35.3178, Calls: 61st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society

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Subject: 35.3178, Calls: 61st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society

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Date: 08-Nov-2024
From: Gabriel Gilbert [2025cls61 at gmail.com]
Subject: 61st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society


Full Title: 61st Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society
Short Title: CLS 61

Date: 09-May-2025 - 11-May-2025
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Contact Person: Gabriel Gilbert
Meeting Email: 2025cls61 at gmail.com
Web Site: chicagolinguisticsociety.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics;
Sociolinguistics; Syntax

Call Deadline: 19-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

The Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) is the oldest student-run
linguistics organization in the United States. This academic year, CLS
will host its 61st Annual Meeting (CLS 61), which will be held from
Friday, May 9 to Sunday, May 11, 2025. CLS has a longstanding
tradition of uniting eminent scholars and researchers from across the
globe to exchange their knowledge and expertise within the realm of
linguistics at our annual meeting, and particularly celebrate
interdisciplinarity and the ample benefits of diverse methodologies at
our conference.

Call for Papers:

We invite scholars from any area of linguistic inquiry, including but
not limited to syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics,
sociolinguistics, phonology, phonetics, all relevant interfaces and
adjacent fields across the cognitive and social sciences. We
particularly encourage submissions that relate to this year's special
topics:

Sound Change and Adaptation - We welcome submissions exploring the
underlying mechanisms, causes, and outcomes of phonological change and
phonetic adaptation across languages. This topic seeks to address key
questions surrounding the processes by which sound changes occur,
focusing on the linguistic, cognitive, and social factors that drive
these changes. We particularly encourage abstracts addressing, but not
limited to, the following areas: phonetic drivers of sound change,
lexical diffusion and gradual sound change, contact-induced sound
change, cognitive and neurolinguistic perspectives on sound change.

Interfacial Topics in Sociolinguistics - We invite submissions
exploring how insights and frameworks from semantics, pragmatics,
psycholinguistics, and syntax are used to investigate the relationship
between language, identities, and ideologies. We particularly invite
abstracts addressing, but not limited to, situational variation and
personae construction, the effects of language ideologies on language
processing, variation at the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic
levels, and the application of variationist research to
socio-political questions.

Time, Space, and Deixis - We welcome work examining questions of
personal, spatial, and temporal reference as they relate to the verbal
complex, to the demonstrative system, and to the grammar as a whole.
This topic is dedicated to exploring the linguistic encoding of motion
and spatial orientation in relation to deixis, and we invite diverse,
interdisciplinary approaches and insights from any and all subfields
within linguistics and from related fields. We particularly encourage
submissions exploring deictic questions of time, motion, and reference
from the position of syntax and its various interfaces, diachronic
syntax and semantics, as well as corpus and computational methods.

Manual Modality and Signed Languages - We invite abstracts exploring
foundational and emerging questions surrounding the structure,
perception, and evolution of sign languages and other manual modality
systems. This topic will examine critical areas of linguistic,
cognitive, and social research into how manual languages are produced,
perceived, and developed over time. By bringing together contemporary
research in this area, the topic will highlight both theoretical and
empirical perspectives, while addressing the unique attributes of sign
languages as well as the processes through which manual modality
languages emerge and adapt. We encourage submissions addressing, but
not limited to, the following areas: production and perception in
manual modality, phonology in sign and gesture, gesture in the context
of sign language, sociolinguistics and language rights in manual
modality, emergent languages and language change, and language
development in manual modality.

Black Languages - We particularly welcome research examining the
aforementioned topics as they relate to African and diasporic
languages and language users. We seek to showcase the breadth of work
investigating Black languages from all linguistic subfields and
adjacent fields.

Submission details may be found on our conference website.



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