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Sesquipedalian #1, September 30, 1993

The SESQUIPEDALIAN WEEKLY HERALD		       Volume IV, Number 1
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                                                       September 30, 1993

And now, the moment that a couple of you have been waiting for: Here
it is, the new volume of the Sesquipedalian, your friendly
neighbourhood linguisitics newsletter.  To the regular readers: Both
of you may be dismayed to find that we're rather long on news and
short on fluff in this first issue... so sue us.  Or more
constructively, submit to us.  Your humble Quippers are mere
overworked linguistics staff (sorry about the redundancy there) who
beg, borrow and steal (mostly steal) this material from dark corners,
dusty stacks of unread papers, the undersides of wet stones, python's
lairs, etc., all in our extremely non-copious free time.  Clearly, we
don't have time to come up with much that's original, so please feel
free (read: obligated) to to write amusing things and send them to
kyle@csli or place them in the Quip box in the department.  
(Note: Any linguists complaining about the promptness, frequency, or
alleged humourous content of this publication will be dragged by the
uvula down to the Phonetics Lab and forced to latex trees until dawn.)

		   -\-\-\ LOOK WHO'S TALKING /-/-/-

-- At Ohio State this summer, John Rickford and Faye McNair-Knox
(now of Virginia Commonwealth University) presented a paper entitled
'Addressee- and Topic-Influenced Style Shift: A Quantitative
Sociolinguistic Analysis' as part of the Language and Human Affairs
lecture series.  The paper draws on data from the infamous ongoing
sociolinguistic project in East Palo Alto, and a version of it will
appear later this year in Perspectives on Register (Oxford University
Press, Ed Finegan ed.)

			-\-\-\ ERRATA /-/-/-

What?!  It's the first issue and we're already correcting ourselves?

-- John Rickford's Spring course, L286 (Sociolinguistic Field Methods)
was accidentally omitted from Courses & Degrees.  This course will
indeed be taught this year, in Spring (description available in last
year's C&D).  Details to follow.

-- NSF's: The deadline for NSF grant applications is actually November
6, not October 6 as stated in the previous edition of the Little Red
Book for Stanford Linguists.

                    -\-\-\ CALL FOR PAPERS /-/-/-

-- LINGUISTICS GRAD STUDENT WORKSHOP: We are planning on carrying on
the Department tradition of having a series of workshops Tuesday or
Thursday evenings at which grad students present their research.  This
usually consists of a presentation of about 40 minutes to an hour,
followed by a period of discussion and friendly criticism.
Participants in the past have found this to be an excellent way of
finding out what their peers are up to, chatting with people with
similar interests, and learning a little about linguistics.  We'd like
to encourage you to reserve those evenings, 7:30-9:30, as much as you
can.  People particularly interested in syntax may wish to note that
papers on that topic are usually scheduled for Tuesday; phonology fans
may be particularly interested in Thursday.  Talks on other topics may
pop up at any time.  In any event, particular talks will be announced
in advance, with a notice in the Sesquipedalian newsletter.  These
talks are especially rewarding for the presenters, who get practice at
delivering talks to peers, and feedback on their current research.
This can be a perfect venue for honing a talk or article on a local
audience before venturing into the world with it.  You might also find
the mellow atmosphere to be a good place to give a dissertation
proposal, relatively early in your work.  Consider yourself encouraged
to sign up by sending email to ling-workshop@csli, or by talking to
one of the coordinators (currently Chang Yong Sohn, Eunjoo Han, and
Brett Kessler).

-- BLS-XX: The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its
Twentieth Annual Meeting, to be held February 19-21, 1994.  This
meeting will not have a separate Parasession as in past years.
Instead, there will be an expanded General Session, to mark the
twentieth anniversary of BLS.  A Special Session on areal topics will
be held on February 18 in conjunction with the larger conference.
Abstracts in all areas of linguistics will be considered, but we
especially welcome those pertaining to the following topics: Case
Grammar; thematic roles; exceptionality and idiomaticity in grammar;
the place of grammatical constructions in linguistic theory; lexical
semantics; frame semantics; deixis; lexicography.  The Special Session
invites abstracts for papers in all areas of African historical
linguistics.  Papers dealing with any aspect of language change or
classification, in any language change or classification, in any
language family or families, and representing any theoretical
perspective will be considered.  Abstracts are invited for both
sessions.  We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks
and welcome papers from related disciplines, among them Anthropology,
Cognitive Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology.  Papers
delivered at the conference will be published in the Proceedings of
the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the BLS.  Speakers will be allowed 20
minutes for presentations and 10 minutes for questions.  To submit an
abstract send ten copies of an anonymous 500-word proposal (one page,
abstract and/or bibliographic works cited) to
	Berkeley Linguistics Society
	2337 Dwinelle Hall
	University of California
	Berkeley CA 94720
	phone: 510/642-5808
	email: bls@garnet.berkeley.edu
	fax: 510/643-5688
You may append, if appropriate, a second page containing data referred
to in the abstract and/or bibliographic references.  Abstracts should
be accompanied by a single 3x5 card with the title of the paper, the
session for which the paper is to be considered, the author's name,
affiliation, e-mail, home and office addresses and phone numbers at
which they wish to be notified in mid-December, 1993, and (if for the
general session) the area of linguistics in which the abstract is to
be judged.  Abstracts for the general session must arrive at our
office before 5:00, November 12, 1993; those for the special session
before 5:00, November 24, 1993.

-- 25th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN LINGUISTICS (Rutgers-State
University of New Jersey, March 25-27, 1994): We invite abstracts for
20-minute papers on all areas relating to African Linguistics.  A
one-page abstract for review, and a camera-ready abstract fitting
3"x6" (7.75cm x 15.25cm) should be received by December 15, 1993.
Invited Speakers: Ayo Bamgbose (University of Ibadan/University of
Illinois), Joan Bresnan (Stanford), Florence Dolphyne (University of
Ghana).  For further information contact
	Akinbiyi Akinlabi
	25th ACAL
	Department of Linguistics
	Rutgers University
	18 Seminary Place
	New Brunswick, NJ 08903
	email: ACAL25@zodiac.rutgers.edu

-- WCCFL-XIII: The West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (UC San
Diego, March 25-27, 1994) invites abstracts for 20-minute talks in all
areas of theoretical linguistics.  Abstracts must be on one side of
one standard size page, in unreduced type (11 or 12 point).  Send ten
copies, suitable for reproduction.  A title, but no name, should
appear on the abstract.  Please include an index card with title of
paper, area of linguistics, author, mailing address, phone number,
e-mail address, and affiliation.  A maximum of one individual and one
joint abstract per author may be submitted.  Abstracts must be
received by December 13, 1993.  Send abstracts to
	WCCFL Abstracts
	Department of Linguistics
	University of California, San Diego
	9500 Gilman Drive, 0108-A
	La Jolla CA 92093-0108
	email: wccfl@bend.ucsd.edu

-- re:POST: re:POST is a new multidisciplinary journal published by a
SUNY Buffalo graduate student collective.  This publication is our
response to the academy's anxious relation to theory, including the
impulse to affix 'post' to a range of important critical practices.
We believe that many of these theoretical positions have not
disappeared but press with renewed urgency.  re:POST aims to
acknowledge such urgency while retaining theoretical rigor.  We seek
papers which examine the limits and possibilities of theory in
relation to culture, history, literature, philosophy, and politics.
Please submit 3 copies of manuscripts, 15-25 double-spaced pages,
following MLA format.  Include SASE.  Deadline for Issue #2: December
15.  Send to
	re:POST
	c/o Department of English
	306 Clemens Hall
	SUNY at Buffalo 
	Buffalo NY 14260

		 -\-\-\ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM /-/-/-

We're not quite ready to start the colloquium season, so this week, as
a substitute, Chris Manning will be orienting TAs and telling jokes in
the colloquium time slot.  Next week, visiting professor Peter Austin
(La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia) will present his paper,
'Causitives and Applicatives in Australian Aboriginal Languages,'
Friday 8 October, 3:30-5 in Cordura 100 (abstract to appear in this
space).  Happy hour to follow.

Upcoming colloquia:

Oct. 14 --- Sesumi Kuno. "Negation, Extraction, and Deletion in
	    Japanese."

Oct. 22 --- Peter Sells (Stanford University).  "The Projection of
            Phrase Structure and Argument Structure in Japanese."

Oct. 29 --- James Kari (University of Alaska, Fairbanks).  "The Dis-
            tribution of Terms for `River' and `Mountain' in Alaskan
            Athabaskan Languages."

		    -\-\-\ WORD OF THE WEEK /-/-/-

It's fairly easy to infer the meaning of the word 'ponderomotive,' but
you may not have known that it's in the OED, with the precise
definition of 'tending to move a weight; weight-moving.'  It will be
no doubt even easier to come up with uses for this word during the
busy start-of-quarter, perhaps while doing the reading for Joan's
class, or merely picking up the reading for Joan's class; or even
while reading this issue of the newsletter.  At any rate, please try
to mix 'ponderomotive' into your conversation this week.

		-\-\-\ PREPROFESSIONAL WORKSHOP /-/-/-

To doctoral students who are planning to do field work next year,
apply for dissertation fellowships, jobs, postdocs, etc.:

	We are only just starting a new year, but it is time to think
about what you will be doing this time next year--yes, it really is.
Some applications for funding are due in October, a lot in November
and December, and it is important to be ready to apply for a job when
one is listed.
	I would like to meet with you to go through some preliminary
things to help you start the process: what should go in a vita,resume,
job letter, proposal, etc., etc., what to be looking out for and
where, etc. I would also like to get a list of who is planning to do
what. After that you may want to follow up with your own support
groups, or with further collective meetings--that will depend on what
you find most useful.
	The initial meeting will be the first Professional Development
Workshop of the quarter, noon to 1 on Wednesday October 6th in 90-91A.
If you can't come but want the information, please let me know. If you
are not seeking funding or a job in 1994-95 but are interested in
coming anyway, you are welcome to do so.
(Elizabeth Traugott)

		-\-\-\ FELLOWSHIPS/ASSISTANTSHIPS /-/-/-

-- NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities 1994-95 dissertation
grants.  Support for doctoral candidates in the humanities to complete
dissertations.  Stipend level of $14,000, tenure to begin between June
1 and September 1, 1994 for a period of 6-9 months, awardees may hold
no other appointment.  Stanford may nominate up to ten candidates.  No
application will be accepted by NEH without a formal nomination by the
H&S Dean's Office.  No more than two awards will be made to candidates
>From any institution.  Application deadline at NEH: November 15, 1993.
Interested students should have completed applications to Elizabeth
Traugott by November 1, 1993.  Applications and guidelines available
in the Fellowships binder in the Greenberg Room, Linguistics
Department.  Applications are also available from Roni Holeton in the
Dean's Office.  Applicants must be humanities Ph.D. candidates who are
enrolled at US institutions and who, by the application deadline, have
completed all requirements for the Ph.D. except the dissertation and
have had the topic and research plan approved by the dissertation
director and the graduate institution or program.  Applicants must be
citizens of the US or US nationals of American Samoa.

-- ACLS: The American Council of Learned Societies, in cooperation
with its constituent societies, announces a program of travel grants,
awarded on a competitive basis, to enable scholars in all fields of
the humanities and himanities-related social sciences to participate
in international meetings held outside the United States and its
dependencies.  Priority will be given to well-planned, broadly
international meetings and infrequently-held international congresses.
This program is funded by the Gladys Kriele Delmas Foundation.
Approximately 170 awards of $500 each (regardless of destination) will
be made to individuals to offset necessary expenses such as air
travelto and from the US.  The postmark deadline for applications is
February 1, 1994, for travel to international meetings occuring
between Jine 1, 1994 and May 31, 1995.  Announcment of awards will be
made by the third week of April, 1994.  Applicants must hold the Ph.D.
or the terminal degree in their field and must be citizens or
permanent residents of the US.  Scholars of all ranks affiliated with
institutions, as well as independent scholars at all stages of the
career, are eligible to apply.  Only persons who will read papers or
have a major, official role in the meeting are eligible for an award.
Membership in an ACLS constituent society has no bearing on
eligibility.  To request application forms, write or call
	ACLS Fellowship Office
	228 E. 45th Street
	New York NY 10017-3398
	phone: 212/697-1505, ext. 136 or 138
Please provide the following information: The official name, dates,
place and sponsorship of the meeting; applicant's highest academic
degree and proposed role in the meeting, and address to which
application should be sent.

-- INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN AND GENDER: The Associates of the
Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University,
invite applications for the Institute Associates Faculty Research
Fellowship.  The fellowship supports a Stanford faculty member's
research that promotes greater understanding of how gender, race and
class impact the lives of women and their families.  One award of
$10,000 will be made for the 1993-1994 academic year.  Applicants
should submit a complete description of the proposed research,
including a brief overview of the literature, description of the
procedure and methodology to be used, time-line for completion, and
detailed budget.  Where appropriate, a copy of the approval from the
Human Subjects Committee should be attached.  The completed
application may not exceed 10 pages and should be sent to
	Sherri Matteo, Ph.D.
	Deputy Director, IRWG
	Serra House
	Stanford CA 94305-8640
Applications must be received by October 15, 1993.  Award recipient
will be announced on November 1st.

		     -\-\-\ TRUE LINGUISTS /-/-/-

In lieu of anything funny, we present a brief overview of the ten,
count 'em ten, new graduate students starting in the department this
Autumn: 

BRADLEY DAVIDSON comes to pursue an AM in linguistics after three
years of teaching ESL in Barcelona.  He developed his interest in
sociolinguistics while earning his BA in International Relations
(Tufts University, 1989), for which he studied in England, Spain, and
the United States.  His long-term goals are focused on teaching and
writing.  Broadly, he plans to study the impact of and relation
between linguistic and cultural divergences.

DAWN HANNAH has just completed a BS in Spanish and minor in
Linguistics at Georgetown University (May, 1993).  She has already
participated in two research projects in the fields of Spanish and
Sociolinguistics, both of which involved field work in the Dominican
Republic.  She hopes to apply her research skills to study African
influences on Caribbean languages and attitudes towards these
influences.  Another interest she hopes to pursue is the study of
linguistic heirarchy and social change in Japan.

BRETT KESSLER continues his work at Stanford, after completing his MA
in December 1992.  Now in pursuit of the Ph.D., his primary goal is to
study phonological and morphological theory, and the interaction
between the two, broadly within the framework of Lexical Phonology.
An orthogonal interest is in computerizing linguistic theory and
applying the programs to verify grammars, measure their relative
economy, and collect data on language change and variation.  Since
1986 he has been working on language-related projects at
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, including an application of HPSG syntax
and semantics to database query.

ARMAN MAGHBOULEH has a BS in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College
(1986), and an MS in Computer Science from Yale University (1989).
Since 1990 he has been a course developer at Apple Computer (Developer
University).  He will be pursuing an MA in Linguistics while
researching speech and natural language processing.

RACHEL NORDLINGER has done extensive descriptive work on Australian
Aboriginal languages while at the University of Melbourne, where she
earned her MA in July 1993.  She has completed partial grammars of
Bilinara and Wambaya, two languages of the Northern Territory.  The
research for these grammars was done during a total of seven months
spent in the field over a period of two years.  For both these
languages, her work represents the major grammatical description of
the language.  At Stanford she hopes to discuss and resolve issues in
these languages in the areas of morphology, morphosyntax and
grammatical relations, within various current theoretical frameworks.

CHRISTINE POULIN (MA in Linguistics at the University of Quebec,
Montreal, in 1992) has published and presented on the syntax and
semantics of referential shift, a form of realization of reference in
Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) and in sign languages in general.  She
hopes to continue her research over the broader topic of whether
fundamental properties of language can be realized differently
depending on the language type (signed vs. oral).  Her data up to now
suggests that a representation based on the study of oral languages
alone is too restrictive, in that one would attribute to Universal
Grammar solely unilinear properties derived from the properties of
physical modalities in which languages can be encoded, and that would
not account for the fact that sign languages allow elements to be
expressed simultaneously.

SUSANNE RIEHEMANN completed her MA at the University of Tuebingen in
June 1993 (in the interdisciplinary program of Linguistics, Computer
Science, and Psychology), and her thesis, 'Word Formation in Lexical Type
Hierarchies-- A Case Study of bar-Adjectives in German,' has already
been extremely well received.  In it, she combines descriptive,
theoretical, and computational perspectives to develop a morphological
component for HPSG.  Through the study of bar-adjectives she has
developed an interest in the semantic aspects of these passivising and
modality-introducing constructions, and that of attributive and
predicative adjectives overall.  More generally her areas of interest
include the organization of the lexicon, and its interface with the
representation of non-linguistic knowledge on the one side, and with
syntax and semantics on the other.  In particular she is interested in
lexical semantics and constraint-based semantics in general.

SCOTT SCHWENTER holds a BA in Spanish and Sociology, and recently
completed his MA in Linguistics at the University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, where he worked as a research assistant (1991-92) and as
a teaching assistant (1992-93).  His primary interests center around
the themes of sociolinguistics and grammaticalization.  As far as
sociolinguistics, he is most interested in the application of
empirical methods of research to the study of language variation and
change.  He is equally fascinated by the application of applying
grammaticalization framework (delineated by scholars such as Bybee,
Heine, and Traugott) to synchronic data of change-in-progress.  The
most obvious consequence of these two interests will be the
consolidation of them to investigate sociolinguistic aspects of
grammaticalization.  Scott has carried out independent field research,
presented at major linguistic conferences (NWAVE, LSA), and has had
several papers accepted for publication.

LAWRENCE TOVAR plans to continue the field work and linguistic
analysis of a dialect of Apache spoken in San Carlos, Arizona, that he
began at CSU Fresno where he received his MA in Linguistics in May,
1993.  By researching Apache in the Government and Binding framework,
he hopes his work will contribute to the formulation of a universal
system of rules and principles that underlie all human languages.  He
also plans to do coursework in Cognitive Science to expand his
knowledge of artificial intelligence and its role in linguistic
applications.  Ultimately, he would like to use this research in a
cross-linguistic study comparing intrinsic semantic features such as
object weight within the thematic role and structure of arguments.
While at CSU Fresno, he also completed a double-BA in Philosophy and
Economics. 

AIMIN YANG (BA in English, Yangzhou Teacher's College, 1983) will be
working on an MA in Linguistics at Stanford, having completed
coursework in linguistics at UC Davis and UCLA.  Her main research is
in the comparative study of English and Chinese, and she hopes to work
in the framework of Government and Binding to explain language
phenomena in the two languages.  Upon the completion of her degree,
she plans to return to China to teach.

We would also like to introduce visiting scholar SAULE TAZHIBAEVA.
Saule is a teacher of English and Linguistics in Dzhambul, Kazakhstan,
specialized in Turkic Languages at the Academy of Science Linguistics
Institution in Alma-Ata, and recently performed postgraduate research
at Novosibirsk State University.  She will be at Stanford for the
1993-94 academic year researching deep causative relations in English,
and continuing her work on Turkic Languages.  Saule is the first
scholar from Kazakhstan to officially visit Stanford.

		   -\-\-\ 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.)

-- The (newly formed) Department of Linguistics at the University of
Rochester expects to make a tenure-track appointment for a specialist
in phonological theory at the Assistant Professor or Associate
Professor level beginning the Fall semester of 1994.  We seek
individuals with an established record of excellence in research and
in teaching at all levels.  A Ph.D. is required.  Candidates should
expect to teach phonology courses at both the graduate and
undergraduate levels as well as introductory courses in linguistics,
and to contribute to the development of both the graduate and
undergraduate programs in linguistics.  Versatility in undergraduate
teaching (including introductory courses) expected.  Send letter of
application along with a vita, samples of research, and letters from
three references to 
	Prof. David Perlmutter
	Chair, Phonology Search Committee
	Department of Linguistics
	611 Hylan Hall
	University of Rochester
	Rochester NY 14627
Applicants for last year's advertised position may apply for this
position by asking to have their applications reactivated.  For
fullest consideration, applications should be received by November 15,
1993. (AA/EOE)

-- INSTITUTE OF HISTORY & PHILOLOGY, ACADEMIA SINICA: The Linguistics
Section of the Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica
invites applications from citizens of the Republic of China for
research positions with the possibility toward tenure track post.  The
area of specialization is open, but preference will be given to those
in the following fields: Phonology, Semantics, Acoustic Phonetics,
Sociolinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Chinese Dialects, Austronesian
Languages, Altaic Languages, Kadai Languages, Austroasiatic Languages.
Applicants already holding a Ph.D. will be considered for the position
of Assistant Research Fellow; applicants holding an MA only will be
considered for the position of Research Assistant.  These are purely
research positions and no teaching is required.  The beginning
salaries for these positions are NT56,270 (~$2,250) and NT 40,010
(~$1,600) per month respectively, plus bonuses.  Applicants should
send CV, transcripts, an abstract of the MA thesis or dissertation,
and two letters of recommendation to
	Professor Ho Dah-an, Head
	Linguistics Division
	Institute of History and Philology
	Taipei 115 Taiwan R.O.C.
	e-mail: hsphil@ccvax.sinica.edu.tw
The deadline for receipt of these materials is October 31, 1993.
Those applying will be notified of our decision around the beginning
of December.  Those notified of preliminary acceptance would then be
expected to send the complete text of the thesis or dissertation by
the end of January for evaluation.

-- UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: The Department of Psychology anticipates
three tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level to begin
Fall 1994.  Although the primary requirement for these positions is
excellence in research and teaching, preference will be given to (a)
child clinical psychologists, (b) cognitive psychologists, (c)
developmental psychologists with interests in socio-emotional
development, psychopathology, or social cognition, and (d) cognitive
neuroscientists with a developmental or clinical orientation.  Women
and members of minority groups are especially encouraged to apply for
these positions, as are candidates with a multicultural prespective.
Send a letter of interest, vita, at least three letters of
recommendation, and reprints/preprints to
	Chair, Faculty Search Committee
	Department of Psychology
	Univeristy of Denver
	Denver CO 80208
We will consider applications as they are received, but it is strongly
urged that all application materials reach us by December 1, 1993.
The University of Denver is committed to enhancing the diversity of
its faculty and staff and encourages applications particularly from
women, minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities.

-- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: Assistant/Associate Professor
(tenure-track).  Specialist in second language acquisition and its
applications (e.g. TEFL methodology).  Possible secondary areas
include phonology, syntax, morphology, first language acquisition.
The appointment, held in the English department, involves teaching
graduate courses for the Linguistics Program and some undergraduate
courses for the English Department.  The interdisciplinary Linguistics
Program consists of 15 core faculty from eight departments and 15
consulting faculty.  The program offers the Ph.D. and MA in
Linguistics and a TEFL Certificate.  Half of the 50 graduate students
currently specialize in SLA/TEFL.  Appointment to begin in January
1994 or August 1994; possible visiting appointment for Spring 1994
only.  Screening begins October 15.  Application deadline November 1,
1993 or until position filled.  Send only a cover letter, vita, and
names of three referees to 
	Appointments Committee, Linguistics Program
	University of South Carolina
	Columbia SC 29208
(AA/EOE)

-- UBC: The Linguistics Department at the University of British
Columbia invites applications for a tenure-track position at the
Assistant Professor level beginning July 1, 1994.  Candidates must
possess a Ph.D. in Linguistics with specialization in current
syntactic theory and commitment to the study of indigenous languages
of North America.  The position is subject to final budgetary
approval.  The position involves research, teaching at the
undergraduate and graduate levels, and supervision of graduate
students.  All applications received by December 1, 1993 will be given
full consideration.  In accordance with Canadian Immigration
requirements, this advertisement is directed in the first instance to
Canadian citizens and permanent residents, who will be given priority
over other applicants.  UBC welcomes all qualified applicants,
especially women, aboriginal peoples, visible minorities, and persons
with disabilities.  Please send applications (including CV, a
description of your current research program, and representative
publications) and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to
	M. D. Kinkade, Head
	Department of Linguistics
	#369-1866 Main Mall
	University of British Columbia
	Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z1
	phone: 604/822-4817
	email: mdkd@unixg.ubc.ca

-- LEE-TECH: We are a translation company specializing in all the
Oriental languages (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) and in various European
languages.  We handle different types of translation, whether it be
commercial or technical.  We are currently looking for additional
translators of the languages listed above, or any others, to work on a
freelance basis.  If you are interested, please return the enclosed
form (in the jobs binder, Greenberg Room, in the Linguistics Department).

-- VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: The Program in Linguistics, Vanderbilt
University invites applications for a non-tenure-track position as
assistant professor of linguistics. The candidate selected will be
appointed for two or two and one-half years, beginning January or
September 1994. The position will be reviewed at the end of the
1994/95 academic year for continuation, curtailment, or possible
conversion to tenure-track. Preference wlll be given to candidates
with the Ph.D. completed, with demonstrated teaching skills, and with
ability to teach introduction to general linguistics and introductory
level courses in sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, and
historical linguistics. The successful applicant will be encouraged to
develop more specialized courses in his or her research interests.
Classes will be attended mostly by advanced undergraduates and by
graduate students in related disciplines, such as anthropology,
psychology, English, and foreign languages. Send a letter of
application, curriculum vitae, teaching evaluations, official graduate
school transcript, and three letters of recommendation to
	Linguistics Search Committee
	BOX 37, Station B
	Vanderbilt University
	Nashville, TN 37235
Review of applications will begin November 1. Vanderbilt university is
an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and
desires to consider women and minority group members for all
positions.

-- WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: The Department of Asian and Near Eastern
Languages seeks applicants for a position in MODERN HEBREW.  The
Department seeks an experienced and successful language instructor for
the position of full-time Lecturer in Hebrew Language. This position
is crucial to the teaching mission of our Hebrew section; duties
include the production of teaching materials, teaching several levels
of modern Hebrew, and participation in regular Departmental
activities.  Applicants may be specialists in applied linguistics or
second language acquisition. Candidates must hold the M.A. degree or
its equivalent and have near-native fluency; native speakers are
preferred. This position is for a professional language teacher. The
application deadline is January 15, 1994.  Candidates are asked to
submit a letter of application, vita, a videotape of their teaching,
and three letters of recommendation to
	Chair, Hebrew Search Committee
	Asian & Near Eastern Languages & Literatures
	Campus Box 1111
	Washington University
	One Brookings Drive
	St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Qualified fied women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged
to apply. Employment eligibility verification required upon
employment. (AA/EOE)

-- UNI-DUESSELDORF: At the Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany, a
full-time research position for a phonologist is open from November
1993.  The position is that of the principal researcher in a project
called "Lexical Phonology: On the theory of phonological rules."  The
project aims at the study of various central aspects of the theory of
rules and representations in phonology. The project is again part of a
larger grant "Theorie des Lexikons" at the universities of
Duesseldorf, Wuppertal, Cologne, which has just received renewed
funding by the German Science Foundation (DFG) for the years 1994 -
1996. Contracts can thus be given up to the end of 1996, maximally.
Candidates should hold a PhD or doctorate, have a strong background in
questions of phonological theory, including Lexical Phonology, and
preferably have a publication record in phonology. The payment is
according to the normal range for full-time researchers
("Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter") in Germany, with details depending
on age and marital status. Knowledge of German is helpful, but not
essential.  Inquiries and applications should be directed to
	Richard Wiese
	Seminar fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
	Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
	Universitaetsstr. 1
	D-40225 Duesseldorf
	e-mail: wiese@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
	Tel.: (0)211-311-2925

-- MIT: Two full-time lecturer positions in ESL, appointed for three
years with possible renewal beginning Fall, 1994. Experience in ESL
teaching in both integrated skills and expository/technical writing at
the university level. Experience with curriculum design and materials
development. Interest in computer and video-assisted language
instruction or theoretical second language acquisition research
desirable. Must have at least an MA in an appropriate area of study.
MIT is an affirmative action employer and welcomes applications from
women and minority groups. Send CV, letter of application and three
letters of recommendation by November 1, 1993 to:
	ESL Lecturer Search Committee
	Foreign Languages and Literatures
	MIT, 14N-305
	77 Massachusetts Avenue
	Cambridge, MA 02139

(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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