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Department of Linguistics & TESOL | The University of Texas at Arlington

LINGUA:

UTASCILT 17 (2010)

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Dates & Location

The 17th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL will be held on the campus of UT Arlington on February 19 and 20, 2010.

Call for Papers

For submission details, download the Call for Papers for UTASCILT 17 (pdf). The call deadline has been extended to 16 November 2009. Paper and poster abstract submissions welcomed.

Keynote Speaker

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. William Croft. Dr. Croft received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Croft's areas of specialty are typology, semantics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, and evolutionary models of language change. His publications include Typology and Universals (2nd edition, 2003), Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations (1991), Explaining Language Change (2000), Radical Construction Grammar (2001) and Cognitive Linguistics (with Alan Cruse, 2004). Croft has held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Purpose

The University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL is a student-led conference specifically designed to give graduate students a chance to present their original research. This is a great opportunity to join students from across America and around the world to present research on language.

Conference Schedule & Abstracts

More information when available.

Registration

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Finding Your Way Here

The closest airport to UTA is Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). It is 20-30 minutes by car between DFW and UT Arlington. Be sure you're flying to the right airport if you need to come by airplane.

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