LINGUIST List 17.2752

Mon Sep 25 2006

Calls: General Ling/USA

Editor for this issue: Dan Parker <danlinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Suleyman Ulutas, 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics

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Message 1: 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics
Date: 25-Sep-2006
From: Suleyman Ulutas <waflfas.harvard.edu>
Subject: 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics


Full Title: 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics Short Title: WAFL4

Date: 18-May-2006 - 20-May-2006 Location: Cambridge, MA, USA Contact Person: Cedric Boeckx Meeting Email: waflfas.harvard.edu Web Site: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/events.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Altaic

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2006

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University is pleased to announce the Fourth Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL4) to be held in Cambridge, MA on May 18-20, 2007.

Invited Speakers: C.-T. James Huang (Harvard University) Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University) Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) Donca Steriade (MIT) James H.-S. Yoon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Abstracts dealing with issues pertaining to the nature of parametric variation are especially encouraged.

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion) on topics dealing with formal aspects of any area of theoretical Altaic linguistics, including syntax, phonology, morphology, and semantics. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is December 31, 2006. Email submissions (pdf format) only.

Abstracts should be no more than 2 pages long. Submissions are limited to one abstract per author.

WAFL4 Organizing Committee Department of Linguistics Harvard University Boylston Hall, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 USA