Call for papers: Workshop on the indigenous languages of America, Canada, March 22 -24, 2002

[Scott McGinnis]

Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:18:39 -0600
From: David Beck <dbeck at ualberta.ca>

WSCLA 7 - Call for Papers

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
March 22 - 24, 2002

CALL FOR PAPERS

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together linguists doing
theoretical work on the indigenous languages of North, Central, and
South America. Papers in all core areas of linguistics (phonetics,
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) within any theoretical
framework will be considered, but we especially invite papers which
address the theme of this year's conference:

Convergence and Divergence: Language Variation within and across
Language Families

While the bulk of theoretical work in linguistics has by and large
relied on the convenient fiction that languages are stable, uniform
synchronic systems that are consistent and self-contained across
communities of speakers, linguists working on the languages of the
Americas-the majority of which are unwritten and have no normative or
"standard" form-have often been confronted with a startling degree of
variation within what speakers consider to be a single language.
Conversely, researchers working in well-established linguistic areas
or Sprachb=FCnde such as the Northwest Coast have found that what are
patently different and genetically unrelated languages share a
tremendous number of phonological and grammatical features.

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