29.173, Calls: General Linguistics/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-173. Wed Jan 10 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.173, Calls: General Linguistics/UK

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:08:21
From: Michelle Sheehan [michelle.sheehan at anglia.ac.uk]
Subject: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting 2018

Full Title: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting 2018 
Short Title: LAGB 2018 

Date: 11-Sep-2018 - 14-Sep-2018
Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Michelle Sheehan
Meeting Email: michelle.sheehan at anglia.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.lagb.org.uk/home2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual
Meeting 2018 will take place at the University of Sheffield, between 11-14
September. The following events are planned for the conference:

Henry Sweet Lecture 2018: Heidi Harley (University of Arizona)

Linguistics Association Lecture 2018: Diane Lillo-Martin (University of
Connecticut)

Language Tutorial: Adam Schembri (University of Birmingham) on Auslan
(Australian Sign Language).

LAGB Summer School 2018

The LAGB Summer School 2018 will provide postgraduate students (and other
interested parties) with the opportunity to attend masterclasses in
linguistics, receive training opportunities, meet linguists and socialise with
other postgraduate students from across the UK. The one-day LAGB Summer School
will take place on TBC. This event is co-organised by the LAGB Committee and
the LAGB Student Committee.
Education Session

The LAGB Education Committee will run a special session at LAGB 2018 on the UK
Linguistics Olympiad. 

For further details see http://lagb-education.org/lagb-education-sessions .

Call for Papers and Themed Sessions: 

The LAGB welcomes submissions on any topic in the field of linguistics. We
particularly welcome papers from areas of linguistics that have not been well
represented in previous meetings in order to capture the diversity of
linguistics research in the UK and beyond.

All abstracts will be blind-peer-reviewed by an international committee of
reviewers. Both members and non-members are invited to offer papers for the
meeting.  The length for papers delivered at the LAGB 2018 meeting is 20
minutes (plus 10 minutes' discussion).

The deadline for submissions is Sunday 1 April 2018. Notification of
acceptance will be made in late May 2018.

Abstracts can be submitted to be included in the general sessions or as part
of a themed session (see below).  

Call for individual papers

Individual papers will be considered for presentation in the general session.

Abstracts must be no longer than two A4 pages with margins of at least 2.5cm
on all sides. Only the first two pages of any abstract submitted will be
considered – no appendices or separate pages for references can be accepted.
If the formatting instructions are not followed the abstract may not be
considered. You may use single spacing, with type no smaller than 12 points in
Times New Roman font. 

Abstracts must be submitted anonymously and should include no indication of
the author’s identity. The submitted files should be in PDF format. Any
phonetic characters should either be embedded in the PDF file, or be in the
Doulos SIL font, which can be downloaded for free from this site:
http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSIL_download . Should your abstract be
successful, you will be asked to submit a named version to be made available
as part of an online abstract booklet. 

The link for easychair submissions is
https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?a=12862409;conf=lagb2018 .

Call for themed sessions

As well as individual abstracts, we encourage groups of speakers to submit a
set of abstracts for a themed session (or panel) on any linguistic subject of
their choice. Such groups will normally take up a whole session of the
programme. Sessions should ideally consist of five presentations (although
sessions of three or six presentations will also be considered).

Themed sessions will run as parallel sessions at the conference. As with
papers in the general session, the length for presentations delivered at LAGB
2015 will be 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes discussion).

The abstracts for themed sessions will be considered together, as a group.
However, each paper will be judged on its own merits and may be accepted for
presentation in the general session even if the themed session is not accepted
as a whole.

Abstracts for themed sessions should be submitted individually - in the same
format as standalone papers - using Easychair to facilitate the anonymous
review process. Abstracts must be no longer than two A4 pages with margins of
at least 2.5cm on all sides using Times New Roman font. You may use single
spacing, with type no smaller than 12 points.

Abstracts must be submitted individually by the author(s), but must be clearly
marked as belonging to the themed session, with the title for the themed
session provided at the top of the page. 

Session convenors should also prepare a brief synopsis of the merits of the
themed session they wish to hold at the LAGB. The synopsis should include the
proposed title of the session, the name(s), affiliation(s) and email
address(es) of the convenor(s) and speakers and the relevant references cited
in the proposal. We particularly welcome sessions with more then one
organiser, although one convenor should be identified as the principal
contact. The synopsis should be a maximum of two A4 pages in length.

Completed proposals should not be submitted by EasyChair, but emailed to the
President by Sunday 1 April 2018.

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