The third Arabic Linguistics Forum conference will be held at SOAS University of London on 4-6 July 2018. This international conference aims to provide a forum for academic and scholarly exchange on the linguistics of the Arabic language in all its varieties, for researchers from across Europe and the Middle East, and beyond.

Confirmed invited speakers:

Sam Hellmuth (University of York)
Bruce Ingham (SOAS University of London)
Lameen Souag (Lacito CNRS)

There will also be a workshop for early career researchers, given by Maris Camilleri (University of Essex), on approaches to the syntax of Arabic dialects.

Organisers: Christopher Lucas and Hanadi Ismail (SOAS University of London)

Call for Papers:

The Arabic Linguistics Forum welcomes the submission of abstracts in all areas of Arabic linguistics: phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, historical linguistics, first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, forensic linguistics and computational linguistics.

Abstract deadline: 15 February 2018

Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 500 words. In addition, references and/or figures may optionally be included, but should not exceed two pages of A4 (or US 'Letter'). Please submit your abstract in pdf format.

Your abstract must be anonymous. You will be asked to submit a version with your name and affiliation on it if your abstract is selected for presentation. Please make sure that you do not use your name in the filename for your abstract, and please erase any details which might identify you in the file that you submit. Please use one word from the title of your abstract as the filename.

Abstracts must be submitted via the conference Easychair page.

More information available at the Forum webpages.