LINGUIST List 22.3852 Tue Oct 04 2011 Confs: Anthroling, Socioling, General Ling/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Oana David , 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Message 1: 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Date: 27-Sep-2011 From: Oana David <oanadavidberkeley.edu> Subject: 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society E-mail this message to a friend 38th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Short Title: BLS38 Date: 11-Feb-2012 - 12-Feb-2012 Location: Berkeley, CA, USA Contact: Oana David Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/call.html Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: The 38th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society will be held at the University of California, Berkeley on February 11-12, 2011. The meeting will comprise a Thematic Session, and a General Session. The General Session will cover all areas of linguistic research. We welcome proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks as well as papers on language-related topics from other disciplines (e.g., cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, anthropology, literature, areal studies). Thematic Session: Language Contact The BLS 38 thematic session invites papers pertaining to all aspects of language contact, a major phenomenon that concerns all areas of linguistics and many linguistics-related fields. We are looking for submissions form all linguistic subfields and all theoretical frameworks: phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and others. We also strongly encourage interdisciplinary work spanning two or more disciplines, such as anthropology, history, archaeology, geography, molecular anthropology and genetics. Computational approaches to language contact are also welcome. A driving question is: how can the inter-disciplinary study of language contact phenomena contribute to uncovering key aspects of the history and culture of entire regions and populations? Invited Thematic Session Speakers: Mark Donohue, Australian National University Sarah Thomason, University of Michigan Invited Main Session Speaker: Dominique Sportiche, UCLA & Department of Cognitive Studies (ENS - Paris) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 04-Oct-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.