Call For Papers 

Texas Linguistics Society 9: Morphosyntax of Underrepresented Languages

University of Texas at Austin

November 4-6, 2005

The goal of TLS 9 is to provide a forum for  the presentation of original research on morphosyntactic phenomena in languages that are underrepresented in the literature, that is, less studied languages and/or less-studied varieties of more-represented languages. We welcome the submission of papers on topics including (but not limited to): voice, case-marking, agreement, cliticization, complex predicate formation, verb serialization, noun incorporation, morphological blocking, lexical integrity, word order variation.

In addition to the above stated goals, the conference encourages comparisons between different theoretical frameworks.

Invited Speakers include:

Rose-Marie Dechaine

Andrew Garrett

Lisa Green

Sam Mchombo

Stephen Wechsler

Organizing Committee

Douglas S. Bigham, Frederick Hoyt, Nikki Seifert, Alexandra Teodorescu, Jessica White

Submission Guidelines

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Abstracts should be anonymous and confined to two pages (including examples and references), with 1-inch margins and in 12-point type. Already published papers will not be accepted. Submissions are limited to one singly authored and one jointly authored abstract per author or two jointly authored abstracts.

Electronic submissions should be sent to tls@uts.cc.utexas.edu

Subject: TLS 9 abstract.

Please submit abstracts as an attachment to an e-mail message (do not include abstracts in the body of a message). The body of the message should include the information listed in 1-4 below. PDF versions are strongly preferred. If necessary, PS, RTF, text, or Word submissions will be accepted. If a non-PDF format is used, we discourage the use of nonstandard fonts, since we may not be able to decipher them.

1.  Name(s) of presenter(s)

2.  Affiliation(s) of presenter(s)

3.  Postal address, telephone number, and e-mail address

4.  Title of the paper

Non-electronic submissions, with a separate sheet for the information in 1-4 above, should be mailed to the following address:

 TLS9 Abstract Committee
 The University of Texas at Austin
 Department of Linguistics
 Calhoun Hall 501
 1 University Station B5100
 Austin, TX 78712-0198
 USA

Abstracts must be received by August 10, 2005. Notifications of acceptance or non-acceptance will be sent by September 15, 2005.

Please send requests for more information to tls@uts.cc.utexas.edu