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SSILA Winter 2020 Program Now Available
The program for the Winter 2020 meeting of SSILA is now available! Check it on the SSILA website here! Also keep checking back on that page for the latest updates as the program changes.
We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
Reminder: Nominations for SSILA Archiving Award Due Oct. 1
This is a quick reminder that nominations for the SSILA Archiving Award are due on October 1, 2019.
This award highlights the importance of creating long-term archival materials that are accessible to all communities concerned, including heritage and language communities as well as scholarly communities. It is meant to encourage others in academia to value such work as more comparable to analytic research.
Please visit the award page for more details about the award and the nomination process. We look forward to receiving your nominations!
SSILA 2020 Call for Session Chairs
The SSILA Program Committee is seeking session chairs for our 2020 annual meeting in New Orleans. The meeting will be held on January 2–5.
Session chairs introduce speakers, moderate any discussion during the question-and-answer period, and remind speakers when the time allotted for their 20-minute talk is drawing to a close. Session chairs should hold a Ph.D. and be current SSILA members.
The following sessions are in need of a chair:
- Thursday, January 2: Digital Tools for Lexicography and Orthography – 4:00PM-5:30PM
- Thursday, January 2: Historical Linguistics 1 – 4:00PM-5:30PM
- Thursday, January 2: Syntax 1 – 5:30PM-6:30PM
- Thursday, January 2: Revitalization 1 – 5:30PM-6:30PM
- Friday, January 3: Syntax 2 – 9:00AM-12:00PM
- Friday, January 3: Historical Linguistics 2 – 9:00AM-12:00PM
- Friday, January 3: Semantics 1 – 9:00AM-12:00PM Friday, January 3: Phonology – 2:00PM-5:00PM
- Friday, January 3: Semantics 2 – 2:00PM-4:30PM
- Friday, January 3: Archiving – 4:30PM-5:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Revitalization 2 – 9:00AM-11:00AM
- Saturday, January 4: Morphology 1 – 9:00AM-11:00AM
- Saturday, January 4: Syntax 3 – 9:00AM-11:00AM
- Saturday, January 4: Language Acquisition – 2:00PM-3:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Morphology 2 – 2:00PM-3:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Sociolinguistics – 2:00PM-3:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Revitalization 3 – 3:00PM-5:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Phonetics – 3:00PM-5:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Language Contact – 3:00PM-5:00PM
- Sunday, January 5: Morphophonology – 9:00AM-10:30AM
- Sunday, January 5: Historical Linguistics 3 – 9:00AM-10:00AM
- Sunday, January 5: Syntax 4 – 10:30AM-12:00PM
- Sunday, January 5: Revitalization 4 – 10:00AM-12:00PM
To volunteer to chair a session, please add your name and university affiliation to the relevant session in the following link by September 30.
Click here to volunteer as a session chair.
Chairs will be assigned on a "first come, first served" basis. Please do not write your name in if there is already a volunteer for that session. Also, please do not volunteer to chair a session unless you are certain you will be attending the meeting.
Volunteers will be provided with a packet containing basic instructions and time cards to let speakers know how much time they have left.
Thank you in advance for your willingness to help!
Martin Kohlberger, SSILA Program Committee Coordinator
Updated Deadline: SSILA Archiving Award
This award highlights the importance of creating long-term archived materials that are accessible to all communities concerned, including heritage and source communities as well as scholarly communities. It is meant to encourage others in academia to value such work as more comparable to analytic research.
Call for Abstract Reviewers: SSILA 2020 Winter Meeting
The SSILA Program Committee is seeking volunteers to serve as abstract reviewers for the 2020 Annual Winter Meeting, which will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 2–5. Reviewing of abstracts will take place over a period of three weeks in late July and early August 2019. All reviewers must have a Ph.D. and must be members of SSILA.
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!
Letter from the President, concerning SSILA abstract requirement changes
As you might recall, the call for papers for the 2019 SSILA meeting suggested that submitters include in their abstract a brief discussion of broader impacts of their work. There was extensive discussion of this at the 2019 business meeting, and an ad hoc committee was struck to produce a proposal to be voted on by the membership. The statement from the ad hoc committee is included in this year’s call. It will be voted on after there has been an opportunity for submitters to try this out and there has been some discussion. The ad-hoc committee interrogated the current issues of what should be required for abstracts and how to evaluate those abstracts from not only an academic perspective but also the lenses of the Indigenous communities whose languages are the focus of SSILA. This has not been the norm of SSILA.
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.
Not yet a member of SSILA? Join here!
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
New Series from Syracuse University Press: Haudenosaunee and Indigenous Worlds
Syracuse University Press is pleased to announce its new Haudenosaunee and Indigenous Worlds series. This series will expand the Press’s historical emphasis in “Iroquois” and Native American publications to better reflect current scholarship regarding oral tradition, de-colonial and Indigenous studies—writ large. We welcome submissions from diverse authors across disciplines, traditions, and orientations, but with special emphasis on the Haudenosaunee. The series will be led by Philip P. Arnold and Scott Manning Stevens.
FEL XXIII (2019) Causes of language endangerment: Looking for answers and finding solutions to the global decline in linguistic diversity
Call for SSILA Prize & Award Nominations: Due June 15, 2019
SSILA is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the Ken Hale Prize, the Victor Golla Prize, and the Mary R Haas Book Award. These awards will be presented at the 2020 SSILA meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana.