The 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics

This is the official web site of ICSTLL-39. The conference was hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle. Although the conference has ended, this site will be maintained as a service to the community of Sino-Tibetan scholars. A complete list of ICSTLL conferences is available at the STEDT web site.

Ninety-two papers were presented over three days by scholars from around the world. In addition to presentations on Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages, there were talks on Hmong-Mien, Thai, and Vietnamese. Randy LaPolla, Robbins Burling, and Jerry Norman delivered the three keynote addresses. For details, see the conference program.

See photographs from the conference!

You can still view the original home page as it appeared in September, 2006.

You may use the links on the left to view the full conference program, see a list of participants, or to download abstracts and papers. Other links have been maintained for historical interest. The intent, register, and update links are now disabled.

• The ICSTLL-41 will be held in September 2008 in London, UK, hosted at SOAS by Dr Justin Watkins. [ ICSTLL-41 official web site: http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/wadict/icstll41/ ]
• Preliminary plans are for ICSTLL-42 (2009) to be held in Thailand.
• The ICSTLL-40 was held in 2007 in Harbin, China, hosted by Prof. Dai Zhaoming of Heilongjiang University. [ ICSTLL-40 official web site: http://www.hlju.edu.cn/icstll40/ ]
• You may also visit the ICSTLL-37 (Lund, 2004) conference web site.