LINGUIST List 3.310

Sun 05 Apr 1992

Confs: Papuan, SLA-FLL, Congress of Linguistics

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1. Malcolm Ross, Update: Conference on Papuan Linguistics
2. Joe Salmons, Conference announcement
3. Spillner, Congress of Linguistics, Quebec, Canada, August,9-14, 1992

The THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PAPUAN LINGUISTICS
will be held 15-18 September 1992 at the Divine Word Institute, Madang,
Papua New Guinea.

To date, scholars from institutions in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea,
Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands have indicated their
intention to participate.

Papers are solicited dealing with any aspect of Papuan languages
including (but not limited to): syntax, semantics/pragmatics, phonology,
historical development/reconstruction, sociolinguistics/language use,
and Papuan-based pidgins.

The term 'Papuan languages' refers to the non-Austronesian languages
of eastern Indonesia (Timor, Alor, Pantar, Halmahera, Irian Jaya), Papua
New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

Abstracts and requests for further information should be sent to:

Carl Whitehead
Third International Conference on Papuan Linguistics
P.O. Box 418
Ukarumpa via Lae
Papua New Guinea.

Fax (Papua New Guinea) +675 77 3507
Easylink 62006899

Room and board costs per day at the Divine Word Institute are (in Papua New
Guinea Kina) bed/breakfast (single) K18, (double) K16, lunch K5, evening
meal K8. Accommodation also available at nearby hotels.

Conference registration fee K15.

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 			 SLA-FLL III

 			The Third Conference on
	Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Learning

 		"Classrooms and Classroom Language Acquisition"

 			February 26-28, 1993

 		Purdue University Memorial Union

 			Keynote Speakers:
 		Susan Gass, Michigan State University
 		Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania
 		Albert Valdman, Indiana University
 		Bill VanPatten, University of Illinois

 		Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 1992

 Please submit 3 copies of an anonymous one-page abstract and a 3" x 5" card
 giving	name, title of paper, affiliation, address and phone number
 (email address also if applicable) to:

 		SLA-FLL III
 		120 Stanley Coulter Hall
 		Purdue University
 		W. Lafayette, IN 47907

 		For more information contact:
 Rodney Bransdorfer				Robert Hammond
 (317) 494-3867					(317) 494-3873
 rbdorfermace.cc.purdue.edu			hammondvm.cc.purdue.edu

I am planning to organize, during the Quebec Congress, a Round Table on the
subject "Le style - statut linguistique et textuelle / Lingustic and textual
status of style".
Colleagues interested in participating are kindly asked to contact me as soon
as possible.
 Bernd Spillner
 University of Duisburg
 FB 3 - Romanistik
 Lotharstr. 65
 W-4100 Duisburg 1
 Germany
 Phone: 0049/203/3792609
 FAX: 0049/203/3793333
 E-mail: he228spunidui.uni-duisburg.de