Call for Papers
We invite papers on all subjects in the field of dialectology, on any language and on any topic related to regional, social or historical variation in language. We particularly welcome submissions that address the main theme of the conference, 'Dialect Contact, Acquisition, and Innovation.' We also urge scientists working in fields outside linguistics, but who are involved with technologies or methodologies that can be applied to the investigation of linguistic variation, to submit papers for this conference.
Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. There will also be sessions for poster presentations.
Abstracts for papers or posters should be no more than 300 words excluding bibliography and can be submitted using EasyAbs. Please submit your abstract in a .txt or .doc(x) format. We strive towards a double-blind reviewing of the abstracts; please make the abstract as anonymous as possible. The abstract deadline is 6 January 2017. Authors will be notified of acceptance in February 2017. Each participant may have at most two contributions at the conference, one as author and one as co-author.
Best Papers and Posters from Young Scholars
The organizing committee of Methods XVI is happy to announce that we will be awarding a JPY50,000 prize to the best paper and the best poster presented by young scholars at Methods XVI. A young scholar is a (graduate) student or a post-doc whose Ph.D. was awarded after August 2014. Please indicate on the abstract whether you might be eligible for such an award.
Hituzi Young Scholar Prizes awarded
Jack Chambers presented the second Young Scholar Awards at Methods XVI, Tachikawa on Friday, August 11. The prize was generously sponsored by Hituzi Syobo and was open to students or scholars whose Ph.D. was earned less than three years earlier. The winners were determined by a large jury based on the quality of the presentation and on the paper's contribution to dialectology, i.e., on the originality, consistency, clarity and potentiality.
The 2017 award winners (shown in the photo) were Laura Rosseel (Lueven) for 'Measuring language attitudes in context: exploring the possibilities for the P-IAT: A case study of regional varieties of Dutch in Belguim' and Max Sondag (TU Eindhoven) for 'Advanced mapping in dialectometry.'
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Call for Workshops and Special Sessions
We welcome proposals for workshops and special sessions for Methods XVI. Workshops may be　concerned with particular methodological instruments, technological innovations or special themes. Special sessions may have a particular focus on a language group or a specific topic in dialectology. Proposals for workshops or special sessions should include an overview of the topic and importance of the session, in no more than 500 words. In addition the proposal should name the invited panelists, the titles of their presentations, the text of the call for papers (if applicable), and a statement of the relevance of the workshop to Methods XVI. The deadline for submitting a special session proposal is on 1 December, 2016.
Abstract submission site
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/methodsxvi
Important Dates
Deadline for Workshop or Special Session Proposals: 1 December 2016Deadline for general paper or poster abstracts: 6 January 2017Notification of acceptance: 28 February 2017- Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2017
Registration for the conference starts: 1 March 2017- Registration for the conference starts: 31 March 2017
we have sent out our notification of acceptance to those who submitted their abstracts
on Tuesday, 7th March, 2017. Please let us know if you do not hear from us!
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