LINGUIST List 22.4328 Tue Nov 01 2011 Calls: Germanic, General Ling/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Robert Fulk , Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18 Message 1: Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18 Date: 01-Nov-2011 From: Robert Fulk <fulkindiana.edu> Subject: Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18 E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 18 Short Title: GLAC-18 Date: 26-Apr-2012 - 28-Apr-2012 Location: Bloomington, Indiana, USA Contact Person: Robert Fulk Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.indiana.edu/~glacshel/home.php Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Language Family(ies): Germanic Call Deadline: 16-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: Please note there are two concurrent conferences going on: Eighteenth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference Seventh Studies in the History of the English Language conference This announcement is for Eighteenth Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC) Abstracts for GLAC may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of any historical or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (to the Early Modern period) and the extraterritorial varieties. Call for papers: Deadline: January 16, 2012 Web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~glacshel/home.php Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for 20-minute papers for presentation at GLAC and/or SHEL, to be held jointly at Indiana University, Bloomington, April 26-28, 2012. Abstracts for GLAC may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of any historical or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (to the Early Modern period) and the extraterritorial varieties. Proposals to SHEL may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of the history of English. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts. (If you would like to submit three abstracts, please contact the organizers.) Papers from the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, metrics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as well as differing theoretical perspectives, are welcome. All abstracts will undergo anonymous review. Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format as an email attachment to: glacshelindiana.edu Abstracts should be a maximum of one single-spaced page in length and be written in a standard 12-point font. The page should be headed only by the title of the paper, and the abstract should contain no self-identification. The accompanying email should include the author's institutional affiliation, title of the paper, and conference affiliation (that is, GLAC or SHEL). The deadline for submission of abstracts will be Monday, January 16, 2012, and notification about acceptance of papers will be issued by Monday, February 6. Tips for writing a good abstract are provided by the Linguistic Society of America at http://lsadc.org/info/abstract-models.cfm. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 01-Nov-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.