LINGUIST List 21.2735

Sun Jun 27 2010

Calls: Romance, Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories/Netherlands

Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org>

        1.    Roberta D'Alessandro, Going Romance 24
Message 1: Going Romance 24
Date: 25-Jun-2010
From: Roberta D'Alessandro <r.dalessandrohum.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Going Romance 24
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Full Title: Going Romance 24
Date: 09-Dec-2010 - 11-Dec-2010 Location: Leiden, Netherlands Contact Person: Going Romance 2010 Conference Organizer
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://hum.leiden.edu/lucl/going-romance/
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories

Language Family(ies): Romance

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2010

Meeting Description:

Going Romance is the European conference series that focuses on Romance languages from the perspective of current linguistic theorizing. In the two decades of its existence, it has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are discussed.

Going Romance has a steering committee, in which all Dutch universities that are involved in research on Romance languages are represented. It is organised every year, in the first half of December.

Going Romance is the European conference series that focuses on Romancelanguages from the perspective of current linguistic theorizing. In more thantwo decades of its existence, it has developed into the major Europeandiscussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages wherecurrent ideas about language in general and about Romance languages inparticular are discussed.

Going Romance 24 will take place in Leiden (Netherlands) on December 9-10 2010and will be followed by the Going Romance Workshop 'Non-Romance features inRomance languages' on December 11 2010.

The invited speakers for Going Romance 24 are:

Ana Arregui

João Costa

Rita Manzini

Tobias Scheer

Call for Papers

Papers on all areas of Romance linguistics are welcome. Abstracts are invitedfor 30-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion).

Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than two pages, including referencesand examples, with margins of at least 1-inch, font size 12, single spaced.Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstractper author and should be submitted to: goingromance2010gmail.com.

Authors are asked to submit their abstracts as PDF e-mail attachments. Theabstract should include the title, but not the author's name(s). The title ofthe paper, name of the author(s), affiliation(s), address, phone number, and e-mail address should be included in the e-mail message.

Please indicate whether you submit your paper for the general sessions or forthe workshop. All authors who present their work at the conference will beinvited to submit their paper for the peer reviewed volume in the RomanceLanguages and Linguistic Theory series, published by John Benjamins.


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