bls call papers call papers berkeley linguistics society pleased announce twenty fifth annual meeting held february 1315 1998 conference consist general session parasession saturday sunday followed special session monday general session general session cover areas general linguistic interest invited speakers carol fowler haskins laboratories univ connecticut yale univ stephen levinson max planck institut fr psycholinguistik nijmegen bjrn lindblom univ stockholm univ texas austin alec marantz massachusetts institute technology parasession loan word phenomena parasession invites papers loan word phenomena various theoretical historical sociolinguistic typological perspectives well descriptive works field reports areas interest include stratification lexicon loan word ubgrammars relexification role orthography markedness effects secondlanguage acquisition child language bilingualism codeswitching etc invited speakers ellen broselow state university new york stony brook garland cannon texas university junko ito armin mester university california santa cruz special session issues caucasian dravidian turkic linguistics special session feature research caucasian dravidian turkic languages papers addressing diachronic synchronic issues welcome potential topics include theoretical descriptive accounts structural features writing systems transcription problems language reform reconstruction respective proto languages including question altaic linguistic unity invited speakers johanna nichols university california berkeley k p mohanan national university singapore turkic specialist tba encourage proposals diverse theoretical frameworks welcome papers related disciplines anthropology cognitive science computer science literature philosophy psychology papers presented conference published society proceedings authors present papers agree provide cameraready copy exceed 12 pages may 15 1999 presentations allotted 20 minutes 10 minutes questions ask make abstract specific possible including statement topic problem approach conclusions please send 10 copies anonymous onepage 8 1 2 x 11 unreduced abstract second page reverse side single page may used data references along abstract send 3 x5 card listing 1 paper title 2 session general parasession special 3 general session abstracts subfield viz discourse analysis historical linguistics morphology philosophy methodology linguistics phonetics phonology pragmatics psycholinguistics semantics sociolinguistics syntax 4 name author 5 affiliation author 6 address notification acceptance rejection mailed november 1998 7 author office home phone numbers 8 author email address available author may submit one single one joint abstract case joint authorship one address designated communication bls send abstracts bls 25 abstracts committee 1203 dwinelle hall university california berkeley ca 94720 abstracts must received 4 00 p november 2 1998 may contacted email bls socrates berkeley edu electronic abstract submission via email abstracts written english ascii accepted please send attachments electronic submissions may sent bls socrates berkeley edu information email submission additional guidelines abstracts found web site http faust linguistics berkeley edu bls accept faxed abstracts registration fees february 5 1999 15 students 30 nonstudents february 7 1997 20 students 35 nonstudents