2nd BLS Call for Papers

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Please distribute the following announcement to all interested parties.

                        THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
                                        BLS 25
                                  CALL FOR PAPERS

The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Fifth
Annual Meeting, to be held February 13-15, 1999.  The conference will
consist of a General Session and a Parasession on Saturday and Sunday,
followed by a Special Session on Monday.

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General Session:

The General Session will cover all areas of general linguistic interest.

        Invited Speakers
        CAROL FOWLER, Haskins Laboratories, Univ. of Connecticut, Yale Univ.
        STEPHEN LEVINSON, Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
        BJØRN LINDBLOM, Univ. of Stockholm and Univ. of Texas, Austin
        ALEC MARANTZ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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*** Parasession:  Loan Word Phenomena

The Parasession invites papers on loan word phenomena from various
theoretical, historical, sociolinguistic, and typological perspectives, as
well as descriptive works and field reports.  Areas of interest include
stratification of the lexicon and loan word 'subgrammars', re-lexification,
the role of orthography, markedness effects, second-language acquisition,
child language, bilingualism and code-switching, etc.

        Invited Speakers
        ELLEN BROSELOW, State University of New York, Stony Brook
        GARLAND CANNON, Texas A&M University
        JUNKO ITO & ARMIN MESTER, University of California, Santa Cruz

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*** Special Session:  Issues in Caucasian, Dravidian and Turkic Linguistics

The Special Session will feature research on Caucasian, Dravidian and
Turkic languages.  Papers addressing both diachronic and synchronic issues
are welcome.  Potential topics include theoretical and descriptive accounts
of structural features, writing systems and transcription problems,
language reform, and the reconstruction of the respective Proto-languages,
including the question of Altaic linguistic unity.

        Invited Speakers
        LARS JOHANSON, Universität Mainz
        K.P. MOHANAN, National University of Singapore
        JOHANNA NICHOLS, University of California, Berkeley

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We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome
papers from related disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science,
Computer Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology.

Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's
Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide camera-ready
copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 1999.  Presentations will be
allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.  We ask that you make
your abstract as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic
or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. Please send 10 copies of
an anonymous one-page (8 1/2" x 11", unreduced) abstract.  A second page,
or reverse side of the single page, may
be used for data and references only.  Along with the abstract send a 3"x5"
card listing: (1) paper title, (2) session (general, Parasession, or
special), (3) for general session abstracts only, subfield, viz., Discourse
Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Philosophy and Methodology of
Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics,
Semantics, Sociolinguistics, or Syntax, (4) name(s) of author(s), (5)
affiliation(s) of author(S), (6) address to which notification of
acceptance or rejection should be mailed (in November 1998), (7)
author's office and home phone numbers, (8) author's e-mail address, if
available.  An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract.
 In case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for
communication with BLS.  Send abstracts to:  BLS 25 Abstracts Committee,
1203 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA  94720.
Abstracts must be received by 4:00 p.m., November 2, 1998.  We may be
contacted by e-mail at bls at socrates.berkeley.edu.  Information on e-mail
submission and additional guidelines for abstracts can be found at our web
site (http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS). We will not accept faxed
abstracts.

Registration Fees:  Before February 5, 1999; $15 for students, $30 for
non-students; After February 5, 1999; $20 for students, $35 for non-students.