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Thu Jun 10 2004

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vancet, 14th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

albanian, Contemporary Approaches to Albanian

Message 1: 14th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:15:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: vancet <vancetu.arizona.edu>
Subject: 14th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference

14th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference Short Title: J/K14

Date: 05-Nov-2004 - 07-Nov-2004 Location: Tucson, Arizona, United States of America Contact: Timothy Vance Contact Email: vancetu.arizona.edu Meeting URL: http://www.coh.arizona.edu/jk14

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics

Subject Language: Japanese ,Korean

Call Deadline: 25-Jun-2004

Meeting Description:

The 14th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held November 5-7, 2004, sponsored by the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Keynote Speakers will be Ho-min Sohn (University of Hawaii) and Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT). Other Invited Speakers will be Shoko Hamano (George Washington University), Shoichi Iwasaki (UCLA), Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA), and Hyo Sang Lee (Indiana University).

The Abstract Deadline has been extended to JUNE 25, 2004. The body of your abstract must be no longer than one page. You may use a second page for references and/or illustrations. If your absract is accepted, it will be reproduced as is in the conference program, so please make sure that you are satisfied with its appearance. You may submit your abstract on paper by snail-mail or as a pdf file attached to an e-mail message. Please see the conference website for details.

Message 2: Contemporary Approaches to Albanian

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:09:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: albanian <albanianuos.de>
Subject: Contemporary Approaches to Albanian

Contemporary Approaches to Albanian

Date: 10-Sep-2004 - 12-Sep-2004 Location: Osnabrueck, Germany Contact: Jochen Trommer Contact Email: albanianuos.de Meeting URL: http://www.ling.uni-osnabrueck.de/caa/

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Subject Language Family: Albanian Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2004

Meeting Description:

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on Albanian in contemporary linguistic paradigms (psycholinguistics, generative grammar, accoustic phonetics, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics), but also more traditional linguists who are interested in the creation of new up-to-date language documentation ressources for Albanian. Besides presentations on theoretical aspects of Albanian linguistics, the workshop will also contain round tables with the goal to initiate international research projects on Albanian, and especially an electronic corpus of the language.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Although Albanian has a number of features which make it especially interesting for Linguistics and Cognitive Science, research on the language in fields such as psycholinguistics, generative grammar and accoustic phonetics is restricted to single scholars in different countries. This workshop has three closely related goals:

* Bringing together researchers working on Albanian in contemporary linguistic paradigms

Providing a forum for contemporary studies on Albanian is especially important since there are no conferences or workshops even approaching this function. Work on Albanian is usually presented at meetings with a pan-Balkanic and/or traditional-descriptive character featuring only one or two presentations on Albanian. While the dialogue between scholars working on different Balkan languages is necessary and often fruitful, these occasions do not allow to develop a dialogue on the specific problems of Albanian.

* Discussing and initiating further international research initiatives and projects

Projects like the phonetic description of Albanian dialects or the creation of an Albanian text corpus can neither be achieved by universities in Albanian-speaking countries alone, nor by single scholars on Albanian spread world-wide. Our workshop is intended as a starting point for initiatives to start large-scale research projects in an international setting.

* Initiating contemporary linguistic research in Albanian-speaking countries/regions (Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia)

Most people doing linguistic research in Albanian-speaking countries have been working for decades in complete isolation from recent developments in Cognitive Science and linguistic theory. After the fall of the communist regime, there have been few economic resources to catch up. A major goal of the workshop is to bring together linguists from Albanian-speaking countries and from Western countries, and to develop perspectives for opening linguistic research in Albania to current paradigms in linguistics theory.

AMONG THE INVITED SPEAKERS ARE (to be confirmed):

Ethem Likaj Universiteti i Tiran�s Francesco Altimari Universit� della Calabria, Cosenza Jean-Louis Duchet Universit� de Poitiers Maria-Luisa Rivero University of Ottawa Leonardo Savoia Universit� degli Studi di Firenze Maria Rita Manzini Universit� degli Studi di Firenze Sylvia Moosm�ller �sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Dalina Kallulli, University of Vienna Giuseppina Turano, University of Venice Jochen Trommer, University of Osnabrueck

ABSTRACT GUIDELINES:

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than one page (an additional page for references and examples can be included), with margins of at least 2 cm, font size 11. Submissions are limited to one singly authored and one jointly authored abstract per author, or two jointly authored abstracts.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:

We accept hardcopy or electronic submission of abstracts. Abstracts must be received by June 30, 2004. Please send 3 copies of a hardcopy abstract to the following address (include title, author and contact information on a separate sheet.):

Albanian Workshop University of Osnabrueck Institute of Cognitive Science Katharinenstrasse 24 D-49078 Osnabrueck Germany

Abstracts can also be sent electronically to the conference e-mail address (albanianuos.de) as attachments in PDF, plain text or word format. If non-standard fonts are required, use the 'embed fonts' option in a PDF when you save the file. Include title, author and contact information in the body of the email.