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19.3791, Calls: Applied Ling,Socioling/Spain; General Ling,Syntax/Germany

  1) From:      Carmen Perez-Llantada < llantada at unizar.es >
     Subject:   First International Seminar on Languages for Business

  2) From:      Markus Steinbach < steinbac at uni-mainz.de >
     Subject:   Nonmanuals in Sign Languages

   http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3791.html


19.3792, Calls: Anthro Ling,General Ling/USA; Syntax/Greece

  1) From:      Danny Law < law.dannylaw at gmail.com >
     Subject:   Symposium About Language and Society-Austin

  2) From:      Anna Roussou < aroussou at upatras.gr >
     Subject:   The Optionality of Wh-movement

   http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3792.html


19.3793, Calls: Computational Ling/USA; General Ling/USA

  1) From:      Eric Ringger < ringger at cs.byu.edu >
     Subject:   NAACL HLT 2009 Workshop on Active Learning for NLP

  2) From:      Cassandra Pace < cjp2 at rice.edu >
     Subject:   The Biennial Meeting of the Rice Linguistics Society

   http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3793.html


19.3794, Confs: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition/Spain

  1) From:      Teresa Naves < tnaves at ub.edu >
     Subject:   Content and Language Integrated Learning: Task-Based Learning

   http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3794.html


19.3795, Qs: Languages Where 'night' Means '24 hour Period'

  1) From:      Maarten De Backer < m.debacker at ugent.be >
     Subject:   Languages Where 'night' Means '24 hour Period'

   http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3795.html


19.3796, Qs: Linguists Writing About Their Own Children

  1) From:      Arika Okrent < arika at okrent.com >
     Subject:   Linguists Writing About Their Own Children

   http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3796.html


19.3797, Diss: Disc Analysis: Bones: 'The Discourse Function of Academic ...'

  1) From:      James Bones < jpbones at tiscali.co.uk >
     Subject:   The Discourse Function of Academic Texts with Reference to Wittgenstein's 'To Follow a Rule'

   http://linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-3797.html