R: ALT Meeting Year Change?

[Paolo Ramat]

I fully understand Bill's reasons. I attended the XIVth ICHL in Vancouver
and that's why I wan't be in Amsterdam. But are we sure that postposing the
ALT meetings to even-numbered years  will not result in  overlapping with
other important linguistic events? I think to remember that we had already
such a discussion and the final outcome was to stick to odd-numbered years.
Best, Paolo
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Bill Croft <W.Croft at MAN.AC.UK>
A: LINGTYP at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU <LINGTYP at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU>
Data: venerdì 20 agosto 1999 13.23
Oggetto: ALT Meeting Year Change?


>Dear typologists,
>
>   I am writing to the ALT list because I will not be able to
>attend the ALT III meeting next week in Amsterdam.
>
>   One of the main reasons I am not attending ALT III is
>because it meets in odd-numbered years, that is, in the
>same years as the International Cognitive Linguistics
>Conference and the International Conference on Historical
>Linguistics. I am only able to obtain at most partial funding
>from my university to attend just one of
>these conferences in any given year. I am sure that I am
>not the only linguist who would like to go to two (or three)
>of these conferences but can obtain at most (partial)
>funding for only one.
>
>   I would like to propose that the ALT shift its meetings
>to even-numbered years.
>
>   I made this proposal at ALT II in 1997 in Eugene, Oregon.
>It was not acted upon at that time. I realized that of course,
>the people most affected by this problem probably were
>not at the ALT meeting, because they (like me this year)
>were not able to obtain funding to attend. So I would like to
>urge those of you ALT members who would like to have
>the year of the meeting changed, to please email the
>secretary-treasurer of the ALT, Johan van der Auwera
>(auwera at uia.ua.ac.be). Thank you.
>
>Bill Croft
>University of Manchester
>