LINGUIST List 10.378

Wed Mar 10 1999

Calls: Languages in Contact, Syntax/Semantics in Paris

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. D.G. Gilbers, Languages in Contact
2. CSSP 99, Syntax and Semantics in Paris

Conference on Languages in Contact

Groningen University
November 25-26, 1999

LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

A conference on languages in contact will be held on November 
25-26, 1999, at the University of Groningen. This conference will 
include sessions devoted to descriptive and theoretical aspects of 
language contact. 

The aim of this conference is to discuss language contact. Issues 
for discussion involve pidgins and creoles, minorities and their 
languages, Diaspora situations, 'Sprachbund' phenomena, 
extralinguistic correlates of variety in contact situations, 
problems of endangered languages and the typology of these 
languages.

We particularly welcome reports on contact phenomena between 
languages in Russia, their survival and the influence of Russian. 
This includes Yiddish and Mennonite dialects of Low-German. 
There will be a special session devoted to this topic: languages in 
contact with Russian.

The conference will be held on the occasion of the degree of 
honorary doctor in St Petersburg of Dr Tjeerd de Graaf.

We welcome contributions for 30-minute presentations (including 
10 minutes of discussion). 


Keynote speakers, in alphabetical order:

Liya Bondarko (University of St Petersburg)
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute Leipzig)
Evgenij Golovko (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Pieter Muysken (University of Leiden)
Sally Thomason (University of Michigan)

Abstracts should be restricted to two pages, including examples 
and references. Two copies of abstracts should be submitted, one 
anonymous, and one mentioning the author's name, affiliation, 
postal address and e-mail address. The deadline for submission of 
abstracts: April 1, 1999.

Abstracts should be sent to:

The organizing committee 
John Nerbonne, Jos Schaeken, Dicky Gilbers
Department of Linguistics
University of Groningen
Oude Kijk in `t Jatstraat 26
9712 EK Groningen
The Netherlands

Information:

e-mail: nerbonnelet.rug.nl, schaekenlet.rug.nl, 
gilberslet.rug.nl
fax: +31-50-3636855


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Dicky Gilbers
http://www.let.rug.nl/~gilbers/
e-mail: gilberslet.rug.nl

Faculty of Arts
Department of Linguistics
P.O. Box 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands

tel.: +31 50 363 59 83
fax: +31 50 363 49 00
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

CALL FOR PAPERS

COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET SEMANTIQUE A PARIS
CSSP 1999
THE PARIS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE

October 7-9, 1999

The Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (University of Paris 7 and CNRS)
organizes the third Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris. CSSP
conferences aim at promoting discussion between competing theories and
formalisms. Papers are accepted in English and French. The meeting will
consist of a general session and a thematic one. Papers are invited for
both sessions.

General session

Thematic session
SENTENCE AND DISCOURSE STRUCTURE:
information packaging, discourse relations and connectives

INVITED SPEAKERS

Nicolas Asher, Sandra Chung, Tanya Reinhart


ABSTRACTS
Abstracts are invited for 20 mn presentations (followed by 10 mn
discussions). Send 8 hard copies of an anonymous 2 p. abstract, and a
camera-ready original with the author's name, affiliation, address, and
e-mail address to the following address:

Colloque de syntaxe et semantique a Paris
Universite Paris 7, Linguistique,
UFRL, Case 7003
Tour Centrale, 9 etage,
2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris-Cedex 05, France

Abstracts via Fax or e-mail are not accepted.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: MAY 20 1999
Notification of acceptance: JULY 15 1999

For further information, contact:
Francis Corblin: corblinparis7.jussieu.fr
email: cssp99linguist.jussieu.fr
WWW: http://cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
F. Corblin (Rennes 2), C. Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-Paris 7), D. Godard
(CNRS-Lille 3), J.-M. Marandin (Chair, CNRS-Paris7).

COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET SEMANTIQUE A PARIS
Universite Paris 7, Linguistique
Case 7003
75251 Paris Cedex 05

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CSSP 97
Universite Paris 7
Linguistique
UFRL, Case 7003
2 Place Jussieu
75251 Paris-Cedex 05
France

email: cssp97linguist.jussieu.fr
http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~cssp97
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