LINGUIST List 9.880

Sun Jun 14 1998

FYI: Ling Iconism Asso,Mathesius Lecture Series

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  • Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series - 2nd Call

    Message 1: Linguistic Iconism Association

     Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 22:15:16 EDT
    From: Zylogy <Zylogyaol.com>
    Subject: Linguistic Iconism Association




    The Linguistic Iconism Association (working title) now has a preliminary web page at:

    http://www.conknet.com/~mmagnus/LIA.html

    Our group is for people interested in nonarbitrary aspects of linguistic behavior. Very shortly an e-mail discussion list will be operational. If you would like to be involved please contact me. As of this posting we have over 110 members.

    Jess Tauber zylogyaol.com

    Message 2: Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series - 2nd Call

     Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 13:06:53 +0000
    From: Geert-Jan M. Kruijff <gjKwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
    Subject: Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series - 2nd Call


    The Vilem Mathesius Centre for Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics

    Presents the

    Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 13

    November 9--20, 1998 Prague, Czech Republic

    SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

    The thirteenth cycle of the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series, organized by the Vilem Mathesius Centre for Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics (Charles University), will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from November 9 until 20, 1998. The scientific program will consist of the following invited courses (for preliminary time-schedule see below):

    * Emmon Bach (Canada):"Problems of Universal and Parochial Grammar" * Joan Bresnan (USA):"Optimal Syntax" * Nicoletta Calzolari (Italy):"Corpus Based Lexicon Building" * Bernard Comrie (Germany): "(1) Advances in our understanding of relative clauses. (2) Form and function in reference-tracking systems. (3) Agreement in Tsez (NE Caucasian): a typological assessment." * Edward L. Keenan (USA): "Language Invariants \& the Role of Morphology in Grammar" * Christian Lehmann (Germany): "Typology of Possession" * Hans-Heinrich Lieb (Germany): "Words and Word Paradigms" * Mitch Marcus (USA): <tba> * Karen Sparck-Jones (England):"Information Retrieval and Language Processing" * Hans Uszkoreit (Germany):"Modelling of Linguistic Performance" * Bonnie Webber (USA): "(1) Approaching Discourse through Lexicalized Grammar. (2) Natural Language Generation in Health Care."

    We are still waiting for confirmation from M.A.K. Halliday. Among the Czech lecturers invited to VMC 13 are Frantisek Cermak, Miroslav Cervenka, Jan Firbas, Jan Hajic, Eva Hajicova, Jarmila Panevova, Jaroslav Peregrin, and Petr Sgall.

    Tentative time-schedule (may be subject to change):

    9.30 - 11.00 11.30 - 13.00 14.30 - 16.00 16.30 - 18.00

    9.11. Bresnan Keenan Calzolari Webber 10.11. Bresnan Keenan Lieb Webber 11.11. Bresnan Keenan Calzolari Lieb 12.11. x x Calzolari Webber 13.11. x x x x

    16.11. Marcus Lehmann Comrie Sparck-Jones 17.11. Marcus Uszkoreit Comrie Sparck-Jones 18.11. Bach Uszkoreit Lehmann Sparck-Jones 19.11. Bach Marcus Lehmann Comrie 20.11. Bach Uszkoreit x x

    PARTICIPATION (Deadline: SEPTEMBER 15, 1998)

    The participation fee for VMC 13 is USD 350, which includes tuition fee, accommodation, and lunches. In order to ensure accommodation, (paying) participants should register before *SEPTEMBER 15, 1998*.

    There is financial support available for students from Germany, via the Goethe Institut and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). For more information, please visit our website via http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz.

    Please contact Mrs. Brdickova or Prof. Hajicova at the following address for registration or further information.

    Mrs. Libuse Brdickova Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics UFAL MFF UK Malostranske nam. 25 CZ-11800 Praha 1 Czech Republic {hajicova,brdickov}ufal.mff.cuni.cz (phone) ++420-2-2191-4278 (fax) ++420-2-2191-4309

    Check our website at http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/vmc/.

    Geert-Jan M. Kruijff Institute of Formal & Applied Linguistics/Linguistic Data Laboratory Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University

    Malostranske nam. 25, CZ-118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic Phone: ++420-2-2191-4255 Fax: ++420-2-2191-4309 Email: gjufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz, gjacm.org WWW: http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/