18.86, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Description/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-86. Thu Jan 11 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.86, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Description/USA

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Date: 09-Jan-2007
From: Joye Kiester < joye_kiester at sil.org >
Subject: 10th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 

	
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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:46:21
From: Joye Kiester < joye_kiester at sil.org >
Subject: 10th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
 


Full Title: 10th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Short Title: WAIL 

Date: 11-May-2007 - 12-May-2007
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Joye Kiester
Meeting Email: wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu
Web Site: http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Description 

Call Deadline: 08-Feb-2007 

Meeting Description:

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
announces its tenth annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
(WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and
descriptive studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.

We are pleased to have Dr. Judith Aissen from the University of California
at Santa Cruz as our WAIL Keynote speaker for 2007! 

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Santa Barbara, CA
May 11-12, 2007 

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics.
Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts
should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references) and can
be submitted by hard copy or email.  Individuals may submit abstracts for
one single 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. 
	
For email submissions: Include the abstract as an attachment. Please limit
your abstracts to the following formats: PDF, RTF, or Microsoft Word document. 

Include the following information in the body of the email message: (1)
your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5)
email address; (6) title of your paper.

Send email submissions to:  wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu 

For hard copy submissions: Please send five copies of your abstract, along
with a 3x5 card with: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address;
(4) phone number; (5) email address; (6) title of your paper.
 
Send hard copy submissions to:	
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Department of Linguistics 
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106


Extended Deadline For Reciept of Abstracts:
February 8, 2007
Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 22, 2007. 

General Information: 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. Information about hotel accommodations will
be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/index.html ).
 
For further information contact the conference coordinators, Joye Kiester
or Bekki Siemens, at 
     wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776, 
or check out our website at 
     http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/index.html




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