The 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium: Call for Papers The 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium will take place FEBRUARY 25-27, 2005 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. INVITED SPEAKER: Mark Baker (Rutgers University): Gerund constructions within a universal theory of categories. *************************************************************************** WORKSHOP (New!): Anthony Kroch et al. (University of Pennsylvania): Syntactically annotated corpora: What, Why and How? *************************************************************************** SUBMISSIONS: Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for discussion and questions. Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced, in 11-pt. font. An additional page may be used for references and tables. Do not include your name or affiliation within the abstract. To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a .pdf file. If you cannot create .pdf files, you may submit a .doc, .rtf, or .txt file, and we will convert it for you. However, since phonetic fonts are not likely to output correctly, we ask that you set up a legend using standard ASCII characters. An online abstract submission form will soon be available at the PLC website, http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/ IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submissions due: November 8, 2004. Notification of acceptance/rejection: January 17, 2005. PROCEEDINGS: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Speakers will be invited to provide camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Email plc29@ling.upenn.edu Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/ Penn Linguistics Colloquium Department of Linguistics 619 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 This event is supported by funding from GSAC, the Graduate Student Association Council of the University of Pennsylvania. Best, the PLC 29 Committee