THE 51st Annual Conference of International Linguistic Association will be held March 31 to April 2, 2006, at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The major theme of the conference is "Words and their Histories".

　　For this year's conference, while papers on the main conference theme are especially solicited, abstracts on any subject in theoretical and applied linguistics will be welcomed. Single-spaced, anonymous abstracts of not more than 425 words should clearly state the problems addressed, or research questions, and some indication of results or conclusions.

　　Applicants can send abstracts via e-mail to Sheila Embleton (embleton@YorkU.CA), conference coordinator, and write clearly in a separate e-mail, your name, title of paper, addresses, affiliation and audio-visual equipment needed. Simultaneously, applicants are required to send one hard copy of the abstract, for editing and verification purposes. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 6, 2006.

　　John Algeo will be one of the featured speakers. John Algeo is Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia and was Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of English until his retirement. He is a past President of the American Dialect Society, the American Name Society and the Dictionary Society of North America.

　　The International Linguistic Association was established in 1943 and has become one of the main sources of new ideas in American linguistics ever since.

　　The fruits of its scholarship are disseminated to a great extent through its journal WORD, established in 1945, which appears three times a year. Each issue contains articles and reviews.

　　Since 1955, the Association has sponsored an Annual Linguistics Conference in order to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and research in progress among members of the International Linguistic Community.

　　For more information, please visit http://cf.linguistlist.org/.