LINGUIST List 14.1472

Thu May 22 2003

Calls: South Asian Langs/General Ling/TX USA

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    Message 1: 23rd South Asian Languages Analysis

     Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 09:44:16 +0000
    From: rbhatt <rbhattmail.utexas.edu>
    Subject: 23rd South Asian Languages Analysis


    23rd South Asian Languages Analysis Short Title: SALA XXIII

    Date: 10-OCT-03 - 12-OCT-03 Location: Austin, Texas, United States of America Contact: Rajesh Bhatt Contact Email: rbhattmail.utexas.edu Meeting URL: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~sala23

    Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2003

    Meeting Description:

    The XXIIIrd annual meeting of the SALA conference will be held at the University of Texas at Austin from Oct. 10-12, 2003. The SALA conferences cover a wide range of issues in the study of South Asian Languages. A non-exhaustive list includes descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, language teaching, sociolinguistics, and theoretical linguistics.

    SALA XXIII Call for Papers South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable October 10-12, 2003 The University of Texas, Austin



    INVITED SPEAKERS Shobhana Chelliah (North Texas) Megan Crowhurst (Texas) Veneeta Dayal (Rutgers) Vijay Gambhir (Pennsylvania) Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) Anoop Mahajan (UCLA)

    Abstracts are invited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes of discussion) on issues related to South Asian languages and linguistics. The SALA conferences cover a wide range of issues in the study of South Asian Languages. A non-exhaustive list includes descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, language teaching, sociolinguistics, and theoretical linguistics.

    Papers that relate to the following issues are specially welcome: the description and analysis of the underdocumented languages of South Asia (including Tibeto-Burman and Iranian languages, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language and Romani), and the teaching of South Asian languages at an advanced level.

    All abstracts should be submitted by e-mail as attachments to sala23ccwf.cc.utexas.edu, specifying `Abstract' in the subject line and the following information in the body of the message:

    - author's name(s) - title of abstract - area of linguistics - affiliation - e-mail address - postal address

    Abstracts should be anonymous and be either in .txt (plain text, preferable) or .pdf formats. Abstracts should be limited to two pages (using 1'' margins on all sides and 11pt font size) including examples and references. If, for any reason, you are unable to submit the abstract by e-mail, please contact the organizers.

    Submission Dealine: June 1, 2003, Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2003

    Information about the conference will be posted at: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~sala23

    Local Organizing Committee: Rajesh Bhatt, Robert King, Rajesh Kumar, Herman van Olphen

    External Committee: Rakesh Bhatt (UIUC), Miriam Butt (UMIST), Alice Davison (Iowa), Jeffrey Lidz (Northwestern)