January 2005 (updated Sunday, May 8th, 2005)
The Himalayan Languages Symposium brings together scholars working on languages and language communities of the greater Himalayan region: north-western and north-eastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, northern Burma, the Tibetan Plateau, southern China, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski-speaking area in the west. Abstracts for presentations from all fields of linguistics are invited.
Possible topics include:
- Field reports
- Synchronic and diachronic descriptions
- Semantic and lexical studies
- Comparative studies and historical reconstruction
- Language contact and language change
- Dialect geography
- Anthropological and sociolinguistic studies
In addition, we are planning a workshop on Old Tibetan. Contributions related to phonology, morphology, grammar and other aspects of Old Tibetan are welcome.
Participants intending to present a paper, either at the Symposium or the workshop, are requested to submit an abstract of no more than one page. Abstracts are requested to be submitted in electronic form (as an attachment in MS Word format or PDF). We request that papers be presented in English.
To facilitate discussions in the workshop, full papers are strongly encouraged.
Keynote Speakers:
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David Bradley (La Trobe University)
George van Driem (Leiden University)
| Registration | |
| Early registration: | Normal: 60 US $ Students: 40 US $ |
| Last day for early registration: | 31 August 2005 |
| Onsite registration: | Normal: 3,200 Thai Baht |
| Registration fees include: | Reception, lunches and breaks during the conference, banquet dinner, conference materials |
| Schedule | |
| Deadline for Abstracts | 30 April 2005 |
| Notification Date | 15 June 2005 |
| Deadline for early registration | 31 August 2005 |
| Deadline for full papers for the workshop participants | 15 October 2005 |
| Symposium Dates | 6-8 December 2005 |
| Workshop Date | 9 December 2005 |