16.3680, Calls: Phonology/UK;General Ling/Netherlands

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Subject: 16.3680, Calls: Phonology/UK;General Ling/Netherlands

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1)
Date: 21-Dec-2005
From: Patrick Honeybone < patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk >
Subject: 14th Manchester Phonology Meeting

2)
Date: 20-Dec-2005
From: Jenny Audring < j.audring at let.vu.nl >
Subject: Amsterdam Gender Colloquium ? an International Workshop on 
Grammatical Gender

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Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:24:38
From: Patrick Honeybone < patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk >
Subject: 14th Manchester Phonology Meeting

Full Title: 14th Manchester Phonology Meeting Short Title: 14mfm

Date: 25-May-2006 - 27-May-2006
Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom Contact Person: Patrick 
Honeybone
Meeting Email: patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/14mfm.html

Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Call Deadline: 20-Feb-2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

Fourteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting

25-27 MAY 2005

Deadline for abstracts: 20th February 2006

Special session: 'Fieldwork and phonological theory' (featuring Dan Everett,
Larry Hyman, Keren Rice)

Held in Manchester, UK; organised through a collaboration of 
phonologists at the
University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, the Universite
Toulouse-Le Mirail, the Universite Montpellier-Paul Valery and elsewhere.

Conference website: www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/14mfm.html

BACKGROUND
We are pleased to announce our Fourteenth Manchester Phonology Meeting 
(14mfm).
The mfm is the UK's annual phonology conference, with an international set of
organisers; it is held in late May every year in Manchester. The meeting has
become a key conference for phonologists from all corners of the world, where
anyone who declares themselves to be interested in phonology can submit an
abstract on anything phonological in any phonological framework. In an 
informal
atmosphere, we discuss a wide range of topics, including the phonological
description of a wide variety of languages, issues in phonological theory,
aspects of phonological acquisition and implications of phonological change.

SPECIAL SESSION
There is no conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on anything, but,
following the success of such sessions in previous years, a special themed
session has been organised, entitled 'Fieldwork and phonological theory'. This
will feature invited speakers and conclude in an open discussion session when
contributions from the audience will be very welcome. Abstracts which 
attempt to
deal overtly with the issues involved with this (from any perspective) are
certainly welcome.

SPECIAL SESSION SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order)
* Dan Everett (University of Manchester, UK) * Larry Hyman (University 
of California, Berkeley, USA)
* Keren Rice (University of Toronto, Canada)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
*This is a summary - please consult the website for full details*
www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/14mfm.html

* There is no obligatory conference theme - abstracts can be submitted on
anything. Abstracts should be sent to Patrick Honeybone as attachments to an
email (patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk) by 20th February 2006.

* Abstracts should be no longer than one side of A4, with 2.5cm or one inch
margins, single-spaced, with a font size no smaller than 12, and with normal
character spacing.

* Please send two copies of your abstract - one of these should be 
anonymous and
one should include your name, affiliation and email address at the top of the
page, directly below the title. All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by
members of the organising committee and advisory board.

* Please use one of these formats for your abstract: pdf, Word, or plain text.
If you need to use a phonetic font in your abstract, either embed it in a pdf
file, or use the SIL Doulos IPA93 font, which can be downloaded for free from
this site: 
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=encore-ipa.

* Full papers will last around 25 minutes with around 10 minutes for 
questions,
and there will be a high-profile poster session lasting one and a half hours.
Please indicate whether you would prefer to present your work as an oral paper
or a poster, or whether you would be prepared to present it in either form.

* If you need technical equipment for your talk, please say so in the message
accompanying your abstract and we will do our best to provide it, 
although this
cannot be guaranteed.

* We aim to finalise the programme, and to contact abstract-senders by around
20th March. At present, there are no plans for publishing the general
proceedings of the Meeting. We would like to keep the mfm as an informal forum
where speakers can air new ideas which are still in the early stages of 
development.

**Further important details** concerning abstract submission are available on
the conference website - please make sure that you consult these before
submitting an abstract: www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/14mfm.html

ORGANISERS

Organising Committee:
The first named is the convenor and main organiser - if you would like 
to attend
or if you have any queries about the conference, please feel free to get in
touch with me (patrick.honeybone at ed.ac.uk, or phone  +44 (0)131 651 
1838). - Patrick Honeybone (Edinburgh)
- Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (Manchester)
- Wiebke Brockhaus-Grand (Manchester)
- Philip Carr (Montpellier-Paul Valery)
- Jacques Durand (Toulouse-Le Mirail)

Advisory Board:
- Jill Beckman (Iowa) - Mike Davenport (Durham) - Daniel L. Everett 
(Manchester)
- Paul Foulkes (York)
- S.J. Hannahs (Newcastle upon Tyne) - John Harris (UCL)
- Kristine A. Hildebrandt (Manchester)
- Martin Krämer (Tromso) - Ken Lodge (UEA) - April McMahon (Edinburgh) 
- Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Instituut)
- Glyne Piggott (McGill) - Curt Rice (Tromso)
- Catherine O. Ringen (Iowa)
- Tobias Scheer (Nice) - James M Scobbie (QMUC) - Dan Silverman
- Marilyn M. Vihman (Bangor)
- Moira Yip (UCL)

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:24:42
From: Jenny Audring < j.audring at let.vu.nl >
Subject: Amsterdam Gender Colloquium ? an International Workshop on 
Grammatical Gender

Full Title: Amsterdam Gender Colloquium ? an International Workshop on
Grammatical Gender

Date: 15-Sep-2006 - 16-Sep-2006
Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Contact Person: 
Jenny Audring
Meeting Email: j.audring at let.vu.nl

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-May-2006

Meeting Description:

Despite many years of research, grammatical gender still is 'one of the most
interesting and difficult of the grammatical categories' (as Corbett says in a
recent publication). This two-day workshop is intended for linguists who share
the interest and appreciate the difficulties in the phenomenon of grammatical
gender.

We invite presentations on any subject in the field, but especially on one of
the following topics:

- Development and decline of gender systems
- Semantics of gender (distribution, loss and gain)
- Gender agreement
- Gender in contact
- Gender in processing and acquisition

The following keynote speakers have confirmed their participation:

Greville Corbett (University of Surrey)
Östen Dahl (Stockholm University)
Hans-Olav Enger (University of Stavanger)
Anna Thornton (University of L'Aquila)
Peter Siemund (University of Hamburg)

In order to ensure the interactivity of the workshop, presentations will be 30
minutes plus 15 minutes discussion. Please send your abstract as a Word or PDF
document to:

j.audring at let.vu.nl

or as hard copy to

J. Audring
Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
De Boelelaan 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Deadline for abstracts is 1 May 2006. Notification of acceptance will be given
by 1 June 2006.

Organising committee:
Geert Booij (Leiden University)
Jaap van Marle (Open University of the Netherlands)
Jenny Audring (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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