28.5318, Calls: Gen Ling/South Africa

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Subject: 28.5318, Calls: Gen Ling/South Africa

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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:04:07
From: ALASA19 Sintu7 [alasa19sintu7 at gmail.com]
Subject: 19th Interim Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA19) & 7th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Sintu7)

 
Full Title: 19th Interim Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA19) & 7th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Sintu7) 
Short Title: ALASA19 & Sintu7 

Date: 09-Jul-2018 - 11-Jul-2018
Location: Cape Town, South Africa 
Contact Person: ALASA19 Sintu7
Meeting Email: alasa19sintu7 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.caldi.uct.ac.za/cal/alasa-sintu 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Niger-Congo 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

19th Interim Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern
Africa (ALASA19)

The theme for the ALASA 19th Interim is “#African Languages and Protest” which
addresses the question of the role and status of African languages in South
Africa and beyond. While the constitution of South Africa has to be saluted
and deserves all the support for recognizing African languages as a national
asset and for its brave commitment to empower “all languages” spoken in the
nation, the challengers in the implementation of language policies need to be
addressed. Despite the official status of 9 African languages in South Africa,
even these African languages remain marginalized.

7th International Conference on Bantu Languages (Sintu7)

With some 500 languages spoken across East, Central and Southern Africa, the
Bantu language family is one of the world’s largest language families in terms
of number of languages, and also in terms of geographic and demographic
spread. The family includes major national and international languages, but
also many languages which remain not well described, documented and resourced,
and a number of languages which are endangered. In terms of structure, many
Bantu languages share grammatical features such as morphologically complex
verbs and nouns, noun classes, an extensive system of agreement and
pragmatically-motivated word order. However, there is also a high degree of
micro-variation between and within different languages. The international
conference on Bantu languages brings together scholars interested in any
aspect of the description, analysis and comparison of Bantu languages. The
first conference of this series on the African continent will offer an
opportunity for scholars speaking and studying African languages to exchange
ideas and findings.


Abstracts for ALASA19 and Sintu7:

Abstracts of 350-500 words in length should be submitted by 15 January 2018
via http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ALASA19Sintu7
All abstracts will be adjudicated.

Please refer to http://www.caldi.uct.ac.za/cal/alasa-sintu for more
information.




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