LINGUIST List 22.3862 Tue Oct 04 2011 Calls: Modern Greek, General Linguistics/Belgium 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.     Mark Janse , Modern Greek Dialects & Linguistic Theory Message 1: Modern Greek Dialects & Linguistic Theory Date: 03-Oct-2011 From: Mark Janse <mark.janseugent.be> Subject: Modern Greek Dialects & Linguistic Theory E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Modern Greek Dialects & Linguistic Theory Short Title: MGDLT5 Date: 20-Sep-2012 - 22-Sep-2012 Location: Gent, Belgium Contact Person: Mark Janse Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.mgdlt5.ugent.be Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Subject Language(s): Greek, Modern Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: 5th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects & Linguistic Theory 20-22 September 2012 Universiteit Gent / Ghent University (Belgium) Contact: mgdlt5ugent.be The Greek Section of the Department of Linguistics at Ghent University is pleased to announce the 5th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects & Linguistic Theory (MGDLT5), which will be held 20-22 September 2012 at the Royal Academy of Dutch Language & Literature (KANTL), Koningstraat 18, Ghent. MGDLT5 continues the series that began in Patras (Greece), 2000, and had its latest instantiation in Chios (Greece), 2009. As opposed to the Romance languages and their dialects, the Modern Greek dialects are much less well-known among general linguists, yet these dialects exhibit a bewildering variety of phenomena due to the fact that many of them have developed in relative isolation or in contact-situations with other dialects and/or other languages. The aim of MGDLT is to highlight the importance of the Modern Greek dialects for general linguists, whether they are interested in phonetics and phonology, morphology and word-formation, syntax and semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, psycho- or sociolinguistics, historical-comparative or contact linguistics. The Modern Greek dialects offer a plethora of interesting or even intriguing data which can be used to test prevailing hypothesis about language structure and language use, or which can be analyzed in different ways, using different methods and theories developed in modern linguistics. Invited Speakers: Geoffrey Horrocks (University of Cambridge) Adam Ledgeway (University of Cambridge) Peter Trudgill (University of Agder/LaTrobe University) Call for Papers: The organizing committee invites linguists, both senior and junior, to submit a one-page abstract dealing with any aspect of Modern Greek dialectology relevant for linguistic theory to mgdlt5ugent.be (Times New Roman, 12 pt.; please use a Unicode-based font for Greek text), by January 31, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be given by the end of February 2012. Conference Languages: The conference languages are English and Greek, but because of the international character of the conference the use of English is preferable. Permanent Scientific & Organizing Committee: Mark Janse (UGent) Brian D. Joseph (Ohio State University) Angela Ralli (University of Patras) Local Organizing Committee: Mark Janse (UGent), Chair Metin Bağriaçık (UGent / University of Patras) Klaas Bentein (UGent) Jorie Soltic (UGent) 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.