Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment
London: School of Oriental and African Studies
Saturday 27 June 2009


This conference will discuss a wide range of sociolinguistic issues
relating
to language endangerment, and is open to all. The conference is sponsored
by CIPL and is being held in conjunction with the 3L International Summer
School in Language Documentation and Description, School of Oriental and
African Studies, U of London 22 June-3 July 2009.

The conference convenor is CIPL Professor in the 3L Summer School, David
Bradley, La Trobe U and CIPL Executive member.

Special presentations will be given by David Bradley and by Prof Matthias
Brenzinger, Cologne U; Prof Christian Lehmann, Erfurt U and CIPL Executive
member; and Prof Peter Trudgill, U of Agder, U of East Anglia and La Trobe
U.

The titles of these talks are:
David Bradley Resilience thinking and language endangerment
Matthias Brenzinger Documenting concepts in contact: the loss of conceptual
diversity
Christian Lehmann Understanding grammar: for instance Yucatec Maya
Peter Trudgill On the world-wide loss of linguistic complexity: a
sociolinguistic-typological view

Abstracts of these talks will soon be on the CIPL website. Proposals for
20+5 minute presentations are now invited. Abstracts of one page are to be
submitted by 31 March 2009. Notification of acceptance of papers will be
sent by 30 April 2009 and the draft programme will also be available at
that
time. Updated information on the conference will be found on the CIPL web
site
http://www.ciplnet.com

All email communication concerning this conference should be directed to
CIPLconference2009@gmail.com