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Informativo

Syntax of the World's Languages (Leipzig, August 5-8, 2004)

 An international conference on "Syntax of the World's Languages" (SWL 1) will be held in Leipzig (Germany), 5-8 August 2004.

 This conference will bring together researchers working on the syntactic structure of less widely studied languages from a variety of perspectives.  Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective.  All major theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, as is work done in analytical frameworks developed in typology or field linguistics.

 Papers that adopt a diachronic/historical-comparative perspective or that discuss language-contact effects are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role.

 Authors should not presuppose detailed knowledge of their theoretical framework, and the papers should focus on widely relevant theoretical issues, minimizing theory-internal argumentation. We recognize that questions raised by theoretical frameworks often lead to the discovery of interesting phenomena in lesser studied languages. However, the goal of applying a theoretical framework should be seen as subsidiary to the main purpose of the conference, that of enlarging our knowledge and understanding of the syntactic phenomena of the world's languages.

 Invited speakers: Peter Austin (SOAS London), Maria Polinsky (UC San Diego), and Marianne Mithun (UC Santa Barbara).

 Local organizers: Balthasar Bickel (U of Leipzig, bickel at uni-leipzig.de) and Martin Haspelmath (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, haspelmath at eva.mpg.de).

 Other members of the program committee: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Bernard Comrie, Donna Gerdts, Stephane Robert, and Jane Simpson.

 Send your one-page abstract to Martin Haspelmath at the address below, either as a PDF-file by e-mail or as a hard copy, to arrive no later than December 15th, 2003.  A second page may be attached to the abstract listing data. The abstract itself should contain no identification of the author. A separate sheet or the cover e-mail should contain the title of the abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one mailing address, with telephone, fax, and email address as available:

Martin Haspelmath

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Deutscher Platz 6

D-04103 Leipzig, GERMANY

e-mail: haspelmath at eva.mpg.de

fax: +49-341-3550 333

 The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 40 minutes.

Participants may not be involved in more than two abstracts, of which at most one may be single-authored. English is the preferred language at the conference.

 The local organizers will convey their decision on acceptance of papers by January 31, 2004.

 Conference URL: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~haspelmt/SWL1.html

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Lembrete

 Última chamada para o envio de trabalhos ao comitê organizador do Encontro Anual da SSILA em Boston (8 a 11 de janeiro de 2004).  O prazo limite para a submissão de resumos é dia 5 de setembro de 2003, sexta-feira próxima.  Os detalhes seguem abaixo.

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Last call for papers: Boston meeting

 Members are reminded that the deadline for receipt of abstracts for the next SSILA annual meeting (Boston, January 8-11, 2004) is two weeks from today - Friday, September 5.  The call for papers is repeated below.

 SSILA's 2003-04 Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the 78th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, from Thursday January 8 through Sunday January 11, 2004.  In addition to SSILA, the LSA meeting will also host the annual meetings of the American Dialect Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences (NAAHoLS), and the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.  SSILA registrants will be welcome to attend the sessions of any of these groups, and vice versa.

 The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel (39 Dalton St.), where a block of rooms has been reserved for meeting participants.  A Reservation Request Form will be mailed to members with the July Newsletter.  Reservation information can also be found in the June 2003 LSA Bulletin and at the LSA website (www.lsadc.org).

 Submission of papers

Proposals for papers are invited from all members of SSILA in good standing (i.e., whose dues are paid through 2003).  Proposals from non-members or from members in arrears will be reviewed only if accompanied by a membership application and/or 2003 dues ($16).  Papers may be co-authored with non-members, but the senior author (and the author delivering the paper, if different from the senior author) must be a member of SSILA.

 Submissions must include an abstract of up to 250 words (150 or fewer will often suffice) for publication in the LSA Meeting Handbook.  If the paper is to be delivered in Spanish, the abstract should be in Spanish but accompanied by an English translation.  Submission by e-mail is encouraged, but if your abstract employs special fonts you should submit a hard copy of your abstract by mail.

 In addition to the abstract, proposals must include:

* Names of author(s) (if joint authorship, list the senior author first and also indicate who will deliver the paper)

* Affiliation(s) (for the Meeting Handbook)

* Mailing address (in Fall 2003)

* Telephone/fax numbers

* E-mail address

* Exact title of paper

* Three key words (identifying the subject of the paper)

 All proposals must reach SSILA no later than Friday September 5, 2003.

 Proposals for SSILA papers must not be sent to the LSA.  SSILA organizes its sessions separately from LSA sessions.  Mail (or e-mail) all materials to:

2003 Program Committee, SSILA

P.O. Box 555

Arcata, California 95518-0555, USA

ssila at ssila.org

 Papers are normally scheduled in 20-minute time slots (15 minutes for presentation, 5 minutes for discussion).  Papers may be delivered in either English or Spanish.

All meeting rooms will be equipped with microphones, an overhead projector, and a screen.  Any additional equipment must be provided by the participant, in particular LCD projectors for PowerPoint presentations.

 Preregistration

In order to be included on the SSILA program, participants must preregister for the meeting.  This need not be done at the time the paper is submitted, but must be done before October 15, 2003.  The SSILA preregistration fee is $80 for regular members, $65 for retired members, and $35 for student or unemployed members.  This amount includes the LSA advance registration fee plus an SSILA registration fee of $10 ($5 for students and others with reduced rates) to cover costs that SSILA must pay separately.  If you preregister through SSILA, no further meeting registration fee is required, even if you are giving a paper in an LSA session.  If you choose to preregister through LSA, payment of the $10 (or $5) SSILA fee directly to SSILA will be required before October 15, or your paper may be dropped from the SSILA program.

 Special sessions

Three special thematic sessions have been proposed:

 1. Markedness and the Lexical Classification of Property Concepts in the Languages of Mesoamerica.  Organizer: David Beck, University of Alberta.  (This session already has a full panel or participants.)

 2. Zapotec Languages.  Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell, SUNY Albany (g.broadwell at albany.edu). -- "Zapotec languages are spoken by as many as 250,000 people in Oaxaca, Mexico, and by large numbers of immigrants to other parts of Mexico and to the United States.  Estimates by the Summer Institute of Linguistics suggest that there may be as many as fifty-four distinct languages in this family, most of which are endangered and understudied. The papers in this session explore the phonological and syntactic properties of seven of these languages.  -- We would certainly have no objection to including papers on other Otomanguean or Oaxacan languages in this session, if there are any additional volunteered papers (e.g. on Mixtec, Chatino, Chontal, Otomi, etc.)."

 3. The _Expression of Path.  Organizer: Colette Grinevald, ISH, U-Lyon, France (cgrineva at univ-lyon2.fr). -- "This is a session on the typological diversity of the _expression of path in Amerindian languages, considering specifically the _expression of the origin and the end point of a trajectory, and the grammatical means to express them (adpositions, relational nouns, preverbs and other verbal affixes, directionals, etc.) in relation to the lexical meaning of verbs.  Included is a discussion of the elements of the path/trajectory categorized by the language, beyond those two points, like directionality and view point (or perspective).  And following Slobin's work, there may also be a  comparison of the _expression of path of motion and path of vision if the language does both."

 Members who wish their papers considered for inclusion in session 2 or 3 (session 1 has a full panel of participants) should contact the organizer, in addition to submitting a proposal to the SSILA Program Committee.

 Participation guidelines

SSILA generally follows LSA guidelines regarding participation in the meeting:  Any member may submit one paper proposal as sole author and a second as co-author, or two as co-author of each.  In addition, he or she may also be the organizer of a symposium or workshop.

 Presentation of a paper (or other participation) in an SSILA session has no effect on an individual's eligibility to present a paper in an LSA session, or in a session of another organization meeting jointly with the LSA.  Submissions will be separately reviewed by the various program committees.  However, to minimize overlap with the SSILA sessions, the LSA program committee usually recommends that Field Reports/Endangered Languages papers on American Indian languages be submitted to SSILA rather than the LSA.

 Program Committee

All submissions will be reviewed, and other decisions made regarding the structure of the meeting, by the 2003 SSILA Program Committee, a subcommittee of the 2003 Executive Committee, chaired by the President, Pamela Munro.

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