36.1709, Confs: Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (USA)

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Date: 29-May-2025
From: John Powell [conferences at ssila.org]
Subject: Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas


Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Short Title: SSILA

Date: 08-Jan-2026 - 11-Jan-2026
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana and Online, USA
Contact: John Powell
Contact Email: conferences at ssila.org
Meeting URL: https://www.ssila.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Documentation

Submission Deadline: 14-Jul-2025

The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
(SSILA) has decided to hold its next annual winter meeting with two
options:
 - In-person jointly with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) at
the Marriott New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 8 to 11,
2026, and
 - An auxiliary online meeting via Zoom on January 17 to 18, 2026.
Due to the unknowns currently associated with traveling to, from, and
within the United States for many of our members, presenters and
attendees who are unable to travel in person are encouraged to attend
the online portion of the conference.
Call for Papers:
SSILA meetings encourage scholars to present on a wide range of topics
centered on any aspect of Indigenous languages in the Americas. SSILA
welcomes abstracts for papers that present original research focusing
on the linguistic study of the Indigenous languages of the Americas.
Presenters must be members of SSILA no later than at the time of
acceptance in order to present. (You can join SSILA at:
https://www.ssila.org/en/membership-information).
Abstract Submission:
The deadline for submission of all abstracts is on 14 July 2025, at
11:59 pm (Hawaii-Aleutian time). Abstracts should be submitted
electronically, using the Google Form link below (please note that
unlike earlier years, abstracts will not be submitted via EasyChair,
SurveyMonkey, or EasyAbs). Also, e-mail or hard-copy submissions will
be accepted if arrangements are made in advance with the SSILA Program
Committee Administrator, John W. W. Powell (conferences at ssila.org).
Abstracts may be submitted in English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese.
At the conference, talks may be presented in any language of the
Americas, including in Indigenous languages. (If you would like to
submit an abstract in a language that is not listed above, please get
in touch with John W. W. Powell by 1 July 2025 so that we can make the
necessary arrangements for review and, ultimately, presentation).
Abstracts can be submitted via the following page:
https://forms.gle/9FriSnycuiBXhFKu9
Authors may choose whether they want to present in-person or online.
We expect to inform authors of acceptance by mid-September, at which
point they will be offered a chance to change their modality
preference if they choose.
Submissions for the SSILA Annual Meeting require two abstracts:
Short Abstract. This abstract should be no more than 100 words and
will be used in the meeting handbook. On the submission page, you can
write or paste this abstract into the “Short Abstract” field.
Long Abstract. This abstract is the one that will be evaluated by
reviewers for inclusion in the meeting program. The long abstract
should be a PDF file. On the submission page, you will be asked to
upload this from your computer.
Long abstracts must conform to the guidelines below.
General Requirements:
1. All authors must be members of SSILA before or at the time of
acceptance. See the SSILA website for information about membership and
renewal (https://www.ssila.org/en/membership-information). The
membership requirement may be waived for Indigenous community scholars
and language practitioners. It may also be waived for co-authors or
for participants in organized sessions who are from disciplines other
than those ordinarily represented by SSILA (linguistics and linguistic
anthropology). Waivers can be requested by contacting the SSILA
Secretary, Amy Fountain (secretary at ssila.org).
2. Any member may submit (a) one single-author abstract and one
multi-author abstract OR (b) two multi-author abstracts.
3. After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title,
or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical
errors, are permitted.
4. Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent
bona fide developments of the same research.
5. Papers must not appear in print before the meeting.
6. All presenters of individual papers must register for the meeting
if their papers are accepted.
7. Authors who must withdraw from the program should inform the SSILA
Program Committee Administrator (conferences at ssila.org) as soon as
possible.
8. Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the
SSILA meeting and the LSA meeting or a meeting of one of the Sister
Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, NARNiHS, SCiL, SPCL). Authors who have
done so will have these abstracts removed from consideration. Authors
may submit substantially different abstracts for presentation at the
SSILA meeting and the LSA or a Sister Society meeting.
9. Authors may attend and present at both the in-person and online
meetings of SSILA, as long as they follow the two-paper limitation as
outlined in (2) (ex. an author may present a co-authored paper in
person and another online).
Abstract Format:
1. Abstracts should be uploaded as a file in PDF format to this
submission form: https://forms.gle/9FriSnycuiBXhFKu9
2. The abstract, including examples as needed, should be no more than
two typed pages (12 pt font, single spaced, with 1-inch margins),
including examples and references. Abstracts longer than two pages
will be rejected without being evaluated.
3. At the top of the abstract, give a title that is not more than one
line and clearly indicates the topic of the paper.
4. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously. Do not include your name on
the abstract. If you identify yourself in any way in the abstract
(e.g. “In Smith (1992), I”), the abstract will be rejected without
being evaluated. Of course, it may be necessary to refer to your own
work in the third person in order to appropriately situate the
research.
5. Abstracts which do not conform to these format guidelines will be
rejected without being evaluated.
Abstract Contents:
Papers whose main topic does not focus on the Indigenous languages of
the Americas will be rejected without further consideration by the
Program Committee. SSILA requires further that the subject matter be
related to linguistics and/or language work, that the research
presented include new findings or developments not published before
the meeting, that there be reflection on the social
outcomes/impacts/implications of the work, that the papers not be
submitted with malicious or scurrilous intent, and that the abstract
be coherent and in accordance with these guidelines.
Abstracts are more often rejected because they omit crucial
information rather than because of errors in what they include. The
most important criterion is relevance to the understanding of
Indigenous languages of the Americas. It is also important to present
results so that they will be of interest to the whole SSILA (and
larger) linguistic community, not just to those who work on the same
language or language family.
A suggested outline for abstracts is as follows:
1. State the problem or research question raised by prior work, with
specific reference to relevant prior research.
2. Give a clear indication of the nature and source of your data
(primary fieldwork, archival research, secondary sources). State the
main point or argument of the proposed presentation.
3. Regardless of the subfield, cite sufficient data, and explain why
and how they support the main point or argument. For examples in
languages other than English, provide word-by-word glosses and
underline or boldface the portions of the examples which are critical
to the argument.
4. State the relevance of your ideas to past work or to the future
development of the field. Describe analyses in as much detail as
possible. Avoid promissory statements to the effect of “a solution to
this problem will be presented.” If you are taking a stand on a
controversial issue, summarize the arguments that led you to your
position.
5. You are expected to state the contribution to linguistics made by
the analysis and state the social outcomes/impacts/implications of the
work (which may be positive, neutral or negative, immediate or
potential).
Consideration of the social outcomes/impacts/implications of the work
might focus on the specific topic under consideration or take into
account the broader scope of a project. Effects might take a while to
be felt and might be nuanced with respect to who is influenced and
how. Implications are likely to relate to the social significance to
the language community, such as the project’s capacity for developing
tools for pedagogy or revitalization, valorizing the language within a
broader social context, or (perhaps at the same time) introducing
points of tension regarding approaches to language teaching. They
might also include bringing a situation regarding a language
community’s status to wider attention, educating the public regarding
language endangerment and its significance, promoting the application
of Native ways of knowing in linguistic research or community-related
goals. Resources for abstract writers can be found online at:
https://www.ssila.org/social-impact-and-outcomes
6. Please include a list of references for any work cited in the
abstract. The references are included within the two-page limit. If
glossing conventions used in the abstract are atypical, a list of
abbreviations should be included.
Categories of Presentation:
Authors are required to indicate the preferred category of their
presentation at the time of submitting the abstract. The program
committee will try to accommodate this preference as space and time
allow. The categories to choose from are:
Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Historical
Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Lexicography, Applied Linguistics,
Language Revitalization, Linguistic Geography, Typology, Language
Learning/Acquisition, Other
Questions? Please contact conferences at ssila.org if you have any
questions about or difficulty with your abstract submission.



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