LINGUIST List 22.3934 Sat Oct 08 2011 Calls: Morphology, Syntax, Pragmatics, Socioling, Typology/France 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.     Betina Schnabel-Le Corre , Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy: Structure, Context and Use Message 1: Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy: Structure, Context and Use Date: 07-Oct-2011 From: Betina Schnabel-Le Corre <betina.schnabeluniv-rennes2.fr> Subject: Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy: Structure, Context and Use E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy: Structure, Context and Use Short Title: ToponymRennes Date: 22-Mar-2012 - 23-Mar-2012 Location: Rennes (Brittany), France Contact Person: Jonas Löfström & Betina Schnabel-Le Corre Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/lidile/ Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Syntax; Typology Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2011 Meeting Description: Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy: Structure, Context and Use International Conference on March 22 - 23, 2012 at the University of Rennes 2, France Toponymie Synchronique Multilingue (TopoLing) Equipe d'Accueil LIDILE (EA 3874) - Université Rennes 2 Perhaps more than any other word class proper names are situated at the interface of languages and most researchers no longer consider them as mere tags. On the contrary, synchronic approaches now arouse interest among linguists as the increasing number of projects related to synchronic toponymy shows. Actually, although the relative textual frequency of proper names is not very high, their relative lexical frequency appears to be significant. Synchronic studies of proper names and mainly toponyms is therefore an essential task, not only to determine the conditions of their use, but also to describe their structure and lexical status as well as the psychological, sociological and political implications of their use and function in discourse. All these factors account for the great variety of linguistic projects related to toponyms, i.e. grammatical and morphosyntactical studies, modelisation, as well as the use of toponyms in spoken and written contexts. This conference will offer the opportunity to take stock of this question and to identify the heuristic value of synchronic research in toponymy for the descriptions of languages. 2nd Call for Papers: The abstract submission deadline has been postponed and set for October 31, 2011. Abstract Submission: Abstracts, in English or in French, should be anonymous and maximum 3000 signs (not including spaces and references). For purposes of easy editing, please make use of the MS Word template (Times 12 in one line spacing). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to colloque-toponymrennesuniv-rennes2.fr, before October 31, 2011. Under subject, please write 'ToponymRennes abstract'. Please name the attachment as follows: 'ToponymRennes_yourlastname_yourfirstname.doc'. Make sure to include in the email: author's or authors' name(s); title of the contribution; affiliation; e-mail address(es); type of presentation (talk or poster), and 3 to 5 keywords. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by two members of the scientific committee. You will be notified of the outcome of the review process in December 2011. After the conference, speakers are invited to submit a conference paper for publication in a separate volume (with a publication committee). Our conference web-site will be regularly updated to provide further information at the following address: http://www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/lidile/ Contact: colloque-toponymrennesuniv-rennes2.fr Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 08-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.