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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 13:55:46 -0800 (PST)
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the SESQUIPEDALIAN Volume VI, No. 7
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Most shots ever in a hockey game (*) November 9, 1995
WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS
Results from the Washington Post's recent (week 110) contest for
readers to come up with the most absurd warning label:
- On a cardboard windshield sun shade: "Warning: Do Not Drive With Sun
Shield in Place." We were going to make it a winner, until we
discovered that it wasn't made up.
- Fourth Runner-Up -- On an infant's bathtub: Do not throw baby out
with bath water. (Gary Dawson, Arlington)
- Third Runner-Up -- On a package of Fisherman's Friend(R) throat
lozenges: Not meant as substitute for human companionship. (Tom
Witte, Gaithersburg)
- Second Runner-Up -- On a Magic 8 Ball: Not advised for use as a home
pregnancy test. (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge)
- First Runner-Up -- On a roll of Life Savers: Not for use as a
flotation device. (Jean Sorensen, Herndon)
- And the winner (of the Power Ranger pinata)-- On a cup of McDonald's
coffee: Allow to cool before applying to groin area. (Elden Carnahan,
Laurel)
Honorable Mentions:
- On a Pentium chip: If this product exhibits errors, the manufacturer
will replace it for a $2 shipping and a $3 handling charge, for a
total of $4.97. (Russell Beland, Springfield)
- On a refrigerator: Refrigerate after opening. (Cissie J. Owen,
Leesburg)
- On a pack of cigarettes: WARNING -- The Tobacco Institute has
determined that smoking just one cigarette greatly increases your risk
of heart attack by making you so incredibly sexy that gorgeous members
of the opposite sex surround you night and day and wearing you into
exhaustion, unless, of course, you have another couple of cigarettes
to steady your nerves. (Jacob Weinstein, McLean)
- On a disposable razor: Do not use this product during an earthquake.
(Jim Gaffney, Manassas)
- On a handgun: Not recommended for use as a nutcracker. (Art
Grinath, Takoma Park)
- On pantyhose: Not to be used in the commission of a felony. (Judith
Daniel, Washington)
- On a piano: Harmful or fatal if swallowed. (Peter Fay, Herndon)
- On Kevorkian's suicide machine: This product uses carbon monoxide,
which has been found to cause cancer in laboratory rats. (Meg
Sullivan, Potomac)
- On Lyndon LaRouche literature: Mr. LaRouche is a serious political
figure and not a paranoid lunatic, and should therefore -- Hey, what
are you looking at? Quit staring at me!! (Meg Sullivan, Potomac)
- On work gloves: For best results, do not leave at crime scene. (Ken
Krattenmaker, Landover Hills)
- On a palm sander: Not to be used to sand palms. (Patrick G. White,
Taneytown)
- On a calendar: Use of term "Sunday" for reference only. No
meteorological warranties express or implied. (Elden Carnahan,
Laurel)
- On Odor Eaters: Do not eat. (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge)
- On Sen. Bob Dole: WARNING: Contents under pressure and may explode.
(Doug Keim, Schaumburg, Ill. )
- On a blender: Not for use as an aquarium. (Gary Dawson, Arlington)
- On a fax machine: WARNING! Never attempt to directly fax anyone an
image of your naked buttocks. Always photocopy your buttocks and fax
the photocopy. (John Kammer, Herndon)
- On syrup of ipecac: Caution: May cause vomiting. (Paul Styrene,
Olney)
- On a revolving door: Passenger compartments for individual use only.
(Elden Carnahan, Laurel)
- On a microscope: Objects are smaller and less alarming than they
appear. (J. Calvin Smith, Laurel)
- On children's alphabet blocks: Letters may be used to construct
words, phrases and sentences that may be deemed offensive. (David
Handelsman, Charlottesville)
- On a wet suit: Capacity, 1. (J. Calvin Smith, Laurel)
- And Last: On The Washington Post: Do not cut up and use for
blackmail note. (Joseph Romm, Washington).
-\-/-\ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM \-/-\-
Friday, Nov. 10, 3:30 pm.
Margaret Jacks Hall (460), Room 146
Adele Goldberg
University of California, San Diego
'On the Need to Recognize Constructions'
Basic sentence patterns of a language are traditionally taken to
be determined by semantic or syntactic information specified by
the main verb in the sentence. Thus, the sentence patterns given
in (1) and (2) appear to be determined by the specifications of
_give_ and _put_ respectively:
1. Chris GAVE Pat a ball.
2. Pat PUT the ball on the table.
In this talk I will argue that while (1) and (2) represent
perhaps the prototypical case, sentence patterns of a language
are not reliably determined by independent specifications of the
main verb. For example, it is implausible to claim that _sneeze_
has a three argument sense in (3):
3. Pat SNEEZED the foam off the cappuccino.
The following attested examples similarly involve sentential
patterns that do not seem to be determined by independent
specification of the main verb:
4. "My father FROWNED away the compliment."
5. "We LAUGHED our conversation to an end."
6. "Pauline SMILED her thanks."
7. "The Miami quarterback was BOO-ED to the bench."
It is argued, on the basis of linguistic and psycholinguistic
evidence, that lexically unfilled phrasal constructions exist and
contribute significantly to the overall semantic interpretation.
In addition, a way to capture linking generalizations across
constructions is discussed.
It is suggested that the recognition of phrasal constructions
corresponding to basic sentence patterns leads one toward a view
of grammar in which the _construction_ (or _sign_): any non-
predictable form-meaning pairing, plays a central role.
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Reception follows.
For directions and a complete list of colloquia, see
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/~kessler/colloq/
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-- STANFORD CENTER ON CONFLICT AND NEGOTIATION announces GRADUATE
STUDENT RESEARCH SUPPORT for the study of CONFLICT & NEGOTIATION. If
you are a Stanford Graduate Student and the study of conflict and
negotiation is a priority for you, you are eligible to become a
1995-96 SCCN Fellow (from December 1995 to December 1996). The Fellows
will be invited to participate in SCCN events and must complete the
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Conflict and Dispute Resolution during
the 1995-96 Winter Quarter. Additionally, Fellows will be expected to
write a paper in any field related to conflict and negotiation. A
stipend of $500 will be awarded to each Fellow upon completion of both
the Seminar and paper. APPLICATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 1995
GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANTS: SCCN is additionally offering
research grants of up to $2500 to defray direct research expenses for
projects related to conflict and negotiation. Funds may be used for
paying subjects, transcribing data, travel for field work, etc., but
not for living expenses. APPLICATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 1995 To
apply, please submit: a resume, cover letter, brief description of
your proposed research -- (and for Research Grants only -- a research
budget) and direct all questions to Andrew Hard, SCCN Associate
Director, Stanford Law School, Mail Code 8610, 723-2574, e-mail:
andrew@psych. The SCCN is located in Rooms 6 and 7 of Owen House next
to the Campus Bike Shop.
-\-/-\ SOCIABLE SYNTAX SUPPER \-/-\-
-- Next Tuesday evening, Nov. 14, at 7:00p.m. we will have a Sociable
Syntax Supper Group meeting at Ivan Sag's house. The speaker will be
Wayan Arka, visiting from the University of Sydney, and his talk will
be on "Semantic and Pragmatic Agreement in Balinese". This will be a
fascinating account of how social level in Balinese--usually treated
from a purely sociolinguistic perspective--is implicated in the formal
syntax of the language and can be formally modelled using the CONTENT
and CONTEXT constructs of situation semantics/hpsg/ and elsewhere.
All are welcome. Please bring some dish or drinks to share at the
potluck. Directions to Ivan's house can be obtained from Ivan
(sag@csli.stanford.edu).
-\-/-\ CALL FOR PAPERS \-/-\-
-- 28th STANFORD CHILD LANGUAGE RESEARCH FORUM (STANFORD UNIVERSITY,
APRIL 12-14, 1996). The 28th annual meeting of the Child Language
Research Forum will be held on April 12-14, 1996, at Stanford
University. The Organizing Committee welcomes abstracts for papers
and posters on any topic within first language acquisition, from
studies of first word phonology to choices of verb-type, from
sociolinguistic studies of conversational fillers to the structure of
noun phrases, from studies of adult input on spatial relations to the
development of argument structure, from the development of scope to
crosslinguistic studies of clitic pronouns. There will be special
emphasis in 1996 on crosslinguistic studies of acquisition.
Abstract submissions should include:
--Ten (10) copies of a ONE-PAGE, double-spaced abstract of the paper
or poster, preferably in 12-point font or type, with a title.
OMIT name and affiliation. (All reviewing is anonymous.)
--A 3" by 5" card with the title of the paper, the name(s) of the
author(s), affiliation, mailing address, and email address; please
also specify any necessary AV equipment. We can provide projectors
for slides or transparencies ONLY if we know what you will need.
Indicate whether you are submitting a paper or a poster. (The
Committee reserves the right to re-assign your submission.)
--A self-addressed, stamped postcard if you wish to be notified that
your abstract has been received.
Abstracts should be postmarked by January 10, 1996. PLEASE MAIL EARLY!
No late abstracts will be accepted.
Abstracts and any enquiries should be sent to:
CLRF-96
Stanford University
Department of Linguistics
Building 460
Stanford, CA 94305-2150, USA
phone: 415 723-4284
We are also soliciting brief resumes of current research on child
language from all researchers, regardless of whether they plan to
attend the Forum, and regardless of whether they have submitted
abstracts for presentation. These resumes should not exceed 200 words;
they will be reproduced for distribution at the Forum. If you are
submitting an abstract, please send in a resume at the same time.
Resumes should also be postmarked by January 10, 1996.
Research Resumes are reports of research in progress, and should not
be confused with abstracts of papers to be presented at the Forum.
Researcher(s):
Affiliation/Address:
Research Area (e.g. phonology, semantics, etc.):
Language(s):
Resume (200 words maximum, please):
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The Proceedings of the 27th Child Language Research Forum [1995]
are being published by the Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Stanford, and will be available from Cambridge
University Press late in 1995. As of that date, the Proceedings
of previous CLRF meetings published by CSLI will also be available
from the same source. Look for CUP's Spring Catalogue for 1996.
-- LEDAR (Language Engineering for Document Analysis and Recognition):
A one-day workshop organised by L.J. Evett & T.G. Rose, as part of the
AISB 1996 Workshop Series. 2nd April 1996, University of Sussex,
England. Natural Language Engineering is at a formative stage in its
development. Whilst the analysis of the structural aspects of
language has reached a sophisticated stage of development, the
analysis of meaning and content has proven somewhat more problematic.
The present workshop aims to review current approaches to content
analysis with regard to the development of practical tools for
language engineering. Traditional approaches to NLP have often used
rule (i.e. logic) based techniques. However, recent technological
developments have made possible the processing of large text corpora
from which probabilistic information may be derived and subsequently
applied to a range of language engineering applications. Other on-line
lexical resources are now widely available, and these have been used
with varying degrees of success. Consequently, the scene is now set
for considering the practical techniques of natural language
engineering, with the focus on methods for content analysis. The
present workshop aims to discuss these methods, evaluate the various
techniques that have been developed, and to investigate the production
of practical tools. In particular, it will emphasise the potential for
real-world, commercial applications that require knowledge of the
meaning or content of a language sample. Examples include: document
analysis, text recognition, speech recognition, automatic indexing,
topic identification, text categorisation, automatic abstracting,
sense disambiguation, discourse segmentation, and information
retrieval. Please submit an extended abstract (max. 500 words) to the
address below. Email submissions are strongly encouraged. Authors of
accepted abstracts will be invited to write a full paper for inclusion
in the proceedings. A limited number of bursaries are available to
graduate students to cover the cost of registration and accommodation.
Abstracts due : 19 January 1996
Acceptance notification : 26 January 1996
Full paper due : 1 March 1996
Please send submissions and correspondence to:
L.J. Evett, Department of Computing, Nottingham Trent University,
Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU England.
Tel: 0115 9486018 Fax: 0115 9486518
email: lje@doc.ntu.ac.uk
-- Third International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI-96):
Montpellier (France), September 25-27, 1996
(http://itkwww.kub.nl:2080/itk/Docs/Projects/Walter/icgi.html)
Grammatical Inference (GI) is broadly understood as Machine Learning
of Grammars and Languages from data. Traditionally, GI has been
studied within several contexts: Information Theory, Formal Languages
Theory, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Pattern
Recognition, Computational Learning Neural Networks, etc. This
multidisciplinary perspective, however, has lead so far to a lack of a
focused research community. A first attempt to correct this started
with the "First Colloquium on Grammatical Inference : Theory,
Applications and Alternatives" held in the University of Essex (U.K.),
in April 1993. Then followed the "International Colloquium on
Grammatical Inference 1994", held in Alicante (Spain), which
proceedings have been published by Springer-Verlag as Volume 862 of
the Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Following these
successful meetings, ICGI 96 keeps aiming to provide a forum for
discussion of principles, theory and applications of all those aspects
of Machine Learning that explicitly focus on Grammars and Languages.
Deadline for submitted papers: April 1, 1996. Please submit (not via
electronic mail) three copies of your full length article (maximum 12
pages, 12 pt. font, including figures, tables, references, etc.) to :
L. Miclet
IRISA-ENSSAT
BP 447 - 6, Rue de K=E9rampont
22305 LANNION Cedex FRANCE
The Proceedings of the Colloquium will be considered for publication as a
volume in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes Series in Artificial
Intelligence.
-- Eighteenth Annual Conference of the COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY (July
12-15, 1996): University of California, San Diego (La Jolla,
California). DUE DATE: Thursday, February 1, 1996. The Annual
Cognitive Science Conference began with the La Jolla Conference on
Cognitive Science in August of 1979. The organizing committee of the
Eighteenth Annual Conference would like to welcome members home to La
Jolla. We plan to recapture the pioneering spirit of the original
conference, extending our welcome to fields on the expanding frontier
of Cognitive Science, including Artificial Life, Cognitive and
Computational Neuroscience, Evolutionary Psychology, as well as the
core areas of Anthropology, Computer Science, Linguistics,
Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Psychology. As a change this year, we
follow the example of Psychonomics and the Neuroscience Conferences
and invite Members of the Society to submit one-page abstracts for
guaranteed poster presentation at the conference. A second change is
that all papers accepted as posters will only get one page in the
proceedings. The conference will feature plenary addresses by invited
speakers, invited symposia by leaders in their fields, technical paper
and a poster sessions, a banquet, and a Blues Party. Novel research
papers are invited on any topic related to cognition. Members of the
Society may submit a one page abstract for poster presentation, which
will be automatically accepted for publication in the proceedings.
Submitted full-length papers will be evaluated through peer review
with respect to several criteria, including originality, quality, and
significance of research, relevance to a broad audience of cognitive
science researchers, and clarity of presentation. Papers will either
be accepted for publication in the proceedings, or (if the author is a
Society member) will be accepted as a poster, and a one-page abstract
will be published. Such authors will get a chance to flesh out the
abstract to a page when submitting their camera ready copy. Poster
abstracts from non-members will be accepted, but the presenter should
join the Society prior to presenting the poster. Accepted papers will
be presented at the conference as talks. Papers may present results
from completed research as well as report on current research with an
emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives.
Posters may report on recent work to be published elsewhere that has
not been previously presented at the conference. Authors should
submit five (5) copies of the paper in hard copy form by Thursday,
February 1, 1996, to
Dr. Garrison W. Cottrell
Computer Science and Engineering 0114
FED EX ONLY: 3250 Applied Physics and Math
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0114
phone for FED EX: 619-534-5948 (my secretary, Marie Kreider)
If confirmation of receipt is desired, please use certified mail or
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Prize for excellence in research and presentation. The David Marr
Prizes are accompanied by a $300.00 honorarium, and are funded by an
anonymous donor. Check "http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/events/cogsci96/" for
further details.
-- SALSA: The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased
to announce its Fourth Annual Meeting to be held April 12-14, 1996 at
the University of Texas at Austin. We encourage the submission of
abstracts on research that addresses the relationship of language to
culture and society. Some examples of desired frameworks for this
research include: LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLINGUISTICS,
ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION, SPEECH PLAY, VERBAL ART, AND POETICS,
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LANGUAGE. Papers delivered at the conference
will be published as a special edition of the Texas Linguistic Forum.
Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes
for discussion. Papers will be selected based on the evaluation of an
anonymous written abstract which may not exceed one page (using 10 pt.
font or larger). Please submit six (6) copies of the proposal, on 81/2
x 11 paper, to the address below. Proposals should be accompanied by a
3x5 card with the following information: 1) The title of the paper; 2)
Author's name; 3) Author's affiliation; 4) Address and phone number at
which the author wishes to beg notified. In addition, please submit a
100 word abstract of the paper, on a 3.5" disk, for publication in the
conference program. Discs can be either Macintosh or IBM, but texts
must be word-processed in A) textonly ASCII or B) Microsoft Word (Mac
or IBM). Please label your disk clearly. Submissions much be
received by January 17, 1996. Late submissions will not be accepted,
and we cannot accept papers which are to be published elsewhere.
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent in mid-February,
1996. Registration fees will be $15 for students and $30 for
non-students. Papers must be received by early May 1996 to be included
in the published proceedings. Send all correspondences to
SALSA
Department of Linguistics
University of Texas at Austin
email: SALSA@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
-- ACL-96 (34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational
Linguistics, June 23 - 28, 1996, University of California, Santa Cruz.
We would like to expand the participation in this conference to a
wider cross-section of the computational linguistics community. Thus
we strongly encourage the submission of papers on substantial,
original, and unpublished research on ALL aspects of computational
linguistics, including, but not limited to, pragmatics, discourse,
semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and
morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based and statistical
language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural
language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative
understanding systems; and theoretical and applications papers of
every kind. ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS WILL BE SELECTED BY THE PROGRAM
CHAIRS IF THE AREA OF A PAPER IS NOT ADEQUATELY REPRESENTED BY THE
PROGRAM COMMITTEE. Papers should describe unique work; they should
emphasize completed work rather than intended work; and they should
indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A
paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented
or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available
proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences
must reflect this fact on the title page and the identification page.
GENERAL SUBMISSION QUESTIONS: ACL96-questions@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Papers must not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Hard
copy or electronic submissions must use the ACL submission style
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is described below) which requires TeX 3.14 or LaTeX 2.09. Papers
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Hard copy submission must be received by JANUARY 10, 1996. Late
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Authors will be notified of acceptance by MARCH 22,1996. Camera-ready
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-- SIGPHON 96: 2nd Meeting of the Special Interest Group in
Computational Phonology. "COMPUTATIONAL PHONOLOGY IN SPEECH
TECHNOLOGY" Friday, June 28, 1996, in conjunction with ACL, Santa
Cruz, California. As anyone who has worked on both computational
linguistics and speech technology can attest, there often seems to be
a large gulf between the two communities of researchers, making it
difficult sometimes for work that is of potential interest to both
communities, to be fully appreciated in either. Nowhere is this more
true than in areas related to phonology and phonetics. Speech
researchers working on speech recognition or speech synthesis have
traditionally had little interest in the theoretical issues involved
in building, for example, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion systems.
Computational phonologists, on the other hand, have usually been more
concerned with the relationship between computational models of
phonology and theoretical phonology than they have in seemingly more
mundane applications of their results. In recent years, however,
there has been an increasing body of work that is informed by ideas
and methods of both computational phonology and speech technology.
This workshop will provide an excellent opportunity to air such work
as well as to make contact between the speech and computational
linguistics communities. Papers are solicited that demonstrate the
application of ideas from theoretical or computational phonology in
practical speech applications, including, but not limited to,
text-to-speech synthesis, and speech recognition; also welcome are
papers that can demonstrate implications for (computational) phonology
of results in speech technology. Papers should describe unique work;
completed work is preferable to intended work, but in any event the
paper should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported
results. Papers must not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references).
Overlength papers may be rejected without review. Due to tight time
constraints, initial submissions and reviewing will be handled
exclusively electronically. The initial submission may either be in
PLAIN ASCII, or else should be a UUENCODED LATEX FILE following the
ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV
server (access to which is described below), which requires TeX 3.14
or LaTeX 2.09 or higher. A model submission modelsub.tex is also
provided in the archive, as well as bibliography style files
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for a submission should not be submitted as a separate .bib file; the
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/acl-l/Styfiles/Proceedings). Final papers must be accompanied by a
signed copyright release statement, transferring copyright to the
Association for Computational Linguistics. Final papers should be sent
to
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IMPORTANT DATES
MARCH 1, 1996 Initial submissions to sigphon@research.att.com
APRIL 3, 1996 Notification of acceptance
MAY 1, 1996 Receipt of final accepted papers
Late papers cannot be considered.
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-\-/-\ TRUE LINGUISTICS \-/-\-
(from clari.news.briefs)
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France - A man who hurled a cream pie at
France's culture minister, but missed, told a court it was a Belgian
tradition dating back to the Middle Ages. 'For many people it is an
honor to have pies thrown at them,' Belgian film director Jan Bucquoy
told an appeals court. The prosecution has appealed against his
acquittal because the pie missed. (see FRANCE-PIES)
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forget to check the Jobs binder in the Greenberg Room, and the file
'jobslist.txt' on the CSLI directory /user/linguistics.)
-- RUTGERS: Phonology Appointment, Department of Linguistics. The
Department of Linguistics at Rutgers, The State University of New
Jersey, at New Brunswick, invites applications for a tenure-track
Assistant Professorship in theoretical linguistics with a
specialization in phonology. We expect the appointment to be made for
Fall 1996. Applicants should have the Ph.D. by Junc 30, 1996, and
should be prepared to teach at both the graduate and undergraduate
levels. The deadline for receipt of applications is December 11,
1996. Applications should include a current CV and samples of recent
work, and should be sent to
Phonology Search Committee
Linguistics Department
Rutgers University
18 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Three letters of recommendation should also be sent to this address.
Applicants for the position advertised last year may request that
their applications be re-activated. Rutgers University is an AA/EEO
employer.
-- At the 1995 Mayan Languages Conference in Guatemala, the leader of
the Uspantek linguistic community asked if there were any linguists
interested in working on Uspantek. The community is in the early
stages of preparing bilingual educational materials and would be very
interested in any type of linguistic research, especially descriptive
studies. Uspantek is the native language of Rigoberta Menchu, winner
of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. It is the only tone language in the
K'ichean family of Mayan. Anyone interested (especially graduate
students searching for a dissertation topic) should get in contact
with Rusty Barrett (Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX
78712) for more information. (E-mail: rustyb@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu; tel:
512/323-2761). Or they can contact the Uspantek community directly at
the following address:
Miguel Angel Vicente Mendez
Comunidad linguistica Uspanteko
Uspantan, Departamento Quiche
GUATEMALA, Central America
-- HARVARD UNIVERSITY: The Department of Linguistics at Harvard
University nas been authorized to make an appointment at the senior
level (tenured full professorship), effective July 1,1996. Candidates
are expected to provide a distinguished record of publication and
teaching in historical linguistics, a strong commitment to current
theoretical concerns, and active engagement in the professional life
of the field. Demonstrated effective administrative experience is
desirable. Applicants are requested to forward a detailed curriculum
vitae, including a complete bibliography, before December 1, 1995, to
Prof. Michael S. Flier, Chairman
Linguistics Search Committee
Department of Linguistics
Harvard University
77 Dunster Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
Employer. Qualified women and minority candidates are especially
encouraged to apply.
-- GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: The Department of Asian Languages invites
applications for a tenure-track position in Japanese Language and
Linguistics, beginning Fall, 1996. The successful candidate will teach
language and linguistics courses to undergraduates, and be responsible
for coordinating the language program. Send cover letter, vita, and
three letters of recommendation by December 20 to
Alan Tansman, Chair
East Asian Languages
Georgetown University
Box 571052
Washington DC 20057-1052
-- University of South Carolina: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in
Second Language Acquisition Theory/TEFL Methodology. The Linguistics
Program at the University of South Carolina seeks a specialist in
second language acquisition theory and TEFL methodology with a strong
background in general linguistics. Ph.D. by date of appointment
required. Must demonstrate on-going research in second language
acquisition theory. Experience in training TEFL teachers valuable. The
appointment will be made in the English Department and will involve
teaching primarily graduate Linguistics courses, plus thesis and
dissertation supervision in TEFL/SLA. The interdisciplinary
Linguistics Program is composed of 11 core faculty members with
appointments in 6 different departments, and 12 consulting faculty.
The program offers the Ph.D. and M.A. in Linguistics and a TEFL
Certificate. Approximately half of our 65 graduate students choose
SLA/TEFI as their special field. Screening of applicants will begin
December 1, to continue until position filled. Send vitae,
transcripts, one representative publication, and a cover letter
describing qualifications, and teaching and research interests to
Patricia Mason, Director
Linguistics Program
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Also arrange for 3 letters of recommendation to be sent to this
address. Indicate attendance at LSA for possible interview. AA/EEO.
Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.
-- CRDC: Career Resources Development Center provides job training and
literacy services to immigrants, refugees, and low-income people in
San Francisco. The Neighborhood Computer Centers Program (NCC) is an
award-winning after-school program that uses computers to strengthen
the basic skills and academic motivation of children from
disadvantaged neighborhoods. CRDC's Family Literacy Program provides
ESL classes and parenting support to Chinese-, Spanish-, and
Vietnamese-speaking families in San Francisco's Chinatown and
Tenderloin neighborhoods. We are seeking an external evaluator to
conduct comprehensive evaluations of the 1996 programs. The purpose
of the evaluation is to measure each program's success in achieving
its goals and to communicate progress to funders and the outside
community. Responsibilities include: observing classes, regularly
attending staff meetings, interviewing teachers, TAs, students,
parents and administrators in both programs, working with staff to
develop valid and reliable assesment instruments, providing feedback
to teaching and administrative staff regarding progress toward goals,
analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, writing 1 brief mid-year
report for the NCC program, and writing 2 comprehensive final
evaluation reports. Qualifications: MA or Ph.D. in education or
related field (or MA or Ph.D. candidate), teaching background,
experience working in the field of bilingual education and/or
experience with adult literacy/ESL programs, excellent written and
oral communication skills, knowledge of program design and
development, and evaluation experience (desired). Time commitment:
350-400 hours. Period of employment: November 1995-July 1996. Send
resume and cover letter by November 20 to
Amy Vanacore, Project Director
Career Resources Development Center
655 Geary Street
San Francisco CA 94102
phone: 415/775-8880
(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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-- TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY: A facetious individual, who was taking a
long walk in the country, came across a yokel sitting on a stile. As
the gentleman was not sure of his route, he thought he would make
inquiries of the local inhabitant; but at first glance he jumped too
hastily to the conclusion that he had happened upon the village
simpleton. He decided to test the fellow's intelligence first by
putting him to the simplest question he could think of, which was,
'What day of the week is this, my good man?' He received the
following answer:
'When the day after tomorrow is yesterday, today will be as
far from Sunday as today was from Sunday when the day before
yesterday was tomorrow.'
What day was it?
Solution to WHO'S DRIVING: The engine driver's last name is Makarov.
BONUS QUESTION: Krutov, Larjanov, and Makarov formed the highest
scoring offensive line in hockey history.
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before you've read it), the Sesquipedalian Weekly Herald is stored
online at Stanford (in directory /user/linguistics/Sesquip/), and
at Berkeley (in the directory /usr/pub.) The most current issue of
the Herald can be found by typing 'help quip'.
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their employees, makes any warranty, whatsoever, implied, or assumes
any legal liability or responsibility regarding any information,
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(* Nov 9, 1984: Islanders 45, Rangers 43, for a total of 88 shots on
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