17.3618, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Ukraine; General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 17.3618, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Ukraine; General Linguistics/USA

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1)
Date: 05-Dec-2006
From: Yaroslav Redkva < y.redkva at chnu.edu.ua >
Subject: Ukrainian Onomastics in Slavonic and World Context 

2)
Date: 05-Dec-2006
From: Suleyman Ulutas < wafl at fas.harvard.edu >
Subject: 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:40:43
From: Yaroslav Redkva < y.redkva at chnu.edu.ua >
Subject: Ukrainian Onomastics in Slavonic and World Context 
 


Full Title: Ukrainian Onomastics in Slavonic and World Context 

Date: 31-Oct-2007 - 03-Nov-2007
Location: Chernivtsi, Ukraine 
Contact Person: Yaroslav Redkva
Meeting Email: y.redkva at chnu.edu.ua

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2007 

Meeting Description:

A conference in Slavic and other issues of onomastics that will take place in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, at Chernivtsi University Oct. 31 to Nov. 3, 2007. 

Call for papers

Circular 1

International Onomastic Conference
(dedicated to the 70-th anniversary of a leading Ukrainian onomast, professor Dmytro H. Buchko)

October 31 - November 3, 2007, Chernivtsi Ukraine
''Ukrainian onomastics in Slavonic and World Context (topical trends and new methods of studies, achievements, prospects, interdisciplinary connections)''

Chernivtsi National University, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Linguistic Society of Bukovyna, invite you to attend the conference ''Ukrainian onomastics in Slavonic and World Context (topical trends and new methods of studies, achievements, prospects, interdisciplinary connections)'' that will take place from October 31 till November 3, 2007, in Chernivtsi, Ukraine
Scientific programme

Sections:
-	Regional onomastics in synchrony and diachrony.
-	Ukrainian toponymy and anthroponymy in interrlingual and interlinguistic ties.
-	Problems of standardization and normalization of Ukrainian and Slavonic toponyms.
-	Spelling problems and norms of nomina propria.
-	Ukrainian ties with other languages and similar coinages in onomastics of Bukovyna and bordering areas.
-	Theoretical onomastics (onomastic lexicography and terminology, onomastics and etymology, new methods of onomastic research).
-	Literary (poetics of an onym) and folklore onomastics.
-	Typology of global toponymic and anthroponymic systems.
-	Onomastics and cognitive linguistics (mutual ties between the disciplines).
-	Neoonomastics (new classes of names: ergonyms, kosmonyms, loginonyms, firmonyms?)

We would ask you to  register by March 1, 2007 about your participation in the conference by filling in registration form and send it by regular or e-mail. We would also ask you to take care about return/roundtrip tickets.
Arrival and placement of participants will take place on October 31, Closing day - November 3, 2007.

Registration of participants will take place on the day of arrival (October 31, 2007) at Philology Faculty of Chernivtsi University. Address: Chernivtsi University, Philology Faculty, second floor, 2, Kotsiubynskoho Str., Chernivtsi.
Plenary session will take place in the Red Hall of Chernivtsi University, 2, Kotsiubynskoho Str., Building No. 5 of the former Residence) November 1, from 10:00 till 13:00.

Languages of the conference: All Slavonic Languages and English.

How to get to the university:
1)	From railway station: Take trolley-buses No. 3 or 5 to bus stop Puppet Theatre, and then walk on till you reach Central Square, then turn left to the Chernivtsi cinema and take trolley-buses Nos. 2 or 4, or buses No. 2, 4, 5 to the bus stop University.
2)	From Coach station: take trolleybus No 3 to the bus stop Shkilna (which is opposite Puppet Theatre) and then reach Chernivtsi cinema and then and take trolley-buses Nos. 2 or 4, or buses No. 2, 4, 5 to the bus stop University.
Abstracts and papers will be published before the conference start in Naukovyi Visnyk of Chernivtsi University, Slavonic Philology.
Accomodation: 1) in the hostels of Chernivtsi University and Bukovynian Medical University (1 night 40 hryvnas, number of rooms is limited); 2) in Bukovyna, Tourist, and Cheremosh hotels (one room per night is 160-180 hryvnas, breakfast included; suite - 250-270 hryvnas per night, breakfast and supper included).
Lunch: at university cafeteria.
NB! Conference organizers consider possibility of partial (accommodation expenses) and full (meals) compensation of expenses of participants for sponsors' donations and grant.
Registration fees are 50 hryvnas (may be paid on arrival day).
Address of the Organizing Committee:
Yaroslav Redkva, Organizing Committee of Onomastic Conference, Faculty of Philology, Chernivtsi National University, 2, Kotsiubynskoho Str. 58012 Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
??l.: + 38 0372 584800; Fax: + 38 0372 584706;  ?-m??l: onomastica at chnu.edu.ua; y.redkva at chnu.edu.ua
More detailed information will be available in Circular 2.
Chairman of the Organizing Committee	                                    Yaroslav P. Redkva, Ph.D.


	
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:41:19
From: Suleyman Ulutas < wafl at fas.harvard.edu >
Subject: 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics 

	

Full Title: 4th Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics 
Short Title: WAFL4 

Date: 18-May-2007 - 20-May-2007
Location: Cambridge, MA, USA 
Contact Person: Cedric Boeckx
Meeting Email: wafl at fas.harvard.edu
Web Site: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/events.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Altaic 

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2006 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University is pleased to announce the Fourth Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL4) to be held in Cambridge, MA on May 18-20, 2007. 

Invited Speakers: 
C.-T. James Huang (Harvard University)
Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)
Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT)
Donca Steriade (MIT)
James H.-S. Yoon (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 

2nd Call for Papers

Abstracts dealing with issues pertaining to the nature of parametric variation are especially encouraged. 

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion) on topics dealing with formal aspects of any area of theoretical Altaic linguistics, including syntax, phonology, morphology, and semantics. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is December 31, 2006. Email submissions (pdf format) only.

Abstracts should be no more than 2 pages long. Submissions are limited to one abstract per author.

WAFL4 Organizing Committee
Department of Linguistics
Harvard University
Boylston Hall, 3rd Floor 
Cambridge, MA 02138
 



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