Native Voices Endowment Request for Proposals Now Available

The Native Voices Endowment (NVE) 2019 Request for Proposals is now available on the Endangered Language Fund website. The NVE program was created within ELF for the purpose of revitalizing and maintaining the Indigenous languages of the American Indian Nations whose ancestors encountered the 1803-1806 Lewis & Clark expedition. For details about eligibility, please see our website.

Marion Harry (1937–2019)

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Mrs. Marion Harry of the Homalco First Nation. She was a fluent speaker of the Homalco language, a.k.a. Sliammon/Homalco/Klahoose dialect of the northernmost Coast Salish language. (The language has been referred to as Sliammon, Mainland (dialect) of Comox, or ʔayʔaǰuθəm.) She passed away on September 7, 2019, at the age of 82.

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!

Read more about the SSILA Archiving Award here.

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

Job: University of Toronto (St. George Campus)

The Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto (St. George Campus), invites applications for one full-time teaching stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the area of Indigenous Language Documentation and Revitalization in languages spoken in North America, preferably in Canada. The appointment is expected to begin July 1, 2020.

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.

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Reminder: SSILA abstracts due Wednesday, July 17

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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!