CSDL conference - prereg open

[Suzanne Kemmer]

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               Preregistration is now underway for the

                          6th CONFERENCE ON
             CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE, DISCOURSE AND LANGUAGE
                     "LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND MIND"

                           RICE UNIVERSITY
                            Houston, Texas
                         OCTOBER 11-14, 2002

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

JOHN LUCY, University of Chicago/Max Planck Institute for
     Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
SUSANNA CUMMING, University of California, Santa Barbara
RONALD LANGACKER, University of Californa, San Diego

CSDL 6 at Rice presents 75 talks in the areas of Cognitive
Linguistics, Discourse, Functional Linguistics, and Speech and
Language Processing, dealing with all aspects of language (structure
and function, acquisition, variation, change) and all levels of
language (phonology, morphosyntax, lexicon, discourse, and neural
processing).

Preregistration: $10
Preregistration Deadline: Web form submitted and payment
                received by OCTOBER 1, 2002
Registration at the door (or late preregistration): $20

The cutoff date for hotel reservations at the two official conference
hotels (Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn & Suites) with the Conference
discount is SEPTEMBER 27, 2002

Note: two other nearby hotels (Rodeway Inn, Best Western Plaza) have
no cutoff date and may still have rooms after that point.

The Conference Schedule, as well as further information on Registration,
Accommodations, Conference Reception, and Conference Party Dinner have
been posted on the Conference Website at:

http://www.rice.edu/csdl

Contact Information: Michel Achard (achard at rice.edu), Suzanne Kemmer
(kemmer at rice.edu) and our assistant Caleb Everett (cde at rice.edu)