January 2010

Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS) 2010

Posted 23 January, 2010 - 17:27 by Arjan
Event Date: 
Friday, 25 June, 2010 - Sunday, 27 June, 2010

The 17th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium will be held at The University of Oregon, in Eugene. Its theme is Language and Place: Language and Place are intrinsically tied together. Indigenous thought and lifeways are rooted in the
places people have lived since time immemorial. With this thought in mind, please submit proposals
that support these ideas through educating and informing language workers, advocates, programs, and

Formal Approaches to Mayan Linguistics (FAMLi) 2010

Posted 23 January, 2010 - 15:44 by Arjan
Event Date: 
Friday, 23 April, 2010 - Sunday, 25 April, 2010

The 2010 FAMLi workshop will take place at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The description from the workshop website describes the meeting:

The Grammar of Proper Names - A Typological Perspective

Posted 23 January, 2010 - 13:25 by Arjan
Event Date: 
Thursday, 7 October, 2010 - Friday, 8 October, 2010

The conference The Grammar of Proper Names - A Typological Perspective will be held later this year in Regensburg, Germany. I'm particularly interested how insights on this topic can be applied to place-name studies. Below I reproduce the introduction of the announcement on LinguistList, which contains more details on the subject:

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2010)

Posted 15 January, 2010 - 21:12 by Arjan
Event Date: 
Friday, 30 April, 2010 - Saturday, 1 May, 2010

As announced on LinguistList: the Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 13th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.

Special Panel:

Athabascan/Dene Languages Conference

Posted 11 January, 2010 - 12:58 by Arjan
Event Date: 
Friday, 25 June, 2010 - Sunday, 27 June, 2010

LinguistList announces: the Athabascan/Dene Languages Conference brings together linguists, speakers, educators and policy makers from across the Athabascan region. Over the past two decades this conference has become the principal forum in which members of geographically distant, but culturally and intellectually related, Athabascan communities can compare notes and learn from each other.