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Vol. 12/Winter 2003 Letter from the chair 2002 sees many changes within department reetings to our current and former continues to attract student interest, and we number of visitors to the department. You students, to our faculty and have recently been granted approval to offer can learn about our various guests in these Gvisitors, and to all friends of the a PhD minor in this area. Although last pages. This year we also took in 13 new Department of Linguistics at Indiana year we did not fill our tenure-track graduate students, a recent record. These University! 2002 has been a good year for opening, we have been fortunate enough to individuals, a truly talented bunch, hail the department, and a busy one for our hire computational linguist Damir C´avar from diverse reaches of the globe. I faculty, students, and alumni. I hope you (see page 4) as a visiting faculty member encourage you to read about their interests will enjoy catching up on all our news as for this academic year. Meanwhile, the and accomplishments on page 6. you read through these pages. search continues. The position, which is a Our African language offerings are Before I review what were, for me, some joint appointment with the Program in increasing in popularity. Happily, these of the highlights of the past year, I want to Cognitive Science, can be viewed at enrollment pressures have enabled us to hire tell you about our upcoming LSA recep- www.indiana. edu/~lingdept/ IU alumna Alwiya Omar, PhD’92, as our tion. All friends of linguistics at IU are job0110.html. In conjunction with this new African languages coordinator, at the invited to a reception at the annual meeting development, the Department of Linguis- rank of clinical associate professor. We of the Linguistic Society of America, in tics has expanded to occupy the fourth floor welcome her back to Bloomington and look Atlanta. The reception will be held in the of Memorial Hall, which will eventually forward to many years of continued growth Walton Room of the Hilton Atlanta and house our computational linguists, their in this area. Already she is working very Towers Hotel, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on research labs, and a new instructional hard to highlight African studies and Friday, Jan. 3, 2003. All are welcome, so computer lab. I am very excited about the promote African languages at IU. Alwiya is please drop by. I look forward to seeing old invaluable prospects for the betterment of organizing the annual meeting of the friends and making new ones. our various programs that this additional African Languages Teachers Association at Turning to more local matters, the MA space offers us. IU Bloomington in April, and next year we program in computational linguistics In addition to Damir, we welcome a (continued on page 3) Professors Newman, de Jong receive well-deserved promotions his spring, Paul Newman was one of founded the prestigious Journal of African Tonly four persons in the IU system to Languages and Linguistics. We are extremely be named Distinguished Professor, the proud of his promotion to Distinguished highest academic honor bestowed by the Professor rank. university on its professors. We congratulate Associate Professor In a career that spans 35 years and four Kenneth de Jong on his recent promotion continents, Newman has garnered an with tenure. De Jong received his PhD in international reputation for his contribu- linguistics from Ohio State University in tions to linguistics. His works are cited by 1991. He has been director of undergradu- Africanists and theoretical linguists the ate studies in the department since 1996 world over, and leaders in his field consider and also serves as a core faculty member of Kenneth de Jong Paul Newman him the founder of modern comparative the Program in Cognitive Science. He is the Chadic linguistics. Larry Hyman, professor principal investigator on major NSF and of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research; and chair of linguistics, UC–Berkeley, NIH grants on “Articulatory and Perceptual Language and Speech; JASA; Perception and describes Newman as “one of the most Correlates of Syllable Structure.” Psychophysics; and Language. It addresses distinguished researchers and teachers De Jong’s general research interests issues of how speech actions are organized working in any aspect of our field today.” concern the role of speech production and into fluent utterances, how this organiza- Newman has authored or co-authored 12 perception in the formation of linguistic tion is governed by the prosodic conven- books, including his nearly 800-page convention. His published work focuses on tions of a particular language, and how this magnum opus, The Hausa Language: An the relationship between speech actions and organization indicates the relationship of Encyclopedic Reference Grammar, contributed linguistic structure, and has appeared in the utterance to the surrounding discourse. more than 100 articles and reviews, and such journals as Journal of Phonetics; Journal 1 Around the department IUB to host linguistics mellifera, darting “solitary from flower to Marvin and M. Joan Carmony, James and flower, sipping nectar, gathering pollen Ann Coady, and Martin and Jane Malone. symposium from flowers, serendipitously fertilizing In 2002, Householder Awards were Indiana University Bloomington will host whatever he touches.” presented to graduate students Han-Yong the 33rd Linguistic Symposium on Sebeok is survived by his wife, Jean Park, Sahoko Ichikawa, Kyoko Nagao, and Romance Languages April 24–27, 2003. Umiker-Sebeok, of Bloomington, and three Masanori Deguchi. Keynote speakers include Luigi Burzio, José daughters: Veronica Sebeok Wald, of Thanks also go to all contributors to the Ignacio Hualde, Shana Poplack, and Juan Chicago; Jessica A. Sebeok, of New Haven; Linguistics Enrichment Fund: Julie Uriagereka. For further information send and Erica L. Sebeok, of New York City. Auger, Mimi Bentley, Robert Botne, Damir ´ e-mail to [email protected] or check the Cavar, Stuart Davis, Steven and Karen Web site at www.indiana.edu/~lsrl33. Kathleen M. Fenton Franks, Hila Hill, Martin and Jane Malone, (1921–2002) Alwiya Omar and Ahmed Shariff, Susan Pearson, J.J. Pia, Catherine Rudin, Hugo We announce with regret the passing of In memoriam Quené, Michael Turner, and Barbara Vance. Kathleen M. Fenton, 81, who died in Thomas A. Sebeok Malden, Mass., on Sept. 12. After holding a (1920–2001) position at the Center for Applied Linguis- Stork enjoys busy fall Thomas A. Sebeok, a pioneer in the field of tics in Washington, she worked at IU • Bushra Zawaydeh, PhD’99, and her semiotics and Distinguished Professor Bloomington for the late Professor Thomas husband, Dan, celebrated the birth of Laura emeritus of linguistics and semiotics, died Sebeok at his Research Center for the Zawaydeh Sandman on Sept. 25. Her at his home on Dec. 21, 2001. Sebeok Language Sciences. She became editor of weight was 5 pounds, 15 ounces. served as chair of the IU Research Center the journal Language Sciences, a position she • Mafuyu Kitahara, PhD’01, and for Language and Semiotic Studies, was a held until 1977. She later proofread the Haruka Fukazawa, welcomed son Eugene professor of anthropology and of Uralic LSA journal Language and received the on Aug. 17. His weight was 7 pounds, 8 and Altaic studies (a department he second Victoria A. Fromkin Prize for ounces. founded, now known as the Department of distinguished service to the society. Fenton • Ann Baker, administrative assistant for Central Eurasian Studies), and was a fellow leaves no immediate family. the department, would like to share her joy of the Folklore Institute and in the School and excitement over the birth of her new of Library and Information Science. Born Thanks, donors! grandchild, Katie Lynn Miller, on Sept. 25. in Budapest, in 1920, Sebeok left Hungary • Laurent and Lori Dekydtspotter, The department expresses gratitude to the in 1936 to study at Magdelene College, MLS’99, announce the birth of their following generous donors to the House- Cambridge University. The following year daughter, Chloe, on Nov. 4. Her weight holder Memorial Fund: David Blood, he immigrated to the United States. Sebeok was 5 pounds, 2 ounces. earned a doctorate in 1945 at Princeton University, commuting to Columbia to study with his dissertation director, Roman LSA highlights Jakobson. Sebeok came to IU in 1943. He directed Linguists have Georgia on their minds the Research Center for Anthropology, A number of IU Department of Linguistics faculty members, students, and alumni Folklore, and Linguistics and, in 1956, are presenting papers at the LSA annual winter meeting in Atlanta this January. established the Research Center for Presenters include Language and Semiotic Studies. In 1991, • Natsuko Tsujimura: “Mimetic Verbs as Contextuals”; he was awarded the title of Distinguished • Stuart Davis: “Francis Lieber and the Term ‘Holophrastic’ as Applied to the Professor emeritus of anthropology, of Indian Languages of America”; linguistics, of semiotics, and of Central • Kyoko Nagao, Byung-Jin Lim, and Ken de Jong: “Phonology and Orthography Eurasian studies. Sebeok was the recipient in Lexical Access: A Case Study of Korean Perception of Syllable Affiliations and of many honors, including five honorary Voicing Contrasts of English Stops”; doctorates, the Distinguished Service • Ken de Jong, Kyoko Okamura, and Byung-Jin Lim: “The Phonetics of Award of the American Anthropological Resyllabification in English and Arabic Speech”; Association, IU’s President’s Medal of • Tiffany Kershner: “Dissociativity in Chisukwa Future Expressions”; and Excellence, Honorary Membership in the • David Boe: “Carnap and the Development of Linguistic Empiricism.” Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Domus Hungarica Scientiarum (Artium You’re invited! Prize) from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The IU Linguistics Department will host an Alumni Sebeok possessed an insatiable intellec- Reception at the 2003 LSA Winter Meeting in Atlanta.

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