fresh chinese dialect fieldwork conference last call tired boring conferences chinese linguistics tired hoards people droning endlessly things either cant understand could nt care less perhaps rehashing mandarin taiwanese syntactic structures ten millionth time telling _ bangmuu _ reflected p dialect _ pangmuu _ reflected ph categorizing possible patterns word formation fourcharacter cliche tired stultifying palaver come next meeting yuen ren society yuen ren society promotion chinese dialect fieldwork presents conference fresh chinese dialect fieldwork 27 march 1995 salt lake city marriott hotel last call yuen ren society promotion chinese dialect fieldwork founded 1990 university washington dedicated study diverse varieties spoken hann chinese society meetings occasional forum distributing discussing fresh dialect data submissions accepted conference held conjunction 205th meeting american oriental society tentatively afternoon monday 27 march 1995 marriott hotel salt lake city utah communication conference addressed email yuenren u washington edu ordinary mail yuen ren society att n david prager branner asian languages literature do21 university washington seattle wa 98195 scope conference descriptive comparative material variety spoken hann chinese preferably unfamiliar dialectologists large request list illustrative suggestions write yuenren u washington edu yuen ren society conferences center around presentation original rare data real hann chinese dialects narrow reason already many outlets theoretical philological studies chinese linguistics real outlets plain presentation discussion data meeting consist two elements collection data printed issue society occasional series _ yuen ren society treasury chinese dialect data _ b presentation data fieldworker compiler together discussion audience _ treasury _ available meeting serve handout ii deadlines 28 january 1995 submission abstract either fulllength draft material reasonably long sample 28 february 1995 receipt society final cameraready draft deadline firm afraid going miss touch society happens deadline registration conference would like know beforehand plan attend iii submission material anyone wishing present data society conference must submit publication _ yuen ren treasury chinese dialect data _ submissions subject review present conference may still submit material current issue _ treasury _ conference independent american oriental society meeting fee yuen ren society meeting responsibility everyone attends pay aos registration fees may required iv attendance nonparticipants conference open everyone including people members yuen ren society fee attending conference may small onsite registration fee anyone wants copy _ yuen ren treasury _ _ treasury _ serve combined handout whole conference v notes style format 1 society favors use gwoyeu romatzyh reject reasonable system romanization long tonal distinctions represented consistent way papers use romanization without form tonal distinction rejected traditional simplified characters welcome 2 languages conference papers english mandarin 3 length individual presentations conference variable 25 minutes per presentation discussion ad hoc please tell society long presentation length documents _ treasury _ also variable depending contents 4 papers include section bibliography entitled sources dialect data something comparable addition ordinary list works cited papers introducing data original fieldwork must list names sites represented together information informants used dates fieldwork papers using data gathered author personally must list sources distinct set data good idea distinguish different sources even represent site 5 submissions _ yuen ren treasury _ must made cameraready hard copy handwritten documents unless remarkably neat ordinarily rejected documents produced computer common serif fonts courier new york used roman letter writing apart ipa sharply legible bitmap outline font sung used kanji neatly handwritten kanji acceptable doubt send sample typefaces society submission deadline 6 finished documents margins minimum one inch wide print black body text 12 14 point size double spaced documents produced computer printed less 300 dpi 7 general papers follow style guidelines recent edition _ chicago manual style _ vi restrictions barring exceptional circumstances following considered outside scope conference since already outlets 1 papers emphasizing formal analysis formal representation 2 new romanization schemes 3 papers comparing single modern dialect jin k _ chiehyunn _ phonological system 4 papers whose data culled published sources unless source rare reason poorly known 5 studies mandarin taiwanese cantonese hakka standard dialects based neither fieldwork speech named sites sources 6 presentations consist primarily data