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<DIV><SPAN class=420454020-22102001><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial
size=2>D</FONT></SPAN><STRONG>ate:</STRONG> Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:18:39
-0600<BR><STRONG>From:</STRONG> David Beck <<A
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">WSCLA 7 - Call for
Papers<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">University</SPAN></FONT></st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Alberta</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, <st1:place><st1:City>Edmonton</st1:City>, <st1:country-region>Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><st1:date style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(file://C:\PROGRAM FILES\COMMON FILES\MICROSOFT SHARED\SMART TAG\mstag.bmp); BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" Month="3" Day="22" Year="2002"><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">March 22 - 24, 2002</SPAN></FONT></st1:date><o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The main goal of this workshop is to bring together linguists doing<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">theoretical work on the indigenous languages of North, Central, and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><st1:place><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">South America</SPAN></FONT></st1:place>. Papers in all core areas of linguistics (phonetics,<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) within any theoretical<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">framework will be considered, but we especially invite papers which<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">address the theme of this year's conference:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Convergence and Divergence: Language Variation within and across<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Language Families<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">While the bulk of theoretical work in linguistics has by and large<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">relied on the convenient fiction that languages are stable, uniform<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">synchronic systems that are consistent and self-contained across<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">communities of speakers, linguists working on the languages of the<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><st1:country-region><st1:place><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Americas</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:country-region>-the majority of which are unwritten and have no normative or<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"standard" form-have often been confronted with a startling degree of<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">variation within what speakers consider to be a single language.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Conversely, researchers working in well-established linguistic areas<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">or Sprachb=FCnde such as the </SPAN></FONT><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Northwest</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Coast</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> have found that what are<o:p></o:p></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">patently different and genetically unrelated languages share a<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">tremendous number of phonological and grammatical features.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></PRE>
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