Announcement & Call: 5th Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference

[Susan Pintzuk]

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               Announcement and First Call for Papers
 
          The Fifth Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference
                              (DIGS 5)
 
                         University of York
                        30 May - 1 June 1998
          (Note change of dates from earlier announcements)
 
          Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 16 January 1998
 
We are pleased to announce that the Fifth Diachronic Generative Syntax
Conference will be held at the University of York (UK), 30 May - 1 June
1998. York is a historic town of interest with excellent facilities and
communications.
 
Invited speakers:  Monique Dufresne (Universite du Quebec a Montreal)
                   Fernande Dupuis (Universite du Quebec a Montreal)
                   Ans van Kemenade (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
                   Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania)
                   David Lightfoot (University of Maryland)
                   Ian Roberts (University of Stuttgart)
                   Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester).
 
We are planning a half-day workshop on syntactic change and
learnability. Plans are also in progress to publish an edited volume of
papers from the conference.
 
Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks on any aspect of diachronic
syntax within a generative framework.  Authors are asked to send five
(5) copies of an anonymous abstract and one additional camera-ready copy
with the author's name and affiliation; the latter will be reproduced in
the Meeting Handbook if the paper is accepted for presentation.
Abstracts should be no more than one page (A4 or letter size) in length,
with an additional page for references if necessary.  All margins should
be at least one inch wide.  Include a 3" by 5" card with title of paper,
name of author(s), affiliation(s), and the primary author's postal
address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number.  Submissions
are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per
author.  E-mailed and faxed abstracts cannot be accepted.
 
If you wish to be added to the DIGS 5 mailing list, please send a
message containing your name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail
address, telephone number, and fax number to digs at york.ac.uk.
 
Organising Committee: Susan Pintzuk, George Tsoulas, Anthony Warner
DIGS 5
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
University of York
Heslington, York YO1 5DD
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1904 432661
Fax:       +44 1904 432673
E-mail: digs at york.ac.uk
WWW: http://www.york.ac.uk/~gt3/DIGS/DIGS5.html