CALL FOR PAPERS — NACCL-20 (closed – deadline passed)
We are pleased to announce that the North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL) returns to The Ohio State University — the birthplace of NACCL — for its 20th anniversary. The 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20) will be held from Friday, 25 April 2008 through Sunday, 27 April 2008 at The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio (the “Buckeye State”).
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all theoretical, as well as applied, research areas of Chinese linguistics. Submit abstracts via email or via Online Abstract Submission. The instructions below were originally designed for submission via email. Supplementary instructions (added on 3 November 2007) for online submission are placed within square brackets.
Requirements for Submission of Abstracts (via email or online submission)
- Abstracts must be camera-ready, on a single page, single spaced, in 12-point type, with one inch margins.
- E-mail (2) copies of the abstract, one of which includes the name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), and e-mail address(es); and the other (for anonymous review) identified by title only.
[Online submission: The online form provides two locations for the two separate versions of the abstract. The copy with full information is to be uploaded on the online form, while the copy for anonymous review can be copied and pasted into the box in the online form.] - Please include a separate file containing the paper title, name(s) of author(s), affiliation, status (student or non-student), address, phone number, and e-mail address.
[Online submission: The online submission form simply requires the information to be filled out on the form.] - To facilitate the abstract review process, identify on that third file the primary area of linguistics addressed in your paper (e.g., Phonetics/Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Dialectology, Historical Phonology, Historical Syntax, Computational/Corpus Linguistics, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, etc.).
[Online submission: The online form simply requires checking off the appropriate linguistic area(s).] - The electronic versions may be in one of the following formats: MS Word DOC format, RTF format, or PDF format. (If special characters are used, submit a PDF version with the special characters embedded in it.)
[Online submission: Online abstract submission requires the separate file (which contains the author's name, etc.) to be uploaded on that online form.] - Abstract submissions are due by 11:59 PM EST on the date of the deadline.
- Submit abstracts to the following email address, ‹naccl-20@osu.edu›. Identify your email message with the subject heading, “NACCL-20 Abstract”. Alternatively, go to the Submit Abstract page and submit your abstract online.
Abstract Deadline: Friday, 30 November 2007
We are delighted to have as our esteemed invited guest Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank (浦立本), Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Professor Pulleyblank will attend the conference and will give a presentation on history and language. The Proceedings of the Twentieth North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics will be dedicated to Professor Pulleyblank in honor of his eighty-fifth birthday, which he celebrated on 7 August 2007.
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of NACCL, we have invited as our two keynote speakers scholars in Chinese linguistics who have contributed significantly to NACCL. One is Professor James H-Y. Tai (戴浩一), Distinguished Professor, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. He was the architect and senior organizer of the first NACCL conference at The Ohio State University when he was a fellow faculty member at our institution. Our second keynote speaker is Professor Yen-hui Audrey Li (李艷惠) at the University of Southern California. She organized NACCL-6 and thereafter created the NACCL Proceedings series and has contributed in numerous other ways to the continued success of the annual NACCL conferences.
Also invited to present at NACCL-20 are two more colleagues who have been an important part of NACCL's history, namely, creator and coordinator of the NACCL Steering Committee, Thomas Ernst (殷天兴), currently at University of Massachusetts, and Dartmouth College; and one of the three original organizers of the first NACCL conference, Robert Sanders (沈德思), now at the University of Auckland.
We hope you will be joining us for the twentieth anniversary of NACCL, and we look forward to seeing you in Columbus, Ohio, in April 2008!
Prof. Marjorie K.M. Chan, Chair
NACCL-20 Organizing Committee
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This call-for-papers announcement was originally prepared on 15 August 2007, with some supplementary information on invited speakers added in September 2007, and information on online submission added on 4 November 2007.