26.4618, Calls: General Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation/USA

Mon Oct 19 15:44:42 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-4618. Mon Oct 19 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.4618, Calls: General Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation/USA

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:44:32
From: Morgan Sleeper [wail.ucsb at gmail.com]
Subject: 19th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

Full Title: 19th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Short Title: WAIL 2016 

Date: 07-May-2016 - 08-May-2016
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Morgan Sleeper
Meeting Email: wail.ucsb at gmail.com
Web Site: http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/org/nail/WAIL 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 14-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 19th 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. 

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for this year will be Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa). 

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.

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 (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. 

Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format through the EasyAbs system found at: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/WAIL2016

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. 

Send hard copy submissions to:

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Attn: Morgan Sleeper or Alexia Fawcett
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: February 14, 2016 

Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than March 6, 2016. 

For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, Morgan Sleeper or Alexia Fawcett, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or check out our website, http://tinyurl.com/WAIL2016.

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