Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation

[Harold Schiffman]

Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation

Date: 05-Jun-2007 - 06-Jun-2007
Location: Shala, Taiwan
Contact: Huiting Hsu
Contact Email: hthsupu.edu.tw
Meeting URL: http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/session.htm

Dear participants,

We are pleased to let you know that planning for the International
Conference on
Austronesian Endangered Language Documentation is moving ahead, and it
promises
to be an exciting conference. For all information on the conference, go to
http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/index.htm

Please begin to make your arrangements now to attend the conference.
Information
about travel and accommodation can be found at:
http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/travel.htm

Location: Providence University, Shalu, Taichung, Taiwan

Dates: June 5-6, 2007
A welcome dinner for the guest speakers will be held on June 4, 2007,
6:00-7:30
p.m. at Freshfields Resort.

Conference program:
The program is now available at
http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/session.htm

Post-conference excursion: June 6-7, 2007
If you would like to sign up for the optional post-conference excursion to
the
Thao tribe (Sun Moon Lake) and Pazeh tribe (Puli), please email hthsu
pu.edu.tw
before May 5, 2007. A fee of NT$2000 (US$65) in cash will be payable at the
registration counter upon arrival at the conference. For details please see
http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/trip.htm.

Conference Registration:
All presenters (except for the invited speakers) and attendees must register
for
the Conference and can do so online at
http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/register/register_en.php.
The conference registration will be handled by the Linguistic Society of
Taiwan.
To take advantage of the early-bird special rate, please register by May 5,
2007.

Exhibition sessions:
There are two exhibition sessions scheduled for those presenters who would
like
to display their language documentation websites, software, books, journals,

products etc (see program for time). Contact hthsupu.edu.tw before May 5,
2007
to reserve a place for your display.
Shalu Local attractions:
http://yamiproject.cs.pu.edu.tw/yami/conference/shalu.htm

All presenters should submit their full papers no later than May 25, 2007 to

hthsupu.edu.tw in order to be printed in the pre-conference proceedings.
There
will be an opportunity for selected papers to be published in a special
issue of
'Language Documentation & Conservation', to be co-edited by Victoria Rau and

Margaret Florey. LD&C is a new refereed, online journal by the University of

Hawai'i Press. The URL for this journal is http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/.

Best wishes,
Victoria Rau
Chair, Organizing Committee
http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-1319.html


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