<html><body><div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px">The American Dialect Society (ADS) will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) from Wednesday, January 6 through Saturday, January 9, 2027, in San Francisco, California. (Please note the shift to start on a Wednesday and end on a Saturday.) </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px"><b>Friday, July 31, 2026, is the deadline</b> for 20-minute paper and poster proposals, as well as innovative panel proposals.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px">We invite presentations on any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic) and in the Caribbean Basin, and the languages that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare. We also encourage topics related to lexicography, linguistic atlas projects, linguistic landscapes, language and society, and public language-awareness programs.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px">The full CFP is here:</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><font face="times new roman, serif"><a href="https://americandialect.org/2027-cfp/" style="font-size:14px">https://americandialect.org/2027-cfp/</a></font><div><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px">Best wishes,<br><a href="https://americandialect.org/2027-cfp/"></a></font><div><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px">Grant Barrett</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px">American Dialect Society</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px">Vice President of Communications and Technology</font></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://americandialect.org"><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px">https://americandialect.org</font></a></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman, serif" style="font-size:14px"><a href="mailto:grant@grantbarrett.com">grant@grantbarrett.com</a></font></div></div></body></html>