LINGUIST List 21.2547 Wed Jun 09 2010 Calls: General Ling, American Langs/USA Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Ivy Doak, SSILA Annual Meeting Message 1: SSILA Annual Meeting Date: 08-Jun-2010 From: Ivy Doak <ivyivydoak.com> Subject: SSILA Annual Meeting E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: SSILA Annual Meeting Date: 06-Jan-2011 - 09-Jan-2011 Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Contact Person: Ivy Doak Meeting Email: ivyivydoak.com Web Site: http://www.ssila.org Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Other Specialty: American Languages Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2010 Meeting Description: The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas welcomes abstracts for papers, posters, and organized sessions that present original research focusing on the linguistic study of the indigenous languages of North, Central and South America. Call For Papers The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 6-9, 2011 Call for Papers, Posters, and Organized Sessions Deadline for abstracts: August 1, 2010 The annual winter meeting of SSILA will be held jointly with the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Hilton Pittsburgh, January 6-9, 2011. Information about the hotel and location can be found at the LSA website (www.lsadc.org), and participants will be able to preregister for the meeting and reserve hotel rooms on-line after July 1. SSILA welcomes abstracts for papers, posters, and organized sessions that present original research focusing on the linguistic study of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Abstract Submission The deadline for receipt of all abstracts and session proposals is midnight (PST) August 1st. Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the electronic submission website EASY CHAIR. Consult the SSILA website for details. Also e-mail or hard-copy submissions will be accepted if arrangements are made in advance with the SSILA Executive Secretary (ivyivydoak.com). Abstracts may be submitted in either English or Spanish. Categories of Presentation Authors are required to indicate the preferred category of their presentation at the time of submitting the abstract. The program committee will try to accommodate this preference as space and time allow. 20-Minute Papers. The bulk of the program will consist of 20-minute papers, with 10 additional minutes for discussion. Guidelines for preparing abstracts for these papers appear above. Posters. Depending on subject and/or content, it may be more appropriate to submit an abstract to the poster session for visual presentation rather than to a 20-minute paper session. In general, the sorts of papers which are most effective as posters are those in which the major conclusions become evident from the thoughtful examination of charts and graphs, rather than those which require the audience to follow a sustained chain of verbal argumentation. Therefore, authors will want to make points in narrative form as brief as possible. A poster should be able to stand alone--that is, be understandable even if the author is not present. Abstracts for posters should follow the same guidelines as those for papers. SSILA poster sessions share space with LSA posters. Organized Sessions. SSILA encourages submission of organized session proposals. Organized sessions typically involve more than one scholar and are expected to make a distinctive and creative contribution to the meeting. Proposals for organized sessions are NOT reviewed anonymously. These sessions may be: (1) symposia which include several presentations on a single topic; (2) workshops focused on a specific theme or issue; (3) colloquia which include a major presentation with one or more invited discussants; or (4) sessions of any other kind with a clear, specific, and coherent rationale. The organizer(s) of such sessions should notify the program chair (rrhodesberkeley.edu) of their intent to submit a proposal at the earliest possible date, but no later than July 1st, including a general statement of the purpose and structure of the session. A full proposal must be submitted to the program chair by August 1st and must include: (1) a session abstract outlining the purpose, motivation, length (maximum: 3 hours), and justification for the session; (2) names of all participants, including discussants, and titles of papers; and (3) a complete account, including timetable, of what each participant will do. Note that organized sessions, even when structured as symposia, do not have to follow the 20-minute paper + 10-minute discussion format. All participants in organized sessions should submit an abstract of their paper following the submission instructions. Should the organized session not be accepted, the abstracts will be considered instead for the general session. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 09-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.