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Celebrating a decade of postgraduate linguistics research in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

The 10th Newcastle upon Tyne Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics
Friday 20th March 2015, 9:00 – 18:15
Newcastle University

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to announce the 10th Newcastle-upon-Tyne Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics. We invite postgraduate students from any institution to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations on any area of linguistics (please see abstract submission guidelines).This one-day conference is designed to give linguistics postgraduates from all research areas an opportunity to present and discuss their research in an informal and intellectually stimulating setting.

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS

Dr. Geoffrey Poole, Newcastle University
Dr. Jeanette Littlemore, University of Birmingham
Prof. Janet Watson, University of Leeds

KEY DATES

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday 12th December 2014
Notification of acceptance: Early February 2015
Registration opens: Monday 9th February 2015

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please see abstract submission guidelines

PRESENTATION GUIDELINES

Accepted abstracts will be allocated 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. There will be a dedicated poster session on the day of the conference. Speakers will also be invited to submit their paper for publication in the Newcastle and Northumbria Working Papers in Linguistics.

FURTHER INFORMATION

More information can be found at the conference website:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/linguistics/study/postgrad/conference/

If you have any queries, please email us at pgconfling@ncl.ac.uk.