LINGUIST List 4.745

Thu 23 Sep 1993

Confs: Aphasia, Formal, Great Britain, Systemic

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1. Vicki Fromkin, academy of aphasia
2. "Simon S. Donnelly", FLSM 5 conference announcement
3. , LAGB Spring 1994 - Salford, UK
4. , Systemic Conferences

 ANNOUNCEMENT

 A C A D E M Y O F A P H A S I A
 31st Annual Meeting
 October 24-26, 2993
 Tucscon, Arizona

 (below are simply session headings. Details of program and
 registration and hotel can be obtained from Audrey Holland,
 Chair, Local Arrangements Committee: alhccit.arizona.edu)

 Sunday, Oct 24
 1 - 2 Introduction and Historical Notes

 2 - 3:30 Platform Session 1: Reading (

 4 - 6 Symposium I. Neural Systems Underlying Language
 and Spatial Cotnition (Oranizer: Ursula Bellugi)

 6 - 8 Cash Bar

 Monday, Oct 25, 1993

 8:30 - 10 Platform Session 2: Phonology and Prosody

 10:30 - 12 Poster Session ( 33 papers)

 12 - 2 Academy Luncheon - Speaker: Ruth Lesser

 2:15 - 3:45 Platform Session 3: Imaging

 4:15 - 5:45 Symposium 2: On the Nature and Consequences of
 Semantic Memory Impairment (Organizer: Eleanor Saffran)
 6 - 7 Business meeting
 7:30 - 10 Drinks, Arizona-Mexican Buffet and Western Dancing

 Tuesday, Oct 26, 1993
 8:30 - 10 Poster Session 2 ( 34 papers)

 10:30 - 12 Platform Session 4: Treatment

 1:30 - 3:30 Platform Session 5L: Morphology and Syntax

 For further information about the Academy of Aphasia you can send an
 e-mail to V.Fromkin, Chair, Board of Governors. iyo1vafuclamvs.bitnet or
 iyo1vafmvs.oac.ucla.edu (internet)

FORMAL LINGUISTICS SOCIETY OF MID-AMERICA: FLSM 5

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host the fifth annual
Formal Linguistics Society of Mid-America conference at the Urbana, Illinois,
campus, from 20 to 22 May 1994.

Inquiries should be directed to one of the following:

1) FLSM 5 Committee
 Department of Linguistics
 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 4088 Foreign Languages Building
 707 S. Mathews
 Urbana, IL 61801

 or e-mail: flsm5boas.cogsci.uiuc.edu

2) James Yoon (Assistant Professor)
 jyoonuiuc.edu

3) Simon Donnelly (graduate student)
 s-donnelly1uiuc.edu

 The 1994 Spring Meeting of the Linguistics Association of
 Great Britain (LAGB) will take place April 5-7 and be hosted
 by the European Studies Research Institute of the University
 of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK. In addition to two full
 days of three parallel sessions, the following highlights
 are planned:

 Guest Speaker: Tuesday evening (5th): Ray Jackendoff

 Workshop: Lexical Semantics (organised by Alan Cruse,
 Manchester, UK)

 Address from ESRC about grants, etc.

 Teach-in: British Sign Language

 Parasession: Recent developments in phonological theory
 (organised by Jacques Durand, Salford, UK)

 Further details, including where to send abstracts for
 papers, will be posted later.

I have been asked to post the following announcements to LINGUIST
Peter H. Fries
343i2twCMUVM.BITNET
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Announcements of future International Systemic Functional Congresses

 1994 21st International Systemic Functional Congress. Gent, Belgium.
Conference Theme: Functions of Language. Venue: University of Gent.
Contact: A.-M. Simon Vandenbergen, Department of English, University of
Gent, Rozier 44, 9000 Gent, Belgium. Fax: +32 9 264.41.84.Tel: +32 9
264.37.87. E-mail: vdbergenengllang.rug.ac.be
In association with the Congress in Gent, a summer school reviewing the
Systemic-Functional approach will be organized in Leuven, Belgium from
July 25-29, provided there are enough enrollments. Please contact:
Kristin Davidse, Linguistics Department, K.U. Leuven,
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, B-3000 LEUVEN, Belgium. Tel: +32 16 284811.
Fax: +32 16 285025. Email: KD%userslwcc3.kuleuven.ac.be
 1995 22nd International Systemic Functional Congress. Bejing, China.
July 19-24, 1995. Venue: Peking University, Bejing. Contact: Professor
HU Zhaunglin, Department of English, Peking University, Bejing, 100871,
China.
 1996 23rd International Systemic Functional Congress. Sydney,
Australia. July 15-19, 1996. Venue: University of Technology, Sydney.
Contact: Di Slade, Center for Language and Literacy, School of Adult and
Language Education, Faculty of Education, University of Technology,
Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, 2007, New South Wales, Australia. Email:
D.SladeUTS.EDU.AU