2nd Call for Papers - High Desert Linguistics Society Conference 11

[High Desert Linguistics Society UNM]

(Apologies for multiple postings)

The deadline is approaching for abstract submission for the Tenth High
Desert Linguistic Society Conference.  The abstract deadline has been *extended
*and abstracts are now due on *Monday, September 1st**.  *Please see the
attached documents for the official call for papers and abstract submission
guidelines.

Sincerely,
Jackelyn Van Buren
HDLS President
University of New Mexico


Please see the attached document for the call for papers and abstract
submission guidelines.


*Call for papers – 11th High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) Conference:*

*Cognition, Culture and Discourse in signed, spoken, and indigenous
languages*
with a special emphasis this year on *Language Evolution and
Grammaticalization*



University of New Mexico

November 13-15, 2014



*Keynote speakers:*



Joan Bybee – University of New Mexico (Morphology, Typology, and Phonology)

Salikoko Mufwene – University of Chicago (Language Evolution & Creolization)

Carol Padden – UC San Diego (Signed Language Morphology and Syntax)



*Call for Papers: *

We invite proposals for talks or poster presentations at the 11th HDLS
Conference. General presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes
for questions. We welcome research that takes into account
*functional*, *usage-based
approaches* to language including but not limited to:



·        Cognitive linguistics

·        Discourse analysis

·        Linguistic typology

·        Gesture and signed languages

·        Indigenous language endangerment, revitalization, and description

·        Sociolinguistics and bilingualism

·        Language change & variation



Finally, we also invite speakers to propose *themed panels**, *which will
consist of three presenters. Each presenter will be responsible for a
20-minute presentation, for a combined total of 60-minutes per panel,
followed by 30 minutes for discussion and questions addressed to the panel.
Speakers who propose a panel topic are responsible for arranging who will
participate in the proposed panel. Only one abstract should be submitted
per topic. The abstract should include the proposed panel topic (300-word
abstract), and how each speaker will contribute to the proposed theme
(500-word abstract each).



HDLS Officers
President: Jackelyn Van Buren
Vice president: Deborah Wager
Secretary: Ricardo Napoleão de Souza
Treasurer: Pavlina Peskova
HDLS Liaison to the Faculty: Aubrey Healey
Liaison to Educational Linguistics: Moses Allen


High Desert Linguistics Society
Department of Linguistics
The University of New Mexico
hdls at unm.edu