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Linguistics
Conferences
Upcoming
- Inaugural
Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society, September
8-10, 2006 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
- 5th International
Conference on the Mental Lexicon October 11-13, 2006
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Mid-America Linguistics
Conference October 27-28, 2006
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Call for papers deadline September 5, 2006.
Accepting papers on all linguistic topics. Linguists in all
areas of specialization are encouraged to submit abstracts.
This year’s meeting will feature special interest sessions
on Second Language Acquisition and Syntax. There will also be
a forum dedicated to graduate students.
Plenary Speaker: Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- TexTesol2006
State Conference, Oct. 26-28, 2006
Austin, Texas
- 2007 LSA Linguistic
Institute
The LSA Linguistic Institute is a six week summer school that
offers 2-, 4-, and 6-week courses, several weekend conferences,
and a variety of workshops. Held in odd-numbered years, it brings
together several dozen linguistics faculty from across North America
and from overseas, and several hundred graduate students and professional
affiliates. More than just offering courses, the Linguistics Institute
offers Linguistics students the opportunity to interact with others
in the discipline, to take courses and listen to lectures from
internationally esteemed faculty, and to exchange ideas with others
who share similar research interests. The LSA offers competitive
fellowships for the Institute (application deadline: early February)
which can be applied to tuition. Courses taken at the institute
can count towards a student's degree. (please contact the Linguistics
Program director if you need a copy of the fellowship application)
- 31st
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD
31) November 3-5, 2006.
Boston University
- The
14th Annual American University Conference on Lavender Languages
and Linguistics February 9-11, 2007
American University, Washington DC
Annual
- Berkeley
Linguistic Society (BLS)
The Berkeley Linguistics Society is a graduate student organization
at the University of California, Berkeley. The Society holds its
annual meeting during Presidents' Day weekend in the middle of
February. The meeting consists of three parts: a General Session
on topics of varied linguistic interest, a Parasession on a particular
linguistic topic, and, beginning in 1990, a Special Session on
general linguistic topics of a certain geographic area. Around
the middle of September, a Call for Papers is sent to those on
our mailing list, and abstracts of papers are due around the middle
of November. After reviewing and selecting the abstracts, the
Society sends out the conference program in early January. All
Conference Proceedings are available for purchase.
- Boston
University Conference on Language Development
The Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD)
was started in 1976 by students in the Applied Psycholinguistics
Program. The Conference, which has become one of the best known
conferences on language development in the world, is now run by
students in the Program in Applied Linguistics, under the guidance
of a faculty adviser.
The Conference involves year-round planning and draws over 500
people from all over the U.S. and around the world. It includes
presentations in such areas as theoretical approaches to language
acquisition, cross-cultural language development, second language
development, language disorders, and literacy development. Each
year, close to 400 abstracts are submitted to the conference,
from which about 90 papers and 50 posters are chosen for presentation.
Internationally renowned researchers also give keynote and plenary
addresses, as well as a lunch symposium on a topic of current
interest.
- Chicago
Linguistics Society (CLS)
The Chicago Linguistic Society is a student-run, decidedly non-profit
volunteer organization at the University of Chicago. Its raison-d’etre
is to create forums where linguists and scholars working in related
disciplines (e.g. anthropology, sociology, psychology) can present
and discuss their work.
- Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL)
Presentations in all areas of formal linguistics. Held annually
at an eastern university in the United States (occasionally in
Canada).
- Georgetown
University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)
The Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics
(GURT) is an annual conference that has been held on the campus
of Georgetown University since 1949. It began as a gathering for
discussion of issues in all fields of linguistics. Over time it
has developed into a nationally and internationally known forum
for in-depth treatment of special topics. The conference theme,
chosen by the faculty member(s) within the Faculty of Languages
and Linguistics chairing the event, varies from year to year.
- Kentucky
Foreign Language Conference
Held annually at the University of Kentucky-Lexington. Features
presentations on foreign language literatures and includes linguistics
sessions.
- Languaging: A Conference
Across Linguistics, Literature, and Writing
Offers a forum for scholars from the disciplines of linguistics,
literature, and writing, as well as the related disciplines of anthropology,
art, communication theory, cultural studies, film, history, music,
philosophy, psychology, theater, etc., to examine "language" and
"texts" both within these disciplines and across these disciplines.
- New Ways
of Analyzing Variation (NWAVE)
Presentations in all areas of linguistic variation theory.
- Northeast Linguistics Society
(NELS)
Presentations in all areas of formal linguistics. Held annually
at a northeastern university in the United States or Canada. NELS 36 will be at the University of
Massachusetts.
- Southeastern
Conference on Linguistics (SECOL)
The Southeastern Conference--SECOL--promotes scholarship both in
theoretical and applied linguistics for a general linguistic audience.
Its members are interested in diverse areas: the traditional linguistic
fields (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse analysis,
and pragmatics) but also a multitude of other areas (dialectology,
language change, language variation, lexicography, sociolinguistics,
psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language and cognition,
linguistic analysis of literature, problems in translation, etc.).
- Stanford
Child Language Research Forum (CLRF)
The Child Language Research Forum (CLRF) is an annual conference
that takes place at Stanford University, where scholars gather to
share their latest work on various areas of child language acquisition.
- Student Conference in Linguistics (SCiL)
SCIL is a student-run conference which aims to bring together graduate
students from around the world to present their research and build
connections with other students. The proceedings are published in
the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.
- Texas Linguistic
Society
The Texas Linguistics Society is an organization comprised of graduate
and undergraduate students interested in the study of language from
a theoretical perspective. Plans are currently being made for the
2000 conference of the Texas Linguistics Society, which will be
held February 25-27, 2000 at The University of Texas at Austin.
This year's conference will focus on signed languages.
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