The Department of Linguistics and Languages at McMaster University is pleased to announce that it will host the 31st annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL), which will be held in a hybrid format (partially in person, partially virtually) on June 24-26, 2022.Abstracts are invited for talks on topics in formal Slavic linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics. Both theoretical and experimental studies that have consequences for linguistic theory are welcome.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author (or two joint abstracts per author).

Both talks and posters will be selected. Each talk selected for presentation will be allotted 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Poster presenters will present lightning talks and then present their poster in-person or virtually.

Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair, with all non-standard fonts embedded. Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages, which includes the data. An additional third page may be used for references. Abstracts must be submitted in letter or A4 format with 1in or 2.5cm margins on all sides, single-spaced, and in a font no smaller than 11pt. Abstracts should be anonymous. Please make sure that PDF files do not have any identifying metadata.

Invited Speakers

• John Frederick Bailyn (Stony Brook University)
• Tatiana Igorevna Bondarenko (MIT; invited student speaker)
• Neda Todorović (UBC)
• Veno Volenec (Concordia University)

Venue

The conference will be held in-person at McMaster University (Hamilton, ON, Canada) and virtually on June 24-26, 2022

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to fasl.mcmaster.2022@gmail.com.

Sponsors