LINGUIST List 21.2561 Thu Jun 10 2010 Calls: General Ling, Language Contact/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Robert Borges, Kréyòl Seminar 2010 Message 1: Kréyòl Seminar 2010 Date: 09-Jun-2010 From: Robert Borges <r.borgeslet.ru.nl> Subject: Kréyòl Seminar 2010 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Kréyòl Seminar 2010 Date: 25-Aug-2010 - 28-Aug-2010 Location: Groesbeek, Netherlands Contact Person: Robert Borges Meeting Email: r.borgeslet.ru.nl Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Other Specialty: Language Contact Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2010 Meeting Description: This international seminar on creoles, pidgins and other outcomes of language contact, is aimed at junior researchers to share ideas and to discuss and debate current issues in contact linguistics. The seminar is especially intended for junior researchers (MA and PhD) working on pidgins, creoles, intertwined languages and other outcomes of language contact. There will be several senior researchers present, not only to lecture on their own research, but also to give feedback to the junior researchers' presentations and to moderate sessions with their expertise. Confirmed Senior researchers: Peter Bakker - Aarhus University Enoch Aboh - University of Amsterdam Maarten Mous - Leiden University Norval Smith - University of Amsterdam Pieter Muysken - Radboud University Kofi Yakpo - Radboud University Margot van den Berg - Radboud University Presentations on any contact languages are welcome. However, presentations on the languages of the Guyanas (Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname) are especially encouraged. A portion of the seminar will be dedicated to language contact in the Guyanas, past and present. Lodging and meal's will be partially covered, however a small contribution will be asked of the participants, the amount of which will be determined based on the final number of participants. Call For Papers Each presentation should be approximately 20 minutes with a short discussion. This year's topics should fall into the following areas: Phonology - Historical linguistics Syntax - Language contact Semantics - Research methodology Socio-linguistics - Language contact in the Guyanas If you would like to present or participate, please contact us before June 30. For those who would like to present, please send your abstract, not longer than a single page of text and an additional page for examples and references. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 10-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.