12th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
May 8-9, 2009

NEW! View and download a copy of this year's WAIL poster!

NEW! The conference schedule is now available here.

Early registration is closed, but pre-conference registration is now available for the regular price of $45. The registration form can still be accessed here.

Please note that the conference date has been changed to May 8-9, 2009. This change is to avoid a scheduling conflict with the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium at Arizona State University.

We are pleased to announce that the plenary speaker for WAIL 2009 will be

Aaron Fox, Columbia University.

 

Read the plenary abstract here:

"Bringing the songs back home: repatriation as re-animation."

 

The coordinators of WAIL are grateful for the support of the following groups on the UCSB campus:

• The American Indian Cultural Resource Center
• The Associated Students of UCSB
• The UCSB Graduate Student Assembly
• The American Indian Students Association & American Indian Graduate Students Association
• The Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, UCSB, Diversity Fund

  

About WAIL

The annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) is a forum for the discussion of theoretical and descriptive linguistic studies of indigenous languages of the Americas. WAIL is sponsored by the UCSB Linguistics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara and presented by the Native American Indian Languages study group (NAIL), which has been meeting regularly in Santa Barbara since 1990 to discuss issues relating to Native American language and culture.

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