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<p>we have extended the deadline for abstracts for APLL12 until 27 November. Please see conference information below.<br>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Austronesian</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and
Papuan Languages and Linguistics Research Group is pleased to announce that its twelfth international conference – APLL12 – will be held at the University of Oslo on 18-20 June, 2020.</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The purpose of the APLL conferences is to provide a venue for presentation
of the best current research on </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Austronesian</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and
Papuan languages and linguistics and to promote collaboration and research in this area. APLL12 follows previous APLL conferences held in Leiden, Surrey, Paris and London, and the </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Austronesian</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Languages
and Linguistics (ALL) conferences held at SOAS and St Catherine's College, Oxford (see </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/apllconference/previous-upcoming-conferences" target="_blank" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">https://sites.google.com/view/apllconference/previous-upcoming-conferences</a><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">).</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Abstracts for APLL12 are now invited. Presentations will be 20 minutes
followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Each individual may contribute to up two submissions, one of which may be a single-author paper. Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair system which you can access at </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apll12" target="_blank" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apll12</a><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If you do not have an EasyChair account already, you will need to create
one when you do this. Once logged in, complete your details and upload your abstract as an attachment (pdf or docx).</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Abstracts must be no more than one A4 page in length, including all
material such as references, examples, figures, tables, and maps. Abstracts must be anonymous, and set in a minimum of 12pt font. They should be in .docx or .pdf format and the filename should start with APLL12, followed by an underscore and then first author’s
surname, e.g. APLL12_hamar.pdf. If you have a common surname, please also include initials, e.g. APLL11_jjones.pdf. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed by members of the Programme Committee.</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Programme Committee welcomes presentations in the field of descriptive
linguistics of individual </span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Austronesian</span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and
Papuan languages, as well as comparative and historical studies involving several of these languages.</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The conference will contain two thematic sessions on:</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">1) Information structure and the role of prominence in grammar</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2) The interface between language documentation and experimental
methodologies</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Authors who want to present in one of these thematic sessions should
indicate so in their abstracts.</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A selected early career researcher will be invited to address the plenary
in an invited talk. BA, MA or PhD students, as well as researchers who have received their PhD after January 2018, are especially invited are invited to submit an abstract and to indicate that they wish to be considered for the early career researcher plenary
session; this can be indicated as part of the submission process in EasyChair. The early career plenary speaker will be selected from the abstracts indicating this, and will be invited to give a 45-minute plenary talk at the conference.</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Key dates:</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Abstract submission deadline: Wednesday 27 November 2019 </span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Notification of acceptance: Friday 17 January 2020</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conference: Thursday 18 June - Saturday 20 June 2020</span><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
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<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conference web site: </span><a href="https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/konferanser/2020/APLL12/index.html" target="_blank" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">https://www.hf.uio.no/iln/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/konferanser/2020/APLL12/index.html</a><br style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">
<span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333015441895px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Contact: apll12oslo@iln.uio.no</span><br>
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