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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is a call for papers in the second volume of
<EM>New Challenges in Typology</EM>, appealing to people who defended their
dissertation on typology or typologically aware language description within the
2003-2006 period (in the vein of ALT Panini and Greenberg Awards). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You will find the details below as well as in the
file attached. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you know of someone who is
unlikely to receive this message but might be interested, please feel free to
forward this to her/him.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alexandre Arkhipov</FONT></DIV>
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lang=EN-US>Dear colleague,</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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lang=EN-US>We would like to invite you to contribute to a volume that we are
editing, which will bring together papers by linguists who have defended a
dissertation between 2003 and 2006. This will be the second volume of what will
(we hope) be a series, entitled<I> New Challenges in Typology</I>,
that presents the work of new scholars in the fields of typology and linguistic
description. The first volume, <I>New Challenges in Typology: Broadening the
Horizons and Redefining the Foundations</I>, was edited by Matti Miestamo and
Bernhard Wälchli (who came up with the original idea), and has just come out
(published by Mouton). If all goes as planned, the second volume will also be
published by Mouton and will be out in summer 2009 (before the next ALT
meeting).</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>The basic idea for papers is the following. First, they should
address some general implications of the thesis that constitute a contribution
to linguistic theory (note that ‘theory’ is here construed broadly, and does not
relate to any specific theory or formalism). Papers should not simply summarize
the thesis, but should instead provide a discussion of themes addressed in the
thesis that will be of interest to a wider linguistic audience, and will
encourage readers to go beyond this paper and look further at your work. For
many theses, particularly those written as grammars, it will probably be
necessary to focus on a specific aspect of the work, but we urge you to choose a
topic that is in some way representative of the grammar as a whole, and that
also has wider implications for our understanding of language generally. We hope
that the volume will promote an awareness of the theoretical relevance of
typological and descriptive work, and will show that investigation of this kind
has much to offer the wider linguistic community (regardless of particular
theoretical orientation). </SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
lang=EN-US>There will be presumably about 20 contributors, so for this reason
the papers should be relatively short — no more than 20 pages in print,
including references. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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lang=EN-US>Some possible themes for papers are:</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>the contribution of the work to theoretical questions in
linguistics (‘theoretical’ is here intended in a general sense, not aligned
with any particular theory)</SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US>the contribution of the work to a subfield of linguistics (e.g.
phonology, field linguistics, areal linguistics, etc.)</SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="TEXT-JUSTIFY: inter-ideograph; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt"><SPAN
lang=EN-US>methodological implications of the research (e.g. sampling,
approaches to fieldwork and grammar-writing, etc.)</SPAN>
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lang=EN-US>any other aspect of the work that will be of interest to a wider
linguistic audience</SPAN></LI></UL>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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lang=EN-US>We’d very much appreciate it if those who are interested in
contributing could let us know this as soon as possible. In particular we
encourage those who submitted their dissertations for this year’s ALT Panini or
Greenberg Award. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We will need <B>an
abstract no later than January 1, 2008</B>, and the papers themselves must be
submitted by April 1, 2008 (our publication deadline of summer 2009
requires us to keep to a strict schedule). All the papers will only be accepted
upon the acceptance of the abstract. We must emphasize that in addition to the
overall quality and relevance of your submission, the compliance with the
deadlines will be decisive.</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
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lang=EN-US>Finally, it would be very helpful to us to have <B>a copy of your
thesis</B> (in PDF if possible); this will help us plan the organization and
presentation of the papers, and to have a better idea of what to expect from the
various authors. We’d appreciate it if you send this soon, together with <B>the
short questionnaire</B> that you’ll find<B> </B>below.</SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: RU"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal
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lang=EN-US>We hope to hear from you soon!</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Best, </SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Pattie Epps and Alexandre Arkhipov</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-US>QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PROPOSALS</SPAN></P>
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align=center><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Send to: <pepps@mail.utexas.edu> and
<sarkipo@mail.ru></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Name:</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>E-mail:</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Present affiliation(s):</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Correspondence address:</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Title of thesis:</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Date of defense:</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>University, Department of defense:</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Supervisor(s) of the thesis:</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Opponents or reviewers of your thesis:</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Working title of your proposed chapter (can be modified
later):</SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>150 word abstract of your proposed chapter:</SPAN></P>
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