The 41st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
7-9 April 2005 at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Paul Kiparsky
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University

David Pesetsky
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Paul Smolensky
Cognitive Science Department
Johns Hopkins University

Computational Linguistics
The computational panel will explore advances in natural language processing and the use of computers to aid in the study of linguistic theory.

Aravind K. Joshi
Department of Computer and Information Science
   AND
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
University of Pennsylvania

Lauri Karttunen
Palo Alto Research Center
   AND
Department of Linguistics
Stanford University

Emerging Theories
This panel highlights theories that have recently come into their own and/or pose a challenge to more mainstream theoretical approaches to linguistics. Submissions in all subfields are encouraged.

Peter Culicover
Department of Linguistics
The Ohio State University

Ray Jackendoff
Linguistics Program
Brandeis University

Jerry Sadock
Department of Linguistics
University of Chicago

Language Endangerment, Preservation and Revitalization
Looking forward, we also need to be concerned with the past and present. The goal of this panel is to highlight work that has been done in language preservation and methodologies for revitalizing endangered and moribund languages.

Wallace Chafe
Department of Linguistics, Emeritus
University of California, Santa Barbara

Douglas Parks
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University