SEELANGS Digest - 28 Jul 1999 to 29 Jul 1999 (#1999-189)

[Michael Yadroff]

August 1999: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
                !!!THE BLOOMINGTON MEETING!!!
THE 9TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON

        FORMAL APPROACHES TO SLAVIC LINGUISTICS
Hosted by:
    Indiana University, Bloomington

When:
    February 19-20, 2000
Where:
    Bloomington, Indiana (ca. 1 hour south of Indianapolis)
Invited Speakers:
    Wayles Browne, Cornell University
    Ljiljana Progovac, Wayne State University
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Abstracts are invited for 30-minute presentations on topics dealing with
formal aspects of Slavic syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology and
psycholinguistics.
Send 5 copies of a ONE-PAGE ANONYMOUS abstract to:
   FASL9
   Department of Linguistics
   Memorial Hall East, Room 322
   Indiana University
   Bloomington IN 47405-7005
Please also include ONE 3x5 card with:
   1) title of paper
   2) your name
   3) address and affiliation
   4) telephone and fax numbers
   5) e-mail address
(Authors are advised to re-check examples and glosses with speakers of the
languages involved.)
Abstracts Must Be Received By NOVEMBER 22, 1999.
We hope to make a program available by DECEMBER 10, 1999.
Persons interested in attending FASL9 are invited to register their e-mail
and mailing addresses with us at:
   fasl9 at indiana.edu

Web pages will be located at: http://www.indiana.edu/~fasl9/


                         !!!PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!
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Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics IX      fasl9 at indiana.edu
May 17-19, 1996                                         [tel]
1-812-855-6459/6456
Organizing Committee:                                   [fax] 1-812-855-5363
   George Fowler                                                gfowler at indiana.edu
   Steven Franks        franks at indiana.edu
   Leslie Gabriele      lgabriel at indiana.edu
   Michael Yadroff                              myadroff at indiana.edu
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                          !!!SPECIAL SESSIONS!!!

NOTE THE EARLY DATE THIS YEAR, PLUS THE FACT THAT FASL PROPER RUNS
ALL DAY SATURDAY AND AFTER LUNCH SUNDAY. This is because FASL9 is
being held in conjunction with a special workshop/forum on the topic:

                        Slavic Linguistics 2000:
          The Future of Slavic Linguistics in America
                               (SLING2K)

SLING2K is funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education, and will take place
all day on Friday, February 18, 2000. Participants in this event
include the following scholars:

Ronelle Alexander, Edna Andrews, John Bailyn, Christina Bethin, David Birnbaum,
Catherine Chvany, Lenore Grenoble, Charles Gribble, Laura Janda,
Maria Polinsky,
        Adam Przepiorkowski, Irina Sekerina, and Charles Townsend

The uncertain future of the field of Slavic linguistics has given
rise to a number of productive discussions in the pages of journals
such as the Journal of Slavic Linguistics and at the sessions of
meetings such as the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and
East European Languages. In the words of Olga Yokoyama, "the time has
come to take a hard look at the future of our field as an
occupation". The SLING2K workshop is designed to do just this. We are
inviting a variety of experts to submit position papers, which will
be put on the web by 15 December 1999. These are meant to serve as
springboards for discussion, rebuttal, response, and debate. Position
paper authors will summarize what they regard as the state of the
field with respect to their particular subdiscipline(s). Papers
should summarize past achievements and sketch out new directions.
Responses will be entertained on a continuing basis, until the
program is full. We hope that a realistic assessment of the viability
of Slavic linguistics in the 21st century will emerge from the
debate, and that the product of the workshop will be of considerable
use to current and future graduate students in making informed
decisions about the concentration of their academic energies.

The workshop itself will take the form of an interactive forum, where
all participants have read the position papers, and will ideally
respond to one or more of them and participate in a vigorous
give-and-take discussion and general brainstorming session. The
workshop proceedings, including the full text of all position papers,
selected responses, and edited transcripts of the discussions will be
published by Slavica Publishers (the exact schedule and format of the
volume to be shaped by the nature of the actual workshop).

Web pages will be located at: http://www.indiana.edu/~slavconf/

For further information about SLING2K contact George Fowler, as follows:

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George Fowler                                   [Email] gfowler at indiana.edu
Dept. of Slavic Languages               [dept. tel.] 1-812-855-9906/-2608/-2624
Ballantine 502                                  [dept. fax] 1-812-855-2107
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.                   [home tel./fax] 1-317-726-1482/-1642
Indiana University                              [Slavica tel./fax]
1-812-856-4186/-4187
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103 USA  [Slavica toll-free] 1-877-SLAVICA
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        !!!POSTER SESSION ON SLAVIC SEMANTICS!!!

As a special one-time event intended to increase the participation of
semanticists in FASL meetings, there will be a special poster session
(up to 6 posters) on Slavic Semantics at FASL9, concurrent with the
regular Saturday poster session. Abstracts for the special session
will be separately refereed by a committee organized by Barbara
Partee. Papers from this session will not be published in the FASL9
proceedings, but can be submitted for review for a special semantics
issue of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics to be co-edited by Barbara
Partee and Wayles Browne. Please submit abstracts (same
specifications and number of copies as for normal FASL papers, and
same deadlines, notification dates, etc.) for the Special Poster
Session on Slavic Semantics to:

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Slavic Semantics Poster Session
c/o Barbara H. Partee
Department of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-7130
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Note: You may submit the same abstract to both the regular FASL9
program and to the special poster session; in that case, you must
indicate on a separate piece of paper attached to your abstract which
venue would be your first choice if both are accepted.

There will also be an informal luncheon meeting on Sunday Feb. 20 to
continue the discussion begun at FASL 8 of ways to facilitate the
development of Slavic semantics; all welcome. To join an informal
e-mail interest group on this topic, contact
partee at linguist.umass.edu.