LINGUISTICS & RELATED TOPICS
UPDATED ON 1/2/96
Below is a list of conferences, seminars, symposia, etc. gleaned from a number of sources. Please feel free to re-copy, distribute, or use parts of this list. This is a service of the Language and Technology Centre of the National Languages & Literacy Institute of Australia Ltd., at the University of Queensland.
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FEBRUARY 1996 1. 2-3 February '96 8th Annual Conference on Literature and Linguistics, Denton, Texas, USA Contact: Conference on Language and Literature, Dept. of English, PO Box 13827, Denton, TX 76203 USA. Fax: +1 817 565 4355. Email: gsea@twlab.unt.edu 2. 5 February '96 Winter IATL (Israeli Association for Theoretical Linguistics) Workshop: Discourse. Technion, Haifa, Israel Contact: Prof. Nissim Francez, Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel. Email: francez@cs.technion.ac.il 3. 12-16 February '96 XIVth World Congress of the Federation internationale des traducteurs (FIT), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Contact: Fauth Royale & Associates P/L, PO Box 895, North Sydney NSW 2060, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9954 4544; Fax: +61 2 9954 4964 4. 15-17 February '96 Workshop on Atomism and Binding, Leiden, The Netherlands Contact: Workshop on Atomism and Binding, Leiden University, Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics, PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. Email: binding@rullet.leidenuniv.nl. Web: http://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/confs/atomism/atomism.htm 5. 16-18 February '96 Extragrammatical and Marginal Morphology, workshop at the 7th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, Austria Contact: Ursula Doleschal, Institut f. Slawische Sprachen, Wirtschaftuniv. Wien, Augasse 9, 1090 Wien, Austria. Tel: +43 1 31336 4115; Fax: +43 1 31336 744. Email: ursula.doleschal@wu-wien.ac.at 6. 17-18 February '96 20th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Contact: The Penn Linguistics Colloquium Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, 619 Williams Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104-6305 USA. Email: plc20@babel.ling.upenn.edu 7. 17-19 February '96 The Berkeley Linguistics Society BLS22, Berkeley, California USA Contact: BLS, 2337 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720 USA. Email: bls@garnet.berkeley.edu 8. 23-24 February '96 The 8th Annual Conference of the Lake Erie Teachers of Japanese: Back to Basics - building automaticity, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Contact: LETJ Committee, c/o Hiroshi Nara, East Asian Languages and Literatures, 1501 CL, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA. Tel: +1 412 624 5574; Fax: +1 412 624 4419. Email: hnara@vms.cis.pitt.edu 9. 23-25 February '96 Conference: A Vygotsky Centennial: Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research, Chicago, Illinois, USA Contact: Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University, School of Education & Social Policy, 2003 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60201 USA. Tel: +1 708 467 1807; Fax: +1 708 957 8529. Email: cdlee@merle.acns.nwu.edu 10. 29 February - 2 March '96 1996 Joint Conference: Southern Conference on Language Teaching and the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Mobile, Alabama, USA Contact: Lee Bradley, Executive Director, SCOLT, Valdosta State University, Valtosta, GA 31698. Tel: +1 912 333 7358; Fax: +1 912 333 7389. Email: lbradley@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu 11. 29 February - 3 March '96 West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL-XV), Irvine, California, USA Contact: WCCFL-XV Committee, Dept of Linguistics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92717 USA. Email: wccfl@uci.edu MARCH 1996 *1. 1-3 March 96 Style Council Adelaide 96, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Contact: Maureen Leslie, Dictionary Research Centre, Macquarie University, New South Wales, 2109 Australia. Tel: +61 2 850 9800; Fax: +61 2 888 2984. 2. 6-23 March '96 9th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York City, New York, USA Contact: Eva Fernandez, Program in Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Centre, 33 West 42nd St, New York, NY 10036. Email: lnggc@cunyvm.cuny.edu 3. 8-10 March '96 Annual Conference on Language Education for Asian and Pacific Americans in Higher Education, San Francisco, California, USA Contact: Dr Melanie Hahn. Tel +1 510 642 3075. Email: melhahn@uclink2.berkeley.edu. Web: http://garnet.berkeley.edu/~asianam 4. 12-14 March '96 Annual Meeting of the Institut fuer deutsche Sprache (IDS), Varietaeten des Deutschen, Mannheim, Germany Contact: Dr Annette Trabold, IDS, R5/6-13/ D-68161 Mannheim, Germany. Tel: +49 621 1581-0; Fax: +49 1581-200. Email: trabold@ids-mannheim.de. Web: http://www.ids-mannheim.de/meeting96.html 5. 13-16 March '96 7th International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Contact: SITE96/AACE, PO Box 2966, Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA. Tel: +1 804 973 3987; Fax: +1 804 978 7449. Email: aace@virginia.edu 6. 14-16 March '96 GURT'96 - Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1996: Linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation - current trends and future prospects, Washington, DC USA Registration Deadline: 9 February 1996 Contact: Coordinator, GURT96, Georgetown University, International Language Programs and Research, 306-U International Centre, Washington, DC 20057-1045, USA. Tel: +1 202 687 5726; Fax: +1 202 687 0699. Email: gurt@guvax.georgetown.edu. Web: http://www.georgetown.edu/conferences/gurt96/gurt96.html 7. 15-16 March '96 Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, College Station, Texas Contact: Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Dept. of English, University of Memphis, Memphis TN 38152. For guidelines contact Joan Wetherly, Tel: +1 901 678 4582. Email: mjweatherly@cc.memphis.edu *8. 16 March 96 One Day Workshop on the Data of Linguistics: From Corpora to Intuitions and Back Again, Manchester, UK Deadline for abstracts: 2 February 1996 Contact: Paul Rowlett, European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT, Greater Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 745 5990; Fax: +44 161 745 5335. Email: p.a.rowlett@mod-lang.salford.ac.uk 9. 17-20 March '96 6th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK VI), De zeeuwse Stromen, The Netherlands Contact: Peter van Emde Boas, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, De Uithof, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 30 534 117; Fax: +31 30 513 791. Email: peter@ffwi.uva.nl OR jj@cs.ruu.nl 10. 17-20 March '96 The Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork Conference on Fresh Dialect Data, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Contact: The Yuen Ren Society, Attn: David Prager Branner, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Box 353521, Seattle, WA 98195-3521 USA. Web: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/Suggestions.html 11. 17-20 March '96 Panel on Chinese Dialect Comparison and Classification at the 206th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Contact: The Yuen Ren Society, ATTN: David Prager Branner, Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, Box 353251, Seattle, WA 98193-5215 USA. Email: yuenren@u.washington.edu *12. 18 March 96 Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguist Ideas: One day Colloquium, London, UK Contact: Dr Mark Atherton, General Secretary of the Henry Sweet Society, Dept. of English, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. 13. 20-23 March '96 First ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Contact: Linda Hill, Registration Chair. Email: lhill@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov Web: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL96/ *14. 23 March 96 Workshop on the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines - Application to Building Digital Libraries, Held in conjunction with the First ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (above), Bethesda Maryland, USA Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 96 Contact: Nancy Ide; Vassar College. Email: ide@cs.vassar.edu *15. 21-23 March '96 (Revised Dates) "Language Legislation": An International Conference, Urbana Champagne, Illinois, USA Contact: Douglas A. Kibbee, Language Legislation Conference, Dept. of French, University of Illinois, 2090 Foreign Languages Building/MC-158, Urbana IL 61801, USA. Tel: +1 217 244 2223. Email: dkibbee@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 16. 21-23 March '96 10th Annual International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, and a Parasession on Pragmatics in the Language Classroom, Urbana-Champagne, Illinois, USA Contact: Lawrence F. Bouton, Conference Coordinator, Division of English as an International Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, 3070 Foreign Languages Building, 707 South Matthews Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801 USA. Tel: +1 217 333 1506; Fax: +1 217 244 3050. Email: larbout@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu 17. 21-23 March '96 Specifiers. York, UK Contact: Organising Committee, Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK. Tel: +44 1904 432 650; Fax: +44 1904 432 652. Email: lang7@tower.york.ac.uk. Web: http://www.york.ac.uk/~lang7/ 18. 21-23 March '96 9th Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York City, USA Contact: Eva Fernandez, Program in Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Centre, 33 West 42nd Street, New York NY 10036. Email: lnggc@cunyvm.cuny.edu (marked "subject: CUNY Conference Abstract") 19. 23-26 March '96 American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA Contact: AAAL 1996 program Committee, 7630 West 145th Street, Suite 202, Apple Valley, MN 55124-7533, USA. Fax: +1 612 891 1800. Email: (Sally Jacoby), ihw1051@mvs.oac.ucla.edu 20. 24-25 March '96 Transition conference: Pathways. Facilitating the transition of students with disabilities, impairments, and special learning needs from school to post school options and adult life, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Contact: Ms Rose Keogh, School Transition Officer, Goulbourn North-Eastern Region, Fax: +61 57 625 276. Email: rosek@www.netx.net.au 21. 25-27 March '96 AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Implicature: Computational Approaches to Interpreting and Generating Conversational Implicature. Stanford, California, USA Contact: AAAI Spring Symposium, Computer Science Dept, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA. Email: Nancy Green (Co-Chair), nancy.green@cs.cmu.edu. Web: http://www.isp.pitt.edu/implicature *22. 25-27 March 96 2nd Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for NLP, Tokyo, Japan Contact: Email: nlp-pub@pluto.ai.kyutech.ac.jp Web: http://www.kyutech.ac.jp/nlp/guide/nenji.html 23. 25-29 March '96 RC25 (Research Committee on Sociolinguistics) & the Social Sciences Research Council of the University of Evora: The Linguistic Construction of Social and Personal Identity. Evora, Portugal Contact: Sandi Michele de Oliviera, Comissao Organizadora do Congresso da RC 25, Dept. of Linguistics and Literatures, University of Evora, Larto dos Colegiais, 7001 Evora Codex, Portugal. Tel: +351 66 744 675; Fax: +351 66 742 597. Email: cidehus@evunix.uevora.pt 24. 26-30 March '96 TESOL '96: The Art of TESOL, 30th Annual Convention and Exposition of the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA Contact: TESOL, Inc., 1600 Cameron Street, Suite 300, Alexandria, VA 22314-2751 USA. Tel: +1 703 836 0774; Fax: +1 703 836 7864. Email: tesol@tesol.edu 25. 27-29 March '96 6th Colloquium on Generative Grammar, Valencia, Spain Contact: Colloquium Secretariat, 6cGG, Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat de Valencia, Facultat de Filologia, Avda. Blasco Ibanez 28, E-46010 Valencia, Spain. Fax: +34 6 386 24 55 *26. 28-30 March '96 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXVI, Mexico City, Mexico Contact: Comite organizador del LSRL XXVI, Departamento de Filosofia, DCSH, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Michoacan y la Purisima s/n, 09340 Mexico, DF, Mexico. Email: lsrl@xanum.uam.mx 27. 29 March '96 Keio Workshop on Relevance Theory, Keio University, Mita, Tokyo, Japan Contact: Prof. Yuji Nishiyama, Institute of Cultural & Linguistic Studies, Keio University, 2- 15-45, Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108 Japan. Tel: +81 3 3453-4511 ext 3581/2371; Fax: +81 3453-6365. Email: cxq03747@niftyserve.or.jp OR yujinisi@sfc.keio.ac.jp 28. 29-30 March '96 2nd Annual Macarthur Interpreting and Translation Conference, Milperra, New South Wales, Australia Deadline for Abstracts: 15 December 1995 Contact: Isabel Pena, Conference Secretary, Faculty of Education, UWS Macarthur, PO Box 555, Campbelltown, New South Wales, 2560 Australia. email: i.pena@uws.edu.au *29. 29-31 March 96 Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Native American Languages, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Deadline for Abstracts: 7 February 96 Contact: Syntax Workshop, c/0 Charlotte Reinholtz, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada. Email: reinhol@ccu.umanitoba.ca 30. 30-31 March '96 Northwest Linguistics Conference 1996 (NWLC96), Seattle, Washington, USA Contact: University of Washington, Dept. of Linguistics, Box #354340, ATTN: NWLC96 Committee, Seattle, WA 98195-4340. APRIL 1996 1. 1-2 April '96 AISB-96 Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, Brighton, England Contact: Alison White, ASIB96 Local Organisation Chair, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK. Tel: +44 1273 678 488; Fax: +44 1273 671 320. Email: alisonw@cogs.susx.ac.uk. Web: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/asib/asib96/cfw.html 2. 1-4 April '96 Conference on Evolution of Human Language, Edinburgh, Scotland Contact: Prof. James R. Hurford, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, Adam Ferguson Building, 40 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LL, Scotland, UK. Email: jim@ling.ed.ac.uk *3. 2-4 April 96 Dixiemes Journees de Linguistique, Appel de Communication, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada Contact: Robert Vezina, President du comite organisateur, Journees de linguistique, Dept. de langues et linguistique, Universite Laval, Quebec, G1K 7P4, Canada. Email: tlfq@vm1.ulaval.ca 4 11-12 April '96 ASSETS'96: 2nd ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, Vancouver, BC, Canada Contact: glinert@cs.rip.edu. Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/assets 5 11-13 April '96 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Multi-lingual Computing, Cambridge, UK Contact: Dr Ahmad Ubaydii, Convenor, Centre of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Camridge CB3 9DA, UK. Tel: +44 223 334 749; Fax: +44 223 335 110. Email: au100@cam.ac.uk 6. 11-13 April '96 32nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society: Is Linguistics an Empirical Science? Theory and Data in Linguistics. Chicago, Illinois, USA Abstract Deadline: 15 February 1996 Contact: CLS, 1010 E. 59th St., Chicago IL 60615, USA. Email: cls@sapir.uchicago.edu 7. l1-13 April '96 Spring Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Sussex, England Deadline for Abstracts: 9 January 1996 Contact: Prof. G. Corbett, Linguistic and International Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH, UK. Email: g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk. Web: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LAGB 8. 11-14 April '96 Cortona Phonology Meeting III, Cortona Italy Contact: Piero Marco Bertinetto, Scuola Normale Superiore, p. dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy. Tel: +39 50 509 111; Fax: +39 50 563 513. Email: bertinet@sns.it 9. 11-14 April '96 The XVI Poetics and Linguistics Association Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland Contact: The Organising Committee, PALA 1996, School of English, Queens' University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK. Tel: +44 1232 335 103; Fax: +44 1232 314 615. Email: psompson@clio.arts.qub.ac.uk 10. 12-14 April '96 Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language II, Buffalo, New York, USA Contact: CSDL, Dept. of Linguistics, 684 Baldy Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 14260-1030 11. 12-14 April '96 41st Annual Meeting of the International Linguistic Association, New York, New York, USA Contact: Franklin E. Horowitz, ILA Conference Chair, Box 66, Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10022. Tel: +1 212 678 3353; Fax: +1 212 678 4048. *12. 12-14 April 96 SALSA: Symposium about Language and Society, Austin, Texas, USA Contact: SALSA, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. Email: salsa@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu. Web: http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/anthro/salsa.html 13. 15-17 April '96 5th Annual Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Contact: Mary C. Guirsch, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Information Science Research Institute, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454021, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4021 USA. Tel: +1 702 895 4571; Fax: +1 702 895 1183. Email: sdair@isri.unlv.edu *14. 17-19 April 96 The Elite in Latin America; History, Anthropology and Politics: a workshop to be held at the Xxth International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico Contact: Joel Outtes, Oriel College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4EW, UK. Fax: +44 1865 271 929. Email: outtes@vax.ox.ac.uk. Web: http://info.pitt.edu/lasa 15. 18-20 April '96 Conference on Functionalism & Formalisms in Linguistics, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Contact: Michael Noonan. Email: noonan@csd.uwm.edu OR Edith Moravcsik. Email: edith@csd.uwm.edu 16. 18-20 April '96 49th Annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, USA Contact: Greg Stump, Dept. of English, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506- 0027, USA. Email: eng101@ukcc.uky.edu. To receive advanced information, subscribe to the KFLC list by sending the one-line message (substituting your name for). sub KFLC-L to listserv@ukcc.uky.edu 17. 19 April '96 4th European Conference on Computer Vision: Workshop on Conceptual Descriptions from images, Cambridge, UK Submission deadline: 20 January '96 Contact: Hilary Buxton, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK. Tel: +44 1273 678 569; Fax: +44 1273 671 320. Email: hilaryb@cogs.susx.ac.uk. Web: http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/ *18. 19-20 April 96 Annual Meeting of the New England Slavic Association, Worcester, MA, USA. Contact: James T. Flynn, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA 01610, USA. Tel: +1 508 793 3449; Fax: +1 508 793 3030. Email: flynn@hcacad.holycross.edu *19. 19-20 April 96 6th Colloquium on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Romance Linguistics, Austin, Texas, USA Deadline for Abstracts: 1 March 96 Contact: Colloquium Committee, Attn: Matt Borden, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, 110 Batts Hall, Uni. of Texas at Austin, Austin TX 78712. Email: mateo@mail.utexas.edu 20. 19-21 April '96 8th Annual Student Conference in Linguistics SCIL VIII 1996, New York, NY, USA Contact: SCIL Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, New York University, 710 Broadway, New York NY 10003, USA. Tel: +1 212 998 7950. Email: barrett@cs.nyu.edu 21. 19-21 April '96 1996 Berkeley Women and Language Conference: Gender and Belief Systems, Berkeley, California, USA Contact: Berkeley Women and Language Group, 2337 Dwinelle Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. Tel: +1 510 642 2757. Fax: +1 510 643 5688. Email: bwlg@garnet.berkeley.edu. Web: http://trill.berkeley.edu/users/sutton/BWLG.html 22. 22-26 April '96 Womens' World 7th International Interdisciplinary Congress of Women, Adelaide, South Australia Contact: Festival Conventions, PO Box 986, Norwood SA 6067 Australia *23. 24-26 April 96 10th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece Deadline for Abstracts: 31 March 96 Contact: Dept of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, School of English, Aristotle University, 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece. Tel: +31 997 457; Fax: +31 997 432. Email: panagopoulos@olymp.ccf.auth.gr 24. 26-28 April '96 SALT VI: Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 6th Annual Meeting, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Contact: SALT VI Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, Rutgers University, 18 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA. Email: salt6@zodiac.rutgers, ecu 25. 26-28 April '96 GLAC2: 2ND Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Contact: GLAC Committee, German Dept., 818 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706-1558 USA. Tel: +1 608 262 2192; Fax: +1 608 262- 7949. Email: rhowell@macc.wisc.edu *26. (Dates to be finalised) DIALOGUE96: International Conference on Computational Linguistics and its Applications, Moscow, Russia Contact: DIALOGUE96, Serge Sharoff, Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence, PO Box 111, Moscow, 103001, Russia. Tel: +7 95 152 0561. Email: dialog@artint.msk.su MAY 1996 *1. 2-4 May 96 II International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics, Tarragona, Spain Final Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 96 Contact: Email: cmv@astor.urv.es *2. 4-9 May 96 DIALOGUE96: International conference on computational linguistics and its applications, Puschino, Russia Contact: DIALOGUE96, Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence, PO Box 111, Moscow, 103001, Russia. Express mail address: Serge Sharoff, Russian Institute of Artificial Intelligence, room 331, 9 Chernyakhovsky St., Moscow 103001, Russia. Tel: +7 95 152 0561. Email: dialog@artint.msk.su 3. 9-11 May '96 Developing Discourse-Awareness in Cross-Cultural Contexts, Popowo, Warsaw, Poland Contact: Anna Duszak (Chair of organising committee), Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, Browarna 8/10, 00-311 Poland. Fax: +48 22 471952 or +48 22 261391. Email: duszak@plearn.bitnet 4. 9-11 May '96 International Translation Studies Conference, Dublin, Ireland Contact: Web: http://www.dcu.ie/collegeinfo/faculties /humanities/languages/conference/conf96.html *5. 11-13 May 95 SEALS VI: Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, Eugene, Oregon, USA Deadline for Abstracts: 6 February 96 Contact: Kathie Carpenter, University of Oregon. Tel: +1 541 346 3989. Email: kathiec@oregon.uoregon.edu *6. 13-14 May 96 ACFAS 1996: Grammaire et Variation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Contact: Colloque Grammaire et Variation, a/s Anna-Maria DiSciullo, Departement de linguistique, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec HsC 3P8 Canada. Bureau: +1 514 987 3519; Email: r13205@er.uqam.ca *7. 15-19 May 96 (preliminary) Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Workshop on Lexical Representation, Budapest, Hungary Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 96 Contact: Agnes Bende-Farkas. Fax: +36 1 212 2050. Email: bfarkas@nytud.hu 8. 17-18 May '96 The Notion of Person: A conference to honor the work of Alton L. Becker, Eugene, Oregon, USA Contact: Charley Basham, email: ffcsb@aurora.alaska.edu 9. 17-19 May '96 5th Annual Workshop on Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics, Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA Deadline for Abstracts: 16 February '96 Contact: Steven Franks, Dept. of Slavic Languages, 502 Ballantine Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 74705 USA. Tel: +1 812 855 2624. Fax: +1 812 855 2107. Email: fasl5@indiana.edu *10. 17-19 May 96 Formal Linguistics Society of the Midwest: FLSM VII, Columbus, Ohio, USA Deadline for Abstracts: 21 February 96 Contact: FLSM Committee, Dept. of Linguistics, 222 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Avenue, Columbus OH 43210 USA. Email: flsm96@ling.ohio-state.edu Web: http://ling.ohio-state.edu/ *11. 20-21 May 96 3rd International Conference on HPSG, Marseille, France Deadline for Abstracts: 3 February 1996 Contact: Daniele Godard (Conference HPSG), Universite Paris 7, UFRL, Tour Centrale, 9 etage, Case 7003, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris-Cedex 05. Email: daniele.godard@linguist.jussieu.fr *12. 22-26 May 96 Colloque: Identite Culturelle en Amerique Francaise - Heritage, Evolution, et Defis au Renouvellement, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA Final deadline for abstracts: 2 February 96 Contact: Jim Bishop, Centre Franco-Americain, 164 Avenue du College, Orono, Maine 04473 USA. Tel: +1 207 581 3791; Fax: +1 207 581 1455. Email: tijean10@aol.com 13. 23-25 May '96 27th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, London, Ontario, Canada (REVISED DATE) Deadline for abstracts: 15 February '96 Contact: Stephen Carey, Director, Modern Languages, Dept. of Language Education, University of British Columbia, Ponderosa E, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z5, Canada. Tel: +1 604 822 6954 or +1 604 822 3890; Fax: +1 604 822 3154. Email: careys@unixg.ubc.ca Web: http://www.uwo.ca/french/acla.html 14. 24-26 May '96 International Symposium "Linguistics and Poetics" in honour of Roman Jakobson, Sofia, Bulgaria Contact: Iskra Likomanova, Institute for Bulgarian Language, Shipchenski Prohod 52, bl. 17, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria. Fax: (Prof. Lili Lashkova), +359 2 463 589. Email: iskra@bgearn.bitnet OR maxstam@bgearn.bitnet 15. 27 May - 1 June '96 CALICO '96: The Annual Symposium of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium. "Distance Learning", Alberquerque, New Mexico, USA Contact: CALICO, Duke University, 014 Language Centre, Box 90267, Durham, NC 27708-0267 USA. Tel: +1 919 660 3180. Fax: +1 919 660 3183. Email: calico@acpub.duke.edu. Web: http://www.agoralang.com:2410/calico.html (also for registration.) 16. 28-29 May '96 11th Conference of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, St Catherine's, Ontario, Canada Deadline for Abstracts: 31 March '96 Contact: Kaarina Kailo, Secretary, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University, 1455 Blvd. de Maisonneuve W., Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada. Fax: +1 514 848 2371. Email: (Sheila Embleton) embleton@vm1.yorku.ca 17. 31 May 2 June '96 6th EUROSLA Conference. The European Second Language Association in association with ANELA 9The Dutch Association for Applied Linguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Deadline for Abstracts: 1 March '96 Contact: Eric Kellerman, Dept. of English, University of Nijmegen, Erasmusplein 1, 6525 HT Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 24 361 6147; Fax: +31 24 361 5939. Email: u260005@vm.uci.kun.nl JUNE 1996 1. (Dates to be announced) Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, France Contact: Jacqueline Lecarme, CNRS-2LC, 1361, route des Lucioles, 06560 Sophia Antipolis, France. Tel: +33 92 96 73 95; Fax: +33 93 65 29 27. Email: jl@llaor.unice.fr *2. 1-5 June 96 XLI SALALM (Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials) Conference, New York City, USA Contact: Peter A. Stern, President SALALM, Alexander Library; Rutgers University, 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Tel: +1 908 932 8270; Fax: +1 908 932 1101. Email: pstern@zodiac.rutgers, edu *3. 4-7 June '96 International Conference on Chinese Computing '96 (ICCC'96): The Latest Technological Advancement and Applications, Singapore Submission deadline: 15 December 1995 Contact: Prof. Dong Zheng Dong, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore, Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Kent Ridge, Singapore 0511. Fax: +65 774 4998. Email: zddong@iss.nus.sg *4. 7-8 June 96 Dixieme Colloque International du CerLiCo (Cercle Linguistique du Centre et de lOuest), Tours, France Deadline for Abstracts: 20 February 96 Contact: Gerard Delechelle, Colloque Cerlico, U.F.R. Anglais & LEA, Universite de Tours, 3, rue des Tanneurs, 37041 Tours cedex, France. Tel: +33 47 36 65 65; Fax: +33 47 36 66 76. *5. 8-11 June '96 CLIM-96: Student Conference in Computational Linguistics in Montreal, Montreal, Canada Contact: CLIM-96, email: clim@iro.umontreal.ca 6. 17-22 June '96 ED-MEDIA'96 - World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, with the 1st Mini-Conference: Ed-Telecom 96. World Conference on Educational Telecommunications, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Contact: Ed-Media 96/AACE, PO Box 2966, Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA. Tel: +1 804 973 3987; Fax: +1 804 978 7449. Email: AACE@virginia.edu 7. 22-24 June '96 International Conference on Language Rights, Hong Kong Contact: Phil Benson, Dept of English, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Lom, Hong Kong. Tel: +852 2766 7535; Fax: +852 2333 6569. Email: egphil@polyu.edu.hk *8. 23-28 June '96 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-96), Santa Cruz, California, USA Contact: Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University, Computer Science, New York, NY 10027 USA. Tel/Fax: +1 914 478 1802. Email: acl@cs.columbia.edu. Web: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl 9. 24-25 June '96 Symposium on Referential Properties of Chinese Noun Phrases, Hong Kong Contact: Gu Yang, Dept of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong. Fax: +852 2603 5270. Email: yanggu@cuhk.hk *10. 24 June - 19 July '96 The 1996 NFLRC Summer Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Incorporating: Chinese Net Workshop (24-28 June) Pedagogy of the Internet Workshop (July 1-5) Symposium on New Technologies and LCTLS (8-12 July) Spiderware Workshop (15-19 July) Contact: National Foreign Language Resource Centre, University of Hawai'i, East-West Road, Bldg 1, Room 6A, Honolulu HI 96822. Tel: +1 808 956 9424; Fax: +1 808 956 5983. Email: nflrc@hawaii.edu. Web: http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/nflrc 11. 25-29 June '96 Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Association for Computers and the Humanities: Joint International Conference ALLC-ACH '96, Bergen, Norway. Contact: Espen Ore Local Organizer, ALLC-ACH'96, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Harald Haarfagresgt. 31, N-5007 Bergen, Norway. Tel: +47 55 21 28 65; Fax: +47 55 32 26 56. Email: espen.ore@hd.uib.no. Web: http://www.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96.html 12. 26-29 June '96 7th Annual Problem Solving Across the Curriculum Conference, Rochester, New York, USA. Contact: Send email to: majordomo@cs.oswego.edu With the simple message subscribe psac As the sole contents of the body of the email. Web: http://www.cs.oswego.edu/misc/psac *13. 26-29 June '96 Language Analysis and Description: Applications in Language Teaching. International Conference jointly sponsored by Lingnan College and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Abstract Deadline: 31 December 1995 Contact: The Registration Coordinator, Language Centre, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. Tel: +852 235 87880; Fax: +852 233 50249. Email: lcconf96@usthk.ust.hk *14. 26-29 June 96 First European Congress of Latin-Americanists: Latin America - realities and perspectives, Salamanca, Spain Contact: Manuel Alcantara Saez, Instituto de Estudios de Iberocmerica y Portugal. Fax: +34 23 294 637. Email: iberoame@gugu.usal.es 15. 27-29 June '96 5th International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan Contact: ICCL-5 Organising Committee, Graduate School of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-chu 300 Taiwan. Tel: +886 35 718 615; Fax: +886 35 725 994. Email: iccl5@ling.nthu.edu.tw *16. 27-29 June '96 3rd Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis, France Contact: 3rd Conference on Afro-Asiatic Languages Selection Committee, c/- Jacqueline Lecarme, CNRS-2LC, 1361, route des Lucioles, 06560 Sophia Antipolis, France. Tel: +33 92 96 73 95; Fax: +33 93 65 29 27. Email: jl@llaor.unice.fr *17. 28-30 June '96 What children have to say about linguistic theories: an acquisition symposium at Utrecht University, The Netherlands Contact: WCHTSALT, OTS/Utrecht University, Trans 10, 3512-JK Utretcht, The Netherlands. Email: wchtsalt@let.ruu.nl JULY 1996 *1. 1-3 July '96 Digital Resources for the Humanities, Oxford, UK Contact: DRH96 Conference, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK. Email: drh96@sable.ox.ac.uk. Web: http://info.ox.ac.uk/~drh96/ *2. 1-3 July 96 OTS Phonology Workshop: Prosodic and Phrasal Phonology, Utrecht, The Netherlands Deadline for Abstracts: 1 April 96 Contact Rene Kager, Onderzoeksinstituut voor Taal en Spraak, Universiteit Utrecht, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 30 253 6653. Email: kager@let.ruu.nl 3. 1-4 July '96 4th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Colchester, UK Contact: David Rose, Essex '96, British Household Panel Study, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ England. Tel: +44 1206 872 655; Fax: +44 1206 873 151. Email: conf96@essex.ac.uk 4. 1-12 July '96 The 3rd Australian Linguistics Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Contact: Dept of Linguistics, RSPAS, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200. Tel: +61 6 249 2279. For registration and accommodation: Australian Convention & Travel Services (ACTS), Unit 4, 24-26 Mort St, Braddon, ACT 2601. 5. 1-4 July '96 Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland Contact: Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Tampere, Dept. of Sociology and Social Psychology, PO Box 607, FIN-33101, Tampere, Finland. Tel: +358 31 215 6949; Fax: +358 31 215 6080. Email: iscsmail@uta.fi. World Wide Web: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sosio/culture/ *6. 4-7 July '96 International Sign Linguistics Association, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Preceding the Deaf History International 1996 Conference) Contact: Bookings Coordinator, ISLA (A/P) '96 Conference Committee, National Institute for Deaf Studies, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia. Tel: +61 3 4799 2283; Fax: +61 3 4799 3074. email: r.adam@latrobe.edu.au 7. 4-9 July '96 5th International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, Mexico Contact: IPrA Secretariat, PO Box 33 (Antwerp 11), B-2018 Antwerp, Belgium. Tel & fax: +32 3 230 55 74. Email: ipra@uia.ua.ac.be *8. 5 July 96 BCN Workshop on Conflicting Constraints, Groningen University, The Netherlands Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 96 Contact: Dicky Gilbers & Helen de Hoop, Dept. of Linguistics, BCN, University of Groningen, Oude Kijk in t Jatstraat 26, 9712 EK Groningen, The Netherlands. Fax: +31 50 363 6855; email: gilbers@let.rug.nl OR dehoop@let.rug.nl 9. 6-8 July '96 5th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhonV), Evanston, Illinois, USA Contact: Michael Broe, Northwestern University. Email: mbroe@nwu.edu 10. 7-10 July '96 EdTech'96: Learning Technologies - prospects and pathways (Australian Society for Educational Technology), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Contact: Jo Winship, Information Officer, Computing Centre, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6001 Australia. Tel: +61 9 351 2897. Email: jo.winship@info.curtin.edu.au. Web: http://www.meu.unimelb.edu.au/EDTECH96/ 11 8-10 July '96 Lukasiewicz in Dublin, Dublin Ireland Contact: Dr Maria Bachramian, Dept of Philosophy, University College, Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 706 8125; Fax: +352 1 269 3469. Email: baghram@macollamh.ucd.ie *12. 8-11 July '96 10th International Conference on Korean Linguistics, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Contact: Prof. David J. Silva. Email: david@uta.edu 13. 9-12 July '96 16th World Congress on Reading: Literacy in a Changing World - Choices and Challenges, Prague, Czech Republic Contact: World Congress Program Committee, International Reading Association, 800 Barksdale Road, PO Box 8139, Newark, DE 19714-9139, USA. Fax: +1 302 731 1057. 14. 9-15 July '96 Logic Colloquium '96: European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic, San Sebastian, Spain Contact: Prof. Jesus M. Larrazabal, Logic Colloquium'96, ILCLI, Univ. of the Basque Country, Apdo. 220. 20080 Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain. Tel: +34 43 320 940; Fax: +34 43 293677. Email: ilcli@sf.ehu.es *15. 11-15 July 96 The 1996 Langoage Origins Society Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Deadline for Abstracts: 15 April 96 Contact: A. Charles Catania, Dept of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore MD 21228-5398 USA. Tel: +1 410 455 2426/2973; Fax: +1 410 455-1055. *16. 12-15 July '96 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, La Jolla, California, USA Contact: Dr Garrison W. Cottrell, Computer Science and Engineering 0114, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0114 USA. Email: gary@cs.ucsd.edu. Web: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/events/cogsci96/ 17. 15-19 July '96 23rd International Systemic Functional Congress, Sydney. Contact: Diana Slade, Centre for Language and Literacy, School of Adult and Language Education, Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney. PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007. Tel: +61 2 330 3853; Fax: +61 2 330 3939. Email: isfc.syd@uts.edu.au 18. 17-18 July '96 DAARC96: Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, Lancaster UK Contact: Simon Botley, Dept of Linguistics and MEL, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA14YT. Tel: +44 1524 65201 ext 3111/3212. Fax: +44 1524 843 085. Email: spb@comp.lancs.ac.uk 19. 19-21 July '96 NLLIA Language EXPO '96: Brisbane Conventional and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Contact: Language Expo Management, Fauth Royale and Associates P/L, PO Box 895, North Sydney NSW 2060 Australia. Tel: +61 2 954 4544; Fax: +61 2 954 4964. *20. 21 July - 2 August '96 Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modelling, Oxford, UK Contact: Mrs Sue King, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. Tel: +44 1865 271 353. Email: susan.king@psy.oxford.ac.uk Web: http://cogsci1.psych.ox.ac.uk/summer-school/ *21. 22-27 July '96 The Asociacio'n de Lingui'stica y Filolog'ia de la Ame'rica Latina (ALFAL): XI International Congress, Canary Islands Contact: Carmen Silva-Corvala'n. Fax: + 1 310 459 4173. Email: silva@vm.usc.edu *22. 31 July - 3 August '96 18th Annual Language Testing Research Colloquium, Tampere, Finland Contact: Viljo Hohonen, Program Chair, Dept. of Teacher Education, University of Tampere, Box 607 FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland. Tel: +358 31 215 6847; Fax: +358 31 215 7537. Email: kohonen@uta.fi OR Ari Huhta: huhta@cc.jyu.fi AUGUST 1996 1. 2-3 August '96 Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics 2, Sendai, Japan Deadline for Abstracts: 6 April '96 Contact: FAJL2 Program Committee, c/0 Masatoshi Koizumi, Dept of English, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, 980 Japan. Email: koizumi@athena.gs.tohoku-gakuin.ac.jp 2. 2-4 August '96 4th Workship on Very Large Corpora (WVLC-4). Copenhagen, Denmark (in conjunction with COLING 96). Submission deadline: 23 February '96 Contact: Eva Ejerhed, Dept of Linguistics, University of Umea, S 90187 Umea, Sweden. Email: WVLC-4@ling.umu.se. Web: http://www.ling.umu.se/SIGDAT/WVLC-4.html *3. 4-8 August 96 AAAI96 Workshop: Detecting, Repairing and Preventing Human-Machine Miscommunication, Portland, Oregon, USA Deadline for Abstracts: 18 March 96 Contact: Susan McRoy, ATTN: AAAI MNM Workshop, Computer Science, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 3200 North Cramer St, EMS Room 503, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA. Tel: +1 414 229-6695; Fax: +1 414 229 6958. Email: mcroy@cs.uwm.edu Web: http://www.cs.uwm.edu/faculty/mcroy/mnm.html 3. 4-9 August '96 11th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA), Jyvaskyla, Finland Contact: Prof Kari Sajavaara, Dept of English, University of Jyvaskyla, SF-40100, Jyvaskyla, Finland 4. 5-9 August '96 International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Copenhagen, Denmark Deadline for submissions: 15 December '95 Contact: Prof. Jin-ichi Tsujii. Dept of Information Science, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, 113 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo Japan. Fax: +81 3 3818-1073. Email: coling96@nttkb.ntt.jp. For general information email: coling96@cst.ku.dk 5. 9-12 August '96 Teaching and Language Corpora (TALC96), Lancaster, UK Deadline for abstracts: 31 January '96 Contact: TALC96, Dept. of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, GB-Lancaster LA1 4YT. Email: mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk *6. 12 August 96 ECAI-96: Argumentation for Agent Communication, Budapest, Hungary Deadline for Abstracts: 1 March 96 Contact: Ingrid Zukerman, Dept. of Computer Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9905 5202. Fax: +61 3 9905 5146. Email: ingrid@cs.monash.edu.au 7. 12-23 August '96 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI96), Prague, Czech Republic Contact: (language & logic: Patrick Blackburn; email: patrick@coli.uni-sb.de); (language: Anne Abeille; email anne.abeille@linguist.jussieu.fr); (language and computation: Ted Briscoe; email: ejb@linc.cis.upenn.edu) 8. 12-16 August '96 ECAI-96: 12th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Budapest, Hungary Paper Submission Deadline: 10 January 1996 Contact: Dr Elisabeth Andre, Workshop Coordinator, German Research Centre for AI, DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany. Tel: +49 681 302 5267; Fax: +49 681 302 5341. Email: ecai-96-ws@dfki.uni-sb.de Web: http://wwwis.cs.utwente.nl:8080/mars/ECAI96.html 9. 13-18 August '96 7th Euralex International Congress: European Association for Lexicography, Gothenburg, Sweden Contact: Congress Organisers, EURALEX '96, University of Gothenburg, Dept. of Swedish, Section of lexicology, 412 98 Gothenburg, Sweden. Fax: +46 31773 44 55 (ATTN: EURALEX). Email: gellerstam@svenska.gu.se 10. 19-22 August '96 4th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS'96), Sydney, Australia Contact: ICCS'96, Dept. of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide 5005 SA, Australia. Tel: +61 8 303 4483; Fax: +61 8 303 4366. Email: iccs96@cs.adelaide.edu.au. Web: http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/~iccs96 11. 20-22 August '96 LP'96: Typology - Prototypes, items orderings and universals, Prague, Czech Republic Contact: Bohumil Palek, Dept of Linguistics & Finno-Ugric Studies, 2, Jan Palach Sq., 11638 Prague 1, Czech Republic. Email: palek@ruk.cuni.cz OR palek@ff.cuni.cz *12. 24-26 August 96 Perspectives on Negation. Sponsored by the NWO Pionier Program, Groningen, The Netherlands Deadline for Abstracts: 1 May 96 Contact: Pionier Conference on Negation, c/o Jack Hoeksema, Faculty of Letters, University of Groningen, PO Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands. Email: hoeksema@let.rug.nl OR sanchezv@let.rug.nl OR rullmann@let.rug.nl OR vdwouden@let.rug.nl. Web: http://www.let.rug.nl/Linguistics/ 13. 25-27 August '96 LFG Colloquium and Workshops, Grenoble, France Deadline for Abstracts: 1 February '96 Contact: Tracy Holloway King, Linguistics Dept, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305- 2150 USA. Email: thking@csli.stanford.edu *14. 29-31 August 96 EUROCALL 06, Szombathely, Hungary Deadline for Abstracts: 28 February 96 Contact: Janos Kohn, BDTF-EECALL Centre, Berzenyi Ter 2, 9700 Szombathely, Hungary. Tel/Fax: +36 94 329 759 / +36 94 310 528 / +36 94 310 526. Email: eecall@bdtd.u.bdtf.hu SEPTEMBER 1996 1. 2-6 September '96 IFIP96: 14th World Computer Congress, Canberra Australia Contact: IFIP'96 Congress Secretariat, Australian Convention and Travel Services, GPO Box 2200, Canberra ACT 2601 Australia. Tel: +61 6 257 3299; Fax: +61 6 257 3256. Email: ifip96@acs.org.au. WWW: http://www.acs.org.au/ifip96.html 2. 5-7 September '96 Sociolinguistics Symposium 11: Sociolinguistics - New Interdisciplinarities, Cardiff, Wales, UK Contact: Jacqui Guendouzi, SS11, Centre for Language and Communication, University of Wales, Cardiff CF1 3XB Wales, UK. Tel: +44 1222 874 242; Fax: +44 1222 874 243. Email: ss11@cardiff.ac.uk 3. 5-7 September '96 2nd International Transferre Necesse Est: Conference on Current Trends in Translation Studies, Budapest, Hungary Contact: Dr Kinga Klaudy or Dr Andrea Papp, ELTE Faculty of Humanities, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Eotvos Lorand University. Tel: +36 1 266 8100/316. Fax: +36 1 266 1818.Email: pappa@oriris.elte.hu 4. 9-11 September '96 Language and Knowledge: The Unpacking of 'Text'. First of a series of biennial conferences on the topic of Language and Knowledge. Singapore Contact: Dr Sunita Anne Abraham, Conference Secretary, Dept. of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511. Tel: +65 772 3928; Fax: +65 773 2981. *5. 11-13 September 96 XII SEPLN Congress. Sociedad Espaqola Para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Seville, Spain Deadline for Abstracts: 6th May 96 Contact: Grupo de Investigacisn JULIETTA, Departamento de Lengua Inglesa, Facultad de Filologma, Universidad de Sevilla, Palos de la Frontera, s/n 41004, Sevilla, Spain. Fax: +34 5 455 1516. Email: sepln96@cica.ex *6. 15-17 September 96 COMPLEX96: 4th Conference on Computational Lexicography and Text Research, Budapest, Hungary Deadline for Abstracts: 30 March 96 Contact: Judit Pais, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest PO Box 19, H-1250, Hungary. Tel: +361 175 8011/155; Fax: +361 212 2050. Email: pais@nytud.hu *7. 16-18 September 96 ALT-C 96: Association for Learning Technology - 3rd Annual Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Deadline for paper proposals: 9 April 96 Contact: Mrs Shona ALT-C 96, Computer Centre, University of Strathclyde, 100 Cathedral Street, Glasgow G4 0LN, UK. Tel: +44 141 552-4400 ext 3083; Fax: +44 141 553 4100. Email: altc96@strath.ac.uk. Web: http://www.strath.ac.uk/alt-c/ *8. 16-18 September 96 5th International Congress of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association, Munich, Germany Deadline for Abstracts: May 96 (final dates forthcoming) Contact: EKN, c/0 Mrs Monika Zimmermann, Dachauer Str. 164, D-80992, Muenchen, Germany. Tel: +49 89 154 058; Fax: +49 89 156 781. Email: ue102al@sun1.lrz- muenchen.de *9. 16-20 September 96 Instituto da Lingua Galega: 1st International Congress of the Galician Language, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain Contact: Instituto da Lingua Galega, Praza da Universidade, Santiago de Compostela, A Corunna, Spain. Email: ilgsec@usc.es Web: http://www.usc.es/~ilgas/congreso.html *10. 18-20 September 96 International Symposium on the Interpretation of the Bible, on the occasion of the publication of the new Slovenian translation of the Bible, Ljubljana, Slovenia Contact: Presentation of the Bible, Organising Committee, Dolnicarjeva 1, SI-61000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Tel: +386 61 313 329. Fax: +386 61 133 0405. *11. 18-21 September 96 International Course on Computational Lexicography, Budapest, Hungary Contact: Judit Pais, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest PO Box 19, H-1250, Hungary. Tel: +361 175 8011/155; Fax: +361 212 2050. Email: pais@nytud.hu 12. 23-27 September '96 7th International Conference on Functional Grammar, Cordoba, Spain Contact: Kees Hengeveld, Dept of Spanish, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, NL- 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: kees.hengeveld@let.uva.nl 13. 25-27 September '96 Apple University Consortium Academic Conference '96: From Virtual to Reality, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Deadline for Abstracts: 16 February '96 Contact: Apple Computer Australia, 16 Rodborough Road, Frenchs Forest, NSW 2086 Australia. Tel: +61 2 452 8167; Fax: +61 2 452 8160. Email: ann_brownlow@qmgate.corp.apple.com 14. 30 September - 1 October 96 3rd IEEE Workshop on Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications, Basking Ridge, New Jersey, USA Abstract Deadline: 15 March 1996 Contact: Dr Murray Spiegel, Bellcore, 445 South Stree, Morristown NJ 07960 USA. Tel: +1 201 829 4519; Fax: +1 201 829 5963. Email: spiegel@bellcore.com Web: http://superbook.bellcore.com/IVTTA.html 15. 30 September - 2 October '96 European Conference on AI in Education (EuroAIED), Lisbon, Portugal Submission Deadline: 29 February '96 Contact: EuroAIED, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England. Web: http://www.cbl.leeds.ac.uk/conferences/EuroAIED OCTOBER 1996 1. 3-6 October '96 4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing ICSLP '96, Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA Contact: ICSLP96, Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, A.I. duPont Institute, PO Box 2690, Wilmington, DE 19899. Tel: +1 302 651 6830; Fax: +1 302 651 6834. Email: ICSLP-abstract@asel.udel.edu *2. 7-8 October 96 Workshop on the integration of gesture in language and speech (WIGLS), Newark, Delaware, USA (WIGLS is a satellite workshop of the 4th Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 96), being helon 3-4 October 96 in Philadelphia, PA). Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 96 Contact: Lynn Messing, WIGLS Chair, Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, Alfred I. duPont Institute, PO Box 269, Wilmington, Delaware 19899, USA. Email: messing@asel.udel.edu *2. 11-13 October 96 Georgetown Linguistics Society presents: Discourse as Mosaic: linguistic reproduction of identities and ideologies, Washington, DC USA Deadline for Abstracts: 18 March 96 Contact: GLS 1996, Georgetown University, Dept. of Linguistics, Box 571051, Washington, DC 20057-1051 USA. Tel: +1 202 687 6166. Email: gls@guvax.georgetown.edu 3. 16-19 October '96 WEB NET 96; World Conference of the Web Society, San Francisco, California, USA Contact: WebNet-96/AACE, PO Box 2966, Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA. Tel: +1 804 973 3987; Fax: +1 804 978 7449. Email: aace@virginia.edu. Web: http://AACE.virginia.edu/AACE *4. 17-19 October '96 (NEW DATES) 5th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Reseach, Montreal, Canada Contact: TISLR'96, McGill University, 1226 Pine Avenue West, Montreal, Quebec H4G 1A8, Canada. email: cxcc@musica.mcgill.ca *5. 20 October 96 7th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: An interdisciplinary Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (in conjunction with the 59th annual meeting of ASIS) Deadline for Submissions: 15 April 96 Contact: Paul Solomon, CB# 3360, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360, USA. Tel: +1 919 962 8068; Fax: +1 919 962 8071. Email: solomon@ils.unc.edu Web: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/www/asis/crwork.html 6. 22-24 October '96 International Sociolinguistic Conference: Sociolinguistic Problems in Various Regions of the World, Moscow, Russia Contact: Russian Academy of Sciences, 103009, Moscow K-9, Bolshio Kislovsky Per, 1/12, Institute of Linguistics of the RAS, International Conference Organising Committee (ATTN: Ms V.Yu.Michalchenko or Ms. N.G. Kolesnik). Tel: +7 095 290 46 11; Fax: +7 095 290 05 28. Email: socio@iling.msk.su 7. 25-28 October '96 SLRF'96: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries, Tuscon, Arizona, USA Contact: Abstract Committee, SLRF'96, c/0 Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), Modern Languages 347, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ 85721. Email: slrf96@ccit.arizona.edu *8. 29-30 October 96 Symposium on Estonian Prosody, Tallinn, Estonia Deadline for registration: 15 May 1996 Contact: Ilse Lehiste, Ohio State University, Dept. of Linguistics, 222 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210-1298 USA. Fax: +1 614 292 4273. Email: ilsele@ling.ohio-state.edu. OR jankel@kki.ee NOVEMBER 1996 *1. 1-3 November 96 8th International Phonology Meeting: Syllables!?, Vienna, Austria Deadline for Abstracts: 31 May 1996 Contact: John Rennison (Phonology Meeting), Institut f. Sprachwissenschaft, Berggasse 11, A-1090, Wien, Austria. Tel: +43 1 310 3886; Fax: +43 1 310 3886-23. Email: phon96@ling.univie.ac.at 2. 7-9 November '96 38th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Applied Linguistics Section: Electronic Literacy. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Contact: Carol L. Winkelmann, English Department, Xavier University, 3800 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45207-4446 USA. Fax: +1 513 745 1954. Email: winkelma@xavier.xu.edu *3. 7-9 November 96 American Dialect Society, MMLA: Current Trends in American Dialectology, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (in conjunction with the Midwest Modern Language Association - see above). Deadline for Abstracts: 25 March 96 Contact: Beth Lee Simon, Dept. of English and Linguistics, Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, USA. Email: simon@cvax.ipfw.indiana.edu *4. 10-12 November 96 2nd Congress of the Canadian Association for Mexican Studies (CAMS), Mexico City, Mexico Contact: Dr. Herman W. Konrad, CAMS Coordinator, Dept of Anthropology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada G2N 1N4. Tel: +1 403 220 6516; Fax: +1 403 284 5467. Email: hkonrad@acs.ucalgary.ca *5. 20-22 November 96 International conference on AUTONOMY 2000, The development of independence in language learning, Bangkok, Thailand Contact: Dr Metta Limpongsa, School of Liberal Arts, King Mongkuts Institute of Technology Thonburi, Bangmod, Rabburana, Bangkok 10140, Thailand. Tel: +662 427 0039/5309; Fax: +662 427 8050. Email: ilesnson@cc.kmitt.ac.th DECEMBER 1996 *1. December 96 (final dates to be announced) 3rd International Conference on Romani Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic Deadline for Abstracts: 31 May 96 Contact: Milena Huebschmannova, Stepanska 29, 110 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic 2. 19-21 December '96 3rd International Conference on World Englishes, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Contact: Larry E. Smith, Dean and Director, Programs and Education, East West Centre, 1777 East West Road, Honolulu HI 96848. Tel: (808) 944-7634; Fax: (808) 944-7634. E-mail: smithl@ewc.bitnet 1997 JANUARY 1997 *1. 7-8 January 97 Workshop on the typological differences between VO- and OV- languages: minimalism and the uniform base hypothesis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 96 Contact: Workshop OV/VO, c/o Marcel den Dikken, Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics, Vakgroep Taalkunde (ATW), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 20 444 6482; Fax: +31 20 444 6500. Email: dikken@jet.let.vu.nl Web: http://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/hil/confs/ovvo/ovvo.htm *2. 9-11 January 97 12th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Deadline for Abstracts: 1 July 96 Contact: CGSW12, c/o Marcel den Dikken, Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics, Vakgroep Taalkunde (ATW), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31 20 444 6482; Fax: +31 20 444 6500. Email: dikken@jet.let.vu.nl Web: http://oasis.leidenuniv.nl/hil/confs/cgsw12/cgsw.htm FEBRUARY 1997 1. 10-14 February '97 AULLA XVIV, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Contact: Brian Taylor, Language Centre, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 MARCH 1997 1. 24-26 March '97 XIX World Conference of the Federation des Professeurs de Langue Vivantes, Recife, Brazil Contact: Prof. Dr. Francisco Gomes de Matos, Departamento de Letras, Centro de Artes e Communicacao, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 50740-530 Recife, PE, Brazil. Fax: +55 81 326 8670. Email: fiplv@npd.ufpe.br JULY 1997 1. 14-19 July '97 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig, Germany Contact: World Congress of African Linguistics, Institut fuer Afrikanistik, Universitet Leipzig, Augustusplatz 9, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany. Tel: +49 341 973 7031; Fax: +49 341 973 7048. AUGUST 1997 1. 10-17 August '97 XIII International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Duesseldorf, Germany Abstract Deadline: 1 October 1996 Contact: Deiter Stein, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Dusseldorf, Anglistik III, Universitaetsstr. 1, D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany. Tel: +49 211 811 2936; Fax: +49 211 811 3026. Email: ICHL1997@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de