The Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas series is an annual supplement to the International Journal of American Linguistics dedicated to the presentation of analyzed oral texts from the indigenous languages of the Americas. TILA volumes are guest-edited, thematically-organized collections of texts published as a supplement to the April issue of IJAL and online on the IJAL website.
CFP: Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
The Texts in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas series is an annual supplement to the International Journal of American Linguistics dedicated to the presentation of analyzed oral texts from the indigenous languages of the Americas. TILA volumes are guest-edited, thematically-organized collections of texts published as a supplement to the April issue of IJAL and online on the IJAL website.
CFP: 10th Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment
CFP: Amazônicas VIII
Amazônicas VIII will take place at the Federal University of Goiás (Goiânia, Brazil) from June 29th, 2020 through July 3rd, 2020. The symposia include "Nominal Classification: grammar, discourse, typology"; "The interplay between phonology and morphology"; and "Verbal art in indigenous languages of Amazonia: tradition and innovation." There will also be a symposium focused specifically on the Macro-Jê stock, and a general session. This is the first time that Amazônicas will host a general session in addition to the more specific symposia.
Calls for each of the symposia can be found in Portuguese, English, and Spanish at the Amazônicas website. Click on the tab AMAZONICAS VIII, in the upper right, for more information about the 2020 conference.
Reminder: SSILA abstracts due Wednesday, July 17
This is a reminder that abstracts for the Winter 2020 meeting of SSILA are due this upcoming Wednesday, July 17. This year's meeting is being held from January 2–5 in New Orleans, Louisiana, concurrently with the Linguistic Society of America.
Click here to view the complete abstract and submission guidelines.
SSILA looks forward to receiving your abstract submissions!
Deadline Extended until July 15 for the Ken Hale Prize and Victor Golla Prize
Nominations for the Ken Hale Prize the Victor Golla Prize will now be accepted until July 15, 2019.
See the prize pages under AWARDS for complete submission guidelines.
Call for Papers: SSILA Winter 2020 Meeting
Deadline for Abstracts: July 17, 2019
Location: New Orleans, LA
Dates: January 2–5, 2020
Please note the two significant changes in this call for papers that are different from previous years:
The submission deadline has been moved back to July 17. This change comes as a consequence of the LSA having moved their deadline as well. Please keep this in mind as this is earlier than in previous years.
The abstract requirements now include a description of the social outcomes / impacts / implications of the work presented. Details about this and a request for feedback on this trial will be addressed in a separate email.
View the complete abstract guidelines here.
Call for Papers
The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) will hold its annual winter meeting jointly with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in New Orleans, LA on January 2–5, 2020. SSILA meetings allow scholars to present on a wide range of topics centered on any aspect of Indigenous languages of the Americas.
Information about the hotel and location can be found at the LSA website. Participants will be able to register for the meeting on the LSA website and reserve hotel rooms at reduced rates between September 1st, 2019 and December 11th, 2019.
SSILA welcomes abstracts for papers that present original research focusing on the linguistic study of the Indigenous languages of the Americas. Submitters must be members of SSILA.
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Abstract Submission
The deadline for receipt of all abstracts is on July 17th at 11:59 PM (Hawaii-Aleutian time). Please note that the deadline this year is two weeks earlier than in previous years. This is because the LSA submission deadline was changed to an earlier date this year, and SSILA endeavors to make acceptance decisions at the same time as the main LSA conference.
Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the electronic submission website EasyChair. Consult the SSILA website for detailed instructions. Also, e-mail or hard-copy submissions will be accepted if arrangements are made in advance with the SSILA Program Committee Administrator, Martin Kohlberger (conferences@ssila.org). Abstracts may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Click here to view the complete abstract guidelines.
Call for Papers: ALS2019 Celebrating Diversity, Macquarie University, Sydney, 11-13 Dec 2019
Call for Community Reports and Language Expo
FEL XXIII (2019) Causes of language endangerment: Looking for answers and finding solutions to the global decline in linguistic diversity
2nd Conference on Language Contact in the Circumpolar World
Call for proposals June 15–26, 2020, CoLang Workshops
We are seeking workshop proposals for topics related to language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization for the seventh Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) in 2020. CoLang 2020 will be held on the campus of the University of Montana, co-hosted by the University of Montana and Chief Dull Knife College, a tribal college in Lame Deer, Montana. The two weeks of workshops will be followed by three weeks of intensive language documentation practica.
The International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019: Perspectives Conference Call for presentations
Reminder: Call for Organized Session Proposals, SSILA 2020 Winter Meeting, New Orleans
The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) will hold its annual winter meeting jointly with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in New Orleans, LA on January 2–5, 2020. SSILA meetings allow scholars to present on a wide range of topics centered on any aspect of Indigenous American languages.
CFP: Linguistic Research with Diaspora Communities
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that as many as 56 million people around the world are displaced by war, disaster, environmental degradation, poverty, and other causes. Millions of speakers of endangered languages are among these displaced people, and linguists around the world increasingly find themselves working with speakers living outside their region of origin. Yet, many best practices in linguistic research start with assumptions about language communities that are inapplicable to language spoken in diaspora contexts. The purpose of the meeting is to integrate multidisciplinary perspectives into linguistic research with diaspora communities and to discuss diaspora linguistics in its own right.