SYNTAX OF THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES (SWL 1)

Leipzig (Germany), 5-8 August 2004




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02 September
We started to put handouts on the conference website. Downloadable handouts or papers are indicated with [pdf] after the title of the talk. (participant page)
03 August
Annie Montaut and Marina Zinn have cancelled their participation.
The paper from Marina Zinn will be read by A.Nefedov.
29 July
Ulrike Mosel has cancelled her participation.
27 July
We have changed a little bit our world map. Now it is complete with the names of the speakers and the languages.
27 July
Lachlan Duncan has cancelled his participation.
26 July
Please have a look at the conference programme. We had to change time/day for some talks.
26 July
Ana Carla Bruno, Patricia Schneider-Zioga, Kaul Guy and Kaoru Horie have cancelled their participation.
19 July
Nigel Vincent and Louise Mycock have cancelled their participation.
15 July
On the top of the page where the participants are listed, you will find a link to a world map, indicating the SWL-languages with red dots.
15 July
The informal dinner (4th August) will start at 19h30 at the restaurant "Alte Nikolaischule".
15 July
Christoph Schroeder, Samian Vida and Simin Karimi have cancelled their participation.
05 July
Helena Pirttisaari, Johannes Helmbrecht and Hsiu-chuan Liao have cancelled their participation
30 June
some information about the technical equipment:
The conference rooms are equipped with a beamer, but: it is not possible to use your own laptop. If you want to use electronic data/ beamer you have to send us the data untill 21st July. We will install your data on an institute laptop.
Here you can find the questionary about technical requirements. (pdf-document) Please fill the form in and send it back as soon as possible
(by email or by fax: + 49 - 341 - 3550 - 333. Using fax, please make a note of "SWL-Conference" on the top.)
By this way, I would like to remind you of the risk of an unexpected power failure. Please do not forget this in your talk preparations.

(all participants got this information via email and attached questionary)
25 June
For the evening of 4 August, we propose an informal pre-conference dinner gathering at the restaurant "Alte Nikolaischule" (Nikolaikirchhof, right next to the Nikolaikirche, a major landmark in the dowantown area, and very close to the Geschwister-Scholl-Haus), beginning around 19h00.
24 June
Eliane Camargo has cancelled her participation.
15 June
Nino Amiridze has cancelled her participation.
11 June
The title of Stéphane Roberts talk and the abstract has been added.
03 June
Liane Jeschull, Claire Bowern, Donna Gerdts and Thomas Hukari have cancelled their participation.
03 June
A preliminary conference programme is now available.
01 June
The place/restaurant and the price for the Banquet has changed. Please have a look at the registrationpage. If you want to participate, you can pay the Banquet together with the registration fee (in cash !) when you arrive.
01 June
Greg Anderson, Yuting Yeh and Jan Terje Faarlund have cancelled their participation.
27 May
We regret to inform you that Raquel Costa, one of our speakers, has died in February.
01 March:
You can find the abstracts of the participants (in pdf format) under "conference programme/ list of participants". There are 3 groups of abstracts, sorted by name of the authors.


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