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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red;background:white">Due to popular demand</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D;background:white">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red;background:white">and in light of an additional funding opportunity*, the Call for Papers for ConCALL-4 has been
<b>EXTENDED until Sunday, December 15, 2019.</b></span><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><o:p> </o:p></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">This Spring<b> </b>the<b> Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)</b> will be hosting the
<b>4<sup>th</sup> Conference of Central Asian Language and Linguistics (ConCALL-4)</b> at
<b>Indiana University</b> from <b>April 17-19, 2020</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif;color:black">Keynote Speakers for the conference include leading names in Turkic, Iranian, Mongolic and Uralic linguistics, as well as phonology, syntax and second
language acquisition, including:</span><span style="color:#212121"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Gulsat Aygen</b>, Professor, Department of English, Northern Illinois University<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#212121;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Matthew Gordon</b>, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b><span style="color:#212121">Ayse Gurel</span></b><span style="color:#212121">, Professor, Department of Foreign Language Education, Bogazici University</span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><b>Irene Vogel</b>, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
We are accepting submissions for 20-minute paper presentations (with 10 minute post-presentation questions and discussion) on topics related to Central Asian languages and linguistics, including both the Altaic and Eastern Indo-European languages spoken in
the region (among others), a diverse range of languages such as Azerbaijani, Dari, Evenki, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Mari, Mongolian, Pashto, Persian, Tajiki, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek,
<span style="color:black">Yugur, </span>and more. Submissions on endangered Central Asian languages, e.g. Buryat and Kalmyk (Mongolic), Shugni (Iranian), Selkup (Uralic), and Chuvash, Baskirt and Yakut (Turkic), among others, are especially welcome.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Submissions can include, but are not limited to:<br>
- <b>Formal linguistics </b>(phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, as well as their interfaces)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- <b>Acquisition</b> (first and second language acquisition of a Central Asian language or of other languages by speakers of Central Asian languages)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- <b>Language education/pedagogy</b>, as related to Central Asian languages<br>
<br>
Each abstract will be anonymously reviewed by external reviewers working in the same field and/or same/similar languages and evaluated
<span style="color:#212121;background:white">on a basis of overall quality, as well as interest, originality, timeliness</span>, and relevance to the field, as well as reviewing the methodology and data collection methods and overall clarity and organization
of ideas.<br>
<br>
Submissions should consist of an anonymous, titled abstract of no more than 500 words (not including examples and references, which can be placed on a second page) submitted via EasyAbstracts (<a href="http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ConCALL4">http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ConCALL4</a>)
by Sunday, December 15, 2019.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Accepted presenters will have the opportunity to submit to the published proceedings of the conference.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red">*STUDENT STIPENDS NOW AVAILABLE</span>. We are now offering several stipends of up to $500 each, to be used for travel and accommodation costs. Stipends will be awarded to the undergraduate and/or
graduate students with the highest-rated abstract submissions. If you are submitting an abstract for the conference and would like to be considered for this award, please email Amber Kent (<a href="mailto:akkent@indiana.edu?subject=STUDENT%20STIPEND%20INQUIRTY">akkent@indiana.edu</a>)
for more details.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>
Questions regarding submissions may be directed to Amber Kennedy Kent at <a href="mailto:akkent@indiana.edu">akkent@indiana.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Questions regarding the conference may be directed to Dr. Öner Özçelik (Director, CeLCAR) at <a href="mailto:oozcelik@indiana.edu">oozcelik@indiana.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For more information, please visit our conference website at
<a href="http://www.iub.edu/~concall">http://www.iub.edu/~concall</a>.<br>
<br>
<b><span style="color:red;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">EXTENDED</span><span style="color:red"> Proposal Submission Deadline:</span></b><span style="color:red">
</span>Sunday, December 15, 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Acceptance Notification Deadline:</b> Friday, January 10, 2019<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Early Registration Deadline:</b> Friday, March 20, 2020<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Conference Date:</b> Friday, Saturday, and Sunday April 17-19, 2020<o:p></o:p></p>
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