The Ohio State University is pleased to announce that the Third Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society will take place June 10-12, 2008 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

The Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS) grew out of a roundtable meeting organized by Steven Franks (Indiana University) at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) in December 2004. The first meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society was held in September 2006 at Indiana University, and the second was organized in Berlin, Germany in August 2007 by ZAS (Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universalienforschung und Typologie).

The purpose of the Slavic Linguistics Society is to create a community of students and scholars interested in Slavic linguistics, that is, the systematic and scholarly study of the Slavic languages. The Society aspires to be as open and inclusive as possible; no school, framework, approach, or theory is presupposed, nor is there any restriction in terms of geography, academic affiliation, or academic status. Go to the SLS homepage.

In that vein, the organizers of SLS-3 look forward to a conference which reflects the diversity of theoretical approaches and synchronic and diachronic topics which are currently being pursued in Slavic linguistics. Plenary speakers will include:

Henning Andersen (University of California, Los Angeles)
Peter Culicover (Ohio State University)
Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)

We look forward to welcoming you to Columbus!

Sincerely,
The SLS-3 Organizing Committee