Welcome to the home page of the Slavic Linguistics Society

The goal of the Slavic Linguistic Society is to create a community of students and scholars interested in Slavic linguistics, that is, the systematic and scholarly study of the Slavic languages. The Society aspires to be as open and inclusive as possible; no school, framework, approach, or theory is presupposed, nor is there any restriction in terms of geography, academic affiliation, or academic status. Grammar, lexicology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cognition, teaching ... we hope to create a community interested in developments and research in all these areas and more.

The Society has:

• established an e-mail distribution list (called `SLAVICLING') for propagating inquiries and information by e-mail
• initiated a series of annual meetings (3 have been held; we have plans for 2009 and 2010)
• adopted the Journal of Slavic Linguistics as its official journal.
• developed this web site to post information. Of special interest is our page of resources of use to those interested in the Slavic languages.

More information on the Slavic Linguistics Society, its history, plans, and resources, is available here.

Quick Highlights

• The way to become a member of the Slavic Linguistic Society is to subscribe to its scholarly journal, the Journal of Slavic Linguistics. When you subscribe to the journal, you are automatically registered as a member of the Society for the period of your subscription. Information on rates and on how to do so is found here.
• Our Fourth Annual Meeting will be held 3-6 September 2009 in the beautiful Adriatic city of Zadar, Croatia, on the campus of the University of Zadar, with cosponsorship by the Insitute of Croatian Language and Linguistics in Zagreb.
  • Keynote speakers:
    • Greville Corbett (The University of Surrey)
    • Laura Janda (The University of Tromsø)
    • Milan Mihaljević (Staroslovenski institut, Zagreb)
  • Papers dealing with any aspect of Slavic linguistics and within any framework are welcome, as well as those that represent cross-disciplinary approaches (sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, language acquisition, etc.). All talks will be for 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.
  • Abstracts are due by 1 June 2009. All abstracts will be refereed and participants should be notified by mid-June 2009.
  • For more information, please consult the meeting website or inquire by e-mail.
    

MEMBERSHIP and RESOURCES

1. A member of the SLS enjoys the following benefits:

1. A subscription to the Journal of Slavic Linguistics (JSL)
2. Access to the Directory of Slavic Linguists on this website
3. At the Society's scholarly meetings, only members:
• may present papers
• are entitled to reduced registration fees

The way to become a member of the SLS is to subscribe to JSL. Information on rates and on how to do so is found here.

2. SLS Website. Anyone is free to utilize any area of this website, with one exception (see 2-b).

1. We encourage anyone interested to list themselves in our Directory of Slavic Linguists. To do so, enter information about yourself here. Provide only that information which you are comfortable releasing to the world.
2. In order to address the privacy concerns of some members, the directory is password-protected. We will limit access to the directory to full members. A username and password will be provided to full members on request; please contact the Sitemeister for this information.

3. E-mail distribution list SLAVICLING. Anyone is free to subscribe to the e-mail distribution list SLAVICLING, available to distribute information and queries to an international community of Slavic linguists with expertise in various languages and in various disciplinary approaches. SLAVICLING is managed by a list server hosted at the University of Texas at Austin (USA); it is administered by a software package called `sympa'. Messages for the list are sent to slavicling@utlists.utexas.edu.

You must be subscribed to the list to send or receive messages distributed on it. In order to subscribe, please do the following.

1. Go to the server's webpage for the list.
2. Ignore the error message at the top of the page. In the upper left-hand corner of the screen, click on `First login ?'
3. Follow instructions: enter your e-mail address you wish to receive messages at and click on `Send me my password'.
4. Check your e-mail in a few seconds, where you will find a password.
5. Go back to the server's website for the list (see a) and login using the e-mail address you provided and your new password.
6. Your initial options are presented on the left of the screen. Start by clicking on the `Subscribe'. When done, log out.
7. There are other options you can set here before logging out. But you don't have to do anything other than subscribe.
   • If you wish to explore options, including changing the initial password (which is always recommended), changing your e-mail address, or unsubscribing, you can login again at anytime, using the e-mail address you have provided and your current password. When you return, you will find `slavicling' listed on the left side of the screen (under `Your lists'). Click on the name of the list, and you will see available options.

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