<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;">Second Call</P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-variant:small-caps"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-variant: small-caps;"><B>The 2007 International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar</B></SPAN></FONT><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;">Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, August 6-10, 2007<O:P></O:P></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The annual International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) will be hosted by the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in México City, 6-10 August, 2007. The international Conference will be preceded by two-day (course) workshops. The Conference will stage papers and plenary sessions. <O:P></O:P></P><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: auto;"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;">Keynote Speakers</P><DIV class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: auto;"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 48px;"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD"><B>Johanna Nichols </B><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>José María García-Miguel</B><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0px;margin-left: 0.25in; "><SPAN lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES">University of California, Berkeley<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Universidade de Vigo<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 48px;"><SPAN lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language: ES"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 48px;"><SPAN lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><B>Michael Silverstein</B><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>Daniel Everett</B><O:P></O:P></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="color:black"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>University of Chicago<SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Illinois State University <O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 48px;"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0px;margin-left: 0.5in; "><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language:ES"><B>Ricardo Maldonado</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="ES-TRAD" style="color:black;mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD"><B> </B><SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"><B> </B></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B> </B></SPAN><B>Robert D. Van Valin Jr</B></SPAN><SPAN lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language:ES"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language:ES"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang="ES-TRAD" style="color:black;mso-ansi-language: ES-TRAD">Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf,</SPAN><SPAN lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language:ES"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Universidad de Querétaro <SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-tab-count:1"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD">University at Buffalo</SPAN><SPAN lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language:ES"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><SPAN lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The 2007 </SPAN>Conference will deal with issues in linguistic theory in its wider discursive, cognitive and typological perspective. Papers dealing with further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology, syntax, semantics, information structure, as well as language processing are encouraged. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The workshops will include lecture sessions at three levels: introductory, graduate and specialized. The introductory and graduate sessions will be taught in Spanish and will provide the basics and core theoretical principles of RRG for those not yet acquainted with the theory. The specialized workshops will deal with advanced topics on RRG, and will be presented by RRG specialists.</P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><SPAN class="p-match">Abstracts must be received electronically by</SPAN> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>April 13, 2007 at <A href="mailto:2007RRG@gmail.com">2007RRG@gmail.com</A> (<B>deadline extension</B><SPAN style="font-weight:normal">). Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including data and references, and must be <SPAN class="p-match">submitted in English as Word document (</SPAN>a PDF version is also required if special characters are included). The abstracts should be <SPAN class="p-match">anonymous. T</SPAN>he email message must i<SPAN class="p-match">nclude the following information: author’s name(s), affiliation, email address, and title of abstract. </SPAN>The selection of papers for presentation will have been communicated by May 1, 2007. The talks will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes for discussion.</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Further information including registration fee, travel, accommodation, social events, will be on the Conference website at <A href="http://www.filologicas.unam.mx/2007rrg.html">http://www.filologicas.unam.mx/2007rrg.html</A>.</P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><SPAN lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-ansi-language:ES-TRAD">Organizing Committee: Lilián Guerrero, Sergio Ibáñez, Paulette Levy, Chantal Melis, Cecilia Rojas, Ma. Á</SPAN><SPAN lang="ES" style="mso-ansi-language:ES">ngeles Soler (Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México); Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. </SPAN>(<SPAN style="color:black">Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>University at Buffalo), and Daniel Everett (Illinois State University).<O:P></O:P></P></BODY></HTML>