17.3580, Calls: General Linguistics/UK; General Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 17.3580, Calls: General Linguistics/UK; General Linguistics/UK

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Date: 02-Dec-2006
From: Dora Alexopoulou < ta259 at cam.ac.uk >
Subject: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses 

2)
Date: 02-Dec-2006
From: Bettina Beinhoff < camling at gmail.com >
Subject: Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research 

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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:13:32
From: Dora Alexopoulou < ta259 at cam.ac.uk >
Subject: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses 

Full Title: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses 
Short Title: REL07 

Date: 13-Sep-2007 - 15-Sep-2007
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Dora Alexopoulou
Meeting Email: ta259 at cam.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2006-7/relativeclauses.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 08-Jan-2007 

Meeting Description:

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses 

Interdisciplinary approaches to Relative Clauses
  2nd Call for papers

Call deadline: 8th of January 2007

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Relative Clauses
13-15 Sept 2007 
Cambridge, UK

Invited Speakers
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Elisabet Engdahl (Gothenburg)
Suzanne Flynn (MIT)
Ted Gibson (MIT)
Ed Keenan (UCLA)
Ruth Kempson (King's College London)
Jim McCloskey (UC Santa Cruz)
Colin Phillips (Maryland) 
Florian Jaeger (Rochester) and Tom Wasow (Stanford)

Organisers: Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge and Dept. of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Contact: Dora Alexopoulou (ta259 at cam.ac.uk)
Conference website:  http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/index.html
Sponsors: Dept. of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (Cambridge), the Scandinavian Studies Fund (Cambridge), and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Cambridge (CRASSH). 

Relative clauses are complex constructions grammatically, yet very frequent and highly productive crosslinguistically. Understanding their properties is, thus, fundamental for theories of grammar, linguistic typology, language acquisition and processing. Many of their structural and interpretive properties have now been investigated and there is a growing body of work on their acquisition and processing. However, there have been insufficient efforts to integrate insights and results across different subdisciplines. Building on the success of the preparatory ''Workshop on the Typology, Acquisition and Processing of Relative Clauses'' (Leipzig 2005, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), the conference aims  to bring together researchers investigating relative clauses from different perspectives: linguistic typology, grammatical theory, processing, first and second language acquisition, computational/corpus linguistics and historical linguistics.  There is currently considerable interest in relative clauses throughout the language sciences and we expect contributions from all relevant subfields.  We especially encourage paper submissions on the following topics: 

-Head internal relative clauses.
-Relative clauses in languages like Japanese where the relative clause is         closely related to other types of prenominal modification. 
-Relative clauses in 1st language acquisition.
-Relative clauses in 2nd language acquisition from speakers with varying L1s. 
-Relative clauses in Scandinavian languages.
-Resumption in relative clauses.
-Processing of relative clauses, in particular, in different language types. 
-Production models of relative clauses.
-Comprehension models of relative clauses.

Please note that, thanks to an award from the University of Cambridge Scandinavian Studies Fund, registration fees will be waived for papers on Scandinavian languages. 

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission: 8th of January 2007
Notification of acceptance: 7th of March 2007
Early Registration: June 2007
Conference: 13-15 Sept. 2007

Abstract Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion) and/or poster presentations on any aspect of relative clauses.  Abstracts should be submitted to http://www.easychair.org/REL07/   in PDF format, by the 8th of January 2007. Abstracts are limited to one page (using 1'' margins on all sides and 11pt font size) and a second page containing examples/data and references. Any non-standard fonts should be embedded in the PDF document. Abstracts should include a header with the name(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail contact of author(s). 

Please contact the conference organisers at relatives2007 at rceal.cam.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Organising Committee
Dora Alexopoulou (Lille/Cambridge)
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
John Hawkins (Cambridge) 
Gaby Hermon (Delaware)
Ruth Kempson (King's College London)
Teresa Parodi (Cambridge)
Colin Phillips (Maryland) 
Ian Roberts (Cambridge)
Tom Wasow (Stanford)
John Williams (Cambridge)

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:13:48
From: Bettina Beinhoff < camling at gmail.com >
Subject: Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research 

Full Title: Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research 
Short Title: CamLing 2007 

Date: 20-Mar-2007 - 21-Mar-2007
Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Bettina Beinhoff
Meeting Email: camling at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/call.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jan-2007 

Meeting Description:

The Fifth University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (CamLing). We invite postgraduate students to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations on any topic of linguistic interest. 

Second and last call for Papers: 

CamLing 2007

The Fifth Postgraduate Conference in Language Research

Tuesday, 20 March and Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Cambridge, UK

The Fifth University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (CamLing) is organised with the support of the University of Cambridge Institute of Language Research (CILR), the Department of Linguistics, the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL) and Cambridge University Press (CUP). This year's conference is being collocated with Computational Linguistics UK (CLUK). We invite postgraduate students to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations on any topic of linguistic interest. 

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/

Invited speaker:

CamLing 2007 is delighted to welcome Professor Peter Austin of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London as our invited keynote speaker. He will be giving a talk on ''Endangered Languages and Language Documentation''.

Deadline:

Abstracts must be received (not postmarked) in our office by
Monday, 01 January 2007
5:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time.
No late submissions can be accepted.

Abstract submission:

Abstracts may be submitted by e-mail or by post in accordance with the guidelines for formatting and submitting abstracts (available online at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/submission.html). Submissions that do not conform to these guidelines will not be considered.

Registration:

All presenters and attendees must register for the conference by Friday, 13 February 2007 (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/registration.html). Delegates are free to attend the CLUK keynote as well as any CLUK sessions occurring on the Tuesday. Further details are posted on the conference website.

Presentation and publication:

Oral presentations are allotted 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. The poster session is allotted 45 minutes, though posters will be on display throughout the day. Please take note of the guidelines for presentations on the website (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/camling/presentation.html). Presented papers are published in the CamLing Proceedings. Authors agree to provide camera-ready copy (up to 8 pages) by 25 May 2007.

For queries, please contact us at  camling at gmail.com

You can also contact us by post at:

   CamLing
   c/o Department of Linguistics
   University of Cambridge
   Sidgwick Avenue
   Cambridge, CB3 9DA
   UK

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