Conference on "Languages of Southeast Asia"

[Doug Cooper]

[ fwd from Iwasaki, Shoichi <iwasaki at humnet.ucla.edu> ]

Dear SEA language colleagues. We are organizing a joint conference on
language and linguistics of SE Asia. You can follow the link below, or
read the call pasted here. We will also make the conf website soon and
let you know about it.

http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/article.asp?parentid=97038

Shoichi

===================

Call for Papers: Languages of Southeast Asia

An international conference on the Languages of Southeast Asia will be
held at UCLA January 30-February 1, 2009

UC Berkeley & UCLA JOINT CONFERENCE on SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES

CALL FOR PAPERS

LANGUAGES OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

January 30 - February 1, 2009


Keynote speakers:
Bernard Comrie (Max Planck / University of California, Santa Barbara)
Andrew Simpson (University of Southern California)
John Hartmann (Northern Illinois University)

The linguistic map of Southeast Asia is extraordinarily rich, embracing
a wide range of ethnic and typological groups, including Austronesian,
Hmong-Mien, Mon-Khmer, Tai-Kadai, Tibeto-Burman, and many language
families of New Guinea. The shifting boundaries of Southeast Asian
polities over time, historic cross-regional migration, and colonization
have all added to the complexity of language genealogies in the region,
making Southeast Asia a particularly fertile field not only for the
study of specific language types and groups but also for the testing and
development of theoretical frameworks and models of linguistic analysis.
Recent outward migrations to the USA, Europe and elsewhere, and the
concomitant rise in Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Tagalog and other heritage
language groups, present further opportunities for the study of
Southeast Asian languages.

Despite the critical place of language studies in the development of
area studies, and the diverse implications and applications of
linguistics for other fields, the conversation between scholars of
Southeast Asian linguistics and specialists in Southeast Asian area
studies is surprisingly thin. And, within the U.S., Southeast Asian
language communities such as Hmong, Khmer, Vietnamese, Lao and Tagalog
risk being sidelined in the emerging body of scholarship on Heritage
Language learning and teaching, whose focus gravitates towards larger
communities such as Spanish and Chinese speaking communities.

This conference aims to bridge this gap. By providing a forum for
presentations of new research and the exchange of ideas, we aim to
create fresh conversations between scholars and teachers of Southeast
Asian languages.  Building on the 2000 UCLA Conference on Heritage
Language Research Priorities, we also hope to stimulate new research
linkages with scholars and teachers working among Heritage language
communities.

We invite papers on Southeast Asian languages in any area of
linguistics-phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, typology, diachronic and comparative linguistics,
sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, discourse analysis,
conversation analysis-or language teaching. We particularly encourage
papers that engage with other disciplines.  Submissions from early
career researchers and graduate students are strongly encouraged. In
addition, a special poster session for undergraduate research will be
held. Limited competitive financial assistance for travel is available.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to the UCLA Center
for Southeast Asian Studies <cseas at international.ucla.edu> by Monday,
November 3, 2008. Please indicate whether the submission is for a talk
or for the undergraduate poster session. Notification of acceptance will
be sent out by December 1, 2008.

For more info please contact:
Barbara Gaerlan
310-206-9163
cseas at international.ucla.edu

________________________________________________________

Post to SEALANG-L:  send mail to sealang-l at listserv.linguistlist.org

Unsubscribe: send the message "unsubscribe sealang-l" to  listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org

Subscribe: send the message "subscribe sealang-l Your Name" to listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org