Call for contributors: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MIDWEST (various Native American languages)

[McGinnis, Scott]

Dear Colleagues:
 
I am delighted with the response from many of you to my earlier
request for authors for entries to the section on Language in the
forthcoming Encyclopedia of the Midwest (www.allmidwest.org). The
Encyclopedia, organized by scholars at Ohio State, will be published
by IU Press. The language section will contain the follow entries (#
of words given in parentheses):
 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MIDWEST
CONTENTS:  LANGUAGE
 
Overview (3000): Dennis R. Preston
 
Varieties of English:
The Pronunciation of English in the Midwest (2000): Charles Boberg
The Dialect Vocabulary of the Midwest (2000): Luanne von Schneidemesser
The Dialect Grammar of the Midwest (2000): Timothy Frazer
Language and Society in the Midwest: English and Gender, Social Class,
        Profession, Ethnicity, and the Rural/Urban Division (2000):
        Michael Linn
African American Language in the Midwest: The Structure of the
        Language (1000): Walter Edwards
African American Language in the Midwest: Ways of Talking (1000):
        Geneva Smitherman
Midwestern Tales: Language Practices and Norms in English Storytelling
        of the Midwest (2000): Barbara Johnstone
Slang, Metaphor, and Turns of Phrase in Midwestern English (2000):
        Thomas Murray
The Personal, Geographical, and Institutional Names of the Midwest
        (2000): Edward Callary
 
Native American Languages:
The History and Current Status of Native American Languages of the
        Midwest (2000): John Nichols
Algonquian (1000) AUTHOR BEING SOUGHT
Iroquoian (1000) AUTHOR BEING SOUGHT
Siouan (1000) AUTHOR BEING SOUGHT
Dakota (500) AUTHOR BEING SOUGHT
Ojibway (500) AUTHOR BEING SOUGHT
Winnebago (500) AUTHOR BEING SOUGHT
 
Other Languages:
Bilingualism and Language Contact in the Midwest (2000): Donald Lance
 
European
 
Finno-Ugric:
Finnish (and other Finno-Ugric languages of the area, e.g., Estonian)
        (500): Pekka Hirvonen
Hungarian (500): Miklos Kontra
 
Slavic:
Balto-Salvic Languages (500): David Robinson
East Slavic Languages  (500): Daniel Collins
South Slavic Languages (500): Brian Joseph
Polish, Czech, and Slovak (1000): Bartek Plichta
 
Romance:
French (500): Roger Shuy
Italian (1000): Thomas D. Cravens
Mexican Spanish (1000): Holly Cashman
Puerto Rican Spanish and Other Caribbean Varieties (e.g., Cuban,
        Dominican) (500): Michelle Ramos-Pellicia
Other Varieties of Spanish (500): Miguel Rodriguez-Mondonedo
Portuguese (500): Ana Maria Carvalho
Other Romance languages (500): Miguel Rodriguez-Mondonedo
 
Greek (500): Panayiotis Pappas
 
Germanic:
Dutch (500): Jaap Van Marle
Immigrant German  (1000): Joseph Salmons
Religious Immigrant German (1000): Steven Hartman Keiser
Yiddish (500): Neil Jacobs
Norwegian (1000): Armstein Hjelde
Swedish (500): Staffan Klintborg
*Danish (500): Britta Jensen (britta.jensen at st-cross.oxford.ac.uk)
 
 
African, Middle Eastern, Asian, and Pacifica
Horn of Africa (500): Peter J. Unseth
Sub-Saharan Africa (500): Deogratias Ngonyani
Pidgin and Creole Varieties (500): Tom Donahue
Arabic (1000): Aleya Rouchdy
Armenian (500): John Greppin
Chinese (500): Ashley Williams
Korean (500): Hikyoung Lee
Southeast Asia (500): Martha Ratliff
South Asia (500): Beth Lee Simon
Pacifica (500): Jason Roberts
 
Other
Romany (500): William Duna
American Sign Language (500): Charles Gramly and Christine Evenson
 
 
As a result of the publicity from my earlier request, however, I am
encouraged to make an additional effort in the area of Native American
languages. As the above outline shows, John Nichols, of the University
of Minnesota, will write a general entry (historical, typological,
current status) on languages of the area, but the general editors have
agreed to six more entries, and I encourage any of you who feel
qualified to write one of these short entries on the historical
background and current status of the following groups or specific
languages to get in touch with me at preston at msu.edu.
 
Algonquian     1000 words
Iroquoian      1000 words
Siouan         1000 words
Dakota         500 words
Ojibway        500 words
Winnebago      500 words
-  
Dennis R. Preston
Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Languages
740 Wells Hall A
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 USA
Office - (517) 353-0740
Fax - (517) 432-2736
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