Message from the LSA:

The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will take place at the Hilton San Francisco, 8-11 January 2009, San Francisco, California.  The American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas will meet concurrently with the LSA.

Plenary speakers for the 2009 Annual Meeting are:

Talmy Givon, University of Oregon (Emeritus)
Angelika Kratzer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
John Rickford, Stanford University

There will in addition be a plenary symposium on the first and second days of the meeting focusing on computational linguistics and its relation to the rest of the field, organized by Emily Bender, University of Washington, and D. Terence Langendoen, University of Arizona (Emeritus) and the National Science Foundation.

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2009 Annual Meeting is Friday, 1 August 2008 (note that NAAHoLS abstracts will be due 1 September 2008).  All abstracts for papers and posters and all proposals for organized sessions must be submitted electronically; see the LSA website for guidelines. Submissions will be accepted starting July 1.  Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and by a panel of external expert reviewers.

Please note that the submitting author must be a member of the LSA (or a member of one of the sister societies), and that a single individual may appear as an author on at most two abstracts: one single-authored and one multi-authored, or two multi-authored.  Organized session abstracts are considered multi-authored abstracts.

Chris Kennedy
Laurence Horn
Co-Chairs, Program Committee
Linguistic Society of America
 

Call for Papers

The 2009 NAAHoLS meeting will again be held in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America, the American Dialect Society, the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, and the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.  Featured plenary speakers this year include Talmy Givon, Angelika Kratzer, and John Rickford.

The meeting will take place at the Hilton San Francisco between 8-11 January, 2009.  Further details about the meeting are provided below.

As in the past, we invite papers relating to any aspect of the history of the language sciences.  All presenters must be members of the association (contact the NAAHoLS Treasurer for details).  Papers will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion.  Abstracts may be submitted as hard copies or as file attachments (MS Word only).  The length of the abstract should not exceed 500 words -- a shorter (100-word) abstract will also be requested for the meeting handbook.  The deadline for NAAHoLS abstracts is 1 September 2008

Abstracts should be sent to:  David Boe, Department of English, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI  49855; (906) 227-2677; dboe@nmu.edu
 

The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America will take place January 8-11, 2009 at the: 

The American Dialect Society, the American Name Society, the North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, and the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas will meet concurrently with the LSA.

Preliminary Program

The Preliminary Program for the 2009 Annual Meeting will be posted in early October 2008.

Hotel Accommodations, Airfare, Local Transportation, Parking

The Hilton San Francisco has reserved a block of rooms for those attending the 2009 meeting. All guest rooms offer a coffeemaker, cable television, a hair dryer, a minibar, iron, ironing board, in room safe and two dual-line telephones with speakerphone. High-speed internet access is available at no cost in the public areas of the hotel, and in guest rooms for a fee (currently $14.95/day). The San Francisco Hilton and Towers is located within walking distance of theatres, Union Square, shopping, the Yerba Buena Center and Chinatown. Close by are the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, the Mission District, North Beach and Fisherman's Wharf.
To qualify for LSA's special rate, reservations must be made by Tuesday 16 December 2008.

The special LSA room rates are: 
Single/Double $99
Triple/Quad $129 
You may make room reservations by phone by calling 1-800-HILTONS (1-800-445-8667) and requesting the LSA rate; online reservations should be made directly at the Hilton San Francisco's LSA Registration website. This extraordinary room rate will also be honored, by advance reservation only and subject to availability, from January 4-7 and January 11-14, if you would like to take advantage of the rate and extend your trip to San Francisco by a few days in either direction.

Registration

Everyone attending the meeting is expected to register. Compliance is important for keeping our fees affordable. Only those who register will be allowed to present papers, use the Job Placement Service, or attend plenary presentations.
Online preregistration for the 2009 Annual Meeting will begin in September 2008. Information on preregistration fees will be available at that time.
 

LSA Meeting Services
More information on Child Care, the Job Placement Center, the Publishers' Exhibit, and the Sign Language Interpreting Policy will be available at a later date.
 

University of Potsdam (Germany), 28 August - 2 September, 2008

The 11th International Conference on the History of Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI) will be held at the University of Potsdam from 28 August to 2 September 2008.
The International Conference on the History of Language Sciences has taken place every three years since 1978. Previous venues have been Ottawa, Lille, Princeton, Trier, Galway, Washington, Oxford, Fontenay-St. Cloud (Paris), São Paolo-Campinas and Urbana-Champaign.  Please follow the instructions for registration to the conference as posted on the ICHoLS website.  Please register as early as possible.
Sylvie Archaimbault (CNRS – Paris VII), David Cram (Oxford), Clemens Knobloch (Siegen) and Daniel J. Taylor (Lawrence University, Appleton) will hold plenary lectures at the conference.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Gerda Haßler, ICHoLS XI, University of Potsdam, Institut für Romanistik
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25 (Haus 14.039), 14476 Golm, GERMANY
Fone: +49 331 9772015 Fax +49 331 9772193 

Conference Schedule

Call for Papers

Yearly Membership: $20 (US)

Lifetime Membership: $250 (US)

(Note: As NAAHoLS has increased the dues amounts, current lifetime members are invited to contribute $50 to our organization.)

Please make your check out to "NAAHoLS" and send it to:  Talbot Taylor, Department of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795.

Members from outside the United States:  Our treasurer regrets that we are no longer able to accept checks written in currencies other than US Dollars.  The cost of bank exchange is more than the cost of membership.  We ask that those members send a check written on a US bank or pay their dues by some other means that arrives in US Dollars.  We regret any inconvenience this may cause.
 

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