10.1506, Calls: Romance Lang - LSRL 30, Evolution of Lang 2000

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Subject: 10.1506, Calls: Romance Lang - LSRL 30, Evolution of Lang 2000

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1)
Date:  Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:09:46 -0400
From:  Caroline Wiltshire <wiltshir at lin.ufl.edu>
Subject:  Romance Languages - LSRL 30, Univ of Florida

2)
Date:  Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:57:39 +0100 (MET DST)
From:  Conference Evolang <evolang at infres.enst.fr>
Subject:  Evolution of Language 2000 - Paris, France

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

Date:  Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:09:46 -0400
From:  Caroline Wiltshire <wiltshir at lin.ufl.edu>
Subject:  Romance Languages - LSRL 30, Univ of Florida


*********************************************************************
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
*********************************************************************

The  30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages will be held at the
University of Florida, Gainesville, home of the first LSRL. Both main and
para-sessions will run from  February 24-27, 2000.

Please note that the deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to
                        OCTOBER 22, 1999

Invited Speakers:   Maria-Luisa Rivero (University of Ottawa)
                               Bernard Tranel (UC-Irvine)
                               John Lipski (University of New Mexico)

PARASESSION:   Current issues in Romance Language Sociolinguistics
                            and Second Language Acquisition

Special Outreach
Lectures:               D. Gary Miller and William C. Calin (University of
Florida)

*********************************************************************
MAIN SESSION    Organized by Caroline Wiltshire and  Jean Casagrande

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion)
on any aspect of Romance linguistics. Authors are asked to send six (6)
copies of an anonymous abstract and one additional copy with the
author's name and affiliation (the latter will be reproduced in the Meeting
Handbook if the paper is accepted for presentation).

Abstracts should be no more than two pages in length (including examples
and references), in 12-point type.  All margins should be at least one inch
wide (or 2.5 cm).

Please also include a legible 3" x 5" card with paper title, name of
author(s), affiliation(s), address, phone number, and e-mail address.

To facilitate the review process, please indicate the primary area of
linguistics addressed in the paper.  Those who wish to be considered for
both the Main Session and the Parasession (see below) should send two
sets of materials (please indicate MAIN SESSION/PARASESSION).

Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint
abstract per author. E-mail submissions will be accepted, provided that
a camera-ready hardcopy is received no later than October 25, 1999
(sorry, no faxes will be accepted). Preference will be given to
presentations not duplicated at other major conferences (e.g., LSA,
NELS, WCCFL). Authors are asked to indicate prior or planned
presentations of their papers on the abstract submission card.

SPECIAL 30th ANNIVERSARY SESSION:  Because of the milestone
nature of the 30th LSRL in the year 2000, we feel it would be
appropriate to have retrospectives of the field of Romance Linguistics
in major sub-areas such as phonology, morphology, and syntax.
Submissions of this kind should follow  the abstract guidelines above
and should be sent to the Main Session address, but indicate History of
Romance Linguistics as the primary area.

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PARASESSION:                 Organized by Joaquim Camps
Current issues in Romance Language Sociolinguistics and
Second Language Acquisition

Abstracts for twenty-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion) are
invited for a parasession. We welcome studies on either Romance
language sociolinguistics or the acquisition of Romance languages
(either as second or foreign languages).

Abstract guidelines are the same as those for the Main Session.

*************************************************************************
DEADLINE for receipt of abstracts:  October 22,1999
Notification: By December 10th, 1999
***************************************************************************

All submissions should be sent to:
	LSRL 30 (MAIN SESSION)
	Caroline Wiltshire and Jean Casagrande
	Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures, UF
	Box 117405
	Gainesville, FL 32611-7405    USA

or:	LSRL 30 (Parasession)
	Joaquim Camps
	Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures, UF
	Box 117405
	Gainesville, FL 32611-7405    USA

E-mail: Caroline Wiltshire: wiltshir at lin.ufl.edu
           Jean Casagrande: jeancas at ufl.edu
           Joaquim Camps: camps at rll.ufl.edu

Fax: (352) 392-5679

Web site (still under construction) provides details of travel and
housing at:  http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/wiltshir/lsrl.htm

Sponsored by: UF Dept of Romance Languages and Literatures,
Program in Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the
English Language Institute and theOffice of Research, Technology,
and Graduate Education at UF.







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

Date:  Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:57:39 +0100 (MET DST)
From:  Conference Evolang <evolang at infres.enst.fr>
Subject:  Evolution of Language 2000 - Paris, France


CALL FOR PAPERS     [deadline: November 8, 1999]
===============


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conference: T H E   E V O L U T I O N   O F   L A N G U A G E
            =================================================
            Paris April 3-6, 2000
            Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications
            Paris - France
            http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/


ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University),
Dr. Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Professor Jim Hurford
(Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh),
Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of
East London), Professor Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije
Universiteit Brussel).

LOCAL ORGANISATION: Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Laleh Ghadakpour (CREA),
Frederic Kaplan (Sony CSL), Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije Universiteit
Brussel),  Francois Yvon (ENST Paris).


	This will be the third conference in a series concerned with the
	evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines,
	we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their
	perspectives with those of modern Darwinism.

	The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists,
	anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists,
	neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with
	the question of the origin and evolution of language.


CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
- -------------------------

Frans B. M. de Waal (Emory University), Bernd Heine (Universitat zu Koln),
Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University), Paul A. Mellars (University of
Cambridge), Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Georgia State University), Herbert Terrace (Columbia University), Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
- ------------------

Jean Aitchison (Worcester College), Robert C. Berwick (M.I.T.),
Derek Bickerton (Univ. Hawai), Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory), Rene Carre (ENST), Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris),
Jean-Marie Hombert (MSH Rhone-Alpes), James R. Hurford (University of
Edinburgh), Michel Imbert (Universite de Toulouse), Judy Kegl (University of
Southern Maine), Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh), Chris Knight
(University of East London), Andre Langaney (Musee de l'Homme),
Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington), Michael Studdert-Kennedy
(Haskins Laboratories), Luc Steels (Sony CSL & Vrije Universiteit Brussel),
Bernard Victorri (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris).

Sponsored by
		- Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
		- Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris
		- Fondation Louis Leprince-Ringuet
		- Groupe des Ecoles de Télécommunications
		- CNRS
		- France Telecom CNET


Some of the issues that will be discussed are:

 origin of language
  ----------------

 . origin of phonetic abilities

 . origin of syntax

 . origin of symbolic representation semantic abilities

 . evolutionary significance of language, compatibility with natural selection

 . language and the origin of culture

 . chronology of the spread of mankind, and its relationship to language

 . the continuity/discontinuity of the language faculty with nonhuman
   communication systems.


 dynamics of language evolution
  ----------------------------

 . evolution of phonetic systems

 . evolution of the lexicon

 . evolution of grammar structures



Submission Instructions
=======================
Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or short papers
(from 1 to 4 pages, max. 2000 words).
Submitted papers will be refereed and selected for oral presentation
(25/30 min) on the basis of quality and relevance to the Conference topics.

Accepted abstracts and papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings
and will be made accessible through the web. Copies of the proceedings
will be available at the Conference. Authors of accepted contributions
will be asked to submit full length papers for a volume to be published after
the Conference by an international publisher.

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The deadline for submission is November 8th, 1999.
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Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically
(MS Word preferred, but most formats will be recognised).

Please email your submission to evolang at infres.enst.fr
Don't forget to include the submission form (see below) in your message.

If you are planning to submit a paper or abstract, or if you simply
plan to attend the Conference, please send a mail to

	evolang at infres.enst.fr

You will be kept informed through e-mail of further useful information.


If you cannot send your submission through email, please send four copies
(and the submission form) to:

	J-L Dessalles
	ENST / Dep. InfRes
	46 rue Barrault
	F-75013 Paris - France



Submission Form
===============

[ The first author should fill in the submission form and e-mail
  it to evolang at infres.enst.fr ]


Last NAME :

First Name :

Laboratory :

Organization/Affiliation :

Street Address :

City :

Postal code:

State/Province :

Country :

E-mail address for correspondence :

Fax :

Paper title :



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Conference web site: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/
Call for papers:     http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/cfp.html
EMAIL: evolang at infres.enst.fr











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