LINGUIST List 14.2690

Mon Oct 6 2003

Calls: General Ling/Spain; Morphology/Austria

Editor for this issue: Steve Moran <stevelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. josep.quer, Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 8
2. john.rennison, 11th International Morphology Meeting

Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 8 
Short Title: TISLR 8

Date: 30-Sep-2004 - 02-Oct-2004
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Contact: Josep Quer
Contact Email: tislr8thlingua.fil.ub.es 
Meeting URL: http://www.ub.es/ling/tislr8

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 
Subject Language Family: Sign Language 
Call Deadline: 09-Jan-2004

Meeting Description:

''Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research'' (TISLR) aims at
bringing together researchers in Sign Language Phonology, Morphology,
Syntax, Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics,
Sociolinguistics and Discourse. CALL FOR PAPERS

TISLR 8
Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research
Barcelona, September 30-October 2, 2004

INVITED SPEAKERS

Deborah Chen Pichler (Gallaudet)
Gaurav Mathur (Haskins, Yale) & Christian Rathmann (Austin, Texas)
Irit Meir (Haifa)

Papers in all areas of theoretical issues in sign language research
may be submitted for consideration. There will be long presentations
(thirty minutes) and short presentations (twenty minutes) with ten
minutes for discussion in both cases, as well as poster
papers. Research areas include Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Language
Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Sociolinguistics and
Discourse.

Conference presentations will consist of invited lectures, contributed
papers, and contributed poster papers. The original abstract should be
sent by e-mail as a Word, RTF or PDF file attachment to
tislr8thlingua.fil.ub.es. A camera-ready copy of the accepted
abstracts including name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s) should
also be sent to the following address:

TISLR 8/ Departament de Ling��stica General
Divisi� de Ci�ncies Humanes i Socials
Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes 585
E-08007 Barcelona

The purpose of this camera-ready copy is to include it in the
conference booklet. If you need to use a special font in your
abstract, please send it as well as an attachment in your e-mail
message.

The abstract should summarize the contents of the proposed
contribution in an attractive, readable form. It is important that the
abstract accurately state the problem, methods and results of the
investigation. It should be no more than two pages in length using
single spaced text and a font no smaller than 12 point. In the e-mail
message you may indicate your preference regarding poster or
short/long lecture presentation, although the final decision will be
taken by the programme committee.

The deadline for the receipt of the electronic submission is January
9, 2004. Authors will be notified of acceptance and type of
presentation before the end of May 2004.

Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a written
manuscript for interpreting purposes by the end of July 2004. A
selection of the papers presented at the conference will be published
after the standard reviewing procedure.

For follow up information go to http://www.ub.es/ling/tislr8

11th International Morphology Meeting 
Short Title: Morphology Meeting

Date: 14-Feb-2004 - 17-Feb-2004
Location: Vienna, Austria
Contact: Wolfang Dressler
Contact Email: morph2004.sprachwissenschaftunivie.ac.at 
Meeting URL: http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics

Linguistic Sub-field: Morphology 
Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2003

Meeting Description:

11th International Morphology Meeting February 14 ' 17,
2004. The University of Vienna, Austria 11th International Morphology
Meeting February 14 ' 17, 2004. The University of Vienna,
Austria

Abstract submission deadline October 31, 2003

Plenary speakers: Geert Booij: Syntax, compounding, and
derivation: issues of demarcation, Bernd Heine:
Grammatical hybrids: between serialisation, compounding,
and derivation in !Xun (North Khoisan), Martin Maiden:
When lexemes become allomorphs. On the genesis of
suppletion, Ingo Plag: Who cares about
syntactic category information? A new look at the morphology-syntax
distinction, Keren Rice (on morphology in Amerindian
languages)

In addition there will be workshops: 1. Redundancy
phenomena on the word and phrase level
(Albert.ortmannuni-tuebingen.de, stolzuni-bremen.de)
2. Productivity in term formation strategies '
a comparative view on domain-specific language development
(Gerhard.budinunivie.ac.at) 3. Possible word
(a.hippisleyeim.surrey.ac.uk, Greville G. Corbett, Dunstan Brown)
4. The acquisition of diminutives
(inetatrs.vdu.lt).

Contact: morph2004.sprachwissenschaftunivie.ac.at
http://www.univie.ac.at/linguistics

CALL FOR PAPERS
11th International Morphology Meeting

February 14 ' 17, 2004

Main topic: Delimitation issues within morphology: inflection vs. word
formation, compounding vs. derivation

Abstracts

2-page abstracts for a poster session or a 20 minutes presentation
(plus 10 minutes discussion) should be sent to the following address:
morph2004.sprachwissenschaftunivie.ac.at as a attachment in a
camera-ready format with the authors name, affiliation and
title (one line each). (For the reading committee, the paper will be
anonymized by us.) The deadline for abstract submission is October 31,
2003.