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style="font-family: "Courier New";">ALT News
No. 39<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";">July 2006<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">1. ALT VII,
Paris 2007<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">2. ALT VIII,
Berkeley 200<o:p></o:p></span>9
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">3. Contact
information<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">1. ALT VII,
Paris 2007<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">In
previous ALT conferences we have had difficulties in assessing
the relative merits of workshops and individual papers, and in knowing
in
advance how much time within the program to assign to workshops. For
the
upcoming </span><st1:City><st1:place><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">Paris</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">
conference we therefore decided
to assign two workshop slots, and call for proposals in advance of the
call for
individual papers. This would then allow papers from unsuccessful
workshop
proposals to be submitted as individual papers - and, if enough on a
particular
theme are then successful, they will be scheduled in thematic blocks.<br>
<br>
Following our call for workshop proposals earlier this year, four were
received. Since two of them involved people also on the program
committee, we
set up a special committee to evaluate them, all members of which had
no
connection with any of the workshop proposals. This committee was made
up of
the following people:</span><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> Johan van
der Auwera, Nick Evans, Ekkehard König, Brian
Migliazza, Marianne Mithun, Edith Moravcsik. David Gil, Chair of the
Program
Committee, collated the results but did not himself give scores.</span><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The
results of this committee are now in and the following two
proposals scored highest and will be incorporated into the </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Paris</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
conference. Both
deal with relatively neglected areas of linguistic typology.</span><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br>
Information Structure (Organizers: Bernard Comrie, M.M. Jocelyne
Fernandez-Vest)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Lexical
Typology (Organizers: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Martine
Vanhove)<br>
<br>
This was a difficult decision, since all four proposals were
excellent,
and we hope that papers from the other two workshops will be
resubmitted to the
conference for assessment as individual papers.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Nick Evans</span><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">2. ALT VIII,
Berkeley 2009<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">ALT VIII will be held at
the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span lang="EN-GB"
style="font-size: 12pt;">University</span></st1:PlaceType><span
lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span
lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">California</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span
lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Berkeley</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"> in July 2009.<span style=""> </span>Exact
dates are still to be confirmed, but we have requested July 24-27. The
meeting will be held during the LSA Summer Linguistics Institute, also
hosted by UC Berkeley, and we are working with the International
Cognitive Linguistics Conference organizers to have the ALT and ICLC
meetings back to back.<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Johanna Nichols<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt;">Larry Hyman<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">3. Contact
information<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Members will see
their contact
information at<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt/namelist.htm">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt/namelist.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Members are
requested to notify
changes to Peter Kahrel and Johan van der Auwera. An ordinary e-mail
message
will do; the <i style="">join</i> form should not be
used to that purpose.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Nick
Evans[President]<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New";">University</span></st1:PlaceType><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Melbourne</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="">
</span>tel +61 3 8344 8988<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Parkville Victoria<span
style="">
</span>fax +61 3 8344 8990<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Australia<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";">E-mail:<span
style="">
</span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:nrd@unimelb.edu.au">nrd@unimelb.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Frans
Plank [Editor-in-chief, Linguistic Typology]<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Sprachwissenschaft<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Universität Konstanz<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Courier New";">D-78457 Konstanz<span
style="">
</span>tel + 49 7531 88 26 56<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-family: "Courier New";">Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="">
</span>fax + 49 7531 88 27
41<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">E-mail:<span
style="">
</span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de">frans.plank@uni-konstanz.de</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p></o:p></span><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Johan van
der Auwera [Secretary-Treasurer]<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Linguistiek<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Universiteit Antwerpen<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">B-2610 Antwerpen<span style="">
</span>tel + 32 3 820 27 76<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Courier New";">Belgium<span
style="">
</span>fax + 32 3 820 27 62<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Courier New";">E-mail:<span
style="">
</span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:johan.vanderauwera@ua.ac.be">johan.vanderauwera@ua.ac.be</a><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<br>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Courier New";">On the
WEB:<span style=""> </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt/">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/alt/</a><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
</font></big><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Courier New";"><big><font
face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Webmaster : Peter Kahrel<span
style="">
</span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:p.kahrel@lancaster.ac.uk">p.kahrel@lancaster.ac.uk</a></font></big><o:p></o:p></span>
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