<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The ARC Centre for Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, </span></span></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">and University of the South Pacific are pleased to announce the Vanuatu Languages Conference, which will take place </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">from July 25 - 27, 2018 at the University of the South Pacific in Port Vila, Vanuatu.</span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This Vanuatu Languages Conference is dedicated to Prof. John Lynch, a pioneer of Vanuatu linguistics. The focus will </span></span></span></font><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">be on current and emerging areas of linguistic research in Vanuatu. We welcome abstracts related to Vanuatu on the </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">following themes:</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Description of specific Vanuatu language features</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Documentation of Vanuatu languages</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Vernacular literacy and language material creation</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The intersection of archaeology and linguistics</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Genetics, population movement, and language change</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Variation</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Historical linguistic relationships</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language acquisition</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">·</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Building local capacity in language documentation and revitalization</span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstracts must be submitted by February 28, 2018 via EasyChair [see instructions on the website] and should be no more than 300 </span></span></span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">words, excluding references and examples/figures. Files must also include the title of the presentation and 3-5 keywords. </span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstracts should be anonymous and should not indicate author names anywhere in the body of the file. Please submit </span></span></span></font><span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">abstract files in PDF with the following file name: VLC-LASTNAME[of the first author]. </span></div><div><font size="2" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></span></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">An additional half-day symposium on the same issues will be delivered in Bislama and is aimed at local participation.</span></span></span></font></p><font size="2" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><font size="2" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></span></font></div>The conference website is here: </span></span></font><a href="http://go.coedl.net/vanlangconf2018" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">http://go.coedl.net/vanl<wbr>angconf2018</a></div><div><a href="http://go.coedl.net/vanlangconf2018" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank"></a><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">== For further information ==</span></span></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Email contact to the VLC 2018 organizers: <a href="mailto:vanuatulanguagesconf@gmail.com" target="_blank">vanuatulanguagesconf@gmail.com</a></span></span></span></font></p></div></div>
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