28.4881, Calls: Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Lexicography, Socioling, Typology/Poland

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 11:03:34
From: Izabela Will [maraswill at yahoo.com]
Subject: 3rd Symposium on West African Languages

 
Full Title: 3rd Symposium on West African Languages 
Short Title: SyWAL 2018 

Date: 26-Sep-2018 - 29-Sep-2018
Location: Warsaw, Poland 
Contact Person: Izabela Will
Meeting Email: sywal2018 at uw.edu.pl
Web Site: http://www.afrykanistyka.uw.edu.pl/konferencje/sywal2018 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2018 

Meeting Description:

We are happy to invite you to submit you to the 3rd Symposium on West African
Languages  (SyWAL2018) which will be held in Warsaw from 26  to 29 September,
2018.

The first edition of the Symposium (SyWAL2014) took place in Naples and was
organized by Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, Università di Napoli
“L’Orientale,  the second edition (SyWAL2016) was held at the Institut für
Afrikawissenschaften, Universität Wien. The third edition (SyWAL2018) will be
organized in Poland by Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki Uniwersytetu
Warszawskiego. The conference events will take place on the premises of the
University of Warsaw. The working language is English.    

SyWAL 2018 aims to cover all aspects of studies on African languages spoken in
West Africa and West African languages used elsewhere. 


Call for Papers:

We are happy to invite you to submit your papers to the 3rd Symposium on West
African Languages  (SyWAL 2018) which will be held in Warsaw from 26  to 29
September, 2018. 

SyWAL 2018 aims to cover all aspects of studies on African languages spoken in
West Africa and West African languages used elsewhere. We invite papers
discussing the topics related (but not limited) to the following research
areas: descriptive linguistics of individual languages, typology and
comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, contact phenomena, cultural
linguistics, computational linguistics, gestures and sign languages,
discursive variants and language registers.
 
Participants are encouraged – but not required – to present the papers related
to the topics of the following panels (check the conference webpage to see a
description):

- Linguistic areas in West Africa
- The sociolinguistics of West African migrations and mobilities 
- Consecutive in West-African languages: between finite and non-finite 
- Pidgins and creoles in West African context 
- West African gestures and sign languages 
- Hausa in cross-cultural communication
- Recent developments in descriptive linguistics of Hausa 

Abstract submission:

Abstract in English not exceeding 500 words (including references) should be
send to sywal2018 at uw.edu.pl. The abstract must contain the title of the paper,
author’s name, affiliation and e-mail. On submitting your abstract, please
indicate whether you would like to attend one of the proposed panels. 

Important dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 March 2018
Notification of acceptance: 31 May, 2018

Conference fee:

The conference fee is 80 EUR or 300 PLN (50 EUR or 200 PLN for students/PhD
students). It includes conference materials, refreshments and publication of
the selected papers.

Organizing committee: 

Nina Pawlak (n.pawlak at uw.edu.pl ), Izabela Will (i.will at uw.edu.pl)

Scientific committee:  

Prof. Sergio Baldi, Prof. Nina Pawlak, Prof. Anne Storch, Dr. Georg
Ziegelmeyer




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