Symposium on Formulaic Language

[Edith Moravcsik]

CALL FOR PAPERS
UWM LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM ON FORMULAIC LANGUAGE

    1. TIME AND PLACE
    2. CONFERENCE TOPIC
    3. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
    4. ABSTRACTS
    5. WEBSITE

 1. TIME AND PLACE
The linguistics community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will hold
 a symposium on the topic of 'formulaic language'.  The
symposium, which will be held on the campus of UWM

   April 18-21, 2007,
 (Wednesday through Saturday)

 will be the 25th in the series of the once-annual UWM Linguistics Symposia.

 2. CONFERENCE TOPIC
By formulaic language we mean multi-word collocations which are stored and
 retrieved holistically rather than being generated de novo with each use.
 Examples of formulaic language include idioms, set expressions, rhymes,
songs, prayers, and proverbs; they may also be taken to include recurrent
 turns of phrase within more ordinary sentence structures.  These are 
notable
 in ordinary speech as well as in ritualized speech events such as
sports broadcasts, weather reports, sermons, etc.

In our symposium, we are aiming to explore the issue of formulaic language
from a variety of perspectives.  To this end, our keynote speakers are
scholars whose specializations range over a large spectrum of
language-based study, including specialists in corpus-based linguistics,
psycholinguistics, phonology, phonetics, typology, and related fields.

 3. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Our keynote speakers are:

Joan Bybee, University of
  New  Mexico
Oesten Dahl, Stockholm
  University
Britt Erman, Stockholm
  University
Charles Fillmore, University
  of California, Berkeley
Lily Wong Fillmore, Univesity
  of California, Berkeley
Barbara Fox, University of
  Colorado
Adele Goldberg, Princeton
  University
John Haiman, Macalester
  College
Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon
  University
Susan Hunston, University of
  Birmingham
Koenraad Kuiper, University of
  Canterbury
Jill Morford, University of
  New Mexico
Andrew Pawley, Australian
  National University
Ann Peters, University of
  Hawai'i
Joanne Scheibman, Old Dominion
  University
Sandra Thompson, University of
  California, Santa Barbara
Michael Tomasello, Max Planck
  Institute for Evolutionary
  Anthropology
Rena Torres-Cacoullos,
  University of New Mexico
Diana van Lancker, New York
  University
Thomas Wasow, Stanford
  University
Alison Wray, Cardiff
  University

 4. ABSTRACTS
In addition, there will be a general session, for which potential speakers
are invited to submit a one-page abstract.

 Selected papers from the symposium will be published as an edited set of
 volumes in the Typological Studies in Language series published by John
 Benjamins.

    ONE PAGE ABSTRACTS
   DUE DATE:  Wednesday,
     November 1, 2006

Abstracts may be submitted in hardcopy or in electronic form.  Hardcopy
 abstracts should be sent to:

 Roberta Corrigan
Dept. of Educational
  Psychology
University of Wisconsin-
  Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI  53201-0413
USA

Electronic submissions should be sent to:

corrigan at uwm.edu

Questions concerning the Symposium can be addressed to Michael Noonan:

noonan at uwm.edu

5. WEBSITE
Announcements and symposium information will be posted at:

www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/conferences/fsl/index.html