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Call For Papers

The 18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held on November 13–15, 2008, at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. This conference aims to provide a forum for the presentation of research from any linguistic subdiscipline that contributes to our understanding of the structure of Japanese and Korean and/or the structure of linguistic theory. Abstracts are solicited for 20-minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes for discussion) on any subfield of Japanese and Korean linguistics.

Anonymous, maximally two-page abstracts (in a font no smaller than 11pt.), written in English, should be submitted as PDF attachments to an E-mail message addressed to: jk18cuny@gmail.com

The subject line of the E-mail message should read: “abstract”, followed by the (first) author’s last name and first initial, in that order. In the body of the E-mail message, please provide the following information: (1) the category (formal or functional) and subfield (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, etc.) of the abstract (e.g.: “Formal/Syntax”, “Functional/Discourse”); (2) the full title of the abstract; (3) the name(s) of the author(s); (4) the affiliation(s) of the author(s); (5) the contact information for the author(s).

A maximum of one single-authored abstract and one co-authored abstract may be submitted per person.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is: July 1, 2008.

Authors will be notified of acceptance of their abstracts in early September 2008.

For queries about the conference, please send an E-mail message with the word “query” in the subject line to: jk18cuny@gmail.com


The JK18 Organizing Committee

Marcel den Dikken
William McClure