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Sesquipedalian #20, March 3, 1994


The SESQUIPEDALIAN WEEKLY HERALD		       Volume IV, Number 20
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						       March 3, 1994

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                 G I R L   S C O U T   B E N E F I T

to be held at 5 p.m. on Friday, March 4th, 1994, in the Cordura foyer,
where we will drink a toast to Donald Knuth.

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

-- At the AAAL (American Association of Applied Linguistics) meeting
in Baltimore this weekend there will be many Stanfordites. John Baugh
and Norma Mendoza-Denton will talk in a colloquium on Discourse and
Racism organized by Ruth Wodak, and Bonnie McElhinny will talk in a
colloquium on Language in the Workplace organized by Deborah Tannen.

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

	   CLASSIFIER NOUN INCORPORATION: LEXICON OR SYNTAX?
		       	      Mark Baker
		        McGill University/CASBS
			   Friday, March 4th
			     Cordura 100
			        3:30pm
		        Happy hour will follow.

Over the past 10 years there has been a sometimes vigorous debate over
the nature of noun incorporation which cuts across a variety of
grammatical frameworks.  I and others have defended the view that it
is syntactic, with the incorporated noun counting as (part of) the
grammatical object of the verb.  However, an important lexical
alternative has been proposed by Di Sciullo, Williams, and S. Rosen
which looks superior in certain respects.  In this talk I will seek to
clarify the conceptual and empirical issues at stake.  Then I will
show how an understanding of the nonconfigurational syntax that is
typical of languages having noun incorporation affects the logic of
the arguments and their empirical predictions.  Finally, I will test
some of these new predictions with data from agreement, disjoint
reference, and question formation in Mohawk and certain other
languages. The results support the syntactic analysis for a wide range
of cases.

	        -\-\-\ GRAMMATICALIZATION WORKSHOP /-/-/-

-- JOINT BERKELEY-STANFORD WORKSHOP ON GRAMMATICALIZATION (In honor of
Bernd Heine, University of Cologne): Organized by Eve Sweetser and
Elizabeth Traugott.  Saturday March 12th at Stanford, Sunday March
13th at Berkeley.  Provisional Program:

Saturday March 12th, Stanford University
CERAS (Center for Educational Research at Stanford) Rm 204.

9:30	Registration (free), Coffee
9:45		Introductory Remarks
10:00	Bernd Heine (Cologne), Some Principles of 
		Grammaticalization
11:00	Coffee
11:15	Christa Koenig (Cologne); Auxiliation of verbs in 
		Masai
		Respondent: Joseph Greenberg (Stanford)
11:45	Joyce Tang (Berkeley); Observing in-progress 
		grammaticalization: English WOULD'VE and its 
		relatives
		Respondent: Suzanne Fleischman (Berkeley)
12:15	Light Lunch
2:00	Sarah Taub (Berkeley); Turkic auxiliation
		Respondent: Bernd Heine (Cologne)
2:30		Scott Schwenter (Stanford); Hot news perfects in
		Spanish
		Respondent: Linda Waugh (Cornell)
3:00	Break
3:15	Lionel Wee (Berkeley): Verbal affixes in Malay
		Respondent: John McWhorter (Berkeley)
3:45	Richard Dasher (Stanford): Honorifics in Japanese
		Respondent: Eve Sweetser (Berkeley)

Sunday March 13th, University of California, Berkeley
T-4 Building

9:45	Coffee
10:00	Joe Grady (Berkeley): Irish prepositions
		Respondent: Roula Svorou (San Jose State)
10:15	Kevin Moore (Berkeley): Some temporal 
		expressions from front/back spatial vocabulary 
		in Wolof, Japanse, and English
		Respondent to Grady and Moore: Roula Svorou 
		(San Jose State)
11:00	Coffee
11:15	Norma Mendoza-Denton (Stanford): CONCERNING 
		NP constructions
		Respondent: Gary Holland (Berkeley)
11:45	Orin Gensler (Berkeley): Prepositions in Irish
		Respondent: Elizabeth Traugott (Stanford)
12:15	Light lunch
2:15	Whitney Tabor (Stanford): A model for 
		reanalysis and analogy in grammaticalization
		Respondent: Dan Jurafsky
2:45-	Round Table and and discussion on directions for 
 4:00		future work in grammaticalization
		Initiators: Bernd Heine, Eve Sweetser, Elizabeth 
		Traugott

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

-- MELLON TRAVEL & RESEARCH STIPENDS: The Center for European Studies
announces that it is offering funding from its Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation grant for graduate summer travel and research.  The
stipends will be awarded on a competitive basis to Stanford students
with superior academic ability and commitment to the field of European
Studies.  Awards will be in the range of $300-500.  Applicants should
send a short 2-3 page proposal, together with a detailed budget and an
up-to-date CV, to
	The Director, Center for European Studies
	Stanford University
	Building 160
	Stanford CA 94305-2044
The deadline for receipt of applications at the Center for European
Studies is noon on Friday, April 1, 1994.  Applicants will be notified
by April 30, 1994.

-- GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS IN INTERNATIONAL
PEACE AND COOPERATION: 1994-95 MacArthur Fellowship Program.  The John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded funts to
Stanford's Center for International Security and Arms Control to
support a program of research and training in international peace and
cooperation. This award is part of a larger grant made to a consortium
formed jointly by Stanford and the Universities of Minnesota and
Wisconsin. A portion of the grant funds will be used to provide a
limited number of fellowships and research assistantships for Stanford
Ph.D. candidates working on issues relating to one of the following
topics, or the interrelationship between them: 1) ethnicity, the
state, and security; 2) effective democracy and popular empowerment;
and 3) sustainable development. Regular interaction among faculty and
students from the three universities will be facilitated by a series
of workOhops on the three principal themes, culminating each summer in
a week-long institute.  Opportunities for Stanford graduate students
for the 1994-95 year are available at several levels: RESEARCH
ASSISTANTSHIPS. Eligibility: Stanford doctoral candidates who plan a
dissertation related to one of the issues listed above are invited to
apply for up to three quarters as research assistants (25-50%) time.
Successful applicants will assist the Center's faculty and
professional staff in planning and hosting workshops and seminars;
they will attend the series of bi-monthly seminars and may be asked to
make a presentation at one of these; they will be invited to
participate in one or more of the three annual workshops; and they
will be expected to attend the summer institute (to be held at the
University of Wisconsin in Madison in summer 1995).  Financial
Support: A 50% salaried appointment will be provided for up to three
quarters (approximately $3,200 per quarter) plus 9 units of tuition.
(A 25% appointment will be considered as well.) FELLOWSHIPS.
Eligibility: Advanced Stanford doctoral candidates who have completed
3 years of graduate work and are writing a dissertation related to one
of the issues listed above are invited to apply for up to three
quarters of fellowship support. Successful applicants, in addition to
working on their dissertations, will be expected to attend the series
of bi-monthly seminars; they will be invited to participate in one or
more of the three annual workshops; and they will be expected to
attend the summer institute in summer 1995.  Fellowships holders will
be asked to present papers at seminars, workshops, and/or the summer
institute. Financial Support: A stipend at the rate of $3,350 per
quarter will be provided for up to three quarters, plus TGR fees at
the rate of $760/quarter. Students interested in this program who do
not wish to apply for financial support are invited to apply as
affiliates.  Affiliates will be invited to the ethnicity seminars and
to selected workshops.  Questions and requests for application forms
should be directed to
	Gerry Bowman
	Center for International Security and Arms Control
	320 Galvez Street
	Stanford CA 93405
	phone: 415/723-9626
	email: hf.gxb@forsythe
Deadline for applications: Friday, April 1, 1994.

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

>From the Visalia Times _Delta_ (Visalia, CA) 1/11/94:

SCHOLARS TRANSLATE BIBLE INTO KLINGON: Red Lake Falls, MN (AP)-- It
may not wind up in a hotel night stand drawer.  It likely will find a
home on the shelves of 'Star Trek' buffs.  A group of scholars is
translating the Bible into the language of Klingons, the rough,
warlike warriors of the science-fiction TV series and movies.
	Glen Proechel, director of last summer's Klingon Language Camp
in this northwestern Minnesota town, says the Bible will supplement a
Klingon dictionary created by linguist Marc Okrand.
	In 1984 Paramount Studios hired Okrand to develop Klingon into
a full-fledged language for 'Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.'
Proechel, a Spanish instructor at the University of Minnesota at
Crookston, already has translated the first few chapters of the Gospel
of John; Hebrew scholar Mark Shoulson has finished the book of Jonah.
	One problem so far: there is no Klingon word for or concept of
God.  Shoulson used the word joH'a, Klingon for 'Great Lord.'

(Submitted by Shanti Handley)

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