22.3441, Calls: Lang Documentation, Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Typology/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-22-3441. Wed Aug 31 2011. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 22.3441, Calls: Lang Documentation, Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Typology/USA

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Date: 29-Aug-2011
From: Jennifer Mitchell [cail.utah at gmail.com]
Subject: Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America

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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:30:13
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Subject: Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America

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Full Title: Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America 
Short Title: CELCNA 

Date: 23-Mar-2012 - 24-Mar-2012
Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA 
Contact Person: Jennifer Mitchell
Meeting Email: cail.utah at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.cail.utah.edu/?pageId=1049 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 13-Jan-2012 

Meeting Description:

8th Annual Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA)
Dates: March 23-24, 2012
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Sponsors: Smithsonian Institution, College of Humanities, and the Center for American Indian Languages, University of Utah.

Keynote speaker: TBA

Registration:  

Pre-registration is available on the conference webpage.
Registration before March 12th: $75 for conference participants (students $35) (tribal elders, no cost).  (This is used to cover the cost of conference rooms, refreshments and dinner on Friday evening.)
Registration after March 12th or on-site: $85 for conference participants ($45 for students).  

Teacher Workshop: 

A concurrent workshop entitled 'Teaching Beginning Students How to Speak their Ancestral Language: Oral Language Development' will be held on Friday, March 23, organized by Marianna Di Paolo of the University of Utah. Participation for this workshop requires pre-registration, available on the conference website http://www.cail.utah.edu. 

Call for Papers:

Presentations are invited on any aspect of American Indian languages. Special interest this year is being placed on language documentation and description, computational approaches to documentation and revitalization, community outcomes of language documentation, and lessons learned from language documentation. Other suitable emphases include language revitalization; historical linguistics; anthropological linguistics; sociolinguistics; text collection and analysis; phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. American Indian participants are especially invited and encouraged to attend.  

For more information about the conference, and to register, visit the conference web page at http://www.cail.utah.edu and click on the CELCNA link.

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute oral presentations. Presentations can be given in English or Spanish.  

There is a $100 'Future Scholar' award for the best student abstract to be presented at the conference. Please make sure to indicate if you are a student during the abstract submission process.  

Deadline for abstracts: January 13, 2012
The Program Committee will announce results about February 3.  

Abstract Guidelines: 

Abstracts no longer than one page including references should follow best practices and where possible include the conclusions of your paper and any relevant data. To submit an abstract, please go to http://www.cail.utah.edu.

Call for Workshop Proposals: 

Proposals are also encouraged for special workshops in language revitalization, such as materials development, orthographic issues, and the use of technology within documentation programs. Proposals for workshops or discussion sessions should specify which person or persons will lead the discussion, and what the proposed topic/question for discussion is.  

Deadline for workshop proposals: December 16, 2011   

Archive of Proceedings: 

Papers delivered at the conference are eligible to be included in the proceedings of the conference, archived on the website for the Center for American Indian Languages. Finished papers must be received no later than two weeks after the conference to be included in the conference proceedings.

Additional Information: 

Contact Jennifer Mitchell at cail.utah at gmail.com. If you need information not easily arranged via e-mail, please call Tel. 801-587-0720 during business hours.

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