Call for Papers
The 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4-6 April 2008
New abstract submission deadline: November 11, 2007
Main Session: All areas of Romance Linguistics
Parasession on Sociolinguistics: Romance Languages in the Diaspora
Conference website: http://www.lsrl.uiuc.edu
Contact: lsrl38@gmail.com
Plenary Speakers:
Barbara Bullock, The Pennsylvania State University
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/b/e/beb2/Welcome.html
Gennaro Chierchia, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/f_chierchia.html
Grant Goodall, University of California, San Diego
http://ling.ucsd.edu/~goodall/
Michele Koven, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.spcomm.uiuc.edu/faculty/people/mkoven/
Submission guidelines:
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) on any aspect of Romance Linguistics. For the parasession on Romance Languages in the Diaspora, we seek submissions that explore how multilingualism and ties to more than one culture affect the use and structure of languages in Romance language-speaking transnational (im)migrant communities.
Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author.
Abstract submission will be done online, on the LSRL 38 website: http://www.lsrl.uiuc.edu. Follow the "Abstracts" link on the left, and follow the instructions there. When submitting your abstract, please specify the sessions you would like to be considered for: Main Session, or the Parasession on Romance Languages in the Diaspora.
Only online PDF submissions at the site specified above will be accepted. Abstracts should be anonymous, and limited to two pages (using 1 inch/2.5 cm margins on all sides and 12pt font size). Any non-standard fonts should be embedded in the PDF document.
New abstract submission deadline: November 11, 2007
LSRL 38 Organizing Committee:
Karlos Arregi
Zsuzsanna Fagyal
Silvina Montrul
Annie Tremblay
LSRL 38 Sponsors:
School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Department of French
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Center for Advanced Study
European Union Center
Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanitites
Department of Speech Communication
Department of Anthropology
Summary:
Submission deadline: 11 November 2007
Conference dates: 4-6 April 2008
Contact: lsrl38@gmail.com