LAGB Meeting

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Could you please put the following conference announcement on your list?
Thank you very much.
Marjolein Groefsema
Meetings Secretary LAGB



              LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN

           Spring Meeting 1999: University of Manchester

                 First Circular and Call for Papers

The 1999 Spring Meeting will be held from 8 to 10 April at Manchester
University. The Local Organiser is Philippa Cook
(mfux9phc at fs1.art.man.ac.uk).

Manchester is England's third (or possibly second) biggest city and as such
has facilities for any kind of music, dance, theatre, restaurants and
cafes. Apart from a vibrant city centre, the city also benefits from the
closeness to beautiful country side; the Lake district, the Peak district
and the mountains of North Wales are all within easy reach for day trips.
Manchester can be easily accessed by road or by rail and just south of the
city is a major intrnational airport with good rail connections with the
city centre.

The University of Manchester, including the Hall of Residence where the
conference will be held, is situated just south of the city centre and
there are busses in both directions every few minutes.

Accommodation:  Accommodation as well as all talks, book displays etc. will
be in Hulme Hall, a Hall of Residence, less than ten minutes walk from the
main University campus. All bedrooms are single, and there is a choice
between rooms with en suite facilities and rooms with shared
bathrooms/showers.

Travel: The University of Manchester is about five minutes drive from
junction 9 of the ring road M60 which is accessible from the M6 (north or
south) and the M62 (north east). There are frequent (and often direct)
trains to Manchester Piccadilly (or Manchester Victoria) from most big
cities in Britain. The train journey from London takes about two and a half
hour. The airport is less than half an hours drive from the Hall of
residence and it also has excellent train connections with the city centre.


Events: The Linguistics Association 1999 Lecture on Thursday evening will
be delivered by Professor John McCarthy of the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.

Professor McCarthy will also be participating in a Workshop on
'Applications of Optimality Theory to problems in prosody and morphology'
on Thursday afternoon. The workshop is organised by Wiebke Brockhaus
(University of Manchester); other contributors are Caroline Fery
(Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet), RenÇ Kager (Universiteit Utrecht) and
Nicholas Sherrard (University of Essex).

There will be a Language Tutorial on Turkish, given by Jaklin Kornfilt
(University of Syracuse).

There will be a Wine Party on the Tuesday evening, sponsored by the
Department of Linguistics.

Enquiries about the LAGB meeting should be sent to the Meetings Secretary
(address below). Full details of the programme and a booking form will be
included in the Second Circular, to be sent out in January.

 CALL FOR PAPERS

The LAGB warmly welcomes submissions on any topic within the field of
linguistics - theoretical, descriptive or historical - regardless of
theoretical framework. Abstracts must arrive by  6 January 1999 and should
be sent in the format outlined below to the following address: Professor R.
Hudson, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London,
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Papers for the programme are selected
anonymously - only the President knows the name of the authors.

Abstracts must be presented as follows: submit SEVEN anonymous copies of
the abstract, plus ONE with name and affiliation, i.e. CAMERA-READY. The
complete abstract containing your title and your name must be no longer
than ONE A4 page (21cm x 29.5cm/8.27" x 11.69") with margins of at least
2.5cm (1") on all sides. You may use single spacing and type must be no
smaller than 12 point. Type uniformly in black and make any additions in
black. Use the best quality printer you can, since if the paper is accepted
the abstract will be photocopied and inserted directly into the collection
of abstracts sent out to participants. WRITE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR
CORRESPONDENCE ON THE BACK OF THE ABSTRACT WHICH HAS YOUR NAME ON.

The following layout should be considered as standard:

(title) Optimality and the Klingon vowel shift (speaker) Clark Kent
(institution) Department of Astrology, Eastern Mars University

The following guidelines may be useful:

1.      Briefly state the topic of your paper.

2.      If your paper is to involve an analysis of linguistic material,
give critical examples, along with a brief indication of their critical nature.

3.      State the relevance of your ideas to past work or to the future
development of the field. If you are taking a stand on a controversial
issue, summarise the arguments which lead you to take up this position.

The normal length for papers delivered at LAGB meetings is 25 minutes (plus
15 minutes discussion). Offers of squibs (10 minutes) or longer papers (40
minutes) will also be considered: please explain why your paper requires
less or more time than usual.

N.B. ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION DATES: These are always announced in the First
Circular for the Meeting in question. Any member who fears that they may
receive the First Circular too late to be able to submit an abstract before
the deadline specified can be assured that an abstract received by the
President by JANUARY 1 or JUNE 1 will always be considered for the next
meeting.


Conference Bursaries: There will be a maximum of 10 bursaries available to
unsalaried members of the Association (e.g. PhD students) with preference
given to those who are presenting a paper. Applications should be sent to
the President, and must be received by 6 January 1999. Please state on your
application: (a) date of joining the LAGB; (b) whether or not you are an
undergraduate or postgraduate student; (c) if a student, whether you
receive a normal grant; (d) if not a student, your employment situation.
STUDENTS WHO ARE SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT and wish to apply for funding
should include all the above details WITH THEIR ABSTRACT.



Committee members:

President
Professor Richard Hudson, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics,
University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. E-mail:
dick at ling.ucl.ac.uk

Honorary Secretary
Professor Anna Siewierska, Department of Linguistics, University of
Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YW, E-mail:
A.Siewierska at lancaster.ac.uk

Membership Secretary
Dr. Kersti Börjars, Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester,
MANCHESTER M13 9PL. E-mail: k.e.borjars at manchester.ac.uk

Meetings Secretary
Dr. Marjolein Groefsema, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hertfordshire,
Watford Campus, Aldenham, Herts. WD2 8AT. E-mail: m.groefsema at herts.ac.uk

Treasurer
Dr. Paul Rowlett, Dept. of Modern Languages, University of Salford, Salford
M5 4WT. E-mail: p.a.rowlett at mod-lang.salford.ac.uk

Assistant Secretary
Dr. April McMahon, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick
Avenue, CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DQ. E-mail: AMM11 at hermes.cam.ac.uk

Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page is now active at the
following address: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB.

Electronic network: Please join the LAGB electronic network which is used
for disseminating LAGB information and for consulting members quickly. It
can be subscribed to by sending the message "add lagb" to:
listserv at postman.essex.ac.uk.

Future Meetings:

Autumn 1999     University of York.
Spring 2000     University College London.
Autumn 2000     University of Durham
Spring 2001     University of Leeds
Autumn 2001     University of Reading


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Michael Barlow,      Department of Linguistics,       Rice University
barlow at rice.edu                               www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow
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