LINGUIST List 21.4519 Thu Nov 11 2010 Calls: Mande, General Linguistics/France 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.     Valentin Vydrine , 3rd International Conference on Mande Languages Message 1: 3rd International Conference on Mande Languages Date: 09-Nov-2010 From: Valentin Vydrine <vydrinegmail.com> Subject: 3rd International Conference on Mande Languages E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 3rd International Conference on Mande languages Short Title: MLL Date: 14-Sep-2011 - 16-Sep-2011 Location: Paris, France Contact Person: Valentin Vydrin Meeting Email: vydrinegmail.com Web Site: http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/mande2011/index2.htm Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Language Family(ies): Mande Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2011 Meeting Description: The Conference concerns languages of Mande family (Niger-Congo). The decision to call the 3rd Conference is in conformity with the will of the participants of 2nd Conference (St. Petersburg, 2008) to meet three years later and to make it a regular forum. We invite specialists in all Mande languages, of any generation, from any country, of any theoretical persuasion, to participate in the Conference. We also invite specialists in the languages of other families with long-established contacts with Mande languages to take part in the Conference in order to discuss external links of the Mande language family. The panels will be organized according to 'traditional' divisions ('Phonology', 'Morphology', 'Syntax', 'Discourse', 'Lexicology and lexicography', 'Comparative studies', 'Sociolinguistics', etc.). At the same time, specialized sessions can be scheduled too, if necessary. Initiatives to organize specialized sessions are welcome. Round tables and working groups may also be proposed, for topics that merit broad discussion or tasks that require detailed planning. The final list of panels and sessions will be defined with respect of the initiatives of the participants. The working languages of the Conference will be English and French. Call For Papers The abstracts and full texts of communications are to be sent to Valentin Vydrin,or vydrine(at)gmail.com, or vydrine(at)yandex.ru, in format DOC and PDF. The selection will be performed by the Organizing Committee. The abstracts will be posted on the site of LLACAN. The articles written on the basis of the communications to the Conference will be published in the Mandenkan journal (according to the regular procedure). The following deadlines are proposed: March 31, 2011: Proposals of the topics of workshops and specialized sessions. April 30: Submission of abstracts or full texts of communications. May 31: Announcement of the results of the selection. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 11-Nov-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.