LINGUIST List 7.1807

Fri Dec 20 1996

Calls: Postgrad Ling Conf, Seoul International

Editor for this issue: T. Daniel Seely <seelylinguistlist.org>

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1. Evelien P Pennings, ManchesterPostgradLinguisticsConference
2. Yongsoon Kang, Seoul International Conf on Linguistics

First of all: sorry to all of you who received a totally
incomprehensible message. We are all new to this e-mail stuff and are
still trying to find the best way of sending messages to a lot of
addresses at the same time. This is what you were meant to read:

We are pleased to announce the date of the 6th Manchester University
Postgraduate Linguistics Conference. It will take place on Saturday
15th March 1997 at the University of Manchester.

Guest Speaker:
 Melissa Bowerman

of the Max Planck Institute who will give a talk on psycholinguistics

Call for papers: abstracts are invited from postgraduate students on
any area of linguistics. They should be no more than 200 words and
should be sent camera-ready on A4 paper.

Closing date for abstracts: 31st January 1997

Early Registration Fee: 5 pounds
Late registration Fee ( after 28th February): 8 pounds

Register now by e-mail on pgcman.ac.uk or by fax to 0161 275 3187
or by mail enclosing your cheque to:
 Stephen Markve
 Department of Linguistics
 The University of Manchester
 Oxford Road
 Manchester M13 9PL

Thank you for your help.

Stephen Markve Lieke Biesma Evelien Pennings
 on behalf of the organising committee

 Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
The fourth Seoul International Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-'97)

 August 11 - August 15, 1997

 organized by
 THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF KOREA

 to be held at
 SOGANG UNIVERSITY, SEOUL, KOREA

The Linguistic Society of Korea is organizing The Fourth Seoul International
Conference on Linguistics (SICOL-'97) under the general theme of "The
Prospect of Language Studies in the 21st Century." The conference will
consist of (1) a series of forum lectures for the plenary session by invited
leading scholars, (2) general sesssions for presentation of submitted
papers, and (3) special sessions focusing on the following topics: (i) Space
Semantics, (ii) Phonetics in Phonology, (iii) Ellipsis in Syntax and Semantics.

 INVITED SPEAKERS:

 Robert Freidin (Princeton U.)
 Ronald W. Langacker (USCD)
 Edward Keenan (UCLA)
 Susumo Kuno (Harvard U.)
 Donca Steriade (UCLA)

 CALL FOR PAPERS

People who are interested in presenting their papers on any topic related to
linguistics are encouraged to submit anonymous copies of a one-page abstract
with a separate name card (name, affiliation, address, telephone number,
paper title, email address) by Feb 28, 1997. Please identify an appropriate
session (either genral or special) on the abstract submitted. Selected
papers will be notified by Mar. 30, 1997. Each paper will be alloted 30
minutes for presentation and discussion. Please do not email or fax your
abstract.

Submission Address:
Prof. Jong-Yurl Yoon
Dept. of English
Kookmin University
Chongnung-dong, Seongbuk-gu
Seoul 136-702, Korea

For Further information, please contact:

Prof. Ki-jeong Lee Prof. Jong-Yurl Yoon
Dept of English Dept of English
Hanyang University Kookmin Univ.
kjleeemail.hanyang.ac.kr likukmu.kookmin.ac.kr
82-2-290-0777 (Tel.) 82-2-910-4378 (Tel.)
82-2-290-0741 (Fax) 82-2-910-4229 (Fax)