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<p style="page-break-inside: avoid; page-break-before: always">Call
for papers</p>
<p style="page-break-inside: avoid; orphans: 0"><b><big>International
workshop
on linguistic microareas in South Asia</big></b><br>
Uppsala
University, Sweden<br>
5-6
May 2014</p>
<p style="page-break-inside: avoid">Homepage:
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.lingfil.uu.se/calendar/konf/lmsa/"><http://www.lingfil.uu.se/calendar/konf/lmsa/></a></p>
<p style="page-break-inside: avoid"><i>Invited
speakers:</i><br>
Professor
Elena Bashir (University of Chicago)<br>
Professor
Balthasar Bickel (University of Zürich)<br>
Professor
Shobhana Chelliah (University of North Texas)<br>
Professor
Hans H. Hock (University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign)<br>
Professor
John Peterson (University of Kiel)</p>
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<big><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">We invite the submission of abstracts for oral presentations at the workshops. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: </font></big></pre>
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<p style="page-break-inside: avoid; orphans: 0">case-studies on
the linguistic structure of a selected geographical region (a
contrastive study of two languages will not be prioritised)</p>
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<li>
<p style="page-break-inside: avoid; orphans: 0">socio-linguistic
studies pertaining to a geographical region, with implications
for the linguistic structure of the concerned languages</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="page-break-inside: avoid; orphans: 0">relationship
between the proposed microareas and South Asia as a linguistic
area</p>
</li>
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<p style="page-break-inside: avoid; orphans: 0">methodological
challenges for areal linguistics, with empirical data from
South Asia</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="page-break-inside: avoid; orphans: 0">synchronic data
and prehistory, with data from South Asia</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="page-break-inside: avoid; orphans: 0">Abstracts
should be one (A4 or letter) page long. A second page may be
included
for references and/or data. Abstracts --in
pdf format only--
should be sent to: <<a
href="mailto:microareas%28at%29lingfil%28d%29uu%28d%29se"
target="_top">microareas(at)lingfil(d)uu(d)se</a>>
(change the parenthesized expressions into the appropriate
characters)</p>
<p style="page-break-inside: avoid"><i>Deadline
for abstract submission</i>: 30 October 2013 </p>
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<pre><big><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">--
Anju Saxena
Professor of Linguistics
Dept. of Linguistics & Philology
Uppsala University
Sweden
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.lingfil.uu.se/staff/anju_saxena"><http://www.lingfil.uu.se/staff/anju_saxena></a></font></big></pre>
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