LINGUIST List 8.140

Thu Jan 30 1997

Calls: OT Workshop, HPSG-4, Internet humor

Editor for this issue: Susan Robinson <suelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. h-ot-97, Optimality Theory Workshop Correction
2. Jean-Pierre A Koenig, HPSG-4: Two weeks left for abstracts
3. Susan Herring, Humor on the Internet

CORRECTION Optimality Theory Workshop Submission Address

There was a zipcode error in the previous email announcement (the
address on the web is correct). The correct address is:

 H-OT-97
 Cognitive Science Department
 Johns Hopkins University
 Baltimore, MD 21218-2685

Profuse apologies for any inconvenience caused. The abstracts deadline
has been extended to Feb 7. 


 Hopkins Optimality Theory Workshop/
 University of Maryland Mayfest 1997
 
 Baltimore's Inner Harbor
 May 9-12, 1997

 http://www.cogsci.jhu.edu/h-ot-97/

SPEAKERS

 SYNTAX (May 9-10) PHONOLOGY (May 11-12) 
 
 Judith Aissen (UCSC) Jill Beckman (Iowa)
 Joan Bresnan (Stanford) Laura Benua (Maryland)
 Hye-Won Choi (USC) Luigi Burzio (Hopkins)
 Jane Grimshaw (Rutgers) Edward Flemming(Stanford)
 Geraldine Legendre (Hopkins) Adamantios Gafos (UMass)
 David Pesetsky (MIT) Sharon Inkelas (Berkeley)
 Luigi Rizzi (Geneva)* Junko Ito (UCSC)
 Vieri Samek-Lodovici (Konstanz) Michael Kenstowicz (MIT)
 Peter Sells (Stanford) Linda Lombardi (Maryland)
 Margaret Speas (UMass) John McCarthy (UMass)
 Sten Vikner (Stuttgart) Armin Mester (UCSC)
 Colin Wilson (Hopkins) Jaye Padgett (UCSC)
 Ellen Woolford (UMass) Alan Prince (Rutgers)
 Paul Smolensky (Hopkins)
 ACQUISITION & PROCESSING (May 10) Moira Yip (UCI)
 Cheryl Zoll (MIT)
 Robert Frank (Hopkins)
 Peter Jusczyk (Hopkins)*
 Joseph Pater (UBC) 
 Suzanne Stevenson (Rutgers)
 Bruce Tesar (Rutgers)
 Amy Weinberg (Maryland)		*Participation not yet confirmed
 
SITE

 Radisson Plaza Lord Baltimore Hotel, 20 W. Baltimore St, Baltimore MD 21201
 (800) 333-3333; (410) 539-8400
 
 This restored old hotel is located in downtown Baltimore adjacent to the
 Inner Harbor. A block of rooms has been reserved for the nights of May 8-12 
 at a special rate of $119/night (for one or two beds; roll-aways can be
 added for $10/night). Participants should call the hotel directly, 
 BY APRIL 5, to make reservations.
 
REGISTRATION

 To pre-register, BY APRIL 5 send your physical and electronic mail
 addresses, your phone number, and the dates you expect to participate to
 the address at the bottom of this announcement. Please enclose $25 (for
 faculty/postdocs; $15 for others) to help defray the cost of printing,
 morning and afternoon coffee breaks, and a workshop party. (Registration at
 the door will also be possible at a somewhat higher rate). Checks should be
 payable to Johns Hopkins University.
 
CALL FOR POSTERS

 The workshop will feature contributed poster sessions on all aspects of OT.
 Interested participants are invited to submit BY FEB. 7, 1997 four copies
 of a one-page abstract (not including data, references, and tableaux) to
 the Hopkins address listed at the bottom of this announcement. Abstracts
 should be anonymous; include a 3x5 card containing your name, submission
 title, institutional and email addresses, and phone. We regret that
 email and fax submissions cannot be accepted. Poster format will be
 the same as for the LSA Annual Meeting, and poster abstracts will be
 provided to workshop attendees.
 
ORGANIZERS

 Geraldine Legendre 	Laura Benua
 Paul Smolensky 	Linda Lombardi
 Cognitive Science Department Linguistics Department
 Johns Hopkins 	University of Maryland
 
SPONSORS
 Johns Hopkins University
 Office of the Provost
 College of Arts & Sciences
 Center for Language and Speech Processing
 Cognitive Science Department
 University of Maryland, College Park
 Linguistics Department
 College of Arts and Humanities
 
CONTACT ADDRESS

 H-OT-97
 Cognitive Science Department
 Johns Hopkins University
 Baltimore, MD 21218-2685	CORRECTED
 (410) 526-5250
 h-ot-97cogsci.jhu.edu
 http://www.cogsci.jhu.edu/h-ot-97/

DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 15 - TWO WEEKS LEFT
 CALL FOR PAPERS

 HPSG-97
 4th International Conference on 
 Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
 1997 LSA Linguistic Institute
 Cornell University
 
 July 18-20, 1997

The 4th International Conference on HPSG will be held at
the 1997 LSA Linguistic Institute at Cornell University 
on July 18-20, 1997.

Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute presentations
(followed by 10 minutes of discussion) which address
linguistic, foundational, or computation issues relating to
the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Selected papers from the conference
will be published. 


To submit, send eight (8) copies of your abstract. 
Abstracts should not exceed 5 pages in length
(single-spaced; minimum 12 pt font), including all
examples, diagrams, and references. Please include
a 3x5 card or a title page with (i) the title of your
abstract, (ii) your name and affiliation, (iii) your
address, email address, phone and fax numbers.

Abstracts should be received at the address below by
FEBRUARY 15, 1997. Electronic submissions are possible in
either postscript or ASCII format. Fax submissions will
NOT be accepted. Address submissions to:

 HPSG-4
 c/o Gert Webelhuth
 Department of Linguistics
 318 Dey Hall 
 University of North Carolina
 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155
 USA

 or (for electronic submission) to:

	 webelhutmindspring.com


Queries can be addressed to the above address, or via fax
or email:

 Fax: (919) 962-3708
 Email: webelhutmindspring.com
 jpkoenigacsu.buffalo.edu

HUMOR ON THE INTERNET
Call for participants

Participants are sought for a panel on HUMOR ON THE INTERNET for the
International Society of Humor Studies conference to be held in
Edmond, Oklahoma July 8-13, 1997. The scope of the panel will be
interdisciplinary, as is the conference as a whole. Papers should
present scholarly research that reveals something about the role of
humor in on-line interaction, or about the nature and processes of
humor more generally, as revealed through on-line interaction. Anyone
conducting research in these areas who is interested in participating
in such a panel is requested to e-mail a brief description of their
proposed presentation to susanutafll.uta.edu ASAP, or by February 8
at the latest. The deadline for submitting panel proposals for ISHS
is February 18, 1997.

Please distribute this call to others who may be interested. 


Susan Herring
Program in Linguistics
University of Texas
Arlington, TX 76019 USA
(817) 272-2731 (fax)
(817) 272-3133 (phone)
susanutafll.uta.edu
http://ling.uta.edu/Linguistics/Faculty/herring.html