Submission guidelines

As this is a postgraduate conference, only submissions from current postgraduate students will be accepted. Please do not submit if you have already been awarded a PhD. We also regret that it is not possible to present in absentia so please do not submit if you know you will be unable to attend the conference.

Electronic submissions

Electronic submissions should be sent as Microsoft Word files with the author's name as the filename.If the abstract contains non-standard fonts an Adobe pdf with all fonts embedded should also be submitted. Abstracts must be anonymous and should not include the author's name or any other identifying information. The e-mail message with abstract file attached should be titled 'abstract submission', and the body of the message must contain the following information:

1. Title
2. Preferred presentation type (talk, poster, or no preference)
3. Author's name and affiliation
4. Supervisor's name and affiliation
5. Author's post address, e-mail address, and phone number
6. Primary subfield (see list of subfields below)
7. Secondary subfield, if any
8. Audiovisual equipment required, if any
9. For talks: contributing a paper to the proceedings? (yes/no)

In the case of joint authorship, one author should submit the abstract and include the information in a-i for all authors in the same e-mail. Electronic submissions should be sent to cilr-camling-abstracts@lists.cam.ac.uk.

Postal submissions

Submissions may also be made via postal mail, though electronic submissions are preferred. A hard copy of the anonymous abstract may be mailed to the address below.

CamLing Abstracts
c/o Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge, CB3 9DA
UK

Those mailing in their abstract must still submit an e-mail message listing the information in 1-9 above to cilr-camling-abstracts@lists.cam.ac.uk.

Format

Formatting should conform to this template. Abstracts must be no more than 300 words (excluding references), written in 12-point Times New Roman, fully justified, and 1.5-spaced with top/bottom margins of 2.5 cm and left/right margins of 3.0 cm.

Review criteria

All abstracts are rated on a seven-point scale by at least two reviewers on the degree to which they:

• present evidence of theoretically motivated and original research
• clearly state the problem and propose a solution
• show that the chosen theoretical approach and research methodology adequately address the problem under investigation
• point to broader theoretical implications
• are well-structured and contain easily identifiable sections on the aspects of research mentioned above, and
• use a clear and concise style of presentation.

Subfields (alphabetical order)

• Acquisition/Learning, L1
• Acquisition/Learning, L2
• Anthropological Linguistics
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Comparative Linguistics
• Corpus Linguistics
• Description and Documentation
• Dialectology
• Discourse Analysis
• Evolutionary Linguistics
• Historical Linguistics
• Lexicology and Lexicography
• Literature and Stylistics
• Morphology
• Neurolinguistics
• Philosophy of Language
• Phonetics
• Phonology
• Pragmatics
• Psycholinguistics
• Semantics
• Syntax
• Sociolinguistics
• Teaching and Assessment
• Translation Studies
• Typology