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Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting 2004 
Short Title: LAGB 2004 

Date: 30-Aug-2004 - 02-Sep-2004
Location: University of Surrey Roehampton, London, United Kingdom
Contact: Judith Broadbent
Contact Email: J.Broadbentroehampton.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: 

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-May-2004 


Meeting Description:

The 2004 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great
Britain will be held at the University of Surrey Roehampton, from 30th
August to 2nd September.

The second circular for the 2004 Linguistics Association of Great
Britain meeting, which is to be held at University of Surrey
Roehampton from 30th August to 2nd September has been posted here...

http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/lagb2004.html

...from which site the programme and booking form can also be
downloaded. The booking form should be sent to Judith Broadbent, the
Local Organiser at Roehampton.

***Special events at the 2004 LAGB meeting***

* The Henry Sweet Lecture 2004 entitled '''Unborrowable' areal
traits'' will be delivered by Marianne Mithun (University of
California, Santa Barbara) on the evening of 30th August.

* There will also be a Workshop on 'Contact, borrowability, and
typology', related to the Henry Sweet lecture, and organised by Yaron
Matras (University of Manchester) and April McMahon (University of
Sheffield) on the afternoon of 30th August. Contributors are Yaron
Matras, April McMahon, Marianne Mithun and Thomas Stolz.

* The Linguistics Association Lecture 2004 on 'Null subjects, ellipsis
and empty categories' will be delivered by Anders Holmberg (University
of Durham) on 2nd September.

* There will also be a special, themed session on the topic of 'Null
subjects, ellipsis and empty categories', directly before the
Linguistics Association Lecture, and a 'pre-session' on 1st September.

* There will be a Language Tutorial on Michif, given by Peter Bakker
(University of Aarhus).

* There will be a session on 'Teaching linguistics to students of
Modern Languages' organised by the LAGB's Education Committee,
featuring Paul Rowlett (University of Salford) and Florence Myles
(University of Southampton), and chaired by Billy Clark (University of
Middlesex).

* A wine party will be held on the evening of 30th August, hosted by
Cambridge University Press.