55th Annual Conference of the
International Linguistic Association
in cooperation with the
American Dialect Society
(Northeast Region)
April 15 – April 17, 2010
State University of New York at New Paltz
New Paltz, New York
"DIALECTS" The International Linguistic Association (ILA), a
professional organization founded in October 1943 as the Linguistic
Circle of New York, is devoted to the study of all areas of linguistics
and their roles in society.
The Friday banquet is open to all for an additional nominal fee.
Advance banquet registration is advised as restaurants in New Paltz tend
to be small; payment may be made at the conference.
Invited Plenary Speakers:
Dr. Joan Houston Hall (DARE—University of Wisconsin)
Professor Dennis R. Preston (Oklahoma State University)
Professor Walt Wolfram (North Carolina State University)
Professor John M. Lipski (Pennsylvania State University)
The theme of this year’s conference is DIALECTS (regional or social). Periodically, the ILA has held conferences on this topic in the past. The study of dialect as a major field in linguistics has been developing for nearly 400 years. Thomas Jefferson recognized the importance of language change as an integral part of society; Thomas Pickering wrote in the second decade of the 19th century of what he found odd in American speech. Bloomfield, Sapir, the Grimms, Bloch, Kurath, Cassidy, and more recently Hall, Preston, Labov, and Wolfram, to name but a few, have furthered the study of dialect. In a distinctive setting where American Indian languages, Dutch, French, German, English and just about every other language of people settling in the early colonies coexisted and blended for centuries, this conference will facilitate further exchange in the subject.
Conference Co-Chair: David K. Barnhart (barnhart@highlands.com)
Conference Co-Chair: Yolanda Chavez-Cappellini (cappelly@newpaltz.edu)
Conference Coordinator: Annika Wendt
(awendt@ilaword.org)
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2010 CALL FOR PAPERS