GenWH 2018: The Geneva WH-orkshop on Optional Insituness Université de Genève, UniBastions (Faculté des Lettres) Genève, Switzerland, January 16-18, 2018 |
Conference website | https://genwh2018.wordpress.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=genwh2018 |
Submission deadline | December 7, 2017 |
The Geneva WH-orkshop on Optional Insituness (GenWH 2018), supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, will bring together 4 researchers of the University of Geneva, 9 invited academics from Europe and the United States of America, and up to 16 MA and PhD students as welll as PostDocs who work on Optional Insituness.
Dates: 16-18 January 2018
Submission Guidelines
---Please notice that this call for abstracts is intended for students (PhD/MA) and PostDocs only---
We welcome both single- and multi-authored abstracts on the subjects of wh-in situ and optional insituness. Contributions from any subfield of linguistics, interfaces included, are welcome. The abstracts will be NOT longer than 1 page, references included, 1 inch margin at least, Times New Roman 12pt, single spaced.
6 students will be selected to deliver a 20-minute talk (main session), and up to 10 students will be granted a poster presentation on the 2nd and 3rd days of the WH-orkshop (poster session). It is possible to either apply for both sessions, or one in particular.
If compatible with our budget, we will (at least partially) help the selected students with their travel and subsistence expenses.
Submission deadline: December 7th, 2017 / Notification of acceptance: December 14th, 2017
Organisers
- Caterina Bonan (caterina dot bonan at unige dot ch)
- Lucas Tual (lucas dot tual at unige dot ch)
Invited Speakers
- Viviane Déprez (Rutgers University)
- Ricardo Etxepare (CNRS – IKER)
- Stella Gryllia (Leiden University)
- Nicola Munaro (Università Ca’Foscari Venezia)
- Leticia Pablos Robles (Leiden University)
- Cecilia Poletto (Università di Padova & Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
- Norvin Richards (MIT)
- Joachim Sabel (UC Louvain)
Internal Speakers: - Giuliano Bocci
- Ur Shlonsky
Venue
The conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland. Université des Lettres, UniBastions, room B111.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organisers.