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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT size=3>The 15th conference of the Austronesian Formal
Linguistics Association will be held at the University of Sydney from June 30 to
July 2, 2008. <BR><BR>The conference will be one of a group of linguistics
events being held at the University of Sydney at that time under the general
name of LingFest2008 . Other events include ALI 2008, ALS 2008, LFG 2008 and
ALAA 2008. <BR><BR>Invited speakers:<BR>Robert A. Blust (Hawai'i)<BR>Mary
Dalrymple (Oxford)<BR>Elizabeth Pearce (Wellington)<BR><BR>Conference Website:
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size=3>http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/conferences/index.php/LingFest2008/AFLA/</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
size=3>Call for Papers:<BR>Call Deadline:
11-Feb-2008<BR><BR>Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (20 minute
presentations + 10 minute question-and-answer period) on any aspect of the
formal linguistic analysis ( e.g. language acquisition, morphology, phonology,
phonetics, semantics, syntax) of any Austronesian language. Applicants are
limited to only one singly-authored and one jointly-authored
abstract.<BR>Abstracts should be anonymous and should not exceed one A4 page
with a 2.5cm margin on each side and in at least 12 pt. Times New Roman font. A
second page should be submitted with the title of your paper and names and
affiliations of authors. All material is to be submitted in .pdf. Non-standard
fonts should be avoided wherever possible, and if necessary should be embedded
in the .pdf document. Please indicate the subfield (Morphology, Phonology,
Syntax, etc.) to which you consider your abstract belongs at the bottom of the
first page. <BR>Abstracts are to be submitted online, beginning December 17,
2007, on the AFLA 15 website. Please follow the ''Proposal Submission'' link and
follow the instructions there. Note that you have to register as a user before
it is possible to submit your abstract, and that you must supply a text-only
version of the abstract on the web form in addition to uploading a .pdf version.
Only abstracts uploaded before the final deadline at the conference website and
only those following the guidelines specified above will be accepted.
<BR><BR>Submission Deadline: 23:59 Aus EST (GMT +10:00) on February 11,
2008<BR><BR>Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2008<BR><BR>Organising
Committee:<BR>Mark Donohue (Monash)<BR>Simon Musgrave (Monash)<BR>Wayan Arka
(ANU) <BR>Jeremy Hammond (Sydney)<BR>Jane Simpson (Sydney - LingFest2008
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