LINGUIST List 22.3733 Sat Sep 24 2011 Calls: Austronesian, General Linguistics/Indonesia Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.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.     David Gil , 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Message 1: 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Date: 24-Sep-2011 From: David Gil <gileva.mpg.de> Subject: 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Short Title: 12ICAL Date: 02-Jul-2012 - 06-Jul-2012 Location: Bali, Indonesia Contact Person: David Gil Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gil/12ICAL/ Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Other Specialty: Austronesian Languages Call Deadline: 05-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: 12th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics July 2-6, 2012 ICAL is an international conference organized by the ICAL community. Austronesian is one of the main language families in the world consisting of hundreds of languages, stretching from Taiwan in the north, through the islands of Southeast Asia to Madagascar off the east coast of Africa and to Easter Island in the eastern Pacific. The conference is organized every four years. The ICAL held at Udayana University in Bali in 2012 is the 12th. It is co-organised by the ANU, Udayana University and MPI-EVA Leipzig. It is expected that it will be attended by around 300 Austronesianist participants from around the world. Keynote Speakers: Bill Foley (University of Sydney) Andy Pawley (Australian National University) Call for Papers: Scholars are invited to present papers on any aspect of language or linguistics specifically related to Austronesian languages, including but not limited to: - Phonetics and phonology, including prosody - Morphosyntax - Pragmatics and discourse - Semantics and lexicography - Linguistic typology - Historical and comparative matters, including the interfaces between linguistics and archaeology, linguistics and genetics, etc. - Language preservation and language policies - Sociolinguistics and language endangerment - Language contact studies - Language acquisition - Language documentation and archiving resources - Anthropological linguistics - Oral literature - Computational linguistics including natural language processing, grammar engineering, computational morphology, computational lexicography and lexical acquisition, etc. To present a paper at 12-ICAL, please submit an abstract of 100-500 words to bali.ical2012gmail.com. The deadline for submission of abstracts is January 5, 2012. Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be February 4, 2012. Presenters are expected to have 30 minutes each - 20 for presentation and 10 for discussion. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 24-Sep-2011       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.