21.3983, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-21-3983. Sat Oct 09 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.3983, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: 06-Oct-2010
From: Hilary Prichard < hilaryp at babel.ling.upenn.edu >
Subject: The 35th Penn Linguistics Colloquium

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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:26:08
From: Hilary Prichard [hilaryp at babel.ling.upenn.edu]
Subject: The 35th Penn Linguistics Colloquium

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Full Title: The 35th Penn Linguistics Colloquium 
Short Title: PLC 

Date: 18-Mar-2011 - 20-Mar-2011
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA 
Contact Person: PLC Organizing Committee
Meeting Email: plc35 at babel.ling.upenn.edu
Web Site: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Nov-2010 

Meeting Description:

The PLC is a conference in linguistics run by the graduate students in the 
Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Call For Papers

Invited Speaker: Virginia Valian of Hunter College (topic and title TBA)
There will also be a special interdisciplinary panel on Friday, March 18, 
which is tentatively about language acquisition.  More information will be 
posted closer to the conference.

Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. 
Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for 
discussion and questions.

Deadline: Abstracts are due Friday, November 5, 2010. Notification of 
acceptance/rejection will be given by Tuesday, January 18, 2011.

Length: Please limit abstracts to one page, single-spaced. An additional 
page may be used for references and tables. Do not include your name or 
affiliation within the abstract.

Format: To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a 
.pdf file. 

Abstract Submission: To submit an abstract, you must follow these steps:
1. To begin, go to our abstract submission system and login: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plc35.
2. If you do not have an existing EasyChair account, click on 'sign up for an 
account.' You will be asked to fill out a simple form to create an account.
3. Click 'New Submission' at the top of the page.  
4. Enter author information in the provided fields.  Tick the 'Corresponding 
Author' box for all authors who wish to receive e-mail correspondences or 
notifications.
5. Enter your title in the 'Title' field.
6. In the 'Abstract' field, please enter a one sentence summary, or any 
comments you have, in order to assist the committee in assigning reviewers.
7. Please select the primary category of your abstract. Additional categories 
may be included in the keywords.
8. Enter at least three keywords.
9. Upload your paper in the 'Paper' field.  Only .pdf files will be accepted.  
Do not include your name or affiliation in the abstract/file name!
10. Do not tick the 'Abstract only' box, or your .pdf will not be uploaded.
11. Click 'Submit'' You will be taken to a summary page of your submission - 
this is your confirmation that it has been saved. Abstracts will be reviewed 
anonymously.
12. You may make any necessary updates by logging in and clicking on 'My 
Submissions.' 

Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the 
Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. Speakers will be invited to provide 
camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium.

For more information:
Email plc35 at ling.upenn.edu
Visit http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc35 (NOTE: The website is 
currently under construction - check back soon!)

Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

This event is supported by funding from SASgov, the student government 
for graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences, and GAPSA, the 
Graduate and Professional Students' Association at the University of 
Pennsylvania.

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