<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Call for Papers</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Conference: </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association XX (AFLA XX)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Call Deadline: January 25, 2013.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Conference website: <a href="http://ling.uta.edu/~afla20">http://ling.uta.edu/~afla20</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Contact Persons: Joseph Sabbagh, Nathan Eversole (<a href="mailto:aflauta20@gmail.com">aflauta20@gmail.com</a>) </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Description: </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: tahoma, arial, verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">The Department of Linguistics at UT Arlington will host the 20th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association. The conference dates are May 17-19, 2013. </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">AFLA is an organization which promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. We will elicit talks on all aspects of formal linguistics (e.g. language acquisition, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics, syntax) of Austronesian languages. In addition to promoting the formal study of Austronesian languages, we especially encourage work by speaker-linguists and junior scholars. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">Invited Speakers: </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">Sandra Chung (University of California, Santa Cruz)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">Eric Potsdam (University of Florida)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">Norvin Richards (MIT)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">Abstracts are invited for 30 minute talks (20+10) or poster presentations on</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">any aspect of formal linguistics (morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax,</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">semantics) of any Austronesian language(s). Abstracts on experimental or psycholinguistic research </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">of any Austronesian language(s) are also invited. Submission </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">limitations are one singly-authored abstract and one jointly-authored</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">abstract, or two jointly-authored abstracts per applicant. Abstracts should</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">be limited to a maximum of two Letter-sized (or A4) pages (for text,</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">examples, trees, tableaux, and references), with margins of one inch and in</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">12 pt. type.</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "> </span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; ">Abstracts should be submitted online by January 25, 2013, at the following URL: </span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Courier New'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Code2000, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; "><br></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; "><a href="http://linguistlist.org/confservices/afla20">http://linguistlist.org/confservices/afla20</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Courier New'; ">The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is located in Arlington, Texas, situated between Dallas and Fort Worth. Arlington is easily accessible by two major airports: DFW and Love Field. </span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; "><br></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Courier New', sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Courier; "><br></span></div></body></html>