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From:  Valerie Sutton Date:  Tue Sep 5, 2000  7:50 pm Subject:  UNDER-REPRESENTED LANGUAGES

September 5, 2000 Dear SignWriting List Members: I was sent this information (see below) from Massachusetts about a conference on "under-represented" languages, including signed languages - Is there anyone who would like to present a paper on using SignWriting to write or type those under-represented languages? ;-) I notice they mention ASL, with no mention of Brazilian Sign Language, or Nicaraguan Sign Language or others...they may not realize important work is being done in those languages too. Also included below is the topic of experimenting with new ways to teach children, so a teacher of the SW Literacy Project, for example, might have much to tell them.... Just a thought! I know how busy everyone is...and if we attended every conference we would have no time to do anything else ;-))) But here is the information anyway - ----------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS THE SEMANTICS OF UNDER-REPRESENTED LANGUAGES IN THE AMERICAS (SULA) University of Massachusetts, Amherst APRIL 20-22, 2001 The Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is pleased to announce a special conference on the formal semantics of under-represented languages of the Americas. The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers working on languages or dialects which do not have an established tradition of work in formal semantics. Examples include native languages of North or South America, African American English, ASL, Yiddish, or Brazilian Portuguese. We also invite submissions from those working on child languages (acquisition of semantics). We especially encourage abstract submissions from those whose work involves primary fieldwork or experimentation as well as analysis. The conference will consist of several panel discussions organized around language themes, plus general sessions. The paper length for the general sessions will be 30 minutes, plus 15 minutes for discussion. We strongly encourage the participation of graduate students. INVITED SPEAKERS AND PANEL COMMENTATORS Emmon Bach (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Leora Bar-El (University of British Columbia) Sigrid Beck (University of Connecticut) Maria Bittner (Rutgers University) Sandra Chung (University of California Santa Cruz) Molly Diesing (Cornell University) Lisa Green (University of Texas at Austin) Ken Hale (MIT) Irene Heim (MIT) William A. Ladusaw (University of California Santa Cruz) Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Tom Roeper (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) William Snyder (University of Connecticut) Michael Terry (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Ken Wexler (MIT) Douglas Wharram (University of Connecticut) ORGANIZERS: Angelika Kratzer and Lisa Matthewson LOCATION: Hotel Northampton, Northampton, Massachusetts. REGISTRATION: Free! ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Please submit 3 copies of a two-page abstract to the following address: Lisa Matthewson / SULA Department of Linguistics University of Massachusetts South College, Box 37130 Amherst, MA 01003-7130 U.S.A. Font should be at least 12 point; if the abstract has to be a little longer than two pages, that's okay. Include title, author and contact information on a separate sheet. Abstracts may also be submitted by e-mail, to ABSTRACT DEADLINE: September 20, 2000 ADDRESS FOR INQUIRIES:

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