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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><font><b><span lang="EN-US">HLS20</span></b></font></p><font>

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><font><b><span lang="EN-US">The 20^th
Himalayan Languages Symposium</span></b></font></p><font>

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><font><b><span lang="EN-US">Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore</span></b></font></p><font>

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><font><b><span lang="EN-US">16-18 July 2014</span></b></font></p><font>

</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal" align="center"><font><b><span lang="EN-US">Conference website: </span></b><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://portal.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/HLS20/"><span>http://portal.cohass.ntu.edu.sg/HLS20/</span></a></span><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b></font></p>
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<br><span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></b></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:13pt">
<font><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">First circular and
call for abstracts </span></b></font></p><font>

</font><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13pt"><font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">We are
pleased to announce that the 20th Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS20) will be
held in Singapore on 16-18 July 2014, hosted by the </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://linguistics.hss.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/default.aspx"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Division of
Linguistics and Multilingual Studies</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">, and the Centre for
Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (NTU).</span></font></p><font>

</font><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt;line-height:13pt"><font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Scholars
are invited to submit abstracts of papers dealing with any aspect of
linguistics that is relevant to research on Himalayan languages. This
encompasses descriptions of phonetics & phonology, morphology, syntax,
discourse studies, semantics & pragmatics, language documentation and
typology, as well as field reports of recently researched languages. In
addition, abstracts of papers dealing with the history of the greater Himalayan
region, population movements, genetic studies, anthropological studies, and contact
with languages belonging to other linguistic families are invited for
submission. </span></font></p><font>

</font><p class="" style="margin:12pt 0cm 6pt;line-height:13pt"><font><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Submission of abstracts</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
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</font><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;line-height:13pt"><font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Abstracts
of papers for the main sessions of HLS20 should be submitted online via the Easychair
system using this link:</span><span lang="EN-US"> <a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=hls20"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=hls20</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">. To
submit an abstract you will first need to sign up for an Easychair account if
you do not already have one. Abstracts should be written in English using a 12
point font and have a maximum length of 350 words including references. Use a
Unicode-compliant font if special characters are required, such as </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=DoulosSIL_download"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Doulos SIL</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">, which is
available as freeware. If you have problems submitting your abstract online,
please contact the conference organizers at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:HLS20.email@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">HLS20.email@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">. Information on the
website will be continually updated as conference arrangements progress.</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b></font></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:left;line-height:13pt">
<font><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"><b>Call for workshops/panels</b><br>
</span></font></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:13pt"><font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Ideas are
solicited for workshops or panels to be run in parallel with the main sessions
on one or more days of HLS20. Please send suggestions together with a short
write-up of the proposed workshop theme, including names of potential workshop participants,
to </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:HLS20.email@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">HLS20.email@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">.</span></font></p>
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</font><p class="" style="margin:12pt 0cm 6pt;line-height:13pt"><font><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Important dates</span></b></font></p><font>

</font><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:13pt"><font><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">15 January 2014</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">:<span>    </span>deadline for submission of abstracts and
workshop proposals<br>
<b>15 March 2014</b>:<span>        </span>notification of acceptance of papers</span></font></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:13pt"><font><br><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:13pt"><font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Kind regards,</span></font></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:6pt;line-height:13pt">
<font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Alexander R. Coupe</span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">HLS20 Conference Chair<br>
email: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:HLS20.email@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">HLS20.email@gmail.com</span></a></span></font></div>