27.4425, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 27.4425, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:43:48
From: Marina Ermolaeva [mermolaeva at uchicago.edu]
Subject: 53rd Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society

 
Full Title: 53rd Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 
Short Title: CLS 53 

Date: 25-May-2017 - 27-May-2017
Location: Chicago, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Michael Tabatowski
Meeting Email: clsconf53 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Chicago Linguistic Society is the oldest student-run linguistics
organization in the United States. Our linguistics conference has been held
every year since 1965. This academic year, CLS will host its 53rd annual
meeting, which will be held from Thursday, May 25, to Saturday, May 27, 2017.

Invited Speakers: 

Lucas Champollion (NYU)
Itamar Francez (UChicago)
Thomas Graf (SUNY Stony Brook)
Sun-Ah Jun (UCLA)
Audrey Li (USC)
Josep Quer (Pompeu Fabra University)


Call for Papers:

The Chicago Linguistic Society invites abstracts in any area of current
research on the human language faculty, to include phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, and
sociolinguistics, as well as allied fields in the cognitive and social
sciences. Accepted participants will be allotted 20 minutes to present and 10
minutes to answer questions. Presented papers will be published in the CLS
proceedings. We particularly encourage submissions relevant to this year’s
proposed parasessions on computational/mathematical linguistics,
cross-linguistic quantification, East Asian linguistics, intonation and
prosody, and sign language linguistics.

Special Topics:

Computational/Mathematical Linguistics
Cross-linguistic Quantification
East Asian Linguistics
Intonation and Prosody
Sign Language Linguistics

Details on each of the special topics can be found on the conference website
(http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/call.html).

Abstract Guidelines:

Submissions that fail to comply with any of the following guidelines will be
automatically rejected.

(1) Submit abstracts in PDF format with the filename PaperTitle.pdf.
(2) Include the paper title and keywords (i.e., CLS session title, linguistic
subfield(s), language(s)/language family) within the abstract.
(3) Limit abstracts to two letter-sized pages in length, including data and
references. Use one-inch margins and a font size no smaller than 11 point.
Incorporate data into the main text of the abstract, not on a separate page.
(4) Anonymize submissions by not including author name(s) in the abstract or
filename.
(5) Use the EasyChair platform (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls53)
for the submission of abstracts.
(6) Restrict submissions to one individual and one joint abstract per author,
or two joint abstracts per author.

Submission deadline: February 5, 2017 by 11:59 PM CST
Notification: March 24, 2017
Conference dates: May 25-27, 2017




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