The 19th SCANDINAVIAN CONFERENCE OF LINGUISTICS
will take place at the University of Tromsoe, Norway, on January 10-12 2002.
Abstracts are invited for 30 minute papers (plus discussion) on all subfields of linguistics.
Invited speakers (subject to financing):
Abstract Deadline: October 1, 2001
The conference will consist of a general session plus workshops on specific themes. Abstracts for the main session and for the workshops should be one page in length and should include the speakerÕs name, affiliation, and contact address (e-mail preferred). Abstracts for the main session should be sent to:
SCLabstract@hum.uit.no
They should contain the expression "Abstract" in the subject line and should be in one of the following formats: pdf, rtf, MS Word, or plain text in the body of the e-mail. Abstracts for the workshops should be sent to the individual addresses given below under each workshop description.
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WORKSHOP: GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO FINNIC LANGUAGES
Organized by Katrin Hiietam (University of Manchester) and Elsi Kaiser (University of Pennsylvania)
The aims are to investigate and increase general awareness of the structure of Finnic languages (Finnish, Estonian, Sami, Veps, Livonian, etc.) from a synchronic and diachronic point of view, to present new data on the topic, and to bring together scholars working on issues on Finnic linguistics. We welcome typological descriptive papers as well as papers from any theoretical framework.
Address abstracts to: Finnic_workshop@hotmail.com
Abstracts should be one page, but a second page is permitted for examples and
references.
The abstracts should preferably be sent as Word attachments.
Abstracts must be received by October 1st.
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WORKSHOP: FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Organized by Marit Richardsen Westergaard, University of Troms¿
The workshop will cover several aspects of first language acquisition. Abstracts dealing with the acquisition of syntax, phonology, morphology, semantics and pragmatics will be considered, as well as topics such as as well as topics such as bilingual acquisition, language disorders, the significance of the input, and the role of language acquisition in language change.
Address abstracts to: L1abstract@hum.uit.no
Abstracts should otherwise follow the guidelines for the main session
Abstracts must be received by October 1st
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WORKSHOP: BILINGUAL BEHAVIOR IN TEENAGE GROUPS
Organized by Jens Normann Jørgensen, Københavns Universitet
The study of teenage language has been gaining momentum in Scandinavia over the past couple of years. Particularly studies of teenagers' use of second languages (e.g. Norwegian L1 speaking teenagers salting their speech with English expressions, or Turkish speaking minority teenagers mixing with Danish). In this workshop I propose that specific studies of bilingual behavior be presented and discussed.
Persons wishing to submit abstracts should contact the organizer at normann@hum.ku.dk
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WORKSHOP: SYNTACTIC VARIATION ACROSS LINGUISTIC REGISTERS OF CORPORA
Organized by José Deulofeu, Dept. of French Linguistics, Université Aix-Marseille I
The workshop welcomes papers relevant to syntactic variation in the sense explored by D. Biber. According to this approach, it has been shown in many cases that syntactic constructions which could be considered mere syntactic variants (e.g. relative clauses with and without complementizers in English) are not randomly distributed in samples of corpora belonging to different linguistic registers (e.g. conversation, scientific prose, news, fiction). Appropriate papers might present broad data patterns from corpora or focus more narrowly on individual constructions.
Abstracts should be sent to jose.deulofeu@wanadoo.fr
Permissible file formats will be listed on the conference website soon (URL
below)
Abstracts must be received by October 1st
See the conference website for updates: http://www.hum.uit.no/arrangementer/19-SCL/19th_SCL.html
The conference organizers: Anders Holmberg, Mona Markussen, Peter Svenonius, Wilma ter Haar