<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">THE 2009 INTERNATIONAL COURSE AND CONFERENCE ON ROLE AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">University of California, Berkeley</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">August 7-9, 2009</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">The annual International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) will be held at the University of California, Berkeley, in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. The Conference will deal with issues in linguistic theory from a functional 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></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">Abstracts must be received electronically by March 15, 2009 at <a href="mailto:2007RRG@gmail.com"><span style="text-decoration: underline; ">rrgconf09@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de</span></a>. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including data and references, and must be submitted as PDF documents. The abstracts should be anonymous. The email message must include the following information: author’s name(s), affiliation, email address, and title of abstract. The selection of papers for presentation will be announced by April 15, 2009. The talks will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten minutes for discussion.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">Further information about keynote speakers, registration fee and accommodation will be posted on the Conference website at a later date.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 15px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">Organizing Committee: Delia Bentley (University of Manchester), Daniel Everett (Illinois State University), Lilián Guerrero (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), Rolf Kailuweit (Universität Freiburg), Ricardo Mairal (UNED, Madrid), Toshio Ohori (University of Tokyo), Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, University at Buffalo). </span></div></body></html>