18th Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (CULC18)
May 3-5, 2024
Cornell University's undergraduate linguistics association, The UnderLings, presents its seventeenth annual undergraduate research conference. By facilitating communication and discussion between researchers, the conference aims to promote undergraduate research at all levels throughout the linguistics community.
Internal Keynote Speaker: John Whitman
John Whitman is a professor of linguistics at Cornell University. Whitman's main interest is the problem of language variation: its limits (how much specific subsystems can vary across languages) and predictors (what typological features co-occur systematically). Exploration of this general problem has led him to work on historical linguistics and language acquisition in addition to his central interest in synchronic syntactic variation across typologically similar languages.
External Keynote Speaker: Karlos Arregi
Karlos Arregi is a professor of linguistics at The University of Chicago. Dr. Karlos Arregi's research interests are in syntax, morphology, and their interfaces with phonology and semantics. A central question in this work is the extent to which grammatical properties of linguistic expressions can be explained in terms of syntax or in terms of principles that regulate its interface of syntax with other modules of grammar. His research tries to illuminate these aspects of linguistic theory by drawing data mostly from Basque and Spanish, as well as other languages such as Washo. Specific topics Dr. Arregi has worked on include syntactic and postsyntactic word formation (especially verbs), agreement and case, clitics, ellipsis, the syntax and phonology of stress, and switch reference.
Call for Abstracts
CULC is a conference run by undergraduate students highlighting undergraduate research. Undergraduates in Linguistics (Underlings) at Cornell University is now accepting abstracts for the 18th Annual Cornell University. We are looking for undergraduate presenters from any university to submit their abstracts for a 20 minute oral presentation or poster presentation.
Abstract submission guidelines:
Deadline: February 29 11:59PM EST The abstract should be no more than 500 words (excluding citations) in PDF format and completely anonymous (do not include your name or affiliation in the file name and file name). Please submit the PDF to culc@cornell.edu. If you have any questions, please email culc@cornell.edu.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission deadline: Feb 29, 2024 (11:59pm EST) - late abstracts will be considered
Notification of decisions: Friday, April 12, 2024 (or sooner)
Conference date: May 3-5, 2024