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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>**
Call for papers **<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>American
Association for Corpus Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Date:
March 13-15, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Place:
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Brigham</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Young</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Provo</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Utah</st1:State>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Website:
http://corpus.byu.edu/aacl2008<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Invited
speakers (alphabetical order):<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Harald
Baayen, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Alberta</st1:PlaceName> (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Doug
Biber, Northern <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Arizona</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Laurel
Brinton, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">British Columbia</st1:PlaceName> (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Susan
Hunston, <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Birmingham</st1:PlaceName> (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Tony
McEnery, <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Lancaster</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> (<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>General
AA(A)CL Information<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Previous
conferences of the American Association for (Applied) Corpus Linguistics have
been held at different universities in the United States since 1998, including
Northern Arizona University (2006, 2000), the University of Michigan (2005,
1999), Montclair State ( 2004), IUPUI (2002), and Univ. Massachusetts-Boston
(2001).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>----------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Submission
of Abstracts and Proposals<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Faculty,
graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for
20-minute papers on any aspect of corpus linguistics. Papers are welcome from a
range of subfields, including corpus creation, corpus annotation, linguistic
analyses of corpora, register/genre variation, lexicography, parallel corpora,
tagging and parsing, software development, and the use of corpora in language
learning and teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Abstracts
are due Sep 28, 2007. Abstracts for 20-minute papers should be no longer than
350 words. Abstracts and proposals should be submitted as e-mail attachments in
MS Word format to <aacl2008@byu.edu>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Abstracts
will undergo anonymous review. Please provide author name and contact info and
the paper title in the body of the email to which the abstract is attached, and
omit author information from the abstract itself. Please send abstracts as PDF
files as well as MS Word files if they contain any specialized fonts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>---------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Important
dates: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sep
28 2007: Abstracts due<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Oct
26 2007: Notification to presenters<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Jan
25 2008: Registration due<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Mar
13-15 2008: Conference<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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