Full Title: V Coloquio de Lingüística Mauricio Swadesh

Date: 18-Sep-2023 - 22-Sep-2023
Location: Mexico City, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
Contact Person: Jesús Villalpando
Meeting Email: [email protected]
Web Site: https://coloquioswadesh.iia.unam.mx/

Linguistic Field(s): Translation

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2023

Meeting Description:

The Fifth Mauricio Swadesh Colloquium is part of the 50th anniversary of the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (UNAM, Mexico). This Colloquium is hosted with the aim of presenting and discussing recent findings in the study of native languages of the Americas from different theoretical perspectives. The topic of this year's colloquium will be "Advances in the Study of Time, Aspect, Mood and Evidentiality in Native Languages of Mexico and Neighboring Areas". During these days, researchers, professors, and graduate students will gather to present their work and exchange ideas, and discussion on any topic related to the expression of temporality, aspectuality, modality and evidentiality in native languages of Mexico and neighboring regions, from both synchronic and/or diachronic perspectives.

Call for Papers:

V COLOQUIO DE LINGÜISTICA MAURICIO SWADESH

The Department of Linguistics at the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (IIA) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) is honored to invite participants for the V Coloquio de Lingüística Mauricio Swadesh, which will be held in person on September 20, 21 and 22 this year in Mexico City.

There will be two keynote speakers and courses taught by them:

– Lisa Matthewson (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
– Zygmunt Frajzyngier (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

The official languages of the Colloquium will be Spanish and English. We extend an invitation to submit an anonymous abstract in Spanish or English (350 words limit) to the following registration form: http://bit.ly/ColoquioSwadesh. Participations can be individual or co-authored, with a maximum of one presentation in each modality per author. The anonymous abstract must be attached to the registration form in PDF file; Only the title of the presentation should be included within the PDF. Presentations will consist of 25 minutes plus five minutes for questions. Abstracts will be received from the publication of this call of papers and no later than April 15th.

Important dates
Submission of paper proposals deadline: April 15th
Notification of acceptance: April 30th
Confirmation of participation: June 15th
Program publication: August 31st
Event: September 20st – 22nd

The Organizing Committee
V Coloquio de Lingüística Mauricio Swadesh

Jesús Villalpando (IIA-UNAM)
Igor Vinogradov (IIA-UNAM)

Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Updates on the logistics of the Colloquium (courses, program, etc) will be posted on the website: https://coloquioswadesh.iia.unam.mx/