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Col. 9 No 1, Spring 1997
SGP News The third Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference took place at UCLA from April 25-27, 1997. By all accounts, it was a great success. Some eighty-five participants heard forty-six papers and three plenary speakers. Session topics ranged from formalist to functionalist approaches to the study of the Germanic languages. There were also sociolinguistic, sociohistorical and philological approaches to the study of the Germanic languages. The plenary speakers were Wolfgang Dressler (University of Vienna), Paul Kiparsky (Stanford University) and Jan Wouter Zwart (University of Groningen). Just some of the local scholars who do not appear in the conference program but were able to drop by: Raimo Anttila, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Ed Keenan, Donca Steriade, and Tim Stowell, all from UCLA. A post-GLAC website featuring pictures taken at the event will soon appear at http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/germanic/glac-3/. GLAC 4 will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus in April 1998 (see the call for papers below) and GLAC 5 will be hosted by the University of Texas in 1999. Other future sites will include the University of Calgary (meeting at Banff) and Indiana University. The American Journal of Germanic Linguistics & Literatures, volume 8.2, has been sent out to members of the Society and to institutional subscribers. The table of contents for volume 9.1, which will go to press shortly, is available at the SGP web site. Please note that upon request new institutional subscribers will get a complete set of back issues free. A revision of the Society’s bylaws is currently underway. The document including the proposed changes will be posted on the SGP web site for a comment period of approximately four weeks. Please check in periodically for the latest updates on this and other issues of interest to the membership.
Please contact the editors if you would like your publications, honors, and awards to appear in future editions of the Newsletter. The following recent book publications by members have come to the attention of the editors: Edward R. Haymes and Susann T. Samples. Heroic Legends of the North: An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles. New York: Garland, 1996. Elly van Gelderen. Verbal Agreement and the Grammar behind its ‘Breakdown.’ Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1997 (Linguistische Arbeiten 364).
Germanic Linguistics: The Fourth Annual Conference will be held at The Ohio State University on April 17-19, 1998. Abstracts are hereby invited for thirty-minute papers in all areas of linguistics dealing with any Germanic language, past and present. All abstracts will be evaluated anonymously, by a panel of reviewers. Please send five copies of a one-page abstract (font size 12). On the abstract include the title of the proposed paper but do not include the author’s name. Attach a three-by-five inch index card with the following information: Author(s) The deadline for submissions is January 2, 1998. Send your abstracts to GLAC 4 Conference Committee For more information send e-mail to glac4@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu or check the conference website at http://www.germanic.ohio-state.edu/glac4/.
The Word as a Phonetic Unit, October 22-23 1997. The theme of this conference is the phonetic appearance of words in connected speech. In addition to several invited speakers there will be slots for approximately 8-12 papers. Abstracts are invited on papers which focus on the word in connected speech with emphasis on the following topics: 1. Canonical word forms and variants in connected speech For information contact bobby@fas.ag-berlin.mpg.de. The Phonological Word, October 24-26 1997. The
theme of this conference is the role of the prosodic word in phonology
and morphology. In addition to several invited speakers there will be
slots for approximately 10-16 papers. Abstracts are invited for papers
which focus on the role of the phonological word with emphasis on the
following topics: Papers at both conferences will be 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes discussion. Deadline for submission of abstracts is July 15, 1997. Send four copies of an abstract (maximum 2 pages; three anonymous, one camera ready with name and affiliation) to: CWPU organizers
The Tenth Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, from Saturday, June 6, to Monday June 8, 1998. The deadline for registration is December 15, 1997. Papers on any linguistic topic are invited, especially papers on synchronic and diachronic aspects of the Nordic languages. The time allotted to each paper is 30 minutes (including discussion). Participants who want to present a paper are requested to submit an abstract with their registration form, or at least no later than January 31, 1998. Abstracts may not exceed 2 pages with at least a 1 inch margin on all four sides and should employ a font not smaller than 12 pt. They should be sent anonymously in five copies, accompanied by a camera-ready original with the author’s name, address and affiliation. Participants who wish to suggest workshops/special sessions are invited to send their suggestions before July 1, 1997. The Xth Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics
The Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS), headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, has about 2,400 members in 25 countries, and is currently engaged in a membership drive in the U.S. The GfdS provides a link between scholarship and the teaching profession as well as the interested public. It documents and informs about trends in the language, provides advice based on the Sprachpflege principle, and staffs the Sprachtelefon (011-49-611-999-5555 from the U.S.). This information service answers questions about German pronunciation, spelling, and syntax. The GfdS was also one of the parties involved in formulating rules for the German spelling reform which will become effective in 1998. This reform, as well as other developments and problems such as "Wörter (Unwörter) des Jahres" and the use of gender-specific terms in everyday as well as p.c. speech, are discussed regularly in Der Sprachdienst, the GfdS’s journal that members receive without charge five or six times a year. A subscription to Muttersprache, which is also published by the GfdS, is not included in membership. Membership in the GfdS is DM 70 or $45, $25 for students. A bank account will be established in the U.S. for easier payment, but for the time being, the German Society of Pennsylvania has agreed to serve as the transfer agent and will accept personal checks drawn on U.S. accounts. For further information, membership applications, or a free copy of Der Sprachdienst (enclose $1 for postage), contact Jürgen Eichhoff More information about the GfdS can be found at http://www.geist.de. The Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics invites you to visit the Creolist Archives at The site features (inter alia) the e-mail addresses of creolists (to add your e-mail address to the list, send a brief message to Mikael Parkvall parkvall@ling.su.se); links to other relevant Web sites; announcements of new books; and a calendar of events of interest to creolists. The Computer Clearinghouse Project The Computer Clearinghouse Project for computer-aided studies in all areas and periods of German Language, Literature and Language Pedagogy and in Medieval Scandinavian invites all colleagues working in these fields to list ongoing, completed and/or projected work with the Project Directors, Evelyn Firchow, University of Minnesota, 219 Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455-0123, or Anna Grotans, Ohio State University, 314 Cunz Hall, 1841 Millikin Rd., Columbus, OH 43210-1229. Only projects using the computer for calculations and research can be included not word processing. All projects will be listed in the International Annual Newsletter for German Computer Research published in the first annual issue of the Germanic Notes and Reviews. Yearly subscriptions to this journal are U.S. $14 domestic and U.S. $16 international. All checks or inquiries should be sent to Professor Richard Krummel, Editor, Germanic Notes and Reviews, 2801 Arrowwood Circle N.W., Bemidji, MN 56601, USA. An abbreviated version of the Newsletter appears in the first yearly issue of Germanistik (Niemeyer, Tübingen). This list does not include projects in German Language Instruction or the Items of Interest sections. Return to the the SGP home page.
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