MethodsXII at umoncton.ca: Call for papers Methods XII

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Methods XII
Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology

2nd Call for Papers

August 1-5, 2005
Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Methods XII, the Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, will be held from 1 to 5 August 2005 at the Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.  This conference meets triennually and focusses on issues relating to regional, social and historical variation in any language or group of languages.  The theme of Methods XII, Innovative Approaches in Dialectology, addresses recent theoretical and methodological trends.  A sub-theme, Identity and Contact, highlights language contact situations such as those found in New Brunswick, Canada's only officially bilingual (English-French) province.

Invited speakers:
J.K. Chambers, University of Toronto;
Jacques Durand, Université de Toulouse - LeMirail;
Hans Goebl, Universität Salzburg;
Natalie Schilling-Estes, Georgetown University

Abstracts and Papers
Abstracts for papers are invited on any topic in regional, social and historical language variation.  Presentations will be 20 minutes in length followed by a 10-minute discussion period.  Abstracts should be 300-400 words long, excluding bibliography, and they should be submitted either by regular post to the address given below or by e-mail as RTF (or as ASCII text) files to: <methodsxii at umoncton.ca>
Please include the following information with your submission: name, affiliation, e-mail address, postal address, status (faculty member/student/other).  Suggestions for special sessions or workshops are welcome and should be submitted to the Organizing Committee before the submission deadline.

Abstract deadline:  15 October 2004
Authors will be notified of acceptance by January 2005.

For further information:
http://www.upei.ca/methodsxii
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E-mail: methodsxii at umoncton.ca
Phone: +--(506) 858-4057
Fax: +--(506) 858-4568
        Methods XII Organizing Committee
Centre de recherche en linguistique appliquée
Faculté des arts et des sciences sociales
Université de Moncton
Moncton, NB
CANADA  E1A 3E9


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