LINGUIST List 22.4116 Fri Oct 21 2011 Calls: Spanish, Portuguese, General Linguistics/USA Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     Organizing Committee , Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Linguistics Conference Message 1: Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Linguistics Conference Date: 20-Oct-2011 From: Organizing Committee <asulingconf2012gmail.com> Subject: Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Linguistics Conference E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Linguistics Conference Date: 17-Feb-2012 - 19-Feb-2012 Location: Tempe, Arizona, USA Contact Person: Organizing Committee Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://asulingconf2012.blogspot.com/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Subject Language(s): Portuguese; Spanish Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: The Spanish Linguistics Graduate Students at Arizona State University are honored to invite you to our inaugural Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Linguistics conference. The conference offers an opportunity for graduate students of Spanish and Portuguese linguistics to share their current research. Our keynote speakers will also present research on topics in Spanish SLA and Sociolinguistics. The inaugural Hispanic & Luso-Brazilian Linguistics Conference will take place in Tempe, Arizona at Arizona State University on February 17-19, 2012. Keynote Speakers: John Lipski (Penn State), presenting sociolinguistic research on Portuñol/Portunhol Robert Blake (UC-Davis), presenting on Language Learning Technology The conference registration fee is $35. For more information regarding the conference & Tempe/Phoenix, please visit our website: http://asulingconf2012.blogspot.com Call for Papers: The conference calls for linguistic analyses of all Spanish and Portuguese varieties, including the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America, North America and Africa. These different empirical, historical or theoretical perspectives could be research on, for example: language contact, language instruction, linguistic typology, language in context, universal grammar or language in the social context. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Dialectology and Language Contact Pragmatics Portuguese Linguistics Sociolinguistics Bilingualism and Code-Switching Second Language Acquisition Historical and Descriptive Linguistics Syntax and Semantics Language Typology 3rd Language Acquisition Phonetics and Phonology Applied Linguistics Participants should send their abstracts to asulingconf2012gmail.com. The subject of the email should read 'Conference Abstract'. Please include: title of presentation, an abstract of the presentation (250 word max) in English, Spanish or Portuguese, author and school, email address, a brief CV (or attached) and any audiovisual accommodations required. We encourage students to submit abstracts as soon as possible. Presenters will be admitted and notified on a rolling basis. The deadline for abstract submission is January 10, 2012. Presentations may be up to 15 minutes and in Spanish, English or Portuguese, followed by 5 minutes of discussion and questions. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 21-Oct-2011       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.