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CALL FOR PAPERS
ALBERTA CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS (ACOL)
Saturday October 31, 2015
11:00-18:00
University of Lethbridge
Anderson Hall 116-117

Please send your abstract by Monday, September 28th, 2015 to Madoka Mizumoto at madoka.mizumoto@uleth.ca. Abstracts should be approximately 150 words exclusive of references and should be anonymous. Send your abstract as a Word or Pdf file attachment and put your full name, rank, and contact information in the body of your email. We welcome proposals for papers in any area of linguistics. Students are especially encouraged to submit. Talk length (15 or 20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions) will be determined once we know the number of papers.

As always, there is no registration fee for this event. Morning coffee and a light lunch are included. Please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.
We are planning an informal social event after the talks on Saturday night.

Dates:
September 28: abstract submission deadline.
October 9: notifications of acceptance sent out.
October 16: program sent out.
October 31: ACOL.