Tutorial in Fluid Construction Grammar. September 1-2, 2010. The hands-on workshop will take place in Prague, Czech Republic. Organizer: Luc Steels (Free University of Brussels & Sony CSL Paris). Details can be found at the tutorial webpage.

Sixth International Construction Grammar Conference (ICCG-6). September 3-5, 2010. The conference will take place in Prague, Czech Republic. Organizer: Mirjam Fried (Academy of Sciences), Eva Lehečková (Charles University), and Jan Čermák (Charles University). Invited speakers: Stefan Gries, Björn Hansen, Kiki Nikiforidou, Toshio Ohori, Luc Steels, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Gert Webelhuth. Further details can be found at www.constructiongrammar.org/iccg6, or write to the organizers at iccg6 AT ff.cuni.cz.

Joint meeting of CSDL and ESLP (Conceptual Structure Discourse, and Language Conference; Embodied and Situated Language Processing Workshop). September 16-19, 2010. The conference will take place in San Diego, California. Organizers: Benjamin K. Bergen and Pia Knoeferle. Keynote speakers: Michael Arbib, Lera Boroditsky, Craig Chambers, Matthew Crocker, Vic Ferreira, Adele Goldberg, George Lakoff, Teenie Matlock, Fey Parrill, Gabriella Vigliocco, Rolf Zwaan. Abstract submission deadline is April 30, 2010. Further details of the meeting can be found at the conference website. The meeting welcomes submissions of abstracts for oral or poster presentations on topics related to language and cognition, including but not limited to embodiment, situatedness, language use, figurative language, grammatical constructions, gesture, comprehension, production, and learning. Successful submissions will address theoretically important issues using appropriate empirical methods, such as linguistic analysis, corpus analysis, computational modeling, behavioral experimentation, electrophysiology, and brain imaging. Support for students: Through National Science Foundation support, the meeting is able to provide up to $250 in funding to support travel costs and registration fees for 25 students participating in this meeting. Students may request to be considered for support using the form to appear on the meeting's website. Reviews of submissions will be entirely independent of and unaffected by requests for support.

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