LINGUIST List 22.4757 Tue Nov 29 2011 Confs: General Linguistics/Indonesia Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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 , Modified Issue: Workshop on the Languages of Papua 3 Message 1: Modified Issue: Workshop on the Languages of Papua 3 Date: 29-Nov-2011 From: David Gil <gileva.mpg.de> Subject: Modified Issue: Workshop on the Languages of Papua 3 E-mail this message to a friend Workshop on the Languages of Papua 3 Short Title: WLP3 Date: 11-Feb-2013 - 15-Feb-2013 Location: Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia Contact: David Gil Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gil/wlp/3/index.html Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Meeting Description: *NOTE: This conference has been postponed to a date yet to be determined.* WLP focuses on the most linguistically diverse part of the world, Melanesia, which straddles countries of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Melanesia contains around a fifth of the world’s 6,000 languages in under 3% of its land area and less than 0.2% of its population. The scope of the workshop includes all languages known as 'Papuan', plus the Austronesian languages that are spoken in the vicinity of Papuan languages in New Guinea plus parts of Indonesia, East Timor and the Solomon Islands. These languages are astonishingly diverse, barely known to science, and face the threat of extinction without trace in the coming century unless concerted international efforts are made to meet the huge challenge of documenting them. WLP addresses the scientific issues raised by these languages, covering the whole gamut of linguistic questions from phonology to syntax to typology to historical linguistics, as well as topics bordering musicology, anthropology and prehistory; it also includes papers on digital archiving, documentary linguistics, scientific infrastructure and the training of linguists from minority language groups. In addition, WLP addresses various practical issues concerning the cultural and linguistic rights of minority groups in Indonesia, Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea, including language support and maintenance, and, in particular, the need for education programs that allow children to receive part of their schooling in their mother-tongue. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 29-Nov-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.