29.4282, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4282. Fri Nov 02 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4282, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 02:06:28
From: Daniel Lam [dlam8 at uchicago.edu]
Subject: 55th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society

 
Full Title: 55th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 
Short Title: CLS 55 

Date: 16-May-2019 - 18-May-2019
Location: Chicago, IL, USA 
Contact Person: Daniel Lam
Meeting Email: dlam8 at uchicago.edu

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

The Chicago Linguistic Society is the oldest student-run linguistics
organization in the United States. Our linguistics conference has been held
every year since 1965. This coming academic year, CLS will host its 55th
annual meeting, which will be held from Thursday, May 16, to Saturday, May 18,
2019. 

Invited speakers: 

Michael Arbib (University of Southern California)
Elabbas Benmamoun (Duke University)
Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University)
Yaroslav Gorbachov (The University of Chicago)
Wendy Sandler (University of Haifa)
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli (Cambridge University)


2nd Call for Papers:

The Chicago Linguistic Society invites abstracts in any area of current
research on linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and
psycholinguistics, as well as related topics in the biological, cognitive, and
social sciences. We particularly encourage submissions relevant to this year’s
proposed special sessions, listed below. Accepted participants will be
allotted 20 minutes to present and 10 minutes to answer questions. Presented
papers will be published in the CLS proceedings. This year’s conference
features a poster session; those presenting a poster may be chosen as
alternates for talks, and the poster presentations will be published as
regular papers in the proceedings.

Special Topics: 

Brain and language
Endangered languages
Language acquisition
Sign language linguistics
Phylogenetic emergence of human languages
Quantification

For more information about the special sessions, as well as other conference
details, please visit: http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/

Abstract Guidelines: 

Submissions that fail to comply with any of the following guidelines will be
automatically rejected.

(1) Submit abstracts in PDF format with the filename PaperTitle.pdf.
(2) Include the paper title and keywords (i.e., CLS session title, linguistic
subfield(s), language(s)/ language family) within the abstract.
(3) Limit abstracts to two letter-sized pages in length, including data and
references. Use one-inch margins and a font size no smaller than 11 point.
Incorporate data into the main text of the abstract, not on a separate page.
(4) Anonymize submissions by not including author name(s) in the abstract or
filename.
(5) Use the EasyChair platform ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cls55
) for the submission of abstracts.
(6) Restrict submissions to one individual and one joint abstract per author,
or two joint abstracts per author.

Important Dates: 

Submission deadline: January 16, 2019 by 11:59 PM CST
Notification: March 2, 2019
Conference dates: May 16-18, 2019

For questions, please contact us at: chicagolinguisticsociety.cls55 at gmail.com




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