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>Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:45:35 -0500
>From: "Ellen L. Contini-Morava" <elc9j@UNIX.MAIL.VIRGINIA.EDU>
>Subject: conference announcement
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>6th International Columbia School Conference
>on the Interaction between
>Linguistic Form, Meaning, and Human Behavior
>
>                       October 9-11, 1999
>                       Rutgers University
>                    New Brunswick, New Jersey
>
>                        Invited speakers:
>
>
>Ronald Langacker
>University of California, La Jolla
>
>Melissa Bowerman
>Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
>
>Wallis Reid
>Rutgers University
>
>
>Papers invited on any aspect of linguistic analysis in which the postulation
>of meaningful signals plays a central role in explaining the distribution of
>linguistic forms.
>
>The Columbia School is a group of linguists developing the
>theoretical framework established by the late William Diver.  In this
>framework language is seen as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both
>by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its human users.
>Grammatical analyses seek to explain the distribution of linguistic forms as
>an interaction between meaningful signals and pragmatic and functional
factors
>such as inference, ease of processing, iconicity, and the like.
>Phonological analyses seek to explain the syntagmatic and
>paradigmatic distributions of phonological units within signals, also drawing
>on both communicative function and human physiological and psychological
>characteristics.
>
>Please submit:
>
>� 3 copies of a one-page anonymous abstract (optional second page for
>references and/or examples), to the address below.
>� 1 3x5 index card with the following information:
>
>          Title of paper
>          Author's name and affiliation
>          Address, phone number, and e-mail address for
>          notification
>
>E-mail abstracts should include the above information, which will be deleted
>before the abstracts are reviewed.
>
>DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:  15 April 1999
>
>Address for e-mail abstracts:
>
><grc8b@virginia.edu>
>
>Address for hard-copy abstracts and other correspondence:
>
>Ellen Contini-Morava
>Department of Anthropology
>University of Virginia
>Charlottesville VA 22903
><elc9j@virginia.edu>
>
>
>**** **** **** ****
>
>The support of the conference by
>The Columbia School Linguistics Society
>is gratefully acknowledged
>
>**** **** **** **** ****
>
>
>Selected Columbia School bibliography:
>
>Contini-Morava, Ellen. 1995. "Introduction: On linguistic sign theory", in
>Ellen Contini-Morava and Barbara S. Goldberg (eds.), Meaning as Explanation:
>Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory.  Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
>
>Huffman, Alan. 1997. The Categories of Grammar: French lui and le. Amsterdam:
>John Benjamins.
>
>Reid, Wallis. 1991. Verb and Noun Number in English:  a
>Functional Explanation. London: Longman.
>
>Tobin, Yishai. 1997. Phonology as Human Behavior:  Theoretical Implications
>and Clinical Applications. Duke University Press.
>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-8042; fax 303-492-4416

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