CFP: Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference (SCLC-2009) in Prague, October 15-17, 2009

[Steven Clancy]

THE 2009 SLAVIC COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE
(SCLC-2009)
October 15-17, 2009


The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) announces the call  
for papers for the 2009 Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Conference  
(SCLC-2009), October 15-17, 2009. We are very pleased to hold  
SCLC-2009 in conjunction with the Department of Czech Language and  
Theory of Communication of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in  
Prague, Czech Republic. Full information about the conference may be  
found at the official conference website (http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc_eng.htm 
).

Papers concerning all aspects of Slavic languages (phonetics,  
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistic and broadly  
cultural aspects) from the perspective of cognitive linguistics are  
welcome. Abstracts may be submitted up until the deadline of March 31,  
2009 to Steven Clancy <sclancy at uchicago.edu>. Abstracts should be  
approximately 500 words, but strict word limits are not required.  
Notification of acceptance will be provided by May 31, 2009. Please  
see the official conference website (http://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/sclc/sclc_eng.htm 
) for more details.

We hope you will be able to join us in Prague for SCLC-2009. Please  
forward this call for papers to your colleagues and graduate students  
who may be interested in presenting or attending.

All the best,


Steven Clancy

Steven Clancy	Tore Nesset
President, SCLA	Vice-President, SCLA
on behalf of the SCLC-2009 organizing committee

Team of organizers in Prague:

Mgr. Jan Chromý (chief coordinator)
doc. PhDr. Ivana Bozděchová, CSc.
Veronika Čurdová
PhDr. Jasňa Pacovská, CSc.
PhDr. Lucie Saicová Římalová, Ph.D.
PhDr. Lucie Šůchová
doc. PhDr. Irena Vaňková, CSc.

Pre-Conference Workshop in Corpus and Experimental Methods
at SCLC-2009 in Prague
October 15, 2009


We also plan to organize a one-day pre-conference workshop on corpus  
linguistics, experimental methods and statistical analysis. This will  
take place on October 15, 2009 before the start of the main SCLC-2009  
conference. More details forthcoming at the SCLA website (http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/ 
).