Aarbic-L:LING:Semitic Linguistics Association Final Call

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Date: 13 Aug 2012
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Subject:Semitic Linguistics Association Final Call

Full Title: Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics
Short Title: ISSL

Date: 02-Nov-2012 - 04-Nov-2012
Location: Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA
Contact Person: Dana Shalash
Meeting Email: shalash2 at illinois.edu
Web Site: http://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/issl/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Semitic

Call Deadline: 02-Sep-2012

Meeting Description:

The Semitic Linguistics Association at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its
first annual meeting of the Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics
(ISSL) on November 2-4. ISSL is a general Semitic Linguistics
conference open to all subfields.

Invited Speakers:

Reem Bassiouney (Georgetown University)
Abbas Benmamoun (University of Illinois)
John Hayes (University of California, Berkeley)
Christopher Woods (University of Chicago)

Contact Information:

Dana Shalash
shalash2 at illinois.edu

Final Call for Papers:

The deadline for submitting to ISSL has been extended to Sunday,
September 2 at 11:59pm.

Equal consideration will be given to papers from all major linguistic
subfields, as well as from related cross-disciplinary areas. All
abstracts should be relevant to Semitic languages. ISSL requests the
submission of abstracts summarizing the main points of the research
paper, including hypotheses, methods, and conclusions.

Abstract Formatting and Submissions:

Abstracts are to be submitted in PDF format, and should be no more
than 500 words in length, including examples (encouraged) and in-text
citations. Full references are not necessary; please use the (Author,
Year) format. See the LSA model abstracts page for guidance in
building an acceptable abstract. You may submit at most: one
single-author abstract and one multi-author abstract, or two
multi-author abstracts. For abstracts co-authored with a faculty
member, the student should be the primary author and should have
carried out the bulk of the research and analysis. In addition, the
student will be responsible for the presentation of the paper at the
conference.

Abstracts are to be submitted electronically using Easy Abstracts:

http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/issl2012

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