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Call for Papers: 1999 Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium The 25th annual Deseret Language and Linguistics Symposium (DLLS) invites papers in all areas of linguistics and language for our 1999 symposium to be held on February 18th and 19th, 1999. This year's Plenary Speaker is John R. Searle, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. To apply, please submit a DLLS proposal form including an abstract for review of no more than 250 words by email or regular mail by Friday, December 11, 1998 to either Alan_ManningMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuebyu.edu or Alan Manning Linguistics Department 2129 JKHB Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 More information about the society and the symposium (including the proposal submission form) can be readily accessed at: http://english.byu.edu/societies/DLLS
THE 15TH ANNUAL MEETING---ISRAELI ASSOCIATION FOR THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS IATL 15 June 16-17 1999 HAIFA UNIVERSITY, HAIFA INVITED SPEAKERS: Mark Aronoff (SUNY, Stony Brook) (Second Speaker to be announced) IATL 15, the 15th annual meeting of the Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics, will be held in Haifa University, Haifa on June 16-17, 1999. Submissions are invited for papers presenting high quality, previously unpublished research in all areas of theoretical linguistics. IATL publishes a working papers-style proceedings in which all accepted and alternate papers appear. Please send 7 copies of an anonymous abstract (maximum length 2 pages) accompanied by a card with author's name, affiliation, e/snail-mail, and title of paper to: IATL 15, Linguistics Programme, Department of English, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91905 Israel. Deadline: Feb 8, 1999. Electronic submission (.ps format ONLY) is possible. Not more than one single-authored abstract per person, plus one co-authored abstract. IMPORTANT DATES: Febuary 8, 1999: abstract submission deadline March 25, 1999: notification to authors of acceptance June 16-17,1999: IATL conference Further information from: msjihadMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuemscc.huji.ac.il IATL 15 will be held adjacently to PRAGMA 99 and to BIFSAI 6. PRAGMA 99, to be held during June 13-15, 1999 at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is an interdisciplinary international conference on Pragmatics and Negotiation bringing together pragmaticists, linguists, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists. Among the plenary speakers: Elinor Ochs (UCLA), Itamar Rabinovitch (Tel Aviv University), Emanual Schegloff (UCLA), Thomas Schelling (University of Maryland), Deborah Schiffrin (Georgetown University), Deborah Tannen (Georgetown University), Ruth Wodak (University of Vienna). For further information contact: pragma99
post.tau.ac.il BIFSAI 6 is the sixth biennial Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, to be held on June 23-25, 1999 in Ramat Gan, Israel. The symposium is international in scope, with invited lectures by leading researchers and contributed papers on foundations of AI. The invited speakers for BISFAI-99 include Stan Rosenschein of Stanford University and Leo Joskowicz of Hebrew University. You may contact bisfai
cs.ciu.ac.il for further information, or visit the BISFAI-99 website at http://www.cs.biu.ac.il:8080/~bisfai. This site is mirrored in the United States at http://www-formal.stanford.edu/leora/bisfai