[Lingtyp] Call for Abstracts: WAIL 2020

[WAIL UCSB]

23rd Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Date: May 22, 2020 - May 23, 2020

Location: Santa Barbara, California, USA

Contact Persons: Alonso Vásquez Aguilar, Jordan AG Douglas, and James Yee

Linguistic Field (s): Any topic relevant to the study of indigenous
languages of the Americas

Call Deadline: Friday, February 8th at 6:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time)

The Linguistics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
announces its 23rd 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.

Keynote Speaker:
Roberto Zariquiey (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)

Call for Papers:
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).

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 (eg 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.

Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format to wail.ucsb at gmail.com. Please
submit two abstracts, one with the identifying information of the person or
persons giving the presentation along with affiliations and contact
information, the other with no indication of the author (s). Hard copy
submissions will be accepted from those who do not have Internet access.
For this, 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.

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

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, February 7th at 6:00 pm (Pacific
Standard Time)

Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than: Monday,
March 2nd

General Information:
Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Ynez
Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport.
Participants may also fly into the Los Angeles airport (LAX), which is
approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between
LAX and Santa Barbara.

For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, at
wail.ucsb at gmail.com

Meeting Location:
McCune Conference Room,
HSSB 6020
University of California

 Best,

Jordan A.G. Douglas
WAIL Coordinator
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