April 6-8, 2006
Douglas Pulleyblank
Department of Linguistics
University of British Columbia
Marianne Mithun
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
John Ohala
Department of Linguistics, Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley
Case and Voice
This parasession will explore issues of case systems and voice alternations from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives.
Jason Merchant
Department of Linguistics
University of Chicago
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
Department of Linguistics
University of Chicago
South Asian Linguistics
This parasession invites submissions investigating phenomena occurring in the languages of South Asia. Contributions from a variety of subfields are welcome.
Veneeta Dayal
Department of Linguistics
Rutgers University
Each talk will be given 30 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Presented papers will be published in the CLS Proceedings.
Anyone may submit one abstract as the sole author and a second as co-author, or two as co-author. All abstracts should be submitted to cls_at_uchicago_dot_edu with the following specifications:
- PDF (preferred) or Word format, with filename "Lastname - Paper Title" (e.g., Patel - On Halkomelem Morphophonemics.pdf)
- 12-point font, 1-inch margins
- Title and keywords (i.e., CLS session title, language, language family, linguistics subfield)
- No more than 500 words in length (data, keywords, and references are not included in the final count)
- Author name(s) should not appear on abstract
The body of the e-mail should include the following:
- Author name(s) and affiliation(s)
- Contact e-mail address
- Paper title
Please note that abstracts submitted to CLS 42 will be evaluated under a new, two-tiered review system involving both external and internal reviewers.
All abstracts must be submitted by 8pm CST on November 21, 2005. The authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by mid-February 2006.
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