Home/Call for Papers Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, UnderLings, presents its third annual undergraduate research colloquium. The goal of the conference is to promote undergraduate research at all levels by facilitating communication and discussion between researchers. News May 16, 2009: Several presenters have opted to make their handouts available online: Christopher Phillips (Pitzer College): "Second Position in Ancient Greek: Clitics and Particles in the Oratory of Demosthenes" - handout [PDF]. Caroline Smith (Indiana University): "Sociolinguistics: Gender and Profanity" - abstract [PDF]; poster [PDF]. T.J. Trimble (University of Washington): "Conception and Argument Structure" - handout [DOC]. April 5, 2009: Thanks, all, for a great conference! Hope to see you next year! March 31, 2009: Revised program, now with locations, is online. March 28, 2009: The program for the colloquium is now up. March 27, 2009: Molly Diesing and Sally McConnell-Ginet have now made available the abstract of their Harry Potter talk, “How to Do Things with Words and Wands: The Pragmatics of Magic" [RTF]. March 15, 2009: Bruce Hayes has sent us more details about his keynote speech, "Natural and Unnatural Constraints in Hungarian Vowel Harmony" [PDF]. March 10, 2009: Our registration page is now up. February 21, 2009: We officially have a room: Morrill Hall 106. February 7, 2009: Thanks for your patience, everyone; after delays caused by problems with finding a suitable SSH-client, our site is finally live! Updates should be fairly regular from now on. February 2, 2009: We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Bruce Hayes from UCLA. January 30, 2009: Our department's very own Molly Diesing and Sally McConnell-Ginet have signed on to present their ongoing tongue-in-cheek research into the pragmatics of Harry Potter spells. Prof. Diesing first gave a presentation on this work at the conference in honor of Prof. McConnell-Ginet's retirement in 2007, and they have both been developing the research since. Their presentation should be quite a treat! Call for Papers UnderLings, the Cornell University undergraduate linguistics association, requests abstract submissions for the third annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium. Student submissions at all levels are encouraged in a variety of subfields of linguistics, including but not limited to phonetics, phonology, syntax, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and language acquisition. Applicants pursuing a B.A., B.S., or equivalent degree are invited to submit a one-page abstract for a talk of no more than twenty minutes in length or for a poster presentation at our poster session. Abstracts should be submitted to culc2009@gmail.com by Friday, March 6, 2009. Please indicate whether you would like to be considered for a talk or for the poster session or both. Date: Saturday, April 4 and Sunday, April 5, 2009 Location: Ithaca, New York, USA Contact Person: Kyung-Ah Kim Meeting Email: culc2009@gmail.com

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