<html><head></head><body style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>Thanks to all those colleagues who expressed an interest in the sign language corpus workshop at the first Asia-Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2012: I was very pleased that so many people responded, so that shows that there would be interest in holding such a workshop in our part of the world.</div><div>As neither my university nor the conference organisers have funding to support the necessary sign language/English interpretation, I am not able to go ahead with the workshop idea for the 2012 conference, but I do hope that we will be able to organise such an event at a future conference.</div><div>Watch this space!</div><div>Adam</div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><div>-- </div><br></span><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Assoc. Prof. Adam Schembri, BA DipEd, MLitt, PhD<br>
Director, National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Language<br>
La Trobe University | Melbourne (Bundoora) | Victoria | 3086 | Australia<br>
Tel: +61 3 9479 2887 | Fax: +61 3 9479 3074 | www.latrobe.edu.au/nids<br></span></font></font></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Adam Schembri <<a href="mailto:a.schembri@latrobe.edu.au">a.schembri@latrobe.edu.au</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:36:11 +1000<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> linguists interested in signed languages <<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACC.EDU</a>>, "<a href="mailto:slls-list@slls.eu">slls-list@slls.eu</a>" <<a href="mailto:slls-list@slls.eu">slls-list@slls.eu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference, Auckland, NZ Feb 15-19, 2012<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>If any of our northern hemisphere sign language corpus colleagues are interested in attending the Asia-Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference in Auckland, New Zealand next year (in February, the southern hemisphere summer), I might propose a one day workshop on corpus-based approaches to sign language documentation and description. </div><div><br></div><div>This would be a good opportunity to make other linguists in the Asia-Pacific region aware of our work (there are plans for sign language corpus projects in India and Japan, for example).</div><div><br></div><div>Please get in touch with me ASAP if you're interested in being part of a workshop. Abstracts are due by June 4, 2011.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Adam</div><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">-- <br></span><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Associate Professor Adam Schembri<br>
Director, National Institute for Deaf Studies and Sign Language<br>
La Trobe University | Melbourne (Bundoora) | Victoria | 3086 | Australia<br>
Tel: +61 3 9479 2887 | Fax: +61 3 9479 3074 | www.latrobe.edu.au/nids (under construction)<br></span></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span></body></html>