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LAGB Autumn Meeting 2002: UMIST

First Circular and Call for Papers

The 2002 Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain will
be held at UMIST, from September 17 to 19. The local organiser is Paul
Bennett <[log in to unmask]>.  The Meeting will be immediately preceded
by a Workshop on Agreement;  for more information, see below.

The conference website is at: http://mull.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/lagb/

Manchester, host of the 2002 Commonwealth Games, is at the heart of the
largest urban area in the north of England. Cultural attractions include the
recently-refurbished City Art Gallery, the Museum of Science and Industry,
and the Lowry in nearby Salford. The city centre includes a sizeable
Chinatown and the famous Gay Village, plus the renovated canal area of
Castlefield. The Peak District and Pennines are areas of natural beauty close
by.

Accommodation: The UMIST campus is fairly compact. Accommodation will
be in en-suite rooms just a few minutes' walk away from where the sessions
will take place, and also within walking distance of the restaurants, bars and
clubs of central Manchester.

Travel: UMIST is situated on the edge of the city centre, and is very easy to
reach. Trains from London Euston take about 2hrs 40mins to Manchester
Piccadilly station, which is only five minutes' walk from the campus; there are
also regular train services from most major British cities. Manchester is
easily accessible via the motorway network (M6, M62). Manchester
International Airport is ten miles from the city centre, and is served by flights
from most major European airports and by regular shuttles to Heathrow and
Gatwick; there is a train service from the airport station to Manchester
Piccadilly (usually at least four trains an hour, taking c. 20 minutes).

Events: The Henry Sweet Lecture 2002 will be delivered by Professor
Anthony Kroch (University of Pennsylvania) and is entitled:  'Variation and
Change in the Historical Syntax of English'.

There will also be a Workshop on Quantitative and corpus-based
perspectives on the morpho-syntactic history of English.

A Language Tutorial on Romani will be given by Dr Yaron Matras (University
of Manchester).

There will be a Linguistics at School Session on Community Languages,
organised by Dr Anthea Fraser Gupta (University of Leeds).

Enquiries about the LAGB meeting should be sent to the Meetings Secretary
(address below). Full details of the programme will be included in the Second
Circular, to be sent out in June.

Call for Papers:
You are invited to offer papers for the Meeting. The LAGB welcomes
submissions on any topic in the field of linguistics; papers are selected on
their (perceived) merits, and not according to their subject matter or assumed
theoretical framework.

How and when to submit an abstract
Abstracts must be submitted on paper (not by email or by fax). FIVE
anonymous copies of the abstract, plus ONE with name and affiliation, i.e.
CAMERA-READY, should be submitted, and should be sent to the President
(address below) in the format outlined below. You must write your address for
correspondence (email or surface) on the BACK of the camera-ready copy.
(Even if several authors are named on the front, there should be only one
name and address for correspondence.)

Abstracts should be accompanied by an indication of any special
requirements regarding audiovisual equipment (other than an OHP).

Papers for the programme are selected anonymously - only the President
knows the name of the authors. Where possible, authors should supply an
email address to which the committee's decision may be sent.

Abstracts must arrive by June 14.  Abstracts may also be submitted now for
the meeting after the next one, but must be clearly marked as such. (In
general the abstract deadlines for the autumn and spring meetings are soon
after 1st June and 1st January respectively, so an abstract sent to reach the
President by that date will always be in time.)

Format of abstracts
Abstracts must be presented as follows: The complete abstract (i.e. the one
containing your title and your name) must be no longer than ONE A4 page
(21cm x 29.5cm) with margins of at least 2.5cm on all sides. You may use
single spacing but type must be no smaller than 12 point. If the paper is
accepted the abstract will be photocopied and inserted directly into the
collection of abstracts sent out to participants, so the presentation should be
clear and clean.

The following layout should be considered as standard:

Optimality and the Klingon vowel shift (title)
Clark Kent (speaker)
[log in to unmask] (email address)
Department of Astrology, Eastern Mars University (institution)

The normal length for papers delivered at LAGB meetings is 25 minutes (plus
15 minutes discussion).

There is the possibility to submit abstracts for a themed session (or panel),
i.e. groups of speakers can ask for a whole 2-hour themed session, and can
apportion their time within that as they wish.  All the abstracts for such a
session will be considered together.

The committee will plan the programme as soon as it has selected the
successful abstracts, so please indicate on the anonymous abstracts if you
cannot present your paper on either the second or third day of the conference
(18th or 19th September). It is very difficult to reschedule papers after the
programme has been planned.

Content of abstracts

The following guidelines may be useful:
+ You should clearly describe the paper's general topic. (The topic may be a
problem of theory or analysis or set of data which has not
previously been analysed.)
+ You should describe your treatment of the topic, and how it relates to
previous work on the same topic. (When referring to previous work, it is
enough to quote "Author (Date)" without giving full bibliographical details.) It is
not acceptable simply to promise a solution.
+ You should explain how you will justify your treatment, and quote crucial
evidence - you must trust the committee (and other conference attenders) not
to steal your ideas before you have presented them. If you are taking a stand
on a controversial issue, summarise the arguments which lead you to take
up this position.

Conference Bursaries
Up to 10 bursaries are available for unsalaried members of the Association
(e.g. PhD students) with preference given to those who are presenting a
paper. Applications should be sent to the President, and must be received by
the deadline for abstracts. Please state on your application: (a) date of
joining the LAGB (applicants must have been a member at least since the
date of the previous meeting); (b) whether or not you are a student; (c) if a
student, whether you receive a normal grant; (d) if not a student, your
employment situation. STUDENTS WHO ARE SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT
and who wish to apply for funding should include all the above details WITH
THEIR ABSTRACT. The bursary normally covers the registration fee and
travel within the UK. Those presenting a paper will receive an additional
amount of GBP40.

Internet home page: The LAGB internet home page can be found at the
following address: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/LAGB/

Future Meetings
14-16 April 2003                University of Sheffield
Autumn 2003                     University of Oxford
Spring 2004 (provisional)       University of Surrey Roehampton.


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Agreement Workshop

The message below has been received from the organisers of the
workshop:

Just before the main meeting, on 16-17 September 2002, also at UMIST, the
Surrey Morphology Group is organising a workshop on Agreement. This is
sponsored by the ESRC, since a main aim of the workshop is to disseminate
the results from an ESRC project on agreement carried out by Greville
Corbett, Dunstan Brown, Carole Tiberius, and Julia Barron. We are also
grateful for LAGB sponsorship. There will be papers by our consultants Nick
Evans and Marianne Mithun, and further invited papers on agreement by
Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, and Anna Siewierska. The project involves a
typological database, which will be of interest to linguists of different
persuasions and to psycholinguists. We are keen for people to come to
discuss the papers, but we do not have any remaining slots for additional
papers. Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts to the main LAGB
conference.

Booking information will be available through the LAGB circulars. In the
meantime, we welcome expressions of interest (to [log in to unmask])

For more information see our website:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/SMG/projects/agreement/

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The LAGB committee

President
Professor April McMahon
Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of
Sheffield,  5 Shearwood Road, Sheffield S10 2TD
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http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/staff/april.html

Honorary Secretary
Dr Ad Neeleman
Dept. of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower
Street, London WC1E 6BT   [log in to unmask]
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/ad/home.htm

Membership Secretary
Dr David Willis, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Cambridge,
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA   [log in to unmask]
http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/staff/profile.html#willis

Meetings Secretary
Dr Marjolein Groefsema, Dept. of Linguistics, University of
Hertfordshire, Watford Campus, Aldenham, Herts. WD2 8AT
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http://www.herts.ac.uk/fhle/faculty/humanities/web%20pages/linguistics
/MGroefsema.htm

Treasurer
Dr Wiebke Brockhaus
Dept. of German, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13
9PL   [log in to unmask]
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german/brockhs.htm

Assistant Secretary
Dr Gillian Ramchand
Centre for Linguistics and Philology, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG
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