LSA Bulletin
March 2005
Call for Papers and Posters
Language Documentation: Theory, Practice, and Values
9-10 July 2005
2005 LSA Linguistic Institute
MIT/Harvard
Cambridge, MA
Organized by participants in the LSA Conversation on Endangered Languages Archiving which convened 5-6 January 2005 in Oakland, CA, this conference is designed to bring archiving issues, especially electronic archiving issues, before the linguistic community. Six themes will be treated in paper presentation sessions, in poster sessions, and in panel presentations with open discussion: (1) Training for Language Documentation, (2) The Involvement Heritage Language Communities, (3) What Is Adequate Documentation?, (4) The Use of Documentation in Speaker Communities, (5) Training and Careers in Field Linguistics, and (6) Ethics, Documentation, and Archiving. Those who present papers and posters will be invited to join the LSA Conversation group on the morning of 11 July to further consider efforts that should be undertaken in endangered language archiving.
Abstracts (250 words) for 15-minute papers and for posters may be submitted
for consideration. At the top of the page, identify the conference theme
to which the abstract pertains (the conference themes are listed above).
Abstracts should carry identification of the author(s), the address of
the lead author, and an electronic address to which correspondence regarding
the abstract may be addressed. Email abstracts to ALL THREE of the following
persons: N. Louanna Furbee (louanna100@yahoo.com),
Lenore A. Grenoble (Lenore.A.Grenoble@Dartmouth.edu),
and Arienne Dwyer (anthlinguist@mail.ku.edu).
If you cannot comply with the electronic submission requirement, please
mail five copies of the abstracts to: Lenore A. Grenoble, Prog Ling &
Cogn Sci, 6085 Reed Hl, Dartmouth C, Hanover, NH 07355. Abstracts (by
email or by snail mail) must be received by 31 March 2005.