Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 40

[Francis M Hult]

> Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
> 15-17 April, 2004
> http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/
>
> Looking over and the overlooked:
> In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Chicago Linguistic
> Society, this year's conference will focus both on the progress which the
> field of linguistics has made since the first meeting of our society, and
> on the need for unification within the field. To that end, the Main Session
> will highlight our past as an organization and a discipline, while our
> Panel Sessions will address the multifaceted nature of the field, by
> focusing on topics that are sometimes underrepresented: typology, practical
> applications, alternate frameworks--or, in the case of our absence panel,
> things which aren't even there! In addition, our post-conference banquet
> will feature readings of classic CLS papers from the past four decades.
> Main Session Invited Speakers:
> Haj Ross, University of North Texas
> Bill Darden, University of Chicago
> Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
>
> Panels:
> Dispensing with Derivation: Monostratal Theories of Grammar
> Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University
>
> Afro-Asiatic: Its Implications for theory
> Gene Gragg, University of Chicago
>
> Linguistic Theory and Its Applications
> John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
>
> 'What we talk about when we talk about nothing':  The experience of absence
> in linguistics
> Kyle Johnson, U. Mass Amherst & Andrew Barss, U. Arizona
>
> Please visit our website for the program and to register:
> http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/