28.2257, Calls: Gen Ling/USA

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Subject: 28.2257, Calls: Gen Ling/USA

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Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 12:22:21
From: Gabriel Rei-Doval [reidoval at uwm.edu]
Subject: 6th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium

 
Full Title: 6th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium 
Short Title: LHLS 6 

Date: 29-Sep-2017 - 30-Sep-2017
Location: Milwaukee, WI, USA 
Contact Person: Gabriel Rei-Doval
Meeting Email: reidoval at uwm.edu
Web Site: http://uwm.edu/spanish-portuguese/6th-lusophone-and-hispanic-linguistics-symposium/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Aymara, Southern (ayc)
                     Basque (eus)
                     Catalan-Valencian-Balear (cat)
                     Galician (glg)
                     Guaraní, Paraguayan (gug)
                     Leonese (ast)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Quechua, Cusco (quz)
                     Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Indo-European; Latin Subgroup; Romance 

Call Deadline: 07-Aug-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UW-Milwaukee and the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at UW-Madison are pleased to announce the 6th Lusophone
and Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (SLHL 6), to be held on September 29-30,
2017 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This Symposium will include
presentations on different fields of descriptive, applied, social and
theoretical linguistics from a synchronic or diachronic perspective. Language
contact issues will be highlighted in this event.

Venue: UW-Milwaukee
3243 N. Downer Avenue. Milwaukee WI 53211
September 29-30, 2017

Keynote speakers:

Dr. Xosé Luís Regueira
Professor of Galician and Portuguese Philology, he teaches in the School of
Philology and is a Research Scholar in the Instituto da Lingua Galega,
University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). He holds a B.A. in
Romance Philology (1982) and a Ph.D. (1989) at USC.  His research interests
include phonetics, language variation, contact and standardization, and
historiography of linguistics. He has taken part in multiple research projects
in these fields, and is PI in the Cambio lingüístico no galego actual project.
The research projects he has participated in and/or directed include: Cambio
lingüístico no galego actual, Corpus Oral Informatizado da Lingua Galega
(CORILGA), Dicionario de pronuncia da lingua galega, Contacto e cambio
lingüístico en galego, Gramática da lingua galega, and Estudo perceptivo da
variación prosódica dialectal do galego. He has been general editor of the
journal Cadernos de Lingua since 1990, as well as a permanent member of the
Real Academia Galega since 2012.

Dr. Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar
Patricia Giménez-Eguíbar is an Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at
Western Oregon University and current Chair of the Modern Languages
Department. She received her PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010
and she graduated with two BA in Spanish Philology and Italian Philology from
the University of Salamanca.  Her research focuses on socio-historical
approach to language especially on how social and cultural factor combine to
influence lexical changes. Among her publications are Algunas cuestiones sobre
la pérdida de arabismos (Romance Philology, 2011), Attitudes Toward Lexical
Arabisms in 16th Century Spanish Texts (John Benjamins, 2016) and Obras
completas by José Ortega y Gasset (Taurus, 2009). She has worked as an
assistant researcher for the Real Academia Española (RAE) and the Spanish
National Research Council (CSIC) for the New Historical Dictionary of Spanish
(Nuevo Diccionario Histórico del Español) and Fundación Ortega y Gasset.


Call for Papers: 

The Departments of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Madison invite submissions
for papers to be presented at the 6th Lusophone and Hispanic Linguistics
Symposium (LHLS 6).

Submissions for the main session from graduate students and other scholars are
welcome in any descriptive, social, applied or theoretical approach to
linguistics, from a synchronic or diachronic perspective. Papers on topics in
Spanish, Portuguese, and/or the languages they are in contact with should not
exceed 20 minutes. The languages of the symposium are English, Portuguese and
Spanish.

Abstracts should be at most one page, with one-inch margins and 12-point font.
A second page may be included for references and/or data. Abstracts should be
sent to reidoval at uwm.edu.

The deadline for submission is 12 a.m. CST on Monday, August 7, 2017. You will
be notified of the status of your submission by late-August.

Please contact the submissions coordinator with any questions or concerns:
Gabriel Rei-Doval
reidoval at uwm.edu




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