5th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA5)

[Joseph Salmons]

This list doesn't seem to have many conference announcements but it occurs to me that some readers might be interested in this ...
Joe




The 5th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas will take place at UCLA, Los Angeles, October 17-19, 2014. The workshop is sponsored by the National Heritage Language Resource Center.

Call for Papers
We invite abstracts for 20-minute presentations on any aspect of the linguistics of heritage languages in the Americas (e.g., structural, generative, historical, sociolinguistic, or experimental). Abstracts can be a maximum of two pages in length, including diagrams, charts, and references, and should be sent anonymously to Joe Salmons at jsalmons at wisc.edu.

Linguistic Field(s)
Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline
30 June, 2014. Decisions on acceptance will be announced in July.

For further information, please contact jsalmons at wisc.edu

Email list
An email list for heritage language linguists is also now available:
https://sympa.uio.no/iln.uio.no/info/heritage-language-list

Organizers:
Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, University of Iceland
Janne Bondi Johannessen, University of Oslo
Michael Putnam, Penn State University
Joseph Salmons, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Local organizers:
Kathryn Paul, National Heritage Language Resource Center, UCLA, kathryn at humnet.ucla.edu
Olga Kagan, National Heritage Language Resource Center, UCLA, okagan at humnet.ucla.edu

Links to Previous Workshops:
4th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, September 2013, University of Iceland
The Third Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America, September 2012, Penn State University
Second Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America, September 2011, University of Oslo
Investigating Immigrant Languages in America, September 2010, University of Wisconsin, Madison


http://tekstlab.uio.no/WILA5/index.html

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