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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">Dear colleagues, </font></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">On behalf of the organizers from </font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
(CASS)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="DengXian"> and</font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt"> Shanghai International Studies
University (SISU), w</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">e are very pleased to
announce that the </font></span><span style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">“</font><b><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">3rd Biennial
Conference on Language Typology in China and the World</font></span></b><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">”</font><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">will take place in </font><b><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">Shanghai, </font></b><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">China, between </font><b><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">July 14 </font></b></span><b><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">–</font><span lang="EN-US"><font color="#000000" face="DengXian"> 16 July, 2017. </font></span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">Below is our Call for Papers. Looking forward to your coming .
Thanks!</font></span></p>
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<p align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;text-align:left"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:simsun;font-size:13.5pt"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">3rd Biennial Conference on Language
Typology in China and the World</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-size:11pt"><br>
<span style="background:white"> </span><br>
<b><span style="background:white">Date:<span> </span></span></b><span style="background:white">July 14 </span></span><span style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">–<span lang="EN-US"> 16 July, 2017</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-size:11pt"><br>
<b><span style="background:white">Location:</span></b><span><span style="background:white"> </span></span><span style="background:white">Shanghai International Studies University</span><br>
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<b><span style="background:white">Conference Organizers:</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white"> Institute of
Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)</span><br>
<span style="background:white"> Institute of
Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)</span><br>
<span style="background:white"> Journal of<span><i> </i></span><i>Zhongguo Yuwen</i><span> </span>(<i>Studies of the Chinese Language</i>)
(</span></span><span style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">《中国语文》<span lang="EN-US">)</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-size:11pt"><br>
<span style="background:white"> Journal of<span> </span><i>Foreign Languages </i></span></span><span style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">（《外国语》）</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-size:11pt"><br>
<span style="background:white"> </span><br>
<span style="background:white">This conference is intended to study various
current issues in the field of language typology, with an eye on
Chinese and other languages from cross-linguistic perspectives. Topics of
interest may involve field linguistics, language comparison, language contact,
typology and language evolution, areal linguistics, etc.</span><br>
<span style="background:white"> </span><br>
<b><span style="background:white">Submission</span></b><br>
<span style="background:white">Please send your abstracts of 300 </span></span><span style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">–<span lang="EN-US"> 600 words by <b>30th April,
2017</b> to the conference organizers at < <a href="mailto:typology_sisu@yahoo.com">typology_sisu@yahoo.com</a><b>
></b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-size:11pt"><br>
<span style="background:white">Abstracts will be evaluated by the reviewing
committee. We will notify you of inclusion in this conference by
31st May, 2017.</span><br>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">Conference website</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">: <a href="http://www.iol.shisu.edu.cn/56/93/c1518a87699/page.htm">http://www.iol.shisu.edu.cn/56/93/c1518a87699/page.htm</a>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">For further information, please contact:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-size:11pt"><br>
<span style="background:white"> Prof. Lixin
Jin</span></span><span style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">（金立鑫）<span lang="EN-US"> (<a href="mailto:lixinjin@gmail.com">lixinjin@gmail.com</a>)</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-size:11pt"><br>
<span style="background:white"> Prof.
Jianming Wu</span></span><span style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">（吴建明）<span lang="EN-US"> (<a href="mailto:wu.jianming2011@hotmail.com">wu.jianming2011@hotmail.com</a>),</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;font-size:11pt"><br>
<span style="background:white"> Lecturer:
Fang Wang</span></span><span style="background:white;color:black;font-size:11pt">（王芳）<span lang="EN-US"> (<a><font color="#000000" face="DengXian">wangfang@shisu.edu.cn</font></a>)</span></span></p>
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