Call for Papers: THE EFFECTS OF MODALITY ON LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY, TLS 2000

[Claude Mauk]

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2000 Texas Linguistic Society is organizing a conference on

THE EFFECTS OF MODALITY ON LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY

to be held at the University of Texas at Austin,
February 25-27, 2000.

The Texas Linguistic Society is an organization composed of graduate
students interested in the study of language from a theoretical perspective.

The work of many linguists and psycholinguists has revealed profound
similarities between signed and spoken languages in their structure,
acquisition, and processing. However, there may also be interesting
differences between signed and spoken languages; a close examination of
modality differences may offer particular insights into the factors that
shape the nature of language and contribute to linguistic theory. The aim
of this conference is to explore the extent to which current linguistic
theory can account for signed languages and the ways in which linguistic
theories may need to be revised to accommodate both signed and spoken
languages.

We invite original, unpublished work in any area of linguistics or
cognitive science. We would particularly like to encourage submissions
which focus on the link between modality and current linguistic theories,
in keeping with the conference theme.

Conference languages: English and ASL

Invited Keynote Speakers:

Diane Brentari (Purdue University)
David Corina (University of Washington)
Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)

Abstract:

Please submit ten copies of a one-page, 500-word, anonymous abstract for a
twenty minute paper (optionally, one additional page for data and/or
references may be appended), along with a 3" by 5" card with:

(1) your name,
(2) your affiliation,
(3) your address, phone number, and e-mail address,
(4) the title of the paper, and
(5) an indication of which subfield of linguistics best describes the topic
(e.g. Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax,  Semantics,  Psycholinguistics,
Neurolinguistics, Cognitive Science etc.)

Send abstracts to:

TLS 2000 Abstract Committee
501 Calhoun
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712

E-mail abstracts will also be accepted. They must be submitted as
attachments to an e-mail message. They may not be contained with the body
of a message. The body of the message should include all information above.
The only acceptable formats for submissions are ASCII text, WordPerfect,
and Microsoft Word.  We generally discourage the use of nonstandard fonts,
since we can not always decipher them.

Emails to be submitted to

tls at uts.cc.utexas.edu.

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstracts: postmarked by October 15, 1999
Notifications of acceptance or nonacceptance: December 1, 1999
Deadline for drafts for interpreters: January 20, 2000

We strongly encourage Deaf researchers to submit abstracts.

For further information, see www: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/ (after
June 1, 1999), or contact tls at uts.cc.utexas.edu