SEVENTH HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM

Uppsala University

Uppsala, Sweden

September 7-9, 2001

Last date for submitting abstract: 1 February, 2001

The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region: north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan Plateau, northern Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski-speaking area in the west.

We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to:

Workshop 1: Language change in the Tibeto-Burman area
Main speaker: James Matisoff (University of California, Berkeley)
Workshop organizer: Jadranka Gvozdanovic (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Workshop 2: Nominal juxtaposition as a morpho-syntactic phenomenon
Workshop organizer: Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm (Stockholm University, Sweden)

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Abstracts should be no longer than one page with one-inch margins using at least an 11-point font. Along with the abstract, please enclose a separate page specifying the authors' affiliation, address, and e-mail address. Abstracts may be submitted electronically (as an attached file in RTF, postscript, PDF or MS Word format).

IMPORTANT DATES

* Abstract due: 1 February, 2001

* Acceptance notification: 1 March, 2001

* Symposium: 7-9 September, 2001

REGISTRATION

Pre-registration (before June 30): $45 (faculty), $25 (students)
Registration at conference site: $50 (faculty), $30 (students)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION

ึsten Dahl, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University

Gunilla Gren-Eklund, Dept. of African and Asian Languages, Uppsala University

Anju Saxena, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University

CONTACT INFORMATION

For any information related to the HLS-7, please contact:
Anju Saxena
Department of Linguistics
Uppsala University
Box 527
SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Tel. +46-18-471 14 57
Fax. +46-18-471 14 16
E-mail: anju.saxena@ling.uu.se

Workshop 1 organization and contact information:
Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Faculty of Philosophy, Slavic Dept., University of Mannheim
Schloss EW 327, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany
E-mail: jadranka@rumms.uni-mannheim.de
Fax: +49 621 181 2291

Workshop 2 organization and contact information:
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: tamm@ling.su.se
Fax: +46-8-155389

News about the symposium will also be posted on the symposium's Web page at
http://www.afro.uu.se/HLS-7.html

The Permanent Secretariat for this annual Symposium is maintained at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

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Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium

Uppsala University

7-9 September, 2001

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Anju Saxena
Department of Linguistics
Uppsala University
Box 527
SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
e-mail: anju.saxena@ling.uu.se

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