The phenomena we plan to discuss include, but are not restricted to:
- syncretisms involving the coding of instruments; this might involve syncretisms with structural or other semantic cases, or syncretisms with other functions entirely;
- overlaps in syntactic behaviour between instruments and subjects, or instruments and objects;
- discussion of the termhood of instruments cross-linguistically or in language-specific settings.

Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (20 minute presentation + 10 minute question-and-answer period) relevant to the workshop theme. All material is to be submitted in .pdf format. Applicants are limited to one single-authored and one jointly-authored abstract.

Abstracts should be anonymous and should not exceed one A4 page with a 1in/2.5cm margin on each side and in at least 12 pt font. A second page (in a separate file) should be submitted with the title of your paper and names, affiliations, and preferred contact details of the author(s).

Abstracts are to be submitted via email to the conference address (instruments08-at-gmail.com).

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2008.
Notifications of acceptance will be circulated by May 15, 2008

For any questions about the workshop, please email your queries to either of the organizers:
Mark Donohue and Cathryn Donohue at instruments08-at-gmail.com.