LINGUIST List 14.293

Tue Jan 28 2003

Calls: American Dialect Society/Diachrony&Dialectology

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. remlingk, American Dialect Society, IL USA
2. mikko.laitinen, Diachrony, Dialectology and Typological Linguistics, Finland

American Dialect Society 
at the 45th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Convention

Short Title: ADS at MMLA
Location: Chicago, IL USA
Date: 07-Nov-2003 - 09-Nov-2003 
Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2003

Web Site: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla
Contact Person: Kate Remlinger
Meeting Email: remlingkgvsu.edu
Linguistic Subfield(s): General Linguistics 


Meeting Description: 

American Dialect Society at the 45th Annual Midwest Modern Language
Association Convention, November 7-9, 2003, Chicago, Congress Plaza
Hotel

Topic: 'New Directions in Language Variation and Change' 

For more information about ADS at MMLA, see the MMLA website,
http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla, go to 'Call for Papers', scroll down to
'Associated Organizations', then to 'American Dialect Society, New
Directions in Language Variation and Change.'

Please submit abstracts, maximum 250 words. Presentations may be based
in traditional dialectology, or in other areas of language variation
and change, including sociolinguistics, historical, anthropological or
folk linguistics, language and gender, critical discourse analysis, or
narratology.

Email submissions preferred. 

Please submit by 1 April 2003 to 

Kate Remlinger
remlingkgvsu.edu

By mail to

Kate Remlinger
Department of English
Grand Valley State University
1 Campus Drive 
Allendale, MI 49401

By fax

Attention: Kate Remlinger, 1-616-331-3775


Many thanks,

Kate Remlinger
Midwest Regional Secretary, ADS
Associate Professor of English: Linguistics
Grand Valley State University
remlingkgvsu.edu
1-616-331-3122

Symposium on Diachrony, Dialectology and Typological Linguistics

Short Title: DIATYPE
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Date: 16-Oct-2003 - 18-Oct-2003 
Call Deadline: 30-May-2003

Web Site: http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/varieng/main/news.htm
Contact Person: Terttu Nevalainen
Meeting Email: diatype-organizershelsinki.fi
Linguistic Subfield(s): Historical Linguistics 
Subject Language(s): English

Meeting Description: 

The Research Unit for Variation and Change in English at the
Department of English, University of Helsinki, organizes

DIATYPE

Symposium on diachrony, dialectology and typological linguistics
Helsinki, 16-18 October, 2003

Contributions are invited to a symposium on diachrony, dialectology
and language typology to be held in Helsinki in mid-October 2003. The
aim of the symposium is to explore connections between these three
fields of research, looking for ways in which historical linguists and
dialectologists could learn from insights to be gained from
typological studies, and vice versa.

The symposium is organised by the Research Unit for Variation and
Change in English (VARIENG), a National Centre of Excellence funded by
the Academy of Finland and the University of Helsinki. All
contributions to the symposium need not necessarily focus on questions
to do with the English language, although the organizers will
naturally be most interested in topics connected with the evolution
and regional variation of English.

Invited speakers:

- Dieter Kastovsky (University of Vienna)
- Bernd Kortmann (University of Freiburg)
- Anna Siewierska (Lancaster University)

Abstracts:

The deadline for submission of abstracts (in English; max 300 words)
is May 30, 2003. Please submit your abstract by e-mail to
diatype-organizershelsinki.fi. The abstract should be included in the
body of the message. E-mail submissions are recommended. If, however,
you send your abstract by ordinary mail, please provide an e-mail
address as a contact address.

Participants will be notified of acceptance by June 16, 2003. The
accepted abstracts will be published on the web pages of the symposium
at: http://www.eng.helsinki.fi/varieng/main/news.htm

Registration:

The deadline for registration for all participants is September 1,
2003. Register by e-mail to the address
diatype-organizershelsinki.fi. The registration fee is EUR 50.

Accommodation:

The City of Helsinki Tourist Office web pages provide several links to
accommodation in Helsinki. The pages can be accessed from the
symposium web pages or directly from
http://www.hel.fi/tourism/html/english/artikkelit/index.html.

The academic programme of the symposium will run from late Thursday
afternoon till Saturday afternoon. The conference venue will be in the
centre of Helsinki in the vicinity of the Senate Square.

For further information, please contact diatype-organizershelsinki.fi. 

The organizing committee:

- Terttu Nevalainen, e-mail: terttu.nevalainenhelsinki.fi
- Juhani Klemola, e-mail: juhani.klemolauwasa.fi
- Mikko Laitinen (secretary of the symposium), e-mail:
 mikko.laitinenhelsinki.fi

Address: Department of English, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 24
(Unioninkatu 40B), FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.