The 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium: Call for Papers

[Sandhya Sundaresan]

                  The 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium:
                           Call for Papers

The 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place FEBRUARY
25-27, 2005 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia.

INVITED SPEAKER:

Mark Baker (Rutgers University): Gerund constructions within a
universal theory of categories.

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WORKSHOP (New!):

Anthony Kroch et al. (University of Pennsylvania): Syntactically
annotated corpora: What, Why and How?

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SUBMISSIONS:

Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome.
Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for
discussion and questions.

Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced, in 11-pt.
font. An additional page may be used for references and tables. Do not
include your name or affiliation within the abstract.

To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a .pdf
file. If you cannot create .pdf files, you may submit a .doc, .rtf, or
.txt file, and we will convert it for you. However, since phonetic fonts
are not likely to output correctly, we ask that you set up a legend using
standard ASCII characters.

An online abstract submission form will soon be available at the PLC
website, http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract submissions due:             November 8, 2004.
Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 17, 2005.

PROCEEDINGS:

Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn Working
Papers in Linguistics. Speakers will be invited to provide camera-ready
copies of their papers after the Colloquium.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Email plc29 at ling.upenn.edu
Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/

Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

This event is supported by funding from GSAC, the Graduate Student
Association Council of the University of Pennsylvania.

Best,

the PLC 29 Committee