LINGUIST List 13.2205

Mon Sep 2 2002

Confs: "Language, Culture, and Mind"; Rice University

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

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1. Suzanne Kemmer, CSDL Preregistration Now Open

Preregistration is now underway for the

6th CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE AND LANGUAGE
"LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND"

RICE UNIVERSITY
Houston, Texas
OCTOBER 11-14, 2002

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

JOHN LUCY, University of Chicago/Max Planck Institute for
 Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
SUSANNA CUMMING, University of California, Santa Barbara
RONALD LANGACKER, University of Californa, San Diego

CSDL 6 at Rice presents 75 talks in the areas of Cognitive
Linguistics, Discourse, Functional Linguistics, and Speech and
Language Processing, dealing with all aspects of language (structure
and function, acquisition, variation, change) and all levels of
language (phonology, morphosyntax, lexicon, discourse, and neural
processing).

Preregistration: $10

Preregistration Deadline: Web form submitted and payment received by
OCTOBER 1, 2002

Registration at the door: $20

The cutoff date for hotel reservations at the two official conference
hotels (Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn & Suites) with the Conference
discount is SEPTEMBER 27, 2002.

Note: two other nearby hotels (Rodeway Inn, Best Western Plaza) have
no cutoff date and may still have rooms after that point.

The Conference Schedule, as well as further information on
Registration, Accommodations, Conference Reception, and Conference
Party Dinner have been posted on the Conference Website at:

http://www.rice.edu/csdl

All participants welcome.

Contact Information: Michel Achard (achardrice.edu) and Suzanne
Kemmer (kemmerrice.edu) and our Conference Assistant Caleb Everett
(cderice.edu)