Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics

May 22-24, 2006
Moscow State University

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

Link to the First Announcement

The Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State University is pleased to announce the Third Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL3) on May 22-24, 2006. Along with a General Session, there will be a Special Session on Comparative Altaic Syntax and talks by invited speakers.

General Session

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion) on topics dealing with formal aspects of any area of theoretical Altaic linguistics, including syntax, phonology, morphology, and semantics.

Special Session: 

Comparative Altaic Syntax
organized by
Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) and
Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)

Invited Speakers:  David Pesetsky (MIT)
Bert Vaux (University of Wisconsin)

Abstact Submission

Abstracts should be sent electronically to the conference e-mail address (mail@wafl3.org.ru) as attachments in .pdf, .rtf, or .doc format. If you submit a file in .doc or .rtf formats, send appropriate fonts as attachments as well.

Update: The abstracts should be one-paged; one extra page for examples, figures, and references is allowed.

The following information will also be requested:

  1. paper title
  2. name(s) of author(s)
  3. affiliation(s) of author(s)
  4. email address to which the notification of acceptance should be mailed
  5. contact phone number for each author
  6. physical address for each author

This information should be in a separate file or included as part of the body of the e-mail message.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is December 15, 2005. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. The notification of acceptance will be sent around mid-February, 2006.

Contact: Sergei Tatevosov

E-mail:

Website: wafl3.org.ru

Further information about travel, accommodation, and registration will be gradually posted at our website.

Address and links:  WAFL3 Organizing Committee
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Philology, Uchebnyj korpus 1
Moscow State University, Leninskije Gory
119899 Moscow, Russia

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