Fourth International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics, ICAAL

Fourth International Conference on Austroasiatic Lingusitics (to be held in coordination with ICSTLL 42) Bangkok, October 15 - 17, 2009
ICAAL 4: an Austroasiatic Family Reunion prelimnary announcement and call for sessions
After a decades-long absence, the biannual Austroasiatic Lingistics conference series was revived in 2007 with a highly successful meeting at Deccan College in Puna, India. As we travel to Bangkok in 2009, we take advantage of Thailand's central location to hold an inclusive conference with representative scholars and speakers from every branch of Austroasiatic. Please join us in fulfilling our conference theme: An Austroasiatic Family Reunion.
Invited speakers: Franklin Huffman: (Cornell University, ret.) Suwilai Premsrirat: (Mahidol University) Franklin Huffman: A New Golden Age of Southeast Asian Linguistics?
Suwilai Premsrirat: Language and Culture: a View from the Trenches
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Topics: Papers are invited on all topics of interest, including: - linguistics of the Austroasiatic language family - modern, historical, and comparative lexicography - epigraphy and historical texts - language and culture of Munda and Mon-Khmer speakers - linguistic data collection, access, and preservation revitalization of endangered languages - computational linguistics and methods
Publication: A conference proceedings will be published by Pacific Linguistics. Papers that are finalized after the conference may be submitted to the Mon-Khmer Studies Journal instead. Articles currently awaiting publication are also welcome.
Call for abstracts: June 1, 2009
Deadline for abstracts: August 1, 2009
Notice of acceptance: August 15, 2009 (early notification on request)
Format: Abstracts should be submitted as email attachments in two formats, .PDF and .DOC The abstract should include: (1) Paper title (2) Name, affiliation, and e-mail address for each author (3) Abstract body (no more than one A4 page, 1-inch margins all around, 12pt Times / Arial recommended)
These abstracts will be available on line, and will be printed and distributed at the conference).
Paper submission
Submission of camera-ready copy of full papers for pre-conference publication: to be announced
Source: http://icaal.org/call.htm