[Discussion] CONF./CFP- Third International Linguistic Symposium LENCA, June 2006, Russia

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: LENCA-3 Organizing Committee <lenca3@gmail.com>

CONF./CFP- Third International Linguistic Symposium LENCA, June 2006, Russia

Full Title: The Grammar and Pragmatics of Complex Sentences in Languages 
spoken
in Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA-3).
Date: 27 June 2006 - 30 June 2006
Location: Tomsk, Russia
Contact Persons: Elizaveta Kotorova, Andrey Filchenko, Pirkko Suihkonen
Meeting Email: tomsk@eva.mpg.de

Conference Web Site (Eng, Rus): http://www.lenca3.siblang.org

Mirror Site (Eng. only):
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/uhlcs/LENCA/LENCA-3/lenca-3.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Syntax; Semantics, 
Complex
Sentence.

Call Deadline: 15 December 2005

Meeting Description:

The organizing committee of the third international symposium on the 
languages
spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia (LENCA) to be held at Tomsk 
State
Pedagogical University, Tomsk, Russia, on June 27-30, 2006, announces 
the CALL
FOR PAPERS for LENCA-3.

Europe and North and Central Asia form a large natural geographical area for
distribution of languages spoken in the area, and for diffusion of 
peoples and
cultures. This area is the geographical basis for the LENCA-project 
which forms
a framework for research of these languages and collecting information 
on these
languages.

The LENCA-1 symposium on the languages belonging to the LENCA-group was 
at the
Udmurt State University, Izevsk, Udmurtia, Russia in 2001. The topic of the
first symposium was "Deixis and quantification" in languages spoken in 
Europe
and North and Central Asia. The LENCA-2 symposium took place at the 
Kazan State
University in 2004, with the theme "Argument structure and grammatical
relations".

The theme of the LENCA-3 symposium centers on structural and semantic 
features
of complex sentences: different strategies of subordination and coordination
employed by languages, their geographic distribution and historical 
development,
discourse-pragmatic features of their usage as a means of ensuring 
inter-clausal
coherence, i.e. the semantic-pragmatic connectivity of the functional 
dimension
of event integration vis-a-vis the syntactic dependency (grammatical 
bonds) of
clause integration.

It is anticipated that a number of presentations will deal with these 
various
aspects of complex sentences from a Siberian areal perspective. That is, the
conference aims to encourage the development of a local typological view of
complex sentences in languages native to Western and Central Siberia 
(such as
Khanty, Selkup, Nenets, Evenki, Ket, Siberian Turkic, etc.), as well as 
possible
contact influence from Russian.

The scale, depth, terminology, and methodology of existing descriptions 
in this
area vary considerably, and with this in mind one of the objectives 
envisioned
for the symposium is to facilitate a negotiation of theoretical frameworks,
methodologies, terminologies, and data as a prerequisite for further 
advancing
of the topic. To this end, both a general typological and a historical
perspective as a means to inform this discourse will be welcomed.

Plenary Speakers (Confirmed):

Dr. Balthasar Bickel, University of Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Bernard Comrie, MPI for , Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Alexander Kibrik, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Dr. Osahito Miyaoka, Osaka Gakuin University, Japan
Dr. Vladimir Plungian, Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Science,
    Moscow, Russia
Dr. Edward Vajda, Western Washington University, USA
Dr. Robert D. Van Valin, University of New York, Buffalo, USA

Important Dates:

Deadline for submitting abstracts: 15-December-2005
Notification of acceptance: 15-February-2006
Time of the symposium: 27-30-June-2006

Abstract Requirements:

Anonymous abstracts in English or Russian are to be submitted to the 
Programme
Committee in electronic version by e-mail at <tomsk@eva.mpg.de> and 
should not
exceed two pages in length, including examples, notes, and bibliography 
(1 page
of text and 1 page of examples and references). Please adhere to the
requirements for formatting of abstracts. The text of the abstract is to be
submitted as an attachment following these guidelines:

  - format the title: Times New Roman, bold, size 12, all caps, aligned 
by center
  - format the body of the text and the list of references: (MS Word .DOC or
.RTF); Times New Roman, size 12, paragraph break 1cm, line interval 1,5;
    margins - all 2,5 cm
  - citations in text to be noted in square brackets, as follows [1, p.134],
    [2, p. 567]
  - bibliography list to be added in the end listed in the order of
    appearance; the title "References": Times New Roman, font size 12 
regular,
    title aligned by center
  - examples: please number and, when possible, use IPA font (SILDoulosIPA)
    and/or Unicode font (DoulosSIL)
  - body of the e-mail should contain the title and the information 
about the
    author: name & affiliation

Accepted abstracts will be published for the symposium, and an internet
version of the collection of abstracts will be available at the symposium
website. Authors are encouraged to design their abstracts with the view that
most of the papers presented at the symposium could be published later in
the proceedings or selected papers volume.

Official Languages:

Russian, English, German, French

Contact Information:

E-MAIL of the conference: tomsk@eva.mpg.de
URL of the conference (English and Russian): http://www.lenca3/siblang.org
Mirror Site (Eng. only):
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/uhlcs/LENCA/LENCA-3/lenca-3.html


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