**CALL FOR PAPERS**

                   The Penn Linguistics Club Announces

           The Twenty-Third Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium

               Saturday 27 February and Sunday 28 February 1999

      Invited Speaker:  Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts


We welcome papers on any topic in linguistics and related fields.  This
year's Colloquium will feature a special session on applications of
constraint based approaches in any of the subfields of linguistics,
including but not limited to phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics-pragmatics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics,
historical linguistics, and language acquisition.

Speakers will have twenty minutes for their presentation and five minutes
for discussion and questions.

Prospective speakers should submit three copies of their abstract no later
than Tuesday 1 December 1998 to:

     The Penn Linguistics Colloquium Committee
     Department of Linguistics
     619 Williams Hall
     University of Pennsylvania
     Philadelphia PA 19104-6305

Abstracts should be no longer than 2 pages in a 12-point font with 1-inch
margins and should be accompanied by an index card including your name,
affiliation (department and institution), address, e-mail address and the
subfield of linguistics (or related discipline) that you find most
appropriate to your topic.  In particular, please indicate whether you
would like your paper to be considered for inclusion in the special
session.

Submissions by e-mail to plc23@babel.ling.upenn.edu are welcome.

Colloquium participants are invited to submit their paper to the Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics, which will be published late in the Spring
following the Colloquium.

If you have further questions, please contact us at the above address or
via e-mail at plc23@babel.ling.upenn.edu.

Sincerely,
The Colloquium Committee