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SECOL Student Excellence Award 2023: Leah Nodar

Congratulations to the recipient of the SECOL Student Excellence Award 2023, Leah Nodar (a PhD Candidate, Linguistics Department, Purdue University)!!

Nodar’s paper “Pronominal Apposition, It Could Be Useful: Bringing Back an Abandoned Variable in Sociolinguistics” was unanimously selected as the winner, with a publication to follow in the Southern Journal of Linguistics.

Nominations for the SECOL Student Excellence Award 2024 are now being solicited. Send you nominations of student papers that impressed you at the SECOL 2024 meeting to Tamara Warhol, twarhol@go.olemiss.edu. Papers authored by students, whether they were single authors or first authors in collaborations, are eligible.

Starting to Plan for SECOL 91?

UPDATED DEADLINE:

Abstracts for 20-minute papers should not exceed 400 words, excluding title and references. Authors may submit up to two abstracts (across both conferences), one individual and one joint. Abstracts will be accepted electronically through Oxford Abstracts between September 1 and November 17, 2023, at https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/6722/submitter .

Note the deadline extension to November 17. There is still time!

SECOL 90 abstract submission deadline is fast approaching! February 1, 2023 (Wednesday)

The 2023 SECOL meeting is hosted by the University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS). A keynote speaker this year is Prof. Sali Tagliamonte, the Canada Research Chair in Language Variation and Change. 

Abstracts should be submitted through EasyAbs: https://old.linguistlist.org/confservices/EasyAbs/customabssub.cfm?emeetingid=6702JA44587E7A5E40A050441

Check out the conference website for more information, https://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/secol/index.html

Hope to see you in March to advance linguistics research, innovation, creativity, and connections in our research community!