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CALL FOR PAPERS - CILLA IV

Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America,
The University of Texas at Austin

The third CONFERENCE ON INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF LATIN AMERICA will be held October 29-31, 2009, at the University of Texas at Austin. We invite the submission of abstracts on research about any aspect of Latin American indigenous languages. Already published papers will not be accepted. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Grammar    Linguistic Anthropology
Sociolinguistics    Language Planning
Language Politics    Linguistic Theory
Historical Linguistics    Language Vitality
Discourse    Indigenous Literatures
Cooperation with the Community   

Spanish is encouraged for presentations; English and Portuguese are also acceptable.

CILLA IV KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Jürgen Bohnemeyer, Buffalo-SUNY
Elsa Gómez Imbert, ERSS-CNRS-Université de Toulouse
B'alam Mateo, CIESAS Sureste
Pieter Muysken, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Speakers are allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected based on the evaluation of an anonymous abstract, which may not exceed 500 words. Electronic submissions are encouraged. We cannot accept more than one paper per author.

SUBMISSIONS:

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is May 1, 2009.
Please send your abstract to nengland@mail.utexas.edu, Subject: CILLA IV abstract.
Please include in the following order (in your message, but not in the abstract):
  1. Title of the paper
  2. Author's name
  3. Author's affiliation
  4. Address, phone number, and e-mail address at which the author wishes to be notified
  5. Equipment needs for the presentation
  6. An abstract of 500 words maximum. Please send as a Word attachment. Title of file: Lastname_Firstinitial_CILLA.doc
Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by May 31.

REGISTRATION:

At the meeting. No credit cards.
$20 students; $40 non-students. Registration scholarships for speakers of indigenous languages.

CONTACTS:

Nora England
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station B5100
Austin, TX 78712-0198
e-mail: nengland@mail.utexas.edu
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/llilas/cilla/index/



 
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