We invite anonymous abstracts for 30-minute talks (20+10) presenting new research into all areas of Chinese linguistics (excluding Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language). Submissions may not exceed 500 words and must be written in English. Presentations at the conference may be in Mandarin Chinese or English. Please indicate the language of presentation in the abstract. Please include 2 to 4 keywords right underneath the title of your abstract. No more than one single-authored and one co-authored abstract per person will be considered. There will be a special theme session on argument alternations embedded in the conference. A call for papers for this special session will be issued separately. Submission of abstracts is via Easychair only (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eacl9). The Easychair interface for uploading abstracts will operate from 15 November, 2014). All presenters must be members of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics (cf. the Membership page; on-site registration will be possible at the conference). Papers that are included in the program must be presented by the author(s) and cannot be presented by proxies. Registration fees: ?35 for students, ?70 for non-students Website: http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/EACL9 Please direct any inquiries to: EACLnine (at) gmail.com