11.1183, Calls: Chinese Grammar, Creole Phonology/Morphology

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-11-1183. Wed May 24 2000. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 11.1183, Calls: Chinese Grammar, Creole Phonology/Morphology

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1)
Date:  Wed, 24 May 2000 12:29:46 +0800
From:  "Haihua Pan, Ph.D." <cthpan at cityu.edu.hk>
Subject:  The First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar
         for the New Millennium

2)
Date:  Tue, 23 May 2000 07:26:15 +0200
From:  "Ingo Plag" <plag at anglistik.uni-siegen.de>
Subject:  Creole phonology and morphology

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 24 May 2000 12:29:46 +0800
From:  "Haihua Pan, Ph.D." <cthpan at cityu.edu.hk>
Subject:  The First International Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar
         for the New Millennium

The First International Conference on
Modern Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium
(The Seventh Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar)

Call for Papers

The Organizing Committee of the First International Conference on Modern
Chinese Grammar for the New Millennium would like to invite papers on the
syntax, morphology, and semantics of Modern Chinese, including comparisons
with earlier stages of Chinese or other languages and studies of language
acquisition related to the acquisition of grammar.

The First Conference on Modern Chinese Grammar was held in Wuhanin 1986,
and since then the Conference has been held every other year.  The Sixth
Conference, held in Peking University in 1998, was attended by over 100
scholars from North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, Singapore, and
China.  It was then decided that the first Conference of the new millennium
should be held in Hong Kong, and it was suggested that the numbering of the
Conferences should begin again with this first one of the new millennium
and the fixing of the word "International" in the title of the Conference.
In terms of the topics covered in the Conference, we will continue the
tradition of the earlier six conferences in limiting the papers accepted
to those dealing with the topics mentioned in the first paragraph above.

Date:	1-3 February 2001

Venue:	City University of Hong Kong
	Kowloon, Hong Kong

Sponsor: City University of Hong Kong

Co-Sponsors:	

	Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong
	East-China Normal University
	Linguistic Society of Hong Kong
	Peking University
	University of Hong Kong

Organizing Committee:	

	Xu, Liejiong, Chair (City University of Hong Kong)
	LaPolla, Randy (City University of Hong Kong)
	Luke, Kang Kwong (University of Hong Kong)
	Pan, Haihua (City University of Hong Kong
	Shao, Jingmin (East-China Normal University)
	Sin, Chow Yiu (University of Hong Kong)
	Tang, Wai Lan Gladys (Linguistic Society of Hong Kong)
	Yau Shar Noon (Chinese Language Society of Hong Kong)
	Hu Jianhua, Secretary (City University of Hong Kong)

Conference Languages:	Chinese and English

Abstracts:

Please send three copies of your abstract (one camera ready copy with your
name, affiliation, and e-mail address centrally aligned, plus two anonymous
copies) in Chinese or English to the correspondence address given below (if
you are outside mainland China) by 15 September 2000.  The abstract should
be one page maximum, in a 12 point font, with minimum 1" margins all around.
Submission by fax is not acceptable; e-mail submissions must be Microsoft
Word file attachments of the length and formatting outlined above.
(Submissions from mainland China should be sent to Shao Jingmin, Department
of Chinese, East-China Normal University, Shanghai 20062, China, Tel: 86-21-
6265-9494; e-mail: shjmfd at public7.sta.net.cn)

Correspondence Address:

	 ICMCG Organizing Committee
	 Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics
	 City University of Hong Kong
	 83 Tat Chee Avenue
	 Kowloon, Hong Kong

E-mail:  icmcg.1 at cityu.edu.hk
Website: http://ctlhpan.cityu.edu.hk/icmcg/
Fax: 	 (852) 2788-8706
Tel: 	 (852) 2788-9509

Significant Dates:	

	Abstract submission deadline: 15 Sept 2000
	Notification of acceptance: 15 Oct 2000
	Pre-registration: before 15 Nov 2000
	Program available: 15 Dec 2000

Registration:	

	Early registration fee: HK$ 300 / US$ 45
	Late registration fee: HK$ 400 / US$ 55
	Student registration fee: HK$ 150 / US$ 25
	Bank draft / international money order in US dollars; bank
	draft / cheque in HK dollars; cash on site

Accommodations:	Participants are advised to contact the following travel
		agent for reservations:

	Nice Holiday Limited
	Room 806 Eastern Commercial Centre
	394-407 Hennessy Road, Hong Kong
	Tel: (852) 2572-0996
	Fax: (852) 2575-4093
	E-mail: nicetravl at hknet.com

_____________________________________________________________

Reply Form

	Surname:	_____________________________________

	Given name:	_____________________________________

	Name in Chinese (if applicable): ____________________

	Institution:	_____________________________________

	Address:	_____________________________________

	Phone:		_____________________________________

	Fax:		_____________________________________

	E-mail:		_____________________________________

	Paper Title:	_____________________________________

			_____________________________________

Send to: ICMCG Organizing Committee
	 Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics
	 City University of Hong Kong
	 83 Tat Chee Avenue
	 Kowloon, Hong Kong

E-mail:	 ICMCG.1 at cityu.edu.hk

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Date:  Tue, 23 May 2000 07:26:15 +0200
From:  "Ingo Plag" <plag at anglistik.uni-siegen.de>
Subject:  Creole phonology and morphology

                                     CALL FOR PAPERS

                                    International Workshop
                                             on the
                       Phonology and Morphology of Creole Languages

                                        August 22-24, 2001

                               University of Siegen, Germany

Until very recently, phonology and morphology have been neglected areas in
the study of creole languages. Available phonological studies were largely
confined to segmental aspects, and morphology was generally held to be
marginal in these languages, if not totally absent. Some more recent studies
have shown, however, that the investigation of creole phonology and
morphology is of considerable importance for the field of creole studies, both
theoretically and empirically.
     Apart from a few isolated exceptions, prosodic aspects of creole
phonology (such as syllabic structure, stress assignment, tone, and
intonation) have not been subject to in-depth analysis, although they pose
important new questions to students of language contact and language
emergence. For example, McWhorter (1998) claims that creoles have no
lexical or grammatical tone. But is this really true? Some creole languages
seem to have retained at least remnants of their substrates' tone systems.
Little is known about what happens to substratal tone systems in
creolization: how do creole stress and tone systems look like and how did
they emerge? Why do French-based creoles differ so much from English-
based creoles in terms of syllabic structure? Which factors are responsible
for the development of syllabic structure?
     Moving to morphology, a closer look reveals that creoles do have
morphology, but its nature is unclear. Lefebvre (1998) claims that
morphological heads in creole have properties completely different from those
of lexical and functional heads. If true, how do such distinct properties arise?
And is it true, as McWhorter (1998) claims, that creoles have no inflectional
and only semantically transparent derivational morphology? Too few studies
of derivational morphology in creoles are yet available to give a satisfactory
answer to these questions. And what about morpho-phonological
transparency or prosodic morphology? What kinds of morphonological
alternations do we find in creoles and how did they arise?
     The aim of this workshop is to bring together scholars from all over the
world who work on these and similar problems in order to provide a forum for
their research and opportunity for discussion.

The organizer is trying to obtain funds, so that all paper presenters can be
provided free accomodation in a centrally located hotel.

Invited speakers:

Anne-Marie Brousseau (University of Toronto)
Hubert Devonish (University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
Claire Lefebvre (Université du Quebec à Montréal)
John McWhorter (University of Berkeley)
Norval Smith (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

The workshop will be organized by Ingo Plag, Chair in English Linguistics,
University of Siegen, Germany.

Send in three anonymous copies of your abstract and one copy including
your name, mailing address, e-mail address, fax and telephone number via
regular mail to the address given below. In addition, provide an electronic
version of your abstract, either as a disk accompanying the hard copies, or
via e-mail. Abstracts should not exceed a maximum length of one 1 page,
1.5-spaced.

The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is March 1, 2001.
Acceptance notices will be sent out no later than April 15, 2001.

Send your abstract to the following address:

                Prof. Dr. Ingo Plag
                - Creole Workshop 2001 -
                English Linguistics, Fachbereich 3
                University of Siegen
                Adolf-Reichwein-Straße 2
                D-57068 Siegen

                e-mail:  plag at anglistik.uni-siegen.de

Up-to date information on the workshop is available at

http://www.uni-siegen.de/~engspra/workshop/

!!! NEW ADDRESS AS OF APRIL 1, 2000 !!!

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Prof. Dr. Ingo Plag
English Linguistics
Fachbereich 3
Universitaet-Gesamthochschule Siegen
Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2
D-57068 Siegen

tel. 0271-740-2560
tel. 0271-740-2349 (secretary)
fax 0271-740-3246
e-mail: plag at anglistik.uni-siegen.de
tel.: 06422-2817 (home)

office: room AR-K 103
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