31.1650, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Document, Socioling/USA or Online

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-1650. Mon May 18 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.1650, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Document, Socioling/USA or Online

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Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 12:12:15
From: Josh Brown [brownjo at uwec.edu]
Subject: 11th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas

 
Full Title: 11th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas 
Short Title: WILA 

Date: 08-Oct-2020 - 10-Oct-2020
Location: Asheville, North Carolina, USA 
Contact Person: Kelly Biers
Meeting Email: kbiers at unca.edu
Web Site: http://www.workshoponimmigrantlanguages.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas is an annual conference
focused on heritage language research. WILA began in 2010 as a conference on
''Investigating Immigrant Languages in America'' at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Since then, its host university has alternated between the
United States and abroad.

In the aftermath of immigration, new generations often speak “heritage
languages”, a notion Rothman (2009) defines in this way: “A language qualifies
as a heritage language if it is a language spoken at home or otherwise readily
available to young children, and crucially this language is not a dominant
language of the larger (national) society”. Heritage languages have only
recently become a major topic of interest among linguists, explored for their
implications for linguistic theory, especially in terms of acquisition,
attrition, and change. This workshop aims to promote discussion of heritage
languages in the Americas across different language, subfields, and
theoretical persuasions.


Call for Papers: 

It is unclear at this point in time whether we will be able to hold an
in-person event for the 11th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas
due to the coronavirus pandemic. We would hate, however, to have to miss our
annual opportunity to share research findings, not to mention the opportunity
to see old friends and make new ones. For those reasons, we will go ahead with
planning WILA, with the understanding that it may have to be partly or
entirely virtual.

We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for
questions) and posters on any aspect of the linguistics of heritage languages
in the Americas (e.g., structural, generative, historical, sociolinguistic, or
experimental). Abstracts should be no more than one page in length, but may
include a second page with diagrams, charts, and references. Abstracts can be
submitted via EasyAbs
(https://linguistlist.org/confservices/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=6302JA4458764
44840A050441).

Selected papers (following a review process) from the conference will be
published with Cascadilla Press.




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