Yuen Ren Society Annual Conference March 6, 1999CONFERENCES
Rutgers University, New Jersey
The Yuen Ren Society welcomes presentations of a non-formalist character on any aspect of Hann Chinese dialectology, including original field reports, comparative-historical studies, linguistic geography and contact, sociolinguistics, and taxonomy. The Society is devoted to the practice of descriptive dialect fieldwork, and especially welcomes reports on little-known dialects. For more information, contact: David Prager Branner, Yuen Ren Society, 440 Riverside Drive, #73, New York, NY 10027-6831. <yuen.ren.society@bigfoot.com>
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Eleventh North American Conference onChinese Linguistics (NACCL-11)
June 18-20, 1999Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University will be hosting the Eleventh North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-11), June 18-20, 1999. NACCL-11 welcomes papers on a wide variety of topics, such as historical linguistics, phonology, syntax, semantics, discourse/pragmatics, sociolinguistics, computational-linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition. The goals of NACCL-11 are to provide participants with an opportunity to present their works in Chinese linguistics and to keep up with recent developments in the field. For more information, contact: NACCL-11 Organizing Committee, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 5 Bryant Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Email: clp@fas.harvard.edu; http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~clp/China/naccl-11/naccl-11.htm***************************************************
Eighth Annual Meeting of the InternationalAssociation of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-8)
July 5-7, 1999University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
IACL-8 welcomes papers on a wide variety of topics, such as phonology, syntax, semantics, Chinese dialectology, psycholinguistics, child language acquisition, discourse, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and computational linguistics. For more information, please contact: IACL-8 Organizing Committee, c/o Patrizia Pacioni/Yunji Wu, Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies, The University of Melbourne, Grattan Street, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia. Phone: + 61-3-9344-4468/9344-4956; Fax: + 61-3-9349-4870; E-mail: IACL-8@asian.unimelb.edu.au; http://www.IACL-8.unimelb.edu.au