June 16, 2025 - June 18, 2025
WSCLA (Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas) is an annual conference dedicated to the formal and theoretically-informed linguistic study of Indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America. The 28th iteration will be held at Memorial University of Newfoundland on June 16–18, 2025.
Submission instructions:
Abstracts are invited for a 30 min talk or a poster.
Papers can be in any area of formal linguistics (including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics) and within any theoretical framework. We welcome papers that address experimental, diachronic, sociolinguistic, or applied topics from a formal perspective, and we are also interested in papers that address the responsibilities of formal linguistic research with respect to the concerns and needs of Indigenous communities.
Abstracts must conform to the following requirements:
(i) Author name(s) should not appear in the abstract or file name
(ii) A4 (21 x 29.7 cm) or letter size (8.5 x 11in) paper
(iii) 2.54cm / 1in margins
(iv) Times New Roman font (or equivalent)
(v) 12pt font size
(vi) 2 pages including data and references (optional)—Please interleave data into the abstract. Do not gather the examples at the end of the abstract.
Authors may submit a maximum of (1) one singly-authored abstract and one jointly-authored abstract, or (2) two jointly-authored abstracts.
Submissions open: Feb. 21, 2025 - April 1, 2025
Abstract review period: April 7, 2025 - April 25, 2025
Contact Email: [email protected]