EXTENDED DEADLINE! Due to popular demand and in light of an additional funding opportunity*, the Call for Papers for ConCALL-4 has been EXTENDED until Sunday, December 15, 2019.

The Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) will be hosting the 4th Conference of Central Asian Language and Linguistics (ConCALL-4) at Indiana University from April 17-19, 2020.

We are currently accepting submissions for 20-minute paper presentations (with 10 minute post-presentation questions and discussion) on topics related to Central Asian languages and linguistics, including both the Altaic and Eastern Indo-European languages spoken in the region (among others), a diverse range of languages such as Azerbaijani, Dari, Evenki, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Mari, Mongolian, Pashto, Persian, Tajiki, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, and more. Submissions on endangered Central Asian languages (e.g. Buryat and Kalmyk (Mongolic), Shugni (Iranian), Selkup (Uralic), and Chuvash, Baskirt and Yakut (Turkic), among others, are especially welcome.

Keynote Speakers for the conference include leading names in Turkic, Iranian, Mongolic and Uralic linguistics, as well as phonology, syntax and second language acquisition, including:

))Gulsat Aygen, Professor, Department of English, Northern Illinois University
))Matthew Gordon, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California Santa Barbara
))Ayse Gurel, Professor, Department of Foreign Language Education, Bogazici University
))Irene Vogel, Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Delaware
Presenters will have the opportunity to submit to the published proceedings of the conference.

Submissions can include, but are not limited to:

))Language education/pedagogy, as related to Central Asian languages
Acquisition, (first and second language acquisition of a Central Asian language or of other languages by speakers of Central Asian languages)
))Formal linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, as well as their interfaces)

Each abstract will be anonymously reviewed by external reviewers working in the same field and/or same/similar languages and evaluated on a basis of overall quality, as well as interest, originality, timeliness, and relevance to the field, as well as reviewing the methodology and data collection methods and overall clarity and organization of ideas.

Submissions should consist of an anonymous, titled abstract of no more than 500 words (not including examples and references, which can be placed on a second page) submitted via EasyAbstracts (http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/ConCALL4).

*STUDENT STIPENDS NOW AVAILABLE. We are now offering several stipends of up to $500 each, to be used for travel and accommodation costs. Stipends will be awarded to the undergraduate and/or graduate students with the highest-rated abstract submissions. If you are submitting an abstract for the conference and would like to be considered for this award, please email Amber Kent (akkent@indiana.edu) for more details.