6.712, Calls: Lg variation/ling theory, Afroasiatic lgs

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Subject: 6.712, Calls: Lg variation/ling theory, Afroasiatic lgs
 
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Date:         12 May 95 13:06:03 MET
From: "roeland van hout"  (Roeland.vanHout at kub.nl)
Subject:      call for papers
 
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Date: Fri, 19 May 95 08:40:41 +0100
From: "Jacqueline Lecarme" (jl at llaor.unice.fr)
Subject: Conference on Afroasiatic Languages
 
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Date:         12 May 95 13:06:03 MET
From: "roeland van hout"  (Roeland.vanHout at kub.nl)
Subject:      call for papers
 
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                            CALL FOR PAPERS
 
                       INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
               Language Variation and Linguistic Theory
                       September 3, 4 and 5, 1995
                         University of Nijmegen
 
Organizers: Frans Hinskens,   University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
            Roeland van Hout, Univeristy of Tilburg,  The Netherlands
 
DEADLINE for abstract submission: June 23
Notification of ACCEPTANCE:       July 10
 
                             INVITED SPEAKERS
                    P. Kiparsky, Stanford University
                  W. Labov, University of Pennsylvania
                      P. Auer, University of Hamburg
               H. Cedergren, Universite de Quebec, Montreal
                   M.R. Lloret, Univeritat de Barcelona
                    A. McMahon, Univerity of Cambridge
 
GENERAL THEME AND GOAL:
There is a growing awareness that a fruitful cooperation between the study
of language variation and change (in e.g. HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, DIALECTOLOGY
and SOCIOLINGUISTICS) and work in PHONOLOGICAL THEORY is both possible and
desirable. The study of language variation and change would benefit from
this kind of cooperation both on the conceptual and theoretical levels -
among other things. Phonological theory may well profit from a greater use
of what is commonly called 'external evidence', e.g. performance errors and
evidence from language variation and change.
 
This workshop is intended to provide an international platform where insights
and approaches can be discussed from a maximally interdisciplinary point of
view. It aims to bring together representatives from both theoretical
phonological approaches and the more data-oriented fields, who are willing
to explain what they are working on, why and how - in such a way that
representatives of the other 'camps' will also be able to see how such
work might be of interest to their own research. The general goal of
the workshop is to study the possibilities and problems for a further
integration of phonological thinking on the one hand and the analysis
of language variation and change on the other.
 
PROGRAM AND WORKSHOP THEMES:
 
         Sunday September 3
Theme#1  Discussion on the theses:
         'There can be no progress in the study of language variation
         without formal linguistic theory'  and
         'There can be no progress in formal linguistic theory without
         the study of language variation'
 
         Sunday September 3
Theme#2  Is there a need for a new conceptual framework?
 
         Monday September 4
Theme#3  Which issues can and should, and which issues cannot and
         should not be studied in the interface between the study
         of language variation and phonological theory?
 
         Monday September 4
Theme#4  Which methods are appropriate for such interdisciplinary research?
 
         Tuesday September 5
Theme#5  Cause  and  'actuation',  linguistic  constraints  and internal
         spread ('embedding') of a linguistic change
 
         Tuesday September 5
Theme#6  Possible and impossible processes of linguistic change
 
Apart from the contributions by the invited speakers, time has been
scheduled for two papers on each of the six themes. Per paper there
will be 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion.
The workshop papers will be selected on the basis of abstracts.
Please submit before June 23, 1995, giving the following information:
1.   the workhop theme you will address in your paper;
2.   a clearly titled, 500-word summary for review;
3.   the title of your paper (once more); your full name & affiliation,
     current address & phone number, e-mail address, fax number
 
Send submissions (preferably by e-mail) to:
     Roeland van Hout
     Dept.  of  Linguistics
     University  of Tilburg
     Post Box 90153
     5000 LE Tilburg
     The Netherlands
     e-mail: roeland.vanhout at kub.nl
 
Write to the above address for further information, or to express your
desire to participate without presenting a paper.
 
ABSTRACT COMMITTEE:
     Frans Hinskens
     Roeland van Hout
     Norval Smith
     Leo Wetzels
 
The registration fee is HFL 200,=  /  HFL 100,= for PhD-students. Coffee,
tea and lunches included.
 
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Date: Fri, 19 May 95 08:40:41 +0100
From: "Jacqueline Lecarme" (jl at llaor.unice.fr)
Subject: Conference on Afroasiatic Languages
 
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                 CONFERENCE ON AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES
 
                           Sophia Antipolis
                              June 1996
 
                     Preliminary call for Papers
 
The Third Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, organized by the CNRS
Laboratoire "Langues, Langage et Cognition", University of Nice - Sophia
Antipolis, in collaboration with the University of Geneva, is to be held
at Sophia Antipolis, France, in June 1996 (still undated).  The aim of
the Conference is to promote research in theoretical linguistics in
relation to Afroasiatic languages.
 
Papers are invited in all areas of syntax, morphology  and  phonology.
Initial reactions are expected before June 15, 1995, simply by sending
(even  provisional) title(s) to one of the following addresses.  Faxes
or e-mails are encouraged.
 
Requests for further information about the Conference should be
addressed to:
 
        Jacqueline Lecarme
        CNRS-2LC
        1361, route des Lucioles
        06560 Sophia Antipolis
        FRANCE
 
        Tel: +(33) 92 96 73 95
        Fax: +(33) 93 65 29 27
        Email: jl at llaor.unice.fr
 
        Or:
 
        Ur Shlonsky
        Departement de Linguistique generale
        Faculte des Lettres
        Universite de Geneve
        Geneve 4 1211
        SWITZERLAND
 
        Tel: +(0041-22) 705 73 56
        Fax: +(0041-22) 328 25 66
        Email: shlonsky at uni2a.unige.ch
 
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