Welcome to the ALS 2013 Conference website

The School of Languages and Linguistics at The University of Melbourne is pleased to be organising the 44th annual conference of the Australian Linguistics Society.

The conference will be held at University College at the University of Melbourne (See the map below) from the afternoon of Tuesday 1st to Friday 4th October 2013.

Plenary speakers:

We invite abstracts for papers and posters, both for the general sessions and for special-interest workshops. See the Call for Papers page for further information, author guidelines and submission of abstracts. The program will also contain five workshops. There will be an option during the abstract submission process to nominate a particular workshop for which to have your abstract considered. The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 1st, 2013.

An online volume of proceedings will be published. Please see the Call for Papers for more information.

Critical Dates

Call for workshop proposals: 15 December 2012
Workshop proposals due: 15 March 2013
Notification of accepted workshops: 29 March 2013
First Call for papers and posters (including workshop papers): 15 March 2013
Abstract submissions due: 1 June 2013
Program announced: end July 2013
Acceptance of papers: 15 July 2013
Early bird registration ends: 15 August 2013

There will be a limited number of bursaries of $500 available to support attendance by postgraduate students (details to follow).

The conference dinner will be held on Thursday 3rd October.

Map

Update
Registration is now open. See here for information. Early Bird rates close August 15.

Five workshops to be conducted during the conference have now been announced. See here for more details.
Important Dates
  • Conference Dates
    Tuesday, October 1st to
    Friday, October 4th, 2013
  • Workshop proposals due
    March 15th 2013
  • Abstract submissions due
    June 1st 2013
  • Notification of Acceptance of papers
    July 15th 2013
  • Early bird registration ends
    August 15th 2013