[EDLING:1387] CFP: Meeting of American Indigenous Languages

[Tamara Warhol]

Date: 22-Mar-2006
From: Ana Fernández Garay <anafgciudad.com.ar;>
Subject: Meeting of American Indigenous Languages



Full Title: Meeting of American Indigenous Languages
Short Title: ELIA

Date: 15-Jun-2006 - 17-Jun-2006
Location: Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
Contact Person: Ana Fernandez Garay
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: 
http://www.fchst.unlpam.edu.ar/cartelera/reuniones_cientificas.php

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical 
Linguistics; History of Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Language 
Description; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics; Typology

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2006

Meeting Description:

This first Meeting of American Indigenous Languages is an attempt to 
open a space of discussion on topics related to indigenous language 
research in Argentina and other Latin American countries. The aim will 
be to share common ground experience in the diversity of the language 
studies, and to promote new research lines in the different fields of 
study related to indenous languages in Latin American. We invite papers 
dealing with : descriptive linguistics; etnolinguistics; 
sociolinguistics; bilingual indigenous education; language acquisition; 
comparative linguistics; historial linguistics; typological studies; 
lexicography; indigenous literature and any other aspect of American 
languages.

Dates: The Meeting of American Indigenous Languages (1st ELIA 
conference) will be held June 15-17, 2006, on the University of La 
Pampa, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina.

Deadline: ABSTRACTS MUST BE RECEIVED by Mar. 31, 2006. The program 
committee will attempt to provide notification of acceptance by April. 
31 (by e-mail).

Keynote speaker: Dra. Zarina Estrada Fernández (Sonora University, 
Mexico); . Dra. Angelita Martínez (UBA, Argentina); Dr. César Fernández 
( Comahue University, Argentina); Dra. Cristina Messineo (UBA, Argentina)

Features to note:

Sessions will be in Spanish (ponencias en español). Abstracts in English 
can be submitted. . Papers are 20 minutes each in length, with an 
additional 10 minutes for discussion.

Abstract submission guidelines:

- The abstract should be no more than 200 words in length. It should 
include the title of the paper and the name (or names) of the 
author/authors, together with the author's/authors' affiliation and 
thematic are, email and postal address. (If the paper is accepted, this 
abstract will be reproduced in conference materials to be distributed to 
other participants.)

- Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail. Submissions should be in 
Microsoft Word document, Rich Text Format (RTF), or Portable Document 
Format (PDF); New Roman 12. If possible, avoid special fonts (or arrange 
with the organizers so they can be read).

Contact:
Dra. Ana Fernández Garay anafgciudad.com.ar;
Dra. Marisa Malvestitti malvesbariloche.com.ar;
Lic. María Inés Poduje sc_investiglapampacpenet.com.ar);
or send your subcription and abstract by mail to: Comisión Organizadora 
del Encuentro de Lenguas Indígenas Americanas, Instituto de Lingüística, 
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Coronel Gil 353, 3er piso, C. P. 6300, 
Santa Rosa, La Pampa (R.A.).

Sponsors: The sponsors of this Meeting of American Indigenous Languages 
are: (1) The Institute of Linguisitics of the Faculty of Human Sciences, 
University of La Pampa (2) Sub Secretary of Culture of the Government of 
La Pampa, and the Department of Literature of the UNLPam.

Website http://www.fchst.unlpam.edu.ar/cartelera/reuniones_cientificas.php