HLS15 asbtract submission deadline extended to May 1, 2009

[Daniel Wood]

The deadline to submit abstracts for the 15th Himalayan Languages Symposium (HLS15) has been extended to May 1, 2009.
Abstracts are limited to 500 words, and must be submitted electronically as an .rtf, .pdf or Word (.doc) file to hls15 at uoregon.edu. Please use "YOUR LAST NAME + HLS abstract" as the subject header of the message, and include your name, affiliation, address and title of your paper in the body of the message, as well as contact information: email, physical address, phone, fax

For more information on the HLS, go to the HLS15 website at www.uoregon.edu/~hls15

For those who are unfamiliar, the Himalayan Languages Symposium is an annually convening, open scholarly forum for scholars of Himalayan languages. HLS serves as a podium for contributions on any language of the greater
Himalayan region, whether Burushaski, Kusunda, a Tibeto-Burman language, an Indo-Aryan tongue or other language. Linguists as well as specialists from related disciplines like philology, history, anthropology, archaeology and
prehistory are welcome to make their contributions to the study of Himalayan languages and Himalayan language communities.

We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to:

- Descriptions of lesser-known languages
- Language change and variation
- Multilingualism and language contact
- Historical-comparative studies
- Typological studies
- Field reports
- Corpus-based analysis
- Language death and language preservation
- Language policy and language planning
- Ethnology and folklore
- Himalayan languages and new technologies


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"It's hard to walk straight when the road bends" - Old Romanian proverb

Daniel Wood
Department of Linguistics
1290 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403, USA