16.501, Calls: Comp Ling/Text/Corpus Ling/USA;Historical Ling/USA

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Subject: 16.501, Calls: Comp Ling/Text/Corpus Ling/USA;Historical Ling/USA

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1)
Date: 15-Feb-2005
From: Arno Scharl < arno.scharl at uwa.edu.au >
Subject: Minitrack on Environmental Online Communication 

2)
Date: 16-Feb-2005
From: Andrea Menz < almenz at wisc.edu >
Subject: International Conference on Historical Linguistics 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:47:10
From: Arno Scharl < arno.scharl at uwa.edu.au >
Subject: Minitrack on Environmental Online Communication 

Full Title: Minitrack on Environmental Online Communication 
Short Title: HICSS-39 

Date: 04-Jan-2006 - 07-Jan-2006
Location: Kauai, HI, United States of America 
Contact Person: Arno Scharl
Meeting Email: arno.scharl at uwa.edu.au
Web Site: http://www.ecoresearch.net/hicss 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus
Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2005 

Meeting Description:

Call for Papers
ENVIRONMENTAL ONLINE COMMUNICATION
Minitrack at the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICSS-39), Internet & Digital Economy Track; January 4-7, 2006; Poipu Beach,
Kauai. 

http://www.ecoresearch.net/hicss

The Internet and wireless communication networks are transforming how society
handles the explosive growth yet dwindling lifespan of environmental
information. Addressing this transition to a knowledge-based economy, the
interdisciplinary Minitrack on Environmental Online Communication investigates
the role of the Internet in advocating sustainability and ecosystem protection.

Submissions may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature.
Detailed information about the minitrack's scope is available at
http://www.ecoresearch.net/hicss. The minitrack is relevant to linguists working
in a variety of areas such as online media analysis, text and content mining,
environmental discourse analysis, detecting and tracking environomental topics,
and author attitude towards these topics.

Important Dates

15 Jun 2005: Paper Submission
15 Aug 2005: Notification of Acceptance and Reviewer Comments
15 Sep 2005: Camera-ready Copy of Revised Papers Due
04 Jan 2006: HICSS-39 Conference

Depending on their thematic focus, selected papers will be fast-tracked to the
''Environmental Communication Yearbook'', Volume IV (Eds. S. Depoe), or
considered for publication in a 2006 issue of ''Technology in Society'' (Eds. G.
Bugliarello and G. Schillinger).

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:47:15
From: Andrea Menz < almenz at wisc.edu >
Subject: International Conference on Historical Linguistics 

Full Title: International Conference on Historical Linguistics 
Short Title: ICHL 

Date: 31-Jul-2005 - 05-Aug-2005
Location: Madison, WI, United States of America 
Contact Person: Joseph Salmons
Meeting Email: jsalmons at wisc.edu
Web Site: http://csumc.wisc.edu/news_files/ICHL.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Genetic Classification; Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2005 

Meeting Description:

The 17th International Conference on Historical Linguistics will be held July 31
- August 5, 2005 in the Pyle Center on the University of Wisconsin campus in
Madison, overlooking Lake Mendota.

Special sessions: In addition to broad general sessions, ICHL will include
several special topics:
	-  Native American historical linguistics
	-  Linguistic theory and language change
	-  Socio-historical linguistics
	-  Immigration and language change

Invited speakers
	B. Elan Dresher, University of Toronto	
	Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
	William Labov, University of Pennsylvania
	Michele Loporcaro, University of Zurich
	Keren Rice, University of Toronto
	Ans van Kemenade, University of Nijmegen 

Abstracts: The deadline for submission of abstracts for papers (20 min. + 10
min. for discussion) is March 1, 2005, and decisions will be emailed to authors
by April 1. Those who need an earlier decision on an abstract should contact the
conference organizers (see below). Abstracts (no more than 250 words) can be
submitted on our website; for those who lack access to the internet, please send
your abstract to:

ICHL Organizing Committee
Department of German, 818 Van Hise Hall
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.

ICHL particularly invites submissions on several special topics:
- Native American historical linguistics
- Linguistic theory and language change
- Socio-historical linguistics
- Immigration and language change
- Language acquisition and language change

Workshops/Special Sessions: ICHL will also offer the following workshops. For
details on submitting to the workshops, please see our website (address below):

- The Diachrony of Morphological Case (Organizers: Jóhanna Barðdal & Shobhana L.
Chelliah) NOTE: Abstracts for this workshop are no longer being accepted, as the
deadline is past.

- Constructions and Language Change (Organizers: Alexander Bergs & Gabriele Diewald)

- Language Reconstruction and Relations in Northeast Asia (Organizer: Alexander
Vovin)

- Dating Indo-European Dialectal Changes in Grammatical Category (Organizer:
Carol Justus)

Invited Speakers:

- B. Elan Dresher, University of Toronto, ''Cause and Effect in Phonological
Change''

- Steven Fassberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ''Infinitival Forms in Aramaic''

- Ans van Kemenade, University of Nijmegen, ''Morphosyntactic change through
language contact: The rise of new forms''

- Ruth Kempson, King's College, London, ''Dynamic Syntax, dialogue modelling,
and syntactic change''

- William Labov, University of Pennsylvania, ''Fitting family tree and wave
models into a general theory of language change''

- Michele Loporcaro, University of Zurich, ''Facts, theory and dogmas in
(Romance) historical linguistics''

- Keren Rice, University of Toronto, ''Reexamining preverbs in Athapaskan
languages: Some apparent scope paradoxes''

For additional details (including on travel, lodging and registration), please
visit http://csumc.wisc.edu/news_files/ICHL.htm or contact the organizers.

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