26.4353, Calls: Greek, General Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Typology/Greece

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Subject: 26.4353, Calls: Greek, General Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Typology/Greece

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:34:27
From: Marina Tzakosta [martzak74 at gmail.com]
Subject: 7th Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory Conference

 
Full Title: 7th Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory Conference 
Short Title: MGDLT7 

Date: 06-Oct-2016 - 08-Oct-2016
Location: Rethymno, Crete, Greece 
Contact Person: Marina Tzakosta
Meeting Email: martzak74 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Modern (ell)

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Preschool Education and the Department of Philology of the University of Crete are pleased to organize the 7th Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory Conference (MGDLT7) in Rethymno, Crete, Greece, between 06-08 October 2016. 

Aim of the conference is to highlight the importance of Modern Greek dialects for linguistic theory and promote the study of dialectal variation. The main conference will be preceded by a workshop on “Dialects in Education” on Thursday October 6, 2016.

Invited Speakers:

Frans Hiskens, Meertens Instituut & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Angela Ralli, University of Patras
Stavroula Tsiplakou, Open University of Cyprus

Local Organizing Committee:

Ioanna Kappa
Marina Tzakosta
Eirini Tangalaki
Stathis Theodorakis

Call for Papers:

Abstracts for 25 oral papers and 15 posters presenting data and theory in Modern Greek dialects in the areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical and contact linguistics are invited to be submitted. An abstract of maximum of 500 words in English or Greek may be submitted. Each author can submit maximally 2 papers, one single-authored and/ or one joint- paper, or two joint papers. The languages of the conference are English and Greek. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 15, 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by May 31, 2016. 

Permanent Scientific Committee:

Angella Ralli
Mark Janse
Brian Joseph

Additional information regarding abstract submission and organizational issues will be provided in the 2nd Call for Papers.




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