Amazonicas 6 – Leticia, Colombia May 24-28, 2016

Coordinators: Elsa Gomez-Imbert (IFEA), Patience Epps (University of Texas, Austin), Kristine Stenzel (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Two sets of languages have been chosen for the family-focused symposium at AMAZONICAS 6 in Letícia: the Tukanoan family and the Makú grouping (Nadahup / Kakua-Nukak/Puinave, which may or may not form a single family). Both groups of languages are well represented in Colombia. Together with several Arawakan neighbors, they make up an areal complex in which mutual influences have given rise to numerous interesting typological features (such as tone systems, nasal prosody, differential case-marking, evidentiality, serial verb constructions, and nominal classifiers). For these reasons, and because they involve relatively small families, these languages will be addressed together at AMAZONICAS 6.

The symposium seeks to provide an open forum to explore the state-of-art in the study of Tukanoan and the Makú (Nadahup / Kakua-Nukak/Puinave) languages. Priority will be given to those papers which present new approaches or new analyses—those which have not been previously published and which make original contributions to the knowledge of these languages.

Topics of submissions are encouraged in any of the following areas:

• Diachronic linguistics, including classification and reconstruction
• Language contact
• Phonetics and Phonology
• Syntax and Morphology
• Semantics and Lexicon
• Discourse

Instructions for the submission of abstracts:

The abstract should be submitted as an anonymous email attachment to:
amazonicas.tukanomaku@gmail.com

In the accompanying email, the title of the presentation should be specified, along with the name and the institution of the author.

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