Call for papers: High Desert Linguistics (particularly welcome: p apers on Native American languages) -- DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS 19 JANUARY 2001

[Scott McGinnis]

The fourth annual High Desert Linguistics Conference will be held at the
University of New  Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, March 30 and 31, 2001.

 Keynote speakers:

Shana Poplack, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa
Sherman Wilcox, Department of Linguistics, University of New Mexico

We invite submissions of proposals for 20-minute talks and 10 minute
discussion
sessions in any area of linguistics from any theoretical perspective.
Papers
in the following areas are especially welcome: language change and
variation,
grammaticization, signed languages, applied linguistics, Native American
languages, and corpus/computational linguistics. Please note that
selected
papers from this conference will be published.

Submissions must include 2 copies of an anonymous abstract and an index
card
including the following information:

  *Name
  *Title of Abstract and area (phonology, syntax etc.)
  *Affiliation(s)
  *Mailing address
  *e-mail address

Abstracts must be at most one page with one-inch margins and typed in at
least
11-point font.  An optional second page is permitted for data and
citations.
Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author.
Abstracts by e-mail are accepted.

Abstracts must be received no later than January 19, 2001.

We will only consider submissions that conform to the above guidelines.

ABSTRACTS SHOULD BE SENT TO:

K. Aaron Smith
Department of Linguistics,
526 Humanities Bldg.
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

or

kaaron at unm.edu