The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE, is one of the most important fora for research in the area of language variation in Europe. It aims at bringing together scholars of languages or language varieties spoken in Europe with the purpose of discussing empirical, methodological and theoretical issues in the study of language variation and change.

Invited speakers:

Meredith Tamminga (University of Pennsylvania)
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (University of Leuven)
Roeland van Hout (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Arjen Versloot (University of Amsterdam)

Call for Papers:

ICLaVE|10 welcomes submissions for individual paper and poster presentations from 1 June until 20 October 2018. Scholars working on language variation and change, in areas such as sociolinguistics, dialectology, historical
linguistics, sociology of language, psycholinguistics and language psychology are invited to submit their proposals on any relevant aspect of variation in language use and/or the linguistic system.

As ICLaVE|10 takes place in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert, the capital of the province of Fryslân, where Frisian is recognised as an official language in addition to Dutch, we particularly invite submissions focussing on minority and/or small languages. In addition, we look forward to receive proposals on language technology and language variation, language variation on social media, and language variation in multilingual communities.

Individual papers will be 20 minutes each, followed by a 10-minute discussion.
Posters presentations will be staged in dedicated sessions. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words, including title and references. Deadline for abstract submission is 20 October 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 January 2019. Go to:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclave10

to find more detailed instructions and submit your abstract.

Call for Panels:

The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE|10 invites submissions for panels in all areas related to language variation in European languages. Panel proposals must be written in English and should be submitted electronically by (one of) the panel organizer(s) to:
iclave10fryske-akademy.nl.
Panels at ICLaVE|10 will have a duration of 8 or 12 slots (including
introduction and/or discussion session). A slot is 30 minutes. Panels can be thematically organised, but data sessions are also welcome. We particularly invite panels on language variation in minority languages. Additional presentations may be added to a panel after the regular call for papers, but this will always be discussed with the panel organizer.
Proposals should be submitted in .pdf, .docx or .odt format, 12-point Times New Roman, single-spaced. For format requirements, please refer to the Word-template (.docx). For phonetic symbols use either Doulos SIL or Charis SIL.

Proposals should include:
– A general overview text of no more than 500 words, including the topic and how it relates to the conference theme, the rationale for the panel, and its aims and objectives
– Some key discussion questions, information on how the session will be organized (discussion format, number of papers, discussants/participants), etc.
– A list of invited contributors (name, affiliation, email address) plus full abstracts of the contributions (including information on the subject, methodology and theoretical framework(s), max. 500 words per abstract)

Panel organizers should:
– Coordinate the submission of abstracts by contributors (max. 500 words each) before the deadline
– Submit the proposal following the template for panel proposals by 20 August 2018 and confirm that all invited contributors have agreed to participate
– Communicate the decision of acceptance/rejection of the panel to the contributors
– Act as mediators between the contributors and the Conference Organizing Committee
– Submit an updated version of the abstracts and panel description by 20 December 2018
– Collect papers, presentations and/or data samples for the panel in advance of the conference, and circulate these to all panel contributors
– Chair their panel at the conference

Panel proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee.
Deadline for panel submission is 20 August 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 September 2018. Authors may submit two abstracts (either singly- or jointly-authored), whether in a panel or not.