Formal Approaches to Celtic Workshop (fwd)

[Andrew Carnie]

CALL FOR PAPERS

FORMAL APPROACHES TO CELTIC LINGUISTICS

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona is proud to
announce a special conference, funded by the National Science Foundation*,
on Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. The focus of this conference
is on modern theoretical approaches to the Celtic languages, with an
emphasis on the following questions:

	i)	How does data from the Celtic languages, with their unique
typological properties, inform formal theories of grammar? What challenges
does this data pose to current understanding and how should theories of
grammar be modified to deal with the data from Celtic languages?
	ii)	How do current advances in formal theories improve our
understanding of the grammar of Celtic languages?
	iii) 	How can formal theoretical linguistics inform the
documentation of the endangered Celtic languages?

Confirmed Invited Speakers at the conference include:
David Adger, Queen Mary University, London
Anna Bosch, University of Kentucky
SJ Hannahs, Newcastle
Randall Hendrick, University of North Carolina
Mlanie Jouitteau, Universit de Paris 7
James McCloskey, University of California, Santa Cruz
Mire N Chiosain, University College Dublin
Maggie Tallerman, Newcastle
Gillian Ramchand, University of Troms
 and others to be announced.

The conference will be accompanied by a one-week for-credit Mini-course
for graduate and undergraduate students interested in pursuing Celtic
Linguistics (which runs March 23-29, 2009). Details of this mini-course
will be made in a separate announcement.
	Abstracts related to the conference theme are invited for a
limited number of 45 minute talks (35 minutes for talk + 10 for
discussion).

Details:
	Abstracts: 1-2 pages, 12 point font, 1 inch margins.
	Abstract Deadline:  Midnight MST, February 15th, 2009
	Address for abstracts (submission by email only) and more
information: faclconf at gmail.com
	Conference webpage: http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~gaelic/facl/
	Workshop Dates: March 27-29th, 2009 (mini course runs March
23-29th, 2009)
	Location: The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ


*Funding graciously provided by the National Science Foundation Grant:
BCS0819117