LINGUIST List 11.822

Mon Apr 10 2000

Calls: Lang Planning/Lexicology, Computer Corpora

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. R.Corsetti-A.Lowenstein, International Symposium on Language Planning and Lexicology
2. Juhani Rudanko, "Computer Corpora and the Study of English" - Extension of Deadline

 HRVATSKA AKADEMIJA i/kaj AKADEMIO DE 
ZNANOSTI I UMJETNOSTI ESPERANTO
 
CROATIAN ACADEMY OF and ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES AND ARTS ESPERANTO

International Symposium on Language Planning and Lexicology 

The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academy of Esperanto are
organizing a joint international symposium on Language Planning and
Lexicology, to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, July 28--30, 2001. The working
languages are Croatian, Esperanto, English, and French. 

The opening ceremony of the Symposium will take place in the afternoon of
Saturday, July 28, and the symposium will end in the afternoon of Monday,
July 30, 2001. 

Venue 

The Palace of the Croatian Academy, Zagreb.


Contributions

Contributions to the symposium are invited. Prospective contributors
should send their papers in electronic form to Professor Geraldo
Mattos, <mattossuper.com.br>, before the end of November 2000. In
exceptional cases, contributions not in electronic form may be
accepted, but only subject to prior agreement with Professor Mattos
and only if they reach him at Rua Dr. Jo�o Motter, 98, BR-81210-260
Curitiba PR, Brazil, before the�nd of October, 2000. Accepted
contributions will be published in a volume that will be ready before
the Symposium.


Participation 

Persons who wish to attend the symposium (even without giving a talk) are
kindly requested to inform Professor Christer Kiselman,
<kiselman\math.uu.se>, before the end of May, 2001. 
(Paper address: P. O. Box 480, SE-751 06 Uppsala, Sweden.) 


Organizing committee

>From the Croatian Academy: From the Academy of Esperanto:
Ivo Padovan, President Geraldo Mattos, President
Andrija Kas'telan, Secretary General Christer Kiselman, Vice President
Dalibor Brozovic', Head of the Renato Corsetti, Secretary General
Lexicographic Institute Spomenka Stimec

The deadline for abstracts for the session "Computer Corpora and the Study
of English," scheduled to be part of the Midwest Modern Language
Association meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, November 2-4, 2000, has been
extended till Saturday, April 15, 2000. Contributions should offer case
studies of how electronic corpora can shed light on the English language.
The session has the purpose of raising awareness of the possibilities of
corpus-based research in the US, and contributions drawing on American
English, on British English, or on both, are welcome. Send you abstract,
200 words maximum, by email to juhani11hotmail.com. Include your name,
address, email address, and academic affiliation. Sincerely, Juhani
Rudanko, Professor, Department of English, University of Tampere, Finland