LINGUIST List 17.2729

Sun Sep 24 2006

Confs: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Description/Brazil

Editor for this issue: Jeremy Taylor <jeremylinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Mônica Borges, IV Encontro da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Crioulos e Similares

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Message 1: IV Encontro da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Crioulos e Similares
Date: 23-Sep-2006
From: Mônica Borges <mvborges8yahoo.com.br>
Subject: IV Encontro da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Crioulos e Similares



IV Encontro da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Crioulos e Similares Short Title: IV ABECS


Date: 18-Oct-2006 - 20-Oct-2006 Location: Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil Contact: Mônica Borges Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.letras.ufg.br/abecs.html

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Description; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

The program for the IV Meeting of the ABECS (Associação Brasileira de Estudos Crioulos e Similares), which will take place in Goiânia (Goiás, Brazil) next month (October 18-20, 2006), is now available at the conference's website:

http://www.letras.ufg.br/progra_abecs.html

The program for the IV Meeting of the ABECS (Associação Brasileira de Estudos Crioulos e Similares), which will take place in Goiânia (Goiás, Brazil) next month (October 18-20, 2006), is now available at the conference's website:

http://www.letras.ufg.br/progra_abecs.html

Besides its traditional focus on (Portuguese-based) creoles, pidgins, and nonstandard varieties of European languages (especially Portuguese), this year's meeting includes a number of papers on native South American languages, dealing with descriptive and comparative topics and issues of language preservation and bilingual education.

For additional information, please contact the organizing committee at abecs_goyahoo.com.br.

Sincerely,

The organizing committee

Mônica Veloso Borges (Universidade Federal de Goiás), coordinator Tânia Ferreira Rezende Santos (Universidade Federal de Goiás) Hildo Honório do Couto (Universidade de Brasília) Margarida Petter (Universidade de São Paulo)