Call for Abstracts: RARA & RARISSIMA 2006

[Jan Wohlgemuth]

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)



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Jan Wohlgemuth M.A.  <wohlgemuth at eva.mpg.de>
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
Deutscher Platz 6     phone:      +49 (0)341-3550-309
04103 Leipzig         fax:        +49 (0)341-3550-333
Germany               http://www.eva.mpg.de/~wohlgemu