RRG 2007 Call for Papers

[Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.]

First Announcement

THE 2007 INTERNATIONAL COURSE AND CONFERENCE ON ROLE
AND REFERENCE GRAMMAR

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City,
August 6-10, 2007

The annual International Course and Conference on Role
and Reference Grammar (RRG) will be hosted by the
Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, at the
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in México
City, 6-10 August, 2007. The international Conference
will be preceded by two-day (course) workshops. The
Conference will stage papers and plenary sessions.

Keynote Speakers

JOHANNA NICHOLS
University of California, Berkeley

JOSE MARIA GARCIA-MIGUEL 				
Universidade de Vigo

MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN
University of Chicago			

DANIEL EVERETT
Illinois State University

RICARDO MALDONADO
Universidad de Querétaro,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

ROBERT D. VAN VALIN, JR. 			
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf,
University at Buffalo

The 2007 Conference will deal with issues in
linguistic theory in its wider discursive, cognitive
and typological perspective. Papers dealing with
further elaboration of RRG in areas like morphology,
syntax, semantics, information structure, as well as
language processing are encouraged.  The workshops
will include lecture sessions at three levels:
introductory, graduate and specialized. The
introductory and graduate sessions will be taught in
Spanish and will provide the basics and core
theoretical principles of RRG for those not yet
acquainted with the theory. The specialized workshops
will deal with advanced topics on RRG, and will be
presented by RRG specialists.

Abstracts must be received electronically by March 31,
2007 at 2007RRG at gmail.com. Abstracts should be no
longer than two pages, including data and references,
and must be submitted as Word documents (a PDF version
is also required if special characters are included).
The abstracts should be anonymous. The email message
must include the following information: author’s
name(s), affiliation, email address, and title of
abstract. The selection of papers for presentation
will have been communicated by May 1, 2007. The talks
will last twenty minutes, followed by another ten
minutes for discussion.

Further information including registration fee,
travel, accommodation, social events, will be on the
Conference website at
http://www.filologicas.unam.mx/2007rrg.html.

Organizing Committee: Lilián Guerrero, Sergio Ibáñez,
Paulette Levy, Chantal Melis, Cecilia Rojas, Ma.
Ángeles Soler (Instituto de Investigaciones
Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México);
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. (Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf,  University at Buffalo), and Daniel
Everett (Illinois State University).