UTASCILT 17 (2010)

Dates & Location

The 17th Annual University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics and TESOL will be held on the campus of UT Arlington on February 19 and 20, 2010.

Details for Presenters & Attendees

Driving?

If you will be driving and plan to park on campus during the conference, you will need a temporary parking permit. Please let us know about your situation as soon as possible. Parking permits will be prepared for the registered attendees free of charge if we know ahead of time.

Need a hotel?

We recommend the Wingate Inn, which provides shuttles service between the airport and to the university. If you make your reservation at the Wingate, please specify that you are attending a university-sponsored event and ask for the UTA rate ($85/night). Another hotel you might consider is the Parkway Inn (817-860-2323), which is conveniently located within walking distance of the university. You may make your reservations by contacting the hotel directly.

Finding Your Way Here

The closest airport to UTA is Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). It is 20-30 minutes by car between DFW and UT Arlington. Be sure you're flying to the right airport if you need to come by airplane.

• UT Arlington Visitors' Website
• UT Arlington Campus Maps
  (Download a printable PDF map of campus.)
• Map of Directions to UT Arlington
• University Center (Friday events; San Saba room, 2nd floor of University Center)
• Trimble Hall (Saturday events; room 200 of Trimble Hall)

Keynote Speaker

Our keynote speaker will be Dr. William Croft. Dr. Croft received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1986. He is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Croft's areas of specialty are typology, semantics, cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, and evolutionary models of language change. His publications include Typology and Universals (2nd edition, 2003), Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations (1991), Explaining Language Change (2000), Radical Construction Grammar (2001) and Cognitive Linguistics (with Alan Cruse, 2004). Croft has held visiting positions at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.

Purpose

The University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics & TESOL is a student-led conference specifically designed to give graduate students a chance to present their original research. This is a great opportunity to join students from across America and around the world to present research on language.

Conference Schedule & Abstracts

Here's the Conference Schedule (PDF). You can also download the abstracts (PDF).

Registration

More information when available.

Registration for Attenders

Registration for non-presenters is free.

Registration Fee for Presenters

• Pre-registration (before February 19, 2010): $20
• On-site/Late registration (after February 19, 2010): $25

(Registration also entitles the presenter to a free copy of abstracts and free entrance to Saturday's Pizza Lunch.)

Payment

Please pre-pay by check only, in US dollars. Make your check payable to LINGUA, and send it to the following address postmarked by the pre-registration deadline:

LINGUA-UTASCILT Registration
Department of Linguistics and TESOL
Box 19559
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019-0559, USA

Poster Presentation Guidelines

• Posters should be 36" x 48".
• For additional suggestions and guidelines, read this PDF, Poster Presentations: Theory & Application, an excellent resource prepared by Dr. David Silva.

Call for Papers

For submission details, download the Call for Papers for UTASCILT 17 (pdf). The call deadline has been extended to 16 November 2009. Paper and poster abstract submissions welcomed.