10.1018, Calls: Romance Linguistics, Negation

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Subject: 10.1018, Calls: Romance Linguistics, Negation

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Date:  Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:53:58 CEST
From:  Jeroen van de Weijer <vdweijer2000 at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Romance linguistics

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Date:  Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:56:27 CEST
From:  Jeroen van de Weijer <vdweijer2000 at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Workshop on Negation

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Date:  Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:53:58 CEST
From:  Jeroen van de Weijer <vdweijer2000 at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Romance linguistics

Second call for papers

Thirteenth Symposium on Romance Linguistics
Leiden University, December 9-11
Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL)
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS)

Invited speakers: Gemma Rigau (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Cecilia
Poletto (Universita di Padova) and
Eduardo Raposo (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Abstracts are invited for thirty minutes talks (with an additional ten
minutes for discussion) in all areas of Romance linguistics from all
theoretical perspectives. Abstracts should be anonymous, and should be no
longer than two pages, including references and examples, with margins of at
least 1-inch, font size 11/12. Submissions are limited to a maximum of one
individual and one joint abstract per author. Please provide 7 anonymous
abstracts and one camera-ready original containing title, author's name and
affiliation. Submissions by e-mail or fax can be accepted, provided a
camera-ready original is received within one week after the deadline. A
separate card should contain the title of the paper, author's name,
affiliation, address, telephone number and e-mail address.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: September 17, 1999. Abstracts should be
sent to the following address:

Going Romance 1999
Leiden University
Marijke Ziegelaar
Dept of French
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands

E-mail: ziegelaar at rullet.leidenuniv.nl

web site Going Romance: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/confs/gr1999

A workshop on negation will be held on December 11. This workshop is
organized in collaboration with the North West Centre for Linguistics (Great
Britain). A separate call for papers follows.

Starting this year, Going Romance will publish selected proceedings of the
symposium. We have reached an agreement with HAG publishers for the swift
publication of these proceedings. Timely published proceedings foster quick
discussion, and illustrate the diversity of analyses and approaches in the
field. We would like to strongly encourage all participants to submit their
papers for the proceedings, so as to ensure that this new venture becomes a
resounding success!

Organizing Comittee: Reineke Bok-Bennema (Groningen), Denis Delfitto (UiL
OTS Dept of Italian), Jenny Doetjes (HIL/ Leiden) Yves D'Hulst
(HIL/ Leiden), Frank Drijkoningen (UiL OTS Dept of French), Pieter Muysken
(HIL/ Leiden), Johan Rooryck (HIL/Leiden), Petra Sleeman (HIL, Amsterdam).


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Date:  Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:56:27 CEST
From:  Jeroen van de Weijer <vdweijer2000 at hotmail.com>
Subject:  Workshop on Negation

Second call for papers

Workshop on Negation
Leiden University, December 11
(workshop incorporated in Going Romance, December 9-11)

Organizing committee: Francis Corblin (Rennes 2), Johan Rooryck (HIL/ Leiden
University), Paul Rowlett (Salford), Henriette de Swart (UiL-OTS/ Utrecht
University).

Speakers: Francis Corblin (Rennes 2), Paul Rowlett (Salford)

The workshop focuses on negation in Romance languages. We welcome
contributions from different theoretical perspectives. The following issues
are of special interest:

* The syntax, semantics, and L1/L2 acquisition of negation.
* Negative concord, Negative polarity, binding and scope, negation in the
nominal and verbal domains, the Jespersen cycle, microvariation of negative
elements in Romance, negation and quantification, the position of negative
adverbs, negation and clitics.

Besides the papers of the invited speakers, there will be room for four
selected papers. The presentation of the papers will take 30 minutes, and
will be followed by a 15-minute commentary and a 15-minute general
discussion. Abstracts should be anonymous, and should be no longer than two
pages, including references and
examples,with margins of at least 1-inch, font size11/12. Submissions are
limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author.

Please provide 8 anonymous abstracts and one camera-ready original
containing title, author's name and affiliation. Submissions by e-mail or
fax can be accepted, provided a camery-ready original is received within one
week after the deadline. A separate 3" x 5" card should contain the title of
the paper, the author's name and affiliation, address, telephone number,
e-mail address and the indication `negation'. Selected speakers will be
required to send in a version of their paper before November 21.

The papers of the workshop will be reviewed and published in the proceedings
of Going Romance.

Deadline for recept of abstracts: September 17, 1999. Abstracts should be
sent to the following address:

Workshop Going Romance 1999
Leiden University
Marijke Ziegelaar
Dept of French
P.O. Box 9515
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands

web site Going Romance: http://www.leidenuniv.nl/hil/confs/gr1999

E-mail: ziegelaar at rullet.leidenuniv.nl



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