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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">The 48th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL48) will take place next week August 21-23, 2015 at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Papers will address issues in a variety of subfields, including phonology, morphosyntax, discourse, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and field reports. The plenary speakers are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">* Scott DeLancey, University of Oregon, “Retention and Divergence in Tibeto-Burman Verb Argument Systems”, August 21, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">* Balthasar Bickel, University of Zurich, “Kiranti in Global Perspective”, August 22.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">In addition, two pre-conference workshops –- How Grammars Encode Space in Tibeto-Burman and Preserving Cultural Heritage in Ethnic Tibetan Communities in China –- will take place
on August 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">For detailed information on the program and schedule, as well as information on attending the conference, please visit the website at www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/icstll.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">We look forward to seeing you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">The ICSTLL48 Organizing Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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