LINGUIST List 23.229 Thu Jan 12 2012 Calls: Lang Documentation, Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Typology/USA 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.     Jennifer Mitchell , Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America Message 1: Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America Date: 12-Jan-2012 From: Jennifer Mitchell <jennifer.mitchellutah.edu> Subject: Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America Short Title: CELCNA Date: 23-Mar-2012 - 24-Mar-2012 Location: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Contact Person: Jennifer Mitchell Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.cail.utah.edu/?pageId=1049 Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Typology Call Deadline: 18-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: 8th Annual Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America (CELCNA) Dates: March 23-24, 2012 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Sponsors: Smithsonian Institution, College of Humanities, and the Center for American Indian Languages, University of Utah Keynote Speaker: Dr. K. David Harrison, Swarthmore College, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages Teacher Workshop: A concurrent workshop, organized by Marianna Di Paolo (University of Utah), entitled 'Teaching Beginning Students How to Speak their Ancestral Language: Oral Language Development' will be held on Friday, March 23. Participation for this workshop requires pre-registration, available on the conference website: http://www.cail.utah.edu Registration: Pre-registration is available on the conference website. Registration before March 12: $75 for conference participants (students $35) (tribal elders, no cost). (This is used to cover the cost of conference rooms, refreshments and dinner on Friday evening.) Registration after March 12 or on-site: $85 for conference participants ($45 for students). Registration is available on the conference website. Accommodations: University Guest House - 100 yards from the meeting venue (Officers' Club) and from CAIL. To book accommodations, contact the Guest House directly (mention CELCNA): University Guest House University of Utah 110 South Fort Douglas Blvd. Salt Lake City, Utah 84113-5036 Toll free: 1-888-416-4075 (or 801-587-1000) Fax 801-587-1001 Website: http://www.guesthouse.utah.edu (Please make reservations early; rooms will be held for the conference only until early March.) Final Call for Papers: Presentations are invited on any aspect of American Indian languages. Special interest this year is being placed on language documentation and description, computational approaches to documentation and revitalization, community outcomes of language documentation, and lessons learned from language documentation. Other suitable emphases include language revitalization; historical linguistics; anthropological linguistics; sociolinguistics; text collection and analysis; phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. American Indian participants are especially invited and encouraged to attend. For more information about the conference, and to register, visit the conference web page at http://www.cail.utah.edu and click on the CELCNA link. Abstracts are invited for 20-minute oral presentations. Presentations can be given in English or Spanish. There is a $100 'Future Scholar' award for the best student abstract to be presented at the conference. Please make sure to indicate if you are student during the abstract submission process. Abstract deadline: January 18, 2012 (Deadline has been extended until January 18, 2012) The Program Committee will announce results about February 3, 2012. Abstract Guidelines: Abstracts, no longer than one page including references, should follow best practices and where possible include the conclusions of your paper and any relevant data. To submit an abstract, please go to: http://www.cail.utah.edu Archive of Proceedings: Papers delivered at the conference are eligible to be included in the proceedings of the conference, archived on the website for the Center for American Indian Languages. Finished papers must be received no later than two weeks after the conference to be included in the conference proceedings. Additional Information: Contact Jennifer Mitchell at cail.utahgmail.com. If you need information not easily arranged via email, please call Tel. 801-587-0720 during business hours. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 12-Jan-2012       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.