LINGUIST List 23.782 Thu Feb 16 2012 Calls: English, Spanish, German, Cog Sci, Typology, Semantics/Spain 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.     Irene Doval , Spatial Relations German / Spanish / English Message 1: Spatial Relations German / Spanish / English Date: 15-Feb-2012 From: Irene Doval <i.dovalusc.es> Subject: Spatial Relations German / Spanish / English E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Spatial Relations German / Spanish / English Short Title: SPATREL2012 Date: 04-Oct-2012 - 06-Oct-2012 Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain Contact Person: Irene Doval Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.usc.es/congresos/spatrel Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Typology Subject Language(s): English; German; Spanish Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2012 Meeting Description: From October 4-6 2012 the research group 'Spatial Relations Contrastive German / Spanish' (SPATREL) of the Department of English and German Philology (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) will hold an international symposium on spatial relations in German, as well as contrastive German/English or German/Spanish. Studies of the lexical semantics of spatial terms across languages have provided evidence of considerable variation in the details of how spatial relations are linguistically categorized even in typological similar languages. The main focus of this symposium is to explore how German encodes spatial concepts such as motion, location and orientation and to examine the cross-linguistic similarities and differences between German and English or Spanish. This symposium aims to bring together researchers working on different linguistic and methodological approaches and to provide for discussions on how German, English and Spanish organize linguistically space. We welcome abstracts presenting theoretical or practical studies on this subject. Call for Papers: Please submit abstracts of 200-300 words (excluding references) for a thirty-minute talk (twenty minutes for the presentation, plus ten minutes for discussion). The languages of the symposium are English, German and Spanish. Deadline for abstract submission: June 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2012 Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference website. All papers reviewed and accepted by the scientific committee will be published in the symposium proceedings volume. Submission Guidelines: All abstracts must be submitted anonymous by email to: spatrel2012usc.es formatted as Word files with the author's name as the filename. Please use the abstract submission form of the website. The body of the email message must contain the following information: 1. Paper title 2. Name(s) of author(s) 3. Affiliation(s) of author(s) 4. Email address for each author. In the case of joint authorship one email address should be designated for official communication. The author will receive an email message confirming the receipt of the abstract. Please consult the Symposium Website for more information on the programme and registration. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 16-Feb-2012       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.