The symposium Pano-Takana: Morfosintaxis Sincrónica y Diacrónica will be held as part of the Coloquio Internacional Amazonicas 4: La Estructura de las Lenguas Amazónicas: Fonología y Sintaxis, at the PUCP in Lima. From the announcement and call for papers:
It has long been recognized that the languages of the Panoan family (ca. 30 languages) and those of the Takanan family (5 languages) of the Amazonian lowlands of eastern Peru, western Brazil and northern Bolivia share an important number of phonological and lexical similarities. This has led to the hypothesis that the two families could be genetically related, an idea initially proposed by Schuller (1933) and later defended by Key (1968) and Girard (1971) through the application of the comparative method.
Wednesday, 30 November, 2011 to Thursday, 1 December, 2011
The third Conference of the European Network for the Study of Andean Languages (Red Europea para el Estudio de las Lenguas Andinas, REELA) will be held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.
There is no particular theme other than any research on Andean languages. The opening morning, though, will provide a general survey of Andean linguistics, as presented by a number of leading specialists in the field. For further details, please see the call for papers and other sections of this website.
Tuesday, 25 October, 2011 to Saturday, 29 October, 2011
The 35th Annual Geographic Names Conference of the Council of Geographic Names Authorities (COGNA) is devoted to 'Geographic Names of Indigenous Peoples and other Geographic Names Issues.'
Friday, 18 November, 2011 to Sunday, 20 November, 2011
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.
The main session of Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3 will run over two days. In addition to parallel sessions on 19 and 20 November 2011, the conference will be preceded by a satellite Workshop on Language Documentation and Archiving, to be held on 18 November 2011.
The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) will host a two-day conference: Language Documentation and Description in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands is a leading place where languages with different degrees of vitality from all parts of the world are being documented, described and theorized about. However, this vast resource for the humanities, social and cognitive sciences has never been show-cased in one place before. To round-off the Endangered Languages Programme (ELP), a funding initiative of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), a two-day international conference is being organized at Leiden University on April 8-9, 2011, to provide a forum for putting this work on stage in conference presentations as well as posters.
