LINGUIST List 14.419

Wed Feb 12 2003

Calls: Pidgin & Creole Ling/Syntax

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

Directory

1. muehleisen, Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, HI USA
2. hale1, North American Syntax Conference, Canada

Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics 2003

Short Title: SPCL 2003
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Date: 14-AUG-03 - 17-AUG-03

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2003

Web Site: http://www.hawaii.edu/spcl03
Contact Person: Jeff Siegel
Meeting Email: spcl03hawaii.edu
Linguistic Subfield(s): 
Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Language Description,
Sociolinguistics


Meeting Description: 

The summer conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
will be held August 14-17 2003 at the Imin International Conference
Center at the University of Hawai'i in Honolulu. The call for papers
and information about accommodation can be found on the SPCL '03 web
site: http://www.hawaii.edu/spcl03. Or email spcl03hawaii.edu
				
SPCL conference 2003 in Hawai'i

Special Session on ''Creole Literature'' 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 

The summer conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
will be held August 14-17 2003 at the Imin International Conference
Center at the University of Hawai'i in Honolulu. In addition to the
usual range of linguistic papers on pidgins, creoles and other
language contact varieties, SPCL 2003 will feature a special session
on creole literature (coordinator: Susanne M�hleisen, Frankfurt).

We invite contributions on various linguistic, sociolinguistic and
pragmatic aspects of creole use in all types of literary
texts. Possible topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

- Functions of creole in the literary text
- Orthography choices and standardization
- Authenticity versus abstraction in written creole representations
- Heteroglossia: variety and register in the narrative
- Dynamics of orality and literacy in creole literature
- Literary basilect and the creation of a literary creole
- Types of creole marking in the literary text: grammatical,
phonological and lexical features
- Loan words and other word formation strategies in creole literature
- Creole translations

Please send your abstract of approximately 200 words to the
coordinator no later than February 28, 2003:
Susanne M�hleisen (University of Frankfurt, Germany)
muehleisenem.uni-frankfurt.de

For more general information about the conference, accomodation, etc,
please consult the SPCL '03 web site: http://www.hawaii.edu/spcl03.
Or email spcl03hawaii.edu (contact person: Jeff Siegel)

North American Syntax Conference

Short Title: NASC
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date: 02-May-2003 - 04-May-2003 
Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2003

Web Site: http://modlang-hale.concordia.ca/nasc.html
Contact Person: Mark Hale
Meeting Email: nascmodlang-hale.concordia.ca
Linguistic Subfield(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

The Linguistics Program at Concordia University in Montreal invites
abstracts for the

North American Syntax Conference
 
to be held at Concordia University May 2-4, 2003.
 
The following scholars have accepted our invitation to give talks:
 
Alexandra Cornilescu, Bucharest
Samuel D. Epstein, University of Michigan
Robert Frank, Rutgers
David Pesetsky, MIT
Daniel Valois, Montreal

Abstracts are hereby invited on any topic within the scope of
generative syntax. They should be sub- mitted before March 15,
2003. Only electronic abstracts will be considered; they may be in any
open format (TeX, LaTeX, ps, pdf, rtf, AbiWord, OpenOffice, ASCII).
They should be sent to
 
 nascmodlang-hale.concordia.ca
 
Abstracts should be sufficiently long to make clear the basic content
and argument of the paper, but no longer. Beyond this, there is no a
priori limit to abstract length.

Further information, of both a practical and academic nature, will be
gradually made available at the conference web site:
 
http://modlang-hale.concordia.ca/nasc.html
 
Please address questions to nascmodlang-hale.concordia.ca,
or to the organizers:
 
Mark Hale (hale1alcor.concordia.ca)
Charles Reiss (reissalcor.concordia.ca)