10.1394, Calls: 18th Scandinavian Conf/Ling,Final Submissions

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Subject: 10.1394, Calls: 18th Scandinavian Conf/Ling,Final Submissions

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1)
Date:  Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:24:06 +0200
From:  18-SCL <18-scl at ling.lu.se>
Subject:  18th Scandinavian Conf. of Linguistics, 2000

2)
Date:  Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:35:39 +0200
From:  Snippets <snippets at unimi.it>
Subject:  FINAL WEEK FOR SUBMISSIONS (NEW SYNTAX-SEMANTICS JOURNAL)

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Date:  Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:24:06 +0200
From:  18-SCL <18-scl at ling.lu.se>
Subject:  18th Scandinavian Conf. of Linguistics, 2000

CALL FOR PAPERS

18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics

Venue:	Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Date:	Thursday, May 18th - Saturday, May 20th, 2000

Topics:
- Optimality Theory (with reference to either phonology or syntax)
- Language and Prehistory
- Linguistic Relativity
- Dialectology and Language Variation

Conference fees:
Regular fee:					SEK 400
Students:					SEK 300
Members of the Nordic Association of Linguists:	SEK 200

A banquet will be held on the evening of May 19th. This is not included in
the conference fee.

We invite abstracts for talks on all areas of linguistics. We particularly
welcome suggestions with some bearing on the listed topics. Each talk is
allotted 20 minutes (+ 10 minutes for discussion). The length of each
abstract is restricted to one A4 page.

Deadline for abstracts: 				Jan 15th, 2000
Notification of acceptance: 				Feb 15th, 2000.

Abstracts should be sent to:

18-scl at ling.lu.se

Since we intend to post abstracts on the conference website we urge
participants to submit abstracts electronically. The abstract should be in
ASCII and should form the body of an email message. To avoid formatting
difficulties please do not send the abstract as an attachment.

We also welcome suggestions from researchers who are willing to organize
workshops at 18-SCL. Please state the topic of the workshop you wish to
suggest or organize.

Deadline for workshop suggestions: 			Nov 15th, 1999.
Notification of acceptance for workshops: 		Nov 30th, 1999.


Contact information:

email: 18-scl at ling.lu.se

18-SCL Organizing Committee
Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics
Lund University
Helgonabacken 12
SE-223 62 Lund
Sweden

fax: +46 46 222 4210

18th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics
Organizing Committee
Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics
Lund University
Helgonabacken 12
SE-223 62 Lund
Sweden
email: 18-scl at ling.lu.se

http://www.ling.lu.se/


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Date:  Thu, 23 Sep 1999 12:35:39 +0200
From:  Snippets <snippets at unimi.it>
Subject:  FINAL WEEK FOR SUBMISSIONS (NEW SYNTAX-SEMANTICS JOURNAL)




This is to announce one last time that SEPTEMBER 30 is
the deadline for submissions to the first issue of the
syntax-semantics newsletter _Snippets_.  The editorial
statement for the journal follows.

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Journal title: SNIPPETS.

Editors: Carlo Cecchetto, University of Siena
	 Caterina Donati, University of Urbino
	 Orin Percus, NSF/ University of Milan

EDITORIAL STATEMENT.

1. Purpose.

The aim of _Snippets_ is to publish specific remarks that
motivate research or that make theoretical points germane to
current work.  The ideal contribution is the ideal footnote: a
side remark that taken on its own is not worth lengthy development
but that needs to be said.

The best examples of what we have in mind are the earliest
_Linguistic Inquiry_ squibs.  Some of these posed unobserved puzzles.
For instance, a squib by Postal and Ross in LI 1:1 ("A Problem of
Adverb Preposing") noted that whether or not we can construe a
sentence-initial temporal adverb with an embedded verb depends on the
tense of the matrix verb.  A squib by Perlmutter and Ross in LI 1:3
("Relative Clauses with Split Antecedents"), challenging the
prevailing analyses of coordination and extraposition, noted that
conjoined clauses neither of which contain a plural noun phrase
can appear next to an "extraposed" relative that can only describe
groups.  Other squibs drew attention to particular theoretical
assumptions.  For instance, a squib by Bresnan in LI 1:2 ("A
Grammatical Fiction") outlined an alternative account of the
derivation of sentences containing _believe_ and _force_, and asked
whether there were principled reasons for dismissing any of the
underlying assumptions (among them that semantic interpretation
is sensitive to details of a syntactic derivation).  A squib by
Zwicky in LI 1:2 ("Class Complements in Phonology") asked to what
extent phonological rules refer to complements of classes.  None of
these squibs was more than a couple of paragraphs; all of them
limited themselves to a precise question or observation.

One encounters many short comments of this kind in the literature
of the seventies.  We feel that there no longer is a forum for them.
We want _Snippets_ to help fill that gap.

2. Content.

We will publish notes that contribute to the study of _syntax and
semantics in generative grammar_.  The notes are to be brief,
self-contained and explicit.  They may do any of the following
things:

  a. point out an empirical phenomenon that goes against accepted
     generalizations or that shows that some aspect of a theory is
     problematic;
  b. point out unnoticed minimal pairs that fall outside the scope
     of any existing theory;
  c. point out an empirical phenomenon that confirms the
     predictions of a theory in an area where the theory has not
     been tested;
  d. explicitly describe technical inconsistencies in a theory or
     in a set of frequently adopted assumptions;
  e. explicitly describe unnoticed assumptions that underlie a
     theory or assumptions that a theory needs to be supplemented
     with in order to make desired predictions;
  f. propose an idea for a pilot experiment in language acquisition
     or language processing that directly bears on theoretical
     issues;
  g. call attention to little-known or forgotten literature in
     which issues of immediate relevance are discussed.

3. Submission details.

We will solicit submissions issue by issue.  A new submission
deadline will be announced for each issue, and the submissions that
we receive we will consider only for that issue.

Submissions are to be a _maximum_ of 500 words (including examples),
with an additional half page allowed for diagrams, tables and
references.  Given that we envision the submissions themselves as
footnotes, _the submissions may not contain footnotes of their own_.
The ideal submission is one paragraph; a submission of five lines is
perfectly acceptable.  _We will not consider abstracts_.

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR THE FIRST ISSUE OF _SNIPPETS_ IS
SEPTEMBER 30, 1999.  We will accept electronic submissions at the
address

		snippets at unimi.it

Paper submissions should be sent to

		Caterina Donati
		Facolta' di Lingue
		Universita' di Urbino
		Piazza Rinascimento 7
		61029 Urbino
		ITALY
			
We strongly encourage electronic submissions.  Electronic
submissions may take the form of the text of an e-mail message, or
an attached file.  The attached file should be a simple text file,
a Word file (Mac or Windows), or a Rich Text Format (RTF) file.

All submissions must state the name and affiliation of the
author(s), and a (postal or electronic) return address.

4. Editorial policy.

Submissions will be reviewed by our editorial board, and review
will be name-blind both ways.  While we guarantee a response within
3 months of submission, _we will only provide a yes/no response to
the submitter_.  We will not request revisions (barring exceptional
cases).  Space constraints mean that we may reject a large
proportion of submissions, but with this in mind we allow
resubmission (once) of the same piece.

5. Distribution.

Our initial plan is to publish 2 or 3 times a year, with a maximum
of 10 pages for each edition.  The first issue is intended for
January 2000.  Our goal in publishing this newsletter is to provide
a service to the linguistics community, and _Snippets_ will
therefore be _free_ and _without copyright_.  There will be a limited
number of copies, which we will send to institutions on request.
Individuals who wish to take advantage of the newsletter should
therefore ask their institutions to request a copy, and make their
own copy of the institution's version.  Individuals who are not
affiliated with an institution should contact us at the address
snippets at unimi.it.

6. Review Board.

Sigrid Beck (University of Connecticut)
Rajesh Bhatt (University of Texas)
Valentina Bianchi (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)
Daniel Buring (UC Santa Cruz)
Danny Fox (Harvard Society of Fellows)
Roumyana Izvorski (USC)
Hisatsugu Kitahara (Keio University)
Josep Quer (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
Norvin Richards (MIT)
Anna Roussou (University of Cyprus)
Uli Sauerland (Universitaet Tuebingen)
William Snyder (University of Connecticut)
Michal Starke (University of Geneva)

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