Call for papers: Second Conference on the Syntax of the World's Languages (SWL2)

[Siewierska, Anna]

SYNTAX OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES (SWL 2) 
Lancaster University, Lancaster (United Kingdom), 14-17 September 2006 
Conference Description 
Building on the success of SWL1 (Leipzig, 5-8 August 2004), we are organising SWL2 in Lancaster (UK) on 14-17 September 2006. This conference, like the previous one, will bring together researchers working on the syntactic structure of less widely studied languages from a variety of perspectives. Contributions are expected to be based on first-hand data of individual languages or to adopt a broadly comparative perspective. All major theoretical frameworks are equally welcome, as is work done in analytical frameworks developed in typology or field linguistics.
Papers that adopt a diachronic/historical-comparative perspective or that discuss language-contact effects are also welcome, as are papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues, as long as syntactic issues also play a major role.
Invited speakers: 
Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado, Boulder) 
Martin Haspelmath (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) 
Robert D. Van Valin Jr (State University of New York, Buffalo) 
Local organizers: Willem Hollmann & Anna Siewierska (Lancaster University) 
Conference Coordinator: Maria Papastathi 
Further members of the Abstract-reading Committee: 
Balthasar Bickel (University of Leipzig) 
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) 
Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver) 
William McGregor (Aarhus University) 
Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley) 
Stéphane Robert (LLACAN, Paris) 
The time allotted for presentation and discussion is 35 minutes per paper. Participants may be involved in two abstracts, but only one of these may be single-authored. English is the preferred language at the conference.
Please send abstracts of no longer than 300 words to Maria Papastathi (M.Papastathi at lancaster.ac.uk) by 5 January 2006. Notification of acceptance of papers will be issued on 28 February 2006.
More information about the event will be uploaded to the conference webpage (<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/hollmann/swl2.htm>) in due course