2nd call papers dgfs meeting 1998 call papers part annual meeting german linguistic society deutsche gesellschaft fuer sprachwissenschaft held halle saale germany march 4 6 1998 workshop arbeitsgruppe following topic role functional categories language contact change current syntactic theory functional categories play important role determining structure clauses noun phrases regular language change content functional categories seems relatively stable many language contact situations e g creolization codeswitching functional categories lost subsequently reconstituted major issue hereby grammatical knowledge speakers model reconstitution elements specific questions adressed session functional categories necessarily reconstituted relates issues universality ug compatibility markedness functional categories ii type functional categories reconstituted contribute meaning lf interpretable convey grammatical information iii lexical categories used model reconstitution consequently reinterpreted functional categories iv language contact situation lexical grammatical elements drawn used reconstitution functional categories papers relevant topic invited papers take 30 minutes followed 15 minutes discussion onepage abstract sent preferably email organizer address september 1 1997 dr veenstra instituut voor algemene taalwetenschap universiteit van amsterdam spuistraat 210 nl1012 vt amsterdam tel 00 31 20 525 3858 fax 00 31 20 525 3021 email veenstra let uva nl