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>Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:00:02 -0700
>From: Vermonja Alston <valston@U.ARIZONA.EDU>
>Subject: Conference on Languages in Contact
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>>    Conference on Languages in Contact
>>
>>Groningen University
>>November  25-26, 1999
>>
>>REGISTRATION IS OPEN
>>
>>A conference on languages in  contact will be held on November
>>25-26, 1999, at the University of Groningen.  This conference will
>>include sessions devoted to descriptive and theoretical  aspects of
>>language contact.
>>
>>For registration: http://www.let.rug.nl/LiC
>>
>>The aim of  this conference is to discuss language contact. Issues
>>for discussion involve  pidgins and creoles, minorities and their
>>languages, Diaspora situations,  'Sprachbund' phenomena,
>>extralinguistic correlates of variety in contact  situations,
>>problems of endangered languages and the typology of  these
>>languages.
>>
>>We have also expanded the program to include a  TUTORIAL on
>>  This will  be
>>held on Wed. Nov. 24 from 2-6 (with two one-half hour breaks).
>>
>>The  conference will be held on the occasion of the degree of
>>honorary doctor in  St Petersburg of Dr Tjeerd de Graaf.
>>
>>Keynote speakers, in alphabetical  order:
>>
>>Liya Bondarko (University of St Petersburg)
>>Bernard Comrie (Max  Planck Institute Leipzig)
>>Evgenij Golovko (Russian Academy of  Sciences)
>>Pieter Muysken (University of Leiden)
>>Sarah Thomason (University  of Michigan)
>>
>>For More Information:
>>
>>INTERNET at the site: http://www.let.rug.nl/LiC
>>
>>The  organisers should like to ask all participants to arrange their
>>registration  there.
>>
>>The organizing committee
>>John Nerbonne, Jos Schaeken, Dicky  Gilbers
>>Department of Linguistics
>>University of Groningen
>>Oude Kijk in  `t Jatstraat 26
>>9712 EK Groningen
>>The Netherlands
>>
>>e-mail: nerbonne@let.rug.nl, schaeken@let.rug.nl,
>>gilbers@let.rug.nl
>>fax:  +31-50-3636855
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>======================================================================
>>Dicky  Gilbers
>>http://www.let.rug.nl/~gilbers/
>>e-mail:  gilbers@let.rug.nl
>>
>>Faculty of  Arts
>>Department of Linguistics
>>P.O. Box 716
>>9700 AS Groningen
>>The  Netherlands
>>
>>tel.: +31 50 363 59 83
>>  +31 50 363 49  00
>>======================================================================
>>
>>
>

Lise Menn
Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
303-492-1609

Beware Procrustes bearing Occam's razor.