The Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory biennial conference aims to bring together researchers working on linguistic theory and language documentation and description, with a particular focus on innovative work on under-described or endangered languages. This year the event will also celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Department of Linguistics at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
The main conference session will be held from 7 to 8 December 2013.
Plenary speakers
The plenary speakers for the main conference session are:
Professor Farrell Ackerman, University of California, San Diego
Professor Eva Schultze-Berndt, University of Manchester
Conference theme
The theme of the LDLT4 conference is ‘Linguistic typology and language documentation’. We invite contributions relating to any aspect of the study of language and linguistics from any perspective, including:
- formal theoretical issues
- linguistic typology
- documentary linguistics and responses to language endangerment
- new techniques and opportunities for documenting and describing languages
- historical linguistics
- discourse, and narrative structure
The best contributions will use empirical data to examine the relationship between language documentation and description and linguistic theory.
For more information, including how to submit an abstract go to the conference website