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

第二届拉丁美洲土著语言会议（CILLA-II）将于2005年10月27日至29日在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校举行。 会议的目的是汇集从事拉丁美洲土著语言学任何方面工作的语言学家，交流他们最新的研究成果。 本次会议的核心是三组学者：研究本国和拉丁美洲其他国家土著语言的拉丁美洲人，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。本次会议为来自许多不同国家和有相似兴趣的研究人员提供了一个论坛。它有助于研究拉丁美洲语言相似的社会语言学情况所产生的共同因素，以及分布在一个以上国家或通过跨语系的重大扩散而产生的语系之间的地域特征。 会议还有助于从事语言研究的土著语言使用者的继续教育，并有助于将来自不同国家和不同语言背景的语言学家纳入共同的研究工作。

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.