37.2271, Confs: NARNiHS 2027 – North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics – 9th Annual Meeting (USA)

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Subject: 37.2271, Confs: NARNiHS 2027 – North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics – 9th Annual Meeting (USA)

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Date: 05-Jul-2026
From: North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics [NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com]
Subject: NARNiHS 2027 – North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics – 9th Annual Meeting

NARNiHS 2027 – North American Research Network in Historical
Sociolinguistics – 9th Annual Meeting
Short Title: NARNiHS 2027

Date: 06-Jan-2027 - 09-Jan-2027
Location: San Francisco, USA
Contact: North American Research Network in Historical
Sociolinguistics
Contact Email: NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://narnihs.org/?page_id=3526

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical
Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 24-Aug-2026

100% IN PERSON
Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting
San Francisco, California, USA
6-9 January 2027
This event offers an opportunity for scholars from all over the world
to gather and share leading research in historical sociolinguistic
methods of linguistic inquiry; and we invite our fellow historical
sociolinguists and scholars in related fields from our global
scholarly community to join us in San Francisco for our 9th Annual
Meeting.
Abstract submission online:
https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2027/
Deadline: Monday, 24 August 2026, 11:59 PM US Eastern time.
Late abstracts will not be considered.
The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics
(NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its 9th Annual Meeting. As a
Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS
will hold its Annual Meeting sessions at the LSA Annual Meeting in San
Francisco, Wednesday-Saturday, 6-9 January 2027. The 9th edition of
this inclusive NARNiHS event seeks to provide a collaborative
environment where presenters bring fully developed work for
presentation and enrichment. We see the NARNiHS Annual Meeting as a
place for showcasing excellent projects in historical
sociolinguistics, seeking feedback from peers, and engaging in
productive development of the field’s enduring questions.
NARNiHS welcomes papers in all areas of historical sociolinguistics,
which is understood as the application and/or development of
sociolinguistic theories, methods, and models for the study of
historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly,
the study of the interaction of language and society in historical
periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of
linguistic areas, subdisciplines, methodologies, and adjacent
disciplines easily find their place within historical
sociolinguistics, and we encourage submission of abstracts that
reflect this broad scope.
Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters.
Accepted papers will be organized into thematic sessions that will be
scheduled throughout the 4 days of the LSA conference; accepted
posters will be scheduled together in the LSA poster gallery. Please
note that, at NARNiHS events, poster presentations are an integral and
equal part of the intellectual exchange (not second-tier
presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster
presentation based on determinations in the review process about the
most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that
your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation,
please specify this in your abstract.
Successful abstracts will demonstrate thorough grounding in historical
sociolinguistics, scientific rigor in the formulation of research
questions, and promise for rich discussion of ideas. Successful
abstracts will be explicit about which theoretical frameworks,
methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied
or critiqued. Data sources and examples should be sufficiently
presented, so as to allow reviewers a full understanding of the scope
and claims of the research. Please note that the connection of your
research to the field of historical sociolinguistics should be
explicitly outlined in your abstract. Failure to adhere to these
criteria will likely result in rejection of the abstract.
Abstract Format Guidelines:
1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format.
2) Abstracts must fit on one 8.5x11-inch or A4 page, with margins no
smaller than 1 inch (2.54 cm) and a font style and size no smaller
than Times New Roman 12 point. You are encouraged to use the entire
page to provide a full and robust description of the research. All
additional supporting content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures,
captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1)
additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed;
abstracts longer than one page or with more than one additional page
of supporting content will be rejected without review.
3) Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a
poster presentation.
4) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes complete
anonymity is not attainable, but there is a difference between the
nature of the research creating an inability to anonymize and careless
non-anonymizing (in citations, references, file names, etc.). Be sure
to also anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader
by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it
appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving
the file before submission). Do not use your name as the file name
when saving your PDF (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf); file names may not be
automatically anonymized by the EasyAbs system. Rather, use
non-identifying information in your file name (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe.pdf).
Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your
abstract submission. Abstracts that are not sufficiently anonymized
wherever possible will be rejected without review.
General Requirements:
1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the following
link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2027/
2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: One single-author
abstract and one co-authored abstract.
3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation in
NARNiHS sessions and at the LSA Annual Meeting or another LSA Sister
Society meeting (ADS, ANS, NAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, or SSILA).
4) Specify if you prefer your submission be considered primarily for a
poster presentation.
5) After submission, no changes of author, title, or wording of the
abstract may occur. If your abstract is accepted, adjustment of
typographical errors is permitted before a final version of the
abstract is printed in the conference booklet.
6) Papers and posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract
or represent bona fide developments of the same research.
7) Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present
their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event.
Contact us at NARNiHistSoc at gmail.com with any questions.

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