26.4813, Calls: General Ling/USA

Thu Oct 29 17:52:31 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-4813. Thu Oct 29 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.4813, Calls: General Ling/USA

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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:52:17
From: Erik Maier [erikhmaier at berkeley.edu]
Subject: 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society

Full Title: 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 
Short Title: BLS42 

Date: 05-Feb-2016 - 07-Feb-2016
Location: Berkeley, California, USA 
Contact Person: Erik Maier
Meeting Email: erikhmaier at berkeley.edu
Web Site: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2015 

Meeting Description:

The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS42) will take place Friday through Sunday, February 5-7, 2016, on the UC Berkeley campus.

General Session

The general session welcomes abstracts from the areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, historical/comparative linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics.

General Session Invited Speakers:
Liina Pylkkänen, New York University
Meghan Sumner, Stanford University
Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University

Special Session: Learnability

The special session will focus on learnability and welcomes abstracts on theoretical, experimental, computational, and other approaches to the learning of grammatical systems.

Special Session Invited Speaker:
Joe Pater, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Parasession: Austronesian Linguistics

The areal parasession will focus on the languages of the Austronesian family. The session welcomes descriptive and theoretical abstracts that draw the majority of their data from Austronesian languages.

Parasession Invited Speaker:
Joey Sabbagh, University of Texas, Arlington

2nd Call for Papers: 

BLS42 welcomes abstract submissions from all areas of descriptive and theoretical linguistics. Abstracts that make use of experimental methods in combination with formal-theoretical analysis are especially encouraged.

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts are due by November 1, 2015, 11:59 pm PST. Please submit all abstracts through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bls42). Authors will be notified of acceptance by December 1st.

Authors may maximally submit one single-authored abstract and one co-authored abstract. Abstracts, including titles, data, and examples, must fit onto 1 page with 1'' margins and 12pt font. References may be included on a separate page. Abstracts must be submitted as a pdf file to EasyChair. Abstracts must be anonymous; omit names or phrasing (e.g. my paper (Author 20XX) ) that would otherwise reveal author identity. Surname-year citations (Author 20XX) that do not identify the author of the abstract as the author of the cited paper are acceptable. 

Please fill out all required fields in EasyChair and check at least one box indicating a topic corresponding to the linguistic subfield(s) of greatest relevance to your abstract. All submissions will be anonymized for review.

Links:

Check our website (http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/) for general information and updates concerning the conference. You can also find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/berkeleylinguisticssociety) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/berkeleylingsoc).

Email correspondence concerning abstract submissions to bls_submissions at berkeley.edu. Address general correspondence to bls at berkeley.edu.

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