<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.499999046325684px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The 3rd Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Sichuan will be held in Paris, 2-4 Sept. 2013 under the auspices of <a href="http://www.cnrs.fr/index.php" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)</a>. The conference's website is: <br>
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<br><p>The aim of this workshop is to stimulate cross-fertilization of research efforts on the large number of little-explored Sino-Tibetan languages and dialects spoken in Sichuan and abutting areas. To what extent do features shared by several languages of the area reflect deeply entrenched borrowings? To what extent do they constitute retentions? These and other intriguing questions prompted researchers at the Institute of Linguistics at Academia Sinica to organize in 2008 <a href="http://typology.ling.sinica.edu.tw/old_201106/TB_of_Sichuan_eng" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">a workshop dedicated specifically to Tibeto-Burman Languages of Sichuan</a>. A <a href="http://ccl.pku.edu.cn/zmy/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">second edition</a> of the workshop was hosted by the Center for Chinese Linguistics of Peking University in 2010, with an emphasis on "Principles and Practices of Reconstruction". This edition's special focus is on "Sino-Tibetan Languages of Sichuan in their Areal Context": in addition to studies of languages of Sichuan proper, we encourage submissions about Sino-Tibetan languages of areas that border on Sichuan. The conference will also include a panel on Rgyalrong and Kiranti comparative morphosyntax.</p>
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Abstracts are invited on topics that include descriptions of phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, historical-comparative linguistics, typology, and field reports on recently investigated languages. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.499999046325684px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Registration is free of charge.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.499999046325684px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
<br>Abstract submission deadline: <span style="font-weight:bold">Feb. 28th, 2013</span>. <br>Notification of acceptance: <span style="font-weight:bold">April 1st, 2013</span>. <br><br><p>For further details, please refer to the conference's website:</p>
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We look forward to seeing you at the Workshop in Paris, and would be most grateful if you could pass on the information to interested colleagues and students.<br><br><font color="#888888">G. Jacques, Chair</font></div><div>
<br></div>-- <br>Guillaume Jacques<br>CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO<br><a href="http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques" target="_blank">http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques</a><br>