<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear colleagues.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is to inform you of the fourth workshop </span>on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (with apologies for cross-posting).</p><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><b>Call for Papers: <br></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
 4th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas will take 
place at the University of Iceland on Sept. 19-21, 2013.<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Keynote Speaker is Maria Polinsky, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Language Science Lab, Harvard University.</span> </p><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
 workshop is organized by The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign
 Languages and The Centre for Research in the Humanities at the 
University of Iceland</span><span style="font-size:10pt">.</span><b><br></b><br>We
 invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations on any aspect of the 
linguistics of heritage languages in the Americas (e.g., structural, 
generative, historical, sociolinguistic, or experimental). Abstracts can
 be a maximum of two pages in length (including diagrams, charts, and 
references), and should be sent anonymously to this email address: <br><br><a href="mailto:heritagelanguages@hi.is" target="_blank">heritagelanguages@hi.is</a> <br><br>The submission deadline is May 31, 2013. We will contact those accepted for presentation by June 30, 2013. </p><p>Funded by Hugvísindastofnun and SVF </p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">For further information please visit out website (under construction)</span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://www.conference.hi.is/heritagelanguages/" target="_blank">www.conference.hi.is/heritagelanguages/</a></span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">Links to previous workshops:</span></p><p><a href="http://www.psu.edu/dept/heritagelangs/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.psu.edu/dept/heritagelangs/index.htm</a> </p><a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/news-events/events/2011/feforseminar-norskiamerika.html" target="_blank">http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/organization/text-laboratory/news-events/events/2011/feforseminar-norskiamerika.html</a><br>



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<br clear="all">Organisers:<br><span>Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir <<a href="mailto:birnaarn@hi.is" target="_blank">birnaarn@hi.is</a>> (University of Iceland)<br></span><span><span>Janne Bondi Johannessen <<a href="mailto:j.b.johannessen@iln.uio.no" target="_blank">j.b.johannessen@iln.uio.no</a>></span> (University of Oslo)<br>



<span></span></span><span><span><span><span>Mike Putnam <<a href="mailto:syntaxpunk@gmail.com" target="_blank">syntaxpunk@gmail.com</a>></span></span> (Penn State University)<br>Joseph Salmons <<a href="mailto:jsalmons@wisc.edu" target="_blank">jsalmons@wisc.edu</a>></span> (University of Wisconsin, Madison)<div>


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