The 43rd annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society will be held at the City University of New York on October 19-21, 2012.

The invited speakers for the conference are:

• Robert Frank (Yale University)

• Juliette Blevins (CUNY Graduate Center)

• Tarald Taraldsen (CASTL/ University of Tromsø)

The general conference will be followed by a special one afternoon workshop on computation and theoretical linguistics.The workshop themes are: computational approaches to theoretical linguistics and the use of theoretical linguistics in computational systems.