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>Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 00:30:44 +0000
>
> LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN
>
> Autumn Meeting 2000: University of Durham
>
> First Circular and Call for Papers
>
>
>The Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain will be
>held in St. John's College, University of Durham, from September 7 - 9.
>The local organizers are S.J. Hannahs <s.j.hannahs@durham.ac.uk> and Maggie
>Tallerman <Maggie.Tallerman@durham.ac.uk>.
>
>St. Johns's College where the meeting will be held is one of the peninsula
>colleges of Durham, and forms part of the World Heritage Site containing
>the magnificent Norman cathedral (which dates from 1093) and castle
>(dating from 1072). Both are a three minute walk from the meeting venue.
>The castle was formerly the seat of the Prince Bishops, who ruled the
>County Palatine as a virtually independent state with its own army, courts
>and coinage. In 1832 the castle became the foundation college of the
>University, and can be viewed by the public in excellent guided tours. St.
>John's is also a few minutes' walk from the thickly wooded banks of the
>river Wear, and attractive footpaths meander round the entire peninsula.
>Durham is a tiny but spectacular city with all its historic attractions
>within walking distance; it also has several good museums and a large
>number of traditional public houses selling a wide variety of real ales!
>
>Accommodation: All talks will be held in St. John's College, where the
>accommodation consists of single study bedrooms with washbasins and shared
>bathroom facilities. Twin bedded rooms are also available if booked in
>advance.
>
>Travel: The city has very good rail and road links: for rail travellers,
>Durham is on the East Coast Main Line, and is just off the A1M for those
>who wish to drive. Parking facilities are available nearby, but are
>extremely limited in the immediate vicinity of the meeting venue, and so
>participants are not recommended to travel by car. The nearest
>international airports are at Newcastle and Teesside, and are both
>approximately an hour away from Durham by public transport. St. John's
>College is roughly 15 minutes from the train station on foot, or a 5
>minute taxi ride.
>
>Events: The Henry Sweet Lecture 2000 on the Thursday evening will be
>delivered by Professor Peter Sells (Stanford University), who will be
>discussing recent developments in the Optimality Theory approach to
>morphosyntax.
>
>There will also be a Workshop on OT syntax, organized by Ad Neeleman (UCL)
>and Vieri Samek-Lodovici (UCL), speakers to be announced in the second
>circular.
>
>There will be a Language Tutorial on Akkadian, given by Dr Guy Deutcher
>(Cambridge University).
>
>There will be a Wine Party on the Thursday evening, following Professor
>Sells' talk.
>
>Enquiries about the LAGB meeting should be sent to the Meetings Secretary
>(address below). Full details of the programme and a booking form will be
>included in the Second Circular, to be sent out in early July.
>
>Call for Papers
>
>Members are invited to offer papers for the Meeting; abstracts are also
>accepted from non-members. The LAGB welcomes submissions on any topic in
>the field of linguistics; papers are selected on their (perceived) merits,
>and not according to their subject matter or assumed theoretical framework.
>
>How and when to submit an abstract
>
>Abstracts must be submitted on paper (not by email or by fax). SEVEN
>anonymous copies of the abstract, plus ONE with name and affiliation, i.e.
>CAMERA-READY, should be submitted, and should be sent in the format
>outlined below to the President (address below). You must write your
>address for correspondence (email or surface) on the BACK of the
>camera-ready copy. (Even if several authors are named on the front, there
>should be only one name and address for correspondence.)
>
> Papers for the programme are selected anonymously - only the
President
>knows the name of the authors. Where possible, authors should supply an
>email address to which the committee's decision may be sent. All decisions
>will be made by June 28th, and will be communicated by July 3th, so
>please send an email to the President (spena@essex.ac.uk) if you have not
>received your decision by that date.
> Abstracts must arrive by June 5th. Abstracts may also be
submitted now
>for the meeting after the next one, but must be clearly marked as such. (In
>general the abstract deadlines for the autumn and spring meetings are soon
>after 1st June and 1st January respectively, so an abstract sent to reach
>the President by that date will always be in time.)
>
>Format of abstracts
>
>Abstracts must be presented as follows: The complete abstract (i.e. the one
>containing your title and your name) must be no longer than ONE A4 page
>(21cm x 29.5cm) with margins of at least 2.5cm on all sides. You may use
>single spacing but type must be no smaller than 12 point. If the paper is
>accepted the abstract will be photocopied and inserted directly into the
>collection of abstracts sent out to participants, so the presentation
>should be clear and clean.
> The following layout should be considered as standard:
>
> (title) Optimality and the Klingon vowel shift
> (speaker) Clark Kent (clark@astro.mars.ac.uk)
> (institution) Department of Astrology, Eastern Mars University
>
>The normal length for papers delivered at LAGB meetings is 25 minutes (plus
>15 minutes discussion). Offers of longer papers (40 minutes) will also be
>considered: please explain why your paper requires more time than usual,
>and whether you would accept a 25-minute slot if the committee cannot offer
>more. If you request 40 minutes, please write this on each of the anonymous
>abstracts.
> The committee will plan the programme as soon as it has selected the
>successful abstracts, so please indicate on the anonymous abstracts if you
>cannot present your paper on either the second or third day of the
>conference (6th or 7th September). It is very difficult to reschedule papers
>after the programme has been planned.
>
>Content of abstracts
>
>The following guidelines may be useful:
>+ You should clearly describe the paper's general topic. (The topic may be
>a problem of theory or analysis or set of data which have not previously
>been analysed.)
>+ You should describe your treatment of the topic, and how it relates to
>previous work on the same topic. (When referring to previous work, it is
>enough to quote "Author (Date)" without giving full bibliographical
>details.) It is not acceptable simply to promise a solution'.
>+ You should explain how you will justify your treatment, and quote crucial
>evidence - you must trust the committee (and other conference attenders)
>not to steal your ideas before you have presented them. If you are taking
>a stand on a controversial issue, summarise the arguments which lead you to
>take up this position.
>
>Conference Bursaries
>
>Up to 10 bursaries are available for unsalaried members of the Association
>(e.g. PhD students) with preference given to those who are presenting a
>paper. Applications should be sent to the President, and must be received
>by the deadline for abstracts. Please state on your application: (a) date
>of joining the LAGB (applicants must have been a member at least since the
>date of the previous meeting); (b) whether or not you are a student; (c) if
>a student, whether you receive a normal grant; (d) if not a student, your
>employment situation. STUDENTS WHO ARE SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT and who wish
>to apply for funding should include all the above details WITH THEIR
>ABSTRACT. The bursary normally covers a significant proportion of the
>conference expenses and of travel within the UK.
>
>
>Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page is now active at the
>following address: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB.
> Electronic network: Please join the LAGB electronic network which
>is used for disseminating LAGB information and for consulting members
>quickly. It can be subscribed to by sending the message "add lagb" to:
>listserv@postman.essex.ac.uk.
>
>Future Meetings
>
>5-7 April 2001 University of Leeds.
>4-6 September 2001 University of Reading.
>Spring 2002 (provisional) Edge Hill University College.
>
>The Meetings Secretary would very much like to receive offers of future
>venues, particularly from institutions which the LAGB has not previously
>visited.
>
>The LAGB committee
>
>President Professor Andrew Spencer
> Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex,
>Wivenhoe
> Park, COLCHESTER CO4 3SQ. spena@essex.ac.uk
>
>Honorary Secretary Professor Anna Siewierska
> Department of Linguistics, University of Lancaster, LANCASTER LA1
4YW
> A.Siewierska@lancaster.ac.uk
>
>Membership Secretary Dr. David Willis
> Dept. of Linguistics, University of Manchester, MANCHESTER M13 9PL.
> david.willis@man.ac.uk
>
>Meetings Secretary Dr. Marjolein Groefsema
> Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hertfordshire, Watford Campus,
> ALDENHAM, Herts. WD2 8AT. m.groefsema@herts.ac.uk
>
>Treasurer Dr Wiebke Brockhaus
> Dept. of German, University of Manchester, MANCHESTER M13 9PL.
> Wiebke.Brockhaus@man.ac.uk
>
>Assistant Secretary Dr. Gillian Ramchand
> Linacre College, Oxford University, OXFORD OX1 3JA.
> gillian.ramchand@linguistics-philology.oxford.ac.uk
>
>
>
>
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Robyn Carston
Department of Phonetics & Linguistics, UCL
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Tel 020 7679 3174
Fax 020 7383 4108
URL http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/robyn/home.htm
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