The Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia is pleased to host the Northwest Linguistics Conference from May 5-7, 2017 in Vancouver, BC. We invite graduate and undergraduate students to submit abstracts for 30 minute talks (20 minutes for presentation + 10 minutes for discussion) in any area of theoretical or applied linguistics, or for the presentation of a poster.

Invited Speaker: Emily Elfner (UBC)

This year we will have two special themed sessions:

(1) Intersection of sociology and linguistics: This session broadly welcomes papers that explore the connection between grammar and the social aspects of speech communities.
Session 1 Plenary Speaker: TBD

(2) Intersection of cognition and linguistics: This session welcomes papers that explore issues of first- and second-language acquisition, processing, and multimodality.
Session 2 Plenary Speaker: TBD

Abstracts must be at most two pages long (including data and references), on a letter-size sheet (8”1/2 by 11”) with 1″ margins, and typed in at least 12-point font. Abstracts that do not follow the above format will not be accepted. Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author. We especially encourage abstracts related to one of the two special sessions outlined above, although research in all areas of linguistics is welcome.

Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format to the contact e-mail: nwlc33ubc@gmail.com. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for a poster, a talk or both. Deadline for submissions is now January 27, 2017 (it was originally January, 13th), with replies to be sent by March 10, 2017.

The Northwest Linguistics Conference is an annual conference for graduate students in linguistics to share their work in a friendly atmosphere, and meet colleagues from other universities, both locally and internationally. The venue rotates on a four year cycle among University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, and the University of Washington.