<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "></SPAN></DIV><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"><I>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS</I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><I></I><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"><I>******PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY******</I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><I></I><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"><B><I>DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS IS NOVEMBER 1</I></B></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><B><I></I></B><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"><I>Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2006</I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties:<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">Defining, Documenting, and Developing</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">March 3-5, 2006</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">Washington, DC</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"><I>Co-organizers: Kendall King & Natalie Schilling-Estes</I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"><I>Georgetown University Linguistics Department</I></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px 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<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>‘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.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"> </FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px 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></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">We invite proposals for colloquia, individual papers, and poster presentations related to the conference theme.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The proposal submission deadline is November 1, 2005.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial">For more details about the conference or to submit an abstract, please visit our website at <A href="http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/2006/">http://www.georgetown.edu/events/gurt/2006/</A></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "></DIV> </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>