Call for Papers: GLAC 10/SHEL 3

[Francis M. Hult]

The 10th annual conference of the Society of Germanic Linguistics and
the 3rd annual conference on Studies in the History of the English
Language will be held jointly in Ann Arbor,Michigan.
(http://www.umich.edu/~glacshel/ )

 

SHEL 3 will be heldMay 6-7, 2004

GLAC 10 will be heldMay 7-8, 2004

 

Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to
submit abstracts for 20-minute papers to either SHEL or GLAC. Proposals
to GLAC may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of any
historical or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English
(to the Early Modern period) and the extraterritorial varieties.
Proposals to SHEL may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of
the history of English. A single author may submit one abstract to GLAC
and one to SHEL. Authors may submit two abstracts to the same
conference if one is jointly authored.

 

Papers from a range of linguistic and philological subfields, including
phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
sociolinguistics, stylistics, metrics, language acquisition, contact,
and change, as well as differing theoretical perspectives, are welcome
for both conferences. SHEL will also host a pedagogy workshop; we
welcome proposals for 20-minute pedagogical presentations.

 

Abstracts are due Jan. 15, 2004.Abstracts can be submitted as e-mail
attachments, as electronic submissions through the conference website,
or in hard copy through regular mail. Abstracts will undergo anonymous
review. If sending the abstract as an attachment or in hard copy,
please include author name and contact info, as well as the paper
title, on a separate page; include only a title but no author
information on the abstract itself.Please send abstracts as PDF files
if they contain any specialized fonts.

 

Send abstracts to:

 

SHEL                                                  GLAC

Anne Curzan                                       Robin Queen

Department of English                          Department of Germanic
Languages & Literatures

3187 Angell Hall                                  3110 MLB

UniversityofMichigan                         UniversityofMichigan 

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003               Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1275

glacshel at umich.edu                            glacshel at umich.edu

 

 

For further information, please also see our website:
http://www.umich.edu/~glacshel/