chicago linguistic society announce th regional meet chicago linguistic society april university chicago main session invite original unpublish work topic general linguistic interest invite speaker beth levin northwestern university paul smolensky john hopkin university panel invite original unpublish work address one panel topic below language identity thursday april language serve means unite exclude group individual panel explore linguistic mechanism accomplish different speech community invite speaker robert greenberg university north carolina chapel hill michael silverstein university chicago conjunction university chicago workshop theory datum speech research chus synthese multus disciplinary approach basic unit speech friday april panel seek synthesize finding linguistics field investigate linguistic behavior determine whether evidence unify theory basic unit speech process invite speaker john ohalum university californium berkeley joseph perkell massachusett institute technology theory linguistic diversity saturday april approximately five thousand language speak throughout world today panel seek explore linguistic theory attempt account variety invite speaker mark baker rutger university joan bresnan stanford university r m w dixon australian national university please submit ten copy onepage word anonymous abstract twenty minute paper optionally one additional page datum reference append along card name affiliation address phone number email address title paper indication panel particular subdivision main session eg phonetics phonology syntax semantics historical linguistics etc paper intend abstract specific possible clearly indicate datum cover outline argument present include broader implication work individual present most one single one coauthor paper author must submit cameraready copy paper conference order consider publication selection papers present cls publish deadline receipt abstract february send abstract chicago linguistic society east th st chicago il information email submission additional guideline abstract obtain visit our website http humanities uchicago edu humanities cl cl html write above address email us cl diderot uchicago edu 