27.3376, Calls: Austro-Asiatic, Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling, Typology/India

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Subject: 27.3376, Calls: Austro-Asiatic, Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling, Typology/India

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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:08:09
From: Saralin A Lyngdoh [lingsacaal2016 at gmail.com]
Subject: South and South-East Asian Conference on Austro-Asiatic Languages

Full Title: South and South-East Asian Conference on Austro-Asiatic Languages 
Short Title: SSEACAAL2016 

Date: 21-Nov-2016 - 26-Nov-2016
Location: Shillong, Meghalaya, India 
Contact Person: Saralin A Lyngdoh
Meeting Email: lingsacaal2016 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.nehu.ac.in 

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

Language Family(ies): Austro-Asiatic 

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2016 

Meeting Description:

A conglomerate of about a hundred and fifty Austro-Asiatic languages with
about sixty five million speakers are found scattered across South and
Southeast Asia and parts of India. Ethnically and culturally diverse and
distinct, the various linguistic communities with their respective dialects
and language varieties belonging to this stock have sparked a great concern of
interest to language experts, language researchers and linguists where areas
of research on documentation, preservation and promotion have emerged out as
strong areas of research. Another major concern of many linguists working on
these languages is the classification of these varieties of languages.
Classifications made by Diffloth (2005) and Sidwell (2009) have brought light
to many varieties that were left unclassified for a long time. However, many
languages are yet to be worked on and classified and the final classification
is yet to be established. Other important issues emerging out of the
diversity, interrelationships and contact situations of language and culture
in the South and South-east Asian sociolinguistic area, issues that can be
studied from the ecolinguistic perspective, will also be the major concerns of
the conference. 

It is just the right time to give these languages a just treatment and focus
on the issues concerning its various linguistic aspects spanning from the
writing system to theoretical perspectives. Therefore, this conference aims at
bringing together the interactive minds of young researchers, scholars, and
linguists across whose works have been on this particular language family. 

The issues of concern to be tackled through paper presentations and
brainstorming interactive sessions will include, but not be limited to, the
following areas: 

1. Phonetics and Phonology of AA languages 
2. Morphology of AA languages 
3. Morpho-syntax of AA languages
4. Syntax of AA languages
5. Typological Studies of AA languages
6. Areal Linguistics: Contact and Convergence in AA Languages of South Asia
7. SA as a Linguistic/ Socio-Linguistic area
8. Social Cultural dynamics of AA Languages
9. AA languages in the domain of Mass Media and Communication
10. Historical Linguistics/ Comparative Linguistics in AA languages
11. Origin and Patterns of Migration of Indigenous AA Speech Communities
12. Pattern of Language choice, language maintenance, shift, and endangerment
within AA languages
13. Gender and discourse of South East AA Languages
14. Script Writing system, orthography and Standardization of AA language
varieties
15. Socio-Political Dynamics of empowerment in SA regions
16. Preservation and promotion of AA languages at the Societal and
Institutional levels
17. Language, folktales and folk music of AA communities

Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be submitted in English and should be sent by 15 September
2016 using the Easyabs System at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sseacaal2016

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