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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IS link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>25-SCL <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics (25-SCL), organized under the auspices of the Nordic Association of Linguists (NAL), will take place at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík, May 13–15, 2013. Papers on a wide range of linguistic topics are welcome, including syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology, phonetics, morphology, child language, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and corpus linguistics. The conference language will be English.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Invited speakers<o:p></o:p></span></h1><p>The following speakers have accepted our invitation to deliver plenary lectures:<o:p></o:p></p><p>Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)<br>Hans-Martin Gärtner (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)<br>Alec Marantz (New York University)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Call for papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We invite abstracts for 30-minute papers (including 10 minutes of discussion). One-page abstracts of maximally 500 words with an additional page for examples, tables and references should be submitted electronically through Easy Abstracts. The submission period is September 1 – November 1, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The abstracts should be anonymous. Contact details (name, affiliation and email) along with the title of the paper should be included in the body of the email. Authors will be notified of the outcome of their abstracts by December 1, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In addition to individual presentations, we invite proposals for theme sessions. They should consist of at least five to six papers that address a common topic of interest. Theme session proposals should be 500-700 words in length, excluding references, and should list the prospective speakers and their presentation titles. They are to be submitted to 25scl.iceland@gmail.com. The deadline for submitting proposals for theme sessions is September 15, 2012. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated by October 1, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Conference webpage: </span><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://conference.hi.is/scl25"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>https://conference.hi.is/scl25</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>There will be a sign language theme session at the conference, those of you that are interested to give a presentation there please contact me, Rannveig Sverrisdóttir at <a href="mailto:rannsve@hi.is">rannsve@hi.is</a> before September 10th.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Best, Rannveig<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rannveig Sverrisdóttir<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lektor í táknmálsfræði<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Íslensku- og menningardeild<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hugvísindasvið<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Háskóli Íslands<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Aðalbygging, 329<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sími: 525-4567<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Netfang: rannsve@hi.is<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rannveig Sverrisdóttir<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Assistant Professor in Sign Language Linguistics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>School of Humanities <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>University of Iceland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Main Building, 329<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tel. +354-5254567<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>E-mail: rannsve@hi.is<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>http://www.hi.is/is/hugvisindasvid/forsida_hugvisindasvids<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>