LINGUIST List 21.4657 Fri Nov 19 2010 Confs: Sociolinguistics/Canada 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.     Adriana Diez , Methods in Dialectology Message 1: Methods in Dialectology Date: 19-Nov-2010 From: Adriana Diez <methods14uwo.ca> Subject: Methods in Dialectology E-mail this message to a friend Methods in Dialectology Date: 02-Aug-2011 - 06-Aug-2011 Location: London, Ontario, Canada Contact: David Heap Contact Email: methods14uwo.ca Meeting URL: http://westernlinguistics.ca/methods14/ Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Meeting Description: The fourteenth Methods in Dialectology will be held at the University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada) from 2 to 6 August 2011. Themes and keynote speakers will be announced at a later date. There are already a number of workshop sessions proposed, and further suggestions for special sessions or workshops are welcome. Potential organisers are asked to provide details of their plans, including their names, scope of session, estimated number of papers, and arrangements for abstract review. Please send these to the Organising Committee (methods14uwo.ca) by September 30, 2010, in order to facilitate integrating with the wider conference. The main language of the conference is English but specific sessions or workshops may be conducted in French. Proposals for sessions in other languages should be addressed to the organizing committee. Workshops: Methods in Dialectology 14 will offer 8 different workshops in which you can participate. - 'Dialect and Heritage Language Corpora for the Google Generation'. Karen Corrigan of Newcastle University, UK. - 'Nouveaux corpus de français oral'.Robert Papen, Raymond Mougeon, Jacques Durand, Chantal Lyche. - 'English and European Historical Dialectology'.Marina Dossena, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy. - 'Dialogue on dialect standarization' Carrie Dyck, Karen Rice, Tania Granadillo, Jorge Emilio Rosés Labrada. - 'Dialect and Regiolect Syntax'.Alexandra Lenz (Vienna, Austria), Helmut Weiß (Frankfurt, Germany), Jürg Fleischer (Marburg, Germany). l - 'Gabmap - ?A Web Application for Measuring and Visualizing Distances between Language Varieties'. John Nerbonne et al., University of Groningen. - 'Methods in Malagasy dialectology' Ileana Paul, UWO - 'Atlas Lingüístico de la Península Ibérica (ALPI) :'Lessons and Perspectives'. David Heap et al, UWO etc. For more details about the Workshops in Methods 14 please visit our website:http://westernlinguistics.ca/methods14/workshops.html Organizing committee: David Heap, François Poiré, Jeff Tennant (University of Western Ontario) Naomi Nagy (University of Toronto) Ruth King (York University) Svetlana Kaminskaïa (Waterloo University) Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Nov-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.