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the SESQUIPEDALIAN Volume V, No. 1
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'More than you ever wanted to know' October 6, 1994
EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, like the proverbial yo-yo, your own Sesquipeditor
has bounced back into the job. After a whirlwind World Tour of
Europe, I have landed back in my old chair (which somehow seems to be
in a different building). Unfortunately, due to the summer backlog,
there isn't much room for frivolity in this issue, but as always I am
taking submissions and open to suggestions! Meanwhile, in that
spirit, I thought it worth reflecting on this passage from Geoffrey
K. Pullum, on what he looks for in a linguistics journal:
'Some linguists get by without using libraries much. If you are
working in rural New Guinea or Brazil on a language not relatable
genetically to any other, there might not be very much a library can
help you with (even if you could get to one). If your work is so
profoundly in advance of the rest of the field that there is no point
in your consulting work other than your own, there may again be no
need for you to have access to a library; doubtless your sole need
will be for the soft crayons provided for you by your institution.
But the broad mass of the linguistic public will have worked in
libraries, and will know the experience of searching musty stacks for
books and journals. Often they will have asked themselves questions
such as these:
-- Why do philosophy-related journals get stolen so much?
-- Why do book reviews so often have the author's name at
the end instead of the beginning, so when you start to
browse you don't know who you're reading?
-- Who on earth reads 'Semiotika?'
-- What ever happened to 'Word?'
-- Why was the spine of 'Language' vol. 51 no. 4 (December
1975) printed upside-down, i.e. top-to-bottom, unlike
every other issue in the last decade?
-- Why is IJAL shrinking vertically (10" high in 1973;
9.5" from 1973 to 1981; now 9" high and falling)?
The world is full of such puzzles. I do not seriously expect to have
answers to all of them. But I do have a few basic expectations about
what a journal in my field should provide for me, and I find that each
one provides only a randomly selected proper subset of them.'
(Geoff Pullum in 'The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other
Irreverent Essays on the Study of Language.' 1991, University of
Chicago Press.)
^\^\^\ LOOK WHO'S TALKING /^/^/^
-- Sunday, October 2nd, Eve Clark (professor and Chair, Stanford
Linguistics Department) presented the invited talk, 'Thematic roles in
acquisition; the case of "source"', at ESCOL-94 (Eastern States
Conference on Linguistics) at the University of South Carolina.
-- Next Saturday, October 15, at MALC 1994 (Mid-American Linguistics
Conference) at the University of Kansas, Will Leben will be presenting
his paper 'High Tone Sequencing in Baule' (with Firman Ahoua, UC
Berkeley). Later at the same conference John Mugane will present
'Gikuyu Synthetic Compounds and the Lexical-Syntax Divide.'
LOOK WHO'S WINNING: Congratulations to Joan Bresnan, who won two
medals in cycling competitions in the Gay Games in New York this
summer. She won the gold in the individual time trial in her age
group (don't ask) and a bronze in the team time trial.
She remarked that the competition in the women's licensed
cycling events was surprisingly good, and her competitors must have
remarked that she was surprisingly good as well! (Joan is around
campus a lot-- if you don't know her but would like to congratulate
her, look for the person wearing a lot of medals.) (Submitted by Will
Leben)
DON'T FORGET TO WRITE: Please remember to notify the Sesquipedalian
when you're presenting, giving workshops, or whenever you pass those
little milestones in life.
^/^/^/ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM \^\^\^
Friday, Oct 14 (-NEXT- Thursday), 3:30, Cordura 100 (CSLI):
Linguistics Department Colloquium (abstract below) by Eve Sweetser, UC
Berkeley: 'Mental spaces and the grammar of conditionals'. To be
followed by a reception (i.e., grub).
Mental spaces and the grammar of conditionals
Eve Sweetser
Linguistics Dept, UC Berkeley
Fauconnier (1985) has proposed that if-clauses be viewed as
setting up a mental space, within which the content of the main clause
applies. Sweetser (in press) argues that such a framework will allow
us to predict the ways in which so-called counterfactual verb forms
extend to further subordinate clauses (embedded conditionals, relative
clauses). In this presentation, I will present a mental- space
analysis of the semantics of a broader spectrum of conditional
constructions, including speech-act conditionals such as (1),
epistemic conditionals such as (2), and metalinguistic conditionals
such as (3)-(4).
(1) If you're so smart, when was George Washington born?
(2) If he typed her thesis, then he loves her.
(3) My ex-husband, if that's the right word for him, was seen in
Vegas last week. (The divorce won't be final till next month,
so maybe "ex-husband" isn't a correct usage here.)
(4) If we were in Louisiana, you'd be eating a green trout.
(Louisianans call the kind of bass you're eating "green trout.")
The advantage of such an analysis is that formal similarities and
differences between various classes of conditionals (in particular,
whether they show so-called "backshifting" of futures to present in
main clauses, and/or tolerate "distanced" - aka counterfactual - verb
forms) can be shown to correlate with the parameters of mental space
structure and space-building function. Traditionally central
conditional constructions ("If she arrives in time, we'll go out to
dinner") remain central, but are seen to be part of a broad range of
related constructions, which show relatively compositional
relationships between form and meaning. (The work presented here is
being done in collaboration with Dr. Barbara Dancygier.)
^/^/^/ CALL FOR PAPERS \^\^\^
-- BLS-XXI: The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce
its Twenty-First Annual Meeting, to be held February 18-2O, 1995. The
conference will consist of a General Session and a Parasession. A
Special Session on areal topics will be held on February 17, 1995, in
conjunction with the larger conference. GENERAL SESSION: The main
session will cover areas of general linguistic interest. Invited
speakers include Young-Mee Cho (Stanford University). PARASESSION:
Historical Issues in Sociolinguistics/Sociolinguistic Issues in
Historical Linguistics. The parasession will emphasize new
perspectives in both subdisciplines, such as the recent social
approach to historical data, the application of sociolinguistic
methodologies to the historical realm, and analyses of linguistic data
in progress. Invited speakers include: John McWhorter, Cornell
University. SPECIAL SESSION: Discourse Topics in Southeast Asian
Languages. For this year's Special Session we invite abstracts on
discourse in Southeast Asian languages from the perspective of
conversation and discourse analysis, pragmatics, narratology,
ethnomethodology, sociolinguistics, sociology of language, and related
areas. The scope of Southeast Asian languages includes Sino-Tibetan.
Abstracts are invited for all three sessions. Papers presented at the
conference will be published in the Society's Proceedings.
Presentations will be allotted 2O minutes with 1O minutes for
questions. We ask that you make your abstract as specific as possible,
including a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and
your conclusions. To submit an abstract, send 1O copies of an
anonymous one-page (8-1/2x11 unreduced) abstract. (A second page, or
reverse side of the single page, may be used for data and references
only.) Along with the abstract send a 3x5 card listing: (1) paper
title, (2) session submitted to (general session, parasession, or
special session), (3) for general session abstracts only, subject
matter area, viz., Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics,
Morphology, etc. Send abstracts to
BLS 21 Abstract Committees
2337 Dwinelle Hall
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720-2650
email: bls@garnet.berkeley.edu
Abstracts for the general and parasession must be received by 5:00 pm,
November 11 1994. Special session abstracts must be received by
November 28 1994. No e-mail or faxed abstracts.
-- WCCFL-XIV: The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
(University of Southern California, March 9-12, 1995) invites
abstracts for 20-minute talks in all areas of theoretical linguistics
for the general conference, and for 20-minute talks on 'Predication'
for the special session on March 9th. Deadline for abstracts:
December 8, 1994. Abstracts should be limited to TWO anonymous
8-1/2x11 pages, with 1" margins, single-spaced, 12-pt. font. The
second page need not be limited to data or references. Please send 12
copies of the abstract, with a 3x5 card including title, author,
affiliation, address, e-mail and phone numbers. One individual and
one joint abstract per author, please. Address to
WCCFL-XIV Committee
Linguistics Department GFS 301
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA 90089-1693
email: wccfl@mizar.usc.edu
phone: 213/740-2986
fax: 213/740-9306
-- FOURTH MEETING ON MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE (MOL4): October 27-28,
1995. Sponsored by the Association for Mathematics of Language (a
Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational
Linguistics) and The Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
(IRCS), University of Pennsylvania. Submissions are invited from all
areas of study which deal with mathematical properties of natural
language. These areas include, but are not limited to, formal
mathematical models of syntax, semantics, and/or phonology;
computational complexity of natural language processing; mathematical
theories of language learning; parsing theory; quantitative models of
language. It is anticipated that papers from the meeting will be
published after peer review in a collection or special journal issue.
No unrefereed proceedings are planned. All contributions to MOL4 are
to be made electronically, as either an unformatted (plain text) ASCII
file or as a LaTeX file. Submissions should consist of an abstract of
length equivalent to between two and five pages. The address for
submissions is:
MOL@UCSD.EDU
Deadline for submissions: June 1, 1995.
-- DEVELOPMENTS IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: The Georgetown Linguistics
Society announces "Developments in Discourse Analysis," February
17-19, 1995, Georgetown University. Deadline for Abstracts and
Colloquium Proposals: November 18, 1994. The conference invites you
to submit abstracts and colloquim proposals representing original,
unpublished work on all aspects of, and approaches to, discourse
analysis. Abtracts and colloquium proposals will be accepted from any
discipline, but should be based on natural language data. Individual
papers will be 20 minutes long with 10 additional minutes for
discussion. Send three copies of a typed double-spaced abstract no
more than 250 words long. Do not put any identification on the
abstracts. The submitter's name should be typed on a separate sheet
with the paper title and submitter's address, phone, e-mail address
and institutional affiliation. In addition, please submit a 100-word
typed single-spaced summary for the conference program, headed by the
name and affiliation of each presenter and the title of the paper.
COLLOQUIUM PROPOSALS: Colloquia proposals are invited for two-hour
colloquia. All abstracts for presentation in a colloquium must be
submitted together, accompanied by a cover letter from the organizer
bearing the organizer's name, address, phone and fax number, e-mail
address and insitutional affiliation. The cover letter should explain
how the individual presentations will relate to one another and to the
theme of the colloquium. In addition, the organizer should include a
100-word description of the entire colloquium for the conference
program. So that the conference can provide for any special needs, we
ask that you notify the GLS of these requirements no later than
January 15, 1995. Send abstracts, colloquium proposals, registration,
and other correspondence to
GLS
Georgetown University
Department of Linguistics
479 Intercultural Center
Washington, D.C. 20057-1068
Questions may be directed to: modang@guvax.georgetown.edu (internet),
modang@guvax.bitnet (bitnet), 202/687-6166 (voice).
-- SALT-V: Semantics and Linguistic Theory Fifth Annual Meeting
(University of Texas at Austin, February 24-26, 1995). SALT 5
welcomes submissions for 30-minute presentations (with 10 additional
minutes for discussion) on any topic in the semantic analysis of
natural language emphasizing the connection to linguistic theory.
Authors should submit 10 copies of abstracts, no more than 2 pages
(1000 words) long. Authors' names, address, affiliation, phone number
and e-mail address, and paper title should accompany the abstracts on
a 3x5 card. Abstract deadline is November 1, 1994. Send abstracts to
SALT 5 Committee
Department of Linguistics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1196
-- GERMANIC SYNTAX WORKSHOP: The Catholic University of Brussels and
the P.J. Meertens Institute for Dialectology, Amsterdam announce the
TENTH COMPARATIVE GERMANIC SYNTAX WORKSHOP, to be held on January
17-19, 1995 at the Catholic University of Brussels. EXTENDED ABSTRACT
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 1994. Abstracts are invited for 20
minute papers in all areas of Germanic syntax. The abstract should be
at most ONE page long, in at least 12 point type and with one inch
margins; references may be added on a separate sheet. Submit 5
anonymous copies, and one camera-ready copy with your name and
affiliation. Enclose a card with your name, address, affiliation,
telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, and the title of your
paper. Send to
CGSW 10
K.U.Brussel
Vrijheidslaan 17
B-1080 BRUSSELS, Belgium
fax: +32 2 412 42 00
We regret that we cannot accept abstracts by e-mail or fax.
Acknowledgment of receipt of abstracts will only happen by e-mail.
Speakers will be partially reimbursed for their expenses. Further
enquiries can be directed to the above address, or to
haaam08=E0blekul11.bitnet.
-- LSRL-XXV: The twenty-fifth Linguistic Symposium on Romance
Languages (March 2-4, 1995, University of Washington, Seattle).
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks. Send six copies of an
anonymous one-page abstract. Enclose a 3x5 card with your name,
address, telephone number, e-mail address, affiliation, and title of
your paper. Abstracts taking any linguistic approach to Romance
languages are welcome. Address abstracts and inquiries to
LSRL 25 Committee
Department of Romance Languages, GN-60
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195
phone: 206/543-7935
fax: 206/685-7054
email: lsrl25@u.washington.edu
Deadline: November 1 1994
-- SAL-IX: The Arabic Linguistic Society together with Georgetown
Uniersity announce the Ninth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics,
Washington, D.C. March 1O-12, 1995. Papers are invited for a GENERAL
SESSION on topics that deal with thc application of current linguistic
theories and analyses to Arabic. Research in the following areas of
Arabic linguistics is encouraged: grammatical analysis (phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics), sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics,
discourse analysis, historical linguistics, etc. Papers are also
invited for a PARASESSION on codeswitching with Arabic. Persons
interested in presenting papers at either session are requested to
submit six copies of a one-page abstract giving tbe title of the
paper, a brief statement of the topic, and a summary clearly stating
how the topic will be developed (the reasoning, data, or experimental
results to be presented). Authors are requested to be specific and as
explicit as possible in describing their topic. Names are not to
appear on the abstract; instead a 3x5 card should be enclosed with the
author's name, affiliation, address, phone number, the title of the
paper, and tbe session to which it is submitted. Twenty minutes will
be allowed for each presentation. Deadline for receipt of abstracts
is November 3O, 1994. Abstracts and other inquiries to
Dr. Mushira Eid, Dept. of Languages & Literature
1400 LNCO
University of Utah
Salt Lake City UT 84112
phone: 801/581-5994
email: mushaeid@cc.utah.edu
A workshop on NEGATION IN ARABIC is also planned for Sunday morning.
Its purpose is to provide a forum to discuss negation data from
different varieties of Arabic. Papers are welcome that deal with the
syntactic, morphological, semantic, or pragmatic aspects of negation
in Arabic. For information on the Workshop, please contact the
organizers at either of the following addresses:
Dr. Elabbas Benmamoun
Department of Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL 618O1
phone: 217-244-3O54
email: benmamou@lees.cogsci.uiuc.edu
Dr. Mohammad
Department of African Languages & Literature
University of Florida at Gainesville
Gainesville FL 326O7
phone: 9O4-392-2422
email: mohammad@ufcc.ufl.edu
-- EACL-95 (European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics) Student Session, March 27-31 1995, University College
Dublin, Ireland: The goal of this session is to provide a forum for
students and Ph.D.-students to present work in progress and receive
feedback from other members of the computational linguistics
community. The session will be workshop-style, consisting of short
paper presentations by student authors. A committee of students will
organize the session, review submitted papers and decide on
acceptance. Papers are invited on research on all aspects of
computational linguistics. Papers submitted to the main conference
will not be considered for the student session. Preference is given
to e-mail submission. Student authors should submit papers limited to
3 pages (including references, figures, and appendices) with typeface
no smaller than 10pt. LaTeX, ps, and plain ASCII formats are
acceptable. An extra identification page should be sent SEPERATELY by
e-mail containing title, author/s, address/es and topic area/s. Hard
copy submissions should be made only if no e-mail access is available.
Papers should be submitted to
Thorsten Brants
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Computerlinguistik, Geb. 17
Postfach 1150
66041 Saarbruecken, GERMANY
email: eaclstud@coli.uni-sb.de
Authors must submit their papers by October 20, 1994. For information
on the main conference, contact the program chairs, Steve Abney and
Erhard Hinrichs (eacl95@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de) or the local
arrangements chair, Allan Ramsay (allan@monkey.ucd.ie).
^\^\^\ FELLOWSHIPS/ASSISTANTSHIPS /^/^/^
-- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in
Linguistics (Formal Syntax). Applications are invited for a Mellon
Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, in the area of
Formal Syntax. This is a non-tenure-track one-year appointment for the
academic year 1995-96. Teaching duties include one course in each of
two semesters. The PhD must be in hand at the time of appointment and
must not have been awarded prior to September 1988. The salary is
approximately $30,000 with full faculty fringe benefits. The deadline
for applications is December 1, 1994. Send applications (cv,
statement of research interests, graduate transcript, and 3 letters of
reference) to
Chair, Department of Linguistics
301 Grace Ford Salvatori Hall
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1693
E-mail inquiries should be addressed to comrie@bcf.usc.edu <Bernard
Comrie>.
-- THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATION: Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Program. NAE Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowships are designed to
promote scholarship in the United States and abroad on matters
relevant to the improvement of education in all its forms. To
qualify, applicants must have had their PhD, EdD, or equivalent degree
conferred between January 1, 1989 and December 31, 1994. Applications
>From persons in education, the humanities, or the social and
behavioral sciences will be accepted; they must describe research
relevant to education. Applications must be made by the individual
applying for the NAE Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship. No group
applications will be accepted. Applications will be judged on the
applicant's past research record, the promise of early work, and the
quality of the project described in the application. Awards will be
announced in late April, 1995. Fellows will receive $40,OOO for one
academic year of research, or $20,000 for each of two contiguous
years, working half-time. Fellowships must begin during the 1995/96
academic year. Up to thirty NAE Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowships
will be awarded in 1995. Selection will be made by a committee
composed of members of the National Academy of Education. For further
information and required application forms, write
The National Academy of Education
Stanford University
School of Education, CERAS-507,
Stanford, California 94305-3084
phone: 415/725-1003
Completed application materials including three recommendations must
be received at the above address by December 22, 1994.
-- UCLA INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN CULTURES: UCLA's Institute of American
Cultures, in cooperation with the University's four ethnic studies
research centers, offers fellowships to postdoctoral scholars in
support of research on African Americans, Asian Americans,
Chicanos/as, or American Indians. The Institute promotes the
activities of these four major research centers whose goals are to
advance knowledge about the nation's minorities. Awards range from
$23,0OO to $28,0OO per year plus health benefits and research support.
These fellowships can be awarded for less than a year, in which case
the stipend is adjusted to the length of the award, and can be used to
supplement sabbatical salaries. The acceptance of the fellowship
carries with it the committment to make a contribution to the research
activities of the sponsoring ethnic studies center. Teaching
responsibilities vary across the centers. Please consult the
application form or the appropriate center for specific details. UCLA
faculty, staff and students currently enrolled are not eligible to
apply. For further information and applications, please contact the
fellowship director of the appropriate UCLA ethnic studies center.
UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies
Los Angeles, CA 90024-1545
Phone: (310) 206-8OO9
UCLA American Indian Studies Center
Los Angeles, CA 9OO24-1548
Phone: (31O) 825-7315
UCLA Asian American Studies Center
Los Angeles, CA 9O024-1546
Phone: (310) 825-2974
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
Los Angeles, CA 9O024-1544
Phone: (31O) 825-2363
Deadline for application and supporting documents is December 31, 1994.
-- FLAS: Foreign Language and Area Studies at Stanford applications
available now. FLAS Fellowships provide tuition and a stipend to
students undergoing advanced training in designated foreign languages
in combination with area studies, international studies, or
international aspects of professional studies. These languages
include Sub-Saharan African languages, Amerindian languages of Latin
America, Spanish & Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian.
Eligibility is extended to students enrolled in advanced degree
programs at Stanford University. The deadline for the academic year
1995-96 FLAS application is January 13, 1995. For more information
and an application, please contact
Jackie Vargo
FLAS Fellowship Coordinator
School of Humanities and Sciences
Building One
Stanford University
Stanford CA 94305-2O70
phone: 415/723-O564
^\^\^\ TRUE LINGUISTICS /^/^/^
We are proud to present the department's new graduate students:
BRAD DAVIDSON received his BA (magna cum laude) in International
Relations in May, 1990. Fresh from our MA program, he would like to
study the impact and outcomes of language planning in minority
communities, looking at issues of cultural rebirth and increased
separatism. He is also interested in viewing the relation between
language and ethnic identity, and language and social groupings, from
a historical perspective, looking at how languages evolved and
continue to evolve, and under what social pressures, and how these
languages have been shaped into their present states.
JAMES FLECK received his BA (summa cum laude) in English, with a minor
in Linguistics, at the University of Oregon in March, 1993. His
undergraduate linguistics studies focused on functionalist) syntax and
semantics, phonetics, phonology, historical and comparative
linguistics, and sociolinguistics. His goal is to earn a Ph.D. and to
secure a university faculty position as a professor of Linguistics and
researcher in the areas of syntactic and semantic theory, discourse
analysis, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics, with a background in the
history of the English language.
JOHN FRY received his BA in Linguistics and Computer Science at UCLA in June,
1990. He spent the summer of his junior year working as an intern at Digital
Equipment Corporation in Evry, France. After graduating he moved to Yokohama,
Japan, where he spent three years as a C programmer, developing video games for
the Nintendo and Sega home entertainment systems. It was in 1988, taking a
syntax course, that he thought about applying parallel processing to
linguistics. He reasoned that phonetic, syntactic, and semantic analysis,
which are treated as distinct subfields in linguistics, in fact occur in
parallel in the human brain. He concluded that linguistics would be an ideal
target for one or more methods of parallel processing.
GARRET LUTES received his BA (magna cum laude) in Physics at Yale in
May, 1986. He is re-enrolling in our Ph.D. program which he left in
Fall 1988. At that time he moved to New York where he began a new and
exciting life as a member of an experimental dance company. During his
time there he continued his linguistic pursuits as a hobby, re-reading
some phonetics and phonology materials from his time at Stanford, and
learning Polish (he lived in the middle of a Polish neighborhood in
Brooklyn). Thus, his interests in linguistics have become much more
clearly defined. He is currently working on finishing a paper on
Scandanavian accent, which he presented in April, 1993 in a Phonology
workshop at Stanford.
ARMAN MAGHBOULEH received his BA (high distinction) in Engineering,
with a minor in Psychology, at Harvey Mudd College in May, 1986. He
received his MS in Computer Science at Yale University in May, 1989.
Currently in the MA program here, it is Arman's expectation that by
completing the linguistics Ph.D. program he will become more fully
conversant in speech-related fields, gain research experience and be
ready to perform speech research in the coming decades.
YUKIKO MORIMOTO received her BA in English at Mesa State College,
Colorado in May, 1992. She received her MA in Linguistics at Cal State
University, Fresno in May, 1994. Her MA program has provided her with
a strong background in general linguistics through a sequence of
undergraduate and graduate courses in phonology, syntax, and
historical linguistics. Her purpose in applying for the Ph.D. program
is to expand her theoretical knowledge of the discipline, to pursue
her research interests in syntax and sociolinguistics, and to prepare
herself for a research and teaching career in a university setting.
QING ZHANG received her BA in English at Nankai University, Tianjin,
China in July 1991. She received her MA in Linguistics at the same
university in July, 1994. Through her graduate study, her interest
falls in the area of sociolinguistics, particularly the
cross-linguistic analysis of speech acts and all the aspects related
to their realizations. This interest comes mainly from her reading in
sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. It has
acquainted her with the speech act theory and the state of the art.
She hopes to investigate Chinese people's speech behavior, as not much
has been reported on the study of speech acts in Chinese. Her
professional goal is to become an independent researcher and a teacher
of linguistics.
And the department's new visiting scholars:
RAFAL MOLENCKI is Visiting Fulbright Scholar from the University
of Silesia, Poland. His dissertation was on complementation in Old
English. Currently his main research interest is clause order in OE
condtionals.
IAN ROBERTSON is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of
the West Indies, St Augustine Trinidad. Ian single-handedly
discovered two separate comunities of Dutch Creole speakers in Guyana
in the early 1980's. Beside creole Dutch, Ian's research interests
include creolization, decreolization and related socio-historical
development, the acquisition of Spanish by South Trinidadian
fishermen, French creoles in Guyana, English language teaching in
creole communities and the use of indigeneous materials in Caribbean
education.
Please make our new faces feel welcome!
^/^/^/ JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS \^\^\^
(REDUNDANCY NOTICE: For fuller listings of these and other jobs, don't
forget to check the Jobs binder in the Greenberg Room, and the file
'jobslist.txt' on the CSLI directory /user/linguistics.)
-- SUNY/BUFFALO: The Department of Linguistics at the State University
of New York at Buffalo wishes to fill a tenure-track position, to
begin in August, 1995. We are seeking a person with a specialization
in SEMANTICS and secondary specialization in at least one other area
of linguistics. Experience working with primary linguistic data, e.g.
fieldwork, is highly desirable. The successful applicant will be
expected to contribute to Cognitive Science at UB. He/she will be
expected to teach introductory and advanced courses at the
undergraduate and graduate levels. Ph.D must be completed no later
than September 1, 1995.
Please send application letter, CV and names of three references
(including e-mail and phone numbers) to
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.,
Chair, Dept. of Linguistics
685 Baldy Hall
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo NY 14260
phone: (716) 645-2177
fax: (716) 645-3825.
Additional materials will be requested as needed. Consideration of
applications will begin December 1, 1994, and applications will
continue to be accepted until the position is filled. AA/EOE
-- UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: The Department of Linguistics at the
University of Connecticut anticipates two positions. Position 1 is a
temporary position for the spring semester of 1995 (January 1 - June
30). Appointment for this position is anticipated at the Assistant
Professor level. Position 2 is a tenure track position beginning in
the fall semester of 1995. Appointment is anticipated preferably at
the Assistant/Associate Professor level, but outstanding candidates at
a higher level will be considered. Salary is negotiable. For both
positions, we are interested in candidates in three main areas of
linguistics: psycholinguistics (including language acquisition and/or
sentence processing); semantics; or morphology/phonology. Applicants
whose research interests interact well with those of the current
faculty are especially sought. Applicants should be prepared to teach
in the area of their specialization at the graduate level, as well as
more general linguistics courses at the undergraduate level. An
applicant's ability to teach in more than one area will weigh in our
decision. Applicants should send a complete dossier (letter of
application, curriculum vitae, samples of work in progress or
published) and at least three letters of recommendation to:
Professor Diane Lillo-Martin, Chair
Linguistics Search Committee
Department of Linguistics, U-145
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Rd
Storrs, CT 06269-1145
phone: 203/486-4229
fax: 203/486-0197
email: LINQADM@UCONNVM.BITNET
LINQADM@UCONNVM.UCONN.EDU
Please indicate clearly which position(s) you are applying for.
Applications received by October 15, 1994, for the temporary position,
and January 1, 1995, for the tenure- track position, will be given
preference in the screening process. Applications will be accepted
until the position is filled. EOE/AA
-- UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: The Linguistics Department at the University
of Kansas invites applications for a tenure-track position at the
Assistant Professor level beginning August 15, 1995, contingent upon
budgetary approval. Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in Linguistics or
a closely related field with a specialization in second language
acquisition. The ideal candidate will be thoroughly conversant with
current syntactic theory and have research experience in the
application of syntactic theory to the study of second language
acquisition. Experience in obtaining external funding will be an
advantage. Duties will include research, teaching at the graduate and
undergraduate levels, and the direction of graduate theses and
dissertations. Applications received by December 15, 1994 will be
given full consideration. Please send applications (including a
current curriculum vitae, a description of your current research
program, representative publications, and the names of three
references) to
Clifton Pye, Chair
Linguistics Department
427 Blake
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
e-mail: lingo@ukanvm
Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. EO/AA
-- WordPerfect, the Novell Applications Group, is looking for
linguists and computational linguists for permanent employment in its
Linguistic Technology Department, located in Antwerp, Belgium.
Qualified applicants should be native speakers of English, French,
Dutch, Spanish or German and have good knowledge of spoken and written
English. They will have a university degree in linguistics.
Computational linguists must have experience coding in C. Research in
semantic networks and knowledge of additional languages is a plus.
Anyone interested should respond to the following internet address
with a CV or resume:
frankpl@wordperfect.com
or by standard mail to:
Frank Plateau
WordPerfect, Novell Applications Group
Posthoflei 1
2nd Floor
2600 Antwerpen-Berchem, BELGIUM
-- YALE: The Yale University Department of Linguistics invites
applications for two positions at the level of Assistant Professor,
one to be filled in the area of Syntactic Theory and the other in
Phonological Theory. The candidates selected will be appointed for
terms of three or more years (depending on qualifications), beginning
with the 1995-1996 academic year. Candidates should be in possession
of the Ph.D. in Linguistics by 1 July, 1995 at the latest. They should
be prepared to teach a mixture of undergraduate and graduate courses,
including an introductory course in linguistics. Applicants with
teaching experience and significant published work are especially
sought. Preference will be given to individuals who combine a broad
perspective on their major field of expertise (syntax or phonology)
with qualifications in other areas. Such additional areas might
include one or more of the following: neuro-linguistics; semantics;
morphology; historical and comparative linguistics; knowledge in depth
of a non-Indo-European language or language family; or the comparative
study of a significant group of languages within Indo-European.
Applicants are requested to send a detailed vita together with
representative publications and a list of potential referees to
Prof. Stephen R. Anderson
Chair, Search Committee
Dept. of Linguistics
Yale University
PO Box 208236
New Haven, CT 06520-8236
An accompanying letter should indicate area(s) of expertise. We expect
to interview selected candidates at the Linguistic Society of America
meeting in New Orleans, LA, in January, and applicants should indicate
whether they intend to attend that meeting. Applications received
before 31 December, 1994 will receive first consideration, though the
search will continue until the positions are filled. Further
information can be obtained by letter or by email to the search
committee chair, Prof. Stephen Anderson,
<anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu>. Yale University is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority
groups are especially encouraged to apply.
-- CORNELL: The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at
Cornell University has been authorized to search for a tenure-track
assistant professor with a specialization in formal semantics. Ph.D.
required. Appointment at a higher rank with tenure may be possible
for an exceptionally well-qualified candidate. The position will
begin in the 1995-96 academic year. Applicants must be able to teach
natural language semantics at both undergraduate and graduate levels
and also able to supervise graduate students' research. Substantial
knowledge of and research interests in languages other than English
are desirable as are interests that connect to other areas in
liguistics and, more generally, in cognitive studies. Of central
importance, however, is a strong research program in semantics.
Applicants should send a statement of research and teaching interests,
curriculum vitae, representative publications or unpublished work (no
more than three), and names and addresses (e-mail as well as postal if
possible) for at least three references to:
Semantics Search Committee
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Morrill Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-4701
To ensure careful consideration, applications and supporting materials
should be received no later than November 15, 1994. The Search
Committee would like to know which candidates will be available for
interviews at the LSA meeting in New Orleans (and would also like
phone or e-mail information for contact during the weeks preceding the
meeting). Those who applied last winter for the current visiting
position in semantics may reactivate their applications by sending a
letter asking that their files be transferred to this search.
Additional materials may, of course, be added to the dossiers
submitted earlier. EOE/AA
-- UC BOULDER: The Institute of Cognitive Science of the University of
Colorado invites applications for a tenure-track position in the
Department of Linguistics. Candidates should have demonstrated
interests in Cognitive Science, with a specialization in Linguistics,
that can contribute to interdisciplinary research and training at the
doctoral level. Candidates must also be able to teach a range of
undergraduate and graduate courses in Linguistics and Cognitive
Science. A research focus on syntax and semantics in discourse is very
strongly preferred, using computational approaches or strongly
interdisciplinary approaches within Cognitive Science. Research
interest in more than one language, including English, is desirable.
Preference will be given to candidates at the assistant professor
level but candidates at all levels will be considered. The University
of Colorado strongly supports the principle of diversity. We are
particularly interested in receiving applications from women, ethnic
minorities, disabled persons, veterans, and veterans of the Vietnam
era. Applicants should send a resume and three letters of reference to
Dr. Martha Polson, Associate Director
Institute of Cognitive Science
Campus Box 344
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309
Applications should be received by January 15, 1995, to ensure
consideration. Early applications are encouraged.
-- UCSD: Subject to availability of funds, the Department of
Linguistics at thc University of California, San Diego will have a
tenured position in formal semantics/syntax beginning September 1995.
We invite applications at the Associate or Full Professor level.
Applicants should have teaching abilities and research interests in
formal semantics and/or formal syntactic theory. Salary will be
commensurate with rank and experience and will be based on current
University of California salary scales. A letter of application, a
curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses of 3 referees should be
sent to
University of California, San Diego
Syntax Search Committee
Department of Linguistics, D O1O8
95OO Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92O93-O1O8
Application materials must be received no later than December 1, 1994.
EOE/AA
Subject to the availability of funds, the Department of Linguistics at
the University of California, San Diego will have a tenure-track
opening at the Assistant Professor level beginning September 1995. We
seek a specialist in cognitive/functional linguistics. Desirable
qualifications include a strong language background, breadth of
interests, and familiarity with multiple theoretical frameworks.
Salary is based on University of California pay scales. A letter of
application, a curriculum vitae, the names and addresses of three
referees, and one representative publication should be sent to
University of California, San Diego
Cognitive Search Committee
Department of Linguistics, D O108
95OO Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92O93-O1O8
Application materials must be received no later than December 1, 1994.
EOE/AA
-- UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: The Department of Linguistics at The University
of Iowa solicits applications for a tenure-track position in phonology
beginning August 1995. Candidates should be able to teach courses in
phonology at all levels as well as introductory courses in phonetics
and introductory historical linguistics. Initial appointment will be
at the rank of Assistant Professor. Ph.D. required by time of
appointment. Applicants should send a letttr of application, a
curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to
Prof. W. D. Davies, Chair
Department of Linguistics
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1408
For fullest consideration, candidates should make application by
December 1, 1994. Screening will begin immediately. The University of
Iowa welcomes the employment on its faculty and staff of professional
couples, permits the appointment of faculty couples within the same
department, permits the sharing of a single appointment by a faculty
couple, and will refer the resume of a second member of a couple to
appropriate offices in order to help that person find a professional
position. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
-- UCB: The Department of Linguistics at the University of California,
Berkeley, invites applications for a tenure-track position in
syntactic theory beginning July 1, 1995. Appointment will be made at
the assistant professor level with salary commensurate with
experience. Applicants should have the Ph.D. in hand by June 3O, 1995
and have demonstrated a record of high quality research and
publication. Applicants are requested to send a copy of their
curriculum vitae and names of three referees to
Prof. Larry M. Hyman, Chair
Department of Linguistics
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720
Deadline for receipt of application is November 15, 1994. EOE/AA
-- ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: Tenure-track assistant professor of
Linguistics. Beginning August 16, 1995. Doctorate in linguistics or
related field required by date of appointment; post-secondary level
teaching experience and publications desirable. Syntax specialist;
interest in the history of the English language or languages of the
Southwest desirable. Department program also indudes second language
acquisition and language variation. Initial two courses/semester;
competitive salary; teaching opportunities at both graduate and
undergraduate levels. Initial contacts at MLA or LSA. Letter of
application, vita, and three letters of recommendation due November
15, 1994 to
Search Committee Chair Karen Adams
Department of English
Arizona State University
Box 870302
Tempe AZ 85287-O302
All applications acknowledged. AA/EOE
-- UCSD: Subject to availability of funds, the Department of
Linguistics at thc University of California, San Diego will have a
tenured position in formal semantics/syntax beginning September 1995.
We invite applications at the Associate or Full Professor level.
Applicants should have teaching abilities and research interests in
formal semantics and/or formal syntactic theory. Salary will be
commensurate with rank and experience and will be based on current
University of California salary scales. A letter of application, a
curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses of 3 referees should be
sent to
University of California, San Diego
Syntax Search Committee
Department of Linguistics, D O1O8
95OO Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92O93-O1O8
Application materials must be received no later than December 1, 1994.
EOE/AA
Subject to the availability of funds, the Department of Linguistics at
the University of California, San Diego will have a tenure-track
opening at the Assistant Professor level beginning September 1995. We
seek a specialist in cognitive/functional linguistics. Desirable
qualifications include a strong language background, breadth of
interests, and familiarity with multiple theoretical frameworks.
Salary is based on University of California pay scales. A letter of
application, a curriculum vitae, the names and addresses of three
referees, and one representative publication should be sent to
University of California, San Diego
Cognitive Search Committee
Department of Linguistics, D O108
95OO Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92O93-O1O8
Application materials must be received no later than December 1, 1994.
EOE/AA
-- UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: The Department of Linguistics at The University
of Iowa solicits applications for a tenure-track position in phonology
beginning August 1995. Candidates should be able to teach courses in
phonology at all levels as well as introductory courses in phonetics
and introductory historical linguistics. Initial appointment will be
at the rank of Assistant Professor. Ph.D. required by time of
appointment. Applicants should send a letttr of application, a
curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to
Prof. W. D. Davies, Chair
Department of Linguistics
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1408
For fullest consideration, candidates should make application by
December 1, 1994. Screening will begin immediately. The University of
Iowa welcomes the employment on its faculty and staff of professional
couples, permits the appointment of faculty couples within the same
department, permits the sharing of a single appointment by a faculty
couple, and will refer the resume of a second member of a couple to
appropriate offices in order to help that person find a professional
position. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.
-- UCB: The Department of Linguistics at the University of California,
Berkeley, invites applications for a tenure-track position in
syntactic theory beginning July 1, 1995. Appointment will be made at
the assistant professor level with salary commensurate with
experience. Applicants should have the Ph.D. in hand by June 3O, 1995
and have demonstrated a record of high quality research and
publication. Applicants are requested to send a copy of their
curriculum vitae and names of three referees to
Prof. Larry M. Hyman, Chair
Department of Linguistics
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720
Deadline for receipt of application is November 15, 1994. EOE/AA
-- ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: Tenure-track assistant professor of
Linguistics. Beginning August 16, 1995. Doctorate in linguistics or
related field required by date of appointment; post-secondary level
teaching experience and publications desirable. Syntax specialist;
interest in the history of the English language or languages of the
Southwest desirable. Department program also indudes second language
acquisition and language variation. Initial two courses/semester;
competitive salary; teaching opportunities at both graduate and
undergraduate levels. Initial contacts at MLA or LSA. Letter of
application, vita, and three letters of recommendation due November
15, 1994 to
Search Committee Chair Karen Adams
Department of English
Arizona State University
Box 870302
Tempe AZ 85287-O302
All applications acknowledged. AA/EOE
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