Call for papers: ILLS

The 5th annual meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society (ILLS), to be held April 5-7, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is currently accepting submissions. Please pass this on to interested students to inform them of this opportunity.

Thank you for your time,
ILLS5 Committee

Marissa Goldrich
Itxaso Rodriguez
Megan Kennedy
Lydia Medill
Kate Lyons

The 5th annual meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics Society will be held April 5-7, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  ILLS is a graduate student conference open to all subfields of linguistics. In addition to the general conference and a Saturday poster session, this year's meeting will include a special session Saturday, April 16th on the topic of ‘Minority languages’.  We encourage submission and are currently accepting abstracts for topics in general linguistics and minority languages.  Deadline for submission is January 31st.

All talks will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Abstracts will also be considered for a Saturday poster session. The top 4 submitted student abstracts will be awarded $200 to cover conference travel costs.

Abstracts should be maximum 500 words, with one extra page allowed for images, data, and/or references. Abstracts should be submitted via EasyAbs on LinguistList.org in PDF format with NO IDENTIFYING INFORMATION of the presenter in the document.

For more information: http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=152391

The conference URL is: http://ills.linguistics.illinois.edu/current/index.html

Please contact lso.illinois@gmail.com <mailto:lso.illinois@gmail.com> with any questions you may have.

Invited Speakers:
Zsuzsanna Faygal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
John Rickford (Stanford University)
Carrie Gillon (Arizona State University)
Ryan Shosted (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Michael Kenstowicz (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)