29.653, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 29.653, Calls: General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:39:40
From: Adrienne Tsikewa [atsikewa at umail.ucsb.edu]
Subject: 21st Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

Full Title: 21st Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Short Title: WAIL 

Date: 20-Apr-2018 - 21-Apr-2018
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Adrienne Tsikewa
Meeting Email: atsikewa at umail.ucsb.edu
Web Site: http://ucsbosl.orgsync.com/org/nail/WAIL 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 23-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara
announces its 21st  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. 

Keynote Speaker

Anthony K. Webster (University of Texas at Austin)
Anthony K. Webster is a linguistic anthropologist and author of the books
Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics (UNM, 2009) and Intimate Grammars:
An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry (Arizona, 2015). His research focuses on the
interplay between language, culture, the individual and the imagination. He
has published articles on Navajo ethnopoetics and Navajo language and culture
in, among others, the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology; International
Journal of American Linguistics; Anthropological Linguistics; Journal de la
Société des Américanistes; Anthropology and Humanism; the Journal of
Anthropological Research; and the Journal of American Folklore. His third
book, The Sounds of Navajo Poetry: A Humanities of Speaking, is due out in
2018.

2nd Call for Papers:

21st Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2018) 
Santa Barbara, CA
April 20-21, 2018 

Call for Papers:

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/WAIL21

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: Adrienne Tsikewa or Jesús Olguín Martinez
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: February 23, 2018

Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than March 9, 2018.

Travel Scholarships:

WAIL 21 is pleased to offer three (3) travel scholarships this year. The total
amount of each award is $300. To be eligible, applicants must submit an
abstract via EasyAbs and complete a brief application:
https://tinyurl.com/WAIL21TravelScholarship
Applicants will need to provide a statement that addresses the following:
1)why you wish to present at WAIL 21 and how it will benefit your studies
and/or program milestones, 2) your financial situation, needs, and if you are
receiving any other funding to attend this conference. Successful applicants
will be determined based on the quality of the submitted abstract and
statement/need.

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

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