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Reminder: Call for Organized Session Proposals, SSILA 2020 Winter Meeting, New Orleans

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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.

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CFP: Linguistic Research with Diaspora Communities

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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.

CFP: 2nd International Conference on Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages

Following the first edition of the Conference (Barcelona, ​​2017), the mission of the Second International Conference on Indigenous and Minorized Languages ​​Revitalization (2018) is to bring together instructors, practitioners, indigenous leaders, academics and students who speak and study these languages. This international conference includes research, pedagogy and practice on the diverse languages ​​and cultures of indigenous and minority populations around the world. This International Conference involves participants in a global dialogue and also serves as a forum for networking and exchange of ideas, experiences and research on issues of language revitalization from interdisciplinary perspectives. In other words, your mission is to exchange different ideas and experiences that will transcend the walls of academia and find space in the broader global community, giving all participants an opportunity to share their multiple ways of being, seeing, knowing and learning.

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SSILA 2020 Winter Meeting: Call for Organized Session Proposals

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Deadline: May 1 @ 11:59 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian time

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) at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside 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.

Language: Call for submissions on Indigenous languages

The United Nations has declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. In recognition of this, Language is encouraging submissions dealing with research on any aspect of Indigenous languages. Papers on Indigenous languages have contributed to linguistics in significant ways. Just a few of the many influential Language articles that rely on data from Indigenous languages: Leonard Bloomfield, On sound change in Central Algonquian (1925); Marianne Mithun, On the nature of noun incorporation (1986); Anthony Woodbury, Meaningful phonological processes: A consideration of Central Alaskan Eskimo prosody (1987); Larry Hyman and Francis Katamba, A new approach to tone in Luganda (1993); Alice Harris, Where in the word is the Udi clitic? (2000); Nicholas Evans, Dunstan Brown, and Greville Corbett, The semantics of gender in Mayali: Partially parallel systems and formal implementation (2002); Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler, Nominal tense in cross-linguistic perspective (2004); Joe Blythe, Preference organization driving structuration: Evidence from Australian Aboriginal Interaction for pragmatically motivated grammaticalization (2013); Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, Craige Roberts, and Mandy Simons, Toward a taxonomy of projective content (2103); and Laura McPherson and Kevin Ryan, Tone-tune association in Tommo So (Dogon) folk songs (2018).

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CFP: SSILA Summer 2019 Meeting

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The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) will hold a summer meeting at the LSA 2019 Linguistic Institute, which will take place at the University of California, Davis. The meeting will be held on July 13 and July 14 at the UC Davis Conference Center. SSILA meetings allow scholars to present on a wide range of topics centered on any aspect of Indigenous American languages.

In Memoriam: Wallace (Wally) Chafe

It is with great sadness that the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, announces the passing of our dear friend and colleague Professor Wallace (Wally) Chafe, at the age of 91, on February 3, 2019. An exceptionally deep-thinking and broad-ranging scholar, Professor Chafe produced over 230 books, articles, and other publications on semantics, discourse, prosody, cognition, and Native American languages which have been foundational to functional and usage-based approaches to linguistics.