Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) is an international organization founded in 1981 devoted to the study of the indigenous languages of North, Central, and South America
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SSILA has an annual winter meeting held alternately with the American Anthropological Association
and Linguistic Society of America
annual conferences. Presentations at SSILA conferences may be made in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. It awards the
Mary R. Haas
Book Award to a junior scholar for an unpublished manuscript that makes a significant substantive contribution to our knowledge of native American languages and the Ken Hale
Prize in recognition of outstanding community language work and a deep commitment to the documentation, maintenance, promotion, and revitalization of indigenous languages in the Americas.
Recently the Victor Golla Prize, in honor of the publication's former editor, has been awarded for promising scholarship in an America's language. Golla, an expert in California Indian languages, began and edited the newsletter and quarterly for twenty-six years. The current editor is Karen Sue Rolph, a specialist in Ancash Quechua ecological nomenclature and toponomy.
SSILA issues online publications: the SSILA Newsletter, occasional papers, and the electronic SSILA Quarterly. Regular publications contain a great deal of useful information on new publications, developments in indigenous languages, journal articles, grants, and upcoming conferences. Some papers are of specialized interests to linguists, Society members, and students who attend professional conferences.
Indigenous languages of the Americas
Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses which constitute the Americas. These indigenous languages consist of dozens of distinct language families as well as many language...
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SSILA has an annual winter meeting held alternately with the American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association
The American Anthropological Association is a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 11,000 members, the Arlington, Virginia based association includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, biological anthropologists, linguistic...
and Linguistic Society of America
Linguistic Society of America
The Linguistic Society of America is a professional society for linguists. It was founded in 1924 to advance linguistics, the scientific study of human language. The LSA has over 5,000 individual members and welcomes linguists of all kinds. It works to advance the discipline and to communicate...
annual conferences. Presentations at SSILA conferences may be made in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. It awards the
Mary R. Haas
Mary Haas
Mary Rosamund Haas was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics.-Early work in linguistics:...
Book Award to a junior scholar for an unpublished manuscript that makes a significant substantive contribution to our knowledge of native American languages and the Ken Hale
Kenneth L. Hale
Kenneth Locke Hale was a linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied a huge variety of previously unstudied and often endangered languages—especially indigenous languages of North America, Central America and Australia...
Prize in recognition of outstanding community language work and a deep commitment to the documentation, maintenance, promotion, and revitalization of indigenous languages in the Americas.
Recently the Victor Golla Prize, in honor of the publication's former editor, has been awarded for promising scholarship in an America's language. Golla, an expert in California Indian languages, began and edited the newsletter and quarterly for twenty-six years. The current editor is Karen Sue Rolph, a specialist in Ancash Quechua ecological nomenclature and toponomy.
SSILA issues online publications: the SSILA Newsletter, occasional papers, and the electronic SSILA Quarterly. Regular publications contain a great deal of useful information on new publications, developments in indigenous languages, journal articles, grants, and upcoming conferences. Some papers are of specialized interests to linguists, Society members, and students who attend professional conferences.
See also
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