SALA XVII Conference & CFP

[David Magier]

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SALA XVII: The Seventeenth South Asian Languages Analysis Roundatable

"Verbal Constructions in South Asian Langauges"

2-4 June, 1995
The University of Texas at Austin

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Proposals for papers are invited on any topic related to subordination 
and clause connection, including:

* The morphology/syntax interface
* Case frames
* Phonological processes
* Role in discourse structure
* Discourse structure

In addition, proposals for panels and papers will be accepted in other 
areas of Language and Linguistics, including syntax, semantics, 
phonology, teaching South Asian languages, language acquisition, 
sociolinguistics, translation theory, poetic theory, and diachronic 
linguistics.

Keynote Speaker: Edgar C. Polome'
This year's SALA meeting will be held in honor of Edgar Polome, who has 
for a half-century contributed to teaching and scholarship in Sanskrit, 
Indo-European and South Asian Linguistics.

Proposed Panels:
* Meeting of South Asian Language Teachers (SALTA)
* Teaching of First-year Sanskrit (Patrick Olivelle, jpo at uts.cc.utexas.edu)

Abstracts will be considered for acceptance immediately. Abstracts (one 
page plus data and references) and panel proposals (including one-page 
abstracts for each paper and a cover letter) should be sent to the 
Organizing Committee:

   Rodney Moag (moag.rod at utxvm.bitnet) 
        and
   Herman van Olphen (lyhhv at utxdp.dp.utexas.edu)

Organizing Committee, SALA XVII
Department of Asian Studies
WCH 4.134, G9300
University of Texas
Austin, Texas  78712,  USA

512-471-5811
512-471-4469 fax

FINAL DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS MARCH 15, 1995.