25.3739, Calls: Germanic, General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 25.3739, Calls: Germanic, General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:29:01
From: Laura Catharine Smith [laurasmith at byu.edu]
Subject: 21st Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference

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Full Title: 21st Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 
Short Title: GLAC 

Date: 08-May-2015 - 09-May-2015
Location: Provo, USA 
Contact Person: Laura Catharine Smith
Meeting Email: laurasmith at byu.edu
Web Site: http://glac2015.weebly.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     Dutch, Middle (dum)
                     Dutch, Old (odt)
                     English, Old (ang)
                     Frisian, Eastern (frs)
                     Frisian, Old (ofs)
                     Frisian, Western (fri)
                     German (deu)
                     German, Pennsylvania (pdc)
                     Gothic (got)
                     Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                     Norwegian Nynorsk (nno)
                     Plautdietsch (pdt)
                     Saxon, Low (nds)
                     Yiddish, Western (yih)

Call Deadline: 16-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) 21
May 8-9, 2015
Downtown Provo Marriott, Provo, UT

The 21st Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC-21) will meet May 8-9, 2015 in Provo, Utah, hosted by the Department of German and Russian at Brigham Young University.  The conference will be held off campus at the Provo Downtown Marriott, near a variety of restaurants, shops and coffee houses. 

GLAC is the annual conference of the Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL), an organization serving the broad community of scholars teaching and researching in Germanic linguistics and philology.   Further information about the SGL, and about past conferences, may be found here: http://german.lss.wisc.edu/~sgl.

Invited Speakers:

Johanna Watzinger-Tharp (Utah)
Rolf Bremmer (Leiden)

Conference email: glac.2015.byu at gmail.com
Conference website: http://glac2015.weebly.com/

Call for Papers:

Submission deadline: Friday, January 16, 2015 (11:59 pm MST)
Anticipated notification of acceptance: Friday, February 13, 2015 

The organizers of the 21st Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) invite faculty, graduate students, language educators, program coordinators, and independent scholars to submit abstracts to the conference. We are pleased to announce that the online submission system (see below) is up and ready to accept your abstracts until the deadline Friday January 16, 2015. 

In addition to submissions for paper presentations as in previous years, we are delighted to offer three new options for participating at GLAC in 2015 to be able to include even more scholars this coming year:

a. 20-minute papers (+10 minute questions);

New Submission Options:

b. Thematic colloquia panels consisting of 3-4 papers, each 30 minutes (20 minute talk, 10 minute question period)
c. Posters presenting research
d. Posters on pedagogical topics related to K-16 teaching methodology, activities, teacher training, assessment, and program coordination for special Saturday poster session (see below)

Papers, colloquia and posters (excluding the pedagogy posters) may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of any historical or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (to the Early Modern period) and the extraterritorial varieties. Papers from the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, metrics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as well as differing theoretical perspectives, are welcome. 

In keeping with the research of our invited speakers, Johanna Watzinger-Tharp (Utah) and Rolf Bremmer (Leiden) we also encourage papers related to language usage and Frisian (including all stages and aspects of the language) respectively. All abstracts will undergo anonymous review.

Abstract Limits for Authors:

Authors may submit up to 3 abstracts for papers and posters of which no more than 2 abstracts can be for paper or colloquium presentations. (E.g., 2 papers/ colloquium papers + 1 poster or 1 paper + 2 posters)

Online Abstract Submission:

Abstracts must be submitted electronically as either PDF, doc or docx files at the EasyAbs site using the link below: 

http://linguistlist.org/confservices/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=6002JA4458B66E5840A050441

Authors' names should not be included in the file name. Please follow the directions on EasyAbs to submit the authors' names, institutional affiliation (if any), title of the paper, and e-mail address. This information should be submitted for all authors. 

If you experience problems or have questions, please contact the organizing committee at glac.2015.byu at gmail.com

A complete description of abstract and poster submission guidelines, including the style sheet, as well as descriptions of the thematic colloquia and posters, etc. can be found on the conference website:

http://glac2015.weebly.com/call-for-paperspanels.html

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