Reminder: Abstract deadline for volume in memory of Robert Rankin - June 30

[Catherine Rudin]

Just a quick reminder that the official abstract deadline for this volume is tomorrow, June 30.

See below for full details.

We have already received a number of excellent abstracts, but would welcome a few more submissions.  A title and very brief abstract is sufficient at this point; full papers will be due at the end of October.  

Catherine

>>> Bryan James Gordon  06/01/14 10:11 AM >>>
Advances in the Study of Siouan Languages and Linguistics (dedicated to the memory of Robert Rankin)
Call for papers

At the 34th annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages and Linguistics Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, attendees unanimously approved a series of proposals to honor the contributions and legacy of our late colleague Robert Rankin, including curation, digitization and archiving of materials he left behind; a volume of his unpublished papers; the publication of the Comparative Siouan Dictionary; and the subject matter of this call for papers, a volume of advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics dedicated to his memory. We are looking into publishing through the open-access Language Science Press in Berlin, who can make this volume easily and freely accessible. Catherine Rudin and I have agreed to organize and edit the volume and its peer-review process.
Particularly welcome are contributions from Dr. Rankin's collaborators, students, consultants and community-based programs with whom he worked or who have used his work. However, in light of Dr. Rankin's dedication to Siouan languages and linguistics in general, we welcome contributions including theoretical, descriptive, community-based or otherwise applied work based on any and all Siouan languages, from any and all approaches, frameworks and methodologies. The proposed volume also welcomes papers that were developed for the Comparative Siouan Grammar volumes we planned several years ago.
Abstracts: 
To give us an idea of the number and type of submissions to expect, please send us a brief abstract of your proposed chapter by 30 June 2014. Please submit at most one individual and one joint abstract per author. Abstracts should be no more than one page in length. Additional data and references may be attached on additional pages, but are not required. Please include your proposed title, name(s) and institutional or community affiliation(s) above your abstract text. Please submit abstracts to both me (linguist at email.arizona.edu) and Dr. Rudin (carudin1 at wsc.edu), no later than 30 June 2014. Do not submit your abstract or other volume-related communication to the list; address all communication to Dr. Rudin and me, unless it is truly a matter for the consideration of the entire listserv.
Peer review: 
When submitting your abstract, please indicate whether you will be willing to serve as a reviewer for one to three of your colleagues' submissions. An expedited process of review and revision will begin on 1 November 2014.
Non-contributor peer review:
We welcome peer-review volunteers who do not plan to submit chapters. If you would like to volunteer, please provide your name, institutional and/or community affiliation(s), and your relationship with Dr. Rankin or his work. In particular, please indicate clearly whether you would feel most comfortable reviewing comparative/historical theoretical, non-comparative theoretical, descriptive, community-based or otherwise applied submissions, as well as any other limitations or preferences you feel are important.

Chapter submissions:
Conference attendees approved a five-month period for the collection of papers for this volume, in order not to let the honoring of Dr. Rankin's memory be delayed indefinitely. Because peer review will be implemented subsequent to chapter submission, and because the open-access publication format imposes no limit on the number of chapters, all who submit abstracts should plan to submit a chapter. Chapters must be received by Dr. Rudin and me in our email inboxes by 31 October 2014.
Chapter format:
All submissions are restricted to twenty (20) pages, single-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font, on 8 1/2" x 11" pages with 1-inch margins. We ask for two copies of your submission: one in PDF to ensure proper rendering of tables, figures and graphics, and one in LaTeX, DOC, DOCX or ODT format to enable editing. Large (>1/2 page) tables, figures and graphics of the sort Dr. Rankin often included, and appendices and references, do not count towards the 20-page limit, but should not be gratuitous.

Dialogicity and the Rankin theme:

We highly encourage contributors to share their work with each other and to enrich our volume with links to one another's and to Dr. Rankin's work. Given the timing of our deadlines we also find it worthwhile to point out that it may be useful to submit your abstract to LSA and/or SSILA and to present your intended submission at those conferences if you will be attending this year, as they will take place during the peer-review and revision period, and may be useful for improving, developing and propelling forward your work.
Snowball method:
Please forward this call as quickly as possible to any interested parties you know who may not have received this call.

About the open-access format:
Conference attendees overwhelming expressed the sentiment that open access is in keeping with Dr. Rankin's career-long commitment to sharing his work and wisdom. It will additionally make copies much easier to come by, not only for academics, but for community-based programs with no access to university library systems. Although the Language Science Press primarily functions as an online publisher, they will custom-bind and ship the volume to anybody who wishes to pay associated expenses.
Volume-related communication:
Please do not send your volume-related communication to the SIOUAN listserv. Address all communication to Dr. Rudin and me, even if it means erasing the "To:" field to avoid spamming the list. There will be a large amount of projects of similar size and scope to this one all happening at once, and we do not want to bother people who have taken on other responsibilities (or none) with organizational details, modifications, requests, suggestions and complaints meant for us.


Timetable:
Abstract submission: June 30
Paper submission: October 30
Review submission: December 31
Final submission of revised papers: February 28



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Bryan James Gordon, MA
Joint PhD Program in Linguistics and Anthropology
University of Arizona
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