<html><head></head><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 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Role and Reference Grammar International Course & Conference 2011 - General information and first call for abstracts</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Text: The biannual International Course and Conference on Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) "Functional Linguistics: Grammar, Communication & Cognition" will be hosted by the Facultad de Letras, at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago de Chile, August 11th – 13th, 2011. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The international Conference will be preceded by two-day workshops: an introductory course and a workshop in Computational Linguistics based on the FunGramKB framework.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The Conference will stage papers and plenary sessions. Our keynote speakers will be Robert D. Van Vain, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf), Francisco Cortés Rodríguez (Universidad de La Laguna) and Rolf Kailuweit (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The 2011 Conference will deal with issues in Functional Linguistics in all its pertinent topics. 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 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Abstracts must be received electronically by March 15th, 2011 at <a href="mailto:2011RRG@gmail.com"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1d07a8">2011RRG@gmail.com</span></a>. Abstracts should be no longer than two pages, including data and references, and must be submitted as Word documents (a PDF version is also required if special characters are included). The abstracts should be anonymous. The email message must include the following information: author’s name, affiliation, email address, and title of the abstract. The selection of papers for presentation will be communicated by May 1st, 2011.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">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 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">For further information, please check our website: <a href="http://rrg2011.weebly.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1d07a8">http://rrg2011.weebly.com</span></a></span></div><br><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">***********</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Prof. Dr. Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. </div><div>University Professor</div><div>Department of General Linguistics</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Institute for Language and Information </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Universitätsstr. 1</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">40225 Düsseldorf</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Germany<span lang="EN-GB"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; ">Tel: +49 (0)211 81 10717</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: justify; ">Fax: +49 (0)211 81 11325</span></span></span></span></div><div><a href="mailto:vanvalin@ling.uni-duesseldorf.de">vanvalin@ling.uni-duesseldorf.de</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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