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<div style="text-indent:-57.6pt;padding-left:57.6pt;"><b>First Announcement and Call for papers</b></div>
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<div style="text-indent:-57.6pt;padding-left:57.6pt;"><font size="5" color="blue"><span style="font-size:20pt;"><b><i>IC</i></b><b>-FDG-2012</b></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:10pt;">International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar<br>
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium</div>
<div style="margin-bottom:10pt;"><b>6-8 June 2012</b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:10pt;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><i>preceded by</i></span></font></div>
<div style="text-indent:-57.6pt;padding-left:57.6pt;"><font size="5" color="blue"><span style="font-size:20pt;"><b><i>IPC</i></b><b>-FDG-2012</b></span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:10pt;">International Postgraduate Course on Functional Discourse Grammar<br>
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium </div>
<div style="margin-bottom:10pt;"><b>4-5</b><b> June 2012</b></div>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b>Call for papers IC-FDG-2012<br>
</b></span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The conference will host </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">papers on any topic related to FDG. This includes both theoretical expositions concerning the model itself and
applications of the framework to new data. However, one topic will be given special attenti</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">on</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">: Lexicon and Grammar in Functional Discourse
Grammar. (see below)<br>
</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The length of the papers will be 30 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion.</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"> There will be no parallel sessions at the conference.<br>
Apart from the special and general sessions, there </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">will be ample room for poster presentations.<br>
</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">The language of the conference will be English.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:10pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;">For more information see our website <a href="www.FunctionalDiscourseGrammar.info"><font color="blue"><u>www.FunctionalDiscourseGrammar.info</u></font></a></span></font></div>
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