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Call For Submissions (Books & Dissertations in Linguistics) Gorgias Press (www.gorgiaspress.com), an academic publishing firm, is interested in manuscript submissions in the various sub-disciplines of language & linguistics, including textbooks, monographs, reference works, and dissertations (the latter for inclusion in the Gorgias Dissertations Series). Interested authors of textbooks, monographs and reference works may send a book proposal to publishingMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuegorgiaspress.com containing a description of the work, and brief curricula vitae. If the work is complete or near completion, authors may include a table of contents and sample chapters. Authors of Ph.D. dissertations may submit dissertations for inclusion in the "Gorgias Dissertation Series". Please send to publishing
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The 15th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-15) Michigan State University July 11-13, 2003 Call for Papers: Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all areas of Chinese linguistics and from any theoretical perspective. Requirements for Submission of Abstracts: Abstracts must be camera-ready, on a single page, single spaced, in 12-point type, with one inch margins. Mail five (5) copies of the abstract, one of which includes name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), and e-mail address(es); the other four (for anonymous review) identified by title only. Please include a 3x5 card containing the paper title, name(s) of author(s), affiliation, status (student or non-student), address, phone number, and e-mail. To facilitate the reviewing process, kindly identify on the card the primary area of linguistics addressed in your paper (e.g., Phonetics/Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Functional/Pragmatics, Dialectology, Historical Phonology, Historical Syntax, Computational/Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, or Sociolinguistics). Deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 3, 2003. Please mail abstracts to: NACCL-15 Department of Linguistics and Languages A614 Wells Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 USA Please do not send abstracts by e-mail or fax. E-mail: NACCL15Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuecal.msu.edu NACCL-15 website: http://www.msu.edu/~linglang/NACCL-15 NACCL-15 will be held during the second weekend of the 2003 LSA Summer Institute (June 30-August 8). Information for the 2003 LSA Summer Institute is available at http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu