LINGUIST List 21.3936 Tue Oct 05 2010 Calls: General Linguistics/USA Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    I-Hsuan Chen, 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Message 1: 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Date: 05-Oct-2010 From: I-Hsuan Chen <bls_submissionsberkeley.edu> Subject: 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society Short Title: BLS 37 Date: 12-Feb-2011 - 13-Feb-2011 Location: Berkeley, CA, USA Contact Person: I-Hsuan Chen Meeting Email: blsberkeley.edu Web Site: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/call.html Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Call Deadline: 12-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: The 37th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society will take place at the University of California, Berkeley on February 12-13, 2011. The meeting will comprise a General Session, a Special Session, and a Parasession. Invited speakers: Salikoko Mufwene, University of Chicago Bernard Comrie, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and University of California, Santa Barbara Greville Corbett, University of Surrey Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara Robert Podesva, Georgetown University Call For Papers Abstracts must be received no later than: Friday, November 12, 2010 at midnight (PST) No late submissions can be accepted. Authors will be notified of decisions concerning abstracts by mid-December. Submission Guidelines An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In the case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for official communication with BLS. Abstracts must clearly present a specific thesis statement and include a description of topic, approach, and conclusions. Abstracts must fit on one page with margins no smaller than .5-inch in font no smaller than 10-pt (1-inch margins with 12-pt font is preferred). Data and examples must be given within the body of the text, but references may be included on a separate page if necessary. To preserve anonymity during the review process, authors should not include their names or otherwise reveal their identity anywhere in the abstract. Abstracts that do not conform to these criteria will NOT be considered. Electronic Submissions All abstracts must be submitted electronically, formatted as PDF files with the author's name as the filename. The body of the email to which the PDF is attached must contain the following information: -Paper title -Session (General Session, Special Session or Parasession) -Names of authors -Affiliations of authors -E-mail address for each author -Designation of e-mail address for official communication in the case of joint authorship -Phone number for each author -Please list up to three subfields (in decreasing order of relevance) from the following as possible categories for your submission: Phonetics Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics Historical linguistics Sociolinguistics Cognitive linguistics Psycholinguistics Send electronic submissions to bls_submissionsberkeley.edu, with the subject line 'BLS 37 Abstract'. Please note that papers submitted to the Special Session and Parasession may be considered for the General Session as well. Presentation and Publication Presentations are allotted 20 minutes, as well as 10 minutes for questions. Presented papers are published in the BLS Proceedings. Authors agree to provide camera-ready copy (up to 12 pages) by May 15, 2011. In order to expedite publication of papers, BLS will digitally publish the proceedings from the 37th Annual Meeting. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 05-Oct-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.