an editorial renewal and our main focus in the future will be discourse studies. Therefore, besides linguistics, we will welcome submissions that analyze the discursive processes of their objects of research, or the discursive and explanatory assumptions of their disciplines (metatheory) within the human and social sciences. We believe that specialists in Literary Studies, Pragmatics, History, Anthropology, Education, Philosophy, Semiotics, Cognitive Science, Sociology and other disciplines will sympathize with and echo our desire for cooperation and dialogue. We would appreciate it if you would extend tyhis invitation to all members of your department and, if you wish to peruse our journal, please ask for complimentary copies.

    Our new address is:

    Calle 2 Oriente #410, Altos 72000 Puebla, Puebla, Me'xico Fax: +52 (22) 46-2600 perezenrsiu.cen.buap.mx





    James L. Fidelholtz e-mail: jfidelsiu.buap.mx Maestri'a en Ciencias del Lenguaje Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Beneme'rita Universidad Auto'noma de Puebla, ME'XICO

    Message 2: Program announcement, Brown Univ.

     Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:15:38 -0400
    From: Annette Burton <Annette_BurtonBrown.edu>
    Subject: Program announcement, Brown Univ.


    Brown University's Departments of Applied Mathematics, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, and Computer Science announce

    A NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAM

    in

    LEARNING AND ACTION IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY:

    COGNITIVE, COMPUTATIONAL AND STATISTICAL APPROACHES

    Deadline for Applications: January 1, 1999

    Brown University is actively recruiting graduate students for a new NSF-supported Interdisciplinary Graduate Education, Research and Training (IGERT) program in "Learning and Action in the Face of Uncertainty: Cognitive, Computational and Statistical Approaches".

    The use of probabilistic models and statistical methods has had a major impact on our understanding of language, vision, action, and reasoning. This training program provides students with the opportunity to integrate a detailed study of human or artificial systems for language acquisition and use, visual processing, action, and reasoning with appropriate mathematical and computational models. Students will be enrolled in one of the three participating departments (Applied Mathematics, Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, and Computer Science) and will study an interdisciplinary program of courses in topics such as statistical estimation, cognitive processes, linguistics, and computational models. The aim of this program is to provide promising students with a mix of mathematical, computational and experimental expertise to carry out multidisciplinary collaborative research across the disciplines of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, and Cognitive Science.

    Interested students should apply to the participating department closest to their area of interest and expertise, and should indicate their interest in the IGERT training program in their application. Brown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

    For additional information about the program, application procedures, and ongoing research initiatives please visit our website at:

    http://www.cog.brown.edu/IGERT

    or contact

    Dr. Julie Sedivy Department of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences Brown University, Box 1978 Providence, RI 02912 USA

    Julie_Sedivybrown.edu

    Message 3: NEW LIST for Finno-Ugrian Lang

     Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:04:16 +0300 (EET DST)
    From: Johanna Laakso <jolaaksocc.helsinki.fi>
    Subject: NEW LIST for Finno-Ugrian Lang


    Since there is obviously no international list for linguistic research into the Uralic languages (FINNUGR-L maintained at Berkeley (if I remember it right) seems to have died a premature death) and because I believe there are Uralists about who are too busy to follow the newsgroups or too loosely linked to the Internet to use means other than e-mail - I have founded something that could grow into an international e-mail list for Uralic language studies.

    The first internationally relevant issue to motivate this new list is the emerging new standard for the implementation of Finno-Ugrian diacritics and special characters into UNICODE, as suggested recently by Klaas Ruppel, Michael Everson and Trond Trosterud (and passively but sympathetically supported, I believe, by the Finno-Ugrian Department of the University of Helsinki and the Finno-Ugrian Society). I believe other questions and themes will surface, too. Join URA-LIST!

    URA-LIST will be placed at the listserver of the University of Helsinki. To join the list, send majordomohelsinki.fi a message with the words "subscribe ura-list", followed by your e-mail address (e.g. "subscribe ura-list Donald.Kacsanowhere.edu"), as the first line of the message text part. (Other lines of the message text, as well as the "Subject:" line, will be ignored.)

    Information about URA-LIST will also appear on my link page (warmly recommended to all colleagues: http://www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/fgrlinks.html).

    The rest depends on you! Welcome (and bring your friends and colleagues, too)!

    - -------- Johanna Laakso <Johanna.LaaksoHelsinki.FI> ---------------- - ------- Helsingin yliopisto, Suomalais-ugrilainen laitos ------------ - --------------- http://www.helsinki.fi/~jolaakso/ ------------------- "-- osta idille leipkone! Mit jrke siin on? itihn ON leipkone!" - Liisa Hakola, Sukupuolten sota