27.1814, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Cognitive Sci, Evolution of Language, Historical Ling, Neuroling/USA

Tue Apr 19 17:08:44 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-1814. Tue Apr 19 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.1814, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Cognitive Sci, Evolution of Language, Historical Ling, Neuroling/USA

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
                   25 years of LINGUIST List!
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhite at linguistlist.org>
================================================================

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:08:14
From: Robert Port [port at indiana.edu]
Subject: 8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics

Full Title: 8th International Conference in Evolutionary Linguistics 
Short Title: CIEL8 

Date: 08-Aug-2016 - 10-Aug-2016
Location: Bloomington, Indiana, USA 
Contact Person: Thomas Schoenemann
Meeting Email: toms at indiana.edu
Web Site: http://www.indiana.edu/~brainevo/CIEL8/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Historical Linguistics; Neurolinguistics 

Other Specialty: Evolution of Language 

Call Deadline: 15-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

A conference on the evolution of language and historical language change at
Indiana University. These topics have attracted increasing interest in recent
years yet many scholars of these issues work in relative isolation from
potential colleagues. The 8th International Conference in Evolutionary
Linguistics (CIEL-8) will be held August 8-10, 2016 at Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana, with the goal of providing an international venue for
this work.  Talks as well as poster submissions are welcome.  Abstracts of
500-1,000 words should be submitted no later than June 15, 2016 (instructions
available at the conference website: http://www.indiana.edu/~brainevo/CIEL8/).
  We anticipate a maximum 2 week turnaround after receiving your submission). 
Registration will also begin on June 15, 2016. 

Previous CIEL conferences have been held in China in Guangzhou, Tianjin,
Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Xiamen, and, most recently, in Tianjin.  These
conferences have served as a platform for international cross-disciplinary
exchange on aspects of evolutionary linguistics, thus promoting the
development of this field of research.  CIEL-8 will be the first conference in
this series held outside of China.  Indiana University is honored to be the
host for 2016. We invite all scholars interested in language and its evolution
(cultural or biological) to participate.

Our current list of Invited Speakers includes: William S.-Y. Wang (Hong Kong
Polytechnic University; Emeritus U.C. Berkeley), Salikoko Mufwene (University
of Chicago), Jackson Gandour (Purdue University), Kong Jiangping (Peking
University), Wu Yicheng (Zhejiang University), Jared Taglialatela (Kennesaw
State University). Additional Invited Speakers will be announced soon.
Conference Themes:

- Archaeological and fossil evidence of language evolution
- Neuroscientific evidence on the evolution of language
- Language as a complex adaptive system
- Language and population evolution
- Diachronic and synchronic study of language
- Formation and evolution of dialects and languages
- Vertical and horizontal transmission of language
- Animal communication and its relation to human language
- Other language-related research 

Honorary Chair: Prof. William S-Y. Wang
Chair of Organizing Committee: Prof. P. Thomas Schoenemann  (toms at indiana.edu)
Secretary of Organizing Committee: Prof. Gang Peng
Local Organizing Committee: Prof. Robert Port, Prof. Colin Allen, Prof.
Charles Chien-Jer Lin

Call for Papers:

Talks as well as poster submissions are welcome. Abstracts of 500-1,000 words
should be submitted no later than June 15, 2016 (instructions available at the
conference website: http://www.indiana.edu/~brainevo/CIEL8/).   We anticipate
a maximum 2 week turnaround after receiving your submission).

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
                       Fund Drive 2016
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

This year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $79,000. This money 
will go to help keep the List running by supporting all of our 
Student Editors for the coming year.

Don't forget to check out Fund Drive 2016 site!

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

For all information on donating, including information on how to 
donate by check, money order, PayPal or wire transfer, please visit:
http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Indiana University and 
as such can receive donations through the eLinguistics Foundation, 
which is a registered 501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal 
Tax number is 45-4211155. These donations can be offset against 
your federal and sometimes your state tax return (U.S. tax payers only). 
For more information visit the IRS Web-Site, or contact your financial 
advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that 
they will match any gift you make to a non-profit organization. 
Normally this entails your contacting your human resources department 
and sending us a form that the eLinguistics Foundation fills in and 
returns to your employer. This is generally a simple administrative 
procedure that doubles the value of your gift to LINGUIST, without 
costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if 
your company operates such a program.

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-27-1814	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.org/