The 18th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, University of California, Berkeley, April 5-7, 2013

Abstract submission deadline extended: Monday, January 21, 2013 (formerly January 14)

The central objective of this workshop is to bring together linguists engaged in research on the formal study of the indigenous languages of the Americas for the exchange of ideas across theories, language families, generations of scholars, and, importantly, across the academic and non-academic communities that are involved in language maintenance, revitalization, and restoration.

Invited speakers:

• Judith Aissen (UC Santa Cruz)
• Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (Victoria)
• Monica Macaulay (Wisconsin)
• B’alam Mateo Toledo (CIESAS)
• Joyce McDonough (Rochester)
• Andrés Salanova (Ottawa)
• Maziar Toosarvandani (MIT)
• Lorna Williams (Victoria)

WSCLA 18 will run all day on Friday and Saturday, April 5-6, and through mid-day on Sunday, April 7. We expect a volume of papers to appear in the UBCWPL series.

WSCLA 18 is supported by the Department of Linguistics, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, and the Nadine M. Tang and Bruce L. Smith Chair in Cross-Cultural Social Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. We are very grateful to our sponsors. Organizers are Andrew Garrett, Lev Michael, Line Mikkelsen, Richard Rhodes, Katie Sardinha, and John Sylak.

Workshop website: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~wscla/index.html