The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host LSRL 38 on April 4-6, 2008.
Invited Speakers
Barbara Bullock, The Pennsylvania State University
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/b/e/beb2/Welcome.html
"The Phonology of Bilinguals in a Contact Situation"
Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/f_chierchia.html
"A Theory of Semantic Variation for Polarity Sensitive Items"
Grant Goodall, University of California, San Diego
http://ling.ucsd.edu/~goodall/
"Experimenting with wh-movement in Spanish"
Michele Koven, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/faculty/people/mkoven/
"Indexing Identities through French and Portuguese: The Case of Second-Generation Portuguese Raised in France"
Main and Poster Sessions
All aspects of Romance Linguistics. Due to the high number of good quality abstracts, the Organizing Committee has decided to add a Poster Session to the conference program.
Parasession on Romance Languages in the Diaspora
This parasession will explore how multilingualism and ties to more than one culture affect the use and structure of languages in Romance language-speaking transnational (im)migrant communities.
LSRL 38 Sponsors
Department of LinguisticsDepartment of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Department of French
School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Center for Advanced Study
European Union Center
Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Educaton
Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanitites
Department of Speech Communication
Department of Anthroplogy