10.716, Calls: Typology, Gender:Lang/Culture/Communication

Tue May 11 13:13:34 UTC 1999

LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-716. Tue May 11 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.716, Calls: Typology, Gender:Lang/Culture/Communication

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Date:  Sun, 9 May 1999 23:38:24 +0400
From:  "Solovyev V.D." <solovyev at tatincom.ru>
Subject:  Language Typology

2)
Date:  Mon, 10 May 1999 00:23:05 +0000
From:  "Andrej Popov" <apopov at openmail.irex.ru>
Subject:  Gender: Language, Culture, Communication

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

Date:  Sun, 9 May 1999 23:38:24 +0400
From:  "Solovyev V.D." <solovyev at tatincom.ru>
Subject:  Language Typology

                                   The on-line conference
                                 LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY

                                            Program

TOWARDS A THEORY OF SYNTACTIC CATEGORIES
David Gil
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

A TYPOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PRO-DROP PARAMETER
Kimberly Geeslin
Stanford, USA

CONSTRUCTIONS WITH PERFECTIVE MEANING ON THE EARLY STAGES OF
GRAMMATICALIZATION
Timur Maisak
Moscow State University, Russia

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL
RELATIVE DEVIANCE
Peter John Hassall
International Pacific College, New Zealand,
Siva Ganesh
Massey University, New Zealand

THE TYPOLOGY OF EXPLETIVE THERE
William Earl Griffin
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

TYPOLOGY-DIACHRONY INTERFACE (ON PERSIAN LANGUAGE)
Marika Butskhrikidze
Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics, The Netherlands

THE IDEA OF A CLASSIFIER SYSTEM: THEORETICAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANALYSIS OF
JAPANESE NOUN SPECIFICATION
Chris Beckwith
Indiana University, USA

POSSIBLE GENERALIZATION OF COMRIE'S HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THE SYNTACTIC POSITION
OF THE CAUSEE
Valery Solovyev
Kazan State University, Russia

On-line conference "Language typology" is going to be held on May 15th  to
25th  1999.
The organizers are Kazan State University and "Web Journal of Formal,
Computational & Cognitive Linguistics"
(http://www.kcn.ru/tat_en/science/fccl/) . All the papers will be put on
the Web site of the Journal.

Participation in  the  on-line  conference  will be carried out on the list
TYPOLOGY.LIST that has been created for that purpose. To subscribe
to this list, send the following message to <majordomo at ksu.ru>:

SUBSCRIBE TYPOLOGY Your-email-address

Once you have received confirmation of your subscription, you may send
messages to <typology at ksu.ru>. A record of all received messages will be
maintained on a specific Web page at the conference site. Everyone
subscribed to the list will receive these
messages. If you wish to leave the list,  send the following message to
<majordomo at ksu.ru>:

UNSUBSCRIBE TYPOLOGY Your-email-address

At the end of the  conference  participants will be automatically  removed
from the TYPOLOGY.LIST.
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Valery Solovyev
Editor of the "Web Journal of Formal,  Computational & Cognitive
Linguistics"
Kazan State University,  Kazan, 420008, Russia
E-mail: solovyev at tatincom.ru

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Date:  Mon, 10 May 1999 00:23:05 +0000
From:  "Andrej Popov" <apopov at openmail.irex.ru>
Subject:  Gender: Language, Culture, Communication

                                                           CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleagues,

you are welcome to participate in the First International Conference

                             "Gender: Language, Culture, Communication"

          (http://www.gendermglu.da.ru                gender.mglu at gmx.net)

hosted by Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow 25 -26 November 1999.

                                              PROPOSED DISCUSSION POINTS

- GENDER AS SOCIOCULTURAL PHENOMENON
- TEXT AND DISCOURSE: GENDER ANALYSIS
- TRANSLATION IN GENDER RESEARCH
- GENDER AS BIOSOCIAL PHENOMENON: PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH

The host committee will be happy to consider your applications and presentation
abstracts on other Gender Linguistics topical issues.

                                    CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION FORMAT

- WORKSHOP REPORT - 15 min
- POSTER PRESENTATION - 15 min
- CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

The working languages are Russian and English (simultaneous interpretation is
provided). Arrangements will be made to set up other languages working groups
within workshops. Presentation abstracts will be published in the language of
the original.

The registration fee is 300 roubles. Speakers are exempt from the fee.

For further procedure information  visit us at: http://www.gendermglu.da.ru

Accommodation in MSLU Residence Hall at 6/2 Komsomlsky prospekt, Moscow will be
provided. Hotel reservation is also available at your request. Date of arrival: 24 November 1999

You are kindly requested to submit your applications and presentation abstracts
- both on a floppy disc (Word 6.0/95 or RFT) and a printout, one page 1.5
spaced - by 25 September 1999 at the latest.

Free publication of presentation abstracts will be provided. Please e-mail your
applications and presentation abstracts at: gender.mglu at gmx.net. Tel./fax:
(095) 246-2807 Alexander N. Naberezhnov

Contact address: Dr. Alla V. Kirilina, 38 Ostozhenka, Moscow 119837, Russia,
The First International Conference "Gender: Language, Culture, Communication"
host committee.

http://www.gendermglu.da.ru                      gender.mglu at gmx.net

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