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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The abstract deadline has been extended to August 25th for the 5th</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Annual</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>High</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Desert</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Linguistics Conference</FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3> <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>New<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Mexico</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><st1:place><st1:City>Albuquerque</st1:City>, <st1:State>NM</st1:State></st1:place></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><st1:date Year="2002" Day="1" Month="11">November 1 - 2, 2002</st1:date>.</FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(</FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/index.htm"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#cc0000 size=3>http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/index.htm</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>)</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Keynote speakers:</FONT></PRE><PRE><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Ronald Langacker, <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>California</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, <st1:City><st1:place>San Diego</st1:place></st1:City></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE><o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Barbara King, <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>College</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>William</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> & Mary</FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>We invite the submission of proposals for 20-minute talks with 10</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>minute discussion sessions in any area of linguistics from any</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>theoretical perspective.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Papers in the following areas are especially</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>welcome:</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Evolution of language, Language change & variation, Grammaticization,</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Applied linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Researching Metaphor &</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Metonymy, Signed languages, Native American languages, and</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Computational linguistics.</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The Call for Papers can be found at </FONT><A href="http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/call.htm"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#cc0000 size=3>http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/call.htm</FONT></A></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>In addition, the guidelines for abstracts can be found at</FONT></PRE><PRE><A href="http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/abstract.htm"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#cc0000 size=3>http://www.unm.edu/~hdls/conf/2002/abstract.htm</FONT></A></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The new deadline for submitting abstracts is <st1:date Year="2002" Day="25" Month="8">August 25th, 2002</st1:date> and the</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>acceptance & notification date will be <st1:date Year="2002" Day="28" Month="8">August 28th, 2002</st1:date></FONT></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>If you have any questions or need for further information please</FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>contact either Christopher Shank (</FONT><A href="mailto:chrc@unm.edu"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#cc0000 size=3>chrc@unm.edu</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>) or Gabe Waters at</FONT></PRE>
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