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GOING ROMANCE 2002 Sixteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics University of Groningen WORKSHOP, NOVEMBER 30 ACQUISITION CALL FOR PAPERS Invited Speaker CELIA JAKUBOWICZ Papers on all aspects of first or second language acquisition in Romance are wellcome. The presentations will take thirty minutes, with an additional ten minutes discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, letter size 12. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. The abstracts should be sent by e-mail as a Word or RTF file. Join separetely a file containing: title, author's name and address, affiliation and e-mail address. All authors who present their work at the conference will be invited to submit their paper for the Proceedings Volume, to be published by John Benjamins. Notice that there will be a separate afternoon session dedicated to phonology. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 14, 2002 Abstracts should be sent to: going.romance2002Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuelet.rug.nl Surface address: Going Romance, RTC - Letteren Oude Kijk int Jatstraat 26 Groningen University P.O. Box 716 NL 9700 AS Groningen The Netherlands Phone: 31(0)53635850
The fifth annual High Desert Linguistics Conference will be held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, November 1 - 2, 2002. (http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/index.htm) We invite you to submit proposals for 20-minute talks with 10 minute discussion sessions in any area of linguistics from any theoretical perspective. Papers in the following areas are especially welcome: Evolution of language, Language change & variation, Grammaticization, Applied linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Researching Metaphor & Metonymy, Signed languages, Native American languages, and Computational linguistics. The Call for Papers can be found at http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/call.htm In addition, the guidelines for abstracts can be found at http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/abstract.htm The deadline for submitting abstracts is August 2nd, 2002 and the acceptance & notification date will be August 19th, 2002 If you have any questions or need for further information please contact either Christopher Shank (chrcMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueunm.edu) or Gabe Waters at (watersg
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