31.371, Calls: Afroasiatic;Khoisan;Niger-Congo;Nilo-Saharan; Anthropological Linguistics, Language Documentation, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Italy

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Subject: 31.371, Calls: Afroasiatic;Khoisan;Niger-Congo;Nilo-Saharan; Anthropological Linguistics, Language Documentation, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Italy

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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:01:39
From: Gian Claudio Batic [sywal2020 at unior.it]
Subject: 4th Symposium on West African Languages

 
Full Title: 4th Symposium on West African Languages 
Short Title: SyWAL2020 

Date: 23-Sep-2020 - 25-Sep-2020
Location: Naples, Italy 
Contact Person: Gian Claudio Batic
Meeting Email: sywal2020 at unior.it
Web Site: http://www.unior.it/ricerca/19355/3/4th-symposium-on-west-african-languages-23-25-september-2020.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Phonology; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic; Khoisan; Niger-Congo; Nilo-Saharan 

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Symposium on West African Languages (SyWAL) is a biennial international
conference meant to serve as a forum to discuss all aspects of studies on
African languages spoken in West Africa and West African languages used
elsewhere.

The first edition of the Symposium (SyWAL2014) was hosted in Naples by
Dipartimento di Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, Università di Napoli
“L’Orientale”, the second edition (SyWAL2016) was held at the Institut für
Afrikawissenschaften, Universität Wien, and the the third edition (SyWAL2018)
was organized in Poland by Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki Uniwersytetu
Warszawskiego. The 4th Symposium on West African Languages (SyWAL2020) will
take place at the Dipartimento di Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, Università di
Napoli “L’Orientale”, on the 23rd, 24th and 25th of September 2020. The theme
of the 2020 conference is ‘Uniformity, Variability, Diversity’.


Call for Papers: 

We invite paper proposals related (but not limited) to the following research
areas: language description, language documentation, typology and comparative
linguistics, sociolinguistics, contact phenomena, cultural linguistics,
computational linguistics, gestures and sign languages, discursive variants,
language registers, and orature/literature studies. Although proposals that
resonate with the SyWAL2020 theme ‘Uniformity, Variability, Diversity’ will be
especially welcome, proposals may be on any topic relevant to the Symposium.

Participants are encouraged – but not required – to present papers related to
the topics of the following panels (visit the conference website to access the
full description of the panels):

# 1 – Structural properties and cultural values of phraseologisms in West
African languages
# 2 – Gender in West African languages
# 3 – Uniformity, variability and diversity in the syntax of serial verb
constructions
# 4 – Exploring the logophoric continuum

Abstract submission:
We invite abstract submissions of full paper proposals (20 minutes + 10-minute
discussion). Abstracts must be anonymous, are submitted in English, and their
length should not exceed 400 words (excluding references). Abstracts will
contain the following data: 1) title of the paper, 2) body of the abstract,
and 3) 5 keywords. If you are submitting to a specific panel, indicate the
name of the panel after the title. Please use 12 pt Times New Roman font
(UNICODE), single line spacing and set margins to 2.5 cm (left, right, top,
bottom).
Abstract should be submitted by 15 April 2020 in doc(x) format using the
EasyAbs system at:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/sywal2020

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another
journal or conference.

Conference website:
http://www.unior.it/ricerca/19355/3/4th-symposium-on-west-african-languages-23
-25-september-2020.html

Contact:
sywal2020 at unior.it

Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15th of April, 2020
Notification of acceptance: 31st of May, 2020




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