This year's NWLC was a great success! Thank you to everyone who contributed: the presenters, session chairs, the organising committee and everyone else who attended. We would also like to thank UBC Department of Linguistics, UBC Alma Mater Society and the Walter H. Gage Memorial Fund for their generous assistance with funding. Information about the conference proceedings can be found below.

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The Northwest Linguistics Conference is an annual conference for graduate students in linguistics to share their work in a friendly atmosphere, and meet colleagues from other universities, both locally and internationally. The venue rotates on a four year cycle, between University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, and the University of Washington.

Program:

view online (with downloadable abstracts)
download pdf
[Last updated: April 27, 2009]

Registration:

Attendance at the conference is $10, to be paid with cash or cheque at the conference. This registration fee will be used to cover the costs of catering during the conference.

Local Information:

transport, accommodation, eating out
[Last updated: April 8, 2009]

Proceedings:

The proceedings for the conference will be published by UBC Working Papers in Linguistics. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, June 16 and the style sheet will soon be available on the UBCWPL website. Questions should be directed to Heather Bliss.

Important Dates:

• Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2009
• Notification of acceptance: late March, 2009
• Conference dates: April 25-26 , 2009
• Proceedings submission deadline: June 16, 2009

Contact Information:

• General information: nwlc2009@gmail.com
• Proceedings information: hbliss@interchange.ubc.ca