CFP

[Elly van Gelderen]

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GLAC-7

                Seventh Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference

                           Banff, Alberta, Canada

                 Saturday, April 21 to Monday, April 23, 2001


                               Call for Papers

Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit abstracts for 30-minute
papers
on any linguistic or philological aspect of any historic or modern Germanic
language
or dialect, including English (to 1500) and the extraterritorial varieties.
Papers from
a range of linguistic subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology,
syntax,
semantics, socio-linguistics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as
well as
differing theoretical approaches, are especially welcome.

Please send to the address below a one-page, 12-point font abstract that is
headed
only by the title of your paper, as well as a separate 3" x 5" index card with
your
name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax numbers, email
address,
and the title of your paper. Submissions must be received by January 5, 2000.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out by February 11, 2000.

                                  GLAC-7

                          Department of Linguistics

                            University of Calgary

                               Calgary, Alberta

                              Canada T2N 1N4



                         Location and Accomodation

Banff is the townsite of Banff National Park located in the Rocky Mountains.
This
area is easily one of the most beautiful in the world and certainly an ideal
place to
celebrate Earth Day on April 22. For further information on the townsite and
park,
please go to Parks Canada or the Canadian Rockies site.

The conference will take place at the Banff Conference Centre. Rooms,
including
breakfast and lunch, are available at a special conference rate of CDN $137.03
(U.S. $92.50) for a single or CDN $87.53 (U.S. $59.10) per person for a
double.
(Please note: These rates apply only to conference participants. If two people
(e.g.
you and your spouse or a friend) share a room and only one is attending the
conference, the single rate applies; i.e. CDN $137.03 (U.S. $92.50). There is
an
additional 5% provincial hotel room tax, and a 7% Goods and Services Tax
(GST).
The GST on all accomodation is refundable to Non-Canadian residents upon
application. The Banff Conference Centre is extending these rates for three
days
before and after the conference, so we hope that you will find time to explore
the
area. Further information will be provided later.

Please note: The exchange rate is presently U.S. $1.00 = CDN $1.48. You might
find the Currency Converter useful.



                                Transportation

Banff is most easily accessible from Calgary, Alberta, located about 120
kilometres
(70 miles) to the east. There are some direct shuttle buses from Calgary
International Airport to Banff, and frequent buses from Calgary downtown to
Banff. We will provide full details on transportation later.



                             The Diebold Awards

Beginning with GLAC-6, thanks to generous funding from the Diebold Foundation,
a number of prizes in the amount of $250 are awarded to the best graduate
student
papers presented at the conference. A jury of three members appointed by the
Executive Committee of the Society for Germanic Philology will judge
conference
papers submitted in writing within four weeks of the conference.



                      The Society for Germanic Philology

The Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference is sponsored by the Society for
Germanic Linguistics (SGL). The SGL also publishes the Journal of Germanic
Linguisticsa semiannual journal devoted to the study of all present and
historical
Germanic varieties, including English (to 1500). Information on submissions to
the
journal, as well as Society membership, are accessible through the SGL
website.



                                  Contact

         For further more information, send email to the local organizers:



                           Prof. Robert W. Murray

                           Prof. Amanda Pounder

                              glac7 at ucalgary.ca