The American Dialect Society is now accepting proposals for papers to be delivered at its annual conjoint meeting with the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
The Convention will be held in Vancouver, BC Canada and will run from October 11-13, 2001.
Papers dealing with any aspect of the dialects of English or other languages spoken in the United States will be considered and those dealing with Canadian dialects, language contact in Canada, and dialect contact in Canada or along the US/Canada border are especially welcome.
Please send one 150 word abstract by e-mail or two abstracts by regular mail (one with author’s name, the other anonymous) to the address listed below no later than March 15, 2001.
Glenn A. Martinez
Department of Modern Languages
The University of Texas at Brownsville
80 Fort Brown
Brownsville, TX 78520