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The 12th Newcastle-upon-Tyne Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics

Friday 31st March 2017, 9:00 – 18:15

Newcastle University

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce the 12th Newcastle-upon-Tyne Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics. We invite postgraduate students from any institution to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations on any area of linguistics, theoretical or applied (please see attachment for submission guidelines).This one-day conference is designed to give linguistics postgraduates from all research areas an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting.

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Professor John Joseph, University of Edinburgh

Professor Paul Baker, Lancaster University

Dr. Elaine Lopez, Newcastle University

KEY DATES

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Sunday 4th December 2016

Notification of acceptance: Early February 2017

Registration: Details on registration will be updated on the conference website.

(see website for abstract submission guidelines)

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

Accepted abstracts will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. There will be a dedicated poster session on the day of the conference. Speakers will also be invited to submit their paper for publication in the the Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics.

FURTHER INFORMATION

More information can be found at the conference website:

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/study/postgrad/conference/

If you have any queries, please email us at pgconfling@ncl.ac.uk.