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		<title>CogLingdays 5: 14-15 December 2012, University of Groningen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a short message to announce that CogLingdays 5 (the biannual meeting of BeNeCLA) will be organized this year, at the University of Groningen, 14-15 December. More information will follow shortly. Kind regards, The organizing committee, Marjolijn Verspoor (chair) Susanne Grassman Rimke Groenewold Mike Huiskes Muriel Norde Rasmus Steinkraus BeNeCla board and scientific committee Ronny [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benecla.com&amp;blog=6330294&amp;post=180&amp;subd=benecla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a short message to announce that CogLingdays 5 (the biannual meeting of BeNeCLA) will be organized this year, at the University of Groningen, 14-15 December. More information will follow shortly.</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>The organizing committee,</p>
<p>Marjolijn Verspoor (chair)<br />
Susanne Grassman<br />
Rimke Groenewold<br />
Mike Huiskes<br />
Muriel Norde<br />
Rasmus Steinkraus</p>
<p>BeNeCla board and scientific committee</p>
<p>Ronny Boogaart (Universiteit Leiden)<br />
Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)<br />
Dirk Geeraerts (Universiteit Leuven)<br />
Maarten van Leeuwen (Universiteit Leiden)<br />
Paul Sambre (Lessius/ Antwerpen/Leuven)<br />
Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Antwerpen)<br />
Marjolijn Verspoor (RU Groningen) </p>
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		<title>Leiden, 25/26 March: Workshop Construction Grammar of Dutch</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[English below Op vrijdag 25 en zaterdag 26 maart 2011 vindt aan de Universiteit Leiden een workshop plaats over ‘De constructiegrammatica van het Nederlands’, georganiseerd door het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics in samenwerking met de vakgroep Nederlandse taalkunde van de Universiteit Gent. De workshop wil een aantal onderzoekers samenbrengen met expertise in de studie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benecla.com&amp;blog=6330294&amp;post=177&amp;subd=benecla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Op vrijdag 25 en zaterdag 26 maart 2011 vindt aan de Universiteit Leiden een workshop plaats over ‘De constructiegrammatica van het Nederlands’, georganiseerd door het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics in samenwerking met de vakgroep Nederlandse taalkunde van de Universiteit Gent.<br />
De workshop wil een aantal onderzoekers samenbrengen met expertise in de studie van de Nederlandse grammatica vanuit verschillende theoretische en methodologische perspectieven die passen onder het algemene label van de “constructionele” of “constructiegebaseerde” benaderingen. De bedoeling is om een overzicht te geven van het actuele onderzoek naar diverse aspecten van het Nederlandse constructicon – waarbij de focus niet beperkt blijft tot het hedendaagse Standaardnederlands maar ook oudere taalfasen en/of moderne (niet-standaard)variëteiten omvat – en om verschillende constructionele invalshoeken met elkaar te vergelijken.</p>
<p>Speciale gast is William Croft, die op zaterdag 26 maart zal spreken over recent werk binnen <em>Radical Construction Grammar</em>.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-small;">Please note that at the day before the workshop (thursday March 24), William  Croft will give a talk in the LUCL colloquium lecture series, entitled  &#8216;An integrated semantic representation of the causal and aspectual  structure of events&#8217;. See: <a href="https://webmail.vuw.leidenuniv.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/news-events/lucl-colloquium/colloquium-24-march.html" target="_blank">http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/news-events/lucl-colloquium/colloquium-24-march.html</a><br />
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<p>Het volledige programma is nu beschikbaar op de website van de workshop:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/construction-grammar.html">http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/construction-grammar.html</a></p>
<p>Alle lezingen vinden plaats in collegezaal 148 van het Lipsiusgebouw, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden.</p>
<p>Deelname is gratis, maar belangstellenden worden verzocht zich <strong>voor 15 maart</strong> aan te melden op <a href="mailto:CxGDutch@gmail.com">CxGDutch@gmail.com</a>. Geef daarbij ook aan of u op vrijdagavond 25 maart wil deelnemen aan het diner (niet gratis).</p>
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<p>Organisatoren:  Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman, Gijsbert Rutten</p>
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<p><strong>Workshop ‘The construction grammar of Dutch’</strong></p>
<p>On March 25-26, 2011, The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics will host a two-day workshop on ‘The construction grammar of Dutch’, in collaboration with the Ghent University Linguistics Department.</p>
<p>The workshop will bring together specialists in various domains of Dutch grammar, using different approaches or formalisms that fall under the general rubric of construction-based grammar, with the aim of providing an overview of current research into aspects of the Dutch constructicon and of stimulating discussion between different (broadly) constructionist approaches. Papers will deal with present-day standard Dutch as well as earlier stages of the language and/or other present-day varieties.</p>
<p>Special guest is William Croft, who will talk about recent work in Radical Construction Grammar.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-small;">Please note that at the day before the workshop (thursday March 24), William  Croft will give a talk in the LUCL colloquium lecture series, entitled  &#8216;An integrated semantic representation of the causal and aspectual  structure of events&#8217;. See: <a href="https://webmail.vuw.leidenuniv.nl/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/news-events/lucl-colloquium/colloquium-24-march.html" target="_blank">http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/news-events/lucl-colloquium/colloquium-24-march.html</a><br />
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<p>The full program is now on-line at:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/construction-grammar.html">http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/construction-grammar.html</a></p>
<p>All talks will be given in room 148 of the Lipsius builing, Cleveringaplaats 1.</p>
<p>Participation is free of charge, but if you are interested in attending the workshop, you are requested to let us know <strong>before March 15</strong> at  <a href="mailto:CxGDutch@gmail.com">CxGDutch@gmail.com</a>.  Please indicate whether you would like to join us for dinner on Friday March 25 (not free).</p>
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<p>Organisers: Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman, Gijsbert Rutten</p>
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		<title>Coglingdagen 4, call for papers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call for abstracts Coglingdagen 4, Antwerpen, 17 en 18 december 2010 Tweejaarlijkse bijeenkomst van de Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA) English version below Na geslaagde bijeenkomsten in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006) en Leiden (2008) vinden op vrijdag 17 en zaterdag 18 december 2010 de vierde cognitieve linguïstiekdagen van de Belgisch-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Cognitieve Taalkunde [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benecla.com&amp;blog=6330294&amp;post=127&amp;subd=benecla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Call for abstracts<br />
Coglingdagen 4, Antwerpen, 17 en 18 december 2010<br />
Tweejaarlijkse bijeenkomst van de Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA)</strong></p>
<p><I>English version below</I></p>
<p>Na geslaagde bijeenkomsten in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006) en Leiden (2008) vinden op vrijdag 17 en zaterdag 18 december 2010 de vierde cognitieve linguïstiekdagen van de Belgisch-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Cognitieve Taalkunde (BeNeCLA, http://benecla.com/ ) plaats te Antwerpen, aan de Universiteit Antwerpen en Lessius Antwerpen. Deze dagen willen een platform bieden aan cognitief georiënteerde onderzoekers uit Nederland en België. Ze hebben als doel de discussie over onderzoeksresultaten, methodologie en lopende projecten aan te zwengelen. De Coglingdagen bieden expliciet aan beginnende onderzoekers, promovendi en studenten de gelegenheid hun werk voor te stellen. Alle geïnteresseerde onderzoekers werkzaam binnen het kader van de cognitieve linguïstiek worden dan ook van harte uitgenodigd een abstract in te sturen. </p>
<p><strong>Plenaire sprekers</strong><br />
Ronny Boogaart (Universiteit Leiden)<br />
Kristin Davidse (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)<br />
Irene Mittelberg (RWTH University Aachen)<br />
Ted Sanders (Universiteit Utrecht)</p>
<p><strong>Abstracts</strong><br />
Abstracts voor posters of presentaties (20 minuten plus 10 minuten voor discussie) bevatten maximaal 600 woorden inclusief referenties en worden anoniem beoordeeld.<br />
Ze geven duidelijk de onderzoeksvragen en onderzoeksmethode weer, de geanalyseerde data en (verwachte) resultaten.<br />
De abstracts zullen anoniem worden beoordeeld en dienen daarom elektronisch ingediend in pdf-of Word-formaat, zonder expliciete verwijzing naar de auteur(s).<br />
Gelieve in uw mail volgende informatie te vermelden: naam van de auteur, titel van de bijdrage en affiliatie. Gelieve ook te vermelden of u met uw bijdrage in aanmerking wenst te komen voor een lezing of poster.</p>
<p><strong>Deadline inzending: 30 april 2010<br />
Mededeling selectie: 20 juni 2010</strong></p>
<p><strong>Contactadres: <A href="mailto:coglingdagen2010@lessius.eu"> coglingdagen2010@lessius.eu</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Adviserend comité</strong><br />
Ronny Boogaart (Universiteit Leiden), Tine Breban (FWO &#8211; KU Leuven), Bert Cappelle (Hogeschool Gent), Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Timothy Colleman (UGent), Bert Cornillie (FWO &#8211; KU Leuven), Liesbeth Degand (UCLouvain), Walter De Mulder (Universiteit Antwerpen), Jan Nuyts (Universiteit Antwerpen), Esther Pascual (RU Groningen), Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Antwerpen), Lieven Vandelanotte (FUNDP Namur), Marjolein Verspoor (RUGroningen), </p>
<p><strong>Organiserend comité</strong><br />
Frank Brisard (Universiteit Antwerpen),  Geert Brône (Lessius Antwerpen en KU Leuven), Astrid De Wit (Universiteit Antwerpen), Liesbet Heyvaert (FWO – KU Leuven), Tanja Mortelmans (Universiteit Antwerpen), Paul Sambre (Lessius Antwerpen en KU Leuven)</p>
<p><I>English version</I></p>
<p><strong>Call for abstracts<br />
Cogling days 4, Antwerp, 17th and 18th December 2010<br />
Biennial meeting of the Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA)</strong></p>
<p>After three fruitful meetings in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006) and Leiden (2008), Antwerp is hosting the fourth biennial conference of the Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA, http://benecla.com/ ). The event is jointly organized by the University of Antwerp and Lessius University College Antwerp on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th December 2010. The two-day conference offers a venue for researchers from the Low Countries to present and discuss their research results in the various strands of cognitive linguistics. It explicitly aims at offering junior researchers, including doctoral students and postdocs, the opportunity to present their (ongoing) work. All interested scholars working in the field of cognitive linguistics or related areas are invited to submit an abstract for the conference.   </p>
<p><strong>Plenary speakers</strong><br />
Ronny Boogaart (University of Leiden)<br />
Kristin Davidse (University of Leuven)<br />
Irene Mittelberg (RWTH University Aachen)<br />
Ted Sanders (University of Utrecht)</p>
<p><strong>Abstracts</strong><br />
We invite abstracts for poster presentations and regular conference papers (20 min. talk plus 10 min. discussion), the length of which should not exceed 600 words, including references and data. Paper proposals are expected to clearly formulate the main research question(s), methodology, dataset and (expected) results.<br />
They will be reviewed anonymously and cannot therefore include any reference to the identity of the author. In the body of your email, please include the following information: author&#8217;s name and affiliation and title of the submission. Please also indicate whether you would like your abstract to be considered for a regular or a poster presentation.  </p>
<p>Abstracts have to be submitted electronically, as attachment files in PDF format, to the following address:<br />
coglingdagen2010@lessius.eu  </p>
<p><strong>Deadline for submission: 30th April 2010</strong><br />
Notification of acceptance: 20th June 2010</p>
<p><strong>Scientific committee</strong><br />
Ronny Boogaart (Universiteit Leiden), Tine Breban (FWO- KU Leuven), Bert Cappelle (Hogeschool Gent), Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Timothy Colleman (UGent), Bert Cornillie (FWO- KU Leuven), Liesbeth Degand (UCLouvain), Walter De Mulder (Universiteit Antwerpen), Jan Nuyts (Universiteit Antwerpen), Esther Pascual (RU Groningen), Elena Tribushinina (Universiteit Antwerpen), Lieven Vandelanotte (FUNDP Namur), Marjolein Verspoor (RUGroningen),<br />
<strong><br />
Organizing committee</strong><br />
Frank Brisard (Universiteit Antwerpen),  Geert Brône (Lessius Antwerp &#8211; KU Leuven), Astrid De Wit (Universiteit Antwerpen), Liesbet Heyvaert (FWO- KU Leuven), Tanja Mortelmans (Universiteit Antwerpen), Paul Sambre (Lessius Antwerp &#8211; KU Leuven)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics Approches cognitives en linguistique appliquée Vrijdag/Friday/Vendredi 23 april/23 avril 2010, Universiteit Utrecht Op 23 april 2010 organiseert Anéla, in samenwerking met ABLA en BeNeCLA, haar jaarlijkse Voorjaarsstudiedag. Het thema voor deze dag is “Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd”, waarbij we geïnteresseerd zijn in raakvlakken tussen cognitieve, functionele [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benecla.com&amp;blog=6330294&amp;post=117&amp;subd=benecla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd<br />
Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics<br />
Approches cognitives en linguistique appliquée<br />
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<p><strong>Vrijdag/Friday/Vendredi<br />
23 april/23 avril 2010, Universiteit Utrecht</strong></p>
<p>Op 23 april 2010 organiseert Anéla, in samenwerking met ABLA en BeNeCLA, haar jaarlijkse Voorjaarsstudiedag. Het thema voor deze dag is “Toegepaste Taalwetenschap Cognitief Benaderd”, waarbij we geïnteresseerd zijn in raakvlakken tussen cognitieve, functionele en usage-based benaderingen van taal enerzijds en de Toegepaste Taalwetenschap anderzijds. Mogelijke thema’s zijn eerste of tweede taalontwikkeling, -verwerking, -onderwijs, discourse analyse, sociolinguïstiek, lexicografie en vertaalwetenschap.</p>
<p>In cooperation with ABLA and BeNeCLA, Anéla organizes the Anéla Spring Conference 2010. The theme is “Cognitive approaches to Applied Linguistics”, focusing on the interface between cognitive linguistic, functional or other usage-based approaches to the field of Applied Linguistics. Possible themes are language (L1 or L2) acquisition, processing, teaching, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, lexicography and translation studies.  </p>
<p>En collaboration avec l’ABLA et BeNeCLA, l’Anéla organise sa « Journée d’études de printemps 2010 » sur le thème de l’application des approches cognitives, fonctionnelles et ‘basées sur l’usage’ en linguistique appliquée. Thèmes possibles sont acquisition du langage (L1 et L2), traitement du langage, développement langagier, enseignement des langues, analyse textuelle, analyse du discours, sociolinguistique, lexicographie et traductologie</p>
<p><strong>Abstracts (200 words/woorden/môts)<br />
voor/before/avant 31 januari/January/Janvier 2010<br />
Indienen via: <a href="http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/anela2010">http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/anela2010</a></strong></p>
<p>For more detail see: <a href="http://www.anela.nl/">http://www.anela.nl</a></p>
<p>Notification of acceptance: 23 februari 2010</p>
<p>Organiserend comité : Marjolijn Verspoor, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ; Elena Tribushinina, Universiteit Utrecht ; Esther Pascual, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen ; Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Universiteit Utrecht ; Laurent Rasier, Université Catholique de Louvain</p>
<p>Anéla (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Toegepaste Taalwetenschap): http://www.anela.nl/<br />
ABLA (Association Belge de Linguistique appliquée): http://www.abla.be/<br />
BeNeCla (Belgian Netherlands Cognitive Lingusitics Association): http://benecla.com/</p>
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		<title>28 januari, Groningen: Esther Pascual, The conversation game (VIDI)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Titel: The conversation frame: Linguistic forms and communicative functions in discourse (Vidi project) Wie: Esther Pascual Plaats: Rijksuniversiteit Gronigen, Oude Kijk in &#8216;t Jatstraat 26, (13)15 0048 Tijd: 28 januari 2010, 3.30-4.30 Starting from the assumption that language is intimately related to interaction, the main question this project addresses is: how is the structure of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benecla.com&amp;blog=6330294&amp;post=112&amp;subd=benecla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Titel: The conversation frame: Linguistic forms and communicative<br />
functions in discourse (Vidi project)<br />
Wie: Esther Pascual<br />
Plaats: Rijksuniversiteit Gronigen, Oude Kijk in &#8216;t Jatstraat 26,<br />
(13)15 0048</p>
<p>Tijd: 28 januari 2010, 3.30-4.30</strong></p>
<p>Starting from the assumption that language is intimately related to<br />
interaction, the main question this project addresses is: how is the<br />
structure of interaction reflected in language structure and language<br />
use? That is, what forms does the basic interactional pattern of<br />
turn-taking take in grammar and discourse? In addition, I will<br />
investigate the communicative functions of interactional structures<br />
embedded in discourse. Finally, I will explore the processing and<br />
communicative effectiveness of such grammatically integrated<br />
interactional patterns.</p>
<p>This project focuses on fictive interaction (Pascual 2002), a<br />
cognitive phenomenon that reflects the interactional structure of<br />
conversation, and is manifested in language structure and use (egs.<br />
“an attitude that says ‘what’s in it for me?’”, “a ‘what’s in it for<br />
me?’ attitude”).</p>
<p>The project addresses the following questions: (i) since factual<br />
interaction is a fundamental aspect of language use, is fictive<br />
interaction also a fundamental linguistic structure in different<br />
discourse genres? And (ii) does the use of fictive interaction provide<br />
processing and communicative advantages to language users?<br />
In order to address the linguistic structure question, a corpus study<br />
will be undertaken, examining fictive interaction in different<br />
discourse genres of written and spoken Dutch. To address the<br />
communicative effectiveness question, the communicative effects of<br />
fictive interaction in Dutch will be explored in relation to: (i) the<br />
argumentative power of fictive interaction (in criminal trials); (ii)<br />
the use of fictive interaction as conversational strategy (by<br />
speech-impaired individuals with Broca’s aphasia); and (iii) the<br />
reception of fictive interaction (processing, memory, comprehension<br />
and emotional affect).</p>
<p>I hypothesise that embedded fictive interaction is essential in<br />
different discourse genres, and can be used for a variety of<br />
communicative functions. I also hypothesise that the use of fictive<br />
interaction can render a discourse communicatively more effective, as compared to its descriptive alternative, partly because it is<br />
processed more efficiently.</p>
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		<title>Discourse op dinsdag, 15 december</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discourse op Dinsdag Date &#38; time: December 15; 15:30-17:00 Location: Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 13, Room 0.06 Arie Verhagen Leiden University Intersubjectivity, Subjectivity, and Common Ground Abstract In this talk I will explore conceptual connections between the notions of Intersubjectivity as developed in Verhagen (2005, 2007; see also http://www.arieverhagen.nl/Documenten/CoI.html) and some other, related notions, especially Common [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benecla.com&amp;blog=6330294&amp;post=100&amp;subd=benecla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><strong>Date &amp; time: December 15; 15:30-17:00</strong></p>
<p><strong>Location: Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 13, Room 0.06</strong></p>
<p><strong>Arie Verhagen</strong></p>
<p><strong>Leiden University</strong></p>
<p><strong>Intersubjectivity, Subjectivity, and Common Ground</strong></p>
<p>Abstract</p>
<p>In this talk I will explore conceptual connections between the notions of Intersubjectivity as developed in Verhagen (2005, 2007; see also http://www.arieverhagen.nl/Documenten/CoI.html) and some other, related notions, especially Common Ground (cf. Clark 1996), in an attempt to clarify what is special about the grammatical phenomena that I labelled &#8220;constructions of intersubjectivity&#8221;. An important motivation for such an attempt at clarification is the fact that the term &#8220;intersubjectivity&#8221; is used in the literature in relation to phenomena (e.g. deixis), that I would not (without further argumentation) consider as linguistically involving intersubjectivity, despite the fact that &#8220;mutually shared information&#8221; somehow does play a role in their conventional meaning. The discussion will result in a proposal that constructions of subjectivity and of intersubjectivity can sensibly be said to profile and manage different aspects of the common ground in different ways.</p>
<p>References</p>
<p>Clark, Herbert H. (1996), Using Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</p>
<p>Verhagen, Arie (2008), Intersubjectivity and the architecture of the language system. In: Jordan Zlatev, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha, Esa Itkonen (eds.), The Shared Mind: Perspectives on Intersubjectivity. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 307-331.</p>
<p>Verhagen, Arie (2005), Constructions of Intersubjectivity. Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.</p>
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		<title>Discourse op Dinsdag 17 november</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Date &#38; time: November 17; 15:30-17:00 Location: Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 13, Room 0.06 Fridolin Wild Knowledge Media Institute, Milton Keynes, UK The Geometry of Learning Abstract Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a mathematical technique for computationally modeling the meaning of words and larger units of texts. LSA works by applying a mathematical technique called Singular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benecla.com&amp;blog=6330294&amp;post=97&amp;subd=benecla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Date &amp; time: November 17; 15:30-17:00</p>
<p>Location: Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 13, Room 0.06</p>
<p><strong>Fridolin Wild</strong></p>
<p><strong>Knowledge Media Institute, Milton Keynes, UK</strong></p>
<p><strong>The Geometry of Learning</strong></p>
<p>Abstract</p>
<p>Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a mathematical technique for computationally modeling the meaning of words and larger units of texts. LSA works by applying a mathematical technique called Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to a term*document matrix containing frequency counts for all words found in the corpus in all of the documents or passages in the corpus. After this SVD application, the meaning of a word is represented as a vector in a multidimensional semantic space, which makes it possible to compare word meanings, for instance by computing the cosine between two word vectors.</p>
<p>LSA has been successfully used in a large variety of language related applications from automatic grading of student essays to predicting click trails in website navigation. In Coh-Metrix (Graesser et al. 2004), a computational tool that produces indices of the linguistic and discourse representations of a text, LSA was used as a measure of text cohesion by assuming that cohesion increases as a functionof higher cosine scores between adjacent sentences.</p>
<p>Besides being interesting as a technique for building programs that need to deal with semantics, LSA is also interesting as a model of human cognition. LSA can match human performance on word association tasks and vocabulary test. In this talk, Fridolin will focus on LSA as a tool in modeling language acquisition. After framing the area of the talk with sketching the key concepts learning, information, and competence acquisition, and after outlining presuppositions, an introduction into meaningful interaction analysis (MIA) is given. MIA is a means to inspect learning with the support of language analysis that is geometrical in nature. MIA is a fusion of latent semantic analysis (LSA) combined with network analysis (NA/SNA). LSA, NA/SNA, and MIA are illustrated by several examples.</p>
<p>On Wednesday morning, November 18, Fridolin Wild will give a tutorial during which he will demonstrate the R-package he developed for LSA. For more information, please contact Rogier Kraf (r.kraf@uu.nl).</p>
<p>The Discourse op Dinsdag discussion group is intended for researchers working on discourse from a language use perspective, and offers a platform to discuss their work (in progress). For more information check our website http://www.let.uu.nl/vici.</p>
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		<title>Promotie/Defense Rasmus Steinkrauss, Groningen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Name: Rasmus Steinkrauss Dissertation title: Frequency and Function in WH Question Acquisition – A Usage-Based Case Study of German L1 Acquisition Promotion date: 27.11.2009 Summary of the dissertation English My dissertation studies the early stages of first language acquisition. In particular, it studies the impact of the input, which is the language a child hears, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benecla.com&amp;blog=6330294&amp;post=85&amp;subd=benecla&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Name: Rasmus Steinkrauss<br />
Dissertation title: Frequency and Function in WH Question Acquisition –<br />
A Usage-Based Case Study of German L1 Acquisition<br />
Promotion date: 27.11.2009</strong></p>
<p><strong>Summary of the dissertation</strong><br />
<em>English</em><br />
My dissertation studies the early stages of first language acquisition. In particular, it studies the impact of the input, which is the language a child hears, on what a child says. Simply put, in usage-based linguistics is assumed that the more often a child hears something, the earlier and more often the child is going to say it. This applies<br />
not only to single words but also to word combinations (‘constructions’) such as “where are…”. In my dissertation, I show that this is not always the case.</p>
<p>Using a very dense database of a boy learning German, I follow the boy’s early language development, especially the development of WH-questions, closely for one year (age 2-3) and show that not only input frequency, but also the function of linguistic constructions and the previous linguistic knowledge of the child play a role.<br />
For example, even if a construction is very frequent in the input, the child might not use it because the construction does not serve any useful function for the child, because the child already knows a construction fulfilling the same function, or because the child does not know a more basic construction that the new construction<br />
builds on. This shows that input frequency interacts with other factors in language acquisition.</p>
<p>Moreover, the dissertation shows that the acquisition of German differs from that of English because of the different composition of the input, and that the size of the corpus has a clear impact on the analysis of input frequency.</p>
<p><em>Dutch</em><br />
Dit proefschrift beschouwt de invloed van de ‘input’, dus wat een kind hoort, op zijn/haar ontwikkeling van de moedertaal in de allereerste fasen van taalverwerving. Binnen de gebruiksgebaseerde (usage-based) linguïstiek wordt er over het algemeen van uitgegaan dat de input een sterke invloed uitoefent op wat een kind zelf leert te<br />
zeggen. Simpel gezegd wordt aangenomen dat als een kind iets vaak hoort het kind dit zelf ook vaak en vroeg gebruikt. Dit geldt zowel voor enkele woorden als voor hele combinaties van woorden (‘constructies’) zoals ‘wat is dit voor…’.</p>
<p>Mijn proefschrift laat zien dat dit niet altijd het geval is. Met hulp van een bijzonder uitgebreid corpus wordt de vroege taalontwikkeling, specifiek de ontwikkeling van wvragen, van een Duits kind over de periode van een jaar (leeftijd 2-3) nauwlettend gevolgd. Er wordt aangetoond dat niet alleen de inputfrequentie, maar ook de functie<br />
van constructies en de eerdere kennis van het kind invloed heeft op wat hij zegt. Zo gebruikt het kind bijvoorbeeld sommige constructies niet, hoewel zij frequent in de input voorkomen. Dit komt doordat zij voor hem geen nuttige functie vervullen, hij al een andere constructie met dezelfde functie gebruikt of doordat hij een andere, meer<br />
basale constructie nog niet kent. Dit laat zien dat inputfrequentie met andere factoren samenwerkt.</p>
<p>Daarnaast toont het proefschrift aan dat de taalontwikkeling in het Duits door de andere compositie van de input anders verloopt dan in het Engels en dat de grootte van het gebruikte corpus van invloed is op de resultaten.</p>
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