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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Language corpora and dialectal variation in a historical perspective<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Workshop at ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Organizers: Andrés Enrique-Arias (University of the Balearic Islands), Marina Gomila Albal (Spanish National Research Council)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Language change and dialectal variation are two fields of inquiry that have been strongly related to each other since the beginnings of linguistics as a scientific endeavor. Early efforts in historical linguistics tried
to make sense of dialectal variation using different models of the diffusion of diachronic changes, such as the wave theory (Chambers & Trudgill 1980, Wolfram & Schilling-Estes 2003), or the principle of lateral areas (Bartoli 1925, Andersen 1988). Likewise,
linguists soon became aware that the centuries-old coexistence of languages in the same geographical space results in their sharing structural properties, making it necessary to distinguish between language similarities arising from a genetic relationship
from those arising from language contact (Muysken 2008; Noonan 2010). Further developments in the study of language and dialect contact and bilingualism have enriched the theoretical frameworks related to the study of linguistic changes across space (Kortmann
2003, Auer & Schmidt 2010).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Against this backdrop, the availability of new corpora and databases that allow accessing historical data of individual languages sorted by geographical origin, along with the application of technological developments,
such as GIS software, are facilitating renewed historical investigations that consider the spatial factor (Alcorn, Kopaczyk, Los & Molineaux 2019).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The objective of this workshop is to explore the possibilities provided by historical corpora and analytical tools to the study of the interplay between geographical variation and language change. As such, we welcome
the proposals of researchers working in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, corpus linguistics, language contact, language typology and computational linguistics.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Some suggested topics are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Different models of visualization of language variants on the physical space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Useful sources to create corpora for historical dialectology: historical documents, newspapers, toponyms, social networks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Corpus-based investigations that illustrate with specific case studies the diffusion of linguistic changes on the physical space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Methods to integrate spatial and social information onto historical corpora.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Application of computational techniques, such as probabilistic methods, to discern dialect areas in historical data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Studies based on synchronic data (e.g. from online social networks) that can shed light onto historical processes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">* Investigations that examine the spatial distribution of variants to tease apart linguistic features that have spread due to language contact from those resulting from an internal development.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Abstracts of no more than 500 words (excluding references) should be sent to Andres Enrique-Arias (andres.enrique@uib.es) and Marina Gomila Albal (marina.gomila@cchs.csic.es) by 18 October 2024 in an editable format (i.e.
Word, Open Office). Workshops are in principle restricted to six papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be considered for the ICHL general session.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">References:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Alcorn, Rhona, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los & Benjamin Molineaux, eds. 2019. Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Andersen, Henning. 1988. Center and periphery: adoption, diffusion, and spread. In Jacek Fisiak (ed.), Historical Dialectology, Regional and Social, 39-83. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Auer, Peter & Jürgen E. Schmidt, eds. 2010. Language and Space. An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation, 649–667. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Bartoli, Matteo G. 1925. Introduzione alla Neolinguistica (principi--scopi--metodi). Genéve: L.S. Olschki.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Chambers, J.K.& Peter Trudgill. 1980. Dialectology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kortmann, Bernd. 2003. Dialectology meets Typology: Dialect Grammar from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective.
</span><span lang="FR">Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197327<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Muysken, Pieter. </span><span lang="EN-US">2008. From linguistic areas to areal linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Noonan, Michael. 2010. Genetic Classification and Language Contact. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), The Handbook of Language Contact, 48-65. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Wolfram, Walt & Natalie Schilling-Estes. 2003. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion. In Joseph Brian & Richard Janda (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 713–735.
</span>Oxford: Blackwell.<o:p></o:p></p>
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