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Sesquipedalian, Volume III, Number 24
Spring Quarter kick-off issue!
The SESQUIPEDALIAN WEEKLY HERALD Volume III, Number 24
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April 1, 1993
GREAT MOMENTS IN THE STUDY OF ASPECT
CHAPTER 317: Oxford, 1266
Three Oxford academics were deputed to wait upon Henry III in 1266 to
ask permission for a postern gate through the city wall at Oxford.
The king asked them (in Latin) what they wanted.
First scholar: 'We ask a licence for the making of a gate through the
city wall.'
Second scholar: 'No, we do not want "the making of a gate," for that
would mean the gate was always in the making, and never made. What we
want is a "gate made."'
Third scholar: 'No, we do not want a "gate made," for a gate made must
already be in existence somewhere else, and so we should be taking
somebody else's gate.'
The king told them to go away and make up their minds. When they
returned in three days' time they had agreed upon a formula:
'We ask permission that the making of a gate might be made.'
-/-/-/ VISITING SCHOLARS /-/-/-
This quarter the department will be hosting three new visiting
scholars. Give them the nod when you see them around:
CHIYOKO MATSUBARA: Chiyoko Matsubara is a lecturer at Kawamura Gakuen
Woman's University in Japan and teaches courses in Linguistics and
English. She specializes in the field of linguistics, especially
sociolinguistics, and studies mainly communication and conversational
style. She has published numerous articles and papers which have
appeared in journals including (but not limited to) _Current Trends in
Overseas Linguistics_, The Newsletter of the Edward Sapir Society of
Japan, and _Sophia Linguistica_.
HUBERT DEVONISH: Hubert Devonish is Senior Lecturer (Assistant
Professor) and Chair of Linguistics at the University of the West
Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He is the author of two books, _Language and
Liberation_ and _Talking in Tones_, and the author of numerous
articles. He did his doctorate at the University of York in England
in 1978, under the supervision of creolist/sociolinguist Robert B.
LePage. Hubert's thesis was on the possible standardization of
Guyanese Creole (his native tongue) for use as an official/national
language, and his book _Language & Liberation_ makes this proposal for
the English Speaking Caribbean as a whole, setting it in the context
of language liberation and planning reforms elsewhere in Latin America
and the world. He's also written about phonological and grammatical
features in Jamaican and other Caribbean Creoles, and for the past
several years he's been concentrating on the analysis of lexical tone
in Guyanese and Jamaican. The six month visit to Stanford is his
second Fulbright-sponsored visit to Stanford. The last was in Spring,
1989.
-/-/-/ LOOK WHO'S TALKING /-/-/-
A trio of Stanford linguists are giving a paper at the coming AAAI
spring symposium in the workshop on machine translation and lexicon:
Megumi Kameyama (Ph.D. 1985), Stanley Peters, and Hinrich Schuetze:
'Combining logic-based and corpus-based methods for resolving
translation mismatches.'
RECOGNIZED: Congratulations to Vivienne Fong (Linguistics), Julie
Solomon (Linguistics), and Jane Aronson (Philosophy) on all being
selected as fellow or first alternate for fellowships for the 1993
Linguistic Institute. And congratulations to Chris Manning
(Linguistics) who's been selected as the Bernard & Julia Bloch
Memorial Fellow for the 1993 Linguistic Institute and hence ex-officio
student representative on the LSA Executive Committee.
TIP O' THE HAT: Jee Yeun Lee (Stanford BA Linguistics, 1992) has been
accepted into the UC Berkeley Ph.D. program in Ethnic Studies for
Fall, 1993. Congratulations!
-/-/-/ CALL FOR PAPERS /-/-/-
-- TENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE EASTERN STATES CONFERENCE ON
LINGUISTICS: ESCOL `93 (The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio)
August 6-8, 1993 (Immediately following the LSA Institute at OSU).
Invited Speakers include: Nick Clements (Cornell University/CNRS)
Nirit Kadmon (Tel Aviv University) Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern
University) Carl Pollard (Ohio State University). Abstracts are
invited for 20-minute talks (+10 minutes discussion) in all areas of
theoretical linguistics. Requirements: Any individual may submit one
individual and one joint abstract. Abstracts must be no more than one
standard page, single-spaced (a separate sheet for data/references is
acceptable). Five copies of the abstract should be submitted.
Abstracts should be anonymous. Each submission should be accompanied
by a 3x5 card containing: 1. the author's name 2. title of the paper
3. the author's address and affiliation (incl. phone number) 4.
e-mail address (if available). Abstracts must be received by: May 15,
1993. Presented papers will be published by the Department of Modern
Languages and Linguistics at Cornell University. Abstracts should be
submitted to:
ESCOL 1993
Department of Linguistics
The Ohio State University
222 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
email: ESCOL@ling.ohio-state.edu
-- The 6th Biennial Conference on Grammatical Relations (Vancouver,
British Columbia, Sept. 17-19, 1993): Abstracts are invited for
20-minute talks on all topics relevant to the study of grammatical
relations in any theoretical framework. Five anonymous copies of a one
page abstract (data and references may be on a separate page),
accompanied by a 3" x 5" card containing your name, paper title,
affiliation, address, e-mail address, and phone number, should be sent
to:
GR Conference
Department of Linguistics
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
Abstracts due: June 1, 1993. Invited speakers: Judith Aissen (UC,
Santa Cruz), Emmon Bach (Massachusetts), Mark Baker (McGill), Donald
Frantz (Calgary), Videa De Guzman (Calgary), Alana Johns (Memorial),
Edward Keenan (UCLA), Diane Massam (Toronto), David Perlmutter (UC,
San Diego), Paul Postal (IBM), Carol Rosen (Cornell), and Leslie Saxon
(Victoria). Tentative arrangements have been made to publish selected
papers from the conference. Manuscripts are due November 15, l993.
For further information, contact Donna Gerdts (gerdts@sfu.ca).
-- WECOL XXIII: University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 22-24,
1993. Special theme: Theoretical contributions of Native American
Languages. Abstracts may be submitted in any area of linguistics.
Presented papers will be twenty minutes long followed by a five-minute
question period. Send five anonymous copies of a one-page abstract
(references may be on a separate page) accompanied by a 3x5 card to
WECOL
Department of Linguistics, GN-40
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195
Abstracts due June 1, 1993. Decisions announced mid-July.
Proceedings published early 1994. A limited amount of on-campus
housing will be available. For more information, write to WECOL at
above address or send e-mail to wecol@u.washington.edu (no e-mail
abstracts, please).
-/-/-/ LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM /-/-/-
No colloquium this week due to, among other things, the West Coast
Conference on Formal Linguistics in Santa Cruz. There follows a happy
hour in CSLI at the usual time.*
* P.S. April fool.
-/-/-/ FELLOWSHIPS/ASSISTANTSHIPS /-/-/-
-- DANFORTH COMPTON SUMMER RESEARCH AWARD: We are pleased to announce
that the Danforth Compton Fellowship Fund has made it possible to
award a limited number of summer research awards to Ph.D. graduate
students from designated groups (African American, Native American,
Mexican American/Chicano, Puerto Rican) in the Humanities and Social
Sciences. Each RA position has a stipend of $2101 and provides 9
units of academic credit (or TGR fees, if appropriate) for 8 weeks of
research during the summer quarter of 1992-93. Applications are
available starting March 22 in the Dean's Office or by calling
Stanford 3-9856. Deadline for applications is Friday, April 23 1993.
-- SUNY BUFFALO COG SCI: SUNY at Buffalo, Cognitive Sciences Program
has a post-doctoral fellowship opportunity available through an NIDCD
training grant on the 'Development of spoken language capacities.'
The training grant provides support for individuals who have interests
in the development of speech perception and production. The training
program is interdisciplinary and involves the participation of faculty
from the departments of Psychology, Linguistics, Communicative
Disorders & Sciences, and Pediatrics & Neurology. Trainees are
expected to participate in interdisciplinary seminars and to conduct
original experimental research related to these topics in the
laboratories of participating faculty members. Inquiries and
materials (3 letters of recommendation, vita, and relevant
publications) should be directed to
Dr. Peter W. Jusczyk
Department of Psychology
Park Hall
SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
email: PSYPWJ@UBVMS.BITNET
All applicants must be either US citizens or permanent residents of
the USA. Fullest considerations will be given to applications
received by May 1, 1993.
-/-/-/ TRUE LINGUISTS /-/-/-
>From a CUNA Mutual Isurance Society, Inc. death & dismemberment
policy:
'...insured Member and occurs while policy is in force. Loss with
reference to hand or hands, foot or feet, means severance at or above
the wrist or ankle joint. (For South Carolina residents, loss of hand
or hands also means loss of four fingers.)'
-/-/-/ JOB ANNOUNCEMENTS /-/-/-
(NOTE ON REDUNDANCY: 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.)
-- BELL LABS: The speech recognition group at Bell-Northern Research
in Montreal is seeking candidates for a research position in
computational phonetics. We are looking for the following skills as a
minimum:
1) A good, in-depth knowledge of phonetics.
2) Good programming skills (UNIX/C/C++).
The following skills would be a plus:
1) Knowledge of American dialects.
2) Knowledge of phonology, especially about low-level morphophonemic
rewrite rules (fast speech rules).
3) Knowledge of probability.
Candidates should send their resumes to me at:
Matthew Lennig
Bell-Northern Research
16 Place du Commerce
Nuns's Island, Verdun, Qc
H3E 1H8 Canada
phone: 514/765-7772
email: Lennig@BNR.ca
We are a large and dynamic R&D group focussing on telephone-based,
speaker-independent flexible vocabulary speech recognition technology
and its applications. Bell-Northern Research is the R&D subsidiary of
Northern Telecom, a major international supplier of telecommunications
equipment.
-- CSU LONG BEACH: Lectureship in Spanish. Contact
Dr. Clorinda Donato, Chair
Department of Modern Languages
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840
phone: (310) 985-4317
Type of appointment: tenure-track. QUALIFICATIONS: Specialist in
Linguistics. Primary teaching and research areas include: Second
Language Acquisition (Methodologies), Bilingual Linguistics, Field
Experience in Sociolinguistics. Ph.D. requirired by September, 1993.
Evidence of outstanding teaching and scholarship highly desirable.
Near-native fluency in Spanish. Ability to communicate effectively
with an ethnically and culturally diverse campus community. DUTIES:
Supervision of Student Teachers and Teaching Assistants, advising in
the Single Subject and Multiple Subject Programs. Teach undergraduate
and graduate courses in the areas of specialization as well as
introductory and intermediate language course in the Spanish language.
Maintain program of scholarship leading to publication. Participate
in service to University and community. Application filing deadline:
none. If no deadline is specified, the position will be announced as
"Applications accepted until position is filled." Announcement
Deletion date: none. Note: tenure-track searches will automatically
be deleted from the bulletin board on April 1, 1993, unless notified
that a different deletion date should apply. Temporary appts. will be
deleted on June 30, 1993. Campus Search Reference No.: N132
-- LECTURER (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR) IN ENGLISH SYNTAX (Eotvos Lorand
University, Budapest, Hungary): The Soros Professorship Program has
been set up to enable Universities in Eastern Europe to invite
outstanding visiting Professors and Lecturers in the Humanities and
Social Sciences. APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FOR THE POST OF SOROS
LECTURER IN ENGLISH SYNTAX AT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF EOTVOS LORAND
UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY. The contract will be for 2 years,
renewable, for a non-tenured position, beginning September 1993.
Applicants should have a PhD and specialise in modern syntactic
theory. The Soros Lecturer will give undergraduate courses and
participate in the development of a postgraduate programme, and
departmental research, as well as supervising undergraduate research.
Knowledge of Hungarian is not required. Salary scale
US$15,000-US$25,000 after tax, plus a local stipend. Relocation
allowance, accommodation allowance, medical insurance, children's
allowances also provided. Resume and covering letter should be sent,
to arrive not later than 11 April 1993, to
SOROS PROFESSORSHIP PROGRAM
Higher Education Support Project
CEU, H-1014 Budapest
Uri u. 49 HUNGARY
Applicants should request three referees to send confidential
references to the same address, also by 11 April 1993. Further
information available by writing to the above address, or by fax
36-1-175-8939.
-- APPLE COMPUTER: The Information Technology project in Apple's
Advanced Technology Group is now hiring for one permanent position and
two summer internships. Note: E-mail submissions are STRONGLY
preferred. ASCII files only, please. (More time unbinhexing,
latexing, etc. means less time for us to read your resume!) Apple
Computer has a corporate commitment to the principle of diversity. In
that spirit, we welcome applications from all individuals. Women,
minorities, veterans and disabled individuals are encouraged to apply.
ENGINEER/SCIENTIST
Job description: Join a team conducting research on new approaches to
finding, sharing, organizing, and manipulating information for
content-aware systems. Emphasis on implementation of experimental
information and communication systems. Requires: MS in Computer
Science or BS with equivalent experience with strong programming
skills. Experience in information retrieval, hypertext, interface
design, or related field. Preferred: Knowledge of Macintosh Toolbox,
dynamic languages (LISP, Smalltalk, etc.), GUI programming.
Familiarity with common text-indexing methods.
ENGINEER/SCIENTIST Intern (summer) #1
Job description: Work with senior researchers on the application of
numerical methods to information retrieval (IR) systems. Assist on the
design, implementation, user testing and performance evaluation of
such systems. Requires: Graduate or upper division undergraduate
student in computer science, cognitive science, information retrieval
or other relevant program. Macintosh programming experience, the
candidate should be able to write an application program. MPW C. Basic
knowledge on numerical linear algebra. Preferred: Background on
numerical methods and/or statistics. Smalltalk programming,
familiarity with common text-indexing techniques. Some exposure to
human-computer interaction issues. Knowledge on the following topics
would be ideal: the vector model in IR, singular value decomposition
and factor analysis.
ENGINEER/SCIENTIST Intern (summer) #2
Job Description: Work with senior researchers to experiment with the
use of neural network and other learning methods for information
retrieval and organization. Requires: Graduate or upper division
undergraduate student with experience in neural networks. Lisp
programming with CLOS or other object system. Interest in information
retrieval, hypertext, corpus linguistics, or related field.
Preferred: Macintosh programming experience. Some exposure to
human-computer interaction issues. Use of mapping techniques such as
vector quantization or multidimensional scaling. Familiarity with
common text-indexing methods. E-mail resumes to
infotech-intern-recruit@apple.com, or send to
InfoTech Internships
c/o Nancy Massung
Apple Computer, Inc. MS 301-4A
One Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Please indicate which position you are interested in.
-- UCB: The Department of East Asian Languages at the University of
California, Berkeley, anticipates an opening for full-time lecturer in
Japanese beginning in the 1993-94 academic year. Candidates must be
available to teach in the intensive summer session beginning in the
summer of 1993. The lecturer will have responsibilities in a new
program in business and engineering Japanese. Duties include:
teaching, compiling teaching materials, training teaching assistants
and other administrative duties. Applicants must have native or near
native fluency in Japanese and good command of English is preferred;
training in the methodology of teaching Japanese as a second language
and an MA or higher degree is required. Send application letter with
curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation by April 15 to
Jeffrey Riegel, Chair
East Asian Languages
104 Durant Hall (Box JLP)
University of California
Berkeley CA 94720
(NOTE ON REDUNDANCY: 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.)
-/-/-/ INSTA-PRIZE /-/-/-
Insta-prize this week to the first person who can render in Latin the
scholars' formula for requesting permission for the gate from 'Great
Moments in the Study of Aspect' at the beginning of this week's issue.
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