Author: Catherine Davies

Abstract submission will begin JANUARY 25 via this link:

SECOL 2021: Homepage (linguistlist.org)

The 87th Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) was slated to be held in Oxford, Mississippi at the Inn at Ole Miss, March 26-28, 2020. The Executive Board of SECOL has decided to cancel the event.

Our concern is that the rapid spread of COVID-19 would put our traveling members at risk and put them into close proximity at the conference site [which–update–is closed now anyway]. A number of our members live in states that have already declared a health emergency, and the board certainly didn’t want to jeopardize the well-being of presenters, participants, observers, or the workers who facilitate them.

If you have paid your registration, the Outreach division of Ole Miss that processed your credit card will automatically issue a full refund within 10 business days. If you paid registration in another way, please e-mail Felice Coles and she will pass along your query to the Outreach representatives.

If you joined SECOL specifically to present at the conference, I would like to ask you to consider becoming a member anyway. You will receive the Southern Journal of Linguistics, become part of our wonderfully collegial community, and strengthen the oldest regional linguistics association in the US. Also, your membership fee would help SECOL defray costs already incurred for a conference that we now, alas, had to cancel.

All of you have proposed interesting presentations, and Justin White (the new editor) and Felice Coles would very much like to see the manuscripts that come out of your research for the Southern Journal of Linguistics!

Thank you to Felice Coles, who had the entire program and logistics already worked out, and our collective regrets to our keynote speaker John Lipski and to all registered participants now inconvenienced with undoing their travel arrangements. Canceling a conference is unprecedented in our history and was not an easy decision to make. SECOL will continue supporting and highlighting the work of linguists, and we hope to see you all at next year’s conference.

Ralf Thiede

president, SECOL

SECOL members beginning their terms at the 2019 conference are the following:

Vice President:  Tamara Lindner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Executive Committee Member-at-Large:  Alicia Cipria, University of Alabama

Nominating Committee:  Jeff Reaser, North Carolina State University

The SECOL conference in 2020 will be hosted by Ole Miss (Felice Coles), and she is currently on the Executive Committee as the Journal Editor.

The Nominating Committee will work on a slate to be presented at the 2019 meeting for those who will start their terms in 2020.

Dear SECOL member,

New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 47 will have a 4-paper session reserved for SECOL!  NWAV 47 will meet at  New York University on October 18-21, 2018.  Since we have just finalized this arrangement, the deadline for submissions is rather soon — 1 June 2018 by midnight.  There is an online submission page; you will need an anonymized PDF to upload, containing no more than 500 words, confined to 1 page of text. (Bibliography, glossed/transcribed examples, and images are allowed to appear on a second page and do not count toward the word limit.)   I suggest putting SECOL in parentheses after your paper title so the committee can identify our proposals.  If you have questions, please direct them to nwav47@nyu.edu.