9.1329, Calls: Semantics & Ling Theory, Berkeley Ling Soc.

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1329. Fri Sep 25 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1329, Calls: Semantics & Ling Theory, Berkeley Ling Soc.

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1)
Date:  Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:46:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:  SALT 9 <salt9 at ling.ucsc.edu>
Subject:  SALT 9 Call for Papers

2)
Date:  Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:39:19 -0700
From:  Berkeley Linguistics Society <bls at socrates.berkeley.edu>
Subject:  BLS Call for Papers

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:46:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:  SALT 9 <salt9 at ling.ucsc.edu>
Subject:  SALT 9 Call for Papers



                  SALT 9 - Call for Papers

                Semantics and Linguistic Theory
                     Ninth Annual Meeting
             University of California, Santa Cruz
                     February 19-21, 1999


SALT 9 invites submissions for 30-minute presentations (with
10 additional minutes for discussion) on any topic in the
semantic analysis of natural language emphasizing the connection
to linguistic theory. Authors should submit 10 copies of
abstracts, no more than 2 pages (1000 words) long.  Authors' names,
address, affiliation, status (faculty/student), phone number
and e-mail address, paper title, and list of prior or planned
presentations at other conferences should accompany the abstracts
on a 3x5 card. E-mail and fax submissions cannot be accepted.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Monday, November 2, 1998.
The program will be announced in December 1998.

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Guidelines:

SALT does not accept papers that by the time of the conference have
appeared or have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed
journal.

Preference will be given to presentations not duplicated at
other major conferences (including LSA, NELS, WCCFL, etc.).
Authors are asked to indicate prior or planned presentations
of their papers on the abstract submission card.

Any person can submit at most one abstract as sole author and
a second abstract as co-author or two abstracts as co-author.
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Send abstracts to:

SALT 9 Organizing Committee
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA  95064
USA

Further announcements will be made as the conference approaches.

Inquiries are welcome to the address above, or e-mail to
salt9 at ling.ucsc.edu.

The Conference Web Site is accessible at
http://ling.ucsc.edu/salt9.html

Proceedings of SALT are in general available from books at plab.dmll.cornell.edu.
For the Proceedings of SALT 2, write to lingadm at ling.ohio-state.edu.



-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 24 Sep 1998 00:39:19 -0700
From:  Berkeley Linguistics Society <bls at socrates.berkeley.edu>
Subject:  BLS Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Fifth
Annual Meeting, to be held February 13-15, 1998.  The conference will
consist of a General Session and a Parasession on Saturday and Sunday,
followed by a Special Session on Monday.

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General Session:

The General Session will cover all areas of general linguistic interest.

     Invited Speakers
     CAROL FOWLER, Haskins Laboratories, Univ. of Connecticut, Yale Univ.
     STEPHEN LEVINSON, Max Planck Institut fr Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen
     BJRN LINDBLOM, Univ. of Stockholm and Univ. of Texas, Austin
     ALEC MARANTZ, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

***************************************************************
Parasession:  Loan Word Phenomena

The Parasession invites papers on loan word phenomena from various
theoretical, historical, sociolinguistic, and typological perspectives, as
well as descriptive works and field reports.  Areas of interest include
stratification of the lexicon and loan word 'subgrammars', re-lexification,
the role of orthography, markedness effects, second-language acquisition,
child language, bilingualism and code-switching, etc.

     Invited Speakers
     ELLEN BROSELOW, State University of New York, Stony Brook
     GARLAND CANNON, Texas A&M University
     JUNKO ITO & ARMIN MESTER, University of California, Santa Cruz

***************************************************************
Special Session:  Issues in Caucasian, Dravidian and Turkic Linguistics

The Special Session will feature research on Caucasian, Dravidian and
Turkic languages.  Papers addressing both diachronic and synchronic issues
are welcome.  Potential topics include theoretical and descriptive accounts
of structural features, writing systems and transcription problems,
language reform, and the reconstruction of the respective Proto-languages,
including the question of Altaic linguistic unity.


     Invited Speakers
     JOHANNA NICHOLS, University of California, Berkeley
     K.P. MOHANAN, National University of Singapore
     (TURKIC SPECIALIST TBA )

**************************************************************
We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome
papers from related disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science,
Computer Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology.

Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's
Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide camera-ready
copy (not to exceed 12 pages) by May 15, 1999.  Presentations will be
allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.  We ask that you make
your abstract as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic
or problem, your approach, and your conclusions.

Please send 10 copies of an anonymous one-page (8 1/2" x 11", unreduced)
abstract.  A second page, or reverse side of the single page, may be used
for data and references only.  Along with the abstract send a 3"x5" card
listing: (1) paper title, (2) session (general, Parasession, or Special),
(3) for general session abstracts only, subfield, viz., Discourse Analysis,
Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Philosophy and Methodology of
Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics,
Semantics, Sociolinguistics, or Syntax, (4) name(s) of author(s), (5)
affiliation(s) of author(S), (6) address to which notification of
acceptance or rejection should be mailed (in November 1998), (7) author's
office and home phone numbers, (8) author's e-mail address, if available.
An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract.  In case of
joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with
BLS.  Send abstracts to:  BLS 25 Abstracts Committee, 1203 Dwinelle Hall,
University of California, Berkeley, CA  94720.  Abstracts must be received
by 4:00 p.m., November 2, 1998.  We may be contacted by e-mail at
bls at socrates.berkeley.edu.

Electronic abstract submission:  via e-mail.  Only those abstracts written
in English ASCII will be accepted.  Please do not send attachments.
Electronic submissions may be sent to bls at socrates.berkeley.edu. More
Information on e-mail submission and additional guidelines for abstracts
can be found at our web site http://faust.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/.
We will not accept faxed abstracts.



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non-students; After February 7, 1997; $20 for students, $35 for non-students.

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