Call for Papers

Papers are invited for ISOCTAL on any topics in Chinese linguistics – understood broadly as covering all Sinitic languages, e.g. Mandarin, Cantonese and all regional varieties - including syntax, morphology, phonetics and phonology, semantics, language variation and sociolinguistic studies, diachronic change, language contact, typology and comparative studies, child language acquisition, second language acquisition and teaching, applications of translation and code-switching to pedagogy.

Talks will be 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for discussion and questions. Poster presentations are also welcome (if you wish to present a poster rather than an oral presentation, you must specify this on the abstract).

The conference will include a WiP Forum (Work in Progress Forum), where issues pertaining to the study of Chinese linguistics will be discussed. For this, we welcome submissions (length: 450 words) introducing issues/challenges encountered by current PhD students in their studies. Accepted submissions will be the subject of open discussion at the Forum, which aims to provide quality input to aspects of ongoing projects. This discussion will be chaired by our keynote speakers and experts in Newcastle University.