Methods XII
Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology

First Call for Papers

1–5 August 2005
Université de Moncton
 

Methods XII, the Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, will be held from 1 to 5 August 2005 at the Université de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. This conference meets triennially and focuses on issues relating to regional, social, and historical variation in any language or group of languages. The theme of Methods XII, Innovative Approaches in Dialectology, addresses recent theoretical and methodological trends. A sub-theme, Identity and Contact, highlights language contact situations such as those found in New Brunswick, Canada’s only officially bilingual (English-French) province.
 

Abstracts and Papers
Abstracts for papers are invited on any topic in regional, social, and historical language variation. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Abstracts should be 300–400 words long, excluding bibliography, and they should be submitted either by regular post to the address given below or by e-mail as RTF (or ASCII text) files to: methodsxii@umoncton.ca.
 

Suggestions for special sessions or workshops are welcome and should be submitted to the Organizing Committee before the submission deadline. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 October 2004. Authors will be notified of acceptance by January 2005. In order to help with conference funding, the Organizing Committee requests that authors send by 1 May 2004 a letter of intention with a preliminary title of the paper that they propose to present.