ICSTLL54: 54th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics Southwest Jiaotong University Chengdu, China, October 29-31, 2021 |
Conference website | https://www.icstll54.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icstll54 |
Submission deadline | April 30, 2021 |
The 54th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics will be hosted by the School of Humanities at the Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, October 29-31, 2021. The International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) is the premier meeting for linguistic researchers working within the Sino-Tibetan language family, a family with over 400 languages. To date, ICSTLL has been held in about 13 different countries and eight times in China. The general orientation of this year’s conference will be “New directions for Sino-Tibetan Linguistics in the mid- 21st century”.
Submission Guidelines
Abstract Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts may be written in English or Chinese, and submitted in PDF format. Abstracts should be no more than 600 words (or 1000 Chinese characters) in length, including examples. Please only include figures if absolutely necessary (one at most). Abstracts should be submitted via Easychair system. Applicants must remove all self-identifying information from their abstract(s).
Outstanding Student Papers:
A maximum of 5 outstanding student papers will be selected at the end of the conference. Each finalist will be awarded a waiver of the registration fee and a stipend for help pay for accommodation. Authors of selected outstanding papers will also receive an award certificate. Eligible applicants must be 35 years of age or younger on the date of the conference. Interested applicants are required to submit a full paper in addition to their abstract on Easychair before April 20, 2021. Please write “Outstanding Paper Award” in the header aligned to the right margin. All submissions for the student paper competition must be original papers in PDF format.
List of Topics
•Issues in subgrouping
•Typology of tonal systems
•Calibrating degrees of intensity of language contact
•Standardization of language names
•Theorization on wider relationships between ST and other language families
•Areal features vs. language-family specific traits
•Theory and practice of historical reconstruction in mono- and sesqui-syllabic languages
•Areal semantics
•ST narrative structure
•Salvage linguistics for endangered languages
Committees
Scientific Committee
- James A. Matisoff, University of California, Berkeley
- Jackson T.-S. Sun, Academia Sinica
- Randy LaPolla, Nanyang Technological University
- Hongkai Sun, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Qingxia Dai, Minzu University of China
- Wuyun Pan, Shanghai Normal University
- Zev Handel, University of Washington
- David Bradley, La Trobe University
- Norihiko Hayashi, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
- Takumi Ikeda, Kyoto University
- Chenglong Huang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- Bo Hong, Capital Normal University
- Fuxiang Wu, Beijing Language and Culture University
- Baoya Chen, Peking University
- Yongxian Luo, University of Melbourne
- You-Jing Lin, Peking University
Organizing committee
- Elvis Yang Huang, Southwest Jiaotong University
- Lama Ziwo, Southwest Minzu University
- Qiming Wang, Southwest Jiaotong University
- Jun Tang, Southwest Jiaotong University
- Agnes Conrad, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Zheng Wang, Sichuan Normal University
Invited Speakers
- TBA...
Venue
The 54th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics will be hosted by the School of Humanities at the Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China.
Participants who cannot come to Chengdu, China are welcome to join the conference online.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to icstll54@163.com