Structure and Context: First Circular

[ksinnema at ling.helsinki.fi]

(Apologies for cross-postings)



STRUCTURE AND CONTEXT
Symposium to be held in Turku, in August 21-22, 2006


**** First Circular, June 14, 2006 ****


The Linguistic Association of Finland organizes the symposium "Structure and 
Context" August 21-22, 2006. The symposium will take place in Turku in the 
Humanities building "Arken" of the Åbo Akademi University (street address: 
Tehtaankatu 2).


PROGRAM

The preliminary program of the symposium as well as the abstracts for the 
section papers are now available at the Symposium web page 
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/tapahtumat/context/context.shtml. In addition 
to plenary lectures and section papers, the program includes two workshops. 
Dr. Seppo Kittilä (University of Turku/Helsinki) and Dr. Leonid Kulikov 
(University of Leiden) will organize a workshop on "Diachronic typology of 
voice and valency-changing categories". The workshop will run as a separate 
parallel session for the duration of the symposium. Dr. Mila Dimitrova-
Vulchanova (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Dr. Emile van 
der Zee (University of Lincoln) will organize another workshop, on "Context 
Effects in Spatial Language". This workshop is integrated as a session in the 
main program. More information - including the workshop abstract and the list 
of participants - is available at the symposium web page.


REGISTRATION

The deadline for registration is July 31, 2006. If you want to participate in 
the symposium, we kindly ask you to register by e-mail to the address of the 
organizing committee: context-organizers (at) ling.helsinki.fi.

Registration fees:
* general: EUR 50
* members of the association: EUR 25
* undergraduate students free

Participants from abroad are requested to pay in cash upon arrival. 
Participants from Finland may send the registration fee by giro account no 
800013-1424850 to The Linguistic Association of Finland (SKY) / Symposium or 
pay in cash upon arrival. If you pay to the account of the association, please 
include the code CONTEXT, as well as your name, so that we will know exactly 
who has already paid. If you have paid the registration fee in advance, please 
take the receipt with you. If you plan to pay upon arrival, note that we are 
only able to accept payments in cash.


ACCOMMODATION

The symposium web page also contains a link to the City of Turku Tourist 
Office http://www.turkutouring.fi/), where you can find links to the web pages 
of several hotels/hostels in Turku. The symposium venue, the humanities 
building Arken, is situated approx. 1.5 kilometers (approx. 0.9 miles) from 
the Turku city centre.


Looking forward to seeing you all in August,

The organizers

Chair: Urpo Nikanne (Åbo Akademi University)
Joanna Anckar (Åbo Akademi University), Marja Etelämäki (University of 
Helsinki), Pentti Haddington (University of Oulu), Emmi Hynönen (University of 
Turku), Mikko Laitinen (University of Helsinki), Heidi Merimaa (University of 
Turku), Heli Paulasto (University of Joensuu), Geda Paulsen (Åbo Akademi 
University), Oksana Petrova (Åbo Akademi University), Helena Pirttisaari 
(University of Helsinki), and Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki).