LSA 2003 INSTITUTE
Language, Mind & Culture

30 June - 8 August
East Lansing, MI USA

Sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America and
The Department of Linguistics and Germanic,
Slavic, Asian and African Languages
of the College of Arts & Letters
Michigan State University

Eighty-six 3- and 6-week courses in various subfields of linguistics, taught by 97 faculty.

Please visit our website (http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu) for up-to-date information about the program of instruction and concurrent events and for full information about registration, housing, credits, visas, travel, insurance, excursions and other matters.

Director: Dennis R. Preston
Associate Directors: Barbara Abbott, Susan M. Gass, and Grover Hudson
Institute Associates: Erica Benson and Chunhua Ma
Technical Associate: Thor Sawin
Collitz Professor: John Rickford
Sapir Professor: Ray Jackendoff
Forum Lectures: Janet Dean Fodor, Jane Hill, William Labov, and Michael Tanenhaus

Co-sponsors:
Association for Computational Linguistics
College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University
Office of the Provost, Michigan State University
Office of the Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies,
Michigan State University
College of Literature, Science and the Arts, The University of Michigan
Supporters:
American Association for Applied Linguistics
American Dialect Society
Center for Language Education and Research, Michigan State University
Cognitive Science Program, Michigan State University
Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University
Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University
The Korea Foundation
Language Learning Center, Michigan State University
Summer Institute of Linguistics

Concurrent Activities

Conferences
• July 11-13: North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
• July 18-20: Annual HPSG Meeting
• July 19-20: COSWL/IGALA Conference on Language and Gender
• July 25-27: Mini-conference of the North American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association
• August 1-2: Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference
• August 8-11: Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference

Workshops
• Weekly: Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics Rap Sessions
• Weekly: COSWL Survival Skills Workshops
• July 11-12: Digital Audio Technology
• July 11-13: Where Semantics Meets Pragmatics
• July 11-13: Digitizing and Annotating Texts and Field Recordings
• July 18-19: Tense, Aspect, Modality and Events
• July 25-26: Japanese Language Processing Workshop
• August 1-2: UG Principles and Input Data
• August 1-3: Forensic Linguistics Workshop
• August 2-3: Linguistic Video production
• August 8: Problems of Linguistic Change
• August 8: PLOTNIK

Important Institute deadlines to remember:

March 1: Visa applications due

April 1: Deadline for application without $50.00 penalty (affiliates and students)
MSU housing applications due
Requests for special services due

May 15: Deadline for payment of all Institute fees

June 1: Photo for MSU required ID card due
Health insurance application due

Institute contact information:

Website: http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu
E-mail: lsa2003@msu.edu
Phone: 517-353-9945
Fax: 517-432-3099

Mailing address:

LSA 2003 Institute
Department of Linguistics and Germanic,
Slavic, Asian and African Languages
A 740 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027