LINGUIST List 15.1825

Wed Jun 16 2004

Calls: General Ling/UK; General Ling/Journal

Editor for this issue: Andrea Berez <andrealinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. jan.fellerer, Annual Conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies 2005
2. jytak, Journal of Universal Language

Annual Conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East
European Studies 2005
Short Title: BASEES 2005 

Date: 02-Apr-2005 - 04-Apr-2005
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Contact: Jan Fellerer
Contact Email: jan.fellererwolfson.ox.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.basees.org.uk 

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 
Subject Language Family: Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 01-Oct-2004 


Meeting Description:

The language and linguistics stream of the annual conference of the
British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
features presentations in all areas of Slavonic philology,
linguistics, language teaching, and translation studies.

CALL FOR PAPERS IN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS

The annual conference of the British Association of Slavonic and East
European Studies (BASEES) will take place at Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge from 2-4 April 2005. Abstracts are invited for individual
20-minute papers or for entire panels (2-3 papers) in any area of
Slavonic philology, linguistics, language teaching, and translation
studies. The working languages of the conference are English and
Russian.

At this year's conference we had approximately twenty papers in formal
linguistics, historical linguistics, applied linguistics, language
teaching, and translation studies presented by academics and graduate
students from institutions in the UK and abroad. The convention as a
whole brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines
including literary studies, linguistics, cultural studies, history,
economics, politics, sociology, film and media studies as they pertain
to Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Abstracts for language and linguistics papers should be sent, with
full contact details, by 1 October 2004 to Jan Fellerer at

jan.fellererwolfson.ox.ac.uk,

or at the following address:

Wolfson College
GB-Oxford OX2 6UD
United Kingdom.

Further details are available on the website at www.basees.org.uk.


Jan Fellerer
Wolfson College
GB-Oxford OX2 6UD
United Kingdom
Telephone +44 / 1865 / 274 126

Journal of Universal Language 	

Call Deadline: 1-August-2004 
The Second Call for the Journal of Universal Language(5:2) 

Honorarium: 
As a token of our gratitude, the contributors will be awarded the
$1,000 honorarium (which is subject to taxation).

Topic Areas: 

The Journal of Universal Language is concerned with: 
-artificial language, communication & culture in language usage,
typology, and universality in language
-interdisciplinary contributions written with applied linguists in
mind
-brief notes, comments or observation concerning official language 
-reaction/replies to recent papers 

The editors encourage the submission of papers on proposed themes as
well as on other topics relevant to the interest of the Journal of
Universal Language. Each volume contains two issues, published in
March and September. The language of publication is English.

Format: 
1. The length of a manuscript should not exceed 40 pages. 
2. A 200-word abstract and keywords should be given at the beginning
of each manuscript.
3. Manuscripts should be submitted on A4 paper, with the margins at
least 4cm on all four sides of each sheet. They may be single-spaced
and/or double-sided if desired.

Important Dates: 
Submission deadline: August 1, 2004. 
(However, we accept manuscripts throughout the year.) 
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2004 
Submission of camera-ready papers: September 1, 2004 

Submissions: 
1. Electronic submissions are acceptable. Acceptable file formats are
Portable Document Format (.pdf) and MS Word (.doc). Please send your
file in an attachment to jytaksejong.ac.kr.
2. For hard copy submissions, please send 3 copies, accompanied by a
cover letter which includes the author's name, affiliation, address,
and home or office phone numbers, to:

Jin-young Tak, Editor 
Department of English Language/Literature 
Sejong University 
Gunjs-kwan 401B, Gunja-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Korea 
e-mail:jytaksejong.ac.kr 
unishsejong.ac.kr 

TOC (Journal of Universal Language 5:1) 

Chul-hyun Bae (Korea) 
Aramaic as a Lingua Franca during the Persian Empire(538-333 B.C.E.) 

Charith Giragama et al. (Japan) 
Language Universals: Cross-lingual Comparison of Topic Dependent
Adjectives

Ana Ortigosa (Spain) 
Towards a Universal Typology of State of Affairs 

Vladimir Pericliev (Bulgaria) 
Universals, their Violation and the notion of Phonologically Peculiar
Languages

Mark VanDam (USA) 
Word Final Coda Typology 

For more information: http://www.unish.org/