27.203, Calls: Lang Doc, Ling Theories/UK

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Subject: 27.203, Calls: Lang Doc, Ling Theories/UK

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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:11:19
From: Christopher Lucas [cl39 at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 5

 
Full Title: Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 5 
Short Title: LDLT5 

Date: 03-Dec-2016 - 04-Dec-2016
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Christopher Lucas
Meeting Email: ldlt5 at soas.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.soas.ac.uk/language-documentation-and-linguistic-theory-2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories 

Call Deadline: 02-May-2016 

Meeting Description:

LDLT5 aims to bring together researchers working on linguistic theory and
language documentation and description, with a particular focus on innovative
work on under-described or endangered languages.

Conference themes:

The theme of LDLT5 is 'Language documentation and linguistic diversity'.

We invite contributions relating to any aspect of the study of language and
linguistics from any perspective, including:

- Formal theoretical issues
- Linguistic typology
- Documentary linguistics and responses to language endangerment
- New techniques and opportunities for documenting and describing languages

We especially welcome contributions that use empirical data to examine the
relationship between language documentation and description and linguistic
theory.

Invited speakers:

We are happy to announce that Ian Maddieson and Aditi Lahiri are the invited
speakers for this event. 

Visit the conference website for further information: 
https://www.soas.ac.uk/language-documentation-and-linguistic-theory-2016/


Call for Abstracts:

Presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Each
individual may present up to one single authored paper and one joint paper
throughout the whole conference. The deadline for abstract submission is
Monday 2 May 2016.

The text of the abstract should be anonymous, a minimum of 11pt font and no
more than one page in length, including references and examples. They should
be in .pdf format and the filename should start with LDLT5, followed by an
underscore and then first author's surname, e.g. LDLT5_ashmore.pdf. If you
have a common surname, please also include initials, e.g. LDLT5_jjones.pdf.
Abstracts should be submitted using the LDLT5 Easychair site:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ldlt5

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: Monday 2 May 2016 
Applicants notified of abstract acceptance: Monday 6 June 2016 
Early bird registration ends: Friday 7 October 2016  (Conference fee to be
confirmed)
Registration ends: Monday 28 November 2016 (Note: on-site registration at the
event is not possible)
Main Conference session: Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 December 2016




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