The Inaugural Postgraduate Conference in  Linguistics

University of Sheffield

Centre for Linguistic Research

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Centre for Linguistic Research (CLR) at the University of Sheffield will hold its first postgraduate conference on 4-5 February 2014. ShefLingPGC is a two-day conference is designed to give linguistics postgraduates from all research areas an opportunity to present and discuss their research in a friendly and intellectually stimulating setting at the University of Sheffield. We invite postgraduates and doctoral students to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations on any language, across a range of topics in language and linguistics.

KEY DATES

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 December 2013

Notification of acceptance: 1 January 2014

Registration opens: 1 January 2014

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submit your abstract for a paper or poster presentation in 250-300 words (excluding references), by 20 December 2013 to ShefLingPGC@sheffield.ac.uk. Please submit two copies of the abstract in the following format:

● Copy 1: Title, anonymous abstract, 5-6 keywords

● Copy 2: Title, name and affiliation, abstract, 5-6 keywords, a short bio-note

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

Each speaker will be given 20-minute for presentation and a 10-minute question and answer session at the end. There will also be a dedicated poster session at the conference. The language of the conference is English.

FURTHER INFORMATION

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If you have any queries, please email us at ShefLingPGC@sheffield.ac.uk