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 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.

Speciale gast is William Croft, die op zaterdag 26 maart zal spreken over recent werk binnen Radical Construction Grammar.

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 ‘An integrated semantic representation of the causal and aspectual structure of events’. See: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/news-events/lucl-colloquium/colloquium-24-march.html

Het volledige programma is nu beschikbaar op de website van de workshop:

http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/construction-grammar.html

Alle lezingen vinden plaats in collegezaal 148 van het Lipsiusgebouw, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden.

Deelname is gratis, maar belangstellenden worden verzocht zich voor 15 maart aan te melden op CxGDutch@gmail.com. Geef daarbij ook aan of u op vrijdagavond 25 maart wil deelnemen aan het diner (niet gratis).

Workshop ‘The construction grammar of Dutch’

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.

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.

Special guest is William Croft, who will talk about recent work in Radical Construction Grammar.

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 ‘An integrated semantic representation of the causal and aspectual structure of events’. See: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/news-events/lucl-colloquium/colloquium-24-march.html

The full program is now on-line at:

http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/research/conferences/upcoming-conferences/construction-grammar.html

All talks will be given in room 148 of the Lipsius builing, Cleveringaplaats 1.

Participation is free of charge, but if you are interested in attending the workshop, you are requested to let us know before March 15 at  CxGDutch@gmail.com.  Please indicate whether you would like to join us for dinner on Friday March 25 (not free).

The Fifth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM V) will be held on 27-29 June 2012 at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. It will be preceded by a Young Researchers Workshop on 26 June 2012 (same venue), in which young researchers will present their ongoing dissertation projects and current work.

The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, semiotics and other related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language.

http://www.salc-sssk.org/lcm/

The theme for LCM V is

Integrating Semiotic Resources in Communication and Creativity

Plenary speakers:

• Nick Enfield, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
  http://www.mpi.nl/people/enfield-nick
• Cynthia Lightfoot, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
  http://www.brandywine.psu.edu/Academics/faculty_cgl3.htm
• Dan Slobin, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=35

• Beata Stawarska, Department of Philosophy, University of Oregon

http://pages.uoregon.edu/uophil/faculty/profiles/stawarsk/

• Sherman Wilcox, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico

http://web.mac.com/swilcox/UNM/Welcome.html

The deadline for abstract submission will be Dec 15, 2011.

Detailed instructions for abstract submission and online registration for both LCM V and the LCM V Young Researchers Workshop will be included in the First Call for Papers that will be issued shortly.

Important dates

• Deadline for abstract submission: 15 Dec 2011
• Notification of acceptance: 15 Feb 2012
• Last date for early registration: 1 Mar 2012
• Last date for registration: 1 May 2012
• Final program publication: 15 May 2012

The International LCM organizing committee

• Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Language and Communication
• Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy
• John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology
• Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics
• Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish Language
• Esther Pascual, University of Groningen, Communication Studies
• Victor Rosenthal, Inserm-EHESS, Paris
• Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, Psychology
• Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Linguistics/Cognitive Semiotics

LCM V Local organizing committee

• Ana Margarida Abrantes, Catholic University of Portugal,  Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture
• Peter Hanenberg, Catholic University of Portugal,  Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture

Stylistics across disciplines
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
June 16-17, 2011

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Douglas E. Biber, Northern Arizona University (USA)
Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
Arie Verhagen, Leiden University (The Netherlands)

Stylistics is a field of study that is growing and developing fast. Its central concern is the way cognitive and communicative effects are achieved by means of linguistic choices. It therefore encompasses literary studies and linguistics as well as discourse studies. In spite of the shared, overarching definition of what it is, the field of study of Stylistics is highly fragmented. It mainly takes place within the boundaries of the various, more traditional, domains of study, e.g. literary analysis, rhetoric, (critical) discourse analysis, applied linguistics, etc. As a result, a comprehensive understanding of the wide variety of interests and foci of attention in stylistic studies, as well as exchange of knowledge between these research domains, is developing relatively slowly.

In recent years, successful attempts have been made to take an integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective on Stylistics, focusing on the shared research object: language use. An example is the expanding body of studies associated with the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Especially fruitful has proven to be the developing area of ‘cognitive poetics’, a field closely allied with the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics, which includes attention for contextual factors and the inherently ‘subjective’ basis of language in linguistic analysis. This Stylistics across disciplines conference links up with these developments and intends to offer a platform for exchange of ideas and to stimulate fruitful collaboration among linguists, literary scholars and discourse scholars studying ‘style’.

We invite participants from all relevant fields to participate in the Stylistics across disciplines conference to discuss the opportunities and problems regarding the development of Stylistics as a coherent and methodologically sound research discipline. We welcome papers on (but not limited to) the subject of:
• Possibilities and limitations of an interdisciplinary perspective: what can literary scholars learn from the way style is studied in linguistics or rhetoric, and vice versa?
• Opportunities and problems of a ‘linguistic stylistics’
• Methodological issues: qualitative (interpretive analysis) or quantitative methods (digital humanities, corpus stylistics) and different research methods (corpus analysis, experimental effect studies) in relation to various research contexts
• Development of theoretical notions and analytical tools especially suited for stylistic analysis
• Context-sensitivity of stylistic patterns and analysis: how does stylistic choice interact with contextual factors such as institution, genre characteristics, etc.?
• Language specificity and culture specificity of stylistic phenomena and analysis

Please submit your abstract (in Word or PDF format, containing the title of your paper, author’s name(s) and affiliation(s), max. 500 words) to stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be by February 1, 2011.

Organizing committee:
Suzanne Fagel
Maarten van Leeuwen
Ninke Stukker
stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Scientific committee:
Jaap Goedegebuure (literary studies)
Ton van Haaften (language and communication)
Jaap de Jong (rhetoric)
Arie Verhagen (linguistics)

The Stylistics across disciplines conference is organized by researchers from the NWO research project Stylistics of Dutch (Leiden University 2007-2012); website: www.stylistics.leidenuniv.nl).

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. The workshop organizers are Ronny Boogaart, Timothy Colleman, and Gijsbert Rutten.

Confirmed speakers include Rens Bod, Geert Booij, Ad Foolen, Dirk
Geeraerts et al., Freek Van de Velde, Ton van der Wouden, and Arie
Verhagen. In addition, there will be an invited talk by William Croft on recent theoretical advances in construction grammar. The workshop languages are English and Dutch.

As there is a small number of open slots in the programme, we invite
proposals for 20-minute talks on any aspect of Dutch grammar addressed from a construction-based perspective. Papers with a contrastive focus are welcome, too, as are papers with a more general theoretical and/or methodological focus, provided they deal with issues directly relevant to the study of Dutch.

Abstracts should reach us by December 15, 2010. Send your abstract, in Dutch or in English, to CxGDutch@gmail.com, as an e-mail attachment in .rtf or .pdf format. Abstracts should not exceed 400 words (not including references and figures or tables). Notification of acceptance will be given by January 15, 2011.

Date & time: 23 November, 13:00-14:30

Location: Utrecht University, Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, Stijlkamer van Ravesteyn 1.06

Maite Taboada

Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada)

Coherence and cohesion in multimodal documents

In this talk I present preliminary results of an ongoing project on the discourse characteristics of multimodal documents. This is joint work with Christopher Habel, carried out under an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship at the University of Hamburg.

A great deal of work in the last few years has focused on the relationships between text and material presented through other modalities, be it visual, audio, or a combination of the two. Research on document design and learning has been trying to elucidate what kind of impact multimodal material has on the reader. Much research has studied whether to use multimodal material or not, where to place it, and what effect captions or other verbal information surrounding such material have on the reader (e.g., Acartürk et al., 2008; Mayer, 2009).

Less frequently discussed is the nature of the relationship between graphical material and the text itself. The point of departure for this work is that multimodal documents, just like any other form of discourse, exhibit coherence and cohesion relations. In particular, we are examining coherence relations between text and graphical material (pictures, diagrams, figures and tables), and cohesive ties that establish cross‐reference between the two modes. In order to understand and categorize the types of relations between figures and text, we are making use of Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann and Thompson, 1988), and discuss whether RST relations are sufficient for describing these types of relations.

Ours is a corpus study. Because we believe genre constraints the types of figures present and the way they are introduced, we study three different genres: newspaper articles (New York Times), magazine articles in a scientific magazine (Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery), and scientific articles (Journal of Computational Linguistics). The corpus consists of about 1,500 pages of material, containing over 700 figures, tables and graphs. We show that figures stand in both presentational and subject matter relations to the text they accompany, and that cross‐referencing varies widely across genres, with newspaper articles showing little or no reference to the graphical material, and scientific articles marking the reference to the figure explicitly in the text.

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.

Stylistics across disciplines
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
June 16-17, 2011

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Douglas E. Biber, Northern Arizona University (USA)
Barbara Dancygier, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada)
Arie Verhagen, Leiden University (The Netherlands)

Stylistics is a field of study that is growing and developing fast. Its central concern is the way cognitive and communicative effects are achieved by means of linguistic choices. It therefore encompasses literary studies and linguistics as well as discourse studies. In spite of the shared, overarching definition of what it is, the field of study of Stylistics is highly fragmented. It mainly takes place within the boundaries of the various, more traditional, domains of study, e.g. literary analysis, rhetoric, (critical) discourse analysis, applied linguistics, etc. As a result, a comprehensive understanding of the wide variety of interests and foci of attention in stylistic studies, as well as exchange of knowledge between these research domains, is developing relatively slowly.

In recent years, successful attempts have been made to take an integrative, cross-disciplinary perspective on Stylistics, focusing on the shared research object: language use. An example is the expanding body of studies associated with the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA). Especially fruitful has proven to be the developing area of ‘cognitive poetics’, a field closely allied with the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics, which includes attention for contextual factors and the inherently ‘subjective’ basis of language in linguistic analysis. This Stylistics across disciplines conference links up with these developments and intends to offer a platform for exchange of ideas and to stimulate fruitful collaboration among linguists, literary scholars and discourse scholars studying ‘style’.

We invite participants from all relevant fields to participate in the Stylistics across disciplines conference to discuss the opportunities and problems regarding the development of Stylistics as a coherent and methodologically sound research discipline. We welcome papers on (but not limited to) the subject of:
• Possibilities and limitations of an interdisciplinary perspective: what can literary scholars learn from the way style is studied in linguistics or rhetoric, and vice versa?
• Opportunities and problems of a ‘linguistic stylistics’
• Methodological issues: qualitative (interpretive analysis) or quantitative methods (digital humanities, corpus stylistics) and different research methods (corpus analysis, experimental effect studies) in relation to various research contexts
• Development of theoretical notions and analytical tools especially suited for stylistic analysis
• Context-sensitivity of stylistic patterns and analysis: how does stylistic choice interact with contextual factors such as institution, genre characteristics, etc.?
• Language specificity and culture specificity of stylistic phenomena and analysis

Please submit your abstract (in Word or PDF format, containing the title of your paper, author’s name(s) and affiliation(s), max. 500 words) to stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The deadline for abstract submission is December 15, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be by February 1, 2011.

Organizing committee:
Suzanne Fagel
Maarten van Leeuwen
Ninke Stukker
stylistics@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Scientific committee:
Jaap Goedegebuure (literary studies)
Ton van Haaften (language and communication)
Jaap de Jong (rhetoric)
Arie Verhagen (linguistics)

The Stylistics across disciplines conference is organized by researchers from the NWO research project Stylistics of Dutch (Leiden University 2007-2012); website: www.stylistics.leidenuniv.nl).

EXTENDED DEADLINE – 15th May 2010

After three fruitful meetings in Utrecht (2004), Leuven (2006) and Leiden (2008), Antwerp is hosting the fourth biannual 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.

Plenary speakers

Ronny Boogaart (University of Leiden)

Kristin Davidse (University of Leuven)

Irene Mittelberg (RWTH University Aachen)

Ted Sanders (University of Utrecht)

Abstracts

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.

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’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.

Abstracts in Dutch or English have to be submitted electronically, as attachment files in PDF format, to the following address:

coglingdagen2010@lessius.eu

Deadline for submission: extended deadline 15th May 2010

Notification of acceptance: 20th June 2010

Scientific committee

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),

Organizing committee

Frank Brisard (Universiteit Antwerpen), Geert Brône (Lessius Antwerp – KU Leuven), Astrid De Wit (Universiteit Antwerpen), Liesbet Heyvaert (FWO- KU Leuven), Tanja Mortelmans (Universiteit Antwerpen), Paul Sambre (Lessius Antwerp – KU Leuven)

Location: Utrecht University, Janskerkhof 13, Room 0.06

Arnout Koornneef

Utrecht University, UiL-OTS

Anticipating causal relations between events

Implicit causality is a property of some interpersonal verbs in which one or the other of the verb’s arguments is implicated as the underlying cause of the action or attitude. For example, people normally ascribe the underlying cause of the praising-event in a sentence fragment such as David praised Linda because to the object NP (e.g. because she had completed the assignment). In series of self-paced reading, eye-tracking and ERP experiments we showed that this pragmatic implicit causality cue is used to anticipate how the unfolding utterance will continue. Currently, we are pursuing a line of research in which we combine these insights from linguistics with knowledge from visual perception research. More specifically, using neuroimaging techniques (ERP, fMRI) this project investigates the hypothesis that two of our basic cognitive systems – vision and language – make use of the same cognitive components to anticipate causal relations between events.