NWAVE Information
NWAVE is an international sociolinguistics conference.
In 1996
NWAVE was hosted by the University of Nevada at Las
Vegas in 1996.
Schedule and information is available at http://www.nscee.edu:80/unlv/Colleges/College_of_Liberal_Arts/NWAVE.html.
For other information, contact Dr. Jan Tillery at (702) 895-4097 or
Dr. Guy Bailey, or write to:
Dr. Jan Tillery,
NWAVE Coordinator
UNLV College of Liberal Arts
4505 Maryland Parkway
Box 45001
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5001
In 1995
In 1995, there were special sessions on the following topics:
- Historical syntax and the time course of linguistic change
- Linguistic research in the high school context
- The linguistic situation of Asian minorities
Proceedings
Selected papers from NWAVE 24 are now available from Penn Working Papers in Linguistics
The conference was October 12-15, 1995 at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Invited speakers
- Anthony Kroch: Optionality and variation in syntax (Thursday 8:00 pm)
- Don Winford: Variation Theory: a view from creole continua (Friday
8:00 pm)
- Gregory Guy: Post-Saussurean linguistics: towards an integrated theory
of language (Saturday 8:00 pm)
Four workshops were held on Thursday, October 12, 1995.
(alphabetical by author, with session, time, and link to abstract)
Publications
For other information, please e-mail:
nwave24@babel.ling.upenn.edu
For suggestions on things that should be on this home-page, please e-mail:
nagy@unagi.cis.upenn.edu