Subject: Call for abstracts, WAFL3 in Moscow Please circulate widely. SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Third Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL3) May 22-24, 2006 The Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State University is pleased to announce the Third Workshop on Altaic in Formal Linguistics (WAFL3) on May 22-24, 2006. Along with a General Session, there will be a Special Session on Comparative Altaic Syntax and talks by invited speakers. General Session Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes discussion) on topics dealing with formal aspects of any area of theoretical Altaic linguistics, including syntax, phonology, morphology, and semantics. Invited Speakers:       David Pesetsky (MIT)             Bert Vaux (University of Wisconsin) Special Session:        Comparative Altaic Syntax                 organized by                 Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT) and                 Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University) Abstact Submission Abstracts should be sent electronically to the conference e-mail address (mail(a)wafl3.org.ru) as attachments in .pdf, .rtf, or .doc format. If you submit a file in .doc or .rtf formats, send appropriate fonts as attachments as well. The following information will also be requested: 1) paper title 2) name(s) of author(s) 3) affiliation(s) of author(s) 4) email address to which the notification of acceptance should be mailed 5) contact phone number for each author 6) physical address for each author This information should be in a separate file or included as part of the body of the e-mail message. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is December 15, 2005. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. The notification of acceptance will be sent around mid-February, 2006. Contact:        Sergei Tatevosov         mail(a)wafl3.org.ru Website:        wafl3.org.ru Further information about travel, accommodation, and registration will be gradually posted at our website. WAFL3 Organizing Committee Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Moscow State University 1 Uchebnyj Korpus, Leninskije Gory, 119899 Moscow Russia