Welcome to the Lingfest 2008 portal site! Lingfest 2008 is a series of six linguistics events to be held 30 June - 11 July 2008 at the University of Sydney, Australia. Here you will be able to find information about Lingfest 2008 events and register for any of the conferences. You'll also be able to find information on accomodation, maps to Lingfest 2008 venues and more. Clicking on the event links below will take you to the event's individual homepage, where you'll be able to find more detailed information on conference schedules, speakers and presentations.News:
Update: 5 July: We regret to announce the cancellation due to ill-health of Sigrid Norris's Australian Linguistics Institute course, Multimodal InterAction Analysis. People who registered in this course are welcome to attend other courses instead.
Update: 28 June: Information on bushwalks up.
Update: 26 June: On-site registration and collection of conference materials for all conferences will begin at 8 am on the first day of the conference. Follow the signs to the registration desk.
AFLA registration will take place in the John Woolley Building (entrance off Science Road).
Update: 20 June: ALAA 2008 program now available here. ALAA abstracts are here !
Download the Lingfest Herald (survival guide) - full of essential information for Lingfest participants
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AFLA XV
The 15th Annual Meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association
AFLA 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.
Date: Monday 30 June - Wednesday 2 July, 2008.
Committee: I Wayan Arka (ANU), Mark Donohue (Monash University), Simon Musgrave
(Monash University)
E-mail: afla08@arts.usyd.edu.au----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALS 2008
The Annual Meeting of the Australian Linguistic Society
Date: Wednesday 2 July - Friday 4 July, 2008
Committee: Organised by Macquarie University: Pam Peters, Louise de Beuzeville, Felicity Cox, Linda Cupples, Trevor Johnston
E-mail: als08@ling.mq.edu.auSLA Colloquium 2008
Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy: Bio-Social Approaches
A Colloquium of the Australian Linguistic SocietyDate: Friday 4 July, 2008
Committe: Bronwen Dyson (USYD)
E-mail: bronwen.dyson@usyd.edu.au
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ALAA 2008
The 33rd Annual Conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of AustraliaThe 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 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.
Date: Friday 4 July - Sunday 6 July, 2008
Committee: Caroline Lipovsky, Ahmar Mahboob, Brian Paltridge, Nina Rubino (University of Sydney)
E-mail: alaa2008@usyd.edu.auNews: Applications for ALAA 2008 Postgraduate Travel Scholarships are now open. Click here for more information.
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LFG 2008
The Thirteenth International Lexical Functional Grammar ConferenceDate: Friday 4 July - Sunday 6 July, 2008
Committee: Avery Andrews and I Wayan Arka (ANU), Rachel Nordlinger (University of Melbourne), Jane Simpson (University of Sydney)
E-mail: lfg08@arts.usyd.edu.au----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALI 2008
The Eighth Australian Linguistics InstituteALI 2008 consists of around 20 short intensive courses presented by some excellent linguists. It's a good opportunity for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, professional linguists, and language professionals to learn more in many areas of linguistics: applied, descriptive, and theoretical.
Date: Monday 7 July - Friday 11 July, 2008
E-mail: ali08@arts.usyd.edu.au----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ILI 2008
The Indigenous Languages InstituteDate: Tuesday 8 July - Thursday 10 July, 2008
Committee: John Hobson (Koori Centre, University of Sydney), Susan Poetsch and Jennifer Munro (NSW Office of the Board of Studies)
E-mail: ili.ali@usyd.edu.au----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Instrumentals Workshop
Morphosyntactic aspects of instruments and instrumentals
Date: Thursday 3 July, 2008
Committee: Mark Donohue and Cathryn Donohue
E-mail: instruments08@gmail.comRegistration for this event is done separately, not through Lingfest. For more information please visit the event site. The Instrumentals Workshop program is available here.
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Second Sydney Papuanists' Workshop
Date: Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 June, 2008
Committee: James McElvenny, Tom Honeyman and Fiona Blake
Email: james.mcelvenny@arts.usyd.edu.au
Registration for this event is done separately, not through Lingfest. For more information please visit the event site.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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