Special WOCAL 6
World Congress of African Linguistics
University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
August 11-15, 2008

ATTENTION:

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: February 18, 2008

 

The conference theme is Exploring the African Language Connection in the Americas. We welcome papers addressing the conference theme, focusing on issues related to the contact between African languages and European and Indigenous languages in the Americas, or any other topic related to African languages and linguistics. The topics include, but are not limited to:

- Computational linguistics

- Language acquisition

- Language learning

- Language planning

- Language use

- Morphology

- Phonetics

- Phonology

- Pragmatics

- Semantics

- Sociolinguistics

- Syntax

INVITED SPEAKERS

Armindo Ngunga

Ayo Bamgbose

Bernd Heine

Emilio Bonvini

Manuel Ndonga

Salikoko Mufwene

Sergio Valdés

Yeda Pessoa de Castro

CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Abstracts are solicited for 20-min oral presentations to be presented in parallel sessions, and for poster presentations. Each proposal will be reviewed anonymously by two members of a large international panel. Notifications of the Organizing Committee's decisions will be sent out by March 28, 2008.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION

February 18, 2008 is the deadline for the submission of an abstract, in English or French, containing the following information:

- author name(s) and affiliation(s)

- address information (incl. fax and email)

- title of presentation

- preferred format (oral presentation or poster)

- three to five keywords

- a 500-word summary

Abstracts should be sent in PDF format, or postscript attachments to the following email address: gela@usp.br