ACCOLADES
Congratulations to Ruth Kramer and to Jorge Hankamer, both of whom
will present papers at this year's CLS (Chicago Linguistic Society)
Meeting on April 15th--17th at the University of Chicago. This is the
40th Anniversary Meeting of the Society, and the event promises to be
a very special one.    http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/
Ruth's paper title is "Virtual Relative Clauses in Middle Egyptian" and Jorge's is "Nothing inside Nothing: A Comparative Puzzle" which he says is a re-visitation of Pied Wiping.
Ruth, in addition, will present a paper at the North American
Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics, which will take place in San
Diego a month earlier than the Chicago meeting.   http://ling.uta.edu/NACAL/NACALhome.htm
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Congratulations to Kyle Rawlins who has had a paper accepted at the Workshop on Event Structures in Linguistic Form and Interpretation in Leipzig, Germany in March.  Kyle's title is "Unifying 'Illegally.'"
The Workshop website is: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~event04/
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Jim McCloskey is an invited speaker to GURT 2004 which will feature talks on Comparative and Cross-Linguistic Research in Syntax, Semantics, and Computational Linguistics.
GURT will take place on the campus of Georgetown University in Washington D.C. from March 26-29, 2004
For more information, see: http://complingtwo.georgetown.edu/~gurt/GURT.html
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TCP
The fifth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics 2004
March 12-13, 2004
Keio University
Kenneth Safir (Rutgers) and Lydia White (McGill) are invited speakers.
Information: http://www.otsu.icl.keio.ac.jp/tcp/
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ESSLLI 2004
Nancy, France 9-20 August, 2004
This year's ESSLLI is hosted by LORIA (the Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications). It will be held on the Campus Scientifique of the University of Nancy 1 (University Henri Poincare).
ESSLLI is the annual summer school of FoLLI, the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. Like previous ESSLLIs, ESSLLI 2004 will offer a two week program of foundational lectures, introductory lectures, advanced lectures, and workshops. All in all, 48 lectures and workshops will be offered. More information is available at the ESSLLI 2004 website: http://esslli2004.loria.fr/.
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Summer Intensive Courses in Yucatec Maya
The Yucatec Maya Summer Institute offers both a beginning and continuing six-week program to teach modern Yucatec Maya, a living language spoken by one million people living in the Yucatan Peninsula and northern Belize.
June 7- July 17, 2004
Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico
http://www.unc.edu/depts/ilas/maya.html
Sponsored by the Consortium in Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University
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AILA 2005
Call for Proposals
The 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics
July 24-29, 2005
Madison, Wisconsin
Proposals will be accepted from March 1 through June 1, 2004
http://www.aila2005.org
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EDITOR POSITION
Applications and nominations for the volunteer position of Editor of the Southwest Journal of Linguistics (SWJL) are invited. SWJL is a semi-annual, peer-reviewed journal which publishes papers across a broad range of topics in linguistics, but especially about languages of the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico.
For more information, see: http://www7.tamu-commerce.edu/swjl/public_html/index.html
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CULTURAL EXPERIENCES
The UCSC International Circle invites you to join them for conversation and activities for everyone with an interest in other cultures or meeting people from other countries. Meetings are open to anyone interested in making new friends, sharing experiences and learning about cultures from around the world.
The meetings are held monthly from noon - 2 p.m. on the 3rd Thursday of each month at the Women's Center, Cardiff House, UCSC.
Upcoming meetings will be held on:
*February 19 - Coin collecting - money from around the world
*March 18 Odissi - Hindu devotional dance
*April 15 Ikebana - Japanese flower arranging
For more information call: Astrid Randall at 423-6189 or Peggy Pollard at 423-2593 or send email to Soqili@aol.com
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