The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
3-5 April 2006 at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Main Session

We invite speakers from all major linguistic subfields and frameworks as well as from related cross-disciplinary areas.

Douglas Pulleyblank - University of British Columbia
Marianne Mithun - University of California, Santa Barbara
John Ohala - University of California, Berkeley

Parasession: Case and Voice

This parasession will explore issues of case systems and voice alternations from a wide variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives.

Jason Merchant - University of Chicago

Parasession: Language Coexistence

Papers in this parasession will examine issues pertaining to the social dimensions of language coexistence, both among speakers in social interactions (micro and macro) and within individual speakers.

Salikoko Mufwene - University of Chicago

Parasession: South Asian Linguistics

This parasession invites submissions investigation phenomena occurring in the languages of South Asia. Contributions from a variety of subfields are welcome.

Veneeta Dayal - Rutgers University