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An excellent resource is the LINGUIST List [www.linguistlist.org].
Another useful resource is the Cascadilla Proceedings Project, which gives free online access to the proceedings papers from several conferences.
(+) indicates conferences where UNC students have presented papers or posters
(1) Major conferences, with wide participation
Other than the LSA, the conferences listed in this category all have
a published conference proceedings. If your abstract is accepted as a
conference talk, your paper will also be included in the proceedings --
so you end up with both a presentation and a publication. Proceedings
papers are usually due several months after the conference takes place,
and they often have a limit of about 12 pages.
The conferences in this category tend to be pretty competitive, but they are also prestigious. This means that they are likely to attract a lot of good linguists in the audience (who can give you useful comments on your work), and they are particularly nice to have on your CV.
BLS -- Berkeley Linguistics Society (+)
CLS -- Chicago Linguistic Society (+)
GLOW -- Generative Linguistics in the Old World
LSA -- Linguistic Society of America (+)
NELS -- North East Linguistics Society (2009) (+)
WCCFL -- West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (2010)
(2) Smaller regional conferences
Most of the conferences listed in this category also have
a published conference proceedings.
ALC -- Arizona Linguistics Circle (see LINGUIST announcement)
ESCOL -- Eastern States Conference on Linguistics
LASSO -- Linguistics Association of the Southwest
SECOL -- Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (+)
TLS -- Texas Linguistics Society
WECOL -- Western Conference on Linguistics (2008)
Again, many of the conferences listed in this category have a published conference proceedings, but in some cases only selected papers from the conference are included in the proceedings. Also, some of these conferences are extremely competitive.
Historical linguistics / Indo-European linguistics
American Philological Association
ICHL -- International Conference on Historical Linguistics (2009)
UCLA Indo-European Conference (+)
Language acquisition
BUCLD -- Boston U. Conference on Language Development
CLS -- Child Language Seminar (2010)
GALA -- Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (2009)
GALANA -- Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition / North America (2008)
IASCL -- International Association for the Study of Child Language (2008) (+)
Phonetics/phonology
ASA -- Acoustical Society of America (+)
ICPhS -- International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (2007)
LabPhon -- Conference on Laboratory Phonology (2010)
MFM -- Manchester Phonology Meeting
MCWOP -- Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology (2009)
NAPhC -- North American Phonology Conference (2008)
OCP -- Old World Conference in Phonology (2010) (+)
Psycholinguistics
CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing (2009)
Semantics
SALT -- Semantics And Linguistic Theory (2010)
SULA -- Semantics of Underrepresented Languages of the Americas
Sociolinguistics and Pidgin/Creole Linguistics
NWAV -- New Ways of Analyzing Variation (2009) (+)
Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics
Conferences on particular languages or language groups
Here is a sampling. Be on the lookout for other
conferences dedicated to the language(s) you work on.
General
Asian languages
Celtic languages
Romance languages
Slavic languages
Advice on how to write an abstract
Sample abstracts