26.3851, Calls: Creole, Pidgin, General Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-3851. Mon Aug 31 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.3851, Calls: Creole, Pidgin, General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:14:36
From: Eric Russell [erussell at ucdavis.edu]
Subject: SPCL Winter Meeting 2016

Full Title: SPCL Winter Meeting 2016 
Short Title: SPCL 2016 

Date: 07-Jan-2016 - 10-Jan-2016
Location: Washington, DC, USA 
Contact Person: Eric Russell
Meeting Email: erussell at ucdavis.edu
Web Site: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/SPCLwinter2016 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Creole; Pidgin 

Call Deadline: 07-Sep-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL) is pleased to announced that it will host its annual winter meeting in conjunction with the LSA Conference in Washington, DC.

Final Call for Papers:

Deadline Extended to 7 September - Last Call for Submissions

Submissions for paper presentations (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of questions) are invited by all researchers whose foci concern Pidgins, Creoles, Semi-creoles, Mixed Languages and other contact vernaculars or contact phenomena. Papers may attend to these in any linguistic field or subfield, including phonology, morphology and syntax, pragmatics, information structure, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, ethnolinguistics, or anthropological linguistics, as well as in para-linguistic areas including education, public policy, and language planning.

Proposals should be in the form of an abstract meeting the following guidelines:

- 1 page: Times or equivalent, double spaced, with 1'' margins all around. An extra page for figures, tables, and references may be included, but is not required.
- Anonymous: Please include only the title, 3-5 keywords, and refrain from indicating author identity in the body of the abstract.
- Concise: Please clearly articulate your research question and situate this in the field of pidgin, creole, and contact language study. Please clearly attend to any methodological, theoretical or disciplinary issues raised by your work.
- Relevant: Please indicate the relevance and interest of the proposal to the field of contact linguistics and language study.

Call deadline is 7 September 2015. Notification of abstract acceptance will be made by 1 October.

Abstract submission should be done via EasyAbs (http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/SPCLwinter2016).

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