LINGUIST List 12.88

Tue Jan 16 2001

Calls: Himalayan Languages, Australian languages

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Anju Saxena, Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium
2. Claire Bowern, Australian languages (ICHL)

***** Call for Papers *****
 
SEVENTH HIMALAYAN LANGUAGES SYMPOSIUM

Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
September 7-9, 2001
 
Last date for submitting abstract: 1 February, 2001

The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on
languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region:
north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan and the Tibetan
Plateau, northern Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the
Burushaski-speaking area in the west. 

We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to:

- Descriptions of lesser-known languages
- Language change and variation
- Multilingualism and language contact
- Historical-comparative studies
- Typological studies
- Field reports
- Corpus-based analysis
- Language death and language preservation
- Language policy and language planning
- Ethnology and folklore
- Himalayan languages and new technologies


Workshop 1: Language change in the Tibeto-Burman area
Main speaker: James Matisoff (University of California, Berkeley)
Workshop organizer: Jadranka Gvozdanovic (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Workshop 2: Nominal juxtaposition as a morpho-syntactic phenomenon
Workshop organizer: Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm (Stockholm University, Sweden)

 
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Abstracts should be no longer than one page with one-inch margins using at
least an 11-point font. Along with the abstract, please enclose a separate
page specifying the authors' affiliation, address, and e-mail address.
Abstracts may be submitted electronically (as an attached file in RTF,
postscript, PDF or MS Word format).

 
IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract due: 1 February, 2001 
* Acceptance notification: 1 March, 2001 
* Symposium: 7-9 September, 2001

 
REGISTRATION
Pre-registration (before June 30): $45 (faculty), $25 (students)
Registration at conference site: $50 (faculty), $30 (students)

 
LOCAL ORGANIZATION
�sten Dahl, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
Gunilla Gren-Eklund, Dept. of African and Asian Languages, Uppsala University
Anju Saxena, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University

 
CONTACT INFORMATION
For any information related to the HLS-7, please contact:
Anju Saxena
Department of Linguistics
Uppsala University
Box 527
SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden 
Tel. +46-18-471 14 57
Fax. +46-18-471 14 16 
E-mail: anju.saxenaling.uu.se
 
Workshop 1 organization and contact information:
Jadranka Gvozdanovic
Faculty of Philosophy, Slavic Dept., University of Mannheim
Schloss EW 327, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany
E-mail: jadrankarumms.uni-mannheim.de
Fax: +49 621 181 2291

Workshop 2 organization and contact information:
Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm
Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: tammling.su.se
Fax: +46-8-155389

News about the symposium will also be posted on the symposium's Web page at
http://www.afro.uu.se/HLS-7.html


The Permanent Secretariat for this annual Symposium is maintained at Leiden
University in the Netherlands.

 
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PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium
Uppsala University

7-9 September, 2001


Name:
 
Title:
 
Affiliation:
 
Mailing address:
 
E-mail address:
 
I intend to participate: Yes / No

I intend to present a paper: Yes / No

I prefer receiving information by: e-mail / surface mail

 

Please send this form to:
Anju Saxena
Department of Linguistics
Uppsala University
Box 527
SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
e-mail: anju.saxenaling.uu.se

Expressions of interest for the workshop dealing with subgrouping in 
Australian languages at ICHL 2001 are due by **31st January**. For details 
of the workshop, please visit 
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~bowern/aussubgrouping.htm. For general 
ICHL details go to 
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/linguistics/conferences.html. For questions 
please email Claire Bowern (bowernfas.harvard.edu) or Harold Koch 
(harold.kochanu.edu.au).



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Department of Linguistics
Harvard University
305 Boylston Hall
Cambridge MA 02138
ph: (+1) 617-547-3521
fax: (+1) 617-496-4447
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~lingdept/
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~bowern/