<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Fri 30 May 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Language Documentation conference</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 30 May 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:National Foreign Language Resource Center <<a href="mailto:nflrc@hawaii.edu">nflrc@hawaii.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Language Documentation conference</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation:<br>Supporting Small Languages Together. Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 12-14, 2009<br><a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09</a><br><br><br>The 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and<br>Conservation (ICLDC) will be held at the Hawaii Imin International<br>Conference Center, on the east side of the University of Hawaii at Manoa<br>campus, from March 12th-14th, 2009. There will also be an optional<br>opportunity to visit Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawai'i, in an extension<br>of the conference that will focus on the Hawaiian language revitalization<br>program, March 16th-17th.<br><br>It has been a decade since Himmelmann's article on language documentation<br>appeared and focused the field into thinking in terms of creating a<br>lasting record of a language that could be used by speakers as well as by<br>academics. This conference aims to assess what has been achieved in the<br>past decade and what the practice of language documentation within<br>linguistics has been and can be. It has become apparent that there is too<br>much for a linguist alone to achieve and that language documentation<br>requires collaboration. This conference will focus on the theme of<br>collaboration in language documentation and revitalization and will<br>include sessions on interdisciplinary topics.<br><br><br>TOPICS<br><br>We welcome abstracts on the issue of a retrospective on language<br>documentation - an assessment after a decade, and on topics related to<br>collaborative language documentation and conservation which may include:<br><br>- Community-based documentation/conservation initiatives<br>- Community viewpoints on documentation<br>- Issues in building language documentation in collaborative teams<br>- Interdisciplinary fieldwork<br>- Collaboration for mobilization of language data<br>- Technology in documentation - methods and pitfalls<br>- Graduate students and documentation<br>- Topics in areal language documentation<br>- Training in documentation methods - beyond the university<br>- Teaching/learning small languages<br>- Language revitalization<br>- Language archiving<br>- Balancing documentation and language learning<br><br>This is not an exhaustive list and individual papers and/or colloquia on<br>topics outside these remits are warmly welcomed.<br><br><br>ABSTRACT SUBMISSION<br><br>Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any<br>language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the<br>region.<br><br>ABSTRACTS ARE DUE BY SEPTEMBER 15th, 2008 with notification of acceptance<br>by October 17th 2008.<br><br>Abstracts will be SUBMITTED ONLINE via the conference webpage (available<br>July 2008).<br><br>We ask for ABSTRACTS OF 400 WORDS for online publication so that<br>conference participants can have a good idea of the content of your paper<br>and a 50 WORD SUMMARY for inclusion in the conference program.<br><br>Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the<br>journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication.<br><br><br>PRESENTATION FORMATS<br><br>PAPERS will be allowed 20 minutes with 10 minutes of question time.<br>POSTERS will be on display throughout the conference. Poster presentations<br>will run during the lunch breaks.<br>COLLOQUIA (themed sets of sessions) associated with the theme of the<br>conference are also welcome.<br><br><br>PLENARY SPEAKERS include:<br><br>* Nikolaus Himmelmann, University of Munster<br>* Leanne Hinton, UC Berkeley<br>* Paul Newman, Indiana University, University of Michigan<br>* Phil Cash Cash, University of Arizona<br><br><br>ADVISORY COMMITTEE<br>Helen Aristar-Dry (LinguistList, Eastern Michigan University)<br>Peter Austin (SOAS)<br>Linda Barwick (Music, University of Sydney)<br>Phil Cash Cash (University of Arizona)<br>Nicholas Evans (Linguistics, Australian National University)<br>Margaret Florey (Linguistics, Monash University)<br>Carol Genetti (Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara)<br>Spike Gildea (University of Oregon)<br>Colette Grinevald (University of Lyon)<br>Nikolaus Himmelmann (Institut fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft<br>Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)<br>Leanne Hinton (UC Berkeley)<br>Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center)<br>Anna Margetts (Linguistics, Monash University)<br>Will McClatchey (Botany, University of Hawai'i)<br>Claire Moyse-Faurie (LACITO, CNRS)<br>Ulrike Mosel (Seminar fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universitat Kiel)<br>Paul Newman (Indiana University, University of Michigan)<br>Yuko Otsuka (Linguistics, University of Hawai'i)<br>Keren D. Rice (University of Toronto)<br>Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<br><br><br>Further details will be published on the conference website:<br><a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09</a><br><br>Enquiries to: <a href="mailto:ICLDC@hawaii.edu">ICLDC@hawaii.edu</a><br><br><br>*************************************************************************<br> N National Foreign Language Resource Center<br> F University of Hawai'i<br> L 1859 East-West Road, #106<br> R Honolulu HI 96822<br> C voice: (808) 956-9424, fax: (808) 956-5983<br> email: <a href="mailto:nflrc@hawaii.edu">nflrc@hawaii.edu</a><br>VISIT OUR WEBSITE! <a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu</a><br>*************************************************************************<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 30 May 2008</div></div></div></div></div></body></html>