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<div align="center"> <big><big><big><font color="#000000" size="+1"><big><big><big><font
style="font-size: 11pt"><b>International
workshop on linguistic fieldwork in South Asia</b></font></big></big></big></font></big></big></big><font
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</big></big></big><font color="#000000"><font
style="font-size: 11pt">Uppsala University </font></font><br>
<font color="#000000"><font style="font-size: 11pt">1–2 June
2015 </font></font><br>
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<p style="text-decoration: none"><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><b>Call
for
papers</b></font></font></font></p>
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<p style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none"><font
color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt">The workshop will provide a forum
for discussing issues related to linguistic fieldwork in
South Asia, focussing on the challenges as well as
contributions of fieldwork to descriptive linguistics. This
includes fieldwork methods designed to illustrate complex
descriptive problems, convey socio-culturally anchored
concepts, and empirically test theories. </font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt">Invited
speakers: </font></font></font>
<ul>
<li><font color="#111111" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Professor Anvita Abbi
(Jawaharlal Nehru University)</font></font></font><br>
</li>
<li><font color="#111111" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Professor Shobhana <span
style="background: #ffffff">Chelliah (University of
North Texas)</span></font></font></font><br>
</li>
<li><font color="#111111" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><span
style="background: #ffffff">Professor Sabine Stoll
(University of Zürich)</span></font></font></font><br>
</li>
<li><font color="#111111" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><span lang="en-US"><span
style="background: #ffffff">Dr. Bettina Zeisler
(Tübingen University)</span></span> </font></font></font>
</li>
</ul>
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We invite researchers to submit abstracts for presentations at
the workshop, including, but not limited to, topics such as:</font></font></p>
<ul>
<li><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Managing the interplay
between field data and theory; </font></font></font> </li>
<li><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Striking a balance
between empirical corpus-based language description and
hypothesis-driven investigation; </font></font></font> </li>
<li><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Collecting and
processing data for studying semantic distinctions; </font></font></font>
</li>
<li><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Integrating
sociolinguistic variables in the description of endangered
languages; </font></font></font> </li>
<li><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Handling linguistic
analysis in the context of a moribund language; </font></font></font>
</li>
<li><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Preparing dictionaries
of undocumented languages; </font></font></font> </li>
<li><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Collecting field data
for applied linguistic studies (e.g. first-language
acquisition in endangered languages); </font></font></font>
</li>
<li><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Integrating theoretical
and methodological aspects of fieldwork in the context of
interdisciplinary research collaborations (e.g.
anthropology, ethnobiology, geography, musicology, ICT); </font></font></font>
</li>
<li><font color="#000000" size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman,
serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt">Producing digital
language data (databases, corpora, recordings) for
linguistic analysis. </font></font></font> </li>
</ul>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="+1"><font
style="font-size: 11pt">Abstracts should be one (A4 or letter)
page long. A second page may be included for references and/or
data. Abstracts – <b>in pdf format only</b> – should be sent
to: <anju(d)saxena(at)lingfil(d)uu(d)se> (change the
parenthesized expressions into the appropriate characters)</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="+1"><font
style="font-size: 11pt"><b>Deadline for abstract submission</b>:
30 November 2014 </font></font> </p>
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style="font-size: 11pt"><br>
A <font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><span
style="font-weight: normal">selected</span></span></font>
number of papers from the workshop will be considered for
publication in the <i>Journal of South Asian Languages and
Linguistics</i><span style="font-style: normal"> (de Gruyter
Mouton)</span>. </font></font> </p>
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<font size="+1"></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="+1"><font
style="font-size: 11pt"><font color="#000000"><span
style="text-decoration: none"><span style="font-weight:
normal">Workshop</span></span></font> organization: </font></font>
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<font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="+1"><font
style="font-size: 11pt">Organizer: Anju Saxena (Uppsala
University) </font></font> <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, serif" size="+1"><font
style="font-size: 11pt">Program committee: Lars Borin
(University of Gothenburg), Michael Dunn (Uppsala University),
Niklas Edenmyr (Uppsala University) and Colette Grinevald <font
color="#000000"><span style="font-style: normal"><span
style="font-weight: normal">(Université Lyon 2)</span></span></font>.</font></font></p>
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<p style="page-break-inside: avoid; widows: 1" align="LEFT"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif" size="+1"><font style="font-size:
11pt">More information about the workshop can be found at:<a
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href="http://www.lingfil.uu.se/kalend/konf/lfsa/"><http://www.lingfil.uu.se/kalend/konf/lfsa/></a>.</font></font></p>
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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>
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