ALC 2012: call for papers

[Sharon L Hargus]

   Call for papers

   The 2012 Athabaskan/Dene Languages Conference will take place at Western Washington University, August 15-17.  Themes of this year's conference are verbal prefixation and revitalization of Athabaskan languages.  Case studies of any aspect of the disjunct prefixes of understudied Athabaskan languages are particularly encouraged.  It is requested that presenters familiarize themselves with the historical/comparative framework for verbal prefixation in Leer 2006 and take this as a point of departure.

   The conference will be organized roughly as follows.  

   Aug 15   Descriptive studies
   Aug 16   Revitalization
   Aug 17   Comparative/historical studies

   One-page abstracts summarizing papers to be presented should be e-mailed to Sharon Hargus (sharon at u.washington.edu) by June 15. 

   We anticipate receiving some funds from the National Science Foundation for support of the conference and will send another announcement if/when this becomes available.

   Ed Vajda and Sharon Hargus

   Leer, Jeff. 2006. 'Na-Dene Languages.' In The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. by R.E. Asher and J.M.Y. Simpson. Oxford: Pergamon Press. 428-430.

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Sharon Hargus                          http://faculty.washington.edu/sharon
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