<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Arial; ">FORMAL APPROACHES TO CELTIC LINGUISTICS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">The Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona is proud to announce a special conference, funded by the National Science Foundation*, on Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. The focus of this conference is on modern theoretical approaches to the Celtic languages, with an emphasis on the following questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><span></span>i)<span> </span>How does data from the Celtic languages, with their unique typological properties, inform formal theories of grammar? What challenges does this data pose to current understanding and how should theories of grammar be modified to deal with the data from Celtic languages?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><span></span>ii)<span> </span>How do current advances in formal theories improve our understanding of the grammar of Celtic languages?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><span></span>iii) <span></span>How can formal theoretical linguistics inform the documentation of the endangered Celtic languages?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Confirmed Invited Speakers at the conference include:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">David Adger, Queen Mary University, London<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Anna Bosch, University of Kentucky<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">SJ Hannahs, Newcastle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Randall Hendrick, University of North Carolina<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Mélanie Jouitteau, Université de Paris 7<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">James McCloskey, University of California, Santa Cruz<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Máire Ní Chiosain, University College Dublin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Maggie Tallerman, Newcastle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Gillian Ramchand, University of Tromsø<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">… and others to be announced.<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">The conference will be accompanied by a one-week for-credit Mini-course for graduate and undergraduate students interested in pursuing Celtic Linguistics (which runs March 23-29<sup>, </sup>2009). Details of this mini-course will be made in a separate announcement.<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><span> </span>Abstracts related to the conference theme are invited for a limited number of 45 minute talks (35 minutes for talk + 10 for discussion).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><u><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Details</span></u><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Abstracts: 1-2 pages, 12 point font, 1 inch margins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Abstract Deadline:<span> </span>Midnight MST, February 15<sup>th</sup>, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Address for abstracts (submission by email only) and more information: </span><a href="mailto:faclconf@gmail.com"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">faclconf@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Conference webpage: </span><a href="http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~gaelic/facl/"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~gaelic/facl/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Workshop Dates: March 27-29th, 2009 (mini course runs March 23-29th, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; ">Location: The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">*Funding graciously provided by the National Science Foundation Grant: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria; ">BCS0819117</span> <br></body></html>