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Date: September 25 – 27, 2020Location: Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Call for Panel proposalsThe 11th International Conference of the European Association of Chinese linguistics (EACL) will be held in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It will be jointly organized by the EACL board, the Department of Asian Studies (https://kas.upol.cz/en/), the Sinofon project (http://sinofon.cz/), the Department of English and American Studies, and the Department of General linguistics, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic.We invite proposals (in English) for special panels in all areas of Chinese linguistics (excluding applied linguistics and teaching of Chinese).The panel proposal should not exceed 2 pages (A4, single-spaced, font size 12pt) and mention at least 3 or 4 potential participants, corresponding to one slot (1/2 morning or 1/2 afternoon, each presentation being 20mins+ 10mins Q&#38;A). If there are 6-8 participants, then two slots can be assigned (one entire morning or afternoon).The proposal should provide a precise description of the topic and the research questions to be addressed.Panel proposals are reviewed by the EACL board members.(cf. http://www.chineselinguistics.eu/board)Deadline for panel proposals: December 31, 2019Notification of acceptance/rejection of panel proposals: January 15, 2020Please send your proposal (in one pdf file) to: eacl2020panels@gmail.comCall for abstracts:A separate call for abstracts will be published in the second half of January (tentative deadline: March 15), just after the panel selection process is completed. Abstracts may be submitted either for a panel or for the general session and are subject to the same review procedure.