The Endangered Language Fund provides grants for language documentation and revitalization, and for linguistic fieldwork. The work most likely to be funded is that which serves both the native community and the field of linguistics, although projects which have immediate applicability to one group and more distant applicability to the other will also be considered. Support for publication is a low priority, although it will be considered. Proposals can originate in any country. The language involved must be in danger of disappearing within a generation or two. Endangerment is a continuum, and the location on the continuum is one factor in our funding decisions.
Call for Papers - 23rd Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Call Deadline: Friday, February 7th at 6:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time)
The Linguistics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 23rd Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), May 22, 2020 - May 23, 2020. WAIL provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the Indigenous languages of the Americas.
Keynote Speaker: Roberto Zariquiey (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)
Call for Papers
Linguistic Field (s): Any topic relevant to the study of indigenous languages of the Americas
Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of Indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and / or references).
Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source (s) and type (s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc...). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance.
Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format to wail.ucsb@gmail.com. Please submit two abstracts, one with the identifying information of the person or persons giving the presentation along with affiliations and contact information, the other with no indication of the author (s).
Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have Internet access. For this, please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; and (6) title of your paper. Send hard copy submissions to:
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Attn: Jordan AG Douglas
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, February 7th at 6:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time). Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than: Monday, March 2nd.
Contact Persons: Alonso Vásquez Aguilar, Jordan AG Douglas, and James Yee
For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, at wail.ucsb@gmail.com
IJAL 86(1) Now Available
The latest issue of the International Journal ofAmerican Linguistics (IJAL) is available on the University ofChicago Press Journals website. A table of contents can be viewed below.
Visit journals.uchicago.edu/ijal toexplore the individual articles from this issue and to learn more about IJAL,including how to submit manuscripts and how to subscribe.
Call for SSILA Program Committee Member
In 2017, SSILA created a new Program Committee structureto assist the Executive Committee and the Program Administrator inorganizing the SSILA annual meeting. We are pleased to say that thisstructure is working well. Analía Gutiérrez has served three years and is rotating off the committee. We thankher for her service to SSILA and her contribution to the Program Committee. So,we are requesting nominations for a SSILA member to serve as the new member ofthe Program Committee for three years.
CFP: Tlalocan XXVI
The journal Tlalocan, published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico, is pleased to announce its call for papers for volume XXVI. The journal, founded in 1943, is dedicated to the publication of oral and ethnohistorical texts in indigenous languages of the linguistic families found in Mexico. We are now accepting manuscripts for consideration to be published in the upcoming issue. In addition to texts based on oral tradition and written texts based on colonial documents, for instance, we also accept book reviews and notes.
Call for Nominations: DELAMAN award
The call for nominations for the next DELAMAN Award is now open at http://www.delaman.org/delaman-award/ and the link to the nomination form can be found there. Please note that the name of the award has changed slightly (from the Franz Boas Award to the DELAMAN Award) and so has the definition of "early-career documenter".
2019 Mary R. Haas Book Award
2019 SSILA Victor Golla Prize
2019 Ken Hale Prize
SSILA is happy to announce the 2019 Ken Hale Prize was awarded to Daryl Baldwin and the Myaamia Center at Miami University of Ohio. The Ken Hale prize is presented in recognition of outstanding community language work and a deep commitment to the documentation, maintenance, promotion, and revitalization of Indigenous languages in the Americas.
2019 SSILA Archiving Award
Funding: Kinkade Language & Culture Fund (KLF) / Jacobs Research Fund (JRF)
The Kinkade Language and Culture Fund (KLF) and the Jacobs Research Funds (JRF) provide support for projects involving fieldwork with living peoples of North, Central and South America which result in publication or other dissemination of information about the fieldwork. Priority is given to research on endangered cultures and languages, and to research on the Pacific Northwest. Projects focusing on archival research have low priority, but we welcome proposals to digitize, transcribe and translate old materials that might otherwise be lost or become inaccessible. Relevance of the project to contemporary theoretical issues in anthropology and linguistics is also a criterion used in evaluating proposals.
Extended Deadline: Call for Proposals to Host CoLang 2022
Greetings from Susan Gehr and Jean-Luc Pierite, the co-conveners for CoLang 2019-2020 Advisory Circle. You are receiving this email if you have participated in InField 2008, 2010 and/or CoLang 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 as either a student or facilitator/instructor.
On behalf of the Advisory Circle, we are formally soliciting expressions of interest for hosting the 2022 Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang). These should take the form of a two--to-three page proposal that minimally
Support: Alberta Language Technology Lab
The AlbertaLanguage Technology Lab (ALTLab) at the Department of Linguistics, Universityof Alberta is offering two graduate student positions at the PhD (4 years) orMA (2 years) level in its graduate program, to start September 2020 under theresearch project: 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages,funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) PartnershipGrant in 2019 – 2026, see: http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c.
CFP: 9th International Conference on Meaning & Knowledge Representation
Support: Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019, offers funded MSc and PhD positions for prospective graduate students interested to learn and conduct research with our vibrant team of faculty members, graduate students, and other academics in state-of-the-art research facilities.