Second call for Abstracts: 3rd Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Sichuan

[Doug Cooper]

Abstract submission deadline: Feb. 28th, 2013.
Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2013.
http://stw-sichuan2013.sciencesconf.org/
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The 3rd Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Sichuan will be held in Paris,
2-4 Sept. 2013 under the auspices of CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique) <http://www.cnrs.fr/index.php>. The conference's website is:

http://stw-sichuan2013.sciencesconf.org/

The aim of this workshop is to stimulate cross-fertilization of research
efforts on the large number of little-explored Sino-Tibetan languages and
dialects spoken in Sichuan and abutting areas. To what extent do features
shared by several languages of the area reflect deeply entrenched borrowings?
To what extent do they constitute retentions? These and other intriguing
questions prompted researchers at the Institute of Linguistics at Academia
Sinica to organize in 2008 a workshop dedicated specifically to Tibeto-Burman
Languages of Sichuan
<http://typology.ling.sinica.edu.tw/old_201106/TB_of_Sichuan_eng>. A second
edition <http://ccl.pku.edu.cn/zmy/> of the workshop was hosted by the Center
for Chinese Linguistics of Peking University in 2010, with an emphasis on
"Principles and Practices of Reconstruction". This edition's special focus is
on "Sino-Tibetan Languages of Sichuan in their Areal Context": in addition to
studies of languages of Sichuan proper, we encourage submissions
about Sino-Tibetan languages of areas that border on Sichuan. The conference
will also include a panel on Rgyalrong and Kiranti comparative morphosyntax.

Abstracts are invited on topics that include descriptions of phonetics and
phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics,
historical-comparative linguistics, typology, and field reports on recently
investigated languages. Registration is free of charge.



We look forward to seeing you at the Workshop in Paris, and would be most
grateful if you could pass on the information to interested colleagues and
students.

G. Jacques, Chair

-- 
Guillaume Jacques
CNRS (CRLAO) - INALCO
http://cnrs.academia.edu/GuillaumeJacques

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