BLS 27 Announcement

[Berkeley Linguistics Society]

The 27th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
        Friday, February 16 - Sunday, February 18, 2001
                   Berkeley, California


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INVITED SPEAKERS - Parasession on LANGUAGE & GESTURE
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SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
 'The Two Faces of Gesture'

SCOTT LIDDELL, GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY
 'Grammar and Gesture in American Sign Language: implications
        for constructing meaning'

SUSAN DUNCAN, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
 'Perspectives on the co-expressivity of speech and co-speech gestures in
        three languages'

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INVITED SPEAKERS - General Session
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LEONARD TALMY, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO
 'The Representation of Spatial Structure in Spoken vs. Signed Languages'

ELISABETH SELKIRK, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, AMHERST
  TBA

SARAH THOMASON, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
 'Pronoun Borrowing'



The complete schedule of talks may be found at:
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/bls27sched.html


Registration information:
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/register27.html







Questions?  Please contact:
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Berkeley Linguistics Society
1203 Dwinelle Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone/Fax: 510-642-5808

find information on BLS meetings and availability of proceedings at:
http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/BLS/
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