[live stream conference announcement] Watch ILLS 1: LOL streaming online! (29-31 May 2009)

[Benjamin Slade]

Below is the announcement concerning the live stream of the upcoming first meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society [ILLS 1] (http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/ILLS).  

There will be three Indology-related talks:
(1) 'Number Sensitive Items and Agreement: A Case from Hindi' [Archna Bhatia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]
(2) 'The Grand Strategy of Politeness among Bengalis on Orkut' [Anupam Das, Indiana University Bloomington]
(3) 'Influence of English on Hindi Embedded Relative Clauses' [Vandana Puri, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]


Please forward as appropriate.

See below for announcment:

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To researchers in linguistics, computer-mediated communication, and
related fields:

This coming weekend, May 29-31, 2009, the Linguistics Student
Organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is
proud to present Illinois Language and Linguistics Society 1: Language
Online.  Through a partnership with ATLAS Digital Media, we are now
able to offer a live stream of the conference online at
http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/ILLS.

Tune in this weekend to participate in this exciting new conference!
Online participants will have the opportunity to submit questions in
real time for the moderator to convey to the presenters.

Please take a moment to have a look at our full program, available at
our website:
http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/ILLS

Thanks, and hope to see you online (or in person?) next weekend!
For more information, please don't hesitate to contact me: bslade at illinois.edu,
or my co-organiser, Matt Garley: mgarley2 at illinois.edu.

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Benjamin Slade
Dept. of Linguistics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign                  
                            
email: bslade at illinois.edu   
website: http://www.jnanam.net/slade/ 

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