26.4234, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:05:33
From: Mushira Eid [mushira.eid at utah.edu]
Subject: 30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics

 
Full Title: 30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics 
Short Title: 30th ASAL 

Date: 31-Mar-2016 - 03-Apr-2016
Location: Stony Brook, New York, USA 
Contact Person: Mushira Eid
Meeting Email: mushira.eid at utah.edu

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2015 

Meeting Description:

30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics 
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
March 31-April 3, 2016

The Arabic Linguistics Society and the Stony Brook University’s Department of Linguistics are pleased to announce the 30th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics (ASAL) to be held at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York March 31-April 3, 2016. ASAL will be held concurrently with the 46th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) and with a joint Workshop on Arabic and Romance Linguistics (Sunday, April 3, 2016). 

Keynote Speakers, ASAL:
Atiqa Hachimi, University of Toronto
Ghada Khattab, Newcastle University 
John McCarthy, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Usama Soltan, Middlebury College

Keynote Speakers, WARL:
Robert Hoberman, Stony Brook University
Laura Minervini, University of Naples
Lotfi Sayahi, SUNY Albany

Fees:

- Arabic Linguistics Society membership (required of all presenters): $35 for students and $50 for non-students. Register as member and pay your dues at: http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/linguistics/als/membership/index.cfm

- Registration fees (required of all attendees; includes admission to ASAL, LSRL, and WARL):
Through February 19, 2016: $35 for students and $60 for non-students
After February 19, 2016: $45 for students and $70 for non-students

Online registration & information: http://www.stonybrook.edu/asal

2nd Call for Papers:

Abstracts may be submitted for presentation in ASAL or WARL. For ASAL, papers are invited on topics dealing with theoretical and applied issues in Arabic linguistics: linguistic analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics), sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics. For WARL, research is encouraged in areas such as Romance/Arabic language contact, Romance/Arabic multilingualism, and Maltese linguistics. 

Abstracts must follow the ALS guidelines for writing abstracts at: http://www4.uwm.edu/letsci/linguistics/als/symposia/guidelines-writing.cfm. 

Abstract Submission:

For ASAL: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ASAL2016 
For WARL: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/warl 

Click Abstract Submission then follow the instructions to upload a .pdf file of your abstract. You will receive an email afterwards indicating that your abstract has been successfully submitted. For any problems, contact the symposium organizers at asal30th at gmail.com.   

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: midnight (EDT) November 15, 2015

The Arabic Linguistics Society announces the ‘ALS Best Student Abstract Award’ to be offered for the first time at the 30th ASAL. The award carries a monetary prize ($300) and goes to the highest-ranked student abstract as determined by the anonymous abstract review process. The winner must present the paper at the Symposium to receive the monetary prize at the ALS Business Meeting. Students who wishes to have their abstracts considered for the award must select ‘Yes’ in response to the question ‘Are you a student?’ on the Abstract Submission page. Only abstracts for which all authors are students will be considered; abstracts co-authored with a faculty are not eligible for the award. 

Further inquiries regarding the Arabic Linguistics Society, contact ALS Executive Director mushira.eid at utah.edu.

Selected papers from the symposium may be considered for publication.

The language of the symposium is English only.




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