[List] European Network of Amerindian Linguistics being created

[Becker, Marshall]

Congratulations and thank you all for organizing ENAL. My very best wishes for your success with this project.

Most sincerely,

Marshall Joseph Becker
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(forwarded by Peter Bakker, Aarhus, DK)

European Network of Amerindian Linguistics (ENAL)


On 4 October, 2009, the European Network of Amerindian Linguistics (ENAL) was founded in Bremen/Germany. On occasion of the Amerindian Day which was one of the major events on the programme of the Festival of Languages<http://www.festival.uni-bremen.de/> [http://www.festival.uni-bremen.de], over 40 linguists from Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America met in order to lay the foundation stone of ENAL. ENAL is meant to be the nucleus of a network of like-minded associations of European scholars and colleagues from overseas who specialise in the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas and feel the need of an institutionalised forum to exchange ideas, co-ordinate projects and rely upon when it comes to applying jointly for funding, etc.

By unanimous vote, the participants elected

Klaus Zimmermann (Bremen) the Honorary President of ENAL,
 Wolf Dietrich (Münster), José Antonio Flores Farfán (México), Bernhard Hurch (Graz), Marianne Mithun (Santa Barbara), Jeanette Sakel (Bristol) and Thomas Stolz (Bremen) members of the presidential board,
 Thomas Stolz (Bremen) acting president of ENAL.

All candidates accepted the vote.

The possibilities of a new journal devoted to Amerindian Linguistics will be looked into.

The proceedings of the foundation colloquium of ENAL will be published as an edited volume.

Before the meeting, 65 linguists – including Argentina,Brazil, Canada and Spain – declared that they would join ENAL as soon as it is in working conditions. ENAL invites all those who are interested in Amerindian linguistics and languages to become members of the network.

For further information on ENAL, contact stolz at uni-bremen.de<mailto:stolz at uni-bremen.de>





Peter Bakker                                                                     email:  linpb at hum.au.dk<mailto:linpb at hum.au.dk>
Department of Linguistics                                                 tel. (45) 8942.6553
Inst. for Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics
Aarhus University                                                             tel. institute: (0045)8942.6562
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DK - 8000 Aarhus C                                                          room 340

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