Call for Papers

The 10th annual conference of the Society of Germanic Linguistics and the 3rd annual conference on Studies in the History of the English Language will be held jointly in Ann Arbor, Michigan. SHEL 3 will be held May 6-7, 2004 GLAC 10 will be held May 7-8, 2004 Faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars are invited to submit abstracts for 20-minute papers to either SHEL or GLAC. Proposals to GLAC may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of any historical or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (to the Early Modern period) and the extraterritorial varieties. Proposals to SHEL may be on any linguistic or philological aspect of the history of English. A single author may submit one abstract to GLAC and one to SHEL. Authors may submit two abstracts to the same conference if one is jointly authored. Papers from a range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, metrics, language acquisition, contact, and change, as well as differing theoretical perspectives, are welcome for both conferences. SHEL will also host a pedagogy workshop; we welcome proposals for 20-minute pedagogical presentations.

We strongly encourage a submission of intent (name and provisional paper title) by Dec. 1, 2003. Full proposals are due Jan. 15, 2004. Abstracts can be submitted in print form or electronically; for those submitting abstracts electronically, please send them as PDF files if they contain any specialized fonts. Abstracts can be submitted as e-mail attachments, as electronic submissions from the conference website, or in hard copy through regular mail. All abstracts will undergo anonymous review. If sending the abstract as an attachment or in hard copy, please include author name and contact info, as well as the paper title, on a separate page; include only a title but no author information on the abstract itself.

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For further information, contact the GLAC/SHEL organizational staff