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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">We are looking for co-located conferences to supplement and complement the course offerings at the 2025
</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212121"><a href="https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?contentid=138" target="_blank" title="https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?contentid=138"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Linguistics
Society of America Summer Institute</span></span></a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">, to be held in Eugene, OR, USA from July 7 to August 8, 2025. The Institute is the largest and most prestigious summer school for linguistics
in the world, and has been held since 1928, drawing about 100 faculty and a few hundred (mostly graduate) students. Eugene is a city of ~170,000 people, home to the University of Oregon, located at the southern end of the beautiful Willamette Valley. Within
a 90-minute drive, you will find snow-capped mountains, a gorgeous coastline, wild hot springs, deserted ocean beaches, top-notch wineries, and more. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Events can be held on weekends: July 4-6, July
</span><span style="color:black;background:white">12-13, July 19-20, July 26-27, or August 2-3</span><span style="color:#212121">. They can last one or two days, with the possibility of an evening session on July 11, 18, 25, or August 2 as well. We will provide
room for the event (as we have 5 rooms maximum at any one time, parallel sessions are discouraged), and will advertise the event on the institute website. All expenses beyond the cost of the room are, however, the responsibility of the event organizers. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">These events are intended to supplement coursework at the institute. The theme of the Institute is “Language in Use”, in keeping with the usage-based theoretical orientation of the linguistics
department at Oregon, and we currently have particularly strong course offerings in</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Typology</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Descriptive and functional morphosyntax</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Usage-based, learning-theoretic and constructivist approaches to language acquisition</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Language variation and change, including frequency effects therein</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Construction grammar and formulaic language</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Information-theoretic and probabilistic approaches to linguistic theory</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Bayesian and connectionist approaches to speech and language processing</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Statistical methods in linguistic data analysis</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">For more information and to submit, please visit <a href="https://blogs.uoregon.edu/ublab/call-for-conferences-lsa2025/" title="https://blogs.uoregon.edu/ublab/call-for-conferences-lsa2025/"><span style="color:#0078D7">https://blogs.uoregon.edu/ublab/call-for-conferences-lsa2025/</span></a></span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Deadline: September 15, 2024</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Acceptance / rejection: October 1, 2024</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Feel free to contact me with any questions at
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#212121">Vsevolod (Volya) Kapatsinski on behalf of myself, Kaori Idemaru and Spike Gildea, co-directors</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="color:#212121"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Best,</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">-- </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Vsevolod Kapatsinski</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Professor</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Department of Linguistics, University of Oregon<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">visiting at Department of English, University of Freiburg</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">Area Editor,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Linguistics Vanguard</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(cog, exp, comp)</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121">blogs.uoregon.edu/ublab/</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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