Please circulate this announcement to interested colleagues. We apologize for multiple mailings. --------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues: The 28th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place February 27-29 at the University of Pennsylvania's Jon M. Huntsman Hall. Keynote address: Juliette Blevins (University of California, Berkeley) "Structure-preserving sound change: How and why?" The PLC 28 program includes sessions on language acquisition, language variation and change, syntax, phonology, semantics, and discourse/pragmatics. For a complete list of talks with links to abstracts, please visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc28/schedule.html The preregistration deadline is Wednesday, February 18. To preregister, visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/registration/register.php, fill out the online form, and mail your payment ($15 students/$20 nonstudents) to Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Dept. of Linguistics, 3600 Market St., Suite 501, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2653. Onsite registration will cost an additional $5. For further information, please visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC or email plc28@ling.upenn.edu. We're looking forward to seeing you at PLC 28! -The PLC 28 Organizing Committee ----------------------------------------------------- This event is supported by funding from the Graduate Student Association Council of the University of Pennsylvania.