Abstract Submission

Abstracts must be received by

No late submissions can be accepted. Authors will be notified of (non)acceptance by mid-December.

Submission Guidelines

An author may submit at most one single and one joint abstract. In the case of joint authorship, one address should be designated for communication with BLS. Abstracts should be as specific as possible, with a statement of topic, approach, and conclusions, and must fit on one page in 12-point font with 1" margins. So that the review process may remain anonymous, authors should not include their names or otherwise reveal their identity anywhere on this page. Data and examples must be given within the body of the text rather than at the end, though references may be included on a separate page if necessary.

Electronic Submissions

All abstracts must be submitted electronically, formatted as Adobe Acrobat PDF files with the author's name as filename. The body of the e-mail message must contain the following information:

  1. Paper title
  2. Session (General Session/Parasession/Special Session)*
  3. Name(s) of author(s)
  4. Affiliation(s) of author(s)
  5. E-mail address for each author
  6. Phone number for each author
  7. Please list up to three subfields (in decreasing order of relevance) from among the following:
    • - Phonetics
    • - Phonology
    • - Morphology
    • - Syntax
    • - Semantics
    • - Pragmatics
    • - Historical linguistics
    • - Sociolinguistics
    • - Cognitive linguistics
    • - Psycholinguistics
* Please note that papers submitted to the Parasession and Special Session may be considered for the General Session as well.

Send electronic submissions to bls_submissions@berkeley.edu, with the subject line "BLS35 Submission".