Call for papers (closed)

GLAC 2024 invites faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars to submit abstracts to the conference, which will take place in person at Indiana University from Thursday, April 25 to Saturday, April 27, 2024.

Papers may be on any aspect of any historical or modern Germanic language or dialect, including English (up to the Early Modern period) and the extraterritorial varieties. Papers from the full range of linguistic and philological subfields, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, stylistics, language variation, language typology, metrics, first and second language acquisition, foreign language education, language contact and language change, as well as differing theoretical perspectives, are welcome.

Preceding the main sessions of GLAC on Friday and Saturday, we will be hosting a symposium on Thursday, April 25 in honor of our former colleague, Kari Ellen Gade, with papers dedicated to the study of Historical Germanic Linguistics and Philology. For this special session, papers are welcome from all areas of historical linguistics and philology in any Germanic language, but we especially welcome submissions relating to Old Norse/Icelandic philology, including poetry and metrics.

All abstracts will undergo anonymous peer review.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF format by February 2, 2024. They should be anonymous, a maximum of one single-spaced page (including references), and in standard 12-point font. They should be submitted through EasyAbs at: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/GLAC30.  

Notes:

• For the main sessions of GLAC on April 26-27, an individual may submit a maximum of two abstracts, including one abstract for a single-authored paper and one for a co-authored paper.
• For the symposium on April 25, an individual may submit a maximum of one abstract (individual or co-authored). A submission to the symposium will not count against the two submissions for the main sessions of GLAC.
• Accepted papers will be scheduled for 30-minute presentations (a 20-minute talk, followed by a 10-minute question period).