<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV class="MsoNormal">Dear colleagues,</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Below please find information about GURT 2006. We welcome your participation in this upcoming conference and would be grateful if you could distribute this notice across your networks.</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">With thanks and best wishes,</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Kendall King</DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><I>CONFERENCE NOTICE AND CALL FOR PAPERS</I></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><I></I></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">******PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY******</FONT></I></SPAN><SPAN style=""><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><B> </B></FONT></I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006</FONT></I></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: auto;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Defining, Documenting, and Developing</FONT></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">March 3-5, 2006</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Washington, DC</FONT></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><I>Co-organizers: Kendall King & Natalie Schilling-Estes</I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style=""><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Georgetown University Linguistics Department</FONT></I></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University is pleased to announce the 2006 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT). The theme of this year’s conference is</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">‘Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties: Defining, Documenting and Developing’. GURT will take place on the campus of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, March 3-5. </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Confirmed plenary speakers include Nancy Hornberger, William Labov, Suzanne Romaine, Elana Shohamy, and Walt Wolfram. The conference will also feature symposia organized by Joy Kreeft Peyton, Ofelia Garcia, Teresa McCarty, Leena Huss & Pia Lane, and Cristina Sanz.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">We invite proposals for colloquia, individual papers, and poster presentations related to the conference theme.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">The proposal submission deadline is November 1, 2005.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">For more details about the conference, please visit our website at </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style=""><A href="http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/2006/"><SPAN style="text-decoration: none; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Arial">http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/2006/</FONT></SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN style=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3B7A1F">***********************************************</FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3B7A1F">Kendall King, Ph.D.</FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><A href="http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/akk25/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3B7A1F">http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/akk25/</FONT></A></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3B7A1F">***********************************************</FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3B7A1F">Please visit our GURT 2006 website:</FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3B7A1F"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><A href="http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/2006/">http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/2006/</A></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 30px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3B7A1F">************************************************</FONT></P><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>