Report: 1991 Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics,
by Carol J. Orwig
I. What disciplines should determine our overall approach to language
teaching?
A. Paper summaries
B. Comments and questions
II. What approaches and methods are we currently using to teach various
aspects of language?
A. Paper summaries
B. Comments and questions
III. How can we train/educate language teachers most effectively?
A. Paper summaries
B. Musings
Report: Second International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA)
conference: July 29-August 2, 1991, University of California at Santa Cruz, by
Leslie P. Bruce
I. Introduction
II. Topics
III. Plenary speakers
IV. Theory and politics
V. Practical applications
References
Review: You just don't understand: Women and men in conversation, by
Charles Peck
Reflections
Review: The native speaker is dead!, by Peter Unseth
Review: Principles of grammar and learning, by Karl J. Franklin
Review: Proceedings of the Seventh West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics, by Michael Maxwell
Young-mee Yu Cho "Korean assimilation"
Megan Crowhurst "Empty consonants and direct prosody"
José Ignacio Hualde "Affricates are not contour segments"
Kelly Sloan "Bare-consonant reduplication: Implications for a prosodic
theory of reduplication"
Jack Martin "Subtractive morphology as dissociation"
Sharon Inkelas "Prosodic constraints on syntax: Hausa fa"
Peggy Hashemipour "Finite control in modern Persian"
Nobuko Hasegawa "Passives, verb raising, and the affectedness
condition"
Peter Sells "Thematic and grammatical hierarchies: Albanian
reflexivization"
Formal linguistics and field work, by Daniel L. Everett
1. Introduction
1.1. Purpose and organization of paper1
1.2. Division in the field
1.3. Definitions
1.4. Time and resources
2. On form and function
2.1. Notions of function
2.2. E-language versus I-language
2.3. Form is prior to function
3. Exclusively form-oriented problems
4. Form versus function as investment "returns"
References
Language and communication: A diary entry, by John W. M. Verhaar
References
Focus shift problem, by Howard W. Law
References
Report: The 24th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and
Linguistics: Mon-Khmer Section: Ramkhamhaeng University and Chiangmai
University, Thailand, October 7-11, 1991, by Brian Migliazza
Report: Third International Symposium on Language and Linguistics:
Pan-Asiatic Linguistics: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, January
8-10, 1992, by Thomas M. Tehan and Brian Migliazza
Reference
Review: A natural history of negation, by James K. Watters
References
Review: Talking power: The politics of language in our lives, by Charles
Peck
Review: Autolexical syntax: A theory of parallel grammatical
representations, by Karl J. Franklin
Some guidelines for writing linguistic survey papers, by Thomas M. Tehan
A few practical tips for using CECIL, by Mike Cahill
I. Introduction
II. The input
III. The transcription
IV. Interpreting tone
V. Other applications
Terminal 2/2+ in language learning, by Sue Wright
References
Linguistics: An in-house thing?: A diary entry, by John W. M. Verhaar
I
II
III
IV
Report: Symposium on mood and modality: University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, May 8-10, 1992, by John R. Roberts
1. Introduction
2. Participants
3. Papers presented
"The aspectual basis of the deontic--epistemic distinction in modal
verbs," by Werner Abraham, Rijksuniversiteit Gronigen
"Agent-oriented versus epistemic modality: Some observations on German
modals," by Bernd Heine, University of Cologne
"Mood and modality in Acholi and related Nilotic languages," by
Edith Bavin, La Trobe University
"Contextual conditions for the interpretation of poder and
deber," by Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern
California
"The interactional structuring of meaning: Children's use and
development of the Mandarin modal néng," by Jiansheng Guo,
University of California, Berkeley
"The development of sentence-ending modal forms and functions in
Korean children," by Soonja Choi, San Diego State University
"The gestural expression of modality in ASL," by Phyllis Wilcox
and Sherman Wilcox, University of New Mexico
"Grammaticalization routes and the root/epistemic relationship,"
by Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley
"The discourse functions of obligation expressions," by John
Myhill and Laura A. Smith, University of Michigan
"The modal functions of bai in Tok Pisin," by Suzanne
Romaine, Oxford University
"The negation of possibility and necessity modals," by Frank
Palmer, Professor Emeritus, University of Reading
"Choosing the best description of the Spanish subjunctive," by
Patricia Lunn, Michigan State University
"The semantic development of past tense modals in English," by
Joan Bybee, University of New Mexico
"The syntax and semantics of Tok Pisin modals," by Gillian
Sankoff, University of Pennsylvania
"The category 'irrealis' in Papuan medial verbs," by John
Roberts, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Papua New Guinea
"On the relativity of irreality," by Marianne Mithun, University
of California, Santa Barbara
"Realis and irrealis in Caddo," by Wallace Chafe, University of
California, Santa Barbara
"A functional theory of complementizers," by Zygmunt Frajzyngier,
University of Colorado
"Mood and modality across languages," by Evelyn Ransom
"Apprehensional epistemics," by Frantisek Lichtenberk, University
of Auckland
"Moods and MetaMessages: Alienation as mood," by John Haiman,
Macalester College
References
Report: First Asia International Lexicography Conference: Manila,
Philippines, October 5-9, 1992, by Leslie P. Bruce
Review: Songs of Nepal: An anthology of Nevar folksongs and hymns, by
Margaret H. Daly
Review: Talking voices: Repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational
discourse, by Karl J. Franklin
References
Review: The Cambridge encyclopedia of language, by Genevieve M. Hibbs
Review: Language and the politics of emotion, by Jim Lander
Chapter 1. "Introduction: Emotion, discourse, and the politics of
everyday life," by Lila Abu-Lughod and Catherine A. Lutz
Chapter 2. "Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry," by Lila
Abu-Lughod
Chapter 3. "Moral discourse and the rhetoric of emotions," by
Geoffrey M. White
Chapter 4. "Engendered emotion: Gender, power, and the rhetoric of
emotional control in American discourse," by Catherine Lutz
Chapter 5. "Topographies of the self: Praise and emotion in Hindu
India," by Arjun Appadurai
Chapter 6. "Shared and solitary sentiments: The discourse of
friendship, play, and anger in Bhatgaon," by Donald Brenneis
Chapter 7. "Registering affect: Heteroglossia in the linguistic
expression of emotion," by Judith T. Irvine
Chapter 8. "Language in the discourse of the emotions," by Daniel
V. Rosenberg
Chapter 9. "Untouchability and the fear of death in a Tamil
song," by Margaret Trawick
Review: Propositional attitudes: The role of content in logic, language,
and mind, by Ronald J.
Sim