Call for papers: Linguistics-Anthropology, May 9-11, Tucson, Arizona

[Heidi Orcutt-Gachiri]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ARIZONA LINGUISTICS AND ANTHROPOLOGY SYMPOSIUM

May 9-11, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
URL: http://linguistics.arizona.edu/azanli/
azanli2008 at gmail.com

The Joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology at the University of Arizona
is pleased to announce a symposium focusing on the intersections of the two
fields.

We invite the submission of abstracts for papers addressing these interests,
which include but are not limited to linguistic variation and change, formal
analysis, linguistic documentation and revitalization, interactional,
conversation, and discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, language contact, and
linguistic anthropology. Work submitted in any of these areas may focus 
on data
from any of the core subfields of linguistic analysis: syntax, phonology,
phonetics, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse.

Invited speakers:
Jane Hill
Susan Philips
Keith Walters
Claire Bowern
Chris Potts

The conference will be held May 9–11, 2008, at the University of Arizona in
Tucson, Arizona.

Deadline for abstract submission: January 15, 2008.

Abstracts must not exceed two pages in length, minimum 1-inch margins, minimum
12-point font. Send as a .pdf to azanli2008 at gmail.com.

If you cannot submit electronically, please write to Heidi 
Orcutt-Gachiri either
at the conference email address or via snail mail by December 22, 2007, to let
her know to expect your abstract. The snail mail address is Heidi
Orcutt-Gachiri, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, P.O. Box
210030, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0030 USA.

Presentations will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for questions.

URL: http://linguistics.arizona.edu/azanli/