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hotmail.com>Second call for papers Thirteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics Leiden University, December 9-11 Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL) Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS) Invited speakers: Gemma Rigau (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Cecilia Poletto (Universita di Padova) and Eduardo Raposo (University of California, Santa Barbara) Abstracts are invited for thirty minutes talks (with an additional ten minutes for discussion) in all areas of Romance linguistics from all theoretical perspectives. Abstracts should be anonymous, and should be no longer than two pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, font size 11/12. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. Please provide 7 anonymous abstracts and one camera-ready original containing title, author's name and affiliation. Submissions by e-mail or fax can be accepted, provided a camera-ready original is received within one week after the deadline. A separate card should contain the title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 17, 1999. Abstracts should be sent to the following address: Going Romance 1999 Leiden University Marijke Ziegelaar Dept of French P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands E-mail: ziegelaarMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
hotmail.com>Second call for papers Workshop on Negation Leiden University, December 11 (workshop incorporated in Going Romance, December 9-11) Organizing committee: Francis Corblin (Rennes 2), Johan Rooryck (HIL/ Leiden University), Paul Rowlett (Salford), Henriette de Swart (UiL-OTS/ Utrecht University). Speakers: Francis Corblin (Rennes 2), Paul Rowlett (Salford) The workshop focuses on negation in Romance languages. We welcome contributions from different theoretical perspectives. The following issues are of special interest: * The syntax, semantics, and L1/L2 acquisition of negation. * Negative concord, Negative polarity, binding and scope, negation in the nominal and verbal domains, the Jespersen cycle, microvariation of negative elements in Romance, negation and quantification, the position of negative adverbs, negation and clitics. Besides the papers of the invited speakers, there will be room for four selected papers. The presentation of the papers will take 30 minutes, and will be followed by a 15-minute commentary and a 15-minute general discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous, and should be no longer than two pages, including references and examples,with margins of at least 1-inch, font size11/12. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. Please provide 8 anonymous abstracts and one camera-ready original containing title, author's name and affiliation. Submissions by e-mail or fax can be accepted, provided a camery-ready original is received within one week after the deadline. A separate 3" x 5" card should contain the title of the paper, the author's name and affiliation, address, telephone number, e-mail address and the indication `negation'. Selected speakers will be required to send in a version of their paper before November 21. The papers of the workshop will be reviewed and published in the proceedings of Going Romance. Deadline for recept of abstracts: September 17, 1999. Abstracts should be sent to the following address: Workshop Going Romance 1999 Leiden University Marijke Ziegelaar Dept of French P.O. Box 9515 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands web site Going Romance: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/confs/gr1999 E-mail: ziegelaarMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue