19.1232, Calls: Lang Acq,Psycholing/USA; Historical Ling/Romania

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Subject: 19.1232, Calls: Lang Acq,Psycholing/USA; Historical Ling/Romania

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Date: 10-Apr-2008
From: Theres Grueter < theres.gruter at umontreal.ca >
Subject: Comparing Child L2 and SLI 

2)
Date: 10-Apr-2008
From: Blanca Croitor < ileanablanca at gmail.com >
Subject: Grammaticalization and Pragmaticalization in Romanian

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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:17:58
From: Theres Grueter [theres.gruter at umontreal.ca]
Subject: Comparing Child L2 and SLI
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Full Title: Comparing Child L2 and SLI 

Date: 17-Oct-2008 - 19-Oct-2008
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 
Contact Person: Theres Grueter
Meeting Email: theres.gruter at umontreal.ca
Web Site: http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2008 

Meeting Description:

A special panel on 'Comparing child L2 and SLI: Crosslinguistic perspectives'
will be held at SLRF 2008, with the aim of bringing together researchers working
on the comparison between child L2 and Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in
different languages within a linguistic framework. Abstracts are invited for
20-minute talks within this panel. 

Final Call for Papers

Second Language Research Forum (SLRF) 2008
17-19 October 2008
University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Special panel on ''Comparing child L2 and SLI: Crosslinguistic perspectives''
Call deadline: 15 April 2008

Abstracts are invited for a special panel on ''Comparing child L2 and SLI:
Crosslinguistic perspectives'' to take place as part of SLRF at the University
of Hawai`i, 17-19 October 2008.

Recent work in a variety of linguistic frameworks has shown remarkable
similarities between children acquiring a nonnative language (L2) and children
diagnosed with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): Similar grammatical phenomena
appear to be vulnerable in both cases. The aim of this panel is to bring
together researchers working on child L2 and SLI in different languages within a
linguistic framework, in order to address and discuss questions such as the
following:

- To what extent are similarities/differences between child L2 and SLI observed
crosslinguistically?

- What domains of the grammar seem to be particularly (in)vulnerable in child L2
and SLI crosslinguistically?

- Are there aspects of grammatical development that clearly distinguish child L2
learners from children with SLI?

- To what extent are the vulnerabilities grammatical phenomena and/or processing
phenomena?

- What are the implications of these similarities/differences for developmental
theories of child L2 and SLI, and for linguistic theorizing more generally?

Individual papers will be allotted 20 minutes (plus time for discussion).

Submission Instructions:
(NB: Do not submit abstracts for this panel through SLRF's online submission
system.)

- Abstracts should be anonymous, clearly titled and no more than 500 words. The
text of the abstract should fit on one page, with a second page for examples,
figures/tables and references. (Please include a word count at the bottom of the
page.)

- The title should be no longer than 12 words.

- Each submission must also include a 50-word summary, to be published in the
conference program.

- In a single e-mail message to theres.gruter at umontreal.ca, send the abstract as
a pdf file and the summary as a Microsoft Word or RTF file by 15 April 2008.

- Title of the paper, author name(s), affiliation(s) and contact information
should be included in the body of the e-mail message.

Notification of acceptance is anticipated to be by mid-May.

For questions and further information regarding this panel, please contact
Theres Grueter (theres.gruter at umontreal.ca).

For general information on SLRF 2008, see the conference website
(http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/slrf08/).

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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:18:07
From: Blanca Croitor [ileanablanca at gmail.com]
Subject: Grammaticalization and Pragmaticalization in Romanian
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Full Title: Grammaticalization and Pragmaticalization in Romanian 

Date: 03-Oct-2008 - 04-Oct-2008
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Rodica Zafiu
Meeting Email: rodica_zafiu at yahoo.com

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2008 

Meeting Description:

The Faculty of Letters from the University of Bucharest is organizing a two days
conference on grammaticalization in Romanian, on October 3-4, 2008. Conference
languages: Romanian, English, French. 

First Call for Papers

''Grammaticalization and pragmaticalization in Romanian''
3-4 October 2008, Bucharest, Romania

Call deadline: June 15th, 2008.
Conference languages: Romanian, English, French.

The Faculty of Letters from the University of Bucharest is organizing a two days
conference on grammaticalization in Romanian (as part of a research grant
entitled ''Grammaticalization and pragmaticalization in Old Romanian'', directed
by prof. dr. Rodica Zafiu, http://www.unibuc.ro/ro/pc_fdglrv_ro). 

We welcome talks on any topic related to grammaticalization and
pragmaticalization (modal verbs, the syntax of comparatives, the markers of the
degrees of comparison, the supine with 'de', the grammaticalization of
prepositions, adverbializations, the grammaticalization of determiners,
causatives, pragmatic connectors, discourse anaphora, address forms etc.).

Abstracts (1 page) should be sent to gramaticalizare at gmail.com,
rodica_zafiu at yahoo.com, no longer than June 15th. Abstracts should contain the
participant's name, affiliation and e-mail address, as well as the title of the
talk. Each talk will last 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussions.

Participants will receive a notification of acceptance before July 1st 2008.

The final program of the conference will be available on July 30th 2008.

The conference fee is 40 euro (20 euro for Ph.D. students). The fee will include
coffee breaks, dinner, xerox copies.  

A selection of the talks will be published in a special issue of ''Revue
Roumaine de Linguistique'' (http://www.lingv.ro/rrlsite/rrl.htm). 

Invited speaker: Christiane Marchello-Nizia.

Scientific committee: Rodica Zafiu, Gabriela Pan? Dindelegan, Alexandra
Cornilescu, Larisa Avram, Sanda Rîpeanu Reinheimer.

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