27.4768, Calls: English, Historical Linguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 27.4768, Calls: English, Historical Linguistics/Belgium

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:43:51
From: Hendrik De Smet [hendrik.desmet at kuleuven.be]
Subject: Santiago-Leuven-Edinburgh Seminar on Grammatical Variation and Change in English

 
Full Title: Santiago-Leuven-Edinburgh Seminar on Grammatical Variation and Change in English 

Date: 04-Apr-2017 - 05-Apr-2017
Location: Leuven, Belgium 
Contact Person: Hendrik De Smet
Meeting Email: hendrik.desmet at arts.kuleuven.be
Web Site: https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/conference/gvce 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 20-Dec-2016 

Meeting Description:

We invite participants to a two-day seminar, intended specifically for PhD
students. The seminar is a combination of lectures given by well-established
researchers in the field, and workshop sessions where PhD candidates are given
the opportunity to present their own research and receive feedback from both
fellow PhD candidates and senior colleagues.  

Confirmed Guest Speakers are:

- David Denison
- Svenja Kranich
- Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

The organizing committee includes Hubert Cuyckens, Hendrik De Smet, Teresa
Fanego, Liesbet Heyvaert and Graeme Trousdale. The seminar is organized as
part of a research project on gradience, constructionalization and linguistic
variation involving the universities of Santiago-de-Compostela, Edinburgh and
Leuven. The project is funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and
Competitiveness (grant FFI2014-52188-P: Teresa Fanego).


Call for Papers:

PhD students interested in participating are invited to submit a 400-word
anonymous abstract relevant to the topic of the seminar. Abstracts should be
submitted using EasyAbs (via linguistlist.org/easyabs/gvce2017) and will be
subject to blind peer review.

Important Dates:

- Submission deadline: 20 December 2016
- Notification of acceptance: 20 January 2017
- Registration: 1 March 2017




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