[LFG] Fwd: SALT 26 - Call for Abstracts

[Stephen Wechsler]

Dear colleagues,
SALT 2016 will be held here in beautiful Austin, Texas.  We are now
open for abstract submissions; details below.
Hope to see you then!

-- Steve


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From: SALT Conference <salt26conf at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 11:12 AM
Subject: SALT 26 - Call for Abstracts
To: David Beaver <dib at utexas.edu>


Dear semanticist,

I'd like to bring your attention to the upcoming 26th Semantics and
Linguistic Theory conference, which will be held May 12-15, 2016, at
the University of Texas at Austin. We are now accepting abstract
submissions! The details of the call are below, and are also available
on our website: http://salt.ling.utexas.edu/26/call

I'd be very grateful if you could help spread the word, so please feel
free to pass this message on.

Thanks,
David Beaver, on behalf of the SALT 26 organizing committee

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SALT 26

The 26th Semantics and Linguistic Theory conference will take place on
May 12–15, 2016, at The University of Texas at Austin. There will be
keynote presentations by:

Sigrid Beck, University of Tübingen
Edit Doron, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rick Nouwen, Utrecht University
Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University

In addition to the regular sessions of SALT 26 there will be a one day
special session on Presupposition, with presentations on theoretical,
experimental, fieldwork-based, or corpus-based approaches to
presupposition, presupposition triggering, or presuppositional
inference. We are happy to announce three further invited speakers for
this session:

Lauri Karttunen, Stanford University
Stanley Peters, Stanford University
Judith Tonhauser, The Ohio State University

Call for Papers

We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations
(with an additional 10 minutes for questions) or posters on any topic
in natural language semantics with relevance to linguistic theory. The
special session on presupposition has the same submission and
reviewing process as the main session.

Call URL: http://salt.ling.utexas.edu/26/call
Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=salt26

Submission Details

Deadline: December 20, 2015, 11:59 pm Central Standard Time (UTC-6)

As with SALT 25, there will be a short period for authors and
reviewers to exchange feedback. Author feedback is scheduled for
February 5–12, 2016.

Requirements

Abstracts must be anonymous. The main text should be at most 3 pages
(US Letter or A4) in length, including examples, with an optional
fourth page for references. The abstract should use a 12pt font and 1
inch margins (for US Letter) or 3 cm margins (for A4) on all four
sides. The abstract must be submitted as a single PDF file. These
limitations will be strictly enforced. In addition to the intellectual
merit of the abstract, clarity and readability will also be taken into
account in reviewing.

SALT 26 will feature a poster session. Poster presentations will be
published as regular papers in the proceedings. Poster presenters will
be asked to give a short “lightning round” presentation prior to the
poster session.

Policies

Authors may be involved in at most two abstracts and may be the sole
author of at most one abstract.

SALT does not accept papers that at the time of the conference have
been published or have been accepted for publication. In addition,
preference will be given to presentations that are not duplicated at
other major conferences.

If the work or a close variant of it is under submission to or
accepted for publication or presentation in any other major venue
(such as a national or international conference or a journal/book
chapter), we request that the authors create a small section titled
“Additional Submission” after the references at the end of the paper.
This section should include the other venue(s) for which the work has
been submitted, the status of those submissions, and an indication of
any major aspects of the SALT abstract not submitted elsewhere. We
require that authors update us by email if/when there is a relevant
change in the status of other submissions.

Proceedings

All papers presented at the main or the special session of the
conference will be published in a SALT 26 volume following the
conclusion of the conference, edited at Cornell University and
published by the Linguistic Society of America.

Easychair Instructions

On the EasyChair submission page, there are several additional options
to pay attention to:

A checkbox to indicate if you want your abstract to be considered for
poster presentation (if you do not check this, your paper will be
considered only for oral presentation).
A checkbox to indicate if you would like your abstract to be
considered for the Special Session on Presupposition.
An extensive (but not comprehensive) list of topics that will be used
to help assign reviewers. Select all topics relevant to your paper (we
estimate most papers will select 1-3 topics).
You may use the Keywords textbox to prioritize or add additional topics.

Submit your abstract here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=salt26