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<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=6 FACE="Arial">Call for papers</FONT></B></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">As part of our project on “Two modal systems in Omotic: declarative and interrogative clauses”, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), we organize a conference entitled:</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><B><FONT SIZE=5 FACE="Arial">Omotic Utterance Type, Mood and Attitude Markers and Linguistic Typology</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><I><FONT FACE="Book Antiqua">Dates: 23-25 October 2008</FONT></I></B>
<BR><B><I><FONT FACE="Book Antiqua">Venue: </FONT> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Leiden University, The Netherlands</FONT><FONT FACE="Book Antiqua"></FONT> </I></B>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Utterance type or attitudinal expressions are often indicated through sentence-final affixes in main clauses in some of the Omotic languages. Other morphological marking strategies have also been reported, such as using special inflectional paradigms for questions, commands and various types of assertions and a subtractive morphological derivational relation between some of these constructions. Further more, in some Omotic languages different utterance type markers are used depending on the polarity, tense-aspect as well as on distinctions between realis, irrealis, obligation, etc..</FONT> </P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The goal of the conference is to work towards a more complete typology of utterance marking systems in Omotic languages and stimulate exchange of ideas on how to account for their semantics and morpho-syntax in a rigorous and theoretically informed manner. This will enhance comparison of systems among Omotic languages and those from the genetically and areally related ones e.g., from Cushitic and Ethio-Semitic languages as well as with typologically comparable systems in other languages. To this end, we plan special sessions on general typological-theoretical discussions which can result in developing heuristic tools for the documentation of mood and modality systems in little-known languages.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Abstracts are invited for 40 minutes talk (30 minutes presentation and 10 minutes discussion). Papers on individual languages from Omotic or other Afroasiatic languages as well typological studies on Modality are welcome. </FONT></B></P>
<P><B><I><FONT FACE="Book Antiqua">Invited Speakers: </FONT></I></B>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Professor Alexandra Aikhenvald, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, University of Melbourne, Australia. (confirmed)</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="nl"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Professor Johan van der Auwera, University of Antwerp, Belgium.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">(confirmed)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Professor Gerrit Dimmendaal, University of Cologne, Germany. (confirmed)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Professor Ferdinand de Haan, University of Arizona, USA. (confirmed)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Dr. Helen de Hoop, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. (confirmed).</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B><I><FONT FACE="Book Antiqua">Organizing committee:</FONT></I></B><I></I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Azeb Amha, Anne-Christie Hellenthal and Maarten Mous</FONT><B></B><B><I><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> </FONT></I></B></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Please submit an anonymous abstract</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">by</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><B></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">30 March 2008</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">as attachment to the following email addresses: </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:a.amha@let.leidenuniv.nl"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">a.amha@let.leide</FONT></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">nuniv.nl</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">, </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:a.c.hellenthal@let.leidenUniv.nl"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">a.c.hellenthal@let.leidenUniv.nl</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> and </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:m.mous@let.leidenUniv.nl"><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman">m.mous@let.leidenUniv.nl</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"> indicating your n</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">ame, affiliation and contact information</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">only in the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">body o</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">f your email message</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">W</FONT></B><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">e will send notification of acceptance of the abstract for presentation by</FONT><B> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">15 April 2008</FONT></B></SPAN><B><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></B></P>
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