5th intl conf asian african langs 5th international conference languages far east southeast asia west africa first circular university st petersburg institute asian african studies moscow state university pleased announce 5th international conference languages far east southeast asia west africa held st petersburg september 711 1999 conference site university st petersburg dept oriental studies 11 universitetskaja nab 199034 st petersburg russia building success predecessors moscow 1991 1993 1995 1997 conference aims encourage spirit dialogue students far east southeast asia west africa conference offers unique opportunity participants exchange views languages whose structures share many features despite genetic areal unrelatedness special session special session held devoted theoretical frameworks analysis isolating languages revealed course discussions previous leseawa conferences badly need common metalanguage terms coherent analyses languages fe sea wa would efficient certainly far intention develop esoteric metalanguage contrary ultimate goal eventually enrich common stock theoretical notions analyses traditional less traditional languages would fully commensurable currently used linguistic models properly equipped give student fe sea wa languages reliable analytic tools even fundamental linguistic objects phoneme parts speech clause etc concerned invited speakers announced working languages english russian applications abstracts ca 100 words submitted prof dr rudolph yanson chair dept china sea korea univ st petersburg yanson ry1703 spb edu fax 812 3287861 phone 812 3213767 home submissions subject refereeing program committee e mail submissions strongly encouraged deadline response 1st circular march 10 1999 notifications acceptance mailed may 1999 registration fee usd 60 registration fee includes volume conference proceedings coffeebreakes lunch please specify require vegetarian vegan option cultural program etc organizing committee rudolph yanson chair marc kaploun vicechair fax 095 2033647 alexandre storozhuk secretary angelina gerasimova aleksey vasiljev program committee vadim kassevitch chair kasevich vbk usr pu ru artemy karapetianz vicechair victor vinogradov vicechair mikhail rumjantsev rudolf yanson andrey zhukov nikolay dobronravin alexandre ogloblin sergey yakhontov prof dr vadim b kassevitch univ st petersburg p box 14 st petersburg 191025 russia phone 7812 3146123 home fax 7812 2181346 office kasevich vbk usr pu ru