[Linganth] WAIL20 Call for Papers

[Alexia Fawcett]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
20th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2017)

Santa Barbara, CA
May 12 -13, 2017



*Meeting Description*



The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
announces its 20th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL),
which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and
practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.



We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for this year will be
Mary S. Linn (Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage).



*General Information*



Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Yñez
Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport.
Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is
approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between
LAX and Santa Barbara.



*Call for Papers*



Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the
study of indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes,
followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or
less (excluding examples and/or references).



Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one
co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in
the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative,
etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the
paper as well as who will be in attendance.



Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format through the EasyAbs system at
www.linguistlist.org/easyabs/WAIL20



Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have Internet
access. Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card
with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing
address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; and (6) title of your paper.









Send hard copy submissions to:

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

Attn: Alexia Fawcett or Adrienne Tsikewa

Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106



*Deadline for receipt of abstracts: February 12, 2017 *



Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than March 6,
2017.



For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, Alexia
Fawcett or Adrienne Tsikewa, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or check out our
website, http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/org/nail/WAIL.
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