Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium 2010

Saturday, April 17, 2010
Purdue University, Beering 2290

Dates

Submission deadline:	Thursday, February 25, 2010
Acceptance Notification:	Friday, March 12, 2010
Symposium:	Saturday, April 17, 2010 (Pre-conference Workshop on April 16)
Location:	April 16: Beering 2275 April 17: Beering 2290 Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Time:	April 16: 6pm April 17: 8am-4:30pm
Key-Note Speaker:	Dr. Alan Yu of the University of Chicago Topic: Language Diversity
Attendance Fee:	None--All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Please register here for the event.

Schedule

April 16:

6p.m."Applying to Grad School"

7p.m. "Language Diversity"

8p.m. Film "The Linguists" on endangered languages

April 17:
Symposium Schedule

Travel Information

For information about how to get to West Lafayette by car, please see the following link.
For transportation to West Lafayette from the Indianapolis airport, please see the following link.
For transportation to West Lafayette from the Chicago O'Hare airport, please see the following link.
For hotel accommodations, please check our New in Town? page.

Call for papers

Call for Papers: Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium 2010

When: Saturday, April 17, 2010
Where: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (location TBD)
Submission deadline: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Acceptance notification: Friday, March 12, 2010
Pre-conference Workshop: Friday, April 16, 2010

Click here if you would like to download a copy of this call for papers as a .pdf file.

The PLA student Symposium 2010 endeavors to provide undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctorate researchers from various linguistic fields opportunities to interact with those both inside and outside their respective disciplines. This year, in addition to the Saturday paper sessions, we will also host workshops that Friday on disciplines in linguistics.

Special Session: Language Diversity
What can language diversity reveal about the universal human capacity for language? What are issues that arise in field research when multiple languages and cultures meet? How does language documentation of relatively unknown languages contribute to theoretical frameworks? The special session aims to address some of these questions from theoretical and experimental viewpoints. We are especially interested in hearing papers on a variety of linguistic subfields on the topic of language diversity and less commonly known languages. The special session will be followed by a general discussion.

General Session (Saturday):
We invite submissions for abstracts for 20-minute presentations in any area related to linguistics, including, but not limited to:

Phonetics
Phonology
Syntax
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
Pragmatics
Psycholinguistics
Historical Linguistics
Anthropological Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Second Language Writing
Speech and Hearing Sciences

Formatting Guidelines:

500 words maximum
2 pages maximum (second page may be used for tables, figures, and references)
PDF format
place the title of your paper at the top of the document
do NOT include your name, institution, or any identifying information on the abstract

Submission Guidelines:
All graduate students and post-doctoral students are welcome to submit an abstract. Please submit your anonymous abstract electronically at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/PLA2010 by 11:59pm EST on Thursday, February 25, 2010. Questions can be sent to PLAsymposium2010@gmail.com

Past symposia

Link to past symposia here:
2009
2008
2007
2006

Created by Elizabeth Strong Last updated: Friday, 16 April 2010, 14:24:14 EDT