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the SESQUIPEDALIAN Volume V, No. 15
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WHEN PROFESSOR MITCHELL SAYS: YOU WRITE:
"Probably the greatest quality
of the poetry of John Milton, who
was born in 1608, is the combination
of beauty and power. Few have John Milton--born 1608
excelled him in the use of the
English language, or for that
matter, in lucidity of verse form,
'Paradise Lost' being said to be
the greatest single poem ever
written."
"When Lafayette first came to
this country, he discovered
America. The Americans needed his Lafayette discovered America
help if their cause was to survive,
and this he promptly supplied them."
"Current historians have come to Most of the problems that now face
doubt the complete advantageousness the United States are directly
of some of Roosevelt's policies" traceable to the bungling and greed
of President Roosevelt.
"We see that Korean has a rich
variety within these two groups;
there is leeway to show intimacy
or familiarity within the in-
group, and to show authority or
special deference within the out-
group. The relationship between
in-group and out-group address,
like the relationship between plain
address and polite address in
Japanese, is analogous to the use
of the pronouns 'du' and 'Sie'
in Modern German or of 'tu' and
'vous' in Modern French. In
Seoul, the use of authoritative
address seems to be undergoing
replacement by either the polite
or the deferential..." (*)
"...it is possible that we do Professor Mitchell is a communist
not understand the Soviet
viewpoint..."
"The puissance of hydrochloric
acid is incontestable; however, Hydrochloric acid eats the %&!!@*$!
the corrosive residue is out of steel
inharmonious with metallic
persistance."
(* Martin, Samuel E. 'Speech Levels in Japan and Korea,' 1964)
^\^\^\ LOOK WHO'S TALKING /^/^/^
-- Ivan Sag speaks tomorrow at the UC Davis Linguistics Colloquium.
Title: 'Clitics and Related Issues in French.'
^/^/^/ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM \^\^\^
Friday, February 10, 3:30 pm
Cordura 100
Negation and `Mode of Judgement'
Bill Ladusaw
UC Santa Cruz
In this paper I advocate the adoption of what could be termed a
`semantically exocentric' interpretation of natural language
(descriptive) negation. This entails adopting what Horn terms a
`symmetrist' position with respect to negation and affirmation as
modes of predication (or `judgement'). I justify the adoption by the
well-known typological generalization that the morphology of clausal
negation does not routinely iterate and by its utility in accounting
for why there is no `semantic pressure' against negative concord
interpretations of clauses with multiple occurrences of negative
morphology.
The postulation of a class of modes of judgement, which map
the basis for a proposition into a propositional meaning, focusses our
attention on the question of what the possible bases for propositions
are. In the spirit of a `structured meaning' approach, I propose that
the distinction between unary bases consisting of Davidsonian event
descriptions and binary bases consisting of an individual and a
(possibly derived) property corresponds to the traditional distinction
between thetic and categorical `judgements'. This views the etiology
of the contrast (and related `Milsark' effects) as a matter of
semantics rather than as only an `information packaging' issue.
---------
Reception follows.
Future Colloquia:
Feb 24: Paul Postal
Mar 3, 2:30: Joshua Fishman, Post-Imperial English: The Status of
English
After Colonization
Mar 10: Eve Clark, Speaker, Perspective, and Word in Acquisition
Mar 17: Martin Kay
^/^/^/ CALL FOR PAPERS \^\^\^
-- GALA: Groningen Assembly on Language Acquisition 1995 (University
of Groningen, The Netherlands, 7-9 September 1995). The conference
aims to bring together researchers willing to discuss the merits and
constraints of different theoretical approaches to language
acquisition, in particular generative linguistics, constructionism,
dynamic systems modelling, and connectionism. Abstracts may cover all
aspects of language acquisition relating to the core areas of
linguistics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and
the interfaces. Selection of abstracts will be based on not only their
quality but also their potential to contribute to the conference's
interactive objective. Abstract submissions should include: 1. Five
(5) copies of a ONE-PAGE, double-spaced abstract of the paper (no
posters), preferably in 12-point font or type, with a title. OMIT name
and affiliation. Reviewing will be anonymous. 2. A 10cm by 15cm (or
3" by 5") card with the title of the paper, the name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address. Also
specify any necessary AV equipment. Abstracts should provide a
complete overview of the research that will be presented: a statement
of the main hypotheses, a brief account of the method, data gathering
and results, and a summary of the conclusions reached. The deadline
for abstract submissions is APRIL 15, 1995. Any submissions that
arrive after this date will not be accepted. Abstracts should be sent to
GALA 1995
University of Groningen
Department of Linguistics
Postbus 716
9700 AS Groningen
The NETHERLANDS
Inquiries should be sent to the above address, or by e-mail to:
GALA95@let.rug.nl. Up to date information with regard to the
conference, including registration information, can also be found at:
http://www.let.rug.nl/Linguistics/events/gala/
-- IWPT-95: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARSING TECHNOLOGIES
(20-23 September 1995, Prague/Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic). The
Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies IWPT'95 will
take place this year on September 20 through 23 in the Czech Republic
in the heart of Europe. This workshop will continue the tradition,
established by IWPT'89 and IWPT'93, of taking place partly on the
premises of a university and partly in a rather secluded conference
resort. The first part of IWPT'95 will thus be held at Charles
University in Prague; the workshop then moves to a conference resort
(Grand Hotel Pupp) in the famous old bathing resort of Karlovy Vary,
also known as Karlsbad. Submissions are invited from all areas of
parsing technology. These areas include, but not limited to,
theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural
language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences,
and speech, as well as multidimensional (pictorial) language, and
parsing issues arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Authors who
intend to submit a paper are invited to submit an abstract of
approximately 300 words. Authors will be then notified how to submit a
full paper, which will be reviewed by the program committee for
acceptance. Time schedule: April 21, 1995, Abstract Due; May 26,
1995, Full Paper Due; June 26, 1995, Notification of Acceptance;
August 14, 1995, Final Manuscript Due. All abstracts must be
submitted via email to: Harry.Bunt@kub.nl
Abstracts should be either in plain ascii format, in standard LaTeX,
or in Postscript. Authors having any difficulty with electronic
submission are advised to contact the general chairman by phone: +31
13 66 30 60 or by fax: +31 13 66 25 37 (Institute for Language
Technology and Artificial Intelligence ITK, Tilburg University, The
Netherlands), if not by email.
-- IS THE BEST GOOD ENOUGH? Workshop on optimality in syntactic
theory. To be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, May 19-21 1995. Syntactic research in a variety of
frameworks is assigning a growing role to the notion of comparison.
This work, which is at the forefront of current research, includes
theories involving principles of economy and optimality. Much of this
work is still unpublished or in formative stages (Legendre, Raymond,
and Smolensky (1993), Grimshaw (1993), Pesetsky (1994), Chomsky (1989,
1993, 1994)). The relevant data vary from one account to another,
but empirical comparisons of these proposals now can and should be
undertaken. This workshop will to explore and clarify particular
issues of syntactic theories in which comparison plays a significant
role. The workshop will consist of invited talks and talks selected
>From anonymously submitted abstracts. Abstracts are invited to
address the following questions: What is the nature of the candidate
or reference set for comparison? Which linguistic objects compete for
the best choice? What criteria determine the optimal output from a
set of candidates? Does the grammar compare derivations (as with the
Economy principles of Chomsky (1989, 1993)) or representations (as in
the Optimality Theoretic analyses developed for phonology by Prince
and Smolensky (1993)). Is language acquisition or variation explained
by parameterization or constraint re-ranking? What are the
computational implications and requirements of the different
approaches? Submissions for consideration must be received by March
15, 1994, via mail or fax transmission. Authors whose abstracts are
accepted will be requested to provide a more complete paper by
mid-April to prepare focused discussion. Abstracts should be
anonymous and not longer than two pages. Send abstracts to
Good Enough
MIT 20D-219
77 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, MA, 02139
email: good-enough@mit.edu
Mailings should include six copies of an anonymous abstract with a
cover sheet indicating the paper title, author's name, affiliation,
address, phone number, and email address. Fax transmissions may be
made to (617) 253-5017, attention: David Pesetsky, and should also
include the cover sheet.
-- The Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (Tbilisi,
Republic of Georgia, October 19-22, 1995). In order to foster
communication between researchers in the Republic of Georgia and the
international research community, the Georgian Centre for Language and
Speech, based at the Tbilisi State University, will host an
international symposium on language, logic and computation in 19-22,
October 1995. The Tbilisi Symposium is anticipated to be the first of
a regular series. The Tbilisi Symposium will welcome papers on
current research in all aspects of language, logic and computation,
including but not limited to: natural language semantics/pragmatics,
dynamic and modal logic, quantified extensions of modal systems and
intermediate logics (semantical and computational aspects),
information oriented logical frameworks (domain theory, linear logic,
situation theory), natural language parsing and generation, machine
translation and translation aids, statistics and language processing,
automated deduction and logic programming, lambda and combinatory
calculi, process algebra, category theory in computer science. The
papers will be refereed and a selection will appear as a book
published by the Center for the Study of Language and Information
(CSLI), Stanford. Papers not exceeding 10-pages should be submitted
electronically or, if electronic submission is problematic, in hard
copy. Electronic submissions should be in plain text, latex, or
ready-to-print postscript. Papers submitted by postal mail should be
accompanied by 3 additional copies. No fax submissions. Papers should
be accompanied by a two-page abstract. The abstract should also
include the full postal and e-mail address and fax/phone of the author
(or a designated contact author in case of joint papers), as well as a
specification of the topic area. These abstracts will be collated
together and will be made available to all symposium participants.
Papers should be submitted to:
The Tbilisi Symposium E-mail: tbilisi@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Human Communication Research Centre Phone: +44 131 650 4667
University of Edinburgh Fax: +44 131 650 4587
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh, EH8 9LW
Scotland, UK
Authors must submit their 10-page papers by 31 May 1995. Notification of
receipt will be mailed to the (contact) author. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by 15 July 1995. The deadline for submission of final versions of
the presented papers will be 31 October 1995. Papers will undergo review and
a selection will be published in the proceedings. We expect the proceedings to
appear in the first half of 1996. Final submission details will be sent along
with the symposium materials.
-- SALTAL: The Fifth Annual Conference on Southeast Asian Language
Teaching and Applied Linguistics (July 14th-15th, 1995 at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison). Papers reacting to the Southeast
Asian Language Leaming Framework are especially solicited. Sessions on
the application of the Language Leaming Framework will be featured.
The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is April 15th, 1995, and
should be sent to
Dr. Prawet Jantharat, Conference Chair
Foreign Senrice Institute
National Foreign Affairs Training Center
4000 Arlington Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22204
email: jantharat@nfatcbn1.bitnet
Inquires regarding the conference, or requests to be included on the
conference mailing list should be directed to:
Janpanit Surasin, Local Conference Chair
Department of South Asian Studies
1250 Van Hise Hall, 1200 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
email: jsurasin@students.wisc.edu
^/^/^/ PHONOLOGY WORKSHOP \^\^\^
There will be a Phonology Workshop at Stanford this Thursday:
Date: Feb 9, 1995, 7:30pm
Place: Seminar Room, Linguistics Dept, Margaret Jacks Hall
SPLIT PROMINENCE, STRESS BALANCE AND NO PROMINENCE
OVE LORENTZ
U Tromso / UC Santa Cruz
^\^\^\ DISCOURSE WORKSHOP /^/^/^
The next workshop of the Discourse Marker interest group will take
place Wednesday Feb 15th at 7:30 in 460-146. There will be two
presentations, both on discourse, but only one strictly on DMs, both
to be delivered a few days later, one at BLS and the other at the
discourse conference in Georgetown:
Local and global functions of a pair of discourse markers
in a Yucatec Maya narrative
Julie Solomon
Five hundred years of contact with Spanish have resulted in the
introduction of many Spanish loanwords into the native languages of
the Americas, including Yucatec Maya, which is spoken in the Yucatan
Peninsula of Mexico and in parts of Belize. Among these borrowings
has been a profusion of discourse markers. In this paper I analyze
the functions of the borrowed particle 'entonces' ('then') and the
corresponding native Maya marker 'ka' ('then', 'when') in a Yucatec
Maya narrative.
First I will review the uses of 'entonses' in Spanish. While
its functions in Yucatec Spanish have yet to be systematically
investigated, synchronic work on Peninsular Spanish 'entonces' (Cortes
Rodriguez 1991) suggests that it has many of the deictic, anaphoric,
narrative, and resultative functions of English 'then' and 'so'
(Schiffrin 1987, 1990). Using data from a Yucatec Maya narrative, I
then show that 'entonces' is borrowed into this genre principally as a
narrative marker that sets complicating action units apart from
background description and marks changes in narrative episode (ex. 1)
(see also Brody 1987, 1989). The particle 'ka,' meanwhile, functions
primarily as an anaphoric discourse marker that marks the temporal
relation between successive or overlapping linguistic events (ex. 1).
Thus, there is a division of labor in which the borrowed and native
forms serve primarily global and local functions, respectively.
(1) Cheen um p'eeh la' kaah mix mixba'ah yan waye'.... Entonses,
ka taalobe', um p'eeh paartee' ka tap Chan Chichimila'.
Just.. an abandoned town noth- there was nothing here.... So
then, when they came, one group then went to Chan Chichimila'.
Finally, I briefly discuss several other borrowed and native discourse
particles in the text, and I raise the possibility that the use of
particular discourse markers is influenced not only by local and
global narrative considerations, but also by narrative genre,
sociolinguistic factors (e.g., ethnicity, age), and the level of
bilingualism of the narrator and the audience.
/^\^/^\^/^\
The Interaction Between Discourse and Verbal Form in Mapudungun
Jennifer Arnold
Mapudungun, a language spoken in the south of Chile and
Argentina, exhibits a morphological system known as an Inverse voice
marking system. This system consists of two paradigms of verbal
markers for transitive verbs, Inverse and Direct, and the choice
between them depends on the relative saliency of the two arguments,
resulting in the following scheme:
1) Patterns of Inverse and Direct Verbal Marking in
Mapudungun
Actor Undergoer Verbal Marking
1st person 2nd person Inverse
2 1 Inverse
1 3 Direct
2 3 Direct
3 3 Either
The system is such that if one or both of the two arguments are first
or second person, the verbal form is predetermined, as shown in (1).
However, if both arguments are third person, then the verbal marking
depends on the discourse structure to identify the "higher" argument.
This paper investigates the criteria that the language uses in
order to determine the relative ranking of two third person arguments
in a transtive verb, by analyzing texts in Mapudungun. Constraints on
participant ranking in this language work similarly to constraints on
pronominalization and related processes in English, in that the
strongest candidate for pronominalization (or relative importance) is
that element which is the focus of attention of the discourse. There
is a strong tendency to retain the same participant ranking from
sentence to sentence, but it is possible to shift the the focus of
attention to other NPs by combining verbal form with other mechanisms,
such as overt realization of the argument NP. In my talk I will
illustrate how the verbal system works in Mapudungun, argue that what
I am calling the grammatical Subject cannot be a simple Topic marker,
and show how a hierarchical discourse structure is needed in order to
correctly identify the participant ranking. This will demonstrate how
something as local and detailed as the morphosyntax of the verb can
interact with the broadest aspect of language, the discourse
structure.
^\^\^\ FELLOWSHIPS/ASSISTANTSHIPS /^/^/^
-- PRE- and POST-DOCTORAL TRAINEESHIPS: LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS ACROSS
THE LIFE SPAN. We have received preliminary notification of the
approval of an NIDCD training grant designed to provide academic and
research practicum experiences for preparation of researchers in
language impairments across the life span. This training grant builds
on two initiatives at the University of Kansas. One is the Child
Language Doctoral Program, which emphasizes language acquisition and
childhood language impairments. The other is in the area of geriatric
psycholinguistics, with a strong research program and associated
curriculum. Trainees will enroll in a cross-disciplinary curriculum
of academic offerings in content courses, research methods and design,
and responsible conduct of research. Research mentorship will include
participation in the labs of leading researchers. Support is
anticipated to begin for the fall of 1995. Eligibility for a
traineeship includes U.S. citizenship or permanent residency.
Pre-doctoral applicants must apply to and be accepted by an affiliated
academic department or program, e.g., Child Language Doctoral Program,
Linguistics, Psychology, Speech-Language-Hearing. Post-doctoral
applicants must hold a PhD or equivalent degree, submit a curriculum
vita, and a statement in which they propose a detailed program of
research and study. Individuals from underrepresented racial/ethnic
groups are encouraged to apply. A Native American training program at
the master's level is in place; Native Americans are especially
encouraged. Inquiries may be directed to
Mabel L. Rice
1082 Dole Center
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66044
phone: 913/864-4570;
email: mabel@dole.lsi.ukans.edu.
^\^\^\ TRUE LINGUISTICS /^/^/^
-- TOP TEN LIST DEPARTMENT: Being cited in an academic journal is one
approximation of intellectual influence. Here are the top 10 most
cited sources in arts and humanities academic journals over a
seven-year period inspected by the Institute for Scientific
Information, publisher of the Arts & Humanities Index:
1) Karl Marx
2) Vladimir Lenin
3) William Shakespeare
4) Aristotle
5) The Bible
6) Plato
7) Sigmund Freud
8) NOAM CHOMSKY
9) Georg Hegel
10) Cicero
[Editor's note: Be sure to mention this fact at the next Sociable
Syntax Supper]
(Ron Grossman in CLN 24:1)
^/^/^/ 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.)
-- UNIVERSITY OF YORK: Job Opportunities in Linguistic Variation and
Sociolinguistics Lectureships in Department of Language and Linguistic
Science, University of York, England. Candidates should have a strong
commitment to research within some area of Linguistic Variation and/or
Sociolinguistics and should have a sound background in modern
linguistic theory. Preference may be given to candidates who
specialise in languages taught within the department (Chinese,
English, French, German, Hindi) or whose interests combine areas of
both sociolinguistic variation and theoretical linguistics, but other
candidates are also encouraged to apply. The posts are available from
1 Oct 1995. Two lectureships are available. Applications (six
copies, one from overseas candidates), including full curriculum vitae
and the names of three referees, should be sent by 24 Feb to
Personnel Office
University of York
Heslington, York YO1 5DD
United Kingdom
phone: +44 0904 434032
fax: +44 0904 433433
Please quote reference number 3400.
-- MSU: The Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and
African Languages at Michigan State University invites applications
for a temporary position at the assistant professor level in
Linguistics, pending approval of the Provost, to begin August 1995.
Research and teaching specialization in syntax. Responsibilities
include teaching graduate and undergraduate courses; capability to
teach GB/Minimalist theory particularly desirable. Ph.D. by time of
appointment. Review of applicants will begin March 20, 1995 and
continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application,
vita, names of three references, representative research/publications,
and U.S. visa status if non-citizen to
Patricia Paulsell, Acting Chair
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and
African Languages
A-617 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
All candidates will be kept informed of the progress of the search.
Handicappers have the right to request and receive reasonable
accommodation. MSU is an AA/EOE institution.
-- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (Australia): Department of Linguistics,
Lecturer in Computational Linguistics (Three-year appointment).
ftp.let.ruu.nl:/pub/colibri/nlp/general/job_melbourne.5-1995
mail mail-server@let.ruu.nl: " send colibri/nlp/general/job_melbourne.5-1995 "
-- CORONA CORPORATION: Jobs in speech recognition. Corona
Corporation, a recent spin-off of the speech recognition group at SRI
International, has openings in the following areas: (1) People
experienced in the design of speech recognition algorithms, (2)
Experienced software engineers wishing to work in speech recognition.
Corona is located in Menlo Park, CA (half hour south of San
Francisco). Corona's focus is to commercialize the speech recognition
technology developed at SRI International. For more information,
please send email to jobs@coronacorp.com
-- UNIVERSITAET ZUERICH: The English Department at the University of
Zuerich, Switzerland, has an opening for a Lektor to teach the English
language, British and American culture, as well as writing skills, to
undergraduates at all levels. The appointee will be one of three
Lektoren. Teaching duties are ten contact hours per week, and the
salary is 62,000 Swiss francs per annum (approximately USD 47,700)
before tax and other deductions. The contract will be for a period of
three years. The applicant must be a native speaker of English with
an excellent knowledge of German. The position would be highly
suitable for a graduate student in German language or literature,
linguistics, or comparative literature, who wishes to benefit from
access to European libraries and archives. For information, please
contact
Professor Gunnel Tottie, Chair
Universitaet Zuerich
Englisches Seminar
Plattenstrasse 47,
CH-8032, Zuerich, SWITZERLAND
email: gtottie@es.unizh.ch
Further information can be obtained by contacting Lektor Allan Neil at
the same address. Applications are due no later than March 5 and can
also be sent to Prof. Tottie at 646 Vincente Avenue, Berkeley, CA
94707. She will be in Califomia to interview candidates at the end of
March.
-- GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat (Frankfurt
am Main) Institut fur England- und Amerikastudien. Am Fachbereich
Neuere Philologien ist die Stelle eines Professors/einer Professorin
(C4) fuer Anglistik/Linguistik zu besetzen. Bewerber/Berwerberinnen
sollen in der theoretischen und deskriptiven Linguistik des Englischen
und seiner Varietaeten ausgewiesen sein. Sie sollen das Fach in den
Magisterstudiengangen Anglistik und Amerikanistik sowie in den
Lehramtstudiengfingen in seiner ganzen Breite in Forschung und Lehre
vertreten. Es gelten die Berufungsvoraussetzungen des 39 a HUG. (Der
Text wird auf Wunsch zugesandt.) Erwartet wird, dass die Bewerberinnen
und die Bewerber sich im Falle ihrer Berufung an der Selbstverwaltung
der Universitaet beteiligen. Die Universitfit strebt die Erhohung des
Anteils von Frauen am wissenschaftlichen Personal an und fordert daher
Frauen nachdruecklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Schwerbehinderte
Bewerberinnen und Bewerber werden bei der Stellenbesetzung im Rahmen
der geltenden gesetzlichen Bestimmungen bevorzugt behandelt.
Bewerbungen sind mit den ueblichen Unterlagen bis 1. Maerz 1995 an
Dekan des Fachbereichs Neuere Philologien
Grosse Seestrasse 32 - 34,
D-60486 Frankfurt am Main
telefon: +49 (069) 798 21 59
telefax: +49 (069) 798 85 68
zu richten.
-- UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA: CREE SYNTAX POSITION. The Linguistics
Department at the University of Manitoba invites applications for a
full-time sessional position for 1995-96 (1 September to 31 May),
subject to budgetary approval, at the rank of Assistant Professor and
with salary to depend on qualifications and experience. Teaching
duties and MA/PhD supervision will be concentrated in, but not limited
to, the core areas of syntactic analysis, syntactic theory and
semantics, with a special emphasis on Cree. The completed doctoral
degree and demonstrated excellence in research and teaching in the
area of specialisation (including (1) both formal and typological
approaches; (2) field and analytical experience in Cree syntax; (3)
in-depth familiarity, both analytical and practical, with another
non-Indoeuropean language; and (4) substantial field research
experience in a language other than the applicant's own) are required.
The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified
women and men, including members of visible minorities, aboriginal
peoples, and persons with disabilities. The University offers a
smoke-free work environment, save for specially designated areas.
Priority consideration will be given to Canadian citizens and
permanent residents. Further details may be requested by e-mail
(LINGDPT@CCM.UMANITOBA.CA) or fax (204/275-5781). Applications
(including curriculum vitae, offprints, pre-prints, etc.) and three
letters of reference must be sent to reach the Department by 28
February 1995.
University of Manitoba
Linguistics Department
Winnepeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
CANADA
-- LSAC: Law School Admission Council, an educational service
organization that develops and administers the Law School Admission
Test (LSAT), is seeking candidates for sevelal anticipated
limited-term positions as a Test Specialist. These positions will be
for at least one year with the likelihood of extension for several
more years. The succesful candidates will be responsible for the
soundness, quality, and sensitivity of reading comprehension and
informal and deductive reasoning test items for the LSAT. Ihey will
review and devise test items and otherwise participate in the
procedure of developing test items for the LSAT as needed. Individual
positions may focus on either reasoning test items or reading
comprehension test items. Educational qualifications include an M.A.
in philosophy, English, linguistics, literature, or some related field
requiring strong reading, reasoning, and analytical skills. Ph.D. or
doctoral level work preferred. Training in logic is required for
positions focusing on reasoning test items and is highly desirable for
positions focusing on reading comprehension test items. Experience in
teaching, editing, and/or test question construction is desirable.
Excellent oral and written comrnunication skills, demonsaated
organizational skills, and the ability to work independently are
necessary. Remuneration is competitive. Positions are anticipated to
begin in June of 1995. Interested candidates should send a letter of
application addressing the above requirements, a vita or resume, and a
list of references by March 15, 1995 to
Ms. C. Rommel
Law School Admission Council
P.O. Box 40
661 Penn Street
Newtown, PA 18940.
Law School Admission Council is an equal opportunity/affirmative
action employer and encourages applications from qualified candidates
who are women and/or members of minority groups.
-- CSU FRESNO: Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in the
department of Linguistics available for the Academic Year 1995-96.
Teaching Load: 12 semester units (graduate and undergraduate). The
position is intended to strengthen the department's graduate
offerings. Thus, it is crucial that the successful candidate be
capable of teaching the graduate and undergraduate courses in
phonology as well as graduate courses in at least two of the following
three areas: history of linguistics, field methods, and the structure
of a non-Indo-European language. Other teaching desiderata would be
the ability to teach the history of English or historical linguistics.
One additional department need, although less crucial, would be
experience supervising TAs in introductory general linguistics, upper
division introduction to grammar, and Hmong and Lao Language courses.
In addition, the successful candidate is expected to participate fully
in program development, committee work, supervisor duties, and further
development of our other courses offerings. The minimum requirement
for appointment to this position is a doctorate. A strong record of
publication is preferred. Preference will be given to candidates who
have demonstrated excellence in teaching (graduate, as well as
undergraduate) and scholarship. Preference will also be given to
candidates with relevant supervisory experience. Strong preference
will be given to candidates with the ability to relate to an
ethnically diverse student population. Letter of application, resume,
letters of recommendation, and confidential papers should be sent to:
Dr. Graham Thurgood, Search Committee Chairman
Department of Linguistics
California State University, Fresno
Fresno, California 93740-0092
Phone: (209) 278-2441
To insure full consideration. applicants are encouraged to have all
application information on file by April 1, 1995.
(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.)
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CAPITAL FUNISHMENT: State the hidden message that each of these
sentences contains, to win this week's insta-prize.
Can Eva dance outside, with cars on city streets?
Al, ask Anne or June a useful question!
Ken, tuck your shirt in and be frank, forthright, and mature.
Are you afraid a hobo is entering your house?
This is where I connect, I cut the hart for dinner.
Solution to FINAL SCORE: The score of any match is 0-0 before it
starts!
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