LACUS 2009 Call for Papers

[Sydney Lamb]

LACUS 2009 - Call for Papers

The 2009 annual meeting of LACUS will be held July 28- August 1 at Pitzer
College (one of the Claremont Colleges), Claremont, California.

Conference theme: Mechanisms of Linguistic Behavior

LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to
language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas.

Featured Speakers:

 * Gregory Hickok, UC Irvine
	What is the nature of sensory-motor interaction in
	speech processing? Evidence from neuroscience
 * Sydney Lamb, Rice University
	Categories in the Brain: A Hypothesis
 * Ronald Langaker, UC San Diego
	Conceptual Semantics, Symbolic Grammar, and the day
	after day Construction
 * William S-Y. Wang, UC Berkeley and Chinese University of Hong Kong
	Concepts, Percepts, and Languages

Further information is posted at www.rice.edu/lacus/2009.html

Due Date for Abstracts: January 31, 2009
Abstract Submission Guidelines are posted at
http://lacus.org/wordpress/?page_id=16

Suggested topics

The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than
comprehensive:

Neurological mechanisms of linguistic behavior
Psychological mechanisms of linguistic behavior
Sociological mechanisms of linguistic behavior
Language and thought
Stratificational grammar
Relational network grammar
Computational linguistics
Functional linguistics
Cognitive linguistics
Linguistics and the physical sciences
The aims of linguistics
Language and reality

Program Chair: Douglas Coleman, Univerity of Toledo

Local host: John Regan, Claremont Graduate University