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, between University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, and the University of Washington.

Call for Papers

Call Deadline: March 1, 2009 The Department of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia is pleased to host the Northwest Linguistics Conference from April 25-26 , 2009. We invite graduate and undergraduate students to submit abstracts for 30 minute talks (20 minute presentation + 10 minutes for discussion) in any area of theoretical or applied linguistics. Abstracts must be anonymous, at most one page long (a second page may be used only for examples and references) on a letter-size sheet (8''1/2 by 11'') with one-inch margins and typed in at least 12-point font. Abstracts must be submitted via email (nwlc2009@gmail.com) in PDF format. Abstracts that do not follow the above format will not be accepted. Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author. Electronic submissions should have the abstract as an attachment and the subject header ''NWLC2009 abstract'', and include all the author information listed below in the body of the e-mail. The file name of the attachment must be the same as the title of the abstract or a shortened version of it. Author information:
1. name
2. title of abstract
3. area (syntax, applied, etc.)
4. affiliation(s)
5. mailing address
6. e-mail address Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: March 1, 2009
- Notification of acceptance: late March, 2009
- Conference Dates: April 25-26 , 2009 Contact Information:
- Submission Address: nwlc2009@gmail.com
- Contact: nwlc2009@gmail.com