Call for papers: 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society

[Francis M. Hult]

> Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
> CLS 40: LOOKING OVER AND THE OVERLOOKED
> To be held:  15-17 April 2003
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Call Deadline: 24-Jan-2004
>
>
> Invited Speakers to the Main Session:
>
> Haj Ross, University of North Texas
> Joan Bresnan, Stanford University
> Bill Darden, University of Chicago
>
> In celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the
> Chicago Linguistic Society, this year’s meeting
> will focus both on the progress which the field of
> linguistics has made, 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
> areas of the field that are underrepresented. In
> addition to these scheduled sessions, there will also
> be special readings of classic CLS papers from the
> past four decades.
>
> I. AFRO-ASIATIC: ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORY
>
> This panel will look at the ways in which Afro-Asiatic
> languages pose difficulties for current synchronic
> linguistic theories, as well as how their
> relationships to one another diachronically are
> currently understood. Contributions on languages from
> the five less well studied branches -- Berber, Chadic,
> Cushitic, Egyptian and Omotic -- are greatly
> encouraged.
>
> Invited Speaker: Gene Gragg, University of Chicago
>
> II. LINGUISTIC THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS
>
> This panel aims to explore the complex and varied
> links between Linguistics and related disciplines. The
> scope includes any subfields of computational
> linguistics and areas of applied linguistics that
> involve major formal linguistic theories. Papers
> should be explicit in explaining the ways in which
> theory and application interact, and should support
> arguments with concrete research findings.
>
> Invited Speaker: John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
>
> III. 'WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT NOTHING':
> THE EXPERIENCE OF ABSENCE IN LINGUISTICS
>
>> From the syntax and semantics of anaphora, to
> underlying representations, to downstep phenomena in
> the analysis of tone, 'absence' is postulated to be
> everywhere. The goal of this panel is to make the
> linguist’s own assumptions explicit by convening
> a discussion addressing whether or not, and to what
> extent, missing material can be said to exist.
>
> Invited Speakers:
> Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
> Andrew Barss, University of Arizona
>
> IV. DISPENSING WITH DERIVATION: MONOSTRATAL THEORIES
> OF GRAMMAR
>
> This panel will collect papers addressing current
> problems in syntax/semantics, employing monstratal
> frameworks such as Head-Driven Phrase Structure
> Grammar, Construction Grammar, Lexical Functional
> Grammar, Autolexical Grammar, etc. Approaches to this
> topic will include:
> * Alternate approaches to thorny problems which have
> resisted explanation within
> derivational accounts.
> * Advantages of monostratal theories in addressing
> issues of processing (i.e. consideration of the
> production bias of derivational theories), including
> research on pragmatics and discourse analysis.
>
> Invited Speaker: Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon
> University
>
> Abstracts, in pdf format only, may be submitted to
> cls at diderot.uchicago.edu  Include your name and
> contact information in the email only, and not on the
> abstract itself.  Abstracts are allowed one page for
> text and one page for examples and references (12
> point font, 1 inch margins), for a two-page maximum.
> Please indicate in your abstract whether you are
> submitting to one of the Main Session areas -
> Phonology and Phonetics, Sociolinguistics and
> Historical Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics, or
> Syntax - or to one of the Panel Sessions.  All talks
> will be a 20 minute presentation with a 5 minute
> question and answer period.  For this and more
> information, please visit our website at:
> <http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/conf/conf.html>
>
> Abstracts are due by January 24, 2004