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Matthias Brenzinger: Our Featured Linguist!

It was about one and a half years ago that I finally I arrived where I had always wanted to be and do what I had always wanted-- teach students, support small language communities and conduct research on African languages on my doorstep. The University of Cape Town and my new colleagues welcomed my efforts to establish the Centre for African Language Diversity-- CALDi as well as The African Language Archive-- TALA and I was recently appointed the Mellon Research Chair: African Language Diversity this initiative. The main aim of CALDi is to train young African scholars in descriptive linguistics and open up space for research into African languages at UCT with the hopes of countering the dominance of African linguistics outside the continent. It has been a great challenge for which my whole career has been a form of preparation...Read more



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34th TABU Dag


Recent Call for Papers
Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2013

Call for Papers:

We invite short abstracts for presentations and posters in English in any field of linguistics including, but not limited to: phonetics and phonology, syntax and semantics, sociolinguistics, discourse and communication, computational linguistics and neurolinguistics. Abstracts should not be longer than 300 words excluding title, author names, keywords and references and should be submitted in .pdf or .txt format. We invite submissions for oral presentations of 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion, as well as for poster presentations.

The official language of the conference is English.

The deadline for the abstract submission for both the TABU Dag and the workshop Minority Languages in a Multilingual Europe is 31 March 2013. You are invited to submit your abstracts using the following link:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/tabudag2013

Notifications of acceptance will be sent on 30 April 2013.

For further information, please visit the conference website:

http://www.tabudag.nl

Conference location: Groningen, The Netherlands
Contact information: tabudag@rug.nl