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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:22:35
From: Sarah Dopierala [ktzs93 at yahoo.com]
Subject: The Sylheti Language Conference

 
The Sylheti Language Conference 
Short Title: SLC 

Date: 12-May-2016 - 12-May-2016 
Location: SOAS, University of London, London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Sarah Dopierala 
Contact Email: 634632 at soas.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Sylheti Language Conference

We are pleased to announce The Sylheti Language Conference which will take
place at SOAS, University of London on May 12, 2016.

Sylheti is a language that is spoken in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh as
well as by members of the diaspora around the world, including our own London
in the United Kingdom. However, its linguistic and indeed cultural value
remains, as yet, relatively unexplored. 

This one-day conference will be an opportunity for linguists and academics in
other disciplines to present and discuss their research on Sylheti in an
informal but intellectually stimulating setting. Topics range from Orthography
Development, to Phonetics/Phonology, to Morphosyntax, to Sociolinguistics. All
paper titles and abstracts are available through the conference website linked
below. 

We hope that by bringing people together we may encourage dialogue between
researchers of this fascinating though often unnoticed language. 

The conference is organized by postgraduate students under the auspices of the
Department of Linguistics, SOAS. Many of the postgraduate students involved
either study Sylheti in lessons offered by the SOAS Sylheti Language Project,
or research the language with a native speaker in the Field Methods course
offered by the Department of Linguistics. 

Registration

Registration for The Sylheti Language Conference is now possible online.
Please click here: 
http://store.soas.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=19&catid
=79&prodvarid=383 to register for the conference.

Student/ unwaged fee: £6.00. 
Standard registration: £10.00. 

The conference fee includes lunch and refreshments. Participants will need to
arrange their own travel and accommodation. Feel free to contact the
organizing committee with any questions at: 634632 at soas.ac.uk

Keynote Speaker
 
Dr. Mark Sebba (Lancaster University) will be speaking on orthography
development.

You can find the full Programme here at the Conference Website
https://sylhetiproject.wordpress.com/program/

We hope you will help make our Sylheti Language Conference a success!

Organizers: Candide Simard, Marie Thaut, Emily Gref, Andriana Koumbarou, Anna
Cronin, Anu Bhaskararaman, Breanna Lewis, Caoife Garvey, Daniel Vincent,
Eveling Villa, Harry Willoughby, Jean Rohleder, Jonas Lau, Martha Tsutsui,
Rebecca Orford, Robert Laub, Sarah Dopierala, Waran Kangeyan, and Zurab
Baratashvili.
 






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