Conference announcement -- SLE 2010

Johncharles Smith johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk
Tue Nov 3 10:21:44 UTC 2009


(Apologies for cross-postings)

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

43rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
2-5 September 2010

Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/

The Societas Linguistica Europaea and the Vilnius Local Organizing Committee invite you to submit workshop, poster and paper proposals for the next annual SLE meeting. SLE meetings give a forum to high-quality scientific research from all (sub)domains of linguistics. Every year local organizers pay special attention to one specific topic. Though the next annual meeting particularly welcomes papers on “Language contact: at the crossroads of disciplines and frameworks”, workshops, posters and individual papers are invited on topics belonging to all fields of linguistics.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Bas Aarts (London)
Balthasar Bickel (Leipzig)
Hubert Cuyckens (Leuven)
Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Stockholm)
Tania Kuteva (Duesseldorf)
Vladimir Plungian (Moscow)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Aurelija Usoniene (Chair)
Antanas Smetona
Jolanta Sinkuniene (Secretary)
Birute Ryvityte
Vytautas Kardelis
Erika Jasionyte
Jurgis Pakerys

SLE CONFERENCE MANAGER
Bert Cornillie (Leuven – Research Foundation Flanders)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Werner Abraham (Wien/Muenchen), Sander Adelaar (Melbourne), Karin Aijmer (Gothenburg), Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (James Cook, Cairns), Sjef Barbiers (Meertens Instituut), Ineta Dabasinskiene (Kaunas), Jean-Marc Dewaele (London), Gabriele Diewald (Hannover), Ursula Doleschal (Wien), Anna Duszak (Warsaw), Dirk Geeraerts (Leuven), Teresa Fanego (Santiago de Compostela, Chair), Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo (Vitoria), Volker Gast (Jena), Kleanthes K. Grohmann (Nicosia), Youssef Haddad (Florida), Bernd Heine (Koeln), Eva Hajicova (Prague), Axel Holvoet (Vilnius), Johannes Kabatek (Tuebingen), Violeta Kaledaite (Kaunas), Roman Kalisz (Gdansk), Birute Klaas (Tartu), Ekkehard Koenig (Berlin), Petar Kehayov (Tartu), Elizabeth Lanza (Oslo), David Lasagabaster (Vitoria), Michele Loporcaro (Zurich), Ruta Marcinkeviciene (Research Council, Lithuania), Caterina Mauri (Pavia), Lachlan Mckenzie (Lisbon-VU Amsterdam), Edith Moravcsik (Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Pieter Muysken (Nijmegen), Robert Nicolaï (Nice), Brigitte Pakendorf (Max Planck, Leipzig), Carita Paradis (Vaxjo), Shana Poplack (Ottawa), Anna Siewierska (Lancaster), Frank Seifart (Max Planck, Leipzig), Pieter Seuren (Max Planck, Nijmegen), Carmen Silva-Corvalán (Los Angeles, USC), John-Charles Smith (Oxford), Thomas Stolz (Bremen), Jarmila Tarnyikova (Olomouc), Marina Terkourafi (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sarah Thomason (Michigan), Johan van der Auwera (Antwerp), Andrejs Veisbergs (Riga), Jean-Christophe Verstraete (Leuven), Salvador Valera (Jaén), Letizia Vezzosi (Perugia), Dominique Willems (Gent), Jacek Witkos (Poznan), Virginia Yip (Hong Kong), Klaus Zimmermann (Bremen), Debra Ziegeler (Singapore), Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Queensland)


WORKSHOPS

Since SLE 2009, more than half of the presentations take place within the framework of thematic workshops. Proposals for workshops are hence particularly welcome. They should contain
(i)                a description of the topic (including research questions to be addressed) and
(ii)              a provisional list of workshop participants and a three line description of their topics
We encourage workshop convenors to distribute an open call for papers on the LinguistList and other fora. The deadline for the submission of workshop proposals is 15 November 2009. Notification of acceptance will follow by 15 December 2009. All abstracts of workshop papers have to be registered and sent to us by 1 January 2010.

Since we want all conference participants to be able to attend individual workshop presentations, SLE workshops have to be compatible with the main conference programme. This means that the format of the workshops must be organized around 30 minute presentations (20 min. + 10 min. discussion). Each workshop ideally comprises:

1. An introductory paper by the convenor(s) or by a key-note speaker. It should summarize previous research, specify the approaches to be found in the workshop and explain the scope of the papers to be given.
2. Seven or eight papers. The preference is for one-day workshops, but two-day workshops may also be considered.
3. A slot for final discussion on topics covered by the papers, methodological issues and questions for future research.

More details can be discussed with the SLE conference manager.

POSTERS

The next SLE meeting will hold two poster sessions of an hour for both senior and junior researchers. Posters and oral presentations will be evaluated according to the same quality standards. In order to foster interaction, all other sessions will be suspended during the poster session.

The maximum size of the poster is 1,10 m x 1 m. For more information about how to make a good poster, click here<http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/posterpres.html>.

The deadline for the submission of poster abstracts is 1 January 2010.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshops, posters and individual papers are invited on all topics belonging to the field of linguistics. Presentations will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes question time.

Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (exclusive of references) and should state research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. The abstract will also contain three to five key words specifying the (sub)domain, the topic and the approach.

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by three people. Due to the good efforts of the SLE 2009 SC, the acceptance rate of the Lisbon conference was 57% for the general session. (More information on SLE 2009 can be found here<http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/meetings/conference%20lisboa/Lisboa%202009.htm>)

The deadline for all abstracts (for the general session, the poster session and the workshops) is 1 January 2010. Notification of acceptance will be given by 31 March 2010.

Submit your title through the Submit Abstract form<http://wwwling.arts.kuleuven.be/conference/admin/SubmitAbstractSLE> and email your abstract as an attachment to sle at arts.kuleuven.be<mailto:sle at arts.kuleuven.be>. The abstract should not mention the presenter(s) nor their affiliations or addresses. Abstracts are preferably in Word or .RTF format; if your abstract contains special symbols, please include a pdf version as well.

Prize for the best presentation and the best poster

On the basis of the ranking of the abstracts, the Scientific Committee will set up an internal shortlist with nominees for the prize of best oral presentation and the prize for best poster. Members of the Executive Committee and the Scientific Committee will decide on the last day of the meeting who will receive the prizes, which consist of 500 euros.

Nominees are PhD students or postdocs who finish their dissertation in the academic year of 2009-2010.

REGISTRATION

Registration will start from 1 April 2010 onwards. SLE 2010 keeps the SLE 2009 conference fees (see our website<http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/>).

Become a member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea<http://www.societaslinguistica.eu/membership/join.php> and get a discount.

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

There will be a reception (included in the registration fee) and a conference dinner. On Sunday afternoon there will be a post-conference excursion. Further information will be given in the second circular.


HOW TO GET TO VILNIUS

Frequent flights operate between Vilnius or Kaunas and most European capitals. Vilnius airport is 5 km (3miles) south of the city centre. The carriers are: Aer Lingus, Air Baltic, Austrian airlines, Brussels Airlines, Finnair, LOT, Lufthansa, SAS, Skyways, Star1 Airlines, etc. There are good train, shuttle and taxi connections between the airport and the city centre.

Vilnius Railway Station is very centrally located. There are connections with Warsaw, Berlin and St Petersburg.


IMPORTANT DATES

15 November 2009:            deadline for submission of workshop proposals
1 January 2010:                   deadline for submission of poster and paper abstracts
31 March 2010:                    notification of acceptance
1 April 2010:                        early registration starts
1 June 2010:                        registration (full fee)


CONTACT

SLE 2010 Local organizing committee:
Jolanta Sinkuniene (Secretary)

Tel. +370 618 68887
Fax +370 5 2687 228
E-mail: sle43 at flf.vu.lt<mailto:sle43 at flf.vu.lt>

SLE conference manager:
sle at arts.kuleuven.be<mailto:sle at arts.kuleuven.be>

Local Conference Secretariat:
[cid:6.2.1.2.1.20090924115446.027b0d60 at arts.kuleuven.be.0]
Meeting Management Company
Olimpieciu 1-34, LT-09200
Vilnius, Lithuania
Phone: +370 5 2000780
Fax:     +370 5 2000782
E-mail: sle43 at viaconventus.com<mailto:sle43 at viaconventus.com>

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