SGP Newsletter
- Fall 2002
Contents
Reports and News
GLAC 2002
GLAC 2002 was another successful conference for SGL,
congratulations and many thanks to the organizers, Robert Fulk and Rex
Sprouse. There were approximately 48 papers given, and international
participation was again good. A convenient innovation was the linkage
of abstracts to slots in the on-line program - to be emulated in the
future, one hopes!
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Diebold
Prizes
The winner of the Diebold Prize for 2002 is Christopher
Sapp from Indiana University, whose paper was entitled "The Syntactic
Development of the Scandinavian s-Passive". Congratulations!
Thanks also to Orrin Robinson and Anna Grotans for serving on the adjudication
committee.
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Election
Results
The following candidates were elected to the Executive Committee of
the SGL:
Vice President: Donka Minkova, UCLA
Members-at-Large: Orrin Robinson (reelected), Stanford; Garry Davis,
U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Thanks to Carlee Arnett and Anna Grotans for their service of the past
three years.
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Business Meeting of the
SGL 2002
In addition to discussion of current and future GLACs, a proposal to
include a student representative on the Executive Committee was presented.
An amended version, stating that this representative would serve for a
term of 1 year, be nominated by a member of SGL, and be elected by the
membership, was approved unanimously. Since this move involves a change
in the bylaws, an official vote will be carried out (see enclosed ballot).
Again this year, funds were available to reimburse student participants
at GLAC for part of their travel costs. Finally, a committee has been
established to develop a proposal for setting up an email list for the
SGL membership (members are Greg Iverson, Rob Howell, Amanda Pounder,
Mark Louden, and Anna Grotans).
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Journal
of Germanic Linguistics (JGL)
Issues 14.1 and 14.2 of the Journal of Germanic Linguistics have been
sent out, and 14.3 is forthcoming. 14.3 includes the following articles:
Kristján Árnason, "Kuhn's Laws in Old Icelandic
Prose and Poetry"
John D. Sundquist, "Relative Clause Variation and the Unity of
Beowulf"
Issue 14.4 is in the final stages of preparation, with the following
articles to appear:
Geert Booij, "Constructional Idioms, Morphology, and the Dutch
Lexicon
Robert D. Fulk, "Early Middle English Evidence for Old English
Meter: Resolution in Poema morale"
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Upcoming and
More Distant SGL Meetings
GLAC 8½: A GLAC will be held jointly with the FGLS (Forum for
Germanic Linguistic Studies) in London (King's College and the Goethe
Institut), January 3-5, 2003. A list of papers accepted and registration
information can be found at http://www.fgls.ac.uk/fglslondon.html.
GLAC 2003: GLAC 9 will be held at SUNY Buffalo, April 25-27. The conference
will take place at the University Inn in Buffalo. Invited speakers include
Theo Vennemann (Munich) and Molly Diesing (Cornell), with a third speaker
yet to be announced. A call for papers and additional information are
provided at the end of this newsletter.
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Positions Vacant
The Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian
Studies at the University of Calgary has a tenure-track position in
German, specialization in applied linguistics. This position will be
filled either at the senior level (senior associate or full professor),
in which case the desired specialization will be Second Language Acquisition,
or at the junior level. The senior position will involve a part-time
secondment to the interfaculty Language Research Centre. The full (long!)
advertisement can be found on the Linguist List (application deadline
Nov. 15th, 2002).
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Upcoming Conferences
Conference on Contemporary Germanic,
Romance, and Baltic Linguistic Studies
Vilnius, Lithuania, 5-7 Sept. 2003. Papers in Contrastive
Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, or Translation. Information:aurelia@ktl.mii.lt
GLAC-9: Ninth Germanic Linguistics Annual
Conference
The University at Buffalo, State University of New York
April 25-27, 2003
We invite colleagues at all levels (faculty, graduate students, and independent
scholars) to submit abstracts for 20- or 30-minute papers (plus 10 minutes
of discussion) on any linguistic or philological aspect of any historical
or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (to the Early
Modern period) and the extra-territorial varieties. Papers from a range
of linguistic subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, contact, and change,
as well as differing theoretical approaches, are welcome. Please specify
whether you would prefer a 20-minute or a 30-minute slot for your presentation.
Papers will be selected for the program by a broad-based committee in
a double-blind process. Please send to the address below a one-page abstract
in a 12-point font. Abstracts should fill an entire page. In the upper
left-hand corner of the abstract, include your name, institutional affiliation,
mailing address, phone/fax numbers, and e-mail address. This information
will be concealed when the abstract is copied for distribution to the
selection committee, but it will appear in the conference program. Abstracts
may be sent either as hard copy or as PDF files. Electronic abstracts
will be accepted only in the form of PDF files sent as e-mail attachments
to <fertig@acsu.buffalo.edu>.
Please use "GLAC-9 abstract (PDF)" as the subject line. Submissions
must be received by January 2, 2002. Notifications of acceptance will
be distributed by February 1, 2002.
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