LINGUIST List 10.1773

Mon Nov 22 1999

Calls: General Ling: PLC24, 3rd High Desert Ling Conf

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 * * CALL FOR PAPERS * *

 The Penn Linguistics Club Announces
 
 The Twenty-Fourth Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium

 Saturday 26 February and Sunday 27 February 2000

 Invited Speaker: Alan Prince, Rutgers University


Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are 
welcome. This year's Colloquium will feature a special session
on the Syntax-Phonology interface and related phenomena.

Speakers will have twenty minutes for their presentations and
five minutes for discussion and questions.

Prospective speakers may submit their abstracts by E-mail or in
hard copy by conventional mail. Abstracts should be no longer
than 2 pages in a 12-point font with 1-inch margins. Mailed
submissions should include five copies of the abstract,
accompanied by an index card including the presenter's name,
affiliation (department and institution), address, e-mail
address and the subfield of linguistics (or related discipline)
that best characterizes the paper's topic. In particular,
please indicate whether you would like your paper to be 
considered for inclusion in the special session. Please do not
include name or affiliation on the abstracts themselves. E-mail
submissions should preferably be in ASCII, Postscript or 
LaTeX format. Abstracts should be sent no later than Wednesday, 
1 December to:

	The Penn Linguistics Colloquium Committee
	Department of Linguistics
	619 Williams Hall
	University of Pennsylvania
	Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
 or
	plc24babel.ling.upenn.edu

Conference proceeding will be published as a volume of the Penn 
Working Papers in Linguistics. Participants will be expected to 
provide camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact us at one of the 
above addresses. In addition, the Colloquium's Web page can be 
accessed from www.ling.upenn.edu

The third annual High Desert Linguistics Conference will be held at the
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, April 7-9, 2000. 

	Keynote speakers: Colette Grinevald and John Haiman

We invite submissions of proposals for 20-minute talks and 10 minute
discussion sessions in any area of linguistics from any theoretical
perspective. Papers in the following areas are especially welcome:
language change and variation, grammaticization, signed languages, Native
American languages, and computational linguistics. Please note that
selected papers from this conference will be published.
 
Submissions must include 2 copies of an anonymous abstract and an index
card including the following information:

 *Name
 *Title of Abstract and area (phonology, syntax etc.)
 *Affiliation(s)
 *Mailing address
 *e-mail address

 Abstracts must be at most one page with one-inch margins and typed in
at least 11-point font. An optional second page is permitted for data and
citations. Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract
per author. Abstracts by e-mail are accepted.

Abstracts must be received no later than January 31, 2000.
 
We will only consider submissions that conform to the above guidelines.
 
ABSTRACTS SHOULD BE SENT TO:
 
HDLS
Department of Linguistics, 
526 Humanities Bldg.
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

or 

kaaronunm.edu