LINGUIST List 18.2493

Fri Aug 24 2007

Calls: General Ling, Chinese Lang/USA

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

Directory         1.    Marjorie K.M. Chan, 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
Message 1: 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
Date: 23-Aug-2007
From: Marjorie K.M. Chan <chan.9osu.edu>
Subject: 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
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Full Title: 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics Short Title: NACCL-20

Date: 25-Apr-2008 - 27-Apr-2008 Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA Contact Person: Marjorie K.M. Chan Meeting Email: naccl-20osu.edu Web Site: http://chinalinks.osu.edu/naccl-20/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Old Chinese (och) Chinese, Yue (yue) Chinese Sign Language (csl) Chinese, Gan (gan) Chinese, Hakka (hak) Chinese, Huizhou (czh) Chinese, Jinyu (cjy) Chinese, Mandarin (cmn) Chinese, Min Bei (mnp) Chinese, Min Dong (cdo) Chinese, Min Nan (nan) Chinese, Min Zhong (czo) Chinese, Pu-Xian (cpx) Chinese, Wu (wuu) Chinese, Xiang (hsn) Late Middle Chinese (ltc)

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2007

Meeting Description:

The annually-held North America Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) returns to Columbus, Ohio, for its 20th anniversary. NACCL-20 will be held on 25-27 April 2008 at The Ohio State University, the birthplace of NACCL!

[Note: Please use this slightly revised version. Thank you. -- Marjorie Chan]

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all theoretical, as well as applied, research areas of Chinese linguistics. Abstract submission details and other information on the conference are online at the NACCL-20 website at:

http://chinalinks.osu.edu/naccl-20/

The two keynote speakers are: (1) Professor James H-Y. Tai (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan), who was the architect and senior organizer of NACCL-1 while he was a faculty member at The Ohio State University, and (2) Professor Yen-hui Audrey Li (University of Southern California), organizer of NACCL-6 and creator of the NACCL Proceedings series that is distributed by GSIL Publications at USC.

A special invited guest is Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank (Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada), to whom The Proceedings of the Twentieth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics will be dedicated, in honor of his eighty-fifth birthday, which he celebrated in early August 2007.