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<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">***Apologies for
cross-posting***</span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">16th Himalayan Languages Symposium <br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">
<br><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">2-5
September 2010 <br>
</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> School of Oriental
and African Studies, University
of London</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><u><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Keynote
address</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Dialectology
and language change: paths to tone in Tamangish languages</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><br>
Martine Mazaudon (CNRS, Paris)</span></p>
<p><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Himalayan Languages</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The world’s mightiest
mountain range is also one of its richest regions in terms of linguistic,
cultural, and biological diversity. It is estimated that roughly 600 languages,
representing at least six language families, are spoken across the Greater
Himalayan Region, an area which encompasses the mountains, hills and plateaux
stretching from the Hindu Kush and Pamirs in the West to the highlands of Burma, Yunnan
and Sichuan
in the East. Few of these langauges have been researched in depth and many
remain virtually undocumented.</span></p>
<p><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The Himalayan Languages Symposium</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The Himalayan Languages
Symposium was first held at Leiden
University in 1995 and is
now well-established an as an annual open forum for scholars of all aspects of
Himalayan languages. The focus of the conference is geographical rather than
language-based, reflecting the huge linguistic diversity of the Himalaya, and the depth of contact and syncretism between
Himalayan languages and cultures.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Contributions are welcome
on any language of the Greater Himalayan Region, whether Tibeto-Burman,
Indo-Aryan, Austroasiatic, Altaic, Hmong-Mien, Tai or an isolate. Although
language is the focus of the Symposium, specialists from related disciplines
such as philology, history, anthropology, archaeology and prehistory are
strongly encouraged to participate and cast light from their respective angles
on the study of Himalayan languages and language communities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">In 2010, the Himalayan
Languages Symposium is to be held in the UK
for the first time, and will run from 2 to 5 September at the School of Oriental
and African Studies. As the UK
has a long tradition of scholarship in Asian languages and cultures, we feel it
is overdue that the Symposium is held here, and we look forward to welcoming
participants to London.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The proceedings of the
conference are typically published by Mouton de Gruyter, and this is also the
aim this time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We invite abstracts for
presentations on topics including, but not limited to:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Descriptions of lesser-known
languages</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Language change and variation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Multilingualism and language
contact</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Historical-comparative studies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Typological studies</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Field reports</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Corpus-based analysis</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Language death and language
preservation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Language policy and language
planning</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Ethnology and folklore</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Himalayan languages and new
technologies</span></li></ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Contributions are also very
welcome from anthropological, historical, or archaeological etc perspectives,
so long as the paper deals centrally with a language or language community of
the Greater Himalayan Region.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">This year, the Himalayan
Languages Symposium, will be running in conjunction with the Medieval
Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium, which will be held on 1 September.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We would invite all
participants to attend both Symposia. The full schedule for both events will be
published in due course.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">For further information
about the Symposia, including payment and registration process, please see: <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/himalayan-languages-symposium/">http://www.soas.ac.uk/himalayan-languages-symposium/</a>
and <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/tibeto-burman-languages-symposium/">http://www.soas.ac.uk/tibeto-burman-languages-symposium/</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">For information about past
Symposia, please see: <a href="http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/?q=himalayan_languages_symposium">http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/?q=himalayan_languages_symposium</a>.
</span></p>
<h5><span style="font-family: Arial;">Workshop on Optional Case Marking in
Tibeto-Burman: call deadline 1 April 2010</span></h5>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">If you would like to be a
part of this workshop, please send your abstracts of 500 words or less to both
Shobhana Chelliah (<a href="mailto:chelliah@unt.edu">chelliah@unt.edu</a>) and
Gwendolyn Hyslop (<a href="mailto:glow@uoregon.edu">glow@uoregon.edu</a>). <span style="">Abstracts should be sent no later than<b> 1
April 2010, </b>preferably in pdf- format</span>. A response on abstracts will
be sent no later than 15 April 2010. This workshop will be followed by a call
for papers for a special volume of Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area on the
topics covered in the workshop. Workshop participants will be highly encouraged
to submit papers to this volume for referring and final publication by Fall
2011.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">For further information
about this workshop, please see: <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/himalayan-languages-symposium/56316.html">http://www.soas.ac.uk/himalayan-languages-symposium/56316.html</a>
</span></p>
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<h6 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Symposium Fees</span></h6>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">This year, as the two Symposia are being held as one event,
the registration fee for the Himalayan Languages Symposium will also cover
entry to the Medieval Tibeto-Burman Languages Symposium.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Full registration fees
for both Symposia (1-5 September):</span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">£60 Standard<br>
£40 Concessions*<br>
£80 Late registration (Applications received after 31 August 2010) (no concessions)<br style="">
<br style="">
</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">*Concessions are available for students and participants
from lower-income countries.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Registration fee for
one day of either Symposium:</span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">£20 day rate (no concessions)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The fees include access to all the Symposium sessions, as
well as snacks and light lunch. Unfortunately, they do not include the cost for
attending the Symposium dinner.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Please note that you can
register on the day but we cannot guarantee a place. Places are allocated on a
first come, first served basis.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Note: </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">It is our policy to maximise the
participation of scholars from lower-income countries. A limited number of <b style="">bursaries</b> may be available to help with
travel costs for those (especially students) wishing to attend from such
countries. If you think you might qualify for a bursary, please contact Nathan
Hill (email below).</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Enquiries</span></b></p>
<h6><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Enquires about the
Programme</span></h6>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Dr Nathan Hill, <a href="mailto:nh36@soas.ac.uk">nh36@soas.ac.uk</a></span></p>
<h6><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Enquiries about the
Registration</span></h6>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Centres & Programmes: <a href="mailto:centres@soas.ac.uk">centres@soas.ac.uk</a> or Tel 020 7898 4892/3</span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Organised by</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">: Centre of Chinese Studies, Centres
and Programmes (REO)</span></p>