27.1269, Calls: Greek, General Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Typology/Greece

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Subject: 27.1269, Calls: Greek, General Ling, Historical Ling, Ling Theories, Typology/Greece

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:40:19
From: Marina Tzakosta [martzak74 at gmail.com]
Subject: 7th Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory Conference

 
Full Title: 7th Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory Conference 
Short Title: MGDLT7 

Date: 06-Oct-2016 - 08-Oct-2016
Location: Rethymno, Crete, Greece 
Contact Person: Marina Tzakosta
Meeting Email: martzak74 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Typology 

Subject Language(s): Greek, Modern (ell)

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Preschool Education and the Department of Philology of the
University of Crete are pleased to organize the 7th Modern Greek Dialects and
Linguistic Theory Conference (MGDLT7) in Rethymno, Crete, Greece, between
06-08 October 2016. 

Aim of the conference is to highlight the importance of Modern Greek dialects
for linguistic theory and promote the study of dialectal variation. The main
conference will be preceded by a workshop on “Dialects in Education” on
Thursday October 6, 2016.

Invited speakers:

Frans Hinskens, Meertens Instituut & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Angela Ralli, University of Patras
Stavroula Tsiplakou, Open University of Cyprus

Permanent scientific committee:

Angella Ralli
Mark Janse
Brian Joseph

Local organizing committee:

Ioanna Kappa
Marina Tzakosta
Eirini Tangalaki
Stathis Theodorakis


2nd Call for Papers: 

Abstracts for 25 oral papers and 15 posters presenting data and theory in
Modern Greek dialects in the areas of phonetics, phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics,
sociolinguistics, historical and contact linguistics are invited to be
submitted. 

Abstracts of maximum 500 words in English or Greek may be submitted through
Easy Abs http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/MGDLT7 (submission opens on March 15,
2016). Abstracts should be written in Times New Roman, font size 12, 2,5 cm
margins on all sides. Each author can submit maximally 2 papers, one
single-authored and/ or one joint- paper, or two joint papers. The languages
of the conference are English and Greek. Abstracts should be submitted
anonymously in Word format. 

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 15, 2016. Notifications
of acceptance will be sent out by May 31, 2016. 
 
The 3rd and final Call for Papers will be sent out the first week of April.




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