NACAL 28

			Call for Papers
			   NACAL 28
	   Dedicated to the Memory of I.M. Diakonoff

		       Portland, Oregon
	        Portland Downtown DoubleTree Hotel
	    310 S.W. Lincoln St. Portland, OR 97201

	 Friday, March 10th - Sunday, March 12th, 2000
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Dear Scholars in Afroasiatic Languages,

Plans for the 28th annual North American Conference of Afroasiatic
Linguistics in Portland Oregon, right before the American Oriental Society
Annual Meeting, are now underway.  We have dates and venue, and now seek
papers from scholars working on Afroasiatic languages.  

Proposals for 20-minute papers are requested on any area of the phonology,
grammar, syntax, synchrony, diachrony, sociolinguistics, or epigraphy of
languages belonging to the Berber, Chadic, Cushtic, Egyptian, Omotic, or
Semitic branches of Afroasiatic.  

The absolute deadline to submit proposals for consideration is January
20th, 2000.  Please send in the attached form and an abstract for your
proposed paper to the address at the bottom of this e-mail.  The committee
will notify you if you are put onto the schedule.

Working Panel Areas: 
(Panel Composition will ultimately depend on the submitted papers.)
- Afroasiatic Comparative Linguistics (The Diakonoff Memorial Panel)
- Afroasiatic Epigraphy
- Central African: Chadic
- East African: Cushitic and Omotic
- East Semitic: Akkadian
- Ethiosemitic
- Neo-Aramaic
- North African: Berber and Egyptian
- Northwest Semitic: Hebrew, Aramaic, and the Levant
- South Semitic: Arabic and South Arabic

Those who are also attending the American Oriental Society Conference can
request to be scheduled in the joint session between NACAL and AOS, but
must register for both conferences separately and realize that such slots
will be limited in number due to time constraints.

Contributors are sought for a volume of comparative or diachronic papers
in the field of Afroasiatic Linguistics in memory of I.M. Diakonoff.
Contributions may be in any reasonable font or style, but only
camera-ready laser-print copy will be accepted.  The book will very likely
be published by Benjamins.  The editor is M. Lionel Bender and sub-editors
are David Appleyard (SOAS), Marcello Lamberti (Trieste), and Gabor Takacs
(currently in Frankfurt).  These editors will make final decisions about
corrections (obligatory) and suggested improvements (optional). 

Contact: M. Lionel Bender, Department of FLL, SIUC, Carbondale IL
62901-4521, phone: 618-453- 5428, fax: 618-453-3253, e-mail: eswg@siu.edu,
or for brief printouts: forlang@siu.edu.

If you are interested in presenting in the area of Neo-Aramic, in addition
to registering for the conference using the enclosed form, please also
contact Dr. Yona Sabar, Professor of Hebrew and Aramaic, Dept. of Near
Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles, Ca 90095-1511; phone:
(310) 474-6430 (H); (310) 206-1389 (O); Fax: (310) 206-6456); e-mail:
sabar@humnet.ucla.edu.

ACCOMMODATIONS: The DoubleTree Hotel Portland Downtown is excited to be
selected as host hotel for NACAL for March of 2000!  We are pleased to
provide the following special guestroom rates:  $79.00 single or double
occupancy for rooms reserved Friday, Saturday and Sunday night; and
$105.00 for rooms reserved Monday and Tuesday nights.

To receive this special rate you must make your reservation by February
17th, 2000.  You can make reservations by calling 1-800-222-8733.  Be sure
to ask for the RNACAL block at the Doubletree Hotel Portland Downtown.S
We are located on the south end of downtown Portland, just a ten minute
walk from the Marriott Hotel (for those attending the AOS conference).

This year's banquet, with reminiscences on the career of I.M. Diakonoff
will take place at the DoubleTree Hotel, Portland Downtown Saturday night.
The banquet registration fee is $30.00.

We look forward to extending a warm welcome to each of you!

Sincerely,

Geoff Graham			Early December: (203) 436-1938
Yale University - N.E.L.C.	Late December: (707) 743-1900
P.O. Box 208236			Early January: (202) 544-7233
New Haven, CT 06520-8236	Fax: (203) 432-2946

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You can print out the following form and mail it to me:
NACAL 28 Registration Form

___Mr.    or    ___Ms.

First Name  _________________________________________________________

Last Name  _________________________________________________________

Affiliation  _________________________________________________________

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Proposed Paper   ____________________________________________________

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(Submit your abstract of no more than one page typed exactly as you wish
it to appear in the conference notebook.)

Mailing Adress

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Phone ______________________________________________________________

E-mail ______________________________________________________________

NACAL Registration Fee		$40
	
Banquet Registration Fee	$30
	
Optional donation to help 
scholars with limited funds 
be able to attend		$__________
	
Amount Enclosed			$__________

Please make check out to "Geoff Graham" and mail it to the address in this
signature. (All funds will go towards conference amenities or be left to
the next year's NACAL kitty.)

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	    `   Geoffrey Graham					   `
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	    `   Department of NELC, Yale University		   `
	    `   Hall of Graduate Studies, Box 208236		   `
	    `   New Haven, CT 06520-8236, USA			   `
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	    `   Res. (203) 436-1938	Dept. (203) 432-2944	   `
	    `   Bus. (203) 432-2950	Fax (203) 432-2946	   `
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