Dear friends and colleagues, Please circulate this announcement and call for registration! We apologise for multiple mailings. ________________________________________________________________________ 27th Penn Linguistics Colloquium ________________________________________________________________________ The 27th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium is scheduled for Friday through Sunday, February 21 through 23, 2003 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Keynote Lecture: A Compositional Characterization of the Definiteness Effect in Existential-There Sentences Invited Speaker: Professor Edward Keenan of UCLA Panel Discussion: GoffmanÂ’s Legacy and Future Study of Language Interaction Discussants include: Deborah Shiffrin, William Labov Our program includes sessions on language acquisition, syntax, mathematical linguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, phonology, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, as well as a Special Session in formal semantics. Schedule of talks and local information are available at the conference website: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/ ***Online pre-registration form is available now and until February 15th *** at http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/registration/register.php The pre-registration fee is $20 (students $15), on-site registration is $23 (students $18). Please pre-register! Early registration will help us estimate the number of attendees, and help you avoid paying extra $3 for on-site registration. If you have questions or concerns, please contact us at one of the following addresses: The Penn Linguistics Colloquium Committee Department of Linguistics 619 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 plc27@ling.upenn.edu http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC This event is supported by funding from GSAC, the Graduate Student Association Council of University of Pennsylvania. ________________________________________________________________________