On Thursday, July 19, the first day of ALT IV, there will be a workshop on California Languages. The languages indigenous to California present considerable typological diversity among themselves and contrast in many ways with languages found in other parts of the world.
Papers are welcome on any topic of interest to typologists.
Each paper will be 20 minutes in length plus 10 minutes for discussion. The results of sign language research are still not being sufficiently integrated into typological linguistics, despite their obvious potential for opening new perspectives in the field. Sign language typology seeks to apply typological considerations to the cross-linguistic study of signed languages and to integrate results from sign languages research into linguistic typology. I propose to provide a comprehensive introduction to this field of study in three sections. The focus of this proposed session will be on typologically salient features of indigenous language families spoken in South America, the area located between Panama in the North, and Tierra del Fuego in the South.