LINGUIST List 10.716

Tue May 11 1999

Calls: Typology, Gender:Lang/Culture/Communication

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

Directory

1. Solovyev V.D., Language Typology
2. Andrej Popov, Gender: Language, Culture, Communication

 The on-line conference
 LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY
 
 Program
 

TOWARDS A THEORY OF SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES
David Gil
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany


A TYPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PRO-DROP PARAMETER
Kimberly Geeslin
Stanford, USA


CONSTRUCTIONS WITH PERFECTIVE MEANING ON THE EARLY STAGES OF
GRAMMATICALIZATION
Timur Maisak
Moscow State University, Russia


CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL 
RELATIVE DEVIANCE
Peter John Hassall
International Pacific College, New Zealand,
Siva Ganesh
Massey University, New Zealand


THE TYPOLOGY OF EXPLETIVE THERE
William Earl Griffin
The University of Texas at Austin, USA


TYPOLOGY-DIACHRONY INTERFACE (ON PERSIAN LANGUAGE)
Marika Butskhrikidze
Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics, The Netherlands


THE IDEA OF A CLASSIFIER SYSTEM: THEORETICAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANALYSIS OF
JAPANESE NOUN SPECIFICATION
Chris Beckwith
Indiana University, USA


POSSIBLE GENERALIZATION OF COMRIE'S HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THE SYNTACTIC POSITION
OF THE CAUSEE
Valery Solovyev
Kazan State University, Russia



On-line conference "Language typology" is going to be held on May 15th to
25th 1999.
The organizers are Kazan State University and "Web Journal of Formal, 
Computational & Cognitive Linguistics"
(http://www.kcn.ru/tat_en/science/fccl/) . All the papers will be put on
the Web site of the Journal. 
 
Participation in the on-line conference will be carried out on the list
TYPOLOGY.LIST that has been created for that purpose. To subscribe 
to this list, send the following message to <majordomoksu.ru>:

SUBSCRIBE TYPOLOGY Your-email-address 

Once you have received confirmation of your subscription, you may send
messages to <typologyksu.ru>. A record of all received messages will be
maintained on a specific Web page at the conference site. Everyone
subscribed to the list will receive these 
messages. If you wish to leave the list, send the following message to
<majordomoksu.ru>:

UNSUBSCRIBE TYPOLOGY Your-email-address

At the end of the conference participants will be automatically removed
from the TYPOLOGY.LIST.
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Valery Solovyev
Editor of the "Web Journal of Formal, Computational & Cognitive
Linguistics"
Kazan State University, Kazan, 420008, Russia
E-mail: solovyevtatincom.ru

 CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleagues,

you are welcome to participate in the First International Conference 

 "Gender: Language, Culture, Communication"

 (http://www.gendermglu.da.ru gender.mglugmx.net)

hosted by Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow 25 -26 November 1999.


 PROPOSED DISCUSSION POINTS

- GENDER AS SOCIOCULTURAL PHENOMENON
- TEXT AND DISCOURSE: GENDER ANALYSIS
- TRANSLATION IN GENDER RESEARCH
- GENDER AS BIOSOCIAL PHENOMENON: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH

The host committee will be happy to consider your applications and presentation
abstracts on other Gender Linguistics topical issues.


 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION FORMAT

- WORKSHOP REPORT - 15 min
- POSTER PRESENTATION - 15 min
- CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

The working languages are Russian and English (simultaneous interpretation is
provided). Arrangements will be made to set up other languages working groups
within workshops. Presentation abstracts will be published in the language of
the original.


The registration fee is 300 roubles. Speakers are exempt from the fee.

For further procedure information visit us at: http://www.gendermglu.da.ru

Accommodation in MSLU Residence Hall at 6/2 Komsomlsky prospekt, Moscow will be
provided. Hotel reservation is also available at your request. Date of arrival: 24 November 1999

You are kindly requested to submit your applications and presentation abstracts
- both on a floppy disc (Word 6.0/95 or RFT) and a printout, one page 1.5
spaced - by 25 September 1999 at the latest.

Free publication of presentation abstracts will be provided. Please e-mail your
applications and presentation abstracts at: gender.mglugmx.net. Tel./fax:
(095) 246-2807 Alexander N. Naberezhnov

Contact address: Dr. Alla V. Kirilina, 38 Ostozhenka, Moscow 119837, Russia,
The First International Conference "Gender: Language, Culture, Communication"
host committee.

http://www.gendermglu.da.ru gender.mglugmx.net