<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><H1 align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:0in"><SPAN style="color:black">Conference and call for papers<O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><H1 style="text-indent:0in"><SPAN style="color:black"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></H1><H1 align="center" style="text-align:center;text-indent:0in">Typology of Afroasiatic Languages<O:P></O:P></H1><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><B>Date</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">: 27-29 April 2006</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><B>Institution</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">: University of Colorado at Boulder</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><B>Location</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">: Boulder, Colorado, USA</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoBodyText">Please share this announcement with your colleagues, especially those who do not have e-mail access.<O:P></O:P></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><H2>Conference description and call for papers<O:P></O:P></H2><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">The purpose of this conference is to stimulate and advance typological studies of Afroasiatic languages. The conference will advance our understanding of which typological features are associated with Afroasiatic as a whole and which are associated with individual branches of Afroasiatic.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">We invite typological papers concerning phonological, morphological, and syntactic issues within the whole Afroasiatic phylum or within one or more of its families. We also invite papers dealing with individual Afroasiatic languages from a typological perspective.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Please send abstracts of one to two pages to Zygmunt Frajzyngier (</FONT><A href="mailto:Zygmunt.Frajzyngier@colorado.edu"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Zygmunt.Frajzyngier@colorado.edu</FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">) or Erin Shay (<A href="mailto:Erin.Shay@colorado.edu">Erin.Shay@colorado.edu</A>) by 31 January 2006. We will also accept paper copies of abstracts, provided they arrive by 31 January. Send paper copies of abstracts to:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Prof. Zygmunt Frajzyngier</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Dept. of Linguistics, Box 295</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">University of Colorado</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Boulder, CO, USA 80309</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Other readers of abstracts:</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Gideon Goldenberg</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Maarten Kossmann</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Azeb Amha</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Maarten Mous</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Information about travel and logistics will be posted by the end of December on Zygmunt Frajzyngier’s website. For additional information, please contact Zygmunt Frajzyngier (</FONT><A href="mailto:Zygmunt.Frajzyngier@colorado.ed"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Zygmunt.Frajzyngier@colorado.ed</FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">u) or Erin Shay (<A href="mailto:erin.shay@colorado.edu">erin.shay@colorado.edu</A>). </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Notification of acceptance of papers will be issued no later than 28 February 2006.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Apologies for multiple postings.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><DIV> <DIV>Zygmunt Frajzyngier</DIV><DIV>Professor</DIV><DIV>Dept. of Linguistics, Box 295</DIV><DIV>University of Colorado</DIV><DIV>Boulder, Colorado 80309</DIV><DIV>USA</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>