The Moscow Student Conference on Linguistics (MSCL) is an annual student linguistic conference, which started in 2006. It was first held at the Moscow State University, and since then it has grown to be one of the major conferences on formal linguistics in Russia. The aim of the conference is to give young researchers an opportunity to present their work, exchange ideas and receive feedback from more experienced colleagues. Talks are solicited from all areas of

theoretical linguistics Theoretical linguistics is a term in linguistics which, like the related term general linguistics, can be understood in different ways. Both can be taken as a reference to theory of language, or the branch of linguistics which inquires into the n ...

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Phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

Morphology Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to: Disciplines *Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts *Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...

Syntax In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...

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Semantics Semantics (from grc, σημαντικός ''sēmantikós'', "significant") is the study of reference, meaning, or truth. The term can be used to refer to subfields of several distinct disciplines, including philosophy Philosophy (f ...

. Only abstracts from students (i.e., those not having defended a PhD by the submission deadline) are considered. MSCL often has a key topic (e.g. ''Perspectives on the Syntax-Semantics Interface'' in 2008, ''Scrambling, Free Word Order and Related Phenomena'' in 2010). Abstracts on the announced key topic are especially encouraged, though other abstracts are given equal consideration.

MSCL Series

MSCL 1
- Moscow State University, April 14, 2006
MSCL 2
- Moscow State University, April 13, 2007
MSCL 3
- Moscow State University, April 17–18, 2008 * MSCL 4 - Moscow State University, April 15, 2009
MSCL 5
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Independent University of Moscow The Independent University of Moscow (IUM) (russian: Независимый Московский Университет (НМУ)) is an educational organisation with rather informal status located in Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1991 by a gro ...

, April 3–4, 2010

MSCL Series

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