28.779, Calls: General Linguistics, Language Documentation/USA

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Subject: 28.779, Calls: General Linguistics, Language Documentation/USA

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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:43:09
From: Alexia Fawcett [afawcett at umail.ucsb.edu]
Subject: 20th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

 
Full Title: 20th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Short Title: WAIL 

Date: 12-May-2017 - 13-May-2017
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Alexia Fawcett
Meeting Email: wail.ucsb at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 12-Feb-2017 

Meeting Description:

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
announces its 20th 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. 

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for this year will be Mary
S. Linn (Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage). 

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.


Final Call for Papers:

20th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2017) 
Santa Barbara, CA
May 12 -13, 2017

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study
of indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by
10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding
examples and/or references). 

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. 

Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format through the EasyAbs system at
www.linguistlist.org/easyabs/WAIL20 .

Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have Internet
access. 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; and (6) title of your paper. 

Send hard copy submissions to: 

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Attn: Alexia Fawcett or Adrienne Tsikewa
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: February 12, 2017 

Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than March 6, 2017. 

For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, Alexia
Fawcett or Adrienne Tsikewa, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or check out our website,
http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/org/nail/WAIL.




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