28.3670, Calls: General Linguistics/Estonia

Wed Sep 6 18:03:51 UTC 2017

LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3670. Wed Sep 06 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3670, Calls: General Linguistics/Estonia

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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 14:03:45
From: Olga Spevak [spevak at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea

Full Title: 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 
Short Title: SLE 2018 

Date: 29-Aug-2018 - 01-Sep-2018
Location: Tallinn, Estonia 
Contact Person: Anna Verschik
Meeting Email: annave at tlu.ee

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and Tallinn University are pleased to
announce the “51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE
2018)”, to be held in Tallinn, 29 August-1 September, 2018.

SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from all
(sub)domains of linguistics and seeks to attract the submission of workshop
proposals on specialised linguistic areas. The meetings also host a round
table of experts to discuss topics of linguistic interest. 

Anna Verschik
Chair of the Local Organising Committee

1st Call for Papers:

Workshop Proposals:

51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea
29 August – 1 September 2018
Tallinn University
http://www.societaslinguistica.eu

The Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) and Tallinn University of are pleased
to announce the “51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE
2018)”, to be held in Tallinn, 29 August – 1 September 2018, and would like to
invite you to submit workshop proposals for the conference. 

Submission Guidelines: Workshop Proposals
Deadline: 15 November 2017.

Workshop proposals should contain:

(i) A description of the topic and research questions (approximately and no
more than 1000 words).
(ii) A (provisional) list of workshop participants and their provisional
abstracts (max. 300 words per abstract).

The format of the workshops should be organized around 25 minute slots (20
min. presentation, 5 min. discussion). Workshops should contain either 10 or
15 slots (1 or 1.5 days). Each workshop ideally comprises:

1. An introductory paper by the convenor(s) or by a keynote speaker, which
summarizes previous research, specifies the approach(es) to be taken and sets
the scope of the papers to be presented.
2. Eight papers (1 day) or thirteen papers (1.5 day).
3. A slot for a final discussion on the topics covered by the papers,
methodological issues and questions for future research.

Further details can be discussed with the SLE Conference Manager
(sle at univ-tlse2.fr).

Workshop convenors are encouraged to announce their workshop as a Session of
SLE 2018 (please go to Session information > Add Session). 

Workshop proposals should be sent to the chair of workshops: luraghi at unipv.it.

The deadline for submitting workshop proposals 15 November 2017. Notification
of acceptance/rejection will be by 15 December 2017. 

After a workshop proposal has been accepted, the convenors will be requested
to invite all preliminary workshop participants to submit their full abstracts
by 15 January 2018 to the general call for papers. Accepted workshop proposals
will be published on the conference webpage. 

Organisers:

Chair of the local organising committee: Anna Verschik (Tallinn),
annave at tlu.ee 
SLE Conference Manager: Olga Spevak (Toulouse), sle at univ-tlse2.fr
SLE Treasurer: Dik Bakker (Lancaster), d.bakker at uva.nl

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