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NACAL 38 - Conference Announcement
AUSTIN, TX - The 38th meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 38) will be held in Austin, TX, Saturday, 2/13 - Sunday, 2/14. Please note that those in attendance at last year's meeting voted that NACAL would no longer be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, and that NACAL would take place during a weekend in February.
As a reminder, each paper will be 20 min (presenter) + 10 min (questions/discussion) in length. (This does not apply to the NACAL Invited Lecture.) Please plan your paper accordingly. Presenters are required to photocopy handouts themselves (30-35 copies are recommended). A copy machine is available at the hotel for a reasonable cost.
For those who have not yet registered, your registration for NACAL 37 ($75, or $45 for students, retired faculty, and those from soft currency countries) is not complete until we receive a check or money order payable to John Huehnergard. Please send your payment to:
Prof. John Huehnergard
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, F9400
Austin, TX 78712-0527
Reservations at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center may be made through the website, or by calling toll free 877-744-8822. Be sure to enter or mention group code NACALC0210 in order to receive the conference rate. See you in Austin!
Cordially, John Huehnergard and Na'ama Pat-El, Co-Conveners, NACAL 38
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| Zygmunt Frajzyngier (Colorado), NACAL 38 Keynote Speaker |
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About NACAL
The North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL) provides
scholars from North America and around the world with a venue to discuss
the Afroasiatic language phylum. Now in its 37th year, NACAL has held annual
meetings since 1973. Previous meetings have been held
in Ann Arbor, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Los Angeles,
Nashville, New Haven, San Diego, Seattle, Toronto, and several other cities
in the United States and Canada.
A list of previous conferences, organizers, and (since 1984) conference
reminiscers is available here. This list is updated
annually. The keynote speaker for NACAL 38 will be Zygmunt Frajzyngier
(Colorado), who will discuss "Contributions of Chadic Linguistics to Linguistic Theory."
A partial bibliography of papers given at previous conferences is available
here. If you have offered a paper at NACAL in
the past and cannot find your paper among those mentioned in the bibliography,
please contact us at afroasiatic@gmail.com.
Wolf Leslau, 1906-2006
Wolf Leslau, one of the greatest Semiticist linguists of the post-war generation,
passed away on Nov. 18, at age 100 + four days. Wolf Leslau was a frequent
participant in NACAL's annual meetings, and had the unique distinction of
serving as NACAL reminiscer not once but twice, first at NACAL 12 (1984)
and then again, two decades later, at NACAL 32 (2004). Grover Hudson's obituary
for Leslau can be found here.
Alan S. Kaye, 1944-2007
Alan S. Kaye, California State University (Fullerton) Professor of English,
Comparative Literature and Linguistics, died at the age of 63 on May 31,
2007. Alan Kaye, who was on scholarly leave from Fullerton and residing
at the United Arab Emirates University from 2006 until his death, was one
of NACAL's most active participants, having organized two annual meetings,
NACAL 9 (1981) and NACAL 18 (1990), and having served as reminiscer at NACAL
23 (1995). An obituary for Alan Kaye can be found here.
M. Lionel Bender, 1934-2008
M. Lionel Bender, Professor emeritus at Southern Illinois University
(Carbondale), died at the age of 73 on February 19, 2008. Like Alan Kaye,
Lionel Bender was one of NACAL's most active participants, having organized
two annual meetings, NACAL 26 (1998) and NACAL 30 (2002), and having served
as reminiscer at NACAL 27 (1999). Grover Hudson's obituary for Lionel Bender
can be found here.
