RT list: LAGB - deadline 5th April

Hi,

I've pasted in below the final call for papers for the LAGB this year. It's from the 6th to 9th of September in Edinburgh and it's also their 50th anniversary.

A few of us have put together a proposal for a themed session on pragmatics. We don't know whether the panel will accept our abstracts but if they do it means there will be at least a few papers on pragmatics there. It would be great if there were more!

Best wishes,

Billy

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Subject: [LAGB] 2nd call: LAGB 2009 (50th anniversary meeting)

LAGB Annual Meeting 2009: University of Edinburgh

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY GOLDEN JUBILEE MEETING

6th to 9th September 2009

SECOND (and final) CALL FOR PAPERS

Please distribute this message further, as you feel appropriate (for
example, to subject-specific email lists and to colleagues and
postgraduate students who may not be LAGB members at your institution).

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2009 FIRST CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The first circular for the 2009 LAGB Meeting is ready, and all members
are asked to download it from this address:

http://www.lagb.org.uk/meetings.htm

The 2009 Meeting will be the fiftieth anniversary LAGB meeting. The
special events at the meeting are listed below, but please make sure
that you download the full circular as this also includes information
about abstract submission, student bursaries and other LAGB-internal
information.

The deadline for abstracts is *5th April 2009*

The terms of office for the LAGB Meetings Secretary, Assistant
Secretary and Treasurer end this year, so nominations are requested
for these positions. Full details are given in the full circular.

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SPECIAL EVENTS AT THE 2008 LAGB MEETING

1. Rather than inviting speakers to give the Henry Sweet and LAGB
lectures, as is normal at LAGB Meetings, the Association has decided,
as part of the celebration of 50 years of LAGB meetings, to invite
three speakers from the UK linguistic scene (chosen by an LAGB
subcommittee established to organise the Jubilee celebrations) and to
ask them to speak on a specific topic. They will discuss the past 50
years of developments in key linguistic subfields in Britain, and look
forward to the future. The speakers are: Ronnie Cann (University of
Edinburgh), speaking on developments in Semantics and Pragmatics, John
Harris (University College London), speaking on Phonetics and
Phonology, and Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh), speaking on
Syntax and Morphology. They will all speak at a Fiftieth Anniversary
Symposium on the afternoon of Sunday 6th September.

2. Following on from the Symposium, there will be a Golden Jubilee
Dinner on the evening of 6th September. This will feature a talk on
the history of the LAGB by Dick Hudson. Nigel Vincent will also speak
on 50 years of linguistics in Universities in Britain during the day.

3. There will be a Language Tutorial on Scottish Gaelic, by David
Adger (Queen Mary, University of London).

4. There will be a session organised by the LAGB's Education Committee
with the title "Typology for schools." Speakers will probably include
Anna Siewierska (University of Lancaster, speaking on syntax) and
Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey, speaking on inflectional
categories), each presenting topics and materials that might be used
in schools. Further details will soon be made available on this
website: www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/ecsessions.htm

5. The Journal of Linguistics, the LAGB's journal (published for the
Association by Cambridge University Press), is marking its 45th volume
in 2009, and this will also be celebrated as part of this year's
meeting.

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Current and recent LAGB circulars can always be downloaded from this
address:

http://www.lagb.org.uk/meetings.htm

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