Society and Conference Rules


1) ALL SCL authors are expected to be current members, i.e., in good financial standing, of the SCL. This includes joint authors not present. Click to become a new member or to renew membership.

2) Students must be currently registered in the academic year of the conference and must supply student ID number and proof of registration from their institution. According to the SCL constitution, an undergraduate or postgraduate student enrolled in the regular academic year as a candidate for a degree in a recognised tertiary college or university may become a student member on payment of dues. Student membership shall be limited to a maximum of six (6) years.

3) ALL authors are expected to confirm by e-mail and/or by pre-registering online that they will present their papers at the conference. Any author unable to be physically present may make arrangements directly with the Secretary to have his/her paper delivered by another (named) member. In such cases, the absent author must pay a registration fee to cover conference administration costs and materials. This also applies to joint authors not present.

4) ALL authors are expected to submit their full papers by the deadline date (All papers will be protected pdf files and will be considered drafts for circulation among conference attendees, and will not be considered published documents for distribution).

5) ALL members are invited to the SCL Biennial General Meeting where elections for the Executive will be held.

6) Conference presenters (papers or posters) are limited to one single abstract and one joint abstract per conference.

7) While not a rule, the organisers are always grateful to accepted presenters for advance notification of cancellation.

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Keynote Speaker

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Important Dates

Submission of full papers: 12 August 2020
Early Bird Registration:
Notification of acceptance of paper: 15 April 2020
Deadline for Abstracts: 15 February 2020 (Extended to 15 March 2020)
Early Notification of acceptance: 20 December 2019
Early Bird Abstracts: 30 October 2019

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Venue
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About The SCL

The SCL is a scholarly linguistics Society dedicated to the study of language in the Caribbean and to the dissemination of both the theoretical and applied research of its members. The Society had its beginnings in the 1968 Creole Linguistics Conference at the Mona campus of The University of the West Indies in Jamaica, and was formally established in July 1972 at the St. Augustine campus of The U.W.I. in Trinidad & Tobago. Read more>

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