WAIL 2005 Call for papers

[Carmen Jany]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Santa Barbara, CA
April 20-22, 2006


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

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics. 
Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. 
Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or 
references) and can be submitted by hard copy or email.  Individuals 
may submit abstracts for one single 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.
For email submissions: Include the abstract as an attachment. Please 
limit your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft 
Word document.

Include the following information in the body of the email message: (1) 
your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) 
email address; (6) title of your paper.

Send email submissions to:  wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu

For hard copy submissions: Please send five copies of your abstract, 
along with a 3x5 card with: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing 
address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper.


Send hard copy submissions to:Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106


DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 17, 2006
Notification of acceptance will be by email by February 15, 2005.

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 coordinator, Lea Harper, 
at wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776, or check out our 
website at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/



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Carmen Jany
cjany at umail.ucsb.edu