WAIL 2010 2nd Call for papers

[Rebekka Siemens]

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Santa Barbara, CA 
April 30th-May 1st, 2010 
 
The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 
13th 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.  
 
Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of language 
in the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.  
 
Plenary speaker: Sally Rice (University of Alberta) 
 
Special panel: 
This year's workshop will include a panel presented by academic and community-based 
researchers working on the documentation, description and revitalization of their heritage 
languages. Talks will be 20 minutes each, followed by a question-and-answer period. 
 
Guidelines: 
Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references). Hard copy 
submissions will be accepted from those who do not have internet access. 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.  
 
  
Online submissions:  Please submit all abstracts online at 
http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/wail2010. PDF, RTF, Microsoft Word and Open 
Office formats are preferred.  
 
For hard copy submissions: 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; (6) title of your paper; (7) whether your 
submission 
is for the general session or the Special Panel. 
  
 
Send hard copy submissions to: Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Attn: Daisy Rosenblum or Stephanie Morse 
     Department of Linguistics  
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 
 
 
DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF ABSTRACTS:  
February 1st, 2010 
Notification of acceptance will be by email no later than March 1st, 2009.  
 
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. Information about hotel 
accommodations will be posted on our website (http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/). 
  
 
For further information contact the conference coordinators, Daisy Rosenblum and 
Stephanie Morse, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com, or check out our website at  
http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/nailsg/