29.4407, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 29.4407, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2018 18:30:30
From: Lefteris Paparounas [lefteris at sas.upenn.edu]
Subject: 43rd Annual Penn Linguistics Conference

Full Title: 43rd Annual Penn Linguistics Conference 
Short Title: PLC 43 

Date: 22-Mar-2019 - 24-Mar-2019
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA 
Contact Person: Ollie Sayeed
Meeting Email: plc at ling.upenn.edu
Web Site: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

The 43rd Annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 43) will take place on March
22-24, 2019 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. 

The conference will feature a keynote speech by Ruth Kramer (Georgetown
University), as well as a special themed panel on the interplay between
linguistics and biology, bringing together invited speakers from fields
bridging the sciences and humanities.

PLC 43 welcomes submissions of papers on any topic in linguistics and
associated fields, to be presented as a talk or poster. Prizes will be given
to the best three abstracts submitted by graduate students, as well as to the
best undergraduate abstract. Alongside the main sessions, the conference will
feature a special session dedicated to the presentation of undergraduate work.

2nd Call for Papers:

The 43rd annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC 43) will take place on March
22-24, 2019 at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia.

Keynote speaker: Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University). Topic and title TBA.

Panel: We will be holding a special themed panel on the afternoon of Friday,
March 22, on the interplay between linguistics and biology. From Lyell and
Darwin’s speculative analogies between languages and species all the way
through to population models of language change and phylogenetic trees of
language families, evolutionary biology and historical linguistics have shared
a set of conceptual and mathematical tools with great success in both fields.
For this year’s PLC, we’re inviting speakers from fields bridging the sciences
and humanities to discuss the exchange of ideas between linguistics and
biology.

Invited panelists:  

Stephen Alter (Gordon College)
Robert Berwick (MIT)
Becca Morley (Ohio State University)
Tandy Warnow (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Moderator: 

Gareth Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)

Undergraduate session: PLC 43 will feature a special session devoted to the
presentation of undergraduate research. Undergraduate students are warmly
encouraged to submit an abstract showcasing their research in any subfield of
linguistics and related disciplines.

Student abstract prizes: We will be awarding prizes of $250 each for the best
three abstracts submitted by graduate students from outside the University of
Pennsylvania. In addition, the best abstract submitted by an undergraduate
student will receive a prize of $250.

Submission Guidelines: Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated
fields are welcome. Session topics in recent years have included phonology,
syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. We
encourage abstracts on both spoken and signed languages. Speakers will have
twenty minutes for each presentation, followed by five minutes for discussion
and questions. The conference will also include a poster session with catered
lunch. Abstracts should indicate whether they are being submitted for
consideration as a talk, poster, or both. (See instructions for authors
below.)

Deadline: Abstracts are due by November 19, 2018. Notification of acceptance
will be given by the end of January 2019.

Length: Please limit abstracts to two single-spaced pages in 12pt font,
including examples, figures, and references. Examples and figures may be
interspersed with text. Abstracts should be anonymized: please do not include
your name or affiliation within the abstract.

Format: To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a
.pdf file.

Instructions for authors: Abstracts are to be submitted via EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plc43 ). For detailed instructions on
how to submit an abstract, visit the full version of the Call for Papers on
the conference website.

Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics. Speakers will be invited to provide
camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium.

For More Information:

Email: plc at ling.upenn.edu
Conference website: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC

Penn Linguistics Conference
Department of Linguistics
3401-C Walnut Street
Suite 300, C Wing
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 
USA

This event is supported by funding from SASgov, the student government for
graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences; GAPSA, the Graduate and
Professional Students’ Association at the University of Pennsylvania; the
Linguistic Data Consortium; and the University of Pennsylvania Department of
Linguistics.

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