We get a lot of good abstracts these days, so it’s important that you prepare carefully before submitting. This workshop focuses on immigrant languages in the Americas. We understand migration and ‘the Americas’ broadly, but WILA abstracts should address both aspects. Abstracts should include clear research questions / hypotheses and data with indications of the fuller data set used. Please reference the LSA's presentation on abstract writing while writing your own abstract and refer to the following guidelines:
General Requirements:
1) Be sure that your abstract contains the following elements (abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of these criteria):
2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract.
3) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet.
4) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research.
5) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers and posters.
Abstract Format Guidelines:
1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format.
2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed.
3) Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. If you identify yourself in any way on the abstract itself (including indirect identification, e.g. “In Bly (1992)…I”), the abstract will be rejected without being evaluated. In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF document by clicking on “File”, then “Properties”, removing your name if it appears in the “Author” line of the “Description” tab, and re-saving before submitting it. Please be aware that abstract file names are not automatically anonymized; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract2019.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, but rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. WILA13_Looking_at_variation.pdf).
[The above guidelines were modified from those written by the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics.]
General Requirements:
1) Be sure that your abstract contains the following elements (abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of these criteria):
- explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued;
- sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research;
- clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of immigrant languages in the Americas.
2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract.
3) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet.
4) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research.
5) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers and posters.
Abstract Format Guidelines:
1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format.
2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed.
3) Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. If you identify yourself in any way on the abstract itself (including indirect identification, e.g. “In Bly (1992)…I”), the abstract will be rejected without being evaluated. In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF document by clicking on “File”, then “Properties”, removing your name if it appears in the “Author” line of the “Description” tab, and re-saving before submitting it. Please be aware that abstract file names are not automatically anonymized; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract2019.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, but rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. WILA13_Looking_at_variation.pdf).
[The above guidelines were modified from those written by the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics.]
