From @uga.cc.uga.edu:lojban@cuvmb.bitnet Wed Jun 28 22:56:22 1995 Received: from punt3.demon.co.uk by stryx.demon.co.uk with SMTP id AA3657 ; Wed, 28 Jun 95 22:56:16 BST Received: from punt3.demon.co.uk via puntmail for ia@stryx.demon.co.uk; Wed, 28 Jun 95 16:06:37 GMT Received: from uga.cc.uga.edu by punt3.demon.co.uk id aa15288; 28 Jun 95 17:05 +0100 Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU by uga.cc.uga.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8563; Wed, 28 Jun 95 12:03:43 EDT Received: from UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@UGA) by UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 5297; Wed, 28 Jun 1995 11:49:37 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 11:50:13 -0400 Reply-To: Logical Language Group Sender: Lojban list From: Logical Language Group Subject: *IMPORTANT* LOJBAN-RELATED CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT - input wanted X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: Iain Alexander Message-ID: <9506281705.aa15288@punt3.demon.co.uk> Status: R Inputs are needed quickly! I am sending this to Lojban List, and also directly so some key members of the community who may be filtering list traffic or otherwise not actively reading, in order to ensure prompt attention. I have just received word of an upcoming linguistics conference that will specifically deal with constructed languages. Unfortunately, the official deadline for submission of abstracts is the end of June, so we don't have a lot of time. (The person who notified me had checked with the conference organizer and determined that the conference program is not full, and that there was some flexibility on this deadline. John Cowan is calling the organizer today to get more specifics. Getting one or more Lojban papers included in the conference would be a major boon to our credibility in linguistic circles. Participation is apparently refereed and papers presented will be published in conference proceedings. This allows us to cite linguistically-published material on Lojban in any future efforts at funding or publication in more noteworthy journals. The conference will be 13 October, 1995 in New York City. A one day conference on a weekday (that is a Friday) means that few people will be able to justify travelling to the conference who is not local. (Anyone interested PLEASE speak up.) Luckily we have John Cowan there in NYC. Perhaps, depending on the rules for the conference, he can arrange to deliver more than one paper, including someone else's paper as co-author or something - John is perfectly capable of defending most technical discussions of Lojban. In any event, we ought to be able to get at least one paper into the conference if we work quickly. In a quick brainstorm, John and I have come up with several topics for possible papers, some of which would better be written by other people: - a general discussion of the linguistics research goals for Lojban "Lojban - a test bed for linguistics research" - any number of logic-related issues - a comparison of predicate language expression and that of other languages including whether Lojban predicates are nouns, verbs, or adjectives, or something else. - discussion of some of the tricky semantics issues that we have been facing, especially in the last year - discussion of the comprehensive Lojban tense system (possibly difficult to condense in to a short paper) - discussion of the Lojban attitudinal system - Nick's work on lujvo - perhaps a modification of his lujvo paper - Nick's paper on his Prolog implementation of Lojban - Ivan's work on varieties of metaphorical modification, or perhaps something derived from his thesis work, which he says has considerable application to Lojban. I'm sure some of you can think of others. Following is the text of the flyer: ================= The American Society of Geolinguistics with the Esperanto Society of New York and the Academy for the Humanities and Sciences of the City University of New York invite your participation in a conference on CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTION PLANNED LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE PLANNING FROM DESCARTES TO ZAMENHOF, & FROM VAUGELAS TO HEINRICH SCHMIDT, & FROM CATALAN TO BOSNIAN to be held at The Graduate School & University Center of CUNY 42nd Street New York City 13 OCTOBER 1995 Abstracts (250 words) in three (3) copies of papers that would take 15 minutes to read at the conference should be sent to reach before the end of June 1995 Prof. Wayne H. Finke, Secretary of ASG 7 East 14th Street, New York NY 10003 and papers are welcome not only on constructed languages such as Esperanto, Interlingua, etc., but all such "logical" and "a priori" languages and all broader interpretations of "construction". The conference also proposes to address other products of language planning and conscious reshaping for educational, political, economic, and cultural purposes. Papers may discuss any language(s) but are expected to be delivered in English and offered in camera-ready copy (details from the AGS editor, Prof. Jesse Levitt, 485 Brooklawn Aenue, Fairfield CT 06432) in English (maximum 12 pages including notes) for publication in the proceedings. The abstracts will be read by a jury consisting of the following: Prof. Kenneth H. Rogers, University of Rhode island Prof. Joan McConnell, Stanford Univerity Ms. Cecile Low, President of The Esperanto Society of New York They will announce the program of the conference in June 1995. ======== Because of the short deadline, I ask that anyone planning to respond to this from the Lojban community at the very least coordinate with John Cowan (cowan@ccil.org) and copy your discussion to me at lojbab@access.digex.net. In return, I'm asking Cowan to keep informed of any details he finds out, anyone who responds to him with ideas or offering to write or help write a paper, so we can coordinate any Lojban community representation at the conference. You can also post ideas for general discussion on Lojban List, but note that the probable time-critical nature of our response demands that we not spend a lot of time on debate. My public thanks to Mr. Lynn Bartlett for letting me know about this conference. lojbab ---- lojbab lojbab@access.digex.net Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 For the artificial language Loglan/Lojban, see ftp.cs.yale.edu /pub/lojban or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/"