<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Arial">FORMAL APPROACHES TO CELTIC
LINGUISTICS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial">The Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona is proud to
announce a special conference, funded by the National Science Foundation*, on
Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. The focus of this conference is on
modern theoretical approaches to the Celtic languages, with an emphasis on the
following questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>i)<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>How does data from the Celtic languages, with
their unique typological properties, inform formal theories of grammar? What
challenges does this data pose to current understanding and how should theories
of grammar be modified to deal with the data from Celtic languages?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>ii)<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>How do current advances in formal theories
improve our understanding of the grammar of Celtic languages?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>iii) <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>How can formal theoretical linguistics inform
the documentation of the endangered Celtic languages?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.5in; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Confirmed Invited Speakers at the conference include: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">David
Adger, Queen Mary University, London<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Anna
Bosch, University of Kentucky<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">SJ
Hannahs, Newcastle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Randall
Hendrick, University of North Carolina<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Mélanie
Jouitteau, Université de Paris 7<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">James
McCloskey, University of California, Santa Cruz<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Máire Ní
Chiosain, University College Dublin<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Maggie Tallerman,
Newcastle<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Gillian
Ramchand, University of Tromsø<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">… and
others to be announced.<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">The conference
will be accompanied by a one-week for-credit Mini-course for graduate and
undergraduate students interested in pursuing Celtic Linguistics (which runs
March 23-29<sup>, </sup>2009). Details of this mini-course will be made in a
separate announcement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Abstracts
related to the conference theme are invited for a limited number of 45 minute
talks (35 minutes for talk + 10 for discussion). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Details</span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Abstracts: 1-2 pages, 12 point font, 1 inch margins. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Abstract Deadline:<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Midnight MST, February 15<sup>th</sup>, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:
.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Address for abstracts (submission by email only) and
more information: </span><a href="mailto:faclconf@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">faclconf@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:
.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Conference webpage: </span><a href="http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~gaelic/facl/"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~gaelic/facl/</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:
.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Workshop Dates: March 27-29th, 2009 (mini course runs
March 23-29th, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Location: The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US">*Funding graciously provided by the National
Science Foundation Grant: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:
Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">BCS0819117</span><!--EndFragment-->
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