<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body dir="ltr" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-right: -0.3pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;"
align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">SECOND
CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">DEFINITENESS
AND REFERENTIALITY:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">THEORY
AND DESCRIPTION<span style="">
</span>WORKSHOP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Sept.
26-28, 2007</span><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">University
of Adelaide<span style=""> </span>Adelaide, Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">A one day workshop on
Definiteness and Referentiality will be held in conjunction with ALS
2007 at
the University of Adelaide. We welcome papers on Australian,
Austronesian, Asian
and other natural languages, and in all areas of linguistics including
sociolinguistics,
language variation and change, first/second language acquisition,
conversational
analysis, and cognitive (including psycho-/neurolinguistic) processing
of
definiteness. The following topics are of particular interest:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style=""> </span>--data
based studies of definiteness
properties in particular languages <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">--theoretical aspects
of definiteness and/or specificity <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">--the article systems
of a language group(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">--the interaction of
definiteness/specificity with the grammar of a language <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">--the behavior of
subsystems within languages, e.g. polarity references and <span
style=""> </span><span style=""></span><span style=""></span>number
and quantification of nouns <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">--the acquisition and
development of definiteness and/or referentiality in
child and second languages <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">--language change in
progress with respect to a property or subsystem of a language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Proposals for both a
General Session and a Poster Session should include the author's name
and
affiliation, contact details (including e-mail and postal addresses),
title of
the paper, keywords, and a one page abstract of no more than 500 words,
excluding
examples and references.<span style=""> </span>Key references
may include, but not limited to, the work of<span style="">
</span>Irene Heim, M. Enç, Kamp & Reyle (DRT), B. Partee, Donka
Farkas, T.Givon,
Christopher Lyons, J. Hawkins, and M. Haspelmath.<span style=""> </span>In
your submission, please indicate your
preference, and, if your choice is a General Session, please state if
you would
be willing to do a poster.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Each abstract will be
blind reviewed on the basis of the following criteria:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="">
</span>--Topic appropriate to the workshop theme<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="">
</span>--Paper contributing new knowledge on the topic<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="">
</span>--Argument supported by data from natural language<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span style="">
</span>--Clear statement of results<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Abstracts should be sent
electronically
in the body of the e-mail message and also as an attachment in PDF or
rtf
format to <a href="mailto:Korpi.DefWorkshop@anu.edu.au">Korpi.DefWorkshop@anu.edu.au</a>.<span
style=""> </span>In the e-mail subject line, please write
‘NAME ALSDEFworkshop’ where NAME is your surname.<span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">DEADLINE for abstracts is </span><b><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;">March
16<sup>th</sup></span></b><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">
with notification of acceptance by
April 30.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The format of the
sessions will be 20 minutes for each paper, followed by 10 minutes for
discussion.<span style=""> </span>Posters will be displayed
for one whole day, with a time slot for discussing them.<span style="">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Selected papers from the
workshop will
be peer reviewed and published in a special volume devoted to the
workshop
theme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -0.3pt;"><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><o:p> </o:p><br>
Workshop organizers: </span></p>
<blockquote><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Brett Baker <span
style="">
</span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>(University
of New England)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Marie Fellbaum Korpi<span
style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>(The
Australian National University)<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Harumi Minagawa<span
style="">
</span>(The University of Auckland)</span>
<br>
<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Lesley Stirling<span
style=""> </span>(The University of Melbourne)<span
style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span
style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://defworkshop.als.asn.au">http://defworkshop.als.asn.au</a></span></b></p>
<br>
</body>
</html>