PhD/Young Researcher Workshop on:

         FORMAL ELEGANCE AND NATURAL COMPLEXITY IN MORPHOLOGY

                                                August 18-22

                                        A workshop held as part of the

                9th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                                          (ESSLLI97)
                         August 11-22, 1997, Aix-en-Provence, France


                        FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

ORGANISER: Dunstan Brown (University of Surrey)

BACKGROUND:


Formally oriented approaches to morphology often start from familiar and
well documented natural languages, which more often than not throw up
complex questions.  For instance, questions about the relation between
particular morphosyntactic features, underspecification, rules of referral,
or disjunctive representations, among other things, can arise from analysis
of familiar languages.  Languages which provide key evidence on such issues
may be less well known.  Through the workshop, researchers working on
particular languages can become acquainted with issues which are of
interest for formal approaches, and formally oriented researchers can learn
more about the complexity of natural language morphology.   The workshop
will therefore provide a forum for young researchers working in either or
both of these areas to come together and exchange ideas.

WORKSHOP AIMS:

This workshops aims to:

    * provide a setting for PhD Students/Young researchers to present and
discuss
      their work, in a small, friendly and constructive environment;
    * facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers working on
particular languages
        or language typology and those interested in  formal approaches to
morphology


CALL FOR PAPERS:

You are invited to submit two copies of an abstract for a twenty-minute
talk (plus 10 minutes)
discussion.  Submissions of more than one abstract will also be considered.

DEADLINE: May 31,  1997.  Abstracts should be sent to:

Dunstan Brown
Linguistic and International Studies
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 5XH
England

Tel: +44 1483 259957
Fax: +44 1483 302605
Email: [log in to unmask]


Dunstan Brown
Linguistic and International Studies
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey GU2 5XH

Email: [log in to unmask]         Fax: +44 1483 302605
Tel:     +44 1483 25 9957