Call for Papers: Athabascan/Dene Languages Conference

[Gary Holton]

*Athabascan/Dene Languages Conference (ALC)*

June 25-27 2010

Eugene, Oregon

*Call for Abstracts: *

*Abstracts* <http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/alc/call.html> are invited for
30-minute presentations in all areas of Athabascan/Dene linguistics,
language documentation, language teaching, language policy, and language
revitalization. Presentations addressing the themes/special sessions of the
conference are particularly welcome


*Special Session 1 “What stories and conversations can teach us”*

The collection of narratives has always been an integral part of both
linguistic and anthropological work, and it is one of the important issues
worked on by many communities. The first special session has the goal of
investigating narrative data from all perspectives in order to stimulate new
research and discussion.

The genre of conversation on the other hand has long been neglected,
partially because of the difficulties associated with recording 'natural'
conversation. However, the study of this linguistically  rich genre will not
only benefit linguistic inquiry, but is also highly relevant for language
revitalization efforts, since language learners need to be able to listen to
natural conversation in addition to other forms of language teaching.

We thus invite all presentations on linguistic, anthropological, or
pedagogical research related to narratives and conversation.


*Special Session 2 “Language Technology in Revitalization“*

For the second special session, we invite presentations of media used in
community efforts in language revitalization, such as e.g. websites, books,
DVD’s or larger projects. The presentations can be full-length talks, but we
also strongly encourage poster-style presentations, laptop-demonstrations,
tutorials for technical workflows or simply bringing along books, posters
and other materials to be displayed during a poster-style session.

*Deadline: *April, 1 2010

*Submission guidelines: * For oral presentations, please email your
anonymous abstracts as .doc or .pdf to olga at lithophile.com AND
gabrielemueller at gmail.com. The body of the accompanying email should include
the title of the paper and the names and contact information for all authors
of the presentation. Abstracts must fit on one page in 12-point font with
1'' margins. References and longer text examples may be included on a
separate page if necessary.

For contributions to the second special session in other formats, please
send us a short description of what you would like to present and indicate
the format of your contribution.

*Presentation & Publication: * Presentations are allotted 20 minutes plus 10
minutes for discussion. Presentations in the second special session may have
other formats (shorter presentations, tutorials, posters, demo’s,...).

Presented papers will be published as a volume of the Alaska Native Language
Center Working Papers.

*URL:* http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/alc/ <http://www.uaf.edu/anlc/alc/%20>  </>

*Contact: *

Olga Lovick

olga at lithophile.com

#1 First Nations Way

Regina, Saskatchewan

Canada

S4S 7K2


Gabriele Schwiertz

gabrielemueller at gmail.com

Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Aegidiistr. 5

48143 Münster

Germany
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