Those interested in reserving a room, should send their request to the FASL8 Organizing Committee at the address above. The conference will consist of a General Session and a Parasession on Saturday and Sunday, followed by a Special Session on Monday. The General Session will cover all areas of general linguistic interest. The Parasession invites papers on loan word phenomena from various theoretical, historical, sociolinguistic, and typological perspectives, as well as descriptive works and field reports. The Special Session will feature research on Caucasian, Dravidian and Turkic languages.
Papers addressing both diachronic and synchronic issues are welcome.
Potential topics include theoretical and descriptive accounts of structural features, writing systems and transcription problems, language reform, and the reconstruction of the respective Proto-languages, including the question of Altaic linguistic unity. We encourage proposals from diverse theoretical frameworks and welcome papers from related disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology. Presentations will be allotted 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. We ask that you make your abstract as specific as possible, including a statement of your topic or problem, your approach, and your conclusions. A second page, or reverse side of the single page, may be used for data and references only.