From the 24th to the 27th of September 2018, the 53rd Linguistics Colloquium will be held at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. The theme of this year’s conference is “Linguistic Variation and Diversity”. The colloquium is open to any theoretical approaches.Abstracts for papers (20 minutes presentation plus 10 minutes discussion) or posters should be written in English or German and have a length of 300-500 words including references. The deadline for abstracts is the 12th of March 2018. The website for the colloquium can be found here.
Relevant topic areas of the conference include, but are not limited to:
- intra- and inter-linguistic variation
- cross-linguistic comparison – typological, contrastive, historical
- language contact
- multilingualism – individual, institutional, societal
- language policies and minority languages
- linguistic variation and diversity in the media
- linguistic variation and diversity in language teaching
- translation of linguistic variation