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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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<font color="#FF0000">We are celebrating 20 years of the Linguistics
Program at Purdue University and the leadership that Victor Raskin
provided to our program</font>. I hope you will join us in paying
tribute to Victor in appreciation of the effort, energy, and personal
resources he expended to start the Program, help it grow, and finally to
obtain our authorization from the State of Indiana to grant degrees in
Linguistics at the graduate level (MA, Ph.D.). In addition to Thomas
Sebeok of Indiana University, we have invited Victor's former students to
present papers in his honor. <br>
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I hope you will be able to join us.<br>
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Ronnie<br>
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<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab><font color="#FF0000">Symposium
Program<br>
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</font>Friday morning, September 29, 2000, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Room 218C
Stewart Center<br>
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Symposium Celebrating 20 Years of Linguistics at Purdue University and
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Honoring Victor Raskin for his Directorship <br>
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Chair - Ronnie Wilbur <br>
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Executive Vice President and Long-time Linguistics Supporter Robert L.
Ringel - Symposium Opening <br>
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Salvatore Attardo - Introductory Remarks <br>
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Thomas Sebeok - Intersemiotic Transmutations <br>
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Dallin Oaks - Toward a Methodology for Generating Structural
Wordplays: A <br>
Possible Tool for Advertisers <br>
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Salvatore Attardo - We're Back! Generative Semantics Meets
Explicature/Implicature <br>
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Sergei Nirenburg - Relaxable-to: Ontological Semantics <br>
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Victor Raskin - Concluding Comments <br>
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<div>Ronnie Wilbur, Ph.D.</div>
Professor and Chair, Linguistics
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