23.3933, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-23-3933. Sun Sep 23 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.3933, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:01:11
From: Lydia Medill [medill2 at illinois.edu]
Subject: Illinois Linguistic and Language Society

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Full Title: Illinois Linguistic and Language Society 
Short Title: ILLS 

Date: 05-Apr-2013 - 07-Apr-2013
Location: Urbana Champaign, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Lydia Medill
Meeting Email: medill2 at illinois.edu
Web Site: http://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/current/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2013 

Meeting Description:

The 5th annual meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society will be held April 5-7, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ILLS is a graduate student conference open to all subfields of linguistics. In addition to the general conference and a Saturday poster session, this year's meeting will include a special session Saturday, April 6 on the topic of 'Minority Languages'. 

Invited Speakers:

Zsuzsanna Fagyal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carrie Gillon (Arizona State University) 
Michael Kenstowicz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
John Rickford (Stanford University)
Ryan Shosted (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 

Call for Papers:

Equal consideration will be given to papers from all major linguistic subfields, as well as related cross-disciplinary areas. 

Deadline for submission is January 31.

The top 4 submitted student abstracts will be awarded $200 to cover conference travel costs.

All talks will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. 

Abstract Formatting and Submissions:

ILLS requests the submission of abstracts summarizing the main points of the research paper, including hypotheses, methods, and conclusions.

Abstracts are to be submitted in PDF format, and should be no more than 500 words in length, including examples and in-text citations. Full references are not necessary; please use the (Author, Year) format.

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.

Conference presentations will be 20 minutes in length, with 10 minutes provided for questions. Please note that depending on the number and quality of submissions received, we may invite some submissions to present a poster in lieu of a paper.

Abstract submission guidelines and instructions can be found at:  http://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/current/index.html. Please contact lso.illinois at gmail.com with any questions you may have.






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