LINGUIST List 6.1054

Mon Aug 7 1995

Calls: Yuen Ren Society--Chinese Dialect

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <dseelyemunix.emich.edu>

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1. David Prager Branner, Call: Conference on Chinese Dialect Data
2. David Prager Branner, Call: Panel on Classification and Comparison

 The Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork
 Conference on Fresh Dialect Data, March '96
 (second call)

 The next meeting of the Yuen Ren Society will be in March, 1996,
in conjunction with the 206th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental
Society, in Philadephia. This will be an open panel discussion of a
number of original reports on Chinese dialects, all of which will appear
in the next issue of the Society's journal, the _Treasury_. Submissions
are now being accepted.

 The final deadline for us to receive your preliminary materials is
24 September 1995. (Please send it to us sooner if at all possible!)
After anonymous review, you will have until the end of the year to submit
your final draft, which will be published in the next issue of the
_Treasury_. The _Treasury_ will be available to all conference
participants in plenty of time for them to have read it before the
conference.

 More detailed information is available from the Society. Please
write by email to <yuenrenu.washington.edu> or by regular mail to:

 The Yuen Ren Society,
 att'n: David Prager Branner
 Asian Languages and Literature
 University of Washington
 Box 353521
 Seattle, WA 98195-3521 USA

Information is also available via the World Wide Web. There is a list of
suggestions for possible submissions at
 http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/Suggestions.html
and a style sheet at
 http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/Style_Sheet.html
General information about the Society will be found at
 http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/Circular.html
General information about the _Treasury_ will be found at
 http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/Treasury.html


 We apologize for the multiple postings that some people may be
receiving of this information.

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 Panel on Chinese Dialect Comparison and Classification
 at the 206th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society
 MARCH 1996 IN PHILADELPHIA

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (August, 1995)

 There will be a panel on Chinese Dialect Comparison and
Classification at the next Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society
(AOS), in Philadelphia, March, 1996. The panel organizers welcome

 1. papers that rigorously address issues of Chinese dialect
 classification--as criteria, methodology, proposed groupings,
 etc., or
 2. studies that seek to further knowledge of the nature and
 relationships of Chinese dialects through detailed comparison--as
 comparison of phonology, lexicon, grammar, etc.

 The dialects discussed may be living or historical. We will give
preference to presentations that are data-heavy over papers that focus on
analysis with very little supporting data.

 Proposals are now being accepted for review and should be in the
form of a one-page typed abstract that details the issues addressed,
outlines the central conclusions, and characterizes the supporting data to
be included.

 This panel is separate from the other Yuen Ren Society conference
on Fresh Chinese Dialect Fieldwork that is being held at the same meeting.
It is permissible for one person to deliver papers at both events.

 As the AOS deadline for panel proposals is in mid-October, the
final deadline for us to receive your proposal/abstract is 24 September
1995. (Please send it sooner if at all possible.) Your proposal will be
anonymously submitted to our review panel, and you will be notified of a
decision once the panel proposal is finalized.

 For questions and further details, you may write to the panel
organizer, R. VanNess Simmons, after 1 September by email at
rsimmongandalf.rutgers.edu or regular mail at:

 East Asian Languages
 Scott Hall, Room 330
 Rutgers University
 New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA

 Alternatively, you may write the Yuen Ren Society by email at
yuenrenu.washington.edu or by regular mail at:

 The Yuen Ren Society,
 att'n: David Prager Branner
 Asian Languages and Literature
 University of Washington
 Box 353521
 Seattle, WA 9819-35215 USA

This panel is being sponsored by the Yuen Ren Society. Please see our
Web pages beginning at
 http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/Circular.html

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