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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