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The  Societas Linguistica Europaea and the Centre for Research in the  Applications of Language at the University of La Rioja, Logroño (Spain)  invite you to submit workshop, poster and paper proposals for the next  annual meeting. SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality scientific  research in linguistics.Plenary speakersBas Aarts (London): “Shifts in English modal verb usage in recent times”Martin Everaert (Utrecht): “Anaphoric  Dependencies and the Quest for Universals”Adele Goldberg (Princeton): “Items and Generalizations”Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy (Murcia): “Constructivist Approaches to Style-Shifting: An  Interactional Sociolinguistic Perspective”Ruth Wodak (Lancaster): “Integrating Sociolinguistics and (Critical) Discourse Studies:  Multilingual Practices in European Union Institutions”Local organizing CommitteeChair: Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza IbáñezSecretary: Sandra Peña CervelTreasurer: Andrés CangaMembers:María Pilar AgustínAsunción BarrerasAlmudena FernándezRosa Mª JiménezJavier MartínJuan Manuel MolinaLorena PérezRoberto TorreSLE Conference ManagerBert Cornillie (Leuven)Scientific CommitteeChair: Letizia Vezzosi (Perugia)Members: Laura Alba-Juez (Madrid, UNED), Johanna  Barðdal (Bergen), Delia Bentley (Manchester), Marcella Bertuccelli  (Pisa), Walter Bisang (Mainz), Kasper Boye (Copenhague), Anna Cieslicka  (Poznan/TAMIU Laredo), Giuglielmo Cinque (Venice), João Costa (Lisbon),  María Josep Cuenca (Valencia), Michael Daniel (Moscow), Kristin Davidse  (Leuven), David Denison (Manchester), Ursula Doleschal (Wien), Patricia  Donegan (Honolulu), Mirjam Fried (Prague), Francisco Gonzálvez  (Almería), Stefan Th. Gries (UC Santa Barbara), Youssef Haddad  (Florida), Liliane Haegeman (Ghent), Marja-Liisa Helasvuo (Turku),  Daniel Hirst (Aix-en-Provence), Hans Henrich Hock (Urbana-Champaign),  Willem Hollmann (Lancaster), Michael Israel (Maryland), Gunther  Kaltenboeck (Viena), Stanislav Kavka (Ostrava), Seppo Kittila  (Helsinki), Grzegorz Kleparski (Rzeszow), Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg),  Livia Kortvelyessy (Kosice), Gitte Kristiaensen (Madrid, Complutense),  Leonid Kulikov (Leiden), Karen Lahousse (Leuven), Meri Larjavaara  (Turku/Åbo), Maria Luisa Lecumberri (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Elisabeth Leiss  (München), María Rosa LLoret (Barcelona), María José López-Couso  (Santiago), Ricardo Mairal (Madrid, UNED), Andrej Malchukov (EVA,  Leipzig), Amaya Mendikoetxea (Madrid, UAM), Lavinia Merlini (Pisa),  Laura Michaelis (UC, Boulder), Edith Moravcsik (Wisconsin, Milwaukee),  Jan Nuyts (Antwerp), Miren Lourdes Onederra (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Hamid  Ouali (Wisconsin, Milwaukee), Eric Pederson (Oregon), Paola Pietrandrea  (Roma III), José Pinto de Lima (Lisbon), Vladimir Plungjan (Moscow),  Nikolaus Ritt (Viena), Nicoletta Romeo (Sydney), Fernando Sánchez Miret  (Salamanca), Andrea Sansò (Università dell'Insubria), Stephan Schmid  (Zürich), Roland Schuhmann (Jena), Elena Seoane (Santiago), Augusto  Soares da Silva (Braga), Jae Jung Song (Otago), Roeland van Hout  (Nijmegen), Arie Verhagen (Leiden), Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (Brussels),  Elly Van Gelderen (Arizona), Anna Verschik (Tallinn), Björn Wiemer  (Mainz), Jan-Wouter Zwart (Groningen).Call for papers: Workshops and general sessionWorkshops, posters and individual papers are invited on all topics  belonging to the field of linguistics. One person may submit a  single-authored paper, a single-authored paper and a co-authored one  (not as first author) or two co-authored papers (only one as first  author). Note that keynote papers within workshops count as ordinary  papers. Presentations will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes question time.All abstracts have to be registered and sent to the Scientific Committee by 15 January 2011.GENERAL SESSION - WORKSHOPS. General session papers  can deal with any topic in linguistics. Workshop papers take into  account the topic of the workshop proposal, and are usually pre-selected  by the workshop convenors before they are submitted to the scientific  committee (SC). The acceptance of a paper depends on the quality of the  abstract.Abstracts will be read by three referees. Abstracts submitted to the  general session and to the poster session will be evaluated by three  members of the SC. Workshop papers receive two evaluations by SC members  and one by the convenors. The threshold for acceptance is the same for  general session, poster and workshop abstracts. The acceptance rate of  the previous conferences was 60% for the general session.As of SLE 2009 more than half of the presentations have taken place  within the framework of thematic workshops. Workshop proposals should  contain:A 1000 word description of the topic (including the research questions to be addressed) anda provisional list of workshop participants and a short description of their topics.We encourage workshop convenors to distribute an open call for papers  on the LinguistList and other fora. The deadline for the submission of  workshop proposals is 15 November 2010. Workshop proposals will be  evaluated and ranked by the SLE Scientific Committee. Notification of  acceptance will be given by 15 December 2010. After a workshop proposal  has been accepted, the convenors will be requested to invite their  participants to submit their full abstracts by 15 January 2011.Since we want conference participants to be able to attend individual  workshop presentations, SLE workshops have to be compatible with the  main conference schedule. This means that the format of the workshops  must be organized around 30 minute presentations (20 min. + 10 min.  discussion). Workshops can contain 10 or 15 slots (corresponding to 1 or  1.5 days); each workshop ideally comprises:An introductory paper by the convenor(s) or by a key-note speaker,  which summarizes previous research, specifies the approach(es) to be  taken and sets the scope of the papers to be presented.Eight papers (1 day) or thirteen papers (1.5 day).A slot for final discussion on the topics covered by the papers, methodological issues and questions for future research.Further details can be discussed with the SLE Conference Manager.POSTERS. The next SLE meeting will hold a poster  session of an hour for both senior and junior researchers. Posters and  oral presentations will be evaluated according to the same quality  standards. In order to foster interaction, all other sessions will be  suspended during the poster session.The maximum size of the poster is 1.10 m x 1 m. For more information about how to make a good poster, click here.Guidelines for submissionAbstracts should not exceed 500 words (exclusive of references) and  should clearly state research questions, approach, method, data and  (expected) results. The abstract will also contain three to five key  words specifying the (sub)field, the topic and the approach.The deadline for all abstracts (for the general session, the poster  session and the workshops) is 15 January 2011. Notification of  acceptance will be given by 31 March 2011.Submit your title through the Submit Abstract form where you can upload your abstract as an attachment. The abstract  should not mention the presenter(s) nor their affiliations or addresses.  Abstracts are preferably in Word or .RTF format; if your abstract  contains special symbols, please include a pdf version as well.Prize  for the best presentation and the best posterThere will be a prize for the best oral presentation by a PhD  student, a prize for the best oral presentation by a postdoc and a prize  for the best poster.For current purposes, PhD-students are students that have not  completed their PhD before the conference. Postdocs have completed their  PhD not earlier than January 2008. A nominated paper may be  co-authored; in such a case the nominee will be the first author.Applicants are invited to mark the button referring to the prize when  they register their abstract. On the basis of the ranking of the  abstracts, the Scientific Committee will set up an internal shortlist  with nominees for the prizes.Members of the Editorial Board of Folia Linguistica (Historica) and the Scientific Committee will decide who will be awarded the first  prize in each category, which consists of 500 euros and the 2nd and 3rd  prize, which is a three-year SLE membership.RegistrationRegistration will start from 1 April 2011 onwards. SLE 2011 keeps the SLE 2010 conference fees (see our website).Become a member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea and get a discount.Social programmeThere will be a reception (included in the registration fee) and a  conference dinner. On Sunday afternoon there will be a post-conference  excursion. Further information will be given in the second circular.How to get to LogroñoLogroño, the capital of La Rioja, is located in the North of Spain,  336 Km from Madrid, 478 Km from Barcelona, 171 Km from Zaragoza and 137  Km from Bilbao. The local airport offers daily flights to the  international airport of Madrid. Other important international airports  are Bilbao and Zaragoza, from where you can travel to Logroño by bus or  by train.Important dates15 January 2011:deadline for submission of workshop proposals15 January 2011:deadline for submission of poster and paper abstracts31 March 2011:notification of acceptance1 April 2011:early registration starts1 June 2011:registration (full fee)30 June 2011:registration closed for participants with a paper20 August 2011:registration closedContactSLE 2011 Local organizing committeeSandra Peña Cervel (Secretary)Tel. (+34) 941299437Fax (+34) 941299419E-mail: sle2011@cilap.esSLE conference managerBert Cornilliesle@arts.kuleuven.beLocal Conference SecretariatUniversity of La RiojaCentre for Research in the Applications of Languagec/ San José de Calasanz s/n26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spainhttp://sle2011.cilap.es/Call for papersRegistrationPlenary speakersScientific CommitteeOrganising CommitteeAbstract submissionHow to reach LogroñoContact