ANNOUNCEMENT and 2nd Call for Papers: 12th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages May 8-9

[Daisy Rosenblum]

PLEASE NOTE: CONFERENCE DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO MAY 8-9, 2009.
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2009


SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
University of California, Santa Barbara

May 8-9, 2009

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa  
Barbara, in collaboration with the American Indian Cultural Resource  
Center, announces its 12thannual Workshop on American Indigenous  
Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of  
theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous  
languages of the Americas. The keynote speaker will be Aaron Fox,  
Columbia University.

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the  
study of language in the Americas. Submissions describing  
collaborative, community-based models for language maintenance and  
revitalization are encouraged, as are presentations by community  
members and language activists. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by  
10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less  
(excluding examples and/or references) and can be submitted online athttp://linguistlist.org/confcustom/wail2009 
. Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have  
internet access. Individuals may submit abstracts for one single- 
authored and one co-authored paper.  Please indicate your source(s)  
and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts,  
conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.).  For co-authored papers,  
please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be  
in attendance.

Special Panel on Technology and Language Documentation: This year we  
are welcoming abstracts for a Special Panel on the uses of technology  
in language documentation, description, maintenance, and  
revitalization. Talks will be 20 minutes each, followed by a group  
discussion/question-and-answer period.

For hard copy submissions: Please send four copies of your abstract,  
along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name;  
(2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email  
address; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your submission is for  
the general session or the Special Panel.

Send hard copy submissions to:

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

Attn: Daisy Rosenblum or Carrie Meeker

Department of Linguistics

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106



DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:

January 15, 2009

Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than February 15,  
2009.


General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean  
near the Santa Yñez Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the  
Santa Barbara airport. Participants may also fly into LAX airport in  
Los Angeles, which is approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus.  
Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara. Information about  
hotel accommodations will be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/ 
).


For further information contact the conference coordinators, Daisy  
Rosenblum and Carrie Meeker, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com, or visit our  
website at
http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/.



Daisy Rosenblum
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
drosenblum at umail.ucsb.edu