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Host: Uppsala University
Homepage: http://www.afro.uu.se/HLS-7.html
Organizers: ึsten Dahl (Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University), Gunilla-Gren Eklund ( Department of African and Asian Languages, Uppsala University), Anju Saxena (Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University)
Description:
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 and the Tibetan Plateau, northern
Burma and Sichuan, and Nuristan, Baltistan and the Burushaski-speaking area in the west.
The Seventh Himalayan Languages Symposium will be held at Uppsala University. We invite abstracts for presentations on topics including, but not limited to:
Descriptions of lesser-known languages; Language change and variation; Multilingualism and language contact; Historical-comparative studies; Typological studies; Field reports; Corpus-based analysis; Language death and language preservation; Language policy and language planning; Ethnology and folklore; Himalayan languages and new technologies.
Date received: April 02, 2001
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