Announcing NEILS 8

[Doug Cooper]

Dear fellow linguist and/or North East Indianist:

We are pleased to announce that the 8th International Conference of the North
East Indian Linguistics Society (NEILS) will be held from *January 31 to
February 2, 2014*, in Guwahati, Assam, India, to be hosted by the Gauhati
University Department of Linguistics
<http://www.gauhati.ac.in/page.php?cat=Department&id=Linguistics&m_id=Research>.

*_Abstracts _*
To present a paper at the Conference, please send an abstract of no more than
500 words (exclusive of data and references, if any) no later than *September
15, 2013* via email to /both/ s.morey at latrobe.edu.au
<mailto:s.morey at latrobe.edu.au> /and/ markwpost at gmail.com
<mailto:markwpost at gmail.com>. Please send /both/ the original abstract (.docx,
.doc, .odf, .rtf or .txt format) /and/ a .pdf of the same. Please save the
file using the following format:
NEILS8_Abstract_INITIAL+SURNAME_BRIEFTITLE.EXT For example,
NEILS8_Abstract_PSingh_ManipuriPronouns.docx.

*Important: When preparing your abstract, do not use any special formatting,
styles, etc. Just give the paper title, your name and affiliation, and your
abstract, in plain text. That’s all!***

Notification of acceptance will normally take place in early October, although
early submissions/decisions for those needing to make extensive advance travel
arrangements can be arranged. As the primary focus of NEILS is description of
the rich cultural-linguistic diversity that exists in North East India, papers
should have a primary descriptive component, preferably from a
functional-typological or anthropological-linguistic perspective. Field
reports are acceptable. Papers whose sole or primary focus is formal,
theoretical and/or computational in nature, or papers whose focus is on
languages not spoken in North East India, are unlikely to be accepted for
presentation. However, we will consider papers concerning languages spoken in
the areas of Myanmar, China, Bhutan, Bangladesh and West Bengal that border
the North East.

*_Fees_*
The fee schedule for NEILS is as follows, and includes lunch and tea/snacks on
each day of the conference:
Rs. 300SAARC student without financial support
Rs. 1000SAARC student with financial support
Rs. 1500SAARC non-student (includes teaching faculty pursuing PhD) or
International student
Rs. 3000International non-student

*_Certificates_*
The NEILS policy on certificates is as follows:
a) Everyone attending the conference will have to register themselves by
paying the relevant fees. We do not have a single day fee.
b) Certificates will be issued only to paper presenters. Merely registering
for the conference by paying the relevant fees will not entitle a person to a
certificate.
c) In order to receive individual certificates, each co-author of a paper will
have to pay the relevant registration fees irrespective of whether they attend
the conference in person or not. If a fee is not paid by non-attending
authors, only one certificate will be issued to the attending author, but
naming the paper and all the authors.
d) Jointly authored papers, one of whose authors is unable to attend the
conference, will be considered for publication in the NEILS volumes under the
name of all co-authors.

*_Accommodation_*
Accommodation will be available, and will be announced in due course on the
NEILS mailing list, and will also be posted on the NEILS website (see below).

*_Contact_*____
Please consult the NEILS website at _http://sealang.net/neils_ periodically
for updated information closer to the conference date, or, for any individual
questions, please contact markwpost at gmail.com <mailto:markwpost at gmail.com> or
s.morey at latrobe.edu.au <mailto:s.morey at latrobe.edu.au>.

We look forward to welcoming you to Guwahati in January!

With our best,

The Organizers, NEILS8
Stephen Morey (La Trobe University)
Mark W. Post (Universität Bern)
Jyotiprakash Tamuli (Gauhati University)

NEILS
Department of Linguistics,
GauhatiUniversity
Guwahati, Assam781014
India
http://sealang.net/neils

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