26.346, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 26.346, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 09:59:25
From: Rennie Gonsalves [lacus.treasurer at gmail.com]
Subject: 42nd Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Forum

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Full Title: 42nd Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Forum 
Short Title: LACUS 

Date: 04-Aug-2015 - 07-Aug-2015
Location: Rockville Centre, New York, USA 
Contact Person: Rennie Gonsalves
Meeting Email: lacus.treasurer at gmail.com
Web Site: http://lacus.weebly.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2015 

Meeting Description:

The 2015 annual meeting of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, the 42nd LACUS Forum, will be held Tuesday, August 4 to Friday, August 7, 2015, at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, New York, USA.

Conference theme: Language and Society

We are happy to announce the following three keynote speakers:

Mark Aronoff (Stony Brook University)
K. David Harrison (Swarthmore College)
Dorit Kaufman (Stony Brook University)

Our local hosts at Molloy College are Jackie Nenchin and S. Alexandria Wolochuk. 

2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts must be submitted online. The abstract submission page, with guidelines, can be found by following this link:

http://lacus.weebly.com/2015-submit--revise-a-proposal.html
It will be open to receive abstracts until February 15, 2015. 

LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas. Abstracts can be written in either English or French. Abstracts on all topics in linguistics, even those unrelated to the conference themes, are welcome. The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive or restrictive:

- Cognitive and neurolinguistic approaches to language
- Computational and corpus approaches to language
- Language in the media
- Forensic and clinical linguistics
- Multilingualism and genre
- Sociolinguistics
- Stratificational modeling of language
- Systemic-functional approaches to language
-  Issues in graphology, phonology, grammar, semantics, lexis, discourse, modality, ontology, diachronic linguistics, geolinguistics, etc.

Under certain conditions, LACUS permits authors who cannot travel to the conference to present via a real-time ('live') video connection. (LACUS membership and conference registration required).

The Presidents' Prize, which includes a cash award of US $500, is awarded to the most outstanding paper presented at a LACUS conference by a younger scholar. For this purpose, most outstanding paper is defined as the paper judged as the one making the greatest contribution to knowledge, and younger scholar is defined as one who has received a doctor's degree within the past five years and who has not yet advanced to a tenured position, or one who has not yet received a doctor’s degree. The judging is done by the Presidents Committee, consisting of the current President of LACUS and all former presidents in attendance at the meeting.

A runner-up prize, with a cash award of US $100, is given to the next-best paper (same criteria) by a young scholar (same definition).

More details about the conference will follow. Thank you for your support of LACUS, and we hope to see you at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, NY.

The LACUS 2015 Organizing Team

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