DIGS 13: Call for papers

[Sophie Wauquier]

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> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:59:22 -0500
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> Please forward the following call to anyone in your department or 
> program who may be interested in diachronic/historical syntax.
>
> Also, please accept our apologies for the inevitable multiple 
> postings. Thanks in advance for your help and patience.
>
> DIGS13 organizing committee
>
>
> ******************************************
>
> *DiGS XIII call for papers
> *
> The Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania is 
> pleased to be hosting the thirteenth meeting of DiGS, the Conference 
> on Diachronic Generative Syntax, in June of 2011. For the past twenty 
> years, DiGS has been the leading international forum for the 
> presentation of research on historical syntax from a generative 
> perspective.  The DiGS 13 organizing committee invites papers that 
> discuss any aspect of historical or diachronic syntax. Especially 
> encouraged are contributions to comparative syntax and to the study of 
> syntactic change.
>
> The meeting will feature plenary papers, a poster session, and an 
> all-day multi-session workshop on corpus-based and quantitative 
> methods in diachronic research.  See the conference website at 
> http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/DIGS13/ for more details.
>
> Funding from the NSF and other sources will support travel subventions 
> of $150 - $200 for student presenters at both the main conference and 
> the poster sessions.
>
> *The conference will include plenary addresses by:
> *- Enoch Aboh, University of Amsterdam
> - Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh
> - David Lightfoot, Georgetown University
> - Thomas McFadden, University of Tromsø
> - Ana Maria Martins, University of Lisbon
> - Ian Roberts, Cambridge University
>
> *Abstract submission deadline:* February 20, 2011.
> *Notification of acceptance/rejection:* March 31, 2011.
> *DiGS XIII meeting:* June 2-5, 2011.
>
> *Submission Guidelines
> *
> Abstract submissions are welcome for thirty-minute oral presentations, 
> to be followed by ten minutes for questions and discussion. We 
> especially invite abstract submissions for a poster session to be held 
> at the meeting.
>
> Authors should indicate in their submission whether they want their 
> abstract to be considered only for oral presentation, only for the 
> poster session or for either.
>
> Submissions are limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint 
> abstract per author.
>
> Please restrict abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced. An 
> additional page may be used for references and data. Do not include 
> your name or affiliation in the abstract.
>
> To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a PDF 
> file.
>
> *To submit an abstract, you must follow these steps:
> *1. To begin, access our EasyChair abstract submission system at 
> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digs13 and log in.  If you 
> do not have an existing EasyChair account, click on "sign up for an 
> account." You will be asked to fill out a simple form to create an 
> account.
> 2. Click "New Submission" at the top of the page.
> 3. Enter author information in the provided fields. Tick the 
> "Corresponding Author" box for all authors who wish to receive e-mail 
> correspondences or notifications.
> 4. Enter your title in the "Title" field.
> 5. In the "Abstract" field, you may enter a one-sentence summary of 
> your paper, as well any comments you have, in order to assist the 
> committee in assigning reviewers.
> 6. Enter at least three keywords.
> 7. Upload your abstract in the "Paper" field. Only PDF files will be 
> accepted. *Do not* include your name or affiliation in the abstract or 
> file name.
> 8. *Do not *tick the "Abstract only" box, or your PDF will not be 
> uploaded.
> 9. Click "Submit." You will be taken to a summary page of your 
> submission - this is your confirmation that it has been saved. 
> Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously.
> 10. You may make any necessary updates by logging in and clicking on 
> "My Submissions."
>
> For more information, please contact the organizers at 
> digs13 at ling.upenn.edu <mailto:digs13 at ling.upenn.edu>.
>
> *DiGS 13 Sponsors:
> *Department of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
> School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
> US National Science Foundation
>
François Dell
C.R.L.A.O
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
54 boulevard Raspail
75270 Paris cedex 06

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