Date: April 14, 2023 - April 15, 2023
Location: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Contact Persons: Jordan AG Douglas-Tavani
Linguistic Field (s): Any topic relevant to the study of indigenous languages of the Americas

Call Deadline: Friday, December 9th at Noon (Pacific Standard Time)

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Gabriela Pérez Báez (University of Oregon)

Call for Papers:
Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples, figures, and / or references). Abstracts and presentations may be given in English or Spanish.

Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper, who will be in attendance, and who are the corresponding authors.

Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format via the Abstract Submission form (also available via the conference website, see below). Please submit two abstracts, one with the identifying information of the person or persons giving the presentation along with affiliations and contact information, the other with no indication of the author(s). If authors must be cited, they should be referred to as (Author [DATE]). Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have Internet access. For this, please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; and (6) title of your paper.

Send hard copy submissions to:
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Attn: Jordan AG Douglas-Tavani
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than: Friday, February 4th, 2022.

For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, at wailconference.ucsb@gmail.com or visit the WAIL conference website https://www.wailconference.org.