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--></style></head><body lang=EN-ZA link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Good day,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The local organising committee for the 20<sup>th</sup> International Congress of Linguist Conference (ICL20, 2-6 July 2018 in Cape Town) would like to send out a final reminder to everyone about the soon approaching deadline for abstract submissions. Is there a way that we can make this announcement via this mailing list, please?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It would read as follows:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Dear colleagues</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Greetings. This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the International Congress of Linguists (ICL)/ LSSA/ SAALA conference/ is looming (31 August). We look forward to receiving more abstracts from you. (Thanks to those who have submitted already... I know that this deadline may seem rather early - but the scale of the conference, abstract scrutiny, financial and related venue planning all require urgent action).</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>With best wishes</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>Raj Mesthrie</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>21 August 2017</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>(P.S. Please take a look at the website </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.icl20capetown.com/"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>http://www.icl20capetown.com</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='color:black'>, which will soon carry other related messages). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:10.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks and take care,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yolandi</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yolandi Ribbens-Klein, PhD<br>SARChI Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Linguistics Tutor <br>Room A17a, AC Jordan Building<br>Linguistics Section - School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics<br>University of Cape Town, South Africa<br>https://za.linkedin.com/pub/yolandi-ribbens-klein/12/7b3/952<br>https://uct.academia.edu/YolandiKlein <br><br><br><br>http://icl20capetown.com/<br><br>Sent from Mail for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>