11th Annual Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society
(TLS 11)
Conference Theme: The New Empiricism in Linguistics
Extended Deadline – July 15th, 2007
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to invite submissions for the 11th annual meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society, to be held
November 9-11, 2007
The theme of this year’s conference will be “The New Empiricism in Linguistics.” The conference seeks to focus on recent developments in the usage and gathering of linguistic data, and the use of data-intensive methods to inform and refine linguistic theory across a wide variety of formal subdisciplines including but not limited to syntax, semantics, phonology, morphology, and historical linguistics.
Submissions are encouraged from researchers working in any area of linguistics where the availability of large and novel sources of data is having an impact on theoretical conclusions in the field.
Submissions will also be welcomed that offer principled discussions of the methodological and theoretical issues that may be raised by the use of these novel sources of data.
Invited Speakers Include:
Please limit abstracts to two pages including data and references. Also, please limit submissions to two papers with at most one single-authored paper. Abstracts should be sent to tls@uts.cc.utexas.edu no later than July 15th, 2007. All submissions will be peer-reviewed.
