Call for Papers: RARA & RARISSIMA 2006

[Michael Cysouw]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Rara & Rarissima — Collecting and interpreting unusual  
characteristics of human languages

Venue: MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)
Date:  29 March - 1 April 2006

Objective:
Rarissima and rara, features and properties found only in one or very  
few languages, tell us as much about the capacities and limits of  
human language(s) as do universals. Explaining the existence of such  
rare phenomena on the one hand, and the fact of their rareness or  
uniqueness on the other, should prove a reasonable and interesting  
challenge to any theory of how human language works.


Call for Papers:
Send your one-page abstract to Jan Wohlgemuth at the address below,  
either by email (preferably in PDF format) or as hard copy, to arrive  
no later than November 1st, 2005.

Papers should be presented in English. The time allotted for  
presentation is 30 minutes plus 15 minutes for discussion.  
Notification of acceptance is by December 15th, 2005.
The abstract itself should contain no identification of the author. A  
separate sheet or the cover e-mail should contain the title of the  
abstract, the name(s) of the author(s), and one correspondence  
address, with institutional affiliation, mailing address, telephone,  
fax, and email address as available:

Rara & Rarissima Conference
attn. Jan Wohlgemuth
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany
rara2006 at eva.mpg.de
Fax +49-341-3550-333


For further details on the conference:
    http://email.eva.mpg.de/rara2006/

Organizers:
Jan Wohlgemuth, Michael Cysouw, Orin Gensler, David Gil
(all @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)