12.90, Calls: English/Celtic Lang, Role & Reference Grammar

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Subject: 12.90, Calls: English/Celtic Lang, Role & Reference Grammar

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Date:  Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:54:14 +0200
From:  juhani.klemola at helsinki.fi
Subject:  Early Contacts between English and the Celtic Languages

2)
Date:  Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:42:51 -0500
From:   <vanvalin at acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject:  Role and Reference Grammar Workshop & Conference at LSA Institutee

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

Date:  Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:54:14 +0200
From:  juhani.klemola at helsinki.fi
Subject:  Early Contacts between English and the Celtic Languages

Call for Papers

International Colloquium on Early Contacts between English and
the Celtic Languages

University of Joensuu Research Station, Mekrijarvi, Finland

24-26 August, 2001



Scholars interested in historical and linguistic contacts between
English and the Celtic languages are invited to offer contributions to
the "International Colloquium on Early Contacts between English
and the Celtic Languages", which will be held from August 24 to
26, 2001, at the University of Joensuu Research Station in
Mekrijarvi, North Karelia, Finland.


The aim of the Colloquium is to bring together distinguished
scholars historians, Celticists, Anglicists, and general linguists
to discuss the nature and extent of the historical and linguistic
contacts between speakers of Celtic languages and speakers of
Germanic languages and their impact on the development of the
English language. Despite the recent rise of interest in the
possibility of Celtic substratum influences in English, there have so
far been few opportunities for scholars working on different aspects
of this question to come together and exchange their findings. It is
the purpose of this Colloquium to provide a forum for such
discussion. A selection of the papers will be published.


The contributions are expected to address questions relating to the
following broad topics:


 	the historical background to the early (i.e. medieval and
early modern) contacts between speakers of Celtic and
Germanic languages;

	the linguistic outcomes of the early contacts in phonology,
grammar and lexis.


The following speakers are already confirmed: Anders Ahlqvist
(Galway), Andrew Breeze (Navarra), Richard Coates (Sussex),
Nick Higham (Manchester), Cathair Ó Dochairtaigh (Glasgow),
Erich Poppe (Marburg), Peter Schrijver (Munich), Hildegard L.C.
Tristram (Potsdam), Theo Vennemann (Munich), and Kalevi Wiik
(Turku).


The Colloquium will be organised by the project group "English and
Celtic in Contact", whose members are Prof. Markku Filppula
(University of Joensuu), Dr. Juhani Klemola (University of Helsinki),
and Ms Heli Pitkanen (University of Joensuu). Funded by the
Academy of Finland, this project is run jointly by the Department of
English, University of Joensuu, and the Research Unit for Variation
and Change in English, University of Helsinki.

For more information about the project please check the website

http://www.joensuu.fi/fld/ecc/


Please note that only a limited number of papers (20+10 minutes)
can be accepted because of the limitations of space at the
Mekrijarvi Research Station. The conference fee of FIM 1000
(approx. £100 sterling) will cover 3 nights' full board and lodging at
Mekrijarvi from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon, and coach
transportation from Joensuu to Mekrijarvi on the evening of
Thursday 23 August and back to Joensuu on Sunday 26 August.
The programme will run from Friday morning till Sunday afternoon.


Abstracts (maximum 1 page) and all enquiries should be sent to Dr
Juhani Klemola, e-mail juhani.klemola at helsinki.fi (conventional
mail: Department of English, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 3,
00140, University of Helsinki, Finland). The deadline for submission
is 15 March, 2001.


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:42:51 -0500
From:   <vanvalin at acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject:  Role and Reference Grammar Workshop & Conference at LSA Institutee

A workshop and conference on Role and Reference Grammar will be held at
the LSA Summer Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
July 27-29, 2001.  The workshop is for linguists already working in RRG
as well as those wishing to become better acquainted with the theory.
There will be two parts to the workshop.  First, there will be a series
of introductory lectures on the basics of RRG for those not yet
acquainted with the theory.  Second, there will be a series of working
sessions for linguists already familiar with RRG; the preliminary list of
workshop topics includes morphological theory, diachronic syntax, lexical
representation, and language acquistion.

There will be a one-day conference at which current work in RRG will be
presented.  Talks will be 30 minutes long (25 min. + 5 min. discussion).
Please submit your abstract (2 pages maximum), which should include your
name, e-mail address and regular address, by e-mail to
VANVALIN at ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU; the deadline for submission is March 15, 2001

The Organizing Committee:
Dan Everett, Univ. of Manchester
Ricardo Mairal Uson, UNED, Madrid
Ranko Matasovic, Univ. of Zagreb
Toshio Ohori, Univ. of Tokyo
Robert Van Valin, Univ. at Buffalo
Byong-seon Yang, Jeonju University

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