Call for papers: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages - DEADLINE 18 JANUARY

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Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Santa Barbara, CA
April 26-28, 2002

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa
Barbara announces its fifth annual Workshop on American Indigenous
Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of
theoretical and descriptive linguistic studies of indigenous languages
of the Americas.  Our invited keynote speaker is Spike Gildea from the
University of Oregon.

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic in linguistics.
Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.
Individuals may submit abstracts for one single and one co-authored
paper.  Abstracts should be 500 words or less and can be submitted by
hard copy or email.

For hard copy submissions, please send five copies of your abstract
and a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) name; (2)
affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address;
(6) title of your paper.

Send hard copy submissions to:
   Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
   Department of Linguistics
   University of California, Santa Barbara
   Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Email submissions are encouraged.  Include the information from the
3x5 card (above) in the body of the email message with the abstract as
an attachment.  Please limit your abstracts to the following formats:
PDF, RTF, or a MS Word document.

Send email submissions to:
   wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:  January 18, 2002
Notification of acceptance will be by email by February 15, 2002.

General Information: Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean
near the Santa Ynez mountains.  The UCSB campus is located near the
Santa Barbara airport.  Participants may also choose to fly into LAX
airport in Los Angeles which is approximately 90 miles south of the
campus.  Shuttle buses run between LAX and Santa Barbara.  Information
about hotel accommodations will be posted on the web.

For further information contact the conference coordinator at
wail at linguistics.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3776 or check out our website
at http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/