The Society holds a Linguistics conference and a Language and Society conference in alternate years.
2009 Conference
The Linguistic Society of New Zealand 18th Biennial Conference will be hosted by Massey University, at the Manawatu Campus
November 30 and December 1, 2009.
This year the conference will be preceded by a Subject Session on Sunday 29 November to discuss the teaching of linguistics at New Zealand tertiary institutions.
The conference proper will be 30 November and 1 December, concluding in time for delegates to attend the joint ALANZ-ALAA conference in Auckland, December 2-4.
First call for papers
We welcome abstracts of up to 300 words to be sent as word or pdf files as attachments to m.paviour-smith@massey.ac.nz Deadline for abstracts - September 30. Papers will be 20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions. Students may submit abstracts for the general session or may wish to present online in the student e-stream of the conference.
Further details are forthcoming.
The organising committee
Massey University
Enquiries to: m.paviour-smith@massey.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 2008 Language and Society conference was held at Otago University in Dunedin in November 2008 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
