XVIth International Congress

[Michel Launey]

ANNOUNCEMENT:
   XVIth International Congress of Linguists

DATE AND LOCATION
   July 20-25, 1997
   Paris, France

ACCOMODATION
   Hotels in all price ranges and limited accomodation in University
residences. All applications for accomodation must be sent to:
                A.T.I. Congres
                1 villa Boissiere
                F 75116 PARIS (FRANCE)
                Tel. (33-1) 47-27-15-15
                Fax  (33-1) 47-27-05-87

REGISTRATION FEES
                              Participants          Accompanying
Students
Before April 30, 1996           FF. 1200               FF. 600        FF.
300
May 1 through Dec. 31, 1996     FF. 1450               FF. 725        FF. 400
Jan 1 through Jul 20, 1997      FF. 1750               FF. 875        FF. 500

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
   All widespread languages are accepted for oral presentations in parallel
sessions. The summaries should, like the circulars, be written both in
French and in English

PLENARY SESSIONS
   The topics of these sessions are:
        1. The development of linguistics in the 2nd half of the XXth century
        2. Language families, areas and types
        3. Linguistic structures and mental activities
        4. Linguistic structures and communication
   The topic of each plenary session will be developed by three speakers.
This will be followed by a general discussion.

PAPERS
   Conference papers may take the form of oral presentations in PARALLEL
SESSIONS or POSTERS. Oral presentations are scheduled to last 20 minutes,
including question period. Participants choosing the poster session will be
allowed two hours.
   In the present state, the list of topics for parallel sessions is:
        1. History of linguistics
        2. Philosophy of linguistics
        3. Typology and invariants
        4. Language policies in the contemporary world
        5. Dialectology and sociolinguistics
        6. Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
        7. Language acquisition and learning
        8. Phonetics and phonology
        9. Morphology
        1O. Syntax
        11. Generative grammars and formal types of syntax
        12. Semantics
        13. Lexicology
        14. Pragmatics and text linguistics
        15. Pidgins, creoles and languages in contact
        16. Historical linguistics
        17. Reconstruction and etymology
        18. Computational linguistics and computer sciences
        19. Sign languages
        20. Boundaries and overlapping of the various fields of linguistics
   Participants wishing to present a paper will be requested to send an
abstract before October 1, 1996

PANEL DISCUSSIONS
   The Organizing Committee invites congressists to propose topics for
panel discussions by March 1, 1996, with a list of possible participants.
The persons whose topics is chosen will be responsible for organizing their
panel discussion. They must send the final list of participants before
January 1, 1997.

TO OBTAIN AN EARLY REGISTRATION CARD AND CONGRESS CIRCULARS
   Address all correspondance to:

                CIL 16
                Bernard Caron
                CNRS LLACAN
                4 ter route des Gardes
                F - 92190 MEUDON (FRANCE)
                Tel. (33-1) 45-07-50-21
                Fax  (33-1) 45-07-51-12
                E-mail: cil16 at cnrs-bellevue.fr