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Call for Papers

The deadline for NELS 36 abstract submission has passed!

We would like to thank everybody who submitted an abstract. We wish you all success, and would love to see you here in the fall.

Original call for papers

36th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society
October 28-30, 2005
 at the Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

nels AT linguist.umass.edu
http://people.umass.edu/nels/

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes of discussion), and a poster session, on any aspect of theoretical linguistics and closely-related fields.

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: June 15, 2005

NELS36 INVITED SPEAKERS
  • Greg Carlson (University of Rochester)
  • Lisa Cheng (Universiteit Leiden)
  • J. Michael Terry (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
  • Bruce Tesar (Rutgers University)
NELS36 SPECIAL SESSIONS

Topics at the Morphology-Phonology Interface
Invited Speaker: Bruce Tesar

This session will include regular-length talks that address issues at the morphology-phonology boundary, including:

  • morphological categories and boundaries in phonology
  • learnability of morphological contrasts
  • phonologically-conditioned allomorphy & paradigm gaps
  • contrast neutralization/preservation in paradigms
  • paradigm uniformity, OO-correspondence, stratal OT
 space

Semantics of Under-represented Languages
Invited Speaker: J. Michael Terry

This session will include regular-length talks that address the semantics of under-represented languages, including non-standard dialects of well-studied languages (for instance African American English, Bavarian German, or Brazilian Portuguese). We welcome any research on such languages concerning one or more of the following areas:

  • theoretical semantics
  • experimental work on semantics
  • semantic fieldwork
  • morpho-semantics
  • the syntax-semantics interface
  • the semantics-pragmatics interface
  • information structure
Submission Requirements and Guidelines:

All abstracts should be submitted as email attachments, in PDF format only, to: nels AT linguist.umass.edu .

When submitting an abstract, your email should have as its subject 'Abstract', and in its body the following text:

  • author name(s), affiliation(s) and e-mail address(es)
  • title of abstract
  • abstract sub-area (at most two): acquisition, morphology, phonology/phonetics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, semantics, syntax
  • session(s) you would like your abstract to be considered for: main, special, poster

PDF files should be named with the author(s) last name(s) only, e.g. 'smith.pdf' in the case of one author or 'smithjohnson.pdf' in the case of two.

Abstracts should be anonymous, and limited to one page (using 1in margins on all sides and 11pt font size) and a second page containing examples and references. All fonts should be embedded in the PDF document.

Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author.

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: June 15, 2005
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: (by) August 15, 2005

For additional information, please contact the organizers at nels AT linguist.umass.edu.