chicago linguistic society announcing 35th regional meeting chicago linguistic society april 2224 1999 university chicago main session invite original unpublished work topic general linguistic interest invited speakers beth levin northwestern university paul smolensky johns hopkins university panels invite original unpublished work addresses one panel topics language identity thursday april 22 language serves means unite well exclude groups individuals panel explore linguistic mechanisms accomplished different speech communities invited speakers robert greenberg university north carolina chapel hill michael silverstein university chicago conjunction university chicago workshop theory data speech research chiphon 99 new syntheses multi disciplinary approaches basic units speech friday april 23 panel seeks synthesize findings linguistics fields investigate linguistic behavior determine whether used evidence unified theory basic units speech processing invited speakers john ohala university california berkeley joseph perkell massachusetts institute technology theory linguistic diversity saturday april 24 approximately five thousand languages spoken throughout world today panel seeks explore ways linguistic theories attempt account variety invited speakers mark baker rutgers university joan bresnan stanford university r w dixon australian national university please submit ten copies onepage 500 word anonymous abstract twenty minute paper optionally one additional page data references may appended along 3 5 card 1 name 2 affiliation 3 address phone number email address 4 title paper 5 indication panel particular subdivision main session eg phonetics phonology syntax semantics historical linguistics etc paper intended abstract specific possible clearly indicate data covered outline arguments presented include broader implications work individual may present one single one coauthored paper authors must submit cameraready copy paper time conference order considered publication selection papers presented cls 35 published years deadline receipt abstracts february 1 1999 send abstracts chicago linguistic society 1010 east 59th st chicago il 60637 773 702 8529 information email submission additional guidelines abstracts may obtained visiting website http humanities uchicago edu humanities cls cls html writing address emailing us cls diderot uchicago edu