<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><h1 align="center" style="font-family:freesans,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px"><font color="#0c343d"><span style="font-size:large;font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">9th International Austronesian and Papuan </span><br></font></h1><h1 align="center" style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#0c343d"><font size="4">Languages and Linguistics Conference</font><br></font><span style="color:rgb(54,119,137);font-size:14px">(APLL9)</span><br style="font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(54,119,137);font-size:14px;font-weight:normal">21-23 June 2017 </span></font><br style="font-size:12px"></h1><p style="font-family:freesans,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </p><p style="font-family:freesans,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p style="font-family:freesans,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p style="font-family:freesans,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Our department </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/colloque/apll9/index_en.htm">LACITO</a>–CNRS</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> has the pleasure of hosting </span><strong style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">APLL9</strong><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">, the 9th edition of the conference on </span><em style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics</em><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">.</span><br></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">APLL9 follows the highly successful APLL7 and APLL8 conferences held in London, and the Austronesian Languages and Linguistics (ALL) conferences <a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/apll/">held at SOAS</a> and St Catherine's College Oxford in previous years. For its ninth edition, APLL will be convened in Paris – more precisely, at the campus of the<em> Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales </em>(INALCO), our university partner. [view the venue <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Institut+national+des+langues+et+civilisations+orientales/@48.8575936,2.2909508,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x47e6723acd3b913f:0x597fb78edf2d647e!8m2!3d48.8274259!4d2.3762271" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(38,48,51)">on this map</a>]</font></p><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">The purpose of the APLL conferences is to provide a venue for presentation of the best<strong> current research on Austronesian and Papuan languages and linguistics</strong>, and to promote collaboration and research in this area. All papers will be subject to assessment by the Program Committee.<br></font></p><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">This event is scheduled for three days, <strong>21-23 June 2017</strong>.</font></p><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></p><h3 style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(92,138,151)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Important dates</font></h3><ul style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Deadline for submission of abstracts: <strong>Friday, 18 November 2016</strong> via <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apll9" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(38,48,51)">EasyChair</a>.</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Notification of acceptance: <strong>Tuesday, 20 December 2016</strong></font></li></ul><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></p><h3 style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(92,138,151)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Call for papers</font></h3><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Abstracts are now invited for the APLL9 conference. We welcome presentations on any aspect of the linguistic analysis of Austronesian or Papuan languages.</font></p><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Presentations will be 30 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Each individual may present up to one single authored paper and one joint paper.</font></p><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Abstracts should be no more than one A4 page in length including references and examples. They should be anonymous, and set in a minimum of 12pt font. They should be in .docx or .pdf format and the filename should start with APLL9, followed by an underscore and then first authors' surname, e.g. APLL9_bloggs.pdf. If you have a common surname, please also include initials, e.g. APLL9_jjones.pdf.</font></p><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair system which you can access by clicking on this link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apll9" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(38,48,51)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=apll9</a> If you do not have an EasyChair account already, you will need to create one when you do this. Once logged in, complete your details and upload your abstract as an attachment (pdf or docx).</font></p><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">The deadline for the submission of all abstracts is Friday 18 November 2016. Applicants will be notified of abstract acceptance by Tuesday 20 December 2016.</font></p><p style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px"></p><ul><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px">APLL9’s homepage: </font><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/colloque/apll9/index_en.htm"><b>http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/colloque/apll9/</b></a></span></font><br></font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">APLL9’s contact address: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px"><a href="mailto:apll9.lacito@gmail.com">apll9.lacito@gmail.com</a></span></font></li></ul><h3 style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(92,138,151)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Organising committee</font></h3><ul class="gmail-liste-liens" style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Dunstan Brown (University of York)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Alexandre François (CNRS, France)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Agnès Henri (INALCO, France)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Claire Moyse-Faurie (CNRS, France)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Bert Remijsen (Edinburgh)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Peter Sells (University of York)</font></li></ul><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></p><h3 style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(92,138,151)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Program committee</font></h3><ul class="gmail-liste-liens" style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">I Wayan Arka (Australian National University/Universitas Udayana)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Peter K. Austin (SOAS, University of London)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Mary Dalrymple (University of Oxford)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Alexandre François (CNRS, France)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Gary Holton (University of Hawaii)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Marian Klamer (Leiden University)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Claire Moyse-Faurie (CNRS, France)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Bill Palmer (University of Newcastle)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Bert Remijsen (Edinburgh)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Peter Sells (University of York)</font></li><li><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Rene van den Berg (SIL)</font></li></ul><p style="font-size:12px;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"> </font></p><p style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><font color="#000000">Thanks for your attention.</font></span></p><p style="margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Alex François</span><br></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1">on behalf of APLL9’s Organising Committee </font></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1" color="#45818e"><b>_______________</b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1" color="#45818e"><b>APLL9</b> – <a href="http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/colloque/apll9/index_en.htm" target="_blank"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>9th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#45818e" face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1">Paris, 21-23 June 2017<br></font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="1" color="#45818e"><a href="http://lacito.vjf.cnrs.fr/index_en.htm" target="_blank">LACITO</a> — <a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/research/apll/" target="_blank">SOAS</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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