LINGUIST List 22.2364 Sun Jun 05 2011 Confs: Language Acquisition, Applied Ling/UK Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Barbara Pizziconi , Workshop on the Acquisition of Modality Message 1: Workshop on the Acquisition of Modality Date: 03-Jun-2011 From: Barbara Pizziconi <bp3soas.ac.uk> Subject: Workshop on the Acquisition of Modality E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on the Acquisition of Modality Date: 09-Jul-2011 - 09-Jul-2011 Location: London, United Kingdom Contact: Barbara Pizziconi Mika Kizu Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.soas.ac.uk/japankorea/events/09jul2011-workshop-on-acquisition-of-modality.html Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition Meeting Description: Please note: the new conference URL and updated information about preregistration. A one-day workshop on the 'Acquisition of Modality' will be held at SOAS, University of London on 9 July 2011. The organizers are part of a research team working on a project on the acquisition of modal categories and modal markers (e.g. epistemic, deontic, utterance-level, etc.) by learners of Japanese, but we also invite specialists of other languages to join us and exchange ideas and research findings. Previous research noted the lack of correspondence between the phenomena covered by the term modality in Japanese and in other languages (e.g. English), but we welcome the discussion of potentially incommensurate phenomena, and the acquisition of forms or cognitive categories that may be absent in learners’ mother tongue. Participation fees: £15 The workshop is organized by Barbara Pizziconi (bp3soas.ac.uk) and Mika Kizu (mk89soas.ac.uk), and queries can be directed to either of them. Details of the workshop are now available at: http://www.soas.ac.uk/japankorea/events/09jul2011-workshop-on-acquisition-of-modality.html All interested participants are invited to pre-register for this event (there is no charge for pre-registration). Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 05-Jun-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.