First Circular for ICHL '97

[Spike Gildea]

Dear Sir or Madam,

    We would like to announce the ICHL 1997 on the functnet.  Enclosed is a
copy of the 1st circular.  If you have any questions, please contact
us via the ICHL-email.  Thank you very much.

The Organising Committee


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                             - FIRST CIRCULAR -

         The XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics

                              will be held at

            Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet of Duesseldorf, Germany

                           10 - 17 August 1997

                        Plenary speakers include:
                         Henning Andersen (UCLA)
                        Kate Burridge (Melbourne)
                      Wallace Chafe (Santa Barbara)
                        Konrad Ehlich (Muenchen)
                        Marvin Herzog (Columbia)
                        Dieter Kastovsky (Wien)
                         Donka Minkova (UCLA)
                    Marianne Mithun (Santa Barbara)
                         David Olson (Toronto)
                        John Rickford (Stanford)
                        Suzanne Romaine (Oxford)
                 Brigitte Schlieben-Lange (Tuebingen)
                         Dan Slobin (Berkeley)

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      Papers are invited either for any topic in historical linguistics,
                    or for one of the special topic areas:

                Media, written language, and language change
         Norms and change of (linguistic) norms in modern societies
               Markedness, naturalness, and the invisible hand
          American Indian languages: relationships and developments
            Universal and social factors in language contact
             The development of Yiddish as a contact language
           Linguistic prehistory and history in Eastern Europe

One page abstracts may be submitted either
by mail (one hard copy accompanied by an ASCII-file on a diskette)
or, preferably, by email (ASCII-file only) so as to arrive no later than
1st October 1996

                --- official airline: Lufthansa ---

                mail: Dieter Stein
                      Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
                      Anglistik III
                      Universitaetsstr. 1
                      D-40225 Duesseldorf
                      Germany

               email: ICHL1997 at phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
               phone: 49-(0)211-81-12963
                 fax: 49-(0)211-81-13026