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socrates.berkeley.edu>THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY BLS 24 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting, to be held February 14-16, 1998. The conference will consist of a General Session and a Parasession on Saturday and Sunday, followed by a Special Session on Monday. General Session: The main session will cover areas of general linguistic interest. Invited speakers: STEPHEN PINKER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology LEN TALMY, University at Buffalo ANNA WIERZBICKA, Australian National University Parasession: Phonological Universals and Phonetics. The parasession will accept papers bearing on all aspects of the relationship between Phonological Universals and Phonetics, where "universals" can be interpreted broadly. To what extent are phonological universals predicted or motivated by phonetic factors including, but not restricted to; articulatory constraints, aerodynamic properties of sound, or storage mechanisms of phonetic information? Conversely, what do phonological universals predict about synchronic and diachronic phonetics? What might the difference be between phonological and phonetic universals? Invited speakers: PATRICE BEDDOR, University of Michigan BJORN LINDBLOM, University of Stockholm and University of Texas, Austin IAN MADDIESON, University of California at Los Angeles JOHN OHALA, University of California, Berkeley MARIA-JOSEP SOLE, University of Barcelona</ul> Special Session: Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations. The Special Session will feature research on Indo-European subgrouping and internal relations from any framework, including formal, functional, cognitive, sociolinguistic, and historical approaches. In the last twenty years we have come to understand the internal diachrony of Hittite, which has begun to make clear some of the desiderata Anatolian imposes on any theory of PIE. But new archaeological evidence has also been very prominent both for Italic and Celtic, which has generated a lot of new work on the very early (reconstructed) histories of both branches and on their internal linguistic relations, their relation to each other, and their relation to their neighbors (e.g. Germanic). Additionally, there has been an immense amount of work on the prehistory of Tocharian, which has in turn led to some reconsideration of its position in the family tree. All in all, most especially in the analysis of the IE verbal system, but also in other areas, there is a fair amount of recent work which assumes/implies highly divergent subgroupings of the IE family. Invited speakers: JAY JASANOFF, Cornell University CRAIG MELCHERT, University of North Carolina DON RINGE, University of Pennsylvania We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome papers from related disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide camera-ready copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 1998. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. We ask that you make your abstract as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Send abstracts to: BLS 24 Abstract Committees, 2337 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2650. Abstracts for the general session, special session, and parasession must be received by 4:00 p.m., November 7, 1997. Emailed abstracts will be accepted on the condition that they be included as ACSII text in the message themselves, or be included as a text file, saved in Word, MacWrite, or Clarisworks, and encoded in Binhex. Length restrictions for emailed abstracts are 500 words plus the equivalent of one typed page for references. We may be contacted by e-mail at blsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue