Cfp: International workshop on linguistic fieldwork in South Asia

[Doug Cooper]

*International workshop on linguistic fieldwork in South Asia*
Uppsala University 1–2 June 2015

Organizer: Anju Saxena (Uppsala University)
Website: http://www.lingfil.uu.se/kalend/konf/lfsa/
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 November 2014

*Call for papers*

The workshop will provide a forum for discussing issues related to linguistic
fieldwork in South Asia, focusing on the challenges as well as contributions
of fieldwork to descriptive linguistics. This includes fieldwork methods
designed to illustrate complex descriptive problems, convey socio-culturally
anchored concepts, and empirically test theories.

Invited speakers:

   * Professor Anvita Abbi (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
   * Professor Shobhana Chelliah (University of North Texas)
   * Professor Sabine Stoll (University of Zürich)
   * Dr. Bettina Zeisler (Tübingen University)


We invite researchers to submit abstracts for presentations at the workshop,
including, but not limited to, topics such as:

   * Managing the interplay between field data and theory;
   * Striking a balance between empirical corpus-based language description and
     hypothesis-driven investigation;
   * Collecting and processing data for studying semantic distinctions;
   * Integrating sociolinguistic variables in the description of endangered
     languages;
   * Handling linguistic analysis in the context of a moribund language;
   * Preparing dictionaries of undocumented languages;
   * Collecting field data for applied linguistic studies (e.g. first-language
     acquisition in endangered languages);
   * Integrating theoretical and methodological aspects of fieldwork in the
     context of interdisciplinary research collaborations (e.g. anthropology,
     ethnobiology, geography, musicology, ICT);
   * Producing digital language data (databases, corpora, recordings) for
     linguistic analysis.

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: <anju(d)saxena(at)lingfil(d)uu(d)se> (change the
parenthesized expressions into the appropriate characters)

*Deadline for abstract submission*: 30 November 2014

A selected number of papers from the workshop will be considered for
publication in the /Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics/(de
Gruyter Mouton).

Workshop organization:
Organizer: Anju Saxena (Uppsala University)

Program committee: Lars Borin (University of Gothenburg), Michael Dunn
(Uppsala University), Niklas Edenmyr (Uppsala University) and Colette
Grinevald (Université Lyon 2).

More information about the workshop can be found
at:<http://www.lingfil.uu.se/kalend/konf/lfsa/>.

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

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

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