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We are pleased to announce that the 5th Syntax of the World's Languagesconference will take place at the Center for Advanced Academic Studies -University of Zagreb, in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1-4 October 2012.Conference webpage: http://www.ffzg.hr/swl5/SWL5.htmAbout the conferenceIn the same spirit as the previous conferences of this series (SWL I -Leipzig 2004, SWL II - Lancaster 2006, SWL III - Berlin 2008, and SWL IV -Lyon 2010), SWL V will provide a forum for linguists working on the syntaxof less widely studied languages or language varieties. Its main purposeis enlarging our knowledge and understanding of syntactic diversity.Contributions are expected to be data-driven, and the discussion oftheoretical issues is appreciated to the extent that it helps to elucidatethe data and remains understandable to persons that are not specialists ofthe relevant theory. All major theoretical frameworks are equally welcome,and papers that adopt a diachronic or comparative perspective are alsowelcome, as well as papers dealing with morphological or semantic issues,in so far as syntactic issues also play a major role.Programme committeeDenis CreisselMartin HaspelmathRanko MatasovicMilan MihaljevicMilena Zic FuchsOrganizersRanko Matasovic, University of ZagrebMilena Zic Fuchs, University of ZagrebMilan Mihaljevic, Old Church Slavonic Institute, ZagrebConference secretariesTena Gnjatovic, University of Zagreb (tena_gnjatovic@yahoo.com)Marija Kraljevic, University of Zagreb (marija.kraljevic@ffzg.hr)