LINGUIST List 10.106

Mon Jan 25 1999

Calls: American Indigenous Lang., Slavic Negation

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Fiona Whalen, Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
2. Adam Przepiorkowski, Slavic Negation: Final Call for Papers

		WORKSHOP ON AMERICAN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
			 Santa Barbara, CA
				May 14-16, 1999

The linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
announces its second annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
(WAIL), a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive
linguistic studies of indigenous languages of the Americas.

			Invited Speaker: Sara Trechter

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in Native
American linguistics. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes
for discussion. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single and
one co-authored paper. Abstracts should be 500 words or less and can
be submitted by hard copy or e-mail. For hard copy submissions, please
send five copies of your abstract and a 3x5 card with the following
information:

	(1) name; 
	(2) affiliation; 
	(3) mailing address; 
	(4) phone number; 
	(5) e-mail address; 
	(6) title of your paper. 

Send hard copy submissions to:
	Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
	Department of Linguistics
	University of California, Santa Barbara
	Santa Barbara, CA 93106

E-mail submissions are encouraged. Include the information from the
3x5 card (above) in the body of the e-mail message, with the anonymous
abstract as an attachment.

Send e-mail submissions to: 
wailhumanitas.ucsb.edu

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: March 19, 1999
Notification of acceptance will be by e-mail in late-March.

Registration: $20 (checks payable to WAIL)

For further information contact the conference coordinator at
wailhumanitas.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776
or check out our web site at 
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/wail/wail.html

 CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 Workshop on
 THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF SLAVIC NEGATION
 May 1-2, 1999

 during
 32nd Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM'99)
 Poznan, Poland
 April 30 - May 2, 1999

 

INVITED SPEAKERS (to be confirmed): 

Eva HAJICOVA, Charles University, Prague
Maria Luisa RIVERO, University of Ottawa


Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks on all aspects of
(morpho)syntax and semantics of negation in Slavic languages (also
comparing Slavic negation to that in other languages) from any
theoretical perspective. The official language of the workshop will
be English.

We have tentatively arranged with Slavica Publishers for publishing a
volume of selected papers presented at the workshop. Further details
will be announced at the workshop.


ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS:

Abstracts should be no more than one standard size page in length with
the option of including an additional page for data and references.
Abstracts should be in at least 10-point type with 1-inch margins,
single-spaced. They should be anonymous.

The PREFERRED WAY of submitting an abstract is via email. Abstracts
should be sent to the following address:

adampsfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

Acceptable formats are: pure ASCII, PostScript, TeX, LaTeX, LaTeX2e,
RTF, also gzipped uuencoded versions thereof. Please, send in a
separate email the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), address
for correspondence, and the title of the paper.

Alternatively, 3 copies of the abstract, accompanied by a separate
card stating the name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, address, and
the title of the paper, should be sent to:

Adam Przepiorkowski
IPI PAN
ul. Ordona 21
01-237 Warszawa
Poland

Abstracts should be received not later than on February 12, 1999.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: 12th February 1999
Acceptance notification: 14th March 1999
Programme announcement: 1st April 1999
Workshop: 1st -- 2nd May 1999


PARTICIPATION:

Anybody intending to participate (including the speakers) should
register for the Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM'99). (See
http://elex.amu.edu.pl/ifa/plm/index.html for more information.)

Any inquiries should be sent to adampsfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de