The 33rd

Penn Linguistics Colloquium

March 27-29, 2009
University of Pennsylvania
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The 33rd Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium

The PLC is a conference in linguistics run by the graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

This year's keynote speaker will be Elisabeth Selkirk, of the University of Massachusetts. Professor Selkirk's address is made possible by a grant from the Fund to Encourage Women (FEW) of the Trustees' Council of Penn Women.

We hope to feature a special workshop focused on methods of modeling linguistic and biological change.

More details about the conference will be posted in the coming weeks.

Call for Papers

The PLC has posted a call for papers. Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for discussion and questions.

Deadline: Abstracts are due by the end of the day on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 (midnight EST that night). Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given on Wednesday, January 21, 2009.

Length: Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced, using 1'' margins on all sides and 11pt font size. An additional page may be used for examples, references, and tables. Do not include your name or affiliation within the abstract.

Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, which is now a free-access online publication. Speakers will be invited to provide electronic and camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium.

Abstract Submission: To submit an abstract, you must follow these steps:

  1. To begin, click here to go to our abstract submission system.
  2. Click "Abstract submission" on the page, and enter your paper title and upload a PDF version of your abstract.
    Only PDFs will be accepted.
  3. Do not include your name or affiliation in the abstract/file name!
  4. Fill in the blank to provide the name of authors, email addresses, and affiliation.
  5. Choose one from the given abstract classifications.
  6. You will receive an email confirming your abstract submission. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously.

About the Penn Linguistics Colloquium

The PLC is a conference in linguistics run by the graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

The PLC 33 committee is Bob Lannon and Caitlin Light (co-chairs), Joe Fruehwald, Joel Wallenberg, Jon Stevens, Laurel MacKenzie, Lauren Friedman, Lydia Rieck, Satoshi Nambu, Toni Cook.

To contact the PLC committee, email plc, followed by the number thirty-three , followed by an at-sign, followed by ling.upenn.edu.

This event is supported by funding from the UPenn Department of Linguistics; SASgov, the student government for graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences; and GAPSA, the Graduate and Professional Students' Association of University of Pennsylvania.

Mailing Address:

Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Previous Conferences

Proceedings of previous conferences are on the the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics website. Through PLC 30 the PWPL was an in-print publication and a hard-copy volume can be ordered. Since PLC 31 the PWPL has been a free-access online publication only.