LINGUIST List 19.175

Tue Jan 15 2008

Calls: Syntax/Russia; General Ling/Canada

Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>

        1.    Natalia Korotkova, Syntactic Structures 2
         2.    Meg Webb, McGill's Conference for Linguistics Undergrads
Message 1: Syntactic Structures 2
Date: 15-Jan-2008
From: Natalia Korotkova <alterainugmail.com>
Subject: Syntactic Structures 2
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Full Title: Syntactic Structures 2

Date: 03-Apr-2008 - 04-Apr-2008 Location: Moscow, Russia Contact Person: Natalia Korotkova Meeting Email: syntax.mskgmail.com Web Site: http://syntactic-structures.ru

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Call Deadline: 20-Jan-2008

Meeting Description

The Russian State University for the Humanities plans to hold a young researchers conference on various issues in syntax.

The conference is not limited to any framework or any particular topic and encourages participants with different linguistic backgrounds working on languages of different families to submit abstracts of their work in formal syntax and typology as well as theoretically and typologically oriented descriptive works.

Invited Speakers

Ekaterina Lyutikova, Moscow State University David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Maria Polinsky, Harvard University Peter Svenonius, University of Tromsø Anton Tsimmerling, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Official languages: English, Russian

Second Call for Papers

Syntactic Structures 2 Conference of Young Researchers

The Russian State University for the Humanities plans to hold a young researchers conference on various issues in syntax.

Submission Guidelines

An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract for a 20 minute presentation (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstracts should be at most 2 pages in length (including examples and references), submitted in PDF, RTF or TXT format, 12-point font, with 2.5 cm margins throughout. Anonymous abstracts should be emailed to syntax.msk[at]gmail.com. Please include the author('s) name(s), affiliation('s), contact information and the title of the abstract in the body of the email.

This year the Fourth Formal Semantics in Moscow (FSIM 4) workshop will be held right after the Syntactic Structures 2 on April 5--6 at ABBYY Production. This will allow people to attend both of the conferences. The workshop welcomes any presentation on the field of formal semantics and formal pragmatics of natural language. More information on http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=62320.

Organizing Committee

Vadim Kimmelman, Russian State University for the Humanities Natalia Korotkova, Russian State University for the Humanities Alexander Letuchiy, Institute of Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences & Centre for the Study of Indigenous Languages of America, Paris Vitaly Volk, Moscow State University

Yakov Testelets, Russian State University for the Humanities -- mentor of the organizing committee
Message 2: McGill's Conference for Linguistics Undergrads
Date: 15-Jan-2008
From: Meg Webb <margaret.webbmail.mcgill.ca>
Subject: McGill's Conference for Linguistics Undergrads
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Full Title: McGill's Conference for Linguistics Undergrads Short Title: McCCLU

Date: 28-Mar-2008 - 30-Mar-2008 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Contact Person: Meg Webb Meeting Email: mccclu2008gmail.com by Monday February 25th, 2008. Please indicate whether you would like to be considered for a 20-minute talk or for the poster session or both.