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cityu.edu.hk>The First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium (The Seventh Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar) Call for Papers The Organizing Committee of the First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium would like to invite papers on the syntax, morphology, and semantics of Modern Chinese, including comparisons with earlier stages of Chinese or other languages and studies of language acquisition related to the acquisition of grammar. The First Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar was held in Wuhanin 1986, and since then the Conference has been held every other year. The Sixth Conference, held in Peking University in 1998, was attended by over 100 scholars from North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, Singapore, and China. It was then decided that the first Conference of the new millennium should be held in Hong Kong, and it was suggested that the numbering of the Conferences should begin again with this first one of the new millennium and the fixing of the word "International" in the title of the Conference. In terms of the topics covered in the Conference, we will continue the tradition of the earlier six conferences in limiting the papers accepted to those dealing with the topics mentioned in the first paragraph above. Date: 1-3 February 2001 Venue: City University of Hong Kong Kowloon, Hong Kong Sponsor: City University of Hong Kong Co-Sponsors: Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong East-China Normal University Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Peking University University of Hong Kong Organizing Committee: Xu, Liejiong, Chair (City University of Hong Kong) LaPolla, Randy (City University of Hong Kong) Luke, Kang Kwong (University of Hong Kong) Pan, Haihua (City University of Hong Kong Shao, Jingmin (East-China Normal University) Sin, Chow Yiu (University of Hong Kong) Tang, Wai Lan Gladys (Linguistic Society of Hong Kong) Yau Shar Noon (Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong) Hu Jianhua, Secretary (City University of Hong Kong) Conference Languages: Chinese and English Abstracts: Please send three copies of your abstract (one camera ready copy with your name, affiliation, and e-mail address centrally aligned, plus two anonymous copies) in Chinese or English to the correspondence address given below (if you are outside mainland China) by 15 September 2000. The abstract should be one page maximum, in a 12 point font, with minimum 1" margins all around. Submission by fax is not acceptable; e-mail submissions must be Microsoft Word file attachments of the length and formatting outlined above. (Submissions from mainland China should be sent to Shao Jingmin, Department of Chinese, East-China Normal University, Shanghai 20062, China, Tel: 86-21- 6265-9494; e-mail: shjmfdMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
anglistik.uni-siegen.de>CALL FOR PAPERS International Workshop on the Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages August 22-24, 2001 University of Siegen, Germany Until very recently, phonology and morphology have been neglected areas in the study of creole languages. Available phonological studies were largely confined to segmental aspects, and morphology was generally held to be marginal in these languages, if not totally absent. Some more recent studies have shown, however, that the investigation of creole phonology and morphology is of considerable importance for the field of creole studies, both theoretically and empirically. Apart from a few isolated exceptions, prosodic aspects of creole phonology (such as syllabic structure, stress assignment, tone, and intonation) have not been subject to in-depth analysis, although they pose important new questions to students of language contact and language emergence. For example, McWhorter (1998) claims that creoles have no lexical or grammatical tone. But is this really true? Some creole languages seem to have retained at least remnants of their substrates' tone systems. Little is known about what happens to substratal tone systems in creolization: how do creole stress and tone systems look like and how did they emerge? Why do French-based creoles differ so much from English- based creoles in terms of syllabic structure? Which factors are responsible for the development of syllabic structure? Moving to morphology, a closer look reveals that creoles do have morphology, but its nature is unclear. Lefebvre (1998) claims that morphological heads in creole have properties completely different from those of lexical and functional heads. If true, how do such distinct properties arise? And is it true, as McWhorter (1998) claims, that creoles have no inflectional and only semantically transparent derivational morphology? Too few studies of derivational morphology in creoles are yet available to give a satisfactory answer to these questions. And what about morpho-phonological transparency or prosodic morphology? What kinds of morphonological alternations do we find in creoles and how did they arise? The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars from all over the world who work on these and similar problems in order to provide a forum for their research and opportunity for discussion. The organizer is trying to obtain funds, so that all paper presenters can be provided free accomodation in a centrally located hotel. Invited speakers: Anne-Marie Brousseau (University of Toronto) Hubert Devonish (University of the West Indies, Jamaica) Claire Lefebvre (Universit� du Quebec � Montr�al) John McWhorter (University of Berkeley) Norval Smith (Universiteit van Amsterdam) The workshop will be organized by Ingo Plag, Chair in English Linguistics, University of Siegen, Germany. Send in three anonymous copies of your abstract and one copy including your name, mailing address, e-mail address, fax and telephone number via regular mail to the address given below. In addition, provide an electronic version of your abstract, either as a disk accompanying the hard copies, or via e-mail. Abstracts should not exceed a maximum length of one 1 page, 1.5-spaced. The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is March 1, 2001. Acceptance notices will be sent out no later than April 15, 2001. Send your abstract to the following address: Prof. Dr. Ingo Plag - Creole Workshop 2001 - English Linguistics, Fachbereich 3 University of Siegen Adolf-Reichwein-Stra�e 2 D-57068 Siegen e-mail: plagMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue