LINGUIST List 5.402

Thu 07 Apr 1994

Calls: NELS, Cairo Conference, WECOL94

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1. Gene Buckley, NELS Call for Papers
2. , Cairo Conference Announcement
3. Western Conference on Linguistics, WECOL94 call for papers

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 NELS 25
 October 14-16, 1994
 University of Pennsylvania

 CALL FOR PAPERS
 deadline for submission of abstracts: July 26, 1994

Abstracts should be anonymous, up to TWO pages (8-1/2" by 11"), single-spaced,
in 12 point type with 1" margins. The second page need not be limited
to data and/or references. Send ten copies of the abstract together
with a 3" x 5" card showing the title of the paper, the author's address
and affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address to:

 NELS 25
 Linguistics Department
 Room 619 Williams Hall
 University of Pennsylvania
 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Questions can be directed to Gene Buckley and Sabine Iatridou at
nels25ling.upenn.edu.

On the day preceding the conference (Oct 13), there will be two workshops: one
on Language Change, another on Language Acquisition. Both workshops will be
funded by the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. A call for papers
for these workshops (separate from the present call) will appear soon.

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 Please Post

 CALL FOR PAPERS

 The American University in Cairo

 and

 THE ARABIC LINGUISTICS SOCIETY

 announce an

 I n t e r n a t i o n a l C o n f e r e n c e
 o n A r a b i c L i n g u i s t i c s

 to be held at

 the American University in Cairo

 December 20 - 22, l994

The conference will focus on current approaches to the linguistic analysis
of Arabic. Research in the following areas of Arabic linguistics is
encouraged: grammatical analysis (syntax, phonology, morphology,
semantics), sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis,
historical linguistics, computational linguistics, etc.

Persons interested in presenting papers at the conference are requested to
submit six copies of a one-page abstract giving the title of the paper, a
brief statement of the topic, and a summary clearly stating how the topic
will be developed (the reasoning, data, or experimental results to be
presented). Authors are requested to be as specific and as explicit as
possible in describing their topic. Names are not to appear on the
abstract; instead, a 3 x 5 card should be enclosed with the author's name,
affiliation, address, phone number, the title of the paper, and the
session to which it is submitted. Twenty minutes will be allowed for each
presentation.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts
June 15, 1994

Abstracts and other inquiries should be addressed to either:

Dr. Mushira Eid Dr. Alaa Elgibali
Arabic Linguistics Society Arabic Language Institute
Middle East Center, Bldg. The American University in Cairo
University of Utah 113 Sharia El Qasr El Eini
Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Cairo, Egypt
Phone: 801-581-6181 Phone: 202-357-5057/357-5059
Fax: 801-581-6183 Fax: 202-355-7565
E-mail: Mushaeidcc.utah.edu E-mail: Elgibaliegaucacs.bitnet

The conference is supported by:

The American University in Cairo
The Arabic Linguistics Society
The Fulbright Commission in Cairo
The United States Information Agency

 C A L L F O R P A P E R S

 W E C O L '9 4

 (Western Conference on Linguistics)


 21-23 OCTOBER, 1994
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES


 DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 1 JUNE, 1994


Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all areas of linguistic
theory. Abstracts should be anonymous, and should be no longer
than one page, with one inch margins, in typeface no smaller than 12
characters per inch. An additional page with examples and references
may be included. Please provide 10 copies of the abstract. Authors
should identify themselves on a separate 3"x5" index card, and should
include the title and author's address, affiliation, telephone number,
and e-mail address.

In addition, papers are invited for two workshops to be held in
conjunction with WECOL, entitled:

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THEORETICAL ISSUES IN THE ACQUISITION OF PHONOLOGY

 and

 FORMAL ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF NEGATION

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Invited Speaker: B. Alan Dresher, University of Toronto

Abstracts should be sent to the following address:

 Chair, Abstracts Committee
 WECOL '94
 Department of Linguistics
 University of California, Los Angeles
 405 Hilgard Avenue
 Los Angeles, CA 90024

 wecolcognet.ucla.edu