International Summer School on
Language Documentation and Description

School of Oriental and African Studies, London

22 June - 3 July 2009

CIPL Conference: Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment

The Permanent International Committee of Linguisits/Comité International Permanent des Linguistes (CIPL) will hold a Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London on Saturday 27 June 2009 from 9am-5.45pm.

This CIPL sponsored conference is being held in conjunction with the 3L International Summer School in Language Documentation and Description. The conference will include discussion of a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to language endangerment.

Invited speakers

The conference convenor is Dr David Bradley, La Trobe University, Australia who is a CIPL Executive member and CIPL Professor at the 3L Summer School. The plenary speakers are:

• Prof David Bradley, La Trobe University, Australia
  Resilience thinking and language endangerment
• Prof Matthias Brenzinger, Cologne University, Germany
  Documenting concepts in contact
• Prof Christian Lehmann, Erfurt University, Germany
  Understanding grammar, for instance Yucatec Maya
• Prof Peter Trudgill, University of Agder, University of East Anglia and La Trobe University
  On the world-wide loss of linguistic complexity:a sociolinguistic-typological view

Call for papers

Proposals for 30 minute presentations (a 20 minute paper followed by 10 minutes discussion) are invited.

Abstracts of one page should to be submitted to CIPLconference2009@gmail.com by 31 March 2009. Acceptance of papers will be notified by 30 April 2009. A draft programme will be available on 30 April 2009. Updated information on the conference will be found on the 3L website and on the CIPL web site.

E-mail communication concerning this conference should be directed to David Bradley at CIPLconference2009@gmail.com.

Registration

Registration for the CIPL Conference is now open. All participants in the 3L Summer School are automatically registered for the CIPL Conference for free. All other delegates wishing to attend the CIPL Conference must download and complete a registration form (including payment details), and return this by fax or post by Friday 19 June 2009.

On completion of your registration form please:

• fax it to us on:
  
  +44 (0)20 7898 4349
  
  or
  
  
• post it to the address below:
  
  Alison Kelly
  3L Summer School (CIPL Conference)
  Department of Linguistics
  School of Oriental and African Studies
  Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
  London WC1H 0XG
  

Location

The conference will take place in in the SOAS main building (referred to as College Buildings), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG.