Reminder: ALC-deadline April, 1

[Gabriele Schwiertz]

Dear Athapbasckanists,


This is a reminder that the deadline for the submission of papers to the
Athabascan/Dene Languages Conference (ALC) to be held June 25-27 2010 in
Eugene, Oregon is approaching.

Abstracts have to be submitted by April, 1 2010.

I am attaching the Call for papers and the details again below.



Best,

Gabriele





Call for Abstracts:
Abstracts 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/

Contact:
Olga Lovick
olga at lithophile.com
#1 First Nations Way
Regina, Saskatchewan
Canada
S4S 7K2


Gabriele Schwiertz
gabrielemueller at gmail.com
Institut für Linguistik  –  Abteilung Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Universität zu Köln
Albertus Magnus Platz
50923 Köln
Germany