The 34th

Penn Linguistics Colloquium

March 19-21, 2010
University of Pennsylvania      (Program will be updated as soon as it is ready.)    Local Information
Invited Speaker

Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago)

The title of the talk and details will be posted soon!

Special Panel

We will have Special Panel session on Friday, 19th. The topic is Mental Representations. The detail will be updated as soon as it is ready.

Call for Papers

The PLC has posted a call for papers. Papers on any topic in linguistics and associated fields are welcome. Speakers will have 20 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for discussion and questions.

Deadline: Abstracts are due by the end of the day on , December 4, 2009 (midnight EST that night). Please note the extended deadline. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given on Wednesday, January 20, 2010.

Length: Please limit abstracts to one page, single- or double-spaced, using 1'' margins on all sides and 11pt font size. An additional page may be used for examples, references, and tables. Do not include your name or affiliation within the abstract.

Format: To facilitate the review process, please submit your abstract as a .pdf file. If you cannot create .pdf files, you may submit a .doc, .rtf, or .txt file, and we will convert it for you. However, since phonetic fonts are not likely to output correctly, we ask that you set up a legend using standard ASCII characters.

Abstract Submission: To submit an abstract, you must follow these steps:

  1. To begin, click here to go to our abstract submission system.
  2. Click "Abstract submission" on the page, and enter your paper title and upload a PDF version of your abstract.
  3. Do not include your name or affiliation in the abstract/file name!
  4. Fill in the blank to provide the name of authors, email addresses, and affiliation.
  5. Choose one from the given abstract classifications.
  6. You will receive an email confirming your abstract submission. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously.

Proceedings: Conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, which is now a free-access online publication. Speakers will be invited to provide electronic and camera-ready copies of their papers after the Colloquium.

About the Penn Linguistics Colloquium

The PLC is a conference in linguistics run by the graduate students in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

The PLC 34 committee is Josef Fruehwald and Lauren Friedman (co-chairs), Jana Beck, Claire Crawford, Yong-cheol Lee, Marielle Lerner, Caitlin Light, Rebecca Marsh, Satoshi Nambu, Hilary Prichard, Kobey Shwayder, Gayeon Son, Jon Scott Stevens, Meredith Tamminga

To contact the PLC committee, email plc, followed by the number thirty-three , followed by an at-sign, followed by ling.upenn.edu.

This event is supported by funding from the UPenn Department of Linguistics; SASgov, the student government for graduate students in the School of Arts and Sciences; and GAPSA, the Graduate and Professional Students' Association of University of Pennsylvania.

Mailing Address:

Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Registration Costs

Preregistration: $30 Students/$40 Faculty

On-site: $40 Students/$50 Faculty

Pre-Registration

The early-bird registration fee is $30 for students, $40 for faculty and others. The deadline is , March 5, 2010. You can get the early-bird fee by simply registering online.

Online preregistration form will be posted soon.
If you are an international attendee we ask that you pay at the conference site. If you have U.S. checking you can pay ahead of time by sending a check payable to the 'Penn Linguistics Club', postmarked by the date above, to
Penn Linguistics Colloquium Department of Linguistics 619 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Due to the security policy at our venue, it will be very difficult to enter the conference site on Saturday and Sunday if you have not already pre-registered. So, pre-registration before our early-bird deadline is highly recommended if you will be arriving on Saturday or Sunday. Please note that you still can pay the early-bird fee on-site if you register online. Save yourself the hassle and register now!
Previous Conferences

Proceedings of previous conferences are on the the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics website. Through PLC 30 the PWPL was an in-print publication and a hard-copy volume can be ordered. Since PLC 31 the PWPL has been a free-access online publication only.