SJL Special Issue Call
SECOL 2025 in Boca Raton, FL! Abstract Submission: 10/19/2024 – 01/06/2025
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.
Feb. 29th is the last day of the early bird registration for LAVIS 5 and SECOL 91. Effective March 1, the registration will go from $230 to $300 for faculty and from $100 to $150 for students. Register TODAY!
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!
Welcome!
The Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) is dedicated to the advancement of the study of language in all its aspects. The Southern Journal of Linguistics (SJL) publishes book reviews and peer reviewed articles. The annual spring conference provides a venue for SECOL members to
- learn about the latest scholarship on a wide variety of linguistics topics
- present ideas to other scholars for feedback and support
- meet linguists from across the nation
- get new ideas for future research and publishing
- find opportunities to participate in the administration and advocacy of linguistics
As per the SECOL Constitution, meetings are held in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the Islands of the Caribbean. Membership is open to everyone interested in linguistics, regardless of residence.