LINGUIST List 11.167

Wed Jan 26 2000

Confs: 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Language

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

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1. Caroline Wiltshire, 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Correction and Reminder

The 30th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages
with Parasession on Romance Language Sociolinguistics and SLA

February 24-27, 2000
The University of Florida, Gainesville

up-to-date program:
http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/wiltshir/program.htm

Reminder: to qualify for preregistration prices, you must mail
 your preregistration form by January 30th. The form is 
 available at:
 http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/wiltshir/lsrlreg.htm

Note that the previous program announcement appeared with a
 misleading header. Although our Parasession is on Romance
 Language Sociolinguistics and SLA, the main sessions of the 
 conference program are devoted to phonetics, phonology, morphology,
 syntax, semantics, and discourse.

Highlights:

Thursday, February 24, 2000, 8:00-9:30 pm
Outreach lectures: (held on the UF Campus, admission free)
	Dr. D. Gary Miller, Univ. of Florida, "The Death of French in
		Medieval England" &
	Dr. William C. Calin, Univ. of Florida, "Obscene Anglo-Norman in a
		Central French Mouth: How Reynard the Fox Tricks Isengrin
		the Wolf and Why It Is Important"

Friday, February 25, 2000

9:30-10:40 am Plenary speaker: Dr. John M. Lipski, Univ. of New Mexico
	"'Almost' Spanish from Lingua Franca to 'Gringo lingo'"

5:00-6:10 pm Plenary speaker: Dr. Mar�a Luisa Rivero, Univ. of Ottawa
	"On Impersonal SE in Romance and Slavic, and Semantic Variation"

Saturday, February 26, 2000

2:00-3:10 pm Plenary speaker: Dr. Bernard Tranel, UC-Irvine,
	"Local conjunction, suppletion, and exception in Italian and French
	phonology"


Questions? Contact:
	Caroline Wiltshire (wiltshirlin.ufl.edu)
	Jean Casagrande (jeancasufl.edu)
	Juanita Casagrande (jwcasarll.ufl.edu)
or	Joaquim Camps (campsrll.ufl.edu)