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<p>Dear PLING Colleagues,</p>
<p>Would you please include the below on the PLING mailing list.</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>Kriszta<br>
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background-repeat: initial initial;">The UCL Departments of Hebrew
and Jewish Studies (Lily Kahn and Sonya Yampolskaya) and
Linguistics (Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (now at University of Vienna)
and Zoë Belk) are delighted to invite abstracts for the
international conference<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px;
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initial;">YiLaS (Yiddish Language Structures) 3: Yiddish in the
21st Century</strong>, to be held<span
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vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 600; background-position:
0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;">in person at
University College London, March 27-29, 2023</strong>. It is our
intention that the conference will provide a collegial platform
for fruitful discussion and knowledge exchange among specialists
in Yiddish language, linguistics, and culture, as well as in
comparative Germanic linguistics, sociolinguistics (including
language variation and change), language contact, multilingualism,
psycholinguistics, and minority and diaspora languages.</p>
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rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica
Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande",
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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background-repeat: initial initial;">Abstracts should be maximum
500 words excluding references and should be submitted to<span
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href="mailto:yilas3.2023@gmail.com" style="margin: 0px; padding:
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">yilas3.2023@gmail.com</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by<span
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0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px;
vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: 600; background-position:
0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;">31 December 2022</strong>.
Conference presentations may be given in either<span
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padding: 0px; border: 0px none; outline: currentcolor none 0px;
font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-position:
0px 0px;">English or Yiddish</span>. We encourage our presenters
to consider delivering their lectures in Yiddish.
(Yiddish-language presentations will be simultaneously translated
into English in order to make them accessible to all.) <br>
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<p>Further information is available at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/events/2023/mar/yilas-yiddish-language-structures-3-yiddish-21st-century">https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/events/2023/mar/yilas-yiddish-language-structures-3-yiddish-21st-century</a>
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