LINGUIST List 3.595

Tue 21 Jul 1992

Confs: Pidgins & Creoles; ICL Sessions

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1. Martha Swearingen, Pidgin & Creole languages
2. , International Congress of Linguists

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* CALL FOR PAPERS!!! PIDGIN & CREOLE LANGUAGES *
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* SPCL will hold a conference on pidgin and creole languages *
* in conjunction with the next LSA meeting. *
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* Conference dates: 7-11 January 1993 *
* Place: The Biltmore Hotel *
* Los Angeles, California *
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* Deadline for submission of abstracts = JULY 31, 1992 *
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* For abstract forms and/or information write to: *
* Prof. Armin Schwegler *
* Spanish & Portuguese *
* UC Irvine *
* Irvine, CA 92717 / U.S.A. *
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* E-mail: aschweglorion.oac.uci.edu (Internet) *
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Please note the updated schedule for the Language in Prehistory
Symposium at the ICL in Quebec City (Aug. 10):

 Symposium on Language in Prehistory

Organizer:
Alexis Manaster Ramer



Presentations:


Gerard Diffloth (Cornell University): South-east Asia
(N.B. Gerard with accent aigu on the 'e').

Martha Ratliff (Wayne State University): East Asia

Alexis Manaster Ramer (Wayne State University) : Western Eurasia
and North America

Joe Salmons (Purdue University): Global Etymologies


Discussants:


Laurent Sagart (CRLAO)

Vyach. Vs. Ivanov (UCLA)

Harold Fleming (University of Pittsburgh)

Philp Baldi (Pennsylvania State University)

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Please note the following updated schedule of the Construction
Grammar symposium at the ICL, Quebec City, Aug. 11.

 Symposium on Construction Grammars

Organizers: Charles Fillmore and Alexis Manaster Ramer

Adele Goldberg, 'Capturing Relationships Among Constructions'

Knud Lambrecht, 'C'est pas con comme ide'e: The post-focal comme-N
construction in spoken French'

Jean-Pierre Koenig 'Shared Structures vs. Constructional Autonomy
in Construction Grammar'

Alexis Manaster Ramer 'Ever since Bloomfield'

Wlodek Zadrozny 'Constructions in formal and computational
linguistics'