Although the Atlas Lingüístico de la de la Península Ibérica is based on dialect surveys conducted for the most part in the 1930s, as a result of the Spanish Civil war and other misadventures, only a small part of the materials were every published in traditional (printed) atlas format (Madrid: 1962). However since 2001, the original field notebooks have been recovered and made available on the internet, in the form of facsimile scans (www.alpi.ca). The renewed interest in these now-historic dialect materials has sparked research from different areas of Iberian-Romance dialectology. Since 2008 Spain’s Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) has sponsored a joint international project to transcribe the ALPI materials into an online database that will eventually lead to an automated GIS-based atlas.

In order to mark this decade of renewed interest, this workshop welcomes research based (wholly or partly) on data from the ALPI, alone or in combination with data from other sources. There will be a one-day meeting of the CSIC-sponsored ALPI group immediately prior to the Methods conference (working languages Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Portuguese), followed by up to a day of additional papers (in English) as part of a workshop session within Methods.

Please submit your abstract, of up to 300 words excluding bibliography, by e-mail attachment (Word, .rtf, .pdf) to methods14@uwo.ca. Put “Abstract for ALPI workshop” in the subject line. Make the abstract as anonymous as possible, and include the title. In the body of your e-mail message, include the contact details of author(s) and a statement as to whether the paper is intended for oral presentation, a poster session or either. Abstracts will be adjudicated by a separate ALPI panel of three referees.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 November 2010. The anonymous abstracts will be refereed by the Workshop organizing committee, and authors will be notified of acceptance before the end of January 2011.