The Society holds a Linguistics conference and a Language and Society conference in alternate years.
2008 Conference
The 2008 Language and Society conference will be held at the University of Otago in Dunedin:
11th New Zealand Language and Society Conference
17-18 November 2008
University of Otago
St David Lecture Theatre Complex
Enquiries to: anne.feryok@otago.ac.nz
Student conference grants
The Chris Corne monopod travel award is given by the Linguistic Society of NZ to students who present a paper at Linguistic Society of NZ conferences (including Language and Society conferences). It pays half of the cheapest available return air travel from the student's home to the conference. To receive the award students should present the relevant page from the conference programme and a copy of the receipt for the travel to the Secretary/Treasurer of the Society after the conference at which they have presented.
Student travel awards
The Terry Crowley memorial travel award is available to linguistics PhD students enrolled at a NZ university who are paid-up members of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand. The award pays half of the cheapest available return airfare from the NZ university at which the student is based to another NZ university where they give an oral presentation about their thesis research.
To receive the award, the PhD student needs to submit to the Secretary of the Society (heidi.quinn@canterbury.ac.nz):
- an abstract of the talk presented
- a supporting e-mail from the department where they are studying
- a supporting e-mail from the department that hosted the talk
- a copy of the receipt for the airfare
The number of awards a student can apply for will initially be capped at one per year.
Past Conferences
The 2007 conference was held at Waikato in November 2007 click here to go to the website for this conference
Schedule of Conferences 2007-2011
Linguistic Conferences
07 Waikato
09 Massey
11 Victoria
Language and Society Conferences
08 Otago
10 AUT
