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Subject: 6.1254, Calls: Berkeley Linguistics Society Call For Papers
 
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Date:  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:27:12 PDT
From:  weigelw at garnet.berkeley.edu
Subject:  Berkeley Linguistics Society Call For Papers
 
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Date:  Thu, 14 Sep 1995 13:27:12 PDT
From:  weigelw at garnet.berkeley.edu
Subject:  Berkeley Linguistics Society Call For Papers
 
 
                    THE BERKELEY LINGUISTICS SOCIETY
                                 BLS 22
                             CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The Berkeley Linguistics Society is pleased to announce its Twenty-Second
Annual Meeting, to be held February 17-19, 1996.  The conference will consist
of a General Session and a Parasession.  A Special Session will be held on
February 16, 1996.
 
GENERAL SESSION
 
The main session will cover areas of general linguistic interest.  Invited
speakers include:
 
ADELE GOLDBERG
   Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
PAUL HOPPER
   Department of English, Carnegie Mellon University
JOHANNA NICHOLS
   Department of Slavic Languages, University of California, Berkeley
 
Parasession:
        THE ROLE OF LEARNABILITY IN GRAMMATICAL THEORY
 
    The parasession will accept papers bearing on all aspects of the role
of learnability in linguistic theory.  In theoretical linguistics one often
hears the objection that a proposed linguistic construct is unlearnable, or
the claim that a proposed theory is preferable to another because it is
more learnable.  What is the status of this type of argumentation?  What
justifies the use of this rhetorical technique?  What can empirical
language acquisition research or formal learnability models tell us about
learnability?  When, if ever, can learnability arguments be validly based
on a priori theories or considerations (such as simplicity, economy, or
abstractness vs. concreteness)?  How do claims about learnability relate
to such issues as the autonomy of the language faculty and the nature of
Universal Grammar?  Invited speakers include:
 
MELISSA BOWERMAN
   Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
TED GIBSON
   Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
LISE MENN
   Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado
GEOFFREY PULLUM
   Linguistics Board, University of California, Santa Cruz
 
Special Session:
        HISTORICAL TOPICS IN NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES
 
This year's special session will be on historical issues in
Native American languages.  Invited speakers include:
 
SCOTT DELANCEY
   Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon
MARGARET LANGDON
   Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
LAUREL WATKINS
   Department of Anthropology, Colorado College
 
    Abstracts are invited for all three sessions.  We encourage
proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome papers
from related disciplines, among them anthropology, cognitive science,
literature, philosophy, and psychology.
 
    Papers presented at the conference will be published in the Society's
Proceedings, and authors who present papers agree to provide camera-ready
copy of their papers (not to exceed approximately 12 pages) by May 15, 1996.
Speakers will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.
We ask that you make your abstract as specific as possible, including a
statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions.
To submit an abstract, send 10 copies of an anonymous one-page
(8 1/2" x 11", unreduced) abstract.  (A second page, or reverse side
of the single page, may be used for data and references only.)  Along
with the abstract send a 3" x 5" card listing: (1) paper title,
(2) session submitted to (general session, parasession,  or special session),
(3) for general session abstracts only, subject matter area, viz.,
Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Morphology, Philosophy and
Methodology of Linguistics, Phonetics/Phonology, Pragmatics,
Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, or Syntax/Semantics, (4) author's name
(5) author's affiliation, (6) address to which notification of acceptance
or rejection should be mailed (in late December 1995), (7) author's office
and home phone numbers, (8) author's e-mail address, if available.  In case
of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication
with BLS.
 
Send abstracts to:
        BLS 22 Abstract Committees
        2337 Dwinelle Hall
        University of California
        Berkeley, CA 94720.
 
Abstracts for the general session and parasession must be received by
5:00 p.m., November 10, 1995. Special session abstracts must be received
by November 17, 1995.  Inquiries of a general nature may be sent by e-mail
(bls at garnet.berkeley.edu); however, we cannot accept e-mailed or faxed
submission of abstracts.
 
(Registration Fees: before February 7, 1996 - $10 students, $15 non-students;
 after February 7, 1996 - $20 students, $25 non-students.)
 
 
Contact:  bls at garnet.berkeley.edu
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