Cfp: International workshop on linguistic microareas in South Asia

[Doug Cooper]

[Forwarded from the Tibeto-Burman list.]
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Call for papers
*International workshop on linguistic microareas in South Asia*
Uppsala University, Sweden
5-6 May 2014
/Deadline for abstract submission/: 30 October 2013

Homepage: <http://www.lingfil.uu.se/calendar/konf/lmsa/>

/Invited speakers:/
Professor Elena Bashir (University of Chicago)
Professor Balthasar Bickel (University of Zürich)
Professor Shobhana Chelliah (University of North Texas)
Professor Hans H. Hock (University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign)
Professor John Peterson (University of Kiel)

We invite the submission of abstracts for oral presentations at the workshops. 
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

   *
     case-studies on the linguistic structure of a selected geographical region
     (a contrastive study of two languages will not be prioritised)

   *
     socio-linguistic studies pertaining to a geographical region, with
     implications for the linguistic structure of the concerned languages

   *
     relationship between the proposed microareas and South Asia as a
     linguistic area

   *
     methodological challenges for areal linguistics, with empirical data from
     South Asia

   *
     synchronic data and prehistory, with data from South Asia

Abstracts should be one (A4 or letter) page long. A second page may be
included for references and/or data. Abstracts --in pdf format only-- should
be sent to: <microareas(at)lingfil(d)uu(d)se
<mailto:microareas%28at%29lingfil%28d%29uu%28d%29se>> (change the
parenthesized expressions into the appropriate characters)

/Deadline for abstract submission/: 30 October 2013


-- 
Anju Saxena
Professor of Linguistics
Dept. of Linguistics & Philology
Uppsala University
Sweden

<http://www.lingfil.uu.se/staff/anju_saxena>

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