LINGUIST List 8.1653

Mon Nov 17 1997

Calls: Italian Linguistics,Penn Linguistics Colloquium

Editor for this issue: Anita Huang <anitalinguistlist.org>

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1. Tom Cravens, CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS
2. Kieran Snyder, Penn Linguistics Colloquium

		American Association for Italian Studies
			Radisson Hotel, Chicago
	 Host institution: Loyola University
			 April 2-5, 1998


		CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - ITALIAN LINGUISTICS

Proposals are invited for twenty-minute presentations in a limited number of 
linguistics sessions at the 18th annual conference of the American Association
for Italian Studies.

AAIS linguistics sessions provide a friendly forum for the interchange of ideas
among linguists representing a variety of interests. Papers treating any
Italian 
linguistic topic are welcome, and selection will neither favor nor disfavor
any specific 
theoretical approach. Presentations may be in Italian or in English.

For full consideration, please send a 300-word abstract by November 25
(preferably
by email, unencoded ascii text) to:

Mario Saltarelli		or		Thomas D. Cravens
saltarelaol.com				cravensmacc.wisc.edu

Fax: 310-208-1912				Fax: 608-265-3892

124 THH					Dept. of French and Italian
University Park				618 Van Hise Hall
University of Southern California		1220 Linden Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90089			University of Wisconsin
					Madison, WI 53706


Further information on the conference is available at:

http:/www.luc.edu/depts/modern_lang/italian/aais

 **CALL FOR PAPERS**

 The Penn Linguistics Club Announces

 The Twenty-Second Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium

 Saturday 28 February and Sunday 1 March 1998

 Invited Speaker: HOWARD LASNIK, University of Connecticut


We welcome papers on any topic in linguistics and related fields. 
This year's Colloquium will feature a special session on interfaces between 
syntax and other subfields of linguistics, including but not limited to 
semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, phonology, 
psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and historical linguistics.

Speakers will have twenty minutes for their presentation and five minutes
for discussion and questions.

Prospective speakers should submit three copies of their abstract no later 
than Monday 15 December 1997 to:

 The Penn Linguistics Colloquium Committee
 Department of Linguistics
 619 Williams Hall
 University of Pennsylvania
 Philadelphia PA 19104-6305

Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages in a 12-point font with 1-inch
margins and should be accompanied by an index card including your name,
affiliation (department and institution), address, e-mail address and the
subfield of Linguistics (or related discipline) that you find most
appropriate to your topic. In particular, please indicate whether you 
would like your paper to be considered for inclusion in the special session. 
Submissions by e-mail to plc22babel.ling.upenn.edu are welcome.

Colloquium participants are invited to submit their paper to the Penn Review
of Linguistics, which will be published late in the Spring following the
Colloquium.

If you have further questions, please contact us at the above address or via
e-mail at plc22babel.ling.upenn.edu, or check out our homepage at 
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~bowie/plc22.html.


Sincerely,
The Colloquium Committee