The Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal Workshop on the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (TOMILLA) is a workshop that aims to gather researchers from Eastern Canada and beyond to discuss work in linguistics and related disciplines on the Indigenous languages spoken traditionally south of the Río Bravo. The first workshop in the series was held at the University of Toronto in November 2017. The fifth edition will be co-hosted by Université de Montréal and McGill University through the Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music on March 29th 2025.
2025 call for abstracts
The fifth Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal Workshop on Indigenous Languages of Latin America (TOMILLA) will be held in Spring 2025, at Université de Montréal. TOMILLA aims to provide an informal venue for presenting work of a theoretical, descriptive or documentary nature dealing with Indigenous languages of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. We welcome talks on any topic related to these languages, including but not limited to: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, phonetics, phonology, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, language typology, linguistic geography, language maintenance and revitalization, language documentation, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics.
Keynote speaker
Adam Singerman (Syracuse University)
Submission guidelines
One-page abstracts (including references and examples) for 20-minute in-person talks or posters.
Abstracts should be in PDF format and anonymous, and the accompanying message should have "TOMILLA abstract" as subject, and should indicate in the body of the message the names of the authors, their institutional link, and whether the abstract is for a talk, poster, or either.
Abstracts may be in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese. Talks and posters may be in any Indigenous language of Latin America.
Please send submissions to justin.royer@umontreal.ca by February 15th 2025, 11h59pm.
Previous editions
TOMILLA 1: University of Toronto
TOMILLA 2: Université du Québec à Montréal
TOMILLA 3: University of Ottawa
TOMILLA 4: University of Toronto