http://linguistlist.org Latest All Issues en-us Copyright 2008-2017 The LINGUIST List linguist@linguistlist.org linguist@linguistlist.org http://backend.userland.com/rss Wed, 13 Nov 2019 23:30:01 EST 60 http://linguistlist.org/images/lllogo-large.png http://linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4147.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-4147.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z Knud Lambrecht 1939-2019 Knud Lambrecht, Professor Emeritus of French Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, died on September 6, 2019, at the age of 80. Lambrecht was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1939. At the age of 18, he migrated to Switzerland, where he earned a Licence ès Lettres (M.A.) in Classical Philology (Greek, Latin) and Modern Languages (German, French, Spanish) in 1966 at the University of Lausanne. During and after his studies, he taught Greek, Latin, German langu http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3985.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3985.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z A service in memory of Eric Pratt Hamp (1920-2019), Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Psychology, and the Committee on the Ancient World at the University of Chicago, will be held at Bond Chapel (1025 East 58th Street) on Tuesday, November 12, 2019. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. Remarks will begin at 4:00 p.m. A reception from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. will follow the service in the Social Sciences Tea Room (1126 East 59th Street, http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3820.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3820.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z D. Gary Miller (1942–2019), renowned Indo-Europeanist and theoretical linguist, has died at the age of 76. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Gary Miller attended Moravian College as an undergraduate. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1969, with a dissertation entitled Studies in Some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European. He subsequently taught at the University of Illinois and McGill, for one year each, followed by an academic career of 40 years at the University of Florida. He retir http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3591.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3591.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z Tribute to Carme Picallo The Departament de Filologia Catalana and the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona mourn the passing of our dear friend and beloved colleague Carme Picallo, on June 6th, 2019. Carme Picallo was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, on March 14th, 1950. She went to a methodologically advanced school, where she liked to remember that she learned to ask herself questions about seemingly simple things, an attitude that she applied all her lif http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3201.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3201.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z Dear Colleagues, It is with a heavy heart that I bring news of the passing of Michael Krauss, noted scholar of Alaskan languages and tireless advocate for the documentation of the world’s small and endangered languages. Mike passed away just prior to his 85th birthday on Sunday morning, August 11 at his home in Needham, Massachusetts, following a bout with congestive heart failure. Mike and his wife, Molly Lee, had relocated to Massachusetts from Alaska in 2016 in order to be closer to his fa http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3134.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-3134.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z With deep pain and sorrow we mourn the untimely passing of our colleague, mentor and friend Susan Devorah Rothstein ז''ל, Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, who passed away on July 30, 2019 in Tel Aviv after a short and sudden illness. Susan was born on August 20, 1958 in Middlesex Hospital in London and married to Fred Landman in a civil ceremony in Ithaca on 28 July 1994 and in a Jewish ceremony with hupa and kiddushin on 6 October 1994 (Rosh Hodesh Cheshva http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2373.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2373.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z DEAR READERS, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS THIS YEAR. IT IS TRUE THAT THE FUND DRIVE IS OVER BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS DONATE BY VISITING OUR DONATION PAGE HERE AND SEARCHING FOR THE THE "LINGUIST LIST DISCRETIONARY FUND." AS A POST-FUND-DRIVE TREAT WE HAVE ONE FINAL RISING STAR TO PRESENT. MEET ANASTASIA PANOVA! SHE IS A 4TH YEAR BA STUDENT IN THE LINGUISTIC CONVERGENCE LABORATORY AT THE HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS IN MOSCOW AND HAS DONE SUBSTANTIAL WORK. SHE IS INVOLVED IN A FIELD PROJE http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2360.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2360.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z Professor Emeritus Petr Sgall, professor of Indo-European, Czech studies, and general linguistics at Charles University in Prague, and an Honorary Member of the LSA since 2002, passed away on May 28, 2019 in Prague, the day after his 93rd birthday. Over a lifetime of distinguished work in theoretical, mathematical and computational linguistics, he did more than any other single person to keep the Prague School linguistic tradition alive and dynamically flourishing. He was the founder of math http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2022.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-2022.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z The Department of Linguistics and the Language Logic and Cognition Center, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem mourn the passing of our dear friend and beloved colleague Professor Edit Doron. Edit passed away at home on March 27, 2019. Prof. Doron, a pioneering researcher and leader in the field of theoretical and Semitic linguistics, published numerous works on Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics and Morphology, and was a significant force in bridging formal linguistics and the study of Semitic la http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1880.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1880.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z DEAR LINGUIST, THE FUND DRIVE IS OVER! WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THE LINGUIST LIST TEAM - EITHER FINANCIALLY OR MORALLY. THE FULL LIST OF OUR DONORS THIS YEAR CAN BE FOUND HERE: HTTPS://FUNDDRIVE.LINGUISTLIST.ORG/SUPPORTERS/ WE HAVE ALSO MADE THE ADVISORS CHALLENGE - IN THE LAST 24 HOURS OF THE FUND DRIVE OUR READERS DONATED OVER $1000 AND - AS PROMISED - THE MEMBERS OF OUR ADVISORY BOARD WILL MATCH THIS AMOUNT WITH ADDITIONAL DONATION ON TOP OF THE DONATIONS THROUGHO http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1841.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1841.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z DEAR READERS, THIS YEAR WE WILL BE CONTINUING OUR RISING STARS SERIES WHERE WE FEATURE UP AND COMING LINGUISTS RANGING FROM IMPACTFUL UNDERGRADUATES TO PROLIFIC PHD CANDIDATES. THESE RISING STARS HAVE BEEN NOMINATED BY THEIR MENTORS FOR THEIR EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST IN LINGUISTICS AND EAGER PARTICIPATION IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF LANGUAGE RESEARCHERS. TODAY WE SHARE WITH YOU THE CUTTING-EDGE WORK OF SEAN LANG. HE IS A SENIOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN WHERE HE IS A DOUBLE MAJOR IN SPANISH AN http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1840.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1840.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z DEAR READERS, THIS YEAR WE WILL BE CONTINUING OUR RISING STARS SERIES WHERE WE FEATURE UP AND COMING LINGUISTS RANGING FROM IMPACTFUL UNDERGRADUATES TO PROLIFIC PHD CANDIDATES. THESE RISING STARS HAVE BEEN NOMINATED BY THEIR MENTORS FOR THEIR EXCEPTIONAL INTEREST IN LINGUISTICS AND EAGER PARTICIPATION IN THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF LANGUAGE RESEARCHERS. SELECTED NOMINEES WERE ASKED TO SHARE THEIR VIEW OF THE FIELD OF LINGUISTICS: WHAT TOPICS THEY SEE EMERGING AS IMPORTANT OR ESPECIALLY INTERESTING http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1823.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1823.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z DEAR LINGUIST LIST, OVER THE LAST MONTH WE HAVE SENT NUMEROUS CALLS FOR SUPPORT. AS YOU SHOULD KNOW, LINGUIST LIST IS ON A SOFT BUDGET; THE FUNDS TO PAY SALARIES TO OUR STUDENT-EDITORS AND THE WEB DEVELOPMENT TEAM COMES FROM PAID ADS AND FROM YOUR DONATIONS. WHILE BILLS NEED TO BE PAID, THERE IS ONE THING WE DON’T WANT TO DO: HIDE BEHIND A PAY WALL AND CHARGE AN OBLIGATORY FEE FROM OUR READERS. THIS IS BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY TO BECOME A MEMBER IN OUR CLUB IS BY PARTICIPATING IN KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1815.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1815.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z DEAR LINGUIST LIST READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS, PLEASE ENJOY THIS AWESOME MESSAGE FROM THIS WEEK'S FEATURED LINGUIST, DR. SHOBHANA CHELLIAH! I AM DELIGHTED TO SUPPORT THE LINGUISTLIST (LL) IN THEIR 2019 FUND DRIVE. LIKE MANY OF YOU, I RELY ON LL. I’VE POSTED CONFERENCE INFORMATION, GOTTEN INPUT ON TYPOLOGICAL QUESTIONS, LISTED JOBS, GATHERED DATA TO ARGUE FOR NEW FACULTY, AND TO HELP OUR STUDENTS IDENTIFY NONACADEMIC JOBS IN LINGUISTICS. IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE WORKING WITHOUT THIS RESOURCE. PLE http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1814.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1814.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z DEAR LINGUIST LIST READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS, OUR 2019 FUND DRIVE IS ALMOST OVER. JUST THREE DAYS LEFT! AND WE STILL HAVE LESS THAN HALF OF OUR GOAL--JUST 46%. WE DEPEND ON THE SUPPORT OF OUR READERS TO MAKE OUR YEARLY OPERATIONAL COSTS. WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR WONDERFUL COMMUNITY OF LINGUISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD, THE LINGUIST LIST WOULD DISSAPEAR. WE KNOW HOW MANY LINGUISTS THE WORLD OVER RELY ON THIS UNIQUE SERVICE TO STAY INFORMED, AND WE LOVE SERVING THE GLOBAL LINGUISTICS COMMUNITY--BUT W http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1793.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1793.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z DEAR LINGUIST LIST READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS, OUR 2019 FUND DRIVE IS COMING TO A CLOSE WITH ONLY 5 DAYS REMAINING, AND WE STILL HAVE LESS THAN HALF OF OUR GOAL--JUST 43%. WE DEPEND ON THE SUPPORT OF OUR READERS TO KEEP OUR SERVICE AVAILABLE TO LINGUISTS ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT THERE IS A VERY REAL POSSIBILITY THAT THE LINGUIST LIST COULD DISAPPEAR. WE DON'T JUST RUN LL, WE RELY ON IT OURSELVES--TO FIND JOURNALS, TO STAY INFORMED AND UP TO DATE ON JOURNALS, CONFERENCES, AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES AROUN http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1773.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1773.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z DEAR LINGUIST LIST READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS, OUR 2019 FUND DRIVE IS COMING TO A CLOSE WITH ONLY 6 DAYS LEFT, AND WE STILL HAVE LESS THAN HALF OF OUR GOAL. WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF OUR READERS, THERE IS A VERY REAL POSSIBILITY THAT THE LINGUIST LIST COULD DIE OUT. AS MANY OF YOU RELY ON OUR SERVICES TO STAY INFORMED, THIS WOULD BE AN UNFORTUNATE LOSS. TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE ALREADY DONATED, WE ARE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL. YOUR SUPPORT ALLOWS US TO CONTINUE SERVING THE LINGUISTICS COMMUNITY. WE WANT T http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1763.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1763.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z THERE'S ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT... DEAR LINGUIST LIST READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS, IT LOOKS LIKE OUR 2019 FUND DRIVE IS COMING TO A CLOSE, AND WE HAVE LESS THAN HALF OF OUR GOAL. AS YOU KNOW, WE MAKE UP ONLY PART OF OUR BUDGET FROM OUR HOST INSTITUTION, AND WE RELY ON THE SUPPORT OF OUR USERS AND DONORS TO KEEP THESE SERVICES AVAILABLE. SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE TRIED TO POST AN ANNOUNCEMENT DURING ONE OF OUR TWO "DAY WITHOUT LINGUIST LIST" BLACKOUT DAYS, AND FOUND THE LL SERVICES UNAVAILABLE. THERE'S A REA http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1741.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1741.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z HELLO ALL, IT’S TIME FOR OUR NEXT LINGUIST LIST FUN FACT! AS LINGUISTS, WE’VE ALL HAD THE CONVERSATION AT SOME POINT THAT GOES, ROUGHLY, “OH, YOU’RE A LINGUIST? HOW MANY LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK?” FOLLOWED BY A HASTY EXPLANATION OF WHAT LINGUISTICS ACTUALLY IS AND HOW IT IS NOT ABOUT LEARNING LANGUAGES. IT CERTAINLY DOESN’T HELP THAT MANY LINGUISTS ALSO HAPPEN TO BE POLYGLOTS. THIS IS THE CASE FOR ALL OF US HERE AT THE LINGUIST LIST, SO FOR OUR FUN FACT THIS WEEK WE’D LIKE TO TELL YOU A BIT ABOUT http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1725.html http://linguistlist.org/issues/30/30-1725.html 2019-11-02T11:48:10Z WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, I ASKED MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY AT A GATHERING, “WHY DO BLACK PEOPLE USE BE SO MUCH?” BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE IN MY FAMILY AND PEOPLE IMPORTANT TO ME STRUGGLED WITH LITERACY, MY MISSION WAS TO GO TO COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL AND EARN A PH.D. WHERE MOST OF MY FAMILY DID NOT MAKE IT PAST HIGH SCHOOL. WITHOUT ANYONE TO TELL ME AFRICAN AMERICAN LANGUAGE (AAL) WAS A VALID LANGUAGE VARIETY, I ORIGINALLY SET OUT TO STUDY SPEECH PATHOLOGY AS AN UNDERGRAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TO