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<p><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Dear Colleagues, </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Sponsored in part by the Canada Research Chair in Minority Studies, Faculty of Arts, St. Jerome’s University, and the Departments of French Studies, and Germanic and Slavic Studies, t<span style="color:black">he
<b>46th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS) “CONTACTS AND INTERACTIONS” will take place on July 23-26, 2019 at the University of Waterloo.</b>
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight:normal">LACUS invites abstracts representing a broad range of approaches to language, including interdisciplinary topics and innovative ideas.</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US"> </span></strong><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Submissions
</span></b><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight:normal">dealing with any of the conference theme (see below)
</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US">as well as abstracts presenting empirically grounded investigations in any theoretical framework</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight:normal"> are welcome.
</span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cognitive and
<span class="spelle">neurolinguistic</span> approaches to language</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Computational and corpus approaches to language</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Human (or Hard-science) linguistics</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> in the media</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Forensic</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> and
<span class="spelle">clinical</span> <span class="spelle">linguistics</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Multilingualism</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> and genre</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Teaching</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> second and
<span class="spelle">foreign</span> <span class="spelle">languages</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stratificational</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<span class="spelle">modeling</span> of <span class="spelle">language</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span class="spelle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Systemic-functional</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<span class="spelle">approaches</span> to <span class="spelle">language</span></span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Issues in graphology, phonology, grammar, lexis, discourse, modality, ontology, diachronic linguistics,
<span class="spelle">geolinguistics</span>, sociolinguistics, etc.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C00000">Important Dates:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">15 FEB 2019:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Abstract submission
deadline</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo6"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">15 MAR 2019:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Notification of
acceptance / rejection </span><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Please, </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#C00000">submit your proposals through LACUS website</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">:
<a href="http://lacus.weebly.com/2019-call-for-participation.html" target="_BLANK">
http://lacus.weebly.com/2019-call-for-participation.html</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">Looking forward to seeing you there! <span style="color:black">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">On behalf of the Local Organizing committee - Svetlana Kaminskaïa (French Studies), Kerry Lappin-Fortin (St. Jerome’s University), Grit Liebscher (Germanic and Slavic
Studies), Dominique Louër (French Studies),</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Svetlana Kaminskaïa</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Professeure Agrégée/ Associate Professor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Département d'études françaises/ Department of French Studies</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Université de Waterloo/ University of Waterloo</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">200 University Ave. West</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1
</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">(519) 888-4567 x32465</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:skaminskaia@uwaterloo.ca"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">skaminskaia@uwaterloo.ca</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>L’Université de Waterloo tient à souligner que nous nous trouvons sur le territoire traditionnel des peuples attawandaron (Neutres), anishinabé et haudenosaunee. L'Université de Waterloo est située sur la concession de Haldimand, parcelle
de terrain promise aux Six Nations, d'une largeur de six milles sur chaque rive de la rivière Grand.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/about-arts/territorial-acknowledgement" target="_BLANK??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????㍰"><span style="color:blue">https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/about-arts/territorial-acknowledgement</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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