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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Apologies for cross-posting</font></p><p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
20th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2017) <span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Santa Barbara, CA<br>
May 12 -13, 2017 </font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><u><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Meeting Description<span></span></font></u></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The Linguistics department at the
University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 20th Annual Workshop on
American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion
of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages
of the Americas. <span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We are pleased to announce
that our keynote speaker for this year will be Mary S. Linn (Smithsonian Center
for Folklife and Cultural Heritage). <span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><u>General Information</u> <span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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. </font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><u><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Call for Papers<span></span></font></u></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Anonymous abstracts are invited
for talks on any topic relevant to the study of indigenous languages of the
Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references). </font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Individuals may submit abstracts
for one single-authored 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. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Abstracts should be
submitted in .pdf format through the EasyAbs system at <a href="http://www.linguistlist.org/easyabs/WAIL20">www.linguistlist.org/easyabs/WAIL20</a><span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hard copy submissions will be
accepted from those who do not have Internet access. Please send four copies of
your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your
name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email
address; and (6) title of your paper. <span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Send hard copy submissions to: </font></p>
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Languages <span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Attn: Alexia Fawcett or Adrienne
Tsikewa<span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Department of Linguistics<br>
University of California, Santa Barbara </font></p>
<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Santa Barbara, CA 93106 <span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Deadline for receipt of abstracts:
February 12, 2017 <span></span></font></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Notification of acceptance will
arrive by email no later than March 6, 2017. <span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For further information, please
contact the conference coordinators, Alexia Fawcett or Adrienne Tsikewa, at
<a href="mailto:wail.ucsb@gmail.com">wail.ucsb@gmail.com</a> or check out our website, <a href="http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/org/nail/WAIL">http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/org/nail/WAIL</a>. </font></p>
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