Free Linguistics Conference
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Free Linguistics Conference 2008
October 11, 2008 – October 12, 2008FOR THE 2009 CONFERENCE, PLEASE GO TO OUR NEW WEBSITE: www.freelinguistics.org
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The aim of this conference is to provide scholars, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students with current research issues from all fields of linguistics & TESOL in an open and widely accessible forum.
The main feature that distinguishes this conference is its focus on freedom:
- freedom from linguistic subfield divisions,
- freedom from an established and rigid theme for presentations, and
- freedom from fees
Confirmed focus speakers:
Linda Barwick
Liz Ellis
M.A.K. Halliday
Ruqaiya Hasan
Aek Phakiti
Trevor Johnston
Please click on the 'Overview' button on the right to access the abstracts for the focus speakers.
Information about accommodation can be found here.
For enquiries, please contact Ahmar Mahboob and Naomi Knight at freeling@arts.usyd.edu.au
Clever Collections Demonstration
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Profound Problem-Solving
November 23, 2007 – December 1, 2007An exciting array of ingenious innovations from various collection owners from around Australia
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Ingenious Innovations
An exciting array of ingenious innovations from various collection owners from around Australia
OAI testing environment
This is for testing purposes only
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OAI testing environment
November 5, 2008 – November 6, 2008If a hyperlink is inserted here it does not work
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LingFest2008
A series of five linguistic events to be held June 30 - July 11, 2008,
at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia.
LINGFEST 2008 is a collaboration between the Australian National University, Macquarie University, the University of Newcastle, and the School of Languages and Cultures, the School of Letters, Arts and Media, the Koori Centre, and the Faculty of Education and Social Work, of the University of Sydney.
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Applied Linguistics Association of Australia
July 4, 2008 – July 6, 2008Critical Dimensions in Applied Linguistics
The origins of Applied Linguistics were in the application of linguistic understandings to a wide range of contexts and issues. In the past decades the field has moved beyond relating language to social contexts to a dynamic approach to language addressing issues such as difference, access and disparity. It has become a more open field of interest in language involving an increasingly interactive approach between social and political contexts, language and research approaches.
The rapid worldwide increase in migration and reactions to it, the expansion of media and technology, political changes at international and local levels are both challenges and opportunities for research in applied linguistics. At the same time constraints such as market economy-driven research funding and greater central control of research agendas have limited the ability of the field to respond.
The theme of this year's conference 'Critical Dimension in Applied Linguistics' reflects the recent work in Applied Linguistics that examines the socio-cultural, economic, and political dimensions of language and language use.
Click here to visit the ALAA Homepage
Plenary Speakers:
Celia Kitzinger, University of York, U.K.
Ryuko Kubota, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
James Martin, University of Sydney, Australia
Alastair Pennycook, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Also featuring (with Australian Linguistics Society):
Jen Hay, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Jointly with ALS)
To view an overview of the plenary speakers' presentations, please click on the 'overview' link at the bottom of the page.
Conference Program:
The ALAA 2008 draft program is now available from the program link on the right, or can be downloaded along with other Lingfest 2008 event programs from:
The Lingfest 2008 website
Registration:
Registration for the conference is now open. To register online, please visit the LingFest 2008 registration page.
To avail the special rates for ALAA members, please make sure that your ALAA membership is current. Click here to renew your ALAA membership.
- Early Bird - - Regular - Full registration non-member 300 350 Full registration ALAA member 200 250 Student non-member 200 250 Student ALAA member 150 200 Single day non-member 150 175 Single day member 100 125 Single day student non-member 125 150 Single day student member 75 100
For enquiries, please contact Ahmar Mahboob and Caroline Lipovsky at ALAA 2008
On-site registration and collection of conference materials for ALAA 2008 will begin at 8 am on Friday 4 July. Follow the signs to the registration desk in the John Woolley Building (entrance off Science Road). A map to the conference location can be downloaded from here
Submitting an Abstract for ALAA 2008:
Submissions for ALAA 2008 have been extended until midnight, Monday 7 April, 2008. To submit a paper for ALAA 2008, follow the links at the bottom of the page.
Note: Participants wishing to submit papers for ALAA 2008 must first register as users on this site. When creating a user account for ALAA 2008, please check the 'author' box in order to enable abstract submission.
Refereed conference proceedings will be published.
Accommodation for ALAA 2008:
On-campus accommodation is available at the Women's College, University of Sydney. Single rooms are available from $80 per night and twin rooms from $118 per night.
To make a booking at the Women's College, please download and complete the booking form from the Lingfest accommodation page.
Casual accommodation may also be found via the University of Sydney casual accomodation website
Participants are encouraged to book accommodation as early as possible to ensure availability.
ALAA Postgraduate Travel Scholarships:
ALAA offers travel scholarships to support postgraduate attendance at the conference. Four scholarships of up to $600 each will be available for 2008. Full time research postgraduates from Australian institutions are encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to member applicants. Funding will only be given to applicants who will be presenting a paper at the conference. The scholarships may be used for conference registration, travel, or accommodation and will be awarded in the form of reimbursements after the conference.
Application Process:
Students wishing to apply for a travel scholarship should send in an application with the information listed below:
- a cover sheet detailing the name of the applicant, institution, member status, contact details, year of study, name of supervisor(s) and expected travel costs
- a one-page summary of the research
- the abstract accepted for presentation
- a CV
- a letter of support from their supervisor
Selection will be made by the ALAA Executive Committee.
Applications should be emailed to the ALAA secretary Dr Christina Gitsaki at c.gitsaki@uq.edu.au
Important Dates
Scholarship applications due: 1 June 2008
Decisions emailed to applicants: 15 June 2008
Contact
Please email Dr Christina Gitsaki (c.gitsaki@uq.edu.au) if you have any query about the scholarship.
Lingfest 2008:
For more information about other Lingfest 2008 events, please visit the Lingfest 2008 portal site
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Australian Linguistics Institute 2008
July 7, 2008 – July 11, 2008The Australian Linguistics Institute provides a series of short, intensive courses presented by world experts in their fields. It is a unique opportunity for professional linguists, language professionals, graduate students and advanced undergraduates to upgrade their knowledge and skills in key areas of linguistics.
Courses offered through the Australian Linguistics Institute have proved to be very important fora for professional and academic development, as well as for inspiring students to consider research degrees.
A complete list of courses and course descriptions can be found here[.pdf file]. [Note that Dr Sigrid Norris's course has been cancelled.]
Each course is offered for 1.5 hours each day for five days. A daily timetable can be found here. Participants may register for up to four courses during the week-long ALI.
Registration:
Registration for ALI is still open. To register online for ALI 2008, please visit the Lingfest 2008 registration page.
On-site registration and collection of conference materials for ALI 2008 will begin at 8 am on Monday 7 July. Follow the signs to the registration desk in the John Woolley Building (entrance off Science Road). A map to the conference location can be downloaded from here
ALI 2008 Courses:
ALI 2008 will offer the following courses:
i) Additional Language Learning and Identity Development - William S. Armour (UNSW)
ii) Bi- and multilingualism - Michael Clyne (Hon Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, also Emeritus Professor, Monash University) sponsored by RIHSS
iii) Features - Greville G. Corbett (University of Surrey, UK)
iv) First Language Acquisition: Syntax and Semantics - Stephen Crain (MACCS) and Rosalind Thornton (Linguistics/MACCS) sponsored by HCS-Net
v) Listening to Speech: Universal Processing Shaped by Language-Specific Structure - Anne Cutler (MPI for Psycholinguistics and University of Western Sydney) sponsored by HCS-Net
vi) Implemented LFG grammars: Using the XLE Grammar Development Platform - Mary Dalrymple (Professor of Linguistics, University of Oxford) Sponsored by the British Academy and the University of Sydney
vii) Sign Language Linguistics and Grammaticalisation - Louise de Beuzeville and Trevor Johnston (Sign Language Linguistics Group Macquarie University)
viii) Grammars, Parsers and Realisers - Mark Dras and Robert Dale (Centre for Language Technology, Macquarie University) sponsored by HCS-Net
ix) Sociolinguistics and the law - Diana Eades (University of New England)
x) Complex words and Complex predicates - Mark Harvey (Newcastle) and Brett Baker (UNE)
xi) Sociophonetics - Jennifer Hay (University of Canterbury) sponsored by HCS-Net
xii) Encoding the speaker's perspective in grammar: A case study of Japanese - Nerida Jarkey, University of Sydney, and Harumi Minagawa, University of Auckland.
xiii) Introducing Feminist Conversation Analysis - Celia Kitzinger (Feminist Conversation Analysis Unit University of York, UK)
xiv) Linguistic diversity and implications for L2 instruction: World Englishes and beyond - Ryuko Kubota (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
xv) Critical Discourse Analysis - Prof J R Martin, Linguistics, University of Sydney
xvi) Australian Aboriginal Languages in Lexical-Functional Grammar - Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne)
xvii) Multimodal InterAction Analysis - Sigrid Norris (Auckland University of Technology, NZ)
xviii) Language and Cultural Values - Dr Bert Peeters, (Macquarie University), Prof Cliff Goddard, (University of New England, Armidale); Prof Anna Wierzbicka, (Australian National University, Canberra).
xix) Language Test Development: From Test Specifications to Test Use - Dr Aek Phakiti, The University of Sydney
xx) Quantitative Methods - Carsten Roever, (The University of Melbourne) sponsored by HCS-Net
xxi) Contact language typology - Ian Smith (York University)
xxii) Interface Issues in English - Gert Webelhuth and Regine Eckhardt (University of Goettingen)
Course timetabling is available from the Lingfest 2008 portal site
A complete list of courses, topics and readings is available to download from the program link.
ALI registrants are reminded to look at the timetable and make sure they select courses which don't clash. If you have registered for courses which clash, you are free to change them, but please let us know for room scheduling purposes.
Accommodation for ALI 2008:
On-campus accommodation is available at the Women's College, University of Sydney. Single rooms are available from $80 per night and twin rooms from $118 per night.
To make a booking at the Women's College, please download and complete the booking form from the Lingfest accommodation page.
Casual accommodation may also be found via the University of Sydney casual accomodation website
Participants are encouraged to book accommodation as early as possible to ensure availability.
Lingfest 2008:
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Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference 2008
July 2, 2008 – July 4, 2008The Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS2008) is being organised by the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Wednesday 2 July - Friday 4 July 2008, at the University of Sydney.
For all details of the conference program, go to the Macquarie University conference site here.
Registration:
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Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association Annual Conference 2008
June 30, 2008 – July 2, 2008AFLA is an organisation which promotes the study of Austronesian languages from a formal perspective. It serves as a forum for research couched in a variety of formal approaches. From its initial meeting in 1994, each meeting has encouraged the formal study of Austronesian languages, especially work by speaker-linguists and by junior scholars. The 15th annual meeting of AFLA will be the first meeting to be held in Australia.
Talks will be given on many aspects of formal linguistics (e.g. language acquisition, morphology, phonology, phonetics, semantics, syntax) of Austronesian languages.
Conference Program:
The AFLA XV program is now available here
AFLA XV presentations can be viewed either via The Lingfest 2008 website or by clicking
A full list of Lingfest 2008 programs can be downloaded from The Lingfest 2008 website
Registration:
Registration for ALFA XV is now open. To register online, please visit the LingFest 2008 registration page.
On-site registration and collection of conference materials for AFLA XV will begin at 8 am on Monday 30 June. Follow the signs to the registration desk in the John Woolley Building (entrance off Science Road).
Accommodation for AFLA XV:
On-campus accommodation is available at the Women's College, University of Sydney. Single rooms are available from $80 per night and twin rooms from $118 per night.
To make a booking at the Women's College, please download and complete the booking form from the Lingfest accommodation page.
Casual accommodation may also be found via the University of Sydney casual accomodation website
Participants are encouraged to book accommodation as early as possible to ensure availability.
Lingfest 2008:
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International Lexical-Functional Grammar Annual Conference 2008
July 4, 2008 – July 6, 2008The Annual Conference of the International Lexical-Functional Grammar Association will be held at the University of Sydney, from Friday 4 July - Sunday 6 July, 2008.
Program and Abstracts for LFG 2008:
The draft program linked to abstracts is available here.
The Conference Dinner will be held on Friday 4th July, from 6.30 pm, at the Chedi Thai Restaurant, 78 King St, Newtown, within walking distance of the conference and of Women's College. Cost: approx. $35 a head excluding wine
Accommodation for LFG 2008:
On-campus accommodation is available at the Women's College, University of Sydney. Single rooms are available from $80 per night and twin rooms from $118 per night.
To make a booking at the Women's College, please download and complete the booking form from the Lingfest accommodation page.
Casual accommodation may also be found via the University of Sydney casual accomodation website
Participants are encouraged to book accommodation as early as possible to ensure availability.
Registration:
Registration for LFG 2008 is now open. To register online, please visit the LingFest 2008 registration page.
On-site registration and collection of conference materials for LFG 2008 will begin at 8 am on Friday 4 July. Follow the signs to the registration desk in the Education Building (entrance off Manning Road). A map to the conference location can be downloaded from here
Lingfest 2008:
LFG will be followed by the Australian Linguistics Institute, during which there will be three courses involving Lexical-Functional Grammar:
Implemented LFG grammars: Using the XLE Grammar Development Platform - Mary Dalrymple
Australian Aboriginal Languages in Lexical-Functional Grammar - Rachel Nordlinger
Interface Issues in English Gert Webelhuth and Regine Eckardt
For more information about other Lingfest 2008 events, please visit the Lingfest 2008 portal site
CSEAR
CSEAR
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A-CSEAR 2008
December 7, 2008 – December 9, 2008Welcome to the website of the 7th Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research to be held between Sunday 7 and Tuesday 9 December 2008. The Conference will take place in the Hawke Building City West campus of the University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia. It is hosted by the Centre for Accounting, Governance and Sustainability, School of Commerce in the Division of Business.
The conference website will contain the most recent information about A-CSEAR 2008. Online registration is now available for abstract and full paper submission.
Support from our sponsors is very gratefully acknowledged. Further details are listed under 'Organizers and Partners'.
We look to welcoming you to the Conference in December 2008.
Best wishes on behalf of the organizing committee.
Roger Burritt
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CSEAR2007
December 2, 2007 – December 4, 2007Since 2001, the Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research (paralleling the annual Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR) conferences, held in Scotland) has been organised by Australian Universities. In December 2007 the Australasian Conference will be hosted by the Discipline of Accounting at The University of Sydney, Australia.
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