LINGUIST List 22.2170 Mon May 23 2011 Calls: Romance, General Linguistics/Netherlands Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     Sergio Baauw , Going Romance Message 1: Going Romance Date: 23-May-2011 From: Sergio Baauw <s.baauwuu.nl> Subject: Going Romance E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Going Romance Date: 08-Dec-2011 - 10-Dec-2011 Location: Utrecht, Netherlands Contact Person: Frank Drijkoningen Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www2.let.uu.nl/solis/Goingromance/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Language Family(ies): Romance Call Deadline: 10-Sep-2011 Meeting Description: General Sessions (December 8 - 9, 2011): We welcome papers on all (sub-)disciplines of Romance linguistics. Preference will be given to papers that are embedded in well-established theoretical approaches and frameworks. Invited speakers: Andrea Calabrese, Caterina Donati & Carlo Cecchetto, Maribel Romero, Jason Rothman Workshop (December 10, 2011): The theme of the workshop is syntactic variation and focuses on the data of Romance languages that can be used to define the position of Romance from a typological perspective ('meso' variation). Preference will be given to papers that address contrastive comparison of syntactic properties with language families outside the Romance family. Invited speaker: Ricardo Etxepare Going Romance: Roberta d'Alessandro (LUCL, Leiden), Frank Drijkoningen (UiL-OTS,Utrecht), Haike Jacobs (CLS, Nijmegen), Petra Sleeman (ACLC, University of Amsterdam), Henriëtte de Swart (UiL-OTS, Utrecht), Leo Wetzels (Free University Amsterdam). Local organization: Sergio Baauw, Sjef Barbiers (especially for the workshop), Frank Drijkoningen, Ellen-Petra Kester, Manuela Pinto Call for Papers: Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two pages, including references and examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, font size 12, single spaced. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author (for the entire conference). Abstracts can only be submitted by e-mail to: GoingRomance2011uu.nl Please indicate whether your paper is to be taken into consideration for the main sessions or for the workshop. Authors are asked to submit two PDF-files as attachments, one anonymous [for the selection procedure] and one with the author's name and affiliation. Do not forget to include contact information in your e-mail message. The deadline for abstract submission is September 10, 2011. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 23-May-2011       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.