The Eighth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 8)

The Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, now in its eigth year, focuses on both formal and sociolinguistic approaches to language context situations, especially in heritage language communities (naturally acquired languages spoken in a community where it is not the majority variety). The workshop covers topics from anthropological linguistics, general linguistics, historical linguistics, language documentation and sociolinguistics.

Plenary speaker
Aneta Pavlenko

Call for papers
We invite abstracts for 30-minute presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) and for poster presentations on any aspect of the linguistics of heritage languages in the Americas (e.g., structural, generative, historical, sociolinguistic, or experimental). Due to generous support by the A. P. Møller Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation and the University of Copenhagen, there will be no conference fee.

Abstracts might be submitted for oral presentation or for poster presentation: In both cases, abstracts should be no more than 800 words in length, including diagrams, charts, and references.

Deadline for submission of abstract
June 9, 2017. Decisions on acceptance will be announced in July. Abstracts

Submission
The abstract itself should be anonymous, while the accompanying email should contain author information and title. Abstract and email should be addressed to wila8@hum.ku.dk.

Publication of selected proceedings
We plan to publish a volume of selected workshop proceedings which will include 10-12 relatively short papers (ca. 4000 words, published probably by Cascadilla Press). Our goal is to publish the volume soon after the workshop. In order to be able to do so, we ask those who are interested in this option to plan their publication so that they are able to submit a paper by November 12, 2017.

All submitted papers will undergo peer review. Due to generous support by our host department, Department of Nordic Languages and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen, there will be no publication fee.

Further reading

For further information, please visit the workshop website.