27.294, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Comp Ling, Genetic Classification, Lang Doc, Text/Corpus Ling/Brazil

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Subject: 27.294, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Comp Ling, Genetic Classification, Lang Doc, Text/Corpus Ling/Brazil

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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 11:15:56
From: Filomena Sandalo [pfilnu at gmail.com]
Subject: Putting Fieldwork on Indigenous Languages to New Uses

Full Title: Putting Fieldwork on Indigenous Languages to New Uses 
Short Title: PFILNU2016 

Date: 21-Mar-2016 - 06-Apr-2016
Location: University of Campinas/Campinas, Brazil 
Contact Person: Filomena Sandalo
Meeting Email: pfilnu at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/pfilnu/home 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Genetic Classification; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

Putting Fieldwork on Indigenous Languages to New Uses is a São Paulo School on
Advanced Sciences, supported by the São Paulo State Research Foundation
(FAPESP), and will be held from March 21 to April 6, at the University of
Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. 

Flight tickets will be provided to the selected students.

The purpose of this school is twofold: (i) to introduce early career
researchers to the latest developments in data collection and linguistic
research on native languages, and (ii) to pave the way for new uses of
linguistic fieldwork, with mutual benefits for both linguists and the
indigenous populations. Drawing on the vast experience of the researchers of
the several partner institutions in documentation, corpus linguistics and
formal linguistic theory, we will present/discuss possibilities not previously
pursued: extensive comparison across native languages to build taxonomies and
phylogenetic models of transmission, oral corpora and a new objective and
unbiased grammatical terminology, reflecting the speakers' original intuitions
and potentially revealing truly universal building blocks of language and
cognition. All these new tools should feed into literacy projects for the
local communities, raising their own meta-linguistic and cultural awareness
(in a non-intrusive way).

We expect students form several universities of Brazil, Argentina,
Great-Britain, Australia and United States to attend, resulting in about 100
students. 

Courses:
Languages and cultures of Brazil 
Introduction to phylogetic methods in Linguistics
How to work on digital oral corpora syntactic annotation 
Experimental and computational methods in Phonology and Morphology
Music, Language, and Documentation in Australia
Experimenting semantics, number and language

Call for Papers:

The workshop is mainly directed to postdoctoral researchers and doctoral
students. Master's degree students are also invited to apply, although their
acceptance is not prioritary. In order to apply for attendance, an abstract
for a poster presentation is requested. 

Participants with approved works will be provided flight tickets to the
workshop city (Campinas). 

We welcome works on indigenous languages in any subfield of linguistics, being
it formal or functional, theoretical or experimental. Abstracts will be
evaluated by two members of the organizing committee according to the
following criteria: relevance of the topic, presence of theoretical
orientation, proper research design, results, textual features and
contribution to the field. 

Abstracts should be no more than 1 page, minimum 12pt size font and 1 inch
margins. Abstract submissions should be sent through EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pfilnu2016).

Additionally, please submit to our email (pfilnu at gmail.com) the following
documents: 
a) A letter of intention
b) A university transcript
c) Your CV

Submissions deadline: 15 February 2016

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