<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>If any of our northern hemisphere sign language corpus colleagues are interested in attending the Asia-Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference in Auckland, New Zealand next year (in February, the southern hemisphere summer), I might propose a one day workshop on corpus-based approaches to sign language documentation and description. </div><div><br></div><div>This would be a good opportunity to make other linguists in the Asia-Pacific region aware of our work (there are plans for sign language corpus projects in India and Japan, for example).</div><div><br></div><div>Please get in touch with me ASAP if you're interested in being part of a workshop. Abstracts are due by June 4, 2011.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Adam</div><div>
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</span><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Associate Professor Adam Schembri<br>
Director, National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Language<br>
La Trobe University | Melbourne (Bundoora) | Victoria | 3086 | Australia<br>
Tel: +61 3 9479 2887 | Fax: +61 3 9479 3074 | www.latrobe.edu.au/nids (under construction)<br>
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