The 46th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society will be held April 8-10, 2010 at the University of Chicago. The conference will include a general session and three parasessions dedicated to Reevaluating the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface, Multilingualism, and Probabilistic Theories of Grammar.

Main Session

Invited Speaker:

John Goldsmith, University of Chicago

We welcome papers from all major linguistic subfields and frameworks as well as from related cross-disciplinary areas. Papers relating to one of the parasession themes will be given preference.

Reevaluating the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

Invited Speakers:

Beth Levin, Stanford University
Chris Barker, New York University

This parasession will discuss new approaches to semantics, pragmatics, and their interaction.

Multilingualism

Invited Speakers:

Anna Escobar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University

This paressesion will discuss multilingualism, including but not limited to L1 affects on L2, learning in a multilingual environment, and language contact.

Probabilistic Theories of Grammar

Invited Speakers:

Jason Eisner, John Hopkins University
Jason Riggle, University of Chicago

This parasession will explore issues with probabilistic theories of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, with topics including parameterization, estimation, and parsing.

Presentation Format:

Each talk will be given 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions. Presented papers will be published in the CLS Proceedings.

Submission Guidelines:

Anyone may submit one abstract as the sole author and a second as co-author, or two as co-author. All abstracts must be submitted online at http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/CLS46.

Abstracts must conform to the following specifications:

• PDF format, with filename ''Paper Title'' (e.g., The Morphophonemics of Robojibwe.pdf).
• 12-point font, 1-inch margins.
• Include title and keywords (i.e., CLS session title, language, language family, linguistics subfield) in the abstract.
• Abstract may be no more than 500 words in length. Data, keywords, and references are not included in the final count, but please include all data in the main text of the abstract. Do not put data on a separate page. Total abstract (including data and references) should not exceed 2 pages.
• Author name(s) must not appear on the abstract or file name! Submissions are anonymized and the author's name will be associated with the abstract by the Easy Abstract system.

Please note that abstracts submitted to CLS 46 will be evaluated under a two-tiered review system involving both external and internal reviewers.

Deadline:

All abstracts must be submitted by 11:59 PM CST on Friday, January 15, 2010. The authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by late February 2010.

For questions not answered in this call, please contact us at:
chicagolinguisticsociety@gmail.com