29.909, Calls: General Linguistics/UK

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Subject: 29.909, Calls: General Linguistics/UK

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:13:09
From: Sharaf Yassin [syiyas at essex.ac.uk]
Subject: Language at the University of Essex

 
Full Title: Language at the University of Essex 
Short Title: LangUE 

Date: 14-Jun-2018 - 14-Jun-2018
Location: Colchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Sharaf Yassin
Meeting Email: syiyas at essex.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/language-and-linguistics/langue 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

LangUE is a postgraduate conference for PhD students in all areas of
Linguistics to present their work, at any stage, and get feedback in an
inclusive environment.

Invited Speakers

Dr Christina Kim (University of Kent) on ''Learning how individual spekaers
use language: Imprecision, contrast andlexical meaning''.

Dr Yuni Kim (University of Essex) on ''Roots and lexical categories in
Huave''.

Dr Adam Schembri (University of Birmingham) on ''The BSL Corpus and sign
linguistics: What we're learning about the structure and use of BSL''.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be no more than 400 words in length, including references, by
the 16 of April. All abstracts have to be submitted anonymously via EasyChair
in a .pdf format (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=13thlangue2018).
Your abstract should include your institution, title and keywords. The
filename of your anonymous abstract should be in the following format: first
three words of the title of your abstract_anon (e.g.
SententialWordOrder_anon.pdf).

If you get accepted, you will be asked to send a named abstract that should
contain, along with the abstract text itself, the following identifying
information: title of abstract; author’s name; author’s affiliation. The
filename of your named abstract should be in the following format: first three
words of the title of your abstract_named (SententialWordOrder_named.pdf).

In case, you would like your abstract to be considered for a certain type;
i.e, poster session or presentation, please specify this in your abstract.

Abstract Formatting Guidelines

Please format the page as follows:

- Line spacing: 1.5
- All margins: 2.5cm (1 inch)
- Text alignment: justified
- Title text: Times New Roman, 14pt, bold, centred (NB: this should include
name and affiliation on the named abstract file)
- Body text: Times New Roman, 12pt
- Paragraphs: do not indent; leave one clear line between  paragraphs

Presenters will be invited to submit their papers to be considered as a
conference proceeding; these will appear on the conference
website; https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/language-and-linguistics/langue .

Please contact us on langue at essex.ac.uk regarding any questions.




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