6.871, Calls: Chinese dialects, Indo-European

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-871. Sun 25 Jun 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 170
 
Subject: 6.871, Calls: Chinese dialects, Indo-European
 
Moderators: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar: Texas A&M U. <aristar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
            Helen Dry: Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at emunix.emich.edu>
 
Assoc. Editor: Ljuba Veselinova <lveselin at emunix.emich.edu>
Asst. Editors: Ron Reck <rreck at emunix.emich.edu>
               Ann Dizdar <dizdar at tam2000.tamu.edu>
               Annemarie Valdez <avaldez at emunix.emich.edu>
 
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 19:12:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Prager Branner (charmii at u.washington.edu)
Subject: Call:  Panel on Classification and Comparison
 
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 12:59:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elizabeth Pyatt (pyatt1 at husc.harvard.edu)
Subject: Call for Papers: NELS 26 IE Workshop
 
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 19:12:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Prager Branner (charmii at u.washington.edu)
Subject: Call:  Panel on Classification and Comparison
 
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           Panel on Chinese Dialect Comparison and Classification
        at the 206th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society
                        MARCH 1996 IN PHILADELPHIA
 
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS (June, 1995)
 
        There will be a panel on Chinese Dialect Comparison and
Classification at the next Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society
(AOS), in Philadelphia, March, 1996.  The panel organizers welcome
 
    1. papers that rigorously address issues of Chinese dialect
       classification--as criteria, methodology, proposed groupings,
       etc., or
    2. studies that seek to further knowledge of the nature and
       relationships of Chinese dialects through detailed comparison--as
       comparison of phonology, lexicon, grammar, etc.
 
        The dialects discussed may be living or historical. We will give
preference to presentations that are data-heavy over papers that focus on
analysis with very little supporting data.
 
        Proposals are now being accepted for review and should be in the
form of a one-page typed abstract that details the issues addressed,
outlines the central conclusions, and characterizes the supporting data to
be included.
 
        This panel is separate from the other Yuen Ren Society conference
on Fresh Chinese Dialect Fieldwork that is being held at the same meeting.
It is permissible for one person to deliver papers at both events.
 
        As the AOS deadline for panel proposals is in mid-October, the
final deadline for us to receive your proposal/abstract is 24 September
1995. (Please send it sooner if at all possible.) Your proposal will be
anonymously submitted to our review panel, and you will be notified of a
decision once the panel proposal is finalized.
 
        For questions and further details, you may write to the panel
organizer, R. VanNess Simmons, after 1 September by email at
rsimmon at gandalf.rutgers.edu or regular mail at:
 
        East Asian Languages
        Scott Hall, Room 330
        Rutgers University
        New Brunswick, NJ 08903 USA
 
        Alternatively, before 10 October you may write the Yuen Ren
Society by email at yuenren at u.washington.edu or by regular mail at:
 
        The Yuen Ren Society,
             att'n: David Prager Branner
        Asian Languages and Literature
        University of Washington
        Box 353521
        Seattle, WA 9819-35215 USA
 
This panel is being sponsored by the Yuen Ren Society.  Please see our
Web pages beginning at
        http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/Circular.html
 
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 12:59:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Elizabeth Pyatt (pyatt1 at husc.harvard.edu)
Subject: Call for Papers: NELS 26 IE Workshop
 
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                             * * *  NELS 26 * * *
                       * * * INDO-EUROPEAN WORKSHOP * * *
 
This is an extended call for papers for the Indo-European Workshop which
will take place in conjunction with NELS 26 at Harvard/MIT on Monday
October 30 (NELS  26 Oct. 27 - Oct. 30).  Hopefully this announcement
will answer the general questions that have been asked by various people.
 
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Purpose - The general purpose of this workshop is to
analyze or reconstruct interesting grammatical features of the
Indo-European languages in some modern linguistic framework.
 
Languages - Indo-European, any of its reconstructed descendants
(Proto-Germanic, Proto-Celtic, Proto-Indo-Iranian, etc.), and any of the
"Classical" or extinct Indo-European daughter languages (Latin, Sanskrit,
Tocharian A or B, Classical Armenian, etc.).
 
Abstracts dealing exclusively with a modern spoken Indo-European language
or languages (with no reference to the history) will not be considered
for this workshop
 
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Potential Topics
1. Synchronic analysis of a syntactic, phonological, morphological
or semantic feature of an Indo-European language or proto-language done
within a recent linguistic framework.
 
2. Tracing the development of a grammatical feature (syntactic,
phonological, morphological, semantic) utilizing a recent framework.
 
3. Other
 
These abstracts will be reviewed by both Indo-Europeanists and
theoretical linguists who have worked with one or more of the
Indo-European languages.
 
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Boring Details
Send 11 copies of a one-page abstract (10 anonymous & 1 with
name/affiliation and an index card to:
 
        Dianne Jonas & Martha McGiness
        NELS 26
        Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
        20D-219, MIT
        Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
 
Abstracts must be 1 page (with one additional reference page - no
examples), 12 pt type, 1-inch margin on 8 1/2 x 11 paper
 
The index card must include:    Name, e-mail, institution, address, phone
number, "Indo-European Workshop"
 
Abstracts must arrive by July 7, 1995 or they will not be reviewed
 
I hope this announcement answers the various questions that have
been asked. If not, please contact:
 
                Elizabeth J. Pyatt (for the NELS 26 Committee)
                pyatt1 at husc.harvard.edu
 
Thank you and see you at NELS!
 
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