[Histling-l] Call for working papers: utoaztecanstudies.org

[Magnus Pharao Hansen]

Dear All,

This posting introduces the Forum for Uto-Aztecan Studies
<http://utoaztecanstudies.org>– an online community for scholars and
scholarship of the Uto-Aztecan languages.

The purpose will be to facilitate communication between Uto-aztecan
scholars, by providinga place to informally share research notes,
data-sets, substantial questions, and brief articles relating to the
Uto-Aztecan languages – and to exchange views and ideas regarding them in
dialogue with other scholars.

The forum is a combination of a blog and a working papers series:

   - The working paper form allows for sharing ideas and data with a quick
   turnaround, and without having to spend valuable time going through a full
   review and copy editing process: The purpose is to make the period between
   having an idea and letting other scholars access it shorter, thereby
   accelerating the incremental production of knowledge.
   - The blog form, where articles are posted as blog posts with a comment
   section, allows for scholarly dialogue and collaboration, a kind of open
   peer review in which the merits and flaws of a paper can be pointed out and
   a consensus can arise about whether a particular idea is strong enough to
   form a basis for further work.

Materials submitted to this forum can be ideas from the desk drawer that
never developed into fully fledged articles, it can be interesting data
sets from UA languages such as thematic word lists or grammatical notes,
short analyzed and/or translated texts in Uto-Aztecan languages, or notes
on ongoing research, new cognate sets or sound correspondences. Or it can
be new ideas or requests for input that come with some kind of data
element.  There is also a section for reviews of books on topics related to
Uto-Aztecan languages.

Suitable topics can be anything related to Uto-Aztecan languages –
linguistically, historically, anthropologically. Work that has the
potential of advancing or accelerating the understanding of the Uto-Aztecan
language family and the historical and linguistic relations between the
languages will be particularly appreciated. Also work that take a a
comparative or historical approach will be particularly welcome.
Submissions should ideally be between 1000 and 3000 words, but longer texts
are also welcome.

Texts are considered and published on a running basis, with accepted texts
being published simultaneously as a blog post and as a pdf-file for
download (accessible through links on the site).

Papers and inquiries can be directed to magnuspharao @ gmail. com. Also
very welcome are statements of intention to submit, which should ideally
come with a short description and a proposed date of submission. Submission
guidelines <https://utoaztecanstudies.org/submission-guidelines/> can be
found on the website.


-- 
Magnus Pharao Hansen, PhD.
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies
University of Copenhagen
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