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Chinese Dialects and Historical Linguistics
(Annual Meeting of the Yuen Ren Society; American Oriental Society)
Call for Papers
The annual meeting of the Yuen Ren Society will take place in conjunction with the American Oriental Society, in Nashville TN, between Friday, April 4, and Monday, April 8, 2003.
The loose theme of this year's meeting is Chinese Dialect and Historical Linguistics. Papers are hereby solicited, and will be subjected to anonymous review. To submit a paper, please send a hard copy of a detailed abstract to *both* of the addresses below:
- Dr. David Branner
Attn. YRS School of Languages
3215 Jimenez Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
USA
- Dr. R. VanNess Simmons
Attn. YRS Asian Languages & Cultures
Rutgers University
330 Scott Hall
43 College Ave
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1164
USADeadline for submitting abstracts is 1 October, 2002. We expect to accept only ten papers in all.
Presentations on any aspect of Chinese dialectology or historical linguistics are welcome, but please note that the Society favors presentations that include abundant evidence, in the form of either dialect data or other explicit documentation as appropriate. Papers may be delivered in English or Mandarin Chinese.
For more information, please write to yrs@yuenrensociety.com, or see our web-site, at http://www.yuenrensociety.com/nextmeeting.html. Information about hotel accomodations can be found at the AOS's web-site: http://www.umich.edu/~aos/2003/call03.html.
The Yuen Ren Society web-site is at http://yuenrensociety.com.
