LINGUIST List 23.592 Sat Feb 04 2012 Calls: General Linguistics/Canada 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.     Rennie Gonsalves , Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Message 1: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Date: 03-Feb-2012 From: Rennie Gonsalves <lacus.treasurergmail.com> Subject: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States Short Title: LACUS Date: 08-Aug-2012 - 11-Aug-2012 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Contact Person: Rennie Gonsalves Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://lacus.weebly.com Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2012 Meeting Description: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States We are pleased to announce that the 2012 annual meeting of LACUS will be held August 8-11, 2012, at York University located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the western end of Lake Ontario. Conference theme: Language Varieties Invited Speakers: Jessica de Villiers, UBC, 'Autism Spectrum Disorders, Aspergers, and Language' Bridget Drinka, U of Texas at San Antonio, 'The Role of Contact in Language Change: The Puzzle of the Periphrastic Perfects' Ted Supalla, U of Rochester, 'The Role of Historical Research in Building a Model of Sign Language Typology and Variation' Local Hosts and Program Committee Chairs: Sheila Embleton and Michael Cummings Call for Papers: Deadline for abstracts has been extended to March 1, 2012. LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas. The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive: Cognitive approaches to language varieties Computational and corpus approaches Systemic functional approaches Stratificational modelling of language varieties Critical discourse approaches Language contrast Language varieties in multimedia Language varieties in forensic linguistics Language varieties in clinical linguistics Language varieties and genre Language varieties in teaching second and foreign languages, especially EFL and ESL Neurolinguistic approaches Text and context Varieties in graphology, phonology, grammar, lexis, discourse, modality, ontology Historical varieties, institutional varieties, regional varieties, social varieties To submit an abstract, go to the LACUS website at http://lacus.weebly.com/ and click on 'Conferences'. LACUS 2012 is also open to live, virtual presentation on the internet (conference registration required). For further information, see the 'Abstract submission' page on the LACUS website. Presidents' Prizes: The Presidents' Prize, which includes a cash award of US$500, will be awarded to the most outstanding paper presented at the conference by a younger scholar. For this purpose, most outstanding paper is defined as the paper judged as the one making the greatest contribution to knowledge, and younger scholar is defined as one who has received a doctor's degree within the past five years and who has not yet advanced to a tenured position. The judging is done by the Presidents Committee, consisting of the current President of LACUS and all former presidents in attendance at the meeting. The Presidents' Predoctoral Prize, with a cash award of US$100, is given to the best paper (same criteria) by a person who has not yet attained a doctor's degree. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 04-Feb-2012       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.