28.5237, Calls: Lang Documentation, Gen Ling/Canada

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-5237. Mon Dec 11 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.5237, Calls: Lang Documentation, Gen Ling/Canada

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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:52:28
From: Wilson Silva [sail.ottawa at gmail.com]
Subject: Symposium on American Indian Languages

 
Full Title: Symposium on American Indian Languages 
Short Title: SAIL 

Date: 13-Apr-2018 - 14-Apr-2018
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 
Contact Person: Wilson Silva
Meeting Email: sail.ottawa at gmail.com
Web Site: https://americanindianlanguages.com/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Symposium on American Indian Languages (SAIL) is dedicated to discussion
of the documentation, conservation and revitalization of the native languages
of the Americas.

SAIL also provides a forum for the exchange of scholarly research on
descriptive and/or theoretical linguistics focusing on American Indian
languages.


Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for papers on any aspect of American Indian languages.

Special Session: Language Revitalization Strategies and Pedagogy

The special session will be devoted to papers focusing on language
revitalization, maintenance strategies and pedagogy.

Parasession: Documentation, Description & Theory

The parasession welcomes papers on language documentation (especially those
that make use of digital technologies), and descriptive and/or theoretical
work that draw their data from fieldwork.

Poster Session: We welcome research on any topic covering American Indian
languages (e.g., language documentation, description & theory, historical
linguistics, sociolinguistics, fieldwork, language revitalization, teaching
pedagogy, language policy, community-based programs, use of digital
technologies for language documentation and language revitalization).

Submission Process:

Abstracts should be up to 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or
references).

Abstracts should include the following:

- Title of paper:
- Name of author(s) and Institutional/Tribal affiliation (if any)
- Author status (undergraduate/graduate student; post-doc; faculty; and/or
member of Native American community)
- Session (special session / parassession / poster session)*

Oral presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
Special Session and Parassession are limited to 30 minutes. The Poster Session
will run for 75 minutes. It provides an opportunity for more open-ended,
two-way communication with the audience. Undergraduate students are invited to
submit an abstract for this session.

Please submit your abstract in PDF format by email to sail.ottawa at gmail.com
(with the subject: “Abstract – SAIL2018”)

Authors will be notified of acceptance by February 15, 2018




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