26.4569, Calls: General Ling/USA

Thu Oct 15 19:17:50 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-4569. Thu Oct 15 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.4569, Calls: General Ling/USA

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:17:28
From: Kailen Shantz [kailen.shantz at gmail.com]
Subject: 8th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society

Full Title: 8th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society 
Short Title: ILLS8 

Date: 21-Apr-2016 - 24-Apr-2016
Location: Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Kailen Shantz
Meeting Email: ills-conference at illinois.edu
Web Site: http://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Dec-2015 

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 8th Annual Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS8), which will be held from April 21-24, 2016 in the Illini Union at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

To mark the coincidence of ILLS8 with the 50th anniversary of the Linguistics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this year’s conference will feature plenary talks from five distinguished alumni of the department representing each decade of the department’s history, and five distinct fields of linguistic inquiry.

Invited plenary speakers are:

- Jerry Sadock (University of Chicago)
- Peter Cole (University of Delaware)
- Nkonko Kamwangamalu (Howard University)
- Laura Downing (University of Gothenburg)
- Khalil Iskarous (University of Southern California)

ILLS8 will also feature a special session organized around the conference theme “Language and Linguistics Through Time.''

Call for Papers:

ILLS a general linguistics conference open to any and all submission relating to language and linguistics. We primarily encourage submissions from graduate and undergraduate students.

ILLS8 will also feature a special session organized around the conference theme “Language and Linguistics Through Time.''

Submissions related to this theme are especially encouraged, though submissions are not limited to this theme.

Abstract Submissions:

To submit an abstract, please visit: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ILLS8

Submissions are limited to single-author abstract and one multi-author abstract, OR two multi-author abstracts. First and presenting authors must be graduate students.

Abstracts should be maximum 500 words, with one extra page allowed for images, data, and/or references. Full references are not necessary; please use the (Author, Year) format. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs on LinguistList.org in PDF format with NO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION of the presenter in the document.

Submissions will close on December 20, 2015. 

Authors will be notified of of abstract decisions in February 2016.

For more details, please visit our website (http://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/) or contact us at ills-conference at illinois.edu

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