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Bulletin Page 1 of 1 June 2004 Bulletin Page 1 of 1 Bulletin No. 184, June 2004 Copyright ©2004 by the Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Society of America 1325 18th Street, NW, Suite 211 Washington, DC 20036-6501 [email protected] The LSA Bulletin (ISSN 0023-6365) is published four times per year (March, June, October, and December) by the Secretariat of the Linguistic Society of America, 1325 18th Street, NW, Suite 211, Washington, DC 20036-6501 and is sent to all members of the Society. News items should be addressed to the Linguistic Society of America, 1325 18th Street, NW, Suite 211, Washington, DC 20036-6501. All materials must arrive at the LSA Secretariat by the 1st of the month preceding the month of publication. Periodical postage is paid at Washington, DC, and at additional mailing offices. Annual dues for U.S. personal members for 2004 are $65.00; U.S. student dues are $25.00 per year, with proof of status; U.S. library memberships are $120.00; add $10.00 postage surcharge for non-U.S. addresses; $13.00 of dues goes to the publication of the LSA Bulletin. New memberships and renewals are entered on a calendar year basis only. Postmaster: Send address changes to: LSA Bulletin, 1325 18th Street, NW, Suite 211, Washington, DC 20036-6501. Electronic mail: [email protected]. CONTENTS z Grants z Acknowledgements z Leonard Bloomfield Book Award z Honorary Members z Forthcoming Conferences z Job Opportunities z Bulletin Board z The Ken Hale Chair z Nota Bene LSA Homepage http://lsadc.org/info/jun04bulletin/indextext.html 5/21/2008 June 2004 LSA Bulletin Page 1 of 2 Grants Dictionary Society of North America The society is again offering the Laurence Urdang DSNA Award for the support of lexicographical research. Funded by member Laurence Urdang, the award will support one or more lexicographic projects LSA Bulletin during 2005 with awards between $500 and $2,500. Applicants must be current members of the DSNA. The budget may include costs of travel, June 2004 tuition, materials, subsistence, and related expenses. The proposal should include: (1) the project name; (2) the applicant's name and Grants address; (3) a statement of the immediate goals and expected long- range results of the project; (4) a description of the methodology or Acknowledgements procedures to be used; (5) a summary budget of total expenses for the project; (6) an identification of other sources of support available for the Leonard Bloomfield project; and (7) a one-page biographical resume for the applicant. It Book Award should total no more than three pages single-spaced, including the one- page resume. Send the proposal with a self-addressed, stamped Forthcoming postcard for acknowledgement to: David Jost, Houghton Mifflin Conferences Company, 222 Berkeley St. 8th Floor, Boston, MA 02116 or by e-mail to: [email protected]. Proposals must be received by 1 December 2004. Awards will be made and full payments sent early in Job Opportunities 2005. Bulletin Board LSA Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics The Ken Hale Chair Minority students who are LSA members and have a paper or poster accepted for presentation at the LSA Annual Meeting or any of the Address Changes concurrent meetings may apply for travel funds (up to $500). For the purpose of this fund, the term 'minority' is defined as "members of Nota Bene racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. that have been historically disenfranchised in the U.S. and are traditionally underrepresented in higher education in general and in linguistics in particular." Application consists of a letter from the applicant indicating minority status and estimated travel costs, a copy of the abstract, and a brief letter from the student's chair or advisor indicating the applicant's standing and how the home institution will support their participation. All materials should be sent to: Tracey L. Weldon, Engl. Dept., U SC, Columbia, SC 29208; (803) 777-2074; (803) 777-9064 (fax); [email protected]. The deadline for receipt of all materials is 31 October 2004. Language Technology Fellowships The Swedish National Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT) announces four-year graduate fellowships beginning 1 January 2005 (application deadline: 3 June 2004). Information and an application form is to be found on http://www.gslt.hum.gu.se/application/. GSLT is a national graduate school for which Göteborg University (Faculty of Arts) is the coordinating host. Students may be registered at any of the following academic institutions in addition to Göteborg University: University College of Borås, Chalmers University of Technology, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Linköping University, Lund University, University of Skövde, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, and Växjö University. Supervision is also available from SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science). The school offers a doctoral http://lsadc.org/info/jun04bulletin/grants.html 5/21/2008 June 2004 LSA Bulletin Page 2 of 2 programme in language technology. One of its main aims is to provide advanced training in the foundations of both speech and natural language processing technologies. The application areas it currently focuses on are communicative systems, translation systems, authoring tools, information access, and computer assisted language learning. It is committed to an international profile and welcomes applications from outside of Sweden. Contact: Robin Cooper, Prof. of Compu Ling, GSLT Fac Arts, Göteborg U, PO Box 200, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden; 46- 31-773 2536; 46-31-773 4853 (fax); [email protected]. Research Experience for Undergraduates Information about this grant can be found at: http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?nsf04584. The most significant change is the new deadline for REU Sites proposals. The new deadline is 17 August 2004. Contact Michelle Costanzo at (703) 292- 7323 or mcostanzo@nsf. http://lsadc.org/info/jun04bulletin/grants.html 5/21/2008 June 2004 LSA Bulletin Page 1 of 1 Acknowledgements With grateful thanks the Society acknowledges the following gifts received between 1 February and 1 June 2004. The contributions of members wishing to remain anonymous are also acknowledged with thanks. Other contributions were recorded earlier. LSA Bulletin Aimee Johansen Alnet, Marlyse Baptista, E. Wayles Browne, Rebecca Burns-Hoffman, Hee-Rahk Chae, Paul Chapin, Joan Chen-Main, Yeaton June 2004 H. Clifton, Harold C. Conklin, Mary Louise Edwards, Daniel L. Everett, Susan Fischer, Cynthia A. Fox, Gene B. Gragg, Sara W. Hale, John Grants Henderson, Jane H. Hill, Thomas J. Hinnebusch, Frances Ingemann, Braj Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, Susumu Kuno, Jong il Kwon, Mary Laughren, Acknowledgements Lori Levin, Marc Light, Rachel Mayberry, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Alexa T. McCray, David D. McDonald, Richard P. Meier, Jurgen M. Meisel, Paula Leonard Bloomfield Menyuk, Edith Moravcsik, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Lynette Nyaggah, Richard Book Award T. Oehrle, Jeff Pelletier, Claudia Heinemann Priest, John R. Rickford, Aldon N. Roat, Anna Scannavini, Andrew Spencer, Sarah G. Thomason, Forthcoming Lenora Timm, Kashi Wali, Thomas Wier, Margaret Winters. Conferences Life Members Job Opportunities David Prager Branner, Damir Cavar, Yoshiyuki Igarashi, Richard T. Bulletin Board Oehrle. The Ken Hale Chair Address Changes Nota Bene http://lsadc.org/info/jun04bulletin/acknowledge.html 5/21/2008 June 2004 LSA Bulletin Page 1 of 1 The Leonard Bloomfield Book Award The Linguistic Society of America solicits nominations for the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award. First presented in 1992, this biennial award recognizes a volume that makes an outstanding contribution to the development of our understanding of language and linguistics. The volume so honored will be selected on the basis of such criteria as originality, conceptual significance, empirical import, clarity of LSA Bulletin presentation, and likely impact on linguistic scholarship. The award is June 2004 conferred in even-numbered years. A plaque will be presented to both the author and the publisher at the 2006 LSA Annual Meeting in Grants Albuquerque. Acknowledgements We welcome nominations of both specialist and more general books in any subfield of linguistics. In order to recognize the full diversity of the Leonard Bloomfield field of linguistics, the selection commitee especially welcomes Book Award nominations of books in areas not recently represented among the Bloomfield winners. Edited volumes are not eligible for this award Forthcoming although jointly authored books are. Textbooks can be considered, but Conferences they are unlikely to meet the criteria for the award (though perhaps Bloomfield's Language might have). In order to be eligible, the author (s) must be member(s) of the Society, and the book must have been Job Opportunities published in one of the two years immediately preceding the deadline for the receipt of entries (e.g. for the 2006 competition, books published Bulletin Board after 28 February 2003 and before 1 March 2005 will be considered). The Ken Hale Chair To be considered for the 2006 award, a nomination form and four copies of the books should be sent to: Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Address Changes Committee, LSA Secretariat, 1325 18th Street, NW, Suite 211, Washington, DC 20036-6501. All materials must be received by the Nota Bene Secretariat no later than 1 March 2005. Download the nomination form here. (pdf) The Book Award Committee consists of three scholars: a member of the Executive Committee, who usually serves as chair, and two members appointed by the LSA President. This committee will consider all the books submitted and may recommend one title to the Executive Committee who must formally approve the Award Committee's recommendation. Previous Winners 1992 Keren Rice, A grammar of Slave 1994 Johanna Nichols, Linguistic diversity in space and time 1996 William Labov, Principles of linguistic change: Internal factors 1998 Alice C. Harris and Lyle Campbell, Historical syntax in cross- linguistic perspective 2000 Lyle Campbell, American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America 2002 Marianne Mithun, The languages of Native North America 2004 Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K.
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