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the SESQUIPEDALIAN Volume VII, No. 1
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Battle of Corinth, 1862 October 3, 1996
WELCOME BACK!
Welcome back to all for Fall, 96-97 (ho-hum) and warm greetings to all
new department members (hi!). The Quip box is chock full o' goodies
from the summer hiatus, so we'll get right to the point and resume
operations as normal (including Thursday release) next week. Please
take note of and attend the Linguistics Colloquium this afternoon!
(See below for details)
-\-/-\ LOOK WHO'S HERE \-/-\-
Please join me in welcoming our new first-year graduate students:
IVETTE de JESUS (BA University of Puerto Rico) is conducting ongoing
research in the area of lexicography. Her honors thesis was a
lexicographic study of the vitality of the words contained in the
first dictionary of Spanish Language Americanisms. This work is part
of an island-wide revision of 'Vocabulario de Puerto Rico' (1937), a
study which has a major sociolinguistic approach, and involves work
with subjects from every social and cultural area of Puerto Rico. As
part of her graduate research, she wishes to explore the different
dialects of Spanish-speaking communities in the United States.
STEFAN KAUFMANN (MS Georgetown) is strongly attracted to semantic
problems such as quantification, aspect and modality, negation, and
the structure of discourse. He is fluent in both Japanese and Russian
and uses his knowledge of those languages, as well as English and his
native German, for extensive comparative observations in the area of
discourse to describe them cross-linguistically, and the philosophical
and psychological consequenses of such explorations. Currently he is
working on computational applications in natural language processing.
HEE-SUN KIM (MA Ewha Women's University) comes to us from the
Ph.D. program at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, Korea. Having
participated in a study of phonological and grammatical structures of
Korean for the implementation of an automated telephone system, she
found that the specific phonetic cues in the speech chain and the
first level of processing in speech perception could be well-explained
with the set of prosodic constituents, rather than with the
traditional phonological components, and this idea is reflected in her
MA thesis, 'Ambisyllabification in English Phonological Processes.'
Current research is to explore whether conflicts of
language-particular phenomena will be solved by the constraint-based
approach in phonological ground.
HANJUNG LEE (MA Seoul National University) would like to concentrate
on the topics of accurate analyses of syntactic and semantic structure
and their implications for cognition. Her research focuses on which
semantic criteria govern surface properties in such constructions as
ditransitive, middle, resultative, unaccusative, etc. and whether
these criteria can be universally applicable to typologically
different languages like Korean and English. She also intends to
undertake an in-depth, comparative, cross-linguistic study of first
language acquisition: the pricnciples in acquisition of argument
structure, developmental contrast between the learners of Korean and
English related to linguistic specificities, and the role of different
lexicalization patterns between Korean and English in language
acquisition.
MICHAEL McDAID (BA UC Berkeley) is working on morphology and
phonetics/phonology and relevant computational paradigms. Among his
other work, he has incorporated aspects of feature geometry on tone in
Chinese dialects to bring about a productive analysis of reduplication
in highly complex tonal systems; has isolated patterns of raised
formant and noise frequencies in the speach of Southern Mandarin
dialect speakers; and has designed a basic parser using feature-based
morphology, transformational syntax, and the vocabulary of Ogden's
Basic English as frameworks for language modeling. He hopes to
continue his research in these directions while investigating possible
interfaces with syntax and semantics/pragmatics.
DAVID McKERCHER (MA University of Victoria) is focusing on the syntax
and semantics of adjuncts in his current work. He has surveyed the
syntactic and semantic criteria used to distinguish adverbials which
are sentence modifiers from those which are predicate modifiers, and
also written on two semantic treatments of adverbials (the event
argument approach). While at Stanford he intends to pursue the
putative argument/adjunct distinction and test the relevant syntactic
and semantic criteria, while developing his teaching skills. He also
holds a degree in Biochemistry.
JULIANNE ROBERTS (MA University of Hawaii) has been carrying out
advanced study of language contact varieties in Hawaii. She has
amassed a data base of over 2,000 original citations, which she has
analyzed into the first clear and complete account of the
pidgin-creole cycle in Hawaii. For the past several years she has also
been the editorial assistant of the 'Carrier Pidgin' newsletter.
SHIAO-WEI THAM (BA, National University of Singapore) comes to us from
her honors year at the National University of Singapore. Research she
has done includes an investigation of wordhood in Mandarin; nasal
harmony in Hokkien, and the syntax-semantics interface governing the
behavior of verbs in Mandarin. She hopes to continue research in this
area, using both phonological data and semantic representations.
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Also please join me in welcoming the department's visiting researchers
and visiting scholars for Autumn:
SALVADOR PONS BORDERIA (Fullbright Visiting Scholar, University of
Valencia, Spain). Salvador will be working with Scott Schwenter and
Elizabeth Traugott on development in grammaticalization.
CATHRYN DONOHUE (Visiting researcher, UCLA): Cathryn will be working
with Joan Bresnan on a cross-linguistic study of possessor ascension:
typology and theoretical analysis. She will also be working on a
grammatical reanalysis of Sanuma, a Yanomami language of the Amazon.
NINE ELENBAAS (Visiting Researcher, Utrecht): Nine will be working
with Paul Kiparsky on phonological theory, continuing her work on
Sentani stress, and pursuing some research on Finnish phonology and
the the analysis of ternary stress systems in general.
ADELE GOLDBERG (Visiting Scholar, UCSD): Adele Goldberg will be in
residence the entire 96-97 academic year, and will be working with Tom
Wasow, Joan Bresnan, and Ivan Sag on corpus-based linguistics and
discourse analysis, and continuing some work on Persian complex
predicates. She may teach a graduate course in lexical semantics
later in the year. Her book, "Constructions" won the Gustave Arlt
Award in the Humanities. George Lakoff writes, "It is quite remarkable
for a book on linguistics and cognitive science to win an award for a
best book in the humanities."
PAULO CHAGAS DE SOUZA (Visiting Researcher, University of Sao Paolo):
Paulo will be studying the causativity in Portuguese, and linking rules
and operations on argument structure in general, with Joan Bresnan.
PAUL TER HORST (Visiting Researcher, Groningen): Paul will be here for
Fall and Winter quarter, studying the semantics of discourse with
Henriette de Swart.
NOBUKO UCHIDA (Visiting Scholar, Ochanomizu University): Professor
Uchida will be researching child language acquisition with Eve Clark,
as well as sitting in on various lectures for this academic year.
-\-/-\ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM \-/-\-
Friday, Oct 4, 3:30pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (460), Room 146
Dan I. Slobin
University of California at Berkeley
There's more than one way to talk about motion:
Consequences of linguistic typology for narrative style
A language can lexicalize the PATH of motion in a verb stem (e.g.,
enter), or in an associated element, such as a verb particle (e.g., go
in). Following Talmy, the first type is referred to as "verb-framed"
and the second as "satellite-framed." In satellite-framed languages,
MANNER can be expressed in the main verb (e.g., run in), while in the
first type, MANNER is expressed in an associated form (e.g., enter
running). A complex path can be expressed by a sequence of verbs in
the first type (e.g., exit the house, cross the field, and enter the
forest) and by a sequence of particles and prepositional phrases in
the second (e.g., go out of the house, across the field, and into the
forest). This collection of typological contrasts appear to have
consequences for the ways in which motion events are described in
narrative. Using crosslinguistic data of picture-elicited narratives,
novels, and translations of novels, it is found that narrative texts
in satellite-framed languages devote more attention to MANNER of
movement and to the physical GROUND elements associated with movement
(source, goal, milestone, medium). By contrast, verb-framed
narratives may devote more attention to SCENE-SETTING (descriptions of
layout, terrain, inner state). The colloquium will present work in
progress, suggesting that lexicalization patterns can influence
attention to aspects of motion events, leading to different types of
narrative style.
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Reception follows.
For directions and a complete list of colloquia, see
http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/Linguistics/colloq/colloq.html
-\-/-\ FELLOWSHIPS/ASSISTANTSHIPS \-/-\-
-- NSF: Check out the NSF web page for deadline information. The
following site is a good starting point.
http://www.nsf.gov:80/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf95138/start.htm
-- FULLBRIGHT AND OTHER GRANTS FULBRIGHT AND OTHER GRANTS available to
North Africa and the Near and Middle East, 1997-98. Applications will
be accepted from well-qualified students in most fields of study,
including Arabic language study, in selected countries. Candidates
must be U.S. cozens who will hold a bachelor's degree or the
equivalent by the beginning dab of the grant, but who do not hold the
Ph.D. at the time of application. Specific eligibility requirements
and information on benefits, etc., are contained in the brochure,
Fulbright and Related Grants for Graduate Study and Research Abroad,
1997-98 which may be obtained from campus Fulbright Program Advisers
(for enrolled students).
Campus deadline date: October 9, 1996. See Fullbright Program
Adviser, Overseas Resource Center, Bechtel International Center.
-- Multidisciplinary Program in Speech and Hearing Science (The Ohio
State University). Two Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship
(National Institutional Research Service Award Fellowship) for PhDs or
MDs are available (one immediately; a second on I July 1997). These
postdoctoral traineeships provide an opportunity to pursue focused
research (either basic research or clinical research) in one of five
areas of concentration within the discipline of speech and hearing
science including speech production, speech processing,
psychoacoustics, speech perception, and speech-language
development. Emphasis of this training program is on
cross-disciplinary research. The training faculty come from many
different departments including the Departments of Speech and Hearing
Science (Robert Fox, Lawrence Feth, Jan Weisenberger, Osamu Fujimura,
Marios Fourakis, Jan Edwards, Jessica Harris, Michael Trudeau),
Linguistics (Mary Beckman, Keith Johnson,), Psychology (Mari Jones,
Neal Johnson, Caroline Palmer, Mark Pitt, Julie Boland),
Otolaryngology (Kamran Barin, Tom DeMaria), Electrical Engineering
(Ashok Krishnamurthy, Stan Ahalt, Randy Moses), Zoology (William
Masters, Susan Volman). Mechanical Engineering (Mardi Hastings), and
Wright-Patterson AFB (Tim Anderson). Potential trainees should have a
doctorate and be a U.S. citizen or have permanent residence
status. Traineeships will be awarded for a minimum of two years and a
maximum of three years. Support will include a stipend, moving
expenses, medical insurance, travel, and other training-related
expenses. Interested individuals should submit inquiries and vitae
along with a list of references to:
Dr. Robert Allen Fox, Chair
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
110 Pressey Hall,
1070 Carmack Rd.
Columbus OH 43210-1002
Office phone: 614-292- 1628 FAX: 614-292-7504 e-mail address: fox.2@osu.edu
-- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: SOCIETY OF FELLOWS IN THE HUMANITIES
(FELLOWSHIPS 1997-98). The Columbia Society of Fellows in the
Humanities, with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the
William R. Kenan Trust, will appoint a number of postdoctoral fellows
in the humanities for the academic year 1997-98. Fellows newly
appointed for 1997-98 must have received the Ph.D. between January 1,
1991 and July 1, 1997. The Society seeks to enhance the role of the
humanities in the University by exploring and clarifying the
interrelationships within the humanities as well as their relationship
to the natural and social sciences and the several professions. Its
program is designed to strengthen the intellectual and academic
qualifications of the fellows: first, by affording them time and
resources to develop independent scholarship within a broadening
educational and professional context; second, by involving them in
interdisciplinary programs of general education and in innovative
courses of their own design; and third, by associating them
individually and collectively with some of the finest teaching
scholars in the University. The Society is comprised of the fellows,
the faculty members of the governing board, and other faculty invited
by the fellows. Regular meetings are held to advance the intellectual
and educational purposes common to the membership. Fellows are
appointed for one year at a rank equivalent to that of lecturer. The
appointment is ordinarily renewed for a second year. Each fellow
usually teaches a section of one of the introductory courses in
general education: Contemporary Civilization, Literature Humanities,
Music Humanities, Art Humanities, Asian Civilizations, or Asian
Humanities. In the first year, one of these introductory courses each
semester constitutes the full program of teaching. In the second year,
fellows may wish to take the opportunity to develop and teach an
experimental one-semester course in addition to the course in general
education. The stipend for 1997-98 will be $30,000. Full fringe
benefits will be added. Additional funds are available for each fellow
to support research needs. Application forms may be obtained from,
and completed applications returned to
The Director
Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Mail Code 5700
Columbia University
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Candidates may be invited for an interview. The deadline for completed
applications is October 15, 1996. Columbia University is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
-\-/-\ CALL FOR PAPERS \-/-\-
-- PENN LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM: The Penn Linguistics Club Announces
The Twenty-first Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Saturday and
Sunday, February 22 and 23, 1997. Invited Speaker: Alec Marantz,
M.I.T. We welcome papers on any topic in linguistics. In addition,
this year's meeting will feature a special session on morphology.
Speakers will have twenty minutes for their presentation and five
minutes for discussion and questions. Prospective speakers should
submit an abstract no later than Monday, December 2nd, 1996 to:
The Penn Linguistics Colloquium Committee
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6305
Abstracts for either the general conference or the special session
should be no longer than 2 pages in 12 point font with 1 inch margins
and should be accompanied by an index card including your name,
affiliation (department and institution), address, email address and
the subfield of linguistics (or related discipline) that you find most
appropriate to your topic. All abstracts labeled "morphology" will be
considered for inclusion in the special session. Submission by email
to plc21@babel.ling.upenn.edu will be greatly appreciated. Abstracts
will be evaluated by reviewers from the University of Pennsylvania and
other institutions. Colloquium participants are invited to submit
their paper to the Penn Review of Linguistics, which will be published
late in the spring following the Colloquium. If you have any further
questions, please contact us at the above address or via e-mail at
plc21@babel.ling.upenn.edu
-- Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing,
Washington Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC. March 31 - April 3, 1997.
Sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics. The
conference is intended to bring together researchers, system
implementers, and managers from around the world to exchange
information on the application of natural language processing to
real-world problems. Through technical presentations, case studies,
tutorials, and demonstrations, it will examine how specific
approaches, techniques, and resources have proven valuable for
particular applications in text and speech processing. Original
contributions are solicited in all areas of applied natural language
processing, including but not limited to: text and message processing;
spoken language understanding; machine translation; information
retrieval; computer-aided language learning; grammar and style
checking; instructional systems; help systems; text and spoken
language generation; database retrieval systems; multilanguage systems
and multimedia systems. Contributions may address applications, novel
characteristics of implemented systems, tools and methods for system
development (for example, for corpus analysis, knowledge acquisition,
and system customization and maintenance), resources (such as corpora
and lexicons), implementation techniques, and evaluation methods.
Papers that critically evaluate an approach or language processing
strategy are especially welcome. A paper accepted for presentation at
this meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other
meeting with publically available proceedings. Papers that are being
submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the submission
(on the identification page). Papers may be submitted to both the
ANLP 97 and ACL 97 conferences, so long as this is indicated on the
submission, and a paper accepted for ANLP 97 is subsequently withdrawn
from ACL 97 (the submission deadline for ACL 97 is shortly before the
notification date for ANLP 97).
TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS
* Full technical papers (a maximum of 8 proceedings pages)
* Briefer technical notes (a maximum of 4 proceedings pages) focussing
on a single technical or implementation issue
* System presentations with demos: demo sessions will be organized
as part of the conference, consisting of presentations of novel
system features followed by system demos. Full support for demos
will be provided. Submissions for demo sessions should include
a technical paper or note describing the system, emphasizing its
novel characteristics and relating it to other work described in
the literature. System descriptions will normally be the length
of a technical note (4 pages maximum) but technical papers (8 pages
maximum) will be considered if warranted by the novel technical
material. Each paper must be accompanied by a set of printed
graphics or, if possible, a video of the system to be presented,
in order to judge its value as a demo presentation. These
submissions will be reviewed on the same schedule as technical papers.
* Videos (maximum 15 minutes) that display interesting research on
NLP applications to real-world problems. Promotional videos are
acceptable so long as their main focus is on giving a clear and
realistic idea of how natural language processing is being used,
rather than on advertising a company or product. Videos will be
reviewed on the same schedule as technical papers. Accepted videos
will be organized into an ongoing video presentation.
Authors should submit one copy of their videotape, accompanied by
a submission letter granting permission to copy the tape to a
standard format, along with two copies of a one to two page
abstract that includes the title, the name, address, and email
of the authors, the tape format of the submitted tape (VHS
(preferred), NTSC, PAL, or SECAM), and the duration. Tape
submissions should be sent to the same address as hard-copy
papers (see below).
* Student posters describing ongoing student research work
(a maximum of 3 proceedings pages).
The submission should consist of an identification page plus the
actual paper. Because reviewing will be blind, the actual paper
should not contain the authors' names or addresses. Furthermore,
self-references that reveal the authors' identity (e.g., "We
previously showed (Smith, 1991)...") should be avoided. Instead use
references like "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". The
identification page should include the title, the paper type (paper,
note, demo paper, student), the name, full address and affiliation,
and email address of each author, the indication "student: yes" if an
author is an ACL student member, and a brief abstract. The paper
should be prepared in the format of an ACL proceedings paper (two
column, single spaced, but with no author information) and must
conform to the length requirements for the type of submission. Please
do not submit double-spaced papers. Electronic submissions should
consist of the material of the identification page, as a simple ASCII
file, followed by a single self-contained LaTeX file for the paper
itself. This should be sent as a single mail message to
anlp97@cs.nyu.edu, with the subject line "submission", on or before
November 7, 1996. Electronic submissions must use the ACL proceedings
style (aclap.sty) which can be obtained by ftp (as described below).
A model paper, model.tex, is also available from the ftp site.
Five copies of the paper and one copy of the identification page
should be sent to
ANLP 97
Computer Science Department
New York University
715 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10003
In the case of hard-copy submissions, an email message with the
information on the identification page and the subject line "hard copy
submission" should be sent to anlp97@cs.nyu.edu. Hard copy
submissions must be received by November 7, 1996; late papers will be
returned unopened.
We have placed the ACL style file (aclap.sty) and a model LaTeX paper
(model.tex) at the New York University FTP site. To obtain the style
file,
$ ftp cs.nyu.edu
Name: anonymous
Password: grishman@cs.nyu.edu [not echoed]
ftp> cd pub/nlp/anlp97
ftp> get aclap.sty
ftp> quit
$
These files can also be accessed through the WWW page we have set up
for the conference, http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/projects/proteus/anlp97
-- Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics: Why, What, and How? April
4-5, 1997, Washington, D.C., USA (in conjunction with ANLP-97).
Sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics. Special
Interest Group on the Lexicon. We are soliciting papers that address
one or more of the following questions:
-Why tag corpora with lexical semantics?
-What should the tags be?
-How should the tagging be done?
-How should the tagging be evaluated? Especially desirable are
papers that shed light on these questions through the discussion of
actual tagging experience both hand and automatic. In addition to
paper presentations, working sessions that discuss actual attempts at
tagging text, such as the Wordnet taggings, the Singapore taggings,
and the semantic tagging done as part of the MUC competitions are
planned. Samples of tagged text will be sent to participants in
advance for careful consideration, with specific issues in mind. A
discussion of obstacles to achieving consensus is planned. Authors
are asked to submit previously unpublished papers only; a workshop
proceedings will be published. There is a 2000 word limit (exclusive
of references) on the length of submissions. Electronic submission of
either self-contained latex or postscript is strongly preferred.
Please use the aclsub.sty latex style file. Hard copy submissions
should include 6 copies of the paper. Since the papers will be
reviewed anonymously, please do not place the author name on the
paper. Instead include a separate title page with title, abstract,
author, and e-mail address. Unless requested otherwise, notification
of acceptance will be sent electronically to the first author.
Parallel submission is unproblematic; however if your paper is
accepted to this workshop and you decide to present it here, we will
ask you to withdraw it from any other events.
Deadline for submission: November 8th, 1996
Address for Submission and Further Information
-----------------------------------------------
Marc Light
SfS Computerlinguistik
Wilhelmstrasse 113
D-72074 Tuebingen Germany
Phone: +49 (07071) 290 (ask for extension 74279)
light@sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de
http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~light/semtag_ws.html
(all latex style files will be available from this page)
-- GALA '97: Language Acquisition, Knowledge, Representation and
Processing. University of Edinburgh, April 4-6, 1997. Abstracts of
papers and posters are invited on any aspect of first or second
language acquisition including: syntax, phonology, phonetics,
morphology, semantics, cognitive modelling, psycholinguistics, etc.
Send three anonymous hard-copy one-page abstracts, and one
camera-ready copy with name and affiliation, to
GALA 97
HCRC
University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
UK
Closing date for Abstracts: October 15th 1996. No e-mail or fax
submissions. For further info and format, see
http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/gala/
or email gala97@ling.ed.ac.uk
-- LSRL-27: Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. University of
California, Irvine, February 20-22, 1997. Abstracts for 20-minute
talks are invited for the 27th LSRL to be held at the University of
California, Irvine, on February 20-22, 1997. Abstracts on any aspect
of Romance linguistics and from any theoretical perspective are
welcome. Send 9 copies of a one-page (letter size, 1-inch margins),
unreduced, anonymous abstract. An additional copy should list the
author's name and affiliation (this copy will be reproduced in the
Meeting Handbook). Include a 3" X 5" card with the title of the paper,
author's name, affiliation, address, telephone number, e-mail, and
primary area of linguistics addressed in the paper.
LSRL-27 Organizing Committee
Department of Linguistics
University of Califomia, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-5100
Phone: 714/824-7504
E-mail: lsrl@orion.oac.uci.edu
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: October 15, 1996. Please note:
E-mail submissions or faxed abstracts cannot be accepted.
-- CASE: The Center for Aeropsace Safety Education 1997 Annual
Symposium (April 9-11, 1997, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University,
Prescott, AZ). The Center for Aerospace Safety Education (CASE), in
conjunction with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Language
Institute and the Humanities and Social Science Department, invites
all interested parties to participate in an aviation safety
conference, 'Aviation Communications: A Multi-Cultural Forum.' This
conference is intended to be a vehicle for ideas and information to be
exchanged concerning all aspects of communications including
linguistics, culture, and technology. CASE welcomes all submissions
in areas including (but not limited to): Human Factors, Barriers to
Communications, Intercultural Communications, Technology and Culture
Studies, Language Studies, Communication Studies, ESL, STS studies.
The CASE mission is to promote safety through education and support
aerospace safety education and research throughout the aviation
industry. Abstracts (200 words) must be submitted by January 9,
1997. Mail or fax to
Center for Aerospace Safety Education
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
3200 Willow Creek Road
Prescott AZ 86301-3720
phone: 520 717 6955
fax: 520 717 6958
email: CASE_Prescott@ccmail.pr.erau.edu
http://www.pr.erau.edu/people/case
-- The Syntax and Semantics of Predication (University of Texas at
Austin). March 7-9, 1997. Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks
(with 10 additional minutes for discussion) on any topic related to
the syntax and/or semantics of predication. Abstracts must be no more
than one 8 1/2" by 11" page, single-spaced, and in at least 12 point
font (10 point for Samples), with one inch margins on all sides. One
additional page with references, diagrams, and data may be appended if
necessary. All submissions must include the following items:
* 6 anonymous copies of the abstract
* 1 3X5 card with name, affiliation, address, phone number, email
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is November 1, 1996. Send abstracts
to:
TLS Abstract Committee
The University of Texas at Austin
Calhoun 501
University of Texas at Austin
Austin TX 78712
Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered. Fax
submissions will not be accepted. Instructions for email submissions are
available upon request. An individual may submit at most one single
and one co-authored paper. For further information contact
tls@uts.cc.utexas.edu or check out our web page at:
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/
-- WCCFL-XVI: West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at the
University of Washington. February 28 - March 2, 1997. Abstracts are
invited for 20-minute talks in all areas of formal linguistics from
any theoretical perspective. Requirements: Please mail ten copies of
an anonymous abstract along with a 3x5 card with paper title, name of
author(s), affiliation, address, phone number, e-mail address and, to
facilitate the review process, primary area of linguistics addressed
in the paper. Abstracts should be no more than one page in length with
an additional page allowed for examples and references, with at least
one inch margins, in at least 11-point type. Submissions are limited
to one individual and one joint abstract per author. Please do not
send abstracts by e-mail. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is
November 8, 1996. Address abstracts to:
WCCFL XVI COMMITTEE
Department of Linguistics
Box 354340
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
For further information, contact the WCCFL committee at
wccfl@u.washington.edu
-- LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: Linguistica Atlantica. The Journal of the
Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Papers on descriptive and
theoretical linguistic topics are now being solicited for volume 18
(1996) of Linguistica Atlantica. Papers may be written in English or
French, and should conform to the Style Guide printed on the back
cover of the journal. The new deadline for receipt of manuscripts is
15 November 1996. Please forward three copies of your article to
Jim Black
Editor, Linguistics Atlantica
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St Johns, Newfoundland
A1B 3X9
This call for papers is also available in French.
-\-/-\ TRUE LINGUISTICS \-/-\-
SHAKESPEARE'S INSULT KIT: Combine one word from each of the three
columns below, prefaced with "Thou":
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
artless base-court apple-john
bawdy bat-fowling baggage
beslubbering beef-witted barnacle
bootless beetle-headed bladder
churlish boil-brained boar-pig
cockered clapper-clawed bugbear
clouted clay-brained bum-bailey
craven common-kissing canker-blossom
currish crook-pated clack-dish
dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole
dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb
droning doghearted codpiece
errant dread-bolted death-token
fawning earth-vexing dewberry
fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon
froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench
frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill
gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker
goatish fly-bitten fustilarian
gorbellied folly-fallen giglet
impertinent fool-born gudgeon
infectious full-gorged haggard
jarring guts-griping harpy
loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig
lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast
mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger
mangled hell-hated joithead
mewling idle-headed lewdster
paunchy ill-breeding lout
pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie
puking knotty-pated malt-worm
puny milk-livered mammet
qualling motley-minded measle
rank onion-eyed minnow
reeky plume-plucked miscreant
roguish pottle-deep moldwarp
ruttish pox-marked mumble-news
saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook
spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg
spongy rude-growing pignut
surly rump-fed puttock
tottering shard-borne pumpion
unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane
vain spur-galled scut
venomed swag-bellied skainsmate
villainous tardy-gaited strumpet
warped tickle-brained varlot
wayward toad-spotted vassal
weedy unchin-snouted whey-face
yeasty weather-bitten wagtail
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(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 Michigan: The Program in Linguistics at the
University of Michigan invites applications for tenure-track faculty
positions in syntax, beginning fall, 1997. The level of appointments
(assistant to full professor) is open. We seek outstanding applicants
with teaching and research expertise in formal syntax, preferably with
specializations in comparative or cross-linguistic studies. Secondary
specializations in semantics, computational linguistics,
neurolinguistics, or psycholinguistics are especially
welcome. Applicants should be able to relate their research to other
subdisciplines or cognate fields. A Ph.D. by the start of the
appointment is required. A letter of application, CV, one
representative publication, and three letters of recommendation should
be sent by November 1, 1996, to Professor Marilyn Shatz, Director,
Program in Linguistics, The University of Michigan, 1076 Frieze
Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1285.
The University of Michigan is an EO/AA employer.
-- UCONN: The Department of Linguistics at the University of
Connecticut anticipates a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in
Semantics to begin in the fall semester of 1997 (salary negotiable).
Ph.D. is required by the time duties begin. We are interested in
candidates with specialization in formal semantics and the syntax/
semantics interface within Generative Grammar. 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, including "Language
and Mind" and "Principles of Linguistics." 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, description of
courses prepared to teach, and teaching evaluations if available) and
at least three letters of recommendation to:
Howard Lasnik, Chair
Semantics Search Committee
University of Connecticut
Department of Linguistics, U-145
341 Mansfield Road, Room 230
Storrs, CT 06269-1145
email: linqadm@uconnvm.uconn.edu
phone: (860) 486-4229
fax: (860) 486-0197
Applications received by December 1, 1996 will be given preference in
the screening process. Applications will be accepted until the
position is filled. The University of Connecticut is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We encourage applications
from under-represented groups, including minorities, women, and people
with disabilities.
-- THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: The Ohio State University Department of
Linguistics announces a new tenure-eligible position, pending final
approval, for an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor, beginning
with the Autumn quarter of 1997. We are searching for a specialist in
computational phonetics/phonology/morphology or in discourse modeling,
but outstanding applicants in other areas of computational linguistics
who complement existing strengths in the department will be
considered. The primary duties of this position are: maintaining an
active research program in computational linguistics; teaching
undergraduate- and graduate-level courses, advising students, and
directing graduate student research; and performing service duties as
required by the department, the College of Humanities, and the
University. The salary will be negotiable, but commensurate with rank
and credentials. The successful candidate will show potential for
excellence in research and teaching, and will have a strong commitment
to building bridges among related areas of investigation within the
department and throughout the University. The deadline for receipt of
applications is Friday, November 15, 1996. Applicants should send a
curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, up to three
representative publications, and the names and addresses (electronic
and mail) of three references (whom we will contact for letters, as
needed), to
Brian D. Joseph, Computational Linguistics Search
Department of Linguistics
The Ohio State University
222 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1298
Inquiries may be addressed to Brian Joseph by letter at the above
address, or via electronic mail at bjoseph@ling.ohio-state.edu, or by
phone at 614-292-4981, or by FAX at 614-292-4273. The Ohio State
University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
Qualified women, minorities, Vietnam-era Veterans, disabled veterans,
and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
-- REED COLLEGE: The Linguistics Program at Reed College invites
applications for a one-year replacement position in Linguistics for
the academic year 1997-98. Reed College is a selective liberal arts
institution with a commitment to teaching excellence and scholarship.
The appointee will be responsible for a small but intense
undergraduate linguistics program which offers five semester courses
over the academic year, at least one of which is a general
introduction to the field. The position also involves supervising
several yearlong senior honors thesis projects. A Ph.D. and broad
teaching and research experience in various areas of linguistics are
required. Because the linguistics program is small, the person who
occupies this position must establish collaborative intellectual
contacts with one or more faculty colleagues in such related
disciplines as anthropology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics,
cognitive science, languages, or literature. Both the level of the
appointment and the range of possible course offerings are open and
will depend on the successful applicant's experience and areas of
expertise. We especially encourage senior scholars with interests in
undergraduate education in linguistics to apply. Please send a letter
describing your teaching and scholarly interests, a curriculum vitae,
and the names of three academic referees, to the Linguistics Search
Committee, Reed College, 3203 S.E. Woodstock Blvd., Portland, OR 97202
by November 15, 1996. Reed College is an equal opportunity employer.
-- LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSING, Brown University: The Department of
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences invites applications for a three
year renewable tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level
beginning July 1, 1997. Areas of interest include but are not limited
to phonology or phonological processing, syntax or sentence
processing, and lexical access or lexical semantics, using
experimental, formal, developmental, neurological, or computational
methods. Expertise in two or more areas and/or application of
multiple paradigms is preferred. Applicants should have a strong
research program and a broad teaching ability in cognitive science
and/or linguistics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Interest in contributing curricular innovations in keeping with
Brown's university-college tradition is desirable. Applicants should
have completed all Ph.D. requirements no later than July 1, 1997.
Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Send
curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, reprints and preprints
of publications, and a one page statement of research interests to
Dr. Sheila E. Blumstein, Chair, Search Committee, Department of
Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Box 1978,
Providence, RI 02912 by January 1, 1997. Brown University is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
-- The Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences invites
applications for a three year renewable tenure-track position at the
Assistant Professor level beginning July 1, 1997. Areas of interest
include but are not limited to phonology or phonological processing,
syntax or sentence processing, and lexical access or lexical
semantics, using experimental, formal, developmental, neurological, or
computational methods. Expertise in two or more areas and/or the
application of multiple paradigms is preferred. Applicants should have
a strong research program and a broad teaching ability in cognitive
science and/or linguistics at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels. Interest in contributing curricular innovations in keeping
with Brown's university-college tradition is desirable. Applicants
should have completed all Ph.D. requirements by no later than July 1,
1997. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. Send
curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, reprints and preprints
of publications, and a one page statement of research interests to
Dr. Sheila E. Blumstein, Chair, Search Committee, Department of
Cognitive of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Box
1978, Providence, R.I. 02912 by January 1, 1997. Brown University is
an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
(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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-- RETURN OF THE INSTA-PRIZE: Yes, there are prizes now! Thanks to
Angie Kortenhoven who wins a special insta-prize for unearthing the
new batch of insta-prizes. Anyone who is still owed a prize, see
Kyle. Anyway, this week's question:
Professor Rackbrane chanced to come upon a man digging a deep hole.
'Good morning,' he said. 'How deep is that hole?'
'Guess,' said the laborer. 'My height is exactly 5 feet 10
inches.'
'How much deeper are you going?' asked the professor.
'I am going twice as deep,' was the answer, 'and then my head
will be twice as far below ground as it is now above ground!'
Rackbrane then knew how deep the hole was. If you do, e-mail
the answer to kyle@csli for this week's insta-prize.
[From 'Classic Brain Puzzlers' by Philip J. Carter and Ken A. Russell]
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