The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,

in association with

the University of Salzburg,

 the University of Vienna, and

the University of Potsdam,

is pleased to announce the First Central European Student Conference in Linguistics, to take place at the Research Institute for Linguistics Budapest, May 29-31, 2006.

The aim of the conference is to provide students, primarily but not exclusively from Central European countries, the opportunity to present their work to an international audience and to receive informed feedback from senior researchers and fellow students.  

The organizers invite undergraduate and doctoral students to submit abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations in English (an extra 10 minutes will be allotted for discussion) describing original, unpublished work, addressing topics from any of the following fields of linguistics:

Phonology

Morphology

Syntax

Semantics

Pragmatics

Sociolinguistics

Language Technology

Psycholinguistics/Neurolinguistics

Historical Linguistics  

We are happy to announce that the following linguists have accepted our invitation to give presentations as invited speakers at the conference:

Prof. Wolfgang U. Dressler (Vienna)

Prof. Hubert Haider (Salzburg) (to be confirmed)

Prof. Ferenc Kiefer (Budapest)

For more information about the conference, for the technical details concerning submission, and for updates on possible means of financial support we can offer for students from East and Central European countries (primarily those outside the EU) please visit our website. You may also contact the organizers at the following address: cescl@nytud.hu.  

The conference takes place immediately after the 12th Morphology Meeting.