Conference Proposal: Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America - II

第二届拉丁美洲土著语言学术会议（CILLA-II）将于2005年10月27-29日在美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校举行。会议的目的是将从事拉丁美洲土著语言语言学各个方面工作的语言学家聚集在一起，交流他们最新的研究成果。大约有三组学者构成了这次会议的核心：研究本国和拉丁美洲其他国家土著语言的拉丁美洲国民，以土著语言为母语的语言学家，以及研究拉丁美洲土著语言的其他学者。这次会议为来自许多不同国家和有着相似兴趣的研究人员提供了一个论坛。它有助于研究由拉丁美洲语言的类似社会语言学情况和分布在一个以上国家的语族之间的地域特征所导致的共同因素，或者通过在语族之间的显著扩散而产生的共同因素。会议还有助于继续教育从事语言学研究的土著语言使用者，并有助于使来自不同国家和不同语言背景的语言学家参与共同的研究工作。

AbstractThe second Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA-II) will be held at the University of Texas at Austin on October 27-29, 2005. The objectives of the conference are to bring together linguists who work on any aspect of the linguistics of Latin American indigenous languages to exchange the most recent results of their research. Roughly three groups of scholars form the core of this conference: Latin American nationals who work on the indigenous languages of their countries and other countries in Latin America, linguists who are native speakers of indigenous languages, and other scholars who work on Latin American indigenous languages.This conference provides a forum for researchers from many different countries and with similar interests to meet. It facilitates an examination of common factors that have resulted from similar sociolinguistic situations of Latin American languages and of areal features among language families that are distributed across more than one country or that have arisen through significant diffusion across language families. The conference also contributes to the continuing education of speakers of indigenous languages who are engaged in linguistic research, and to the integration of linguists from different countries and different language backgrounds in common research efforts.