Adjacent to this year’s New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) conference, we are organizing a workshop to gather researchers exploring topics in formal syntactic theory that implicate between-speaker or within-speaker variation, and approach these issues through experimental (including corpus-based) methodologies. The invited guest speaker for the workshop will be Gary Thoms of New York University.
The workshop will be held at CUNY-Queens College on October 14, 2023. Attendees will be required to register as participants at NWAV 51.
We invite abstracts for 20-minute talks on research on formal syntax within the above parameters. Abstracts should be no more than two pages in length (including examples and references), in 12-point type, US Letter or A4 size with 1-inch/2.5cm margins, in PDF format. (There is no 500-word limit as in the general NWAV call.) Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per author.
Abstracts may be submitted through Oxford abstracts https://nwav51.org/test/call-for-abstracts/. In the Subject Area(s) field, please select “Workshop on Variation and Syntactic Theory”. Please note that the guidelines for abstract length and format listed above for this workshop are different for those for the general NWAV 51 call. Abstracts may be attached through the “Additional files” link at the bottom of the Oxford Abstracts page. (You may wish to put, “See attached pdf” in the abstract text field.) Depending on space availability, we may be able to accommodate a limited number of poster presentations for abstracts not selected for oral presentation. There will be no Project Launch presentations for this workshop.
The deadline for abstract submission is May 31, 2023. Extended to June 14, 2023! Participants will be notified of the outcome of the review process in middle or late August 2023.
Further details will be posted at the workshop website: https://vast.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
For further information you may also contact the workshop organizers, Bill Haddican (CUNY) and Paco Ordoñez (Stony Brook), at vast.cuny@gmail.com.
Funding: We gratefully acknowledge the support of the ANR-funded To2No project, (project number: ANR-22-CE54-0012) and the FWO-funded Re-Examining Dialect Syntax (REEDS) project (project number: FWO W002320N).
