Two conference calls: Prosody, subordination

[James Crippen]

I think a few of you folks might be interested in either or both of
these conferences, so I figured I'd forward them. Neither is language
specific, and both are apparently welcoming research on lesser known
languages.

Prosodic Typology: State of the Art & Future Prospects
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-2199.html
Date: 24-Feb-2010 - 26-Feb-2010
Location: Berlin, Germany
Web Site: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/dgfs/
The study of prosody is traditionally concerned with suprasegmental
features such as stress, tone, intonation and quantity. More recently,
its scope has been expanded to include any phonological phenomenon
sensitive to the domains of the prosodic hierarchy (ranging from the
syllable to the utterance). In the course of this development, a
number of theoretical frameworks have been developed which make strong
claims about possible prosodic systems and their architecture. While
the predictions are clear, the cross-linguistic evidence is often less
so, especially since too often generalizations are based on a narrow
language sample from better-known European languages.

Morphology, Syntax and Semantics of Subordinators
http://linguistlist.org/issues/20/20-2201.html
Date: 12-Mar-2010 - 13-Mar-2010
Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France
Web Site: http://www.univ-bpclermont.fr/LABOS/lrl/spip.php?rubrique94
This colloquium, organized by the Syntaxe et TAL team of the
Laboratoire de recherche sur le langage (EA 999), aims at contributing
to the understanding of subordinators. Participants are invited to
reflect on morphology, syntax and semantics, through a confrontation
of works on various languages (ancient and modern), in a synchronic
and/or diachronic perspective, and to compare research from different
approaches: theoretical, applied, or corpus linguistics, NLP, etc.