LINGUIST List 14.848

Sun Mar 23 2003

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  • ellyvangelderen, 32st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest
  • jan, 33rd Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

    Message 1: 32st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest

     Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:46:05 -0700 (MST)
    From: ellyvangelderen <ellyvangelderenasu.edu>
    Subject: 32st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest


    LASSO 32 CFP

    The 32st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest will be hosted by the University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA), located in the subtropical Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas from Friday, October 17 to Sunday, October 19, 2003. This year's theme is "Crossing Linguistic Borders." (Papers in all areas of linguistics will be accepted, as usual). The Plenary Speakers will be Joshua A. Fishman, Professor Emeritus from Yeshiva University, General Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and author of numerous works, who will speak on "Distancing and Interaction: The Status Agenda in Corpus Planning" and Jos G. Moreno de Alba, research fellow of the Instituto de Investigaciones Filolgicas and professor at Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, and author of numerous books on Spanish in the Americas, whose topic is "El Atlas Ling��stico de M�xico." Peter Gingiss, from the University of Houston, will deliver the Presidential Address.

    The conference will be held on the campus of UTPA in the University Library. Edinburg, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, is central to several areas of interest. These include the resort areas of South Padre Island, usually very nice in October, and Mexican border towns, such as where Reynosa, shopping and restaurants abound. Monterrey, Mexico is only three hours driving from Edinburg, for those interested in more than the border region. In addition, there are abundant opportunities for hunting and fishing; ecotourism is also a big draw as the LRGV hosts approximately 500 species of birds. October is also the month to view numerous butterflies in the Texas Butterfly Festival in Mission (next door to Edinburg). This area of the U.S. is among the fastest growing suburban-metropolitan areas of the country.

    Additional information on the conference itself, as well as on travel and other local arrangements, will be provided in the August newsletter. In the meantime, questions can be directed to Hugo A. Mejas or Pamela L Anderson-Mejas, 2003 Conference Co-chairs, phone: (956) 381-3445, e-mail: mejiashpanam.edu or Pamela L. Anderson-Mejas at pla66f5panam.edu.

    Abstracts for the conference may now be submitted. Papers in any area of linguistics are welcome, but papers on the conference theme "Crossing Linguistic Borders" are encouraged. Program arrangements are the responsibility of the LASSO Vice-President/President-Elect, Elly van Gelderen. All proposals for papers, special sessions, panels, or other program features should be submitted by e-mail at: ellyvangelderenasu.edu or regular Mail: Arizona State University English Department Tempe, AZ 85287-0302, USA

    Student papers can be considered for the Helmut Esau Prize, a $250 cash award made annually by LASSO for the best student paper (see story, p.3).

    The abstract deadline is June 1, 2003.

    Message 2: 33rd Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

     Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 07:38:20 +0000
    From: jan <janstuts.de>
    Subject: 33rd Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft


    33. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft Short Title: XXXIII. StuTS

    Date: 28-May-2003 - 01-Jun-0200 Location: Marburg an der Lahn, Germany Contact: Christoph Purschke Contact Email: stutshinkepott.de Meeting URL: http://www.uni-marburg.de/linguistik/stuts/welcome.htm

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    The Studtent's Conference on Linguistics (StuTS) is traditionally organized by students and for studets and takes place twice a year at different cities in Germany and Austria. It is not focused on any particular theoretical framework and open for contributions from every field of linguistics and neighbouring disciplines. Main language of the StuTS will be German, but papers in English are welcome as well. Papers (called Arbeitsgemeinschaften, AG) should be approx. 90 minutes including discussion. Papers from all subfields of linguistics are welcome, be it MA/PhD theses or term papers or any individual topics.

    Any person interested in the StuTS is welcome to participate. There is no obligation to deliver a paper and participants from abroad are exlpicitly invited to take part in this event.

    There will be a modest registration fee of 10-15 Euro which will cover conference materials and breakfast at the venue. Accomodation (live-in at other stutents' rooms; dormitory, etc.) will be provided free of charge by the organizers.

    For more information (German only) on the XXXIII StuTS see: http://www.uni-marburg.de/linguistik/stuts/welcome.htm

    For general Information on teh StuTS see: http://www.stuts.de/about.html

    Online-Registration is available at: http://www.stuts.de/anmeldung.html