LINGUIST List 15.506

Fri Feb 6 2004

Calls: Historical Ling/Italy; Syntax/USA

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

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1. patrick, Conference on Historical News Discourse
2. tortora, 19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop

Conference on Historical News Discourse 
Short Title: (CHINED) 

Date: 02-Sep-2004 - 03-Sep-2004
Location: Florence, Italy
Contact: Patrick Studer
Contact Email: chinedchined.org 
Meeting URL: http://www.chined.org 

Linguistic Sub-field: Historical Linguistics 
Subject Language: English 

Meeting Description:

** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS **

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 1 MARCH 2004

We are pleased to announce the first International Conference on
Historical News Discourse (CHINED), to be held in Florence, Italy, 2-3
September 2004. We invite contributions dealing with news discourse
from the Early Modern English Period (c. 1500-1800). News discourse
will be understood in its widest sense as belonging to the sphere of
public discourse, thus including a variety of speech situations
(political speeches, proclamations, announcements, orders, etc.), as
well as referring to the more specific text genres traditionally
associated with the domain of news, such as ballads, pamphlets,
newspapers, magazines, correspondence, histories, annals, etc. We are
pleased to announce the first International Conference on Historical
News Discourse (CHINED), to be held in Florence, Italy, 2-3 September
2004. We invite contributions dealing with news discourse from the
Early Modern English Period (c. 1500-1800). News discourse will be
understood in its widest sense as belonging to the sphere of public
discourse, thus including a variety of speech situations (political
speeches, proclamations, announcements, orders, etc.), as well as
referring to the more specific text genres traditionally associated
with the domain of news, such as ballads, pamphlets, newspapers,
magazines, correspondence, histories, annals, etc. The focus of the
conference will be on:

- Methodologies in collecting and analysing linguistic data from the
above areas, both quantitative and qualitative, diachronic and
synchronic;
- Sociolinguistic, pragmatic factors and the study of early news
discourse;
- Domains of language change (lexical, syntactic, textual); situations
motivating language change (e.g. language contact, translations,
etc.);
- Comparison of different text types; study of one specific text type.



Conference Organisers:

Nicholas Brownlees (University of Florence, Italy)
Patrick Studer (University of Limerick, Ireland)

Contact Email: chinedchined.org

19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 
Short Title: CGSW19 

Date: 03-Jun-2004 - 05-Jun-2004
Location: New York, NY, United States of America
Contact: Marcel den Dikken
Contact Email: cgsw19gc.cuny.edu 
Meeting URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/linguistics/events/CGSW19/index.html 

Linguistic Sub-field: Syntax 
Subject Language: Dutch ,English 
Subject Language Family: Germanic

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2004 
This is a session of the following conference: 19th Comparative
Germanic Syntax Workshop

Meeting Description:

19th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop

Invited Speakers: Hans Bennis (P.J. Meertens Institute, Royal
Netherlands Academy of Sciences), Alison Henry (University of Ulster
at Jordanstown).

**SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS**

We invite anonymous abstracts for thirty-minute talks (followed by ten
minutes of discussion) on any aspect of comparative Germanic syntax,
including the interface between syntax and other components of the
grammar.

Abstracts on microparametric syntactic variation across Dutch and
English dialects are especially solicited.

Guidelines for submission of abstracts:

Abstracts should not exceed two pages (letter-size/A4) in total
length, with one-inch margins all around, typed in at least 11-point
font. Submissions are restricted to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract
per author.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically as an E-mail attachment, in
PDF only. Please use the subject header ''abstract,'' and include in
the main body of your message the following author information:
name(s), title of abstract, affiliation(s), mailing & E-mail
addresses.

Deadline for submission of abstracts:
February 20, 2004

Notification of acceptance:
April 2, 2004

Address for submission of abstracts and for further information:
cgsw19gc.cuny.edu