LAGB Autumn Meeting 2003: University of Oxford (Somerville College)
First Circular and Call for Papers
The 2003 Autumn Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain
will be held at the University of Oxford, Somerville College, from
September 4 to 7. The local organiser is Gillian Ramchand
<gillian.ramchand@ling-phil.ox.ac.uk>. The conference website will appear at
http://www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/events/lagb.
Oxford is a unique and historic institution. As the oldest English-speaking
university in the world, it lays claim to eight centuries of continuous
existence. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at
Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II
banned English students from attending the University of Paris.
Somerville College was founded in 1879 as a women's college (boasting such
alumni as Indira Gandhi , Margaret Thatcher, Dorothy Hodgkin and Iris
Murdoch), but has been admitting men since 1994. Somerville is located
very centrally, within a 5-10 min walking distance of the town centre with
its bars and cafes, and is also a short 10min walk from the bus and rail
stations.
Accommodation
Accommodation will be provided on site at Somerville College, in single
rooms with shared bathroom facilities. The conference venues, the bar and
the dining facilities will all be located at Somerville College.
Travel
London Heathrow and Gatwick airports are linked to Oxford by The Airline
coach service, which operate a direct frequent service twenty-four hours a
day.
A frequent direct rail service operates between Oxford and London
Paddington (approximately every 30 minutes), and between Oxford and
Birmingham New Street via Banbury and Coventry. Other services operate from
the north via Birmingham New Street; from the South via Reading; and from
the west via Didcot or Reading.
In addition, frequent 24-hour direct services connect Oxford with London
(peak times every 10-20 minutes). The Oxford Express X90 service includes
Victoria Coach Station, Grosvenor Gardens, Marble Arch, Baker
Street/Gloucester Place and Hillingdon.(tel: 01865 785410). The Oxford Tube
service includes Grosvenor Gardens, Marble Arch, Notting Hill Gate,
Shepherd's Bush, and Hillingdon (tel: 01865 772250).
Many Oxford streets are now closed to traffic and parking is severely
limited. Delegates are advised to arrive by public transport, but for those
planning to arrive by car the routes are as follows: London-Oxford
A40/M40/A40; Birmingham-Oxford M40/A34; Bristol-Oxford: M32/M4/A34.
Events:
The Henry Sweet Lecture 2003 will be delivered by Professor Tanya Reinhart
(University of Utrecht and University of Tel Aviv), title to be announced.
Prof. Reinhart will also be participating in a Workshop on Tense and
Aspect organised by Gillian Ramchand, with invited speakers including
Prof. Jim Higginbotham, Prof. Hana Filip and Dr Olga Borik.
A Language Tutorial on Madi will be given by Dr Nigel Fabb (University of
Glasgow).
There will be a Linguistics at School session on A-Level English language.
For more information, check
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/ec/ecsessions.htm.
There will be a wine party on the evening of the first day, hosting by
Oxford University Press.
Call for Papers:
Members are invited to offer papers for the Meeting; abstracts are also
accepted from non-members. The LAGB welcomes submissions on any topic in
the field of linguistics; papers are selected on their (perceived) merits,
and not according to their subject matter or assumed theoretical framework.
How and when to submit an abstract
Abstracts must be submitted on paper (not by email or by fax). FIVE
anonymous copies of the abstract, plus ONE with name and affiliation, i.e.
CAMERA-READY, should be submitted, and should be sent in the format
outlined below to the President (address below). You must write your
address for correspondence (email or surface) on the BACK of the
camera-ready copy. (Even if several authors are named on the front, there
should be only one name and address for correspondence.)
Abstracts should be accompanied by an account of any special requirements
regarding audiovisual equipment (other than an OHP).
Papers for the programme are selected anonymously - only the President
knows the name of the authors. Where possible, authors should supply an
email address to which the committee's decision may be sent.
Abstracts must arrive by June 12. Abstracts may also be submitted now for
the meeting after the next one, but must be clearly marked as such. (In
general the abstract deadlines for the autumn and spring meetings are soon
after 1st June and 1st January respectively, so an abstract sent to reach
the President by that date will always be in time.)
Format of abstracts
Abstracts must be presented as follows: The complete abstract (i.e. the one
containing your title and your name) must be no longer than ONE A4 page
(21cm x 29.5cm) with margins of at least 2.5cm on all sides. You may use
single spacing but type must be no smaller than 12 point. If the paper is
accepted the abstract will be photocopied and inserted directly into the
collection of abstracts sent out to participants, so the presentation
should be clear and clean.
The following layout should be considered as standard:
(title) Optimality and the Klingon vowel shift
(speaker) Clark Kent (clark@astro.mars.ac.mars)
(institution) Department of Astrology, Eastern Mars University
The normal length for papers delivered at LAGB meetings is 25 minutes (plus
15 minutes discussion).
There is the possibility to submit abstracts for a themed session (or
panel), i.e. groups of speakers can ask for a whole 2-hour themed session,
and can apportion their time within that as they wish. All the abstracts
for such a session will be considered together.
The committee will plan the programme as soon as it has selected the
successful abstracts, so please indicate on the anonymous abstracts if you
cannot present your paper on either the second or third day of the
conference (6th or 7th April). It is very difficult to reschedule papers
after the programme has been planned.
Content of abstracts
The following guidelines may be useful:
+ You should clearly describe the paper's general topic. (The topic may be
a problem of theory or analysis or set of data which have not previously
been analysed.)
+ You should describe your treatment of the topic, and how it relates to
previous work on the same topic. (When referring to previous work, it is
enough to quote "Author (Date)" without giving full bibliographical
details.) It is not acceptable simply to promise a solution'.
+ You should explain how you will justify your treatment, and quote crucial
evidence - you must trust the committee (and other conference attenders)
not to steal your ideas before you have presented them. If you are taking a
stand on a controversial issue, summarise the arguments which lead you to
take up this position.
Conference Bursaries
Up to 10 bursaries are available for unsalaried members of the Association
(e.g. PhD students) with preference given to those who are presenting a
paper. Applications should be sent to the President, and must be received
by the deadline for abstracts. Please state on your application: (a) date
of joining the LAGB (applicants must have been a member at least since the
date of the previous meeting); (b) whether or not you are a student; (c) if
a student, whether you receive a normal grant; (d) if not a student, your
employment situation. STUDENTS WHO ARE SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT and who wish
to apply for funding should include all the above details WITH THEIR
ABSTRACT. The bursary normally covers a significant proportion of the
conference expenses and of travel within the UK.
Future Meetings
Autumn 2004 University of Surrey Roehampton
The LAGB committee
President
Professor April McMahon
Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of
Sheffield, 5 Shearwood Road, Sheffield S10 2TD
april.mcmahon@shef.ac.uk
http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/staff/april.html
Honorary Secretary
Dr Ad Neeleman
Dept. of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London, Gower
Street, London WC1E 6BT
ad@ling.ucl.ac.uk
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/ad/home.htm
Membership Secretary
Dr Diane Nelson
Dept. of Linguistics & Phonetics, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS6 9JT
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/linguistics/staff/diane/Welcome.html
d.c.nelson@leeds.ac.uk
Meetings Secretary
Dr Marjolein Groefsema
Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hertfordshire, Watford Campus,
Aldenham, Herts. WD2 8AT
m.groefsema@herts.ac.uk
http://www.herts.ac.uk/fhle/faculty/humanities/web%20pages/linguistics/MGroe
fsema.htm
Treasurer
Dr Dunstan Brown
Department of Linguistic, Cultural & International Studies, University of
Surrey, Guildford,
GU2 7XH
d.brown@surrey.ac.uk
Assistant Secretary
Dr Eric Haeberli
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, University of Reading,
Reading RG6 6AA
e.haeberli@reading.ac.uk
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