LINGUIST List 17.256: Uto-Aztecan Langs/USA;General Ling/Italy

LINGUIST List 17.256

Wed Jan 25 2006

Calls: Uto-Aztecan Langs/USA;General Ling/Italy

Editor for this issue: Kevin Burrows <kevinlinguistlist.org>

Directory 1. Naomi Fox, Friends of Uto-Aztecan Languages Conference
2. Matthieu Constant, Lexis and Grammar Conference 2006

Message 1: Friends of Uto-Aztecan Languages Conference
Date: 25-Jan-2006
From: Naomi Fox <naomi.foxutah.edu>
Subject: Friends of Uto-Aztecan Languages Conference

Full Title: Friends of Uto-Aztecan Languages Conference Short Title: FUAC
Date: 23-Aug-2006 - 27-Aug-2006 Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Contact Person: Mauricio Mixco
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Uto-Aztecan

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

The FRIENDS OF UTO-AZTECAN LANGUAGES CONFERENCE will now be held August 23-27, 2006, on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah.

FRIENDS OF UTO-AZTECAN LANGUAGES CONFERENCE

Call for PapersDates: The FRIENDS OF UTO-AZTECAN LANGUAGES CONFERENCE (previously announced for June 29-July 1) will now be held August 23-27, 2006, on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Call for papers: We invite papers dealing with any aspect of Uto-Aztecan languages and cultures. Native American participants are especially invited. Papers are 20 minutes each in length, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.

Deadline: ABSTRACTS MUST BE RECEIVED by March 15, 2006. The program committee will attempt to provide notification of acceptance by March 30 (by e-mail).

Please note:Bilingual Session presentations can be in Spanish or English. Abstracts in Spanish (or English) can be submitted for consideration for this session.

Abstract submission guidelines: - The abstract should be no more than one page in length; shorter is acceptable. It should include the title of the paper and the name (or names) of the author/authors, together with the author's/authors' affiliation. (If the paper is accepted, this abstract will be reproduced in conference materials to be distributed to other participants.)

- Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail. Submissions should be in Microsoft Word document, Rich Text Format (RTF), or Portable Document Format (PDF). If possible, avoid special fonts (or arrange with the organizers so they can be read).

- Please include with your abstract appropriate contact details, which include: contact author's name, e-mail address for the period of time from January to June 2006, and a telephone contact number.

- Only one abstract per person may be submitted. (The only exception may be in instances where at least one of the papers has multiple authors.)

- Address: Please send abstracts to: lyle.campbelllinguistics.utah.edu). Si necesita información dificil de comunicar por correo electrónico, favor de llamar al: Tel. 801-587-0720 or 801-581-3441 durante las horas de trabajo (Mountain Standard Time/hora de la montaña), o marque el Fax 801-585-7351.

Message 2: Lexis and Grammar Conference 2006
Date: 24-Jan-2006
From: Matthieu Constant <mconstanuniv-mlv.fr>
Subject: Lexis and Grammar Conference 2006

Full Title: Lexis and Grammar Conference 2006
Date: 06-Sep-2006 - 09-Sep-2006 Location: Palermo, Sicily, Italy Contact Person: Eric Laporte
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/english/Colloques/Palerme/index.html
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 09-Apr-2006

Meeting Description:

The 25th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar will take place in Palermo, Sicily, on September 6-9, 2006.

The Conference welcomes innovative papers on the formal description of languages, as well as on the construction, management and use of language resources, from different theoretical frameworks.

The Conference will combine for the first time a general session and a thematic session which will focus on phraseology and multiword expressions.

Lexis and Grammar Conference 2006The 25th International Conference on Lexis and GrammarSeptember 6-9, 2006

http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/english/Colloques/Palerme/index.html

Submission deadline: April 9, 2006

The 25th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar will take place in Palermo, Sicily, on September 6-9, 2006.

It will be the 25th anniversary of the first Conference in this series, the Colloque européen sur les lexiques et grammaires comparés des langues romanes, organised by Alain Guillet and Nunzio La Fauci in Palermo in September 1981. It will be dedicated to the memory of Alain Guillet.

The Conference welcomes innovative papers on the formal description of languages, as well as on the construction, management and use of language resources, from different theoretical frameworks.The Conference will combine for the first time a general session and a thematic session.

The thematic session of the 25th International Conference on Lexis and Grammar will focus on phraseology and multiword expressions, including, but not limited to:

* idioms and semi-frozen phrases, * local grammars, * collocations, * compound words, * complex predicates and support verb or light verb constructions.

Submissions for the general session may address any of the usual topics of the Conference:

* predicate-argument structures, * the interface between lexis and grammar, * language resources exploitable for language processing, * language resources concerning lexis or grammar.

The languages of the Conference are English and French.Submission information can be found here<http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/english/Colloques/Palerme/submission.html>.

Organisation : Ignazio Mirto (University of Palermo)

Scientific Committee : Mirella Conenna (Univ. Bari), Maxime Crochemore (CNRS-Univ. Marne-la-Vallée), Laurence Danlos (Univ. Paris 7), André Dugas (UQAM), Annibale Elia (Univ. Salerno), Cédrick Fairon (Catholic Univ. Louvain-la-Neuve), Christiane Fellbaum (Univ. Princeton), Jacqueline Giry-Schneider (CNRS-Univ. Marne-la-Vallée), Gaston Gross (CNRS-Univ. Paris 13), Franz Guenthner (Univ. Maximilian, Munich), Lauri Karttunen (Xerox), Cvetana Krstev (Univ. Belgrade), Tita Kyriacopoulou (CNRS-Univ. Thessaloniki), Jacques Labelle (UQAM), Nunzio La Fauci (Univ. Zurich), Béatrice Lamiroy (Univ. Leuven), Éric Laporte (CNRS-Univ. Marne-la-Vallée), Christian Leclère (CNRS-Univ. Marne-la-Vallée), Peter Machonis (Florida International Univ.), Denis Maurel (Univ. Tours), Annie Meunier (CNRS-Univ. Marne-la-Vallée), Christian Molinier (Univ. Toulouse-le-Mirail), Karel Pala (Masaryk Univ., Brno), Martha Palmer (Univ. Colorado), Mireille Piot (CNRS-Univ. Grenoble 3), Elisabete Marques Ranchhod (Univ. Lisbon), AntoinetteRenouf (UCE Birmingham)