Welcome

​The faculty, students, and administration of California State University, Fresno are honored to host our distinguished guests. WECOL is a free event open to the public.

WECOL attendees are invited to CSU, Fresno's linguistics colloquium on Thursday, November 14:

'Tense and aspect in animal cognition'
Chris Golston, California University, Fresno
Peters Building 191, 12:30-1:45 PM

We also want to thank Starbucks for providing free coffee for our guests at WECOL.

Plenary Speakers

Arto Anttila
Stanford University
Geoff Gamble
Montana State University
Will Lewis
Microsoft

Registration

There is no registration fee to attend the conference. Talks will only be scheduled for registered speakers and only scheduled talks will be included in the online proceedings. You can register to attend WECOL at the link below:

https://forms.gle/9fWFp2robG2rPb6v7

Call for Abstracts

The Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL) is an international conference on any aspect of theoretical and descriptive linguistics. WECOL 2019 will be held November 15-17 at California State University, Fresno. Conference presentations are published in the WECOL Proceedings online at the website of the Department of Linguistics at the California State University, Fresno.

Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference. Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (with 10 minutes for discussion) on any aspect of theoretical or descriptive linguistics. Abstracts must be limited to 500 words, excluding references. The format of the abstract should follow the guidelines below:
  • Title centered at top of page, in bold
  • Word count at the end of the abstract
  • Anonymous: author names and affiliations should not be indicated anywhere in the abstract
  • File name: title.pdf
Abstracts can be submitted at the link below until 1st September 2019 23:59 CET:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wecol2019

Notifications will be sent around 1st October 2019.