37.53, Calls: 28th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (USA)

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Subject: 37.53, Calls: 28th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (USA)

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Date: 05-Jan-2026
From: Cormac League [league at ucsb.edu]
Subject: 28th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages


Full Title: 28th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Short Title: WAIL 28

Date: 01-May-2026 - 02-May-2026
Location: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Meeting Email: wailconference.ucsb at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.wailconference.org/wail-28/call-for-papers

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Typology

Call Deadline: 19-Jan-2026

Final Call for Papers:
The Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) is an annual
conference held in UCSB's Department of Linguistics. This conference
brings linguists, language activists, and community members together
to learn about and advocate for the endangered indigenous languages of
North, Central, South America and the Caribbean. This conference aims
to introduce community members to the world of linguistics, as well as
to contribute to an inclusive, positive culture within the field of
linguistics itself.
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, figures, and/or references).
Abstracts and presentations may be given in English, Spanish or
Portuguese.
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, who will be in attendance, and who are the
corresponding authors.
Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format via the Abstract
Submission form. Please submit two abstracts:
1. One with the identifying information of the person or persons
giving the presentation along with affiliations and contact
information,
2. Another with no indication of the author(s).
Abstract Submission Form: https://forms.gle/JFa3txpcHeg9Ywxe9
If authors must be cited, they should be referred to as (Author
[DATE]). For the anonymous abstract, please make sure to title the
abstract with the name of the presentation/paper and not with the name
of the author(s). Author(s) names in anonymous abstract submission may
be rejected or the author(s) may be asked to revise and resubmit.
Presenters at WAIL are eligible for inclusion in the Proceedings of
WAIL. Presenters will be given instructions about how to submit their
paper for publication in the Proceedings of WAIL in the month after
WAIL is held. These papers will be subject to editorial review before
being published on our website where they will be publicly available.
All papers must comport with the WAIL style sheet
(www.wailconference.org/proceedings).



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