The Seventh Annual UTA Student Conference in Linguistics

7th UTASCIL-2000

Feb. 24-25

Abstracts deadline: Dec. 10, 1999

[call for papers] [Yumi prize] [schedule] [keynote speaker] [abstracts] [to presenters] [maps] [UTASCIL]

Call for Papers                [back to top]

The Seventh Annual UTA Student Conference in Linguistics -- UTASCIL

Deadline for Abstracts submission: 5PM Friday, December 10, 1999

Date: February 24-25, 2000

Location: University of Texas (Arlington)

Papers from all areas of linguistics are invited, including structural and functional approaches, sociolinguistics, phonology and phonetics, semantics, literacy, and translation. We especially welcome research in minority languages, field work, and discourse analysis.

Students from any educational institution are encouraged to submit their research and share insights they have discovered in the field. Presentations will last 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion and questions.

Notifications of acceptance will be distributed on January 19^th, 2000. Abstracts should be written on a single page with an (optional) additional page for graphs and/or references. Please, provide 5 copies of your anonymous abstract with the title of the paper at the top and a 3Í 5 index card including the following information:

1. Your name;
2. Affiliation;
3. Address, phone number, and e-mail address;
4. Title of paper

Paper copies of abstracts should be submitted to LINGUA, Box 19559, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019-0559 by the deadline. E-mail submission is welcomed. Electronic copies of abstracts should be sent to Mr. Daniel Yang at txy6861@utarlg.uta.edu.

For more information, contact Dr. Silva at (817) 272-3162 or at david@ling.uta.edu

The Yumi Nakamura Prize in Linguistics    [back to top]

The Yumi Nakamure Prize in Linguistics has been established to honor the memory of Ms Yumi Nakamura, a Linguistics student who died at UTA in January 2000.  Her family and the Program in Linguistics have contributed a total of $400 to be awarded to the best student paper at the UTA Student Conference in Linguistics. 

All students presenting papers are eligible to be included in the competition for the prize.  The prize will be awarded at the Friday evening session.  The judges (two faculty and two students) will use the following criteria in awarding the prize:

Yumi Nakamura Prize-2000 winner

Julia Dieterman. University of Texas at Arlington

Paper title: Word Order & inverse voice in Isthmus Mixe

Schedule                [back to top]

Schedule of 7^th Annual UTA Student Conference in Linguistics

Keynote Speaker                [back to top]

Dr. George Lakoff (UC Berkeley)

Abstracts                [back to top]

To presenters                [back to top]

Date: Jan. 26, 2000

TO: All those whose abstracts have been accepted for the conference

We are looking forward to the UTASCIL (University of Texas Student Conference In Linguistics) in four weeks. As we prepare, we want to make sure we are sending appropriate information to all of you. Some of you have sent individual questions, but please reply to these questions so that we are sure of having all the information in one place.

First of all, since we know that circumstances and plans change, please confirm whether you are still planning to come and participate in the conference. So, if you are planning to come, please reply to confirm this. Even if you have corresponded with me or Julie about this, please reconfirm your plans at this time.

Those of you coming from outside the area will need to know:
Fly into to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (abbreviated DFW).
Tell us when your flight is coming in, what airline it is, and the flight number; we will try to arrange somebody to meet you at the airport.

Do you require any special facilities or equipment for your presentation? If you do, please let us know. We will have an overhead projector available automatically. Two have asked about having a projector available to do Powerpoint presentations, so we will have the appropriate projector available for their sessions, but if other
people want to use it, please contact us ahead of time so that we can make proper arrangements.

We encourage people to prepare a handout for the audience. If you bring copes with you, please make at least 40 copies; we can make more here if we need them.

We are working on housing options here. There is a motel very near to campus. Also, some students will invite participants to sleep in their dorms or apartments, an arrangement known in the USA as "crash space". If you are interested in staying with a student and have a non-English name, please help us by indicating your gender, male or
female.

We are planning on 19 student papers, plus a plenary session on Friday afternoon with Dr. George Lakoff. It should be a stimulating time for all of us. We expect 3 students from overseas universities and 5 from other universities in the USA. Topics will include creolization of a pidgin, the sociolinguistics of an alternate script in Taiwan, historic tone splits, spirants in Bantu languages, complement types, sound changes involving /r/, and written vs. spoken language.

Just as a quick reminder, we need you to respond to the following points:
-reconfirm that you are coming
-tell us when you are arriving, plus airline and flight number (if flying in)
-tell us if you need a special projector or other equipment
-tell us if you want motel or crash space
-if you want crash space, please tell us your gender

For any correspondence, please contact Ms. Julie May at: jmm3503@omega.uta.edu

Looking forward to meeting you at the conference.

Pete Unseth

Maps                [back to top]

UTA campus map (file 101k)

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