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The Seventh Conference of the European Association of Chinese  Linguistics will be held on September 13, 14, 15, 2011, at Ca’ Foscari  University in Venice, Italy. The conference is hosted by the Department  of East Asian Studies and the Department of Language Sciences at Ca’  Foscari University. Registration is on September 12, 2011.The organization committee of EACL-7 cordially invites abstracts for  20-minute talks (plus a 10-minute discussion) in all areas of Chinese  linguistics. Abstracts in the field of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign  Language will not be considered. Abstracts may also be submitted for the  two panels outlined below.Each person may submit no more than one single-authored abstract in  addition to one joint-authored abstract. The requirements for the  submission are given below:1)The abstract should be no more than  one A4 or letter-size page in length. For English: Times New Roman font,  size 12 pt (single space). For Chinese: Songti font 宋体, size ‘small 4’.2)Please indicate the topic on the upper corner of your abstract (e.g.  phonetics, phonology, lexicology, morphology, syntax, semantics,  discourse/pragmatics, Chinese traditional phonology and philology,  historical syntax, prosodic syntax, historical comparative linguistics,  sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics,  neurolinguistics, language acquisition, syntax-semantics interface,  language contact, etc.)3)Three to five key words must be provided to indicate the framework, topic, language(s), or dialect(s) of your paper.4)Abstracts must reflect new research.5)Only EACL members can present papers. To become a member of EACL, please fill in the registration form:6) For Membership information please click here7)E-mail 2 copies of the abstract to   eacl2011@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   and to   linda.badan@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  , (a) one abstract in MS Word DOC format which includes  the author’s name(s), affiliation(s), and e-mail address(es); and (b)  the other abstract in PDF format identified by title only (for anonymous  review).8)The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 30, 2011.9)Notification of abstract acceptance or rejection can be expected by March 31, 2011.Special panels:"Classical Chinese" For information, please contact Barbara Meisterernst  (ddurkin AT aol.com)“Chinese and typology” For information, please contact Guglielmo Cinque  (cinque AT unive.it)Confirmed keynote speakers:C.-T. James Huang (Cambridge, Mass.)Christine Lamarre (Paris)Federico Masini (Rome)Luigi Rizzi (Siena)Rint Sybesma (Leiden)Conference languages: English, French, Mandarin ChineseRegistration fees : € 25 for students, € 40 for non-studentsStudent status will have to be certified.Contact persons§Dr. Magda ABBIATI, local organizermagda AT unive.it§Dr. Linda BADAN, EACL Vice-President and local organizerlinda.badan AT gmail.com§Dr. Guglielmo CINQUE, local organizercinque AT unive.it