sle 98 st andrews invitation workshop 31st sle conference st andrews 2630 august 1998 workshop organizer werner abraham groningen e mail abraham let rug nl fax 3150 363 58 21 workshop topic spoken written languages structural typological differeences workshop aims presentations following subfields general title parsing strategies divided spoken written vernaculars typological differences historical changes initiated parsing rather logicalstructu ral triggers underwritten claim contribution workshop upper german preterite decay typological differences tween genetically closely related languages afrikaans yiddish dial ectal germans less strongly svo vs written german sov diates sov svo charles fries claim distinctions mor phological case shown paper referred distinctions discoursefunctional sort prerequsites structural terms wide middle field contribute upkeeping sov despite fact case morphology rather weak dialectal german dutch organization especially younger colleagues interested contact organizer groningen abstract covering adjacent topic longer one page 2030 minutes presentation intention submit collection matically unified papers fol selfcontained volume heed attend conference need member societas linguistica europaea please contact local organizers dr christopher beedham dr isabel forbes dept german school modern languages university st andrews fife ky16 9ph scotland uk cb1 stand ac uk fax 01334 46 36 77 home page http www stand ac uk academic modlangs sle98 sle98 html mail werner abraham duits letteren rug oude kijk jat straat 26 nl9712 ek groningen