WAIL 2010 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

[Marianne Mithun]

Dear All,

Picking up on James' suggestion, here's the call for papers for the 
upcoming Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) in Santa Barbara. 
It's pasted in below and also attached. Note the Athabaskanist plenary 
speaker.

Marianne Mithun



2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Santa Barbara, CA 
April 30th-May 1st, 2010 

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara 
announces its 13th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), 
which provides a  forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and 
practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.  

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the 
study of language in the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 
minutes for discussion.

Plenary speaker: Sally Rice (University of Alberta) 

Special panel: 
This year's workshop will include a panel presented by academic and 
community-based researchers working on the documentation, description and 
revitalization of their heritage languages. Talks will be 20 minutes each, 
followed by a question-and-answer period. 

Guidelines: 
Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or 
references). Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not 
have internet access.
Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one 
co-authored paper. 
Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. 
recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.).  For 
co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well 
as who will be in attendance.  

Online submissions: 
Please submit all abstracts online at 
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/wail2010.
PDF, RTF, Microsoft Word and Open  Office formats are preferred.  

For hard copy submissions: Please send four copies of your abstract, along 
with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) 
affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) 
title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for the general session 
or the Special Panel. 

Send hard copy submissions to:
	Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
	Attn: Daisy Rosenblum or Stephanie Morse 
	Department of Linguistics  
	University of California, Santa Barbara 
	Santa Barbara, CA 93106 

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:  
February 1st, 2010 
Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than March 1st, 2009.

General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near 
the Santa Yñez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara 
airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which 
is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run 
between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about hotel accommodations will 
be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/). 
 
For further information contact the conference coordinators, Daisy 
Rosenblum and 
Stephanie Morse, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com, or check out our website at
http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/
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