Arabic-L:LING:CFP:International Linguistic Association - Focus on Dialects

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Date: 11 Dec 20099
From:Alexander Magidow <amagidow at gmail.com>
Subject:CFP:International Linguistic Association - Focus on Dialects

Just forwarding this on - this may be of particular interest for Arabic scholars working on dialects.
I am not affiliated in any way with this conference,
Alex Magidow

Call for Papers

55th Annual Conference of the
International Linguistic Association
in cooperation with the 
American Dialect Society
(Northeast Region)

April 15 – April 17, 2010
State University of New York at New Paltz
New Paltz, New York

"DIALECTS"
(However, all linguistic topics are welcome)

Invited Plenary Speakers:

 Dr. Joan Houston Hall (DARE—University of Wisconsin) 
Professor Dennis R. Preston (Oklahoma State University) 
Professor Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University) 
Professor John M. Lipski (Pennsylvania State University) 
The International Linguistic Association (ILA), a professional organization founded in October 1943 as the Linguistic Circle of New York, is devoted to the study of all areas of linguistics and their roles in society. Teachers and students are invited to submit abstracts for papers for the 55th annual conference to be held in conjunction with the American Dialect Society—Northeast region, at the State University of New York at New Paltz, April 15-17, 2010.

Papers in any area of linguistics are appropriate; however, the theme of this year’s conference is DIALECTS (regional or social). Periodically, the ILA has held conferences on this topic in the past. The study of dialect as a major field in linguistics has been developing for nearly 400 years. Thomas Jefferson recognized the importance of language change as an integral part of society; Thomas Pickering wrote in the second decade of the 19th century of what he found odd in American speech. Bloomfield, Sapir, the Grimms, Bloch, Kurath, Cassidy, and more recently Hall, Preston, Labov, and Wolfram, to name but a few, have furthered the study of dialect. In a distinctive setting where American Indian languages, Dutch, French, German, English and just about every other language of people settling in the early colonies coexisted and blended for centuries, this conference will facilitate further exchange in the subject.

Please submit proposals (400 word maximum) for individual papers to be received no later than January 15, 2010. Proposals for panels or poster sessions must include topics and a summary for each speaker. All proposals should be appropriate for publication in the meeting program.

Send proposals to abstracts at ilaword.org. The word “abstract” must be included in the subject line of the e-mail message. Authors of submissions will be notified of acceptance by February 15, 2010. Time allotted will be 20 minutes for delivery of the paper plus 5 minutes discussion.

Presenters are expected to be current members of either ILA or ADS. Submissions for papers from ADS members will be considered for presentation in the ADS session(s). ADS and ILA members will be admitted to all conference sessions, plenary sessions, and events but must submit to the ILA registration fee. 

The Saturday banquet will be open to all for an additional nominal fee. Advance banquet registration is advised as restaurants in New Paltz tend to be small; payment may be made at the conference. 

Conference Co-Chair: David K. Barnhart (barnhart at highlands.com)
Conference Co-Chair: Yolanda Chavez-Cappellini (cappelly at newpaltz.edu)
Conference Coordinator: Annika Wendt (awendt at ilaword.org)

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