International Conference   AMAZÓNICAS III   The structure of Amazonian languages: Phonology and Syntax   Bogotá, April 19 - 24, 2010

Date: April 19 24, 2010

Place: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE : Leo WETZELS, Francesc QUEIXALOS, Ana Carla BRUNO, Frantom PACHECO, Elsa GOMEZ-IMBERT, Ana Mara OSPINA BOZZI, Franoise ROSE, Frank SEIFART, Lev MICHAEL.

ORGANIZATION : Camilo Robayo carobayor@unal.edu.co, Elsa Gomez-Imbert gomezimb@univ-tlse2.fr, Leo WETZELS, Francesc QUEIXALOS, Ana Carla BRUNO, Frantom PACHECO.

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Anonymous abstracts (max 200 words) should be sent to the corresponding thematic coordinators before December 15th, 2009. Please send a separate attachment, copied to amazonIII_fchbog@unal.edu.co with your name, institutional affiliation and contact details. You may submit more than one proposal.
Notification for acceptance: January 15th, 2010.

PRACTICAL Information
The first three days will be devoted to themes 1 and 2; themes 3, 4 and 5 would be treated in special sessions during the following days.

Conference Site:
The meeting will take place at the Auditorio Anexo, Human Sciences Postgraduate Building, in the campus of the Universidad Nacional at Bogot, Calle 45 # 30 06.

Accommodations Information:

• See hotels guide here.
• Ramada Hotel .
• San Pablo Hotel .

Subscription fee:
Presenters: 70, US$100, $210.000
Non presenters: 50, US$70, $150.000
Students: 20, US$30, $60.000

DESCRIPTION

The first two Amazonicas meetings, held in 2007 and 2008, were the successful outcome of an international project between several linguistic research centers: the Chair of Amazonian Languages at the VU University Amsterdam, CELIA (CNRS-IRD) Paris, INPA Manaus and UFAM Manaus. The third edition, hosted by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia UNAL in Bogot, will be co-organized by the former teams, the Universidad Nacional, the French institute of Andean studies IFEA and a French-Colombian ECOS-Nord project (U. Nacional - U. Toulouse 2) focusing on phonological and grammatical typology of Colombian languages.

The focus topics of this meeting are:

1. The phonetics and phonology of laryngeal features
   (coordinators: Leo Wetzels, Elsa Gomez-Imbert, Frantom Pacheco)
2. Valency increasing strategies
   (coordinators: Francesc Queixals, Ana Carla Bruno)
3. The expression of spatial notions
   (coordinators: Ana Mara Ospina Bozzi, Elsa Gomez-Imbert)
4. Lexical categorization
   (coordinators: Elsa Gomez-Imbert, Ana Mara Ospina Bozzi)
5. Valency increasing mechanisms in Arawakan languages (coordinators: Franoise Rose, Frank Seifart, Lev Michael)

The first four topics are opened to all Amazonian languages, the last one is devoted to the Arawakan family. Future meetings will always include, besides thematic sessions on Amazonian languages, a workshop centered on a specific language family.